Zhong Xihou looked at this person named Zhu Jiannan, this person is the person who has the talent of a soldier in the mouth of the book?

If you take off the fat powder on your face and take off this clothes, I am afraid that you will be a pale and weak lord with few taels of flesh, no strength to restrain chickens, and no strength to restrain the wind. However, he looks radiant like this, not like people say, he is useless as a scholar.

He looked at the Xin Du slave who was called Xiao Lei again, this slave did not have the expression of a slave, and the breath he gave people was more like the guard who was guarding his master day and night.

"Don't be surprised, Xiao Lei was indeed a slave of Xindu before. ”

"And now?"

The boy smiled, this little thunder is the same as Xin Dunu in the city that never sleeps, there are no handcuffs and anklets, and there is a tattoo on his face, and there are two scars on this tattoo, which he thinks he drew himself.

For some reason, the more Zhongxihou looked at this Xindu people, the more familiar he felt, as if he had seen it several years ago. He finally denied this speculation, and if he had seen it, he would have invited him to join his Qingqi guard, and it was more likely that he would be included in the four hundred, or thirteen generals. Perhaps, just because he is from Xindu, this big man gives him a feeling that is so similar to Mochang.

"Xiao Lei is the escort of my Jinling Palace, responsible for Xiao Wang's travel safety. ”

"There is such a guard who can indeed take care of your safety. Zhong Xihou didn't ask any more questions, turned around and walked away, he heard the footsteps of the Xindunu, and he followed him unhurriedly. Zhong Xihou smiled, he began to walk quickly, that Xin Du Nu still followed, he accelerated again, Xin Du Nu was still behind him.

The two men went up and down, from the street to the rooftops, and then trampled on the tips of the trees, and the Xindunu followed unhurriedly. Turning around again, the Xin Dunu stopped, and he couldn't find the figure of Zhong Xihou. He clenched the iron rope in his hand, he was left behind without noticing, he didn't expect that this black charcoal from the west was not bad at his feet.

"Xiao Lei, you can't win against him. Zhu Jiannan walked slowly, and Xiao Lei leaned towards him. It's time for the prince to go home, he knows very well that this Zhu Jiannan's body, such a person, has been arranged with such a shell. It can only be said that fate is indeed fair sometimes.

"Xiao Lei, it seems that time can't catch up. ”

Na Xindunu nodded, he didn't like to talk, he was born in a cold city and grew up in Xindu, he hated his accent. Zhu Jiannan took a deep breath and smiled, it is better to live than to die.

"Let's go back, it seems that we really have to put on a show, and invite this black-faced man to come to my Jinling Palace." Xiao Lei, if you invite him to the mansion, you can go to the kitchen and make some Gaba land, so that this sleepless city lord who claims to know about Middle-earth Fanbang can taste what the Gaba land of Xindu is like. ”

The little thunder nodded again and did not speak.

"Well, are you not going to say a word until I die?"

When Yan Hude came back, his animal skin clothes were tattered and there were sword marks everywhere, there was no leather pot for mare's milk around his waist, and even his face had several wounds, and the blood had already froze.

As soon as the brute entered the room, he picked up the teapot on the table and poured it directly into his mouth regardless of whether it was hot or cold, he was thirsty, he was hungry, but he was still alive.

"Savage, you ······"

Yan Hude glanced at Qu Tianqin, Tianqin didn't dare to speak again, and Zhong Xihou pushed the food and mare's milk wine on the table in Yan Hude's direction.

"Eat first. ”

Yan Hude put down the teapot, wiped his hands on his clothes, and said at all, "Master Hou, be careful, the power of King Jinling, Lincheng is his, and most of the large Qianzhuang rice shops in Yucheng are also the things of King Jinling." ”

After Yan Hude finished speaking, he didn't use chopsticks or eat. He grabbed the whole roast chicken with his hand and began to bite the whole chicken. He looked like a wolf who had not eaten for three days and three nights and had been expelled from his territory. He was starving, but he was alive, and it didn't matter if he didn't starve to death and starved a few meals.

