Chapter Seventy-Six: Things on the Road

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"People can't look good, and horses can't either!" This is probably Xiao Yan's deepest feeling in the past few days.

As soon as he crossed the Yangtze River on the evening of August 3 and sat in a comfortable carriage, Xiao Yan quickly fell asleep, and when he woke up the next morning, he had already entered Jiangxia City. Next, it is like putting on wings, arriving in Huai'an on August 6, passing Nanyang on August 7, and then looking at the thin horse or the appearance of dying of breath, every step seems to take a lot of effort, this is this breath...... It's really a long time! The girl has been running for thousands of miles without stopping, and it hasn't stopped!

After passing Nanyang, the road is a little difficult to walk, the vast Qinling Mountains are in front of everyone, there are few spacious roads to walk, most of them are sheep intestine paths in the mountains. The old coachman was still driving the car unhurriedly, and the thin horse was still panting, but whenever everyone felt that there was no road ahead, the horse's head was deflected, and it suddenly opened up, quite a bit of a bright village.

Chai Lao, who was chasing behind all the way, couldn't help but sigh again: "Let that kid guess again!"

After two days of walking through the mountains, everyone finally saw the people again, entered Xiyang City, and everyone found a place to rest for the night, and then there was a more difficult road to catch.

The next stop is Shangluo, Shangluo to Chang'an can be reached without a day, there is no danger on the way, unlike Xiyang to Shangluo, still have to travel through the mountains and mountains, and there are not a few pedestrians who die in the mouth of fierce beasts in the mountains every year.

On the morning of the 10th, the old king called the crowd, and the journey began again.

In the evening, at nightfall, the woods were unusually silent, even the sound of insects and birds disappeared, the old coachman stopped the car, Xiao Yan pulled out his sword, Tang Xueying also looked at the darkness in the distance, what should come will always come......

A group of people walked out of the woods, not covered in black, but generous, like travelers on the road.

The man at the head walked to the carriage, clasped his fists and saluted, and said, "Everyone, my lord has made me wait here for a long time!"

"Oh, your host's interest is quite special, and he likes to welcome people in the deep mountains and dense forests. It was Lao Wang who spoke, speaking smoothly and indifferently, and he really couldn't see the appearance of a handyman in the yamen.

"You should be sincere with your guests, and it is a full courtesy to greet you hundreds of miles away. The man at the head replied, except that his body was a little rougher, but he couldn't see any reckless atmosphere.

"Hehe, then dare to ask your master why he is so gracious?" asked with a smile.

"It's not a big deal, it's just that the scenery in the mountains and forests is pleasant, so I want to invite you to stay and have a small gathering. Rest assured, the contemptuous master has prepared a spacious and comfortable tent under him, with delicious wine and delicacies, and seasonal melons and fruits, which I think will be enough for you to use for ten days and a half months. The man at the head replied.

"Your master has thought it through, but I still have some trivial things to do, and I'm afraid I'm going to live up to your master's kindness!"

"Why do you bother?" the man at the head smiled bitterly, "I don't have any malice in waiting here, I just want to ask you to stop and rest, what can you say!"

The man at the head of the group said something interesting, in fact, as a person from the head of the Lu family's family in Chang'an, he had a very leisurely life, but the Mid-Autumn Festival will be in a few days, and he is preparing where to relax during the festival. Whoever admits that after a letter of order from the Lord's house, he will have to run to this deep ravine to accompany the beast for the feast, can this not make him depressed?

Moreover, he inquired, the reason for this order was actually the two abandoned sons of the Lu family, why did those two little bastards instruct Lao Tzu! This big man's family was fighting with Lu Zongtai and his father back then, and they had a deep grudge with him, as the saying goes, "the father pays off the debt", and now that Lao Tzu is dead, this account is naturally recorded on the head of Lu Zongtai and his brothers, and if he doesn't go to them to trouble, it will already be regarded as hindering the face of the master's family, and he still wants Lao Tzu to help them do things, what are you kidding!

