Su Zhengyuan's face was pale, he looked at Xiao Jinyan, and said: "The surname is Xiao, the official visited the Qinglou tonight to handle the case, and you are talking nonsense." ”

Xiao Jinyan glanced at Yang Xiaoxiao, revealing a clear look, "It's really hard for Lord Su to handle the case so late, it's not early, it's better to go upstairs earlier and find a girl to rest well." Su Zhengyuan said angrily: "Xiao Jinyan!"

Xiao Jinyan sighed, "If your lord has orders, even if you speak, it is the duty of the people of the Ming Dynasty to assist the government in handling the case." ”

Su Zhengyuan wanted to get angry and calculated that he was not an opponent, so he raised his voice and said: "This official got a tip-off that there were Taihu Lake bandits hiding in the Qinglou, so he came to investigate, isn't it okay?"

In fact, Su Zhengyuan was just talking nonsense, but the speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, as soon as this remark came out, everyone in Taihu Lake Water Village not far away just walked to the door, heard this sentence, exchanged glances with each other, and prepared to slip away from the back door.

Xiao Jinyan said to everyone: "Brother, don't send it!"

The men panicked and left in a hurry.

Li Zhengyi looked at Xiao Jinyan and said, "It turns out that Xiao Jinyan, the former leader of the Martial Arts Alliance, is Your Excellency?"

Xiao Jinyan clenched his fists, "Don't dare to be." ”

Li Zhengyi said: "I heard that five years ago, you led a martial arts master to besiege a black tiger village that was not in the stream, but you lost your troops and lost your generals, but you ran away with oil on the soles of your feet and disappeared, and you were removed from the martial arts conference, and you didn't expect to hide in Suzhou Mansion. The leader of the Left League also sent people to track you down everywhere and wanted to arrest you back to the Wulin League for accountability. ”

Xiao Jinyan laughed, "Your Excellency has won the award." ”

Li Zhengxin said that I am mocking you, you really can't hear it, or you are pretending to be confused.

Li Tingcheng sighed, "Brother Xiao, these nameless juniors, who called you before and after the alliance leader, I can't imagine that time has passed, and you have ended up like this, the tiger fell into Pingyang and was bullied by dogs, and the phoenix in the water is not as good as a chicken. ”

Li Zhengyi said, "The visitor is a guest, since you have arrived in Suzhou, it is better to find a chance to get close." Xiao Jinyan hurriedly waved his hand and said don't, you are a big man, what are you close to me, and I am not good at this. Li Zhengyi took two steps forward and pretended to be a hand, but he was secretly ready to make a tentative.

Li Chengcheng handed the sword forward, if Li Zhengyi didn't withdraw his move, I was afraid that this hand would have to be explained, so he hurriedly changed his move and retreated backwards. Li Chengcheng said: "Let's come here to drink flower wine, I'm afraid this is not hospitality." ”

Li Zhengyi asked, "Who is Your Excellency?"

Li Chengcheng said: "People who have silver." Tianxianglou is not welcome?"

"What is the truth, our Tianxianglou is open to welcome guests, and it is a leather and meat business. Close the door and go to bed, play gold and silver trading, as long as you have money, you can do whatever you want. ”

Li Chengcheng said: "My friend, Yang Xiaoxiao, who wants to sleep in your building, please make arrangements." ”

Li Zhengyi said awe-inspiringly: "No!"

"Why?"

Yang Xiaoxiao giggled on the side, "The slave family sells his body, oh no, he doesn't sell his body." The body depends on the mood. If you don't dislike it, childe, smile and are willing to serve tea to the pillow. ”

Li Tingcheng smiled slightly, and the corners of his mouth rose, "A pair of jade arms and thousands of pillows, half a little red lips and ten thousand tastes." Li has not yet fallen to the point of picking up rags. This sentence is very hurtful, Li Tingcheng has always been straightforward when he speaks, and he does not consider the feelings of others.

Yang Xiao smiled when he heard this, with a smile on his face, the killing intent in his eyes flashed, and said: "It seems that the son dislikes the slave family." ”

Xiao Jinyan saw that the situation was a little embarrassing, so he said: "Okay, Master Su, and Hall Master Li are here, it seems that we can't have fun tonight, it's not early, let's go back to the inn, as soon as the morning dawns, I still have to fetch water." ”

Su Zhengyuan said: "Xiao Jinyan." ”

"Su Zhutou, what do you command?"

