Chapter 42 The road is narrow
When Wang Xianzhi heard Chu Jiang coming back, he said happily: "Please let him in." ”
Under Chu Jiang's seat is the divine horse "Pang Yun", and Yue Xuanqiu's mount is also extraordinary, and these two of them arrived one step ahead of others. Chu Jiangkai arranged for Yue Xuanqiu to stay in the city, and then went to the general to discuss with Wang Xianzhi.
As soon as Chu Jiang Kaifu came in, he saw Huang Chao and Li Keyong. Because Huang Chao, Li Keyong, etc. have had a relationship with him, so there is no need for cumbersome etiquette. After he finished saluting everyone, he sat down and told him about the Juancheng Martial Arts Alliance and the declaration of war on the Green Forest.
After hearing this, everyone began to whisper, only Liu Ding was the only one who looked at the nose and nose, nose and mouth, wandering out of the world, and seemed to be not very concerned about the affairs of the rivers and lakes.
Wang Xianzhi waved his hand to suppress everyone's discussions, and said: "This martial arts thousand families have always been harmonious and different, but now they have built a martial arts alliance, I am afraid that it is not only as simple as martial arts and green forests fighting." ”
Wu Juncai continued: "Behind this, eight or nine is also the meaning of the imperial court. ”
When everyone heard this, they exclaimed: "Could it be that the Martial Arts Alliance wants to deal with our grass army?"
Huang Chao said: "The old man thinks that the martial arts alliance will not dare to easily clash head-on with the grass army, otherwise it will not abandon Juancheng and go to Caozhou." ”
After listening to this, everyone felt that it was reasonable that the grass army in Caozhou was stronger than that in Puzhou.
Chu Jiang said: "Although the Martial Arts Alliance is determined to find the bad luck of the green forest, this place of battle is within the boundary of Caozhou. Once a conflict occurs, it will inevitably affect the grass army. Besides, now that the martial arts are suddenly in trouble, the Green Forest gang is not well prepared, if the Green Forest retreats, I am afraid that it will ......"
Chu Jiangkai didn't finish speaking, but most of the people present understood the meaning of his words. Behind the martial arts alliance may be the imperial court, if the martial arts alliance wins the Caozhou green forest, then the grass army will be "internal and external troubles".
Li Keyong said with a smile: "Looking down, although the green forest is very passive at this time, it will not collapse for thousands of miles. It only needs to hold on for a long time, and it won't be long before there will be a fire in the backyard of Wulin. ”
The crowd asked.
Li Keyong said: "There is one force that Wulin ignores, and that is Manichaeism. They don't know that Manichaeism has been dormant in the Central Plains, and its purpose, I think, will at least first take over the entire rivers and lakes, or even the whole world!"
When everyone heard that this Manichaean plot was not small, they were all shocked. Like Wulin, they all knew that Manichaeism was chasing Wei Qimu, but they didn't expect that this Manichaeism was in the Central Plains.
Li Keyong continued: "The Manichaeans want to plot the rivers and lakes, and this is their perfect opportunity. Because the elite disciples of the various factions of the martial arts are mostly gathered in Pu and Cao Erzhou, so that the mountain gate is empty, Manichaeism will definitely take the opportunity to swallow up the various factions. ”
Wang Xianzhi asked, "Then how can you conclude that Manichaeism will not take the opportunity to destroy the Green Forest Gang?"
Li Keyong said with a smile: "The helm of the Salt Gang is far away in the Dongting Mountain in the heart of Taihu Lake, occupying a favorable location. Manichaeism is not good at water warfare, and does not dare to take risks. What's more, the Bingmen, Changbai, and Thief sects are mysterious, and the Manichaeans may not even know the details of where their mountain gates are, so how can they succeed? If the Manichaeans can't swallow up these four major gangs, then how can they swallow up the green forest? And the martial arts factions are different, the mountain gates, resources, and Taoist systems are there, and if you destroy one, there will be one less. ”
Everyone felt justified when they heard it, and Huang Chao unconsciously glanced at him again.
While everyone was talking, another grass army attendant came in and said, "General, there are two groups of people outside who are about to fight." ”
Wang Xianzhi frowned and said, "Which two groups of people?"
Everyone is also curious, what kind of person dares to do it in front of the general's line?
I only heard the attendant reply: "On one side is a monk and a white-clothed masked woman, saying that they are here to find Yuan Zifeng, the young master of Changbai, and on the other side is a rough-clothed man and a woman in black, saying that they are looking for Huang Gong." ”
Li Keyong and Huang Chao were stunned when they heard this, but Li Keyong thought deeply: "Isn't Ye Lianxue Ye Sect Master here?" Huang Chao didn't know who it was, so he walked out with Li Keyong, and everyone else came out one after another.
