Chapter 82: You're Besieged
In winter, the water is dry, and most of the migrant workers on both sides of the river are repairing the river embankment, who are carrying stones and sand hard like ants, and I heard that the silver on it has not been pulled out completely, so except for the OEM, the rest of the people seem to be a little unlucky, and there is no copper plate into the bag for a busy day, and no one will put much effort. The people who grinded foreign workers had extra time to take a look at the river that they were tired of seeing, and learn from those high-ranking scribes and officials.
At a glance, everyone was surprised, only to see that there were many more boats on the river that would enter the Jiangnan Road, and there were suddenly many more boats, cruising up and down, winter shipping was not as good as the remaining three seasons, there were few such lively times, as if it was like overnight, someone cast any magic, and many boats landed on the river.
The ships were large and small, of different shapes and speeds, and even contained a few triplanes that had been converted into small ones. The three-wing boat is an official ship of the Jiangnan Navy Division, which is extremely fast and has always been forbidden to be used by the people. In the same way, the men standing on these boats are all bulging around their waists, and they all have hidden blades, and in addition to the conspicuous rust on their dark cheeks, there is a silent killing intent and jΗngti.
In two days, so many ships were mobilized to concentrate on this waterway into Jiangnan Road, and the government was not alarmed to come out to speak, and the only person who could have this ability was the famous Jiangnan Water Village, and in terms of the ability to control the river, even the famous families in Jiangnan were far inferior to Jiangnan Water Village.
The full name of Jiangnan Water Village is Jiangnan and related waters Twelve Lianlianwu (this name is cute), specializing in the dense waterways of Jiangnan like a spider's web, whether it is transportation, passenger transportation or related industries, it depends on their faces, especially the business of secretly carrying out illegal salt and tea and selling horses, so that they have mastered extremely powerful strength. And after that Ming's family, after the character with the pseudonym Xia Qifei became the big boss of the water village, he focused on building a good relationship with the government, and it was even rumored that this Xia Ye could call him a brother and sister to the Admiral of the Water Master in the Sand Lake.
The hooligans add the official mansion, and no one can stop it. Therefore, over the years, although Jiangnan Shuizhai has cut the business on the underworld on the surface, it has gradually stepped out of the lake and water grass, and has come to the people in a bright way, and the momentum is better than before.
It is such a powerful force that can run rampant on the river without hindrance, and rope boats along the river without fear of material discussions.
The one who issued the order was Xia Qifei, the big boss of Jiangnan Water Village, although he didn't care much about the life and death of his subordinates, but Guan Yumei, who suddenly disappeared this time, was related to his own maternal line, and what made him even more anxious was that he could bite such a big piece of meat and eat such a big loss without knowing it!
In March, the Neku was about to reopen, according to previous years, it was not the Cui family and the Ming family's two dishes, but this year, because the Cui family has fallen, and the world knows that the jurisdiction of the Neku has been transferred from Her Royal Highness the eldest princess to the hands of Fan Tisi of the Supervision Yuan, so Xia Qifei decided to give it a try to see if he can take advantage of the situation in the new situation and regain what originally belonged to him.
It's just that the business of the inner treasury is too big, and the amount of silver is counted as 100,000, even if you want to enter the God of Wealth Gate to sit and drink tea in March, the silver you want to take out will be scared to death.
The collapsed Cui family, the still prosperous Ming family have this strength, but Xia Qifei absolutely does not, even if his subordinates control the biggest gangster in the waterway, but the silver in his hand, compared to the Ming family, is still like a flower child. That's why he was in a hurry to search for silver taels everywhere, and even secretly ordered Guan Weimei to start the river pirate business again.
He refused to let go of such a small amount of money, and it was obvious that he had been driven to madness. As the so-called heroes who can't die for a penny, the heroes who live in the mixed life on the river have to learn to do business, and the first problem they encounter is money.
At this critical juncture, Xia Qifei became more and more cautious, and did not lose his mind, he was guessing whether what happened on the shore of Yingzhou would be aimed at himself.
