Chapter 56 Chapter 56 Can You Stop Flirting?
With Ling Huan, who was at the ninth level of Qi Refining, in charge, the people sent by the Qin family basically never returned. Qin Kangnian could no longer suppress the situation and finally alarmed Old Master Qin.
Old Master Qin's first reaction wasn't to whether his confidant, Qin An, was dead or alive. Instead, he instructed Qin Kangnian, "No matter what method you two come up with, bring Sheng'er back as soon as possible."
He has been through so many ups and downs, and the current situation is far from being too difficult for him, but his precious child Qin Sheng continues to be kept out in the open.
If Qin Kangnian had any way, he would never have let Qin Sheng move out of the house!
That unfilial son, only the one who raises him knows the truth. As the head of such a big family who has the final say, he has to think twice before saying anything when he is with that unfilial son. If he says something that touches on his sore spot, the unfilial son will want to blow up the whole family. He has an extreme temper, and even the Thunder God and the Lightning Goddess don’t have as many explosive points as that unfilial son!
"In my opinion, we should just let him live outside and assign more people to protect him. He won't be here for many years anyway. Once it's over, we can just..."
Qin Kangnian spoke in a deep voice, but before he could finish, he was glared at by Old Master Qin.
"Idiot, if you're so impatient, the head of this family can be someone else who truly loves Sheng'er. After all, he hasn't had much affection for you as his biological father over the years, so I don't think he'll have any objections!"
Old Master Qin is well aware that if one wants to deceive people for a lifetime, the first person he has to deceive is himself. He also knows that the closer things get to the final moment, the more he cannot take it lightly!
Unfortunately, his second son and his wife both looked smart. They seemed clever, but were actually born stupid. They would throw away gold ingots even if they were in their hands.
Qin Kangnian suddenly became anxious: "Dad, what are you talking about? According to the ancestral rule, whoever gets him will be the head of the family!"
"It's amazing that you still remember that you got your position as the head of the family thanks to Sheng'er." Old Master Qin was disappointed: "Then why don't you think about why there is such a family rule! Do you really think it's for so-called compensation?"
Why would he pass on the important position of head of the family to a fool so stupid he could be put in a museum?! *
Qin Kangnian nodded but dared not say anything.
He naturally understood that this rule was established to make it easier for him, as the biological father, to take care of the Qin family's living heirloom and to ensure that no accidents would occur in the next thirty years.
However, he had been the head of the family for more than 20 years, and now there were only a few years left before Qin Sheng turned 30. He only thought that he would be able to get rid of the grievance in front of that rebellious son soon, but he forgot that his entire value as the head of the family was to let Qin Sheng spend the next 30 years in peace.
After the thirty-year period was over, he was nothing. If he had done well before then, there would be something to say, but not only did he not have any outstanding achievements, he couldn't even do the most basic things well - Qin Sheng was so angry with his wife that he ran away from home and lived outside and refused to come back.
All the things that happened later were caused by this. So, they were just causing trouble as a couple.
Qin Kangnian suddenly realized that if the old man had not been worried that the change of the head of the family would make Qin... Sheng'er uneasy, he would have kicked him out of this position long ago when Sheng'er was so angry at Wu Yunlian that he moved out of the house.
"I see."
Qin Kangnian finally put down his burden as the head of the family and planned to go back and discuss with Wu Yunlian how to bring his son home.
It's time to prepare for the wedding.
On the other side, when Qin Sheng found that the Qin family had not sent anyone for several days, he knew that the other party was probably planning to make a big move. Before that, he was not surprised to receive a message from Wu Yunlian asking him when he planned to officially get married.
What's there to tie a knot for? His wife is still sulking!
During the entire retreat period, Noodles went in several times, and Xu Zhaoyi was not in a state of meditation, but he never contacted him once.
Qin Sheng didn't dare to rashly send his thoughts to the other party, as it would be bad if he disturbed the other party's mood and missed the sudden inspiration.
