Zhongwei County.

Huangzhou was located in the former Great Zhou Jian, that is, Zhou Zhaowu's grandfather, set up five guards here, and stationed 150,000 troops to resist the Xia people in the west.

Since the Xia people were expelled to the west of Wuping County, the Western Army all moved to Yinshan County, Wuping County, and Southwest County, and the five guards were also removed and changed to counties.

Zhongtunwei is today's Zhongwei County, and it is also the county governance of Zhongwei County, where Huangfu's family is located.

Afternoon.

Eight knights drove out of the centuries-old mansion with a carriage and headed straight east along the street.

There was a middle-aged couple standing in front of the gate of the mansion, it was Huangfu Tiande, the contemporary head of the Huangfu family, and Zhou Zhaoyang, the princess.

Zhou Zhaoyang looked at the departing figure and said: "The more I look at this child, the more I like it, not to mention his strength, he is not proud of his achievements, he has a maturity and stability that his peers do not have, if only we could be like him." ”

"Yo! Is this a change of words? That kid hasn't become your Zhou family's son-in-law yet! With such an outstanding young talent as him, it is definitely not your Zhou family who takes a fancy to him. Huangfu Tiande quipped.

"No! I must hurry up and send a letter to the king, but I must not let this child be snatched away by someone else's family!" ”

Leaving these words, Zhou Zhaoyang turned his head and returned to the mansion, leaving Huangfu Tiande alone at the door shaking his head and smiling bitterly.

"It is rare to have such strength and status at such a young age, looking at the past and the present. The wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it, can you really take this splashing wealth? ”

Huangfu Tiande looked at the back that gradually disappeared from sight, and his expression couldn't help but change.

After a long time, he let out a long sigh and walked back to the house.

Wang Cheng didn't know that after he left, Huangfu Tiande and his wife were still talking about themselves behind his back, and he was still thinking about the conversation with them at the dinner table before.

The reason why he wanted to come to Huangfu's house was to ask about the handling of phoenix bones.

The phoenix bone is a divine object, and there are very few things in the world that can hurt it, even those superb spiritual weapons cannot leave a trace on the phoenix bone.

Therefore, if there is no way to dispose of the phoenix bone, then this thing is no different from a piece of waste.

The Huangfu family really has methods for dealing with phoenix bones, and these methods are collected by the chess king Huangfu Guanqi himself, and he collects these for his own use.

It's a pity that he hasn't seen the phoenix bone since it first slipped out of his hand, because he was no longer there when the phoenix bone reappeared.

"Taiyin Divine Water, Extreme Cold Flame, Thunderstorm Wind Blade."

Wang Cheng remembered the three things that Huangfu Tiande mentioned to him, each of these three things could deal with phoenix bones.

Taiyin Divine Water is known as the most yin thing in the world, and the phoenix bone is the most yang thing, Yin overcomes Yang, so the Taiyin Divine Water can "dissolve" the phoenix bone.

The flame of extreme cold is also the most yin thing in the world, known as the coldest fire in the world, and the yang of the phoenix bone is also restrained, and it can "refine" the phoenix bone.

The Thunderstorm Wind Blade is also an extremely yin thing, which is more violent than the Taiyin Divine Water and the Extreme Cold Flame, and can "cut" phoenix bones.

"Taiyin Divine Water?"

Wang Cheng gave up directly, because this thing was far away in the Arctic ice field, back and forth for more than 100,000 miles, too far, even if he rode the green thunder without sleeping, it would take half a year.

This is not the most difficult place, the most difficult thing is in the vast Arctic ice field, how can it be so easy for him to find the Taiyin Divine Water by chance?

"Thunderstorm Blade?"

Thinking of this thing, Wang Cheng's scalp began to tingle, how many heads did he dare to touch?

Before the phoenix bone was cut out, he himself had become a pile of fragments, even if he invited his teacher Zhang Xiaosheng, he didn't dare to get close.

"All that's left is the Flame of Extreme Cold!"

Wang Cheng excluded those two things and targeted the last Extreme Cold Flame.

Regarding the Extreme Cold Flame, Huangfu Tiande provided him with two clues, one is the thousand-year-old cold pool, and the other is the Moon Moon Lake, both of which may have extremely cold flames.

"My lord, what are we going to do next?" Liu Qingsheng on the side asked.

"Let's go to Youwei County tonight to find an inn to live in, and tomorrow we will go to Yunling County." Wang Cheng said.

"Yunling County?"

Liu Qingsheng thought for a while and said, "Yunling Wuliang Mountain, are you going to Wuliang Temple?" ”

"Not bad! It's immeasurable! ”

Wang Cheng nodded and said, "Speed up, we will arrive in Youwei County tonight!" ”

Several people immediately sped up, and finally entered the boundary of Youwei County when the sun set on the mountain.

Although Youwei County is not as prosperous as Zhongwei County, and there is no family like the Huangfu family that has been inherited for hundreds of years, but because Zhongwei County has blocked the military disaster from the west, Youwei County has been able to develop steadily for a long time, and the population is very large.

