As soon as Guo Bin and the others packed up, they saw Wang Yue coming back in a hurry.

He sweated profusely and said to Guo Bin: "Qianyang, just now I have told the master the news of your coming, and he is very happy and tells me to take you to the group banquet." ”

Guo Bin said: "Heroic banquet? Is this the banquet that Brother Shicai said? ”

Wang Yue said excitedly: "Exactly! The Central Plains was in turmoil, not only the common people were displaced, but even many people in the rivers and lakes were implicated in the Taiping Road. Therefore, many good men on the rivers and lakes couldn't stay in the Central Plains anymore, so they went all the way south, and there were many people who came to join their teachers! ”

Guo Bin nodded and said: "The old man is a famous martial arts master, and his reputation in the rivers and lakes is more and more Taishan, since he came to Lingnan, how can he not visit his old man's house?" ”

Wang Yue smiled reservedly and said, "It's almost noon, if Qianyang is cleaned up, how about we go to the banquet?" The tutor is not feeling well, it is not convenient to move around, and he has to move to the sun. ”

Guo Bin said: "Brother Wang is polite, the seniors are very famous, and they are the old-timers in the rivers and lakes. ”

So, under the guidance of Wang Yue, everyone went out of the courtyard and went to the depths of this scholar's mansion. Everyone walked all the way, but they saw that the courtyard was deep and the cloisters were everywhere, and the further they went, the denser the buildings became. This tall and dense complex of ancient buildings makes full use of the space above ground and in the air, one next to the other, often two houses in close proximity, and the flying eaves seem to touch each other, but they are staggered at very tricky angles. The ingenuity of the design and the precision of the measurements of this complex are truly breathtaking.

Guo Bin knows that this is a difficult job that requires a lot of skill from designers and architects, and it is necessary to consider the distance between the two buildings, their size, height, and even how they are placed between other buildings, the purpose of the building, the status of the user, and other factors. In technical terms, it's called "intrigue". Guo Bin had the honor to visit the Confucian Mansion and Confucius Temple in Qufu, Shandong Province in his previous life, which used a large number of this kind of intrigue design method, at that time he did not see anything unusual, or in the "rubbing tour guide" when he heard the tour guide hired by others to explain, Fang has so much knowledge, otherwise he just watched the excitement.

The more you go inside, you can see all kinds of precious flowers and trees that are rare in the Central Plains and rockery stones are placed in a very appropriate place, which is very luxurious and rich, but it is very elegant and elegant, and there is no trace of tackyness. This arrangement, this furnishings, everywhere reveals the designer's good intentions, but also everywhere shows the designer's extraordinary taste and cultivation.

Everyone walked for about a cup of tea, and finally stopped outside a courtyard wall, only to hear the sound of flowing water inside, and the faint sound of people's shouts and shouts.

Just as he was surprised, he saw Wang Yue bow his head and take the first step, leading them through the courtyard gate, and walking along a corridor with thick vines on one side. Everyone suddenly felt a burst of coolness, on the right hand side was a dense verdant vine-like plant, and on the left hand side was a lake with a large area. The lake is full of lotus flowers, and you can only see the fat and huge koi swimming in the dense gaps of lotus leaves like umbrella covers, which adds a lot of life to this garden.

Walking in the corridor, the eyes full of greenery and a pool of lake water seem to absorb the summer heat of this Lingnan summer, the lake occasionally blows a gust of wind, in addition to the lotus leaves in the lake can't help swaying the body, but also makes people feel a rare coolness in this Lingnan summer.

Wang Yue walked all the way, and introduced all the way, and it turned out that the lake water was actually brought in by living water. In order to prevent the koi in the lake from escaping, the designers placed a thumb-sized device at the inlet and outlet. The device is simple, like a fishing net, except that it is not made of coarse linen like ordinary fishing nets, but pottery made of clay. Just like the hollow bricks with round holes used to build houses in later generations, it was made into a device that can be used for a long time.

The device was placed after the river had swayed a long distance into the Shifu, so that the water gate could be placed as usual to prevent anyone from sneaking into the Shifu along the waterway.

When the living water is introduced into the Shifu Garden, the power of the flowing water will automatically urge the waterwheel immersed below the surface of the water to rotate, sending the water source to a rather high rockery, and then slowly flowing down from the artificial terrain at the rockery.

As they walked along the cloister built on the surface of the lake, the voices of the people who had become more and more clear since they entered the garden grew louder and louder. Finally, after passing through a dense man-made jungle composed of low shrubs with Lingnan characteristics and tall banana and coconut trees, everyone came to a very wide and bright place.

It was a huge school yard surrounded by dense jungle, the ground was paved with bricks and stones, and there was a circle of weapon racks around it, with swords, guns, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, and all the blades you could think of. If you look at this environment, no matter how noisy the shouts and shouts of martial arts training or competitions here are, the sound will not spread through the layers of trees. It is the south side of the forest, although no grass and trees were planted in order to allow the master of martial arts here to enjoy the beautiful scenery in the lake, but after the sound floats across the wide lake, it will be absorbed by the vine-like plants in the corridor, and it will not affect the rest of the family in Fuchu.

