Qi Lei slowly opened his eyes and found himself lying on a very comfortable cotton wool. Since he had just woken up and had not noticed something was wrong with his body, he immediately felt aching all over his body. When he thought that he had escaped from the fire, he felt relieved. He naturally would not be healed by the fire. However, where is this and who can save him in the fire, he was a little confused and could not get up. He felt pain all over his body. It seemed that only when he saw the person coming, he could know the answer.

"Are you awake?" An old man with a low-shaped body and gray hair and beard walked into the room and smiled kindly.

Qi Lei felt that the person in front of him looked familiar at first sight, as if he had seen him somewhere, and said in confusion: "Uncle, it seems that Long March has seen you somewhere!"

The old man smiled slightly and said, "You are the deputy leader of our Duanqing Village. It is not surprising that you have ever seen an old man."

Qi Lei said in surprise: "Uncle, are you a man from the mountain village?"

The old man nodded and said, "Yes, the old man is not only a person in the mountain village, but has been in the mountain village for almost eighteen years. If it weren't for the old man, you would have been burned to death by the fire."

When Qi Lei heard this, he was indeed the old man in front of him, and said excitedly: "Uncle, where are the brothers from the Long March?"

The old man's face suddenly darkened and said, "I'm dead, all dead, all burned to death."

"What?" Although Qi Lei was mentally prepared, he heard that his brother who had been born and died in the fire with him died tragically, and tears of sadness overflowed from his tiger's eyes.

The old man comforted: "Deputy Master, everyone is dead, so please feel sorry for your grief. After recuperation, make plans."

Qi Lei suddenly thought that there was no one in charge in the village, and it would be a mess, which would make people take advantage of the opportunity. He immediately said anxiously: "Uncle, can you send me a copycat? Some things that the Long March must be dealt with."

The old man sighed and said, "Okay, but you can tell others about the old man saving you, but the old man is just a mute and can't speak. Please remember the deputy leader."

Qi Lei was shocked and said, "Uncle, you can clearly speak, why do you want Changzheng to say that you are mute?"

The old man suddenly shot his eyes and exuded a compelling momentum. His face suddenly became serious and said, "If the deputy leader of the village does not agree to the old man's request, the old man will not only not send you back, but will also kill you."

Qi Lei was startled by the old man's sudden change, and suddenly felt his breathing a little cloudy, and said, "Uncle, why is this?"

The old man took back his mental pressure on Qi Lei and said, "You will know these things in the future, Deputy Master Qi, and it is not time to make them public yet."

When the old man said this, Qi Lei was sure that he had no malice in the parcel, otherwise he would not have saved him. Moreover, he had just seen the old man with a righteous look on his face, not like a treacherous person, so he accepted the old man's request from the bottom of his heart.

Qi Lei wanted to ask something but didn't dare to ask. He was afraid that the old man would be unhappy, so he could only keep many questions in his stomach for the time being. Anyway, this place must be on the heart island, and there will be opportunities in the future.

The old man also saw Qi Lei's frowning eyebrows. He knew that he was worried. He said warmly: "You have a good rest. The old man will change you tonight. The burns on your body will be fine."

"Uncle, how many days have I been lying with you?" Qi Lei asked.

"Three days." The old man left the answer and walked out.

Only then did Qi Lei realize that everything that was burned was covered with a black ointment. Although the wound was still in a scorching pain, there was a cold feeling in his body. The feeling of pain and comfort mixed together allowed Qi Lei to spend the day after awakening.

The night gradually faded, and the bright hut gradually faded. Qi Lei's stomach was gushing, why didn't the old man give him some food for a day?

Finally, the door of the cottage was opened. The old man carried a box and walked in. The fragrance of the food inside had already overflowed. The old man lit up the light in the room first, looked at Qi Lei staring at the lunch box in his hand and said in a eager look: "You're hungry, it's not that the old man intends to hunger you, but that you can't eat after you have applied this layer of medicine. You have to wait for the second layer of medicine to eat."

Qi Lei knew that he had misunderstood the old man, so he lowered his head embarrassedly.

The old man saw it and his favor for Qi Lei increased a lot, saying, "Come on, the old man will change the medicine for you first, and then eat."

Qi Lei obediently asked the old man to take off his clothes, and then the old man started to change medicine for him. Qi Lei found that the old man was very skillful in changing the medicine, and he also cleared his meridians. When the new medicine went up, his whole body was suddenly cooled and his whole body was comfortable. He kept praising: "Uncle's medicine is really magic!"

The old man turned around and smiled, "This is the healing medicine of Da Nei. How can it not be magical?"

