Under Zhao Lanjiang's strength and Fan Wuchang's compromise, everyone settled in Fan's house.

Of course, Xiao Jinyan didn't really live in Fan Wuchang's room, but found another single room in the west wing and lived in.

After nightfall, Xiao Jinyan lay on his side on the bed, he pinched a sword trick in his right hand, and quickly entered the state of pure spirit, to capture a certain string movement between heaven and earth, which was a habit he had developed for more than ten years. After Li Jinghong's disappearance, Xiao Jinyan once swore that he would never be involved in the dispute between the rivers and lakes again, and this time Li Chengcheng and Zhao Lanjiang came to him to help snatch the "Martial Classics", which made him a little conflicted.

This is not to blame them, people who practice martial arts in the world, except for people like Xiao Jinyan who have no desires and no desires, which one will not covet Lu Xuanji's "Martial Arts"?

Kyushu 18 Road, Longmen 12 products.

Under the twenty statues, nineteen sword guards.

Five hundred years ago, Shujian Mountain was born out of thin air, standing in the south of the mainland, leaving behind a variety of legends.

People have always been in awe of Shujian Mountain, and legend has it that in Shujian Mountain, there are immortals living in it, looking for people who are destined to learn immortal law. Three hundred years ago, Shujian Mountain, which guarded the fortune of the world, was once a belief in the rivers and lakes, a holy place of three religions, and the origin of the nine sects. There are 20 stone statues in Shujian Mountain, also known as the 20 products of Longmen, guarding the luck of the world, and under the 20 statues, there is a sword keeper for each.

Such a mysterious place, but in the end it was destroyed at the hands of a traitor.

This person is Lu Xuanji, a kendo genius who is rare to see in a thousand years.

No one knows why Lu Xuanji defected to Shujian Mountain, but the people in the rivers and lakes know that the nineteen sword guards are the best kendo masters in the rivers and lakes, and they joined forces to hunt down and kill Lu Xuanji, but Lu Xuanji was killed on Qingluan Peak, eleven died, and eight were seriously injured.

Lu Xuanji is a devil and a traitor, but he is a rare genius.

The reason why "Wujing" is famous is because Lu Xuanji once said a passage, which was later reprinted by "Xiaosheng Jianghu", which laid the theoretical foundation of the realm level of martial arts in the whole world.

"The realm of martial arts in the world is divided into two realms, three realms, and nine grades. The Tao has innate and acquired, the realm has a general image, a knowledge of the mysterious, and a smell of the realm, and the quality is from one to nine. Among them, the Tao is the foundation, which determines the upper limit of the martial arts practitioners, the realm is the body, determines the lower limit of the martial arts practitioners, and the product is the end, which determines the ability of the martial arts practitioners. Looking at the rivers and lakes, except for the "Martial Arts", there is no innate way to pass through the nine products. “

Before Lu Xuanji, the martial arts realm on the rivers and lakes was divided into a nine-grade system, and according to the internal force and moves, the martial arts credit level was divided into nine grades, although it was simple and clear, but it was not very accurate, such as a weak scholar who borrowed wine to strengthen his courage, he could use a dagger in his hand to sneak attack and stab a three-grade martial artist, this simple nine-grade theory, it is not clear to explain.

Lu Xuanji's "Book of Martial Arts" divides the martial arts confrontation into five elements: Tao, technique, law, potential, and weapon, and these five factors are very important in the competition. The scholar drank alcohol as a force, the dagger in his hand was a weapon, and the sneak attack was the law, and a number of factors were used comprehensively to produce the result that the scholar killed the martial artist.

It can be said that the appearance of "The Book of Martial Arts" seems to have opened a new door in the world, presenting a new martial arts theory to the world. After Lu Xuanji wrote "The Book of Martial Arts", he evaporated from the world and disappeared. The whereabouts of the "Book of Martial Arts" have also become a mystery.

Lu Xuanji was arrogant and arrogant, deceived his teachers and destroyed his ancestors, but his martial arts were world-famous. At that time, everyone spurned Lu Xuanji, but everyone wanted to get the essence of his martial arts. Therefore, when the Tianji Pavilion reported that the "Martial Scripture" reappeared in the world, the entire rivers and lakes were boiling.

Xiao Jinyan is an exception.

He has no interest in "Wujing", he was the leader of the martial arts alliance, but that is because he is rich, and he has not heard that he has ever done anything with people, but no one dares to despise him, because "Xiaosheng Jianghu" once ranked Xiao Jinyan in the fifth place in the list of three talents of heaven, earth and man.

