Huanglong County is a large county, with a larger population than Qinghe County, a larger area than Qinghe County, and a much stronger economic development than Qinghe County.

There are no less than 100 ships of all kinds docked at the wharf in Huanglong County, and various warehouses on the wharf are next to each other.

"Oops, be careful......"

Just when Yan Liqiang had just boarded the dock, suddenly, more than ten meters away from him, a laborer who was carrying things to the boat somehow slipped when he got on the boat, and a hemp bag he was carrying and he fell into the river at once, causing an exclamation from the surroundings.

Seeing that someone had fallen into the water and was beside him, Yan Liqiang didn't think about it, so he hurriedly ran over to see if he could help.

"Oh, that's a bag of spun cotton yarn, I just collected it, don't get soaked in the water......" A merchant-like man almost jumped to his feet on the side of the boat, "hurry up and scoop up the cotton yarn......

People and goods fell into the water, the first thing that came to the businessman's mind was to fish for goods instead of people, Yan Liqiang almost wanted to scold his mother, he swept his eyes and saw a rope on the ground not far away, so he hurriedly ran over, took the rope, and prepared to save people.

But there was a person who was faster than Yan Liqiang, just when he was holding the rope and just ran to the water's edge, on a boat next to him, an old man standing barefoot in a small boat next to him held a long pole seven or eight meters long, inserted the pole into the water, and gently picked it up, and the sturdy body, with a breath, flew up from the water and landed steadily on the dock.

"Cotton yarn, cotton yarn ......" The laborer who had just come out of the water did not care about his own safety, and as soon as he fell to the ground, he screamed.

The old man's pole plunged into the water again, and with another pick, the large bag of veils flew up from the water and landed on the ground of the pier.

The old man rescued people and fished out the yarn, before and after only two seconds, the whole process was neat and beautiful, a false alarm turned into an invisible, the people on the dock and the bed next to him couldn't help but cheer, "good kung fu ......", the old man didn't say anything, just hugged his fist around, his face was calm, "see and smile", and returned to the cabin to continue to do his own thing, just like doing a trivial thing.

Yan Liqiang, who was holding the rope, was surprised, because he saw that although the old man was holding a pole on the boat, he picked out people and cotton yarn from the water, but it was marksmanship, which was as long as the posture of the old man holding the pole could be seen, the old man's right hand, holding the root of the pole, could not be exposed, when the old sentry was standing by the side of the boat, the lower plate was as stable as Mount Tai, and he easily picked out hundreds of kilograms of people and dozens of kilograms of goods easily, just like he picked up two bean sprouts with chopsticks in the vegetable plate, without decades of immersion in marksmanship, it was absolutely impossible to do this。

It's just that such a person is doing a captain on the ship, so it only shows one point, this old man has not completed the foundation, without this foundation, no matter how much the old man's marksmanship is practiced, it is all external kung fu, and now it is estimated that it has reached the top, and it is impossible to go further, and with the decline of the old man's physical strength in the future, his hard work in marksmanship for decades will finally be a flash in the pan.

If you don't practice martial arts, you will end up empty.

Just now, the merchant hurriedly instructed people to take out the veils in the hemp belt to dry, but fortunately, those veils had just fallen into the water, and there were not many soaked in water, and the river water here was clear, and the dyeing of the veils would not affect the quality of the veils, and the total loss was not large.

"It's a pity......" A voice suddenly sounded behind Yan Liqiang.

Yan Liqiang turned around and saw a middle-aged man standing not far behind him.

It was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a dark red military uniform of the town government soldiers, with a beautiful cowhide tiger head belt on the military uniform, and a belly, looking like a lieutenant-level officer, the middle-aged man had a stubble on his face, looking a little lazy and unkempt, and there was a smell of alcohol on his body.

Other officers would have swords and the like on their belts, but this person had a wine gourd on his belt.

When Yan Liqiang turned around, the man's gaze had already fallen on his face, he was slightly stunned, his gaze suddenly became complicated, and the whole person muttered to himself, "Like, too similar......"

Yan Liqiang's gaze swept over the man's right hand, and the little finger of the man's right hand was gone.

"Yan Liqiang has seen Uncle Qian!" Yan Liqiang hurriedly saluted the man.

The look on the man's face had recovered, he looked at Yan Liqiang, his eyes swept over the rope that Yan Liqiang was still holding in his hand, and there was a smile on his face, "You were planning to save people just now?"

Yan Liqiang dropped the rope a little embarrassed, "Human life is at stake, you can't be insensitive......"