At the time of the incident, he was in Shazhou City to invite Xu Shoushan, the garrison of the Jiangnan Naval Division, to drink, and the legends of the rivers and lakes were always exaggerated, and the highest-ranking general of the Naval Division that he could contact now was the first level of the garrison. After this Lord Xu knew about this, he kept silent and let Xia Qi fly to search for the boat, but still gave the people in the water village a jΗng notice: Everything must be done before the beginning of March, and after it is done, it must be washed cleanly, and the smell of blood on the body must be washed away!
Because Lord Tisi will come to Jiangnan from Lanzhou in March.
βββββββββββββββββββββ dozens of boats in the Jiangnan Water Village searched the river for a long time, but still did not find the obvious big boat, which was a little surprising. Xia Qifei listened to the report of his subordinates, narrowed his eyes coldly, and said, "It seems that those people did not come down...... The box is not so easy to move off the ship, it should still be near Yangzhou, have you checked it?"
The man with a white cloth wrapped around his head to resist the river wind was stunned for a moment, and said in embarrassment: "The subordinates counted the hours, and in two days, the ship should have arrived near Shazhou...... I didn't expect the other party to die. β
Xia Qifei was extremely annoyed, almost kicked over, and scolded: "You are a pig!" After a slight pause, he yΔ«n sighed: "Search up, you want to see people in life, you want to see corpses in death, and you have to tow that boat back to me if you are not good!"
The man took the order and left, not noticing that the owner of the village seemed to have begun to lack confidence in this sentence.
Xia Qifei sat at the table, unable to calm down for a long time, this half year is the most important half year of his life, and he is absolutely not allowed to interfere with anyone or anything, otherwise the long-planned revenge will have to be re-planned.
After pouring out the cold tea in the bowl, he became a little hot, and his eyes showed two ruthless expressions, and he simply walked to the atrium, waiting for the good news from the brothers, he unbuttoned the placket on his chest, revealing the Taoist scars on the horizontal meat, but these scars were a little strange, neatly side by side, not like the knife wounds and axe marks that fell in the battle between the rivers and lakes, but as if they were whipped after being tied up.
............ At noon, a large ship slowly left the bustling wharf of Yangzhou and headed downstream.
At the same time, dozens of boats from the Jiangnan Water Village rushed up the river violently, risking the danger of traveling at night, looking for traces of the enemy.
The heavens did not deliberately arrange the time to hide and seek, and before the sun had sunk down, the two sides finally met in the area of Jingbo Bend, the gentlest part of the river.
Dozens of boats rushed up, and the natural cΔo boat ability of the water bandits was most effectively used at this time, but with a few changes of formation, the big ship was surrounded in the middle of the river.
The ship of Jiangnan Shuizhai carefully surrounded the ship from Kyoto in the center, and the three-winged spaceship led by it approached the big ship, which had stopped at this time, and seemed to have given up resistance.
The leader of the water village on the three-winged spaceship shouted towards the big boat: "Listen, people on board, you have been surrounded, immediately put down your weapons and accept inspection." (Forgive me for being lazy) There was still silence on the ship.
The leader of the water village made a gesture, and at the same time, a total of six boats approached, stretched out a long bamboo pole, hooked the gangway of the big ship with some difficulty, took out the short knife on his body, and prepared to forcibly board the ship.
At this moment, the big ship suddenly moved!
In an instant, the huge driving force of the big ship tore all the bamboo hooks that had just been placed on the side of the ship, and more than a dozen water bandits who were climbing up fell into the water miserably, stirring up countless waves, and there was chaos on the river!
And the big boat in front of it collided with the ship from Kyoto without any fancy - and then turned its head without any fancy twist, bent its waist, and slid away.
Of course, this wonderful action, accompanied by the unpleasant accompaniment of the cracking of the deck and the exclamations of the sailors.
............ Leaving a white wave at the end, the Kyoto boat quickly sailed downstream, leaving behind countless sawdust and bandits floating on the surface of the mirror-like river.
