Five days later, in an inconspicuous restaurant in Deyang City, in a private room on the second floor, Xu Yihang, Liu Qingyuan, Xing Zongliang, Yu Siren, and Zhou Zhong sat around a table.

"Senior, the truth of Ling Lang's death was revealed, the murderer was ambushed, the revenge was avenged, and your faction reconciled with the Tang Sect, come, the kid toasts you."

"The old man is ashamed, if there is no Tianhang for you, how can you find out this bastard Kong Bai." Liu Qingyuan said, raised his head and drank the sake in the cup.

Ran Xingzhou remembered that he had been friends with Kong Bai for many years, and did not hand over Kong Bai to the Southern Qi court, but asked Liu Qingyuan to give him a good time.

"What's next for the seniors? How is the investigation of the Nine Styles of the Absolute Sword? Xu Yihang asked.

The old man went to Luocheng in a few days and personally apologized to Tang Wanxiong. As for the matter of the nine styles of the sword, the old man and Shangguan have found out, the reason is a long story, the barbarian general Suo Lang and Xiahou Jun are all after the former Zhou old ministers, Suo Lang is the grandson of Shen Jin, the leader of the former Zhou Dynasty, Xiahou Jun is the grandson of Xiahou Ang, the former Zhou Yizhou Mu Xiahou Ang, forty years ago when the chaos, Shen Jin led the palace guards to die in battle, Xiahou Ang happened to report in Beijing, saved Shen Jin's son by mistake, and then secretly brought back to Shu to shelter, and raised with his young son, until the Southern Qi took over Shu, Xiahou Ang was forced to go into the wilderness, and came to Deyang to live in seclusion, It was also since then that the Xiahou clan and the Shen clan had a relationship with my Absolute Sword Sect. Liu Qingyuan said slowly.

"Then the Lord of the Ran Sect didn't intend to help the barbarians?" Xu Yihang continued to ask.

Xing Zongliang saw that Liu Qingyuan was still thinking heavily, so he replied: "Yes, the master is just following Master Tai's dying words. ”

"What does Brother Xing mean?" Xu Yihang didn't understand, so he had to ask carefully.

Liu Qingyuan glanced at Zhou Zhong, an outsider, and without waiting for Xing Zongliang to reply, he said: "Back then, the teacher had a very good personal relationship with Xiahou Ang, and the senior brother and I were similar in age and like-minded with the two sons of Xiahou and Shen. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Qingyuan paused, and said: "It's a pity that there are unforeseen circumstances, I don't want the Northern Zhou Dynasty to learn that Shen Gongzi is not dead, so I tracked it down, and I also moved to kill Xiahou Ang, that night the blood stained Xiahou Mansion, when the teacher heard the news, he only saved the two sons, and then the teacher was worried that the Northern Zhou killer would come back, so he sent the two sons into southern Xinjiang, and then the two of them were not heard from." Suo Lang and Xiahou Jun are the two sons. ”

Xu Yihang replied: "I see, I didn't expect there to be such an unrelenting story in this." ”

Xu Yihang didn't expect Suo Lang and Xiahou Jun to have such a background, no wonder the two of them had to sacrifice their lives to save each other a year ago, after the Great Zhou Zhongchen! If you meet them in the future, you have to think of taking them under your command.

Liu Qingyuan continued: "Four years ago, when the three of you and I were hiding in Fengshi Fort, Suo Lang led the soldiers and horses of the vulture village to invade Jiangyang, and after the defeat, Suo Lang and Xiahou Jun infiltrated Deyang, and found the senior brother in charge with the token. ”

Although Xu Yihang has not personally experienced the chaos forty years ago, he only listens to the situation of the Shen family and the Xiahou family at this moment, but he also feels a lot.

Liu Qingyuan saw Xu Yihang's face was heavy, and guessed that this descendant of the royal family of the previous dynasty remembered the hatred of the country again, and he didn't know whether to continue to say it.

