Two days ago, the sudden hail crackled and hit the roof tiles of the people's houses in the streets and alleys of the imperial capital, and many pedestrians were injured to varying degrees in the process.

On October 6, when the imperial capital was sunny, the people who had been hiding at home in the previous two days went out into the streets, either repairing houses and tiles, cleaning up messes, visiting relatives and friends, or having fun.

A place like Yanyulou is naturally indispensable for liveliness, but a place like Jingfu that shouldn't be lively suddenly ushered in a different kind of liveliness today.

In the past, there were many craftsmen who repaired bricks and tiles, but the housekeeper who called these craftsmen did not seriously verify the identities of these craftsmen. Mainly because I heard that Jing Xuan, who had been in the palace for a few days, suddenly wanted to return to the palace tonight to meet the guests, so the housekeeper of the Jing Mansion called these craftsmen early in the morning. There were so many things to deal with that the housekeeper of the Jing Mansion didn't have much time to take care of these small things.

Now here, it is the residence of Jing Xuan, the commander of the forbidden army in the imperial capital, although there are no important secrets in the mansion, but it can be regarded as the residence of confidential officials. Most of the people who watch the home and nursing home here are martial artists at the peak level of the ninth order, and if ordinary little thieves break into here, they are equivalent to sending them to death.

The location of Jingfu is very close to the royal city, basically Jingxuan walked a few hundred meters out of the royal city, and then turned a corner to get home, no need for a carriage at all.

Jing Xuan has always been alone, and most of the time, he won't even bring a guard when he goes out. When he first came to the imperial capital, many nobles of the family extended olive branches to him, but they were all rejected by Jing Xuan one by one. Jing Xuan is not a child of a family, and is from a civilian background like Liang Yi. The difference is that in the early years, Jing Xuan was promoted in the dream country of Yunfan, while Liang Yi relied on himself most of the time along the way.

Jing Xuan's personality has always been upright and unsociable, let alone "forming a party for personal gain". It is precisely because of this that he was able to be appreciated by Liang Yi, and under Liang Yi's recommendation, he became the commander of the forbidden army in the royal capital of Dongji.

However, the reason why Jing Xuan was able to become the commander of the forbidden army was not only Liang Yi's appreciation, Liang Yi's appreciation could only be regarded as a good opportunity for him, and those who could gain a firm foothold in the tiger's den in Longtan like the imperial capital must have their own merits.

Jing Xuan's reputation in the army is very high, and when he can ignore the dealings in the officialdom, he will always choose to ignore them. The soldiers who followed him sincerely admired him and loved him, and even those generals who had fought against him on the battlefield had a high opinion of him.

However, at this time, Dongji is still promoting Liang Yi's fame everywhere, and the era that belongs to Jingxuan is not now, when this star shines alone, it will be the day of eternal night.

As the residence of the commander of the forbidden army in the imperial capital, Jingfu was also damaged to varying degrees in the hailstorms of the previous two days. Since Tianjingxuan rarely returns to the house these days, most of the time he lives in the palace and chats with the Son of Heaven to relieve boredom, so the housekeeper is responsible for taking care of the big and small matters in the house.

Until a letter written by Yun Fan was personally delivered to Jing Xuan by the housekeeper, Jing Xuan, who had never lied, immediately racked his brains to find a reason to slip away from the palace, and returned to the mansion in the early morning of October 6, waiting for Yun Fan's arrival.

After parting ways with Wang Miaozhou and others, Yun Fan sat for an afternoon in the largest teahouse in the imperial capital, "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger". The reason why I chose "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to rest is of course to see if I can find out some useful news, whether it is the parents of those nobles in the imperial capital, or the strange things in the world recently.

As a result, what surprised him was that the people of the imperial capital sitting here at this time did not care about the stories of the princes and generals, as well as the secret history of the princes in the palace, but took his Yunfan's unbearable past in Beilu as a talking point, and they all sneered at what he did in Beilu!

"This Yun Fan is really a cheap bone, he is not a good son of the country, and he went to Beilu to be a slave for the barbarians, which really disgraced the face of our Chinese people!"

"It is said that soon after this Yun Fan was exiled in Beilu, he was taken in by a barbarian tribe, and later took revenge, and when the rival tribe came to fight, he killed the leader of the tribe who took him in, and dedicated his head to the rival tribe, and recognized the leader of the rival tribe as his father!"

