Qinzhou, as the first important town in Longyou, has vertical and horizontal mountain ranges and steep terrain, and has been a place where soldiers have fought for since ancient times. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In the battle of Pingliang, Wanyan Yonglian's biggest gain was here, the Longyou Jin Army, which had been wiped out by Lin Qian, was integrated and controlled by him, and re-settled in the gap, and soon re-emerged and gradually became a piece of solidarity.

Since the beacon fire in the Huanqing area subsided, Li Fengxing was ordered by Lin Qian to clean up this place. From the end of February to the beginning of March, after a series of fierce battles, Li Fengxing defeated the Ye Bumei garrison at Tianshui Pass, captured more than 1,000 soldiers and more than 100 horses, and pursued the enemy head while the victory, but lost his whereabouts halfway.

Hundreds of turns and thousands of times finally saw people, it was a small village, and he was about to enter the search, but he encountered obstacles at the first time-

Fengxing's fingertips are first-class, and the middle-aged man he met at the entrance of the village, the swordsmanship is vicious and spicy, only attacking and not defending, and more than 20 moves are comparable.

"In this place, there is a master who is comparable to me......" Li Fengxing judged while receiving the move, and he was inevitably surprised in his heart.

As it is about to fall into the night, there is a fear that there will be changes in the future, and the wind will be lost in the defense of the army, so we can only retreat for the time being. It was only after arriving at the camp that I found out that my hands had been poisoned at some point.

So, it's not quite, that man's martial arts are above him!

It is impossible to swagger in and search, and it is also difficult to send spies to sneak into walls everywhere - although the masters of the level encountered by Li Fengxing are not all over the sentry, there are really many guards who are stronger than the spies.

After not being able to learn about the situation in the village for such a long time, Feng Xing had to consult with Jinling: "This village hides the dragon and crouching tiger, and the spies sneak into the door, but Ye Bumei's matter can't be stopped." ”

Jin Ling speculated: "As you said, there are only a lot of masters in the village, and after they arrived, they used their martial arts to subdue the local people, and they willingly handed over the village to them to control, so they sealed off this place. ”

"Wanyan Yonglian's people?" Wanyan Yonglian started to plant troops in several villages and towns in southern Shaanxi and Longxi border passes, and the first step was often to unite with the local surviving gold soldiers or lurkers; and Li Fengxing also had experience and sense of smell in this regard, so whenever he uprooted a stronghold, he would inevitably follow the surrounding carpet search, find suspected strongholds, and nip the bud.

There are too many places to pay attention to, and a small village like this is not unexpected, but it can't be taken care of. Today's changes have undoubtedly enhanced the status of this place.

"If the Jin soldiers are lurking here, raising troops for a thousand days and using them for a while, it just so happens that Ye Bumei led the army to flee and needs rescue, why don't you join forces with him to make the stronghold turn from dark to light? If it is suspected that the time has not come, why don't you continue to lurk, but are willing to expose and do not act for the sake of Ye Bumei? Second, if it is a Jin soldier, knowing that Brother Tian, you will thoroughly investigate this place next, but instead of trying to take you down at that time, but only sending a lone person to stop it, it is strange. Jin Ling shook his head, "Third, after the incident, you sent several groups of spies to investigate but all of them were repulsed, if it was a Jin person, he would not be so merciful, let alone let go of the opportunity to rebel." ”

"Indeed, especially the second point you mentioned - every move and every move is not fatal, but just the appearance of stopping me from entering. Li Fengxing held his cheeks and thought, "It's not quite like the style of the lurkers I've encountered in the past, and there will never be such a powerful master in the past." As he spoke, he held the hidden weapon in his hand and shook it under the lamp. In fact, a master who is stronger than his martial arts should not be lurking as a meticulous work, but should be thrown into the front line to fight.

"Then it's even more important to go in and have a look. If they are the rising stars of the Jin country, they are only afraid of the threat to the allies, and even if they are not Jin, they must be doing unknown things, and we must rule out the possibility that they will endanger the allies. When Jin Ling said, he noticed the secret weapon in his hand, took it, and frowned: "This secret weapon is familiar...... It seems to have been seen somewhere. ”

After pondering for a moment, he said: "Only attack, not defend, secret weapon poison ...... The number of martial arts paths of the person you said is somewhat similar to Xiao Shi that Sheng Nan and Sister Feng are looking for, although he is a little older. ”

Li Fengxing was shocked, and said happily: "If it is really related to Xiao Shi, isn't it Feng Xiaoyin who can be saved?" However, what is difficult is that everything in the village is unknown, and the unknown is the most terrifying.

