Swaggering on the top of the mountain, the spring thunder rumbles.

Ji Ming reclined on the bamboo chair in the backyard of the Qi Ying Hall at the top of the swaggering mountain, looking at the rain outside the door with a sad face.

The rain wasn't heavy, but he really hoped it wouldn't stop.

In the past few months, he has been exhausted, as the internal envoy of the Sanyang Sect, he is busy from morning to night every day, dealing with various affairs during the day, and getting up in the middle of the night to monitor the patrol in the valley.

The Sect Master felt that the Valley of Death was only suitable for habitation, but the terrain was not very good.

In case the Taikun Gate attacks in, the Death Valley is like a big urn, and there is no way out.

Therefore, after discussion, it was decided to add the front hall and martial arts camp on the top of the mountain, and the sect leader also handed over the task of supervising the Qi Ying Hall to him.

However, there have been a lot of rainy days lately, and the progress of construction has not been as good as before, so he has to find time to come here to receive the handymen who inspect the valley or the people who come to the church.

Sometimes he had to go back and forth between the top of the mountain and the valley many times a day, and he felt like he couldn't stay up.

But the Sect Master admired him very much, and entrusted him with many things, and he always did it satisfactorily.

Now that the Sanyang Sect has developed more and more, his power has also increased.

He is a careful and capable person, although his martial arts are not very high, but no one in the sect dares to underestimate this sect envoy.

Yan Wuping had been out on errands for some time, and Xuanyuan Lie had always disliked to ask too much about affairs, so now he had absolute decision-making power over most of the affairs in the valley.

Whatever happens to Gu Zhong, he will be told to deal with it as soon as possible.

But he always had a smile on his face, he never offended anyone, and everyone liked him.

He handles everything with care and with great care.

Even Wei Taiqing often teased him: "If the Sanyang Sect doesn't have Ji Ming, it will definitely become an ant's nest." ”

As soon as the rain stopped, Li Tianguang, the captain of the guard team on duty at the gate of the front hall, ran over: "Ji Nei Envoy, there are a few people outside who are going into the valley to do things, do you want to meet them in person?"

The news of the extermination of the Death Valley had already been spread, and more and more people were admiring the Sanyang Sect.

"Bring them in. Ji Ming said.

A total of six people were brought in, two men and four women, old and young. They were all farmers from nearby towns.

"There are seven people missing in the kitchen right now. Ji Ming squeezed out a smile and said to the six people. "There are twelve people who clean and clean, five people who wash clothes, more than ten people who carry them, and the monthly salary is eighty copper coins. ”

All six of them are willing to stay, and it is only fifty copper coins a month to make a kitchen in a large family outside.

Ji Ming looked at the two elderly aunts and said, "Do you two know how to cut vegetables?"

"If you go back to your father, you will cut. The aunt replied without hesitation.

"Well, then you two go to the kitchen, mainly to wash the vegetables, and occasionally help cut them. With that, Ji Ming turned his head and looked at the other two middle-aged men.

Both were in their forties, one burly and the other skinny.

"What can you do?" he asked them with a smile.

The two middle-aged men hurriedly replied: "We are willing to do anything, and I will also cut vegetables." ”

Ji Ming nodded and said with a smile: "Why don't you farm at home, it's spring now, and there should be a lot of farm work." ”

The two men immediately frowned: "Back to Uncle's words, we used to hunt nearby to make a living, some time ago there was a fierce beast on the mountain, and it ate all the prey on the surrounding mountains, and the prey became less and less, so I had to come out to work as a casual worker to make money." ”

When they spoke, although Ji Ming was always smiling, his eyes were staring at them without blinking, after all, if someone entered the valley, he also needed to understand everyone's background and background. Otherwise, if someone gets in, it will be difficult for him to take the blame if there is a mess.

"Beasts?" Ji Ming couldn't help but be a little surprised, but seeing that their expressions didn't seem to be fake, he nodded and said, "Well, you all go and carry them to the warehouse." ”

The two middle-aged men thanked them again and again.

There were two girls of seventeen or eighteen years old, who were not beautiful, but they were not ugly, and their clothes were plain.