The leader of the water village grabbed the edge of the boat, stabilized his body in the big waves, and looked at the stern of the big ship dumbfounded, and his heart was shocked, this ship ...... And how did the sailors of this cΔo ship manage to go from being completely stationary to such a fast speed? How could he seem to be higher than his own!
The sailors who came to the ship from Kyoto were all the school officials who were evacuated from Quanzhou Naval Division, and they studied the art of water warfare all year round.
It's just that the boat on the river, because of the fear of underwater reefs, does not dare to go straight and horizontal, so the boat from Kyoto is not full of sails, and compared with the three-winged spacecraft used by those sailors, it does not have any advantage in speed. The ships from Kyoto rushed through a line of defense, and they were immediately followed by more than a dozen ships that followed.
At this time, the river surface is half a river and half a red river, the boats from Kyoto are the first, and the boats of the Jiangnan Water Village are behind, rushing downstream, drawing countless light sè scars on the water surface, scratching the yellow sè river water is so uneasy, and it has become a wonderful picture of hundreds of boats competing in the current.
"With a flinging hook!"
Seeing that the ship from Kyoto was violent, and the hull didn't know what it was made of, it was so strong, the leader of the Jiangnan Water Village shouted loudly, and compared a few gestures at the same time, although the river wind was extremely strong, and in a blink of an eye, his words were blown to the sky, but looking at his gestures, the water thieves who surrounded the big ship took out a bunch of ropes very tacitly and threw them on the big boat.
More than a dozen ropes broke through the air, drew a beautiful arc and landed accurately on the deck of the big ship, and the bandits were extremely skillful, and they were used to such skilled work. The crowd then tightened their hands, and the hook at the end of the rope was firmly attached to the plank, and the speed of the two sides was similar at this time, and the rope was not a hard commodity like bamboo, so the bandits no longer worried about anything, and began to climb along the rope neatly with their hands and feet on the big boat.
............ Halfway through the climb again, a pitiful halfway, a dozen partition windows were opened on the side of the big ship, and a long spear or axe stretched out from each window, and slashed down viciously at the people on the rope - only listening to the gusts of the sword wind, screaming miserably, the blood scattered with the river wind, the stumps and limbs went down the turbid waves, and in a flash, the water bandits suffered heavy casualties!
There were also some people who were lucky enough to fall into the river, but those rope hooks were cut off, and then in the windows of the ships coming from Kyoto, more than a dozen arrows stretched out with bows ready to fire, indifferently aimed at the ships around them, although they did not send shè, but they were full of shock, as if to say, if anyone dares to approach again, they will be killed!
The leader of the water village in the rear saw that his eyes were cracked, and he was abnormally exposed, but he felt a chill in his heart - he had been wandering on the river for many years, and he didn't know how many times he had been suppressed by bandits, and of course he knew that there were four longbows, spears, and axes...... It is the standard preparation of the imperial court sailor!
"Is there any conspiracy?"
............ The boat sailed down at an extremely fast speed, and immediately left Jingpo Bay and came into the sandbar waters.
The leader of the water thieves looked fiercely at the big ship that was still besieged, knowing that although the other party was unexpectedly well prepared and powerful, but the elephant was also afraid of ants, as long as he was still walking on the river, those who had grown up by the river for many years, there would always be a way to make the other party sink to the bottom of the river, and all he needed was time.
As if in response to his request, four large boats suddenly appeared on the river in front of him, lined up horizontally in the middle of the river, just blocking the downward channel, these four big ships have three layers, extremely tall, and the yΔ«n shadow that falls in the river is pulled by the old man, looking very powerful.
The leader of the water village squinted and found that he had been secretly cooperating with his people in recent years, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and shouted: "There are brothers to help, don't worry!"
The ships from Kyoto still rushed downstream silently but firmly, as if the four ships of the Sand Lake Naval Division did not exist, and they were as tragic as if they were going to commit suicide.
............ Looking at the scene under the sunset, the leader of Jiangnan Water Village was suddenly stupid and sat on the ground.
