Chapter 17: The Three Rivers Sword Sends a Visitor
The White Ape Tavern operates day and night in shifts and does not close. Meng Qiwu had already paid the bill, and Xiao Er was also interesting, and when she saw that no one called, she didn't go in again.
Wu Feng finished the rest of the wine and food, felt tired, and also sat on the bench and fell asleep. The benches used in this tavern do not have backrests, and although Wu Feng is asleep, his body is also straight.
When Meng Qiwu woke up, looking outside, it was already the morning light, Wu Feng had already woken up, and was quietly looking at her face, his eyes were clear.
"Don't worry, I fell asleep last night too. Wu Feng said lightly.
Meng Qiwu hurriedly straightened up, seeing that her saliva was dripping down when she was sleeping, and Wu Feng's pants were wet, she couldn't help but feel shy again, and said hurriedly: "Cang Lian, I was drunk last night, didn't I say any nonsense, right?"
"I told me to finish all the food and drinks. Wu Feng smiled and wiped his abdomen: "It's swelling me, but no one is like you, senior sister, who can eat more than a pig's head." ”
"Die, you dare to scold me for being a pig's head!" Meng Qiwu squeezed Wu Feng's face, causing his face to twitch in pain.
"And ...... Did you take advantage of me last night?" Meng Qiwu snorted pretending to be angry.
"You sleep on my lap by yourself, do you blame me?" Wu Feng said: "What's more, didn't you get closer when you were a child, what are you afraid of? Sister Qiwu, you just came back, do you want to have a hug?"
Dream [∽,ww$w.Qi Wu changed color slightly, and was about to retreat, but Wu Feng grabbed her waist violently, pulled her into his arms, and squeezed his chest on the towering that she had developed before letting go of her.
"That's what makes a relationship good. Wu Feng grinned and said, "We've been in the tavern all night, let's go out." ”
Meng Qiwu snorted and said, "It's okay to take you kid! You go back to practice first, I'll see you here in the afternoon, and go out with my sister!"
The two walked out side by side, and after parting, they went to their respective residences.
Wu Feng was in his room, thinking about the events of last night, but his mind was slightly in a trance, and it took a while before he calmed down and devoted himself to meditation and cultivation.
In the afternoon, when the two agreed on the time, Wu Feng went out to meet Meng Qiwu, but he caught a glimpse of a group of people standing at the mouth of the valley.
Xiao Yange, the owner of the Valley of Forgetting Worries, is also among them.
Seeing that the group of people lined up neatly and respectfully, Wu Feng knew that it was someone from the Daomen.
Among the sayings of the martial arts sect, there are three major evils of Taoism, one is the levy of the envoy, the second is the inspection of the envoy, and the third is the visiting envoy.
The levy envoy was responsible for collecting money and food from all large and small warrior sects, and recruiting men and even women in the prime of life to participate in military service, or to carry out activities such as mining and mountain opening. These people often engage in extortion and bribery, which makes the martial arts sect suffer greatly.
The patrol envoy is responsible for checking whether the martial arts sects are loyal to the Taoist sect and whether they are traitors, just like the secret agents used by various countries to control the people. These people often turn white to black, confusing right and wrong, in order to coerce the various martial arts sects, because they have the ability to make small reports, wherever they go, not only do the factions have to break their wealth to ensure safety, but also have to offer beautiful female disciples to sleep, so that they can return happy.
The visiting envoy is the envoy between the countries, and it is generally served by the powerful figures of the Taoist sect, and everywhere he goes, all martial arts sects have the obligation to receive them. Their harm is less than that of levies and patrols, but if they are neglected, they are not fun.
When Wu Feng saw someone coming from the Daomen, he couldn't help but feel angry, and said to Meng Qiwu: "Sister Qiwu, you hide quickly, I'll go and see who it is." ”
With the beauty of Mengqi Dance, if someone comes to see it, most of them will be unable to escape the poison.
Meng Qiwu also knew the stakes, and immediately turned around and left.
Wu Feng leaned over, only to hear Xiao Yangge bow down to the person in the center and say: "The envoy is visiting, and the small faction can't welcome him from afar, it's really guilty, I don't know why the envoy didn't send someone to inform him?"
"The valley lord is very polite. But he saw that the man hurriedly helped Xiao Yangge up: "Our Li family in Xiangyang has always been upright and self-controlled, don't treat us as equal to some scum of the Daomen." I, Li Zhong, were ordered by the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty to envoy to the Zhou State this time, and I didn't bring chariots and horses to follow people, but I took the little baby of the family to see the world. This time I passed through Guigu, but the child saw the beautiful scenery here, forcing me to be here for a few days, if there is something to disturb, it is really unbearable. ”
Li Zhong said that children are forcing each other, of course, it is also a kind word.
The state is mountainous, often hundreds of miles uninhabited, and pedestrians often have to sleep in the wilderness at night. Many of the martial arts sects are located in the mountains, so that when chaos occurs, they can be defended against the mountains, so it is not unreasonable for the Daomen to order the martial arts sects to replace the post stations and be responsible for the reception work for the envoys to rest. However, the Daomen often have a condescending sense of superiority over the martial arts, and there are not a few cases of persecution and persecution, so such orders also aggravate the contradiction between the martial artists and the cultivators.
A group of people from the Valley Gate who forgot their worries couldn't help but be a little surprised to see this young man so humble. The Daomen envoys who came in the past also did not do evil, but all of them also had fierce faces, swaggering and arrogant, and they definitely would not speak so respectfully.
