The main city of Lingzhou City is full of people, young people come and go, holding sage books, and the city is full of reading aloud.

Except for the Happy Building.

Different from the smoky miasma on the first floor, the second floor is much quieter, not that the second floor is a private room, but that few of these people go to the second floor.

The old storyteller and the singer Qingling are both on the first floor, and even Chen Xuan, who is famous in the entire Lingzhou City, is used to quietly watching her restaurant on the first floor.

People in the rivers and lakes live a day of licking blood from the knife every day, and a place with women, stories, and wine is a hundred times better than a quiet and elegant environment.

There was a person sitting at an inconspicuous table in the corner of the second floor, drinking quietly, and the unusual big red fish dragon robe made people dare not approach.

The waiting-in officer Yu Longwei commanded the servants to restrain his breath in Xia Qiu and Dong, and looked at the two people at the table near the window in the corner of the first floor from time to time.

Who is the "he" in the mouths of Cheng Kongfang of Pinghu Mountain Villa and Li Yu of Jinglingtai? ”

Immediately afterwards, a cold gaze looked at Xia Qiudong, and the two looked at each other.

Xia Qiudong stretched out his hand to the quaint brown long sword on the table, while Cheng Kongfang leaned against the window, and the drunken middle-aged man just glanced at it with squinted eyes, and drank the wine to himself, as if he didn't see it at all.

"I didn't think that there were such masters in Jiangnan Province, just a glance."

Xia Qiudong's hand that stretched out the long sword on the table trembled slightly, he slowly withdrew it, wiped the sweat from his forehead, he could clearly feel that as long as he dared to draw the sword just now, he would definitely be a dead man at this time.

After drinking the simple reception wine downstairs, Li Yu stood up and bowed his hand to Cheng Kongfang, and then walked towards Cheng Mansion step by step.

Cheng Kongfang took out a handful of broken silver and copper coins from his cuffs, this meal cost him four taels or three dollars, the old man carefully counted out the wine money, took back the extra pennies, and put it back into the inner pocket of the cuff.

When other people saw this scene, they couldn't connect him with Cheng Lao Chitose of Pinghu Villa, a wealthy villa in the world.

Chen Yan waited quietly with a skillful smile on the side, and then respectfully took the four taels and three coins of silver from the old man's hand.

The drunkard Xu glanced at the old man, his face full of disdain.

"How many years have you been talking about, don't let yourself be so tired when you're old, the huge family business is not enough for you to have a good drink?"

Cheng Kongfang shook his head with a smile and said:

"Don't your children want me, who is spendthrift, to save them little by little? Lao Xu, you have no heirs, you will not understand. ”

The old man spoke to the middle-aged man on the side, and he didn't look like the "King of Jiangnan" Cheng Lao Chitose at all, as if he was a best friend for half a lifetime.

The drunkard raised his head and drank the last sip of wine, shook the flask a few times, and his tone was full of displeasure.

"Then in Yuejiang Building, you are willing to pay for everyone, why can't you think of saving a little for your children at that time?"

Cheng Kongfang pretended to be angry, and his tone was a little dissatisfied.

"Can it be the same as this time? The knot that has plagued my youngest daughter for four years has finally been unknotted, and it is not my own spending, but my daughter's spending. ”

The two did not walk towards the door, but walked in the direction of the stairs.

"A friend from afar has been waiting for us for a long time, so I'll go and see it."

The drunkard shook the empty flask in his hand, and a rare smile appeared on his face, which was very ugly.

"Ask me for a jug of wine, and I'll go."

"Alas, well, please have a big altar!"

For the drunkard Xu, Cheng Kongfang was quite helpless, just smiled and shook his head, the two of them walked towards the second floor one after the other, and no one on the first floor dared to look in the direction of the two of them.

Coming to the inconspicuous table in the corner, Cheng Kongfang smiled and said:

"Your Excellency, why did you come to my Jiangnan Province but not sit in my Pinghu Villa?"

Xia Qiudong's expression remained the same, but he secretly said in his heart:

"As soon as I arrived in Jiangnan, I have entered the field of vision of Pinghu Villa, and the old man in front of me is worthy of being called the "King of Jiangnan" by the rivers and lakes, which is really not simple. ”

Although there is a gap in my heart, I still answered in the summer, autumn and winter:

"This official has come to Jiangnan with the emperor's order, so it is inconvenient to go to the mansion to disturb."

looked at Xu, a drunkard behind Cheng Kongfang who had been drunk all day, and the latter didn't even look at him.

"Now that the emperor has the emperor's order, the old man will no longer bother, if there is anything that I can help Pinghu Villa, just command."

