In an extremely rare inn in Yoshiwara.

"Master, drink tea!"

"Master, be careful of burning!"

"Master, don't choke!"

"Master..."

"Poof..."

Luo Buyi couldn't stand it, and couldn't help complaining: "Hey, Old Duan, can you let me have a sip of tea!"

"Oh oh, okay, hey, hey..."

Duan's surname is Duan, which is natural.

He had a broken knife, which of course was nothing.

However, he used to have a bandit nicknamed a knife idiot, and he had caused a lot of turmoil on the edge of Zhongzhou, especially the people who used knives were in danger and were all frightened.

But now he calls himself a slave, no longer a self-righteous sword slave, but a servant of the young man in front of him.

It's also strange to say, obviously he thinks very highly of himself before he becomes a prefecture-level master, what kind of martial arts master, cultivator hermit is very rare for him to put it in his eyes, even if it is the existence of the master list, few can enter his eyes.

However, after becoming a prefecture-level master, he suddenly seemed to be a different person, and he actually came to recognize this Luo Buyi as the master, you must know that Luo Buyi just wanted to ask him to teach him his sword skills.

But if you want to say that he wants to repay Luo on a whim, why not save his life and the righteousness of guidance?

Luo Buyi shook his head helplessly, what this Duan Lao thought was estimated that only he knew, and turned his head to look at the black-clothed girl who was kneeling respectfully on the ground: "Your name is Jiuxiang, right?" ”

"Yes, young master. Jiuxiang stood up from the ground, but peeked at Luo Buyi.

It didn't seem to see Jiuxiang's small movements, Luo Buyi took a sip of tea and asked, "I heard that you have been by my sister's side and helped Minister Zhang each other, why did you come here to find me today?"

The Heavenly General Hall has its own various sects and departments, and the dark department where the nine incense is located is only one of them, but it is all over the five states, collecting secret reports for the Heavenly General Hall while monitoring the movements of various places.

These seemingly dispensable people in the dark department, who have not even been recorded in the Heavenly General Palace, although they are all kinds of people, from the Nine Streams and Three Sects, they can be described as a mixture of snakes and insects, and their cultivation is also high and low, and it doesn't seem to be worth a look, but their methods and achievements must not be ignored by anyone.

And today, Luo Buyi left a secret mark along the way, that is, he wanted to lure out the people in the shadows, so as to find out why there were so many snow demons who should have been in the hinterland of the ice field on this auspicious plain, but it seems that this time it is destined to be nothing, because Jiuxiang will definitely wipe the secret notes one by one while following the secret notes.

Hearing Luo Buyi's question, Jiuxiang couldn't help but cast her gaze, seized the opportunity to quickly look at Luo Buyi twice, and then reluctantly glanced at the sloppy Duan Lao beside Luo Buyi, the situation was self-evident.

Duan Lao is now a dignified and ground-level master, how could he put Jiuxiang's small Xuan-level in his eyes, but Jiuxiang's distrustful eyes still made him dissatisfied.

The demeanor of the two of them was naturally looked at by Luo Buyi, and after thinking about it, he said: "Duan Lao's identity is about to entrust the dark department to inform the Heavenly General Hall and buy a waist card for him, so he to..."

"Shhhhh

Jiuxiang's little mouth gasped, and she couldn't help but look at the lucky sloppy old man squarely, and then saluted Luo Buyi: "Respect the young master!"

As Jiuxiang, who has been adopted by the Heavenly General Palace since she was a child and is regarded as an elite exercise, how can she not understand the importance of the young master's personal servant, and it is not something that the young master can do with a word, she handed the words up, and someone will review the identity of the old man layer by layer.

As the young master's personal attendant, Guy must not only be superb, but also innocent, and be able to win the trust of the young master, the key is that none of the young master's personal attendants will not become the elders of the Heavenly General Palace, and it is rumored that the great elder Hua Feng is the personal attendant of the previous hall master.

But these don't need to be known to the young master, the young master's attitude has already shown that this old man is worthy of his trust, so Jiuxiang no longer shy away from saying: "Miss has a message for her subordinates to bring, Miss said that she will set off to rush back to the Heavenly General Hall in the near future, and before she goes back, the young master should not touch the inheritance left by the previous hall masters anyway." ”

"Oh?" Luo Buyi subconsciously touched his eyebrows, and then said, "I know." ”

"Then do you know how to contact the person in charge of the Dark Department to organize the intelligence of the Ice State? ”

Hearing this, Jiuxiang pointed to his nose and said, "I am!"

"You?" said Luo Buyi in surprise.

"That's right, if the young master wants to know, just ask, Jiuxiang dares to come only after doing his homework!"

Jiuxiang blinked, and her words were true and false.

In fact, it was not only Hua Yun who had something to convey, but she took the initiative to ask Lao Zhangtou to transfer her back to Zhongzhou, and then heard that Luo Buyi had played a trick here, and the person in charge of Bingzhou, who had been kept in the dark, was transferred to herself, and she was very curious about this young master who had been outcast.

Luo Buyi nodded and didn't think much about it: "Do you know what extraordinary things happened near Yoshihara?"

Jiuxiang's eyes lit up and said: "Late last night, there were snow devils who rioted for some reason, looting everywhere, and hurting people, but according to intelligence, someone found that the snow devils were slaughtered in front of a broken rebel brigade. On the way down, he also investigated, and found that he was injured by two people with knives, presumably, one of them must be the young master. ”

Luo Buyi was not surprised at all by Jiuxiang's inference, it would be strange if the people in the dark didn't even have this ability: "Besides, isn't there anything unusual near Jiyuan? What about the hinterland of Bingzhou?"

