Passing through the dilapidated temple gate, there is a messy boulevard, and Zhang Chengyuan's daughter explained that "Sanqiao Village has been abandoned for a long time, and the Buddhist temple is unsupervised, so all kinds of flowers and trees have gone their own way."

The girl's voice was not cold, and the bound ponytail shook briskly with her footsteps.

The fragrance of the camphor tree and the fragrance of the wet soil came to the face, walking through the barbaric growth of the boulevard, the eyes jumped bright, in a small Buddhist hall, the faint candle flame made the hearts of the group settle down.

The former stone slabs have been broken by grass and trees, and covered with mud and moss, so "stepping stones" have been temporarily placed so that people will not be stained by the spring rains.

stepped on, walked to the Buddha hall, and followed Nan Shicai at the end to slightly lift the hem of the skirt, Xiaojing could only cope with some dust.

Entering the Buddhist hall, Zhang Chenyuan whispered a few words to the girl, and although the little girl was reluctant, she still nodded and agreed to her father.

Subsequently, Zhang Chenyuan said to everyone: "Everyone, you are in the dust, the journey is tiring, first take a bath after arriving in the hall, and then go back to the lobby to eat some coarse food, let's talk while eating, and the little girl Zhang Yi will lead you." ”

Because the main seat where the big Buddha statue is placed is empty, there are few various offering platforms and furnishings, only the scattered small Buddha statues on the walls on both sides, so the hall of the Buddhist temple is not big, but it makes people feel more spacious.

Everyone was led to the bathing place in the back hall, and Shi Tao was left by Zhang Chenyuan for a while.

Zhang Chenyuan held the bell in his left hand and pulled out his short sword in his right hand against Shi Tao's throat, warning word by word: "Just now, Yi'er showed the fox tail and fox ears, those people were not surprised, you told them, right?"

Shi Tao felt that the Gu worm on his back was showing signs of burrowing into his spine at any time to make a fuss, and he glanced nervously at the bell in Zhang Chenyuan's hand and nodded.

Zhang Chenyuan put away the short sword, and said angrily: "Blame me, I forgot to remind you, I won't be punished without teaching, now, please remember this lesson." ”

In the past, a cultist, who could threaten the marquis?

Shi Tao's temper suddenly came up, he raised his chin, and replied: "The body of the father I brought is not only the first to open the consciousness of Alayya, but also my elder brother, if you want to kill me, please weigh it." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Chenyuan was furious, lowered his shoulders respectfully, stretched out his hand to take away the Gu worm on Zhang Chenyuan's back and killed it, and said flatteringly: "Shihou, don't go to your heart, I also love my daughter." ”

Shi Tao waved his hand with a golden knife, "I know, I know, I can understand you." ”

As his mouth said, Shi Tao understands Zhang Chenyuan very well, except for his daughter, this person's rationality rarely loses to emotion, with Wang Yu as a bargaining chip, Zhang Chenyuan, who is thinking of revenge, will definitely step up his friendship, under the power of the fox and the tiger, it is okay for Shi Tao to be a little arrogant.

The back hall is divided into compartments by countless curtains, and in each compartment is placed a large urn containing water, the large urn is raised by an earthen platform, and below it is a firewood, which is a simple bath.

After everyone took a bath and collectively changed into clean coarse linen short brown, Shi Tao assured Nan Shicai that "it will be handled well", and the men don't need extra guarantees.

After taking a bath, Zhang Yi's little sister picked up her clothes and went to wash them.

Around the brazier in the lobby, everyone without chairs and stools sat on the ground in disorder, Wang Yu sighed, "Sanguan, it's really an ancient thing." ”

Sitting high and forgetting one's roots is a common rhetoric used by the great clans of Sanguan to ridicule the nations as unworthy descendants, and the battlefield and financial resources are inferior, so they can only use this kind of trick to "be justified".

His father, Wang Changjiao, once told Wang Yu that the great clans of Sanguan often use the book "The Rites of the First Holy Sect" to boast that they are superior to other countries in terms of etiquette.

