Everyone was amazed, and Hou Huaigu asked, "Are these pirates so powerful? I have seen these caravans, each of them is powerful and employs a large number of bodyguards!"

Bao Chongyi shook his head, "I don't know about this, I just heard my father's story about it in the same year, and I happened to hear it next to me." ”

Elder Long said, "This matter that Chongyi said is very important, this mysterious organization is very likely to be the Foreign Business Alliance, I don't know what they want to do?"

Liu Jizu's mind was a little confused, he vaguely felt that this matter had far-reaching implications, but he didn't have the heart or ability to think about these things now, "This matter is indeed very serious, but this matter has also distracted the academy and Wuwei Valley's energy. The pursuit of us by the two of them will definitely be affected, and we must seize this opportunity to leave Henan Province as soon as possible. Although Ji Wanquan said that they would no longer chase and intercept us, they are still not safe on their turf, what if they change their minds?

Judging from the situation of Ji Wanquan and the three of them, the strength of the Jianghu sects outside the three sects cannot be underestimated, and the ones we encountered in Jiangbei Province may be a rabble, not the main force. Let's leave Henan Road as soon as possible. ”

Hou Huaigu agreed: "Childe is right, we will be able to leave Henan Road and enter Jiangxi Road in two days." That is the territory of Zhige City, and it is not good for the Academy and Wuwei Valley to act blatantly there, so we can be much safer. Just ......"

Liu Jizu said with a smile: "It's just what, what does Senior Hou have to say directly, what else can't we say?"

Hou Huaigu also replied with a smile: "What Childe said, what I want to say is that we must not provoke Zhige City again." In that case, we will be offended by all three sects, and it will be difficult to find a place to take refuge in the future. ”

Liu Jizu's face trembled when he heard this, and he glanced at Wu Lun, who seemed to have a sense and glanced at him, but he didn't say anything, and narrowed his triangular eyes again.

Liu Jizu thought to himself that Master's enemy was still in Zhige City, and he had been talking about revenge for decades. If he is fine, he will definitely not provoke the people of Zhige City, but he can't stop others from provoking him. During this time, he already has a deep understanding of the outside world, as long as you still have something precious on you, you will be remembered and robbed by those who have power. It's really hard not to cause trouble in such a world.

While he was thinking wildly, supper was ready, and everyone was hungry, so everyone went to have supper together, and according to the usual arrangement, teaching and teaching, patrolling patrols, and vigilant guards, they also took turns to be on duty at night, and took turns to rest.

Early the next morning, everyone continued to travel eastward, and finally entered the mountain after a day, the road became more difficult to walk, the mountain road was rugged, the mountains and rocks on both sides were numerous, the forest was uneven, and there were few merchants. After another day of arduous trekking, they finally left Henan Province smoothly and entered Jinshan County, which is the boundary of Jiangxi Province.

After the camp was set up, Elder Long and Wu Lun came over to find Liu Jizu.

Elder Long said to Liu Jizu: "It's less than ten days to travel from here to Yangzhou, but I don't know where Senior Brother Yang is hiding now?" I discussed with Wu Lun, now that the troubled times are coming, we must find a place to settle down as soon as possible, and it is best to find a place to take refuge." Then arrange for a small number of people to go to Jiangdong Province to inquire about the news, and by the way, sell those gold and silver utensils, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and those medicines, what do you think?"

I'm going to Yangzhou soon, this Yangzhou is very famous, the so-called 'Spring Breeze Ten Miles Yangzhou Road', Liu Jizu has long been yearning for it, but on the surface he pretended to be serious, "Just do what you say, just let me go in person!"

Elder Long and Wu Lun glanced at each other, and hurriedly stopped, Wu Lun said: "You'd better stay here, these people are everywhere, and they are still in the stage of integration, and there will be all kinds of contradictions." You have to deal with this, and no one else can obey the crowd! If you want to leave, you must at least wait until we are settled. ”

Liu Jizu wanted to fight for it again, but what Wu Lun said made sense, so he could only nod helplessly, "Then where do we settle down, and where can we take refuge?"

