Chapter 108: A Chance Encounter
Xiushui County, Yazhou, is named after a Xiushui River that almost everyone knows about in Great Xia.
On both sides of the Xiushui River, there are gardens of different styles, all year round are green and green, flowers are clustered, among which all kinds of pavilions and pavilions are distributed, or beautiful, or exquisite and chic, or magnificent, dazzling, these are not the houses of large families, but the green building, to be exact, the high-grade green building, which is different from the general green building, usually called the flower building. There have always been all kinds of rumors about the Xiushui River Flower Building, and many of the girls in the Xiushui River Flower Building are all as beautiful as fairies, smart and lovely, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and many of them are selling their art and not selling themselves.
The history of Xiushui River Flower House has a long history, for thousands of years, there have been many stories such as talented and beautiful women, chaste martyrs, new love and old love, or tragedy, or comedy, which also make the world talk about it and spread widely.
The fame of Xiushui River Flower Building has fascinated countless men, of course, the story is just a story, just an example, and usually it is a matter of money. These flower buildings in Xiushui River are not places that ordinary people can enter casually, and even if they can enter, they can't afford to spend, so it can be said that taking a breath in it requires real money. The customers of Xiushui River Flower House are mainly some celebrities, talents, dignitaries and other more elegant nobles, and the rules are to cater to the preferences of literati and scholars.
The most lively time of the Xiushui River is the annual flower meeting to select the Oiran, the girls of each flower building perform songs and dances on the flower boats, and walk along the Xiushui River, and many people come from other places to watch the flower meeting every year.
At this time, Xiao Tianlei and a few brothers went to the streets of Xiushui County to look around, of course, not to visit the Qinglou, but to collect some information. Although I already knew that the imperial court and the Canghai League joined forces to attack Lingzhou, but I didn't know some specific arrangements and plans, Xiushui River can be said to be one of the most well-informed places in Yazhou and even Daxia.
Originally, the imperial army would set off from Yazhou to conquer the Lingzhou Brotherhood, and the atmosphere in Yazhou, which had become lively because of the New Year's Festival, was a lot warmer, and then it was rumored that some military generals on the battlefield in northern Xinjiang would also go to Yazhou, and the whole Yazhou was boiling, and the streets and alleys and Qinglou restaurants were talking about it. Originally, the deeds of some military generals on the battlefield in northern Xinjiang have long been compiled into some wonderful stories, widely disseminated, and people are familiar with them.
As one of the most prosperous places in Great Xia, most people are relatively satisfied with their lives, and there are many happy ones. Regarding the rebellion of the Lingzhou Brotherhood, he basically had a relatively hostile attitude, and hoped that the imperial court would exterminate it as soon as possible.
Of course, the conquest is still a matter of the imperial court, the affairs of officials and generals, and other people have their own lives, and if they really let them go to war, they may not dare to go, but whether they are sincere or follow the trend, a trend has now formed in Yazhou, and all walks of life are keen to talk about it, and many people will express their support for the conquest of Lingzhou in their own way.
Ordinary people just chat and fart, praise the generals of Daxia, scold the anti-thieves, and join in the fun; Merchants took this opportunity to promote their own goods, and they were involved with the conquest of the Lingzhou Brotherhood; Some Hualou Oiran have released words, who can make great contributions in this battle and become famous in the world, and are willing to spend a good night with them, without taking a penny, and other Qinglou women have followed suit; Yazhou is a place where literati gather, as a public opinion vane of the scribes, naturally will not be silent, at this time of the year, some celebrities in Yazhou will hold a literary meeting in the flower building of the Xiushui River, recently, the Xiushui River flower building and other green buildings sang some new poems, that is, the works of some celebrities and talents at the literary meeting, the content is about defending the country, Jin Ge Iron Horse, sweeping away the barbarians and the like, impassioned, making people listen to the blood boiling, eager to go to the battlefield immediately.
It's just that Xiao Tianlei and others, who were the targets of the crusade, were not very happy after hearing about it.
"Brother Lei, listen to this singing, these people want to destroy our brotherhood!"
"These women are also joining in the fun, originally I thought they were quite pitiful."
"These poems are not written by these women, but they are just begging for life, and the guests will sing whatever they like, and as for the real thoughts, only the individual knows."
"Listen to the meaning of these poems, our Lingzhou Brotherhood is all barbarian pigs and dogs, and destroying our Brotherhood is as simple as blowing dust, it's unbearable!"
"These goods will only be mouth cannons, it is estimated that they can't afford to hold a knife, we can kill a piece with a knife, just treat it as a dog barking, don't pay attention to it."
"Don't let these guys fall into my hands, or I'll see how I clean them up!"
