The two of them walked slowly to the east of the city, and it was getting dark.

The further east you go, the wider the road becomes, and there are more and more pedestrians.

Lanterns have been hung in the shops facing the street, and the yellow lanterns sway in the wind, emitting a warm yellow glow in the twilight.

Turning a corner, a wide street is revealed.

The road is clean bluestone, large enough for four horse-drawn carriages to travel in parallel, and the lane is lined with pedestrians.

The aroma of food fills the air.

As far as the eye can see, most of this area is actually a restaurant.

The wooden attic on the third and fourth floors is hung with various colors of long ban, and the cold wind blows in the twilight, and the long fan is accompanied by the aroma of food.

Ye Cheng raised his eyebrows and looked at Ye Feng on the side.

"Brother Feng, it seems that the food around here is a little expensive."

Ye Cheng glanced at the pedestrians passing by, these people were obviously much more elegantly dressed, some girls wearing cloak robes, wearing beaded hosta flowers on their heads, obviously the situation at home was not bad.

"There are two unique places in this Ying'an City, one is this Xingluo Fang, and the other is Honghua Lane, if you don't get these two places, you can't get Ying'an City."

"Your big brother Feng will take you to open your eyes today"

When Ye Feng said that Red Flower Lane, he smiled and patted Ye Cheng on the shoulder.

"Star Place"

Ye Cheng raised his eyes and looked at the exquisite attics scattered on both sides of the long street, and said softly.

The further you go, the more crowded it becomes.

On the sidewalk, there are young men wearing moon-white robes and holding paper fans in their hands, and there are also rich middle-aged people who are followed by three or two black-clothed men

On the driveway, the carriages were even more blocked, and it took a long time to move forward a little, and some anxious people got off the carriage directly and walked towards the sidewalk next to them.

Ye Cheng followed Ye Feng all the way to the street, but the more he walked, the more pedestrians there were, but fortunately, this black horse seemed to be trained, and he was not afraid of people, so he always followed Ye Cheng obediently.

"Here it is"

Ye Feng stopped in front of a five-storey exquisite attic, and pedestrians came in and out at the entrance of the attic, and business was extremely prosperous.

Just for a while, Ye Chengcheng saw that the little guys at the door welcomed four or five waves of people in, and more than a dozen small guys were busy with their feet not touching the ground.

Above the door, there is a huge signboard hanging Zhangxu Chang, the words on the signboard are powerful, and the three golden characters of "Jufulou" appear to be very imposing.

"Don't look at the soil from this name, but this gourmets in Ancheng don't know this place" Ye Feng smiled.

As soon as the two approached, a small servant immediately greeted them.

The two of them were wearing gray jackets, and they were walking in the snow for several days, and their jackets were also stained with dust, which was a little incompatible with the flow of people around them who were freshly dressed and angry, and who were in brocade hats and mink furs.

The little guy didn't dare to slack off, he looked at the long knife hanging on the waist of the two, a trace of awe flashed in his eyes, Jufulou ushered in, and the little guy naturally saw these big men with swords and swords.

These warriors are informal, and they dress casually, but they are quite generous, and they serve well, and the rewards are unusually rich, of course, if they are not served well, it is common to make trouble directly

The little servant took the reins of the horse in Ye Cheng's hand, bowed down and asked

"Is the two masters dine-in or private room?"

"Let's have a private room," Ye Feng waved his hand

"The private room in the east can see the Ying'an River, and the private room in the west is the plum garden of my Jufu Building.

Ye Feng glanced at Ye Cheng

"Since you have come to Ying'an City, then Ying'an River," Ye Cheng said softly

"Okay, the second floor of the private room, please come with me"

Dine-in is the lobby on the first floor.

There are tables around the lobby, and at this time, there are already many figures sitting at each table, and the wine and food are complete, and the figures on the table are staggered, which is extremely lively.

In the middle of the lobby is a stage with young girls dancing and musicians accompanying them.