Xia Qiudong didn't hear it, and looked at the first floor by himself, not estimating Cheng Kongfang's face at all.

Cheng Kongfang's smile remained unchanged, and he left with the drunkard Xu Jing.

"Old man, as long as you say a word, I will kill him immediately!"

The drunkard Xu said lazily.

Cheng Kongfang shook his head with a smile and said:

"The wait-in-waiting officer Yu Longwei commanded the servant to die in Jiangnan, and died after meeting with the old man, didn't he just give the court a handle, and even if I didn't fall in Pinghu Villa at that time, I am afraid that my vitality will be greatly damaged, and our emperor's majesty is very small."

The drunkard sighed.

"Alas, old man, you are really getting older and more cowardly, and if you are killed by a court official like this before, you will be killed."

"It's not that I'm timid, but I have too many scruples, it's okay for my old man to die, but what about my three children? I've got to leave a way back for them. ”

The drunkard Xu didn't understand what Cheng Kongfang said, but in his eyes, Cheng Kongfang, who used to have a straight waist and a decisive killing, has now bent over.

"Don't forget, my wine! The old thing wants to pay the bills again?! ”

Approaching the door of the Happy Building, the drunkard Xu finally spoke.

Cheng Kongfang smiled awkwardly:

"When people are old, they have a bad memory, and they have a bad memory."

Then he took out four more pieces of silver from his cuffs, beckoned and said:

"Chen Cong, fill Lao Xu's wine pot with four coins of silver."

The charming and affectionate Chen Yan smiled and took the four coins of silver in the old man's hand and the wine jug in the hand of the drunkard Xu, and walked towards the back kitchen.

"Just four cents? It's so much better to follow this kid than to follow you! ”

After taking the wine jug, the two of them left the Happy Building, and when the two figures disappeared, the Jianghu people on the first floor breathed a sigh of relief, and they all looked up at the young man wearing a big red fish dragon robe on the second floor, and guessed who this person was.

On the second floor, Xia Qiudong was still drinking by himself, and after a long time, his ears moved slightly.

A burst of footsteps going upstairs came into his ears, looking for prestige, Chen Xuan, who exuded a mature charm, twisted his coveted waist and walked towards Xiaqiudong step by step.

Xia Qiudong glanced coldly, and Chen Yan knelt on his knees in front of him.

"The waiting officer Yulongwei is secretly hiding Chen Xuan, and I have seen Lord Xia, the commander."

Xia Qiudong took off the seal from his waist and put it on the corner of the table, and a seemingly non-existent barrier completely wrapped the entire second floor, no one cared about everything that happened on the second floor, and the people on the first floor seemed to have completely forgotten that there was a second floor.

One of the seven magic weapons, the finalized magic weapon Jiangshan Yin, can control the trend of mountains and rivers and leylines, and it is naturally not a problem to isolate a side of heaven and earth.

"I didn't expect that the first Si Cheng of the Concealment Division to show loyalty to this official was you?"

Hidden Division, hidden in the rivers and lakes, placed in the various major sects, among the families, Si Cheng 12, originally subordinate to Xuanjiawei. Two years ago, the new Kandi set up the Fish Dragon Guard again, and handed over the responsibility of monitoring the rivers and lakes assigned by the Xuanjia Guard to the Fish Dragon Guard, and this hidden division was naturally taken over by the Fish Dragon Guard.

"The lord is laughing, the slave family is already subordinate to the Yulongwei, how to show loyalty, this time the adult came to Jiangnan Province to incorporate the secret division, and it is the duty of the slave family to share the worries of the adult."

A smile and a smile are countless thousands of styles, and they are born with a pair of charming bones.

For Chen Chen's charm, he did not move like a mountain in summer, autumn and winter, and spoke lightly.

"Which of the twelve priests are you?"

Chen Yingying said:

"Lord Hui, the slave family is the soil of the Twelve Sicheng."

"How many Si Cheng are there in Jiangnan? Who are they? ”

Hearing Xia Qiudong's question, Chen Cong frowned slightly.

"Lord Hui, the slave family only knows that there are three Si Cheng in Jiangnan, and as for who they are, the slave family has no way of knowing."

The summer, autumn and winter wine glass is held in the air, tilting its head slightly.

"I don't know? Do you not know or do not want to offend them, so you don't want to say it? ”

Xia Qiudong's expression remained unchanged, but a strong aura suddenly struck, and Chen Yan immediately knelt heavily on his knees, his hands propped on the ground, and he kept trembling.

"Lord Hui, the three of us and the other three hidden Si Cheng have been rooted in Jiangnan before the establishment of the Yulongwei, and they have only been in contact through secret means such as codes for more than ten years, and they have never met, so we don't know who they are!"

