A cold wave from the northern Tianji Grassland to the south invaded Jintianfu.

It's like last winter, I was reluctant to leave, so I simply killed a horse gun.

In March, when the spring flowers are blooming, it is as cold as the cold winter wax moon.

In addition, it has been raining for several days, and the drainage system has been paralyzed several times......

The soldiers of the Zhenbei Army, who had just learned what it was called disappointment from the Northern Barbarians, and from the life of the dog, they understood what "the house leak happened to rain overnight" and what it meant to be "ill-fated".

This is not a step forward to be happy about.

Huo Hongye, who was routinely patrolling the camp, was very heavy in his heart.

He no longer wore his luxurious purple python robe, which represented his status as the prince of the palace, but instead wore the standard captain armor of the Zhenbei Army.

Even his "prosperous beauty" that once amazed Zhang Chu became obscure because of mud and rain.

If Zhang Chu can see him like this, he will definitely feel that this huge before and after comparison is very similar to the domineering president character in his memory who likes to pretend to be ordinary people to flirt with his sister and take in his younger brother.

But Huo Hongye's realm is much higher than that of a domineering president!

People always grow.

Zhang Chuhui.

Of course Huo Hongye will.

It's like when he sees him gathering under the eaves to roast the fire, throwing all his weapons and armor aside, like a group of subordinates who have broken the army, he is so annoyed that he wants to drag two of them out and cut them to improve military discipline, but he can't bear it silently.

The Northern Expedition has never been able to open up the situation, and the soldiers below are having a hard time, so why shouldn't he, the boss, feel tormented?

The battle order from the capital flew into his hand like snowflakes.

The Northern Expedition lost troops and lost generals, and the source of troops was urgent, but Xuanbei Prefecture had nothing to draw.

There is also an urgency of grain and grass, but the county guards have a lot of prevarication and refuse to hand over the grain.

The momentum of the Northern Expedition has become a furnace.

He, Huo Hongye, is now being roasted on this stove by all forces!

To maintain the current situation, he has already used the power of the wilderness.

The old servant in Tsing Yi, who rushed back from Shangyuan County in the rain, didn't even have time to change his clothes, so he came to see him in the barracks: "Childe, the old slave is back." ”

"Thankfully. ”

Huo Hongye nodded casually and asked, "What conditions did Zhang Chu mention?"

The old servant in Tsing Yi: "Son, the old slave didn't see Zhang Chu's face, he directly ordered Luo Dashan to give the secret method to the old slave and send the old slave back." ”

When Huo Hongye heard this, his heavy mood finally improved slightly: "Has it been verified?"

The old servant in Tsing Yi: "The old slave has ordered someone to verify it secretly, and the results will be available soon!"

After a pause, he couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Childe, did you say that Zhang Chu was repaying the kindness you gave him the Earth's Heart Flame before?"

Huo Hongye turned around and walked towards the Shuai Mansion, and asked without looking back as he walked, "In your opinion, this secret recipe is only worth a geocentric fire?"

The old servant in Tsing Yi followed his pace and said, "The old slave pondered all the way, but he didn't understand it, you said that Zhang Chu used this thing called explosives, and even killed seven or eight in the Qi Sea Realm, so why is it not worth more than a geocentric fire, right? But since it is not worth it, why doesn't he mention the conditions?"

"You come and I ......"

A faint smile appeared on Huo Hongye's face: "It's friendship!"

The old servant in Tsing Yi is not a stupid person, but he is in a different position, and his thoughts are different, after Huo Hongye's little touch, he suddenly came over with a clear understanding: "Childe, do you mean, he Zhang Chu thinks that he is now the master of the Xuanbei Martial Arts Alliance, and he can talk to your peers?"

Huo Hongye bowed his head and said: "His identity as the leader of the Xuanbei Martial Arts Alliance is indeed qualified to be with my peers!"

The old servant in Tsing Yi pondered for a while, and couldn't help but sigh: "This son is indeed an extraordinary person, in just three years, he can go from an unknown person to the top of the Xuanbei Martial Arts Alliance, and the old slave has lived for so many years, and he will see this person!"

Huo Hongye didn't say anything, but he was full of emotion in his heart.

He knew that Zhang Chu was a rare talent a long time ago, but he was unwilling to admit that Zhang Chu was more capable than him before, and he was unwilling to admit that he was jealous of Zhang Chu.

So that every time Zhang Chu encountered a difficult situation, he chose to stand by instead of sending charcoal in the snow......

