Under the orders of the lord of the village, the minions on both sides performed their duties, some beat the drum violently, and some lit the cannonball. There was a loud bang at the foot of the mountain, warmly welcoming the arrival of the team of Sword Casting Villa, giving Sword Casting Villa enough face.

Now that Xiao Tengfei has spoken, the sword slave, the person in charge, can no longer be bored, he pushed the car door, jumped out of the air, and jumped in front of Xiao Tengfei in mid-air.

"Master Xiao Dazhai, after many days, we met again, how are you and your cottage recently?" The sword slave greeted with a bow.

"Thanks to the blessing of Sword Villa, everything is fine with my cottage, thank you for your old concern." Xiao Tengfei returned the salute and said with a smile.

"It's a nuisance that so many of us have come to you."

"Where, if you are a distinguished guest, we can't invite you if we want to. If you are not busy, please live in this village for a little longer, so that I can talk about the friendship of the landlord. ”

The two of them went back and forth, saying a lot of inconsequential polite words, and the convoy behind them rushed to the trailhead at the foot of the mountain and stopped. Halfway through, the convoy had already purchased new horses in the towns it was passing through, and no longer used rickshaws to pull carts. It's a pity that these horses are not as good as the horses that were killed before, they are all ordinary horses of mixed quality.

These servants in the convoy were all well-trained, and when they arrived at the place, they got out of the car one after another, and did their job in an orderly manner, pulling the cart that should be pulled, and lining up in line.

Zhao Zheng hung his first sword, pushed the door and walked out, raising his eyes to look left and right, and watching the demeanor of Black Wind Langya Mountain up close. After looking at the mountain, he withdrew his gaze. Throw yourself into the crowd at the foot of the mountain. At first glance, I saw Xiao Tengfei in the middle of the crowd. This person's popularity is too extraordinary, and it is the most eye-catching in the crowd; The second thing I saw was Xiao Jiuge standing next to Xiao Tengfei, this young man had also participated in the Zichu Sword Fight before; The third sight was a masked man with a short figure, who was a head shorter than the others, looking short and lean, wearing a black scarf on his face, covering his face tightly, except for a pair of gloomy eyes.

Xiao Tengfei is the owner of the big village, and he deigned to run to the foot of the mountain to meet the convoy. Naturally, all the small village owners under him followed, from the second village master to the tenth village master, and no one was missing.

The short man covered with a black scarf is the big flower face who sits firmly in the seventh place in the cottage. His face was scratched, and others used to call him this nickname, and over time, there were very few people who called him by his real name, and the nickname had become his name.

Zhao Zheng was completely sure that the big flower face was Zhang Dashan, but there was no basis for his words, and he waited until he went up the mountain. Still have to let the sword slave find a way to conduct a tentative investigation. Only when this matter is confirmed, the sword slave will help him catch this traitor of the Tarzan faction.

For the Tarzan faction. Zhang Dashan, a traitor, is definitely a generous gift, and sending this person to the Taishan faction will definitely win the favor of the leader. With this generous gift, Elder Zhao Zhengkeqing's affairs will be more stable, and he can also get greater attention and give better preferential treatment. This trip can not only catch a rebel who kills the teacher, but also pave the way to the Taishan faction, which is really the best of both worlds.

The foot of this mountain is not a place to speak, Xiao Tengfei and Jian Nu politely talked for a while, raised his hand and pointed to the top of the mountain, and led Jian Nu and the others to the mountain entrance. As for the carriages, they were temporarily stored in a stable at the foot of the mountain, and were taken care of by the Zhuang Ding of the Sword Forge Villa and the people of the cottage.

This Black Wind Langya Mountain is steep and precipitous, only this stone ladder can lead to the mountain, on the stone ladder five steps, one sentry, ten steps and one post, set up many checkpoints, and the defense is very tight. On the mountain walls on both sides of the stone staircase, there are also many traps in ambush, such as ash bottle cannons, rolling wood and stones, all available. If anyone wants to capture this cottage, it is really a big thing.

