Jiang Xiaoshu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard everyone thank him, and asked:

"What do you mean?"

Zhou Zide smiled and introduced:

"These are all big and small traders in Wuling County, and they have been threatened by the extortion of the Jiangyue Gang over the years, but since a few days ago, Gongzi Jiang, after you made a big attack on the Jiangyue Gang in Zhijiang, the thieves led by Wang Yang in Wuling County have all been unable to shrink out, and they have clamped their tails one by one...... Hahahaha, Jiang Gongzi, you said that you are such a righteous act, how can you not teach everyone to admire?"

A boss next to him said:

"Yes, since Wang Yang and the others stopped coming to cause trouble, I didn't waive the protection fee myself, and even the people of Wuling County were all interested in going to the streets, but in just three or five days, I earned more money than in the previous month."

"yes, yes." "My shop is the same, if I can continue to maintain it like this, I will be able to open another branch in less than two years." "Gongzi Jiang is really our great benefactor." "He is the chosen one sent by God to punish the Jiang Yue Gang, bringing hope to our Xiangzhou!" "That's it......" The boss got up, and the rest of the businessmen echoed me word by word, and praised Jiang Xiaoshu one by one.

"Jiang Gongzi, you see, everyone has no malicious intentions, please put away your blades." Zhou Zide said with a smile.

The scene in front of him was really beyond Jiang Xiaoshu's expectations, thinking of the danger when he exterminated Wang Kui's party, and seeing that the businessmen were so grateful to him, he couldn't help but feel very relieved, but Zhou Zide persuaded himself to put away his sword, but he was a little hesitant.

Zhou Zide naturally saw Jiang Xiaoshu's concerns, and laughed:

"Jiang Gongzi really deserves to be a master of walking the rivers and lakes, and he must be vigilant at all times, no wonder the Jiang Yue Gang of the first generation is planted in your hands."

Jiang Xiaoshu stared at him:

"Governor Zhou, to be honest, I don't quite understand what you mean, please answer my doubts for me, and I won't be too late to put away my sword."

Zhou Zide nodded:

"What doesn't Gongzi Jiang understand? I must know everything and say everything."

Jiang Xiaoshu asked:

"How did you know I was coming?"

"Haha, naturally it's because of Wang Yang, this person is blind in one eye, and there seems to be a nickname on the rivers and lakes called Brother Dulong," Zhou Zide said with a smile:

"When he sent the little girl over that day, he said with a grudge on his face: 'Hmph, tell you adults to take care of this fish cub, the guy who came to pick her up is a ruthless character, and he can't afford to offend him...... We all looked at each other at the time, and a few small officials who often mingled in the wine shop came to tell me after listening to the storyteller's commentary, and I learned that there was a Jiang Xiaoshu boy who became famous in the Zhijiang War, almost eradicated all the forces of the Jiangyue group of thieves there, and also forced the Jiangyue Gang to sue for peace, giving our merchants and people everywhere a piece of peace and tranquility.

It turned out that Brother Dulong's name was Wang Yang. Jiang Xiaoshu's heart moved slightly, and then he said coldly:

"But that banner was just hung up this morning, and hundreds of you gathered at the palace this morning...... How did you know where I am, so that you greet me so punctually?"

Zhou Zide hurriedly explained:

"No, no, no, Jiang Gongzi must have misunderstood—from the moment we learned that you were about to rush to Wuling County, we were ready to welcome you early. And here is a letter from Zhijiang County Commander Ma Zhongguo, which mentions that Jiang Gongzi, you set off from Zhijiang by car at noon yesterday, but you are injured, the car will not drive too fast, and it should arrive in the early morning or this morning...... As for the banner, I ordered the doorman to take it down as soon as the rain stopped last night, and told him to hang it as soon as the rain stopped......

Hearing what he said, Jiang Xiaoshu's expression moved, and he beckoned to the nearest businessman, the businessman walked over very ignorantly, Jiang Xiaoshu asked:

"According to the prefect, you lived near the government last night, didn't you?"

"Exactly."