Now he doesn't bother with it.

Even the Li family was defeated by Zhang Chu and planted a big fight, what else is there to worry about?

The old servant in Tsing Yi couldn't see Huo Hongye's face, and said in a low voice: "Son, about the grain and grass, why don't you let Zhang Chu help?" This matter is very tricky for us to have a relationship with the state capital, but in Zhang Chu's hands, it is a matter of one sentence......

Huo Hongye groaned slightly, and said: "In this case, you go again, find Zhang Chu to talk about this, and bring Zilong over by the way, just say that this is my congratulatory gift for him to be promoted to the master of the Xuanbei Martial Arts Alliance!"

"How can this work?"

The old servant in Tsing Yi said in shock: "That's the saber that the prince personally forged for you!"

Huo Hongye: "It's just a knife, if we can exchange it for the ally of the Beiping League, we still earn it." ”

"Besides, my grandfather can't come forward to preside over the overall situation, so it's not a blessing to cast another sword, right?"

He said it lightly, and even with a slight smile on his face.

The old servant in Tsing Yi was silent, and he didn't dare to make a loud voice of mosquitoes and flies.

......

"Phew. ”

Zhang Chu, Da Liu, and Hongyun returned from Shangyuan County to Beiyin County, and when they passed a fork in the road, Zhang Chu suddenly stopped holding the healthy horse under his crotch.

Zhang Chu looked at the two forks in the road ahead.

One leads to Taibai Mansion.

One leads to Wuqu County, and then turns around again to the Taiping Town of Goutou Mountain.

Zhang Chu pondered for a while, then turned his horse's head: "Go to Taibai Mansion!"

He took the idea, and Da Liu and Hongyun would not have any objections.

The three of them ran wildly along the horse road, and after another thirty or forty miles, they suddenly saw a village and town in front of them.

On the side of the road, there is also a tea stall for merchants to rest.

"The tea stall in front of me rests. ”

Zhang Chu shouted.

"Yes. ”

Da Liu replied to Hongyun.

There are a lot of people resting in this row of tea stalls.

The three of them got off the horse, Zhang Chu was responsible for finding an empty table, Hongyun took tea and dry food to go to the boss to borrow hot soup, and Da Liu waited for the three healthy horses to drink water and eat forage.

"Click. ”

Zhang Chu was waiting for Hongyun to make tea, and a clean and neat sound of chopping wood suddenly came into his ears.

Ordinary people chop wood, usually with two axes.

The first axe, with skill, is to chop the blade into the firewood.

The second axe, together with the axe and firewood, stomped vigorously on the wood-splitting stack, and forcibly stretched the sun-dried firewood by the angle of the axe.

Chopping firewood in this way is both labor-saving and safe...... For example, if you split the air and flash to your waist, the power is too great, and the firewood flies out and hurts people.

And the sound of chopping wood that Zhang Chu heard was only one!

And it's clean and neat, and there is no jerky feeling when ordinary people chop firewood.

He turned his head curiously, looked in the direction from which the voice came, and saw that in the open space at the edge of the tea stall next door, a handsome young man wearing a light cyan brocade robe and a mutton fat jade pendant hung from his waist, holding a long knife with an ancient meaning, standing in front of the wood-splitting pile and chopping firewood very seriously.

A cricket old man in linen and straw sandals stood helplessly on one side, and the axe for chopping wood was at his hand.

Very interesting picture.

What's even more interesting is that this beautiful boy who is only sixteen or seventeen years old has blood and qi fluctuations on his body that are very close to the eighth grade!

Before this boy, the best young talent Zhang Chu had ever seen was Xie Xiaoqing of the Samurai Building.

Eighteen-year-old Bapin.

But Xie Xiaoqing has a deep family history, and the Warrior Building is in Xiliang, but it is a powerful force second only to the Tianxing Alliance and the Wusheng Palace, and it is even stronger than the Heavenly Sword Sect in the past!

A few thoughts flashed through Zhang Chu's heart, and he said with a smile: "Hey, little guy, why are you robbing the old man of his work?"

This road is the main road leading from Beiyin County to Xiliangzhou, and there is an endless stream of businessmen coming and going, and there are many people in the tea stalls, and there is no shortage of people in the rivers and lakes who are swords and swords.

As soon as he spoke, the men looked at him in unison.

Of course, Zhang Chu would not have stage fright, and still looked at the young man with a smile.

At the right time, Da Liu came back from drinking the horse, and when he saw this, he quietly put the snow on the table.