"Hahaha, a person's life is at stake, you can't be insensitive!" The middle-aged man laughed, stretched out his hand and patted Yan Liqiang's body, "Let's go, in this Huanglong County, I will ensure that you live more comfortably than in Qinghe County......"

After meeting on the dock, the man left the dock with Yan Liqiang and came to the roadside not far from the pier.

The road here is bustling, with traffic and people, which is a few points more than in Qinghe County.

The wharf is a place for the distribution of passengers and goods, so on the roadside outside the wharf, there are a lot of ox carts and horse-drawn carts, pulling people and goods.

Just when Yan Liqiang was thinking about whether the man he called Uncle Qian was going to call a car, he didn't even need the man to greet him, a carriage that was parked not far away and specially carried people had already taken the initiative to run over, stopped in front of the two people, and the coachman in the carriage jumped out of the car flexibly, nodding and greeting at the man.

"Master Qian, take my car, take my car......"

"Hahaha, just your kid's sharp eyes, okay, give you face, just take your car ......"

The driver who drove the car smiled and took the initiative to help Yan Liqiang and the man open the car door, "I don't know where Master Qian wants me to send you, Zuixianglou or Yixiangyuan, I heard that there are a few beautiful girls in Yixiangyuan these days, all waiting for Master Qian?"

"Ahem......" The man surnamed Qian glanced at Yan Liqiang and waved his hand, "Don't talk nonsense, go back to the craftsman camp......"

"Okay, okay......"

The two men got into the carriage, and as soon as the coachman closed the door, climbed to the front, and with a flick of the reins, the horses pulling the carriage began to run.

The two-wheeled carriage runs briskly, and the carriage is also much more private, except for a little shaky sitting in the carriage, the curtains of the windows are closed, and the movement inside the carriage is basically invisible from the outside.

Yan Liqiang, who got into the car, actually had a lot of questions.

At this time, his father was able to entrust him to the man surnamed Qian to take care of him, which shows that his father absolutely trusts this man, and the relationship between the two is by no means ordinary, but the strange thing is that in the years since he was a child, he has never heard his father say that he has such a friend in Huanglong County, and this man surnamed Qian has never come to his house before, such a relationship is really incomprehensible.

The carriage shook slightly, and the man surnamed Qian sat opposite Yan Liqiang, he looked at Yan Liqiang's face, and a complicated look flashed in his eyes again, "Your father has already told me about you, although the Hong family is a tyrant in your Qinghe County, but a family that has not produced a samurai for three generations, no matter how long the claws are, they can't reach out to Huanglong County, even if they can stretch out, I can cut off the claws, so that the Hong family can't eat and walk around, you just listen to my arrangement, and you can recuperate with peace of mind!"

"Thank you, Uncle Qian!"

"By the way, did your dad talk to you about me before?"

"No!" Yan Liqiang shook his head.

"Hmph!" The man surnamed Qian snorted coldly, and seemed to be a little dissatisfied, "My name is Qian Su, I am your father's junior brother, and the two of us used to be taught by the same master......

"Senior brother?" Yan Liqiang glanced at Qian Su with some confusion.

Qian Su seemed to know what Yan Liqiang was thinking, he picked up the wine gourd hanging on his waist, opened it, and took a sip of wine, "I learned the craft of iron-making with your father, not martial arts, and later, ...... Later, because of one thing, I had a quarrel with your father, and I fell out, and I haven't had any contact over the years, I know that your father is in Liuhe Town, and your father also knows that I am in Huanglong County, but then although our anger subsided, neither of us could pull down their faces and take the initiative to find each other, and I didn't expect your father to come to me last night......"

"You and my dad are ...... Is it because my mother had a falling out?" Yan Liqiang asked calmly.

Qian Su was about to take a second sip of wine, when his hand stopped in the air, he looked at Yan Liqiang in a daze, with a surprised expression, he didn't expect Yan Liqiang's mind to be so keen, "Your father told you?"

"No, I guessed!" Yan Liqiang shook his head.

Men and men can fall out, in most cases, only because of two things, either money or women, this is Yan Liqiang's experience and life insights summarized in his previous life, although this is a bit vulgar, but it is the truth, from the time he saw Qian Su, this man looked at his complicated face and his relationship with his father and his father's character, what can make the two fall out, it is estimated that it is because of emotional reasons.

Qian Su took a big sip of wine again, and his unshaven face showed a trace of loneliness that could not be relieved, "Your mother is our master's daughter, your father and I both like your mother, but your mother likes your father's ......"