"This kind of person still has the face to come back!"

"Not only that, but he repeated the same trick several times, kept betraying, kept recognizing the thief as his father, and those barbarians also had big hearts!"

"People live just for one breath! This Yun Fan is really shameless! It's no wonder that the country can't beat the country of Mexico, it's all a bunch of cheap bones!"

"It's not a family, it's not a door!"

"I heard that this Yun Fan is not from the Yun clan at all, although he has the blood of the Yun clan on his body, he is actually a complete barbarian!"

"I've also heard that it seems very likely that he is the son of the Sabu barbarian king Asalanti who was purged in the Hokuriku more than twenty years ago?"

"That's why he went to Hokuriku in the first place?"

"Sure enough, the descendants of traitors are also traitors!"

"This traitor has now found a bunch of traitors back!"

"You said it, but the group of Chiyan warriors who caused the split of our Ji Dynasty?"

"Yes! I suspect that the Chiyan Rebellion more than 20 years ago must have something to do with this Yun Fan, no, it must have something to do with the barbarians! This must be a conspiracy they planned to split our Ji Dynasty!"

"Shhhh

"What are you afraid of, is it possible that this cloud thief can still run over and cut down Lao Tzu?"

Between the words, Yun Fan took the tea he had just ordered, and sat down at the same table with the two people talking, his eyes were cold, as if he wanted to kill them.

Yun Fan thought that there would be such a day, but it had only been about a month since he returned to his homeland. Yun Fan didn't expect this news to spread so quickly, and what was even more interesting was that the Beilu past that was circulated in the mouths of these people about him Yun Fan, the plot ups and downs were the same, as if the narrator had seen it with his own eyes.

After a while, the storyteller slowly appeared. Yun Fan originally thought that this storyteller would talk about something meaningful, but it turned out that he was still talking about the unbearable past when he Yun Fan was in Beilu.

It's as if everything has been discussed.

The storyteller in the teahouse passionately told how Yun Fan was alone, step by step, through various dishonorable and unspeakable means, he became the bits and pieces of the current prince of the Sabu Dynasty. The audience listeners either regretted or scolded the storyteller in the process of telling this long story with his impassioned storyteller.

The "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", who has always been mixed, can only hear about his Yun Fan's past at this moment, Yun Fan knows that there is probably no useful news here that he can hear during this time, so he directly went to Jingfu.

By the time he left, the tea was only half drunk.

And the eyes that have been staring at Yun Fan since he entered the city also followed Yun Fan's back in the distance during this period, until Yun Fan entered the Jingfu, he was always outside the gate of the Jingfu, for fear that he would be lost like this.

Suddenly, a stranger appeared behind the eyes staring at Yun Fan and quietly knocked him unconscious. Passers-by seemed to have no sight of it. Soon, under the cover of everyone, the stranger changed into the man's outfit and continued to keep an eye on Yun Fan's whereabouts at the gate of Jingfu instead of him. And the guy who was knocked out was quietly transported away by a carriage that happened to pass by.

On the bustling streets of the imperial capital, almost everyone greeted each other with a smile, and the reason why the prosperity can be prosperous is more because of these inadvertent bits and pieces. Local characteristics, cultural atmosphere, and customs are very important in many cases.

This involves not only a stable and harmonious living environment, but also the construction of a better inheritance and a better future.

On the way to Jingfu after leaving "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Yun Fan felt a different atmosphere that he could not feel when Jingyue City was still the imperial capital of the country. Being able to make a passer-by from outside feel at home is really admirable to Yun Fan.

Who is Yun Fan admiring?

admires Liang Yi at this time.

Yun Fan originally thought that the rumored "Lord of the Cloth Country" Liang Yi only had a very high attainment in the deployment of troops, otherwise how could he gather the strength of the Seven Kingdoms of Dongji in a short period of time and repel the invasion of the Eight Pillars of the West Ji? But now in Yun Fan's opinion, this Liang Yi may not be as simple as he thought.

It is said that this "Jingguang" city, before the Jingwei Pass Alliance, was just a deserted city, and it only took a few years to have the current scale in the hands of Liang Yi, which is really incredible. If it is a few years from now, I am afraid that this place will become the first city on land after Tianqiong City. In the eyes of the world, the Dongji royal family is the orthodoxy of the Ji Dynasty, and Jingguang City, as the imperial capital of Dongji, naturally has to be prosperous worthy of the word "imperial capital".