In the summer, autumn and winter, she withdrew her cathartic qi, Chen Yan sat paralyzed on the ground, beads of sweat dripping on the wooden floor, she was already dripping with sweat, and the feeling of the rest of her life after the catastrophe made her gasp for breath.

"That's it, this official came to Jiangnan to meet you one by one, if you don't want to join my Yulongwei system at that time, then there is no need for such subordinates to live."

Chen Yan looked at Xia Qiudong with jealousy, and he couldn't see any strong emotional changes on his face, even when he talked about killing, he still looked calm.

"This commander is not easy to deal with, it depends on whether the two of you can escape this catastrophe."

Thinking in his heart, Chen Wan stood up, came to the table in Xiaqiudong, and poured him a full cup of wine.

"Huh?!"

At this moment, the expression on Xia Qiudong's face changed suddenly, he stood up suddenly, the wine cup in his hand shattered, and he threw himself through the window to look at a certain place in the north of the city.

His heart was beating wildly, like fear, like anger, and as if he was unwilling, the sudden changes in his body made his face pale, and the wine cup casually pierced into the flesh of his palm, and the blood flowed endlessly.

Chen Yan didn't dare to say a word on the side, just stood aside, put away her cigarette and looked at it, and waited silently.

After a long time, Xia Qiudong pointed to the direction that gave him a strong feeling before and asked:

"Where is it twenty miles north of here?"

陈琣 says:

"Go back to my lord, that is Pinghu Villa Chengfu."

Savor it, summer, autumn and winter murmur in the mouth.

"Why is this so? Why do you feel this way? I always feel that I am missing a piece in my mind, and the feeling that just gave me is so familiar but I can't remember it, Pinghu Villa Chengfu? Looks like it's going to bother. ”

Putting away his thoughts, Xia Qiudong retracted the Jiangshan seal placed in the corner of the table back to his waist, and the formation that isolated the second floor disappeared, returning this place to this side of the world.

"Compile all the relevant matters you have collected over the years about Gangnam Province into a book, and send it to my room before the sun sets."

After speaking, Xia Qiudong got up and picked up the quaint brown long sword on the table and went straight back to his room.

In the evening, Chen Ling came to the door of Xiaqiudong's house with wine and food, and after two knocks on the door, Xia Qiudong opened the door to take over the wine and food and the information about Jiangnan collected by Chen Ling.

Pinghu Villa, Chengfu.

The next day, the sky was bright, a rooster announced, Wei Zigeng yawned, and opened the door with sleepy eyes.

"Huh?! What are you doing at my door?! ”

Wei Zigeng was so frightened that he took two steps back and retreated into the room.

At his door, Xu Yue and Liangqiu sat at Wei Zigeng's door, each with a handful of melon seeds, bowing his head, and looking directly at a note on the ground with two eyes.

"Zi Geng, who do you say are so boring to put a note at your door?"

Wei Zigeng said this to Xu Yue, and he couldn't wait to give him the back of his head now.

"How long have you been here?"

Liang Qiu raised a finger, and the dark circles on his face were clearly visible.

"Hey, an hour."

"Who do you think would be so boring to stare at a note in one place for an hour! Really curious, just pick it up and take a look? ”

Wei Zigeng bent down and was just about to pick up the note, Xu Yue said:

"In the past, the old people in the city always said that some people with bad intentions would throw silver tickets or items with spells in a conspicuous place now, and if someone picked them up, it meant that the person agreed to the request written on the paper, some were unlucky, and some were fatal."

When he said this, Liang Qiu stared at Wei Zigeng's hand, which made him very uncomfortable.

"Aren't you Hades? Do you still believe in this thing? ”

Xu Yue's complaint has been very timely.

"What Brother Liangqiu said is true."

Wei Zigeng also seemed to remember something, and his hand was in place.

"Taishan Guanshenxiao Fu faction has such a kind of talisman, which can marry its own mold to other people, and the folk are more likely to use the special winning money with the other party's eight characters to act as a life money, in short, luck This kind of thing is mysterious and mysterious and real, this method is called the technique of overpowering, this technique was born from the unpredictable Luban technique."

Xu Yue's expression became solemn and said:

"Zi Geng, this thing is placed at your door, we don't dare to touch it at all!"

Then he stood up again, folded his hands, and bowed to all around.

"It's strange, I haven't touched it at all, if there's anything to find him, don't look for us."

Wei Zigeng glanced at him, and then kicked out, Xu Yue's whole person flew out of the eaves upside down, and after turning around, he stood firmly, not moving like a mountain!