I saw that the school field paved with bricks and stones was filled with several cases layer after layer at this time. And after a few cases, those who knelt or sat were all rough men with different descriptions and different costumes, but they were all full of temperament, and I am afraid that there would be hundreds of people. Although these people tried their best to hide and try to sit upright and elegant, they couldn't hide the reckless aura on their bodies, and the various weapons in their hands also revealed their identities as Jianghu people.

Wang Yue turned his head and said to Guo Bin with a smile: "This is it, this is the hero, most of them are famous knights in the Central Plains, the master and his old man have limited physical strength, and he can't take care of them one by one, so he set up such a banquet here, in order to be able to gather the Central Plains heroes together." In addition, the heroes are all over, and the heroes are gathered, and they are also in order to discuss a big event! ”

Guo Bin asked, "Oh? What's the big deal? ”

Wang Yue said: "Don't hide it from Qianyang, although the master is not in good health now, he still has to work so hard, isn't it for the sake of Lin Yiguo?" ”

Guo Binqi said: "Lin Yiguo? ”

Wang Yuefang wanted to answer, but he stopped the group of Hao from talking. It turned out that everyone had already arrived in the field at this time, and the original heroes saw Wang Yue, the main owner of the Shifu, and they got up and saluted and greeted. Those who have friendships, and even those who have had a one-sided relationship, are proud to greet and reminisce with this great disciple of Tiannan Sword Immortal, who has superb martial arts.

Wang Yue was dressed in a white robe, dusty, carrying a book and a sword, laughing and chatting in the crowd, so he looked like a suave and suave image of the prince of the turbidity world, and only looked at the heroes of the Central Plains with the image of a group of martial artists, full of amazement and admiration. Secretly sighing that the Lingnan scenery is really extraordinary, and only Jiaozhou in the extreme south of the world is here, under the hands of Tiannan Sword Immortal, Fang can be so civil and military, if the daughter is as beautiful and elegant, but also has high martial arts among the dragons and phoenixes.

As for Guo Bin and the others, many of these people don't know each other, looking at him and Dong Xing'er and others following behind Wang Yue, the men are as heroic and elegant, and the women are tactful and lovely, and everyone also said that they are Wang Yue's younger brothers and sisters, so they also bowed to him very politely. And Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong, father and son, are tough and brave, tall and tall, although Huang Xu is young, he is full of sickness. Most of them are considered to be the servants of a few people, but there is no one to deal with them. And even if someone came up to say hello, Guan Zhang and the others just responded with a cold snort, who would be bored with themselves?

Wang Yue greeted everyone and slowly moved towards the chairman. In the past nearly a month, since he returned to Jiaozhou, he has taken over the mission to take care of the Central Plains group of heroes, and he has led the guests of Fuzhong to take care of them, so they are a good person.

Guo Bin followed behind Wang Yue, smiling politely and nodding his head while moving inside with difficulty. At this time, he was not thinking about the Central Plains group in front of him, but he was thinking about what Wang Yue said about Lin Yiguo.

This so-called Linyi State was originally a territory of the Central Plains Dynasty, and it was originally Xianglin County in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the locals revolted under the leadership of the Zheng sisters and established a three-year separatist regime, which was later quelled by Ma Yuan. This incident was also recorded in the later "Book of Jin, Siyi Liebiography, Nanban": "When Linyi was like Lin County in the Han Dynasty, the place where the horse aided the casting pillar was also 3,000 miles to the South China Sea. At the end of the Later Han Dynasty, the county Gongcao surnamed District, there was a son called Lian, and the killing order set himself up as the king. ”

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the son of Gong Cao, a man surnamed District in Xianglin County, killed the county order sent by the imperial court and established himself as the king. This Gong Cao's son, called Ou Lian, was the first king of the Linyi state.

In Jiaozhou, transportation was inconvenient and information was not smooth, and the control of the central court was greatly weakened, and its military deterrent power was all maintained by the miscellaneous soldiers assembled by the county and county commanders appointed by the government. Because it is too far away from the Central Plains, it is often regarded by the Central Plains people as a miasma-ridden and economically backward frontier area, and every time an official is appointed here, he will be considered to be belittled by the imperial court, and the imperial court will often use it as a place to settle officials who have committed mistakes as a punishment. Because, this road is indeed full of miasma, and if you are not careful, you will die on the way to office.

Therefore, the officials of the Central Plains were reluctant to come here, and the military power of the central government could hardly form an effective deterrent. These middle- and lower-level officials and local officials often control the affairs of the county and county, and are an extremely powerful local force. If you can join forces with the local wealthy families, you can easily remove the chief official sent by the central government.

It is such a balance of political and military power, and it is not surprising that in the Lingnan region, such a thing as a county commander who kills a county commander and establishes himself as a king is formed.