South continent is beautiful, but Jiangnan is beautiful.

After changing the name of the country and the emperor, Nanzhou was filled with officials sent by the Shengchang court, and slowly adjusted and restricted the hearts of the people in the old Jiangnan.

In the past, Jiangnan, the legal system is unique, let you be the lowest level of the people, or the royal family, as long as you make a mistake, then everyone is equal, the monarch Dong Zhengyang before the overthrow of the country is the admirer of this kind of folk customs, there was a continent of assassins on the way to Beijing to face the saint, occasionally heard a few people gossip, muttering bad things about him, he on the spot those people by slandering his reputation, brought to justice, beaten and put in prison, but the news soon reached the ears of the Jiangnan Emperor Dong Zhengyang, but the Zhou Assassin who abused his official power was deprived of his official position the next day, reduced to an ordinary person, and even the Jiupin Sesame official did not have to do。

The people of Jiangnan are simple, everyone is a patriot, the officials seek the welfare of the people, and the people serve the country again.

Today's restaurant openly talks about national affairs, in other places will never appear, people here are used to the kind of taboo-free, there is a life of one to say, the local government is gradually accustomed to this kind of disobedience, because it really can't be managed, even if a few examples are caught to kill chickens and monkeys, still can not deter the Jiangnan people who are not afraid of death, they seem to be born with a kind of death as home, to sacrifice their lives for the country and the extreme character.

Jiangnan has been in exile for more than ten years, and so far every Jiangnan people's resentment towards Shengchang has only increased.

In the restaurant, the men talked more and more fiercely through the wine, talking about how the general Yuan Qinghe, who has the "Flower of Thunder", is superb, saying that Daqi will definitely die within a year, and bluntly called the Shengchang monarch the emperor Lao'er, what our Jiangnan Erlang is a Jiangnan ghost until he dies, what bullshit Nanzhou, Jiangnan has no place at all......

On the first floor of the restaurant where Hua Wenxiang is located, twenty tables of size are already full of visitors, among which two tables are the most eye-catching, a table in the northwest corner sits with an ink-colored satin coat of the handsome boy, and a golden wire cage with a colorful parrot is placed on the table, the parrot is able to learn to speak, and has been shouting, but there are only two words "shut up", and there are two fierce and vicious servants standing behind the son, constantly looking around.

The other table is a man and an old man, separated by a table from the boy with the birdcage, the man is ordinary, no different from ordinary people, but the old man's eyebrows are white, his eyes are squinted, showing a sense of superiority.

The wine and tea guests on the first floor occasionally glanced at the two tables with their spare eyes, and the table in the corner was no stranger to everyone, it was Xu Bin, the son of the city lord Xu Yuan, who carried a broken birdcage all day long, wandering around with two dogs, doing nothing.

As for the white-haired old man and the rough man, they should be outsiders.

When everyone was chatting hotly, Xu Bin in the corner finally couldn't bear it, slapped the table, stood up and shouted: "Wait for Diao Min, talking nonsense in broad daylight, is it really that the king's law does not exist and no one controls it?"

The sound was very loud, and the restaurant was silent for a while, but after about two or three breaths, the restaurant returned to a noisy atmosphere.

This is the temperament of Jiangnan people, not afraid of power, no matter what if you are the only son of the city lord, my generation of Jiangnan people do their own thing, never bow their eyebrows and pleasing their eyes, make mistakes and admit themselves, and know themselves without mistakes.

Xu Bin, who was ignored, scolded angrily, but no one paid attention to him, the two evil servants only begged not to fight in their hearts at this time, so many barbarian Jiangnan people hugged each other, they must not be able to cope with it.

The old man with snow-white eyebrows glanced at the embarrassed Xu Bin, and then asked the man opposite, Cangmai, "Brother Chu, is that Xu Bin?"

The rough man surnamed Chu took a big sip of wine, wiped his mouth and said, "That's right, this kid is Xu Yuan's only son, Xu Bin." ”

The old man nodded, then stopped speaking, and poured his wine again.

The restaurant was noisy, and Xu Bin didn't hear the conversation between the two not far away at all.

The flower Wenxiang by the window has been observing Xu Bin, who is standing at the table and no one is paying attention.

Xu Bin, who is the number one gentleman in Fengcheng, is not a villain, he just wants to establish some majesty in the city, so that he can take over his father's position in the future.

Unexpectedly, the father and son were promoted from Shangyi's side for thousands of miles, and they suffered from the white eyes and disdain of the people here.

Today's Nanzhou people hate outsiders the most, because almost all outsiders belong to the people of Shengchang.

The annoyed Xu Bin looked at the people at the wine table one by one, "A group of rabble, savage and rough people." ”

After scolding, Xu Bin left the restaurant with a gloomy expression.

One of the two servants carried the birdcage, and the other said a word to the shopkeeper to keep the account, and then followed.

The shopkeeper sighed helplessly, and scolded in his heart, "The bill has accumulated more than 500 taels, and every time it is on credit, such a person who has lost his conscience still expects the whole city to respect you well? ”

Hua Wenxiang looked out the window at Xu Bin in the distance, it was hard to imagine why such a person would want to do a powerful beast business?