When they saw that the ship coming from Kyoto was about to be killed by the front and rear and fell into a heavy siege, the four warships of the downstream Shahu Navy Division actually discussed the rudder at the same time, making way for the ship from Kyoto to let the ship swim down the river leisurely!
What's going on!
The leader of the water village couldn't believe his eyes, but the remaining reason in his mind told him that he had been chasing the ship for a long time...... and these four giant ships of the Mariners...... It's really like that.
Without giving him time to think about it, the four sailor ships were already like four giant beasts in front of the boats in the Jiangnan Water Village, full of oppression.
The official standing at the bow of the sailor is also known to the leader of the Jiangnan Water Village. It is the acquaintance of the lord of Xia Zhai, the master of the Shahu sailor - Lord Xu Shoushan!
Xu Shoushan stood indifferently at the bow of the boat, but the clothes on his body seemed to have been put on in a hurry, and the straps were not buttoned properly, which looked a little funny. He looked at the "old acquaintance" below, frowned slightly, and signaled to the other party with his eyes that it was best to surrender quickly, and he didn't care whether the other party understood it or not, so he said in an official voice:
"Listen, the people on board are already surrounded, immediately lay down your weapons and be examined. β
(Please forgive my laziness again) βββββββββββββββββββββββββ Shazhou Prefecture City is at the mouth of the Shahu Lake, the water potential rushes against each other, 10,000 years to fall, the accumulation of fertile soil is innumerable, coupled with the hard work of the people, has always been one of the famous grain producing areas on the edge of the river, and with the withdrawal of the Quanzhou Naval Division more than ten years ago, the Shahu Naval Division has become the largest naval division base in Qingguo after accepting some manpower, and thousands of naval officers and soldiers often rely on this state city that chokes the throat of the south of the Yangtze River.
The officers and soldiers of the Navy Division, who were covered with sweat and fishy smell, brought endless troubles to the people of Shazhou, brought endless dangers to the girls of Shazhou, and brought countless public security problems to the officials of Shazhou...... It's not lively.
This rì, a few people walked out of the most famous inn in Shazhou, the combination of this group of people is a little weird, a young boy, a girl, a scholar, a child, followed by a few solemn guards. The group hired a big car directly and drove directly to Nancheng.
This group of people is naturally Fan Xian, Sisi, the Three Princes, Shi Xianli and those seemingly ordinary tiger guards, they stopped in Yangzhou for one night, discussed the next itinerary, and the local people from all over the country went to transfer the Shahu Water Division, as for what procedures are used, it is not known, but I want to come to the military to protect the adults of the Supervision Institute no matter what, Fan Xian looks like he is not ready to hide his identity anymore, which makes Su Wenmao, who is still on the ship at this time, puzzled.
Let the big boat maneuver with those bandits on the river, but Fan Xian took the people around him to get off the boat in Yangzhou at night in advance, sat in a carriage, and comfortably followed the official road to Shazhou City.
The atmosphere in the south of Shazhou is a little tense, this place is mixed with three religions and nine streams, everyone knows that the overlord of the road - the Xia village master of the Jiangnan Water Village is doing something, and the specific details are not understood, but from the leaders of the water village who keep coming in and out of the small courtyard, they know that this matter is a little troublesome.
That small courtyard seems inconspicuous, but everyone knows that it is the rudder of the 72nd Lianwu of Jiangnan Water Village in Shazhou.
Therefore, when Fan Xian's carriage came to a few dozen feet outside the small courtyard, someone had already noticed it, especially the eyeliner scattered by Shuizhai in the street, and it was even more staring, as if he wanted to judge the intention of this pedestrian, but no one noticed that in the dim twilight, those seemingly ordinary six assassins had occupied the most favorable locations on this street.
As the carriage got closer and closer to the rudder, gradually some people approached, consciously or unconsciously, and the atmosphere was a little tense. The man in the carriage did not seem to notice anything, and drove straight to the gate of the courtyard before stopping, and a scholar lifted the curtain and walked up the stone steps, and calmly said something to the thug at the door.
After a while, a person who looked like a master with upside-down eyebrows and soybean eyes walked out of the scoring rudder, looking at him with a jΗng ring on his face, squinting and asking, "Who are you? Why do you want to see Xia Ye?"