A group of eight people had just walked ten miles before they came across three or four villages.

After traveling for more than ten miles, a "city" appeared in front of him.

"That's Youwei County? It doesn't seem to be very big, it's even smaller than our Nanli. Yin Bo rode on the horse and said with a loud voice.

In just a few days, he became taller again, and his face became darker, black and red.

With Wang Cheng's guidance and the help of pills along the way, Yin Bo has completely broken through the small achievements of qi and blood, and if he continues to practice, he will become a great achievement of qi and blood.

"It's not Youwei County, it should just be a town. The county seat has walls, but the town does not. Liu Qingsheng said.

"Just a town? I'm a mother! This town is not much smaller than our south of the county seat, and there is such a big town? Yin Bo exclaimed.

Wu Feilong interjected at this time: "The population of the Great Zhou is 60,000, and the more you go to the mainland, the more the population will be." Many prefectures have a population of more than one million, and Kyoto is said to have a population of more than two million. ”

Yin Bo was born on the border, so he naturally didn't realize the large number of people in the mainland, and now after listening to Wu Feilong's words, he wanted to rush to Kyoto as soon as possible.

"More than 2 million people live in Kyoto, so we can't crowd Kyoto?"

"Kyoto, the center of my Great Zhou, has a history of thousands of years, what kind of place would it be?"

"I can't help but want to fly over and see what a magnificent city it is!"

……

Liu Zixiang and Wang Chenyu also yearned for it, and they all wanted to fly to Kyoto immediately.

"What do you want? We haven't even gone out of Huangzhou now, just thinking about Kyoto thousands of miles away? Wu Feilong poured cold water on a few "countrymen".

Yin Bo and the others really wilted and didn't say a word.

Wang Cheng smiled and said, "Okay! Let's stay in Huangzhou for another day, I'm afraid we won't be able to reach the county seat tonight, so let's rest in this town for one night. ”

Later, the group came to the town.

In front of the town, there is a stone tablet two or three meters high, on which is engraved "Liuyang Town".

"It turns out that this is Liuyang Town!" Liu Qingsheng stared at the stone tablet and suddenly sighed.

"Sir, know this place?" Wang Cheng was a little surprised.

Liu Qingsheng has only lived in Huangzhou for more than ten years, and the next twenty years have been in Ji County, which is controlled by the Xia State, and I am afraid that the events of twenty years ago have long been forgotten.

Liu Qingsheng nodded and said, "Have you heard of Pingxihou?" ”

Wang Cheng thought for a while, but he didn't remember which Hou Ye of Da Zhou was, and shook his head.

"It's not surprising that adults don't know, because that Pingxi Hou has already died on the battlefield." Liu Qingsheng said.

Wang Cheng frowned and looked at the stone tablet, and said, "Could it be that Pingxi Hou has something to do with this Liuyang Town?" ”

"Not bad!"

Liu Qingsheng nodded and said, "The name of that Pingxi Hou is Liuyang, and this town is named after him. ”

Being able to name a place after a person, Wang Cheng knew that this person must have made great contributions to the country, otherwise he would not let the locals commemorate him like this.

"Pingxi Hou started at the end of Wei, he was born at a time when the world was in turmoil, the countries frequently conquered the Great Zhou, the Great Zhou lost a large amount of land, the Great Zhou men were all indignant, and they were thrown into the army, and Pingxi Hou also entered the army at that time."

Liu Qingsheng's eyes were profound, as if he had traveled into that period of history, and said: "Ten years before joining the army, Pingxi Hou, like most of the soldiers, was just a team leader. In the twelfth year, he finally relied on 500 brave men to hold back the men and horses of the Xia people's first battalion in the defense of Wuping, and finally waited for the army to return to help and kept Wuping County. With this great merit, Pingxi Hou was promoted to military Sima. ”

"In the fifteenth year of enlistment, Pingxi Hou made new contributions and was promoted to captain; In the twentieth year, he was promoted to Zhonglang General; In the twenty-fifth year, at the age of forty-five, Pingxi Hou was promoted to General Yingyang, leading an army alone and guarding Wuping County. In the thirtieth year, the Five Kingdoms invaded Zhou, and the Xia people sent 150,000 horses to attack Huangzhou. ”

Several people listened to him tell the story of Pingxi Hou Liuyang, and their thoughts were all immersed in the story.

Liu Qingsheng suddenly changed his tone and said indignantly: "But such a general who has made countless contributions to the country and the people, he was not able to be named a marquis during his lifetime, and he was posthumously named the Marquis of Pingxi after his death." ”

"The marquis who has made so many merits and was posthumously awarded after his death, this really shouldn't be!"

"The first king was too picky, he was born and died for their family, and in the end, he couldn't even give up a marquis!"

"Fortunately, what we met is today, he has been in the army, and he knows that it is not easy for us to be soldiers."