Those scribes were hated by Xiao Tianlei and his brothers, and they got some information by hearsay, Xiao Tianlei and a few brothers, along the Xiushui River, along a tributary, can reach a lake, which is as famous as the Xiushui River, named Sword Lake.
Sword Lake, the lake is not big, but the scenery is extremely beautiful, which can be called one of the most beautiful scenery in the world, but what really makes Sword Lake famous all over the world is the Sword Lake Martial Arts Association. The Sword Lake Martial Arts Club is different from the general martial arts meeting, it belongs to a relatively high-end martial arts meeting, and those who can show their faces at the Sword Lake Martial Arts Conference are all real masters, and they generally have some big sectarian backgrounds.
The Sword Lake Martial Arts Meeting is held every few years in the Sword Lake Palace on the shore of the Sword Lake Lake, in addition to the martial arts competition, it is to evaluate the martial arts and some magic weapons, and it is not ordinary people who can watch it, usually some famous people in the rivers and lakes can get the invitation.
If an ordinary martial artist wants to participate in the Sword Lake Martial Arts Meeting, it is not impossible, but he needs to pass many tests and competitions before he can enter the Sword Lake Palace.
Now, it is not the day when the Sword Lake Martial Arts Festival is held, but outside the Sword Lake Palace, there are some martial artists who are competing.
The reason for the competition is also because the imperial court is conquest of the Lingzhou Brotherhood, and it intends to recruit some masters to participate in the conquest, act as the escort of some officials, etc., which can also be regarded as a common practice. It is rumored that the leaders of the Brotherhood are all masters, and the Shanyue warriors under them are not weak and fierce, and they need some masters to hold down the formation.
This time, there were many warriors who came to enlist, and it was impossible to bring them all to Lingzhou, so the top warriors were selected through a competition.
When Xiao Tianlei heard about this, he also took a few brothers to Jianhu Palace to watch the selection of martial arts, but he was not stupid to watch under the ring, but to a high-end restaurant not far from the square in front of Jianhu Palace.
However, if you have money, you are the uncle, and as soon as the money was lost, the guy nodded and led a few people upstairs and arranged a good position. In the past few days in Yazhou, Xiao Tianlei and his people went to these restaurants every day to taste some delicious food, and most of the people who could eat in these places were not ordinary people, and listening to the conversations of these people often gave them some valuable information.
The selection of martial arts will be in full swing, one by one masters take turns to compete on the stage, what is the level of the official Jianhu martial arts meeting, Xiao Tianlei does not know, however, as far as those martial artists who come to the stage to compete are concerned, in addition to the general martial arts moves, there are basically one or two tricks, which is indeed higher than the level of the general martial arts meeting. The selection of martial arts has been compared for several days, and it is said that two days ago, there was a woman who fought many masters, and she did not taste defeat.
Xiao Tianlei and a few brothers sat at the window on the third floor, eating slowly, while watching the martial arts meeting, originally, it was quite leisurely, but some people spoiled their interest.
A man in blue came up from downstairs, dressed as a guard from a large family, with a long knife at his waist, looked around, looked around, and went straight to the table of Xiao Tianlei and a few people, threw out a piece of broken silver, and said, "Can you ask a few people to change the table?" "The people sitting upstairs, Xiao Tianlei and the others are dressed ordinary, not like they have a background, and the location is also very good, this guard naturally found a few people.
Xiao Tianbao raised his eyes and glanced at it, and said coldly: "Don't change." ”
The man said in a deep voice: "You don't give face?!" Don't toast and don't eat and drink! ”
The corners of Xiao Tianbao's mouth twitched, and he smiled: "Give you face?" How old are you? Get lost! He grabbed the silver and threw it at the guard's face, but the guard couldn't dodge it, and was hit in the eye socket, and immediately bruised and swollen.
People are good at being bullied, for this kind of guy, you can't have a good face, if you want to send it away, you have to be a little sideways.
The man's face was extremely ugly, he gritted his teeth, and said fiercely: "You dare to hit me, boy, you ......"
"It doesn't matter where you come from, you have to fight, and you can accompany me at any time, otherwise you will get out of me!" Xiao Tianbao said.
The man in blue was resentful, but it was not easy to have a seizure, high-end restaurants have backgrounds, but they are not places where you can fight casually. At this moment, a young man in Chinese clothes and a few guards came up, and the young man's posture was a little arrogant, and asked: "Liu Qi, let you find a good position, you can't do any trivial things?" What's going on?! ”
The man in blue replied: "Young master, I asked them to change the table, but these boys just won't let me." ”
"I don't know how to lift! Do you know who I am? Count three, you guys get out of here! Otherwise, don't blame the young master for being ruthless! The arrogant young man had a cold face and a ruthless face.