Elder Long said, "This is a matter that concerns everyone, so it's better to gather everyone together to discuss it." We've been to these places, but we're not very familiar with them. Those elders are well-informed, and you can't go wrong with consulting them. ”

Liu Jizu then asked Fan Lai to summon several people in charge, elderly elders, and pharmacists. He told everyone what Elder Long meant, and wanted to discuss with them which people to send to Jiangdong Province to deal with those gold and silver utensils, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and medicines, as well as where to find a suitable place to stay, so that everyone could brainstorm.

The matter of sending people to inquire about the news and sell the gold, silver, calligraphy, paintings, and antiques was soon decided.

As for the medicines found from Wuwei Valley, Hou Huaigu suggested not to sell them first, after all, the feature was too obvious, unlike things like gold and silverware and antique calligraphy and paintings, so it would be safer for everyone to deal with them little by little after a while.

Everyone felt that Hou Huaigu's opinion was reasonable, and unanimously agreed, and then everyone elected Elder Long to lead the team, Wu Lun, Su Mengqi, Elder Liu, and Elder Lian as the main members, and then arranged four martial artists from the academy, four poisonous martial artists, and four medical martial artists as auxiliaries, a total of seventeen people went to Jiangdong Province to inquire about the news and sell materials.

But when it comes to where to stay, it's hard to decide, it's already a lot.

It was proposed to rent a ready-made house in a larger state town for temporary residence.

It was suggested that it would be safer to find a farm on the outskirts of the city to rent.

Others say it's good to find a place where no one is around, which is comfortable and saves money.

After listening to this last opinion, Elder Liu, who had not spoken, said: "I do know of a place, on the road we passed today, not far from here, but you have also seen that the road is very difficult to walk, and it is still in the middle of nowhere, and there is nothing in it. If we want to live in it, we will have to buy a lot of things. If you live for a long time, you have to build a house, which is not very convenient. If I hadn't happened to be passing by there today, and you happened to talk about it, I really wouldn't have thought about it!"

Everyone asked what kind of place it was, how he found out, and let him elaborate on it.

Elder Liu squinted his eyes, stroked his beard, and thought for a while before saying, "This is a long talk, and it was said that it was more than thirty years ago. At that time, I was invited by a good friend to come to Shangzhou City to help. My friend's father's name was Wan Yong, and he opened a dart game in Shangzhou City, Henan Province, and the dart game was called Wanshun Dart Bureau.

Shangzhou City is very close to Jiangxi Province, and once his father picked up a dart to Jiangxi Province, and the amount of dart was very high. This trip to the Wanshun Dart Bureau was a trip to the road, and in accordance with the rules of the rivers and lakes and the local Jianghu sect to deal with, it is very safe. But this time, I encountered robbers, and they took the same road we took yesterday, and all the dart masters were killed, and the darts were also robbed.

This friend of mine wanted to seek revenge on the robbers, and when he had a little bit of an eyebrow in his investigation, he trusted a few friends to help. That night, at the invitation of this friend, I went to the second floor of the Zuixian Building in Shangzhou City with a few other people, where we discussed the matter of seeking revenge.

Who knows, as soon as the dish was served, a man wearing a hat and a mask came up from downstairs and sat directly at a table in the corner of the second floor. From the outfit, we recognized that this was a disciple with a hidden weapon, much like a disciple of Zhige City. The disciples of Zhige City dressed like this, which means that their identities have been disclosed, and it is rare for them to walk the rivers and lakes in such a public place in non-combat occasions.

Because my friend had a hidden weapon in his hand, which his father hid before he died, he suspected that the murderer was a master of using a hidden weapon, and he was highly suspicious of Zhige City, so he wanted to identify the murderer by comparing the hidden weapons.

Coincidentally, before we could discuss a result, such a person came. My friend was so vengeful that he didn't care about it, so he went over and questioned him, trying to get this man to take out his secret weapon and compare it.

I met with a few other friends and went over from all sides to help, mainly to prevent them from escaping. But the man didn't speak, and he didn't retreat to the side of the obstacle to protect his back like ordinary hidden weapon masters. He just stared at the few people on our side silently, and kept adjusting his position, as if he was deliberately waiting for a few of us to come by.

I saw that this man was not looking well, and I instinctively had a bad premonition, for I had not seen this man's hands or feet since we had gathered around him. And the other party's performance is obvious, people are not afraid of us at all. Thinking of this, I suddenly reacted, he was preparing to release the concealer, I quickly shouted back, then jumped backwards, and pulled a table to the ground, and then quickly hid behind.