On the second floor and above, there are corridors, and each wing room is centered on the stage, and it is a semicircle, and the guests in the private room can not only look at the scenery outside the window, but also watch the singing and dancing in the building.

The two sat down, and the little servant brought up a thick cookbook.

"Brother Cheng has any taboos?"

Ye Cheng shook his head.

Ye Feng directly waved his hand

"Jufulou's signboard whole beef pot, one pound of shutters, half a pound of beef tongue, three jars of old rice wine in Quanzhou City, and others are according to the usual practice"

Ye Feng took out a golden leaf from his arms and put it on the table

"For the rest, if you have any signature dishes in Jufu Building, order them all, and the rest will be yours."

"Yes, the little one is ready" The little guy accepted the gold leaf and retreated happily.

Ye Cheng looked at Ye Feng with some surprise, the size of two fingers of the gold leaf, no less than twenty taels of silver, this is the cost of ordinary people for more than half a year

Ye Cheng picked up the purple sand teapot on the table, filled it for Ye Feng, and filled it for himself, and the breeze outside the window blew, and the faint aroma spread

Ye Cheng chuckled, "I didn't expect Brother Feng to be a rich man."

Ye Feng raised his eyebrows and glared at Ye Cheng

"Don't pretend to me, you kid, compare with you, where is Lao Ye and I, the black horse at your kid's feet, put it in Ying'an City, even if it is a thousand taels of silver, you have to grab your head"

Ye Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then chuckled at the corner of his mouth, his black horse was a war horse carefully raised by Qingyu Pavilion, even if he dared to charge in the face of ordinary ghosts, even if he paid a thousand taels of silver, I am afraid it would be priceless

However, Ye Cheng also reacted all at once, Ye Feng, as a master of the inner family with successful internal qi, how could he be short of silver.

"And your knife, put it on the rivers and lakes, I'm afraid that tens of thousands of taels of silver will also be rushed for it"

He glanced at the treasure knife that Ye Cheng placed on the couch at random, and there was a trace of envy in his eyes.

He also uses a knife, so he can naturally see the quality of the knife, the bite in his hand is already a magic weapon in the rivers and lakes, but compared with Ye Cheng's mouth, it is simply a difference between cloud and mud.

Although he had only seen it when he killed the wolf that night, he immediately saw the extraordinaryness of Ye Cheng's treasure knife.

And Ye Cheng's knife always gave him a faint sense of threat.

He was obsessed with knives, so he naturally wanted to borrow the knife to see, but he finally suppressed himself.

There are three taboos on the rivers and lakes, the first is silver, the second is women, and the third is the blade, which is a taboo

The two of them sat on the wooden couch, and in the middle was the wooden table for serving, according to the rules, they should have been kneeling, but Ye Feng and Ye Chengdu didn't care about this set, and sat directly at the table

The room was a little stuffy, the stove was burning, and a cold breeze was blowing outside the window, which made people wake up.

Looking out of the window, it is the Ying'an River.

In the night, the river flows quietly, through Xingluo Fang, and then through Honghua Lane, and finally the monk is in the deep night

Along the embankment on both sides of the Ying'an River, there are rows of delicate wooden attics, either three or four floors, or five or six floors, and the outside of the attics are hung with yellow and red lanterns.

Ye Feng pointed to the cruise ships that passed by from time to time on the river

"Seeing that there is no over there, it is the famous Honghua Lane in Ying'an City" He smiled and said to Ye Cheng

The corners of Ye Cheng's mouth curled slightly, and he took a sip of the tea bowl, but he didn't answer.

Ye Feng suddenly reacted and said softly

"Brother Cheng has a family?"

"It's not true, it's just that there is a little maid at home who is not very worrying" I don't know what to think, Ye Cheng showed a smile on his face

Ye Feng looked at Ye Cheng's expression for a moment, and then looked at the cruise ship on the river not far away, the smile on his face faded, and said softly

"It's good, it's good......"

The two looked at the riverbank in the night, and they were silent.

The red and yellow lights were reflected on the surface of the river, the breeze blew, and the waves of the river were all over the place, and the room was extremely quiet, and Ye Cheng seemed to be able to hear the faint sound of the river slapping on the embankment not far away.

