Early the next morning, the genius was bright, and Shi Zhiyi, Zhong Yiling, and Steward Li had already packed up and stepped out of the gate of Shifu. The other maids and guards and other servants had long since been dismissed, and Steward Li had been the steward of the Shi family's mansion in Kyoto for generations, so he did not leave until the end.

After locking the door of Shi's mansion, Steward Li turned around and suddenly kowtowed to Shi Zhiyi. Shi Zhiyi was taken aback, hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and said, "Uncle Li, what are you doing here?"

"Lao Li doesn't know if he will have the opportunity to see the young master again in this life, kowtow to you, and thank Shi Fu for taking care of our Li family for generations. If you come to Kyoto again, you must tell Lao Li, in addition, my son's name is Yuntao, young master, you have seen it before, if I am not there in the future, I will pass on my mess to him to take over, and please rest assured, young master, I will teach him well. ”

For more than a year, Lao Li has been busy, hard work, and under the condition that Shi Zhiyi is the shopkeeper, he has kept the entire Shi Mansion in order, so that Shi Zhiyi is here as if he is returning to his home in Yunqi City. Shi Zhiyi naturally sees all this, and after getting along for a long time, he also has a family-like feeling. At this time, it is necessary to separate, and the heart is also extremely reluctant.

"Uncle Li, don't worry, I'm sure I'll be back. You also have to take care of yourself when I'm away, these days, I've offended some people in Kyoto, in order to avoid them being angry with you, you'd better take Yuntao out of Kyoto and go out to recuperate for a while. ”

Steward Li responded repeatedly, Shi Zhiyi said goodbye to him and embarked on the road back.

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The most convenient way to get from Kyoto to Yunqi City is to take a boat along the river, which is smooth and comfortable. However, when the river is downstream, the river is wide and the water flows slowly, and the section from the Morikawa Gorge to the Leiming Falls at the junction of Yuzhou and Fanzhou is so fast that it takes at least twice as long to travel upstream by boat than by land.

Therefore, Shi Zhiyi and Zhong Yiling discussed, and the two first arrived at Thundering Waterfall by boat from Kyoto, then got off the boat and took the overland route, rode north, and finally changed to a boat in Luzhou City to cross the Morikawa Gorge and arrive at Yunqi City.

After sitting on the boat for nearly 20 days, Shi Zhiyi and Zhong Yiling finally arrived at the Thundering Waterfall at the junction of Yuzhou and Fanzhou. The width of the river is more than ten miles, and there are three levels of a total of up to 50 zhang of drop here, and countless rivers flow straight down, and the scene is magnificent. The waves splashed and the water rumbled, and it could be heard clearly from dozens of miles away.

The giant boat they were riding on docked here, and many passengers went to the pier located upstream of Thundering City to take another boat north, while Shi Zhiyi and Zhong Yiling were ready to find a place to have a meal first, and then buy two healthy horses to go by land.

The two of them found a restaurant that looked good in the north of Thundering City, found a private room with a good view, sat down, ordered five or six local specialties and a pot of sake, and ate it.

At this moment, a middle-aged man's voice came from the private room next door, but Shi Zhiyi and Zhong Yiling stopped the chopsticks in their hands in shock.

"Brother Sun, Brother Wang, have you heard? The Shi family of Yunqi City has started a war against our Yuzhou!"

"What? Yunqi City took the initiative to start a war against Yuzhou? It is impossible! The Shi family of Yunqi City ranks last among the eight great families, but the Daxi family is a behemoth second only to the royal Yu family, so how can the city lord of Yunqi City take the initiative to provoke the Daxi family unless he is crazy?"

"Brother Sun is right, the Shi family is only a city in Yunqi City, how can it be the opponent of the Daxi family? Brother Zhang, where did you get the news? I'm afraid it's a lie?"

"My third brother went back to visit his father-in-law's house in Luzhou, and what he saw with his own eyes was absolutely not half a lie! Shi Huaichuan, the lord of Yunqi City, personally led his army to cross the Senchuan Gorge by boat and go ashore in Luzhou City. It is said that they are all black-clothed and black-armored, and the mounts under their crotches are not ordinary horses, but look like strange beasts! The city gates of Jiangyang and Luchuan counties were rushed in by the cavalry of Yunqi City before they could be closed. ”

"Black-clothed and black-armored, a beast-like mount? This is the Moon Swinging Dragonrider! Father is really at war against the Da Xi family?" Listening to the description of Brother Zhang in the box next door, Shi Zhiyi and Zhong Yiling glanced at each other, and their hearts were full of shock.

If it is said that the Daxi family took the initiative to start a war against Yunqi City because of Shi Zhiyi's repeated provocations, it is still said in the past, but when the other party did not make the slightest movement, Yunqi City took the lead in attacking, but the two of them were puzzled.

At this time, the voice of the Sun brother next door continued to come: "Why did Yunqi City take the initiative to start a war against Yuzhou? What good does it do to them? And I don't think Yunqi City has any hope of winning at all?"

Brother Zhang, who was called Brother Zhang, replied: "I thought so at first, but the city lord of Luzhou City, Da Xi Wenhuan, hurriedly gathered more than 2,000 soldiers, and met the city lord of Yunqi City on the streets of Jiangyang County, and asked him why he attacked Luzhou City. The city lord of Yunqi City said that the eldest son of the Daxi family had already lost Luzhou City and the other seven cities to the Shi family as a bet, and he had come to get the bet for his son. ”

"How is it possible? What is his son gambling to win eight cities? I'm afraid it's a mouthful, right?"

This is not a lie. The 10-year Spring Festival just ended in Kyoto 20 days ago, do you know who won the championship this time?"

"I didn't pay much attention to this, but I didn't know very well, after all, it was just a member of the Eight Great Families. Brother Zhang, you ask this, could it be that this person who won the championship is from the Shi family of Yunqi City?"

"Yes, it is Shi Zhiyi, the young city lord of Yunqi City, it is said that he is only eighteen years old this year, and he can be said to be unknown before the game, and no one is optimistic about him. In the Wynn gambling house of the Daxi family, he bet on one million taels of gold to win the championship, and the odds were one to one thousand! As a result, no one expected that he would really pass all the way, defeating many opponents who were ten years older than him and whose realm was far higher than him, and finally won the championship, and his bet of one million taels of gold, the Daxi family needed to compensate him for a full billion taels of gold!"

"A billion taels of gold! It's too exaggerated! All the gold in this world combined, I'm afraid there isn't that much in total, right?"

"I don't know if there is so much gold in this world, but the Daxi family can't take out so much gold to compensate, but it is said that the young city lord of Yunqi City is not a master who is easy to fool, and forced Daxi Zhiyu, the eldest son of the Daxi family, to write an IOU on the spot, with the eight cities in Yuzhou, worth the bet of one billion taels of gold!"