What surprised Yun Fan even more was that there were not many roads here that were muddy, basically from the time he entered the city to the present, all the roads he had walked were paved with bluestone slabs. Even Jingyue City, the second imperial capital of Dongji back then, couldn't do this.

Yun Fan didn't know how long he had been walking, but when he came to the gate of Jingfu, the sunset at dusk was already quietly hanging between the eaves in the distance. At this time, the Jingfu had been renovated, but not all the craftsmen had left.

The snow-white stone lion is located on the left and right of Jingfu, the lintel and the wall have been wiped as new by the people in the house, and when Yun Fan knocks on the door of the mansion, the people in the house slowly open the door of the Jingfu, frowning and looking Yun Fan up and down for a long time, before he said slowly: "Is there anything wrong?"

Yun Fan said lightly: "Find someone." ”

The people in the house: "Who are you looking for?"

Yun Fan: "Jing Xuan, the commander of the Imperial Capital Forbidden Army." ”

"I think you're looking for death! My master's name is also something that a pariah like you can call directly? Who are you?"

The subordinate who opened the door heard Yun Fan call his master's name in front of him, and he became angry directly. However, just as this subordinate was about to make a move, a middle-aged man rushed over in time when he heard the sound.

After the middle-aged man asked what happened, he truthfully reported the cause, and the middle-aged man frowned, feeling that the person in front of him was most likely the guest from afar that Jing Xuan was waiting for, so he hurriedly asked Yun Fan.

After Yun Fan revealed his identity, the middle-aged man hurriedly took the subordinate to apologize, and his words also contained an apology for Yun Fan's neglect. Yun Fan didn't think so, just said that it didn't matter.

This middle-aged man is the housekeeper of Jingfu.

He looks mediocre, and even his clothes are extremely plain, there is no frame at all, and there are no features that can clearly tell his identity, except for a handful of age and a full beard. Well, in fact, the hair is neatly stood up, and the beard is neatly groomed.

During the Ember Dynasty, parents who paid attention to the body's hair and skin were usually unable to cut their nails and beards, and generally only criminals would be arranged in this way, but in the Ji Dynasty, this tradition was abolished as a bad habit, and many of the previous dynasties' poisons were also used to play on the topic, which led Emperor Jiwu to send Chiyan warriors to bloody suppression, before this bad habit was completely abolished.

However, in the Ji Dynasty, only shaving and cutting nails were usually forced, and hair was not shaved, except for prisoners. For some men who want to grow a beard, the Ministry of Rites stipulates that they must be at least thirty-five years old to be eligible, and there is also a length requirement......

Usually no one cares if you don't shave, but when it comes to important festivals and occasions, if you don't shave and don't cut your nails, not only can you not enter the venue, but you may also be caught and forced to shave......

Who made this rule?

Because he didn't like to grow beards and nails, and felt that it was very troublesome and inconvenient to do things like that, so in the early years, there were rumors among the people that it was for this that Emperor Mujing of Jiwu launched the "War of the Gods" with the Ember Dynasty......

It's just a joke, though, just listen to it.

When Yun Fan followed the middle-aged man in front of him into the mansion, the door behind him was slowly closed by the people of the Jing Mansion. Before night came, the Jingfu at this time was already full of lanterns before Yun Fan came. This mansion is very large, and it is said that when the imperial capital was not the imperial capital, it was the former residence of Fang He, the founder of the Luo Kingdom. After Jingxuan moved in, it was changed to the architectural style of Jibei.

The promenade along the way is load-bearing with wooden beams, surrounded by bricks, tiles, earth and stone, and centered on the hall house, with carved beams and painted buildings, and decorative roofs and cornices. Pink walls and tiles, row upon row, cascading and undulating, staggered. In the distance, the corners of the house are warped, the ends are obliquely down, and there are stone beasts on the ridge to ward off evil spirits, highlighting the sense of hierarchy and reflecting the rare beauty of rhythm.

This made Yun Fan feel like he was home in an instant.

After walking through the winding corridor, the housekeeper took Yun Fan to the outside of an antique agarwood hall, and then motioned for himself to retire for the time being without saying anything. Yun Fan pushed open the door in front of him with doubts.

