"Uncle, spare my life!"
The man was so frightened that he began to beg for mercy as soon as he landed, holding Li Mutian and curling into a ball.
"Ah! Spare my life, uncle spare my life, uncle spare my life..."
In the blink of an eye, the uncle he feared the most stood in front of him, frightening him so much that he couldn't move.
"Ye Sheng?" Li Mutian took a closer look, frowned, his face was cloudy, and he looked at him steadily with his beard on his chin.
Li Yesheng is Li Yesheng's brother, their father has been bedridden for many years, but Li Yesheng is idle all day long, playing the autumn breeze everywhere.
The two teenagers also heard the sound and rushed over, and Li Tongya's long stick was raised and pressed directly on Li Yesheng's arm, which frightened him to tears. Li Changhu picked up his head and looked at it, and couldn't help but be moved.
"Cousin?" Li Changhu let out a sigh and asked suspiciously.
"Why are you here?" Li Tongya asked coldly, the strength of the long stick in his hand did not decrease.
"I'm here to steal your melon!" Looking at Li Yesheng's hesitation, Li Mutian answered for him with a cold face, put away the long knife in his hand, turned his head and left.
"Cousin, I'm offended."
Li Tongya also put away his strength and lifted the stick, threw a sentence and followed his father back to the house. Only Li Changhu was left to help Li Yesheng up, wipe his face, and comforted him with a few gentle words, and politely sent him out of the courtyard.
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In the house.
Li Chijing and Li Xiangping sat at the table in a daze, Jianzi hid in his arms, Li Xiangping did not dare to move, but fortunately, his father's second brother walked into the hall not long after.
"Where's the big brother?"
He looked behind them and hurriedly asked.
"I'm seeing off the guests."
Li Mutian shook his head
"I know that this kid Ye Sheng often comes to fight the autumn wind, but I am afraid that tonight's incident will leak the news and cause the whole family to disappear."
Li Tongya found a small stool and sat down, and when he heard this, he tilted his head to look at Li Xiangping, and was about to speak.
"Crunch."
The door closed with a closing sound, and the eldest brother Li Changhu looked puzzled, sat down on the stool, and spoke to his father Li Mutian.
"Father, why do you need this?"
He shook his head.
"Ye Sheng is just stealing a melon, you don't do this favor, but you want to offend his family."
"What is his family, my family, there is only one Li family, and I am the legitimate son"
Li Mutian leaned against the window and tilted his ear, waving to the woman and the young son: "You squat down to the front door and back door, and someone will call."
The two of them should be, so they withdrew, Li Mutian turned around and closed the doors and windows, patted Li Xiangping
"You say!"
Li Xiangping nodded vigorously and spoke in a low voice:
"Today I went to the Meichi River to catch fish and picked up something from the river."
After saying that, he looked at his father Li Mutian, saw him nodding, and took out a mirror from his arms.
Li Changhu looked at his younger brother, then at his father, took the blue-gray mirror, and looked at it carefully, but he didn't see why.
Li Mutian took the mirror from his eldest son, found the small hole in the roof, moved a stone bench, put the mirror under it, and squinted at his two sons.
Seeing that the moonlight fluctuated like water, and gathered above the mirror like a swallow falling into the forest, a pale white jewel-like moon halo appeared.
Li Changhu stood up from his chair and stared at the moon halo on the mirror, Li Tongya was also pale and moved, staring at the mirror thoughtfully.
After a whole cup of tea was silent, everyone in the Li family silently stared at Jianzi without looking at him, with different expressions.
Li Xiangping was already watching this picture for the second time, but he was also shocked and muttered to himself:
"I have never seen such a beautiful scenery since I was a child..."
"Haha, don't talk about you, I've never seen such a good thing."
Li Mutian smiled lowly, but he didn't see any smile, but his eyes were fierce.
"This is probably an immortal's thing."
Li Tongya spoke quietly, picked up a long knife and kept wiping, he stared at the mirror as if calm, but his trembling hands betrayed his heart.
"Leaking rumors is also the disaster of my family's destruction."
Li Changhu kept pacing in the hall, looking anxious and excited.
"If it is something lost by the immortals, we will cast spells to find it tomorrow, how can we deal with ourselves?"
Li Tongya stared at his father and said with concern.
Li Xiangping nodded and said with a smile: "What the immortals will reward, my family will be of great use."
"Fart."
Li Mutian waved his hand, "I have heard that there are many immortals who are fond of killing, absolutely not! I don't know how long this mirror fell into the water, but I picked it up early, and when it was my turn to get it and other mortals, I think most of the immortals have already encountered an accident."
Hearing these rebellious words, Li Changhu was terrified, frowning and not knowing what he was thinking.
Li Tongya suddenly realized and said in a low voice:
"But was I seen by that kid Li Yesheng?"
"I showed this thing to my father in front of the house, and Brother Ye Sheng was supposed to be in the field at that time." Li Xiangping lowered his eyebrows.
"I'll kill him!"
Li Tongya's expression was fierce, he put on his rattan robe without hesitation, picked up the knife and walked out.
"Come back!" Li Mutian frowned and stopped Li Tongya, glanced at Li Xiangping, and saw that he looked panicked.
"Father!" Li Tongya finally became anxious, and he spoke in a tough tone.
"Li Yesheng is heartless, flamboyant but eats inside and out, instead of letting him make a gaffe and let the rumors cause the destruction of my Li family, it is better to let him die first."
"It seems that the second brother learned a lot from the husband in the village." Li Xiangping thought silently and lowered his head in shame, his father sent the three of them to study with him, and both brothers were liked by their husbands. Only because he was young and ignorant and mischievous, he couldn't understand the idioms in his brother's words now.
"Then if your younger brother eats inside and out, and his mouth is not strict, you will kill him too?"
Li Mutian laughed and asked his second son.
"There is no such scoundrel in our family"
Li Tongya said lightly.
Li Mutian shook his head, raised his hand to move the wooden table straight, jumped up, and gently touched the table to pull out a wooden box from the beam.
Putting the wooden box on the table, he said seriously to the three brothers in front of him:
"I also want you to know some things, I left my hometown at the age of thirteen and entered Anli County along Guli Road. General Yang received an order from the imperial court to attack Shanyue and recruited soldiers in Guli Road.
"General Yang governs the army strictly, but he also eats and lives with me, like a family. He passed on the tactics of the Vietnamese soldiers and told me to practice martial arts well. This tactic is widely circulated, easy to learn but difficult to master, ordinary people practice it but are only strong, and there is nothing special about it." Li Mutian sighed, saw that several people were listening very seriously, and continued:
"After I returned to my hometown, I read and wrote, and dictated the tactics in this wooden slip.
Li Mutian opened the wooden box, and there was a wooden slip, a talisman, a few pieces of broken silver glass and other miscellaneous items lying in the box.