"Master Hou, doesn't that mean that the King of Jinling is in charge of the life and death of the people in the two cities. ”

"Tianqin, do you know what the relationship between Lincheng and Yucheng is related to the city that I don't sleep?"

Qu Tianqin doesn't understand, there are twelve cities in the world, Lincheng is special, Yucheng is also special, and the city that never sleeps where she grew up is even more special.

"Ten years ago, four percent surrounded the city that never sleeps, in a vain attempt to divide my treasure territory, do you know which four cities?"

Lyra had heard about it, but she had also heard about it, and the news was quickly blocked by their city lord, the man in front of him.

"I tell you today, Guwei City, Lincheng City, Bangfeng City and Yu City, these four cities together surround my western land, and they will kill me several times. Zhong Xihou had no expression when he said this, and his voice was cold, making it difficult to tell whether he hated or was calm.

The Twelve Cities had become increasingly distant from the Empire, but it had been written that the cities were not to fight each other.

Those who have experienced the war of 10 years ago always hate it, and those who have heard about it are always afraid.

"Master Hou, you said wild······ Xiao Liang only followed you ten years ago, and Hou Ye came to Jinling ten years ago······"

"Those who offend my siblings will be punished by God and Buddha. ”

"Master Hou came to Jinling just to kill people?"

The corners of Zhongxihou's lips were slightly hooked, and he didn't say much, yes, ten years ago, he traveled thousands of miles from the city that never sleeps to Jinling, the capital of Lincheng, just to kill people.

"That person's name is Zhu Jiying. ”

"Zhu Jianying?" Qu Tianqin's eyes widened, she was sure that she had heard correctly, Hou Ye did say that the person he had come to Jinling from the city that never sleeped was a person named Zhu Jianying.

Zhong Xihou smiled again, Qu Tianqin's days with Zhong Xihou were not long, Zhong Xihou in her eyes was tall and unsmiling. He is like a walking and moving white marble sculpture, which allows people to look at it up close, look at it carefully, but can't get close. There was no expression on his face, as if he were wearing a delicate mask.

"This person is the eldest grandson of King Jinling, and he is the son of Jinling. ”

"Hou Ye killed him?"

Zhong Xihou shook his head, he wouldn't do that. He let this man go, and it was because he let this person go that he caused even more trouble.

Zhong Xihou looked at Yan Hude, he put down the food in his hand, wiped the corners of his mouth with the back of his hand, and the oil stains on the roast chicken were all over his mouth.

"Hou Ye doesn't have to shy away from it, if there was no Hou Ye, there would be no Yan Hude today. That Zhu Jianying, in addition to being the prince of Jinling, also runs a gladiatorial arena, ten casinos and seven brothels. ”

"Isn't he the son of the world?"

Zhongxi Hou smiled, there will always be people who think that the princes and nobles should have inexhaustible wealth. Zhong Xihou didn't explain it, but human greed taught him how to explain it.

There is also one person who also has this emotion, the little prince of Jinling, Zhu Yinuo, who has a monthly income of just one hundred taels. Poor as him, with the title of the little prince, but he can't spend a lot of money like other Jinling gentlemen, but he still owes Mo Ming 800 nearly 1,000 taels of silver since he was a child, and this little prince can be said to be aggrieved.

Yan Hude continued: "He threw all the captured soldiers in the city that I never sleeped in the gladiatorial arena and let them kill each other. ”

Zhongxi Hou rescued Yan Hudeliang, and also saved those surviving slaves, captives and martial artists.

"What about that person?"

"Silly. Yan Hude said this, the man named Zhu Zhiying was stupid, he was surrounded by a group of people who he regarded as pigs and dogs, and in fear of them he got the due retribution for his sins.

He was frightened stupid, such a prince could have been in charge of Lincheng, but everything was out of his way.

"Master Hou, since that's the case, then you still ······"

"What am I doing in Jinling, right?"

Qu Tianqin thinks so, whether it is right or wrong, people always protect their shortcomings.

"King Jinling is very good at what he does, and his superficial articles are better than anyone else's. ”

Several sons of King Jinling went west before the old prince, and they left three grandsons to accompany the old man, the eldest son Zhu Jianying, the second son Zhu Jiannan, and the third son Zhu Yinuo.

