Don’t Show the Son

Snapped!

Just when a firework exploded in the sky, Lin Xiu didn't hear Xue Ning'er's words clearly, so she asked, "What did Miss Ning'er just say?"

Xue Ning'er shook her head and said, "It's nothing."

Her mood at the moment is a bit complicated.

At the beginning, she just regarded Lin Xiu as a tool, a tool that could allow him to fight against Zhao Lingjun, but getting along these days made her slightly shaken in her original thinking.

She had never experienced the joy and joy of getting along with Lin Xiu before.

His humor is sometimes mixed with some teasing that she doesn't dislike, what he said is always what she wants to hear, even the gifts he gave her are so ingenious...

If she can be with such a person, she must be happy every day, right?

It's a pity that even such a man who understands her mind best will be snatched away by Zhao Lingjun in the end.

This made the jealousy in her heart deeper, and at the same time strengthened her original belief.

Even if he was Zhao Lingjun's man in the end, the man Zhao Lingjun got was the one she didn't want first.

Yes, she wanted Lin Xiu to fall in love with her, and then she rejected him when everyone in the capital knew about it.

Xue Ning'er said sorry to Lin Xiu silently in her heart, and left Lin Xiu's side with some guilt on the pretext that she still had guests to entertain.

Seeing Xue Ning'er leave, Lin Xiu breathed a sigh of relief. Judging from Xue Ning'er's performance, he did not make a mistake in giving this gift, and it was not in vain for him to put so much thought into her.

Lin Xiu has done in-depth research on women's psychology.

If Xue Ning'er is not the jewel of the Duke's Mansion, but just a child of a poor family, then whether it is sending jewelry or setting off fireworks, it will not be as effective as giving money directly.

But she has a prominent family background and has no shortage of expensive gifts, so fireworks are naturally better.

Not only romantic.

And cheap.

This firework show, which attracted the attention of the whole city, only cost Lin Xiu dozens of taels of silver. Although it was still beyond the budget, it was still within the price he could afford.

If he ate a little more, he might be able to recover the cost.

For this reason, Lin Xiu didn't eat much during the day. When everyone else was flattering and flattering Xue Ning'er, Lin Xiu was the only one who concentrated on eating.

An hour later, tonight's banquet finally came to an end.

The guests left Xue's mansion one after another. When Yang Xuan, the son of Marquis Yongping, was about to leave with his servants, a figure came from behind and stood side by side with him.

Yang Xuan glanced at Lin Xiu and said, "Brother Lin's gift is really ingenious. It can be seen that Miss Ning'er likes it very much."

With a smile on Lin Xiu's face, she turned her head to look at Yang Xuan, and said in a low voice, "There is no one else here, but you don't have to pretend like that."

Yang Xuan's expression froze for a moment, and he suddenly laughed again, and said, "What brother Lin is saying, why can't I understand a word?"

Lin Xiu chuckled, and said, "Stop pretending, you were the one who instigated the matter of Tianxianglou, and Wang Wei challenged me that day, and it was also your instigation. By the way, Qin Cong once troubled me, was it you as well?" the meaning of?"

Yang Xuan shrugged and said, "I really don't know what you're talking about."

"It's fine if you don't know." Lin Xiu shook her head, strode out of Xue's mansion, then turned her head and smiled at Yang Xuan, and said in a low voice: "The plan is good, but the person you are looking for is not reliable. I will continue to work hard in the future. I like to see how you can't get used to me and can't kill me..."

Looking at the back of Lin Xiu turning away, Yang Xuan's expression was calm, his fists in his sleeves were clenched tightly, and his joints made a crisp sound.

He glanced back and said in a deep voice, "How did he know that!"

Qin Cong's matter was clearly due to the grudge between the two first, and he just hinted at Qin Cong's words; Even more obscure, everything has a reasonable cause and effect, how did Lin Xiu find out about him?

An attendant behind him thought for a while and said: "Although the young master's arrangements are very clever every time, ordinary people will not easily suspect you, but if you want to investigate, it is not difficult to find out the Qin family, the Wang family, and Tianxianglou and others. Our relationship, the son of Uncle Ping'an, is probably not as stupid as the information says..."

"I really underestimated him." Yang Xuan's expression calmed down, and he quickly said again: "I originally planned to let him live happily for a while, since he wanted to die by himself, then let him be fulfilled..."

The attendant hesitated, and said: "My lord, if we encounter the situation last time again, if the palace blames me..."

Yang Xuan snorted coldly, and said: "His ability was useful to the palace before, but I had someone investigate it. The palace has not summoned him for a long time. This time, who else can save him?"

The entourage asked: "Young master already has arrangements?"

Dealing with a small person, but making several mistakes, Yang Xuanben planned to stop for a while and make a detailed and careful plan, so as to ensure that one hit is sure to hit.

But tonight Lin Xiu's provocation made him change his mind.

He didn't want to wait any longer, he just wanted to solve this problem quickly.

He said coldly: "Let Dongcheng Ling do it this time, and let him do things more cleanly. This time, I will make this person never stand up!"

After leaving Xue's mansion, Lin Xiu returned home not long after.

The Lin family's new house is in the most prosperous area in the east of the city, not far from the imperial palace, and very close to Xue's mansion.