"Brother Tian, since the spies can't succeed, it's better for the two of us to go and sneak in quietly to find out. Jinling Liwu smiled lightly, "It just so happens that Shengnan and Sister Feng have also been clearing the Jin army in Longyou for the past two days, and they are very easy." Let's go together. ”

"That's a good idea. Li Fengxing nodded repeatedly.

On the way to help, Yin'er also wondered what was going on here.

"It's not certain whether it's Xiao Shi or not. However, for public and private purposes, this task of cleaning up the suspected strongholds of the Jin Army, we both have to help Fengxing and Ling'er complete it. Lin Qian said.

In fact, at the beginning of Jinling's proposal, Lin Qian had considered that the village was a master of the Jin Army, and everything was abnormal just to put a long line to catch big fish and lure Fengxing and Ling'er to go deep alone, so Lin Qian had to join Yin'er and take care of each other with Fengxing Ling'er;

In the past few days, Lin Qian has been quiet on the surface, but he has arranged many second-line or new generals to Hedong, and in the short term, he will first provide rear support for the officers and troops of the middle line of the Northern Expedition, and the long-term development will naturally be to coexist and fight against the Jin army there for a long time.

The military situation in Longshan seems to be in full swing, but it is just a trick to dissipate the servants. Rao is like this, and the task of the generals is not false, after all, how much territory the allies occupy in the Longshan battlefield is related to the ease of the officers and troops of the Western Front of the Northern Expedition in the future, and it can be said that it is closely related to the overall situation, and there is no room for sloppiness, so the burden on everyone's body is not light.

The unknown situation and the mysterious atmosphere of the village in front of them are quite similar to the time when there was no return to the forest in Quanzhou, when it was also the four of them to explore, nearly ten years later, now, no longer young, emotionally young, anti-gold consciousness has already passed the ignorant stage, they are still the same wind and rain together, talking and laughing, fearless.

"In the big picture, you have to do it quickly, so you can only spend five days here at most. Jin Ling said.

"That's enough. "Resolute trust and a confident vision.

"If it is really a martial arts master at the level of Xiao Shi, with first-class martial arts and outstanding ability, it must be not small. Yin'er said.

Lin Qian patted her head: "Whether it's a friend or an enemy, wait and see." ”

On the road sign, there are three words "Daoxiang Village".

The front of the fortress is still extremely tightly guarded, and the side chosen by the spies is also rotated in many places, but for these four first-class masters, there are always defensive loopholes to drill, and after half an hour, they finally entered the village peacefully.

On a March spring day, the village is peaceful.

Blue sky, white clouds, clear water, fruit trees, bamboo forests, mountain peaks, as well as roads, people, chickens and dogs. This is a rare village comparable to Taiping Village in Jiazhou since Longshan Bandang. After a long swim, you will forget the danger.

In the evening, they finally decided to establish communication with people and knocked on the first house of the trip-

A thatched hut in the wild, a few steps away from bamboo fences and stone slabs.

The door creaked open, and an old woman showed half of her face: "Who?"

"Old man, we are from the north of the village, and we are passing by and want to ask for a glass of water. Jin Ling spoke.

"Oh, come in, kid. The old woman trembled on crutches.

"Murabei, why did they let you come?" The old man sitting in the room was about the same age as the old woman, but he was obviously deaf and blind.

Yin'er sighed in her heart, she really couldn't lie, she still expected the people in the south of the village not to recognize the north of the village, but she didn't expect that the south of the village and the north of the village seemed to be fighting?

Jinling was still in a hurry, and replied with a smile: "I actually came here a few days ago, but I didn't expect that I couldn't go back suddenly, so I could only stay for a while, until today I drank all the dry food and water." ”

"People from the north of the village, no relatives, what are you doing in the south of the village?" the old man asked very seriously.

"Come here and cut bamboo. I heard that the bamboo here grows better than ours and is more suitable for making bows and arrows. "Jinling is good at acting, his face is not red and his heart is not beating.

