I thought something bad to me, and I blew out the lights. As mentioned in the "Essential Handbook for Walking in the Rivers and Lakes", when encountering an enemy indoors at night, the most taboo is that the enemy is dark and bright, especially when encountering an opponent who is good at hidden weapons, we must turn off the lights as soon as possible, so as not to expose our position to the enemy's field of vision.

There was a groan outside.

Xu Kaishan said, I don't know the friends on that road? I just heard Yang Yicheng scolding outside the door, you are so unreasonable, I am afraid that it will be cold tonight, let the guy send some charcoal fire, you actually use such a means?

I sighed in my heart, it seems that Xu Kaishan is a little rumored, and the grass and trees are all soldiers. So he lit a candle and came to the door, and saw Yang Yicheng standing outside the door, with a guy lying on the ground and a charcoal stove on the ground.

I stepped forward and helped the guy up and said sorry. Yang Yicheng said that he was really kind to treat it as a donkey's liver and lungs, come to Fu, go, and leave them alone. As he spoke, he left with his buddies in a huff. When I returned to the room, I saw Xu Kaishan close his eyes and pretend to be asleep.

I said don't pretend, I tried it just now, and that guy doesn't have any martial arts at all. Xu Kaishan was silent, snoring like thunder.

I lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. I thought that if the meridians in my body were really as Xu Kaishan said, the ordinary internal strength of the mind would be of no use to me, it seemed that I had to explore it myself, and when I tried to guide the Nantian Seven Residences again, I couldn't sense it anyway. However, I was not discouraged, at least it proved that I was able to cultivate the inner strength and mental method.

The next morning, I woke up early and practiced the Golden Snake marksmanship in the yard. This has become a habit, whether in the capital or outside, the bayonet gun, horizontal gun, lying gun each practice a thousand times a day, in the words of the old grandson, practice makes perfect, the conscious marksmanship, into an unconscious reaction.

As for the weapon, the old grandson gave me a piece of white ash wood before leaving, saying that I would practice it first, and then I would have the opportunity to find a gun head to install it. At that time, I asked him for his two guns, and I was scolded by the old grandson.

After an hour, when I returned to the room, Xu Kaishan looked at me coldly and asked, what is the relationship between you and Sun Meowmeow?

I wondered, who is Sun Meow Meow?

Xu Kaishan said, you don't know him, how can you know his golden snake marksmanship?

I suddenly realized that the old grandson's name was Sun Meow, and it turned out to be such a domineering name. No wonder he asked me to call him grandson or leader, and every time I asked him his name, he wouldn't tell me.

Do you know Lao Suntou?

Xu Kaishan said coldly, I owe him something.

I said, I see, what is it, why don't you give it to me, and wait for me to help you bring it to him.

Xu Kaishan said that fifteen years ago, he secretly attacked me and stabbed me, thanks to his gift, I stayed in the six-door prison for fifteen years.

I said that it has increased tenfold in fifteen years, and the monthly interest rate for this year is six percent, which is more than four times the benchmark interest rate stipulated by the imperial court, is this considered usury?

Xu Kaishan turned his face and said, do you want to help him?

I even shook my head and said, in fact, I am not particularly familiar with him, he is at most half of my leader. I was taught the Golden Snake marksmanship to work for him. The old guy was disrespectful, had a bad temperament, and was annoying within the six doors. But in my heart, I said that I can't help it, my grandson, I don't want to let this big devil come to the door because of you.

Xu Kaishan snorted, don't worry, there is a debtor who is wronged, and I won't count his account on your head, but I have to settle your account with you. I said I don't owe you anything, why are you settling accounts with me?

Xu Kaishan pointed to the wine glass and said that the account of the poison of the crane top red every day, do you say I want to settle it with you?

I was speechless for a moment, and it took a long time before I said, what is it, I think it's better to forget it. Besides, I am also acting on orders, you are an old-timer in the rivers and lakes, fifteen years ago, the famous Heavenly Sword Xu Kaishan in the rivers and lakes, will not care about us juniors. Big deal, I'll put less when I feed you medicine in the future.

Xu Kaishan Road, put more.

I said that I am not fooled, do you think I don't know your abacus? If you take more poison, don't wait until Ying Tianfu, the amount is not enough, and when you finish detoxifying, who will have anything to do with you?

