After the middle of the Yuan, it is rare to have a leisurely afternoon, the autumn breeze blows through the courtyard, and the leaves are soft.

Facing the courtyard, in the practice room with a wooden floor, Ning Yi was wearing a short fight, and was doing a serious warm-up exercise with his hands on his waist.

On the other side, the watermelon had just returned from outside, took a shower, tied up his hair, wore a loose and comfortable light blue shirt and long skirt, and sat barefoot on a chair on the side of the room.

"When I came over this time, I originally wanted to find the eighth child...... Earlier, Sister Tizi and Boss Du said that he was even more powerful...... It's a pity you sent him on a mission......"

She tucked her right leg into the chair and clasped her hands on her knees, talking casually as she watched her majestic husband punch in a hurry. Ning Yi ignored her chatter.

"Drink! Ha! Drink! Drink! Jumping with agile steps, staggered a few punches, and a series of warm-ups, which were strange in the past, but now watermelon, red grapes and others have also been strange, the great master Ning Liheng stood in the center of the room: "You, get up." ”

"Huh?" Watermelon blinked, stretched out her finger and pointed at herself, and after a few moments got out of her seat, jumped two steps forward, her eyes narrowed into crescents: "Oh." She waved her hands and faced Ning Yi.

"I, and Liu Watermelon, do a fair competition." Martial Arts Grandmaster Ning Liheng raised his right hand and gestured towards the watermelon.

"Uh......" Watermelon blinked, then raised his hand as well, "...... I, the sword Liu Watermelon, and the demon Ning Liheng, have a fair competition. ”

She thought about it, put her hands together, and made a move "White Crane Bright Wings".

Of course, masters rarely make such lame moves as white cranes and bright wings, and the great grandmaster Ning Liheng was insulted.

But he was expressionless and very mature.

"Qian Laoba was sent to Jiangning by me."

"Oh." Watermelon reacted and nodded, "It's for him to bring ......"

At the moment of speaking, the great grandmaster Ning Liheng suddenly rushed with force, and a sweeping leg kicked at the watermelon standing on one leg, the watermelon's body was upside down, the skirt flew in the air, she had already somersaulted to the rear, and the landing was not stable, Ning Yi rushed over in front, like a tiger to fly her out.

The watermelon stepped back, grabbed the placket of the great grandmaster Ning Liheng's clothes with both hands, under the huge momentum, the two of them were pulling and spinning each other, the skirt of the watermelon almost stretched into a lotus, and three turns around, the great grandmaster Ning Liheng rolled out with a grunt, and stood up with his hand pressed on the ground after the two zhangs were opened, his head was a little dizzy, but he immediately adjusted his gaze. Very mature.

"You should take the second sweeper, you shouldn't pounce on me."

She clutched her fists and jumped.

"I'm afraid I'll hurt you." Great Grandmaster Ning Liheng twisted his neck to the sides, "It's really coming down now." ”

"Oh." Watermelon nodded, "...... In this way, it was the eighth child who led the team to Jiangning, and Xiao Hei and Yuwen also went together...... What are you going to do with He Wen? ”

"I have no prejudice against him in the political arena, and it depends on the future development of being a friend or an enemy."

Great Grandmaster Ning Liheng spoke, and made an offensive move, after all, he came out of the grandmaster's pile, and there were no flaws in his whole body when he swung his posture, showing everyone's demeanor. The watermelon posed in the posture of a king eight fists, like a person who sold the first mark.

"It's time to find out his attitude, to be honest, everyone in the army doesn't have a good impression of him, especially when the hero conference is made this time, they all want to beat him."

"I think...... Black Tiger Dig Out the Heart! "The Grand Master was taken by surprise and began to attack.

"Wang Ba on the tree!" The watermelon opened her hands and jumped violently, scaring her opponent back.

"Is there a trick?"

"I can't go up, so I'm jumping." She explained.

“…… You have a lot of truth when you say that. Ning Yi nodded, "I thought you would like He Wen more." After all, he was dividing the field. ”

"Of course I don't hate him conceptually, but I'm a woman. He can't take advantage of it. ”

"—Monkey stealing peaches!"

"I didn't."

In the room, the great grandmaster Ning Liheng rushed forward, and the grandmaster Liu Xigua caught and counterattacked with one palm, and the two of them punched and kicked very fast, crackling together. This time it is no longer the black tiger digging his heart against Wang Bashangshu, but it is already a strict fight. If the ordinary masters on the rivers and lakes are present, they will be shocked to watch, because the martial arts of the two grandmasters are extremely strong, and they are evenly matched for a while, and it is difficult to solve, and it is a rare peak duel.

"He Wen is developing too fast, the conference is held to stabilize his ruling power, and there will be a lot of things going on in it......"

"If I have the chance, I also want to go to Jiangning to have a look, after all, it is your hometown......"