"Which inn?"

"Ah, it's the Peach Blossom Paradise Restaurant diagonally across from the mansion."

"That restaurant isn't cheap."

"It's alright—an upper room, huh...... A tael of silver will make you live for a day."

When the businessman spoke, Jiang Xiaoshu always stared at his face, if the two were talking, the other party would answer fluently, Jiang Xiaoshu would probably suspect that this was a recited statement in advance, but when he heard his own question, the other party thought for a moment before answering, this is the state of real thinking, and his expression and demeanor are flawless, with Jiang Xiaoshu's experience, there is really no flaw in him.

If it is said that he can deceive Jiang Xiaoshu without any flaws, of course there are such well-trained people in this world, but this businessman is only one of more than 100 people who was casually pulled over by Jiang Xiaoshu, if this group of people has such ability, it is ten Jiang Xiaoshu combined, and they were also taken down immediately, so why deceive him with such a big bend?

What's more, he asked Sheng Yu Ember to leave, and he was not hindered in the slightest......

Thinking of this, Jiang Xiaoshu finally put his mind at ease, withdrew his long sword, and arched his hand:

"I fought with the Jiang Yue Gang before, for fear of falling for the other party's poisonous scheme, so I blamed you wrong, don't blame you for offending."

Seeing that Jiang Xiaoshu's hostility had finally disappeared, everyone burst out laughing, and the businessman next to Jiang Xiaoshu grabbed Jiang Xiaoshu's hand:

"Haha, Jiang Gongzi, the villain's surname is Sun, he is a blacksmith on West Street, my whole family admires you very much, and I want to invite you to my place for a few drinks, I don't know if you would like to enjoy the light?"

Before Jiang Xiaoshu could speak, the surrounding businessmen, big and small, shouted one after another:

"This can't be done, you can't go to my grandson's place, I'm there." "Go! You don't have anything there, but my family has eighteen years of Wuling wine, and Jiang Gongzi should be invited by me." "What are you fighting for? I'm the first to arrive this morning, shouldn't I be the first to invite Jiang Gongzi?" "Who said in order? It should be based on sincerity, I am the most sincere!" "Fart, why do you say you're more sincere than me......

Jiang Xiaoshu looked at the enthusiastic people in front of him and couldn't help laughing, but everyone was so eager, if he went to a certain house and neglected others, he would be very embarrassed; But if you go one by one, there are hundreds of people here, can you sit in Wuling County for a few months? Isn't that ridiculous......

Thinking of this section, Jiang Xiaoshu couldn't help but have a headache:

"When heroes still have this disadvantage, I see, they are so enthusiastic, I am not a human being inside and out...... Damn, I think it's better to have another 'superior demeanor, running in the middle of the night, coming and going like the wind, wouldn't it be chic...... tight" ap.

Just as he was thinking about it, a voice said loudly:

"Okay, okay, everyone, don't make a noise, listen to me."

Everyone gradually stopped talking, and they all looked over, only to see that the person who spoke was Zhou Zide, the prefect of Wuling County, Zhou Zide raised his hands and said to the surroundings:

"We have more than a hundred people here, and if Gongzi Jiang chooses whichever one, the rest of you will be dissatisfied; But if Jiang Gongzi and his family go to be guests one by one, let alone for too long, just say that they are drunk every day, and the body and bones of those who practice martial arts are injured, wouldn't it be very bad?"

When everyone heard this, they nodded in agreement, but then someone asked:

"Then according to the prefect, what should I do?"

Zhou Zide laughed:

"According to what the official said, it is better to take this opportunity, the official pays out of his own pocket to be the east, let's go to the restaurant together, get together, get drunk, not only welcome Jiang Gongzi, but also celebrate together my Wuling County to get rid of a big harm, isn't it beautiful?"

"Shine!" The crowd laughed loudly and applauded. ……

"Please eat? More than a hundred?" In the inn where he stayed, Sheng Yuyan heard this and couldn't help but say:

"Wouldn't that be going to take several tables?"