In the spacious and bright hall, a man in a black and cyan robe, bare-chested, sat in front of Yun Fan, making tea, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

The man's nose was like an eagle's hook, his eyes were like torches, and his sword eyebrows were stretched, which made Yun Fan feel a chilling killing intent that turned into a cold wind, which made him shiver unconsciously, and then closed the door lightly and slowly sat down in front of the man.

The man didn't speak, and handed Yun Fan a cup of freshly brewed new tea, Yun Fan drank it all and said to the man: "Aren't you cold dressed like this?"

The man smiled: "This is the imperial capital, not Jibei, although it was just a hail two days ago, but it is not as cold as Mingyue City." ”

Yun Fan: "At this time in previous years, Bright Moon City should have been immersed in a snow-colored world. ”

Man: "At this time in previous years, Mingyue City was full of children who came out to play in the snow, but this is the imperial capital, and the people of the imperial capital don't like frost and snow. ”

Yun Fan: "Then what do they like?"

Man: "Wine, wealth, fame and fortune." ”

Yun Fan: "Then do you like snow?" ”

Man: "Do you like nostalgia?" ”

Yun Fan: "No. ”

Man: "So what is like." ”

Yun Fan: "I don't know, I haven't experienced it." ”

The man laughed, and Yun Fan was puzzled: "What are you laughing at?"

Man: "It's nothing, I just want to laugh all of a sudden." ”

Yun Fan: "How long have you been away from home?" ”

Man: "I've never had a home. ”

Yun Fan: "The country is your home. ”

Man: "I was born to be one. ”

Yun Fan: "The country is not your home, will this be your home?" ”

The man wondered, "Why do you have to have a home?"

Yun Fan: "Don't you feel lonely?"

Man: "You should ask yourself." ”

Yun Fan: "I'm not alone. ”

Man: "Then why did you go to Hokuriku?"

Yun Fan didn't speak, he was silent.

Man: "The dream country is not your home. ”

Yun Fan: "I grew up there. ”

Man: "But you were born in Hokuriku. ”

Yun Fan: "You know everything. ”

Man: "Look at how you've sunned." ”

Yun Fan: "Who else knows." ”

Man: "Everyone knows about it. ”

Yun Fan: "Who has such a big mouth." ”

Man: "The lord of the cloth country, Liang Yi." ”

Yun Fan: "I thought it was Jing Xuan." ”

Jing Xuan: "I'm not interested in your past. ”

Yun Fan: "Then what are you interested in?"

Jing Xuan: "The world." ”

Yun Fan didn't speak, and his originally ink-colored eyes had a golden shadow at this moment. In his gaze, there was a man in a black and blue robe in front of him, with a firm look.

This look made Yun Fan feel a little unfamiliar.

Holding his breath, Yun Fan tried to find some familiar looks from his eyes, but found nothing. For Yun Fan, Jing Xuan, who was sitting in front of him at the moment, was like a stranger with Jing Xuan's body.

The black robe does not have any family crest on it, but on the cuffs, it is worn with gold threads to draw out the auspicious cloud pattern that means "flying yellow and Tengda". Jing Xuan came from a humble background, but he has always had great ambitions. He has always been paranoid about you, and once he decides what he wants to do, no one can stop him.

This Yun Fan is the same as him.

After thinking about it, Jing Xuan asked Yun Fan: "You should have felt a lot of people's hostility towards you when you came back this time, how do you feel about this?"

Yun Fan: "Except for the fact that Liu Fengchen wanted to kill me, everything else was expected." ”

Jing Xuan: "If Liu Fengchen really wants to kill you, can you still sit here and catch up with me at this moment?"

Yun Fan: "What do you know?" ”

Jing Xuan smiled without saying a word, poured a full teacup for Yun Fan, and his eyes inadvertently fell on the dark black long knife on Yun Fan's waist: "Is this knife on your waist the rumored Tianlongya?"

Yun Fan: "Hmm. ”

Jing Xuan: "It seems that the rumors are all true. ”

Yun Fan: "What do the rumors say?" ”

Jing Xuan: "It's exactly what you heard in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It's just that most of the references to this knife are just a passing word. ”

Yun Fan: "I'm wondering, how did this Liang Yi know these things about me in Beilu, and he knows so much about it." ”

Jing Xuan: "Mr. Liang has a young man named Ning Haochen under his command, and it is said that he controls the most sophisticated intelligence network in the world. ”

Yun Fan: "Precise?"