For example, in the "Rites of the First Holy Sect", "The former holy kings, sitting and talking about the Tao, the high-legged furniture is a barbarian and cheap thing, demonic customs and customs, how can all the people in the world be in the same stream?" Yao, Jiang, Ji, Shen, and Dou are all from the family of the ancient holy kings, and they must set an example to maintain the integrity of heaven and earth, defend the righteousness of the ground, and help people's hearts. ’

Zhang Chenyuan said helplessly: "Forgive me, it's really uncomfortable to have no tables and stools, no way, the virtue of the three passes is like this, the two strong Jin and Qi are all using tall furniture, and the land of the three passes still holds the ridiculous argument that 'the chair and stool can't be reached', so the town can't buy chairs and stools, and the wood at hand has to be used to make farm tools for the people, so I have to settle it." ”

After speaking, Zhang Chenyuan devoured all the porridge in the bowl, everyone expressed their understanding, and also picked up the pottery bowl on the ground, and wiped out the porridge in the bowl without any manners.

Wang Yu peeked at Nan Shicai, who was drinking porridge, and said that this girl is not bad in short brown.

Food was in short supply, and Zhang Chenyuan said that his father's body only needed to bask in the sun, so he didn't prepare food for Wang Yu.

As soon as Shi Tao finished eating the porridge, he went north to the Jin Kingdom to buy firearms and books, and met Wang Yu on the way back.

Zhang Chenyuan patiently listened to Shi Tao's observations, and suddenly realized: "I see, this year's Zhao State's first year is the first year of the year, and the famous ones are the disciples of the Yutai Pavilion and the Xiaozong of the Suishan Sect......! The people of the Yuan Sect of the Sui Mountain Sect will come to the three passes. ”

Shi Tao's eyes widened, "Yuanzong, what's going on?"

Zhang Chenyuan took out a few small boxes, spread out the rice paper, and wrote the names of the sects on the paper with a brush.

The moonlight slipped through the branches of the apricot blossoms and the leaves of the camphor tree, slipped into the Buddhist hall, and shone on the rice paper, outlining the current situation.

Yutai Pavilion, Suishan Sect Xiaozong, Zhao State Court, Tianhuan Sect, these nouns represent the enemies of the people present, pointing to these words, Zhang Chenyuan said: "Summarizing what Shi Tao said, our enemies are all connected to each other, and after the pacification of the chaos, the forces of all parties have been tied to the Shi dynasty more deeply, well, in the chaos they took the lead anyway, and thus became a friend, and they can be collectively called ' I originally wanted to assassinate slowly, but now it seems that this will only hit one and seduce many parties to retaliate. ”

They have changed from being in the opposition to being in the court, and a new force has entered the court to share power and positions, and the Pingchao Party will quickly feel the hostility of different civil servants and friends, and the Pingchao Party will ascend to the throne because of the same merits, so it will naturally be regarded as a group by other friends, so it will definitely join forces and assassinate one of them, and it will be subject to the common firepower of the other factions of the 'Pingchao Party'.

"For example, my enemy is the Tianhuan Sect, I went alone to assassinate the leader of the Tianhuan Sect, and after I got lucky, the rest of the people of the Suppression Party will definitely think that it is another party that wants to destroy them, and they will immediately cast a net by hand, and then connect the relationships at hand to weave the net tighter and tighter, and sooner or later the assassin will be at the end of his life, alas, behind the Tianhuan Sect there is already the Yutai Pavilion, the imperial court and even the Xiaozong of the Suishan faction, and the others are the same. ”

Before the rebellion and meritorious service, these forces did not have close contacts, and after they were able to make meritorious service before the chaos anyway, they were rewarded by the imperial court, and the civil servants of Zhao State were fiercely contested, so how could they allow outsiders? These civil ministers already had Zhou Shi under their command, and a battle between the open and the secret was inevitable.

