Li Xian went out of the meeting on behalf of Wandaomen, but he was not very qualified to enter the building to discuss with the various factions on this important matter, and he was very dissatisfied in his heart, seeing that this Chen Zhao was the master of a village, he could not enter the building, but he saw him go to talk to Lu Youzi.

Then he got closer and listened carefully, only to see that Lu Youzi said: "Don't blame the lord of Chen Zhai, although the more and more famous villages, but after all, they are not a sect, we have already discussed, the matter of the imperial court conquest has become a decision, and it is necessary to choose a person with the highest martial arts as the leader, so as to lead the heroes to the imperial court, but will never start a war until it is absolutely necessary." ”

Chen Zhaoben was worried, and when he saw Lu Youzi's words, he was a little relieved, and then asked: "It's okay, I'm just a cottage in the village, how can I compare with everyone?" Lu Youzi said: "The master of Chen Zhai must not think like this, what you have done in the village has long been admired by the major leaders, and you are also eligible to participate in the election at this banquet. Chen Zhao bowed and saluted: "Thank you for the recommendation." ”

When Li Xian heard this, he also stepped forward to salute, and Lu Youzi returned the salute and walked away.

Li Xianzheng wanted to ask why he didn't let himself attend the meeting, but when he saw Lu Youzi saying that he was tired and needed to go back to the house to sleep peacefully, he was immediately unhappy, but he couldn't speak, so he had to let him leave.

Chen Zhao saw that Li Xian was displeased, and asked why, Li Xian did not reply, but said that he would also go back to the house to rest, and quickly walked away.

Tao Ming asked Wei Luan, the leader of the Guming Gang, how he discussed, Wei Luan told the details one by one, and said that the Afterlife Academy could participate in the meeting to elect the master.

Tao Ming was immediately pleased, and asked Li Xianke if he would run for election, Wei Luan said: "No one from the Ten Thousand Daomen can run for election." ”

Tao Ming turned from joy to surprise, and asked what the reason was, Wei Luan only said that it was all determined by the masters, and hurried back to the house.

Tao Ming secretly thought that if Li Xian could not come to the stage to compete, wouldn't it be impossible to compete with him at the conference, and when he was thinking about it, he saw Li Xianlu walking towards the east stack not far away.

After a busy call, Li Xian stopped and looked back, Tao Ming paced over and said, "Brother Li, do you know how this discussion is?" Li Xian said: "I know it, isn't it just to use the banquet on the river as a grand test to choose the head of the rivers and lakes?" Tao Ming said again: "Then Brother Li knows that not everyone can participate in this banquet on the river?" Li Xian asked: "What do you mean?"

Tao Mingdu said with a smile: "Brother Li doesn't know, you are no longer qualified to participate in the meeting, but this time it was in vain." ”

After saying that, he walked away quickly, Li Xian asked angrily, but saw Tao Ming sneering and walking towards the east stack, Li Xian chased forward and asked urgently, but saw Tao Ming said: "The election of the leader is a major event in the rivers and lakes, why don't you need Brother Li, Brother Li should know, why do you need to ask me?"

Li Xian suddenly stopped moving forward when he heard this, Tao Ming glanced at him deeply, and returned to the inn hall with joy, Chen Zhao came over and asked him what was going on, Li Xian didn't say anything, but his face was iron-blue, and he only followed back to the stack.

Chen Zhao was puzzled for a while, and while he was thinking about it, Zhong Liuyan walked over and asked, "Is Master Chen Zhai troubled by Senior Brother Li?" Chen Zhao suddenly said: "Yes, I don't know why Brother Li is so displeased, and he refuses to tell me." Zhong Liuyan said with a smile: "I just listened to the words of the Songjiang faction and its disciples, and Senior Brother Li is not qualified to participate in the banquet. Chen Zhao was shocked: "Why? No wonder Brother Li is so angry. Zhong Liuyan replied: "The election of the head of the head this time is to resist the imperial army, but all the factions do not want to see the Ten Thousand Daomen, so..." Chen Zhao said angrily: "The reputation of the Ten Thousand Daomen is indeed not good in the rivers and lakes, but its proposition that the life extension has passed away, why should the name of his life be implicated in the future life?"