This has brought countless troubles to Xiao Jinyan, and there are countless challengers, Xiao Jinyan chose to avoid the war, and then in desperation, Xiao Jinyan had to say that this ranking was only after he gave 30,000 favors to "Xiaosheng Jianghu", and the situation improved.

Whether it is Xiao Jinyan or Li Tingcheng, they are not interested in this kind of ranking, and even scoff at it. Not to mention anything else, the eight evil kings of the Bright God Sect did not appear on the three lists, when the first issue of the list came out, Wu Fatian, the "lawless" among the eight evil kings, slaughtered five of the top ten masters on the list in January, and since then the Light God Cult has become famous and has become the most popular sect among the three major sects of the Demon Sect.

Just as he was settling down, Xiao Jinyan suddenly woke up, and he smelled the fragrance. The first thought that crossed his mind was that someone was stealing it!

In the dead of night, someone should do such an unkind thing! Is it a distortion of human nature or a loss of morality?

Xiao Jinyan must not bear it!

Xiao Jinyan crept around, followed the fragrance to find it, and saw Fan Wuchang hiding in a corner, stealing a piece of roasted sweet potato with relish. Xiao Jinyan quietly came behind Fan Wuchang, Fan Wuchang was eating, and muttered, "Hmph, these scoundrels are actually at my house, fortunately, I still have a hand." ”

Xiao Jinyan slapped Fan Wuchang on the shoulder suddenly, making Fan Wuchang tremble, he didn't swallow a mouthful of sweet potatoes, and he almost didn't lose his breath. As soon as his hand slipped, the roasted sweet potato was about to fall to the ground, Xiao Jinyan stretched out his hand casually and copied it in his hand.

Xiao Jinyan said with a smile, "Boss Fan, if you don't take out good things to share, you hide and eat them secretly, this is farting in the bed, swallowing it alone!" Fan Wuchang was shocked, he didn't take a breath, he hiccuped vigorously, pointed at Xiao Jinyan, and couldn't speak.

Xiao Jinyan said, "It is better to be happy alone than to be happy with everyone." "I was about to bite into it, but I smelled a sour smell coming from this half of the roasted sweet potato.

Fan Wuchang hiccuped and said, "This is ...... Belch...... I bought it half a month ago, and I haven't been willing to eat it, so I don't want to pay it back...... Belch...... There is only one point left, and it will be wasted if you don't eat it. If you want to eat, you just uh uh ......"

Xiao Jinyan returned the roasted sweet potato to him, "I'm sorry, I'm really wrong to blame you." ”

Fan Wuchang looked aggrieved and asked Xiao Jinyan, "Those friends of yours, how long are you going to live, I have a small temple here, and I can't fit your group of big Buddhas, why don't you go to another place?" Xiao Jinyan sympathized: "I can understand you, I also hope that they will leave quickly, as soon as they come, even I will be affected." ”

"What then?"

Xiao Jinyan secretly leaned over and whispered a few words in his ear.

The next day, Fan Wuchang came to the Yamen of the Six Gates in Suzhou and said that he was looking for Su Da to catch the head. As soon as Su Zhengyuan heard that someone had come to ask him to do something, and the person who came was one of the two richest people in the city, he was overjoyed, and secretly thought that the opportunity to make money had come, so he welcomed Fan Wuchang in with a kind face, and ordered his subordinates to make a pot of good tea.

Fan Wuchang explained his intentions, saying that a few people in the rivers and lakes illegally broke into his home, and implored Su Da to arrest the people and drive them out.

Su Zhengyuan frowned, why are these people again, I was still trying to clean them up, but one yard is one yard, so he said: "This matter is very bad, now the imperial court is sweeping away the evil and evil, take this opportunity, we just want to convict them!"

Fan Wuchang said, "You are really the blue sky master of Suzhou City!"

Su Zhengyuan said, "Eh...... , we have only one Qingtian lord in Suzhou City, that is Zhou Governor's Mansion, don't talk nonsense. ”

Fan Wuchang said: "Then I have to ask Su to catch the head." This matter should be sooner rather than later, then I will take my leave. ”

Su Zhengyuan shouted, "You're leaving, didn't you notice that something was left behind?"

Fan Wuchang glanced at the tea on the table, hurriedly picked it up, and said, "I'm really damned, adults have such a good tea, I don't take a sip and leave, it's really a waste." As he spoke, he drank the tea and touched the taste, "Good tea, I'll have another cup." He poured himself another drink.