Yuan Zifeng, Yun Feifei, and Yun Feifei arrived first, and they saw one of the women, dressed in white, out of the dust, who was not the master of the Ice Gate, Ye Lianxue, who came? At this time, Ye Lianxue and the two were confronting the man and the woman, and there were grass army sergeants on both sides, so the four of them had not yet made a move. Yun Hail looked at the woman in black again, but she was covered with a black veil and a tear mole in the corner of her eye, which was quite amorous.
This man and woman are Huang Zhen and Wang Jing who came from Juancheng. It turned out that they had learned from the road that Huang Chao had raised troops last night and had arrived in Jiyin City. Therefore, the two of them did not reply to the grievances, and went straight to this Jiyin City. And after the demon monk pursued Huang Zhen to no avail, he also followed Ye Lianxue to Caozhou. These four people met today just in front of the great general's line.
As the saying goes, "When enemies meet, they are very red." Fortunately, the sergeant in front of the line drank the two of them, and after asking the four of them about their intentions, they reported to the inside.
Yun Hail pounced on Ye Lianxue's side, and shouted "Master" coquettishly. The corner of her eyes turned to Huang Zhen with a hostile expression.
Huang Zhen glanced at her, and when she saw her appearance, she also snorted coldly in her heart.
"Demon girl, is there still a master to save you today? The demon monk played with the taste. He looked at Huang Zhen coldly, as if he was looking at a dead man.
Huang Zhen was so angry that she was about to speak, but she heard a voice in the door following her footsteps: "Joke, I see who dares to touch my sister in this world!"
The person who spoke was Liu Ding. He came out with everyone, saw Huang Zhen in the door, and happened to hear the words of the demon monk, and his heart was on fire, so he jumped over. Huang Zhen can be said to have grown up with him, and he pities it the most, where can he allow others to make things so difficult?
As soon as these words came out, the demon monk, Ye Lianxue, and Yun Hail and others all set their eyes on Liu Ding. This taciturn young man in white has a very cold face. Many people in the field know that this is Huang Chao's eldest son, so isn't his sister Huang Chao's daughter?
And the demon monk didn't recognize Liu Ding, and after looking at him a few times, he snorted coldly: "You are a man, and you have become a mother-in-law, and you are embarrassed to speak!"
Liu Ding's face suddenly turned pale when he heard this, and there was no blood. He glared angrily, his hand on the hilt of his sword, trembling slightly.
It turns out that the Yin and Yang family has long since declined, and even the martial arts inheritance has only been left with the Yin scroll in "Five Virtues Always". Therefore, in the past hundred years, the Yin and Yang family has only left the Yin School. Since then, yin and yang have been out of balance and have collapsed. But since Liu Ding entered the Zou family, he had to learn this set of Yin scrolls. The swordsmanship on the Yin scroll can be used by both men and women, of course, especially for women. However, the internal power above the yin scroll is not suitable for men to practice. Over time, the yin qi in Liu Ding's body became heavier and heavier, causing his temperament to change greatly and be extremely feminine, which also caused him to become taciturn.
Huang Zhen naturally knew her brother's heart disease, she ignored the demon monk, and said with a smile: "Brother, don't pay attention to this crazy monk's tongue, he bullied me inexplicably before." ”
At this time, Huang Chao, Wang Xianzhi, Li Keyong and others have also come out. Wang Xianzhi glanced at everyone, and said with a smile: "Heroes, since you are here, why don't you put aside your grievances for the time being and go into the house to drink?"
Wang Xianzhi is the general of the grass army, and there are entanglements in the rivers and lakes here, not to mention that Huang Chao is involved, so he naturally wants to come forward to speak.
Li Keyong saw a handsome monk standing with Ye Lianxue, and immediately remembered the flying pigeon transmission that Ye Lianxue received in Weizhou before, and knew that the two of them had a close relationship. Li Keyong didn't want a few people from Bingmen to have a conflict with Huang Chao, so he also helped: "What General Wang said is very true, this is the general's line, not the rivers and lakes, and I won't talk about grievances today." ”
The demon monk obviously didn't appreciate it, and he didn't want to sell it to anyone, so he still said coldly: "Demon girl, take me to the Zou family, and let you go." ”
Huang Chao frowned when he heard the words "Zou family", and said in his heart: "Could it be that the details of the matter back then were leaked?"
