Black clouds overwhelmed the city, and smoke rose everywhere.

A white dragon horn was born, spitting out waves of fire over Taiping County.

The fiery wolf swept by, and the ground was in shambles.

The mountain and water barrier of the county guard mansion was broken.

A fireball had suddenly crossed the barrier of mountains and rivers and smashed into the backyard of the Taiping County Guard's Mansion, leaving countless corpses on the ground.

Li Zijin woke up suddenly, sweating profusely and panting.

He propped up the bed with one hand, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the other, and swallowed his saliva with palpitations.

"Senior brother, are you having nightmares again?"

"Hmmm······"

The girl Hongshao slept early, so she naturally got up early. Two bowls of steaming noodles had already been brought from the back kitchen of the Feixue Inn, and seeing Li Zijin's shocked and uncertain expression at this moment, the girl was quite distressed. She put the two bowls in her hand on the wine table, took a washbasin from the wooden cabinet, and went to fetch a basin of hot water for her brother.

Hong Shao skillfully wiped the sweat from his face, and Li Zijin rubbed his temples.

The boy's brow gradually relaxed.

"Hongshao, go close the door. Li Zijin turned his head to look at the little junior sister and said slowly.

The girl in white sighed, turned around, and ran to the door with a jump, closing it. In just a few moments, the young man on the bed had put on his clothes silently, got up and sat down at the wine table. Li Zijin held the chopsticks in one hand and the bowl in the other, smelled the aroma and smiled: "It's okay, now I know how to shout and eat." By the way, where did you get the money?"

Li Zijin glanced at the corner of his bed, the two bags containing fairy money and silver were still leaning against the wall, and the details were exactly the same as when he placed them last night, and it was impossible for anyone to touch them. The money for two bowls of noodles is not much, but the little junior sister doesn't have half a word on her, so she can't figure out the concept of money. When you go out, you have to be energetic and take precautions.

The girl looked like she should be, and said with a smile: "I don't have any money, it was the old man who said that the senior brother had saved a lot of silver on his side, but it was worth the money, so I accepted it." ”

The firewood shopkeeper?

Li Zijin snorted and called the little junior sister to sit down and eat noodles together, and on the way, he was distracted thinking about the arrest of the Ya in Jinhuai City.

There was a knock on the door.

"Which one?" the young man casually held the Cuiqu sword in his hand and walked to the door to ask.

"Lu Gaoyang. ”

Li Zijin hesitated for a moment, but still chose to open the door. The person who came was none other than Zheng Guo's first dart master who had previously been at the Huajian Inn for Qiao Hongmiao's bodyguard, Lu Gaoyang.

He held the umbrella sword in his hand.

The green shirt stood at the door, and it didn't seem that he planned to let this Zheng Guo No. 1 dart master enter the door.

The girl in white looked like she was watching a play, picked up the bowl, and sat down facing the door, she also recognized this person. This person had fought with his senior brother before, and the two were equal in strength.

However, the protector is naturally prone to fall into disadvantage in the face of murderers.

Therefore, the strength of Li Zijin and Lu Gaoyang, the first dart master of Zheng Guo, should be between the two and the middle, and it is difficult to distinguish between the winners and losers.

Lu Gaoyang's outfit today is far less pompous than that day at the Huajian Inn, as if he has transformed from a cynical noble son to a real dart master in just a few days, with a robe draped and an umbrella sword in his hand. There is a jade wrench on the left thumb called "Meditation".

Lu Gaoyang saw that although the young swordsman in the green shirt was smiling, he was blocking the door, and he was still holding his thumb against the hilt of the sword, and he didn't plan to let him in at first glance, so he had to smile helplessly: "It was Lu who came to visit rashly, but he didn't come to fight today." ”

Li Zijin motioned for the dart master to continue with an arcing "Oh?" as he listened.

"Lu is here to make friends today. Lu Gaoyang gently flicked the jade wrench on the thumb of his left hand, with a very sincere smile on his face.

"What do you say?" Li Zijin glanced at the umbrella sword in his hand, and the cold light on it was eye-catching.

As if sensing the vigilance of this young swordsman, the dart master Lu Gaoyang casually opened the umbrella sword, or rather, at this moment, it was just an umbrella.

Lu Gaoyang, who has the title of Zheng Guo's No. 1 Dart Master, showed the young swordsman in green shirt the umbrella in his hand, gently stroked the handle of the umbrella, and said with a smile: "To the enemy, Mo Yu is a sword, and to a friend, she is just an umbrella." A handle······ An umbrella that can protect a friend from the wind and rain. ”

Li Zijin looked at this dart master in surprise, his expression and posture when he stroked the umbrella sword with his hand and the tone of the other party's speech made him feel that this person did not seem to be stroking an umbrella sword, but like stroking a living thing, a woman.