The stone staircase zigzagged upward, like a coiling dragon, circling and entangled the whole mountain. As they went up, they passed by many cottage buildings and practice grounds. On the training ground, there are many minions in the formation of the line, honing their martial arts, even if the master of Dazhai passes by here, these minions have not stopped, they are still immersed in hard training, it seems to be well-trained, not inferior to the military soldiers of the Great Yan Country.

Halfway up the Black Wind Langya Mountain, there is a flat land covering an area of several acres, which is the largest place in the whole mountain, and the cottage's Juyi Hall, armory, money vault and many important buildings are all built here.

Xiao Tengfei was warm and thoughtful, and invited Jian Nu and his party to the Juyi Hall to talk.

There are so many sword slaves, and their identities are different, how can they all go in. He turned around, made a brief arrangement, and selected Zhao Zheng and several people with status in the villa, while the rest stayed where they were. Xiao Tengfei immediately sent people to prepare a place to rest for these people who stayed, and did not neglect these people.

The hall was built tall and wide enough to seat hundreds of people, with a towering flagpole in front of the door and a large plaque in gold letters hanging from the door. The inside of the Juyi Hall is more magnificent, with large red lacquer pillars erected inside, and the pillars are painted with gold lacquer. At the end of the opposite side are a full ten chairs, the middle chair is made of bright silver, high and wide, shining with bright silver light, and the back of the chair is carved with a winged eagle, which is not much worse than the dragon chair. This silver eagle chair is Xiao Tengfei's exclusive seat, and the chair next to it is reserved for the other nine village owners to sit, and even Xiao Jiuge is not qualified to sit in this row on weekdays.

On both sides of a row of chairs that are partial to the deputy village owner, there are a lot of chairs in another row, which are reserved for people below the village owner to sit on weekdays, and are also used to receive people and entertain guests.

Under Xiao Tengfei's arrangement, everyone sat down one after another, he sat in place with the village masters, and Jian Nu and others sat on the right hand, and everyone got a seat. There are diligent and neat minions running back and forth, serving tea and wine to the owner of the village and the guests. The people on the cottage pursue pride, they drink alcohol on weekdays, no one drinks tea, and the tea is basically prepared for guests.

Zhao Zheng asked for a cup of tea, but he didn't move, just put it on the table casually.

Xiao Tengfei and Jian Nu continued to chat, and in the middle of the chat, Jian Nu intentionally or unintentionally asked about the situation of several other village owners. Xiao Tengfei did not doubt, answered one by one, and briefly introduced several village owners under him. Including names, nicknames, martial arts, life history, and more.

As he spoke, he mentioned the seventh village master of Black Wind Langya Mountain. Xiao Tengfei introduced: "This person is nicknamed Dahua Face. His real name is Zhou, his single name is strong, he is from Lingnan County, Nangan Province, and he has been coming to my cottage for many years. He made good use of the soul chasing hook in his early years, and later somehow learned the sword again, and his martial arts were still very good. ”

In these words, an extremely important information was revealed. The big flower face originally used a soul chasing hook, and put a lot of hard work on it. But later, he switched to a sword, and the sword was the favorite blade used by the disciples of the Taishan faction!

Martial artists rarely change the blades they use in their hands, which indirectly proves that the big flower face was changed by Zhang Dashan. Zhang Dashan can ruthlessly scratch his face, but he can't use an unfamiliar blade to chase the soul hook, so he can only continue to use the sword instead. Dahuamian has a withdrawn temperament and is not well-known in the rivers and lakes, and he has changed his blade, and he will not arouse suspicion. As long as Zhang Dashan doesn't show the swordsmanship of the Taishan faction in front of outsiders, and then finds a logical excuse, he won't be recognized.

This. Zhao Zheng can think of it, and the sword slave can naturally think of it.

The sword slave's eyes lit up slightly. Thinking about it, he continued to knock on the side, and said haha: "The master of the village, I am not familiar with the other village owners, but I have a relationship with this Zhou Qiang village master." About seven or eight years ago, I met him by chance at a Yuelai inn in Lingnan County, and he and I were the only two people in the store at that time. We drank a lot that day and talked all the time, and then we both got drunk and got red-faced. ”

Seven or eight years ago, Dahua's face had already been spent, but Zhang Dashan hadn't escaped yet, if the Dahuamian in front of him was really Dahuamian himself, he would definitely be able to hear that the sword slave was telling a lie, because the sword slave had never met Dahuamian at all! If the big flower face in front of him casually admits this, it proves that this person is not a real big flower face, and it must be someone else pretending.

