Located at the junction of the two states, Zhifu City is nominally the jurisdiction of Yunyin Villa, but in fact it has become an obstacle and buffer for the westward expansion of Yinxun Prefecture, as well as a barrier from the east side of Yangzhou.

Since the establishment of the capital of the Great Xia State, the rumors that Yunyin Mountain Villa and the Yun family have never been interrupted. Yunyin Villa also seems to be mired in proverbs, and the people of Yunyin Villa have a delicate relationship with the Great Xia royal family in the past dynasties. The descendants of Yunyin Villa are friends with the children of the Chai family, who are still the princes, and even friends of life and death. And these princes are also the people who later ascended the throne and became the emperor, and after that, perhaps for some reason, the new emperor did not give too much honor and favor to Yunyin Villa, which was the minister of Fulong, but regarded Yunyin Villa as a vacuum, and other courts and Jianghu clans, either out of consideration for the ministers and worries of the king, or speculated that the sacred heart would not anger Tianyan if the Sacred Heart fell into the well of Yunyin Villa, in short, Yunyin Villa was suppressed a lot in the open.

There are many mountains in Yinxun Prefecture and the land bordering Yangzhou, and once under the instruction of the Great Xia royal family, there were thirteen warriors who reached the peak of the martial realm, and at the cost of affecting the luck of the mountains and rivers in a place, they connected Yinxun Prefecture with the mountains bordering Yangzhou with great magical powers, and the mountains were more steep than before.

At that time, it coincided with the accession of a new emperor of Southern Liang with great ambitions, in order to highlight his heroic strategy and calm the criticism of the Southern Liang Dynasty for his emperor, he ordered to send troops to provoke the Tiger Leaping Pass many times, so the two sides of Yunliang stalemate for a long time, and many times clashed, but with a family of soldiers and horses to contend with a country's soldiers of the Yunyin Villa lost more than the victory, and gradually there was a decline in the Tiger Leaping Pass. At this time, Daxia surrounded all the west of Yunyin Xunzhou with mountains, and the beautiful name was that in case Yunyin Villa could not hold Yinxunzhou, it would not allow the Nanliang Iron Cavalry to drive straight into Yangzhou.

The front-line soldiers are on the battlefield in blood, and these major forces in Great Xia are happy to see the consumption of Yunyin Mountain Villa and Nanliang each other, but they are plotting if Yunyin Mountain Villa turns the spearhead one day, they should deal with it as soon as possible.

Yunyin Villa, which was in a desperate situation, broke the cauldron and sank the boat, and tried his best to assassinate the generals of the unified army and the warriors who accompanied the army, and instigated a Southern Liang royal family who lost to his younger brother in the battle of the Southern Liang to seize the heir, causing internal strife in the Southern Liang sect, so as to force the Liang army to withdraw its troops and resolve the crisis.

Seeing that Yunyin Villa was not destroyed, and at this time, Yinxun Prefecture was already full of mountains in the northwest, bordering the ocean in the south, and Nanliang in the east, and it had become an extralegal place that had no connection with Great Xia. At this time, Yunyin Villa can be said to be the right time, place and people.

And those who wanted to sit and enjoy the success of the temple naturally sat on pins and needles, so they stepped on the soles of their feet, and moved a hill to build a new city where the city is located today, which means that Yin Xun Prefecture has always been the land of Great Xia, and the imperial court is even more concerned about the people of a state, since the war has been over, there should be a land route for Yin Xun Prefecture to communicate with the outside world. At that time, Yunyin Villa had already been obscure, and there was no time to play with many deliberate forces, so they let them control the jurisdiction and city defense of this blessed city in their own hands, until today.

Yunyin Villa seems to have long been accustomed to the situation of Liang Hu in front and Xia Dog in the back, and the position of the defender of Fucheng has become one of the battlefields where several other major forces secretly compete, but it has gradually lost its original purpose.

Over the years, as a land route between Yin Xunzhou and the outside world, the development of the city has become more and more prosperous. And the people in the city are also becoming more and more sensitive to smell in this mixed environment. Ever since three young men of unknown origin in the city today killed people in the streets and were picked up by the city defense army, the people in the city have felt a sense of oppression that the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is all over the city

When everyone was still wondering where this feeling of black clouds pressing down on the city came from and speculated about what happened, there were already dark tides in the city.

In the inn where Yun Xuelan and the three of them stayed, the middle-aged shopkeeper walked out of the room where Yun Xuelan had spent the night before, except for two worn old clothes, the shopkeeper had nothing else in his hands. The shopkeeper closed the door, a look of disappointment on his face, and he muttered a few words and walked downstairs. In the hall on the first floor, a woman is cleaning up the mess of cups and plates left by several people. Seeing the man coming down the stairs, the woman lowered her voice and asked, "Are you sure they won't come back?"