"Alas, you said that these two brothers surnamed Tong were originally harmonious? Saying that it is also a good thing to defend against foreign enemies and form a guard, who would have thought that they would fight over who would be the captain and divide the village into two, causing a miasma. The old man believed them, and grumbled.

"yes. Originally, bows and arrows were made to defend against foreign enemies, but I didn't expect to mess up for this. As a result, the outsiders really came, and they immediately bowed to it. Jinling spoke, and the other three were afraid that they would lose too many words, and one did not dare to speak.

"I also watched the competition, Tong Feifei couldn't beat him, and it was natural to be convinced. The old man said.

"The old man turned out to be an expert?" Yin'er remembered the routine that Ji Jing had said - when he met a white-bearded old man in the wilderness in a deserted village, he must be a martial arts master!

"No, the disparity is too big, I don't know martial arts, and I can see it. The old man said.

After drinking the water, he visited a few more houses according to the gourd painting scoop, and roughly came to this conclusion, the surname of the child in this village is the head of the family, and the two brothers were originally the village head, and the other opened a martial arts hall, both young and strong, and the blood is strong. In order to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, Tong Feifei, as the head of the village, formed a guard and appointed himself as the captain.

Tong Feifei bowed to the hands of more than a dozen martial arts masters, and was willing to hand over the village to them and his entourage to govern, while Tong Feifei was indignant that he disobeyed his family and obeyed outsiders, and second, he misunderstood that Tong Feifei was looking for foreign aid to fight the north of the village, and in a fit of anger threatened to divide the land and rule.

"Blame this dad for not being good, one extraordinary and one very, which is willing to live in the queen. Yin'er sighed.

"Even a small village is so ......chaotic," Li Fengxing shook his head and sighed, but because it was such a simple small village, no one would pay attention to the chaos in it.

"If we knew this was the case, why did we bother so much effort and go directly to the north of the village to come in?"

"Stupid, from the north of the village or do you have to find a way to go to the south of the village to see what is going on, isn't it the same?"

"Who is stupid!" Yin'er drew his sword without saying a word.

However, the strange thing is that these martial arts masters have not been unfavorable to the villagers, but have kept their promise to Tong Feifei, and protected the village almost in a closed manner. Jinling said that he protected the wind. Therefore, although these masters intensified the contradictions between the Tong brothers, they did not continue to promote development. In other words, they don't care.

This verifies most of Ling'er's previous guesses, they are not Jin Bing or lurkers, if they were, they would have merged the villages and united with the outside world. They're here for something else, they just need a place to stay undisturbed. Lin Qian analyzed and persuaded him, "The only thing in reality is different from Jinling's previous speculation: the villagers are not the hostages and goals of these people, and they block the village to harmless the villagers but protect them." ”

"'Forming a guard to defend against foreign enemies', this foreign enemy sounds like our 'forest bandits'. Yin'er said a little depressedly, "However, since the villagers will resist us and show that they are not afraid of force, why do they worship Xiao Shi by force? What the hell is this?"

"So it's not Xiao Shi? It's the martial arts organization between the Jin people?" Li Fengxing asked, and at this time, the two people had the same point of view, so they didn't use force.

As he was talking, several strong men in Tiandao rushed south one after another, with a look of joy and longing on their faces, and vaguely heard a few words "go and see" and "go together".

"Follow along. Lin Qian saw that Yin'er had already been gearing up.

"But, aren't you afraid that you'll be seen as an outsider?" Yin'er turned out to be so meticulous, with a bitter face.

"When people are crowded, when you watch the excitement, no one will care about you, not to mention, the sun is about to set. Lin Qian smiled.

In the south of the village near the entrance of the village, every road is crowded with people, hundreds of people compete to look at each other, there are people standing on the attic by the railing, it is too far away, it is difficult to distinguish between men and women, only a touch of pale yellow.

"Is it a martial arts competition, or is it a kiss?" Yin'er felt that she couldn't hold Lin Qian's hand.

"Neither, look at the heavens. Fortunately, Lin Qian grabbed her and held her by his side.

At dusk, the sunset has a damp feeling, and the red color seems to be diluted by water, faint and vague.