Su Zhengyuan said in his heart whether you really don't understand or falsely don't understand, since ancient times, the people have been looking for officials to do things, where is there a reason not to spend money? You are still a rich gentry, so he nodded: "If you want to characterize them as gangsters, it is not up to me to have the final say, and we have to be approved by the prefect himself, so that we can drive people out." You also know that Zhou Daren has a lot of opportunities every day, and where does he have time to care about these trivial things, so he needs to move. ”

"Activity?" Fan Wuchang was confused.

"It's just spending money!" Su Zhengyuan was a little annoyed, "It's easy to do this, but it costs three hundred taels of silver." ”

Fan Wuchang shouted "ah", "Do you want silver?"

"Not bad. ”

Fan Wuchang said in his heart that it is really like a comb, a soldier is like a grate, and an official is like a shaving. These people spend three cents a day in my house, and I am distressed to death, and your opening is three hundred taels, and you are even more hateful than these people, so he said, "My lord, I won't sue them." ”

Su Zhengyuan's face turned pale, "Say it for a while, don't tell it for a while, are you kidding me? It's okay if you don't tell me, you just drank two cups of tea from me, a total of ten taels of silver!"

Fan Wuchang's intestines were blue with regret, "The best Ming Qian Longjing is only ten taels of silver a catty, how can your tea be too expensive." ”

Su Zhengyuan said, "That's the price you spent money to buy, and this catcher personally made tea for you and charged you ten taels, which is also to give you face." If you don't pay, don't walk out of this door. ”

When Fan Wuchang walked out of the six doors, his heart and liver were broken into pieces, and he secretly scolded Su Zhengyuan, you officials are darker than the people in the rivers and lakes. When he got home, Xiao Jinyan leaned over and asked, "How is it, what did Su Zhutou say?"

Fan Wuchang's face darkened, "What kind of bad idea did you come up with, that guy opened his mouth for three hundred taels, this is killing me!"

Xiao Jinyan was also indignant and said: "How can this be, this is clearly an open bribery, you can go to the prefect to complain!"

"How can you sue them? They will definitely not accept it!"

Xiao Jinyan then leaned into Fan Wuchang's ear again, "You should be like this, like this." ”

After hearing this, Fan Wuchang was skeptical, "Okay, don't fool me!"

Xiao Jinyan said, "No problem!"

Fan Wuchang didn't even eat, and came to the prefect's yamen again, beating the drum of grievances.

Zhou Xiao, the prefect of Suzhou, got a new cricket today, holding a grass branch to tease it, the cricket is aggressive by nature, and was played by Zhou Xiao and jumped out of the pot, Zhou Xiao caught it for a long time before taking it back into the pot. Suddenly, I heard someone beating a drum, and I said in my heart, Is there another case? The opportunity for this official to make a fortune has come, and for a while, regardless of the plaintiff and the defendant, he will first grab and beat the 30 big boards, and then put the crickets into a pot, put them in his sleeves, and change into official robes.

The third class of the fast soap shouted that the tiger was ascending to the hall.

Zhou Xiao was shocked, "Who is in the hall, why are you crying injustice!"

Fan Wuchang said, "Lord Qingtian, I have a case to sue!"

Zhou Xiao shouted, "Submit it!"

Someone took the pleading, Zhou Xiao took it in his hand, looked at it horizontally for a long time, looked at it vertically for a long time, handed it to the master, and asked in a low voice, "What is written on it?" The master took it and looked at it, his hands trembled with fright, and the shape almost fell to the ground.

"What's wrong?"

The master said, "This old guy is crazy. ”

"Sue whom?"

The master said, "Master, this Fan Wuchang is not a person!"

"It's not a human, is it a ghost?"

Master: "He's suing Da Ming Law!"

Zhou Zhifu doubted: "Who is Da Minglu? How should I judge? Do you have a chance to peel the skin?"

The master knew that he couldn't explain it clearly for a while, and said: "You just say that you are rude and make trouble, and you just hit the thirty boards and blast them out!"

Zhou Xiao shook his head and asked Fan Wuchang, "Da Ming Law has no grievances with you, no matter how I think you are falsely accused!"

Fan Wuchang said: "Master Qingtian, I want to sue this great law, I can't uphold justice for me, and I can't protect my private property from being violated!"

Zhou Xiao groaned for a while and said, "You can't say this, come here!"

"Here!" the officials replied.

"Bring Da Ming Law to me for trial!"

The officials looked at each other, but no one answered.

"What's the matter, isn't Master Ben's words good?" Zhou Xiao scolded, "Why are you still stunned, don't go quickly, within an hour, if you can't catch it back, you all go home!"

The master tried his best to give him a look, but he didn't see it.

