Seeing off the white gentleman, the two middle-aged men sat in front of the big case, looking at the broken arm in front of them, and felt some emotion in their hearts.

They had previously investigated this Muzhou Sword Cultivator, who had been extremely prestigious in recent years and had already been in the Yuheng Realm of the Middle Fourth Realm at a young age, if not, with the current status of the Jianghu Inn, he would not have personally gone to greet him outside the city.

When he was young, he was full of spirit, chasing after the immortals, to be Li Canglan's second, although the pain of losing his wife did not make him weak-willed, but it made his sword go to another path.

In fact, his life can be divided into two stages, when he has his wife as a companion, he practices swords only for his own kendo. After losing his wife, his sword has a layer of haze, just for revenge.

Because there is nothing else behind him.

But fortunately, the dust of the sword heart did not make him forget the original intention of practicing the sword, and so far, his sword has never been stained with the blood of innocent people.

This is the reason why the treasurer of Wei and Mr. Zhou invited him to join, a pure heart is far better than the wrist of a strong man.

"Uncle Liu.

Outside the door, an old man in gray linen opened the door and entered, this was the bookkeeper of the inn, whose real name no one remembered.

"Big shopkeeper, you call me?"

The big shopkeeper Wei Xian stretched out his hand and motioned for him to sit down in the seat in front of him, the old man was indifferent, the former smiled awkwardly, and then asked:

"How is Zigeng today?"

Hearing this, Uncle Liu showed a smile on his face and said:

"With less shopkeepers, his light skills are getting more and more extreme, even compared with the little ghost, I am afraid it is not far behind."

Hearing Uncle Liu's answer, the big shopkeeper Wei Xian shook his head and smiled, signaling Uncle Liu to take the severed hand down to bury it, and Zhou Fangru on the side was already laughing at this moment.

"Why is Zi Gengxian's nephew so obsessed with light work? In terms of light skills, with the cultivation of the Ghost Xiaoer Yao Light Realm, even the Yuheng Realm and even the Tianquan Realm can escape, and Uncle Liu's vision will definitely not be wrong, so with Zi Geng's understanding, if he practices martial arts, he will definitely be able to break out of the world. ”

The big shopkeeper Wei Xian took a sip of tea, his eyes dimmed a little, and looked at the bright afternoon sun outside the window.

"Because the light function saves people, it can make him a few points faster."

Zhou Fangru suddenly understood, this was the regret they had always had in their hearts.

Outside the city, on the shore of the Junhu Lake, inside the dilapidated temple.

"Go to the rivers and lakes?!"

Wei Zigeng's eyes lit up a little, and there was a little excitement in his tone, but he pressed it down well.

"Come on, a small inn is still so dangerous, not to mention the turbulent rivers and lakes, I am still more willing to stay here and be a young shopkeeper who shakes his hands."

Su Qi'er sneered, for more than two years, the young man in front of him often pestered him to tell him stories in the rivers and lakes and what he had seen and heard when he traveled, wanting to see his sword.

Even if he was born in a place like the Jianghu Inn, the inn is about rules after all, and the rivers and lakes are different.

Let's ask, which teenager has a dream of riding a horse and roaring the west wind and walking the rivers and lakes with a sword?

After the beggar ate the last bite of the sauced beef, he was satisfied with his fingers and said:

"You, it's really not the time to wander the rivers and lakes, you have a body of light skills, but you don't have the ability to control the enemy, and you are very disadvantaged in the rivers and lakes, saying that the cultivation of the shopkeeper of Wei is definitely among the three realms, you can't learn a trick and a half from him, plus there are so many people in the rivers and lakes in the inn, it must not be difficult to find two people to help you feed the tricks, why are you obsessed with light skills?"

He has seen the understanding of the young shopkeeper Wei Zigeng, who has just passed the age of bundling his hair, and can practice light skills to such a treacherous state, this talent, looking at the rivers and lakes for a hundred years, is only the number of one hand.

"Because light work can save people."

After saying this, Wei Zigeng subconsciously looked at his sister on the side, he silently lowered his head, and the latter did not notice the abnormality.

Approaching dusk, it was unitary time.

The three of them said goodbye to Su Qi'er and walked together on the way back to the city.

There is no curfew in Yuzhou City, and even because of the existence of Yuyulou, even the guards of the city are pitiful, and there are only two teams of more than a dozen defenders at the head of the city, scattered guarding this rich city.

"Ah Ying, you read a lot, do you know what Su Qi'er meant by the Upper Three Realms just now?"

He had only practiced light exercises in his life, and had never been exposed to any other exercises, and what he knew about the rivers and lakes was only limited to the relationship between the people who were sheltered by the inn, and he knew very little about other things.

"Sure enough, what Su Qi'er said is true, you are not the time to travel the rivers and lakes."