Jiang Xiaoshu shrugged:

"Who knows, but they're not poor, they're not too poor, and there are still eight tables out of ten?"

Sheng Yu Ember thought for a moment, then shook his head:

"I'm not going."

"Why?"

"Knife practice."

"Practice your head," Jiang Xiaoshu pouted:

"Let me tell you, this way of practicing martial arts, pay attention to an epiphany, you see, didn't you suddenly break through the light skills that I taught my uncle? If you practice like this, there will be no future......

"You're not right, Master told me that hard work and hard work are the only ways to achieve," Sheng Yuyan shook his head, and then said:

"You have such a talent, but your martial arts are very average, just because you are lazy."

"You're the fuck, you won't go until you eat, and you're slandering me, aren't you?" Jiang Xiaoshu scolded with his waist crossed.

Sheng Yuyan ignored him and walked to the backyard with his knife drawn.

"Brain-dead." Jiang Xiaoshu's scolding voice came from behind, Sheng Yuyan ignored it and walked to the courtyard on his own.

He stood quietly in the courtyard and heard a voice from upstairs:

"Little Fish Girl, Jinwei, and this little girl who wants to beat me, Governor Zhou invites us to dinner tonight."

The two king fishes readily agreed:

"Okay." "Which restaurant? Is it the most famous one in Wuling County? That's great, just in time to learn something new."

Xiaolan pursed her lips:

"I'll go too, but I'm thinking of Uncle Zhou, but I'm not listening to you."

"Okay, then I'll tell you Uncle Zhou not to come tonight."

"No!"

"Oh? Xiaolan, do you think that a person who wants to beat me up, will I listen to what she says? Hahahaha...... Ouch, fuck, don't pull my hair! Let it go!"

"Don't let it go, you bad man!"

"Xiaoyu, take care of this little aunt and grandmother, ouch! It hurts! Get out of the way......

Hearing Xiaoyu hugging Xiaolan away, Jiang Xiaoshu scolded and scolded constantly, and Wang Jinwei laughed...... The voices went downstairs and retracted their minds in the ash.

He picked up his knife and began to dance a set of knife techniques.

If Jiang Xiaoshu is here, he will naturally be able to recognize it at a glance - this set of knife techniques opens and closes, it seems simple and complex, and the knife posture looks childish, but it hides a mystery, and it is infinitely useful. It was Sheng Yuyan who fought Zhu Yujin in the tomb of King Miao, and the mysterious knife technique used by the two and Ah Kang later.

Sheng Yu ember body with the knife walking, momentum like a rainbow, the goose feather knife waved, straight cut all around is the sound of breaking the wind, under its internal force infusion, it is more tiger and tiger, excited to fly sand and stones, so not spectacular.

When he hit the seventeenth style, Sheng Yu Ash's long knife was picked up on his backhand, and when he reached the highest point, he obviously had a powerful back, but his tricks suddenly stagnated, and his dancing stopped abruptly.

Since he fell into a coma in the tomb of King Miao, "he" took over his body, and forced Zhu Yujin to be in a hurry with this set of knife techniques, after Sheng Yuyan woke up again, this set of knife techniques appeared vaguely in his heart, he swung the knife with his memory, as if he was born with it, and he effortlessly practiced the first sixteen styles, among which the knife movement method, the method of qi flow, the change and priority of each style, were all grasped by him, even if he had worked hard for several years, he could not compare to him.

But after the sixteenth move, Sheng Yuyan couldn't remember it at all, he vaguely knew in his heart that there were thirty-six styles of this set of knife techniques, but the remaining half, no matter how much he racked his brains, he couldn't remember how "he" swung the knife and how he used it, and then he thought about it seriously, he felt that his temples jumped suddenly, and his head was also faintly painful.

On the way from Miao Jiang to Xiangzhou, Sheng Yuyan was studying this set of knife techniques hard, and the more he studied, the more frightened he was in his heart - he had only mastered a small half of the fragmentary knife techniques, which had brought him great benefits.