Zhou Xiao said: "Your Majesty, what is the grievance between this Da Ming Law and you, you come from the truth, if there is half a falsehood, be careful to kill the prestige and serve!"

Fan Wuchang was speechless, unable to say anything, "No grievances and no hatred!"

Zhou Xiao said, "That's a false accusation?"

"Yes, oh, no, no, sir!"

"Boldly Diao Min, you are clearly teasing this master, if you don't beat you, where is the authority of this master, come here, hit thirty boards, put him in prison, and wait for the fate!"

Fan Wuchang was so frightened that he turned pale, "I won't sue!"

"If you don't tell me, you can't help it!"

Several officials dragged Fan Wuchang out, beat him up, and put him in prison.

After retreating, the master said in a low voice, "Master, the Great Ming Law is the "Ming Decree" promulgated by Emperor Taizu, but it is not a person. ”

Zhou Xiao sneered, "Do you think Master Ben doesn't know? This Fan Wuchang, there are two silk villages and an inn in Suzhou City, which are all daily gold transactions, I have been thinking about it for a long time, and I finally got into a lawsuit, if I let it go so easily, I spent 300,000 taels to buy this official, wouldn't it be in vain?"

The master couldn't help but look at Zhou Zhifu with admiration, he was originally from Shaoxing, his career was hopeless, by chance, he made a staff member for "Zhou Xiao", and looked down on Zhou Xiao in his heart, but after more than a year, he found that Zhou Xiao had no other skills, but the means of collecting money were first-class, so he gave a thumbs up, "The master is wise!"

Zhou Xiao glanced at the words hanging on the wall and said, "It's rare to be confused." ”

The master asked again, "What should I do next?"

Zhou Xiao said: "Don't worry, put it in first, live with a few Jiangyang thieves for a few days, and inform his wife to ransom people." The governor sent a post last month, saying that his old mother will be celebrating her 80th birthday soon, and I am thinking about how to do it, damn it, how can this old immortal live so much?"

At sunset, Fan Wuchang did not come back.

Zhao Lanjiang sat at the door, waiting. He hadn't eaten all day, Fan Wuchang, a thief, rummaged through the entire Fan Mansion, only found half a moldy roasted sweet potato, not even a grain of rice, and his hungry chest was attached to his back.

Xiao Jinyan didn't care, he was used to being hungry, as long as there was wine.

Li Chengcheng is the son of a wealthy family, and he has his own scholar Qingcao to eat. The little red fish is a woman, and in a few words, she coaxes the grass to offer food obediently. Qingcao also invited Zhao Lanjiang, but Zhao Lanjiang didn't eat it. He has his logic, Li Chengcheng is also here for the martial arts, and when he grabs the martial arts scripture in the future, he will do it sooner or later, and he will eat people softly, so he refuses to owe this favor.

At this time, two officials came knocking at the door.

"Is this Squire Fan's house?"

Zhao Lanjiang said: "Exactly, what are you doing?"

The official said: "Squire Fan has committed a crime, and now he is in prison, we will send a detention ticket, and by the way, notify the family, and take the money to ransom people!"

Xiao Jinyan was overjoyed, but asked in his mouth, "I don't know what Squire Fan has done?"

"How do I know?" said the officer, holding out his hand.

The official pondered, you live in the Fan family, naturally have a relationship with Fan impermanence, since ancient times the people do not fight with the officials, since he has entered, it is inevitable to have a hard life for a few days, the eldest master has the master's way of making money, and they have the way of making money on errands, if you are sensible, take some silver out and dredge, our brothers will also take good care of it, and do not let him suffer too much in prison.

Xiao Jinyan didn't know how, but he deliberately didn't mention it and took the warrant. "It's hard for a few bad men to come from afar, come in and drink saliva before leaving. As he spoke, he instructed the little red fish, "Why don't you go to fetch water?"

Little Red Fish glared, "Why should I go?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "I can't call others. ”

"Then why should I listen to you?"

"Don't you want to follow me, you won't do anything, then let's go. ”

Xiao Hongyu looked dissatisfied, went to the well to fetch water, Qingcao saw it, and hurriedly said, "Sister Hongyu, I'll help you." ”

Two officials came in.

The little red fish scooped a scoop of cold water with a scoop, handed it over and said, "Poor master, please drink water!"

When the official saw this, he was angry and said, "No need. ”

The little red fish was called by Xiao Jinyan as a maid, and he was angry, and said angrily: "Give me a drink!" Pushing forward with one hand, a scoop flew horizontally, and landed on the stone table in front of the two of them, and actually smashed the stone slab out of a pit, but not a drop of water was spilled out, Zhao Lanjiang's eyes lit up, "Good kung fu." ”

Where have the two poor people seen this kung fu, they suddenly changed their faces, and said: "Not thirsty, not thirsty." ”

"Drink!"