Dahan wanted to refuse this errand, but the high-level of the family asked him to go, and he was helpless, Xu Chen's prophecy was fulfilled again!

In line with the attitude of passive sabotage, Dahan came reluctantly, I wanted to talk to this group of people well, everyone just coped with the past, who would have thought that the group of people on the other side would be so tough, if this fight and hurt a few people, then this time wouldn't it be a big loss!

"Then I have to thank Brother Tai for his kindness, but I really have to take the first step in order to do something urgent, so it is better for Brother Tai to leave his name, and when the matter is done, he will come to the door to make amends!" said Lao Wang.

"Alas...... It's a loss!" The big man lowered his head and sighed.

Even if the conversation was over, the big man waved his hand, and there was a sound of Suo Suo in the woods, and I don't know how many people were there.

Soon, everyone was surrounded, originally at this time only need to stay in the car and gallop wildly, it will not take long to rush out of the other party's encirclement, it is better to be chased by people than to be surrounded by people, but the strange thing is that the old coachman did not make any movement, as if he was really scared stupid.

Xiao Yan jumped out of the car, Lao Wang also jumped down, and the two of them protected the carriage left and right.

Just like what the leader said, the other party didn't mean to hurt people, he just wanted to trap them, otherwise as long as the other party came to a row of crossbows at this time, Xiao Yan would be difficult to protect them even if their kung fu was high.

The two sides gradually narrowed the distance, and the big man also saw that Xiao Yan and Lao Wang were not ordinary people, so naturally he didn't let his subordinates lean up lightly to send them to death, he found two people and rushed towards them respectively, and the people who dared to rush forward at this time were naturally also masters, and the rest of the people scattered around the carriage.

Soon the two sides handed over, Xiao Yan's side was opposite a strong man who looked to be in his thirties, with a three-foot long knife in his hand, and Lao Wang's side was a thin middle-aged man of about the same age, who pulled out the soft sword on his waist and fought with Lao Wang, and Lao Wang used a soft sword.

Xiao Yan had no choice but to use his dexterous body to constantly move against the strong man who was tall and powerful, and the long sword in his hand used his dexterity to remove the power of the big man's sword. And Lao Wang's side is much more intense, the same body shape, the same blade, and even the moves are not much different, the two soft swords are like two long snakes constantly flying in the air, spit out letters from time to time, rub out a few traces of fire, and cut through the darkness in the forest.

"Old man, do you think these two sides will end soon?" Tang Xueying, the girl in the carriage, suddenly asked the old coachman with a smile.

The amount of information in this question is too great, if you don't have a deep understanding of the martial arts of both sides, and have a deep experience in martial arts battles, you will never be able to answer it, and how can the person who can answer it be an ordinary coachman?

"Hehe, the little girl is an old man who is taking the school entrance examination, it's okay, I'll talk to you if I have nothing to do!" the old coachman smiled and said to the girl, looking like he hadn't talked to anyone for a long time and wanted to talk to a stranger.

"The two guys on the right, they are all using feminine moves, although it seems that the gap is not big, and the fight is also very intense, but have you noticed it, Wang Xiaozi's breathing has been very steady, there are not many tricks, and the shots are also very accurate, according to the old man, after a few rounds, this side is going to win. The old coachman pointed to the battle situation on Lao Wang's side and said to the girl, regardless of whether the other party understood it or not.

"Oh...... What about the old man, what about Xiao Yanzi?" Tang Xueying was not surprised by the old coachman's understanding of Lao Wang, and turned her head and asked Xiao Yan again.

"This little guy looks weak now, and there are a lot of injuries on his body, but the power of their swordsmanship has not yet been brought into play, if it is sent out, the throat of that big man will be shattered after a few moves. But I can't say, if he hasn't comprehended that layer, his life will be in danger!" the old coachman shook his head and said, all of them were very plain, and there was no alarmist meaning.

