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The middle-aged man in the distance gradually lost strength. Although his cultivation was the same as that of the man in black,
level, but the opponent's attack methods are too weird, his figure is erratic, and every attack is fatal. From this combat experience, I am no match for the opponent at all.
The middle-aged man looked very ugly. He took advantage of the free time to look at the other guards of the caravan. Thirty percent of them were seriously injured and had no ability to fight. The rest were also retreating and could not hold on for long.
Swish!
Just as the middle-aged man was distracted, the man in black turned into a black shadow and attacked him.
The middle-aged man dodged hastily, but a bright red cut had already appeared on his ribs, and the blood instantly soaked his clothes.
It was thanks to the middle-aged man's quick reaction, otherwise, if it were anyone else, he would have lost his life.
The middle-aged man no longer dared to be careless. His eyes were hesitant, but in the end, he made up his mind and decided to burn his essence and blood to use the secret.
Although this secret has serious side effects, it may even cut off his path of cultivation.
But if they don't do this, everyone in their caravan will die here today.
"It's not a pity for me to die, but the safety of the young lady cannot be compromised!"
The middle-aged man secretly clenched his fists, and the blood in his body gradually boiled.
The aura on his body became stronger and stronger, while his skin and flesh gradually shriveled up.
"careful!"
At this moment, a slightly slender hand suddenly appeared on the middle-aged man's shoulder.
The palm seemed very weak, but when it landed on the middle-aged man's shoulder, it made the middle-aged man's whole body uncontrollably. He felt a huge force outside his body that twisted his body into a strange position.
The next moment, a blood-stained scarlet dagger passed through his waist, cutting a hole in his clothes.
The middle-aged man broke out in a cold sweat. If it weren't for this sudden scene, he would probably have been seriously injured here without even being able to use the secret.
Then, he felt a warm air flow from the palm into his body, extinguishing his burning blood.
"Just wait here, I'll take care of these people!"
A slightly low and magnetic voice came to the middle-aged man's ears, and then a young man flashed past him and suddenly stretched out two fingers into the void.
clang!
There was only the sound of metal hitting metal, and the middle-aged man was horrified to find that the young man actually had a sharp dagger between his fingers. Behind the dagger, the space surged and the figure of the man in black appeared.
"Isn't this too strong?"
The middle-aged man's heart was like a raging storm. He had just been tormented enough by the strange secret method of the man in black. He could not catch sight of the other party at all and could only passively take the beating.
But unexpectedly, the young man could accurately find the location of the man in black with just a casual move.
At this moment, the man in black groaned, and a strong murderous intent burst out from his body, and the surrounding dust was rolled up in an instant.
However, this was of no use to Ye Qian. He didn't want to waste time, so he flicked the dagger lightly, and the dagger instantly bent back and pierced the man in black's throat at a speed that the man in black could not react to.
After getting rid of the man in black, Ye Qian's figure flashed a few times.
Only afterimages remained in the air.
The middle-aged man was still looking at the body of the man in black that had fallen to the ground. He was inexplicably shocked. This tough opponent was easily solved by the young man without any effort. When he came to his senses, he turned around and saw that the men in black who attacked him had fallen to the ground one by one in an instant...
what's the situation!
Be it the middle-aged man or the other guards of the caravan, after seeing this scene, they all widened their eyes, as if they had seen a ghost.
This visual impact was simply too shocking for them.
Thinking about how the men in black had chased them before, they felt despair in their hearts. But after this young man appeared, all the men in black were killed in less than a cup of tea.
Even the leader of the men in black was no match for him.
Is this a strong person?
The guards looked at Ye Qian with eyes full of gratitude and admiration.
"Thank you for your help, sir!"
At this time, the middle-aged man also recovered from his shock, and hurriedly ran to Ye Qian, clasped his fists and said:
"May I ask your name, sir? For saving my life, my Liu family will repay you with gratitude."
"Ye Qian!"
Ye Qian did not hide his identity. He said his name and waved his hand:
"It's just a small favor, not worth mentioning. I just happened to be passing by here."
At this time, a woman came out of the Qingfengling carriage. She was wrapped in a light pink dress and a white gauze dress on the outside. Her beautiful face was as pale as white paper. She coughed lightly, and the people around her looked over in a hurry.
"Miss..." After seeing the woman coming out, the middle-aged man hurried over: "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." The woman shook her head: "Thank you for your concern, Uncle Fu."
The woman then walked up to Ye Qian and bowed slightly: "My name is Liu Qingrou from the Liu family. Thank you for rescuing me, young master."
"Miss... Liu Qingrou?"
Ye Qian's eyes flashed. He had originally wanted to establish a relationship with the Liu family, but he didn't expect to save the eldest daughter of the Liu family.
This obviously made it much easier for him to get closer to the Liu family.