The two of them were so frightened that they gulped down a scoop of water, and they didn't dare to say a word, so they were scared away.

Xiao Jinyan breathed a sigh of relief, shook the detention ticket, and said, "Look, Fan Laocai has been arrested, and it's not interesting for us to live here, why don't we go back to our own homes and find our own mothers?"

Li Qingcheng shook his head, "If you don't help me, I won't leave." ”

Little Red Fish also shook his head, "Where you go, I'll follow." ”

Xiao Jinyan asked, "Really?"

"Really. ”

Xiao Jinyan said, "I'll go to the thatched house, are you coming?" The little red fish said yes, and really followed. Xiao Jinyan had no choice but to give up and secretly scolded the sky, what is the matter. He was thinking about it and trying to find a way to get Fan Wuchang in, but these people retreated.

Zhao Lanjiang couldn't sit still, carried a knife, turned around and left.

Xiao Jinyan said: "Brother Zhao, there will be a period later!"

Zhao Lanjiang didn't say a word and strode away.

An hour later, Zhao Lanjiang walked in with a depressed Fan Wuchang in his hand.

Seeing this, Xiao Jinyan felt cold in his heart and asked, "Where have you been?"

Zhao Lanjiang said, "I went to the prison and got Fan Wuchang out." ”

Xiao Jinyan looked worried, "You are robbing a prison, what should I do if you are found out by the government?"

Zhao Lanjiang: "No. ”

Qingcao also asked next to him, "Why?"

"I put the knife on Governor Zhou's neck and told him that he had arrested Fan Wuchang and no one cared about me eating, so he let him go. ”

Little Red Fish said, "Do you still have this ability?"

"I don't, the knife does. Zhao Lanjiang put Fan Wuchang down, "Boss Fan, hurry up and cook, I'm dying of hunger." ”

Fan Wuchang said angrily to Xiao Jinyan, "It's all your bad idea! That week, he locked me up and asked me for 10,000 taels of silver, if it weren't for Brother Zhao, my life would have been confessed there." ”

Xiao Jinyan said with a smile: "People have stumbled, horses have stumbled, 10,000 taels of silver, you are known as Fan Bancheng, this bit of silver, nothing." ”

Fan Wuchang said, "I'd rather die than take a tael of silver!"

Little Redfish asked, "You came up with this idea?"

Everyone looked over, Xiao Jinyan scratched his head, "Everyone, I'm suddenly a little sleepy, what's the matter, I'll talk about it tomorrow!"

After nightfall, Fan Wuchang lit a kerosene lamp with a wick, rummaged through the cabinets in the study, searched for a long time, and turned out a book called "How to Deal with People Who Eat Overlord Meals", the author is still in the three views. This is what he bought when the inn first opened, and it was quite effective to deal with those who ate white food at that time, so he was ready to bypass and find a way to drive these people out.

But after a long time, the above method is not suitable, and I saw the introduction on the last page, and there is a book with it, called "How to get rid of tenants who don't pay rent", and I said that this is not exactly what I want. On the second day, Fan Wuchang went to the second-hand bookstore, bargained, and bought the book for 16 yuan.

When I got out of the store, I was busy looking through it, but I saw that there was a bunch of nonsense written in Nuohou's book, which can be summed up in one sentence.

"How to deal with tenants who don't pay rent? Send you a word, hit! What if you can't beat it? Send you another word, endure!"

At this time, a young man who looked like a poor scholar saw the book in Fan Wuchang's hand, so he asked, "This boss, what do you think of this book?"

Fan Wuchang was about to get angry, and sneered when he saw this, "Good, good, very good!"

The scholar said, "It's not a secret, this book is actually ......"

Fan Wuchang said again, "If I see the author of this book, I will have to kill him." ”

The scholar hurriedly shuddered, "Why is this?"

"What bullshit is written!"

The scholar opened the book and laughed, "This boss, I'm afraid you have been fooled." ”

Fan Wuchang said curiously, "What do you mean?"

The scholar said: "You look at this book, not to mention that the writing is incomprehensible, there are many typos, there is not even a punctuation mark, and then look at the poor paper, the ink thickness is uneven, it is obviously pirated, if you want to read this book, you have to buy the genuine version." ”

"Where can I see the original?"

The scholar said proudly: "Vertical and horizontal Chinese network." ”