Ji Ming only glanced at them, and didn't bother to ask: "You two go to the room to do chores, mainly to wash clothes and take care of the hygiene of all parts of the pavilion." ”

Then he said to Li Tianguang: "Take them down to the valley and settle down first, and I'll make specific arrangements later." ”

Li Tianguang took the order and brought six people into the valley.

Ji Ming stretched his waist while lying on the bamboo chair, closed his eyes, and recuperated.

As soon as Ji Ming lay down, there was a sound of "bell, bell, bell!" from behind the mountain.

"What's the noise?" Ji Ming asked Du Qing beside him.

Du Qing is Ji Ming's personal disciple and specializes in running errands.

He pricked up his ears and listened carefully for a while, and replied, "It should be the deputy sect leader who is practicing martial arts behind the mountain." ”

"Martial arts?" Ji Ming couldn't help but smile bitterly and continued to close his eyes to recuperate.

He was no wonder for a long time, the second sect leader was a person who couldn't be idle, Wei Taiqing presided over the affairs outside the sect, and Ji Ming managed it in the sect, so he really had nothing to do.

Ever since Yan Wuping left the Valley of Death, he had either been drinking and having fun with the captains of the martial arts camp all day long, or he had gone to Zhaoyao Town to drink and gamble for money, and wander around.

Wei Taiqing saw that he, the deputy sect leader, was in a panic, so he taught him a formation and persuaded him to practice more, so that he might be able to use it in case of attacking Taikun Gate in the future.

Xuanyuan Lie felt that it made sense, so he selected a hundred young and strong warriors with high martial arts skills in the Fire Teaching Pavilion, organized them into a small sub-camp, and equipped them with good horses and good saddles.

Then Xuanyuan Lie took this team of blood order flags to the woods on the mountainside behind Zhaoyao Mountain every day to teach martial arts and set up a formation.

On this day, Xuanyuan Lie rode the White Tiger Beast as usual, carrying the Swinging Moon Bow, and came to the back mountain early with this hundred horsemen to continue the exercise.

The formation was set up, and Xuanyuan Lie stood in the center of the formation, waving a flagpole to command the samurai to change formations.

Suddenly, I saw that several samurai on the periphery seemed to be absent-minded and untimely, so I couldn't help but erect a flagpole and stop the drill. Then he shouted angrily: "How did you go, you guys, the whole formation was messed up by you!!"

The few warriors said to Xuanyuan Lie hesitantly: "Deputy Sect Master, my subordinates seem to have heard some movement in the forest over there!"

Xuanyuan Lie looked in the direction they pointed, and it seemed that the leaves on the top of the woods over there were shaking, and he waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.

"Shhh

The warriors heard it, but they couldn't make out what it was, so they couldn't help but hold their breath and listen carefully.

"Shhh It was accompanied by a few low growls.

Xuanyuan Lie looked up to the sky and laughed: "It seems that it's just a mountain beast, what's the fuss!" He laughed endlessly, and the white tiger beast under the seat hung its head and tail, its legs bent down, and it cried in a low voice, taking four steps back, and it actually had the intention of leaving.

Xuanyuan Lie couldn't help but be taken aback, this white tiger beast had been personally fed by him since birth and had followed him for several years. There has never been a trace of fear and cowering, even if he runs wildly with Yan Wuping's Zi Bolin, he will not back down with his teeth and claws.

The White Tiger Beast only smelled its breath at this time, and heard a few deep howls, but it had the intention of retreating!

Xuanyuan Lie was furious: "Livestock, let the master go!" After saying that, his legs were clamped, and the flagpole slapped the tiger's buttocks, and he wanted to run into the forest.

Unexpectedly, the white tiger beast was even more frightened, and did not dare to make any sound, its eyes seemed to be soaked in tears, and it refused to move forward, with its tail flicked, the side of the tiger's head, carrying Xuanyuan Lie actually turned around and ran out of the forest.

"Click!"

Something suddenly flew out of the forest, the speed was extremely fast, and the warriors present had no time to see clearly, only to see several trees the size of a sea bowl fall down together, and when everyone looked closely, they saw a strange beast had pounced in front of the white tiger beast.

When the white tiger beast saw the beast, it seemed to know that it was in calamity, and its fate was over, and it raised its tail in front of the strange beast, and lay its limbs on the ground without moving.