But the marriage was inevitable. After delaying for a few days, he finally agreed to Wu Yunlian and said that he would prepare first and go back after he successfully proposed to Xu Zhaoyi.
Wu Yunlian really couldn't stand him speaking so humbly as if it was a matter of course to pursue an ordinary person. Even the Qin family that supported him was forced to 'devalue' along with him!
In her opinion, there is no need for Qin Sheng to learn from others to have all these fancy relationships. He only needs to say what he wants and who he wants to get. The entire Qin family almost holds him in the palm of their hand. Why can't he just do it in one go?
It's so troublesome.
In the past, she would have definitely responded in a caring and sarcastic tone, but now Qin Kangnian was staring at her as she typed a reply, and she didn't dare to say a word.
Her little thoughts were actually no different from being transparent. In the past, Qin Kangnian didn't know his own strengths and weaknesses, so he allowed her to secretly provoke Qin Sheng in such a disgusting way. Now if Wu Yunlian wants to use the same trick again, the first person who will not let her go will be Qin Kangnian.
Qin Sheng was sighing over there, it seemed that the Qin family was really afraid of accidents, even his stepmother was not so pretentious.
However, after the confrontation with the Qin family, since all the people from the Qin family never returned, people outside had no idea about the casualties on the Nanchuan side. They could only use their poor imagination to judge that even if Nanchuan resisted, it would have suffered heavy losses.
So the fish that Qin Sheng wanted to catch was finally caught after more than half a month.
Feng Lili received an anonymous email. The content was brief but shocked her. There was only one sentence in the email: Qin Sheng is the weakness of the Qin family, capture him alive.
Is someone trying to use her and Nanchuan as weapons to deal with her boss?
She quickly called Qin Sheng to inform him, and Qin Sheng asked Nian Mian to go over and check along the network cable. The mailbox was a public mailbox for college students to share resources, and no useful information could be found. Nian Mian could only trace the source of the email and finally crawled to an Internet cafe.
There was no one in front of the computer that sent the email, but Noodles could still check the surveillance footage. It locked onto a young man wearing a baseball cap, and he felt that he looked a little familiar.
I followed the surveillance camera for a long time, and thanks to its powerful performance, I didn't lose it. Finally, I saw the whole picture of this kid!
Good man, isn't this the pretty boy who kissed Qin Xing passionately on the lake that day?!
Qin Sheng didn't expect it was him. This person seemed to want to instigate Nanchuan to concentrate its firepower against him. Then he and Qin Xing couldn't be of the same mind. After all, according to Qin Xing's lies, he had a pretty good relationship with his elder brother.
He suddenly remembered the conversation he overheard that day. Qin Xing's boyfriend did mention that Qin Xing should come to him for help, and said that he could accompany Qin Xing.
It was just that he said this too naturally at the time, and the other party did not insist after Qin Xing refused, as if it was just a casual remark. Even someone as perceptive as Qin Sheng did not feel alert when he heard it.
Moreover, the word "capture alive" is also quite intriguing.
If this pretty boy knew the biggest secret of the Qin family, he would understand that if he wanted to severely damage the Qin family, he only needed to kill him before he turned thirty. As long as he did this, any other purpose would be easier to achieve. Capturing him alive was simply giving the powerful Qin family time to react.
But if the other party only learned from Qin Xing that he was favored in the Qin family and wanted to use him to threaten the Qin family, he didn't think that this knowledge would allow the other party to say "Qin Sheng is the weakness of the Qin family."
A sickly person who cannot practice cultivation can be called a pain point when all the elders in the family are truly loving and kind, but the meaning of weakness is still far from enough.
Unless the other party has only a vague understanding...
[I've found out that this pretty boy's name is Gu Qingyue, and he's also from a family of cultivators.]
Noodles came back with the information it had found.
Although Gu Qingyue's Gu family wasn't as prosperous as the Qin family, they were still considered a well-known family in the cultivation circle. However, for some reason, they had no contact with the Qin family in recent years.
