"My apprentice? Why don't I recognize you?"
Elder Qi was stunned upon hearing this. He walked up to Li Ming and scrutinized him carefully.
"Young man? I don't know you, how can you claim to be my apprentice? Who exactly are you? Raise your head and let take a look! Eh? Why do you look so familiar to ?"
Liu Qingsong watched coldly from the side and saw clearly that since Elder Qi entered, this Li Ming was avoiding his gaze, not even daring to lift his head, fearing Elder Qi would see his face.
Li Ming remained silent, which made Qiu Deming, who was nearby, anxious.
Qiu Deming hurried over, nodding and bending over as he said to Elder Qi, "Elder Qi, he is indeed your apprentice!"
"Do you have too many apprentices and forgot briefly? Think it over carefully, he possesses the Tai Chi Needle technique which you personally taught!"
"What? The Tai Chi Needle technique?"
When Elder Qi heard these words, his initially puzzled expression instantly turned grave, as he suddenly recalled sothing in his mind.
Last year, when he went to Beijing dical College to give a lecture, he discovered upon returning to his office for a rest that a manuscript he had placed in a drawer had been tampered with.
And this manuscript was about the Tai Chi Needle acupuncture technique.
At that ti, Elder Qi was extrely worried, as this Tai Chi Needle was a unique dical skill that couldn't be easily leaked.
An investigation was conducted concerning this matter, but as the manuscript hadn't been lost and the investigation didn't reveal any valuable clues, the matter was left unresolved.
However, back then Elder Qi began to suspect that the Tai Chi Needle acupuncture technique had been leaked.
With no clues available, he could only put it aside for the ti being.
Connecting it to this incident, Elder Qi's suspicious gaze quickly focused on Li Ming.
Elder Qi's eyes stayed fixated on Li Ming, asking gravely, "Young man, do you understand the Tai Chi Needle technique? Then, may I ask, where did you learn your Tai Chi Needle from?"
Li Ming mumbled and didn't dare et Elder Qi's eyes, keeping his head bowed and not daring to raise it.
Qiu Deming, on the side, was growing a bit anxious.
In his mind, thinking: my good son-in-law, say sothing!
If you admit to being Elder Qi's apprentice, we won't have to take a beating.
Young man, it's such a crucial mont, why are you still being modest?
Hence, Qiu Deming hurried forward to explain on behalf of Li Ming, "Elder Li, my son-in-law is shy and embarrassed to say it himself, but he's indeed using the Tai Chi Needle, which he learned at Beijing dical College."
Elder Qi's face imdiately turned sullen, and he could finally be sure that he hadn't seen this person before.
Therefore, Elder Qi decisively asked, "Young man, tell the truth, how exactly did you learn the Tai Chi Needle technique?"
Cold sweat poured from Li Ming's forehead, and his expression turned extrely unpleasant in an instant.
At this critical mont, his well-aning father-in-law, Qiu Deming, kept shaking him, urgently encouraging him, "My good son-in-law, speak up!"
"Didn't you say at ho that you are indeed Elder Qi's apprentice?"
"You also said that Elder Qi favored you greatly, teaching you all his skills, even giving you special lessons every weekend, and that you have a good relationship with his wife..."
"Sigh..."
Li Ming wanted to stop him, but it was clearly too late.
Qiu Deming had revealed all the bragging he did at the Qiu Family, leaving nothing out.
So, Li Ming was left dumbfounded, hating his future father-in-law to the core in his heart.
The scoundrel!
Elder Qi's face had already turned extrely grim, increasingly convinced that there's sothing wrong with this Li Ming, if not a traitor, then a thief!
Thus, Elder Qi slamd the table abruptly and angrily said, "Li Ming, tell the truth! How did you learn the Tai Chi Needle?"
Li Ming still tried to argue, "Well, Elder Qi, I saw your academic papers online, and I learned it by studying the contents of those academic papers myself, so, in that regard, I consider myself your apprentice as well."
"What? My good son-in-law? What are you saying? Didn't you say that you are Elder Qi's last apprentice, visiting his house every weekend?"
Li Ming raised his head and glared angrily at Qiu Deming, feeling extre aversion toward him.
In his mind, he cursed, all these blunders are blad on this old fool!
He's truly a brainless idiot!
anwhile, Elder Qi had already started to laugh coldly.
Elder Qi sneered, "Claiming to have self-taught from my academic papers online? How ridiculous!"
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