He is greedy and ambitious, and he is kind but scheming, and King Jinling will not let him fall into a power struggle. The King of Jinling on that day had no expression, and it was unforgivable to make everyone so embarrassed. Zhu Jianying was sent by him to Hanshan Temple to become an idiot monk, and Zhu Jianying's two henchmen were cut into human sticks and hung corpses in the city.

Zhong Xihou couldn't do this, and neither could his master Zhong Nanyan.

Yan Hude didn't understand, he didn't understand why Hou Ye only said half of it. Yan Hude knew a lot, even more than the Great Commander Qu Tianao.

Guwei City, Lincheng, Bangfeng City, and Yucheng are not so much the world of the twelve cities as the world of the four cities. Nineteen years ago, the rebellion of the empire, the forces standing behind Zuo Xiang, forced Emperor Yin to death and chased and killed the crown prince. A generation of famous generals Han Wuvin rode a thousand, and after the escape for the crown prince, Suzaku Avenue was full of blood.

Zhong Xihou also had an idea, if General Han was replaced by him, he might be able to do what General Han did. Suzaku Avenue killed thousands of soldiers in the First Army, just for a loyal word.

"Tianqin, I'll test you again, if you want people to be loyal, what should you do first?"

"Power ······"

Zhong Xihou smiled, and Yan Hude also smiled.

"I've heard that there is an elder in the Dusk Han Building, the Jianghu people are called Wen Sword Saint, little girl, have you heard of it?"

Qu Tianqin glared angrily at Yan Hude, this wild man did know more than her, and she couldn't argue. "Wen Jiansheng, his real name is Zhuge Ding. Knows the world's swordsmanship but doesn't know how to perform, and is a literati. Qu Tianqin had heard people say this, and she wondered, how could a literati, a person who didn't know anything about martial arts, know the swordsmanship of the world?"

Zhong Xihou laughed, Qu Tianqin was right, this Wen Sword Saint did know the sword technique. "Tianqin, Zhong Nanyan was difficult to comprehend the Dancing Pheasant Sword Technique back then, do you know who the person who helped him comprehend it?"

"Master Hou, you don't mean to say that it was Zhuge Ding who helped the old city lord understand the dancing swordsmanship. ”

"Little girl, you're right. ”

Qu Tianqin knew that this would be the answer, but she still didn't want to believe that it was true.

"Master Hou, you laughed at me and said that strength is what makes people loyal, so you say, what can make people loyal?"

"Teach people loyalty, only trust first. ”

"Trust?"

After eating, Yan Hude followed Zhong Xihou to the backyard of the inn he had chartered yesterday, and only then entered the West Chamber, Yan Hude could not suppress it anymore, and vomited out a mouthful of blood. Seeing that his body was weak for a moment, he stumbled against the wall a few times and even rolled and fell to climb onto the bed.

And the wounds on his body also burst in an instant, oozing blood again.

Zhong Xihou frowned and asked, "Who?"

Yan Hude, who was lying on the bed and covering his eyes with his left hand, shook his head, slowly exhaled, and after about a quarter of an hour, his body was more comfortable, and then he told Zhong Xihou about everything after he left.

Zhong Xihou's brows were still the same, and his dark bright eyes with the same complexion shot out two sharp gazes, and he asked, "Are you sure it's vertical and horizontal swordsmanship?"

Yan Hude nodded with great affirmation, and added: "This person is obviously still hidden, if he is really forced to die, I am afraid that I will not be able to come back." ”

Zhong Xihou was a little puzzled, who was that, and finally released Yan Hude with his life-killing move. Yu Guang glanced at Yan Hude, or, Xiao Liang was not the target of those two in the first place.

"Master Hou, you may tell Yan Hude that our trip to Lincheng, your true purpose!"

Zhong Xihou looked at Yan Hudeliang, who came back after picking up half a life, and held on for nearly an hour. is worthy of being the wolf king, ruthless, not only for the prey, but also for himself.

"A volume of the edicts of the first emperor. ”