The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 266 Inheritance
Hearing what Li Miao said, Lao Qifeng hurriedly explained.

"Sir, I have been following your lead since I arrived in Miaojiang. The Beggars' Sect has never been slack in doing anything you ordered. Even if my master had not come up with this invitation, I would have naturally sent someone—"

Li Miao waved his hand and interrupted Lao Qifeng.

"Master Lao, there is no need to say these nonsense. You and I have some friendship. I can trust you personally, but I may not trust the Master of the Beggars' Sect."

"Let's talk about something real."

Li Miao pointed at Hong Chou.

"Your master can only live for a month at most, so he is not begging for life, and your Beggars' Sect is not coming to see me to protect your own Tianren."

"So, you want to distance yourself from this invitation and at the same time preserve your own celestial heritage?"

Lao Qifeng took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, then looked at Li Miao and said in a deep voice.

"Yes."

Li Miao looked at the leader of the Cao Gang who had not spoken for a long time.

"The same to you?"

The leader of the Cao Gang sighed, stood up, walked in front of Li Miao, and knelt down with a plop.

"Sir, I, the Cao Gang, have a question to ask."

Li Miao nodded.

"I know what you want to ask."

"In the past six months, the seven escaped priests have been running around in the martial arts world. I think you should know about it."

"You want to ask whether the previous leader of your Cao Gang was accepted as a sacrifice by the court, and whether he is still alive, right?"

Bang!
The leader of the Cao Gang, named Yu Qing, suddenly knocked his head to the ground, his tone filled with ecstasy.

"You do know!"

"Please tell me, is the old gang leader okay?"

"Please! Please!"

Bang!Bang!Bang!
Yu Qing's head kept hitting the ground, and in a moment his forehead was broken, staining the ground in front of him scarlet.

His last words were trembling, he was ecstatic, but also crying. The tall and strong man raised his dusty head from the ground and looked at Li Miao humbly, expecting and fearing Li Miao's answer.

Li Miao looked at Yu Qing, stretched out his hand into the air, and helped him up.

Wu Zhiheng.

He was the first one to rush into the imperial mausoleum, the first one to arrive at the Xiaoling Mausoleum and see the ground full of martial arts. He was also the one who teamed up with the Qi priest to fight with the other two priests, and finally had his head smashed by the emperor's finger.

There were only a few people offering sacrifices, so Li Miao and Zhu Zai had naturally checked them carefully. Even though Wu Zhiheng's head had been smashed by the emperor, their identities could still be determined from their figure and clothing.

Li Miao remembered very clearly that he said he was once the leader of the Cao Gang.

"Wu Zhiheng, right?"

Before Yu Qing could show an expression of ecstasy on his face, Li Miao's next words shattered his fantasy.

"he died."

puff.

Yu Qing's legs went limp and he sat down on the ground, staring blankly at Li Miao.

"The old gang leader...is dead?"

"Master Li..."

Li Miao nodded.

"He is indeed dead."

"But he did some good things before he died. At least I think he was a great man, so I had his body collected and buried."

"If you want it, you can send someone to the Jinyiwei Yamen in Shuntian Prefecture to get it."

Yu Qing was already crying so hard that he couldn't speak and moved his lips.

Li Miao raised his hand to stop it.

"Don't ask how he died or who killed him. You shouldn't ask this question, and you are not qualified to ask it."

Naturally, what happened in the imperial mausoleum that day could not be known to anyone. Zhu Zailian carefully screened all the Jinyiwei who were present that day, not to mention Yu Qing.

So Li Miao directly changed the subject.

He reached out and pushed the invitation on the table aside, then reached out again to lift Yu Qing up, walked him to the table and sat him down, then he slowly spoke.

"Let's put the invitation aside for now."

"Let's talk about your two families first."

"In fact, you all knew what answer I would give from the beginning, and you were prepared for it, right?"

Before Yu Qing could get over his sorrow, Lao Qifeng sighed, patted his shoulder, and smiled bitterly.

"Your Excellency is indeed far-sighted and foresighted."

"You saw it downstairs, so you glanced at me."

Li Miao smiled.

"With the aptitude of those two children, they can be regarded as true disciples of Wudang and Shaolin. Your two families are not rich enough to use such good seedlings as servants."

Before entering the building, a young man of about eighteen or nineteen offered Li Miao clean water, and a child about ten years old wiped his boots.

Li Miao could tell at a glance that these two people had extraordinary talents, so he looked at Lao Qifeng meaningfully.

Li Miao tapped his fingers on the table and looked at Yu Qing.

"Wu Zhiheng..."

"I remember he said before he died that his grandson is still in the Cao Gang. He should be ten years old this year and has good talent. He is the boy who shined my shoes."

Yu Qing suppressed his grief and nodded in agreement.

