Los Angeles is the capital of the state of Yin Xun. It is also the only capital in Kyushu of the Great Xia Dynasty that has not been built here. Since the day Yunyin Villa was canonized as a hereditary king with a different surname, it built its mansion at the Tiger Leaping Pass, the closest to Nanliang, and ran an inconspicuous town into today's Yunyin City.

Although the scale of Cloud Hidden City is far from being comparable to Luoshi City, it is the most turbulent city in the entire Yin Xun Prefecture. I don't know how many warriors and spies from inside and outside Great Xia are hidden in the city, so it is natural that Cloud Hidden City needs a kind of prosperity to cover up these turbulent undercurrents.

Of course, the prosperity of Yunyin City is due to the management of the people of the Yun family in the past dynasties and the border trade. In comparison, although Luoshi City is far superior to Yunyin City in terms of scale and prosperity, it lacks some domineering as the capital of a state, and it will always make people feel that the existence of Yunwang Mansion is missing, and its status and momentum are inferior to Yunyin City, which inevitably makes the state capital and assassin history who live in the city a little embarrassed. I always feel that I am in the capital.

However, fortunately, the Yun family is not greedy for power, and they are really dedicated to guarding the southeast border pass of Great Xia, instead of being like other family forces, while putting on a high-spirited posture and saying that they will not interfere in the political affairs of a state, and on the other hand, they use their own power to turn local officials into puppets. Because of the Yun family's consistent low-key and indisputable world, it allows the capital of Yinxun Prefecture to show its ambitions, although Yinxun Prefecture is the smallest state in Kyushu, the civil economy is not inferior to those large states with vast land and fertile fields.

According to the local government system of Great Xia, there will be one state capital and one state in each state, which will be the official positions of the second rank and the subordinate of the second rank. In addition, the imperial court will also send a Zheng Erpin assassin to garrison the states to supervise the local military and government people's livelihood. The capital of Yin Xunzhou is an old man who is close to antiquity. The old man reverted to the surname Huangfu, when he entered the WTO, he worshiped under the Ministry of Shangshu at that time, and since then his career has been smooth, and he was transferred to Yin Xunzhou at the age of 50, and he has been in office for nearly 20 years.

The old man's fellow disciples or those who were officials in the same dynasty as him, and now only the bachelor of the Guozijian is left, who is the mentor of the prince of the dynasty. The old man has never served in the Sixth Ministry, and he often puts a sentence on his lips: "The national economy and the people's livelihood, the people's livelihood is more important than the national economy, the heavenly officials of the Sixth Ministry are worried about the national economy, and the local officials are worried about the people's livelihood." I am a worrying life, so that I can be in the locality, even if I am a county magistrate, I am willing to worry about the local people for the rest of my life. ”

The old man's health has deteriorated in recent years, and he gradually doesn't care too much about state politics. All matters in the state are handled by the state. Zhou Cheng is Yun Xuelan's third uncle. This elegant middle-aged man named Yun Chuan has been at odds with several of his brothers and sisters since he was a child. Although he followed the ancestral teachings of the Yun family and cultivated martial arts since he was a child, he also treated himself as a literati. Maybe it's the Qing Gao of the literati, he has always felt that everything the Yun family has today, whether it is the power of Yunyin Villa, or the prosperity of Yunyin City, or the garrison of Tiger Leaping Pass is the ancestral legacy of the Yun family, and the ancestral family business naturally cannot be wasted, but he is bent on relying on his own ability to enter the world as an official. Now that he has become a state state, he really does not rely on the power and connections of the Yun family, and the Yun family does not secretly help him operate in the slightest.

The owner of the Luoshi City Assassin Mansion is named Li Hanren, and he has been serving as the assassin in Yin Xunzhou for eight years. Li Hanren has a daughter and a son. It's a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses. Sister Li Yingxin and younger brother Li Haozi.

Because Li Hanren is a pure literati who doesn't know a little bit of martial arts, he is very close to Yun Jinchuan, and the two have often moved around since they worked together, not only because the two hit it off on politics, but also because their personalities and tempers are different. Therefore, although it seems to outsiders that the two have become friends, the two did not collude with each other, and did not have close contacts with other officials in the DPRK and China, but supported each other to govern the state in an orderly manner.

