The wind and clouds are light, the Luochuan River outside the city is sparkling by the gusts of spring breeze, the trees by the river have sprouted, and the grass has also come out of the ground. The catkins scattered in the sky are like stars, flying and wandering, dream-like, picturesque, and intoxicated.

Out of the south gate of Heluo City, about two or three hours, you will arrive at Luojiazhuang, which is not far from the business road, so there is an endless stream of pedestrians. Luojiazhuang is backed by Nanshan, a tributary of the Luochuan River in front, the scenery is extremely beautiful, generally not in a hurry businessmen will stay in Luojiazhuang for one night, and then enter the city after repairing.

The South Mountain is full of mangosteen, verdant and green, and the breeze blows, making a "rustling" sound, looking from a distance, it looks like the waves of the undulating sea. A place of elegance.

At noon, two men and one woman walked into the inn in Luojiazhuang.

Xiao Er, who had nothing to do, hurriedly greeted him with a smile on his face. "How many guest officers, are they sharpened or staying in the hotel?"

One of the young men dressed in a gray hemp warrior costume said, "I want three upper rooms, and then prepare some food." ”

Xiao Er shouted and walked quickly into the back kitchen. The three of them chose a window seat and sat down.

"Brother Zimo, are we going to stay here tonight? It's still early, why don't you walk up the mountain again?"

The young man from before said, "Don't be in a hurry at this time, ask about it." ”

The young man next to him also chimed in: "Zimo is right, don't worry!"

There were not many people eating in the hall, most of them sat there and drank tea. In less than a moment, the food they asked for came up.

Ling Feng threw a few coins to Xiao Er, and then asked, "Isn't this a business way, why don't we see many pedestrians along the way, and there are not many people in this hall, it seems that your business is not very good!"

"Alas, you don't know, a few guest officers, originally this season is the time when business travel, freight trade is lively, unfortunately, I don't know where a monster came from this mountain, extremely fierce, eat a lot of people from nearby villages and towns, and then the city government sent a lot of people to come to clean up, but unfortunately there is always no result, this time people are panicked, and several nearby villages do not dare to live in people, as soon as the news comes out, there are not many people to take this road!"

"Listen to that monster you said is so ferocious, have you ever seen that monster?"

"This, the little one has never seen it, but I heard from a few nearby villagers that the monster is fierce and abnormal, and the Nanshan town on the mountain has almost been scourged into a no-man's town. Alas, in the first ten days, there will be a lot of people in Zhuangzi who rely on the mountains to eat such as hunters in the surrounding Zhuang Town to hold a market here, which was lively in previous years, and it is estimated that it will not be seen this year!" Xiao Er left after speaking.

"It seems that this demon beast is not ordinary!" Chen Zimo looked at Ling Feng who was sitting next to him after listening.

Ling Feng nodded and said, "We have to think about it carefully, I'll go to the nearby army early tomorrow morning to inquire." ”

At night, Chen Zimo, who had been tired all day, was about to blow out the candle flame to sleep after cleaning up, but suddenly broke the window paper from outside and flew in a black shadow, and then hit the pillar in the house, he hurriedly strode to the window, pushed open the window and looked out, only to see that it was dark outside, let alone a figure, and he didn't see anything.

He then cautiously closed the window, walked over to the pillar, and saw a throwing knife nailed to the pillar, and a cloth was tied to it.

He pulled out the flying knife, only to see that the cloth strip was written on it: Be careful of Lu Lingfeng, danger.

He looked at the note, and the steps that were about to go out stopped after thinking for a moment, Chen Zimo decided not to tell Ling Feng about it first, he believed in his brother.

Early in the morning, after they had breakfast together, Ling Feng inquired about the nearby garrison early and rushed over, and it was noon before Ling Feng returned to the inn.

"I'm in the nearby garrison, and I know about the same situation as the junior second said yesterday, and they just happen to have a lieutenant who is willing to take us into the mountains, and we will go to their station to fight him in a while. ”

"That's great!" Sun Yun said happily.

