The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 69 The wedding is brought forward

When it was almost completely dark, Li Jingxiao ordered Lu Erfu and other personal guards to escort the three Jingxi sisters back to the Xing'an Earl's Mansion.

At night, Li Jingxiao practiced the Immortality Changchun Kung Fu all night long. When he opened his eyes, he saw that his Kung Fu had made some progress (197/500).

I couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

These days, Li Jingxiao stayed in the pacification envoy's office during the day, and practiced the Lightning Thunder Fist when he had nothing to do.

After six hours a day, I have already mastered the basics of this cultivation technique (50/200).

At night he continued to practice the Eternal Youth Kung Fu. Li Jingxiao figured it out himself that internal cultivation was the foundation of practice.

Around three o'clock in the afternoon, I returned home from the yamen and saw patients for two hours.

Before finishing my meal, I checked the homework of my three cousins.

After dinner, he took the three little girls for a walk, and then asked Erfu to bring 12 guards to escort them before it got completely dark.

Send the three little girls back to the Xing'an Earl's Mansion. It's only two streets away, and the straight-line distance is only two miles.

I went into the study to practice drawing talismans and writing for a while.

When it is completely dark, practice the light skills of chasing stars and catching the moon.

In the morning before getting up and having breakfast, he practices martial arts, sword techniques, stick techniques and light skills.

Although boring, the days are peaceful and fulfilling.

Li Jingxiao finished his training and got up. He practiced palm and sword techniques in the martial arts field in the backyard and waited for the three girls to come.

After having breakfast with the help of the three sisters and their maids, she mentioned the three-story house given by Lin Ruhai.

The three Jingxi sisters were stunned for a moment, and then their faces lit up with joy.

Zhenwu Temple is a Taoist temple after all. Although it has no shortage of residential houses, the layout of the front, middle and back yards is the same as that of an ordinary courtyard house.

But it's not as good as a real home.

Li Jingxiao ordered Jingxi to take Jingyue, Jingrong, guards, servants and maids to check out the house today.

If it's suitable, I'll move in in a couple of days.

As for Zhenwu Temple, I will come here in the afternoon to see patients for an hour as usual from now on.

It doesn't count as abandoning this Taoist temple.

The three Jingxi sisters nodded hurriedly and repeatedly assured that they would clean up the house.

Li Jingxiao couldn't help but praise Jingxi a few more times, and the happy little girl laughed all day long.

After breakfast, Li Jingxiao went to the yamen to report for duty.

I left early in the afternoon and just entered Zhenwu Temple, I saw my father-in-law Qin Ye walking back and forth in the front hall with a worried look on his face.

Jia Heng hurried forward and said, "Master, the old man came here at 2:30 pm."

The second quarter of the evening was 1:30 in the afternoon. As soon as Li Jingxiao heard it, he knew that something must have happened.

He walked quickly into the front hall and saluted Qin Ye, "Master Taishan, is there any trouble?"

Qin Ye didn't care about the customary etiquette, he grabbed Li Jingxiao's wrist and said in a worried tone, "Early this morning, Master Zhen from Ningguo Mansion sent a letter.

Invite me to Zuixianlou for a drink.

After three rounds of wine at the banquet, Jia Zhen made overt and covert advances, trying to get me to break off the engagement."

When Li Jingxiao heard this, his expression twisted and the anger in his heart instantly emerged.

Fortunately, Qin Ye saw that he was angry and continued, "Since I have set my eyes on your son-in-law, I will naturally not do anything unfaithful.

He, Jia Zhen, wants to tempt me with high positions and generous salaries, but he underestimates my character.

However, the relationship between the Ning and Rong families is deeply rooted in the court and the country. I came here to discuss it with my son-in-law.

"Should we move up the wedding date to avoid any further complications."

Li Jingxiao was eager to marry Qin Keqing, the most beautiful woman in the Red Mansion, as soon as possible.

But it had been calculated beforehand that after the Chinese New Year and the Lantern Festival, the six-month mourning period would be over.

Of course, three months of mourning is enough.

After all, the master, his grandmaster, his uncles, and their uncles were not Li Jingxiao's biological parents. Three months of mourning was enough.

