Wei Shuoren, if he had already agreed to the Kongtong faction, even if he understood it afterwards, he would never say that it didn't count. Chu Qingliu knew the temperament of his eldest brother, and he really couldn't wait to step into Jiangling in one step. But Jiangning and Jiangling are separated by almost 2,000 miles, how can they be said to be there?

Chu Qingliu only slept for two or three hours a day, except for eating and sleeping, and feeding the horses, everyone was on the road. It doesn't matter what town store is staying, if there is a store, you will live in the store, and if you don't have a store, you will sleep in the wild.

In a way like his, after just over two days of travel, he barely walked more than 700 miles, and the two horses could no longer support it. Chu Qing exiled the horse and went to himself, carried his clothes and silver on his back, no longer cared about the pedestrians on the road, and performed light exercises and body skills to move quickly. Thousands of miles of travel, can not run the whole way, a day, but also out of more than 500 miles, people are not very tired. After calculation, you will be able to go to Gangneung City at night after tomorrow, and when it is dawn, you can see the eldest brother and three sisters.

Who would have thought that as soon as you pass through Jiuchang Town in Huangzhou, the rivers and lakes will increase suddenly, and you will walk for dozens of miles, either there are rivers or lakes. The lake is not difficult, you can go around, but the river is much more troublesome, if you encounter the river at night, the boatman stops crossing, and the only way to swim down the river is to swim.

During the day it was better, but at night, there was not even a person to ask for directions. Although you won't get lost and go in the wrong direction, if you want to take a shortcut, you don't even think about it, I really don't know how many wrongful roads you have taken. In this way, how could they get up quickly? It was not until after the second watch on the sixth day that they came to the east gate of Gangneung City.

Mei Zhanxue has already talked about the detailed location of the Kainan Dart Bureau many times, and even what shop is opposite the Dart Bureau, which is a restaurant and which is a tea shop, which sweet candy is delicious, and which pastry has never been missed. This is of course because there was nothing to do on the long road at that time, but it was also convenient for the second brother to find when he came alone.

But even if you cross the wall and enter the city at this time, it will take three more to find the door of the Kainan Dart Bureau, which will alarm everyone, and it seems that you are too anxious.

Chu Qingliu sat on the edge of the city gate until the city gate was wide open after the fifth watch, and then entered the city, found a bathhouse, and washed his hair. After cleaning up, I discarded the old clothes, changed into clean clothes in my bag, and found the door of the Kainan Dart Bureau step by step.

This is the general number of the fourteen dart bureaus, and it is located in a large city, even if the owner does not like extravagance, for the sake of business pomp, the momentum can not be small. The plaque on the lintel has been removed, only a long plaque has been erected at the east of the door, there is a wall so high, the door leaf is so wide, and two red characters are written on the black background, and it is not clear that the dart board is still a business name.

Behind the entrance hall, a big red flag fluttered high above the ridge, there was not a word on the flag, only embroidered with various swords, Chu Qingliu counted, no more, no less, exactly fourteen. According to Mei Zhanxue, the original dart flag, in addition to the sword, also has the word Kainan, which seems to have been removed recently.

Chu Qingliu reported his name to the porter, explained his intentions, and stood outside the door and waited. After a while, Wei Shuoren strode out from behind the wall in the courtyard and said, "Second brother, you have finally arrived, let's go in and talk." He took out a piece of silver, and without looking at much, threw it into the hand of the man who reported it.

took Chu Qingliu's hand, and said as he walked: "The family surnamed Mei has all gone to Xicheng to eat and drink and do favors, and I don't know which family's children are celebrating the full moon." All the way to the small courtyard where he lived with Xu Wancun, Xu Wancun was still in the house, it turned out that after he turned back from Yishan, he fell in love with pranayama meditation, and was working hard at this time.

Wei Shuoren covered the courtyard door and didn't enter the house, turned to the east, knelt down and kowtowed three times, got up and said: "Second brother, I, Wei Shuoren, am not a thing, I should go to Wanghaizhuang to kneel down Wu Daxia, but I didn't go." Chu Qingliu hurriedly knelt down and returned the salute.

