After communicating with Li Chengcheng last night, Xiao Jinyan felt more and more that this golden battle was deliberately done by someone.

He has a doubt, and this doubt is probably only clear to the person concerned.

It is not a very polite thing to ask the person concerned for verification.

It is an extremely dangerous thing to ask for verification from a person whose martial arts are higher than his own.

Xiao Jinyan hesitated for a moment and said, "I came here and have a question I want to ask you." ”

"Important?"

"It's important. ”

Li Qiuyi had finished wiping the scabbard and hung it on the wall, then took out a jar of red water wine from the wine cellar, poured out a glass, and handed it to Xiao Jinyan. Xiao Jinyan took a sip and said how could there be a sour and bitter taste?

Li Qiuyi said long, "This cup is the authentic Chishui wine." It's just that this wine, drink one glass, one less. ”

When the wine enters the belly, it gives birth to a warmth.

After the bitterness and sourness, the tongue coating begins to have a sweet and silky taste, which makes people feel relished.

Xiao Jinyan praised, "Wonderful wine!"

Li Qiuyi said, "Yinyang City is windy and sandy, mostly saline-alkali land, in autumn, the sky is full of wind and sand covering the sun, the Chishui River extending from Hengduan Mountain, nine steamed and nine brewed Chishui wine, only have such a taste." ”

He looked at the place where Yinyang was, and had been away from his hometown for twenty years, he rarely recalled the past, as if he had forgotten his hometown, but a glass of red water wine evoked endless homesickness.

Li Qiuyi said, "On the hundred-mile tidal flat in the north of the city, there is a lot of Suaeda grass, after the frost falls, it is spread on the river beach one after another, just like a red carpet, the whole earth is like burning, it is spectacular, if you have the opportunity, you must go and see." ”

Xiao Jinyan nodded.

"What are you asking?"

Xiao Jinyan had a chance to speak, "There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that your grudge with Chu Crazy Dao is because you seduced his wife, is it true?"

Li Qiuyi frowned and smiled dumbly, "Do you believe this?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "It doesn't matter if I believe it or not, rumors are spreading on the rivers and lakes, and you refuse to come out to explain." ”

Li Qiuyi laughed, "Lao Tzu is not for them to live, their mouths are long, they say whatever they like, but don't fall into my ears, otherwise I will make him regret being a man." ”

"I need the truth!"

Li Qiuyi said lightly: "The truth is that Chu Crazy Dao and I have been calculated. ”

Li Qiuyi poured two more glasses of wine and told the story of the year.

Yinyang City is located in the west of the Ming Dynasty and is an important transportation fortress connecting the Ming, Chu and the Western Regions.

Five hundred years ago, at the end of the chaotic war of the seventy-two princes, the world was divided into three. The Nineteen Cities in the West, centered on Hidden Yang City, became a force independent of the Three Kingdoms. The terrain here is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, connecting the three kingdoms of Ming, Chu and Zhou, and belongs to a typical place of three things.

Yinyang City stands by Hengduan Mountain, the east of the mountain is the wetland tidal flat, and the west is the desert yellow sand. It is impossible to grow crops or graze cattle and horses, but its unique environment makes it a major trading city on the border of the three countries.

Twenty years ago, the fighting between Daming and Western Chu was white-hot, and there was a stalemate on the Western Front for more than two years.

Li Qiuyi was the lord of Hidden Yang City at the time, and maintained a neutral position in this war, and earned a large amount of silver taels from the two countries. At that time, the Ming army wanted to use the Dao Yinyang City to attack the eastern border of Western Chu, and Li Qiuyi didn't know that this was a false strategy.

With Yuwen Tianlu's ambition, if the Ming Dynasty's Sun, Moon and Blue Dragon Banner were inserted on the Western Chu Palace, the Nineteen Cities of Yinyang would not be able to escape the fate of falling into the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Western Expeditionary Army was stationed outside the city of Yinyang for three months.

Li Qiuyi is the King of the Golden Sword, so he is naturally not afraid of Yuwen Tianlu.

But Li Qiuyi is the lord of Hidden Yang City, and he has to consider the 100,000 army under Yuwen Tianlu.

At this time, Li Qiuyi received an invitation from the Imperial Palace of Chu to participate in the 60th birthday of the Great Chu Emperor. Of course, this is just a reason, and the Chu State does not want Yinyang City to borrow the way.

