6. Visitors from the Northern Dynasty - Adding more to the Kowan brothers [17/25]
"Big brother has been going for a long time."
On the renovated Luoyang wharf, Xiao Tie saw Shen Qiu and Yaoqin walking down from the boat, so he stepped forward and bowed to his eldest brother and sister-in-law, and then said:
"Since I left Luoyang in early August, it's all in September, and I have to come back. But was there a delay on the way? ”
"I can't do it."
Shen Qiu carried the knife box on his back, supported his wife, and said to Xiao Tie:
"In the Central Plains, Huainan is in chaos, and I don't have to do it, but Yaoqin doesn't practice martial arts, so he can only take the line of Xiaoxiang Jiangxi.
In the second half of this year, the two of us had to hurry up, otherwise it would be another week before we came back. ”
"That big brother and sister-in-law have worked hard all the way."
Xiao Tie smiled, waved his hand to summon the big carriage driven by Heluo Gang Boxer, invited his sister-in-law to sit in the car, and sat on the wheel with Shen Qiu.
"Captain Li, martial arts are progressing well."
Shen Qiu leaned on the side of the carriage and glanced at the silent Li Baoguo, this Tiance young general has not been seen for a month, and his body has become sharper and sharper, and it is really like a straight gun.
This is obviously a successful martial arts practice.
However, Li Baoguo's spear skills have been perfected, so if you think about it carefully, it should be the internal strength of cultivation.
"There is indeed a breakthrough in internal strength, but it is far from Shen Daxia."
Li Baoguo pulled the reins of the horse and snorted.
Since the first battle of Luoyang, Shen Qiu has become famous all over the world, and now everywhere he goes, he must be honored as a hero of Heluo, Li Baoguo has fought with Shen Qiu, and naturally appreciates Shen Qiu's bravery.
This heroic voice is convincing.
"You're being polite."
Shen Qiu smiled, and he replied:
"Yaoqin and I have heard the news of Hu Yan's attack on Tianshui in the Western Regions on the way, did your two elder brothers of the Tiance Army tell you more inside stories? Guanzhong, can you still hold it? ”
"The eldest brother sent a letter, and the second brother also sent a messenger yesterday."
Li Baoguo is now the captain of the Luoyang Tiance Army, and he naturally has a share of the intelligence exchange in the army.
Hearing Shen Qiu's inquiry, he didn't hide it, and his young face showed a trace of sadness, and said to Shen Qiu:
"The eldest brother is stationed in the Dasan Pass, facing Hu Yan knocking on the pass, but it is as stable as Mount Tai, the Dasan Pass is the world's male pass, and there are 30,000 elite soldiers to defend, even if the Western Regions Hu Yan comes to the nest, it is absolutely impossible to break through the pass.
It's just that the second brother has some trouble. ”
Li Baoguo rode on his horse and looked in the direction of Guanzhong, and said:
"One of the second brother's men and horses has gone from Weinan to northern Shaanxi, and my father must be worried about the Mongolian tribes, taking advantage of the situation to go south, and... The demons of the Holy Fire Cult in the Western Regions.
If they join, the war in northern Shaanxi will be even more difficult.
I heard that the Chang'an battalion has also begun to recall the old soldiers, and it is estimated that my father is also ready to support northern Shaanxi, and the second brother has sent a messenger, which means that if the war is not good, I, the 6,000 recruits of the Luoyang battalion, am afraid that they will also enter the customs. ”
Speaking of this, Li Baoguo sighed, he said:
"I'm not afraid of war.
But the problem is that the 6,000 military horses under his command have only just been recruited, and the training has been less than a month, even with the full support of Lei Shiyin's big dragon head and the big head of the beggar gang, it will not be able to become combat power in a short time. ”
"Huh?"
Xiao Tie, who was sitting on the other side of the carriage, was stunned and said:
"No wonder you're in such a hurry, you don't care about taboos, and you hit my idea on my dragon and tiger hundred battle tricks, so that's the case."
"Rush to the doctor when you are sick!"
Shen Qiu heard the conversation between the two, and he could guess what was going on with his heels, he snorted and said casually:
"That dragon and tiger hundred battle tricks are miracles in the world, how can everyone learn them?
If everyone can learn it, it's a mess.
Serve the country, don't worry, your second brother sent you a letter, just in case of trouble. That Zhang Chu was entangled with Hu Yan in the Western Regions, just to buy time for the Northern Dynasty to attack the Central Plains, and not let your Tiance army make trouble.
Happy is not Zhang Chu and his old son, with Zhang Chu's cunning nature, how can he take out all his family funds to support the Northern Dynasty?
How could the various sects of the Demon Sect ever love each other so much? ”
Li Baoguo thought about it carefully, and what Shen Qiu said did have some truth.
In the first battle of Luoyang, the group of demon sect people, seeing that the war was unfavorable, withdrew from Luoyang one after another, in addition to the die-hard loyalty of the witch sect, they did not see the demon sect people fighting to the death, thinking about it, they were indeed a little anxious.