In an instant, all the eyes that looked at Zhang Chu were all withdrawn.

When ordinary people saw the drifting snow, they knew that Zhang Chu was also a person who practiced martial arts, and they knew that they couldn't afford to provoke it.

People in the rivers and lakes can't see through Zhang Chu's realm, but they can roughly sense Da Liu's realm, and they also know that they can't be provoked.

The young man in the room, when he heard Zhang Chu's voice and looked back at him, pouted angrily and said, "Who is the little guy called? You are not a few years older than me!"

Zhang Chu was stunned for a while before he suddenly reacted.

Oh, yes!

"Even if I am a human being in two lives, I shouldn't be much older!"

"Why do you think it's a little guy when you see a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy now?"

Zhang Chu fell into a kind of self-doubt that suddenly grew old, and the feeling of a young man who was called uncle by a child for the first time was the same.

Seeing this, Da Liu on the side thought that his eldest brother was choked by the young man, and he held back a smile and gave a thumbs up to the young man over there: Niu, even the leader of our martial arts alliance in Xuanbei Prefecture dare to choke!

What is the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance?

As long as Zhang Chu is not annoying, everyone who practices martial arts in Xuanbei Prefecture can be controlled!

Of course, rights and duties always go hand in hand.

Usually, the people in the rivers and lakes of Xuanbei Prefecture are under Zhang Chu's control, but when the sky falls, he has to go to the top of the tall man.

For example, masters from other states came to Xuanbei Prefecture to kill!

For another example, the Xuanbei Prefecture suddenly attacked the Xuanbei rivers and lakes!

Zhang Chu quickly came back to his senses and shook his head with a self-deprecating smile.

He had already understood that too much suffering, too much fighting, had consumed too much of his mental energy.

Therefore, although his body is still very young, Zhang Chu's soul is already very old.

The young man in the carriage quickly finished chopping the firewood piled up on the side of the road, and asked with a smile: "Old man, is there anything else?" I will help you chop it once, so that you will not be busy again. ”

The rickety old man hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, no, please sit down, Hun family, Hun family, take out the mung bean cake that you brought back and try it." ”

The young man returned the knife into the sheath, smiled and waved his hand: "No need, old man, it's just convenient, it's not troublesome." ”

Seeing this, Zhang Chu invited loudly: "Little brother, if you don't dislike it, come over and drink hot tea." ”

At the right time, Hongyun came out with a pot of tea and two plates of steamed buns.

When the young man saw this, he came over generously.

Zhang Chu took out a stool with his own hands and invited him to sit down.

"How old is the little brother this year?"

Zhang Chu picked up a steamed bun with chopsticks and handed it to him, and he also forked one up and ate it slowly.

He's not a guy who likes to make friends.

Because making friends usually turns out that most people are not worth making friends in the end.

Confidants, close friends, with three or two, they are already very lucky.

But this young man, he admires very much.

Because the young man has an extremely rare innocent spirit.

Innocence is not childishness.

I don't understand what childishness is.

And the child, after understanding, is still willing to believe and love.

Zhang Chu himself didn't have it.

He's one of those people who tripped over a rock and the next time they saw it, they either bypassed it or kicked it to pieces.

So after he was polluted by the big dye vat of the rivers and lakes, he became more yin and ruthless than other people in the rivers and lakes!

The difference is only that those incompetent people who can't get on the stage will only play some vicious tricks that will lose their conscience.

And Zhang Chu launched a ruthless attack, regardless of anything, if the sky is tangible, he dares to poke the sky into a hole!

In fact, after the battle of Daxue Mountain, many people on the rivers and lakes have privately called him the devil and the Beiping League as the demon sect.

Zhang Chu heard about it.

He didn't care.

The young man took the steamed bun handed over by Zhang Chu, and after saying thank you, he fed it directly to his mouth and took a bite, completely without the persecution paranoia of the old Jianghu who went out and couldn't even wait to test the air with a silver needle.

However, although Zhang Chu also felt that his attitude was very imprudent, the smile on his face couldn't help but soften.

"I'm sixteen...... No, in three months, it's seventeen!"

Zhang Chu nodded and said, "It's the age of the prime...... When you go out alone, you don't send anyone to follow you?"

The young man shook his head: "My father said that I am already an adult, and I must not only learn to take care of myself, but also learn to take care of others." ”

Zhang Chu thought for a while and said, "Your father is a good person. ”

"No!"