Jing Xuan: "Well, without Ning Haochen's sophisticated intelligence network, how can Liang Yi be able to do everything? I don't care about those things you do in Beilu, what I care more about is that since you are not the bloodline of the Yun Clan, then how did you find the bloody eyes and frost hooves of the Zhenguo Divine Beast that has been missing for many years. ”

Yun Fan: "It's not me who finds it, it's it that it finds me." ”

Jing Xuan: "By the way, offer this Heavenly Vertical Tooth?"

Yun Fan: "That's good. ”

Jing Xuan: "Interesting. ”

Old friends, Qingcha, Wei Yunfan and Jing Xuan, sitting in this slightly empty hall, Yun Fan swept over, and the entire antique hall was basically decorated in the Jibei style.

Jing Xuan: "When did you come back?" ”

Yun Fan: "It was almost this time last month. ”

Jing Xuan: "It's a coincidence that I came back. ”

Yun Fan: "What are you hinting at?" ”

Jing Xuan: "You understand what I'm hinting at. ”

Yun Fan: "No one can use me as a pawn." ”

Jing Xuan: "It's you who are using yourself as a pawn. ”

Yun Fan: "Why did you leave the kingdom of Shu. ”

Jing Xuan: "Do you remember our dreams?" ”

Yun Fan: "The Ji Dynasty is unified, and the river is clear and Haiyan." ”

Jing Xuan: "In Shuguo, I can't do it. ”

Yun Fan: "Now I'm back." ”

Jing Xuan: "It has nothing to do with whether you come back or not. ”

Yun Fan: "I need you to help me." ”

Jing Xuan: "I don't owe you anything. ”

Yun Fan: "You still hate me for Mingguang Armor?"

Jing Xuan: "I've long forgotten what Mingguang Armor is. ”

Between the words, a past event that should not be mentioned pulled the two into the whirlpool of memories at the same time. Yun Fan tried to turn the page on this topic, but unfortunately Jing Xuan frowned here.

Yun Fan: "Now the country needs you." ”

Jing Xuan: "Put away your rhetoric, I'm tired of it." ”

Yun Fan: "I need an army. ”

Jing Xuan: "I really can't help you with this." ”

Yun Fan: "You are now the commander of the Imperial Capital Forbidden Army. ”

Jing Xuan: "Today I only talk about the past, not about family and state affairs." ”

Yun Fan: "I'm not looking for you to catch up. ”

Hearing this, Jing Xuan smiled, and there were a few more laugh lines in the corners of his eyes: "What do you mean, you don't even have to be friends?"

Yun Fan: "Since we can't talk about it, let's follow the old rules." ”

Jing Xuan: "Yes, but can you change the land?" The utensils in my house are quite expensive, if they are broken, although I don't plan to let you pay for them, but even if you have money, I am afraid that you may not be able to buy these things. ”

Yun Fan didn't reply, but used his hand as a knife and slashed directly horizontally towards Jing Xuan's throat. The martial artist of the early stage of the tenth order made a move, saying that it was too late and that it was fast! Jing Xuan did not dodge, but stretched out his left hand very calmly and steadily caught Yun Fan's move.

Yun Fan looked at Jing Xuan in surprise.

He didn't expect that when he left, Jing Xuan was only at the eighth-order level, and he had actually improved to the same level as himself in the past few years, without waiting for Yun Fan to think about it, Jing Xuan put his right index finger together and pointed at Yun Fan's eyebrows, Yun Fan was shocked and forcibly blocked Jing Xuan's killing with his left hand!

The tea in the teacup on the table rippled faintly.

Outside the hall, a sneaky figure was eavesdropping on the conversation between Yun Fan and Jing Xuan in the hall. That figure had very light hands and feet, and ordinary people couldn't even notice his existence, while Jing Xuan and Yun Fan didn't have the slightest energy to be distracted because they were concentrating on each other's moves.

No one would have thought that these eyes, which had been secretly staring at Yun Fan, were also quietly staring at Jing Xuan, and the already very complicated political pattern of the imperial capital became even more confusing because of this secret agent of unknown origin.