"It turns out that the two of you know each other, and it is a great joy in life to meet each other in a foreign country, and you will have to catch up with the old days later." Xiao Tengfei said with a smile.

"That's for sure, when I have time later, I must talk to Brother Zhou." The sword slave looked at Dahua's face and asked with a smile, "Did you say it, Brother Zhou?" ”

"Sword slave senior, I can't hide it, I was drunk two years ago, I lost my brain, I forgot a lot of things, and I can't remember if I met you. Still, if you mention it to me, maybe I'll remember. I hope that my predecessor Haihan will not blame me for being a pig. Dahua said with a flickering face.

Lying about amnesia, this is really a good way to hide from the world, no wonder no one has seen through the big flower face for so many years.

The sword slave's eyes suddenly lit up, and the doubts in his heart had been answered, and he smiled quietly: "It turns out that you drank your brain, it's a pity, for the sake of your body, I'm afraid I won't be able to pour wine on you later." ”

"Anyway, I've forgotten so many things, and it doesn't hurt to forget some more, if my predecessors give me a drink, I will definitely sacrifice my life to accompany me." The big flower face said.

The sword slave tried two more sentences, which inevitably aroused suspicion, changed the topic, and talked about other small village owners.

After chatting about the people on the mountain, Xiao Tengfei changed his words and asked: "As the saying goes, if you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, the predecessor of the sword slave led a large group of people to the mountain, there must be something, right?" ”

"Actually, I don't have anything to do, I'm just accompanying Zhao Zheng, this kid, to go around, it's he who is looking for you to have something." The sword slave turned his head to look at Zhao Zheng, "If you have anything, just tell the owner of the village, the owner of the village is kind-hearted and righteous, and he will definitely help you." ”

"Thank you for the introduction of the sword slave seniors." Zhao Zheng first bowed slightly to the sword slave, then stood up and saluted Xiao Tengfei and said, "The master of the big village is above, and he is courteous here." He disdains to deal with heinous people, but Xiao Tengfei is not that kind of person. Although Black Wind Langya Mountain makes a living by committing crimes, it has robbed the money of stolen officials several times, and it is not a complete bad person.

"Young heroes don't have to be polite, if you have anything, just say it, all over the world are brothers, and I will definitely help if I can help." Xiao Jiuge raised his hand and smiled.

"Thank you Dazhai for your success. It's actually quite simple, I've heard that Guishan is rich in a rare species of tree called black ironwood, which is extremely strong, even more than ordinary metal, and can be used to make self-defense armor. I was fascinated by these trees, so I came here to buy some for my money. Zhao Zhengdao.

"So you're here to buy Black Ironwood." Xiao Tengfei suddenly realized. "I do have this species here. It's not about abundance. This tree grows very slowly, is difficult to grow, and is extremely demanding for the environment. To tell you the truth, there are only a dozen or so black ironwood trees on my mountain. As for the lumps of wood that were stored before, there were more or less of them, adding up to about 1,000 catties. If you have a small need, I can accommodate you and give you some. If you want too much, there's nothing I can do. ”

Xiao Tengfei's words are actually half-truths and half-truths, he is in front of outsiders, of course, he can't just shake the truth out. In fact, the black ironwood stored in the cottage is far more than a thousand catties, and now these woods are soaked in special grease for later use. In this way, the wood becomes stronger and more durable, making it invulnerable.

Zhao Zheng's cultivation of the Nine Veins and Six Yuan Sutra has entered the next stage, and it can no longer be improved by absorbing the Golden Yuan, but must be improved by absorbing the Mu Yuan. Cultivating the third type of wood element internal force in the body. If you want to absorb wood elements, you have to use wood, and those woods that contain wood elements are abundant. In the process. It will consume a lot of wood, and one or two is certainly not enough.

"Master of the village, black iron wood is of great use to me, the more the merrier, I will buy as much as you are willing to sell." He was right.

