Li Xuandu left the Long family mansion alone, and during the time he was talking with the palace officials, Qing Huiji had already cleaned up the mess, not only Long Yuyun's body was collected, but even the seriously injured Sun Hu disappeared, and the door of the entire Long family mansion was empty, as if nothing had happened.

Li Xuandu returned to the inn, Hu Liang and Zhou Shuning were here, safe and sound, so that his heart that was originally slightly hanging was finally completely let go. Although he knew that the palace officials would not do anything to them, he was still afraid of the word "what if". After that, Li Xuandu roughly explained the matter of the Long family, but concealed the palace officials' speculation about Jing Zen Buddhism, not that Li Xuan couldn't trust Hu Liang and Zhou Shuning, but that this matter was very important, and if he was not careful, it was a major matter of destroying the sect and destroying the sect, and there was no need to involve the two of them.

The three of them cleaned up, did not stay here for long, and left Ping'an County in the pouring rain and went to Jiangling Mansion, which is adjacent to Shuiyang Mansion.

Jiangling Mansion is the capital of Jingzhou, and Jiangling City is the state city, including Jingzhou Sansi Yamen, Jingzhou Governor Yamen, Jingzhou City Bosi Yamen and many other real power yamen, all of which are here, which can be described as an important town in the southeast. And because it is adjacent to the Great River in the south, the Han River in the north, the Chongqing and Shu in the west, and Xiaowu in the south, it is called the "thoroughfare of seven states".

In addition, Jingzhou is the territory of the Shenxiao Sect, so there is no shortage of side branches of the Shenxiao Sect in Jiangling Mansion, among which the Wind Thunder Sect is the most powerful, far from being comparable to the Lingxiu Villa, and even better than the Long family, after all, the Dragon family's backer Jingchan Temple is far away in Zhongzhou, and the backer of the Wind Thunder Sect is in Jingzhou.

Shenxiao Sect is located in the territory of Jingzhou Taihe Mountain, according to legend, this place is the ancient Xuanwu Dao ascending place, there is "non-true martial arts is not enough to deserve" said, this place is the holy land of Daomen, and it is the blessed land of the cave sky, there are seventy-two peaks, thirty-six rocks, twenty-four streams, eleven pools, ten pools, twelve holes, eleven springs, ten Taiwans, three waterfalls, its main peak Tianzhu Peak is like the treasure pillar of gold cast jade, known as the reputation of "a pillar of optimus", Tianzhu Peak is surrounded by seventy-two peaks, the peak leans over and heads towards the main peak, forming "seventy-two peaks towards the big top, Twenty-four streams of water flow". Shenxiao Sect has been established here for more than 1,000 years, and is one of the four major sects of Taoism, in addition to being enshrined as "Heavenly Master Dazhenren" from generation to generation, especially the Shenxiao Sect has the closest relationship with the imperial court of all dynasties, when Emperor Taizu of this dynasty, Shenxiao Kaipai Patriarch was enshrined as "Qingxu Yuan Miao Zhenjun", and the contemporary suzerain was named "Tongwei Manifestation True Person", Taihe Mountain was named "Dayue", "Xuanyue", known as "the four famous mountains are all arched, and the five immortals are all in the dynasty", which can be seen.

Compared to Xuanhe's extreme "home" As a side branch of the wind and thunder faction, naturally there are many inferior, even shabby too much, but in fact, the background is not shallow, as the leading rivers and lakes in the land of a mansion, the wind and thunder faction is not lacking in the masters of the innate realm, this generation has three innate realm masters standing side by side at the same time, on the other hand, the Lingxiu Villa and the like, but there is no one, showing an obvious trend of green and yellow, obviously can not be compared with the wind and thunder faction, even if it is the Wancheng Dart Bureau Long, if the dragon roaring cloud has not set foot in the realm of returning to the truth, it is not as good as the Wind Thunder Sect, after all, the Wind Thunder Sect is under the two innate realm masters, and there are also a number of masters of the Xuanyuan Realm, the inheritance is orderly, far from the Wancheng dart game that is mixed with fish and dragons。

The reason why Li Xuandu knew this was because they had a great relationship with the Wind Thunder Sect.

On the eve of the change of the imperial capital, Qingwei Sect, Miao Zhenzong, Donghua Sect, Shenxiao Sect, the four major sects all went to the imperial capital, as a branch of the Shenxiao Sect, the old master of the Wind and Thunder Sect also followed it, the old man was heroic and informal, with a heroic style, and Li Xuandu, Hu Liang was quite in love, the three of them used to drink together, during the battle of Chengtianmen, Hu Liang fought side by side with the old man, so the two were quite familiar with the situation of the Wind and Thunder School.