Wei Shuoren said: "Coming down from Yishan, you escorted Wu Daxia to the southeast, but I walked further and further to the southwest, separated by two miles, all the way back to Jiangling, but I didn't hear the slightest rumor." I didn't hear about it until twenty days ago, and I'm packing up my things to go to you. The third sister stopped me and said that it was getting late, so it was better to leave early the next day. I listened to her, and whoever thought about it never made it again. In his words, he did not mention that he had received a pigeon report from Qu Guanghan to invite people to seek medical treatment, and with Wei Shuoren's temperament, this is really not received.

Chu Qingliu couldn't bear to see him blame himself too much, and comforted him again and again. Wei Shuoren said: "Someone from Kongtong is here, and he wants to join forces with the people in the dart game, how can I go?"

Chu Qingliu didn't expect him to be able to talk about the Kongtong faction so soon, and said, "I came to Jiangling precisely for the Kongtong faction. Did you promise them?"

Wei Shuoren said: "I didn't say yes, and I didn't say no, but eighty percent of them want to agree." Lao Mei hasn't spit out yet, she just wants to raise the price again. But I thought, even if it's a good thing that they're willing to send it to the door themselves, it's not as good as they say, and there must be another reason for this. ”

Chu Qingliu breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What does Mr. Xu think?"

Wei Shuoren said: "He just plays all day long, he doesn't think about anything." ”

Chu Qingliu was about to ask how many people Kongtong had sent, and if they were all still in Jiangling, the courtyard door was wide open, and Mei Zhanfeng and Mei Zhanxue entered the courtyard together.

The two of them first mourned Wu Baoqi, and the four of them entered the room to talk. Mei Zhanfeng said: "Today is the full moon of the child of a family friend for many years, and the father and mother of the family have received the letter, so it is really difficult to turn around and come, so I ordered my brother and sister to come back and talk to Brother Chu first." The two elders of them sit down over there again, and they will definitely be able to come back in the afternoon, although Brother Chu is his own person, the second elder still ordered me to confess more. ”

Mei Zhanxue called "second brother" and sat there and refused to talk more. Chu Qingliu briefly talked about the encounter with Zhang Yuan, Su Yiyue Gongqi on the road in Wujiang Town, and the killing of Fei Zhi. Compared to the affairs of the Chaos Alliance, these are all gossip, and it doesn't hurt to talk about it.

Hearing Chu Qingliu say that Zhang Yuan was strong and refused to come to the door to seek medical treatment, Wei Shuoren said: "A few days ago, the people from the Chaos Alliance came, and Lao Xu had already written a prescription for them, and he also deliberately wrote a letter to the surname Zhang to apologize, and this matter will be considered over." It's Fei who died unjustly, if this thing is really done by Gongqi, see if I don't skin this kid alive, what kind of Kunlun faction does he care. ”

Mei Zhanxue said: "Second brother, you came all the way to Jiangling, what did you do for it?"

Chu Qingliu said: "The third sister is so anxious. I heard that Kongtong sent someone to Jiangling and wanted to join forces with the Kainan Dart Bureau to fight against the Rebel Alliance, and I felt that this fact was inappropriate, so I rushed over to dissuade it. ”

Mei Zhanxue said: "When I came back from Hedong with my second brother last year, what did I say along the way, can you still remember it?"

Chu Qingliu said: "If you want to remember every word, you can't do it, but you still remember the big joints." ”

Mei Zhanxue said: "Okay, let me ask you, what was the Kainan Dart Game like that I told you at that time? What did you see with your own eyes today? Is there any difference?"

Seeing that Chu Qingliu was difficult to speak, he said again: "In Gwangju, on the way back from Shuanghe Town, I asked you, in the future, the Chaos Alliance will start with the Kainan Dart Bureau, will you help me or help Qu Lingyu, you are all and refuse to say a happy word." At that time, Qu Lingyu was not your junior sister, you were just so-called world friends who had only met once. For the sake of such a person who meets in Pingshui, you can ignore the matter of your and my righteousness, I said I'm sad, am I ignorant?"