"This ......" Xiao Tengfei was in a difficult position, he dragged out his voice for a long time, and frowned, "It's too much to buy and sell, and it's not this money that I covet, it's just that there are too few black ironwood on the mountain, and I really can't take out too much." Since you have said it here, I will give you a solid bottom, I can only take out a hundred catties of black iron wood at most, and the rest will be left in the cottage for my own use. ”

"Master Dazhai, one hundred catties is far from enough for me, I need at least five hundred catties, it would be better if I could have more."

"Why do you need so much black ironwood?"

"I'm going to keep it for practice. None of the other woods can be used, only the black ironwood of Guishan can be used, so I will be cheeky to come here to beg. ”

"It turned out to be for practice, it seems that you must have learned a five-element wood internal martial arts method." Xiao Tengfei said tentatively.

"Yes." Zhao Zheng nodded in acknowledgement.

Xiao Tengfei saw that Zhao Zheng didn't elaborate, so he didn't continue to dig into the roots, the internal skills on the rivers and lakes are complicated, there are thousands of ways, and there are people who learn any internal skills. There is an unwritten rule in the rivers and lakes, if others don't say it, it's best not to ask others in depth what martial arts they have learned, which is a very rude move.

He glanced at Zhao Zheng deeply, nodded and said, "For martial artists, practicing is a big deal, no wonder you want to get Black Iron Wood so much." I am also a person who loves talents, and I also hope to fulfill you, but there is too little black ironwood, and I am really powerless. It's better to be like this, I'll give you a small chance, let you get black ironwood with your real skills, what do you think? ”

"I think it's very good, what do you think about the owner of Dazhai, please say that there is no free lunch in the world, and in order to get a treasure like black ironwood, it is worth paying a little price and hard work." Zhao Zhengdao.

"The black ironwood is a copycat, not my Xiao alone, in my personal identity, I can only give you a hundred catties of black ironwood. If you want to get more black ironwood, you can fight with the rest of the small village masters, if you can win the blades under their hands, for each person you win, I will give you an extra hundred catties of black ironwood. Xiao Tengfei drew a line for Zhao Zheng.

"Okay, just do what the master of the village said, you can get to this point, it's already very face-saving for you. If you are not good at learning and art, you can't compare to the deputy owners here, and you will never mention the purchase of black ironwood. Zhao Zheng agreed.

Martial artists make a living from martial arts, and many things are solved by martial arts, which is much simpler and more direct than reasoning.

The deputy owners of the village also wanted to try what Zhao Zheng, a young man in the limelight, had to do, and they responded one after another. This hall is not a place for fights, and there are too many tables, chairs and benches to be used at all.

Xiao Tengfei said please, led the crowd out, and led everyone to the open space outside the Juyi Hall. The ground here is paved with solid bricks and stones, and there are bright weapon racks on both sides, on which swords, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, eighteen kinds of weapons, and weapons of the five elements outside the twenty-four roads are all available.

Everyone lined up on both sides, forming a circle, and Zhao Zheng, as a party, walked alone to the middle of the field and stood tall.

Xiao Tengfei looked around with a smile and asked, "Which brother is interested in meeting this Zhao Shaoxia for a while?" ”

Without waiting for the owners of the village to speak, Xiao Jiuge, who was dressed in black, stood up, jumped into the circle, and said lightly: "Dad, kill chickens with a knife, and if you don't have to work with your uncles and uncles, I can send him away alone, so that he can covet the precious wood on our mountain." ”

Xiao Tengfei saw that his son's exit was not inferior, and said abruptly: "Wine song, in front of the guests, how can you be so rude, if you are unstoppable, be careful to wait for the village rules!" ”

"Dad, although what I said is ugly, it is all the truth, if you think it is not good, it is not too late to deal with me later." Xiao Jiuge pulled out his sword, aimed the tip of the sword at Zhao Zheng, and said provocatively, "Zhao Zheng, I am the son of the master of the big village, let's count it as a small village master, you pass me first, and then you are qualified to take the initiative with other deputy villagers." Let me ask you, do you dare to fight? ”

"Okay." Zhao Zheng only said one word, and this one word was enough. (To be continued......)