"You two want to hand these two children over to me?"

Li Miao smiled playfully.

Lao Qifeng nodded.

"Yes, my lord."

He said slowly.

"Although both Gang Leader Yu and I wanted to keep the Celestial Being inheritance within our gang, I knew from the beginning that the Beggars' Gang and the Cao Gang were the sects that should least have the Celestial Being inheritance."

"Because we are different from other sects that are confined to one place."

"We have too many people."

Li Miao laughed and raised his hand to point at Lao Qifeng.

"Since I was in Miaojiang, I have felt that Boss Lao is someone I like. He has the courage to fight to the death, but also the ability to compromise according to the circumstances."

"How about it, are you interested in eating the royal food?"

Lao Qifeng smiled bitterly and bowed.

"My lord is joking."

Both of them were smart people. They spoke in a jumpy manner. The other person knew what was going on before they finished speaking. There was no need for them to finish their words as they had already given each other their answers.

Just as Li Miao and Duan Jue said, the Beggars' Sect and the Cao Sect cannot have a celestial inheritance no matter what. Unlike the regional big sects, these two sects have too many members and are involved in the livelihoods of too many people, so they can be called "too big to be eliminated."

If he gave them the inheritance of heaven and man, even if they violated Li Miao's rules, it would be impossible for Li Miao to kill all the tens of thousands of members of these two gangs, and then these rules would immediately become meaningless.

Lao Qifeng and Yu Qing were also very clear about this, so they took the initiative to come to us to show their sincerity.

Of course, they wanted to keep the inheritance of the gods, but if Li Miao didn't give in, they were ready to take a step back - that is, the two young men who washed Li Miao's hands and wiped his boots. Hong Chou sighed, stood up, walked to Li Miao's side, took out a booklet from his arms, and put it in front of Li Miao.

Yu Qing did the same thing.

Lao Qifeng stood up and knelt on the ground facing Li Miao.

"Sir, this is the inheritance of the Beggars' Sect. I will give it to you. The most suitable person in the sect to practice this martial art will also be given to you."

"I, the Beggars' Sect, only hope that our inheritance will not be lost. Otherwise, when I go to the underworld, I, Lao Qifeng, will not be able to face my master!"

Yu Qing also bowed to the ground.

"It's the same with my Cao Gang."

Li Miao tapped his fingers on the table and looked at the two of them with a smile.

This is what the two gang leaders are planning.

If the imperial court wants to confiscate the inheritance of heaven and man, we will hand it over, but at the same time we will also hand over the genius who is most suitable to practice this inheritance to the imperial court. From today on, neither the people nor the inheritance have anything to do with us.

There would naturally be no problem for the court's people to practice the court's techniques and serve the court.

Firstly, it did not go against the will of the imperial court, and the family heritage was not lost.

Secondly, Li Miao is about to soar to the sky, and sending their own promising young man to Li Miao can also be a favor. Who knows, one day when Li Miao becomes a commander, and the two of them become pacification envoys, will they not take care of their own gang?

Thirdly, what if the situation changes in the future and the inheritance of heavenly beings is no longer a taboo?
In the past six months, the martial arts world has been turbulent and the situation has been changing every day. They are hiding the inheritance of the gods and dare not use it. It is the same as if they have nothing. Instead, they have to live in fear.

But if we send the good seedlings to Li Miao to train first, if other families don’t have talented people in the future and we don’t have them either, then everything will be the same as before; if other families have talented people, then our good seedlings can be put to use directly, right?
Even if all the above calculations fail, the family heritage will not be lost, the good seedlings will not be buried, and it will not be a shame to the ancestors.

"The two gang leaders have worked very hard for their own gangs. They also gave me two copies of the Heavenly Man inheritance and two good seedlings who can cultivate into Heavenly Man."

Li Miao smiled.

"If I don't accept it, it would seem like I'm not a good person."

After saying that, he reached out and threw the two booklets on the table to Shen Xunning to keep.

Lao Qifeng and Yu Qing let out a long sigh and spoke quickly.

"You are joking, my Lord. Our two families have never had any intention of disloyalty. If the imperial court is interested, we will offer our services with both hands."

"Okay."

Li Miao waved his hand.

"Boss Lao, Boss Yu, we have known each other since we were in Miaojiang. The fact that you took the initiative to come to me makes this friendship even more valuable."

"Just do as you wish."

"Send them directly to Shuntian Prefecture, and bring Wu Zhiheng's body back for burial. I will only let these two of you practice the inheritance of your two families."

"From today on, they are mine."

The two of them lowered their bodies again and spoke in unison.

"Thank you, sir!"

"Get up."

Li Miao said lightly.

The two gang leaders then stood up. Yu Qing was of course filled with mixed feelings of sadness and joy, while Lao Qifeng felt relieved.