"Aren't you worried about him, so confident in this little guy?" the old coachman couldn't help but ask when he saw Tang Xuejun still smiling and looking at the battle situation.

"I don't have confidence in Xiao Yanzi, and I don't know his swordsmanship, I just have confidence in the old man!" the girl nodded seriously and said to the old coachman.

"Hehe, the little girl's mouth is quite sweet!" said the old coachman with a smile, "but the old man may not necessarily make a move!"

"The master will not die without help!" said the girl with great certainty.

Looking at the girl's clear and determined eyes, the old coachman smiled.

The situation was really as the old coachman expected, Lao Wang's side defeated the opponent in a few rounds, since the opponent had no killing intent, Lao Wang didn't bother to kill him, and stabbed the opponent's two arms, so that he lost his combat power, it was enough.

As for Xiao Yan's side, the knife wounds on his body are getting worse and worse, but the young man's eyes are becoming more and more determined, looking at his opponent tightly, carefully looking for the right time. Suddenly, Xiao Yan clenched the long sword in his hand, changed his previous gentle and elegant style, and began to attack like a storm, seeing this, the old coachman nodded.

The tall man was disrupted by Xiao Yan's attack, but the momentary flaw was caught by Xiao Yan, and he continued to attack with more violent moves, and the big man's moves gradually became confused.

A moment later, the long sword that was still flying up and down just now shot straight towards the throat of the big man like lightning, and the big man only had time to block it horizontally, but the steel knife a few inches thick was broken like a piece of paper, and the long sword entered the body, and the big man also saw the peony pattern on the hilt of the sword and the numbers on it at this time, and only had time to say the words "Neiwei, sword idiot!", and then raised his head and fell.

The enemy gave the head, and Xiao Yan's tense nerves relaxed for a while.

"Alas...... It's still too tender!" the old coachman sighed.

Then he waved the long whip in his hand, the long whip flew, really flew out like lightning, the galloping long whip body was soft and abnormal, rolled up Xiao Yan's waist, the old man's wrist shook slightly, and he didn't see how much strength he exerted, Xiao Yan fell back to the carriage lightly.

At this time, looking at the place where Xiao Yan was just now, three short flying knives were then inserted into the soil.

"Don't let you make a move, you have to listen! Can you juniors be presumptuous in front of the seniors?" a hearty voice came from the woods.

"Yes, master, the disciple knows that he is wrong!" another deep voice followed.

A moment later, there were two people, an old man and a young man, who appeared in front of everyone.

The old man looked to be the same age as the old coachman, his gray hair was meticulously arranged, and his face was full of redness, and there was no trace of decay. The young one is a middle-aged man in his thirties, with a three-inch short beard and a capable dress.

"Ancestor Li, why are you here?" The big man led by him was still angry at the sudden death of his subordinates just now, and when he turned around, there was such a big guy!

This old man is not something that anyone can touch! Even the head of the main family has to respectfully call him "Li Bo" when he sees it, how could he come here? Lu Zongtai's two boys will never be able to invite him!

"Oh no! I've been overshadowed!" The big man suddenly understood, how could the person who could make such a great god dispatch an ordinary person, listening to the meaning of what he said just now, didn't he mean that the old coachman who was not good-looking was actually a person of the same generation as Li Laozu, and he was also a great master at the grandmaster level! Then he was sent to carry out such a fatal task, wouldn't that be looking for death! It seems that something has happened to the family again!

He didn't pay attention to what the big man was thinking, and he didn't even answer his questions because he wasn't qualified!

An old man and a young man walked directly to a place more than a foot away from the carriage and stood still, and those who were attentive would find that this was the limit of the old coachman's long whip.

"Brother Wan, it's always good to not see you for many years?" asked Li Laozu, looking like an old friend reunited.

"It's okay, I can eat and sleep. The old coachman said with a smile.

