In the early morning of the small heavy mountain, there are a few distinctions.

At the foot of the mountain, a few birds hovered low in the sky, chirping happily.

Song Duanyu and his entourage have already walked out of Xiaozhongshan for a mile. Their target is Shiyin Town.

Previously, when he was in the Xuanwu Vault, Zhang Zitang told Song Duanyu to ask him to go to the blacksmith shop in Shiyin Town on the edge of Qingyang Town to get something.

Song Duanyu didn't know what Zhang Zitang had left for him.

About half an hour later, they arrived at Shiyin Town.

The town of Shiyin Town is much larger than Qingyang Town, and it is divided into four large blocks: north, south, east and west. There are two main roads crisscrossing the town, the vertical one is called "Qingyuan Street", and the horizontal one is "Ziyuan Street".

There are more small vendors selling knick-knacks or daily necessities on this Qingyuan Street, and it is very lively every day. However, the storefronts on Ziyuan Street are of high grade, and the things in them are much more expensive than those on Qingyuan Street, and they are often patronized by young boys.

This happened today on Ziyuan Street.

Song Duanyu and his entourage entered Shiyin Town from the east of the town and walked on the road of Ziyuan Street.

The streets are bustling. Song Zhixuan said, "I didn't expect a border town to be so prosperous, and I don't know what the Central Plains is like." ”

Song Duanyu showed a look of yearning - he had never been to the Central Plains.

"Maybe the city there is taller and bigger. ”

Hu Zihao and the two brothers watched the two talk like this, without saying a word.

Just when Song Duanyu and Song Zhixuan were happily talking about the cities in the world, a little girl in flower clothes was coming.

The little girl didn't come over, she did.

The floral clothes on her body looked very old, and they were also stained with a lot of dust, and there were a few spots and holes.

Song Duanyu found that the clothes didn't fit, as if they were for adults, not the little girl's own clothes.

Song Zhixuan pointed his finger, "Look." ”

I saw that the little girl was followed by a group of people—a group of fierce and vicious family members.

Song Duanyu was angry in her heart, and stepped forward to protect the little girl behind her.

"Why do you want to bully a child," Song Duanyu said. He was already faintly holding the half-foot snow on his waist.

The leader of the group of family members said, "Oh, where did you come from, a wild boy, who dared to take care of the affairs of my Zhao Mansion." ”

The leader was of medium height, with a fleshy face, a hooked nose, and a small beard under his nose, and he clearly looked like a slave.

The leader of the evil slaves crossed his waist and said, "Look at you like this, you must be from outside. If you don't inquire in this town, how can anyone dare to take care of the family affairs of the Zhao Mansion?"

As he spoke, he pointed to Song Duanyu's head and began to scold, "I advise you to kowtow to my grandfather a few times, otherwise, you will suffer later." ”

Song Duanyu sneered and said, "This is also what I want to say to you." ”

Song Duanyu secretly threw a look at Song Zhixuan.

Song Zhixuan nodded.

Suddenly, Song Zhixuan's figure had disappeared in place.

Several afterimages flashed in the crowd, and Song Zhixuan walked among the group of evil slaves, clapping their palms on their air pockets.

The three-breath time passed in an instant, and Song Zhixuan returned to his original place, except for those evil slave leaders, the rest of the Zhao Mansion family members all fell to the ground, letting out a screaming sound.

The leader of the evil slaves was obviously panicked, and said angrily, "You...... You...... You are so bold, Master Zhao will not let you go. We'll see. ”

The leader of the evil slaves also glared at Song Duanyu fiercely, thinking in his heart that when he found reinforcements, he must have a little color for these strangers who don't know what to do.

Song Duanyu saw that the leader of the evil slaves had run away, and hurriedly kicked a stone at his feet. The stone arced through the air and struck the slave leader's leg.

The leader of the evil slaves screamed miserably, did not look back, just limped towards the depths of Ziyuan Street.

A strange scene happened, and the shops on both sides of the street where Song Duanyu and his party were located began to close their stalls.