Zhong Liuyan saw that Chen Zhao was so angry, so he watched quietly and did not speak, Chen Zhao glanced at him, felt that he was too speechless, and secretly thought that he was just the owner of the village, and what face did he have to talk about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, so he apologized and said: "I lost my words, please Miss Zhong don't blame." Zhong Liu Yanxin said: "Brother Chen is really different. ”

As soon as the word "big brother" came out, both of them noticed that there was a difference, Zhong Liuyan also felt that he had lost his manners, Chen Zhao saw his embarrassment, and couldn't bear to say for a while: "If Miss Zhong doesn't dislike it, just call me Brother Chen." ”

Zhong Liuyan was feeling shy, and when he heard Chen Zhao's remarks, he frowned slightly: "So I'm welcome, Brother Chen, do you know that you rescued a couple with a woman when you were in Donglin City?"

Chen Zhaochui pondered: "Donglin City? I can't remember this." Zhong Liuyan said: "It doesn't matter, at that time, my aunt and uncle took me to visit relatives in Donglin City, and encountered robbers on the mountain road in Yuelai, and the money and property brought by my aunt and aunt were looted, and the bandit saw that my aunt was good-looking, and he wanted to capture her back to the village owner to be the wife of the village, my aunt refused to die, and my uncle resisted desperately, and the robber was about to wield a knife to kill in a rage, but fortunately you showed up to save him, beat the robber, and protected me out of the mountain pass, do you remember?"

Chen Zhao tried his best to remember, at that time, he seemed to be looking for a place to live, and was about to go to Yuelai Village to gain a foothold, but when he encountered more and more bandits robbing people with knives, he came to the rescue.

The villager who was beaten by himself wanted to pick up a knife to cut himself, but fortunately he had known the owner of the village since he was a child, and he never thought that there were still orphans alive in Anping Village after suffering from the plague.

The owner of the village didn't care much, so he was fine, and when he thought of this, he said to Zhong Liuyan: "It turns out that the crying girl is you." ”

Zhong Liu said shyly: "Yes, I was frightened at that time, and my tears never stopped. Chen Zhao said: "Aren't you a person from Donglincheng?" Zhong Liuyan said: "No, I am a person from Yecheng, and then I heard that Brother Chen was killed in Donglin, and the government arrested you everywhere, and then I heard that you came to the vicinity of Yecheng, and set up your own mountain, and named the village Yuelai Village, I have always wanted to thank you, but the family suffered a change and was delayed, to carry me to know that you came here to participate in the banquet, so I followed here, but has been ashamed to talk to you, and now I finally have an opportunity, so I took the initiative to talk to you. ”

Chen Zhao secretly thought that Zhong Liuyan came here twice to attend the meeting, but it was for himself, which was a little surprising, and it was inconvenient to answer for a while, so he had to speak: "Thank you Miss Zhong, Miss Zhong is Bingqing and Yujie, it is really an honor to be able to talk to Miss Zhong, but it is too late, let's talk about it tomorrow, and I will leave first." ”

Zhong Liuyan saw that he was about to leave after a few perfunctory words, thinking about whether he had said something wrong, and the two of them exchanged salutes and returned to the East Stack to rest.

In the early morning of the first day, all the major sects were busy, and they asked Li Yan, a big disciple of shallow water, for carrier pigeons, and Li Yan's carrier pigeons were no longer enough, so he took people back to the town near the shore by boat to buy them.

The sect that obtained the carrier pigeon immediately tied the creed that he had made at night to the pigeon's paws, and then the flying pigeon passed the book to the various sects, and the feelings passed on were all about the imperial court's desire to swallow the rivers and lakes, so that it was well guarded, and the disciples in the door went north to listen to the movements of Jinling, and sent the top masters in the door to help.

