Xu Hecheng realized that he was a little out of shape, and he pretended to be dissatisfied: "This wine is too light, isn't it mixed with water?" ”

The shopkeeper was anxious when he heard this, and called out: "Master, this is the best rice wine in the south, this is the taste, the shop has been open since the Yongle period, and it will never do shoddy things!" ”

"Who likes to drink sour water from the south, and has stronger wine? Grab it! ”

The shopkeeper secretly scolded this gang of rough embryos for not knowing good goods, but he only had Ying Cheng on his lips, and he turned around to get wine, and as soon as he turned around, Xu Hecheng said to a guard: "You take two people down, take the man who painted gossip patterns on the wall for me, and bring him here!" ”

The guard didn't say much, wiped his mouth, ordered two companions, and went downstairs. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Xu Hecheng turned his head to look out the window, only to see that the man who was painting on the wall had been surrounded by his subordinates and was talking something.

"Guest, the wine you asked for is here!"

Xu Hecheng turned his head and saw a copper kettle on the tray in the second-hand shop just now, looking at him with a smile. He took out a silver ingot from his bosom and threw it on the tray: "It's very noisy here, can you find me a secluded place to eat and drink?" ”

"Well said, well said!" The shopkeeper's eyes were immediately attracted by the silver ingot, and he could barely take his eyes off it: "There is a private room in the corner over there, which is the most secluded, sir, come with me!" ”

"Hmm!" Xu Hecheng stood up, took two steps and said to the little er: "I have two subordinates who have just gone downstairs for some business, and you will lead them to the private room when you come back!" ”

"Don't worry, the guest officer, it's wrapped up in the villain!"

Xu Hecheng entered the private room, which was separated from the hall on the second floor by two aisles, and it was really a lot more secluded. Xu Hecheng nodded, and said to the little er: "This place is good, we will talk about some business matters later, if you are not called, you will not come in!" ”

"Yes!" The little second answered, gently retreated, and closed the door. After a while, the guard took the man who was painting on the wall by the side of the road into the private room, bowed to Xu Hecheng and said, "Master, I brought the people!" ”

Xu Hecheng nodded, and the guard withdrew from the door to guard, and the man looked at Xu Hecheng with a frightened expression: "You, who are you, why did you arrest me here?" ”

Xu Hecheng smiled slightly: "I have no ill will towards you, as long as you answer me a question, I will let you go!" ”

"What's the problem?"

"Who asked you to draw that pattern on the side of the road?"

When the man heard Xu Hecheng ask this question, there was an immediate subtle change in his face, as if he was at ease, and he smiled at Xu Hecheng: "This question can't be answered in vain!" ”

"Oh? So how do you answer? ”

"One thousand taels!" The man stretched out a finger: "Unless I give me a thousand taels of Songjiang Pingku silver, I won't say a word!" ”

Hearing that the man asked for silver, Xu Hecheng's face showed a smile, and he nodded: "You want silver, but you still have to take me to see him!" ”

The man saw that Xu Hecheng agreed to his asking price so easily, and his greedy nature on weekdays flinched up again: "This thousand taels is to answer the question, if you want me to wait for you to see him, you will need another thousand taels, and it will not work if you are less than one tael!" ”

"Bold!" The guard beside Xu Hecheng was furious, and was about to step forward to teach this guy a lesson, but was stopped by Xu Hecheng: "Wait, you want two thousand taels of silver, I can give it to you, but you have to bring the road to it, otherwise don't say it's silver, you can't even save your life!" ”

The man was immediately frightened by the power contained in Xu Hecheng's voice, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and nodded with difficulty. Seeing this, Xu Hecheng showed a gentle smile on his face: "Okay, you can set off now." ”

After half a meal, Xu Hecheng and his party were already standing at the door of a dilapidated mansion, he looked at the courtyard a little nervously, and asked, "Here?" ”

"Yes, that guy is in the house!" The man nodded nervously, Xu Hecheng glanced at the leader of the guards, and the seven or eight guards accompanying him immediately rushed into the courtyard, blocking the water around the house, and the cold light in his hands overflowed. The man already had some regrets about being involved in this matter at this time, he had been in the market for more than 20 years, and he could feel the breath of the superior who killed and killed him from Xu Hecheng's body, and he didn't say silver, but he was afraid that even his life might not be saved, so he moved back carefully, looking for a way to escape.

