The next day, early in the morning.

Li Bai wolfed down a bowl of spicy soup at the mouth of the alley, and set foot on the road to Guangdefang.

Not long after the sun rose, the streets of Chang'an City were filled with bustling people.

Railcars travel from the elevated to the underground, and above the gallop, horse-drawn carriages run. With the operation of countless mobile markets, the long and mighty drum sound reverberated between heaven and earth.

Eight hundred morning drums.

Gradually wake up Chang'an, which is sleeping in the dark night, and make this solemn and gorgeous city full of brightness and brilliance that is different from the night.

Full of life.

This time, when he walked to the road, Li Bai finally stopped having a stomachache.

This time, no matter what he said, he had to see the Great Elder, no matter whether Chen Shi was fooling himself or not, this time, not only did he come to the Great Elder Yunzhong for his own needs, this time, there was a group of people behind him, and he must get his support!

After working for a month in vain, you have to give face!

If the treacherous old man disagreed, then Li Bai could only help them recall the style of the heavenly people.

After making up his mind, Li Bai's mood became brighter and brighter.

Humming happily.

But I heard the sound of a quarrel in front of me, and the two merchants scuffled in one place, and I don't know why, the goods carried by the two people were scattered all over the ground.

The flow of people parted from both sides, and there were people gloating and pointing at the jokes.

When Li Bai looked curiously, he saw that the two of them had blue noses and swollen faces, and even the children next to him were so frightened that they cried. He frowned, walked past the two guys, picked up the little kid in the corner, and tried to let him outside.

But what feels heavy when you start is not the weight of a child at all.

And when the child's scattered hair was raised, he revealed an old face full of cracks, grinning at him, it turned out to be a dwarf dressed as a child!

"Hello, Li Bai."

The smiling dwarf raised his arm, and two daggers suddenly cut out of his sleeve and poked down at his neck!

In a hurry, Li Bai leaned back, narrowly and dangerously dodged the dwarf's dagger, and was kicked in the chest by the dwarf, and when he wanted to retreat, he found that his leg was hugged by the two scuffling merchants on the ground.

Then he heard a sound that made his scalp tingle.

The low sound of a bowstring twisting!

Right next to him, the lid of the carriage parked on the side of the road suddenly fell off, and the huge crossbow hidden in the carriage released a whistling bolt, which had broken through the air in an instant.

And in mid-air, the falling dwarf actually took out a bag of things from his arms, threw it at Li Bai, and scattered lime foam from it and exploded in the air.

There was a white expanse in front of him, obscuring his vision.

Li Bai subconsciously closed his eyes, drew his sword, and slashed down.

I heard two screams, and the arms of the two guys holding me at my feet had several more bloody wounds, and I was in pain.

But it was too late.

The heavy crossbow arrow with the thickness of his wrist was already close at hand, and Li Bai could even imagine how the steel giant arrow with a four-edged barb rotated in the air and flew towards his heart.

A high-pitched metallic chirp burst out, and a crossbow bolt flew out of the lime powder, traveled a long distance, and nailed to the wall, buzzing!

Only now did cries of terror emerge from the crowd, and pedestrians scattered in all directions.

When Li Bai finally covered his face and ran out of the smoke and dust formed by lime powder, he saw a huge figure slowly walking out of the broken carriage of the carriage.

The scarred face was exposed, but the body was covered in heavy steel.

The hideous armor rubbed against the leaves of the comer, and sparks flew with the movements of the comer. With the operation of the mechanism, the oil pump activated, and a piercing roar was emitted.

Behind the mask, only a pair of cold pupils could be seen.

- Composite Trap Armor: Bright Light Armor!

Li Bai was stunned.

That's a terrible thing to hide a pair of things that will punish the nine clans!

Even if it's a guy who has suffered a stroke and is paralyzed, after wearing this, he can turn into a killing machine that tears gold and iron!

Although I don't understand the cause and effect, this time it must be troublesome.

He raised the blade of his sword and waited for it.