Lin Jing should first ask for a carrier pigeon, send a message back to the help, and explain the details, so that the disciples in the temple can send more people to the Dizhuang of Yudi Town under the mountain to support, and let the owner Wang Xuan send the attendants in the village to the surrounding area of Yudi Town to learn that if there is any change or see a strange army coming, he will immediately inform the disciples in the gang.

For a while, dozens of carrier pigeons roamed the sky, distributed to fly in different directions, Zhong Liuyan stood on the shore to watch, suddenly smiled, Chen Zhao next to him asked: "Why is Miss Zhong laughing?" Zhong Liuyan said: "Hey, this person is busy, why doesn't Brother Chen ask for a carrier pigeon?" Chen Zhao smiled: "The children in my village are located in the mountains around Yecheng, and these people are often active outside, once there is something to do, they can know it immediately, and there is no need for me to send a message back to the village." Zhong Liuyan said: "Indeed, I have no door and no faction, I am alone, and I feel that it is not very interesting to choose the head of this banquet, just watch the battle from the sidelines, presumably this time the choice of the head is a must-win." ”

Chen Zhao shook his head and said: "The rivers and lakes are full of talents, which round to get me Chen Zhao, I only need to manage one side of the mountains and forests, I never wanted to dominate the entire martial arts, I just think of it as a friend with martial arts." ”

The two talked for a long time, but they saw a black canopy boat on the river, and all the guests on the table came to take a look, the big boat was getting closer and closer, and there were several people standing outside the boat, and those people were dressed in dark blue clothes, the first crown was brown and black, and there were white lines around the front of the crown, and they held sword scabbards in their hands.

Everyone had never seen such a uniform, when they did not know what kind of sect the people on the boat were, until the black boat docked, a middle-aged man walked out of the boat, the man was skinny, the robe was moving, his hands were on his back, his face was cold, the sword boy on the left was holding a sword, a man and a woman on the right, the woman was wearing a goose yellow uniform, and the man was wearing a gray and blue shirt.

Lu Youzi recognized at a glance that the person in the middle was Ye Yun's head Ye Ji, because Ye Ji had been a guest at Taihu Lake in the past, the two drank for many days, and then Ye Ji defeated Zhang Yansheng in one fell swoop, and they were not able to meet until today.

And that man and woman are Ye Qiu, the daughter of Ye Yun's disciple Zheng Kai and Ye Ji, more than ten people went ashore to see Lu Youzi coming, Ye Ji took the lead in saluting, Lu Youzi said happily: "Ye Zhangmen has all the opportunities, it can be regarded as Jiang Xin, I am looking forward to it day and night, and I can be regarded as looking forward to you." Ye Ji said with a smile: "This time I set out from the southern mountains and forests, and I consciously left early, but I never thought that I would arrive today. ”

After saying that, he bowed his body and bowed to everyone, and the rest of the disciples also bowed together, everyone was resentful, and when they saw Ye Ji and the disciples in the door giving such a big gift, they immediately lost their anger, Lu Youzi hurriedly came over and refused to salute and said: "Why did Master Ye make such a big gift, although it was a few days later than the heroes, but before the conference, he had not missed the time, please get up quickly." ”

Ye Ji got up and stood upright, and all the disciples also received the gift with him, the heads of the various factions came over one by one to meet Ye Ji, the shore was crowded with people, and Li Xian, who was far away at the mouth of the East Stack, never had a close look, his face was cold, his jaw was shaking, and the wine in his hand was spilled on the ground, since he heard that he could not participate in the meeting last night, he went back to the stack to call the store companion to carry five pots of rice wine, and he was drunk that night.

This time I went out of the mountain to participate in the conference was to be ashamed, but now I have lost the qualification to participate in the banquet, and the travelers on the platform in the heart of the whole river are qualified to participate, but I can't do it alone, and I am even more angry when I think of this.