Song Zhixuan was puzzled, and hurriedly stopped a person and said, "This is just the morning market, why do you have to close the stall in such a hurry." ”

The man sighed slightly, looked at Song Zhixuan with some dissatisfaction, and complained, "It's not you who caused the trouble? You outsiders don't understand the rules here at all, if you wait until Zhao Gongzi comes and sees us here, you have to punish us for some money before you give him up." You are the one who caused the trouble, and we don't want to suffer with you. ”

This man is the owner of a shop that sells rare knick-knacks.

He said a few casual words, and then hurriedly began to pack up the goods in the shop.

Song Duanyu didn't care about the Zhao Mansion slaves lying on the ground around him, but turned around and squatted down, and said to the little girl, "Little girl, what's wrong with you." Why are they chasing you. ”

A few tears flowed down the little girl's face, and she said with a sad face, "They killed both my father and my mother. I managed to get out. ”

The two brothers on the side saw it and felt quite uncomfortable. The two of them have been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, but they have not started a family. After all, walking on the rivers and lakes, you may lose your life one day, and if you start a family, you will inevitably disappoint the woman who likes you.

The bearded man Zicheng said angrily with the wind, "Damn, is there any royal law in this Shiyin Town." I'm going to go to the Zhao family and slaughter the young master surnamed Zhao. ”

Hu Zihao waved his hand, and Cheng Suifeng stopped talking, giving Hu Zihao a puzzled look.

Hu Zihao looked at the little girl lying on the ground, and a subtle smile hung on the corner of his mouth.

Seeing that the little girl was about to cry, Song Duanyu hurriedly comforted, "Don't cry, don't cry, my brother is here." ”

The little girl hurriedly raised her head, looked at Song Duanyu with her innocent eyes, and tentatively, "Is it okay?

Song Duanyu said gently, "Naturally, it's okay." ”

The little girl said, "My name is Xue Qi. My father and mother died last winter. ”

There was no change in the expression on the little girl's face, perhaps it was numbness. Song Duanyu took this scene in his eyes, and his nose was sour.

Last year, there was a lot of snow in the northwest border, and the little girl's parents left her, leaving her to wander alone in the world, so it was called Snow Abandonment. Song Duanyu thought in his heart.

Song Zhixuan saw the little girl who had the same experience with him and said, "You will follow us in the future." ”

The little girl asked, "Is that okay? You don't bully me like those bad guys, do you?"

Song Duanyu said, "Of course not. ”

At this time, the leader of the evil slaves who had escaped brought back the rescuers.

He walked with a very funny look, limping with a wooden cane.

Behind him was a richly dressed son.

He held a green wood folding fan in his hand, wore a silver robe embroidered with a colorful phoenix, and wore a purple and gold crown with tied hair, just like a son in the turbid world.

Song Zhixuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said, "This person is not simple. ”

Song Duanyu cast an inquiring look, "How can you see it." ”

Song Zhixuan said, "The Caifengxiu silver robe he is wearing is not ordinary clothes, this kind of cloth is not available in the Northwest, only in the Central Plains." And the status of people who can embroider phoenixes on clothes must not be low. ”

Song Duanyu nodded. He didn't pay attention to it before, but after Song Zhixuan's mention, he found that the man in front of him seemed to be born with an innate grace and luxury.

This kind of temperament is often related to family background and cannot be faked.

Neither of them paid attention, and Hu Zihao's eyes drooped.

Hu Zihao thought in his heart, "Caifeng embroidered silver robe, the Zhao family in the central capital? It seems that this Shiyin Town is not simple." It seems that Zhang Zitang has long noticed the unusualness here. ”

When Hu Zihao thought of it, he would also smile. He finally understood Zhang Zitang's abacus. Even if Shiyin Town is the Longtan Tiger's Den, with him, a master of the Dawu Four-Rank Half-Mountain Realm, he can also ensure Song Duanyu's safety.

But Hu Zihao is willing to be this bodyguard. First, there is nothing to do now, and second, for his master, he still owes that person's share of love.