The scholar is Shi Yanli, where did he drip in the so-called rivers and lakes, looking at the fierce expression of the master, and then looking at the thugs who came up around, it was obvious that the other party was carrying a murder weapon, the scholar was really a little flustered, and couldn't help but secretly slander the master of the sect for letting him do this kind of thing too inhumane, but he still suppressed his nervousness and said: "I am from Kyoto, I meet the lord of Xia Zhai, and I have something important to discuss." β
The master who split the rudder looked at him with disdain, and was quite dissatisfied with the other party's behavior, and looked at the carriage with oblique eyes, and said: "Is it you, or the person in the car? If it is the person in the car, why don't you get out of the car when you get to the door, so sneaky, how can it be the reason to be a guest." β
............ The three people in the carriage didn't listen to what was said outside, Fan Xian threw Shi Xianli out, just with the idea of exercising the minds of the scholars and classmates, and at this time he was talking to the third child, he said gently: "Your Highness, from Yangzhou to Shazhou, the people's livelihood you see on this road is very different from that in Kyoto, and please keep it in mind." β
Walking overnight, along the way, Fan Xian deliberately let the three princes get in touch with the ordinary people along the way, so that he could see the most real folk life, whether it was an old man with a salary on the side of the road, or an Erniang who sold herbal tea in the shop, he would stop and say a few words of gossip.
The so-called prince education, Fan Xian has no experience and no method, so he has to cross the river by feeling the stones, and try to see if this method can be used well.
Regarding Fan Xian's arrangement, Shi Xianli seemed to smell a certain smell, and he couldn't help but be a little worried about the sect master. The third prince accepted it calmly, keeping silent with maturity far beyond his years, and did not speak nonsense.
"How hard it is for people's livelihood. The third prince replied respectfully: "Although the taxes of my Daqing Dynasty are not heavy, the life of the people is still not easy, but looking at the people along the way, there is a lot of happiness on their faces, so it can be seen that the people's requirements are really not high." The crux of the government is that it must first meet the most basic food and clothing requirements of the people. β
Fan Xian is purely a blind man to guide the way, where do you know how to govern the world, nodded noncommittally, and said: "The people are easy to appease, and once the court needs it, the officials and officials are all asked for from the people. β
The third prince glanced at Fan Xian, and suddenly smiled innocently: "Teacher, the folk customs of Yangzhou are far stronger than those of Shazhou, and the people there have resentment on their faces, and I think that the court has asked too much." β
On the boat, the young third prince asked to be called Fan Xian very closely, instead of being the master of Si Ye, deliberately trying to get closer to Fan Xian, Fan Xian blocked several times, but there was no effect, so he let him go, at this time listening to this sentence, but subconsciously thought of Yangzhou Zhizhou, who was killed by himself, he didn't want to continue the topic, and asked instead: "For ...... Jiangnan Water Village, what does Your Highness think?"
"The teacher said that chivalry is forbidden by martial arts, not to mention the so-called water village, which is just a group of underworld on the water, hooligans in the boat, seeking money and killing people, and inviting money with violence, and there is no chivalrous style as the teacher said. A hint of ruthlessness flashed on the childish face of the third prince, "According to the students, they should mobilize the army, wipe them out, behead all the evildoers, and exile them from the evildoers to the northern frontier." β
Fan Xian was stunned for a moment, and said: "As I said before, the folk customs are caused by the terrain environment and the living environment, and blindly clearing them is like a wildfire, maybe the weeds can be emptied for a while, but if you don't start from the people's livelihood, the people can't survive, and they will still fall into the banditry, just like the chΕ«n wind, the weeds are reborn, and so on, when will it be an end?"
After thinking about it, the third prince shook his head and said: "What the teacher said is not right, the imperial court must use heavy codes for such chaotic people, of course, you also said that Jiangnan Water Village must have something to do with the Shahu Water Division, in order to survive to this day, if these chaotic people are allowed to destroy the dynasty, how will they clean it up in the future?"