"Hehe, I can see that your master is good lately, and the wind and cold he suffered last time are better now?" Li Laozu pulled up the family again, and the "noble master" mentioned here is naturally not Wan Dezhao, the head of the Wan family, but Wan Dezhao's father, the head of the previous generation of the Wan family, and the real master of the old coachman.

"It's okay, the master's illness has long been cured, and now his body is hardened! It's not the old man who said, when people are old, they should look like old people, and their temperament is still so big, it's not the appearance of longevity!" the old coachman still said lightly, but the needle hidden in the words can even be seen clearly by people with bad eyes.

"You!" Li Laozu didn't say anything, his apprentice was a person who was eager to protect the master, there was no way, who let him say it was his father!

This Li ancestor is a member of the Li family of Zhao County, although he and the Lu family belong to the same "seven clans and five surnames", the relationship is not so good, and this time he will come here purely by chance, and he happened to meet, so he wanted to meet his old friends. It's just that the old problem still can't be changed, it's necessary to fight when you meet, there's no way, at their level, if you want to have an enjoyable hands-on competition, not to mention the earth-shattering, at least the city will be full of wind and rain, don't hit it twice, it's better to have a good fight.

It's just that the head of the previous generation of the Li family, the person served by Li Laozu, is indeed terminally ill, and he will die soon, but this apprentice is the son of the head of the family, and he has a good talent in martial arts, so he let him follow him.

"That's the thousand-year-old king of the eighty-thousand-year-old tortoise! If you want to live like the one in your family, you will naturally live a long time!" Li Laozu retorted.

"What's the matter, Brother Li also wants to stop the old man today?" the old coachman stopped arguing with him, and went straight to the point.

"Actually, it's really a coincidence that Li was able to meet Brother Wan this time, but it's not easy for our old friends to meet, if you don't drink a few sips of wine and chat for a few days, spread it out and let those old guys laugh at me Li Mouren doesn't know how to be polite, Brother Wan, what do you say?" Li Laozu saw that the man headed by him was a member of the Lu family, and there must be something important to come here to intercept the Wan family, and he could not care about the affairs of the Lu family, but the Wan family in the south sent such a great god to Chang'an this time, I am afraid that the plan is not small, and it is a northern family, and it is an alliance, so of course it has to be stopped.

"Drinking, if Brother Li insists on doing this, then the old man will have to accompany his old friend. The old coachman said with a smile.

Just as Li Laozu breathed a sigh of relief and was about to make an invitation, the old coachman shouted to the dense forest behind him: "Anzi, you will take the rest of the way, the old man will meet his old friends." ”

"Since it was invited by the seniors, Uncle Ping just went, and left the rest of the way to me. A man in his fifties came in response, and Wan An still had that plain appearance, answering mechanically.

"Good, good, good!" Li Laozu saw the person coming and applauded three times in a row.

"The Wanjia family sent out all of your two major gods of peace, this is really a big scene!" Li Laozu took a light breath and said.

"In this case, Brother Wan is light! I went to Chang'an another day, and if I have free time, I will also look at the mansion to talk about it, and let us old guys get together. After Li Laozu said this, he didn't wait for the others, turned his head and left.

A moment later, deep in the woods, Old Ancestor Li's apprentice couldn't help but ask, "Master, was that just now?"

"The two great masters of the Wan family, Wan Ping, Wan An. Li Laozu said lightly.

"What! That's in his fifties, isn't he?"

"Hehe, he has used the name Wanping for almost forty years, and the name Wan'an has only been used for twenty years. As if it was not enough to stimulate the apprentices, Li Laozu added another sentence.

"What!" The apprentice was even more shocked at this time, the master's meaning couldn't be clearer, the rules of ten thousand families, only the grandmaster deserves to enjoy the words "peace and peace", doesn't that mean, "They became grandmasters in their thirties!" What kind of concept is this! You must know that the master's talent has not reached this level until he is fifty, and this is still early!

