After the Ziya River to the north is Yanci Mountain, roughly into the east-west direction, stretching for more than 700 miles like a bent bow, extending from the north of Qingzhou to the east to the shore of the Bohai Sea, it was the natural barrier to protect the two states of Qinghai and Hebei, over this Yanci Mountain, the north side is Xuanzhou that once belonged to the Northern Desert, and the customs and customs are very different from the Central Plains.

When Chen Nian and Lu Xiao arrived outside Xuanzhou City, it was the end of summer, and it was the best time for the local climate, so Lu Xiao asked her: "But if you want to play in Xuanzhou for a few days, I see that Feng Junyang has not sent anyone to chase us along the way, so he should not come to Xuanzhou." ”

Chen Nian lowered his head and silently nibbled on the dry food in his hand, and after a while said, "No, let's hurry as soon as possible." ”

With such a listless appearance, Lu Xiao had already seen all the way, and at this moment he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, so he stepped forward and snatched the steamed bun in her hand, and shouted: "Xie Chennian,"

Chen Nian paused, and slowly lifted his eyelids to look at him.

Lu Xiao was so angry that he dragged Chen Nian up from the bench, wanting to find a mirror to reflect his appearance with her, but this was just a tea shed on the side of the road, where would there be any mirrors. He turned around twice in the same place, and then asked the owner of the tea shed viciously, "Where is your water tank?"

The boss saw that he was vicious, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly pointed to the back of the shed, and replied, "It's right behind." ”

Lu Xiao forcibly carried Chen Nian to the back of the tea shed, lifted the lid of the water tank, pressed Chen Nian to see the reflection in the water, and said: "Look at your appearance for yourself, see for yourself, are you still the Xie Chennian I knew at the beginning, just your virtue, I think you still honestly go back to find your Ace, and save yourself so half-dead, if you can bear it, go and make him small, anyway, there is a man in our Xian clan who marries multiple women, this is nothing, if you can't bear it, then kill all the women he wants to marry, So that he can only marry you one,"

At the beginning of the year, she was still struggling, but when she heard it, she suddenly stopped, and looked at the water in a daze, and saw that the person in the water had a sad face and a gloomy eyebrow, and she felt strange when she looked at it. She stared at it for a moment, then closed her eyes suddenly, and plunged into the water.

Lu Xiao was taken aback, and subconsciously wanted to pull her up, but after thinking about it, he stopped again, only let go of the hand holding her, took a step back, and stood there holding her in his arms to look at her.

Chen Nian held his breath to the end, until he began to feel unbearable pain in his lungs, his mind was blank, and he couldn't think of any distracting thoughts anymore, so he straightened up along the water tank. Countless droplets of water dripped from her head and face, smashing the figure on the water to pieces, Chen Nian gulped the fresh air greedily, and before he could catch his breath, he turned around and asked Lu Xiao with a smile: "You come and try, but you can hold your breath longer than me,"

Lu Xiao glanced at her twice, and really walked to the edge of the water tank, first looked at the smiling Chen Nian, and then looked at the inside of the tank, and bent down hesitantly, seeing that when he was about to touch the water, the person suddenly straightened up again, and said disdainfully: "Xie Chennian, you are really stupid for me,"

Chen Nian really planned to wait for him to plunge into the water and make a dark mistake, flip him over, and make him plunge headfirst into the water tank. Who knew that Lu Xiao had seen through her thoughts, Chen Nian's heart was empty, but his face was extremely innocent, and he only wondered: "What are you talking about, where is this?"

Lu Xiao glanced at Hengchen Nian lightly, ignored her, and turned around and walked out. Chen Nian smiled, followed out, and saw the tea stall owner hiding aside and looking at them pitifully, looking like she wanted to step forward but didn't dare, she thought about it, and then she understood the reason, so she stretched out her hand and beckoned the boss to come forward, touched a piece of broken silver from his waist and handed it to him, and said with a smile: "Uncle, I'm really sorry, I ruined your water, this silver is for you, and you should be compensated." ”

The owner of the tea stall suddenly turned sad into joy, hurriedly took the silver, said a few auspicious words in a row, and sent Chen Nian and Lu Xiao out of the tea shed.

Although Xuanzhou is located outside the Guan, but its wealth is not less than Jizhou, the city is full of shops and merchants, but it is a very prosperous place. This city was originally a mixture of Xia people and Northern Desert people, and later due to the continuous growth of the Xian clan and the south, there were gradually more Xian clan people in the city. Most of these Xian clansmen were tall, fair-skinned, with high noses and deep eyes, and extremely clear facial contours, which were very different from the Xia and Northern Desert people, and could be identified at a glance.

Chen Nian met several Xian clan people one after another, and seeing that they were all strong men with five big and three thick, he couldn't help but whisper to Lu Xiao: "I used to think that you were strong, but now that I look at it, I know that you are actually smooth in your clan,"

The Xian clan is still martial, and they like to worship Kong Wu's powerful heroes, Lu Xiao doesn't like to listen to Chen Nian's words, so he only glanced at her from the corner of his eye, and he didn't even pay attention to it. Chen Nian was already familiar with his temper, and he didn't care about it at the moment, and turned back to look at her street scene. The two did not stay in Xuanzhou for long, only stayed for one day, bought some daily necessities, and then left Xuanzhou.