He then said coldly: "To appease the people's livelihood and let the people live well, it is naturally a necessary thing to make the world free of thieves, but for those thieves who dare to come forward, they can't be soft, and those who should be killed must be killed!"
Fan Xian looked at the third prince with a smile, and found that this child was really much more neat than himself, but his kung fu was still too far worse than himself, and he had the courage to raise objections in front of himself, thinking that he wanted to show his own openness and honesty, and he wanted to show his decisive and undisguised side in front of himself, so that he could feel his sincerity - he wanted to deliberately edify and change the third child, and the third child didn't want to affect himself - Although the little guy is not mellow enough, he can have this scheming at a young age, which is really amazing.
"Then why doesn't Your Highness object...... Chenjin rì came to this Jiangnan Water Village to divide the rudder?"
"Teachers have their own calculations, and students can't guess on their own. The third prince regained his composure and grinned.
Fan Xian raised his eyebrows, knowing that although the third child didn't know the details, he should be able to guess his general direction, and smiled self-deprecatingly, thinking that he was really a bit hypocritical. At this time, the conversation outside the carriage was also halfway through, and I didn't know what Shi Yanli said, but the face of the master finally became panicked, and the thugs surrounding the carriage also got closer.
As soon as the curtain of the car was lifted, Fan Xian walked down, looked around at the scenery in the twilight, and didn't seem to care much about the water bandits who were forcing up.
Then he turned around and took the third prince and Sisi down.
The third prince stood beside him, gathered his armpits, looked at the thugs around him with interest, and asked softly, "Teacher, is this the so-called Jianghu people?"
Fan Xian responded: "It should be counted." β
The third prince was a little excited, but there was no fear, he was a prince after all, where did he know the sinister in the rivers and lakes, and following Fan Tisi's side, he never considered his own safety, since the incident of the Hanging Temple, the third child recognized that with Fan Tisi, no one could harm himself, not to mention that now everyone knows Fan Xian's life experience...... The Son of Heaven's family was ruthless, but the third prince thought that Fan Xian was the one with a special case.
Fan Xian glanced at him sideways, and asked curiously and softly, "Young Master, why aren't you worried at all?"
The third prince grinned and said, "There is a teacher, what are you afraid of?"
In everyone's hearts, Fan Xian is still the martial arts wizard who can be compared to Beiqi Haitang, but no one knows his true situation. It's just that I don't understand why Fan Xian dares to go so deep into the tiger's den, regardless of his own safety.
The conversation between the two fell in the ears of everyone in Jiangnan Water Village, which seemed to explain the identity of the other party, that child was probably the son of a certain big family, and Fan Xian, a beautiful scholar, was a Xixi, but he seemed to be too young.
"Young Master, let's go in. β
Ignoring the nervous gazes of everyone around him, Fan Xian took a good time, holding the young child in one hand and the woman in the other, and walked towards the courtyard gate.
Shi Yanli lowered his head and followed very embarrassedly, this exam was a smashing pot, the door master asked him not to reveal his identity, but to enter the door openly, the scholar really had no choice.
The master's face is constantly changing, looking at the other party's personnel matching, I guessed that the other party is the enemy that the owner of the village is looking for, but ...... How dare the other party come to the door? When did the other party get off the ship!
At this time, countless brothers under Jiangnan Shuizhai were working the river to trace the traces of Fan Xian and the others, and were fighting to the death with the big ship, who would have thought that the enemy they were searching for would come to Shazhou so arrogantly, so arrogantly came to the rudder gate and broke in directly!
"Take them down!" The master's face turned white for a while, it seemed that he had never seen such an arrogant enemy, and he was also a little panicked in his heart, but all those who were bullish and angry, except for the mentally handicapped, always had something to rely on, but Xia Ye was in the courtyard at this time, and if he was slow to deal with it, he was afraid that there would be a big problem.
With this shout, those thugs drew their short knives, let out a roar, and killed Fan Xian and the others!