"Young Master, there is nothing unusual near Yoshihara, as for the hinterland of Bingzhou... It's true that Xue Yingbao's actions have been more frequent recently, but what he did was just to kill the demons, so there shouldn't be any problems!" Jiuxiang pondered for a moment, and finally said the information she had in mind.

"Won't there be any problems? maybe..."Luo Buyi wrapped the cloak behind his back, and the secret path would also be cold in the house, the climate in this ice state was too weird, and his body bones were good and bad, it was indeed worse.

"Investigate the abnormality of Snow Castle with all your might, and report it to me at any time!"

"Yes, young master!"

Jiuxiang saluted and got up again, and escaped by the pillar in the room, just as when he came.

Luo Buyi drank the slightly cold tea in his hand, and caught a glimpse of the old man Duan behind him, who had never dared to say a word, and couldn't help but say, "Old Duan?

"Ahh No, it's okay, it's okay..."It seemed that he had just returned to his soul, and Duan Lao looked dazed.

"It's okay, if it's okay, let's go and rest first, we have to hurry tomorrow..."

Luo Buyi stretched his waist and lay down on the cold couch. But it's much better than last night's freeze.

"Yes, yes, the old slave retired..."

It was not easy for Ti Luo to close the door, and at the same time, he closed the last trace of unwillingness.

This old Duan, who didn't know what his specific name was, only called himself an old slave from now on, and he never changed a single bit until his death, even if he became famous in the future, he never dared to forget that there was a young man who slept in the snow for him at night, and a young master of the Heavenly General Hall told him to sleep late at night.

The scenery of the Arctic Ice State can be covered in a word, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow.

Duan Lao has wandered on the edge of Zhongzhou for a long time, but he has never walked into the depths of Bingzhou, after all, except for the aborigines who have lived in Bingzhou for generations, I am afraid that there will be very few human races involved in it.

The Ice State is known for its small number of residents, but there are many more fierce beasts in the Ice State than in the other four states, and with some of the demons hiding in them, it can be said that the Ice State is far more vicious than the snowy ones on the surface.

It's just that the danger under the cover of these snows is far more than that, such as the things under Duan Lao's feet at this time.

"Old Duan, if you don't want to go with the royal things!" Luo Buyi, who was sitting on the back of the dragon horse and was at ease, looked at Duan Lao, who was walking on the side of the donkey in front but suddenly stopped, and gave a good suggestion.

The feces of unknown beasts, which were still a little soft under the feet of the old general, rubbed on the snow, and when he heard this, he smiled embarrassedly and said: "It's okay, it's okay, the old slave is also careless, but I don't know what kind of pickled beast this is, and it can have so much heat in this climate." ”

The two of them didn't take it to heart, but Duan Lao led the way and had a heart in the end, attaching the aura to the soles of his feet, and walking was a little easier.

The two of them have been walking for a whole day, and in this day, they are not slow to walk from Yoshihara to this icy and snowy land, and it is also thanks to the fact that Ryoma walked on the snow and was very stable, not even stumbling, and Duan Lao is worthy of being a master of the ground level, even if he does not fly with the royal object, he can still keep up with the dragon horse who can be regarded as fast.

But this ice state can indeed be called sparsely populated, and they haven't even seen a few birds along the way.

Luo Buyi, who was a little bored after watching the snow scene all the way, squinted his eyes slightly, otherwise he was afraid that his eyes would be damaged by the snow: "Is this the scenery of this ice state?"

It's not that it's not pretty, but after watching it for a long time, it will inevitably feel a little lonely.

Duan Lao knew that this newly recognized master just had nothing to say, but he still said respectfully: "Thinking about it, according to the old slave's opinion, I am afraid that the ice and snow here almost rarely melt, and there are very few trees to grow. ”

Between speaking, he put his hand on his forehead, and an old face suddenly smiled, and said to Luo Buyi: "Master, it can be seen that there are people, look!"

In fact, Duan Lao didn't say that Luo Buyi had already noticed that there was a group of people walking with gongs and drums at the end of the snow, and they were all wearing red and green, and a big red sedan chair was carried in the crowd, looking jubilant.

"This posture, isn't it a wedding ceremony? But it's not right, it's already more than half of the time by the hour, who would choose such an hour?" Duan Lao muttered, "Maybe it's because the road is too far, and the snow is not easy to walk, so it's because of the delay?"

Luo Buyi listened to Duan Lao's voice talking to himself, and said with a smile: "Maybe we are lucky enough to be able to take a look at the bride today." Ryoma, go faster!"

"Woo Ryoma!" Ryoma hissed in response when he heard the sound, and his hooves spread out and chased him into the distance, leaving Duan Lao behind.

With a smile, Duan Lao also sped up his body and hurried to catch up.

Ryoma was a supernatural beast, and Duan Lao was a ground-level master, and it didn't take long for him to come to the group of people one after the other.

"Master, have you seen the bride?"

Duan Lao stood in front of Ryoma again, he was old, but he didn't mind having a master like Luo Buyi, and even sometimes he would feel a little crying and laughing when he looked at the master's youthful behavior, such as throwing snowballs at him on the road, such as looking at the bride's curiosity now.

But Luo Buyi sat up straight on Ryoma's back, frowned, and muttered, "Something is wrong, it's so wrong!"

"Old Duan, don't you think?"

Something is wrong? Duan Lao pondered for a long time, and suddenly a flash of inspiration made him find something strange.

The group of people in front of them beat gongs and drums, and they carried sedan chairs with joy, and it didn't matter if they turned a deaf ear to the arrival of the two of them.

But this group of people didn't make even a single sound!