Chapter 279: Into the Innate and to Lin'an (II)
The sea is condensed, although the thirty-one hidden veins have not been fully opened, but the next thing is just some water milling. Chen Sheng remembered that he had lived in the White Whisker Garden for more than a month. According to the calculation of the distance, Yue Fei should have returned to Lin'an. He was afraid that if he delayed any longer, Qin Hui's traitorous ministers and Zhao Gou's faint monarch would not know how to harm Marshal Yue to curry favor with Jinren, so he asked Tianyi Jushi to say goodbye.
The monks also knew that they could not stay. So he took out a secret book "Outline of the Formation Road" and gave it to Shen Luoyan. It is condensing the lifelong efforts of the Tianyi monks in the way of formation. There are not only detailed records of all the formation methods and formation changes that he created by himself, but also many annotated experiences. According to the standards of the Divine Domain, this booklet is the secret of bright gold.
At the same time, the Tianyi monk also gave Juque the two weapons he had used in his early years, the Ruthless Sword and the Broken Mind Knife. These two swords, although they are not as good as "retaining", are also hair-blowing and hair-breaking, and they are high-grade weapons. According to the standards of the gods, it belongs to the blue medium level. With these two weapons in hand, coupled with the newly trained "Wind Sword and Cloud Sword", Juque is like a tiger with wings, and his strength is very different from when he was in Xiaoshanghe.
Everything was ready, Chen Sheng and Bai Qing'er, Shen Luoyan, plus Juque and the others, a total of four people, said goodbye to Tianyi Jushi and Wang Xiaoshi, went down the mountain, and then embarked on the journey.
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The strongest power gang on land, the most evil black waterway on the water. These two big gangs are the most fierce and domineering. Even if it's just the ordinary gang members under the door who have suffered losses, they will gather manpower, go to the door to find the field, find out the person who dares to offend them, and then take revenge. At least it will ruin people's families, and at worst, it will destroy people's families and fill the family with children and old. The means are absolutely outrageous.
Even after the ordinary gang members suffered losses, if the head of the gang had something, the situation would naturally not be difficult to imagine. Under the command of Zhu Datianwang, the leader of the Black Water Dao, there are a total of "three heroes and four sticks, five swords and six palms, and two gods". Those who were defeated by Wang Xiaoshi that day were only the three evils of the Yangtze River, which were the lowest in rank. But in any case, they are also one of the leaders of the gang. If even the head of his own gang is cleaned up in public, and there is no way to retaliate back, then where should the face of the No. 1 gang in Heishui Dao be put away?
Therefore, for a period of time, the people of Heishuidao have been running around, desperately trying to find Wang Xiaoshi. It's a pity that so far in vain. Chen Sheng and the others, who left the White Whisker Garden and re-entered Jiangxia, couldn't help but be secretly amused when they watched Heishuidao work like a blind fly. Not to mention that Wang Xiaoshi is now in the mountains, and not to say that the ability of Tianyi layman to make up is not inferior to Lu Miaozi, even if Xiaoshi does not make any cover-up, just come back Jiangxia and stand in front of the Black Water Dao Gang, unless Zhu Da Tianwang or the Twin Gods Monarch make a move, otherwise, no matter how many other rabble, how can they get Xiaoshi?
Not bothering to pay attention to these people in the Black Waterway, Chen Sheng and the others, who put on the human skin mask again, went straight to the dock to find a big ship and spent a lot of money to charter it. The ship set sail on the same day and sailed down the Yangtze River. With a smooth wind, the boat went extremely fast. However, after more than ten days, the boat went to Wuhu. Everyone left the boat and went ashore, found a place where no one could see, and then took out the off-road Humvee. Within a few days, they arrived in Lin'an.
In the third year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1129), the imperial court referred to the old practice of Bianliang and promoted Hangzhou to Lin'an Mansion, which was called "Xingzai", that is, the temporary capital. Since then, the Southern Song Dynasty court poured the manpower, material and financial resources of the southeast half of the country to carefully build Lin'an City. It not only builds the palace, but also increases the ceremonial altar and temple, and then dredges the rivers and lakes, opens up roads, improves transportation, and develops industry and commerce, making it prosperous and lively for a while. According to records, at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population of Hangzhou was only more than 205,000 households. However, since Lin'an was elevated to the rank of Xingzai, the population has increased dramatically. In just 10 years, the population has reached a million people. In this day and age, it's amazing.
The whole city of Lin'an City is an irregular rectangle that is long and narrow from north to south. The Imperial Palace occupies the Phoenix Mountain in the south, while the city street is in the north, forming the pattern of "South Palace and North City". The royal street extending from the north gate of the palace runs through the whole city, becoming the most prosperous area in the city. The southern section of the Imperial Street is where the yamen of the imperial court are located, and the further north you go, the more bustling shops, markets, restaurants, and even sumo wrestlers of all kinds of storytelling, acting, and selling...... All entertainment, everything you need.
