Chapter 909: Lingnan Xie Family

The bird-feather flying boat swooped down and arrived at the outskirts of a city in a blink of an eye. When I got off the boat, Lin Siqi fiddled with something outside the boat. The size of the crystal ball was collected by Lin Siqi just like that.

"How did you do that?" I was taken aback.

Lin Siqi blushed: "It's an inscription pattern formation that can activate the power of the small world, and the head teacher personally seals it. For such a difficult inscription pattern formation, the head teachers in the entire Inscription Pattern Academy who can engrave it may count on one hand. come here."

"That's why, let's go to the city."

"Yes, my lord!"

Lin Siqi had already reached the state of extreme exhaustion, and even started to stagger when he walked. As he walked forward, he stepped directly into a county town. When stepping into one of the inns, the shopkeeper shook his head and said with an apologetic smile, "This shop does not accept guests from the north, please forgive me."

"Oh, that's how it is……"

I didn't force it either, I took Lin Siqi and tried several other hotels, but the results were exactly the same, all of them were declined, and the other party didn't let us move in at all.

"What's going on, is there any reason?" I was at a loss.

Lin Siqi frowned and said, "Maybe it has something to do with an incident two months ago."

"Two months ago, what happened?"

He murmured, and said eloquently: "It's a long story, the Daxiang Dynasty borders many borders with our Xuanyuan Empire. Just two months ago, a sergeant of the Xuanyuan Empire offended a monk of the Daxiang Dynasty. , the monk cut off the general's head with a flying sword without saying a word, and then returned to the mountain. This incident aroused the anger of the high-level border guards of the Xuanyuan Empire. Qian Xuanyuan's iron cavalry attacked the mountain, and shot and killed hundreds of monks including the monk with strong bows and crossbows. When the Daxiang Dynasty dispatched troops, the border guards had already returned to the country. That's why the people of the Daxiang Dynasty hate it, and in the past two months, their hatred for the Xuanyuan Empire has increased sharply, so...they don't accept guests from the north."

"That's it..."

I strode down the street and said, "Go ahead and see if there is a place to stay overnight. We should all have a good rest."

"Yes, my lord!"

Just after the sixth inn rejected us, the innkeeper seemed to have a little compassion, and said: "If you really want to find a place to live, I am afraid that the only one in this city who dares to take you in is Qiong Ran from the Xie family. , if you walk straight ahead from this street, you will naturally see it."

"Okay, thank you, shopkeeper."

...

About ten minutes later, a small path appeared on the side of the road, leading directly to a quiet and elegant villa, and the house number of the villa was engraved with the words "Qiong Ranju", and a pair of lifelike stone lions in front of the gate must also be a A big family, I took Lin Siqi over and knocked on the door knocker. Not long after, an old servant opened the door with a blank face: "Guests, what do you want?"

I smiled awkwardly and said: "We are merchants from the Xuanyuan Empire in the north. When we came here, many inns refused us to stay overnight, so we can only find this place. Master, can we stay for one night, a little preparation Just order food and we'll pay for it."

"this……"

He hesitated for a moment, and said: "I can't decide this, I'm going to ask the master."

"Well, okay, thanks a lot!"

Not long after, the old housekeeper went back and forth, followed by a middle-aged man full of elegance. The middle-aged man put his hands behind his back, and there was a hidden aura between his brows. After looking at us, he said: " A Shura, an ordinary person, people from the north are really strange, I am the owner of Qiongranju's Xie family, my name is Xie Lingkun, who are you, come to Qiongranju... Could it be a secret? Bar?"

"What detailed work?"

I frowned and said, "Master, if you don't want to stay with us, just say so. There's no need to say such harsh words. Not everyone comes to you with that kind of purpose."

"Yeah?"

He squinted his eyes, his whole body was agitated with a cultivation level close to that of immortality, and there were water lines in his eyes, as if he was trying to see through me, but I, who was protected by the ten-directional fire wheel eyes, obviously It wasn't something he could easily see through. In the next second, Xie Lingkun laughed dumbfounded and said, "People from the north, do you know where Qiong Ranju is? You dare to come here to seek accommodation?"

"I don't know." I shook my head.

At this moment, behind Xie Lingkun, several imposing soldiers appeared, all wearing the armor of the Daxiang Dynasty, and one of them said coldly: "Qionan Residence is the residence bestowed by His Majesty to the Xie family in Lingnan. Asylum, and our lord...is the Minister of the Household Department of the Daxiang Dynasty today, and supervises the construction of the city here. You two outsiders dare to come to Qiongran to seek accommodation without inquiring about it. Isn't this an insult to yourself? ? The mansion of Lord Minister, is the place where you seek lodging?"

I felt a chill in my heart, and unconsciously secretly slandered the shopkeeper who gave the directions. No wonder his smile at that time was a little weird. It really pushed Lin Siqi and me into the pit of fire!

"That's it..."