"In the past few days, there have been nobles in the city, you are half of the people of Suzhou Mansion, and you are more restrained friends, don't cause trouble for me. It's really torn face, none of us look good. ”

Xiao Jinyan said, "The adult's lesson is extremely true. ”

The three left.

Li Zhengyi said: "It's really a disappointment, Lord Su, if you don't stay tonight, I'll arrange the second half." Su Zhengyuan said that there will be opportunities in the future, and he will do a good job first. After that, he also left with his subordinates.

Yang Xiaoxiao returned upstairs, and today's events made her very angry. However, when she came to Suzhou, she had a task on her part, and she did not dare to reveal her identity easily. Not long after, a man in black quietly appeared in his room and said, "Master." ”

Yang smiled and said in a deep voice: "How?"

The subordinates followed all the way, and the three of them are now settled at the Easy Inn. According to what their subordinates saw, they did not know the identity of their master. ”

"Except for Xiao Jinyan, who are the other two?"

The man in black said: "The boy in white should be the third young master of the Li family in Jinling, and he is friends with Xiao Jinyan." Another swordsman, his subordinates don't know, but looking at the knife intent emanating from his body, it reminds me of a person. ”

"Who?"

"Three years ago, the man who captured Prince Xiang alone on the western border. ”

Yang Xiaoxiao sneered, "It turned out to be him, I said that when I saw this person in the gambling house in the afternoon, I felt dangerous." Unexpectedly, he was removed from the Ming Border Army, and he ran to Suzhou. Yang Xiaoxiao poured a cup of tea from the table, drank it, and said: "Why didn't you slaughter the crown prince back then, and you wouldn't have given birth to so many rights and wrongs, and the palace would have gone on a trip in person." ”

Easy Inn, backyard firewood house.

Xiao Jinyan laid straw on a bed board and lay down in his clothes, ready to practice. Zhao Lanjiang suddenly said: "That woman is not from the Central Plains. ”

Xiao Jinyanqi said: "How do you know?"

Zhao Lanjiang said indifferently: "I have dealt with Xichu in Xichen, although this Yang Xiaoxiao tried his best to hide it, there were a few tones in the accent, but it was the accent of Xichu. That's why I went to Tianxianglou tonight to find out what was going on. ”

"I thought you were lustful and smitten by that man. ”

Zhao Lanjiang was stunned, "Am I as unbearable as you say?"

"By the way, back then, you really had to catch the prince of Western Chu, how could you allow him to leave?"

Zhao Lanjiang spread the straw on the ground, leaned against the wall and said, "Back then, in order to make up for my younger brother Zhao Yi's tuition, I heard that there was money to be earned by joining the army and killing the enemy, so I signed up for the Western Army, and every time I fought, I rushed to the front. That time, our team of eleven people patrolled the border, and met the Chu army on the way back, and saw that the person who was the leader, wearing gold armor, and later learned that it was the prince of Western Chu, I thought that if I robbed it, I could sell it for a lot of money, so I ambushed the other party and washed the other party away, and the prince Xiang panicked and broke into the Hengduan Mountain. ”

Xiao Jinyan said with a smile, "You are originally a hunter in Hengduan Mountain, if he enters by mistake, won't he let you slaughter him?"

Zhao Lanjiang said: "That prince Xiang is not a mortal, I relied on the terrain to be familiar, I chased him for three days and three nights, and even the horse ran to death." ”

Xiao Jinyan: "If he knew that you were chasing so hard, just for the golden armor on his body, wouldn't he die unjustly?"

"We were in a stalemate for three days and three nights, and finally I blocked him on a cliff, and I fought with him for another half day before I captured him alive. I handed him over, thinking it was a great achievement, and he was rewarded by the imperial court in the barracks, but who expected, but he waited for a piece of punishment. ”

"Punishment?" Xiao Jinyan said puzzled.