It reminds me of the name he chose for it, Mo Yu.

It's hard not to think so.

"Please come in. Li Zijin turned sideways and invited Lu Gaoyang, the first dart master of Zheng Guo, who was already quite sincere and couldn't be more sincere, into the room.

The little junior sister Hongshao moved her position again, there were not many noodles left in the bowl, she quickly took two more bites, and after eating and wiping it clean, she picked up the bowl and grabbed the door, throwing down a sentence: "Senior brother, I'll go and return the bowl to the fat cook, you guys talk slowly······"

Li Zijin scolded with a smile: "Walk slowly, don't jump." ”

As soon as these words came out, the white-clothed girl with a hosta on her head walked in a much more ladylike posture, no longer bouncing and jumping like a rabbit.

Lu Gaoyang sat on the side of the wine table with his back to the door, and Li Zijin closed the door and sat opposite the dart master. The latter exclaimed: "I can't imagine that such a girl who doesn't seem to eat fireworks in the world will have such a ······ Heroic eating. ”

The green shirt rolled his eyes, and he didn't plan to take it seriously and greet this person, and said straight to the point: "Your Excellency still has something to say." ”

Lu Gaoyang stopped fiddling with his fingers, nodded and smiled: "Li Shaoxia's temperament is very much in line with Lu's appetite, you are a friend, I, Lu Gaoyang, have made up my mind." ”

Li Zijin waved his hand, roughly guessed the meaning of this person, and asked with a playful look in his eyes: "Could it be that the chaser who wanted to arrest the murderer sent you to make peace?"

I didn't think that Lu Gaoyang immediately shook his head, "That's not the case, today, it was Lu who made a special trip to talk to Li Shaoxia about some 'heartfelt words'." ”

Li Zijin didn't move his chopsticks, looked at Lu Gaoyang, and then looked at the umbrella sword he had always held tightly in the palm of his hand.

The latter understood and immediately let go of the "Mo Yu" in his hand.

And the young swordsman in the green shirt put down the Cuiqu sword in his hand almost at the same time and "returned the salute".

In fact, Lu Gaoyang also had a headache, when he sent Qiao Hongmiao to the arrest office, he immediately saw the housekeeper of Qiao's mansion, although the lord was just a housekeeper, in fact, his power was so great that he could command the county order of Jinhuaicheng.

The housekeeper of Qiao's Mansion is the "channel" that connects some small officials outside the Shangshu Mansion and Zhengguo Temple, as for the adults who hold great power above the temple, Qiao's Mansion has its own higher-level "channel" responsible for liaison and maintenance.

As soon as Lu Gaoyang saw the housekeeper of Qiao's Mansion, the latter claimed that he knew everything that happened in the flower room, and in this matter, Lu Gaoyang's protector had merit, and he could get double the reward without returning to Beijing to restore his life. Indeed, as the housekeeper said, Lu Gaoyang got two gold leaves that day, representing two thousand taels of gold.

It's just that the housekeeper of Qiao's Mansion still needs Lu Gaoyang to "wrap up" this matter.

Naturally, it was about the troublesome matter of the young swordsman in the green shirt, and there was no need to say much about its trickiness, and Lu Gaoyang knew it from beginning to end. When he fought with the young swordsman that day, he saw that this man made the sword like an arm and a finger, which was really not something that could be explained by a handy sentence.

It's like, he was born to wield a sword.

There was even an even more terrifying idea that made Lu Gaoyang even more unbelievable.

That's it, the sword, that was born for this man.

The latter is very different from the former, and the difference between cloud and mud.

Even Lu Gaoyang himself was frightened by this absurd thought, that young man was just a soul building realm sword cultivator, no matter how high his swordsmanship was, he was subject to the realm, how could he let himself have such a thought? But fighting with him, there was an inexplicable feeling of palpitations.

Lu Gaoyang is not a sword cultivator, just a dart master, at best, he is a dart master who has opened up the sea of knowledge, and a peak qi refiner in the soul building realm.

And the name of the so-called "Zheng Guo's No. 1 Dart Master" is correct if it is fake. But that's also because a slightly more capable qi refiner can't come to do the job of a dart master, but anyone who can rank among the five realms and the sixth realm is already the so-called "mountain immortal master" in Honghu Prefecture, they have thousands of ways to make money, there is no need to be a dart master as thankless, and they may be buried in the body of the bodyguard at any time.

The famous family of the deceased mixed the name of worship, lying down all year round to make money, cheating and cheating.

It is okay to walk the rivers and lakes to set up stalls for people to tell fortunes and see their appearances, and to swagger and deceive.