"What's the hurry, I didn't give you any money!" Xu Hecheng seemed to have a pair of eyes in the back of his head, and his right hand was on the man's shoulder.

The man was held by Xu Hecheng, half of his body was paralyzed, and he was already frightened, and hurriedly begged: "I don't want the silver, the master spares his life!" Xu Hecheng didn't speak, he pushed hard, and the man slammed into the door like a cloud, only to hear a click, and then knocked the door open, fell and broke the blood, and then there was a cold cry in the house: "Who is outside!" ”

Hearing the familiar voice, Xu Hecheng couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart, and he was speechless for a while. The man in the room didn't hear the answer, and his voice suddenly became sad: "Which family's three old and four young, why don't you speak!" ”

Xu Hecheng took a deep breath, controlled his emotions, walked into the house, and said with a smile: "It's me, you and my brother haven't seen each other for many years, don't come unharmed?" ”

Seeing that the person who came in was Xu Hecheng, Xu Wancheng's face was first frightened, then desperate, and soon regained his calm: "It turned out to be you, big brother, when did you do something for the imperial court, I mean, why did Beizhen Fusi come to the door so quickly this time, it turned out that you were making trouble in the middle!" In the end, there was still a hint of resentment in his voice.

Xu Hecheng smiled slightly, and did not explain, he tapped his palm, took out a special piece of parchment from the leather bag presented by the guard, wrote a few lines on it with a rather strange quill, and took out a seal from his waist and stamped it. He beckoned to the man: "Come here!" ”

The man had already been thrown into a lot of meat and vinegar, but he still didn't dare to disobey Xu Hecheng's order, he cowered and walked in front of Xu Hecheng, Xu Hecheng handed the parchment to the man, and said with a smile: "Good job, you take this to the Hongyang number next to Chongwu Gate, and you can get two thousand taels of silver if you take this." ”

The man held the parchment, and he was stupid for a while, and in just half a meal, he went from ecstasy to despair, and from despair to ecstasy, and his mood changed so violently that the whole person stood there and froze for a while.

"So this guy brought you in!" Xu Wanqian sneered: "I originally wanted him to attract the members of this sect to help me get out of trouble, but I didn't want to attract you!" ”

"Huh!" Xu Hecheng smiled: "Little brother, look at what you said, if it weren't for my brother, I wouldn't be a member of this sect?" ”

"Not bad, not bad!" Xu Wanqian suddenly laughed: "You are indeed a member of this sect, but you are not only a member of this sect, but you were also the leader of this sect!" Speaking of this, his face suddenly turned cold: "Are you here to kill me today?" ”

Xu Hecheng smiled, but did not answer Xu Wancheng's question: "Bewitch the four princes of Jiangnan, the son of the imperial history of Zuodu, and assassinate the second assistant of the dynasty." He can also escape from the round-up of hundreds of people in Beizhen Fusi, run several miles along the sewers, and escape. I've also looked at the sewer carefully, I really don't know how you got here, and the brother can only say the word 'service'! ”

"So what, it's not that you can't escape the eyes of your big brother!" Xu Wancheng sneered, suddenly tore open his shirt, revealing his hairy chest, and patted his heart: "For the sake of a milk compatriot, give me a good time!" ”

Seeing Xu Wancheng lying on the ground, Xu Hecheng didn't know how many times he had imagined the scene of revenge in his mind over the years, but when he saw the enemy lying in front of him, he could take revenge with a knife in his hand, and he felt a little empty in his heart for a while, and he didn't know how to get better. Xu Wancheng, who was lying on the ground, saw Xu Hecheng standing there in a daze, looking like he didn't belong, and sneered: "What's the matter, big brother, don't tell me that I can't do it because of brotherhood, right?" ”

"Humph!" Awakened by Xu Wancheng's voice, Xu Hecheng remembered the past when he was betrayed by his younger brother, seized his inheritance, and forced himself to leave the country, and his face showed a fierce color: "Since that incident thirteen years ago, I, Xu Hecheng, have long broken off with you, and there is no brother like you!" ”

"Then why don't you start, don't you still want to open a fragrant hall, invite fellow people from the rivers and lakes, and cut me three times and six holes in front of my lifeless mother, and I can't be cut with a thousand knives?" Speaking of this, Xu Wanyan's face showed a mocking look.