Although the opponent is the servant of the household department, I am also the commander-level general of the Xuanyuan Empire. The commander of the first-class corps has the lowest official rank equivalent to a military officer of the second rank, even higher than the servant of the household department. At one end, he definitely couldn't lose in momentum, so he looked up at Xie Lingkun and said, "Since it's the mansion of Lord Shi Lang, then I'm sorry, please forgive our abruptness, since this city can't accommodate us, it's better for us to rest outside the city." Alright, sorry for the inconvenience."

Xie Lingkun was quite self-restraining, he bowed lightly, and said with a smile, "Sorry."

As a result, at the moment when he hadn't fully uttered the words of apology, there was a sudden "clang", and a broad sword fell on the stone road in front of the mansion, shaking the stone road to pieces. A white-clothed swordsman jumped down, and with a wave of his palm, the great sword quickly shrank and flew into his hair, and then he put his majestic hands behind his back, and stepped into the gate of the mansion.

"I heard that my guest has come to Qiongran Residence, how is your reception going?"

His voice was full of air.

"who are you?"

A guard in armor standing behind Xie Lingkun said in a deep voice, "Bringing a weapon and stepping into the servant's mansion without authorization, what is your intention?"

"My surname is Xie, and my name is Ji."

Xie Ji continued to move forward.

But Xie Lingkun seemed to be petrified, with a horrified expression, and immediately fell to his knees with a "plop", kowtowed repeatedly, and said: "It turns out that the ancestor has arrived, and the villain Xie Lingkun... the Minister of Rites of the Daxiang Dynasty, the Xie family in Lingnan The Patriarch of this generation, please refer to the ancestor, when the ancestor came, why not tell his great-great-grandson, the ancestor come in quickly, do you want tea, I have a good dragon well here, the ancestor..."

"Peng!"

Xie Ji immediately kicked Xie Lingkun back a few steps, with contempt on the corner of his mouth: "Hurry up if you are a shameful thing, the face of the Xie family has been ruined by you, these two are my guests , you dare to shut them out?"

Xie Lingkun hastily slapped himself: "It's my grandson who is blind, please don't punish me."

"No need."

Xie Ji said indifferently: "I heard that there is a lotus pond in the backyard of this other garden, let's set up a banquet with wine, I want to entertain distinguished guests."

"Yes, Patriarch, I will arrange for my servants to prepare!"

"Go away, you are all vulgar."

"Yes Yes!"

I saw it in my eyes, and I was secretly surprised, Xie Lingkun is the servant of the household department, a dignified third-rank official, plus he has real power, he can be called a prince, but he is so shameless in front of Xie Ji, this How powerful is Xie Ji, the "quasi-sword fairy" of Zhenyang Mountain? Thinking about it carefully, it seems to be normal. Xie Ji's strength must have been close to the quasi-god level. Maybe he and Xuanyuan Ying are both brothers. Such a character... It is impossible for the emperor of the Daxiang Dynasty not to reuse him. Maybe he is just one of them. A man who stepped on the balance of the Daxiang Dynasty.

...

In the back garden, the lotus pond is breezy.

A table of wine and banquet was set up, only me, Xie Ji, and Lin Siqi were seated. As for Xie Lingkun, the host, he could only serve him from afar, not daring to neglect him in the slightest.

I glanced at the distance and said, "Xie Lingkun seems to be very afraid of you, Xie Ji."

"ha!"

Xie Ji laughed, and said: "It's just unworthy descendants. They are full of officialdom and have no skills. They seem to be scholars, but they only read a lot of idiots. If all the descendants of Xie's family in Zhenyang Mountain are like this, they will not come out." In fifty years, the weeds in the Xie family's ancestral grave will probably be two feet high."

I grinned: "May I ask, how old are you?"

"Three hundred years old."

Xie Ji looked at the astonishment in my eyes, and said with a smile: "The Dao is boundless, and these three hundred years have only allowed me to see the foot of the Dao. When we practice one way, we mortals are really better than fish swimming against the current." It's a hundred times harder."

I agreed, nodded and said: "You know that I am from the Xuanyuan Empire in the north, why are you treating me so politely?"

"It's very simple."

Xie Ji picked up his wine glass, cupped his hands to the north, and said with a smile: "Xuanyuan Empire has resisted the threat of evil spirits from the north for many human dynasties, Jing Yunyue, Xuanyuan Ying, and you, my lord, which one is not my mortal world?" The pride and excellence of the human race? I, Xie Ji, is a highly praised swordsman, but I can only do my best on Zhenyang Mountain. To be honest, I feel ashamed."

To be able to say these words, what a straightforward and heroic quasi-sword fairy this is!

"Come on, drink!"

Xie Ji raised his wine glass and said with a smile: "If you have wine today, you will be drunk today, so I don't care about right and wrong outside the world."

"drink!"

I also raised my wine glass and drank it all in one gulp. The strong wine entered my throat, which was not so refreshing.

On the other side, Lin Siqi hesitated, and said softly: "The teacher of Mingwen Academy has taught him that drinking is not allowed..."

Xie Ji put down his wine glass and said with a smile, "Nothing."