After Xu Bin left, the rough man and the white-haired old man followed.

After taking a sip of tea, Hua Wenxiang handed Tu Yuelian ten taels of silver, "A few of you will go to Sword City first, and I will arrive later." ”

Hua Wenxiang drank all the tea in her hand, and hurriedly added: "Don't ask why, you go first, don't delay Little Bear to join the army." ”

Hei Qiu'er, who understands the temperament of Hua Wen Xiang, said: "Then you hurry up and join us, don't stay here for a long time." ”

After Tu Yuelian put away the silver, she didn't ask much, "Then we will meet in Sword City." ”

Xiong Hengye said to Hua Wenxiang, who was about to get up and leave: "Go early and return early, we are waiting for you in Sword City." ”

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The flowers that came out of the restaurant were warm and fragrant, and they quickly followed the surnamed Chu Hanzi and the white-haired old man who left on the front foot, but fortunately, they were not fast along the way, and they did not lose their followers.

Xu Bin swaggered down the lively street, followed by unknown men and old people, and then followed by flowers and fragrance.

After that, Xu Bin, who was unaware, came to an abandoned house, and several nearby houses had been uninhabited for a long time, dilapidated, and the surroundings seemed very quiet because of no one was active.

Two servants, one on the left and one on the right, stood guard at the gate of the courtyard.

Out of the house came a man in a blood-colored robe, with a full head of red hair, and he also had a pair of strange blood pupils, his temperament was cold, his eyes were like an abyss, except for his skin, his whole body was bright red.

Xu Bin knelt down on one knee, palmed his knee with one hand, and carried the back with the other, "Master Zeng, my father asked me to meet you here, I don't know what to order?"

The man who exuded a strong aura of danger came to Xu Bin's neck at some point, revealing the two fangs that only a beast can have, "Call the two people outside the door in." ”

Xu Bin, who was covered in cold sweat, hurriedly beckoned the servants outside the door to enter the courtyard.

As soon as the person in front of him pushed the door in, he was bitten by a bright red man in the face, greedily sucking up the meager blood and soul qi in his body, and the person soon became a gray skin and bones, miserable.

The other was about to turn and run away, but it was too late, the blood-robed man had already bitten his neck, and in an instant, there were two dry corpses and an upside-down golden wire cage lying on the ground.

At the moment when the blood-robed man returned to normal, he found that there was a blood-colored jade plate on his waist, and the jade plate shook around his waist before it stabilized, and the word "charm" was clearly engraved on it.

The white-haired old man and the surnamed Chu Hanzi, who were hiding in the nearby house, had a gloomy expression after seeing the jade plate, and cold sweat was faintly oozing from their foreheads.

The two people in the house chose to wait and see if they could gather some additional information, and then tell the city lord together.

Hua Wenxiang, who was hiding in the nearby yard, only listened to a few screams in the courtyard, and did not witness the murder scene, and then he saw two shriveled corpses along the cracked wall, since he came out of the forest, including life in the forest, Hua Wenxiang has really never seen the scene of directly killing each other, but there is no other discomfort, when he was in the forest, the second uncle said that human life is cheap into ants, and he will always be crushed to death by some big people at will, compared to these situations will often occur in the future.

The blood-robed man walked slowly into the courtyard, as if nothing had happened just now.

Xu Bin, who was still kneeling on one knee in the courtyard, did not move at all, his clothes were wet, and his sweat was like rain, he didn't dare to look at the man in the blood robe, for fear that he would become the two people at the door in the next moment.

The blood-robed man added his lips with satisfaction, approached Xu Bin and said, "Master Xu, you have been followed all the way, raising such two straw bales that can only eat idle meals, I will help you kill them, you won't blame me, right?"

Xu Bin, who was almost frightened, lowered his head and said in a trembling voice: "No, no, I have to thank Master Zeng for helping to dispose of these two wastes." ”

As for the previous sentence of being followed, Xu Bin, who was blank-minded, didn't listen to it at all.

The blood-robed man had already sucked the blood and soul qi of the two of them today, as if he was no longer interested in sucking the next one, so he didn't bother to deal with the few miscellaneous pieces on the roof and on the other side of the wall, and the blood-robed man was not afraid that they would hear the conversation in the courtyard, so he instructed Xu Bin: "Tonight, on the third watch, you take someone to the underground market in Sword City to pick up the goods, don't make any mistakes for me, otherwise the two outside will be your end, and your old father will have to count on you to inherit the lineage." ”

Xu Bin, who was extremely frightened, had unconsciously knelt on his knees, "Xu Bin will definitely not disappoint Lord Zeng." ”

The slender blood-robed man walked out of the courtyard and left.

The two people on the roof and Hua Wenxiang immediately fled as fast as they could.

The blood-robed man who walked out of the courtyard tightened his waist with the blood card engraved with "Wei Mei", and smiled, "There are really people who are not afraid of death, and they have found the head of the Wei Mei Pavilion." ”

(End of chapter)