............ Fan Xian felt that his right hand tightened slightly, and when he turned his head to look, he saw that the third prince still maintained an innocent smile on his face, but his palm was subconsciously shaken before, thinking that he was still a little scared in addition to the disguise.
"Confidence. At this juncture, Fan Xian still did not forget to explain: "The people of the heavenly family must have overwhelming confidence. β
When Dangdangdang, it was like the absurd sound of the song, and the brothers of the Shazhou rudder of Jiangnan Shuizhai also saw a very absurd scene, only to see countless short knives flying up at the gate of the small courtyard, as if it was raining, mysteriously out of the control of their palms.
Immediately afterwards, there were countless muffled snorts, but all the thugs who blocked Fan Xian's way were all shocked and flew out!
............ Gundam led the six tiger guards to float around Fan Xian's four people like gusts of wind, silently withdrawing the long knife he was carrying behind him, and shook those thugs away, and the momentum soared into the sky, which can really be described as a blocker!
Fan Xian still led the two of them calmly with a calm face, and walked towards the small courtyard, accompanied by screams and knife light, his steps were very steady.
"Although there are tens of millions of people, I will go. He explained to the three princes beside him: "The imperial court doesn't need to deal with the people in the rivers and lakes, we only need to arrange for them to do things, so at the beginning of the meeting, don't talk about anything." β
The third prince nodded, his eyes staring at the fight around him, thinking that this feeling was really refreshing, and he was very excited, and the palms of his little hands began to sweat and get slightly wet.
"Why are these...... The kung fu of the people of the rivers and lakes is so vulnerable?" the third prince was a little puzzled by the facts in front of him.
At this time, some of the people in Jiangnan Water Village were already lying on the ground, unable to get up for a long time, and those who were still able to stand looked at Fan Xian and his party with very frightened eyes, especially looking at those silent long knife hands, they were even more shocked. The master, who was covered in cold sweat, stared at the hands holding the handle of the knife with his eyes, and howled in his heart, when did there suddenly become so many masters of seven or eight grades on the rivers and lakes!
............ At this time, everyone had already walked to the bottom of the stone steps of the main hall, Fan Xian stopped, and said to the third prince with a smile: "What is the purpose of practicing martial arts? What the rivers and lakes can give to the warriors, the temples can give more, so the really famous scholars are all officials in the court, and the really powerful masters are also contributing to the court. Young master, don't be deceived by those words, Jianghu is a poor place, where can a job with no future such as collecting protection money attract real masters......"
In front of the main hall, Xia Qifei, the owner of Jiangnan Water Village, finally stood up, he looked coldly at the approaching people, and said: "Let's retreat, don't be ashamed, I'll meet these distinguished guests from Kyoto." β
He was calm at this time, in fact, he was also shocked in his heart, he had guessed that the other party was the person who came to the ship from Kyoto, how could he expect that the other party would not avoid him, but would come to the door so forcefully!
Without waiting for him to stretch out his hand to ask, Fan Xian and his party naturally entered the middle hall as if they were going home.
Fan Xian invited the three princes to sit down on the main seat, and then sat next to him with a big sword, Sisi and Shi Yanli stood quietly behind him, and the seven tiger guards pressed the handle of the sword, distributed around the middle hall.
Xia Qifei saw that the other party was acting like this, and he was almost angry, this is still not his own territory! He forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and said to Fan Xianyi: "Qi Fei has seen adults...... It's just that there are heroes in the recklessness of the rivers and lakes, and the adult's previous words are inevitably excessive. β
At this time, if he can't see that Fan Xian is a powerful person from Kyoto, then he is really an idiot, so he must suppress his anger, within the borders of Qingguo, the imperial court is as unbreakable as an iron plate of terror, and any force that vainly tries to confront the official will end up with a tragic end.
"Xia Qifei?" Fan Xian looked at the ruthless figure in front of him, confirmed the identity of the other party, and said with a gentle smile: "This official doesn't want anyone to know that this official is a guest in your mansion for the time being, there are many people who have seen it before, you go and deal with it, it is a little difficult, it is the first time that this official has tested the master of Xia Zhai." β