At this time, Xu Yihang said: "Senior? And after that? ”

Liu Qingyuan looked at Xu Yihang, and had to continue: "The two sons gained a foothold in Southern Xinjiang with the martial arts of the Absolute Sword Gate, and later married a wife and had children, but within a few years, Shen Gongzi died of illness, and his wife and son married another, which is why Suo Lang is not surnamed Shen." And Prince Xiahou was appreciated by the leader of the Dilong Cave and became the martial arts master of the barbarian magnates, but he was carefree for half his life and passed away a few years ago. ”

"In this way, the kid blames the Ran Sect Master, but why did the Ran Sect Master stand by when the Tang Sect intercepted and killed the seniors?" Xu Yihang saw that the words had come to this, so he simply said the doubts in his heart.

"Senior Brother in charge knows me best, if I completely break with the Tang Sect and bring the entire Absolute Sword Sect into danger, I will definitely apologize for my crimes, so it is the best choice for him not to make a move." Liu Qingyuan replied.

Although Xu Yihang said that he had misunderstood Ran Xingzhou, he didn't believe it in his heart, the friendship of decades ago, if he remembered the old relationship, he would not teach the sect to each other, but since Liu Qingyuan believed it, he couldn't question it anymore, no matter who he Ran Xingzhou was working for and colluding with, as long as it didn't endanger Tang Yixue.

Several people no longer mentioned these things, pushing cups and changing lamps, staggering, and each recounting the events that had happened around them during the year.

More than ten days later, Zizhong City, General Mu Ziyu's Mansion, and the hall.

Mu Ziyu was dressed in a cyan brocade robe, his face was peaceful, he looked at the person sitting on the left side of the hall and said: "The young man has not been seen for a year, and this appearance has given the old man a big gift, and the Hou Ye and the old man really don't know how to thank it." ”

"The old general is polite, the kid has long regarded the general as his own parent, so why worry about trivial things." At this time, Xu Yihang had changed into clean clothes, and the stubble on his face was also cleaned up, and he replied respectfully.

"Haha, Brother Yi is worthy of being a person valued by Ben Hou, just relying on this treacherous words, he captured two spies, solved the unsolved case in Shu for several years, and promoted the reconciliation of the two factions of the Tang Sect and the Jue Dao Sect, and made contributions to my Great Qi, but the one surnamed Kong was killed by Liu Qingyuan." The first seat on the right hand side of the hall is Jiang Baihua, the Marquis of the Canal, who said regretfully.

"Brother Jiang's grace to live back then has never been forgotten." Xu Yihang teased.

"Huh? If it weren't for Brother Wang's insistence on making peace with Nanban, and those barbarians had to take the opportunity to take your life, how could Benhou behead 'you'? But Ben Hou has always wondered, have you offended anyone? Jiang Baihua replied.

"Brother Jiang, why did you say that?" Xu Yihang asked.

"Well, let General Mu tell you." Jiang Baihua wiped his nose and picked up the teacup and tasted it.

"The grave of the young man was picked up." Mu Ziyu said with some embarrassment.

Two years ago, "Yi Tianhang" was beheaded, everyone did a good job, and the grave worship was the same decline, although it was Zheng Min buried there, but nominally it was Yi Tianhang.

Exhuming people's graves has been a serious crime since ancient times, and they will only risk doing such things to vent their anger unless they have a deep hatred.

Whether it is the Southern Qi Dynasty or the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the punishment for grave digging is extremely severe, and the laws of the two countries are eight words for this crime: "those who see the coffin will be sent and those who see the corpse will be killed", which shows that the world hates tomb robbery and grave excavation.

More than ten years ago, when the plague broke out in Shudi, there were groups of hungry people digging graves and stealing treasures in exchange for rations, and in the situation that no one could survive at that time, those hungry people who committed this crime were also assigned labor by the government according to the law, and hundreds of people were beheaded.

Without waiting for Xu Yihang to answer, Mu Ziyu continued: "Shaoxia's 'corpse' was also abandoned in the mountains, and when I found it, there was only a mutilated head left, and it was actually eaten by the beasts in the mountains. ”

Jiang Baihua couldn't help but burst out laughing, and the tea sprayed all over the ground.

