74 This Is My Explanation! (2/2)
”Hold on!” Li Shang stepped forward, his white beard drifting lightly. The gentle look on his face flickered for a moment before he said in a loud voice, ”Senior Duke Jun, you’re the Grand Marshall of the kingdom’s military force; a Duke of the kingdom; a person with great authority and weight in the royal court. Yet, I am the Grand Preceptor, another great figure in the royal court and a Duke! Without His Majesty’s decree, who would dare to be presumptuous within my Li Residence?”
Jun Zhan Tian revealed traces of emotions and sneered, ”Grand Preceptor, are you suggesting that any high ranking official within the royal court has the right to harbour assassins in their homes? Search! Anyone who dares to obstruct, kill them without any mercy!”
At this moment, hundreds of soldiers begun marching in from behind, heading towards the Li Residence’s inner compound with the intent of searching. Li Shang’s body trembled in anger and shouted,” Jun Zhan Tian, how dare you act so brazenly, overstepping your official boundaries! Are you planning to rebel?”
Jun Zhan Tian laughed out loudly, ”Grand Preceptor sure knows how to joke! This senior official is just trying to toot out the assassins who attempted to assassinate the Imperial Princess. How is my action overstepping my official boundaries? How is this considered brazen? How am I planning to rebel? Grand Preceptor, you’ve been trying to stop me from searching your residence for quite some time now, Could it be that there is a connection between you and the assassins?” Thereafter, Grandpa Jun Ignored him and waved his hand to signal to the soldiers to hasten their search
At this time, a white young man stood up and smiled, it is the grandmother Li leisurely. I saw him respectfully on the war of the day a ceremony, said: ”If your husband Lord Ye search impeachment, Li up and down, of course not dare to defy; but if there is no imperial edict, Jun grandfather so good at a product manager Home search wantonly; Oh, even if the gentleman husband is not afraid of shadow oblique body, but I still have to look at the face of Li, once the words came out, it seems to anyone who does not look good ?!
At this moment, a white-robed young man stepped forth; it was none other than Li You Ran. He gave a ceremonious salute of respect to Jun Zhan Tian before speaking up. ”Since Senior Duke Jun wishes to conduct his search, we certainly wouldn’t oppose you. However, without His Majesty’s decree, your actions today would tantamount to a wanton act of trespassing into the home of a high ranking court official. Ha Ha, even if Senior Duke isn’t afraid of the consequences, the Li Family still needs to maintain our reputation. If this matter were to spread, then both our reputation would end up being smeared!”
Jun Zhan Tian stared coldly at the refined looking young men standing before him. He could not help but recall his grandson, Mo Xie. His grandson could have ended up being more powerful than Li You Ran if it weren’t for the sinister attack! When he thought about that, his fury burst out and coldly asked, ”What are you implying?”
”This junior only has one simple question to ask Senior Duke Jun. Senior Duke Jun constantly reiterates that the reason for conducting the search was to find assassins in my family’s residence. It doesn't matter where or how Senior Duke received the information that the Li Family was harbouring assassins. However, what will Senior Duke Jun do if you are unable to find the assassins here?” Li You Ran smiled gently and took another stepped forward,”Should that happen, Senior Duke Jun will need to give an explanation to the Li Family!”
Grandpa Jun laughed out loudly. Suddenly, he took a step forward and fiercely slapped Li You Ran in the face. A ”pa” sound was heard, followed by a kick from Grandpa Jun to Li You Ran’s stomach, Thereafter, Grandpa Jun furiously shouted, ”This senior is in the process of searching for assassins! Even your grandfather Li Shang doesn’t dare fart in front of me, but you? What are you? You dare start a debate and find faults with me? You want an explanation? This is my explanation!”
”Pooh!” Jun Zhan Tian spat out. ”What a joke! If we could not find the assassins, that would suggest that the Li Family is innocent! Obviously, if we cannot capture the assassins, then we will have to resume searching! What else is there? I am more interested in asking you this. Your Li Family, from the elders to the juniors have been desperately trying to stop me from conducting my search. What are you planning? Could it be that the Li Family is planning a rebellion? Are you the mastermind behind the Imperial Princess’ assassination attempt? If the assassins were to escape due to your actions of hindering my duties, does your Li Family have enough heads to bear such a responsibility?”
These words were directed at Li Shang. Clearly, Grandpa Jun did not regard Li You Ran as someone with the qualification to even speak to him.
Even when there is a confrontation between two military force, hierarchy must be considered. If a bunch of rookies were to be sent into the battlefield, they would only end up dead and abused. Obviously, Li You Ran understood this logic. However, he could not stand the sight of his grandpa’s humiliation. Also, there were indeed some people that must not be found that was staying inside their hidden chambers. If they were to be found, that would be akin to having yellow mud smeared onto their underwear. Everyone will still think its shi*t, even if it is not. Even if the Li Family is innocent, everyone will still think that they are guilty! Left with no choice, he had to step forward and hope that Jun Zhan Tian would consider his status as the top of the military force and let this go.
How could he have guessed that Jun Zhan Tian currently no longer cared about his status quo nor his reputation? A slap and a kick executed in a flash! Li You Ran may be a genius but was limited in experience. His current level of cultivation was only at the Gold Xuan, a difference of Heaven and Earth compared to Grandpa Jun’s Sky Xuan. Also, he was caught off guard and therefore had to endure a slap in the face and a kick to his stomach. All he felt was his mind was ringing and stars were spinning right before his eyes!
Although Grandpa Jun did not use any Xuan Qi in his attacks, they were both done in front of thousands of eyes. For Li You Ran, this strike was similar to striking his heart!