There is a piece of wasteland more than ten miles south of Huating County, if it is not for the fact that only some long grass and dwarf trees that are tolerant to salt and alkali can grow, how can the Jiangzhou land boundary, which is as expensive as gold, be left to be barren like this.

This land that does not grow crops and cannot dig up gold is rarely visited on weekdays, and it is some distance from the avenue, and even those who relieve themselves think that the vegetation here is not dense enough to hide their figures, and the children in the neighboring villages and towns do not disdain to enter this saline-alkali land where there is nothing to do.

The people of the nearby villages and towns did not know when there was an extra shed in this wasteland, just as they did not know that there was often a man striking iron in the shed, and even if there was often a lonely smoke curling like wisps, it was only a bastard who caught a bird and barbecued here.

Although the three walls of scattered bricks and stones are not good and simple, they are strong and extraordinary, and the roof of the shed is the thatched roof of ordinary people's houses with a wooden frame, a wooden bed, a tank of water, coal and iron, and the fire is burning vigorously.

In front of the shed, there are dozens of small dirt bags, several of which are still new soil, the wet stains have not dried, each small dirt bag has half a knife handle, some look very old, the cloth strip wrapped around the hand has long been gone, and the wooden knife handle has also been eroded to seven, seven, eight, eight.

These are all broken knives, and they are dead knives.

It's all his own knife, the shirtless Qi Qi has more than a dozen new and old knife wounds on the tendon flesh, among which there is a sword wound on the chest that is still fresh and pink is not shallow, it was left two months ago when he was fighting the enemy with a black-clothed man who sneaked into the martial arts hall, that person's realm is similar to him, and the moves are also exquisite, but there is no ruthlessness that the enemy should have, and he was injured in exchange for his life and smashed his head with a sword in the chest, this matter is known in the martial arts hall, only he and the master are two.

It is an authentic disciple of Songfeng Mountain, and maybe it is still a disciple of Neishan, fighting is commonplace, but he has enough poison on his body to knock down everyone in this county.

After searching the headless corpse, he said to the master worriedly that fortunately he still had the habit of going to the martial arts hall every night to check the rooms, otherwise once this person sneaked in and poisoned the drinking water, he was afraid that the martial arts hall would be self-defeating.

The martial arts hall is his home, and if someone wants to destroy his house, he will kill that person

But what if he wasn't that man's opponent?

Master told him an allusion.

Hundreds of years ago, Dayao was still a small country, and the world is still a scene of more than ten large and small countries standing side by side, today you come to fight me, tomorrow I will fight back, as usual as eating and drinking. One of these more than ten nations was attacked by a neighboring power, and the king of another country, who had befriended this country, summoned a courtier and asked if he should go to the rescue, but he was dissuaded from saying that the road was long and narrow, and with the strength of the friendly country, he was afraid that he would not be able to hold out the arrival of his own army, and he would have to be destroyed.

Then the king summoned a courtier and asked, and the courtier's answer was recorded in the annals of history:

Its road is far and narrow, for example, two rats fight in the hole, and the brave wins.

Even if you know that you are invincible, even if you are the first in Jiangzhou, the first in Dayao, and the first martial artist in the world, you can only draw a sword There is one way to go.

Master, what you said is that you are very knowledgeable, and you are not bad with those who read.

The martial arts realm is not as high as the master, but the sycophant kung fu is better than the blue.

What he did today, Qi Wei didn't regret it, but he regretted that he couldn't really leave some marks on those garbage, if it weren't for the fact that those people's families were all in Yuyin County, even if they weren't a family, they were also eunuchs, and if they hurt people, they were afraid that the master would have a headache....

The inaudible sound of the grass plucking in the ears of ordinary people is like talking to ordinary people in the ears of a martial artist of Qi Qian's realm, and before he has time to think about it, Qi Wei reached out and grabbed the hilt of the knife beside him.

Your knife should never be out of your reach. It seems that the master is still the master, Qi Wei held the knife and said slowly:

"Friends step on the wider, come in is a sweep, a piece bite!" What he said was a black word that was common in the black and white roads of the rivers and lakes, and the implication was nothing more than to tell the person who didn't know the depth outside that he already knew his whereabouts, and if he was forced to come in, don't blame him for facing each other with swords.

Qi Wei closed his eyes, there were always some slight gaps between the walls of the scattered brick and stone, and he listened carefully.

The wind blows the grass, the birds in the heights, the insects in the low, the waves in the distance, and the nearby behind the wall....

Breathe sounds!

He kicked at the wall, then broke through it and swung his knife.

"Ahem, ahem. Zhou Dangdang patted the dust on the white coarse cloth clothes he was wearing, and said with a wry smile, "It's just that I sneaked over and wanted to see where you hit the knife, but I didn't expect you to be so vigilant...."

"It was the apprentice who was reckless and collided with the master, and asked the master to punish him. Qi Qian said on his knees.

"Obviously, I, the master, came to your secret place without saying hello, but now I have become your disciple. Zhou Dangdang held his forehead with his hand, "Qi Qian, Qi Qi, it's really wonderful." ”

Qi Wei smelled the strong smell of wine in front of him, looked up and saw Zhou Dangdang's face full of red light, hurriedly got up and helped him sit down in a messy shed, brought a bowl of water to him, and asked curiously, "Master, are you out to drink?"

