A large part of the reason why Yuan Xi will make a move is that Zhou Bochang gave him a good feeling when he bought bear skins, otherwise the two sides would fight to the death and what would Yuan Xi have to do with him?

So Yuan Xi just hit the stone to save people.

That's right, it's just to save people, and it doesn't take sides.

When he reminded the sword-wielding man with a stone, Zhou Bochang wanted to raise his knife to take the opportunity to hurt someone, but his other stone stopped Zhou Bochang's knife.

As for what happens between them in the future, it has nothing to do with him.

However, with the truth that Master taught Yuan Xi, he should not have popped out the last stone.

However, Yuan Xi gave himself a reason. As the men rode past him, the man with the nunchucks at his waist approached him and galloped almost past him, who had taken refuge on the side of the road.

You let me eat ashes, I told you to fall off the horse, it's fair.

In fact, Yuan Xi hated this nunchuck in his heart, and went to kill the woman with a special fragrance who liked to dress as a man.

Speaking of which, even if the woman is dressed as a man, she is quite good-looking.

Yuan Xi was a little happy in his heart.

Xu is growing up in the mountains Yuan Xi hunted too many animals, and when he pulled the reins, the horses resisted, and seemed to be a little afraid, not at all like the docile appearance in the hands of others.

Yuan Xi had never ridden a horse before. In the past, when Master took him down the mountain, he didn't ride a horse, but hired a carriage at most.

The harder he tugged on the reins, the more restless the otherwise docile horse became. Yuan Xi was ruthless, flew on horseback, and pulled the reins.

His legs clamped the horse's body, and his hands gripped the reins.

Perhaps it was because he was pushing too hard, and the horse was struggling, and he was even more impatient, and he jumped on all fours, trying to throw the guy off his back.

Yuan Xi was swayed from side to side, and quickly leaned over, hugging the horse's neck with both arms. With this move, he made it very slippery. When he was playing in the mountains, he often jumped on the back of a roe deer or a mountain deer, and just grabbed it and ran in the mountains. Eventually, the roe deer and the mountain deer became his prey.

The horse gradually quieted down, it was a tamed horse, and the previous irritability was just caused by Yuan Xi's improper operation, Yuan Xi learned from those people, and whipped the horse.

A puff of dust rose on the official road.

It was getting late, and the five of them rode to Anyi Town, under the jurisdiction of Yunshang City, and found an inn to settle in.

Several people sat around the table, asked for wine and food, and the man with the ghost-headed knife asked the man with the horizontal sword at the table.

"Senior Brother Jiang, what happened just now? Why did you stop when you obviously had the upper hand?"

"Senior Brother Chen, there were outsiders who made a move, and I was stopped twice. With that, he glanced at the man whose hands had been bandaged.

"Senior Brother Han, how is your hand injury? That man is a master, we didn't see where he was hiding, but his stones could stop me and hurt you, and it couldn't be done without strong finger and internal strength. The slingshot doesn't have that lethality. ”

The one who was called Senior Brother Han was the one who used the nunchuck, and Yuan Xi only injured his hand in order to knock him off his horse and no longer be able to ride a horse. His hands were swollen now, but the bones were better, just almost broken.

He looked at his hand with a look of resentment. As the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to break his muscles and bones, even if he applies medicine, he won't be able to touch his nunchuck for ten days and half a month. Snorted coldly, he grabbed the chopsticks with his left hand, and wanted to grab some snacks, but he didn't catch them after a long time, so he slapped the chopsticks on the table and picked up the wine glass.

After a glass of wine, he spoke,

"It's okay, the bones are not broken, it's really fucking unlucky, Senior Brother Jiang, why did he come to me like this in the end?"

There were five people in the company, and if he was injured, he had to drink more of this wine.

The one with the double stick hurriedly poured a glass of wine for the man surnamed Han,

"Senior Brother Han, if you want me to see, I'm afraid that someone likes Lu Yiping's only daughter and secretly protects her, so you will suffer. I guess your nunchucks are dancing so hard that that's why he shot at you. ”

After saying that, I sandwiched a piece of chicken leg for him,

"Senior brother, eat more meat, it's getting better quickly!"

The man surnamed Han grabbed the chicken leg in the bowl, nodded and took a big bite, and said vaguely,

"Senior Brother Yang is reasonable. ”

The man with a double wedge on his back also put a chopstick sauce meat in his mouth, and after chewing, he picked up the wine glass.

"Brothers, come, drink. ”

He drank it all, and after the man surnamed Jiang put down the wine glass, he asked in a thick voice,

"Senior Brother Jiang, the mission failed, so let's go back like this?"