The shopkeeper glared at the woman, but said in a very high voice: "What are you afraid of? They won't come back, nine out of ten are dead at the hands of those people. As he spoke, he threw a few old clothes in his hand downstairs. "Let's throw it all together. Seeing that the three of them made a generous move, they thought that they could leave some valuable objects, but there was nothing but these few pieces of torn clothes, and they were unlucky. ”

"You don't think you make enough money? I'm afraid you won't feel at ease earning this money. The woman was about to bend down to pick up the clothes on the floor, when the door of the inn was slammed open.

The shopkeeper was about to scold, but he saw seven or eight big men dressed in the clothes of the servants breaking into the inn, and he also scolded the shopkeeper's words again. Before the shopkeeper could ask with a smile, the tall and thin man led by him stepped forward and removed his middle-aged chin. The tall and thin man whispered in the shopkeeper's ear: "There is some money that you should not collect, and there are some things that you should not say." ”

The tall and thin man looked at the shopkeeper whose saliva was flowing from his mouth, and the latter's eyes were filled with fear, and the man waved his hand, "Take it away." ”

The woman cried out, "What have we done, that you want to arrest us?" and cried as she sat down on the ground and sprinkled it. The shopkeeper stomped his feet and wanted to say something, but was carried out of the inn by the two.

The tall and thin man walked up to the woman and squatted down, put his face to the woman's ear, and snorted coldly, "At this time, there is no need to act anymore." ”

The woman's cry stopped abruptly, the trepidation and horror in her eyes replaced by an instantaneous coldness and mockery, and she stared contemptuously at the tall and thin man, without saying a word.

"Should I call you Fu Lichun, or should I call you a sticky dragonfly girl Li Chun?" The tall and thin man ignored the woman's cold gaze, still maintaining his previous posture, and put his mouth to the woman's ear.

Hearing this, the woman's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise, and her tone was not as calm as before: "Who are you?

"Take two copies of the money at once, and a man who loves you so much. Isn't it good to live like this without worrying about food and clothing? Report to your two masters on time every month about the situation in the city, and you can do it routinely. But you have to be smart to investigate the life history of the Chen brothers and sisters, but you only reported this matter to the Fu family, so it seems that Fu Lichun is your true identity. You say, if I tell that Ma Gonggong in Ziwei Palace your identity, will the information you have in your hands be enough to exchange you for a whole corpse?" said the tall and thin man as he blew into the woman's ear.

The woman's voice trembled a little, "Who are you, what do you want?"

The tall and thin man ignored the woman's question, and still said to himself: "Check it, as a hunting dog, you should naturally look for prey for your master." It's just that if you have murderous intentions against people who are sorry for offending, you should die. Seeing that the woman did not reply, the tall and thin man pinched her chin with his right hand, causing the woman's head to rise slightly, "Someone came to the inn yesterday and lured your man with a lot of money to try to get the three people who live here to go to the City God Temple today, and the killing plan has already been set up there. I suspect that even if the young man in the black felt hat didn't take the initiative to ask your shopkeeper, he would have taken the initiative to mention the temple fair to the three of them. ”

"Are you from Cloud Hidden Villa?" the woman asked sharply.

The tall and thin man still ignored the woman, "You arranged all of this in advance, right? Is it because on the night of the 29th day of the lunar month, I saw that the person who should have died in the siege of your companions happened to stay at your inn, so he was eager to make meritorious contributions?" The tall and thin man sneered, "Why don't you want to think about why they came to your shop, which has long been closed? Why did your shopkeeper just take their money and keep them in the store for the New Year?" Why don't you want to think about why those people found your man, and he agreed to them without saying a word? You have been together for many years, and he is really this kind of person who loves money like life? Why don't you want to think about it, why did the young man in the black felt hat just ask you what is the excitement of the New Year in the city? Why don't you want to think about it, every step is in your calculations? Is it a last resort or a coincidence?"

Hearing the tall and thin man's aggressive question, the woman's face turned pale, and her lips turned purple and trembled.

"Maybe on a normal day, you should have thought about it a long time ago. It's just that you're too anxious, anxious for quick success. Why do you have to look at me like this?Do you mean to say that your people have already controlled the Chen brothers and sisters, and now there is a master of the Upper Martial Realm who has gone after one of the carriages leaving the General's Mansion?" The man's hand was released, but the woman's head did not hang down, still tilting up slightly.

"He's still going to die, one is in the Martial Realm, six are in the Burning Pottery Realm, can they still make it to Liyang Prefecture alive?" The woman's throat felt as if it had been filled with boiling oil, and laughter could pierce the eardrums.