Wei Ziqing spread out his hands with a hopeless expression, and Zhou Ying on the side looked at the appearance of her close friend, covered her mouth and chuckled.

Looking at the two of them, the young shopkeeper Wei Zigeng opened his mouth and asked, "What do you mean by this?" Is this important? ”

"Seven hundred years ago, the Dali Dynasty was orthodox, dominating Jiuzhou, Qi Tianfu received the decree of Emperor Taizu of Dali, and cooperated with the Jinglingtai Dingfeng Zhenjun, who had just entered the rivers and lakes at that time, to integrate the forces of the rivers and lakes, and divided one to nine realms for monks and martial artists, also known as the three products and nine realms system, and the lower two realms were called three products, which were hidden yuan and two realms. The four realms in the middle are called the second grade, which are the four realms of Yaoguang, Kaiyang, Yuheng and Tianquan. The upper three realms are called a product, then they are the three realms of Tianji, Tianxuan, and Tianshu, and then, Dingfeng Zhenjun once again divided the "Hedao" realm between the middle four realms and the upper three realms, and the realm of the merge path is ethereal, although the middle four realms can also directly enter the upper three realms, but only the monk martial artist who enters the upper three realms from the merge path can expect to enter the immortal realm. Therefore, although the middle and upper three realms of the rivers and lakes are rare, there are very few realms of the Dao Realm. ”

Zhou Ying's silver teeth opened lightly, and she said gracefully like a few treasures.

Wei Zigeng nodded as if he didn't understand, he didn't understand it very well, and he still needed to digest it.

Then he found a strange thing, today's people in the rivers and lakes are still like stragglers, the power is rampant, and the control of the imperial court over the rivers and lakes can be said to be very small, otherwise there will be no similar to his own Jianghu Inn, Yuyulou, even the government is afraid of three points of power.

Thinking of this, curiosity filled his mind, and he immediately asked the question in his heart:

"The current situation in the rivers and lakes shows that Emperor Taizu has failed to absorb the rivers and lakes?"

"Sort of, in the fortieth year when Qi Tianfu was under the emperor's will to control the power of the rivers and lakes, it mysteriously disappeared, and the history books kept it secret, and this mysterious sect was summarized in only one sentence."

After a pause, Zhou Ying looked at the two puzzled faces in front of her, and continued.

"Help Gaozu unify Jiuzhou, control the rivers and lakes, set the community, quell the rebellion, and replace it in the spring and autumn of forty years, it is difficult to find its trace."

What a simple sentence, but the information contained in it is so huge and so meritorious, which is why he can get the word "Qi Tian".

"Da Li Jianchao, how dare anyone call the word Qi Tian?"

Wei Ziqing had a slight doubt after hearing this, and Zhou Ying chuckled and said to the girl:

"At the end of the Dakang Dynasty before the Great Li, the emperor was mediocre, the dynastic spirit was about to run out, natural disasters and man-made disasters continued, countless people rose up, in a vain attempt to overthrow the decay, most of their organizations were called what the sky, what what the dragon, in order to attract ignorant people to join, for example, the gang where the former Emperor Gaozu was called the Fulong Gang, in other words, has long been eradicated by the imperial court for the crime of rebellion I don't know how many times."

The two nodded suddenly, what Zhou Ying said was not recorded in the official history, and the Zhou family has a rich collection of books, and Zhou Ying happens to be a person who likes to read, especially these wild history books that are scorned by those academy students, she loves them the most.

The three of them chatted while walking, and unconsciously arrived at the door of the Jianghu Inn, which was close to the end of the day, but when passing by the streets of the main city, there was still a flow of people, and there were still bursts of laughter in the inn. This is also the reason why the Jianghu Inn is not opened in the downtown area, this group of reckless people in the inn dare not do anything, but they are drunk, and they don't know the southeast and northwest when they go out.

"Ah Ying, I'm back."

Zhou Fangru's warm voice sounded, and Zhou Ying walked towards Mr. Zhou with a smile on her face.

"Daddy."

"Dad and your Uncle Wei to discuss something, it just so happens that you are also here, we won't go back to eat, the chef of the inn is a famous chef in the stork's house."

Zhou Fangru raised his head slightly, and looked at Wei Xian beside him with a wicked smile, Mr. Zhou can also be described as burly in the Jianghuai area, but the shopkeeper of Wei is even half a head taller than him.

"Of course I welcome Zhou Yatou to come over, but you rotten Confucian, today is purely taking advantage of your daughter's light."

A few people entered the inn with a smile, and went straight to a room upstairs, which was specially prepared for the grand treasurer to entertain guests, and no one else had ever come.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, a few people chatted about some recent anecdotes on the rivers and lakes.

"The youngest daughter of the old man Cheng of Pinghu Villa in Jiangnan Province, has Zhou Yatou heard of it?"