And the killer in Mingguang armor laughed hoarsely, and rushed towards Li Bai in stride, and the iron pestle in his hand was more than a foot long, setting off a hurricane.

At this moment, Li Bai suddenly heard a roar approaching in the distance.

Immediately after, there was a loud bang!

Rumble!

Just as he was galloping, a galloping carriage spewed smoke and roared mercilessly, knocking the assassin into the air and smashing it into the wall along with his bright light armor.

Immediately afterwards, he wiped the tip of Li Bai's nose and flicked his tail beautifully, and by the way, he ran over the remaining killers together.

Finally, slowly reverse back.

Ran it over again!

It can only be said that the scene is terrible......

Li Bai was stunned and dumbfounded.

I don't know what's going on.

Then, he found out that the person driving the car turned out to be an old acquaintance in Guangde Fang, and Chen Shi, the accountant in the workshop!

"Oh, how dangerous it is for cars to come and go on the road...... Why don't young people nowadays look at the road? ”

A joking voice sounded from the carriage, and then, behind the open door, a well-made brass pipe stretched out, and a wisp of green smoke came out.

In the carriage, the middle-aged man with a scruffy beard was wearing a brocade robe, leaning crookedly on the cushion, and looked at the young man outside the car: "Li Bai? ”

Li Bai nodded.

"That means you're not looking for the wrong person."

The middle-aged man exhaled a puff of smoke and snapped his fingers: "There's no time to explain, get in the car." ”

Li Bai was stunned for a moment, then looked back at the surging crowd, and there were many malicious eyes.

chose to be good as flowing.

So, in the roar of the carriage, the dust is gone!

Although it sounded quite noisy from the outside, the inside of the carriage was still modified, and it was unusually smooth and unusually quiet.

It was the middle-aged man who kept smoking, choking Li Bai so much that he opened the skylight directly.

Then, he turned his head and carefully looked at the middle-aged man with a scruffy beard, and asked for a long time, with some uncertainty: "Great Elder?" ”

"Yes, it's me."

The Great Elder slowly bowed his head, pinched his chin, and was proud: "Say it's today, I didn't release your pigeon, right?" ”

"Why are you here?" Li Bai asked curiously.

"Good question!"

The Great Elder couldn't help but clap his hands, and then asked puzzledly: "Since last night, all the gangs, rangers, and swordsmen in the city have received a reward of 50,000 gold, asking them to cut off a human head named Li Bai, do you have any clue?" ”

"How do I know!"

Li Bai replied without thinking, "I'm sitting up straight, and it's not strange that there are young people who are secretly jealous, right?" ”

After saying that, he remembered...... Recently, it seems, seems, maybe, that I really offended a terrible character?

"Wu Yougong?"

He asked, shocked.

"Or else?"

After the Great Elder finished smoking a pot of cigarettes, after knocking off the ashes outside the window, he actually filled another pot, "Do you think there are still a few people in the entire Chang'an who have such ability?" Or do you not know who you have offended?

I'm going to come a little later, are you still talking about it! ”

"Then why didn't you come earlier!"

Li Bai was annoyed: "Isn't it you who have been avoiding me!" ”

"Yes, I'm avoiding you, do you know?"

The Great Elder glanced at him angrily, "I didn't want to see you, I really don't want to touch anything with you. To be honest, I don't even want to admit that you're a man in the clouds...... The first time you came to the door, if Chen Shi hadn't stopped me, I would have had someone beat you out! ”

"Why?"

Li Bai frowned.

"Isn't your reputation enough?"

The Great Elder asked rhetorically, "Or do you think that if you are a sweetheart, you must be loved by everyone?" ”

This is something that the Great Elder has known and understood from the very beginning.

Li Bai is a trouble.

If you want to go into more detail, then he's a super big problem!

The key is not the young man's enthusiasm, nor what his purpose or intentions are, but that Li Bai's personality and style are too square, black and white.

It doesn't fit in with the city.