"Come and see your place, although I have heard you talk about it, I haven't been here yet, so I have a bowl of wine on the way. Qi Wei smiled, "By the way, I found you a teacher." ”

Zhou Dangdang drank the bowl of water, raised his hand and patted Qi Wei beside him on the shoulder, and said, "Do you know how old your senior brother Wei Changpan from Qishan County is, and he got married?"

"I heard that it was with the little daughter of the owner of the Yanyu Building, who was fourteen or fifteen years old. Qi Wei took the empty bowl from Zhou Dangdang's hand and put it aside, and said.

Zhou Dangdang burped, rubbed his stomach and said, "I remember the beginning of next month, you will be thirty." ”

"The ninth day of the first month. Qi Wei grinned, his father and mother died early, he was still young at that time, where would he remember his birthday, but vaguely remember his age, the so-called ninth day of the next month, in fact, is the day of his apprenticeship.

"Is there a favorite girl in Huating?" Zhou Dangdang shook his head, dissipated the wine a little, and asked Qi Qiandao, "You are also the eldest person, and the elders in the family should have told you about family affairs a long time ago, but the master has asked the rivers and lakes to inquire about you and look for you all these years, and there is no sound. ”

"How is it?" Zhou Dangdang looked at Qi Xuan, who had no expression, and pretended to be angry, "Is it possible to become a master?"

Qi Yu's lips trembled slightly, and he said in a trembling voice: "Master...."

"You've been with me for so many years, don't you even know Master's intentions? Zhou Dangdang put on a look of lamentation and anger at his misfortune, "Your kid's subordinates are light! What is the matter of breaking a few of our martial arts hall's own knives, and it is not good to take turns to beat them as the disciples in the martial arts hall?"

"How can Qi Qi be so virtuous, can he be so loved by the master. ”

"What is this, it's just to help you marry a daughter-in-law, at this age, it's time to start a family. ”

"If you don't get married, you can serve the master for a few more years. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, there is a girl with the right eye in Huating County, and the master will go to the matchmaker for you. ”

"Master.... If a person like a disciple can find someone to live by, then it would be very good. ”

"Lao Tzu's apprentice, how can you say it if you don't pick an oiran!"

"Then Master, the top card of Yihong Courtyard in the county town is not cheap, I heard that it costs hundreds of taels of white flowers and silver..."

"Oiran or something.... Master still has to see the world one day before you get married, and if you really want to get married, you still have to find a serious person. ”

"Master.... There were several times in the martial arts hall that the silver was short, and the disciple went to check and thought that the account room had made a mistake, but he didn't expect to be secretly taken out by the master to drink flower wine..."

"Ahem, ahem. Zhou Dangdang seemed to be a little old and blushed slightly, "To be serious, although the master is happy to see you beat those few who are not successful, but those few wastes are not good to go back and roll with the family, which is not a good thing for the martial arts hall. ”

Originally, there was a clear distinction between the Dayao court and the rivers and lakes, and at the beginning of the founding of the country, there were several first-class Jianghu sects of Dayao who held their own sect forces, which were already between the underworld and the white road, so there were a lot of pickled and shady methods, and there was a Jianghu sect located in the border prefecture and county of the Western Regions privately doing cross-border salt and iron business that was expressly prohibited by the Dayao court, which was inspected by the new local county guard, and saw that the county guard was not moved by coercion and temptation, but actually slaughtered dozens of people from the Zhengwupin official family handpicked by the imperial pen of the Dayao Emperor!

The Jianghu sect is still complacent, thinking that the sect is far away from the emperor of Tiangao, and the Dayao court must be helpless, a Zhengwupin county guard, and he will die, if the Dayao court sends troops to suppress it, it is a big deal to roll up and leave, and go to the countries of the Western Regions to live, what can I do?

When the general of a state on the frontier of the Western Regions learned of this, he was furious, and without waiting for the heavy stabbing of the Dayao court in history, he led the three thousand iron horsemen under his command to pacify a country in the Western Regions, and drove 500 miles to kill the Jianghu sect, and the more than ten fortresses entrenched by the sect were defenseless, and were slaughtered by the three thousand horsemen who were killed from the desert and covered in yellow sand, and cut off their heads so that the knives in the hands of the horsemen were curled.

Since then, there has been a siege of Songfeng Mountain by Jiangzhou Yanyulou, all of which were done regardless of the face of the Dayao court, the latter is slightly better, and the sect has survived, and few people remember the name of the former sect today.

However, in recent years, there has not been a handiwork of the Jiangzhou government in Qishan County, Qihu Lake, and the wild river at the junction of Jiangzhou and Suzhou, which of them has not been included without the handwriting of the Jiangzhou government? If the newly established Jianghu sect does not check the officials of the county and county where it is located, then the people in the government will have countless means, whether it is exacting taxes and miscellaneous taxes, or complicated prohibitions, all of which can cause a Jianghu sect with a weak foundation to collapse in a short time.

The rivers and lakes and temples are originally two worlds.

However, what the temple does, it is forced everywhere.

In this way, the rivers and lakes are lifeless, they are all mud cattle and Trojan horses, and the martial artists of the rivers and lakes should not only be the eagle dogs of the court, but also how to be alone.

Zhou Dangdang spat on the ground.