Ye Cheng looked at the big man on the other side of the small table with some curiosity

"Brother Nafeng ...... just now"

What he said was naturally what happened just now, with Ye Feng's appearance just now, he couldn't look down on those few taels of silver.

"You mean the matter of the Xu family?" Ye Feng came back to his senses and waved his hand

"One yard is one yard, I do things for Xu Shusheng, so naturally I want to collect money from him, I can take this silver with peace of mind" Ye Feng said softly

Ye Cheng was stunned, he didn't expect Ye Feng to answer like this.

"Brother Cheng is traveling for the first time?"

Ye Cheng nodded, in fact, this was indeed his first time going out.

"Sneaking out?" Ye Cheng shook his head lightly and was silent.

Ye Feng shook his head, a knowing smile flashed on his face, but he said to himself

"Hard mouth, don't look at your kid smiling all day long, as if he doesn't care about anything, but in his bones I'm afraid he is more arrogant than anyone else"

Ye Cheng's eyes flashed, and he was about to speak

Seeing Ye Cheng's expression, Ye Feng seemed to know what Ye Cheng wanted to say, waved his hand, and grinned, "Your kid's temperament is really similar to mine back then, like a fighting, it will explode when you touch it, haha" He laughed softly

Seeing Ye Feng's appearance, Ye Cheng fell silent, saying that he was not arrogant, he didn't believe it himself, just now he just subconsciously wanted to refute.

Ye Feng didn't know what he remembered, a trace of nostalgia flashed in his eyes, and he said softly

"When I was a child, there was an old storyteller in the village, telling the story of the seven heroes and five righteousness, and I thought, if only I could be a chivalrous man in the book, happy and hateful, chivalrous and righteous, how happy"

"Later, the master came to the village, I don't know how to fall in love with me, let me go with him to practice martial arts, I said goodbye to my parents at the age of twelve, followed the master to walk the rivers and lakes, the master's requirements are high, every day to boil the muscles and bones, and to practice martial arts, the first two years of bruises, there is no good place on the body, now think about it, that time was really fucking hard, but follow the master to go south and north, this day is also happy. There was a bit of confusion in his eyes

"It was eight years in a flash, and it wasn't until the day the old man died that he finally told me that I could leave the school, and I was the master's closed disciple and the only one."

He took the cup of tea and drank it down, looking out the window at the night.

"After the old man's funeral, I was ready to go home, in fact, I wanted to go back two years ago, but the old man is old, and his temper is stubborn, so he refuses to go back with me, I have no choice but to stay with him, and I can't leave him alone."

"When I go back to my hometown, where is there any home, I heard from the people in the village, five or six years after I left, my father was seriously ill, the medicine stone was hopeless, and he left, my mother asked someone to write to me, but I didn't see me come back, my mother had to do the aftermath, less than two months later, there was no reason, so I went with my father, Mingming, obviously I sent silver back two years ago" Ye Feng clenched the cup in his hand tightly

"The master is gone, my father and mother are gone, I knelt in front of the tomb for three days, and then left my hometown, and continued to wander on the rivers and lakes alone, and this break was another ten years.

"It's just that in the past few years, I suddenly feel that this river and lake is not interesting, maybe in a few years, maybe I will find a place to settle down" The corners of Ye Feng's mouth curled slightly, and he didn't know whether to smile or smile bitterly on his face.

"Don't look at Lao Ye and me like this, if I really want to go into hiding, just find a big city and get a captain or something, it's still more than enough" Ye Feng finished speaking, and a trace of brilliance finally flashed on his face

The cultivation of the second floor of Ye Feng's inner family is enough to be a captain in a big city like Ying'an, and if it is placed in a small city like Qinghe City, it is no problem to be a commander.