"Forget it this time, one is not good, and you have to beat the dog's brain over there...... Hmph, you're pretty good. ”

"Yuwen brought a gun, I heard that Lao Lin will go...... Assignment and Assignment. ”

"You—you're gasping...... Not only Lao Lin, this time all forces will send people, the martial arts people are just a play on the stage, the stage is very deep, according to the development process of the five groups of people of the Fairness Party, if He Wen can't stabilize it...... Look at the punch! ”

“…… Dodge. ”

"If it can't be stabilized, the army will kill it directly in Jiangning...... It's possible. Monkey steals peach ......"

"I didn't steal it."

"Ssangyong goes to sea!"

"Monkey steals peaches!"

"Black Tiger Digs Out Heart!"

"Murder my husband - don't pull my skirt!"

"How can there be a move called murdering your husband, if you make a mistake, you have to admit defeat......"

"Ah......h

The two of them fought in the center of the hall, and then the watermelon screamed, grabbed his skirt and started running, and there was a "hiss" sound in the room, and after a while, the great grandmaster Ning Liheng forced Liu Watermelon, who was also the great grandmaster, into the corner and fell to the ground.

"You tear things up......" Watermelon punched him.

……

Grand Grandmaster Ning Liheng won this fair competition, he was so tired that he was out of breath, lying on the ground, and the watermelon was lying on the floor, with his hands outstretched, and accepted the education of this failure.

"In two days, it's Xiao Ji's birthday." She sighed softly, "Where did you say he had run away now?" ”

“…… According to that guy's personality that loves to join in the fun, maybe the eighth child will have to meet him in Jiangning. ”

"You should have asked me to go, what should I do if I meet Lao Lin......

"The eighth man has a group of people, they are all good players, and they won't lose when they meet."

"You also said that it may become a battlefield......"

"I've mentioned it to the eighth child, and when I saw the rabbit cub, let him run quickly or simply catch it......"

"I'm still worried about ......"

"If you care, you're messing ...... Even if it is a battlefield, that guy is not without survivability, don't forget that during the time he and Fourth Brother Zheng, he killed many girls and real people. He's better than a rabbit, and he'll run when there's a blow......"

"Battlefield kind of place...... Aren't you worried? ”

Ning Yi also turned over, and the two of them lay side by side, looking at the roof of the room, the sunlight spilling in from outside the door. It was a while before he spoke.

"Boys always have to go out......" he thought for a while, "It's all your fault with Hongti, teach him martial arts......"

"It's not because you tell him all day long that you are a martial arts master, Zhou Tong worships you, and Lu Tuo is beaten to death by you with a palm......"

"That's all true. I still blame you ......"

The husband and wife shirked their responsibilities, raised each other's bars, and after a while, they waved their hands and hit each other, watermelon laughed, turned over and climbed onto Ning Yi. Ning Yi frowned: "What are you doing......

"One more time."

“…… Did I win or did you win. Ning Yi sighed, "You don't talk about martial arts." ”

"If you win, it's all my fault with Sister Tizi and me......"

The autumn breeze swept through the courtyard, the leaves rustled, and their subsequent voices turned into small grunts, melted into the warm autumn breeze.

……

On the same autumn day, more than 2,000 miles away from Chengdu, the teenager who was cared about by the couple was traveling to Tongshan County on Jinghu North Road with a group of fellow travelers.

It has been more than two months since he came out of Chengdu, and he is still accompanied by several Confucian students led by the "promising" Lu Wenke, the "respect for the gods" Fan Heng, and the "cold-faced" Chen Junsheng, as well as Wang Jiang and Wang Xiuniang, father and daughter, who have been walking with them because of Lu Wenke's relationship.

In troubled times, it is not easy to travel, and it is precisely because of this that it is extremely precious to be able to find a few reliable friends to accompany you all the way. Lu Wenke and others also cherish each other's fate, so that everyone walked together for two or three thousand miles, watching the scenery of various places along the way, observing folk customs, and after more than two months, they became more and more familiar with each other, and almost accumulated family-like feelings.

This is not the same as Ning Ji's fantasy of the outside world when he set out, but even in such troubled times, it seems that there is always a relatively safe way forward. They had heard of the mountain bandits along the way, and they had also seen relatively difficult officials, and even during the period of traveling along the south bank of the Yangtze River, they had also seen the sails of the warships that set off for Jiangbei from afar—the north seemed to be at war—but the great disaster did not appear in front of them, so that Ning Ji's dream of being a hero of the rivers and lakes was a little relaxed for a while.