The worst thing is that he still has the ability to practice his determination.

As early as when he heard that a man from the clouds came to Chang'an, set fire to Yunjian Tower, and killed Ji Xian on the street, the great elder's eyes darkened, and he began to have a stomachache......

Especially when I heard that this guy came to find me, it hurt my stomach even more.

He didn't know what kind of person Li Bai was, and he instinctively didn't want to be involved with such trouble.

The older the rivers and lakes, the less courageous they are, especially when they become owners, and they don't want the villagers to suffer in vain, or cause any trouble, they must be even less courageous.

You must know how to see the wind and rudder, and you must know how to be sleek and smooth.

Originally, before making sure that Li Bai himself would not threaten the operation and peace of Guangde Fang, the Great Elder definitely did not intend to see him easily.

Even, if it weren't for yesterday's incident, he still planned to continue to release Li Bai's pigeons.

until he was so angry that he lost interest.

"Why?"

Li Bai asked angrily, "I came to the door as an outsider, even if you don't like me, you must at least tell me the reason, right?" Could it be that when the people in the clouds came to Chang'an, the rules of hospitality changed? ”

The Great Elder shook his head helplessly, for a long time, sighed, and suddenly asked, "Do you know what 'heavenly man' means in the clouds?" ”

Li Bai was stunned for a moment, not understanding why he said this.

I don't know why this strange nickname has any meaning.

"Sure enough."

The Great Elder smiled bitterly, twitched his eyes, and after a moment of silence, he explained, "In the beginning, the title Heavenly Man was used to describe those swordsmen who practiced on the high mountains.

Those people were excellent in swordsmanship, like immortals, high in the sky, eating and drinking, awe-inspiring and worshipping. Later, the swordsmen on the mountain slowly deteriorated, and became synonymous with assassins in the struggle between the city-states and tribes in the clouds.

Those guys, as long as they hear about injustice and injustice, will cruelly use their own swords to guide everything back on track...... Even after so many years, those guys are dead, there are still legends of heavenly people in the clouds.

In the clouds, only the most powerful swordsmen deserve such a title. ”

He paused and glanced at Li Bai: "Now, there is one more of you." ”

Another guy known as the 'Heavenly Man' came to Chang'an, even if it was Dali Temple, he had to register, focus on monitoring and investigation.

This kind of person, as long as he comes within five miles of Weiyang Palace, must raise the level of vigilance.

If you don't take a bow and crossbow at all times, some people may not even be able to eat.

Although he didn't know how Li Bai leveled the Dali Temple, the Great Elder instinctively felt how huge the trouble represented by this young man was.

If he is really a gentle and frugal reader, how can he be called so?

"I see!"

Li Bai was stunned, he didn't expect this ordinary nickname to have such a history, but he was even more puzzled: "How do you know so clearly?" ”

The Great Elder gave him a blank look.

"Nonsense." He said, "Because I was the last one to be called a man in heaven." ”

“……”

Li Bai was speechless.

I don't know if it should be admiration or shock.

“…… It's all in the past, my belly is so big now, not to mention the sword, I have to tremble for a long time to grab a pen. The Great Elder complained angrily: "That nickname is not an honor, don't hang it on your head all day long." ”

When they are young, there are people who like to fight with others, and they are prone to life and death, mistakenly believing that swords and swords can solve all problems, and violence and death can deter all.

But knives and swords won't solve any problems, they will only make them more and more troublesome. Violence and death only make people fearful, and then resentful.

But if you want to really create something, if you want to really do something meaningful, you can't just rely on the sword.

There is a greater power in this world than that.

A fierce swordsman, a fanatic with empty eyes...... Da Chang is honestly seeing too much!

And what he is most fortunate about is that Li Bai is not the kind of person he imagined, completely different from when he was young.

"You did a good job of the Yao Yu family."

He looked at the young man in front of him and sighed: "Also, I've been unhappy with that bastard for a long time, and the words you said last night were very angry with me."