"Recently, I've been thinking about why I followed the master out with an iron heart, what's so good about this Jianghu, most of them are all rats who are vying for fame and profit, what chivalrous, what eradication of evil, it's all bullshit"

"I've done some good things over the years, and I've done some good things, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I've been in this river and lake for a long time, and even I forgot why I wanted to enter this river and lake in the first place"

"Xu Shusheng actually didn't have any great kindness to me, without his meal, Lao Ye and I couldn't starve to death, but I met that Xu Shusheng Pingshui, he didn't know that I had martial arts, and he didn't know that I was a good person and an evil person, but when he saw me starving in the temple, he actually gave me food. Hey, that meal is the most fragrant meal I've had in the past ten years."

A strange look flashed in Ye Feng's eyes

"Before Xu Shusheng died, he held my hand tightly, and asked me to send the little girl back, at that time, my heart was full of blood, that feeling, that feeling, when I followed the master, I took the commission for the first time, and the first time I personally beheaded a thief who slaughtered the village, the blood of the thief sprayed me, the blood was warm, it was that feeling, I almost agreed to Xu Shusheng at that time, but in the end I just told him that I would do my best"

"I buried Xu Shusheng that night, I thought about it all night, and suddenly I understood, I walked into the rivers and lakes back then, what I wanted was this kind of pleasure, I was angry, blood was splashed in five steps, I didn't care about life and death, no matter what dignitaries you were, what rich and poor you were, Lao Ye, I want to rely on this knife to debate with this world what is good and evil, good or bad, what is right and wrong" He gently touched the black scabbard that was placed in his hand.

After a long time, he said in a low voice, "Actually, I regret a little that I didn't promise Xu Shusheng at that time."

He gently swirled the tea bowl, looked at the dark night outside the window, was silent for a long time, and then added softly, "Maybe I don't regret it"

He glanced at Ye Cheng, who was silent opposite, and said softly

"Whether you want to go back to be the eldest young master, or if you want to explore the rivers and lakes, think clearly about what you want, and do it when you think clearly, you still have time, boy"

"Brother Nafeng, have you figured out what you want," Ye Cheng said in a deep voice

"Of course"

Ye Feng grinned and patted his chest lightly, and a slight crisp sound came from the air, and the sound seemed to be the clanging sound of silver coins colliding.

"Your eldest brother Feng has been in the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, but they are all in his arms" He laughed softly, with smugness, innocence, and a hint of relief and happiness on his face.

"What about me" Ye Cheng whispered to himself in his heart, "What do I want?"

He shook his palm gently, and a thick sense of power came from his palm, and a feeling of peace of mind suddenly rose in his heart.

Ye Cheng's eyes flashed, and for the first time, he looked at this somewhat unobtrusive Brother Feng seriously.

After being silent for a long time, Ye Feng finally came back to his senses, saw Ye Chengzheng looking at him with blazing eyes, and waved his hand at Ye Cheng

"Don't, don't look at me like this, Lao Ye, I'm not as great as you think, if there are dozens more wolf cubs that night, maybe Lao Ye will run away first with oil on the soles of my feet, this military book is thirty-six strategies, let's learn the best from this plan" Ye Feng suddenly laughed

Ye Feng picked up the small teapot on the stove on the side, filled it for Ye Cheng, and filled it for himself.

Ye Feng held the warm teacup, looked at the cruise ship passing by on the lake in the night, and said softly

"When the old man was still there, he told me that this Jianghu people can't recall, as soon as you recall, it means that you are old, afraid, and timid, maybe in a few years, I will also find a big city to settle down and find a stable errand position, this life will be like this"

"Buy a house that is not good or bad, marry a mother-in-law who is not good or bad, of course, it is best to have a son like your kid, it will be much more interesting to live like that, haha" Ye Feng suddenly laughed.

Ye Cheng's eyes widened, and then he looked at Ye Feng opposite a little helplessly, this big brother Feng's temperament is really ......

Ye Feng saw Ye Cheng's eyes widen all of a sudden, and a smug look flashed on his face, and he smiled even more happily.

The door of the private room opened, and more than a dozen small servants lined up outside, holding trays in their hands, waiting outside.

Tonight's dinner is finally about to begin