Xu Yihang didn't know what to say, gloating, it was his grave, grief, Zheng Mian fell into this place where there were no bones and no place to be buried, and it seemed that he deserved it, but who had such hatred for him and dug his grave.

"If it weren't for Sun Jichen going to the southern city fortress of Tangting Mountain to garrison and worship you along the way, I wouldn't have known that you were dug up, haha." Jiang Baihua teased again.

"Sun Duwei is really a person who values love and righteousness, and I am just a general friend with him. I am quite interested in this gravedigger, I don't know if Brother Jiang and the general have any clues? Xu Yihang learned that his grave had been picked up and abandoned in the wilderness, and he had to guard against people who had such hatred for him.

"Well, Ben Hou sent Ding Ci to check, some Jiangyang Orion has seen people from the Iron Horse Gang haunting near Tang Tingshan, if you don't have other enemies, then eighty percent are them." Jiang Baihua replied.

"Oh? The Iron Horse Gang, which has nothing to do with them, why did they come all the way to dig graves to vent their anger? Xu Yihang was puzzled.

"Brother Yi, I'm afraid I forgot about the dozen or so men outside Duqing City? You killed more than a dozen gangs of people, and you forgot about it? Jiang Baihua teased.

"Alas, it was really too ruthless back then, and if it was really the Iron Horse Gang, it would be fine." Xu Yihang suddenly realized.

Mu Ziyu advised: "Kou Meng of the Iron Horse Gang is not a good stubble, although Zheng Min was dug up by others, but that face is your appearance, if you meet someone from the Iron Horse Gang in the future, it is better to be careful, don't be recognized." ”

"Thank you, General, for the point."

"Well, by the way, Ben Hou has always been puzzled, who is that thug next to you? When I was in the Tang Tingshan camp a year ago, Ben Hou noticed that there was a black cloth masked guard beside you, but now he is not masked, but has changed to a mask, and the weapon in his hand is Han Xiang's fishtail axe? Jiang Baihua asked, as if he had guessed something.

"Don't hide it from Brother Jiang, this person is Han Xiang." Xu Yihang saw that Jiang Baihua's question was so obvious, so he didn't hide it.

"Okay, you kid, you actually harbored a criminal behind my back?!" Jiang Baihua feigned anger.

"Brother Jiang and the general, don't worry about Han Xiang anymore, Han Xiang is dead, and now this person's name is Zhou Zhong, and he is a chivalrous man with a slight chivalrous reputation in northern Sichuan." Xu Yihang said cheekily.

Mu Ziyu smiled and said nothing, Jiang Baihua looked at Xu Yihang like a fool, and said for a long time: "You treat me as stupid? Or are you stupid? Keeping wicked people like Han Xiang by your side, you're too long, right?! ”

"Thank you, Brother Jiang."

"What are you thanking me for? Thanks for the fart! Don't wait for you to be killed by Han Xiang in the future, let me really go to your grave. Jiang Baihua suddenly became angry and said openly.

"Zhou Zhong, that is, Han Xiang, has been by my side for the past year, if he wanted to kill me, he would have done it a long time ago." Xu Yihang said.

"Hmph, you're doing it yourself." Jiang Baihua couldn't persuade Xu Yihang, so he simply didn't care.

"Thank you, Brother Jiang."

"Thank you, thank you, you have some sincerity, Ben Hou has the right to think that this criminal is dead for the sake of your face." Jiang Baihua is still angry.

"This? There's really nothing valuable to give to you, Brother Jiang. Xu Yihang pretended to be stupid.

"Alas~ Really, how did Ben Hou make such a friend as you, yes, just sell you to Ben Hou, how about continuing to work for my Daqi? This Imperial Supervisor Commander card should be returned to its original owner. Jiang Baihua took out the monitor token engraved with the green dragon totem from his arms and threw it to Xu Yihang.

"This? Isn't this Brother Jiang's token? Why did you give it to me again? Even if you want me to continue to serve the imperial court, just give me an ordinary Inspector token, this brand that can command all Inspectors, I don't dare to take it again. Xu Yihang wants to capture the past, and this appearance is to use Jiang Baihua's power to reach a high position again.