Although at this moment, a large area of land north of the Yellow River is still under the iron heel of the alien race. The people are in dire straits, and they are struggling day and night in dire straits. But walking on the royal street of Lin'an City, as far as the eye can see, it is bustling; When I looked around, I saw only bright clothes. But how can people believe that only ten years ago, Jin Wushu led a large army south, broke through Lin'an, burned and looted, and completely burned the old Lin'an City, which has a history of hundreds of years? But it is really "outside the mountain, Qingshan Building, outside the building, when will the West Lake sing and dance?" The warm wind smoked the tourists drunk, and Hangzhou was made Bianzhou".
When I first arrived in Lin'an, I was not familiar with the place, and I couldn't talk about all the big plans, so I had to find a place to settle down first, and then listen in detail to find out what had happened inside and outside the court during this period of time, and then I could prescribe the right medicine. In addition, everyone walked for a long time, and they felt a little hungry in their stomachs. I happened to see a restaurant, and the gold lacquer signboard on it wrote the three big characters of "Zhuangyuan Building".
Everyone looked at each other and smiled, entered the restaurant and went up to the Accord on the second floor, and sat at a table facing the street. The shopkeeper came up to serve, and in a moment, all kinds of delicacies were placed on the table. However, Chen Sheng, Shen Luoyan, Bai Qing'er and the other three are already innate bodies, and they don't have much demand for fireworks food. But if you look particularly beautiful, you can just take a chopstick or two and taste it fresh. Only Juque is still in the qi refining stage, so let go of the belly and feast.
I'm eating happily. Suddenly, I only heard the noise of people and horses under the restaurant, and some people sounded gongs to open the way, and the sound was deafening. Juque became curious, put down his chopsticks and looked out. I saw dozens of big men riding high-headed horses, swaggering through the streets. These big men are all bear-backed, with strong physiques and fierce demeanors. Looking at the way some of them are dressed, it turns out to be ...... Jin Guo Jurchen Tartar?
Ju Que has been in the Yue family's army for so long, and the Jurchen Tartars that he has cut under his hands are at least seventy or eighty, if not a hundred. The eyes have seen more than they can count. So there's a chance to make a mistake in everything, but this one is absolutely not wrong. He hurriedly shouted, "Brother Chen, come and see." There are Jurchen Tartars...... Man. After all, it was the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the restaurant was full of drinkers, so he didn't dare to declare the word Tartar in public for fear of provoking anyone.
When Chen Sheng heard him say this, he couldn't help but whisper softly, put down his wine glass, and looked down as well. With his eyesight, he doesn't need to activate the "Sun and Moon Eyes", he can still see the appearance of the group of people on the street clearly.
I saw that the leader of this team of people was only about seventeen or eighteen years old at most, and there was still a bit of childishness between his eyebrows. Judging by his appearance, he is somewhat similar to the golden vulture that was slashed and killed by Chen Sheng in Xiaoshang River that day. If he is really a Jurchen, then it is very likely that he is also the clan of the Wanyan clan.
The people who accompanied this Jurchen young man were dressed as Han Chinese. He was about fifty or sixty years old, with no grass on his head and a long scar on his forehead. It seems that he had been injured to leave this mark. Looking at the appearance of the scar, the person who did it that day made a very ruthless move, almost splitting the old man's entire head in two. But even if he had suffered such a serious injury, the old man could not die, and his horror was definitely higher than that of the attacker.
After the Jurchen young man and the old man with the scarhead, there were eight masters, who followed each other on the left and right.
The four people on the left, the first to catch the eye, is a good-looking young man. Well...... It must be pretty. He is young, dashing, and has a temperament that is out of the dust. But for some reason, his neck seemed to be broken, so that he always looked down at the ground, but never looked up at people. And this appearance, far from making people feel disgusted, but added to his extraordinary sense of loneliness.
Compared with this young man who always bows his head, the eight-foot-tall, tower-like man behind him; the young, beautiful, delicate woman; and the middle-aged man who was as thin as a dried persimmon and full of hatred all seemed to be out of the crowd.
But the four masters on the right side did not have the existence of such an eye-catching young man as this bowed head. They are: a gentleman who is like an alcoholic addict who has hollowed out his body. A vicious man dressed in animal skins with a thick scar on his face. A strange man with faint gold and iron skin, and no weapons in his bare hands. A short man with a thin body and a narrow head and a dog's face. These guys, dressed in appearance, are not like Han people. It must have been the retinue of the Jurchen youth. Behind them, the Han Chinese and the Jurchens were equally divided. Obviously, this is the Jurchen young man who came to Lin'an, and the old man with the scarred head came forward to receive him, and by the way, he brought his subordinates to serve as guards.
At this time, there are shops and restaurants on both sides of the street, afraid that there are thousands of eyes watching this swaggering group of people at the same time? But most of those are ordinary people and can't attract the attention of the masters. And Chen Sheng's gaze had just swept twice over the pedestrian, and the old man with the scarred head and the young man with the bowed head immediately reacted.