Chapter 1: Xiao Nanfeng
As the day was getting late, red lanterns were hanging high in the Xiao Mansion, and red double happiness paper cuttings could be seen everywhere, as if a large wedding was about to take place, which was very lively. Inside and outside the mansion, there were a large number of generals guarding the place, so that no one would disturb the wedding.
At this moment, an old man in green slowly walked through the heavily guarded corridors and doors.
"Coughing ..." He was probably suffering from lung disease, hunched over, covering his mouth with a handkerchief and coughing from time to time.
Behind him followed a giant black wolf dog, the size of the big, like a tiger, body muscle expansion, ferocious appearance, eyes icy cold scanning around, seems to choose people to eat. All the way through, the guards are all afraid, let this man and a dog unimpeded.
Finally, he slowly walked to the entrance of the inner courtyard, where there stood dozens of expressionless guards, not allowing anyone to enter or leave the inner courtyard, only he came, the guards only slightly moved.
"Cough, cough, hereditary son still have emotions?" The green-clothed old man looked at the guard leader in his cough.
The guard leader respectfully said, "My lord, HEREDITARY SON drove away all the subordinates, refused to speak, and did not accept the groom's clothes, tomorrow is the day to welcome the bride, and HEREDITARY SON is not cooperating at all."
The green-clothed old man looked at the groom's clothes on the tray in his hands and frowned slightly, "Give it to me, I'll go and talk."
"Hereditary son trusts you the most, then please, my lord." The leader of the guards respectfully handed over the wedding clothes and said.
Several guards immediately opened the inner courtyard door for the green-clothed old man to walk into the inner courtyard, with the giant wolf dog following close behind.
The guards closed the inner courtyard door once again, and each of them revealed a look of relief.
In the middle of the inner courtyard, the green-clothed old man patted the wolfdog's head, "Black, you'll just wander around here, don't eat anything indiscriminately."
"Wooooooo!"
The giant wolf dog whimpered lowly a few times, seemingly extremely humane.
All the subordinates in the inner courtyard were driven out, leaving only the person the green-clothed old man had come here to convince, HEREDITARY SON.
The green-clothed old man holding the wedding clothes, toward a brightly lit study.
The door to the study was wide open, and the interior shelves were filled with books. In the center of the study sat a young man, holding a scroll in his hand, reading the scroll in his hand by the light of the surrounding candles.
The teenager was about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a maturity in his youthfulness, although he was not yet an adult, he still presented a handsome appearance with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and a rich and handsome god.
The teenager was reading very carefully, even if the green-clothed old man crossed into the study, he didn't realize it. The green-clothed old man put down the tray in his hand and waited patiently.
About one incense stick of time, the teenager finally finished reading the scroll in his hand, then closed his eyes to think, and thought for another small half hour before slowly opening his eyes.
"Uncle Qing? You came?" The teenager looked surprised.
"Hereditary son, you're going to welcome your bride tomorrow, do you still need to read by candlelight at night?" The green-clothed old man laughed.
The teenager put down the scroll in his hand and sighed slightly, "Uncle Qing, you say, I, Xiao Nanfeng, don't even have the right to choose my marriage now?"
The old man in green frowned slightly and shook his head, "HEREDITARY SON, there is no one who is making things difficult for you. You have to understand in your heart that the Divine Constabulary couple has been dead for ten years, and it has always been the Grand Master who has been protecting you."
"My parents are just missing, who said they are dead?" Xiao Nanfeng's face changed, seeming to be somewhat annoyed as he said.
The green-clothed old man fell into silence, to wait for Xiao Nanfeng's anger to subside before communicating.
Xiao Nanfeng also seemed to realize that he had lost his temper, and with a slight sigh, he picked up one of the wine jugs at hand and walked over.
"Uncle Qing, it's hard in my heart, tonight, you can have a drink with me!" Xiao Nanfeng poured two cups of wine in a slightly despondent manner.