It is impossible to find out whether there were any grudges among ancestors further back in time. After all, it is impossible to find out what happened in an era when the Internet was not well developed or even had not been invented.
Qin Sheng thought for a while and then said, "It doesn't matter. You can't find out. The old man lived a long time, so he should know. Send a copy of the kissing photo of Gu Qingyue and Qin Xing to everyone in the Qin family."
He didn't mean to kill Qin Xingshe, but if he didn't, he couldn't guarantee that the old man would know immediately. Qin Kangnian would definitely be angry when he received the photo, but he would definitely not take the initiative to make a big deal about it and report it to the old man.
Gu Qingyue didn't know that an anonymous email, with just ten words and two punctuation marks, had almost allowed Qin Sheng to expose all the secrets of him and the family behind him, and that he would soon be exposed under the eyes of the Qin family.
After Qin Sheng asked Noodles to play the role of a paparazzi, he quietly waited for the old man to leak some information to him.
Just at this moment, fireworks started to appear on the system panel, and the latest notification reminded him that his plug-in had finally reached the foundation-building level.
In other words, Xu Zhaoyi can come out of seclusion.
Sure enough, he soon received the other party's thoughts. Xu Zhaoyi sent a message to tell him that he had made a breakthrough, and suggested that they should treat him to a meal to thank Mr. Ling Huan for his help.
[…Why are you worried about this?] Qin Sheng tried to change the subject, but he couldn't be mitotic.
After Xu Zhaoyi became familiar with him, he could more or less see the change in Qin Sheng's attitude from his words and actions. He chuckled and said, "It's just basic courtesy for me to thank others for their help. But why are you suddenly feeling guilty? You were so confident before!"
[I've made you so angry that you've gone into seclusion. Do you know how worried I am that you might go astray? How can I not reflect on this?]
Qin Sheng mentally drafted a plan and spoke his newly fabricated excuse in the most sincere tone: "I didn't explain it clearly. Ling Huan just owes me a favor. He wouldn't refuse me a small favor, but it's hard to ask for more. I really didn't mean to keep it from you and put all the pressure on you."
Xu Zhaoyi's expression lightened slightly when he heard this.
But he still insisted: "Let's be clear, he came because of my retreat, I have to thank him in person. If possible, I would like to spar with him and see what kind of opponent a ninth-level Qi Refining opponent is like."
This request is quite reasonable.
Xu Zhaoyi has reached this level, and the only teammate who can practice with him is Qin Sheng.
Qin Sheng had no choice but to agree: [Okay, I'll tell him, but I won't accompany you...]
He used the anonymous email Feng Lili received as a temporary excuse, saying that he was still busy investigating Gu Qingyue's case.
When Xu Zhaoyi heard that someone was targeting Qin Sheng, he frowned and asked, "Is the manor safe now?"
If Gu Qingyue dared to confront me directly, he wouldn't have instigated the Xu family and then come to Nan Chuan to stir up trouble. Don't worry.
[Okay, let the noodles follow you.]
[knew. ]
Xu Zhaoyi breathed a sigh of relief. The fact that Qin Sheng was being targeted made him lose interest in worrying about the relationship between Ling Huan and Qin Sheng. He was just thinking of going out early to meet Ling Huan, say thank you and deal with it casually, but he didn't expect that Qin Sheng had already anticipated this, and the Qin family's big move came to the fore at this time.
Since Xu Zhaoyi had just come out of retreat, of course he would be given priority to test his skills at the ninth level of Qi Refining.
Qin Sheng watched the battle through the window and found that the person who came back was no longer the retainer that the Qin family had accepted over the years, but Qin Yongnian, the younger brother of the head of the Qin family, Qin Kangnian, and also Qin Shi's father.
Qin Shi is Qin Yongnian's only son. After something like that happened, Qin Kangnian must have made some promise to Qin Yongnian to convince him to "lower his dignity" and make this trip.
