The three of them walked out of the wine shop, remembering the scene of the old bustard going crazy in public just now, and the chagrin look of the deceived diner, and couldn't help laughing.

The practice of Xiao Li Guang and Yang Youtie is just one of the usual tricks of thousands of the eight gates of the rivers and lakes, the so-called 100 steps through the Yang, arrows to shoot double geese, in fact, they have been prepared for a long time, and then go to a crowded wine shop to cheat. The more mysterious they say, the more attention they can attract, and if someone questions it, they will prepare a routine later, and it is difficult to think about it. By the time the deceived people found out, they had already fled.

Xiao Jinyan didn't see the way until later, but he didn't pierce them. They are all running rivers and lakes, eating mixed rice, people don't steal, don't rob, cheat money with their ability, if they succeed, it is a deep way, if they let the deceived person expose it, they will not be beaten. If Xiao Jinyan and Li Chengcheng are exposed, firstly, they will break the rules of the rivers and lakes, and secondly, it will be easy to enmity with villains.

However, knowing about the Yi Arrow Conference, Xiao Jinyan was a little moved, among the four people, of course, the archery skills of the arrow boy were the head, he and Li Chengcheng's archery skills were average, Zhao Lanjiang had been in the army, and the archery skills were still good, so he pouted, "Four treasure girls, our business, Yin Liang is a little nervous, you also heard it just now, there are one hundred taels of gold over there at the Yi Arrow Conference, waiting for you to get it, this is a profitable deal, why don't you try it?"

"My arrows are for killing, not for competition. ”

"You also make money by killing people, and you also make money by participating in the Yi Arrow Conference, both of them are making money, is there a difference?"

"Of course, there is a difference, as the so-called interlacing is not profitable, since I have chosen the assassin industry, I am destined to be incognito, not to show up. To be honest, counting the three of you, there are no more than ten people who know my true identity. ”

Xiao Jinyan smiled, "Then wouldn't we be able to leak your identity and make a lot of money?"

The arrow boy's face was slightly gloomy, and he glanced at him casually, "You can try!"

Xiao Jinyan had already felt an arrow lock on him, and even changed to a hippie smile, "I'm just joking, why take it seriously?"

At this moment, he suddenly saw someone beckoning to him not far away, Xiao Jinyan saw the person coming, and said to the three people, "You go back to the inn first, I'll go to see a friend, go back when you go." "Say goodbye to the three.

Zhao Lanjiang was also a little puzzled, "It's a pity that this hundred taels of gold doesn't make money." ”

Li Tingcheng smiled, "If you were given 10,000 taels of silver to eat a piece of, would you agree?"

Zhao Lanjiang shook his head, "You are too disrespectful, but if you are Xiao Jinyan, even if it is a thousand taels and one lumps, he can make your Li family poor." ”

Li Tingcheng said proudly, "If this is the case, even if he eats a lump of incense, if he wants to eat me, he has to eat without sleep for thirty years!"

......

"Ahh

"MLM, how did you recognize me?"

The real name of the pyramid scheme is Xiao, and the sword, the book, and the qin are called the four guards of the Dengwen Academy, and later because of his preference for businessmen, Xiao Jinyan changed his name. Among the four major guards, MLM has the highest martial arts, the longest age, and the closest relationship with Xiao Jinyan, Xiao Jinyan is still very happy to see him coming. However, he was also curious, obviously he was wearing Lei Jiazhuang's disguised mask, but he was still recognized by the pyramid scheme.

MLM smiled, "Although the adult is wearing a mask, the way he walks and the tone of his speech have not changed, Dean Li ordered me to wait here, so I noticed you as soon as you came." ”

Xiao Jinyan was a little speechless, although Lei Zhenyu taught them some things to pay attention to after the disguise, but there were no acquaintances here, so he didn't deliberately change it, although he could confuse outsiders, but for MLM, the top spy of the Dengwen Academy, it was still easy to judge.

"My senior brother?" he was annoyed in his heart, how could he run anywhere he couldn't hide from Li Chuntie, he secretly thought, Li Chuntie must not be good to find me, so he took the hand of the pyramid scheme and said, "We haven't seen each other for several years, why don't we find a place to have a drink or two?"

Although the pyramid scheme didn't know what happened between Xiao Jinyan and Li Chuntie, he knew that Xiao Jinyan had been deliberately avoiding Li Chuntie all these years, and he couldn't drink enough, so he resolutely refused to go, Xiao Jinyan had no choice but to say, "What did he ask you to come to me for?"

MLM solemnly said, "Recently, the situation of Dengwen Yuan in the capital is very bad, last year Yuwen Tianlu did several major things in Beijing, so that Dengwen Yuan is very passive, especially in the war on the Western Front, the main battle faction led by Yuwen Tianlu in the court has the upper hand, even His Majesty wants to take the opportunity to start a war with Western Chu, Dean Li suggested that we can talk first, and Your Majesty has a lot of complaints about this. ”

Li Chuntie is a genius and good at strategy, and his judgment of the situation is far better than most people, so he has been able to sit firmly in the position of the dean of the Dengwen Academy over the years. However, Xiao Jinyan knew that over the years, compared with the relationship between Western Chu and Northern Zhou, he was more worried about the movements on the side of Shujian Mountain, and in some things, he was not as pleasing as Yuwen Tianlu.