"These are all trivial matters." Ye Qian laughed and said, "By the way, I see that your face is pale, and there is a hint of blood stagnation between your eyebrows. Is there something wrong with your cultivation?"
"Indeed." A trace of surprise flashed in Liu Qingrou's beautiful eyes. She didn't expect Ye Qian to be so sharp and see her problem at a glance. She didn't hide it and sighed and said, "When I was practicing the exercises a few days ago, my blood and spiritual power surged backwards, causing my meridians to be blocked. I can't use any spiritual power, otherwise it will damage my foundation."
Then she looked at the Liu family guards who had suffered heavy casualties and said, "Otherwise, I can also join forces with Uncle Fu to deal with those men in black."
"This girl is really careless." Ye Qian muttered in his heart.
However, this should also be caused by her eagerness to practice. The path of practice should be gradual. If one deliberately tries to improve the realm, blocking the meridians is a small matter, but it would be a big problem if one goes astray.
"This is not a big deal. It will be fine in two or three months of recuperation." Ye Qian said.
"Of course, if someone can help use spiritual power to sort it out, it can heal faster." After a pause, the eldest lady of the Liu family continued.
Hearing Ye Qian's words, Uncle Fu hurriedly asked, "Sir, do you know how to comb your hair?"
Liu Qingrou also looked over, her beautiful eyes flickering. Now that her family was in trouble, it would take her two or three months to recover her cultivation. This would be extremely disadvantageous for her. If Ye Qian knew how to sort things out and let her recover her cultivation as soon as possible, she would be able to deal with those things when she returned to the family...
Chapter 90: The First Jonin Mission
There was another piece of news about the Tu family. Although this piece of news did not sound as shocking to the people around them as the previous news about the Tu brothers getting into trouble, it was quite fatal to the Tu family.
Tu Delun has five brothers, and only Tu Delun has an only son. The other brothers are either unmarried or have no children if they are married. Now some of them are dead or in jail, and the only male left in the Tu family is the only son in Tu Delun's family.
Just the day after Zhang Xiaofang talked to Tu Delun’s wife, the only male in the Tu family had a car accident on his way to school.
The car accident was quite bizarre. First of all, the vehicle that hit the person was found to be a fake-license vehicle. Secondly, from the surveillance video, it can be seen that the car was not driving very fast, as if it had calculated the victim's position at the intersection. After slowly swaying around, it aimed at the target and rushed over diagonally. Most importantly, the direction of the vehicle was very well controlled. When the vehicle hit the person, the victim's head would have fallen into the nearby flowers due to the impact force. In this way, the consequence of the car accident was not devastating. The victim had a broken leg, but his brain and upper limbs were not seriously injured.
Even the traffic police shook their heads when they investigated the scene. The grandson who was driving was really an expert. If the speed was faster, the victim would have been knocked across the green belt and the consequences would have been much more serious. If the vehicle was traveling a little slower, the victim might have been forced to stop at the edge of the green belt and at most would have had some abrasions on his body.
When the traffic police asked Tu Delun's wife if she had offended anyone recently, Jiang Qiang and Tu Delun's wife, who rushed to the scene after hearing the news, were stunned for a moment.
The only grandson of the Tu family got into an accident. To others, it was not earth-shattering news. Over the past year or so, the Tu family had experienced many earth-shattering events. The boy had only broken his leg, which didn't seem to be a big deal.
However, for the Tu family, which had suffered too much pain, this incident brought extremely heavy psychological pressure to the whole family, especially Tu Delong's wife, who almost went into an uncontrollable state of madness because of self-blame.
Seeing her son suffering in the hospital bed, the sentence she said most often was, it's all my fault, I'm the one who harmed the child, why doesn't God punish me, why does he do this to my child?
Tu Delong's elderly mother also noticed something was wrong and asked her daughter-in-law what was going on and whether she had offended someone outside.
Seeing Jiang Qiang hinting at her with her eyes, Tu Delun's wife suppressed her grief and comforted the old man, saying that it was just an accident and fortunately no one was seriously hurt and he should be fine after staying in the hospital for a while.
The old lady usually doesn't say a word, but she is not confused in her heart, especially in recent years. She has seen several of her sons get into trouble one after another, and life at home is getting worse and worse. Even her daughter Jiang Qiang has to drop out of school and go home to work to support the family expenses. The old lady feels helpless. After all, every son is her beloved one. Now the old man is sending off the young, and you can imagine how miserable she feels.
The grandson who was raised by her own hands is the spiritual support of the old lady. Now the grandson has also become
With such a big thing happening, the old lady felt that her psychological endurance had reached a certain limit.
In front of her eldest daughter-in-law and daughter Jiang Qiang, the old lady said word by word, I don’t care who you have offended outside, if anything happens to my grandson, my life will be over, do you understand?