"I'm not a fool, I can see that Qu Lingyu wants to marry you, and you also want to marry her, you two are very worthy. You have a marriage contract, and you don't hesitate to turn your face with the Iron Boat Gang for the sake of Qu Lingyu, I know all of this. The Rebel League's pension money was delivered a few days ago, but I told them to bring it all back. If the Kainan Dart Bureau dares to go out and walk the rivers and lakes, it can afford to die and buy a coffin. After killing people and sending coffin money, what else can you do except want to be cold?"

"Second Brother Chu, I only ask you, if I, Mei Zhanxue, were your sister-in-law, what would you do? You and the eldest brother, I'm afraid that I'm not happy, and I will let me do everything, it's not that I don't know. I finally know that I am not worth a single copper coin in your heart. "What I didn't say was that the second brother was not worth a single copper coin in my heart.

"Now that the Kongtong faction is coming to join forces with us, you can't sit still, and you will do everything possible to rush over to break it. Second brother, you are inevitably too partial. Since you are here, I will tell you the truth, if the Chaos Alliance kills our people, we have to kill their people and join forces with the Kongtong faction, and no one can stop this. ”

"If you sit and leave, there will be an inn across the street, and I will pay for it. If you want to stay two more days, I'll ask them to make room for you. ”

Chu Qingliu's face was full of shame and he was speechless for a long time. He looked at Wei Shuoren, then at Mei Zhanfeng, and said: "I don't want the two of you to fight to the end, it's really good for the Chaos Alliance, but it's not good for the Kainan Dart Game? Why can't the third sister say that I want to be good for the dart game first, and then for the good of the Chaos Alliance? Why do you have to think like that? There are so many enemies in the Chaos Alliance, which one have I been to make peace?"

Mei Zhanxue said: "There are many enemies in the Chaos Alliance, but only our Kainan Dart Bureau has never let them be defeated, and they can be embarrassed in turn, of course you can only come to us to make peace." You can't deceive people by saying this. ”

After being silent for a long time, Wei Shuoren said: "Second brother, you don't have to worry about this matter anymore. You don't have to help the third sister, but you can't help the Chaos League anymore. ”

Chu Qingliu said: "I haven't helped the Chaos Alliance. ”

Wei Shuoren said: "This is not true. If you hadn't injured Qu Dingxiang on Baicaopo, the Chaotic People League would have been greatly damaged, would there have been any later events? How could you still say that you hadn't helped? If it hadn't been for Bao Honghuang's rise in Helan Mountain, the Chaotic People Alliance might have ended long ago, and wouldn't this have to be counted on your head?"

Chu Qingliu said: "Big brother, for the sake of righteousness, you would rather fight to the death with the Chaos Alliance, I can't say it's wrong." I want you two to stop, but also to take care of a righteous word. Just think about it, when the day comes, the two of you will fight to the point where both sides will lose, who will be in the best interest? I still have a few words to say about the Kongtong faction, but I will have to wait for Uncle Mei to come back. Every time I talk about this, my heart becomes more and more depressed, and I really don't want to say more. Third sister, do you have anything to eat? If you do, bring it up, I'm really a little hungry. ”

Mei Zhanxue left the door speechlessly, called the servant, and after a while, all the wine and food were moved to Wei Shuoren's room and set up. The four of them were speechless and drank alcohol.

After only drinking a few glasses of wine, a family member walked up to Mei Zhanfeng and whispered before leaving. Mei Zhanfeng said with a smile: "Mr. Wei, my father and mother are anxious to see Brother Chu, and I will come back before noon." ”

Wei Shuoren said with a straight face: "These two are too anxious, second brother, we have to welcome them." As he spoke, he got up and walked out of the room.

The group walked a few steps, and the old dart head Mei Hongtai and his wife Shui Youlan had already entered the courtyard gate. Mei Hongtai is nearly sixty years old, with a white beard, gray hair, a black face with a red face, and his eyes are secretly shining, and it is completely difficult to see the roots. Shui Youlan dragged back more than one step, smiling, steady steps, every step out, every hand, all clean and neat, obviously in the past years of hard work, many years can still benefit.

Most of the servants and maids stopped outside the courtyard gate, leaving only one to stand inside the gate for calling. Mei Hongtai took two quick steps and said with a smile: "Mr. Wei, Chu Xian's nephew has come so far, there is no one in the family, and I have to ask you to receive it, this is going to spread out, and it must be a joke." ”