Only low-realm qi refiners who are really not very talented in cultivation, no matter how hard they study and practice, their realm is difficult to climb, like him Lu Gaoyang, will choose to be a dart master.

Besides, Zheng Guo is a small vassal country in Honghu Prefecture, and it can't be atmospheric, and once he Lu Gaoyang walks out of Zheng Guo, he won't be a fart. Even if he bears the name of Zheng Guo's No. 1 dart master, he is still easy to be robbed. That's why he has the habit of dressing up in disguise when escorting meat darts.

The meat dart is a noble son like Qiao Hongmiao, so he will also dress gorgeously and brightly, and look like a dog.

If the meat dart is a Confucian protégé who was sent from the capital to the border to become an official, then he Lu Gaoyang will also wear a square scarf, wear a Confucian shirt, and hold a sage book in his hand when he has nothing to do, pretending to be a reader.

And with the power of Qiaofu, there is no need to let yourself escort Qiao Hongmiao.

At the beginning, when he met the housekeeper of Qiao's Mansion in Zheng Guojingcheng, the other party just said, "To take the road of rivers and lakes, you need people from the rivers and lakes." ”

However, it wasn't until later that Lu Gaoyang realized that he was just a façade on the surface.

There are many people who really protect Qiao Hongmiao secretly. Otherwise, with the character of that Master Qiao, this road is full of flowers and grass, and it is also a domineering roadblock, and all the people who can be offended along the way are offended, and if you change someone, you will die a hundred and eighty times.

Only the power of Qiaofu can make the two of them have a smooth journey.

In retrospect, it is not difficult for Lu Gaoyang to come to a conclusion. That is, Qiao Mansion "invited" himself as Qiao Hongmiao's bodyguard, in fact, he and that Master Qiao were used as bait, fishing all the way to the bait, so as to find out those assassins who secretly attacked Qiao Hongmiao, and then according to those assassins and killers, follow the vine to find the potential enemies of Qiao Mansion.

To put it bluntly, Qiao Hongmiao walked from Zhengguo's capital to Jinhuai City, a frontier place, and encountered many dangerous troubles, and Qiao's mansion dealt with many hidden dangers for him. And the bodyguard with the name of Zheng Guo's No. 1 dart master is nothing more than a cover for this "purge" operation, whether it is the same or not.

So when Lu Gaoyang saw the housekeeper of Qiao's Mansion in Jinhuai City, he instantly understood everything. And what the other party asked him to do a "finish" on this matter, he Lu Gaoyang had no reason to refuse at all.

There is no ability to refuse.

Qiaofu invites people to do things, it is nothing more than salute first and then soldiers, and you can't help it.

His thoughts gradually returned to his eyes, and the dart master Lu Gaoyang took a deep breath and tried to persuade the young swordsman in green shirts: "The cause of that day is actually very simple, and it can even be said to be ······ Nothing. Lu had persuaded Master Qiao repeatedly before, but Master Qiao grew up in an environment where he didn't need to think about the consequences of doing things, and when the sky fell, there were elders who could cover the sky with one hand, so he was arrogant and domineering. When you see a woman you like, you want to get to know her. Actually, Lord Qiao's nature is not bad······"

The front is okay, Li Zijin can understand, it is nothing more than relying on the blessing of his ancestors, and he has been used to doing evil since he was a child, so there is no one in his eyes.

However, when the young man heard the sentence "nature is not bad", he felt a little funny, especially in the Huajian Inn, Qiao Hongmiao even chose the opponent to be powerless, and did not offend his little sister at all, Li Zijin knew this person's heart better.

Where is his nature not bad, he is simply bad, bad to the bones.

And Qiao Hongmiao is not simply bad, but stupid and bad.

"Stop. Li Zijin waved his hand and interrupted Lu Gaoyang's words, "What is the character of that Lord Qiao, I have my own judgment." I believe that Your Excellency also knows it well, so why should you speak with a clear conscience? If Your Excellency is here to persuade me to 'understand and understand' Qiao Hongmiao's so-called 'nature is not bad,' there is no need. ”

"Okay, let's not mention him, in fact, I want to say that it is better to settle the grievance than to settle it, since the matter has passed, why should Li Shaoxia force each other. Don't you have to make trouble until the fish dies and the net is broken? Shaoxia, this fish is easy to die, and the Qiao family's net is not easy to break. Lu Gaoyang sighed, this can be regarded as saying something truly heartfelt.

In his eyes, Qiaofu is nothing more than an employer who gives money, and he, Lu Gaoyang, is nothing more than taking people's money to eliminate disasters for others, and there is no love between him and Qiaofu.

And Li Zijin is in his eyes, but he is also a person in the rivers and lakes. Lu Gaoyang also came from a young and frivolous man, knowing that as a teenager, he wanted to "fight for a breath" in everything.