I saw that the man gently shook the Aoki fan in his hand, and a pair of eyes with a bright look first glanced at Song Duanyu's side, and then hugged his fist at Song Duanyu and said, "The people under him are not sensible, and I hope Your Excellency will not mind." ”

Song Duanyu was stunned when he heard the man's words. It was clear that his gang had beaten the other party's subordinates, but he didn't expect the other party to apologize to himself. This kind of attitude is really not like the people who run rampant in the countryside on weekdays.

Song Zhixuan said directly, "This son, can you tell me why you want to bully a little girl so much?"

The young man in the Chinese costume said, "This is a private matter of Zhao's family, and please don't ask too much about the two sons." Please also hand over this little girl to Zhao. ”

Speaking of this, the voice of the young man in the costume was clearly cold. Obviously, he was dissatisfied in his heart, but he hadn't had a face-saving attack yet.

Song Duanyu said, "This matter is not possible. Good people do it to the end and send the Buddha to the west. Since I helped this little girl before, I can't watch my son take her away. ”

The young man in the Chinese costume laughed angrily, "So, do you want to toast and not eat, and eat and drink?"

Song Zhixuan made a Jianghu salute first and said, "Xiaosheng is a scholar, from Liaodong Bailu Academy. My college has a collection of thousands of books, and there was a sage's precept - 'Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. If someone does this to you, you are willing. ”

When the young man in Huafu heard this, his anger, which was already about to blow out his chest, became even worse, "In the realm of Shiyin Town, no one dares to talk to me like this!"

As the son of Zhao Jiadi, a big family in Shiyin Town, Huafu has always been pampered, where has he ever received such a gas.

He turned his back, folded a fan, and said to the void, "Kill them all, and leave no one behind." ”

Hearing this, Song Duanyu was also extremely angry. Although Shiyin Town is a border land, it is also a part of the Great Xuan Kingdom, and the people of Shiyin Town are also the people of the Great Xuan Kingdom. Along the way, although he was in the middle of the rivers and lakes, he had never seen such an unreasonable person.

is so careless about human life, where is the king's law in his eyes, and where is the world's outline.

Song Duanyu shouted, "If you do this, do you still have a royal law in your eyes?

As soon as Song Duanyu's words came out, Hu Zihao couldn't help but smile a little and glanced at Song Duanyu.

He scolded in his heart, how could this stupid boy start talking about the royal law with such a person. You must know that since ancient times, there has been a saying that the height of the temple is not as far as the rivers and lakes. What this is said is that being on top of the temple, although it is high, it is still not as free and free as the days of traveling through the rivers and lakes accompanied by idle clouds and wild cranes. A person from the rivers and lakes, talking about the king's law and outline, thinking about it makes people laugh.

In fact, the boy has his own plans in his heart.

Although he talked to the man in the costume in front of him about things like Wang Fa and Gangchang, there were two reasons. First, when he was in Qingyang Town, his mother Song Chunyao often told him some truths. Song Duanyu still remembers the words Song Chunyao said in his heart - "The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister." Song Duanyu has always kept this sentence in his heart. Being in the rivers and lakes - in the eyes of other people in the rivers and lakes, a big fist is the truth, but in the eyes of Song Duanyu, the truth is the truth, that is, no matter how small your fist is, the truth that should be the truth should still be the truth.

Second, Song Duanyu's other purpose in saying this was to spy on the relationship between the young man in the costume in front of him and the officials in Shiyin Town.

The official system of the Great Xuan Kingdom was very clear about the management of Zhendian. Towns like Qingyang Town and Shiyin Town will have a mayor, a security chief, and a comprador. The mayor of this town is to take care of all the affairs of the town, and the burden of ensuring the security of this side falls on the chief of the compradors, who are responsible for all the expenses of the town's public affairs.

The young man in the Chinese costume smiled when he heard Song Duanyu's words, "I still want to find the chief of the body, this entire Shiyin Town belongs to my Zhao family." You're the funniest joke I've ever heard this year. ”

The young man in Huafu no longer spoke to Song Duanyu, waved his big hand, greeted both sides of the street, and walked to the depths of Ziyuan Street.

The leader of the evil slaves, who was on crutches, hurriedly followed.

As soon as they walked on their front feet, they saw several practitioners jumping from the eaves on both sides of the street.

Hu Zihao looked at the thugs standing on both sides of the street.