Xu Hecheng was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that the other party was laughing at him, it turned out that although he spent his main energy on fists, feet, guns and sticks and making friends with fellow people when he was young, he also knew that he wanted to inherit his father's position as the master of the Hongyang religion, so he also spent a lot of effort on the scriptures in the sect, but Xu Wancheng, who was younger, didn't bother to look at these things at all, and even the "Maitreya Sutra" and "The Sutra of the Birth of the Great and Small Ming Kings", which were memorized by ordinary sectists, were too lazy to look at them. spent all day drinking with the children of those official eunuchs, for which Xu Wanren was not less reprimanded and scolded by his father, but he didn't expect that after his father's death, he relied on his relationship with the government to expel everyone as a young and promising brother, and he seized the inheritance left by his father. If Xu Hecheng heard the other party say this a few years ago, he would definitely be furious, but after experiencing these things, his knowledge and temperament have already changed greatly, and he is no longer the same as before.

"No, those things are just used to fool the village women and fools, and I naturally won't use them on you!"

"Oh! Unexpectedly, my brother has grown a lot over the years! ”

Xu Hecheng ignored the ridicule in Xu Wancheng's words, and asked directly: "I'll just ask you a question, why did you do such a thing in the first place?" ”

"Why do you want to do this?" Xu Wanqian sneered: "Brother, it's ridiculous that you asked, let me ask you, why does the baby know how to feed when he is born?" Why do venomous snakes know to inject venom when they bite? How can there be so many whys in the world? If a mediocre person like you was born a few years earlier than me, then the inheritance should belong to you, how can there be such a ridiculous thing in the world? ”

"Mediocrity?" Xu Hecheng was stunned when he heard this: "You say I'm a mediocre person? ”

"Are you still not convinced?" Xu Wanqian sneered: "I know that you have a good martial arts, generosity and righteousness, and everyone praises you as the first good man in Heshuo." But what's the use of that? No matter how good you are at guns, how many people can you deal with? No matter how famous the rivers and lakes are, how many people will break their families? Even if you practice kung fu to the sky, it's just something that can't be put on the table, just one person can take you away with a post of the same year. When I took your place, did your good martial arts work? In this world, power is the most important thing, if it weren't for you to get in the way this time, I would have been able to use Chen Zhenhui's stupid talent to break into the Fu Society, where there are three or five Jinshi who are admitted every year, and there are countless talents, so you can manipulate Shilin Qingyi, even if it is the first assistant of the dynasty, you have to sell me three points of thin noodles, which of the ancestors of the Hongyang Sect can do this? If you took the seat, would you do better than me? ”

After Xu Wancheng said this, he stared at Xu Hecheng's face, he knew that he and his brother had a deep enmity like the sea, and it was difficult to survive in the hands of the other party this time, so he only hoped that he could provoke the other party to be happy one by one, so as not to suffer those bits and pieces. It's just that Xu Hecheng was not as angry as he thought, but laughed: "What you said is right, compared to you, I was indeed just a mediocre person at the beginning, and no matter how high my martial arts were, I was just a brave man." Coming-" Speaking of this, Xu Hecheng made a gesture: "Tie this guy to me!" ”

"What are you going to do?" Xu Wanqian panicked when he saw this, he took two steps back and touched a hard object on his back, but it was a wall, and there was no way back.

"I was a brave man, but now I'm not. I just want you to see who is more worthy of the position of sect leader now! ”

Datong, Dianding Mountain.

As the sky dawned, a doe walked vigilantly through a forest of trees, and after several sunny days, only a thin layer of snow remained on the ground, and yellow grass was already exposed in many places. It lowers its head, uses its hooves to cut through the snow, and nibbles on the fat grass roots, which it must eat to survive the winter. With every few bites, the vigilant beast raised its head and looked around, and its ears were even more straight and high. In the cold winter, both herbivores and carnivores are in a state of hunger, and danger is everywhere, whether it is man or beast.

Suddenly, the doe raised her head, and she looked warily to the west, her sensitive ears catching some signal, and then she turned around, and with her four long legs, she jumped into the woods, where the familiarity made her feel safer. (To be continued.) )