Xiao Tianlei glanced at the young man, when he came to this world, he met a lot of bullying and self-righteous ****, and they were all strange, who let this be a feudal society, and some powerful people tend to be more willful. Although Xiao Tianlei doesn't want to cause trouble, and he doesn't want to make trouble at this time, he is not afraid of trouble, anyway, basically no one knows a few of him.
Too lazy to talk to this idiot, Xiao Tianlei punched out and hit the arrogant young man's face directly, so that a few teeth flew out, and the whole person fell to the ground and stepped on his leg bone.
"Young Master!" Those guards exclaimed, and the blue-clothed guards said, "Our young master is a ...... of Xiushui County."
Xiao Tianlei is not interested in knowing, what kind of powerful family can it be that can teach such an idiot? The people from really powerful families, no matter how poor they are, have some education.
Xiao Tianlei didn't have any scruples, and asked lightly: "Do you want to try what it means to be ruthless?" Secretly exerting force under his feet, the arrogant young man had already become a grandson, his facial features were twisted in pain, and he shook his head again and again when he heard the words. kicked the arrogant young man away, and Xiao Tianlei warned: "If you disturb again, it will kill you." ”
The arrogant young man took his men and left hatefully, Xiao Tianlei knew that the matter was not over, but he still returned to his seat and continued to eat.
After a while, there was a sound of footsteps, a few people came up downstairs, Xiao Tianlei thought it was the arrogant young man who came to find fault again, but saw several young men and women, one of whom was quite eye-catching, a man's beauty, a white brocade robe, a hero scarf on her head, and a sword in her hand, heroic and cool.
Xiao Tianlei just glanced at it and didn't look at it again, but a short, dark-skinned man behind the group of people had a surprised look on his face, stepped forward a few steps, and shouted at him, "Huh...... It turned out to be you! ”
Xiao Tianlei was a little inexplicable, wondering if this person was looking at other people, or recognizing the wrong person, or pretending to be an acquaintance, cheating on food and drink?
Xiao Tianlei's suspicious gaze made the short man a little embarrassed, and said, "Xiao Shaoxia, you forgot, I am Wu Tiexiong of the Yinghai Gang!" ”
Xiao Tianlei recalled, "Yinghai Gang...... Oh...... Wu Tiexiong...... Master Wu Tang. Xiao Tianlei then remembered that it was Wu Tiexiong of the Yinghai Gang, a few years ago he and several brothers went to Yazhou to save the wife and a pair of children of Li Haichao, the leader of the Yinghai Gang.
Wu Tiexiong asked, "Xiao Shaoxia, how did you get to Yazhou?" Wu Tiexiong lowered his voice, although the Canghai Alliance made it difficult for maritime business, and it did not have a great impact on some big gangs like the Longjiang Society, Yazhou also knew the news of Lingzhou, besides, Xiao Tianlei's reputation was very loud, and when he saw Xiao Tianlei here, Wu Tiexiong was indeed surprised.
"Come here." Xiao Tianlei replied.
"Xiao Shaoxia, does you know that the army is going to attack Lingzhou from the sea?" Wu Tiexiong asked in a low voice again.
"Yes."
"Then you still ......" Wu Tiexiong immediately realized that he was too talkative, since Xiao Tianlei knew that he was still eating and drinking here leisurely, there must be a countermeasure, but he was an outsider who didn't say much.
Xiao Tianlei was vigilant at this time, in case Wu Tiexiong told his identity, I am afraid that something would be wrong, and after a few conversations, Wu Tiexiong had no intention of telling the secret at all. Speaking of which, the Yinghai Gang occupies several islands in Yinghai, sells weapons, and has its own system, which is not all the way with Great Xia.
Wu Tiexiong sat down and chatted with Xiao Tianlei, Wu Tiexiong escorted Li Haichao's son and daughter to see the martial arts meeting today, and among that group of young men and women, they were all friends of the same age who had made in the past few days. Of course, Xiao Tianlei didn't care about those and asked some things about the Canghai Alliance. Speaking of the Canghai League, Wu Tiexiong is a little helpless, it turns out that the Yinghai Gang is now a member of the East China Sea League, and there is a lot of friction with the Canghai League, and there are a lot of grudges, but now the Canghai League has been recruited by the imperial court and has become the imperial court's naval army, what should I do with the previous grudges?
"Uncle Wu, what are you talking about here?"
As he was talking, the voice of a somewhat delicate woman came, but it was a young girl, with some cute facial features, dressed in goose yellow clothes.
"Miss, what's wrong with you?" Wu Tiexiong asked.
The girl pouted and said indignantly: "It's so boring, they are all competing to pat Sister Lihua's ass, and my brother is the same, I don't want to be with them!" Hey, brother, I think I've seen you somewhere!? Where? This girl is Li Haichao's daughter Li Xiaoyu, I saw Xiao Tianlei a few years ago, and I have some impressions, at this time, when I saw Xiao Tianlei's face, I tilted my head and tried to recall.