Li Miao pointed to the invitation on the table and continued.

"Did Gang Leader Yu receive the invitation?"

Yu Qing reached into his arms and placed an invitation in front of Li Miao.

"Your Excellency, I just received it a few days ago and was going to hand it over to you today."

"Who sent it?"

"An old man, of the highest level, sent me off and left."

Yu Qing described the appearance, and Li Miao immediately pictured an old face in his mind, which was the one he killed on Hengshan Mountain that day.

He nodded.

"Got it, Gang Leader Yu can leave now."

"Yes."

Yu Qing stood up, bowed, and walked out of the private room.

Only then did Li Miao turn around and look at Hong Chou, who had been silent for a while.

"Old man, tell me about your fight with that man that day."

Hong Chou nodded and told the story.

He was a celestial being who achieved success after the founding of Da Shuo. Before that, he was also very famous in the martial arts world. Logically, as long as he made a move, he would be discovered by the imperial court and the imperial guards would be sent to capture him.

But what happened was that he had a good friend in the martial arts world who was at a similar level and had similar talent to him, named Xue Jinxi.

That’s right, it was Xue Jinxi who was locked up in the palace for twenty-one years and then taken into the imperial mausoleum by Wang Zhi.

The two of them achieved the celestial realm almost at the same time. The first thing they did was to meet each other, confirm each other's martial arts, and then say goodbye.

The difference is that after they separated, Xue Jinxi took action once, was discovered by the imperial court, and was captured and imprisoned in the palace; while Hong Chou liked to play around in the world, so he did not show his prowess in front of anyone for a whole year, so he did not expose his martial arts and escaped.

Back then, the priests forged the news of Xue Jinxi's death, saying that she had perished together with a top-notch demon. People in the martial arts world were all sighing and lamenting, thinking that a great hero had been lost.

But Hong Chou knew very well that Xue Jinxi had already become a celestial being, and it was impossible for her to die at the hands of an absolute master. So he secretly tracked her down, and finally stopped at Shuntian Prefecture.

He realized something was wrong.

So Hong Chou immediately returned to the Beggars' Sect, took away the Heavenly Man inheritance, and arranged for someone to fake his own death from possession of the devil. From then on, he changed his name and wandered around the world.

Until twenty-seven days ago, he wandered to Taizhou, Zhejiang.

Although he is from the Dirty Clothes Sect, with his martial arts skills, he would naturally not turn himself into a starving beggar. Instead, it seems more like he is playing around in the world.

That day he got a pot of good wine and specifically wanted to go to Taizhou to watch the sea while drinking.

In the evening, he carried a wine jug and staggered to a secluded beach. Just as he was about to spread the food on the ground to enjoy it, he suddenly saw a faint light on the sea in the distance.

Under the emperor's wise leadership for 23 years, the military preparations of Dashuo were relaxed, and Japanese pirates often invaded the southeastern coast, burning and looting. Many heroes became famous for fighting against the Japanese pirates.

Hong Chou naturally thought that it might be a small group of Japanese pirates. Looking at the light, he knew it was a small boat that could accommodate at most a dozen people. With his martial arts skills, he could easily kill them all in the sea, so he stopped where he was and waited for the other party to dock.

However, after the boat docked, a middle-aged man with a feather fan and a blue scarf got off the boat. His clothes were simple but elegant, and he did not look like the short and dirty Japanese pirates at all.

Hong Chou heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that perhaps the rich family went out to sea to enjoy the scenery and delayed the time.

But soon, he realized something was wrong.

Because he couldn't see clearly the middle-aged man's martial arts, even with the "Sumeru" he cultivated, he couldn't see through the other party's true qi.

The other party is a celestial being.

When the middle-aged man saw Hong Chou, he didn't even say a word and just killed him directly.

The more Hong Chou fought, the more frightened he became. Not only was the opponent's moves different from all the martial arts he remembered, making it difficult for him to guard against, but they were also extremely powerful and put him at a disadvantage in a short moment.

He desperately exchanged blows with the middle-aged man and was seriously injured. He picked up the invitation and fled desperately, thus saving his life.

Later, he was unable to suppress his injuries and wanted to return to the Beggars' Sect to hand over the Heavenly Man inheritance, so he was brought to Li Miao by Lao Qifeng.

After listening to this, Li Miao twisted his fingers and a smile slowly appeared on his face.

"Strung together."

"The poisonous creature from overseas sailed ashore in a boat, dressed in simple and ancient clothes, and his martial arts were different from those of all the martial arts sects at that time, and he showed up again at this time."

"It is most likely the hidden sect that Master Ji mentioned, which was suppressed by successive dynasties and moved far overseas!"

(End of this chapter)