"All countries have party struggles, and martial arts are always a last resort, but the civil ministers of Zhao State prefer martial arts, and the power to raid and kill is in the hands of civilian officials, and the border armies of the northern towns obey the orders of civil officials of different factions rather than the emperor, which is an unprecedented wonder in ancient and modern times. ”

Zhang Chenyuan looked around: "No matter how you plan the assassination, after the fact, the court and all parties ...... Even if it's because of a misunderstanding, the manhunt won't stop, you all want revenge and then live in peace, right?"

Everyone nodded, Zhang Chenyuan smiled with satisfaction, and then said his suggestion.

"Then, we can only uproot the entire court of Zhao State. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone did not look surprised, and Jiang Ping applauded.

Such calmness surprised Zhang Chenyuan, who made this suggestion, and he looked at Shi Tao: "You really brought a few incredible people." ”

Shi Tao smiled, and then scolded Jiang Ping, who was applauding: "What are you excited about? You, a wild boy who has never been out of the three levels, do you know what Zhao Guo is like?"

Jiang Ping stopped applauding, and said aggrievedly: "I don't know, but I think this uncle has a plan." ”

Shi Tao snorted, "Let's talk about Your Excellency's plan." ”

Zhang Chenyuan took out a few pieces of paper from a box, and while reading, he said: "In the past two months, Sanqiao Village has been surveyed, and the village has opened up a maximum of 2,224 acres of land. ”

Then took out the shoddy map from the box, Zhang Chenyuan pointed to the neighboring countries and said: "The Jin domain town in the north, the Siqing within the three passes, will be our guests in the future, at the same time, the network and strength will be accumulated, eight years ago, the financial and civil contradictions of the Zhao State were not optimistic, once there is an overthrow in the future, we will set our troops east, cross the Broken Cloud Mountains, join the overall situation of the Ding Revolution of the Zhao State, and behead our enemies one by one." ”

Zhang Chenyuan smiled at Wang Yu, "The matter of visiting the tomb, when the worries are over, Zhang will help as soon as possible." ”

Seeing that Zhang Chenyuan had bad intentions towards Wang Yu again, Nan Shicai, who had been silent, said loudly: "How many years will it take to overturn?"

Zhang Chenyuan said with confidence: "The gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late, before I left the Zhao State, I found the half-eyed Heavenly Master to calculate, within twenty years, there will be chaos in the Zhao Kingdom, he also revealed to me by the way, 'Mr. Zhang left Zhao for seven years, Kaiping Hou will rebel, but it will fail, don't mistake it for chaos',"

was exposed again, Shi Tao hammered the floor in shame, and Wang Yu smiled.

After laughing, Wang Yu began to think, who is this half-eyed heavenly master?

"Now that eight years have passed, twenty years, and it will be twelve years, we have to step up our efforts, but these are all long-term concerns, I have to talk about the near worries, someone is going to seize the land of Sanqiao Village. ”

Zhang Chenyuan tapped the word "Yuanzong" on the rice paper with his finger.

"Yuanzong is in the country of Qi, what are you doing running three levels?"

"Xiaozong has a genius who can suppress Yuanzong in the future, they must be in a hurry, the poor boy who kicked out the door when he split up will definitely come to the door when he is rich and strong, the land of Sanguan is fertile, I conclude that they will definitely use the land of Sanqiao Village, plant some elixir, and step up to improve the realm of Junjie under the door, hey, I just want to buy the title deed in my hand with a bag of gold, when I am stupid." ”

The fields around Sanqiao Village are excellent, if it weren't for the Sanguan people indulging in rotten Ke Ye, otherwise it would definitely not be wasted, Zhang Chenyuan found that he could include the entire Sanqiao Village under his name at a very small price, and was recognized by the Longqian Guan Mansion, and he immediately shouted "God help me".