So, I decided to give you a hand. ”

"Really?" Li Bai was suspicious: "In that case, are you willing to support Lu Gong as the owner?" ”

"No, I don't want at all!"

The Great Elder rolled his eyes, "I'm the owner of the workshop, do you understand?" I am the Great Elder, and I am responsible for Guangdefang, and I can't drag the entire Guangdefang people into the whirlpool because of my own selfishness and my personal likes and dislikes.

Do you think that I integrated the scattered people in the clouds in Chang'an in order to fight with others? It's to make everyone's life better! At least don't be inexplicably affected by some mess of trouble......

As I have already announced, Guangdefang will not compete with the owner this time, and I will not change any mind for you now.

Think about those children in the workshop, if one day, someone walks in front of them with a sword, what will happen? ”

“……”

Hearing the scene depicted by the Great Elder, Li Bai's heart also sank to the bottom.

If for your own reasons, let those immature smiling faces fall in a pool of blood...... I'm afraid he won't be able to forgive himself for the rest of his life.

"Seemingly, you get it?"

The Great Elder bowed his head and raised his cigarette stick: "At present, the top priority is not Lu Daoxuan, but you. ”

"Me?"

Li Bai frowned: "What's wrong with me?" ”

"You've got a big problem! Do you know how much 50,000 gold is? ”

The Great Elder asked angrily: "Fifty thousand gold, can make a drunkard take the best wine in Chang'an City and soak it until he gets drunk to death!." Enough for a family of five to live until the birth of a great-grandson, and to keep the good hall in Guangdefang open until my son dies! Feed hundreds of children to grow up and read to adulthood!

Then, someone will give you 50,000 gold in exchange for your head! ”

He scolded angrily: "Don't say it's anyone else, even I can't help but want to cut off your head now, what do you think?" ”

"Then you're going to lose a lot of money, Great Elder."

Li Bai smiled disappreliantly: "My head is worth more than 50,000 gold." ”

The Great Elder snorted coldly: "Today's Chang'an, I don't know how many people are staring at you - there are hundreds of people with names and surnames alone, from today onwards, you must be careful when you eat, drink, and sleep, and someone wants your life!"

Attacks against you will spread from you to those around you, unless one day, someone cuts off your head and gives it to the dog!

Who do you think you have offended? ”

Li Bai thought for a moment and asked tentatively: "A villain?" ”

"That's also the biggest villain in Chang'an City!"

Seeing that Li Bai still looked indifferent, the Great Elder was so angry that he wanted to beat someone.

Hurry up!

But it's not useful to be in a hurry.

"I know, Li Bai, some young people always insist on going their own way, always don't take the advice of their elders to heart, and always think that they can handle everything.

But in reality they can't, it's just a juvenile illusion. ”

The Great Elder reminded solemnly: "The sword can't solve everything, Li Bai, it will only make you cocoon and go further and further on the road to death." ”

"If I were to do nothing, what would be the difference between being deaf and blind!"

Li Bai glared at this guy: "You don't use a sword, can you solve that guy Wu Yougong?" Or do you want me to compose ten poems a day, so that he can end up without a problem? ”

"Ha, I almost forgot, you are still the unknown poet who is famous and talented in Chang'an, it is really disrespectful."

I don't know where he learned about such a thing, but for the owner at the top of Chang'an, there is nothing unusual.

The Great Elder sighed, "It's just that a talented young man like you is much more troublesome than a waster with empty mouths. You always feel that the world revolves around you, but it is not, but you are in the center...... This world is far more complicated than you think, Li Bai, I know you won't listen to what I say.

But it doesn't matter, I'm experienced with people like you......"

The sloppy middle-aged man pinched his chin, and suddenly, grinning, the fierce flame in his eyes soared: "Children are disobedient, most of them are used to it, just beat it!" ”

"Then let's fight, who's afraid of whom!"

When the Great Elder burst out, Li Bai drew his sword without thinking.

The sound of steel clashing erupted from the cramped compartment.