The green-clothed old man looked at Xiao Nanfeng and shook his head, "HEREDITARY SON, I know that you're not feeling well in your heart, but, you should understand that people can't come back to life when they're dead, and if Divine Constabulary was still alive, how could you possibly not have heard anything at all in these ten years? When the Divine Constabulary died, you were only six years old, and now, you are already sixteen years old. Everything has changed in these ten years."
"Heh, this fiefdom was my father's, but now it's become the Grand Master's. The Grand Master? In the past, he was just a steward in our family, and it was my father who gave him the power. In the past ten years since my father disappeared, he's used me as a hostage to cut out dissidents and gather power. The military power and power of the fiefdom all fell into his hands, all of my Xiao family's industries and stores have also all become his private property, heh, with the body of a slave, bullying me, the young master, you guys, just watch and don't care?" Xiao Nanfeng said with an ugly face.
The green-clothed old man's face changed: "hereditary son, this kind of words can not say, if it is transmitted to the ear of the big chief but to be in trouble."
"What? This kind of thing can't be said? You can only do it? Among the fiefdoms, who doesn't know that I, the young lord, have been imprisoned in the mansion for years?" Xiao Nanfeng took a sip of mulled wine and said.
"The Grand Master doesn't allow you to run around because he is worried about you being young and is worried about thugs assassinating you, after all, the Divine Constabulary had many enemies back then. And you want to read, he has gone around looking for all sorts of gentlemen to teach you, all sorts of books in the fiefdom, as long as you want them, never try to get them for you. Look at your room full of books, isn't it all because he took advantage of your heart?" The old man in green clothes persuaded.
"But what else can I do besides being able to read? Cultivation techniques, all of them are sealed to me, and only gave me a most crude body refining technique. This gong method, even you guys, will not give your children and grandchildren to cultivate in disdain, right? You only allow me to study and cultivate my mind, but don't allow me to learn martial arts to strengthen my body? By the age of sixteen, even if I try harder, I am only acquiring Realm's fifth level of cultivation, but it's really for my own good!" Xiao Nanfeng sneered.
While Xiao Nanfeng was pouring wine for himself, the green-clothed old man also drank down the wine in his own cup, the purpose of his coming today was to accompany Xiao Nanfeng to talk about his heart, so that he could vent out the depression in his heart, and when he vented it out, it was time for him to resign himself to his fate, right?
After the green-clothed old man finished drinking, Xiao Nanfeng helped him pour another cup of wine.
"However, in terms of studying, I have no regrets. In these ten years, the teaching teachers have changed from one batch to another, and I can read any obscure article. This room full of one thousand three hundred and forty-six books, I've read through them all." Xiao Nanfeng looked at the books around him, and a wave of pride flashed in his eyes.
"Look, the Grand Master is still helping you. In the future, if you marry the Grand Master's daughter, you and the Grand Master will become a family." The green-clothed old man seemed to be coaxing Xiao Nanfeng.
"A family? Uncle Qing, the Grand Master's daughter, what kind of person is she, you know clearly, right?" Xiao Nanfeng frowned and stared at the green-clothed old man.
The green-clothed old man frowned slightly, "The Grand Master's daughter is as beautiful as a heavenly fairy ..."
"Beautiful as a heavenly fairy? Heh, but her heart is like a snake and scorpion, and she is a watery woman! If I haven't inquired wrongly, this daughter of the Grand Master has already forced the death of several husbands, right? Her first two husbands were tortured to death by her, and after their deaths to prevent their families from causing trouble, she even exterminated their entire family, right?" Xiao Nanfeng sneered.
The green-clothed old man's face changed, this kind of thing, how did he know?
"hereditary son, don't worry, this time it won't be, you are hereditary son after all, the body of ten thousand gold ...," the green-clothed old man drank another cup of wine, his forehead emerged a trace of cold sweat advised.