Wu Tiexiong was afraid that Li Xiaoyu would recognize Xiao Tianlei, although Li Xiaoyu might not know anything about Xiao Tianlei, he was still afraid that she would say something, so he hurriedly said: "Okay, miss, this is a friend in the gang's business, it's not strange that you've seen it, don't you want to see the martial arts, this position is just right, you can see it clearly." ”
As soon as Wu Tiexiong said, Li Xiaoyu's attention immediately shifted, and he was immediately attracted by the martial arts meeting, and cheered: "Oh, oh! It's amazing! ”
There are also bursts of applause below, the layman looks at the liveliness, the insider looks at the doorway, Xiao Tianlei looked at it for a while, and felt that there was not much to see, although these martial artists had good martial arts, they were not really masters, and when they arrived in Lingzhou, they were to deliver food. Besides, good martial arts do not mean that the fight is powerful, many so-called masters, first-class martial arts players, if they fight to the death, they are frightened by the momentum of people who are weaker than themselves, or they are negligent, and there are many people who die in some small tricks and small conspiracy.
chatting with Wu Tiexiong for a while, there were some shouts downstairs, but it was the arrogant young man who was beaten by Xiao Tianlei before who brought some people, blocked the bottom, and shouted there: "Those boys above will come down for me, and see how Young Master Ben cleans you up today!" ”
Wu Tiexiong looked down and asked, "Xiao Shaoxia, do you want to help?" This person is a well-known evil young man in the local area, relying on his family background to run rampant and domineering. ”
"Evil is less...... Lord it over...... Scold! Here we go. When Xiao Tianlei heard the origin of the arrogant young man, he was even more disapproving, and beckoned the guy to settle the bill.
Wu Tiexiong then remembered, if you want to talk about Heng, there is really no more horizontal character in the world than these characters, the leader of the Lingzhou Brotherhood, who is notoriously horizontal, even dare to rebel, what else would you dare? A wicked boy and some doglegs are a fart! It's just that this is Yazhou, not Lingzhou, how will Xiao Tianlei deal with this matter? Wu Tiexiong probed to look, and some other good people upstairs also ran to the window to look.
"Boy, you still dare to come down, okay! Balls! Dare to beat the young master, give me a beating! Behind the arrogant young man, the blue-clothed guard brought a vote of people, looking fierce and dependent.
"It seems that you didn't listen to what I said before, forget it...... Why bother talking to you about this nonsense. Xiao Tianlei's tone was a little boring.
Xiao Tianlei's figure flickered, as if walking lightly, passing through the several people in front of the arrogant young man, but he was holding the Wuji Sword in his hand, and there was a trace of blood on the blade, and the Wuji Sword waved, leaving a blood mark on the neck of the arrogant young man, and the whole person paused, shaking off the blood droplets on the Wuji Sword, and returning the sword into the sheath, at the same time, Xiao Tianlei's brothers also withdrew the bloody blades, and those who followed the arrogant young man fell down one after another. For these guys who committed suicide, they killed them directly, and they were too lazy to talk, Xiao Tianlei walked straight into the crowd like a few people who were fine.
Several people moved very fast, even if someone saw it, they didn't react for a while, they were stunned until Xiao Tianlei and the others left, and the spectators who were paying attention to Xiao Tianlei and others upstairs were the first to react and shouted: "Kill ...... Kill! ”
Wu Tiexiong was in a cold sweat at this time, he didn't expect that Xiao Tianlei and a few people would do it directly, and they would kill everyone in the blink of an eye! Xiao Tianlei is more powerful and fierce than a few years ago, killing so many people on the street, completely like someone who has nothing to do, the brotherhood really lives up to its reputation.
"Ahh I remember! Li Xiaoyu suddenly shouted, she also saw Xiao Tianlei and the others doing it, although they couldn't see it clearly, but it was a reminder of the past, and remembered who Xiao Tianlei was.
When Wu Tiexiong heard this, he was frightened, and hurriedly said to Li Xiaoyu: "Miss, silence!" ”
"What a terrible murderous swordsmanship! In the blink of an eye, kill these people silently! Master Wu, how many people do you know? Where do they come from? It was the men's beauty who asked, staring at Wu Tiexiong with burning eyes.
How could Wu Tiexiong tell the identity of Xiao Tianlei and the others, this is a big trouble, and shook his head resolutely: "The identities of these people are inconvenient to say, Miss Xue, don't be embarrassed, it's better not to worry about their affairs, these people are looking for their own death, count them unlucky." ”
"Since Hall Master Wu doesn't say it, then I'll ask myself." The men's beauty smiled, her arms were stretched, her sleeves and robes flew up, and the whole person fell downstairs lightly, a few ups and downs, chasing Xiao Tianlei and others. (To be continued.) )