Chu Jiangkai sneered: "This master doesn't take the people of the world in his eyes anymore, this is Jiyin City, not the Dharma Academy." ”
This is very polite, Chu Jiangkai is already familiar with Huang Zhen, Wei Qimu and others, and for him, these people have the grace to help him save his life. He also saw that this monk didn't take Wang Xianzhi in his eyes at all, and he couldn't say that he wanted to come out to extinguish his arrogance.
When the demon monk heard this, he didn't mind at all, he glanced at Chu Jiangkai a few times, and then his gaze stopped for a moment on the Taibai sword in his hand, and frowned: "You are Chu Jiangkai?"
The demon monk originally came to Caozhou to look for Chu Jiangkai, but he was entangled by the wild monk all the way on the road, and he met Huang Zhen, which delayed a lot of time.
Chu Jiang said: "Exactly." ”
The demon monk's brows were no longer wrinkled, and he said, "I was entrusted by your master to look for you, and you and I will talk another day." As he spoke, he took out an emerald green wrench from his bosom, which was crystal clear and transparent, and the glow flowed. If you look closely, you will find that the inside of the wrench is a blooming green lotus.
Chu Jiangkai saw it clearly, and said in his heart that this monk must have a lot to do with the master, otherwise there would never be a token of the master. Of course, he didn't think anyone could snatch the wrench from his master's hands. So, Chu Jiangkai had to look at Huang Zhen apologetically, saying that he couldn't make a move.
Huang Chao's heart became more and more uneasy. Chu Jiangkai is already so good, then his master is only afraid that it will be even more powerful, and this monk seems to have an unusual relationship with his master. Huang Chao opened his mouth at this moment: "Old man Huang Chao, this is the little girl Huang Zhen, I don't know what misunderstanding there is with the master?"
When the demon monk heard this, he looked at Huang Chao again, but he was puzzled. He naturally knows a thing or two about Huang Chao's name, and the Huang family and the Zou family don't seem to have anything to do with each other. He secretly wondered in his heart, "Could it be that I guessed wrong?" The demon monk thought so in his heart, but asked on his lips, "I don't know who Ling Ai's teacher is?"
Huang Chao said with a smile: "In the early years, a master of the rivers and lakes saw that the old man and his children still had some talent in martial arts, so they took them away as apprentices and came down the mountain recently. It's just that this master has a quirky personality, and he doesn't want others to know his origins, and the old man can't talk nonsense. ”
As he spoke, he could only hear the deafening sound of horses stepping closer and closer. It turned out that Huang Kuai saw that his niece was being bullied, so he simply transferred all the 8,000 elite soldiers. The Wuyang cavalry couldn't see their heads at a glance, and they were so imposing at this moment.
Although the demon monk was not afraid of these soldiers and horses, Huang Chao's words made him hesitate. He was about to say something, but was stopped by Ye Lianxue. The demon monk has always been convinced by Ye Lianxue, so he had to give up.
Ye Lianxue didn't come to make a feud with the grass army, she spoke: "This is the city master, we are only here to find someone, there is no other intention, there must be a misunderstanding between the two." ”
Huang Zhen was already disgusted with Ye Lianxue, and said angrily when she heard this: "What a 'misunderstanding'! When you wanted to kill me, why didn't you say that it was a misunderstanding?"
Huang Zhen is not alone at the moment, but now that her father and brother are by her side and the military horse is by her side, she naturally wants to let out a bad breath.
The demon monk's face was unmoved, but Ye Lianxue smiled and said: "It was my fault with the city master before, and I also invited Miss Huang Haihan." ”
Yun Hail heard it but didn't follow it, and whispered to the master: "Master, how can you admit your mistakes to her. After that, he glared at Huang Zhen hatefully.
Li Keyong and the others were quite surprised when they knew the identity of the owner of the Bingmen Gate, and they were quite admiring when they thought about it. The lord of a dignified faction can put down his identity and admit his mistakes to a yellow-haired girl, in the end, he is broad-minded.
Li Keyong spoke again to mediate: "Since it is a misunderstanding, you don't know each other." This is Ye Lianxue, the master of the Ice Gate, who is here to look for me. I'll retire first, and then come back another day to confess. ”
So Li Keyong and his party left first. Huang Chao naturally went down by the steps, and this is Wang Xianzhi's territory in the final analysis. He also sent back the military horse, and humbly reprimanded Huang Hua a few words.
When everyone was gone, Huang Chao remembered the words "Bingmen Sect Master" before, and remembered the emerald green wrench, and unconsciously smiled bitterly in his heart, "This Zhen'er has been out for a few days, but she has caused a lot of trouble......"