The feeling was not fake, and the scene of the setting sun was dissolved, distorted, and shattered into dense patches of orange and red by the water vapor.

It has been spread for a long time, no longer extended, but poured down, and suddenly it has been raised.

All applauded, hazy beauty.

"It should be poison or powder, which was smeared on an arrow and shot into the air, just under the twilight, so it looks so beautiful. "The one who understands.

"So, aren't these things harmful?" Feng Xing was stunned.

"Their target is not the people, they are not heavy on the dosage, and they should be resolved. Jin Ling said.

"It wasn't shot by the guy upstairs, it must have come from somewhere else. Lin Qian distinguished.

"So this person is dissolving?" Yin'er was about to be deciphered, and was pushed forward by a wave from behind, and he could see a little more clearly a few steps ahead. The woman standing in the attic was a woman in yellow, and she was really familiar with her figure.

I didn't have time to think about it, and suddenly saw an extra bow and three arrows beside her, slowly moving up, aiming at the gradually sinking red mist.

Bow and arrow, shoot in parallel, in one go, heroic.

The bow opened like a full moon, the arrows went like meteors, and the three arrows rushed into the sky together, and disappeared immediately, leaving only three clouds of smoke and dust.

Everyone's eyes moved from the attic to the sky, and the raging red in the fog suddenly seemed to have met some fierce opponent, and it converged slightly, and stopped for a while.

Suddenly, the scene of the sky suddenly changed, walking through the thick mist, it was full of colorful colors, vaguely the incarnation of the three arrows, soaring like a phoenix for nine days, and the wings fluttering for 90,000 miles.

Where the phoenix flies, it is invincible, the wind and clouds are flowing, and it is easy to solve - not a strong enemy, but a nemesis, the fog disappears, and the mist is scattered.

The fog gradually fell and slowly became trivial, and it was not long before the sunset was clearly visible. A few traces of residual red drifted weakly, and all the incense dissipated before half a pillar of incense was reached.

Everything was quiet, and the crowd applauded thunderously.

Between the green mountains and green waters, a cluster of mist like smoke is faintly out of Xiu, wandering leisurely. This is what Daoxiang Village was originally like.

"This is the fourth time that she has competed in mid-air, and it seems that she is better than the other party. An inconspicuous sentence hit the heart of Jinling, who was going forward, to compete, to test what?

The villagers only know that Xiao Shi and others are competing for momentum, but Ling'er has been developing poison for a long time, and is extremely sensitive to everything about cold fire and poison. The ominous premonition suddenly rose, but it was not that a certain organization in the Jin Kingdom found a poison testing base, and compared and verified the trees, flowers, mud and sand, snakes, insects, beasts, and air here.

Glancing at Lin Qian, it was obvious that he had the same idea.

The woman in yellow turned her face, a smile floated on the corner of her mouth, her skin was brighter than snow, her black hair was like paint, and her eyes were as bright as stars.

Jin Li and Lin Feng were amazed, and they all felt that "where have I seen it!"

"She's ......" Li Fengxing looked at Jinling in surprise, and before he could say that this woman was very similar to you, he heard Yin'er say angrily: "Sure enough, Xiao Shi, a woman is dressed as a man!"

She couldn't bear her anger when she saw Xiao Shi, no wonder, the real gentian was stolen by Xiao Shi, not so much that the flower was obtained by her and Lin Qian, but that she was looking forward to Xiao Shi joining the alliance but was betrayed, it felt really bad, she wanted to vent her suppressed emotions, and she still excused him in her heart and said that he did something wrong on the spur of the moment, although it is not very likely, now seeing is believing, she disguised herself as a man and hid her identity so deeply, didn't she plan to deceive people from the beginning? !

Xiao Shi turned out to be such a beautiful woman, without powder, disguise, as delicate as a weak scholar, a little disguise, change makeup, not lose Jinling's beauty at all, Ming ** people. At the beginning, Yin'er and Lin Qian were focused on Bai Qingzhou, but they ignored this curve that couldn't be hidden at all.

Yin'er knew that Xiao Shi was definitely not a golden person, so she got carried away for a while, and regardless of whether Lin Qian gave orders or not, she flew directly over the crowd to the attic. Lin Qian, Fengxing, and Ling'er hurriedly followed.

