"Uh...... Do you have some conspiracy?" Xiao Kelong said with empty eyes. He couldn't conclude that He Nan was playing some kind of ghost idea, what made him feel subtle was that the price on both sides was too unequal - then there was only one answer, if he could really help He Nan destroy the blue-faced Yama, he would get far more benefits than he would give himself.

Of course, the conditions that He Nan had made before were all bragging.

"I understand your concerns, but I want to say that it doesn't hurt to help me, at most it's just a few days of labor. He Nan was still consoling.

"What do you get after getting rid of that bandit leader?" Xiao Kronn asked, and that's what he cared about most.

Unexpectedly, He Nan shook his head: "I can't tell you this." ”

At first glance, He Nan's answer was basically a breakdown of negotiations, but Xiao Kelong temporarily relieved his guard after this question and answer - doesn't it sound incredible?

In fact, the reason is very simple, people will always have a suspicious and contemptuous attitude towards things that are free and easy to obtain, and things that are expensive and difficult to find will be involuntarily labeled as "you get what you pay for".

He Nan's hidden attitude will make Xiao Kelong feel that "there is a conspiracy", and then he subconsciously established a psychological defense line in his heart - that is, "If you have a conspiracy, I also have precautions, then let's ride a donkey and read the record book and see."

Negotiation is nothing more than risks and benefits, and He Nan has given Xiao Kelong enough room to choose, so Xiao Kelong naturally has no need to veto it immediately.

"Okay, I'll promise you to take you back to the sect now. Xiao Kelong reluctantly agreed to He Nan's request, "But...... If you really have bad intentions, I guarantee you won't be able to get out of Yanshan. ”

He Nan also smiled, he finally didn't speak in vain, he nodded and said, "Listen to your respect." ”

Yanshan is located in the county of Luoyan County, and it is only two or three hundred miles away from the county seat.

In fact, the ancestor of the Jinghong faction did not set Yanshan as the base of his sect, in fact, he was just a wandering martial artist who adhered to the rule of "using dual-wielding weapons" that he had set for himself. His martial arts were not outstanding, and he could only be regarded as a second-rate figure at that time.

However, this ancestor received a good apprentice when he traveled all over the world, this good apprentice not only learned the dual-wielding sword from the master's hands, but also collected and adapted the use of many other weapons on this basis, because the apprentice's ancestral home is in Yanshan, so he returned to his hometown to start a sect in his old age, founded the name of Yanshan Jinghong, and enshrined his master as the ancestor of the Jinghong faction.

Although the head of the sect is a talented martial artist, there are not so many geniuses like him in this world, and even many young people with good qualifications are more willing to choose other martial arts that are relatively simple and easy to learn, so even though the Jinghong faction has a master in charge, it is inevitable that the sect will not be able to change the situation that the sect is weak.

Ten years ago, at the Jianghu Youth Heroes Conference, the Thrilling Flood faction emerged, with four wizards participating in it, and all of them achieved good rankings, and Yan Chunlai defeated the number one favorite to win the championship - the little master of Kongming of Sumeru Temple, and came out on top. Since then, the Jinghong faction has the prestige and capital to be among the quasi-first-class sects in the rivers and lakes.

Of course, the current Jinghong faction is still not first-class - there are nine first-class forces in the rivers and lakes today, and it is a structure of "three in the upper and four in the lower two".

These three sects are "Changfeng Academy, Sumeru Temple and Fuyao School", these three major sects respectively follow the three teachings of "Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism", which have been inherited for a long time and have a long history. It is not so much that these three sects are martial arts sects, but rather schools that rely on culture and religion, and the "martial arts" aspect only accounts for a small part of them, and the status of the above three sects, not to mention the people of the rivers and lakes, even the imperial court must give three points of thin noodles, and many of the great members of the dynasty are also proud of making friends with the upper three sects.

Compared with the previous three, the strength of the middle four sects is not much worse, but the influence is more than a step behind. The four sects are the "Beggar Gang, the Four Seas Gang, the Guanghan Palace, and the Yaowang Zhai." The beggar gang is naturally the leader of the beggars in the world; the Four Seas Gang is "relying on water to draught" and has great authority in the three rivers and four seas; the people in the Guanghan Palace are all graceful and graceful women; this medicine Wang Zhai is a medical Taoist sect that hangs a pot to help the world.