Before arriving at Tongshan, the first thing to pass through was Jinghu North Road, and the group traveled to the relatively prosperous Jiayu, Ezhou, Chibi and other places. This piece of land has always belonged to the land of the four wars, the Jurchens suffered a military disaster when they came, and later were pocketed by Liu Guangshi, after gathering the strength of the gentry from all over the country and getting the "support" of the Huaxia army, the prosperity of the city was restored. Now there is already a war in Jiangbei, but the atmosphere on the south bank of the Yangtze River is only slightly solemn.

Lu Wenke and other scholars have the desire to govern the world, and everywhere they go, in addition to visiting scenic spots, they will also personally visit the places where they have encountered war before, look at the ruins burned by the golden soldiers, and strengthen their ambitions.

After passing Jinghu North Road and arriving at Tongshan County, this is already the junction of Jinghu North Road to Jiangnan West Road. The county seat of Tongshan County is not big, because it has also suffered from military disasters, the city wall is still damaged at this time, but there are famous places such as Jiugong Mountain outside the county seat, when the Jurchens swept in two years earlier, the local army did not resist much, and most of the people went into the mountains to hide, except for the county seat was burned, the personnel did not have too many casualties, but this year Liu Guangshi was going to fight, and he caught a lot of strong men here, and the streets and alleys were quite painful.

From Tongshan to the south, enter Jiangnan West Road, and walk another three or four hundred miles to arrive at Lu Wenke's hometown of Hongzhou. He talked all the way about going back to Hongzhou to give full play to what he had seen and learned in the southwest, but when he got here, he was not in a hurry to go home immediately. The group visited Jiugong Mountain for two days, and saw the place where Jin Bing set fire that day in Tongshan County, and this afternoon, set up a hot pot in the courtyard under the inn. Everyone set up the venue, prepared the ingredients, and recited poems, which was very happy.

This inn is a newly renovated door, but it has also suffered disasters during the war. A large locust tree in the backyard was burned by the fire, half withered and half honored. It was golden autumn, and the leaves on the half of the big tree in the courtyard began to turn yellow, and the scene was magnificent and meaningful, Fan Heng shook his head and said that this tree was just like the status quo of the Wu Dynasty, and he chanted two poems.

Lu Wenke and others are also talking about the current situation of their family and country, and Chen Junsheng occasionally interjects, still in the sharp style of the past sentence. In the courtyard, several subordinates set up a shed to block the fallen leaves, and Wang Jiang bought a large number of ingredients from outside and was preparing them with his daughter Wang Xiuniang.

Ning Ji sat among the scholars chatting and listened to their nonsense, and his eyes kept looking at Wang Xiuniang who was cutting meat over there. Today, in order to prepare this hot pot, everyone invested heavily and bought two large slices of meat, which were cut into thin slices under Wang Xiuniang's knife at this time. After Wang Xiuniang cut half of it, she came over to greet everyone with a smile, and stretched out her greasy fingers to pinch Ning Ji's cheek.

"Xiaolong, Xiaolong, always looking at me, don't you like my sister?"

Ning Ji didn't have the same knowledge as her, and Lu Wenke on the side accosted: "I think he likes those meats." ”

Everyone has been together for more than two months, and there is finally a consensus on the things that would rather avoid eating a lot and being greedy. Seeing Lu Wenke speak, Wang Xiuniang smiled gently: "Then I'll eat more later." I don't know if she's talking about Lu Wenke or Ning Ji.

After walking together along the way, Lu Wenke and Wang Xiuniang finally had some warm development - in fact, Lu Wenke is the age of romance, and there are some family backgrounds in Hongzhou, although Wang Xiuniang is young and fit, but he is not worthy of him in terms of identity, but people can be ruthless, and the two sides have been walking together for more than two months, and a wisp of subtle feelings has naturally been established.

Although Lu Wenke can't marry her, it doesn't hurt to take her as a concubine, and for women like Wang Xiuniang, as long as Lu Wenke is reliable, this can be regarded as a good destination.

Before nightfall, everyone was playing and eating some snacks. When talking about the local situation in Tongshan, Fan Heng, a middle-aged Confucian who likes to talk about teaching Ning Ji knowledge, said: "When I came back from outside yesterday, Xiaolong still remembers the Li Jiawu Fort he saw on the road? ”

"yes, I remember." Ning Ji nodded.

"I inquired with people this morning, and the biggest local wealthy family and the most powerful master of the rivers and lakes came out of the Li family's Wu Fort."

After more than two months of companionship, the secret of Ningji's greed has been exposed, and as a young man, he is keen on martial arts, so he did not deliberately hide it. Although Fan Heng and the others are scholars, they regard Ning Ji as a nephew worthy of cultivation, and the background of the Jiangning Heroes Conference is in the millennium, so they also inquire about various local green forest anecdotes everywhere.

At this time, he laughed with everyone: "It is said that the background of this local master is not easy to say, his father is a member of the Great Light Sect. Originally, he was one of the protectors of the Great Light Sect, and he used to have a nickname called 'Monkey King', and his name was Li Ruoque. Don't listen to this name funny, but the kung fu in your hands is amazing, I heard that there are big monkey boxing, small monkey boxing......"