The man named Li Zhong looked to be around thirty years old, with a handsome face, but he was already slightly fat. He was holding a nine-year-old child with short bangs, pink and jade, with a lollipop in his mouth, and a turtle-shaped rattle in his left hand, which crackled with a crackling sound.
Behind him, there was an old servant, wearing a big felt hat, gray hair, and a rickety body. The cultivation of this old servant is extremely low, even Wu Feng can sense it, and his aura is not much stronger than that of ordinary people.
Wu Feng secretly thought in his heart that the Li family of the Three Rivers Sword Sect was indeed a famous family.
The Three Rivers Sword Sect was formed by the merger of the Xinghe Sword Sect, the Haihe Sword Sect, and the Styx Sword Sect. Li Zhong claimed to be ordered by the Song Emperor, in fact, of course, he was appointed by the Shenxiao Daoist Lord Long Zhanye, since the "Yuanjing Rebellion" sixty years ago, the southern chaos, the Great Song Dynasty broke out in the civil war, bloodshed, ten years, heroes rose up, the various factions that controlled the Great Song Dynasty have undergone a major reshuffle, the original rotten Taoist alliance, after the exchange of blood, but also fell apart.
Although today's Great Song Dynasty still maintains the name of the country, the three parts of Jingzhou, Yizhou, and Yangzhou have actually gone their own way and restrained each other. Otherwise, when the Great Wei Dynasty fell, with the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, how could it not be possible to go on a northern expedition?
Among the three factions of the Galaxy Sword Sect, the Haihe River Sword Sect, and the Styx Sword Sect, the Galaxy Sword Sect is an ancient faction with an extremely long history. Therefore, the Three Rivers Sword Sect was also dominated by the Xinghe Jiang family at the beginning. However, the Xinghe Sword Sect cultivates the "Great Dream Heart Sutra", worshipping hypocrisy but not pragmatism, believing that there are as many layers of dreams as there are powers, so by entering countless layers of dreams in fantasy, they can obtain the virtual pleasure of controlling the infinite and vast multi-layered universe, but the disciples in the sect are keen on the pleasure of nothingness and ignore the rationality of the dream structure, so their spiritual power cannot make great progress, so they gradually decline.
After the decline of the Haihe Sword Sect, the Li clan of the Haihe Sword Sect mastered the power of the Sanhe Sword Sect and integrated the sect, but after this twist and turn, the strength of the Sanhe Sword Sect declined greatly, and they were unable to compete for the status of the lord of Jingzhou, so they had to submit to the Shenxiao Dao and form an alliance with it, essentially becoming a vassal.
"Come, little bamboo, return the toys to Daddy, and say hello to uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters. Li Zhong said with a smile: "This is a dog, a single name and a query word, nicknamed Lingzhu, I have liked turtles since I was a child, I don't know what the reason is." ”
Li Xun spit out the lollipop in his mouth and let Li Zhong hold it, but he still held the turtle-shaped rattle in his hand, nestled between the two palms, with a smile on his face, and looked extremely well-behaved to everyone. As his hands rose and fell, the rattle continued to clatter.
"Little bamboo, greetings to all uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters!" Li Xun said with a smile on his face, his voice was crisp and soft, which made people feel warm when they listened to it.
Seeing that this child was so well-behaved and cute, a group of people from the Valley Gate couldn't help but feel pity, and most of their vigilance against Li Zhong was eliminated in an instant. Xiao Li Xun broke free of his father's hand, grabbed the corner of Xiao Yangge's clothes, raised his head, and looked at him with a blank eye: "This uncle, give Xiao Zhu candy to eat." ”
The father and son of the Li family came suddenly, and Xiao Madge naturally did not have candy on him, but the disciples of Forget Worry Valley had already gone up and handed the small bag with candy to Xiao Madge, and Xiao Madge sent it to Li Xun.
Li Xun's face was full of joy and thanked him repeatedly.
Xiao Yangge led the Li family father and son, and said: "Next, Xiao will arrange a banquet for the envoy to catch the wind and wash the dust. ”
Li Zhong said: "Brother Xiao doesn't need to be so polite, just call me Brother Xian." When he spoke, he had a sincere and honest look on his face.
Xiao Yangge couldn't help but be happy when he saw that this person was really not putting on a show, thinking that there would be no trouble this time, so he took a bite of Li Xian's younger brother, and a group of disciples surrounded the father and son, and went to the fine house where the guests were placed, and the old servant who came with them was placed in the lower room.
The Li family father and son were placed in a fine house near the lake, the fine house is built of bamboo, by the mountains and rivers, there is a verandah by the water surface into the lake, there are several small pavilions in the middle of the lake, decorated with all kinds of antiques, and the decoration is extremely elegant. From the verandah from the small pavilion, the eaves are hung with wind chimes made of jasper, moving with the wind, crisp sound, refreshing.
Due to the mountainous state, the terrain in this valley is also undulating, and it is not easy to build a neat courtyard like a courtyard, and this fine house is relying on the lake to take the lake view, so the form is limited by the mountains and rivers, and it is very narrow. The square where the Li family father and son lived, a distance of more than ten zhang from the lower room where the old servant lived, was only connected by a zigzag corridor on the shore of the lake.
It's not time to eat yet, so Xiao Yangge first pointed out the residence of the Li family's father and son