Xu Kaishan smiled dumbly, you kid sometimes have an active brain, and sometimes your IQ is really worrying. I poured a bowl of liquor, added liquor to him, pushed it in front of him, and took medicine.

When I came to the front yard for breakfast, the owl saw the two of us and said, "You are not dead?" Look at Xu Kaishan, you have not escaped?

What should I say?

It's nothing, hurry up and eat, and get on the road after eating.

I felt more and more strange, could it be that before leaving, what did Lu Zhongyuan's old fox tell these five old guys? Xu Kaishan sat there and sneered all the time.

After breakfast, the group continued on their way. Last night the snow was too heavy, the road was muddy, the owl and the mountain eagle and others rode forward, but I was a coachman, and several times I fell into the mud, the five of them didn't care, stopped aside and laughed, I spent a long time to get the car out.

After we came out from under the plan, we went around in a circle, turned to the south, carried the relevant documents with us, stayed at the post station or in the inn along the way, according to the rules of the imperial court, the team escorting the prisoners, and the inn had to provide convenience free of charge on the way, but we did not encounter too many things.

Five days later, we arrived in Baoding. Baoding Prefecture controls three passes in the north, Kyushu in the south, four departments of Dilian, and Xiongguan Zhongzhou, which is the thoroughfare of the soldiers since ancient times, and it is also the place that must pass through the southwest of Beijing.

The owl said that I have a brother in Langya Mountain, and now I have a successful career, and I have written to me many times to be a guest, and it is better to choose a day than to hit the day, and now the New Year is approaching, anyway, the big shopkeeper has no time limit, it is better to stay for a few days first, and wait for the New Year to be in a hurry.

I said that we are on official business, and there are important prisoners from the court in the prison car, which is not good.

The owl said unhappily: You kid is young and vigorous, and you have to consider us old people. Besides, the New Year will be over in two days, and the National Holiday Office also stipulates a seven-day holiday. The other eagles also complained that the road was too difficult to walk, but I couldn't tell them, so everyone went to Langya Mountain.

Langya Mountain belongs to the Taihang Mountain Range, with strange peaks in a forest, towering and precipitous, like a wolf's tooth. If in spring and summer, the grass grows and the warbler flies, it is also a good place to go, now the cold winter wax moon, ice and snow, the road up the mountain is like a sheep's intestine, winding and rugged.

When he came to the bottom of the mountain and was about to go up the mountain, Xu Kaishan suddenly sat up, and the horse pulling the prisoner cart also stopped. The owl and the others also stopped, and I was about to speak, but I found an old woman sitting in the middle of the road, which was not wide, in the middle of the road, which was not wide, with an iron rod in her hand, polishing on a millstone.

The owl asked me to go up to negotiate, I was secretly vigilant, Ximen blew the lamp and said, walking the rivers and lakes, there are three kinds of people who cannot be provoked at will, monks, white-haired old women, beautiful women, this old woman is in the center, there must be a plan. It won't be a green forest that blocks the road and robs the house, the first senior brother always tells me about the sinister rivers and lakes, the more strange things are, the more dangerous they are.

I took a few steps forward and said respectfully, "Old woman, we have something important to do, can we use it for it?"

The old woman didn't raise her head, and said impatiently, didn't you see that I was busy?

What are you doing?

The old woman said, sharpen the needle.

What do you do with grinding needles?

Homicide.

Kill whom?

The man in the car.

I said in my heart that this old woman looked almost eighty years old, and even boasted that she wanted to kill the Heavenly Sword Xu Kaishan, this person was either a peerless master, or she was suffering from madness.

On the rivers and lakes, the needle is used as a weapon, and the only one with high martial arts is the Eastern Sect leader of the Sun and Moon God Sect, but it is said that he was killed on the black wood cliff back then, and after thinking about it, he didn't know which one else was a master of making needles.

But still politely said, do you want to say, as long as the kung fu deep iron pestle is sharpened into a needle?

The old woman said, no.

Why is that?

Without waiting for the old woman to speak, Xu Kaishan said quietly behind him, Mama Rong, I haven't seen you for more than ten years, don't come to harm?