Chapter 125: Sinister and Sinister
Chapter 125: Sinister and Sinister
Liu Sheng and Xu were shocked, "How could this be?"
Li Mulan sighed and told the two of them roughly what had happened along the way.
Xu was shocked and frightened when she heard this. "Are you hurt? Ah? Don't hide it from me."
Li Mulan would naturally not tell Xu about her injury. Besides, she was fine now, so there was no need to make her worry.
"Sister-in-law, who am I? Who can hurt me? Besides, Yuanyuan and my sister are here, don't worry."
How could Xu be assured? "This prime minister is not an easy person to deal with. Everyone in the capital knows that people in the prime minister's mansion cannot be offended. How did your grandfather offend him?"
Li Mulan actually had some guesses, but since her grandfather didn't tell her, she just pretended she didn't know. "It's just that they had different political views in the past."
"You're going to kill someone just like that?" Xu was not some inner-house lady. On the contrary, she was very sensitive to changes in the court, even more so than Liu Sheng. That was why she forced Liu Sheng to leave Kyoto when the former crown prince incident came out, and the whole family went to Lingxiao Palace to avoid the world.
Li Mulan knew her sister-in-law's ability, "Oh, sister-in-law, my grandfather would never tell me these things."
Xu sighed, "What is this all about? But don't worry, both your senior brother and I will stand by your side. If necessary, why not let us stand on the same side? That Xu Tian, I have long disliked him, his family is arrogant and domineering."
Liu Sheng was startled, "Madam?"
Xu glared at him. "Before, you didn't want to get involved and just wanted to teach and educate people, so I naturally told you to stay as far away as possible. Now it's different. Xiaojiu's identity cannot be changed. Can she let go of her family? As the eldest brother, you must help her. Do you hear me?"
Liu Sheng was speechless, "I didn't say I wouldn't help. I didn't say anything."
Li Mulan looked at Xu with gratitude. She knew of course that Xu was trying to help her, but she was reluctant to drag them into this mess. She would protect her own family without any complaints, but it would be better if the eldest brother and his wife were not involved.
"Sister-in-law, it's not that serious. My grandfather is not a pushover. Besides, the regent seems to think highly of my grandfather, so, at least for now, there won't be any problems."
Liu Sheng thought for a while, "The Regent is not a simple person. The reason why Xu Tian can dominate alone is because the Regent does not bother with him for the sake of the little emperor. If the Regent intentionally made Li Taifu come back this time, I guess Xu Tian must have done something to displease the Regent."
"But Xu Tian is the emperor's grandfather after all."
Liu Sheng stroked his beard and said, "The regent thinks highly of the little emperor and had previously intended for me to teach him."
Li Mulan raised her eyes, "Did Senior Brother agree?"
Liu Sheng looked a little uncomfortable, "No."
In fact, he finally agreed, but at that time he felt helpless, because the regent was a bad man who set a trap for him, otherwise how could he fall into his hands. Fortunately, no one knows what happened later, and the matter was left unresolved.
Xu snorted lightly, and ultimately did not expose him in front of Li Mulan, in order to save some face for her senior brother.
"Oh, right, the second and sixth brothers are here. However, these two bastards have been here for two or three days and haven't even shown their faces. Humph, wait for me. If they don't come, I, the eldest brother, will go to meet them in person tomorrow."
Li Mulan couldn't help laughing, "Big Brother, this must have been initiated by the Second Brother, the Sixth Brother would not have refused to come to see you."
Liu Sheng looked disgusted and said, "Come on, the second brother is evil in an open way, but the sixth brother, tsk tsk, is the one who is insidious and evil."
"Puchi~" Li Mulan really couldn't help laughing. The senior brother's evaluation was very pertinent. Hahahaha.
And the sinister sixth brother, Lin Yunfan, had not rested yet. He was playing chess in the yard, playing with himself and having a lot of fun.
Xu was speechless to her husband and slapped him hard, "How can you talk like that? They are all my fellow apprentices. You are unqualified as the senior apprentice to say that to them."
"Do those two brats regard me as their senior brother? They have come to Kyoto and they still haven't come to my house. Do they take me, their senior brother, seriously?"
"You're the one who always nags people whenever you see them. Who wouldn't run away when they see you?"
Liu Sheng was a little mad now, "Hey? What you said is not pleasant to hear, why do you say I am always nagging them? I am the eldest brother, isn't it right for me to teach them the truth? Second brother, look at him, he is already 28 years old, still alone, all day long he is reading those medical books, dismembering a frog today, digging up a corpse tomorrow to study. He is already not a normal person, I just want him to find someone to start a family and live a good life. At least I can correct his quirks, am I wrong?"
Li Mulan immediately explained to her second senior brother, "Oh, senior brother, the second senior brother is a genius doctor. He is obsessed with medicine. Those frogs and corpses are very helpful for his research on medicine."
"A miracle doctor? What's wrong with a miracle doctor? Does a miracle doctor not need to get married? He set a good example, and the fifth and sixth sons followed suit, and none of them got married. What's going on? The fifth son is two years older than the second son, and no one has ever seen him. Maybe he is being besieged now and has died in some ravine."
(Let me explain here that Mo Yan does not accept disciples based on age, but rather on seniority based on when they first joined the sect.)
"Well... Fifth Brother is... fine. We just met before, before we arrived in Kyoto."
"Before we reach Kyoto?" Liu Sheng knew how to grasp the key points. "That means we are not far from Kyoto, right?"
Li Mulan smiled awkwardly and said nothing.
"Okay," Liu Sheng did not sit down. He stood up and walked back and forth in the room, shouting at Xu, "Look at me, these brats are all the same. You said I don't look like a senior brother, but those brats look like junior brothers? Huh?"
Xu stroked her hair at the temples uncomfortably and said, "Well, Old Five, I guess he has something urgent to tell you?" Then she tried to wink at Li Mulan.
Li Mulan immediately received the message, "Yes, yes, Fifth Senior Brother said that he had something important to deal with, otherwise he would have come to Kyoto with us. He was the one who told me that Second Senior Brother and Sixth Senior Brother were coming to Kyoto."
It would have been fine if he hadn't explained it. Once he explained it, the old man got even angrier. "Look, look, they're in collusion. These people have already discussed it secretly. They don't take me, their senior brother, seriously at all! Humph, I'll go there early tomorrow morning. You don't want to see me, right? I'll go, every day! Every day! I'll let them face me every day!"
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