"It's a pity that you won't be able to see it whether it works out or not. After that, the tall and thin man's right index finger and middle finger clamped the blade sticking out of the woman's sleeve, he smiled slightly, she smiled slightly, but his smile was mockery, and her laugh was self-deprecation.

The tall and thin man walked out of the inn, and the shopkeeper was let go by the two strong men who were holding him, and he lifted his chin with his hand and looked at the tall and thin man.

The tall and thin man pointed behind him and said, "According to your intentions, if you are angry, wait for you to send her on the road in person." ”

The shopkeeper nodded, walked towards the inn, passed by the tall and thin man, and the latter patted the shopkeeper on the shoulder, "I have wronged you all these years, and the master said that he will transfer you out of Zhifu City." Haven't you always wanted to go back to your hometown, and I will arrange for you to go there in a few days. Your parents, your wife, and your children have been taken to the city and moved into a big house. The family members are all people arranged by the owner to protect the family. By the way, the articles written by your son are praised by the masters in the school. ”

Hearing this, the shopkeeper's shoulders trembled, "Let him be a scholar in the future, he doesn't necessarily have to get any fame, it's good to be a teacher like his husband." After that, he thought about it again and said, "Thank you." ”

"Thank me?" asked the tall and thin man.

"Thank you for settling my parents, wife and children for me. Don't say it's arranged by the host. ”

"That's really what the host meant. The tall and thin man shook his head with a wry smile, the two said no more, and the shopkeeper walked into the inn and turned around and closed the door.

After half the incense time, the tall and thin catcher suddenly thought of something, he turned around and kicked open the inn door, the inn was empty, he secretly screamed badly, and rushed to the backyard, just opened the back door of the inn A thick smoke came to his face.

In the light of the fire and smoke, a man in a pink robe embroidered with moire on the cuffs sat on a chair with a pale woman in his arms, and the man in the pink robe seemed to be smiling at him, as if the corners of his lips were moving slightly.

She didn't know who I was, she hadn't used me for seven years, she treated me sincerely and never failed me. But I knew her identity for a long time, and I didn't know whether it was true or false for seven years. I spent seven days and nights with her, and I was ruthless but affectionate. If I were alive, I would be ashamed of her.

The tall and thin man smiled bitterly and sighed, "If you are alive, you will be ashamed of righteousness, and only death will be worthy of loyalty." It's just that the current owner is really different, he really wants to settle your family. ”

The shopkeeper in the pink robe who had smoke rising seemed to hear the tall and thin man's words, and his eyes slowly closed, "Now, even if you die, you are ashamed of this cloud-colored long-distance run." I hope that the dog will also have the honor of wearing this robe. ”

The tall and thin man turned around, ignoring the fire that spread throughout the backyard behind him, billowing smoke, which could be seen in any corner of Zhifu City.

As soon as the tall and thin man stepped out of the inn, he saw the official messenger who came to fight the fire in the yamen, and the leader was stunned for a moment when he saw the tall and thin man, and then said in surprise: "Lord Gao, I can be regarded as finding you." Can you hear the roar coming from the west of the city just now? Lord Yu is looking for you everywhere and asking you to take someone to take you to see it. He looked at the tall and thin man with some confusion.

"This is where the three warriors who killed people on the street before stayed, I wanted to see if they were there, so that I could make amends for them on behalf of Lord Yu, but I found that the shopkeeper in the store had killed his wife and set himself on fire, and the fire in the backyard was not small, so I told my brother to be careful. As he spoke, he ran towards the west gate of the city, and no one noticed his clenched fists and the solemn look of worry on his face.

About half an hour, Chen Chuhe and Chen Chuhan, who sat back on the chessboard, were alarmed by the sound of hurried footsteps. The person who came was Chen Chuhe's personal guard.

As soon as the guards knocked on the door, before Chen Chuhe could answer, he directly pushed the door in, he ignored the young general who was a little displeased and said: "The general is not good, a carriage that went out of the general's mansion earlier had an accident, and there was only one intact corpse at the scene. According to the official who came back to report the news, Master Gao had investigated and the body was a martial artist in the Shangwu Realm, who was seriously injured and died in a fight with people after being seriously injured. There were also seven or eight tragic bodies at the scene, which had been bombed to the point that it was difficult to discern the number of dead. Lord Yu asked the general to go and check it out. ”

Hearing this, Chen Chuhe glanced at his sister deeply, but the latter still looked down at the chess game. "Han'er. What's going on?"

"Brother, I won. The clouds in the hands of the woman in the green shirt gently dripped off the chessboard, she raised her head and smiled at Chen Chuhe, it seemed that the sky was cloudless, the man looked down, and the plate was full of clouds.