"White Ape Arms." Ning Ji said.

"That's right, there's also the White Ape Arm Fist." Fan Heng said, "This Li Ruoque has been famous for almost 20 years, but the family business back then was not big, after all, before Jingping, the world was heavy on literature and light on martial arts. The Li family also had a great enmity with the heart demon in the southwest, that is, before the heart demon killed the king, many masters of the Great Light Sect entered Beijing, and the 'Monkey King' Li Ruoque was one of the generals under Lin Zongwu who 'wore Lin Bei's legs', and later died under the sweep of the iron cavalry of the Huaxia Army, it seems that the monkey can't outrun the horse after all......"

Fan Heng is a scholar, and he doesn't have much respect for martial artists, so he was silent at this time, and smiled: "After Li Ruoque died, the person who inherited the family business was called Li Yanfeng, this person's ability, Yu Sheng is the father, after Li Ruoque's death, not only quickly became famous, but also expanded the family business several times, and then went to the Jurchen soldiers to go south." In such troubled times, it was the green forest people who took advantage, he quickly organized the local villagers to enter the mountain, and after coming out of the mountain, the largest household in the mountain, hehe, became the Li family. ”

"Today's Li Yanfeng is a popular man in front of General Liu Guangshi Liu, who built Wu Fort, organized the township bravery, and took the road...... See that, right? It is imitated by the Miao Jiang Badao of the past. Hearing about this war in the north, he sent out the Li family's children to listen to the announcement in front of General Liu's tent, and the Jiangning Heroes Conference was Li Yanfeng's deputy in the past...... Xiaolong, if you go to Jiangning, maybe you can meet him. ”

He told what he had found and talked about it eloquently, and Chen Junsheng on the side thought for a while: "This time, I heard that Sect Master Lin is also going to Jiangning, and there must be something in the middle." ”

Lu Wenke nodded and said: "In the past ten years, it is said that the leader of the Great Light Sect has been organizing anti-Jin in the north, and the teaching affairs in the south are indeed a little scattered. In this world, the major forces in the world are going to join a group of people, and it seems that this Jiangning conference is indeed a battle between dragons and tigers. ”

"It's not a good thing that the situation is chaotic, Xiaolong is at this age, so don't go to join in the fun." Some people are worried about Ning Ji.

Fan Heng nodded.

Lu Wenke said: "Why don't you take a look first, when you get to Hongzhou in a while, I will ask the elders in the family to do more inquiries and ask about the cats in the Jiangning Conference." If it is really dangerous, Xiaolong may as well stay in Hongzhou for a while. If you want to go to your hometown, you don't have to rush at this time. ”

Ning Ji didn't plan to explain to him, so he reached out and scratched his cheek: "Let's talk about it." ”

Chen Junsheng smiled over there and said to Lu Wenke: "You should say, the fat is enough." ”

"Enough, then it must be enough."

Everyone laughed together, and Ning Ji also laughed. He likes this kind of atmosphere, but the people in front of him naturally don't know that going to Jiangning is not a few pieces of fat that can shake him.

In the midst of laughter, the sunset sprinkled a golden afterglow in the backyard of the inn, and there were trees swaying and leaves falling above the courtyard.

The next day was July 19 of this year, and it was also a day for everyone to take a break for a while, several scholars got up a little later, and in the morning, Wang Jiang and Wang Xiuniang, father and daughter, took advantage of some time to go to the streets of the county to perform and earn some entanglement - the relationship between Wang Xiuniang and Lu Wenke was undecided, and they have always been so self-reliant, and Lu Wenke did not stop it.

Everyone discussed in the inn whether to go out to play in the afternoon, according to the innkeeper, the Li family Wubao is not closed, quite martial spirit. Nowadays, although many people have been dispatched to cross the river to fight, there are still people practicing martial arts in the fort, and occasionally there are Jianghu people or passers-by who come there, and they will also be allowed to visit and even fight, and it is always okay to go and have a look.

It was noon, and when it was time to eat, the street outside seemed quiet. Suddenly, someone rushed into the inn with blood all over his body, shouting, "Help! ”

The group was sitting in the hall of the inn playing cards, and when they saw such a scene, Ning Ji flew by, held him up, and quickly identified the injury. And Wang Jiang was still running in the direction of several scholars: "Help! Help me...... Save the show's ......"

While speaking, several people who looked like officials also rushed into the inn, and one shouted: "The gangster is murderous, run away, take him!" ”

Someone had already waved his chains and pointed to Lu Wenke and the others who were standing up in the lobby: "No one is allowed to move!" Whoever moves will be guilty of the same crime as the gangsters! ”

(End of chapter)