This is not the way to go!
Li Baoguo nodded suddenly, calming down his anxious mind first.
"This month, Luoyang City is okay?"
Shen Qiu asked again, Xiao Tie nodded, and said:
"It's all good, Shiyin spent money to hire people in the city to repair the city wall, and there are widows and children of righteous soldiers who died in battle all over the rivers and lakes, and they were sent to Luoyang, and the prestige of the Heluo Gang has also spread.
These days, there are people everywhere who come to defect.
Oh, by the way, eldest brother, the leader of Ren Hao's alliance, he had already left Luoyang half a month ago, saying that he had returned to Jinling, and the head of Lin Yundong and Chonghe Daoist also left with him.
Master Lin also asked me to tell you that I have time to go to Xiaoxiang Sword Gate to sit down, and she also said, for her disciple, congratulations to the eldest brother and sister-in-law on getting married, and said that this is a good thing, for you, Yu Lin Woman. ”
After Xiao Tie finished speaking, a chuckle came from the carriage.
Shen Qiu waved his hand and motioned for Xiao Tie to stop talking about this topic.
"Li Yijian also said that the eldest brother is not righteous."
Xiao Tie peeked at Shen Qiu, saw that the eldest brother's face had not changed, and said another thing, he said:
"Yijian said that when he got married, he invited his eldest brother to drink wedding wine, but the eldest brother and sister-in-law tied the knot, but they didn't even hold a wedding banquet, which clearly looked down on their brothers."
"That's right."
Shen Qiu didn't speak, but Li Baoguo, who was riding on the horse, folded his arms and retorted:
"Lei Ye, Lang Monk, is the elder of Shen Daxia and Sister Yaoqin, although it is not a direct line, but the filial piety period has not passed, if it is not for the special situation of Sister Yaoqin, it will take a year to get married, let alone do a big deal.
Shen Daxia did this right, no one could find fault with it. ”
"Yijian is just a mouth."
Shen Qiu didn't care, he waved his hand and whistled, and the Amazing Beast flapped its wings and fell from the sky, landing on Shen Qiu's arm, and screamed at Shen Qiu twice.
The nimble head swings from side to side, making the beautiful feathers flick around.
"Qingqing, they are already waiting at home."
Shen Qiu understood the meaning of the two strange cries of the Shocking Beast, said something to Xiao Tie, and as soon as he raised his hand, the crested eagle rolled up the wind and waves again and rushed into the sky.
Li Baoguo next to him looked envious.
But as long as a good man is concerned, who doesn't want to be accompanied by a spirit animal like this?
"When these crested eagles give birth to juniors in two years, I'll give you one."
Shen Qiu noticed the change in Li Duwei's expression, he said with a smile, which made Li Baoguo's face look happy, he still had to go back to the school to train the army, so at the gate of the city, he hugged his fists and said goodbye to Shen Qiu and his party.
After Li Baoguo walked by, Shen Qiu turned his head to look at Xiao Tie, and said:
"How could this matter of the dragon and tiger be known to Li Baoguo again? Is it a leak again? ”
"It's not Zhang Lan's goods yet!"
When he mentioned this, Xiao Tie was indignant, and he complained to his eldest brother:
"These days, he somehow got mixed up with Li Baoguo, and one day he seemed to be drunk, so he talked nonsense, which caused Li Baoguo's goods to bother me every day."
"Although Zhang Lan is prodigal, she is not such an unreliable person."
Shen Qiu shook his head, he thought about it carefully, and then he made up his mind, and he said to Xiao Tie:
"He should be pulling contacts for me, and I think he also saw Li Baoguo's special status in the Tiance Army, so he got close to him.
The reason why he talked about that stubble was probably because he saw that Li Baoguo had no good exercises and was trapped in the list of people and couldn't break through, so he wanted you to teach Li Baoguo a hundred battles.
You and Li Baoguo have the grace of teaching art, and if you encounter something in the future, Tiance Army can also help you with it. ”
He rubbed his chin and said to Xiao Tie:
"It's just that Zhang Lan probably didn't expect that Li Baoguo had the goods in his hand, and the internal skills he is cultivating now are not ordinary, you see that he breathes a long breath, like a turtle's breath, I think it must be a Taoist exercise, and the grade is not low."
"Hmm."
Xiao Tie also touched his freshly grown beard and nodded.
When he saw that his eldest brother had a beard, he also wanted to grow a handsome beard, but at the age of sixteen, it was difficult to grow this beard.
"If it's really as the eldest brother said, then I don't blame Zhang Lan."
"Yes, since you recognize him as a brother, you have to trust him a little."
Shen Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, and he said:
"There is going to be chaos in the world today, Zhang Lan must have seen it too, so he is so anxious to pull a relationship for us, he is really suitable for this."
The two brothers talked, and in the carriage, Yaoqin also asked:
"Xiao Tie, you've been with Shiyin recently, how are you?"
"Hey, it's good."
