In the twilight, Xu Buling took a few women and marched from the official road to the Tang Family Sword Village along the Luan River.

Zhongli Jiujiu was sleeping for beauty sleep, and he was dragged up in the middle of the night and had some opinions, riding a big red horse to hang at the back, neither ignoring Xu Buling nor Ning Yuhe.

ignored Ning Yuhe, mainly because Zhongli Jiujiu broke Ning Yuhe's unsightly matter, but Ning Yuhe threatened her in turn, warning her that if she dared to talk nonsense, let Xu Buling kick her out.

Zhong Li Jiujiu was really afraid that Ning Yuhe would instigate Xu Buling to drive her out, with her current relationship with Xu Buling, Xu Buling would definitely protect Ning Yuhe, so he could only swallow his anger and make another plan.

Ning Yuhe rode a horse and walked beside Xu Buling, and was bumped by Zhongli Jiujiu about the matter with Xu Buling, but she was more frank, looking like 'I just eat white steamed buns for my apprentice, what can you do with me'.

As for why he didn't tell Xu Buling about Zhongli Jiujiu's listening to the root of the wall, so as to drive Zhongli Jiujiu away, there are some explanations in it.

Ning Yuhe understood something from Zhong Li Jiujiu's words that she had to be her sister - it is estimated that Zhong Li Jiujiu, a crazy woman, changed her mind and did not rob her apprentice, but robbed a man instead.

In Ning Yuhe's mind, Zhongli Jiujiu was completely capable of doing this, and Ning Yuhe was naturally unhappy.

But the matter of the relationship between men and women is different from apprenticeship, Xu Buling keeps Zhong Li Jiujiu by his side, and I am afraid that he also has other thoughts.

Ning Yuhe is now Xu Buling's little daughter-in-law, and she really likes Xu Buling, saying bad things to drive other women out, always suspected of being jealous, thinking about it again and again, Ning Yuhe still plans to explore Xu Buling's tone first, so as not to get entangled when the time comes, but she feels that she is troublesome and vexatious.

Originally, these things should have been talked about during the day, but when he heard that something had happened to the Tang family, Ning Yuhe didn't have the heart to think about it, so he hurried to the Tang family, and inquired about the news with the Jianghu people on the road along the way.

When the five of them were halfway through, they heard rumors that Zhu Liu had begun to clear his eyeliner around the Tang family, and he was afraid that he would soon be killed.

Ning Yuhe was anxious in his heart, afraid that Zhu Liuyi would destroy all the men, women and children of the Tang family if he didn't stay, so he could only replace the nightingale's Mobei good horse, and Xu Buling and Manzhi went first, and Zhongli Jiujiu and the nightingale chased behind......

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The rushing water galloped eastward into the sea, the snow covered the mountains, and the shaking of the torches was like a sky full of stars, scattered along the Luan River.

"Ahh

"Where? ……”

Roars and screams came out from time to time, and the children of the Tang family followed the sound, searching for traces of the enemy in the barren mountains and snowy mountains, but after finding the place, there was only a dead corpse with a sword sealing the throat, and there were no footprints left on the snow, and I didn't know how many people came.

The Luanhe River makes a big sharp bend on the west side of Chengde County, and the vast area in the center of the bend is surrounded by water on three sides, showing the trend of dragons and tigers, and is called 'Crane Nest Beach' by the local people. Now ranked as the "first of the four great sword families" and "one of the top ten martial arts leaders in the world", the Tang family in Youzhou is rooted here, so it is also called the Tang family sword village.

In previous years, the rivers and lakes were very chaotic, and it was very common for the forces to disagree and fight back and forth, before the Tang family in Youzhou did not make a fortune, it could only be regarded as a medium force, in case the enemy directly took people to make dumplings, so they chose to settle down in this dangerous place, the entrance of the sword village, and also built a high-walled arrow tower, like a solid castle.

However, these defense facilities may be of some use to deal with peasant uprisings, and when they meet real masters of the rivers and lakes, it is equivalent to a higher wall, and they can't stop anything at all.

The scale of Tangjiazhuang is very large, there is a small town outside the high wall, because it is valued by the imperial court, and it has been walking around all the year round, and the Tang family has also attracted a lot of friends from the rivers and lakes.