"This fiefdom of my Xiao family, military and government business, have been mastered by the Grand Master, the only thing the Grand Master lacks now is a name and righteousness, right? Because this is ultimately my Xiao family's fiefdom, it is my Xiao family's! He's just a slave, he has no name, so, in the end, he hit his idea on me, as long as I marry his daughter, then the two families will merge into one, and he'll have the name to completely appropriated the last trace of my Xiao family's fame, right!" Xiao Nanfeng stared at the green-clothed old man and said coldly.
"hereditary son, this, this, I'm afraid you misunderstood the Grand Master, how could the Grand Master ..." The old man in green clothes was momentarily short of words.
"Uncle Qing, if I remember well, this life of yours, is my father saved back then, right?" Xiao Nanfeng laughed lightly.
The green-clothed old man's face changed intensely for a while, and finally nodded: "That's right, I was saved by the Marquis. The Marquis was as gracious to me as a mountain, only because I injured my inner pitch and could no longer go into battle, so the Marquis put me in charge of raising that MYTHICAL CREATURE hatchling that was carried out from the Demon Cave, Black!"
"Yes, father saw that you were injured, and sympathized with the fact that it was not easy for you to follow him, so he let you be a dog breeder in the mansion, and provided you with good food and drink, and even arranged a fat job for your son, my Xiao family has been very kind to you!" The smile on Xiao Nanfeng's face gradually disappeared.
The old man in green clothes but his face changed: "HEREDITARY SON, the things of that year have already passed, the marquis has been dead for ten years, what is the use of saying this again?HEREDITARY SON, you'd better stop resisting, the Grand Master is also for your own good!"
"For my good? Hahaha, what a good for me, keeping me like a sparrow in a cage, deceiving me as young as I am, taking me as hostage, robbing my Xiao family of everything, and then finally forcing me to marry a poisonous woman, squeezing the last bit of value out of me? Heh, you call this for my good?" Xiao Nanfeng narrowed his eyes, and there was a flash of sternness.
The green-clothed old man frowned slightly, HEREDITARY SON didn't resign to his fate because his anger subsided after venting a round, it seems like his temperament is getting bigger and bigger? This can't be done, if the Grand Master blames it, he can't afford it.
"hereditary son, I advise you to calm down, the big chief's power, you can't resist. At least I'm still speaking kindly now, if I leave you alone, I'm afraid you'll be even more embarrassed." The green-clothed old man's face gradually sank.
Xiao Nanfeng, however, stared dead on at the green-clothed old man, "It seems that my father was wrong about you! You have now forgotten all about my Xiao family's favor. Now you're all about pleasing that Grand Master?"
"HEREDITARY SON, those who recognize the times are wise. The Divine Constabulary has died, and now within the fiefdom, the Grand Master has the final say, and this is the general trend. I advise you, it's better not to struggle. With your current strength, even I, a man with injuries, can be taken down with one hand. Those books you read won't help you at all." The green-clothed old man had already lost all patience.
"Is that so? Then come and try your hand on me." Xiao Nanfeng sneered.
The green-clothed old man's face sank, clearly about to tear his face off as he fiercely stood up. However, he suddenly stumbled, and for a moment, the sky spun and his body was weak, and he fell to the ground with a plop.
"Poison in the wine? Impossible, you've been under surveillance for the past ten years, you couldn't touch anything poisonous at all, what exactly did you give me to drink?" The old man in green clothes was incomparably weak.
On the chair, Xiao Nanfeng was still seated, looking at him with cold eyes, "Who said reading is useless? The book has everything I want, poison? What's so hard to match? Some food and herbs that clash with each other, a little bit of blending, and you can concoct a poison, don't you know?"
"How is that possible? Ahem! No, that wine, you also drank it, how come you're fine?" The green-clothed old man was still a bit unwilling to accept the result of being poisoned at this moment.
"Since I can concoct a poison, I can naturally make an antidote as well." Xiao Nanfeng calmly said, "You know what? You're about to die."