Li Haozi has been interested in martial arts since he was a child, at first Li Hanren also invited the warriors in Luoshi City to guide his young son, and later after being introduced by Yun Jinchuan, Li Haozi was sent to Yunyin Villa to practice martial arts with the children of the Yun family. Because they were the same age as Yun Xuelan, the two practiced and studied together in the villa for five years.

The love of growing up together is very deep. Although Li Hanren dotes on his son, he will follow his son's will in many things. But as a scholar, I still have some contemptuous thoughts about martial artists in my bones. So when Li Haozi was thirteen years old, he took him back to Luoshi City from Yunyin Villa, although he was still allowed to practice martial arts every day, but more time was spent on gaining fame and studying the science of governing the world.

Although Li Haozi is talented and intelligent, he has the ability to never forget, and the gentleman who taught him to read often said that if he uses his mind to practice martial arts in reading, he will have the ability to be in the palace before he reaches the crown.

But Li Haozi yearns for the rivers and lakes. I always look forward to the day when I will travel all over the world, be accompanied by sword wine, and be happy and unrestrained. The father and son have quarreled many times because of this matter. Li Haozi also used hunger strikes and ran away to fight. Although Li Hanren is familiar with the management of a state's government affairs, he seems to be teaching his son not to do anything, and he is neither willing to compromise directly with his son, nor willing to watch his son torture himself like this. I thought that maybe the child was still young and ignorant, and he couldn't understand the good intentions of being a father, so he acquiesced to his son's current "nonsense", but he still hoped that one day his son would suddenly open his mind and realize his father's desire to become a dragon and his good intentions to plan for his son's future.

But because of this, the relationship between father and son is not harmonious, except for the visit of important guests in the house, out of etiquette and court regulations, Li Haozi had to attend, the rest of the time there is almost no scene of the father and son appearing at the same time in the Assassin's Mansion, even if the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion and Chongyang ascending, Li Haozi did not attend the family banquet. Rather, he got drunk with the reckless warrior in his father's eyes at a wine shop in the city.

Every time Li Haozi was drunk, he would talk about one of his childhood friends with his tablemates. When it comes to rising, the boy will step on the bench with one foot and step directly on the table with the other, and roll up the sleeves of his coat, revealing his still somewhat thin arms. The young man pinched his waist with one hand, picked up the wine jar with the other, and said loudly with a red face: "Do you know who my best brother is? He is Yun Xuelan, the young owner of Yunyin Mountain Villa. Yunyin Villa, you know, the descendant of Yun Ziya's predecessor who saved Taizu among the founding eight kings. This brother of mine is the best young genius I have ever seen. Compared to him, the young heroes of other forces are not even scum. I have been cultivating with him since I was a child, and his cultivation speed and understanding of the martial arts will really make it difficult for people of his generation to match. We made an appointment together, and when we arrived in the Zhongwu Realm, we would go to the rivers and lakes together, we would drink the strongest wine in the world, tame the wildest horses in the world, conquer the most beautiful and pungent girls in the rivers and lakes, break the fastest swordsmanship in the world, ask the hardest fist in the world, kill the most evil people in the rivers and lakes, and exterminate the most fierce bandits in Great Xia. We are going to Nanliang, we want to stir up the bloody wind and rain in the rivers and lakes of Nanliang, defeat the strong men of Nanliang to pacify the rivers and lakes, destroy the soldiers of Nanliang, and recover the lost land of our Great Xia. ”

At this point, the boy would throw his head up and pour the drink, which ran down the boy's somewhat green cheeks and soaked his clothes. The boy slammed the jar to the ground, and spilled pottery shards and half a jar of wine all over the ground.

The young man continued to proudly say: "I envy my brother, not only envy his talent in martial arts is better than mine, but also envy him for having a good background. said that he was from a good background, not that I also wanted to be born in the palace, when it comes to family background, although I am not as good as Yunyin Villa, but my father has also been an official for so many years, it is true that he is honest and honest, and it is true that the court is good, so I am not jealous of my brother's financial resources. What I'm jealous of is that he can come from a family of martial artists. has a long family heritage and inheritance, and there are so many people who can guide him in martial arts to help him cultivate, and I am even more jealous that he has a good father. You don't know, my brother was born with a hidden disease, and he shouldn't have cultivated. His father, that is, Yun Wang Ye, had also prevented him from cultivating many times, but in the end, he still fulfilled my brother's wish. But if you look at my father again, my father is a sour and rotten Confucian who is stubborn. Every day, I think about letting me study, let me get famous, and let me become an official in the court. I wondered what was so good about being an official, and if I really joined the WTO, I would rather give up my pen and follow Rong. Being a civilian official who can only talk on paper every day can neither open up territory for the country nor protect the people to live and work in peace and contentment. It's better to gallop the field and kill a few more Southern Liang barbarians. Rather than being kept in a cage like a canary, I would rather be born into an ordinary family. ”