In the afternoon, they arrived at the garrison early, only to see a middle-aged man wearing armor and a round cake face standing at the gate of the camp in the distance, waiting for them.

When Ling Feng saw it, he walked a few steps quickly to greet him, said a few words, and then turned around and introduced the two people behind. "Wang Duwei, these are my friends, her name is Sun Yun, and his name is Chen Zimo. ”

The two of them immediately bowed, and Wang Duwei waved his hand and said with a smile: "How dare I accept this gift from the young lady who guards the lord's house!"

Chen Zimo was stunned when he heard his words, and muttered in his heart how did he know Xiao Yun's identity, but this was also a flash of thought, and maybe Ling Feng didn't know what he had said to him when he came before.

"It's late today, stay in the camp for the night, and tomorrow we'll go into the mountains. ”

"It's all up to you!"

Entering the barracks, seeing a tent scattered among them, from time to time there are patrol teams passing by, the camp is very quiet, so quiet that it even reveals a trace of strange atmosphere, Wang Duwei took them to a tent, "You will live here tonight, and we will set off at dawn tomorrow." ”

At night, the firelight reflected the barracks, surrounded by the sound of the wind, the sound of burning wood and the footsteps of patrols.

Late at night, Chen Zimo, who woke up, tossed and turned, he always had an uneasy feeling about this time entering the mountain, he sat up and saw Xiao Yun sleeping peacefully in the tent, but Ling Feng was not in the tent.

He crept out of the tent, and it was silent outside, as if the entire barracks were empty, except for the faint noise of the patrolling guards from time to time.

Walking past a few tents, in a blink of an eye, he saw that Wang Duwei was standing with Ling Feng next to the bonfire in the distance, it seemed that Ling Feng was talking about something, he stood in the shadow and looked at it for a long time, his heart was full of doubts, and he remembered the words written on the flying knife cloth at that inn in Luojiazhuang at night.

He didn't approach, but left in a different direction, sat quietly on a dirt bag, looked at the bonfire in front of him in a daze, remembered the time when he and his parents played under this South Mountain when he was a child, and suddenly a hand slapped him on the shoulder, and he suddenly turned his head to look, it turned out to be Wang Duwei.

"It turned out to be Wang Duwei!"

"Chief Guard Chen, why don't you sleep so late?"

"You actually know that I am the chief of the guard!Oh, it should have been Ling Feng who told you!" Chen Zimo looked into Wang Duwei's eyes.

Wang Duwei took off his clothes and sat down beside him. "No, I heard about you from Wang Zhongfu. ”

Chen Zimo was even more surprised after hearing this. "Do you know Uncle Wang?"

"Yes, I used to be his subordinate, and then I was transferred to this city defense army, and I went to him a while ago, and I heard your name when I was chatting, so I only knew your official position. ”

"I see. Chen Zimo didn't expect that this person had a relationship with Uncle Wang.

"I have a good relationship with Brother Wang, we often drink and chat together, I have been like this all my life, and I will die in this small city, but Brother Wang is different, don't look at him with a big grin, he has great ambitions, and I respect him very much

Chen Zimo had the figure of Uncle Wang in his mind at this time. "Uncle Wang, what are his big ambitions?"