It's not anything else that's fighting, it's the boy's spirit.

However, at this point, Lu Gaoyang thought of him wrongly.

Perhaps on the sword platform, Li Zijin really wants to compete for youthful spirit.

In the library building, he was knocked down by two punches every day, but he still had to go every day, and he was also a teenager.

When Buyeshan saw a group of teenagers of his age rushing to the Peach Blossom Demon Cave, Li Zijin also wanted to go together regardless of the realm and defend the line of defense for the world, which was also a young man's spirit.

However, only in the Flower Gathering Inn, the young man wanted to kill Qiao Hongmiao no matter what, and the sword that he desperately handed to Qiao Hongmiao was not a young man's will.

On the contrary, that sword was the result of Li Zijin's careful consideration, and it was the conclusion he came to after thinking calmly and calmly coping with it.

This person is not dead, he and Hong Shao will always have worries.

It doesn't matter what kind of youthful spirit, it's just a strategy to try to protect yourself.

Of course, even if he didn't kill that day, Li Zijin still didn't feel that this matter was over.

To go to the Arrest Ya to observe the terrain is to prepare for the rest of the day's sword.

Li Zijin seemed to suddenly understand, and asked knowingly: "Persuade me not to be forced to work hard, is it because of the arrest of the Ya, you know that I have been there?"

Of course he knew, and the other party must have known. Although Li Zijin didn't understand when he was discovered, he had only been to the outside of the arrest office yesterday, and Lu Gaoyang came to visit today, and he was very sincere to negotiate peace with Qiao Hongmiao for himself. Apparently the other party found out about himself yesterday, but it was just ······ Why not just shoot at yourself?

Lu Gaoyang shook his head and told the truth: "The arrest is just a small place, the power of Qiao's Mansion is all over Zheng State, and Jinhuai City also has a lot of their eyes and ears. ”

As if he deliberately echoed this Zheng Guo's No. 1 dart master, there was some movement outside the door.

It's just the movement of leaving. Obviously, it is true that "the wall has ears".

Lu Gaoyang got up, walked to the door, opened the door gently, looked around left and right for a while, let out a sigh, closed the door, and returned to the wine table to sit down. When he came, he didn't forget to pour himself a cup of tea, there were beads of sweat on his forehead, and he was obviously very nervous just now.

"Gone?"

"Gone. ”

Li Zijin smiled: "If you don't leave, you may not be able to leave." ”

This sentence is a pun, both to the person who has just left the door and to the other person who has not yet left. It's just that it's hard to say whether the latter can be understood or not.

The young man put the Cuiqu sword back in its place, in fact, just when Lu Gaoyang said "It is better to settle the grievance than to settle the knot", Li Zijin heard the sound of breathing outside the door. He quietly held the Cuiqu sword and was ready to strike at any time, but since the other party left with interest, forget it.

It's a pity that there are only a few people who are interested.

"Now, can we really open the skylight and say something?" the green shirt asked casually with an expressionless face.

Lu Gaoyang began to fiddle with the contemplation ring on the thumb of his left hand again, his eyes dodged, he nodded in a panic, and then raised his head and took a sip of the tea in the wine glass.

He was clearly lying, and deliberately told Li Zijin that he was lying.

"It can be seen that Brother Lu really didn't hide anything from me. Li Zijin got up and poured Lu Gaoyang a cup of tea.

Lu Gaoyang shook his head and said with a serious expression: "Lu Mou said at the beginning, I am here to make friends. ”

The corners of Li Zijin's mouth moved slightly, and he read two words in an inaudible voice, and his eyes gestured to Lu Gaoyang.

The latter swallowed, nervous to the point of sweating, as if he was going through an extremely difficult choice in his heart.

The next moment, Mo Yu, who was an umbrella a moment ago, became a sword in the blink of an eye, and instantly jumped on the roof of the house, stabbing a hole in the roof of the Feixue Inn.

A martial artist fell from the hole and slammed into the wooden planks in the room, lifeless.

The young man glanced at the corpse, shook his head and sighed, "Didn't I remind you just now, if you don't leave, you won't be able to leave." It's a pity that people don't always like to listen to persuasion. ”

He thought about it, then looked at the restless Lu Gaoyang, stretched out his finger and pointed at himself, "It seems that I am the same?"

The latter wiped the sweat from his forehead and couldn't say half a word.

The young man in the green shirt squatted on the ground, trying to find some clues from the corpse, and finally found a wooden plaque from his pocket, and the wooden plaque had a single inscription of the word "Joe".

A green shirt casually put the wooden card into his arms, spread his palm to Lu Gaoyang, and signaled that he could drink tea, Li Zijin smiled and said: "Now, we can be friends." ”