There are three princes in the state of Chu, and the eldest prince Chu Hao is obsessed with the way of the knife and has no intention of participating in politics. The second prince, Chu Bieli, was the main battle faction, he hated the Han people, advocated the preservation of nomadic culture, and was quite popular among the nobles of the Chu State, and this person was also a close friend of Li Qiuyi. The third prince Chu Bieli is the lord and faction, and he is supported by the upstart forces of the Chu State.

At the palace banquet, Li Qiuyi was treated like a guest of a friendly country. All the guests took the initiative to toast him, and at that time he had a bold personality, and he did not refuse to come, and he was very drunk.

When she woke up, Li Qiuyi found herself sleeping under the soft collapse, accompanied by a beautiful woman. This person is the princess, the wife of the eldest prince Chu Hao.

When Chu Hao learned of this, he was furious, and he was about to find Li Qiuyi for a duel at that time. Li Qiuyi was arrogant, how could he explain that the two would duel outside Yinyang City about a month later.

The day of the decisive battle is on the ninth day of the ninth month of September.

As the two most famous peerless masters of the sword technique in the world, Li Qiuyi has long been famous, Chu Hao is a rising star, and the mad knife heart method has been cultivated to the seventh level, and the battle between the two has attracted countless masters to watch the battle.

Yuwen Tianlu ordered the western expeditionary army to retreat three times to show respect.

On the first day, the two of them competed in knife skills, and fought outside the city of Yinyang for a day and a night, the sky and the earth changed color, the yellow sand was all over the sky, and the sound of the sword could be heard in the entire Yinyang City, and the winner was not distinguished.

On the second day, the two of them competed in internal strength, and the two masters of the Tongxiang Realm fought heartily, and a hundred-meter-high mound outside the city was flattened by the knife, and there was no winner.

On the third day, news came from the state of Chu that the emperor of Great Chu had been assassinated, and the whereabouts of the second prince Chu Bieli were unknown.

At this moment, Li Qiuyi realized the way of the golden knife, stepped into the Datong Elephant Realm, and asked with a golden knife, seriously injured Chu Hao, if it weren't for the mercy of his subordinates, Chu Hao would have died under the knife. However, this knife disfigured Chu Hao, leaving a long scar.

Li Qiuyi, the lord of Yinyang City, was crowned king in the first battle.

Chu Hao returned to the state of Chu, killed his wife, was ruthless, practiced the mad sword heart method, and changed his name to Chu Ritian. For 20 years, he has been bent on seeking revenge on Li Qiuyi.

After Chu Qiu succeeded to the throne, he negotiated peace with the Ming Dynasty and ceded the three counties of Western Xinjiang to the Ming Dynasty, so that Yinyang City also became the city in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Three months later, Li Qiuyi led the nineteen cities of Yinyang and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. rejected the reward of the Ming Dynasty, hung up the knife and left, and lived in seclusion outside Suzhou.

This story is not much different from what Jia Fuzi told, but when it comes out of Li Qiuyi's mouth, there is a sense of vicissitudes.

Xiao Jinyan looked at Li Qiuyi, he had fought countless wine lawsuits with him over the years, judging from his appearance, words and deeds alone, no matter what, he couldn't associate the old man selling wine in front of him with the sword king who was so powerful back then.

Xiao Jinyan asked, "Haven't you thought about going back to Hidden Yang City to have a look?"

Li Qiuyi said with a slight reproach, "Back then, many elders in the city advocated fighting to the death with the Ming army, including relatives who brought me up. My uncle pointed at my forehead and scolded me, our Yinyang City lacks cattle, sheep, rice and grain, but there is no shortage of bones. From the moment I handed over Yinyang City, I had no shame to go back to see Yinyang Father. ”

Xiao Jinyan didn't know what it was like to feel like to be a swordsman who dedicated the first half of his life to a city, and finally ended up in a foreign country.

"What are your plans after this battle?"

Li Qiuyi breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "I'm going to find a successor." ”

Xiao Jinyan smiled and asked, what do you think of me?

Li Qiuyi shook his head, "Your temperament is not suitable for learning the way of the golden sword. Those who learn knives pay attention to indomitable, brave and fearless, you have a friend, it is good, and you have an appetite for the old man. ”

(Yesterday I conceived a follow-up plot overnight, and I wrote less than a chapter in two hours, so today I will update a short chapter first, and there will be a more in the evening.) ）