As soon as Yin'er Fu landed, Wan Jun's murderous aura was rushed, Xiao Shi was not surprised, quickly turned around to meet the enemy, and shot three arrows at close range, the force was extremely powerful, Yin'er Xiyin Sword was just in his hand, and he fought hard to scatter the arrows, and stabbed her again.

Xiao Shi's long sword was unsheathed, intersecting with her two swords, the two looked at each other, Xiao Shiyuan was still surprised, because he saw that it was her, and suddenly understood: "Alliance leader, it is indeed Xiao Shi who said goodbye without saying goodbye that day." ”

"Stop talking nonsense, give me back the real gentian!" Yin'er was furious, his swordsmanship was more radical than usual, and his power was also a lot higher.

"Miss Xiao, I don't know what this medicine means to you, but it is a lifesaver for the alliance leader, and I hope to raise your noble hand. Ling'er stepped forward, but the sword fight continued.

"Yes, just one petal. Li Fengxing helped explain.

"I can't give a single petal!" Xiao Shi was caught by Yin'er and beat and didn't want to fight her, but before he could take a step, Yin'er was almost injured by an inch, and he was inevitably angry.

"I want them all!

Li Fengxing was speechless.

Xiao Shi is a desperate swordsmanship that only attacks but does not defend, Yin'er's side is unforgiving, angry and corrupt, these two fight together, both lose the posture, Lin Qian had to intervene with a knife, the short knife resisted Xiao Shi, and the long knife dismissed Yin'er: "Don't fight, talk peacefully." ”

"That real gentian, it's clear that I got it, it was stolen by you, are you justified?"

"I'm not stealing. I'm taking back what belongs to me. Xiao Shi Zhengse said, "The only thing I feel guilty about is that I didn't say goodbye, but it was also forced by the situation, and the people of the clan were rubbing against each other that day, and I had to go out of the valley if I was worried about my life." ”

"Your own thing?" Yin'er was skeptical, "Gentian?"

"The bamboo tube you use to hold the real gentian is insulated from heat and cold, and it is my family's ancestor, and the real gentian is also what my grandfather once planted in Shentang Fort, but after many years, it cannot be easily obtained for a while. When Xiao Shi said, Lin Qian was stunned, this bamboo tube was given to him by the tea man before he died, and it was filled with green tung tails, why, it turned out that it was not from Fengqingmen?

"Your family, who proves that it belongs to your family?"

"It can be seen that at the bottom of this bamboo tube, there is a very small 'Hu' character engraved? Xiao Shi lifted the bamboo tube, and the bottom of this object was indeed engraved. When Lin Qian saw it before, he thought that the head and younger brother of the tea man were sorry for Hu Moo, and Fengqingmen wanted to pay tribute to the Shadowless Sect - wait, Shadowless Sect?

Yin'er knew that the real gentian was inside: "You obviously have the surname Xiao ......" halfway through the words, she also realized that Xiao Shi was a pseudonym, how could a woman have this name.

Under the breeze, Xiao Shi's long hair fluttered, his body was light, and although he was elegant, he couldn't hide his beauty. If Lan Yuze and Yan Luoqiu are a country and a city, then Jinling and her can be said to be a country and a day.

Jin Ling stayed stunned in place, and suddenly woke up at this moment: Hu?

"Okay, your surname is Hu, the bamboo tube is barely yours, the real gentian is not - give you the tube, give me the real gentian. "Yin'er knew that she couldn't prove the true gentian, because there were very few people in the Shentang Castle who knew about this poisonous flower.

Xiao Shi really didn't go on with reason, and for a long time, the two were silent against each other.

"Alliance leader, this true gentian is very important to me, I can't borrow a single petal at the moment, and after I achieve my goal......" Xiao Shizheng said, and suddenly another voice interjected from the diagonal road:

"Langyu, who are they?"

Lin Qian, Jin Ling, and Li Fengxing turned their heads and saw another woman coming upstairs, it was a mature beauty with a high bun, in her thirties.

Hearing Xiao Shi call her "sister", before she had time to realize the relationship between them, Lin Qian felt like a thread in her head was suddenly pulled, released, and slammed against the wall of her skull, and the feeling of blood flow disordered - Hu, make jade, make jade?

