"If I can't kill him, I won't survive! Please be careful! "On a cold night in late autumn, on the banks of the Yingshui River, there was a looming figure isolated in the dense forest, as if giving orders to the air.

After a moment of silence, the jackdaws were startled in all directions, and countless figures scattered in all directions, and when everyone was gone, a low, resolute voice came from the group of fishing boats parked by the river, "Don't treat your people like this, they are just on orders." ”

"The apprentice knows that he is wrong, please punish the master." The man in the dense forest looked around in panic, but the river fog was too great to hear his voice, and at the same time, his knees involuntarily bent down, as if he was under great pressure.

"Go ahead, get things done cleaner and less painful." The voices of the fishing boats were filled with regret and helplessness.

The mysterious man in the dense forest vaguely saw the fishing boats swaying slightly, and then calmed down, as if it was just a gust of wind, and the mysterious man slowly retreated without answering a word.

After the mysterious man retreated, two people walked out from the depths of the dense forest, the former was about forty years old, but half a head of white hair, and he walked like a tiger patrolling the mountains, seemingly without waves, but every step was solid; The latter was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, with a beautiful face, who seemed to be dressed as a middle-aged man's entourage, carrying a fishing rod on his shoulder, carrying a bucket of water, with a happy complexion, a light step, and a heartless appearance.

The two of them stopped after walking to the place where the mysterious man was staying, and the young man asked with a smile: "Master, what makes the world's feared Buddhist and Zen brother so nervous?" ”

"Hehe, people are not terrible, people's hearts are terrible, Buddha Zen kills people but can't punish the heart, so he falls down, and he is worthy of his name." The middle-aged man did not answer positively.

"Oh, master, who the hell are you killing?" The young man was not led astray and stubbornly broke the casserole.

The middle-aged man smiled lightly, turned around and rubbed the young man's head, "You! This kind of persistence is really a headache for the teacher, but since you want to know the teacher, I'll talk to you today. ”

After a while, a few river fish in the bucket have been strung into strings and placed on the fire rack, the young man skillfully untied the big gourd on his waist and threw it to the middle-aged man, the middle-aged man was not annoyed, and after drinking a big sip of wine, he turned over the long stick of the string of fish, "Enlightenment, the world is bustling for profit, the world is bustling for profit, and the master can't see through one in this life." The word 'Li', your brothers are all from famous families, but they are all children of home remedies, only you are the pearl of the rivers and lakes who grew up in the court. ”

"Master! You have said countless times about the life experience of the disciple, and the senior brothers have also tried their best to find out my parents and relatives, but they can't find it, and the disciple now only wants to know who made the master come to Yingshui in person, and who made the Buddhist and Zen brothers like a great enemy. "Young people don't care about their backgrounds.

"Chen Shuo, Yingchuan Chen." The middle-aged man said lightly, but his eyes were full of murderous intent.

"Is it the relative of Chen Ruan, the head of the household who was killed three months ago?"

"Chen Shuo is his grandson, the Chen family is the descendant of Chen Xiang, a meritorious general at the founding of my Ling Dynasty, and has been passed down for thirteen generations, and the children of the Chen family are all over the court, and it is rumored that it is one of the families that can compete with the strength of the four cities and six surnames."

"Uh, it's not that Chen Ruan was the only one to kill after consulting with the Chen family, why did he kill his grandson?" The young man was puzzled.

"Chen Ruan is not worried, the Chen family is not terrible, what is terrible is that he is the grandson who has just been crowned, the Chen family can sacrifice Chen Ruan to protect him, which is enough to see his importance." The middle-aged man's killing intent was even stronger, and the young man felt that the master's aura was enough for the beasts not to dare to invade, so he didn't wait for the young man to ask, "Chen Shuo is not the son of the Chen family, Chen Ruan has no son and only one daughter under his knees, he married Xiao Cheng back then, and before he gave birth to a child, the Xiao clan in Jiangcheng was exterminated in the name of rebellion, Chen Shuo is the unborn child, and now most of the scattered people of the Xiao clan have defected to South Vietnam." ”

"Master, it's just a child, the imperial court, you and half of the night guards are dispatched." The young man said with a little contempt.