The man surnamed Jiang looked around at everyone, and then said slowly,

"Senior Brother Shen, all junior brothers, it is not my responsibility and all my junior brothers to fail this mission, the person who appeared in the dark must be a master, and we are fortunate to be able to escape our lives. It's not a pity to die, but if we are captured, we will definitely reveal our plan. You must know that for the sake of this plan, the five of us senior brothers have left the sect for more than a year. Next, we have to rush back to the sect as soon as possible, and when we go back, senior brother, I will definitely receive punishment from the master. ”

The other four people present raised their glasses together,

"Senior brother Gaoyi, we will advance and retreat together with senior brother. ”

Lu Guanju and his entourage hurried up, and rushed directly to Pingnan City as soon as it was dark.

The gatekeeper of Pingnan City knew his eldest lady, and quickly straightened his waist. However, unlike in the past, the approachable eldest lady did not dismount and chat with a few brothers, but hurried into the city with the four guards.

When he arrived at the general's mansion in the city and saw the gate of his house, Lu Guanju let go of his heart.

Although her martial arts skills are good, unlike the four guards, she has never experienced a real life-and-death battle. If it weren't for the previous one who used the sword to release the water and wanted to capture her alive, I'm afraid she would have been defeated. Otherwise, when the man with the nunchuck stepped forward, how could she have messed up. Although he is not armed, the Liuyun Palm of the Qingyun Sect is not a vegetarian.

The other party is coming for her, and what kind of enemy can she have? I guessed in my heart that I was afraid that it was coming for her father, Lu Yiping, the guard of Pingnan City.

Walking into the door quickly, Lu Guanju hurriedly asked if the father of the person who opened the door was in the house, and after the person answered, he shouted directly,

"Daddy, Daddy!"

As soon as Lu Guanju shouted, Lu Yiping, who was reading in the study in the back hall, put down the book in his hand, got up and went out to see the girl who had been crazy outside for several days, why did she scream as soon as she came back.

When he walked out of the door, he happened to see his daughter running over, and he shouted,

"What does it look like a daughter's house?"

Seeing his father walk out, Lu Guanju hurriedly stepped up, grabbed his father's sleeve, shook it twice, and said coquettishly,

"Daddy~, don't people miss you!"

Hearing her daughter's voice, Lu's mother, who also came out of the back hall, complained,

"Isn't it what you're used to? From childhood to adulthood, do you see who taught his daughter to dance with knives and guns? Mixed in the barracks every day, messing around with a group of men covered in stinky sweat?"

Hearing her mother say this, Lu Guanju leaned a cat behind her father, poked out half of her head, and said to her mother with a smile,

"Mother, it's a palm, my daughter doesn't have a knife or a gun. Besides, in the barracks, I was playing in my father's camp, so where did I mess with any soldiers?"

After finishing speaking, he pouted and looked at Lu Yiping,

"yes, Daddy!"

Lu Yiping can't do anything with his daughter, and of course, he can't do anything with his wife. There is only one daughter in the family, and his wife has repeatedly persuaded him to take a concubine and add more incense to the Lu family, but Lu Yiping did not agree.

Love Mrs., spoil your daughter, incense or something, give it to other people surnamed Lu.

Lu Yiping deliberately kept a straight face,

"Don't talk nonsense, let's talk, where have you been crazy these days?"

When her father asked, she remembered why she ran in in a hurry to find her father, and the four of Zhou Bochang should still be waiting in the front hall.

She pulled her father's sleeve and dragged him to the antechamber,

"Daddy, let's go, go to the front hall, I've got a gift for you!"

"Guan Guan, you girl, what are you busy with? Alas! It seems that I really spoiled you, and I don't have any stability at all!"

The man should marry the woman when she is married, Lu Guanju sees that Fang Ling is twenty-eight, and Lu Yiping loves this girl again, but he still has to find her in-law's family.

However, Lu Guanju is famous in Pingnan City, everyone is not a lady, and no matchmaker is willing to come to the door.

can spoil her like this, this Lu family's aunt is not good.

Mother Lu didn't follow to the front hall, it was almost dinner time, she was going to the kitchen to tell her to prepare a few more plates of her daughter's favorite dishes.

Lu Yiping walked into the front hall, and Lu Guanju followed.

Zhou Bochang and the four of them stood and waited in the front hall, and when they saw Lu Yiping coming in, they quickly got up and saluted.

"I've seen the general!"

Lu Yiping waved his hand and sat in the main seat.

Lu Guanju hurriedly poured a cup of tea for his father, and quietly gave Wu Zhong, who was wearing a bear skin, a look.

Wu Zhong glanced at his eldest brother Zhou Bochang, Zhou Bochang nodded slightly, Wu Zhong got up, took off the bear skin, and stepped forward with both hands.

"General, this is a gift from Miss to the General, please take a look!"

When Lu Yiping heard this, he was very happy in his heart, and he didn't feel sorry for this girl in vain. picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, the tea poured by her daughter was so fragrant.