That's right, this beautiful woman calls Xiao Shi Hu Rongyu!

"Hu Rongyu ......" Yin'er turned pale and accepted it for a long time, she drew her sword when she saw Xiao Shi before, because she wanted to vent her suppressed emotions for too long, and after the catharsis, she was a little unforgiving, but after being proud, she actually had a heart to get back together with Xiao Shi, even if she left a little bit for her after Xiao Shi used it...... Therefore, although Shicai's sword fight was like a firefight, she didn't make any killing moves, talked for a while, believed Xiao Shi's explanation, and her anger basically disappeared.

Now it's different, the anger is gone, the anger is gone, and it turns straight down to hatred.

Hate, of course hate!

It has been nearly ten years since Ji Jing's tragic death, and in the past ten years, she will think of her master whenever there is a familiar scene, but whenever there is a similar atmosphere, she is like returning to the past, she dare not forget his teachings even a little: the white-bearded old man in the wilderness must be a martial arts master, and when he encounters a formation, he reads that the soldiers are all arrayed forward, what are the rivers and lakes, there are four kinds of rivers and lakes, most of the men experience three women in their lives, why most of the apprentices can't beat the master, etc., etc., etc., the sound and smile, bit by bit, just like yesterday, unforgettable. She remembers best how to put the chicken stewed mushrooms, because that is the master's favorite dish, she knows that the master likes Beiyuan tea the most, so how to identify and appreciate this tea, she is like a stream, because Ji Jing doesn't like Zhu Xi, she also hates Zhu Xi very much, she hates Zhu Xi very much. Her temperament still retains the look he liked the most, she didn't even want to change her name back and was ready to call Feng Xiaoyin for a lifetime, because for her, Ji Jing is the filling of the concept of father, in the beautiful dream, she is still beating his back and legs in Sanqing Mountain, but the nightmare wakes up often the tragic state before he dies.

Maybe she and Shen Yan didn't do enough, and gradually put Ji Jing's matter in second place for Lin Qian's sake, but the other six senior brothers who were not on the front line of the anti-gold war nominally traveled around the mountains and rivers, and occasionally settled down to trade, but in fact, they must arrest the murderer everywhere, and they refused to let go of even half a trace of clues and traces of this Hu Rongyu!

Heaven is pitiful, Master is in the spirit of heaven, and finally did not let the murderer go unpunished, let her mess with the jade, and hit my hand - Master, the apprentice will definitely slash the enemy and avenge your hatred!

Yin'er, who was rushed by hatred, didn't care what Hu Rongyu was going to say next, he came out of the sheath with tears, stabbed his heart with a sword, overflowed with blood, and chased his soul for his life.

Hu Rongyu was almost killed by Yin'er with a sword due to unexpectedness, but fortunately, Lin Qian paid attention to it for a long time, and when he saw that the situation was not right, he blocked the knife, so he weakened Yin'er's strength.

However, with a loud bang, Hu Rongyu was still hit by Yin'er's sword qi, his legs fell to the ground with a weak heart, and a trace of blood oozed from the corner of his mouth.

"Yin'er, have you forgotten what Senior Ji said when he was dying!" Although there are many people with the same name and surname, the probability of Hu Rongyu, who is good at poison, is not less than ninety percent of the Hu Rongyu who killed Ji Jing, and what he said to find the wrong person will definitely not persuade Yin'er, Lin Qian can only mention Ji Jing's dying persuasion.

The reason why he persuaded Yin'er to stop was that Lin Qian knew that Ji Jing didn't want them to avenge their wrongs, and would rather die to atone for the wrongful killing of the past, and second, he knew that Hu Rongyu was the descendant of the Shadowless Sect and the daughter of Hu Xuan.

Now his train of thought is almost coherent: no wonder Hu Langyu has something to do with the true gentian, because she is an expert in cold fire poison, and she knows more about the toxicity of the true gentian than the sound of the fur, and is more likely to save Yin'er's life.

However, when Hu Rongyu turned from a legend to a reality, problems also came one after another: a person who might save Yin'er was precisely Yin'er's great enemy. With Yin'er's temperament, she would rather die together, and Hu Rongyu's temper is not gentle and very arrogant, even if Yin'er bows her head, she may not be willing to treat. (To be continued.) )