"Da Nei?" Qi Lei was stunned. How could Da Nei's medicine be in the hands of an ordinary old man? But he knew in his heart that he did not dare to ask this question, nor could he ask. So he spread the topic and said sincerely: "Uncle, how can we repay you for this life-saving Long March?"

"Save life?" the old man said after changing the last medicine, "Forget it, Deputy Master Qi just needs not to come to cause trouble for the old man in the future."

Qi Lei suddenly seemed to be dug out by someone. He just wanted to take the opportunity to repay his kindness and learn more about this mysterious old man. Unexpectedly, he was seen out of it at a glance and said with a embarrassed smile: "Uncle, Long March is a person who is grateful for his kindness. If the uncle does not let the Long March repay his kindness, Long March will be uneasy in his life!"

The old man suddenly said seriously: "If you join the army, you will definitely be a general of a generation, which is a pity."

Qi Lei didn't expect the old man to suddenly talk about this topic and said, "Uncle, don't you know about the past of the Long March?"

The old man smiled strangely and said, "So what if you know, so what if you don't know, haven't you fallen here to be a deputy camp leader?"

Qi Lei knew that the old man must not be an ordinary person, so he said calmly: "Uncle seems to know a lot about the Long March?"

The old man didn't want to say much, took out the meal from the box and said, "Let him go over these annoying things. Come, we have dinner, you can't drink, so the old man enjoys this wine alone."

Most of Qi Lei's body had skin trauma, which did not hurt his muscles and bones. He changed his medicine and could complete the movements such as eating alone, so there was no need for the elderly to help him.

After resting for a night, Qi Lei was able to get out of bed and walk around. He originally said that the old man would take him back, but the old man said that he had good physical condition and recovered very quickly, so he stopped sending him and let him go back alone.

When he left, Qi Lei realized who had been rescued. The place where he recovered for four days was the Panyun Cave, the single Lianjiao who was once Guan Lianteng. The owner of this place was the uncle who was almost burned to death in the fire a year ago. Later, Cao Ruifeng gave Panyun Cave to Uncle Mu. He sent some food and daily necessities every month. Gradually, everyone forgot about the existence of this person, except for the person who sent food and daily necessities every month.

Qi Lei's appearance in the Duanxiang Hall made Cheng Xiuyun, who was extremely troubled, was extremely happy. Seeing that there was no good place on Qi Lei, the dissatisfaction in the hearts of many brothers was eliminated.

Cheng Xiuyun asked everyone else in the hall to go down first, leaving Qi Lei alone. He wanted to know where Cao Ruifeng was. There were so many people in the hall just now. If the enemy spies heard it, Cao Ruifeng's situation would be plagued.

From Panyun Cave to Duanqing Hall, Qi Lei walked for two hours. There was no way, he was injured and could not walk fast, so he almost used his strength. With the help of Cheng Xiuyun, he did it.

Cheng Xiuyun was eager to know Cao Ruifeng's whereabouts, so he couldn't wait to ask: "Deputy Master Qi, where is my niece Ruifeng gone? Do you know?"

Qi Lei grinned in pain and said, "I know."

"Where is she?" Cheng Xiuyun excitedly grabbed the back of Qi Lei's hand. It was the place where he was burned by the fire. Qi Lei suddenly felt sweat beads of pain and said, "Senior Cheng, can you let go first?"

"Oh!" Cheng Xiuyun suddenly remembered Qi Lei's body was covered in wounds, and hurriedly let go and apologized: "Xiuyun is reckless!"

Qi Lei did not easily calm down and said, "The Master Cao's village master and the Fairy of the Sword Tomb of Tianshan went to Dianjing together."

"What are they doing there?" Cheng Xiuyun asked in confusion.

Qi Lei said embarrassedly: "I don't know about Long March, they didn't tell me." Qi Lei understood in his heart, but he just didn't dare to say it out. He didn't want to get involved in the affairs of his children's affair.

"When did you go?" Cheng Xiuyun continued to ask.

"It's been three months." Qi Lei replied honestly.

Cheng Xiuyun couldn't help but complain to Cao Ruifeng in his heart. This girl didn't say anything to Aunt Xiu, and then ran out secretly. And she had been there for three months and didn't even have any news. It was so inappropriate.

Under Cheng Xiuyun's arrangement, Qi Lei quietly sent people to the Yunnan-Beijing ruler Cao Ruifeng to come back as soon as possible. Qi Lei also took out the one million taels of silver and rebuilt the village. Thanks to this fire. If it weren't for burning it all, it would be really not easy to build another city on the basis of the original village. Now, all the burned houses were pushed out and re-planned and rebuilt. The size of the original village was nearly doubled. The village was built in the border pattern, which was like a military fortress. This reconstruction directly included the houses in the back mountain into the overall construction of the village, and there was no longer a situation where it was difficult to take care of each other from the beginning to the end.