Everyone didn't quite understand the festival of the two sects of the Suishan faction, and they were all a little confused, Zhang Chenyuan was lazy, and continued: "Yuanzong came to negotiate the price, it must be the mind of the soldiers first, Longyun Pass has always been not valued by Siqing, and Yuanzong is not much cost to kill people and seize land, since I don't recognize this ceremony, this group of sub-Zhou divisions will definitely move troops, recently the village soldiers reported to me that many strangers near the village pass are peeking, so I let people take strict precautions." ”

"Sanguan is too far away from Qi State, plus the situation in Qi Country is also complicated, there are not many people from Yuanzong, only nine, two Guangcai, seven Xiaocheng, how to deal with it, I don't have an idea, I'm tired, let's discuss it tomorrow." ”

Everyone made a bunk in the Buddhist hall, Zhang Chenyuan naturally went back to the inner room to sleep, he closed the door of the inner room, flipped through the firearms books brought back by Shi Tao, and looked at the two bird guns for a while with the help of an oil lamp.

He said to himself, "You can't make a big fire gun for ...... time being," and then fell asleep.

After Zhang Yi finished washing his clothes, he hung his clothes under the grass shed on the east side of the lobby, yawned and was about to go back to the room, when suddenly in the moonlight, he saw a head flying out of the Buddha hall.

The little girl almost cried out, but curiosity made her cover her mouth, and she suddenly felt that it was interesting to follow the head, and as soon as the beast's ears stood up, she chased the head out of the Buddhist temple, and followed all the way over the hill, and her sleeves brushed over the windmill flowers in the mountains, and she slipped out of the village.

Since she was a child, she has lacked friends, and she has been longing for a long time to go on an "adventure" in the mountains with people.

The floating movement of the head is very fast, but Zhang Yi is not lagging behind, and she wants to change back to her original form to chase, but as a half-demon, she can't do what she wants like her mother, and her heart door has to work hard for a while to drive the spirit cauldron to change back.

Fortunately, she in human form will not be lost.

Wang Yu's head and eyes were blank, and his mouth was snoring from time to time, yes, Wang Yu was sleepwalking now.

The curious little fox, chasing the sleepwalking head, rushed into a wood.

Seeing that she couldn't catch up for a long time, Zhang Yi was in a hurry, and suddenly changed back to the prototype, and suddenly became four-legged, keeping pace with Wang Yu, and then overtook her, she was overjoyed in her heart, and climbed a tree with a "boom" and ran to the branch.

After three breaths, Wang Yu passed by, and Zhang Yi jumped happily, bumped into Wang Yu, and caught the sleepwalking head.

Wang Yu was still snoring, trembling weakly, but he couldn't escape the little fox's clamp.

The little fox pressed Wang Yu's head on the mud like a leather ball, lowered his head to sniff Wang Yu, and asked him in a low voice: "What are you? It's weird, it's the same as me." ”

The only thing that answered her was a low snoring, and the little fox laughed, and as soon as she smiled, the smile dissipated, and her ears caught the movement of the sharp object passing over the branches from the snoring in her ears, and it was coming towards her!

"Phew!"

It was too late to scream, and the flying sword was within a foot of the little fox, and there was no way to dodge.

Wang Yu, who was sleepwalking, moved his ears, and when he heard the sound of the flying sword breaking through the air, he instinctively suddenly felt so familiar.

There was a muffled "bang", followed by a few soft "rattles".

The little fox who thought she was going to die opened her eyes tremblingly, and found that Wang Yu's head rushed to her and bit the flying sword, and also bit the front end of the sword.

The long sword was broken in two, and the section near the tip of the sword was reduced to fragments, and some fragments were spit out of Wang Yu's mouth, like spitting melon seeds.

Just when the little fox was amazed at Wang Yu's oral work, Wang Yu's mouth was muddy: "Hmmmm...... It's unpalatable, Dad, if you say yes, you can eat it, eat it, ah, Shi Tao, you...... You bastard, don't think I'll block a third arrow for you. ”

Wang Yu still slept very deeply, but he just talked in his dreams.

"You weird, so powerful?"

Wang Yu snored, and replied in his dream: "One ...... Once born, two times ripe, three times is a good friend, without him, only familiar words. ”

In the distance, there was the sound of two or three pairs of feet on the grass, and the little fox told the strange head to follow, turned and ran.

Wang Yu's Qi slowly dispersed, and he floated after the little fox, and unconsciously murmured: "Good one, you chase me when you come out." ”