Before opening the door, Shen Bing hid behind Jiang Ning.

After opening the door, Jiang Ning stood behind Shen Bing.

The reason is simple.

The person who came was the owner of the stone house, the blacksmith in the village, and Shen Bing's father.

"Father, Xiao Ling!" Shen Bing cried with joy and threw himself into his father's arms.

The blacksmith gently patted his daughter's back with his big rough and thick hand, but his eyes fell on Jiang Ning's body.

The candlelight swayed in the cold wind, and the middle-aged man looked at Jiang Ning's expression a little cold at first, and then turned into helplessness, and let out a long sigh.

"Let's go in and say. The blacksmith said expressionlessly.

The group came to the stone house, lit the candles, and sat down.

Just when the two sisters Shen Bing and Shen Ling were full of doubts, and the blacksmith was brewing words in his heart, Jiang Ning took the lead in opening his mouth.

"Shuoji Pavilion, Luo Mingyuan?"

The middle-aged man's face changed, and then he looked a little indifferent, these things, he originally planned to say clearly, but they were broken by the young man in front of him, but it didn't matter.

"You know, why are you still willing to protect Bing'er?" said the blacksmith.

Jiang Ning was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then muttered, "It turns out that I am from the Qingwei Gang." ”

When traveling north from the cave to Songxue Village, the female devil in red once inadvertently mentioned that the sect on the rivers and lakes, one village and one lake, three mountains and four pavilions, nine doors and twelve gangs, was originally nine doors and thirteen gangs, more than ten years ago, located in the East China Sea, the Qingwei Gang, which controlled the waterways along the river and the North and South Sea Roads, was wiped out by one person.

The female demon head did not say who the Qingwei Gang was who destroyed it, and Jiang Ning didn't care much about it.

When he learned from that Cui Juan that he was looking for a person named Luo Mingyuan, coupled with the record of the dream codex, Jiang Ning already had a rough judgment in his heart.

It wasn't until the middle-aged man said Fang Cai's sentence that he guessed his identity.

"You don't know who you are?" said the blacksmith in surprise, but he now regretted saying that sentence a little.

"After the avalanche, he forgot about it. Shen Bing interjected. Although she didn't understand the conversation between the two in a fog, he still had more say about Jiang Ning.

As a younger sister, Shen Ling looked at her sister's eyes at Jiang Ning, and knew that she was moved by this strange man, and smiled lightly.

This discovery made her feel a little less guilty about Shen Bing in her heart, and she only silently wished her sister in her heart that her wish could come true.

The emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and he is sitting here, even if Jiang Ning has the heart to attack his two daughters, he will definitely not be able to do it, so although the blacksmith is a little annoyed in his heart, his face is quite calm.

The blacksmith took out his pipe from his arms, twisted some tobacco leaves, lit it slowly, took a puff, and said calmly: "If I say that I didn't do the case of the Qingwei Gang's extermination, do you believe it?"

"I believe it!" Jiang Ning turned his head, glanced at Shen Bing, who was sitting next to his sister, and said with a smile: "A crazy person can't teach such a daughter." ”

Jiang Ning didn't say this

What kind of daughter is it, but Shen Bing's eyes showed a happy smile.

He was secretly relieved that things were going much smoother than the blacksmith himself had imagined.

"So," Jiang Ning said, "tell me your story back then?"

The middle-aged man nodded.

"Everything has to start with Jianzhuang. ”

Jiang Ning looked like he knew this, and he was not surprised at all.

From the time he woke up in the snow field to the present, almost everything revolved around the duel between the sword demon Sun Hao and Scarlet Butterfly Zhuang Ying from Jianzhuang and the purple mountain outside the village.

Under Jiang Ning's gesture and the expectant gaze of his two daughters, the middle-aged man spoke eloquently.

Nineteen years ago, it was the era when a new generation of masters emerged.

As the third son of Luo Yingxiong, the previous generation of pavilion masters of Shuoji Pavilion, Luo Mingyuan's martial arts talent is far higher than that of his two elder brothers, fourth brother and fifth sister, in his early twenties, and his ability already has seventy percent of the old pavilion master's fire.

is also a righteous sect, Shuoji Pavilion was in that period of time, because except for Luo Mingyuan, a young and promising junior, the limelight once overshadowed the other three pavilions such as Tingxue Tower and Qingyin Pavilion, and only the one village and one lake of the new and old generations of overlords could steadily overpower them.

During that time, Shuoji Pavilion was proud of the spring breeze on the rivers and lakes, and the momentum was booming.

As the master of the Young Pavilion, Luo Mingyuan has naturally been praised by many people in the rivers and lakes, plus he has a gentle temperament and is not arrogant, and he likes to walk around the rivers and lakes and travels extensively, so he goes up to Jianzhuang Scarlet Lake, three mountains and four pavilions, down to the Nine Gates and Thirteen Gangs, and there are his friends everywhere in the entire rivers and lakes.

At that time, the person who had the best relationship with Luo Mingyuan was Jiang Chongshan, the new helper who had just taken over the Qingwei Gang from his deceased father.

The two intersected in the nameless, without too many interests involved, and there were many similarities in their life experiences, so they got along very well, and they often walked around the rivers and lakes together before.