When the old lady said this, two lines of tears flowed uncontrollably from her deep eye sockets. Tu Delong's wife and Jiang Qiang couldn't help but step forward and hug the old woman. The three women hugged each other tightly with different mentalities.
After comforting the old lady and the child, Jiang Qiang called her sister-in-law aside and told her, "Sister-in-law, let's not get involved in the affairs of Honghe County's officialdom in the future. We are in this situation now, and we should be lucky if others don't cause trouble for us. After all, there are only the elderly, women and children in the family now. We have no power to compete with those powerful people. Even if we have hatred in our hearts, we can only hold it in our hearts and wait until my second brother and the others come out."
Tu Delong's wife wiped away her tears and said, "Sister, I have regretted so much since the accident with the child. I had no idea that those people were so vicious that they would not even let a child go. If I had known this would be the outcome today, I would not have given the materials to him even if Qin Lingzhen had said anything."
Jiang Qiang felt bad watching her sister-in-law's increasingly haggard face. From a pampered official's wife to a busy woman struggling for three meals a day, her sister-in-law had really devoted herself to this family. Except for things like this, which were not her intention, which mother would want to hurt her own child?
Jiang Qiang gritted her teeth and said fiercely, Sister-in-law, it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. Sooner or later, this account will be settled completely. These days, you just take care of the children. No matter who comes to see you, just ignore them. No matter what they ask, just say you know nothing.
Tu Delong's wife looked at her sister-in-law with tearful eyes and nodded silently.
Since Tu Delong passed away, Jiang Qiang has become the backbone of the family. Whenever there is any problem, the eldest sister-in-law will listen to her sister-in-law's opinion. But last time, she gave the materials to Qin Lingzhen without discussing it with Jiang Qiang in advance, and there was a follow-up reaction so soon. This incident was too much of a blow to Tu Delong's wife.
To make matters worse, three days after the child was in a car accident, Tu Delong's wife was fired from her job.
Tu Delong's wife had been a housewife at home. She had too much money to spend, so why did she need to work? After Tu Delong got into trouble, the city's disciplinary committee emptied all the family's savings. She could not make ends meet, so she had to go out to find a job. At first, because she was old and had no work experience, she could not find a suitable job. It was one of Tu Delong's former subordinates who had received Tu Delong's favor and secretly asked someone to arrange for her to work as a receptionist in a store owned by a relative.
Although the salary of this job is not high, it can always supplement the family income. Therefore, Tu Delong's wife works very hard and the boss has a good impression of her. Just a week ago, when the boss mentioned the issue of salary increase for employees, she was also on the list of employees to be raised.
The name of Tu Delun’s wife was on the name, so Tu Delun’s wife regarded it as a great piece of good news and reported it to the whole family so that the whole family could be happy with her.
Because her son had an accident these two days, Tu Delun's wife asked for leave from her boss. When she asked for leave, the boss comforted her and told her not to worry and that her job would be kept for her. These words were still fresh in her mind, but she was fired for no reason. Tu Delun's wife couldn't understand it.
In order to find out the truth, Tu Delong's wife went to her boss's office to ask what was going on.
The boss did not hide it and explained to Tu Delun's wife that during the two days when Tu Delun's wife was not at work, people from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and the Tax Bureau kept coming to the store. When they came, they did not check the accounts or anything else. They just asked if there was anyone with the name of Tu Delun's wife in the store.
At first the boss didn't understand what the purpose of this group of people was, so he told the truth and said that there was indeed this lady working in his store, and that she had a very serious attitude towards work and was a very nice person.
But these people in uniform warned in unison that one should not judge a person by appearance, and if the store owner casually hired unqualified clerks, there would likely be trouble.
They were all smart people. After the group came twice, the store owner privately asked someone to inquire about the situation. The middleman's reply was that as long as Tu Delun's wife was fired, everything would be fine.
So, even though the shop owner felt reluctant, he still had to fire Tu Delun's wife.
The shop owner felt a little bit sorry when he saw the dejected expression on Tu Delun's wife's face. The prosperous days of the Tu family in the past were witnessed by all the people in the county. Their annual expenses were enough to open many stores like this. If it weren't for the many accidents that happened later, Tu Delun's wife would still be a pampered official's wife.
Now, in order to make a living, she, who is in her forties, has to go out of the house again, adapt to the society and do this kind of service work. It is really difficult for her.
The shop owner said, Sister, I will pay you three months' salary in arrears, or you can look for another shop. Anyway, you already have work experience, and I believe it will not be difficult for you to find a similar job.
When Tu Delun's wife saw the shop owner comforting her, she couldn't help but burst into tears again. The shop owner had taken good care of her during this period, and she didn't want to make things difficult for him anymore.
Tu Delong's wife looked up at the shop owner, forced a smile and said, "Boss, I appreciate your kindness. I will get paid for the time I have worked. There is always a way out. I believe that God will not be so blind as to force a woman like me into a desperate situation."