The young man said impassionedly, and everyone listened to it with great anger. It seems that the depression of the teenager who empathizes with him and the sea in the mouth of those teenagers in the rivers and lakes are also yearning for the sky and the birds flying. The crowd would also pick up the wine and drink with the young man. A martial artist on the side coaxed: "Lord Little Thorn Shi, this brother of yours is so miraculous by what you say, when will you be able to introduce us to each other, so that we can have a relationship with Yunyin Mountain Villa?"

"What little thorn Shi, you want to call Li Shaoxia." The martial artist next to him quipped: "Buddies want to know this Yun Shaozhuang master in Li Shaoxia's mouth." Don't ask for anything to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, as long as this Yun Shaozhuang owner can be the same as you Li Shaoxia, without the stinky problems and official shelves of so many wealthy children, you can sit in this leaky wine shop with your brothers, and invite our brothers to drink the most expensive burnt knives here, which is to give our brothers a few faces. ”

"Yes, Li Shaoxia, a person who can be called a brother and sister with such a bold person as you, his temperament will naturally not be bad, if he is really your brother, ask him to come here and invite a few brothers to drink." ”

Everyone, you and I laughed at each word. It seemed that he was young and vigorous, maybe because of the drunkenness, the young man patted his chest and said: "You wait, after a while, I will send someone to Yunyin Mountain Villa to deliver a letter, and ask my brother to come here and invite a few brothers to drink." ”

So the crowd will continue to drink heartily. When Li Haozi was carried into the Li Mansion by the servants in the carriage, the young man was already drunk like a puddle of mud. When Li Hanren knew that his son was drunk again in a street wine shop and returned from the market gangsters in his eyes, he could only sigh at the misfortune of the family, and then confessed to the ancestors of the Li family in his heart, and then endured the distress and did not send anyone to take a look.

At this time, Li Yingxin will run out of his boudoir in a hurry. While instructing his subordinates to boil a bowl of sobering soup, he came to his younger brother's side, and sent his younger brother back to the room with pity and complaint.

Along the way, she would keep chanting, "I shouldn't have sent you to Yunyin Mountain Villa in the first place to cultivate with that kid named Yun Xuelan." I've heard that he's just a waste who can't cultivate. I don't know what kind of ecstasy soup he poured into you, it will make you think that he is a kind of cultivation genius, and it will make your heart become so wild. You are such a well-behaved and clever child, isn't it good to spend more time on reading. My father and I are looking forward to you wearing a purple robe in the future to glorify our Li family. It's good that you were blinded by the waste lard of the Yun family, and you were thinking about what rivers and lakes to explore. What's so good about the rivers and lakes, it's insulting to fight and kill. Sleeping in the open, you haven't even been out of the house since you were a child, how can you stand this kind of suffering. Sooner or later, I will get married, you are the only son of our Li family, if you have any mistakes, after our Li family is gone, how do you want your father to explain to the ancestors and ancestors in the future? How can you explain to our mother? You are bent on your dreams of the rivers and lakes, I think that little bastard surnamed Yun dares to come to Luoshi City, dare to come to our Li Mansion. If he really comes, I don't care what kind of young owner of Yunyin Mountain Villa is, I will kill this bastard who abducted my brother with one knife. ”

At this moment, the young man didn't know if he was dreaming or really heard his sister's vicious words to his brother, and he muttered indistinctly: "He is my brother, the best brother, you can't say him, he is not a waste." ”

The teenager still remembers that on the eve of being taken back to the Li Mansion by his father, the two teenagers sat in the bamboo sea of Yunxuelan. The young man, who was the owner, took out two pots of wine that he had stolen, and this was the old wine that the young man had asked his guard Rin Tan to go to the cellar of the villa, and it was specially used to open the altar when entertaining distinguished guests. Two teenagers, one person and one jar of wine, bathed in the moonlight. Not far away, a young man in black who was slightly older than them stood straight, guarding the last tranquility and a little sentimentality before the two teenagers parted.

"Mouse, you go back to the Li Mansion tomorrow. Does your father still let you cultivate?"