These people are all in the realm of Xiao Wu's sixfold. Presumably from a poor background, and then learned some martial arts, he came to this kind of town and found a big family. To put it nicely, it is to become a doorman of the family, and to put it mildly, it is a thug. Begging for a life like them, although it is safer than crawling on the rivers and lakes, it is also a life of licking blood on the knife. What's more, for them, maybe this life does not belong to them for a long time, and they have been bound to that family for the rest of their lives, and they have no chance to see the scenery of the higher martial arts realm.

"That's it, let this kid practice his hands", Hu Zihao thought in his heart.

Song Zhixuan said to Song Duanyu, "Brother Yu, I will sweep the battle for you, and these people will be handed over to you." ”

Song Duanyu nodded and said the word "good".

The young man turned around, squatted down and touched the little girl's head, just like Zhang Zitang touched his head yesterday, and said earnestly, "You wait for my brother here, and my brother will take you to eat delicious food when he comes back in a while." ”

After Song Duanyu said this, he slowly got up.

He took a few steps forward and said to the men who were holding the Xuantie Pu Sword in their hands, "Since you are martial arts people, you must also have a heart for martial arts. In Song's view, the most important thing in Xiang Wu's heart is the word Leiluo, which is the case for a husband and a father in this world. But you heroes are fighting for the tiger, aren't you afraid of punishment from heaven?"

Hearing Song Duanyu's words, many of the men present couldn't help but bow their heads. A look of shame appeared on their faces. Just like Hu Zihao, they were already from a poor background, and they finally learned a little bit of ability, and got a job in this Shiyin Town.

It's not clean, but it's enough to feed them and the home behind them.

At this time, one of the men drank, "Entrusted by people, loyal to people." We know what you're saying, but we don't have a choice. ”

"How can I not choose", Song Duanyu said, "Is it so difficult to change a job with your ability?"

The man sneered, "You are still a teenager, so naturally you don't understand." ”

The brows of the two brothers of the wind and frost sword furrowed slightly, and the thoughts of the little brother in front of him were too simple. But they have already promised Hu Zihao to protect Song Duanyu and be thoughtful.

As the man with the knife said, he is entrusted by people and loyal to people. There is nothing to speculate.

Song Zhixuan sighed slightly in his heart, "It seems that Little Brother Song is even more like a scholar than me." ”

After the man finished speaking, he was already rushing towards Song Duanyu in an arrow step.

Song Duanyu retreated and pushed, and at the same time as he retreated, he pulled out the half-foot snow on his waist, and with a wave of his hand, a sword qi slashed out.

Song Duanyu wandered among the crowd, and among these people, there were two or three good players of Xiao Wu Liupin.

One of them attacked Song Duanyu's left side, one attacked Song Duanyu's right side, and one attacked Song Duanyu's front door.

The knife techniques used by these three people are all extremely simple knife techniques, which can be seen everywhere in the rivers and lakes.

But after all, the realm of the three of them was higher than Song Duanyu, and Song Duanyu fell into a disadvantage for a while.

Suddenly, Song Duanyu shook the half-foot snow in his hand in front of the three of them with a false move, and the three of them retreated together. Taking advantage of the gap between the three of them and the time to breathe, Song Duanyu urged the body method "Three Inches Green".

The essence of "Three Inches of Green" is: it seems to be static but not static, it seems to be moving but not moving, there is movement in stillness, and there is stillness in movement.

Song Duanyu has only now cultivated the first realm of this body method - "it seems to be quiet but not quiet".

But even in the first realm of "Three Inches Green", it is enough to deal with the situation in front of you.

Under the surprise of the three of them, Song Duanyu had already flashed behind one of them, and the other two sharp-eyed people swept Song Duanyu with the corner of their eyes, wanting to turn around and save it, but it was too late.

Song Duanyu slapped his palm on the man's back, and the man staggered forward a few steps forward, half-kneeling on the ground.

Song Duanyu's palm was strengthened.

Because the other party's martial arts realm was already higher than his own, Song Duanyu also understood their difficulties, and he didn't want to hurt their hearts, so he kept his hand.