But my friends either didn't react fast enough to hide, or they thought I was making a fuss and laughed at me. But before they could laugh, the danger came first, and by the time they tried to get out of the way, it was too late. As soon as I had finished warning them to hide behind the table, I heard the sound of a hidden weapon firing and a few screams.

When the sound stopped, I found that my friends had fallen to the ground, wailing. From the position where they are lying down, it can be analyzed that this master's hidden weapon can be launched from four directions at the same time, and judging from the number of people knocked down, it should be a hidden weapon master who has reached the level of eight hands or more.

I regret very much that I provoked such a person, it was so close, but there was nothing I could do about it. That's when I calmed down and thought about how I could get my life. It took me only a few breaths to devise an escape plan, I took out my folding crossbow, loaded the arrows, took them in my right hand, and then grabbed a broken basin on the ground with my left hand, and threw the arrow in someone's direction. After that, I lay on my back and kicked the table hard with my legs towards the man.

After doing this series of movements, I didn't look at the results, but threw my crossbow and covered my back with a large plate that had fallen to the ground in my backhand, and jumped under the window at the same time. At this time, the master also dodged a series of my attacks, he sighed, laughed twice, and said, 'We are just collecting money from people and doing things for others, who told him to keep tracking us down, don't blame me!'

I only heard a ding, and the plate on my back was shattered by some hidden weapon, and the broken plate hit me in several places, but this series of efforts also bought me the most precious time, so that I had time to jump out of the window.

The reason why I escaped from there was because I had carefully observed the surroundings of the Drunken Immortal Tower before going upstairs. I knew that under the window was a canal in the city, connected to the moat outside the city, and the moat was connected to the Golden Thread River, and jumping from that window was just right to fall into the canal.

After falling into the water, I didn't dare to go ashore, for fear that the master would chase and kill, so I floated down the canal to the city wall at night by relying on the water nature I had cultivated in the river since I was a child. However, the waterway under the city wall was blocked by a wooden fence, and thanks to a serrated knife in the treasure bag of the sect, it took me nearly an hour to cut a thigh-thick fence and reach the moat outside the city. ”

Then I took the sawn fence and floated down the river to the Golden Line, until it was uninhabited, and then I dared to climb ashore. I checked my body and found that it was all skin wounds cut by porcelain, not by his hidden weapon, so I was relieved. As you all know, most of the hidden weapons in Zhige City have hidden grooves on them, and poison is smeared on them. At that time, I just wanted to find a safe place to hide and slowly heal from my injuries.

So I walked downstream along the Golden Line River, and after two days of walking, I finally found a valley. This valley is very secluded and off the beaten track, making it perfect for seclusion. I recovered from my wounds there, remembered the place, and a few days later crossed the river through the mountains and forests on the other side to find my way to the west, and then returned to Shangzhou City in disguise to inquire about the news.

I found out that the master was no longer in Shangzhou, so I put my mind at ease. And my friends, all of them were killed, and none of them were spared. I quietly found the widow of that friend, and her dart game lost my friend, father and son, and it was no longer possible to run it, and it was difficult to live now. I left her a dozen taels of silver, and she gave me this secret weapon, saying that if there was an opportunity, I would ask me to help her husband and father avenge their father. It's been more than thirty years, and the revenge has never been avenged, but this incident has taught me a lesson, that is, never rely on the people of Zhige City to get too close. ”

After speaking, he took out a hidden weapon from the treasure bag for everyone to see, Wu Lun and Liu Jizu looked at it and almost screamed, it turned out that the hidden weapon was exactly the same as the hidden weapon on Wu Lun's body. Liu Jizu also took out his hidden weapon from the treasure bag, and Elder Liu and others came around to compare it, it was really exactly the same.

So Wu Lun briefly talked about his experience, and the two of them checked the physical characteristics of that person again, and basically confirmed that it was the same person. And this incident should have happened before Wu Lun's incident, but I don't know where the two guardian warriors were at that time, they must have been guarding downstairs to prevent them from escaping, but Elder Liu did not run from the stairs, but jumped off the building to escape.

After such a small episode, everyone felt a little surprised, and they became more interested in the place that Elder Liu said, and they all urged him to continue.