"Do you know that in the coup d'état in South Vietnam last month, Hu Shan, the second prince of South Vietnam, ascended the throne, and immediately after ascending the throne, he rewarded a prince named Xiao Huli as a prince with a different surname, Xiao Huli is Xiao Cheng's younger brother, although the Xiao family in Jiangcheng is not a family of six surnames in four cities, but it can be regarded as a famous family." The middle-aged man's expression was rare and a little moved.

The young man saw the middle-aged man's intentions, and he was also surprised in his heart, it must not be ordinary people who could make the master, the commander of the dark night guard of the Ling Dynasty, jealous, but he didn't know whether the master was jealous of Xiao Huli or Nanyue, or even the current situation in the imperial court, so he continued to ask with a smile: "Master, is there any difficulty in the imperial court?" ”

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, and suddenly turned his head to stare at the little apprentice beside him, only to see that the little apprentice's eyes were clear and unwavering, and the habit of being in charge of the night guard for many years made the middle-aged man afraid, and then regained his calm and smiled, closed his eyes, he figured it out, and then asked the young man with interest: "Enlightenment, take advantage of today's teacher examination to teach you, you can talk about the situation in the DPRK and China." ”

When the young man heard the word "examination", he immediately put away his joking look, sat upright, and said slightly: "Master, the disciple thinks that the situation in my Ling Dynasty is in tatters and difficult to control!" As soon as these words came out, the young man immediately looked at the middle-aged man, who still closed his eyes and did not express such disrespectful words to the apprentice.

The young man was happy in his heart, he expected that the master would not be truly loyal to the current royal family, "The Ling Dynasty has been founded for more than 200 years, and the strength of the imperial court since Gaozong has been unable to compete with the surrounding countries, and it is completely dependent on the courtesy of the border princes to the imperial court, and now the four cities and six surnames, the three rivers and five families, how much loyalty is left to the imperial court, it is just to kill a disrespectful Chen Ruan, the imperial court needs to discuss with the Chen family, how much more can this imperial court control." ”

After the young man finished speaking, he seemed to be relieved, while turning the fish on the fire, while waiting for the master's response, the middle-aged man did not speak, and the young man did not seem to be in a hurry, when the grilled fish was fragrant, the middle-aged man opened his eyes and said: "The fish is ready, you can eat it, take it down." ”

The two masters and apprentices finished eating the fish quietly, and the middle-aged man looked at the river fog on Yingshui getting bigger and bigger, which had completely covered the fishing boats by the river, and the young man was silently packing up his things beside him, "Zhiwu, you don't need to serve here, you can go to Dongyang City to find your senior brother early tomorrow morning." ”

The young man lowered his head and couldn't see his expression, but the unnaturalness of his shoulders still saw the accident of the master letting him go to Dongyang City, Dongyang City is one of the six surnames of the four cities, the so-called four cities and six surnames, is a family of famous families that has been inherited for nearly a thousand years, whether it is for officials or businessmen has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it doesn't matter who is the emperor in the hearts of the people, the important thing is which family they are in, whether their own interests will be harmed, and the four cities have maintained an attitude of listening to the Central Plains court since ancient times. Most of the six surnames maintained close ties with the Central Plains Dynasty, and the imperial court also used the six surnames to contain the four cities to form a stalemate attitude, and the founding ancestors of the Ling Dynasty hated this kind of containment, so they secretly supported the five founding heroes to form a third-party force, and slowly evolved into today's "Four Cities Gongjiang Mountain, Six Surnames Set the Central Plains." The five ghosts went down to the south of the Yangtze River, and the Ling Dynasty was worried and peaceful. ”

"Zhiwu, your senior brother is the son and nephew of Zhong Jue, the lord of Dongyang City, just born to a remote branch, a few days ago the news came that Zhong Jue intends to pass on the position of the city lord, and clearly told the Zhong clan that no matter how close or close they are, if they are the Zhong clan, they can inherit it." The middle-aged man saw the young man's doubts.