The young man grinned with big white teeth, and said with a proud smile: "Just our ten miles and eight villages, no one doesn't say that his father is good!"

Zhang Chu smiled, and almost understood the origin of this kid.

He looked at the long knife on his waist and said, "By the way, I just saw that your saber is simple and quite extraordinary, is it your family's heirloom knife?"

The young man slapped the scabbard and said in surprise: "Good eyesight, this knife is my family's heirloom knife." ”

Zhang Chu: "Can you show me?"

The young man casually took off the long knife on his waist and slapped it on the table, and said boldly: "Take it!"

Zhang Chu smiled, picked up the long knife, and gently picked up the knife grid with his thumb, only to hear a "clang" knife sound, and the long knife flew out like lightning.

He reached out and grabbed the hilt of the knife with precision, holding it up in front of him, two fingers slowly caressing the blade.

The blade is slightly cool, and there is no gap in the blade of the blade just after chopping firewood.

"Good knife, good knife!"

Zhang Chu admired, when this knife was at its peak, it should be on par with drifting snow.

It's a pity that now, like Jingyun, the knife intent is old, and only a hard, sharp body remains, for the lower third-grade martial artists, it may be a divine weapon that sharpens iron like clay, but for the great man of the Qi Sea, there is no difference from the Yanling knife that the blacksmith shop sells for ten taels of silver.

He also put the knife into the sheath and handed it back to the young man: "Such a good knife, let's use it to walk the rivers and lakes, don't use it to chop wood, it's too wronged." ”

The young man was a little confused: "Aren't I just walking the rivers and lakes?"

Zhang Chu smiled and said, "Do you call chopping wood and walking the rivers and lakes?"

As soon as the words came out, he was suddenly stunned.

The young man just helped the old man chop wood, is it considered to be walking the rivers and lakes?

Isn't it a walking exercise?

Zhang Chu seemed to have caught something, but he didn't seem to have caught it.

"Anyway, when my father sent me out, he told me: The rivers and lakes are ...... at your feet."

Zhang Chu was silent, and two completely different thoughts collided fiercely in his mind, and the sparks generated kept impacting his three views.

After experiencing so many things, his three views have long been as solid as a rock.

But at this moment, in the collision of those two thoughts, his three views actually have some irresistible tendencies.

The rivers and lakes, isn't it the sword and the sword, the bloody wind and rain, do you calculate me and I use you?

Aren't rivers and lakes the ghost realm of people's hearts?

Isn't it?

It's always been that way, right?

......

It wasn't until the young man ate the last steamed bun on the table that Zhang Chu finally came back to his senses.

"Hiccup. ”

The young man burped, stroked his belly embarrassedly and said, "I ate a little too much......"

Zhang Chu smiled gently, grabbed the drifting snow on the table and handed it to him: "This is my saber, do you want to see it?"

"But, is that okay?"

Young Lang had long noticed this extraordinary sword just by looking at its scabbard, but his education prevented him from making rude requests to watch other people's swords.

People who are truly cultivated are very generous to others, but they are very strict with themselves.

Zhang Chu smiled and nodded: "Of course you can!"

The young man wiped his hands on his clothes excitedly, took the drifting snow with his precious hands, first carefully looked at the scabbard and handle for a while, and then held the handle of the knife, which was more than a foot long, with a slight force.

"...... Sonor"

The sound of the knife was loud, and the hand holding the knife trembled like an electric shock, and he could barely grasp the handle of the knife.

Zhang Chu raised his hand and gently rested it on the hilt of the knife.

The noisy sound of knives died down.

The people in the rivers and lakes in the tea stall are all looking at this side with a shocked face at this moment...... Even if he is a reckless man who has practiced martial arts and practiced into his brain, he understands at this moment that he is afraid that he will meet a great master!

"Good knives!"

The young man's excited eyes were shining.

What swordsman doesn't love swords?

"Do you like it?

Zhang Chu asked with a smile.

The young man said the word "happy" without thinking about it, and then suddenly reacted, and said with a wry smile: "My father said that a gentleman does not take the favor of others, and he also said that a gentleman will not be ......punished for his merits."

Zhang Chu: "Then did your father say that when you receive the grace of a drop of water, you should repay it with a spring?"

The young man thought for a moment, nodded and said, "I said it." ”

Zhang Chu easily pushed the drifting snow into his arms: "This is my spring!"

After speaking, he got up directly: "Da Liu, lead the horse!"

The young man looked confused.

Is the fountain of outsiders so expensive?

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