"Whether my father lets me or not, I have to cultivate. ”

"I heard from the person who came to pick you up this time that your father asked you to go back to let you study, and in the future you will gain fame and fame, and do the history of assassination like him, maybe you want to enter the sixth department to make a book. ”

"What's so good about being an official?

"But you are the son of the Li family, the son of Li Hanren, you have your life, not only your fate, but also your mission. It is to be the six Shangshu, or the scholars of Guozijian, to win glory for your Li family and do their duty for Daxia. ”

"And what is your life?"

"For the Yun family, for the Great Xia to guard the border, from the Southern Liang invasion. Shocked the Southern Liang Wulin and made it dare not act rashly. If there is really a war in the future, put on armor and go into battle, take the lead, and shroud the body in horse leather. When the young man said this, his tone became extremely sad and depressed, "But I may not be able to do this, my fate is destined to be a waste person who cannot cultivate and break through to a higher realm, maybe he can hereditarily disregard my father's title, maybe he will still be the next owner of Yunyin Mountain Villa, but maybe it will become the biggest joke in the rivers and lakes and the court, and the Yun family has a puppet prince." ”

"No, let's say okay, from the first day we met, we said okay, when we get to the Zhongwu Realm to break through the bottleneck of the Shangwu Realm, we will travel the world together and explore the rivers and lakes together. Did you forget?"

"How could I forget, why don't I want to, I don't want to let this river and lake leave my name Yun Xuelan, so that future generations will mention the rivers and lakes of our time, and they will think of the legend of Li Haozi and Yun Xuelan. I don't want to pacify the entire rivers and lakes of Nanliang with my own strength, and lead the Yun family army into the Nanliang Imperial Palace, so that it can return to my Great Xia territory. But you know, the higher my cultivation level, the more severe the seizure. I'm afraid I won't be able to make it to the day when I travel the world with you. If you can really live until you reach the Six Realms, I think you must also be a wasted person who has cultivated to nothing. ”

"No, Mr. Zhongli is a skilled doctor, and he said that maybe there is a cure for your pulse disease. Lord Yun has not given up seeking medical treatment for you all these years, looking for a way to heal you. I have cultivated so hard so that I can travel the entire world with you in the future, but unfortunately my cultivation talent is too poor, if I can be half as smart as you, or use my useless brain to practice martial arts, I will not be undiligent all the time, and I will delay your time. ”

The young man on the side did not answer, but fell into deep thought. After a long time, the boy took out a golden bean and a long, narrow saber from his mustard seed.

The scabbard is wound with silver wire, the handle is blue, and the mouth of a shark swallowing waves is engraved on it. The young man handed over two things to Li Haozi and said, "You said that you like to use knives, and when the Li Mansion sent someone to pick you up the day before yesterday, I begged my sister to take me to the Yun family's arsenal and chose this knife for you." This knife was once used by one of the killers of the first generation of our Villa's Dark Cloud Guard. Originally, this knife didn't have a name, so I gave it a name called Lang Ji. Since we are going to break into the rivers and lakes, then you use this knife to kill those who are making waves in the rivers and lakes, and use this knife to curb the wind and waves in the rivers and lakes, and the rivers and lakes where you Li Haozi are in will have waves, and the rivers and lakes after you leave will be calm. The wind and waves of the rivers and lakes rise and fall, start with your heart, and stop with your sword. In addition, let's say okay, one person has a tall horse, which is the money to buy a horse. You don't always think about buying a white horse, you are more handsome and chic on a black horse. ”

The boy took the two things and did not speak, he did not draw the knife, but looked at the young man in front of him. The other party continued to speak: "If I can continue to cultivate, I will definitely go to the rivers and lakes with you, if I can't cultivate, if you really can, take this knife, travel for me, and let the rivers and lakes leave your name Li Haozi, I knew that the rivers and lakes had a luggage swordsman in the villa, so I knew that it was you, and I walked through the rivers and lakes by myself." ”

The next day, when the boy left, the boy did not say goodbye. The boy didn't look back.

The night blew on Li Haozi's face, and the young man's alcohol retreated slightly. He said to himself: "Brother Lan, if I hadn't wandered the rivers and lakes, would you blame me?"

The only answers to him were his sister's nagging and the low sobs of the night wind.

I don't know anything about the rivers and lakes when I am young, and I am already a person from the rivers and lakes.