The coffin was still parked in the lobby and had not been officially laid to rest. The monks of the Tiefo Temple were performing rituals, the concubine of Jianchang Marquis burst into tears, the old subordinates of the Marquis Mansion, the officials of Jiujiang Mansion, and the heads of various aristocratic families all came one after another.

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Come to pay homage. It seems that he died in the past few days. Not only have the seven sacrificial rites not been completed yet, but it seems that the ceremony in Xingye City has not arrived yet. But after all, he was the second son of the lord of the Xun Kingdom and a prince-level figure. The funeral ceremony

It must be a big deal.

Li Fan scanned through his spiritual consciousness and found that there were no Nascent Soul-level bodyguards in the Jianchanghou Mansion. Currently, there were only seven or eight Jindan-level worshipers and personal soldiers in the mansion, all of whom were guarding the front hall. He was probably the backer of Jianchanghou.

The Heavenly Lord of Leibu withdrew, and was later assassinated and disabled, without even having any heirs. Naturally, the succession of the second prince dropped significantly, and he was no longer so popular. Now that he is gone, there is no one to fawn over him.

Before the current Second Palace was crowned king, this Marquis served as the general of the Zhenjun Army, completely representing the Xun clan in Jiujiang. However, after being assassinated, he stayed in bed to recuperate in the Marquis Mansion all year round. All the commanders under his command also

He was assigned to the leadership of other generals, mainly King Lu and Governor Quanhuang. These two can actually be regarded as substitutes for the Marquis of Jianchang.

Li Fan looked back at the atmosphere in the city again. Jiujiang Prefecture is the first gateway to the northeast of the Sunda Kingdom. It is almost a big city second only to Xingye. There are naturally many monks. Although there is only Pingdong, the great monk who suppresses Qi Shu.

The head of the Lu family in the General's Mansion is only a few blocks away.

There are three Nascent Soul monks who are serious in the Iron Buddha Temple. Now the mage who chants sutras in the Hou Mansion has also been specially sent to the realm of golden elixir. In the past, even the caravans in the Hou Mansion had the golden elixir from the Iron Buddha Temple.

Protection, probably the Tiefo Temple's attitude towards Marquis Jianchang was not particularly contemptuous.

Further away in the direction of the government and the academy, Li Fan could still vaguely feel several papery Nascent Souls. When he came along the way, he saw that there were still many troops and horses stationed outside the city. Under the noses of the monks

, the possibility of making a special trip to assassinate a useless person like Jianchang Hou, who has never been popular, should be relatively small.

Moreover, looking at the atmosphere in Jiujiang Mansion, it is not particularly tense. The whole city is under martial law. It seems that the Marquis of Jianchang has a limited life. After becoming disabled, his foundation will not be good. At this juncture, it is not certain that his life span will be over.

Li Fan tentatively circled the Hou Mansion two or three times. Seeing that there was no ambush and the guards were not tight, he took an enhanced version of the invisibility charm and escaped directly into the Hou Mansion to steal the Heavenly Book.

Cen Hun said that the leader of the Xun Kingdom sent someone to copy the Heavenly Book in the appendices of twelve qigong atlases and gave it to the Marquis of Jianchang for recuperation and cultivation. But that was at best an accidental discovery of such a thing. As for what qigong is,

I don’t know what the title of the book is. After all, it is a courier from the king. Of course, if it is given to the eunuch, it will be wrapped and sent over. How can it be opened for security inspection?

To be honest, it is not easy to find. Because the Hou Mansion is a Hou Mansion after all, there are too many rubbish such as magic weapons, elixirs, jade pendants, and not far away is the Iron Buddha Temple.

, can't be of much help.

So Li Fan didn't have any particularly good ideas. He guessed that he would sneak into Jianchang Hou's study first and take a look. This feature was quite obvious. A set of twelve volumes of Qi refining methods was also written on the batch page.

The secret techniques should be quite conspicuous if they are placed together, right? Just look for them one by one.

So Li Fan took the opportunity to sneak into Marquis Jianchang's study while he was still eating outside and rummaged through it. Hey, don't mention it, this guy has quite a collection of books. In addition to a collection of classics and history, there are also books on war, strategies, and mountains and rivers.

Illustrations, novels about strange things, this young prince is actually a man of both civil and military skills, and he studies hard and never lets go of his books.