These powerful families in the royal capital are actually gathered together. This area is extremely well-defended. It can be said that there is a post at five steps and a sentry at ten steps. It is the safest place in the royal capital except for the palace. place.

Here, you don't even need to bring a guard when you go out at night.

Except for the assassin whose own ability is hidden, almost no assassin would choose to do it here.

It was precisely because of this that Lin Xiucai did not take Sun Dali with him, but asked him to prepare for the fireworks tonight.

Not long after Lin Xiu returned home, Sun Dali also came back, and he asked just as soon as he entered the door: "Master, how is it, I didn't mess it up, did I?"

Lin Xiu nodded and said, "That's right, I asked you to do another thing, how is it going?"

Sun Dali handed Lin Xiu a jade box and said, "Don't worry, young master, I've already bought it."

Lin Xiu opened the jade box, and there were ten translucent diamond-shaped crystals in the box. The volume of these crystals was much smaller than the one Lin Xiu saw in the Xue Mansion tonight, but slightly larger than the ones he used in the palace.

The Yuanjing provided by the palace to restore his energy came from a first-order alien beast, the one Xue Ninger received was a fifth-order alien beast Yuanjing, and the Yuanjing in front of Lin Xiu belonged to a second-order alien beast.

The Yuan crystal of the first-order alien beast is about ten taels of silver, and the price of each higher-rank Yuan crystal is ten times lower. The price of the fifth-order alien crystal is already as high as one hundred thousand taels, and there is still no market for it. The real transaction price is probably in the hundreds of thousands of taels.

The son of Duke Qi's mansion, in order to pursue Xue Ning'er, can be said to have spent all his money.

Lin Xiu asked Sun Dali to buy these ten Tier 2 Alien Beast Origin Crystals, which cost a total of one thousand taels, which already made him very heartbroken.

But for his plan, Lin Xiu had to wake up again in a short time, and he couldn't care so much at the moment.

In the one month in the palace, Lin Xiu absorbed more than 200 yuan crystals, which was worth more than 200 days of practice under normal circumstances. In addition to the extreme pressure of the spiritual sound on him in the past few days, I am afraid that the short time he came here In just two months, it is almost equivalent to a year of practice.

But at this time, the growth of the energy in his body has been extremely slow, and even stagnated, which shows that he has encountered a bottleneck.

The bottleneck is the harbinger of another awakening.

At this time, the primordial crystal of the first-order alien beast had no effect on his cultivation.

What he needs is a higher level Yuanjing.

Relying on one's own strength to hit the barrier, although it is possible, but it will take a long time, Lin Xiu has no time to wait any longer.

He went back to the room alone, closed the door, sat cross-legged on the bed, took out a Yuanjing, held it in the palm of his hand, and then exerted a little force.

The next moment, a force ten times larger than what he felt before poured into his body from the palm of his hand.

Lin Xiu groaned, her body swayed uncontrollably, and finally stabilized herself by force.

His body is far superior to that of ordinary people, and he has been squeezed so many times by the spirit sound, this level of pain is tolerable.

A quarter of an hour later, Lin Xiu slowly opened her eyes, exhaled lightly, and said with some regret: "It failed..."

The high-level alien crystals can increase the probability of breakthrough, but it is not 100%, but only 10% of the success rate. Lin Xiu still has nine chances. In terms of probability, as long as his luck is not too bad, Of the remaining nine times, one will always be successful.

Lin Xiu took out another Yuanjing and held it in her hand.

...

It was late at night.

Lin Xiu was still asleep.

He sat cross-legged on the bed, looked at the last Yuanjing in his hand, and was speechless for a while. The one-tenth probability that he had agreed upon was too dark, right?

There is one last Yuanjing left. After using it up, if there is no breakthrough, Sun Dali will have to go out and buy it tomorrow. The Yuanjing of the second-order alien beast is relatively not rare. As long as you have silver, you can still buy ten or eight. .

A moment later, Lin Xiu held the last Yuanjing in her hand, and closed her eyes again with hope in her heart.

The night passed quietly.

In the early morning, after a few crisp cock crows, Rhubarb in the kennel slowly opened his eyes.

Looking at the big bones beside him, Rhubarb swallowed a mouthful of saliva. Although many days have passed, every time he thinks about the experiences of these days, he still has the feeling that the life of a dog is like a dream.

Since he was born, he has been wandering on the streets, not only has to endure the wind and rain, but also eats the last meal without the next meal, and it is common for him to be hungry for three days after a full meal.

At that time, it never thought that one day it would have a nest of its own, with endless meat and bones to eat every day. He felt that the dog's life had reached its peak.

At this time, a voice suddenly reached his ears.

"Rhubarb, come here."

Rhubarb raised his head abruptly, his ears pricked up, and the expression on his dog's face was extremely vigilant.

He heard it right, he seemed to hear a dog talking just now.

Is there a second dog in the yard?

He looked around in circles, but he didn't find any other dogs in the yard, only the owner was standing in the yard. Lin Xiu looked at Rhubarb without moving his lips, but a voice rang directly in Rhubarb's mind.

"Don't look for it, I'm here."

Da Huang finally realized something, looked up at Lin Xiu, his dog eyes suddenly widened.