"Uncle Qian, my mother is no more, you and my father are both affectionate people, the past is over......" Yan Liqiang sighed.

"Hehe, you're right, the past is over, to be honest, I'm very happy that your father can come to me!" Qian Su exhaled a long breath, glanced at Yan Liqiang again, and suddenly laughed, "Your father said that you have never been far away before, you used to practice martial arts every day, and your personality is also a little introverted, you don't have any heart, you are not good at socializing with people, you can't speak, and let me take care of you more, I think your father may be blind......"

What could Yan Liqiang say, he just widened his eyes, and looked at the man in front of him with pure and flawless cute eyes, the expression on his face was like those two-dimensional pink girls who wore contact lenses and played with selfies.

Qian Su's next sip of wine almost choked on Yan Liqiang's expression, and he coughed violently in the carriage......

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When Yan Liqiang arrived in Huanglong County, in a study in the backyard of the Hong family's compound in Liuhe Town, the old lady of the Hong family, that is, Hong Tao's grandfather, was frowning slightly, listening to the report of a housekeeper at home.

Hong Chengshou, the old lady of the Hong family, looks a little rich, in his sixties, wearing a gorgeous indigo silk gown, his hair is meticulously combed, sitting on a Taishi chair, playing with a few iron galls in his hand, with the report of the steward, the smile on the face of the old lady Hong gradually converged, but his eyes slowly sharpened.

"You said that the Liu butcher saw the Hong family father and son going in the direction of the county seat this morning, and then only Yan Dechang came back alone, but Yan Liqiang did not come back?"

"Yes!" The steward who was talking to Old Lady Hong nodded, "Originally, I thought that Yan Dechang sent his son to the infirmary for treatment, but in the afternoon, I asked people to go to several infirmaries in the county to see it, and I didn't find Yan Liqiang!"

"Does anyone know where Yan Liqiang went?"

"For the time being, no one knows Yan Liqiang's whereabouts!" the steward whispered, and then remembered something, "By the way, when I came back last night, I met the Yan family father and son on the road, and the Yan family father and son still refused to bow their heads, that Yan Liqiang seemed to behave a little differently from the previous days, and it didn't seem to be so wooden ......", the steward immediately said what happened to Yan Liqiang last night, especially the words that Yan Liqiang said, he repeated it word for word to Mrs. Hong.

Listening to Yan Liqiang's words relayed by the steward, Old Lady Hong's eyes narrowed, and the iron gall that was spinning in his hand stopped suddenly, and after an interval of two seconds, he continued to resume his rotation, and said quietly, "Yan Liqiang's previous Mu Ne, maybe his father asked him to pretend to be so that we wouldn't notice him, but this time in the first test of national arts, the father and son of the Yan family saw that our Hong family had done something to them, so naturally there was no need to pretend to be ......" Speaking of this, Old Lady Hong sneered," But at this time, they can't help it, you first arrange for people to inquire about Yan Liqiang's whereabouts, even if our Hong family has not produced samurai for three generations, but this Liuhe Town is still our Hong family's Liuhe Town, and we can't afford a blacksmith's son to turn the sky upside down......."

"Yes!"

The steward left the study, and after a secret door in the study, another man came out.

The man was thin and small, his face was a little green, he had a pair of unpleasant triangular eyes, and on his left cheek, there was a black mole the size of a bean, and his breath was a little cruel, he smiled, "Old man Hong, I just said that it was best to start a few days ago, as long as I touched their house at night, I could break his spine with one palm, and his life would be wasted, and he could only live in a wheelchair, where could he practice any martial arts, where would it be like now, making it so troublesome?"

"A few days ago, there was no first test of national arts, at that time we had to do it to Yan Liqiang, the traces were too obvious, and it was not good to attract criticism, and as long as Tao'er could defeat Yan Liqiang on the field, it proved the strength of our Hong family, if something happens to the son of a blacksmith, no one will suspect our Hong family anymore, I originally wanted to let you do it in the past two days, but I didn't expect the Yan family father and son to be so vigilant......" Old lady Hong sighed and shook his head.

"I can't help with the matter of finding someone, and the old man Hong didn't invite me to find someone, the old man Hong just needs to tell me where he is, and I will leave Pingxi County when I am done, but the time I have been delayed in the Hong family for the past few days, the price will be calculated separately......" The man smiled, licked his lips, and a trace of greed flashed in his eyes.

"Don't worry, our Hong family can still afford this money......"

"That's good!"

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