Of course, judging from the condition of reading, I read more miscellaneous books and military books. The words of saints are relatively well preserved. They look so clean and tidy. I don’t know how many times I have read them. Of course, young people can also understand them.

…

Li Fan tried again and waved Si Nan against the bookshelf. Hey, he actually found a good book for him, but it didn't look like some kind of Qi training method. He flipped through it carefully and saw

Look at the pages of the album to see if there are any inscriptions on the heavenly scriptures or anything like that.

Oh? Isn’t this a book like Bigongkeke, Youyanruyu? Tsk tsk, the illustrations are not good, and the usage is slightly low. And the Lord of Xun Kingdom will not copy the heavenly book in this kind of book and send it to

Should you watch the son who is disabled in bed? Probably not. Well...but the plot is quite interesting.

This article probably means that someone met a beautiful girl with a purple hairpin on the road of life, and he flirted with her and followed her to an ancient house. The beauty with a purple hairpin entered without closing the door tightly, leaving a crack in the door.

Become king

It meant 'open', so Sheng also happily followed in. As expected, the purple-haired beauty was waiting inside the door. Seeing Sheng come in, she smiled and said that Sheng was her new daughter-in-law, and she was going to marry him at night.

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A certain student was seduced by her beauty and thought it was a casual marriage. After a night of spring, he agreed. Beauty Zichai called her sisters to come and have a feast, so four beauties walked out of the wall and congratulated Zichai on marrying his bride. A certain student

Only then did they realize that they were not human beings. They tried to escape, but were caught by the crowd. They even dressed up as brides and each composed a poem to make fun of them.

Ask him to guess a riddle. If he can guess, he will be let go. If he can't guess, he will be punished with a drink. In the end, a certain student can't answer the answer, so he is surrounded by a group of girls who take turns to drink wine and get drunk.

They became husband and wife. After that, they played the flute every night, mingled with the beauties in the yard, slept in the same bed, and enjoyed the blessing of being together, so happy.

After enjoying themselves in this way for an unknown period of time, a certain student began to miss his relatives and wanted to go home to visit, so he secretly left the old house. However, no one recognized him when he got home and asked who the lady was looking for. Only when a certain student looked in the mirror did he realize that

Now that I have become a female figure, I want to go back to the old house again.

But he found that he couldn't remember where he was going. Finally, he told his family about his childhood secrets, and his family reluctantly believed what happened to him. However, he searched all over famous doctors but could not cure him, and the most outrageous thing was,

The doctor discovered that a certain student was pregnant!

So a certain student had no choice but to stay at home. As a result, after the baby was born, the purple-haired beauty appeared through the wall again and said with a smile that she was here to pick up the bride and the baby. So the certain student followed her through the wall with a smile.

Sheng's family demolished all the walls, but they never found him again, and his whereabouts are unknown.

Li Fan omitted all the descriptions of the battle between a certain student and five beauties that cannot be repeated, and the rest is probably just this short story.

Of course, Li Fan didn't find it interesting because of the colorful descriptions of the battle. He found it interesting not only because while he was reading, the system alerted him that "Li Fan's mood has dropped a bit." It was also because he could compare the annotations in other military books.

, can be distinguished from the handwriting.

This book was written by Jianchang Hou himself. You say it is interesting or not.

Li Fan narrowed his eyes and had many guesses in his mind for a while, but he was not sure yet. He wanted to check whether the body in the coffin outside was the Marquis of Jianchang himself, but there were many people watching the coffin outside, so he was afraid that it would not be possible for a while.

There was no chance. Besides, his consciousness sensed that someone was coming.

Li Fan immediately stuffed the Bigong into his arms and escaped underground.

The study door seemed to be blown open by the breeze and then closed quietly, but people had already come in.

This should be a monk who has used an invisibility charm. Although his body is covered up, he is probably at the golden elixir level. Li Fan has been using the blind observation method to strengthen his spiritual awareness, so he can vaguely see through the invisibility and sense the general location of this person.

From where he was standing, he could barely tell that this man was looking for something, but he didn't seem to be looking for a book, because he didn't browse to confirm the content of the book, but just felt around on the desk next to the wall, as if he was looking for a mechanism.

Something like a hidden grid.

Hehe, you are so brave, you actually dare to come to the Marquis Mansion to steal things...