According to the original plan, they should continue to travel north from Xuanzhou to confuse Feng Junyang's pursuers, and secretly go back again, cross Yanci Mountain and enter the territory of Jizhou, so as to enter Taihang Mountain. Unexpectedly, Feng Junyang only chased after Ziyahe, and did not send anyone to continue to chase after him. In this case, Chen Nian and the two did not need to go north to go around in circles, so they simply went straight to the southeast from Xuanzhou, crossed Yanci Mountain from north to south and entered Jizhou, and then went south for two days before entering the Taihang Mountain.

As soon as he entered Taihang, Chen Nian was like a fish in water, and the whole person suddenly came alive. Lu Xiao was puzzled, and said strangely: "Isn't this just Bei Taihang, it's still far away from your Qingfeng Village, what are you doing so early?"

Chen Nian was in a good mood, and when he heard the words, he explained to him: "Qingfeng Village has dominated Taihang for hundreds of years, and it is not only South Taihang, but also in this North Taihang, and most of the places are the sphere of influence of Qingfeng Village. Some other villages with smaller names, although they do not belong to Qingfeng Village, can be regarded as the disciples and grandchildren of Qingfeng Village, and they have to respect Qingfeng Village for a few points. ”

Lu Xiao suddenly realized, nodded slowly, and said: "I understand, to put it simply, this Qingfeng Village is the ancestor of the mountain bandits in Taihang." ”

Chen Nian smiled: "It's not too much." Thinking that when the northern desert invaded the south, Mai Shuai occupied the two states of Qinghai and Hebei to resist the Tartars and protect the people, and the people of Jiangbei admired Mai Shuai's righteous deeds and rushed from all over to help Mai Shuai resist the enemy. At that time, there were 36 cottages in the Taihang Mountains, and they jointly elected Qingfeng Village as the leader, and gathered the coalition troops to go out of the mountain to listen to Mai Shuai's call. After the battle of Lintong, Tang Gong used the soldiers and horses of our Qingfeng Village, with 3,000 against the 20,000 horses of the Northern Desert Killer, which has been famous for thousands of years. Since then, Qingfeng Village has been the head of the villages in the north and south of Taihang. ”

As a member of the Xian clan, Lu Xiao didn't know these histories, but he listened to them with relish, and sighed: "Qingfeng Village still has such a beautiful past, it's really unexpected, I thought it was a bandit's den in Taihang Mountain." ”

He said an unintentional word, but Chen Nian suddenly fell silent, secretly thinking that if it weren't for Qingfeng Village's such a glorious past, Xu Zhang Kuisu would not have such a big ambition, and he actually wanted to get involved in the battle of the world, but it ended up in a dismal end, and even the cottage was broken.

In this way, it is not necessarily possible to be in the limelight in troubled times. At the beginning, Qingfeng Zhai sent troops out of the mountain to resist foreign invasion, occupying the word "morality", and being led by heroes like Mai Shuai and Tang Gong, which won the praise of the people. Although the world is also in chaos at the moment, it is all called back and forth by their own families, and it is not possible to say who is reasonable and who is not, it is all about whose soldiers are strong and strong, and whose heart is more ruthless and hot. Qingfeng Village came up at this time, and it has nothing to do with the word "morality", it can only be commensurate with bandits, don't say that you lose, even if you win, you can't win the hearts of the people.

Chen Nian thought a lot for a while, and there was no movement for a while.

Lu Xiao glanced at her and asked, "What's wrong, why don't you speak again?"

Chen Nian came back to his senses and replied to him: "I am thinking about the word 'morality', which is also a soldier, with these two words, Qingfeng Village is a righteous army, but if not, the same people and horses are bandits." ”

Although Lu Xiao is of a different race, he is not just a reckless man with no force, and after listening to it, he couldn't help but ask Chen Nian: "Morality and morality, what is Taoism, what is righteousness,"

These words stopped Chen Nian for a while, she hadn't fully figured it out herself, how could she answer Lu Xiao. She thought about it seriously, and then said: "I don't know the word 'Dao', but the word 'righteousness' is the first thing for people who practice martial arts. Otherwise, you will be the best in the world in martial arts, and everyone will only be afraid of you and afraid of you, and they will not respect you at all. ”

Lu Xiao was dizzy by her, and said disdainfully: "You Xia people are trouble, I want to say just one word, if you want to be good with me, then we will be brothers, even if you die for you, I am willing." But if you are not kind to me, then don't blame me for showing you a knife. ”

Chen Nian shook his head when he heard this, and said: "How can it be done, if there is a great traitor, who is not good to everyone, but is very good to you, are you a brother with him, or a bright knife, if according to what you said, as long as he is good to you, you can live and die with him, but if you help him like this, isn't it equivalent to harming those good people who are harmed by him, besides, if there is a person who is very good to everyone, it depends on your dislike, you don't like him, you don't kill him, how can you judge a person's good or bad only by your own likes and dislikes,"

Lu Xiao thought about it for a while and felt that there was some truth in what she said, so he nodded unconsciously. Chen Nian saw that he had identified him, and said unexpectedly: "Look at it, it's not that our Xia people are troublesome, but that you Xian people are too simple, even if you love and hate clearly, even if it's good, you must also have righteousness in front." ”

Lu Xiao paused for a while, but said strangely: "Why should such a traitor be good to me?"