The rumors were denied to the outside world that Duanqingzhai demolished the original old house because the wood was basically aging and it was useless to stay. They simply burned them all and rebuilt the new Duanqingzhai.

Although some people were interested in releasing Duanqingzhai to receive attacks from enemies of unknown origin and the news of the entire copycat being destroyed, Duanqingzhai purchased wood, construction materials, and summoned workers. They were also generous and planned to spend one million taels of silver to build the new Duanqingzhai.

As we all know, Duanqing Village has long been unable to make ends meet, so there is no such much money to build a copycat. But the fact is right in front of you, and you can't help but believe it. All the purchases of wood and stone are all in cash. You must believe it.

Duanqingzhai quickly recovered the adverse effects on him in the world. Ouyang Zhen's wishful thinking was once again lost. However, they knew that Duanqingzhai's vitality was injured this time, and it was not enough to have money to rise again. Ouyang Zhen never understood why Duanqingzhai suddenly became rich. Except for the batch of medicinal materials transported from the Dian Kingdom, this was just sold by a merchant, and that batch of medicinal materials is not worth a million. Is there any secret?

The forces in China support Cao Ruifeng. Cao Ruifeng once admitted to Wulin in public that she already had a fiancé. Could it be that this person is her fiancé? Who is this person? Ouyang Zhen checked for a while and found nothing, so he forgot. Now that he can no longer ignore the existence of this person. He must dig out the details of this person. He handed over this task to Li Xianlong. He is in the Lin family in Jiangnan to see if he can find some clues from Lin Qimeng.

Zeng Cheng was restless in recent days, and he had heard about Duanqingzhai. The information in his hand also showed that the fire in Duanqingzhai was not done by his own people, but by an enemy of unknown origin. The operation was planned very carefully and no traces of exploration were left. Moreover, the target of the group was not the entire Duanqingzhai. All the information pointed to one person. This person was the leader of Duanqingzhai and the governor of the river. He was the conspiracy behind this matter. Before he could see that the lord went to his official residence study.

"Zeng Cheng, what do you think about this?" The mysterious lord in black sounded quite tired today.

"The subordinates dare not guess." Zeng Cheng stood up and knelt down. He knew that as a qualified subordinate, he could not guess the lord's thoughts at will.

"Tell me, I don't blame you."

"Then I will say it." Zeng Cheng said nervously, "Lord, the matter is probably not for us, but someone wants the position of the River Governor."

The man in black listened to his words and thought for a while, "You continue to say it."

Zeng Cheng looked up at the back of the man in black and said, "Lord, we have not had any contact with Cao Ruifeng for the past year, and Teacher Yuchi has not set foot on the Sole Island, so no one knows the relationship between us and the dead Cao Gongfang, so my subordinates guess this is not aimed at us."

"Well. What you said makes sense." The man in black said with satisfaction, "But a year has passed. Should we tell Cao Ruifeng about this? It has been nineteen years and we can't drag it down any longer."

Zeng Cheng wanted to speak but stopped, but the man in black saw it and said, "Zeng Cheng, just say anything you have. Don't be so hypocritical in front of me."

Zeng Cheng quickly lowered his head and said, "My subordinates think it is not the time to tell her. If she can't control the situation, if she tells her rashly, wouldn't it be exposed?"

The man in black nodded and said, "You are right, just do what you said, notify Yuchi Tian and do it at the right time." After that, the man in black disappeared.

The next day, Zeng Cheng was suddenly transferred to the Ministry of Revenue and was sent to the river to urge the river to pay the taxes for the first half of this year. At this time, it was the time to urge the taxes, but the court was worried about the river and sent someone to see it. Of course, Zeng Cheng, who had been to Duanqing Village twice, was the most suitable candidate. Therefore, even if Li Yuanchao and Kou Tianyun opposed it, they could not find a reason. As for Li Yuanchao's request for Cao Ruifeng to manage the river, his mountain village was burned by the thieves. He suggested that the replacement of the river governor was only to wait until Zeng Cheng understood the situation and talk about it.

Li Yuanchao could not. Zeng Cheng was a very smooth person, and he was not very conspicuous in the court. Apart from visiting Duanqing Village twice, he had no other achievements and was a well-behaved official. Li Yuanchao investigated him more than once in private. Apart from picking up two contributions, he even liked to collect genuine works and his career was not surprising. He was all taken one step at a time. There was no other way to deal with such people, and he could only serve his preferences. Such people have been from ancient times to the present, and they were all wise and foolish, good at protecting themselves, and no one could offend them.
Chapter completed!