……

Wu Feilong and the others all complained about Pingxi Hou.

"Why does Mr. know so much about Pingxihou?" Wang Cheng said curiously.

Liu Qingsheng said: "My humble grandfather was a gang leader in the craftsman camp under the command of Pingxi Hou, and I have heard a lot about Pingxi Hou's deeds since I was a child. ”

Wang Cheng nodded, Liu Qingsheng had told him about this matter before, his grandfather was extremely skilled, and even knew the process of making an iron-armed copper crossbow.

Suddenly, Liu Qingsheng thought of something and said, "That's right! Pingxi Hou also used a gun, and his marksmanship was superb, and he heard his grandfather say that his golden gun weighed hundreds of catties, and there were not many people in the entire army who could move the golden gun. ”

Wang Cheng was stunned, turned around and pulled out the tiger-headed Zhan golden gun that was resting in the carriage, and said, "It can't be this gun, right?" ”

"Isn't this gun your own?" Liu Qingsheng was surprised.

Wang Cheng shook his head, and immediately briefly explained how the old horse got this gun and how it came into his hands.

"So, this gun is really Pingxihou's golden gun?" Liu Qingsheng's tone was excited.

Seeing that Liu Qingsheng stretched out his hand to take a look at the golden gun, Wang Cheng handed over the tiger head Zhan golden gun.

Liu Qingsheng waved his hand and said: "I still don't look at the lowly position, just the lowly position, this bit of strength, it is difficult to hold it." ”

Wang Cheng no longer insisted, and said: "Don't stop here, since we have arrived in the hometown of Pingxi Hou, as soldiers of the Western Army, we should go to pay respects." ”

Liu Qingsheng's eyes lit up, "What the adults said is good!" ”

The others had no objections and followed Wang Cheng into Liuyang Town.

The roads in the town are wide, paved with brick and stone, and lined with residential houses.

Most of them are private houses, and of course there are some shops that do business, but after all, they are still not as good as the county seat.

Wang Cheng and his entourage searched for a long time and only found one inn, and there was no second one.

There are no guys in the inn, just a middle-aged couple with their son and daughter-in-law who are busy before and after.

The owner of the inn is surnamed Liu, and more than half of the people in the entire town are surnamed Liu, and Pingxi Hou Liuyang are all villagers, and they are almost one hundreds of years ago.

When asked about Pingxi Hou Liuyang, the family of four immediately turned into a loudspeaker and said a lot.

"If the guest officer goes to worship Pingxihou, walk along this east-west street all the way to the east and see the General's Temple, which is the place to worship Pingxihou." Boss Liu said.

Wang Cheng immediately proposed: "While it's not dark yet, let's go to the General's Temple to worship." ”

So, several people rushed to the General's Temple and bought sacrificial supplies such as incense and candles, paper money, and vegetarian wine.

The General Temple is actually the ancestral residence of Pingxi Hou Liuyang, which is not big, it is a simple courtyard.

Pingxi Hou Liuyang had five sons, and all of them joined the army when they became adults, but none of them survived the last battle.

When today's son thanked the Marquis of Pingxi for his loyalty and courage to serve the country, he sent someone to take his old wife, daughter-in-law, grandson, and granddaughter back to Kyoto, and the title of Marquis of Pingxi was also inherited by his eldest grandson.

Therefore, the Liu family is not in Liuyang Town now, and basically no longer comes back, and this ancestral house has been changed into a general temple for future generations to pay homage to.

Because Liuyang is too famous here, the people here also miss his kindness, and someone comes to clean it every once in a while, and the General's Temple is very clean.

When Wang Cheng and his party of eight entered the General's Temple, there was no one in the temple.

In the middle of the temple is a statue of a god, more than three meters high, wearing a general's armor, legs apart, holding a spear in both hands, and a pair of tiger eyes staring ahead, as if to stab the oncoming enemy to death.

There is an offering table in front of the statue, and there is a tablet standing on the table, with several big characters on it: "Pingxi Hou Liuyang's Divine Position".

In front of the tablet, there are incense burners and melon and fruit snacks and other sacrificial supplies, and there are several pillars of incense burning in the incense burner.

"Huh?"

Wang Cheng sighed lightly, seeing that the incense in the incense burner was only burned a little, someone should have been here just now.

However, when they came in, they did not find anyone here, and they did not meet anyone worshipping nearby.

How can there be incense?

After glancing around, he still didn't see anyone, Wang Cheng suppressed his doubts in his heart, and then respectfully worshiped Liu Qingsheng and others.

After the worship was over, Wang Cheng secretly sent a message to Liu Qingsheng: "Sir, you go to the temple and wait outside." ”

Liu Qingsheng was taken aback, but he didn't say anything, and followed the order to take Wu Feilong and a few people out of the temple.

Only Wang Cheng was left in the temple.

Wang Cheng looked at the idol in front of him, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and said, "Come out!" ”