Zhou Ying looked at Wei Xian without changing a smile and said:

"Naturally, I have heard that the little daughter of the Cheng family is quite popular among Wenlin students in Jiangnan, and I heard that she wrote poems to ridicule the powerful people in the DPRK and China are all flies and dogs, and a sentence of "full of absurdities and bowing down to the ministers, and all the people are suffering and no one knows" was introduced to Chang'an by the good deeds, but it made the officials beat their chests and feet, but Pinghu Villa has a huge influence in Jiangnan Province, and the matter was stopped, but because of this matter, Wenlin in Jiangnan Province got the name of a literary hero. ”

"But Uncle Wei has heard that Zhou Yatou, you are also very famous among the scholars and students in Jiangnan Province, and many Jiangnan scholars come to our Yuzhou City just to see you."

Hearing Wei Xian's words, Zhou Ying subconsciously looked at Wei Zigeng, who was immersed in eating vegetables on the side, and her cheeks were crimson.

Mr. Zhou didn't know his daughter's thoughts, so he drank helplessly and shook his head, but the shopkeeper Wei was very happy, raised his wine glass and touched Zhou Fangru, and drank the wine in the cup with a smile.

Now Zhou Ying and the little daughter of the Cheng family in Wenlin, Jiangnan Province can be said to be the object of discussion among non-math students, east and west, east and west, the two talented women echo each other from afar, and there are often good things to compare, and they can't tell the high and low for a while.

"Uncle Wei praised it falsely, Jiangnan Dao Wenlin is called Cheng Wenxia, it can be seen that his literary talent is outstanding, and his niece only occasionally gets a few excellent works, which is incomparable with Miss Cheng, who is known as a literary hero."

Zhou Ying smiled and said generously and decently.

Wei Xian and Zhou Fangru had a glass of wine, Zhou Ying on the side helped the two of them refill the wine, Wei Da Shopkeeper looked at Zhou Ying with a smile, his face was full of joy, and then looked at Wei Zigeng who was immersed in eating vegetables next to him, but he looked disgusted.

In a quiet and peaceful atmosphere, several people ended today's banquet, the father and daughter of the Zhou family said goodbye and left, and the Wei family went out to see each other off and went back to their rooms to prepare to rest.

There was no word for the night, and the night was extremely quiet.

In the early morning of the second day, the first rays of sunlight shone through the window paper into the room of the young shopkeeper, which was empty, and the bedding was neatly tied.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh."

There was a sound of clothes flying, someone swept over the roof, his toes lightly touched the tiles, stepped on the leaves that were scattered in the air, a person was as light as a goose feather and swept the roof of the entire inn, and the next second the person appeared in the courtyard on the branch of a peach tree, and the branch did not shake in the slightest.

"Brother, your light skills are getting more and more perfect."

Wei Ziqing is now at the door of his room, dressed in red, with a high ponytail, and carrying a pure black narrow knife in his right hand, with a heroic posture.

"No, I'm still a little slower after all."

The young shopkeeper Wei Zigeng found that when he was standing on the branch of the peach tree, another fallen leaf fell to the ground one step ahead of him, and he wanted to catch up with every leaf, but even if it fell, it was a failure.

The girl was silent, came to the courtyard, pulled out the dark narrow saber in her hand, and kept repeating the four strokes of swinging, chopping, sweeping, and horizontal, which was the basis for practicing knives, and it was Zhou Qingru who taught her the knife technique.

"Ziqing, which realm are you cultivating for?"

Wei Zigeng in the tree was slightly suspicious.

"Not yet in the country."

Wei Ziqing was slightly disappointed, but she still smiled, she was so happy every day, she was smiling every day, bright as spring flowers.

If it weren't for the faint pain in her right hand now, Wei Zigeng would really believe it, she would be really happy.

For more than half a decade, during this period, the young shopkeeper has been guarding the inn, and his sister Ziqing has to go to Qingru Academy every day to study.

It's not that the shopkeeper of Wei didn't let his eldest son go to study, but this son couldn't read the sage book, and he was only interested in the Jianghu script, which gave the big shopkeeper a headache, so he asked him to help take care of the inn in a fit of anger.

During this period, Wei Zigeng occasionally went to Songjun Lake outside the city to see Su Qi'er in his spare time.

The beggar held his long sword as always, and when he thought about it, he had known Su Qi'er for two years, and he had never seen him pull out this sword, and he had not even said his own name, only that he was a disciple of the Su family of Lingzhou Jinglingtai.

"Su Qi'er, what do the rivers and lakes look like? There are immortals? I often read the book that a sword fairy can attract thousands of flying swords with one finger, is it true or false? ”

Last time, Su Qi'er said that the shopkeeper intended to let him go to the rivers and lakes, and since then, it has been difficult for the shopkeeper to calm down, always thinking that he will definitely break out of the world when he goes to the rivers and lakes, and when the time comes, he will also return to his hometown like a script.