"Bring it in!"

"Second Brother Wu, quick, show it to Daddy!"

Lu Guanju, who was standing next to Lu Yiping, hurriedly greeted Wu Zhong.

Wu Zhong stepped forward and put the bear skin on the table.

Lu Yiping picked up the bear skin, shook it off, looked at it carefully, and then touched it with his hand.

"Yes, it's a good skin, it looks like it's still a new skin, what's the matter? You went hunting in the mountains?" After speaking, Lu Yiping took a closer look at the skin,

"This bear skin has no damage, not even an arrow hole, is it a trap set in advance?" But this bear skin has no knife marks and arrow holes, so it can only be caught by using a trap to catch this adult black bear.

With Lu Yiping's palm, he can do it, but he doesn't believe that his daughter has this ability.

Lu Guanju was a little embarrassed, and muttered in a low voice,

"Daddy, how dare my daughter risk her life, then I don't worry you! I bought it for you from Orion. ”

Lu Yiping glanced at his daughter, this is about the same.

"Well, yes, this Daddy Pi likes it very much, and it happens to be on the big seat of Daddy's camp. However, Orion in this mountain also has a powerful role. After all, it's a backer to eat, and it's really not good if you don't have any skills. ”

Lu Yiping thought that Orion could set traps to catch bears, even if they were a few people together, they were still very capable and a good hunter.

Seeing that her father was happy, Lu Guanju glanced at Zhou Bochang, and just when she saw Zhou Bochang's eyes, she nodded.

Zhou Bochang got up and bowed.

"General, there is something important to report for your humble position!"

Lu Yiping, who was in a good mood, glanced at the guard who had followed him for many years,

"You four go out with Miss, what else can you do?"

"Yes, General. I and a few others were ambushed on the way back, and it seemed that they were coming for Miss. ”

When Lu Yiping, who was on the rise, heard this, he was stunned, slapped the table with one hand, stood up, and drank,

"What?"

Before the city gate was closed, Yuan Xi rushed to Pingnan City.

He didn't ride fast, he didn't want to catch up with those people, after all, the horse he was riding was easy to be recognized by several people.

After entering the door and paying a penny, the guard looked at the strange young man, dressed in a coarse cloth shirt, but leading a horse. Maybe it's a handyman from someone's manor outside the city, who came into the city to find his master.

Yuan Xi had followed his master to Pingnan City before, and he was not a stranger to entering the city. Looking at the signboard, he came to an inn with a good name, Tongfu Inn.

When the guy saw the visitor coming to the door, he hurried out to greet him, but he saw this young man in a coarse cloth shirt, leading a tall horse.

With a twist of his head, he asked with a smile,

"This little brother, is he staying in the hotel or looking for someone?"

Yuan Xi thought to himself, this guy is not bad, handed the reins of the horse to the guy, and said arrogantly,

"Eat, stay!"

When the man heard this, he had come to the door, and if it weren't for this horse, he would have almost been blinded, and he would have treated people as if he were asking for food.

"The guest officer will stay for the time being, and the parking fee is three cents, don't blame the small ones for not opening their eyes, but this parking fee is calculated separately. ”

Yuan Xi was about to step in again, and looked at the guy with some doubts,

"Is there an inn where you don't need money?"

The guy slandered in his heart, and he smiled on his face, where did this soil bun come from, this horse is afraid that it is not coming from the right way. But no matter what, as long as he has the money to eat and live in a hotel, he is an uncle.

"The guest officer laughed, the inns in the city all charge horse fees, not to mention that this horse shed occupies space, don't we have to prepare good forage for your good horse." There are a few others that have more than mine. By the way, it's a day of three texts, I don't know how many days the guest officer plans to stay?"

Yuan Xi didn't ask any other questions, took out the three pennies, and handed them to the guy.

"Let's stay for a day!"

The guy who took the copper coin smiled and shouted, "A distinguished guest, there is food and lodging, please inside!" and led the horse to the stable.

Yuan Xi entered the store, asked for an ordinary guest room, and asked for a meat, a vegetarian, two dishes, and four steamed buns, and let them be sent to his house, so he went to the room under the leadership of the guy.

After entering the room, Yuan Xi told the guy to get some water, and the guy came out.

After scrubbing his face with warm water, Yuan Xi was refreshed, when the man knocked on the door and brought food.

Eating steamed buns, Yuan Xi pondered his next step.

Horses are useless to themselves, find the horse market tomorrow, and sell them quickly, otherwise you will have to spend the parking fee, and you can still have an income after selling. When you enter the city, you have to go hungry if you don't have money, and you can fill your stomach by shooting a bird in the mountains and countryside.