I'll keep it for half a year, but it's just for a better reputation.

So Li Jingxiao hesitated for a moment and agreed.

Li Jingxiao was just thinking about whether to kill Jia Zhen. After all, in the original book, Jia Zhen accidentally saw what Qin Keqing looked like.

He then tried every possible means and used the excuse of finding a wife for his son Jia Rong to trick Qin Keqing into marrying him into the Ningguo Mansion.

He kept forcing Qin Keqing, and finally he succeeded.

Do that bastard, inhumane thing.

Qin Ye stroked his beard with a look of satisfaction and said, "My dear son-in-law is loyal and righteous, and he keeps his promises. It is worth it that I even refused the positions of Jinling Tongpan and Tongzhi offered by Jia Zhen."

After saying this, while Li Jingxiao was looking surprised, he continued, "I left Zuixianlou in anger, but I didn't expect to run into Mr. Lian from Rongguo Mansion.

After listening to his explanation, I realized that his Jia family forced me to break off the engagement in order to let the eldest daughter of the West Mansion marry a virtuous son-in-law.

What else can I say? When I retire and return home, Keqing can still marry my son-in-law as his equal wife.

This is simply absurd and outrageous."

Li Jingxiao was somewhat surprised by Jia Lian's behavior.

But from what his father-in-law said, he understood that it was not that Jia Zhen had met Qin Keqing, but that the Jia family actually wanted to marry into his family.

I couldn't help but laugh, but at the same time, I felt secretly proud of myself, thinking that I had been thinking about getting promoted, and I was on the right track.

Otherwise, how could the Jia family think of marrying Jia Yuanchun to himself?

He hurriedly complimented his father-in-law, bowed and said with a smile.

"Master Taishan is a man of high righteousness. This is because Jia Zhen, a mean-spirited man, is judging people by their own standards.

Although it's dirty, it also makes us a good father-in-law and son-in-law."

Qin Ye thought about it and realized that what he said was true. He couldn't help but turn his anger into joy and laughed out loud.

After final discussion, it was decided to hold the wedding in seven days.

What is unexpected is that both Li Jingxiao and Qin Ye looked down on Jia Zhen.

This guy is ridiculous, but it would be wrong to say that he has no brains.

The financial situation of Ningguo Mansion is actually much better than that of Rongguo Mansion.

Even though Jia Jing's alchemy costs a lot, when Rongguo Mansion suffers a financial deficit, Ningguo Mansion can still maintain a balance of income and expenditure.

It can be seen that although Jia Zhen is a playboy, he still has the ability to protect the family business.

In addition to forcing Qin Keqing to do inhumane and ugly things, Jia Zhen's greatest sin was eating, drinking, having fun, and gambling and having sex during the funeral.

From a modern perspective, the chaotic private lives of rich kids are really nothing.

But in ancient times, this was a serious crime, even more serious than Jia She's crimes of having secret dealings with foreign officials and military commanders.

That is why it is said that the main culprit for the decline of the Jia family is Jia Zhen.

After all, having a clan leader like him would certainly lead the family members astray.
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After entertaining Qin Ye at lunch, Jia Zhen could already see that the old man had no intention of breaking off the engagement.

Come to think of it, Li Jingxiao was only an eighth-rank official at the time, but Qin Ye took a liking to him.

At this time, Li Jingxiao not only inherited the title of Xing'an Earl, but was also awarded the title of first-class general and was awarded the bullfighting suit.

He served as the Jinyiwei Zhenfushi.

Your status and position are no longer the same as before. Only a fool would regret breaking off the engagement at this time.

Since Jia Zhen saw through Qin Ye's thoughts, he could only use a backup plan.

After leaving Zuixianlou, he sent someone back to Ningguo Mansion to prepare generous gifts and went straight to the Xing'an Earl's Mansion.

PS: Some readers asked me why I was sometimes called Li Jingxiao and sometimes Li Jingyou.

Let me explain here that Li Jingxiao's courtesy name was Jingyou, and his relatives, friends, peers and elders all called him by his courtesy name, not his given name.

(End of this chapter)