Li Fan was secretly lucky and estimated that he sensed the other party's position. Just when the other party opened a hidden compartment on the desk, took out a box, and faintly revealed his whereabouts, Li Fan had to poke it out with his finger and click on it.

Suddenly, there was a soft sound from the roof!

There is someone in the room!

Li Fan had no choice but to hold it back, and the monk was also alarmed. He didn't even dare to take the box, and jumped directly onto the beam. Almost at the same time, the skylight was pried open, and there was a man in night clothes.

The snitch jumped into the study.

The snitch rolled on the ground and stood up. This person covered his face with a triangular scarf. He was extremely slim and thin. He was not sure whether he was a minor or a woman. Moreover, he had never practiced any serious Qi, but he was a martial arts practitioner with excellent Qinggong.

It's just a human being. At first, Li Fan thought he was just an ordinary handyman, and even though he found it, he didn't care. Who would have thought that he actually jumped up and climbed over the eaves and entered the house.

This thief didn't act randomly. He neither looked through the bookshelf nor touched the desk. Instead, he groped around and touched the floor tiles on the ground. He even lightly tapped here and there with his knuckles.

Seems to be looking for something.

Li Fan knew what the thief was looking for. After all, he was hiding in the ground. He clearly saw that there was a mezzanine under the brick layer under the desk, and there was a box in it. But the box was very small, and it didn't look like a book. And

There is no spiritual energy in it. It is probably either gold or silver or a seal. It is not something that practitioners are interested in.

Hurry up, grab your things and leave.

Li Fan and the golden elixir on the beam were silent and stared at the thief lying on the ground. Unfortunately, this idiot was crawling around on the ground and couldn't use his spiritual sense to detect. He could only listen to the sound and knock.

Even if you knock, you won’t be afraid of attracting others...

With a "squeak" sound, the courtyard door outside opened.

The thief was so startled that he clung to the ground and swam like a gecko, climbed to the window and hid under the couch.

Then the man outside also tiptoed to the study door. With a "squeak" sound, the door opened, and then a bald head was revealed.

He was a monk. He looked like he was in his twenties and had just built a foundation. His breath was messy and his feet were very level. He could come in and out of the Hou Mansion at this time. He should be a monk who came to perform rituals at Tiefo Temple. Of course, he sneaked to the back

The study room is definitely not used for rituals.

Li Fan wanted to roll his eyes, well, there were so many people coming and going that there was almost a mahjong table.

This monk also 'sneakly' sneaked into the study, but his sneaking skills were so bad, not even as good as the snitch under the bed. At least he was a professional.

And this monk was obviously taking advantage of the autumn wind and came to the Hou Mansion to get some benefits. He looked to the left, looked again, and picked out two volumes of calligraphy and painting on the shelf. He picked up some jade paperweights and inkstones on the desk, and put them all casually.

It was in the cloth pocket. The most outrageous thing is that this guy took a look at the landscape paintings on the wall behind the bookshelf, and he was so bold that he picked them all off, rolled them up and wanted to take them away! How could this person not notice it?

Li Fan frowned. Is the defense of the Hou Mansion too lax? Can you come and leave when you want for zero yuan?

As a result, before he could think about it, someone else walked into the yard.

The monk heard the door knocking outside and panicked. He jumped up and tried to jump onto the beam, but found that he couldn't reach it. He also wanted to get into the bed, but he bent down and felt that he couldn't get in, so he had to duck and hide in the bookshelf.

Behind me, I squatted against the wall with my head in my hands, as if I was afraid of any reflection.

But this time, the person who opened the door and walked in was a woman dressed in white mourning clothes. She looked like she was only in her early twenties, probably just a concubine of the Hou family, but her eyes were red from crying. She had a beautiful face, charming and pretty.

It's not cool. Looking at Dai Xiao's widow bonus, Teacher Li Fan can give her a high score of over 80 and less than 90.

When she entered the study, she didn't say anything. She just stood in front of the desk in a daze. She also picked up the box on the table, which was the one that Jin Dan found on Liang Shang, and opened it to look at the contents.

Li Fan couldn't detect the inside of the box with his spiritual consciousness, so he knew that the box must be sealed with a talisman and seal. The contents in the box could attract a golden elixir monk to steal. Naturally, there was a saying, but at this time, there was no way.

unknown.
To be continued...