Uncle Zhao said that he could go to the Yunde Martial Arts Hall to find his master, and Yuan Xi also had this intention to see if this martial arts senior, who had been in Pingnan City for many years, could give him some advice.

The water is full of food, and Yuan Xi goes to bed to rest.

Lu Yiping listened to a few people tell the story of the matter, frowned, and fell into deep thought.

Which side of the people is it? Liangzhou or Jingzhou? The other party's intention is very obvious, to capture his daughter alive and then use this as a threat.

Lu Yiping knew that although there was no major war in Bazhou, the friction with Liangzhou in the west was actually expanding. And Jingzhou in the east, although it is one and the same on the surface, it is not a ghost.

Jingzhou was not sure of it, so it did not dare to use troops against Bazhou on a large scale, because the east of Jingzhou was Yangzhou. If troops are used against Bazhou, it is very likely that Yangzhou's soldiers and horses will take advantage of the weakness to enter, causing Jingzhou to suffer from the enemy. Therefore, when the princes and kings of various places no longer obeyed the orders of the Luoyue Imperial City, Jingzhou sent a friendly signal to Bazhou.

The king of Shu and the king of Jiangling made an alliance to advance and retreat together.

And the king of Xiliang in Liangzhou in Sima Xiangle abdicated a year later actually issued a letter to the world, saying that the king and the national teacher Huo Xingwei plotted against each other, is a national thief, he supported Sima Zhengde, the king of leisure, in Liangzhou as the new emperor.

Just as Liangzhou still has the final say, his inscription seems to be nothing more than a joke in the whole world.

However, Yongzhou, which borders it, and Bazhou are all wary of Liangzhou. Because it can be seen that Shangguan Qingyun, the king of Xiliang, wants to use the banner of righteousness to go from west to east and annex the world. And his reliance is on the Tibetan region that he once guarded.

The pressure on the western part of Bazhou near Liangcheng has been not small.

At present, the situation is tense, and the king of Shu sent Feng Yuan, the deputy commander of the troops and horses, to serve as the general of Pingxi, and then led a team of soldiers and horses to gallop to help near Liangcheng. Due to the geographical location of Pingnan City, the role of the Pingnan City Battalion is more to train more generals.

Lu Yiping actually went to Jinliang City, where he led the troops to fight for a year, and now the situation is tense, so his senior brother Feng Yuan personally commanded the troops, and the original Jinliang City guard Wei Qianfu cooperated, and confronted the Xiliang army in Gaoyang City over there.

Could it be that someone from Xiliang touched it in?

Lu Yiping pondered for a while and said,

"Zhou Bochang, pass on my order to strictly investigate suspicious characters within the scope of Pingnan City, didn't they come on horseback? Find a breakthrough from the horses, especially the ownerless horse. In addition, Zheng Shuyuan, you and Wang Ji will go to Yunshang City in the east to see if there are any suspicious people?"

Jingzhou, I hope there isn't any problem over there.

In addition, Lu Yiping also thought of a point, could it be that Liangzhou and Jingzhou are on the line?

Thinking in my heart, it seems that I have to go to Ziyang City.

Lu Yiping has no clue who saved his baby girl, but after all, he is a friend and not an enemy, and when it is time to appear, this person will appear.

Maybe it's someone from the Qingyun Sect!

Zhou Bochang and the four of them were ordered to leave the house, and Lu Yiping rarely told his daughter with a straight face that the world is not peaceful now, don't go out and go crazy, let Lao Tzu stay at home honestly.

It seems that I have to discuss with my wife, this girl really doesn't look like a daughter's family.

Lu Guanju pouted and nodded obediently.

The next day, Yuan Xi had breakfast and settled the account, and the accomplice asked the direction of the horse market, and then led the horse away.

The man turned around and went into the store to find the shopkeeper.

"Shopkeeper, did you see the little brother who just left, I guess, the horse, maybe the way is not right. ”

The shopkeeper gave him a blank look,

"Isn't it wrong again? We are an inn, we are guests when we enter the store, and we are also guests when we leave the store, what do you care about what others do? At a young age, don't always chew your tongue, it's no good. ”

The guy was stupid, and went out to greet the guests,

They were all coarse cloth, so why did he have a horse? This horse must be worth a lot of money.

Horses are not something that ordinary people can afford.

When Wu Zhong asked about the gatekeepers, these people naturally remembered the young man in coarse cloth, and with a few simple descriptions, Wu Zhong confirmed that it was the young man who sold skins.

Except for the young man who led the horse into the city, no one else entered the city with him.

It seems that those people will not come to Pingnan City again, but when I first saw this coarse-clothed young man, he didn't have a horse, could it be that horse?

Wu Zhong thought about it for a moment, took people to search the inn in the city, and also sent someone to tell his eldest brother.

Yuan Xi has arrived in the horse market.