Xiao Tie touched his short stubble, smiled innocently, and said to his sister-in-law:
"I meet her now, as usual, and there is no weirdness in my heart, the words are all spoken, Shiyin will stay until sixteen, and then talk about my two marriages, and now I am not in a hurry."
"You're not in a hurry."
Shen Qiu glanced at Xiao Tie and said:
"Yaoqin and I are very anxious, the Holy Fire Sect is eyeing it, if your two marriages don't land, we will have worries in our hearts every day. Now that I am married to Yaoqin, I have the reality of husband and wife, and there is only one Shiyin left who can choose Yangtao.
The old man doesn't want to fight now, and he can't do it anymore.
Thinking about it now, Zhang Chu let Yaoqin go so easily that day, and I am afraid that he had thought of this layer early, so he had no fear.
That Zhang Chu's mind was really gloomy and terrifying. ”
Shen Qiu said:
"Li Baoguo was here just now, I can't say.
But now it's all my own family, and I won't hide it from you, according to my estimate, it is only a matter of time before the Holy Fire Sect also joins the war, and the Tiance Army is estimated to be under a lot of pressure. ”
Xiao Tie's heart is also serious, and he is also anxious.
He made up his mind, in the next few days, he will work harder to practice martial arts, a man, if he can't even protect his future wife, what kind of face is it, talking about the rivers and lakes?
The group returned to Lei Mansion, Shen Qiu and Yaoqin, first went to give Lei Ye and Lang Seng a pillar of incense, and then returned to the hall to meet Qingqing, Shiyin, Xuanyu and other girls.
As a result, as soon as they met, Qingqing mysteriously told her senior brother a strange news.
"Early this morning, someone came to Luoyang City, went to the beggar gang headquarters, and said by name, I want to see you and Xiaotie, senior brother."
The little junior sister's eyes rolled around, she lowered her voice, as if telling a ghost story, and said to Shen Qiu:
"Senior brother, where do you guess that person came from?"
"Where?"
Shen Qiu cooperated with the atmosphere that the little junior sister was trying to create, and asked.
Qingqing's eyes widened and she said:
"It's Yanjing!"
"Yanjing?"
Shen Qiu's eyes immediately narrowed.
The only connection between him and the country of the Northern Dynasties, Yanjing, the majestic city of the world, is his life experience.
Shen Qiu was born in Yanjiao, and lived to the age of twelve in a small village in Yanjiao, met Zhang Moxie, and then there was a famine, and the men in the village were all arrested as soldiers, and the rest of the people were almost starved to death.
He would have met Lu Unruly and Qingqing, who were walking darts to the north, and he survived.
But this person from Yanjing definitely didn't come all the way to find his relatives, Shen Qiu remembered clearly that all his relatives in this life had already died in that famine.
"Looks like we'll have to go to the beggars' altar."
Shen Qiu stood up, flicked his sleeves, nodded to Yaoqin, and went out the door.
"Senior brother, I'll go with you."
Qingqing happily followed behind her senior brother, good Ji You Shiyin was busy with the affairs of the Heluo Gang during this time, Xuanyu was greasy and crooked with Zhang Lan all day long, and Sister Yaoqin was one of the elders of the Heluo Gang, and this time in Luoyang, she would definitely not be idle.
She's been bored for a long time.
I thought about going out on an adventure with my brother again.
"Okay, keep up."
Shen Qiu is no longer the same as before, protecting the little junior sister to death.
On the one hand, the city of Luoyang is now safe.
On the other hand, Qingqing is not a rookie now.
The mysterious dragon binding skill has been learned, and there are first-class martial arts in the rivers and lakes, such as phantom footwork, ghost shadow needle, male loss skillful hand, and seven kills of the shadow.
I also have some experience in fighting, as long as I work hard with water to push my internal strength to a higher realm, with Qingqing's talent, I want to enter the ground list, that is, three or four years of kung fu at most.
She has the power to protect herself, even if she can't beat her, few people in the list can catch up with her.
Not everyone has a family background like Zhang Lan, and when martial arts were scarce, they already had peerless light skills such as leisurely travel.
Speaking of Zhang Lan, that product has a complete ghost shadow magic skill, and has a Wanhua Spirit Jade Finger, and at this time, the strength is estimated to have entered the list.
He, like Xiao Tie, belongs to the type of accumulation.
And out of the Lei Mansion, Shen Qiu and Qingqing rode horses and went to the beggar gang's main altar, on the way, Qingqing God mysteriously took out a piece of paper, stuffed it into Shen Qiu's hand, and told him not to show it to others.
Shen Qiu glanced at the contents of the paper and his eyes widened.
He grabbed the reins of the horse, grabbed Qingqing's wrist, and asked in a low voice:
"Where did you get this Soul Destroying Divine Claw cultivation method?"
"Hey, hey"
The little junior sister waved her finger proudly in front of the senior brother, and she said:
"Secret! Senior brother, mountain ghost brother, and Xiao Tie all have great adventures, but we Qingqing also have them.
Don't underestimate me. ”