The first seven sects are all famous and upright, and the next two sects are much more eccentric than them, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are both good and evil, which are "Jinguan City" and "Sleepless Villa". The former lived in seclusion in the southwest, extremely mysterious, only heard that their disciples were good at studying hidden weapons and mechanisms, but few people had seen their ingenious magic skills with their own eyes, and the latter was more like a huge business - many wealthy merchants and gentry had visited the docks in the Sleepless Villa, but no one could tell what kind of background the Sleepless Villa had.

The first three sects are based on beliefs and schools of thought, and they are unshakable; the middle three sects gather like things and people are divided into groups, and they form heroes all over the world; and the lower two sects divide one side and the latter win by tricks—these nine forces almost encompass most of the three religions and nine streams.

In other words, the rise and prosperity of these nine forces is not because of the strength of force, but through people's beliefs, thoughts, occupations, interests, relatives and other advantages to continuously absorb like-minded people.

On the contrary, quasi-first-class sects such as the Jinghong Sect, the Iron Dragon Sect, and the Bafang Sword Pavilion that focus on force are still too weak, and there is still a long way to go before they are truly first-class. In addition, most of these quasi-first-class sects have such strict and even bizarre rules as "the sect must use dual-wielding weapons" or "the sect must be a generation of farmers", and they are even less promising than the notorious "Immortal Alliance" or the notorious "Ten Thousand Interception Sect" compared to them.

If you want to be among the real first-class in the rivers and lakes, there is no chance by force alone - no matter how strong your sect's combat power is, can it be stronger than the imperial court?

The poor have to work hard to gather a group of three or five even if they are full of birds, and the masters are full of friends and friends, and the lone rangers who are good at themselves, even if they have some status in the rivers and lakes, are only a drop in the ocean. As for those things that are full of thoughts that "when I cultivate my divine skills to the fullest, one person can enter the palace and seize the bird position, and when the time comes, turn over the hands into clouds and cover the hands for rain, and order the world not to dare to disobey", don't talk about it.

Having said that, Xiao Kelong and the three of them finally arrived at Yanshan after the sky was getting dark, and they were already standing at the gate of the Shocking Flood Sect at this time.

"Uncle Shi, you're back. At the gate of the Shocking Flood Faction, there were two uncles in their thirties who were on duty and nodded to Xiao Kelong. "These two are your friends?"

"Well, I'm going to stay in the mountains for a while when I come back this time," Xiao Kelong also nodded in return, "These two...... Friends are not counted, but there is some fate, take them up the mountain to have a look. He denied that they were his friends, but said nothing.

"These two people are old enough to be your father, why do you still call you uncle?" After the uncles let the three of them go, He Nan came up and asked as soon as possible.

Xiao Kelong has nothing to shy away from this issue: "The generations of our Jinghong faction are very distinct, and they are passed down from generation to generation regardless of age. My master is a fourth-generation disciple, so naturally I am a fifth-generation disciple, although I started a little later than these two, but their master is the same generation as me, so I can only be called uncle. By the way, Senior Brother Yan and I were both taught by the same master. ”

Speaking of which, when Xiao Kelong was eight years old and just started, he made a lot of jokes because of the "little uncle". However, these jokes were not very funny to Xiao Kelong, and he was even a little ashamed to say them, so he didn't tell them to the two.

Xiao Kelong led the two of them through a not too rugged mountain road, and came to an extremely flat area, presumably this is the interior of the Thrilling Flood Faction. He went straight to the door of a house, knocked, and then stood respectfully in front of the door and waited.

Hearing only a "squeak", the door of the house opened from the inside, and a scrawny, shriveled and obscene old man came out of it, and he saw Xiao Kelong suddenly showed a surprised expression, and shouted: "Why are you back?"

"Master Bing, didn't I chase down the fugitive and was suspended by my father, so I thought about it and went back to the mountains for a while. Xiao Kelong touched his head and said with some embarrassment.

"I guess you're running into hard stubble, right?" the old man smiled, and saw the two people standing behind Xiao Kelong: "These two are?"

Xiao Kelong looked around and said to the master, "Let's go into the house and talk." The old man saw that Xiao Kelong wanted to speak and stopped, so he got out of the way and let everyone in.

The old man's room was simple and clean, spotless, only the two long knives with cold light on the wooden table were the most eye-catching, but the system of the two knives was the same as the one used by Yan Chunlai, the scabbard and a piece of white silk were placed together, it seemed that the old man was wiping his weapon just now.

"This is my master," Xiao Kelong stretched out his hand to introduce the two, "You can respectfully call him ......"