However, most of the people in the rivers and lakes who can communicate with the Tang family are not righteous people, knowing that it was the Sword Saint Zhu Liu who killed him, no minions in the rivers and lakes dared to run out to block the way, and most of them were acting in the wine shop inn.

And there are even more Jianghu guests who look down on the Tang family, and after hearing the news, they rushed to the outside of the Tang family's sword village, although they didn't dare to do anything to the court and the Tang family, it was still okay to watch the play.

Such a scene of 'one party is in trouble, and all directions are watching' is also unique in the rivers and lakes, which shows how bad the Tang family's reputation in the rivers and lakes is.

Of course, the Tang family did not expect to rely on the miscellaneous fish in the rivers and lakes to survive this crisis. Since he took refuge in the imperial court and was retaliated against by the thieves, even if he didn't have to ask for it, the imperial court would help; Otherwise, the family that took refuge in the imperial court was destroyed by the thieves of the rivers and lakes, and the imperial court didn't care, who else was willing to serve the imperial court.

At this time, in the huge Tang Family Sword Village, the lights were bright, and all the children of the Tang family, both young and old, hung swords from their waists, and they were strictly guarded everywhere in the manor.

At the entrance of Jianzhuang, there is a small square behind the high wall, and at the end of the square also learns from the Cao family of Junshan, and sets up a piece of dragon wall, and there is a martial arts platform under it, which is considered to be a place for the people of the rivers and lakes to compete in martial arts.

It's just that a ranger who walks the rivers and lakes can fight in places such as Lujia Baiqi Cliff and Caojia Panlongtai, which is a good thing to be famous all over the world, and if he becomes famous at the door of Tang's house, he will inevitably be scolded as a lackey of the court, so this place has not been used since it was built.

At the back of the square, in the reception hall of the Tang family, a dinner party is being held.

The maids walked through it, and there were also singers and dancers playing music, but the atmosphere in the hall was obviously not lively.

Contemporary Wukui Tang Jiao, dressed in a gorgeous jade crown, with a sword in his hand, sat upright on the main seat, his eyes kept staring at the dragon shadow wall outside the gate, and his thoughts were silent in the memories of the past.

Before succeeding to the head of the family, Tang Jiao was actually the same as Zhu Liu and Lu Baiming, he was a young man on the rivers and lakes, advocating the word 'chivalrous', always paying attention to the family rules and family style, and like the ancestors of previous dynasties, he accumulated prestige little by little, and what he wanted was nothing more than to go to the next level in the rivers and lakes.

But talent is set by God, and God is not so fair and just.

Tang Jiao is the most talented of the Tang family's peers, strong in his early twenties, and he rarely meets opponents in the rivers and lakes. A thousand books

But when a road goes to the top, the scenery you see is always desperate, just like the top of the imperial examination, millions of people are selected for the top three, the higher you go, the more dense the geniuses you encounter, some people can be so good that after you see it, you feel that you are no different from the monkey in the tree, and the gap is so big that people can't even afford to talk about the high and low.

Tang Jiao is like this, he has already reached the top of the martial arts at a young age, but he can compete on the same stage, but it is the pride of the new and old generations, Situ Yue Ash, Zhu Choushan, Chen Daozi, Lu Baiming, ......, these names are like a respected mountain standing in front of him, so high that he just glanced at it, and knew that he could not catch up with the footsteps in this life, and he could not become the focus of the world's martial artists like them.

But people live for a lifetime, and they always have to fight.

As Hua Jingting, the chief housekeeper of the Xiao family in Huainan, commented, it is difficult for Tang Jiao to practice martial arts to enter the ranks of martial arts, but he is very talented in mixed officialdom.

Tang Jiao was very keenly aware of the situation in the court, and when Song Ji had not yet ascended the throne, he guessed that the first emperor passed on the throne to the martial Song Ji, and he also heard that Song Ji did not like the Jianghu people who were 'chivalrous and forbidden', so he began to walk around in the dark early and contacted the imperial court.

As Tang Jiao expected, after Song Ji ascended the throne, the first thing was to eliminate the people who did not obey the control, Tang Jiao took this opportunity to be courteous and assisted the imperial court to remove all the obstacles in Youzhou, and became the top of the list now, bringing the entire family to unprecedented heights.