"Oh, you haven't been in the army, so you don't know how to be a soldier. After speaking, Wang Duwei paused. "In addition to the emperor, there are three people in the world who are second only to the emperor, and they are called the three kings, namely the Blessing King, the Good King, and the Flame King. When the emperor went early, leaving the young emperor His Majesty, that is, King Fu overrode public opinion, and strongly supported His Majesty, after His Majesty ascended the throne, King Fu became the regent, until His Majesty became an adult, he governed the stability of the country, and dealt with the demons in foreign lands properly, it was a slightly prosperous age; King Good is the youngest king of the three kings, he is different from other kings, he is completely dependent on military merit and prestige to reach this point, that is, the big war ten years ago, he led a sword and dance guard alone into the enemy's hinterland sneak attack, it was he who caused the war from passive to active, and even reversed, after the war, he was named the good king by His MajestyHowever, it is also rumored that His Majesty actually doesn't look down on this grassroots general, so he was named the good king, fought on the battlefield all his life, killed so many people, and was finally named the good king, which sounds a little ironic, but this king should be from the army, so he is good to the soldiers and officers, and his reputation in all the troops is particularly high; , but there are also rumors that the Flame King is in charge of the wealth of the world and is rich enough to rival the country, so he was named the Flame King, and no one knows what it is. ”

"There is also this matter, but what does this have to do with Uncle Wang, does Uncle Wang want to be the fourth king?" Chen Zimo said jokingly.

"Who doesn't want to, but that depends on luck and ability, we are all self-aware, Brother Wang is just unwilling to stay in this city in the position of the deputy chief of the guard until death. ”

Chen Zimo heard the meaning of his words. "You said that Uncle Wang wants to serve under a certain king, or is he a certain king's subordinate?"

"Not only him, but also your father, the two kings of the court fought for power back then, in fact, although it was said that it was two kings, but it should be three kings, although the good king was not crowned king at that time, but the prestige and power at that time were almost the same, Heluo City belonged to the sphere of influence of the good king at that time, but Brother Wang and your father had the heart to go to the command of the blessed king. ”

"King Fu?" Chen Zimo looked surprised, he had never known this.

"It's a pity that your father later~, alas!" Wang Duwei sighed.

"You mean that the good king found out and sent someone to kill my father. ”

"No, no, no, I didn't say that, besides, King Shanwang ruled so many places at that time, Heluo City was just a remote town, even if it was discovered, it was not worth his shot, do you know the distribution of forces in Huazhou now?"

Chen Zimo shook his head.

"Huazhou is divided into five prefectures, namely Zhongtian Mansion, Dongling Mansion, Xisheng Mansion, Nan'an Mansion and our Beimo Mansion, these five prefectures have large and small towns, each town has a local armed force, in addition, there are four main army corps, namely the Dragon Guard to protect the safety of the capital, the kamikaze legion guarding the southwest coast, and the Xiaolin legion guarding the northwest against the exotic land, and the Hutao legion guarding the northeast. Among them, the Xiaolin Legion stationed in our northwest is the strongest, and it is also the army that the good king used to stay in the past, and now it is also under the control of the good king. The kamikaze legion in the southwest is the most numerous, because there are important mineral deposits there, and it also takes into account the resistance of foreign figures, and now it is controlled by the Fu King, and the most mysterious of them is the Tiger Tao Legion in the northeast, which is controlled by the Flame King. The power of the three kings is divided into the five mansions of the world, but they restrain each other" After speaking, he looked at Chen Zimo. "Now you know what I mean, he hasn't taken this little town king into his eyes yet. ”

"Could it be someone else?" Chen Zimo had heard the clues in Jiang Linliang and Uncle Wang's words when he was in the Governor's Mansion before, and now he was more and more suspicious of what the truth of the matter was back then.

"You're still too weak now, so what's the matter if you know, it's better to not know, otherwise you'll be killed. After speaking, Wang Duwei stood up, patted the soil on his body, and walked towards the tent, leaving Chen Zimo alone in a daze.

All the clues were like a mess in his head, starting from Sun Dushou inexplicably leaving him to serve in the Governor's Mansion, and then to Yu Bing, Jiang Linliang, Lu Lingfeng and Uncle Wang, and today's Wang Duwei's words, everyone seemed to be carefully reminding him of something, but they were all vague, and all the clues seemed to point to his father's affairs back then.

And what exactly did the reminder on the knife last night mean? Who is the person who reminded himself with the knife?

"What the hell is going on, who deceived me?" Chen Zimo said secretly in his heart.