The Counterattack of the Villains

"Duan Lang, do you prefer a son or a daughter?"

"I like both sons and daughters. If you give birth to a daughter, I will protect both of you and make you happy and safe for the rest of your life. If you give birth to a son, then we will protect you together."

"Wow... Mr. Duan, you are so kind."

After more than half a year of construction, the Changkong Sword Faction’s station was finally completed and put into use.

The Jian Sect's station covers an area of ​​more than 300,000 square meters, about three miles away from the dock. It is the mountain gate of the Sword Sect. A towering archway is erected with the four characters "Changkong Sword Sect" engraved on it.

After entering the mountain gate and climbing up the stairs, after walking more than thirty feet of stone steps, you will find a wide square.

There are neat rows of residential buildings on the left and right sides of the square, all of which are two-story buildings.

There are thirty rooms across the building, and sixty rooms on the upper and lower floors.

There are twelve rows in length, which means there are a total of 720 residential buildings on both sides of the square.

Based on the setting that each room can accommodate four disciples, these residential buildings can accommodate a total of 2,880 disciples.

Close to the innermost side of the building, there are two extremely spacious single-story buildings, which are the kitchen and dining hall of the sect.

On the inside of the square facing the stone steps, there is a magnificent hall, with a plaque saying "Zhengqi Hall" hanging on the door.

This is where the outer gate is located. Passing through the passages on both sides of the Zhengqi Hall, there is another set of stone steps. After going up several tens of feet, you will find a similar environment.

This is where the inner door is, and the rooms in the building are all for one person.

On the door of the main hall at the end of the square, there is a plaque that reads "Sword Qi Soaring into the Sky".

In addition to the inner and outer garrison, there are also sect dispensaries, warehouses, weapons rooms and other buildings slightly further away, and even a blacksmith shop.

At the beginning, Blacksmith Wang also moved to Liangshan with the Ruan family, and he obviously planned to follow Li Muqian.

He also recruited a group of colleagues, who would be responsible for the sect's standard long sword in the future.

The biggest advantage of joining the Changkong Sword Sect is that regardless of whether you have a job or not, you can receive generous wages on time every month, which is much more successful than opening your own blacksmith shop.

Although it is not necessary to get rich, it is absolutely okay to strive for a well-off life, and you will never suffer from poverty.

Before Li Mu and his party officially moved in, servants, cooks, and maids were all ready, and there were even professional wives, doctors from nearby villages and towns, etc.

Although there are only about twenty people in the sect now, we need to lay a solid foundation first so that we won’t be in a hurry in the future.

However, these people were all "hired laborers", that is, hired workers in later generations, not slaves who sold themselves. There is still a difference.

The master's family had no power of life or death over them. Even if they committed a crime, they would have to be tried and dealt with by the government.

Less than a month after officially moving into the sect's residence, Ruan Xingzhu gave birth to a daughter, and Li Mu named her "A'Zhu" without even thinking about it.

This name sounds like it is just a nickname, but in fact it can also be used as a famous name. Huang Feihong had a master named Lu Acai.

Even men can be named like this, let alone women, and Duan A'Zhu sounds good.

Li Mu's explanation to Ruan Xiong and others is that the so-called red clothes and purple ribbons are red and purple.

The Duan family is a royal family, and their daughter will become a golden princess in the future, so the eldest daughter is called A'Zhu, and if there is a second daughter, she will be called A'Zi.

If the second oldest child is a son, that's a different story.

After listening to Li Mu's explanation, everyone praised the name for its great meaning and expressed their agreement.

Ruan Xingzhu didn't have enough milk, but fortunately there was no shortage of "nanny" jobs in this era. Li Mu specially prepared three to ensure that her daughter would never go hungry.

When his daughter was one month old and Ruan Xingzhu was born, Li Mu planned to take Ruan Xingzhu out to find some opportunities while her daughter was still young and could eat and sleep all day without having to take care of her so that she could improve her skills as soon as possible.

Mrs. Ruan was still young and liked her granddaughter very much, so she reassured them that she would take good care of her granddaughter when they went out to explore the world.

Li Mu originally planned to let Ruan Xingzhu accumulate some internal power on his own, and then go out to find those members of the evil sect who were causing trouble in the world to absorb the internal power.

But if you think about it carefully, it is actually not easy to find a suitable target.

Rather than searching for a needle in a haystack, it is better to accomplish all the results in one battle. Wu Yazi has been injured for twelve years, and as expected, he is now looking for a suitable disciple to succeed him.

Ruan Xingzhu is a woman, so it is naturally impossible for him to accept her as his disciple and become the leader of Xiaoyao Sect.

But if he could heal all of his injuries in exchange for half of his Beiming Qi, I believe he would be very happy.

With half of Wu Yazi's internal strength, there are only a few targets in the world that Ruan Xingzhu can't absorb.

I believe that within a few years, I will be able to acquire a deep inner strength that is no less than my own.

So Li Mu took Ruan Xingzhu and headed straight for Leigu Mountain in Henan.

…

Excluding the time spent on the road looking for places, Li Mu and Ruan Xingzhu spent more than half a month to finally find the location of Leigu Mountain.

The couple went up the mountain along the mountain road. After walking for nearly an hour, they were stopped at the entrance of a valley.

There were more than ten people who stopped them, all dressed as peasants, but they had one thing in common, they were all mute because they could not speak.

Li Mu cupped his fists at these people and said, "Li Mu, this is my wife. My husband and I came from Lucite to visit Mr. Congbian."

The leader looked Li Mu up and down, with joy in his eyes. After looking at each other with his companions, everyone stepped aside to get out of the way and stretched out their hands to guide him into the valley.

"Thank you." Li Mu thanked him and led Ruan Xingzhu into the valley.

The valley is covered with green pine trees, and the sound of the pine trees is as loud as the waves as the mountain wind passes by. After walking for a while in the forest, we came to three wooden houses.

Under a big pine tree in front of the house, a thin middle-aged man with gray hair, who looked to be in his fifties, was sitting at the stone table under the tree.

There is a chessboard carved on the stone table. He is holding the black and white pieces alone and is carefully studying the chess game.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, he looked up and his eyes suddenly lit up when he saw Li Mu and his wife.

Isn't such a handsome young man exactly the kind of disciple that Master wants to pursue?

He quickly stood up and took a few steps forward. Li Mu let go of Ruan Xingzhu's hand, cupped his fists at Su Xinghe and said, "Junior Li Mu, I have met Mr. Congbian."

Su Xinghe didn't say anything, just smiled and clasped his fists in return, then stretched out his hand towards the stone table.

"Senior please."

The couple followed Su Xinghe to the stone table. Li Mu sat opposite him, and Ruan Xingzhu stood behind Li Mu.

She looked at Su Xinghe curiously, took away some chess pieces from the chessboard, and then pushed the wooden box containing the white pieces in front of Li Mu.

Li Muming asked knowingly: "Sir, are you going to break this Zhenlong game?"

Su Xinghe stroked his beard and nodded with a smile.

Li Mu said: "Then I'll give it a try."

After saying that, he started to observe the chess game on the chessboard. Duan Yanqing has been studying piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since he was a child, and his chess skills are not weak.

In addition, Li Mu already knew how to defeat Zhenlong in this game, so he was not confused by the game.

After he had almost observed it, he picked up a white diamond and dropped it on the only empty space in the corner.