But I saw Wei Zigeng take out a yellow paper talisman from the gourd on his waist, put it in front of him with two fingers, closed his eyes, and muttered in his mouth:

"Taishang Yuqing, protect my true spirit, the gods are evil, and the evil spirits are drawn to drive away the yin! Chi! ”

The qi machine ignited the talisman, and the rune paper ash transformed into auspicious clouds in the air, and then disappeared.

"There's nothing out of the ordinary, it's just a normal note."

Liang Qiu asked:

"The Qingling talisman of the Taishan Guanshenxiao Fu Sect, Brother Wei's methods are really endless, but this Taishan Guan has always had strict rules, and he never allows the disciples in the door to pass on the Fu Dao method, and Brother Wei doesn't know ...... this hand."

Wei Zigeng patted away the scattered rune paper ashes and said:

"Qi Xiao, a disciple of Taishan Guan, is now doing chores in my Jianghu Inn, and she has nothing to teach me when she has nothing to do."

Although he had been prepared, he suddenly learned the news from Wei Zigeng's mouth, which also made Liangqiu people a little at a loss.

"Qi Xiao? Didn't Taishanguan say that she had been beaten to death by the big shopkeeper? ”

Wei Zigeng bent down and picked up the note on the ground and said:

"The god of Mount Tai was beaten by the big shopkeeper, Qi Xiao can only seek refuge in the Jianghu Inn, in order to save the face of Mount Tai, it can only be said that she is dead."

It was like an ordinary thing, but he could hear Xu Yue in a fog, and Liang Qiu's words were dumbfounded, and he could only think secretly in his heart.

"Didn't the Taishan view say to the outside world that it would cooperate with the imperial court to canonize the new god of mountains and rivers, and the god of Mount Tai would take the initiative to return the luck? How much was the battle in Yuzhou City concealed two years ago? It is estimated that Lord Yuyulou Zhenjun also made a move, otherwise he would not have distorted the news so much and then spread it. ”

Wei Zigeng unfolded the note, saw what was written, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face, and said:

"Hey, I owe a jar of wine for no reason."

"What is written?"

Wei Zigeng put the note in front of Xu Yue, and in his hand was a piece of gold foil that was no more than a foot long and no more than five inches wide.

"See for yourself."

I took the note, and there were only two short sentences on it.

"Young shopkeeper, this thing was lost to me by Xingdou Langjun Huang Yufu, maybe it will be useful to you, and when we meet again, you will owe me two jars of wine brewed by Aunt Huang. Pure Soul Terrace Li Yuliu. ”

After reading it, Xu Yue returned the note to Wei Zigeng, saw the gold foil in his hand, and asked casually:

"What is this? Could it be that it will be an invitation to the Fulong Palace, which has been in the limelight recently? ”

Wei Zigeng spread his hands helplessly, put the gold leaf in front of the two and said:

"Xu Yue, if you don't know how to speak in the future, you will talk less, and you will come to whatever you say."

Xu Yue and Liang Qiu looked at the ordinary gold leaf in front of them in surprise, if it weren't for the five-clawed dragon lying on the top of the mountain engraved on it, it would be no different from ordinary gold leaf products at all.

The dragon is a beast, and it is a symbol of the emperor of the world, so there are few gangs in the rivers and lakes that dare to use the dragon as a symbol.

When I opened the gold leaf invitation, it was empty, and there was no trace of the Fulong Temple.

The three of them studied for a long time, but after all, they still didn't come up with a clue, so they could only put it aside for the time being.

At lunchtime, Wei Zigeng and Xu Yue were not in the Cheng Mansion, but found a reason to get rid of Cheng Xi's three sisters and brothers.

A quiet wine shop, the two of them found a corner location and observed everything in Lingzhou City.

"Zi Geng, when will you act? These days, you come here every day to observe the terrain, and you also give an accurate time. ”

Wei Zigeng also still looked at everything outside and said:

"Wait, when the man comes, everything will be in order."

Xu Yue was extremely helpless, and when he thought of what he saw that day, he didn't choose to speak.

"Wait for someone? It's been so many days of waiting, even a donkey should have arrived! ”

Outside the door, a figure blocked Xu Yue's field of vision, which made Xu Yue, who was already impatient, even more irritable.

Xu Yue's words were quickly verified.

When Wei Zigeng saw the person outside the door, he took out another wine bowl from the side without a trace and poured it full of wine, then got up and said:

"Your Excellency, don't come unharmed? We meet again. ”

The person who came was dressed in a big red fish and dragon run, with a red silk and white jade belt around his waist, a jade jingle pendant and a small black seal, and a brown and simple long sword.

The person who came was the commander of the waiting officer, Yu Longwei, and the commander of the affairs of Xiaqiu, Autumn and Winter.