After Jiang Chongshan took over the Qingwei Gang, there were many affairs in the gang, and it was inconvenient to go out too much, so Luo Mingyuan, who had not yet taken over Shuoji Pavilion from his father, often went to the Qingwei Gang on the coast of the East China Sea to visit him.

Of course, Jiang Chongshan was not the only one who accompanied Luo Mingyuan on the rivers and lakes back then, and there was also a female chivalrous guest who claimed to be the fairy of Qingyao.

The three of them walked the rivers and lakes together, hoeing the strong and helping the weak, and during that period of time, they could be regarded as accumulating a lot of fame.

As soon as a person is famous, there are many rights and wrongs.

Later, Jiang Chongshan took over the Qingwei Gang from his father, and it didn't take long for him to marry this fairy named Yue Qingyao and give birth to a son named Jiang Ning.

Jiang Chongshan's family rarely went to the Shuoji Pavilion to find Luo Mingyuan after that, and most of the time, Luo Mingyuan rushed to the Qingwei Gang.

This came and went, and there were bad rumors on the rivers and lakes, saying that when the three of them walked the rivers and lakes, Jiang Chongshan and Luo Mingyuan, two brothers with different surnames, were at the same time

fell in love with Yue Qingyao, but in the end, Yue Qingyao chose Jiang Chongshan, who was inferior to Luo Mingyuan in martial arts, family affairs, appearance, and talent.

This made Luo Mingyuan indignant, and he ran to the Qingwei Gang twice in three days, but he was not convinced, unwilling, and wanted to snatch Yue Qingyao back from his brother's side.

Of course, these rumors are not true, in fact, Yue Qingyao is not the type that Luo Mingyuan likes at all, the reason why he frequently goes to the Qingwei Gang is not to do the dirty things like the gun brothers and women, but because Jiang Chongshan, who has recently become the leader of the Qingwei Gang, has discovered a terrible thing, a thing that he, the gang leader, is likely to be unable to hold.

This incident happened on the territory of his Qingwei Gang, and after that, he was a little distraught, panicked, and couldn't think of any solution, so he had to fly a pigeon to send a message, asking his best friend Luo Mingyuan to travel all the way east from Shuoji Pavilion in the middle of the dynasty to the Qingwei Gang on the shore of the East China Sea to give him ideas.

Jiang Ning interrupted: "Being able to rank among the Nine Gates and Thirteen Gangs, even if it can't be compared with those big sects in the Three Mountains and Four Pavilions, the Qingwei Gang is definitely not a stinky fish and rotten shrimp, what is it that can make a dignified gang leader so frightened that he needs to call you to help?"

Luo Mingyuan was about to continue, but Jiang Ning said, "Could it be that it's Jianzhuang again?"

"That's right. The blacksmith affirmed Jiang Ning's guess, and looked at the young man in front of him, who was also his junior, with undisguised admiration and expectation in his eyes.

"Let's talk about it first, how can you guess that this matter is related to Jianzhuang?"

"It's simple," Jiang Ning said with a smile: "As far as I know, if you want to destroy a force of this level of the Nine Gates and Twelve Gangs, the Three Mountains and Four Pavilions can actually do it, but if you hurt the enemy by one thousand and lose eight hundred, that kind of loss is not something they can bear, in other words, the existence of being able to do this kind of thing easily will make the leader of the Qingwei Gang, that is, 'my father', afraid." ”

"This kind of thing, the dynasty can do with a wave of his hand, but obviously, the dynasty is also the least likely to do this. Because of this kind of gang that has something to do with Caoyun, but anyone who can survive safely for tens or hundreds of years has an inextricable relationship with the imperial court, although the imperial court and themselves will not admit it, but I guess that the money and things that the Qingwei Gang gives to the local Caoyun officials every year, as well as the things that they do for the imperial court in Caoyun, will definitely not be less, and the dynasty will definitely not lift a stone to hit its own toes. You say, 'Am I right?'

"Absolutely. Luo Mingyuan was just a little surprised at first, but it can be regarded as a surprise at the moment.

Seeing that his old brother's son has grown up to such a point without parents, seeing Weizhi's ability makes him a little frightened, and now Jiang Ning is so close to his daughter, the blacksmith is thinking in his heart that even if he really dies by then, the two daughters can be entrusted to Jiang Ning to take care of.

This alleviated the hidden worries in his heart a lot, and a rare smile appeared on his face, and he said, "You go on." ”

"Except for the imperial court, only those who can do this level are the only ones

There are Jianzhuang and Scarlet Lake, or there are more than three families in the Three Mountains and Four Pavilions joining forces, but, as you know, this kind of thing is to join forces to destroy the door, unless the Qingwei Gang does something angry, it is absolutely impossible to happen, even if Luo Mingyuan has a good reputation in the rivers and lakes, he will definitely not be able to do such a thing. Therefore, what the Qingwei Gang is afraid of must be one of the Sword Village and the Scarlet Lake. Jiang Ning said.

The blacksmith smiled and said, "Then why do you think it's Sword Village and not Scarlet Lake?"

"Hehe," Jiang Ning scratched his head with a smile, and said with a rare embarrassment: "I guess." ”

"You're funny, boy!" said the blacksmith laughed.

(End of chapter)