Qin Yongnian is the main branch of the Qin family and one of the old man's sons. Naturally, his cultivation level is not comparable to Qin An and his ilk. In the eyes of the Qin family, using an eighth-level Qi training cultivator is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Unfortunately, he came at an inopportune moment. Xu Zhaoyi had just broken through. Even if he had arrived at an inopportune moment, it would have been useless. Qin Sheng, who was at the ninth level of Qi Refining, was more than enough to deal with him.
Qin Sheng originally thought that there would be no accidents in this fight, and Xu Zhaoyi thought so too, but the facts proved that one should never underestimate the enemy at any time.
Qin Yongnian realized that he might be defeated not long after the fight started. He was very shocked. He immediately put aside his arrogance and decisively took out the Yin-Yang Ring that Qin Kangnian had given him before they came.
This ring can reverse the yin and yang energies in the area it covers, and is specifically designed to counter the Five Elements technique, reducing the power of five-star spiritual roots to only one tenth of its original strength. Although it consumes a lot of energy and cannot be maintained for long, a battle between masters only requires one chance to decide the outcome.
In short, this was a very expensive fight. The Yin-Yang Ring was even one of the Qin family's most valuable assets. It was obvious that Qin Kangnian spent a lot of money to keep his position as the head of the family.
As soon as the Yin-Yang Ring appeared, the Golden Crow with flames all over its body summoned by Xu Zhaoyi lost its strength and dissipated into nothingness. Even the circulation of magic power in his own body felt sluggish. He was shocked and hurriedly released the paper man to open the Nine-Turn Corridor, but Qin Yongnian's palm wind was already approaching him.
Unable to retreat in time, at the critical moment, Xu Zhaoyi suddenly felt a tightening around his waist, and the next second he was pushed out of the battle circle.
Qin Sheng took Qin Yongnian's palm on his behalf. His magic power was not sluggish at all. With one move, he knocked back the opponent and made him vomit blood. Obviously, the Yin-Yang Ring on his head had not expired yet, but he was not affected at all. In the end, he took off the Yin-Yang Ring casually and looked at it curiously in his hand.
"Impossible!" Qin Yongnian took a few steps back. He wanted to escape but didn't dare. If the Yin-Yang Ring fell into his hands, he couldn't imagine what would be waiting for him when he returned to the Qin family.
Xu Zhaoyi also stared at his back in surprise. It was indeed incredible. Most cultivators' spiritual roots belonged to the five elements. Even though he had dual spiritual roots of gold and fire, he could not escape the rules. Spiritual roots were the source of their magic power. Once they were restrained, their strength would be greatly reduced.
However, Qin Sheng himself has no cultivation, and his spiritual roots have not even awakened. The source of all his magic power is in the system space, and the system naturally does not need spiritual roots.
To him, the Yin-Yang Ring was just a glowing decoration. He played with it for a while, removed the mark on it, letting the treasure return to its ownerless state, and then threw it back casually, and the Yin-Yang Ring fell steadily into Xu Zhaoyi's hands.
"I'm offering this to you as a gift for meeting you."
Qin Sheng turned around, and the two looked at each other through their masks. Xu Zhaoyi pursed his lips and refused.
"I can't accept it. This thing is very precious."
"It's not precious to me." Qin Sheng looked at Qin Yongnian, who was already furious, sneered, and then laughed: "If you don't want it, just destroy it. Don't let something that can restrain you fall into the hands of others."
Xu Zhaoyi remained silent. He had never expected Ling Huan to have this kind of personality. Should he say he was worthy of being Qin Sheng's friend? These two people, seemingly completely different, could actually give him the feeling of a very similar soul.
He was in mixed mood.
The noodles looked wrong.
[Host, could you please stop flirting? You're not his husband now, you're his friend!]
Do you know what it means that you should not cheat on your friend’s wife?
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The author has something to say: *A fool so stupid that he can enter a museum: an original line from the TV series "Insidious".
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