The first is the understanding of the sword intent, Sheng Yu Ember studied under Sheng Feng, since he learned martial arts, the concept of "light as a willow leaf and as fast as the wind" has been deeply rooted in his mind, but as Jiang Xiaoshu said, when he used the knife technique, he passed the sex, and he would always hold the knife in both hands and slash and slash, which was really a taboo in the master's martial arts program.

But since he comprehended these sixteen remnant knives, Sheng Yushen realized that the simple lightness of the knife intent would make it difficult to overcome difficulties and break the enemy strongly; And the fierce sword intent after his temperament was overstretched in the face of a dexterous and mobile enemy. Only by combining rigidity and softness, fast and slow, can we face strong enemies

Be adaptable and adaptable.

"Combining rigidity and softness, fast and slowness" is a principle that everyone who practices martial arts understands, even ordinary people who don't know martial arts can often speak three or five sentences. But it is extremely difficult to understand and understand as Sheng Yu Ember as he is, and it is extremely difficult to truly understand and experience, and some people may not be able to touch the threshold of this mystery in their lifetime.

Sheng Yu Ember now practices the knife, often using a completely different way of practice - throwing a piece of rice paper into the sky, the knife flashes, and the rice paper is divided into two, two into four, and four into eight...... In this way, the so-called "dojo in the screw shell" strives to be precise and fast, light and ingenious, the knife is retracted, and the rice paper that is divided into countless parts quietly falls to the ground, but it is still like a whole sheet, and the fragments will fly up like butterflies through a breeze blowing...... To achieve such a point, in the use of fast and rigid, can be regarded as some achievements.

As for the practice of slowness and softness, he could only simply meditate and boil his muscles and bones, but after comprehending the sixteen fragments of the sword technique, he found a new cultivation method - put a book on the table, hold the knife to press the book, and urge the internal force to pass through the pages of the book and smash the table below, but the book itself is not damaged, so that it can be regarded as a small success, and then gradually thicken the book, and the required skill is also deeper.

At the beginning, when cultivating "fast and rigid", he was able to divide the rice paper into eight parts and sixteen parts, but the confetti flew around, and he couldn't control it, he gradually reduced the number of knives, but when he was even divided into two, the rice paper could not be kept as it was.

And the situation when she first started to practice "Slow and Soft" was not much better - Liu Lingwei's chivalry, I don't know how many copies he shattered, which provoked Miss Liu to shout loudly, and almost even the roof was overturned......

After cultivating for a long time, Sheng Yuyan felt that his experience of knife intent had improved by leaps and bounds, and the use of internal force had become more and more accurate. At the same time, through a book to smash the desktop below, without damaging the pages of the book, Sheng Yu Ember has successfully reached this state a few days ago, and today, it has been able to add more than ten more sheets of paper.

Rigidity, softness, speed and slowness have been cultivated slightly, although it is still too far from fusing into one, to achieve the realm of true integration, but Sheng Yu Ember is already very satisfied, when he was in Jinguan City, his internal strength dragon and tiger converged, and at this time, he had a glimpse of the new martial arts realm, and now he thinks that he is not much better than Jiang Xiaoshu, who has just broken through the second layer of the Instant Shadow Xingyu, and is much stronger than himself who just came out of Zhuxian Village a few months ago.

Walking the rivers and lakes requires strong martial arts, and everyone who devotes himself to practicing martial arts will have an irrepressible madness, swimming in the ocean of martial arts, full of desire for a higher realm, so that he does not think about tea and dinner, and forgets to sleep and eat.

Sheng Yu Ash wants to get stronger.

There are currently two ways for him to continue to improve, the first is the mysterious parchment, the cultivation of internal strength and horizontal practice, but Sheng Yu Ember has experienced the "evil door" of this parchment, and he is very jealous of it, and he is unwilling to touch it again.

The second is that there are 20 sword techniques left.

Sheng Yu put the knife into the sheath, closed his eyes, and the eyes were as black as ink, empty.

Sheng Yu Ember said in a deep voice:

"Hey."

In front of him, the familiar sea of fire flashed away......