Zhao Lanjiang said evilly, "Not bad." said that I did not obey the military orders, attacked without authorization, and killed three brothers. Later, Prince Xiang was sent back to Xichu, I was puzzled, and later learned that in those days, Yuwen Tianlu, the governor of Zhengxi, was patrolling the border, if he guessed correctly, Yuwen Tianlu should have secretly let him go. At that time, I was not convinced, and went to my boss to ask for military merits, but I was scolded, and I left the barracks in a rage. ”

"Wouldn't that be a deserter?"

Zhao Lanjiang snorted coldly, "So what?"

Xiao Jinyan was silent, the Ming army dealt with deserters very harshly, and if he escaped from the barracks, his younger brother would inevitably be implicated, not to mention that his career would be blocked.

Zhao Lanjiang said again, "This matter has not spread, after all, he caught the crown prince and let him go, if it spreads, I'm afraid Yuwen Tianlu won't be able to eat and walk around, so he didn't kill it all." What's more, Yuwen Tianlu doesn't come to me, and when I practice the peerless martial arts in the martial arts, I will also go to him to settle accounts. ”

Xiao Jinyanxin said that practicing peerless martial arts is not necessarily a good thing.

Zhao Lanjiang is not a person in the rivers and lakes, and he doesn't know much about the hidden things in the rivers and lakes. Since Lu Xuanji, in the past three hundred years, he has jumped out of the three borders to become a land immortal, and there is only one Zhang Benchu in the entire rivers and lakes, not without reason. Naturally, he wouldn't tell Zhao Lanjiang about these things.

Just after the fourth watch, the rooster crowed in the yard, and Fan Wuchang came to the firewood room to knock on the door.

"This shopkeeper doesn't raise idlers, before dawn, there are ten water tanks, you two fill them for me. ”

Zhao Lanjiang patted the knife next to him, turned over, and continued to snore.

Fan Wuchang changed his words and said to Xiao Jinyan: "This shopkeeper doesn't raise idlers, before dawn, ten water tanks, you fill them for me yourself." Also, sweep the yard clean. ”

Xiao Jinyan said that you can't treat it differently.

Fan Wuchang looked innocent, "Brother, there is a knife in someone's hand." ”

Xiao Jinyan slapped the table, "I don't even sleep, I'm not too good at talking?" ”

Fan Wuchang said, "Harmony makes money." Among these people, one has a bad temper, one is very arrogant, only you, easy-going, stable and generous, there will be a future in the future, you are a person who does big things, I pondered, people who do big things, small things like picking up water and sweeping the floor, there must be no problem. ”

Xiao Jinyan was speechless, carrying two buckets, and walked towards Crouching Tiger Spring, three miles away.

On the street, there was no one, Xiao Jinyan said in his heart that there was nothing to do, and he had the right to practice, filled the bucket, lifted his body and indulged in his breath, released his divine consciousness, and felt the string movement between heaven and earth. The whole city of Suzhou is completely reflected in the consciousness, husband and wife quarrel, babies cry at night, old men cough, gentlemen on the beams, chickens and dogs bark, this is the world.

Xiao Jinyan's internal strength is not outstanding, and if he is placed on the rivers and lakes, he is only four or five grades of Zhixuan at most.

Over the past few years, he has discovered that there is still a strange string force in his body. In addition to the true yuan of heaven and earth, there is also a kind of rhythm between heaven and earth, in the rivers and lakes, and Xiao Jinyan can capture this power. Especially in the beautiful city of Suzhou, he can feel the purity of this power more and more.

Integrating into the human world and escaping into the world, this kind of practice is more unrestrained.

Because of this, after Li Jinghong disappeared, Xiao Jinyan chose to live in seclusion in Gusu City.

Wang Banxian told him that he must not expose this ability until he could control this power, otherwise he would bring death to himself. Wang Banxian is usually hippie and smiling, old and improper, but when he said these words, he had a straight face.

He has been in this river and lake for a long time, he knows whose words can be believed and whose words cannot be believed; he also knows that there are no sword immortals in the entire rivers and lakes for three hundred years, and even there are very few people outside the three realms, not without reason; he has also heard that there are immortals on Shujian Mountain, who specialize in killing sword immortals outside the three borders.

This kind of statement seems to be a fantasy, but Xiao Jinyan chose to believe it.