"Zhong Jue played a good plan, I heard that Zhong Jue has no children, and the inheritance of Dongyang City has long been spread among the Zhong family, Zhong Jue's several nephews and powerful partial houses have thoughts, no matter who wins the position of the head of the family, it will definitely go through a bloody battle, and Zhong Jue, who is sitting on the profits, can continue to maintain control of Dongyang City."

As he was talking, sporadic rain began to drip in the sky, the rain was mixed with the falling of snowflakes, the first snow came quietly, the master and apprentice stood in the dense forest without the intention of leaving, the middle-aged man reached out and wanted to catch the falling snowflakes, but before he could start it, it turned into water, turned around and saw the apprentice trying to maintain his image, and said with a smile: "Let's go, you only need to do one thing when you go to Dongyang City, that is, no matter how big the obstacle is, you must let your senior brother sit in the position of the lord of Dongyang City." ”

"What should I do here?" The young man didn't care at all about the difficulty of the middle-aged man's task, but was more concerned about the things here.

The middle-aged man looked at the young man appreciatively, sighed and said, "Chen Shuo's head will be sent over on time, but who knows where Xiao Yu's head is?" ”

"What does the master mean?" The young man was visibly frightened.

"If the Chen and Xiao families can't keep a child after spending so much effort, do you think they will be willing?"

"Master, can controlling Dongyang City contain the Yingchuan Chen clan and the Xiao clan of Nanyue?" The young man is not very enthusiastic about controlling Dongyang City, he does not think that controlling Dongyang City can affect the overall situation in the south, you must know that it is not only Dongyang City and Yingchuan Chen who have strength in the east, but the eldest grandson of Jiangdong, who has endured for decades and has not been released, has never quit the six surnames.

"Are you worried about the eldest grandson? Rest assured, the eldest grandson is in charge of the nine counties in Jiangdong, if there is no major event, they will not go out of the mountain easily. The middle-aged man saw through the young man's mind.

Seeing that the young man was a little lost, the middle-aged man comforted: "Your worries are not unreasonable, after finishing things for the teacher, I will personally go to Stone City to meet the eldest Sun Hong." ”

The young man did not talk about putting out the fire and cleaning up his own things, as if he was angry, the middle-aged man looked at the young man helplessly, full of spoiling, this child was ordered to Tanzhou to help Xingtan Gu to exterminate the local wealthy Mengshi rebels when he picked up the young children in Shaobei Mountain, he knew that this son was set to be related to the Montessori rebels, but when he picked up the child, this son was not afraid and laughed at himself, and the loneliness and anger hidden in the night for many years in his heart were relieved at once, so he raised the child by his side, named Zhiwu, Don't you know that this is also a portrayal of your life.

The young man walked in front, and the middle-aged man stroked the young man's back from time to time, and after a while, he disappeared into the depths of the dense forest, what they didn't know was that a black-clothed, black-robed and black-masked person slowly walked out of the river mist, and muttered softly: "The Commander of the Night Guard, Yang Boyu, actually took action in person, and this matter needs to be reported to the lord as soon as possible." ”

The man in black was about to leave, and a middle-aged man's voice floated from the depths of the dense forest: "Go back and tell your father-in-law, Yongxi Yang Clan's Yang Boyu will definitely visit soon." ”

The man in black suddenly felt cold all over his body, and the whole person seemed to be frozen and could not be shaken, and he was sweating profusely after a while, and he didn't know how long it took for the pressure of the surrounding air to weaken a little bit, and the man in black was shocked, and said in his heart: "This Yang Bo Bird's Jiuchen Exercise has actually broken the Great Heaven Realm, and there are less than five people in the world who can break the Great Heaven Realm, and the overlord of the family is now just Xiao Zhoutian." ”