"Twenty years ago, Wan Dezhao, the contemporary head of the Wan family, came out of Yuzhang, traveled the world, and followed this Wan An by his side, when Wan Dezhao was only in his early twenties, and now his son is almost nineteen. "Li Laozu really thinks that thunder is not worth his life!

This time the apprentices have nothing to say, the head of the family is out on patrol, and the grandmaster is escorting, I am afraid that only the Li family has this courage! This Li family is not their Li family in Zhaojun, but the Li family in Longxi, to be precise, the Li family in Taiyuan! Moreover, according to what the master just said, if the grandmasters of the Wanjia family are all in their thirties and travel with the head of the family, wouldn't it be that in two years, the Wanjia family will have another grandmaster? With the addition of these two, there will be three! There are only two of our Li family, and the other one is still about to enter the ground. No, grandmasters generally have a very long lifespan, and it is normal to live to be 100 years old, that is to say...... There are still the older generation of grandmasters in the Wan family? Oh my God! This number is about to catch up with the royal family!

"Then why?" said the disciple, who could only mutter.

"You're asking, since the player has such a strong strength, why have you never heard their names in Chang'an, right?" asked Li Laozu.

Seeing the disciple nodding, he continued: "Actually, it's not nothing, it's just that it hasn't been spread, there is indeed almost no clan in the court of the Wanjia family, and they only limit their power to Yuzhang County, and never expand out, but their family's influence on the court is huge." It's just that they never participate in the battles in the court, and only when they may endanger the foundation of Yuzhang County will they burst out with amazing power, so you haven't heard the name of the Wan family in Chang'an, not only you juniors, except for the old guys who have been staying near Chang'an, they will know some things about the Wan family, even those families who are far away don't know, and the Lu family doesn't know!"

Li Laozu smiled, no matter how you look at it, it is a little insidious, the Lu family also has two grandmaster-level masters, but they are even worse than their family, one is dying, and the other is dying. Even in the past, he only stayed in Fan Yang's lair, and he only knew a rough idea of the affairs of the Wan family, and vaguely felt that the inheritance of the Wan family was not short, and the strength should not be weak, but he never thought that the strength of the Wan family would be on par with them, or even surpass them. And the other families who knew the specific situation were also happy to see someone come forward to gnaw on this hard bone, so naturally they would not say anything to the Lu family.

"I usually don't bite people, but when I am alarmed, I stretch out my head and bite it, isn't it just a king who shrinks his head!" Li Laozu said with a smile, as if ridicule could make the Wan family weaker, or just to find a little comfort in his heart.

"But...... What's the point of living like this?" asked the disciple, what is the fun of being a turtle with such a shrunken head when he has such a strong strength?

"The turtle lives a long life!" Li Laozu said this, revealing an endless loneliness in it.

"When you reach the age of the master, you will know that living long is the greatest meaning!"

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There is another person who is also shocked, young people always have a burning pursuit of strength, looking at what happened in front of him, where can Xiao Yan not know, these people are all mentioned by his father before, the highest type of people in the rivers and lakes, grandmaster!

Characters who have only heard of in legends, he actually saw three times a day, how could he still sit still, and he didn't even care about the injuries on his body just now, so he ran directly to Wan Ping, with a flattering look on his face.

"Grandpa, are you really a grandmaster?" Xiao Yan asked, calling "Grandpa" for the first time.

"Are you envious?" Wan Ping looked at the young man's hot eyes and said flatly.

"Of course, I'll tell you the truth, my goal in the future is to become a sword master!" Xiao Yan said with a proud expression.

"What's so powerful! No matter how powerful the grandmaster is, he's just a human being!" Wan Ping said this, and he also showed a sense of loneliness.

Xiao Yan was stunned, isn't this nonsense! Could it be that there are still people who are not people?

Xiao Yan could only think of this, if Xu Chen was here, he would definitely be able to think that since the old man had already said so, it could only mean ...... There really are people who are not people!