Yuwen Tianlu is the existence of the god of war in the military, the first master in the world in the rivers and lakes, a high-powered minister in the court, and a capable and loyal minister who is good at observing the will of the emperor in the eyes of the emperor. Only in dealing with Dengwenyuan and Li Chuntie, the two can be said to be-for-tat, incompatible, and have admonished the abolition of Dengwenyuan several times, but the emperor has found reasons to refuse.

MLM said, "Dean Li asked me to tell you that the battle between Western Chu and Daming must not be fought, this is not only related to the fortune of the Ming Dynasty, but even related to the fate of the people in the world, so he wants you to go to Xichu." ”

Xiao Jinyan doubted, "He can't stop it, I'm soft-spoken, and there's no way." ”

"The new emperor of Western Chu is your old acquaintance, Dean Li said that you will have a way. As he spoke, MLM took out a letter from his bosom, which was sealed with fire paint, as well as the fire seals of Dengwenyuan and Li Chuntie, "This letter was written by Dean Li to Emperor Xichu, and he asked you to hand it over to him." There is also this matter, and no one must know about it, otherwise Dean Li will be in danger. ”

Xiao Jinyan didn't want to accept it, but since Li Chuntie sent a pyramid scheme to deliver the letter in person, he knew that the matter was very important, so he hesitated for a moment, but still accepted the letter and said, "I'll do my best." ”

Thinking of this, he took out the letter of Yuwen Tianlu's "treason" received in Yangzhou that day, handed it over to the pyramid scheme and brought it back, "You give this letter to my senior brother, maybe it can come in handy." ”

The two talked about some old things again, and the pyramid scheme had to return to the capital in a hurry to resume his life, Xiao Jinyan didn't keep him, and when he returned to the inn alone, it was getting late.

The task given to him by Li Chuntie made him feel a little heavy. But since he agreed, he would naturally go all out to do it, lying on the bed and thinking about it, and he didn't have a charter, so he went to the yard, practiced boxing a few times, and waited until he was sweating profusely before going back to the house to sleep.

Seven days later, the convoy arrived in Ringing Arrows.

Xiangjian County is the largest city on the Yinyang Grain Road, with three counties and one city, and a population of about 20,000. It was once the capital of Chequ State, the largest city-state between the Central Plains and Western Chu, and one of the seventy-two vassal states.

Five hundred years ago, there was an arrow immortal here, and he was also the only person in the seventy-two countries who entered the Heavenly Dao with archery. The population of Che Qu is small, but all of them are brave and warlike, and the military is the most powerful among the western countries. In that year, Taizu conquered the west and borrowed the road from Chequ to attack Wuxuan. When returning to the city, the arrow fairy welcomed the emperor into the city to drink, but he didn't expect that Taizu put a kind of poison in the wine - the immortal drunk.

After the fall of this arrow fairy, the Ming army occupied the city, renamed it Xiangjian County, and ruled separately from Western Chu. In order to consolidate his power, Taizu said to the outside world that the arrow fairy was infected with a serious illness and died violently, and the dead arrow fairy was posthumously named "Chequ Gong", and welcomed the descendants into the capital to be sealed.

In the following hundreds of years, the territory of the Ming Dynasty continued to expand westward, until 20 years ago, when the 19 states of Yinyang were incorporated into the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty and Western Chu determined the territory bounded by Hengduan Mountain.

However, the tradition of riding archery in Xiangjian County has been preserved, and the local people have learned to ride and shoot since childhood, and it is said that the old lady who sells vegetables at the entrance of the village is a master of archery.

In order to commemorate the arrow fairy, Xiangjian County holds an archery competition every year, and the imperial court is also happy to do this, and later changed its name to the Yi Arrow Conference, once every three years, those who get the ranking in the competition will directly enter the military, and even the first name every three years, the imperial court will be exceptionally promoted to a guerrilla general, which belongs to the fire cavalry battalion in the fourth battalion of the wind forest volcano. Therefore, the "Ringing Arrow Department" is also a large force in the Western Army.

Before arriving at the Ringing Arrow County, I have seen many people carrying longbows have entered the city, above the city, there is a huge bow hanging, it is said that it was used by the arrow fairy back then, and there is a story among the people, when Wu Xuan sent troops to attack the car canal, the arrow fairy stood at the head of the city, and took the head of the enemy commander with an arrow ten miles away, and scared Wu Xuan to retreat directly.

In the event of a rare event, the customs clearance paperwork was extremely slow, and after discussion, the grain team decided to rest for three days in Xiangjian County and wait for the Yijian Conference before setting off.

Outside the gate of Xiangjian County, there is a shooting range, with two targets erected, one fifty paces and the other one hundred paces. There is a rule in this Ringing Arrow County, everyone who enters the city has a chance to shoot arrows, if you hit the 50-step target, the customs and city gate tax will be halved, and if you hit the 100-step target, the fee will be free.

There were many martial arts practitioners in the team, and they all chose to test fire. Xiao Jinyan took the arrow and bow, handed it to the arrow boy and said, "Four treasures, come and show your hand." ”

The arrow boy took it, I don't know if he was deliberately clumsy, or he was not good at this tangible arrow, he led it twice, but he didn't pull the bow, so he gave up.

Zhao Yanjiang said, "I'll try." ”

After that, he took off his shirt, revealing his strong muscles on his upper body, and everyone saw him standing with an arrow, not angry and arrogant, quite imposing, and stopped to watch.

Zhao Lanjiang took a deep breath and exerted his strength suddenly.

The bow is as full as the moon.

Everyone applauded, "Good body!"

Syllable!

The bowstring breaks.

The back of the bow bounced back, hitting Zhao Liangjiang's nose, and blood flowed immediately.