Before Xiao Kelong finished speaking, He Nan clasped his fists and said with a flattering smile: "The junior has seen Master Bai Chan. ”

The ghost knows how this He Nan called out the other party's name all at once, Xiao Kelong's eyes were about to jump out of his sockets, and Xu Baician was also shocked, only Yu Ruyi was expressionless and watched coldly - she knew what was going on.

Yan Chunlai mentioned his master's name to him.

Seeing Xu Baichan's expression, He Nan hurriedly explained: "Second brother Yan Chunlai Yan is my righteous brother, and he once mentioned your name. Just now Xiao Kelong said that he and Second Brother Yan are both your apprentices, so I can be sure that you are Master Bai Chan. ”

Yu Ruyi also followed and saluted, and said: "Senior Yu Ruyi, I have seen Master Bai Chan. Different from He Nan's flattering tone, Yu Ruyi reported his name together, showing respect and grace.

"Yu Ruyi, then you are Liu Qingfeng?" I didn't expect Xu Baician to say, and it was Yu Ruyi's turn to change his face.

Who is Liu Qingfeng? Don't forget the poem of the four dark arrows under Li Mastiff's hand, "The red rain on the eaves says that summer is gone, and the front of the hall is returned to Yan Zhichun." Lei Yin Baosha slowly locked, and the green wind blew the ghost door open", Liu Qingfeng is the third "green wind" in the four dark arrows.

Yan Chunlai is this guy, with the same big mouth as He Nan. Before, after Yu Ruyi confided her real name to He Nan, she told her not to call her real name in front of outsiders, and to call her "Red Rain". As a result, when he was in the restaurant today, He Nan accidentally told Xiao Kelong his real name, which caused Yu Ruyi to only show his real name in front of Xu Baichan, but this Xu Baichan really knew who he was - of course, Yan Chunlai had talked to his master! Although Yan Chunlai is busy with official business, he still has time to go back to the mountain every once in a while and his master and brothers talk about the mountain, the killer is also a person, and the killer also has a holiday, Yu Ruyi himself is not in his hometown all the year round, and he runs to the lake to paint every day when he has nothing to do.

Yu Ruyi didn't show it on his face, but he was aggrieved and angry in his heart. That's it, Yan Chunlai was originally one of the secret arrows, and he actually poked the name of his companion out, which told He Nan again, and told his master - he was a messenger eunuch in the palace, and he said everything. She is an extremely rule-abiding person, and she is tight-lipped about the "dark arrow" even to her relatives and friends, but she can't stand a pig teammate with a leaky mouth.

The more Yu Ruyi thought about it, the more angry she became, and her tears almost fell.

Unexpectedly, Xu Baician's next sentence made Yu Ruyi, who lowered her head aggrieved, smile again, and inadvertently helped her breathe: "It's not right...... You're not handsome, aren't you?"

Finally, it was He Nan's turn to be embarrassed, but his cheek could be used to repair the Great Wall, so he just laughed embarrassedly twice and said: "The junior is indeed not Liu Qingfeng, but He Nan." ”

Xu Baician squinted his eyes: "He Nan? I haven't heard of it." Why are you pretending to be Liu Qingfeng?"

He Nan almost scolded, this old man embarrassed himself again and again, it was really disrespectful to the old man. However, of course, he couldn't behave so rudely, so he could only smile and say: "This is the younger generation's inconsiderate consideration, so that Master Bai Chan misunderstood, but it is indeed the sworn brother of Second Brother Yan." ”

As he spoke, he took out a small bag from the package he was carrying and presented it to Xu Baichan: "This is Yunmenghu tea from Yueyue City, and it is not respectful to be careful." Why don't you let me make you a pot of tea?"

Xiao Kelong stared at He Nan with a pair of eyes that was smiling like a flower--You are here prepared? Yu Ruyi was also constantly looking at this sloppy man, as if he was thinking about how he could carry this thing with him.

This Yunmenghu tea is located in one of the top ten famous teas, which was taken by He Nan from Li Mastiff's study before leaving, and he originally wanted to sell it for money, but he didn't expect it to come in handy today - Xu Baician is in Yanshan in the northwest all the year round, and there is definitely no chance to taste Jiangbiao's famous tea, which is suitable for borrowing flowers and offering Buddha.

Unexpectedly, Xu Baician threw a bag of tea to Xiao Kelong: "You go make tea." Then he asked He Nan, "...... in that package?" Why don't you take out that knife and take a look?"

All the embarrassment of He Nan was gone, and in his place was a cold sweat covering his body, and if someone touched his back now, they would definitely find that the placket of his clothes was already soaked.

"How did he know it was a knife?"