On the muddy post road, the carriage staggered and struggled to move forward. At this time, Hu Liang was still driving, and Li Xuandu was half-leaning on the door frame of the carriage, and the two chatted with each other.

Hu Liang saw that Li Xuandu was always frowning slightly, as if he was preoccupied, so he deliberately quipped: "Lao Li, when he saw the beauty of the palace, he lost his soul? ”

Li Xuandu kicked him unceremoniously, "Be careful that your words are heard by the palace officials and cut out your tongue." ”

Hu Liang couldn't help but shrink his neck, thinking of the palace official's "prestige" in the rivers and lakes, Rao is bold and a little worried, so he changed the topic and said: "Lao Li, if there is anything, don't always hold it alone, say it, let's brothers carry it together." ”

Li Xuandu let out a breath of turbidity, "This matter is too big, we can't bear it, just rot in my stomach." ”

When Hu Liang heard him say this, he knew the severity, so he didn't ask each other anymore, and said: "When we arrived in Jiangling, we arrived at Brother Song's territory, when I was in Dijing, he said several times that he wanted us to go to his Fenglei faction as a guest, so that he could enjoy the friendship of the landlord. ”

Speaking of this, Hu Liang learned the style of people who like to make friends on the rivers and lakes, hugged his fists and shook his head: "Song Daxia is powerful in Jiangling, we have always respected each other, but we are just on the side of fate, and we should pay a visit or two." ”

When the little girl saw this scene, she couldn't help but laugh.

Hu Liangtou didn't reply: "Girl, learn a little, in the future, when you walk the rivers and lakes alone, you will inevitably learn to say some scenes, there are some people in the rivers and lakes, and there are not many real skills,' If you don't tout them, you will sweep their faces, and they will hold a grudge against you, unless you can be like Lao Li back then, one person and one sword will level them, otherwise your road on the rivers and lakes will be narrower and narrower, and it will be difficult to move an inch. ”

Li Xuandu shook his head helplessly and said, "Shuning is still young, what are you doing with her." Besides, in the future, Shuning will walk the rivers and lakes, and she will definitely be a disciple of the Xuannu Sect, and there are all the senior sisters of the Xuannu Sect above, who will embarrass her in this regard. ”

Hu Liang sighed and said, "If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you." ”

Li Xuan didn't have any words, he was touched by Hu Liang's words, his thoughts gradually drifted away, and he remembered another river and lake, but there were not so many swords and swords in that river and lake, there were not so many conspiracies and calculations, and there were not even the twelve sects of the righteous path and the ten sects of the evil way, there was no Qingluanwei, there were no temples and princes, at most, they were bandits and robbers, and after being easily defeated by the young man in white, he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and then the young man waved his hand, and then he scattered as birds and beasts. Or in a certain county town, there is a disciple who flirts with a girl from a good family on the street, and the young man comes forward to teach him a lesson, and then floats away in the girl's eyes that want to speak. Or if you encounter a vicious slave who bullies the lonely and weak, where does it matter if you are from the Yamen government, after overturning the ground, you will leave a few pieces of broken silver, and the prancing horse will be whipped away.

This is the rivers and lakes before Li Xuandu was fifteen years old.

The water in that river and lake is very clear.

Now the water in this river and lake is very turbid.

It's just that later, as Li Xuandu experienced more things, he found that the so-called chivalrous righteousness may not have good results, for example, he saved those weak and orphans, but after he left, those evil slaves and servants will become even worse, and even the silver he left behind will fall into the hands of those bullies. and he saved Chen Guhong and the palace officials, but it turned out to be a disaster for the He family and the Long family.

So over the years, he has rarely taken the initiative anymore, and most of them are cold bystanders and will not take action easily.

He has been thinking a lot of times about what is wrong with this Jianghu, and now he suddenly understands that the Jianghu has always been like this, and it is just him who has changed. If you want to change this river and lake, you can't treat your head and feet with headaches, you can roar when you see injustice, there are thousands of injustices in the world, no matter how great Li Xuan's magical powers, how many injustices can he resolve? He is covered in iron, and how many nails can he make?

Zhang Suqing told him back then that there are families and countries in the world, and there is a difference between chivalry and chivalry, but he didn't understand the meaning at that time.

Now he understood.

If you want to change the rivers and lakes, you must start from the roots, first change the temples on the rivers and lakes, and then make the world peaceful through the temples. Only in the peaceful and prosperous times can people have no worries, and the world is rising, and at that time, the water in the rivers and lakes will naturally be clear.

This is what Zhang Suqing wanted to do but failed to do.

The old man believes in a saying: do it knowing that you can't do it.

It was also he who taught Li Xuandu a truth: it is impossible to do things without asking, but asking should not.