"I don't know if the gods are immortals or not, but throughout the ages, the only one who can really be called an immortal is the immortal Li Canglan who disappeared from the rivers and lakes."

"Oh?"

As soon as he said this, he became interested, and sat upright, waiting for Su Qi'er to swallow a sip of wine.

He only knows that Li Canglan's swordsmanship is invincible, and he can be said to be the demon of all swordsmen in the world, as long as you practice swords, you can't avoid this mountain, but he doesn't know Li Canglan's past.

According to legend, he learned swords at the age of four, read the sword book of the world at the age of ten, and walked the rivers and lakes at the age of twelve. At the age of sixteen, he is already invincible in Jiangnan, no one is out of his control, at this time he is already in the Heavenly Xuan Realm of the Upper Three Realms, such a talent, ancient and modern, it doesn't hurt to say that he is a fairy figure. At the age of twenty, he crossed the Taihu Lake, that is, this year he met a woman, and this woman became his biggest demon. ”

Su Qi'er raised her head and took a sip of wine, her eyes were full of sorrow, and the light in her eyes no longer existed.

"Maybe Hui Ji will be injured, after the Yanyu Lane in Jiangnan twenty years ago, Li Canglan disappeared into the rivers and lakes, and no one saw him again, and the woman he met at the beginning also became the head of the Jiangnan Villa, and he has never married until now."

Grievances, where there are people, there will be grievances and hatreds, and there are grievances and hatreds.

Speaking of this, Su Qi'er's eyes were full of Xiao Suo, and he poured himself another sip of wine, only to find that the wine was over, he turned his head and saw Wei Zigeng's thoughtful look, and gave him the back of his head with a smile.

"Young man, just raise your glass to invite Mingyue and sit and watch the clouds rise."

In the inn, Wei Zigeng was lying on the counter, boredly playing with the brush in his hand, his mind was full of what Su Qi'er said that day, and his heart was yearning.

"Stay!"

The young shopkeeper woke up in his own thoughts and looked up. In front of him was a woman, in a wide red dress, holding a simple black devil-headed knife in her hand, a high ponytail, flaming red lips, heroic posture, and a sexy and magnetic voice.

After a brief look, the young man moved his gaze to the broadsword in her hand, even in the scabbard, there was still a chill, and there was a faint stream of black gas emanating from the scabbard.

"I'm sorry, there are no rooms."

"Smack!"

The woman took another ingot of gold, a full twenty taels of gold.

In fact, gold can not be used as a common currency, it needs to be exchanged for silver taels in the local bank, broken silver to use, and can also be exchanged for current price silver tickets, according to different times, the current price is also different, generally speaking, a tael of gold can be exchanged for sixteen taels of silver.

"Stay!"

The woman didn't look at the shopkeeper, but just looked at the situation in the inn and observed the movement of the street.

"Oh, this woman, your sword...... I'm afraid it's not easy. ”

The young shopkeeper Wei Zigeng deliberately lowered his voice, and when he heard this, the woman turned her head to look at the young man, there was a little surprise in her eyes, and at the same time a little joy, these expressions disappeared in a flash, and then she took out an iron card and slapped it on the table.

"Stay in the hotel, let Wei Xian come out to see me!"

"Huh?"

The people in the inn were silent, only the sound of the storyteller and Qing Qi'er playing.

"Could it be that the merry debt of the shopkeeper of Wei Da has come to the door?"

"This little lady is so handsome and handsome, and she is not inferior to the brewing lady in any way, and the shopkeeper of Wei Da is so blessed."

Listening to everyone's whispers, Wei Zigeng had a headache, and he couldn't help but be a little suspicious, and looked down at the iron card on the table, which was engraved with the words of a wolf and the luxurious wolf army.

"Uncle Liu, tell my father, the deceased has come to the door."

The woman in the red dress handed the iron card on the table to Uncle Liu and asked him to show it to Wei Xian.

"Did Wei Xian mention your mother to you?"

Wei Zigeng's eyes widened when he heard this, and he slowly stood up, staring at the woman in the red dress in front of him, his lips trembling a little.

"Do you ...... You are ......"

Seeing his appearance, the woman in the red dress hurriedly waved her hand.

"Stop! I'm not your mother, I just know your mother. ”

After a while, Uncle Liu hurriedly walked from the backyard and respectfully stretched out his hand to return the iron plate.

"This woman, our big shopkeeper is invited, annoying the woman to move to the backyard study."

The woman smiled at the young man, took the iron plate from Uncle Liu's hand, and immediately prepared to walk to the backyard.

"Wait a minute, who the hell are you!"

Wei Zigeng had never been so excited, his hands propped up on the counter table, his arms trembling.

"Just call me the third aunt."