Tang Jiao thinks that he has done nothing wrong, serving the court and purging the rebels is a fair and honest thing, and there is nothing wrong with putting it in the history books.

Since he has done these things, Tang Jiao knows that sooner or later he will be found to come to the door, although the rivers and lakes have betrayed his relatives, but at least his current backer is much bigger than the rivers and lakes, just a Zhu Liu, what can he do when he comes?

In the hall, the mood of the others was similar to Tang Jiao's, and they had no fear.

Tang Jiu'er and Tang Qi, two brothers, were very familiar with each other and chatted politely with several seniors present.

The yin boy who surrounded and suppressed the Zhu family together sat on the right side of the banquet, alongside Song Ying.

Compared with Song Ying's black-clothed saber and Qiyu Xuanang, Yin Tong looks a little deformed, a dwarf who is only five feet tall, but not as immature as a child, his skin is full of wrinkles, he seems to be a horse monkey with a body of hair, wearing loose clothes, just looking at the appearance is a little infiltrating.

However, everyone present did not show disdain because of the ugly appearance of Yin Tong, who was known for being weird and difficult to prevent, and his skills could not be ignored. Back then, the old sword saint Zhu Chou Mountain locked the dragon Gu, which was the handiwork of Yin Tong, except for him, no one walked within ten steps of Zhu Chou Mountain, and he could come out alive.

The assassination of Ning Yu and the Tang family's plan was actually a person brought by Yin Tong, but the Tang family didn't know about it. The Cui Tang family now has a good relationship on the surface, but the Cui family is not easy to shirk, so they asked Yin Tong to come over to help support the scene.

Yin Tong works for the Cui family, one of the five major valves, and he looks down on the Tang family in his heart, so he is still a little dissatisfied at this time, and looks at Song Ying next to him:

"Lord Song is here, and let the old man come over to do something, no matter how powerful a Zhu Liu is, can he still be one step higher than you? The reputation of the Junshan Cao family back then was no less than that of the Zhu family......"

Song Ying is the eldest son of the Cao family, and the number of paths he took is actually exactly the same as Tang Jiao, but the Cao family directly retired from the rivers and lakes, and Song Ying changed his surname again, so that the Cao family did not let everyone shout at the Tang family.

Although Song Ying is not a chivalrous gentleman, unlike Tang Jiao, he really followed the path of officialdom and became one of Song Ji's henchmen, who can mobilize the wolf guard and secret spy of the anti-investigation department, and his status is much higher than Tang Jiao's.

Hearing Yin Tong's somewhat mocking words, Song Ying's expression did not change, and said flatly:

"Yin is old, he may not have gone out for too long, he doesn't know the sinister nature of the rivers and lakes now, and it's good to come out and see the world."

Yin Tongpi laughed twice, took the wine glass and drank it all, and did not answer again.

After all, everyone is not a Jianghu person, and they have to follow the path of officialdom, and the matter of killing people and venting their anger if they don't agree with each other will not work in the court.

The banquet was carried out in an orderly manner, and the town outside was also brightly lit, and from time to time the disciples of the Tang family ran back to report that so-and-so had been killed, but the other party's manpower and location were not missing. However, judging from the position of the unplugged eyeliner, the distance is getting closer and closer.

Finally, in the early hours of the morning, when the children of the Tang family outside were drowsy, outside the high wall of the Tang family's sword village, the noise of the crowd suddenly sounded, and the children of the Tang family, who were standing on the watchtower, ran in and said urgently:

"Head of the family, I wish the sixth is here......"

Tang Jiao's face sank slightly, picked up the long sword beside him, and said coldly:

"How many people came?"

"One!"

"One?"

Tang Jiao was stunned for a moment, looked around at the many masters in the hall, and was slightly puzzled:

"Can he die alone?"

The disciple was speechless.

Song Ying learned from the intelligence that the master of the Eagle Tower had come out of Youzhou, and Li Hansheng was among them, so it was impossible for only one person to come, so he raised his hand and said:

"Master Tang, you go out to take a look, there will be an ambush around, I will show up later."

Tang Jiao was named Wukui, and he was knocked on the door, so it was impossible to hide behind Song Ying, so he didn't say much at the moment, flicked his sleeves, and strode out of the hall......