Chapter 60: Finding Out the News
Yang Xiao had already decided to go down the mountain to Butterfly Valley as soon as possible, so in the past two days, he began to settle down the affairs above the main altar, and there was no worry about going down the mountain when the time came.
Wu Jincao's Ordnance Department is in a large canyon in the mountain behind Guangmingding, where there is a vein of fire oil not far away, and it is very convenient for the continuous flow of fire oil to extract materials, Yang Xiao went to see it in person, and explained to Wu Jincao some gunpowder refining techniques and artillery musket making techniques, and then instructed them to do a good job of secrecy and defense.
Then Yang Xiao secretly met with the waves lurking around Saikri, and also handed him a copy of Jiuyang Divine Skill and Yiyang Finger Secret Book, and explained in detail the outline of the martial arts of the two martial arts, these two martial arts, ordinary people are extremely difficult to cultivate, especially the Yiyang Finger needs a deep internal strength to cultivate the foundation for internal strength, and it is completely impossible to exert its power without forty or fifty years of skill. And in the Jiuyang Divine Skill Secret Book that Yang Xiao gave to Sai Keri, although it is only the exercises of the first volume, there are still two flaws in it. He told Hailang the tricks and flaws in these martial arts completely, and encouraged him again, and now he can only leave a back hand like this, just in case, after all, people's hearts are unpredictable.
On this day, Yang Xiao told the cold moon and cool breeze again, and then set off to go down the mountain. This time Yang Xiao put on the white robe he often wears, white clothes are better than snow, long hair fluttering, and the accessories on his body are extremely simple, only bringing a jade flute, carefully repairing the small beard, and just going down the mountain.
After getting off the bright peak, Yang Xiao went all the way to the east. Guangming is on top of this Kunlun Mountain Range, surrounded by mountains and mountains, and the mountain roads are rugged and difficult to drive, so Yang Xiao is just constantly running light exercises. Running and jumping between these mountain streams, he has achieved great Jiuyang magic at this time, and the power in his body is endless, but he doesn't have to worry about the danger of failing his strength, even if he runs for two or three days in a row, it will not be a problem.
Yang Xiao was anxious about the matter of Butterfly Valley and worried that Ji Xiaofu would have an accident, so he didn't stop along the way, didn't look at the scenery on both sides, and ignored the pedestrians and other martial arts people he encountered, and walked straight towards the east. These martial arts people or hunters in the mountains accidentally caught a glimpse of a man in white with big sleeves fluttering and his body fluttering between the mountains and mountains, and he kept leaping between the mountains and streams, the speed was extremely fast, and he was like a ghost.
Once, some local residents saw a white figure jumping down from the top of a mountain peak in the distance, and the mountain wind blew his clothes to hunt, and the big sleeves fluttered, and those people thought that this person was only afraid that he was going to fall to death from the cliff, but he didn't want the figure to fall down quickly, and then lightly toe in the mountains, and the figure rose sharply again, and flew out of the air forward, just a few breaths, and the figure disappeared from the mountains. There are also many new believers in these residents here, and when they see this situation, they think they have met immortals, so Yang Xiao sometimes sees some people bowing in his direction without stopping.
Yang Xiao didn't pay much attention to it, he just had to hurry, and finally came out of the Kunlun Mountains after three or five days. After leaving the Kunlun Mountains, the road became much smoother. Therefore, Yang Xiao bought a good horse in the surrounding market, and he came down the mountain this time, and he also carried a lot of silver money and the like on his body.
Along the way to the direction of northern Anhui, along the way, Yang Xiao can see displaced people everywhere, many places are full of mourning, and there are more Yuan soldiers who are brutal and abnormal, often killing people at every turn, at the beginning Yang Xiao also came to the rescue of the people to kill the Yuan soldiers, but the more eastward this situation is getting more and more serious, so Yang Xiao is not delaying time, but all the Yuan soldiers he met did not let go. Yang Xiao also knew that a person's power was limited, and if he couldn't overthrow the Yuan Dynasty, drive out the Tartars, and establish a strong regime, such tragedies would emerge one after another. Therefore, it is also urgent to reorganize the Ming Sect by itself, and only a mature organization can better lead the uprising.
At that time, Yang Xiao hired a river boat, put it directly in Hankou, and after arriving in Hankou, he changed to a Yangtze River boat and went down the river east along the river. The butterfly valley where Hu Qingniu, the doctor of the butterfly valley, lives in seclusion, is on the shore of NΓΌshan Lake in northern Anhui. The Yangtze River flows from Hankou to Jiujiang, flows to the southeast, and after reaching Jiujiang, it turns to the northeast and enters the Anhui border.
When he arrived at Guabu in the lower reaches of Dejiqing, Yang Xiaoshe's boat got out of the drought, bought a big carriage, added a lot of bedding and dried fruit preserves and the like to put them in the car, drove the car to the north, and arrived at Fengyang in a few days. There is only one big city near Fengyang City, where Hu Qingniu lives in seclusion, firstly, there are local Ming Sect members in Fengyang City, and they can find out the news themselves, and then there are dusty people along the way, so why do you have to take a bath. Therefore, Yang Xiao drove into Fengyang City in a car.
Although there are also soldiers guarding the city, but looking at Yang Xiao's clothing and bearing is extremely extraordinary, and he is dressed in white Shengxue, a jade Xiao is horizontally held, but he is driving a carriage like a coachman, the soldiers guarding the city know that he must be a stranger in the rivers and lakes, these people behave strangely, and they dare not intercept, Yang Xiao entered Fengyang City in this way.
This Fengyang City is also a big city in the Anhui realm, so the streets are full of people coming and going, and it is very lively. After Yang Xiao entered the city, he took a carriage to a restaurant next to him, and the plaque said Linhuai Pavilion with three big characters, and it looked relatively clean, he stopped the carriage and handed it to Xiao Er: "Feed some good forage, and take care of the things in the car." β
"Uncle, don't worry, how many years has the shop been, and the guests will never lose things, please inside!"
Under the diligent leadership of Xiao Er, Yang Xiao entered the restaurant, and the hall was full of people, Yang Xiao threw a piece of silver to the shopkeeper, asked for an upper room and walked upstairs.
When I got upstairs and entered the room, Xiao Er diligently brought hot water in and asked, "Uncle, did you bring your food or ......?"
"No need, I'll go to the second floor for dinner in a moment. β
"Yes! Yes, uncle, you have something to say hello to the little one. Saying that, Xiao Er retreated.
Although Yang Xiao was not very tired after traveling for many days, he was covered in dust, so he took a bath happily. Refreshed, Yang Xiao paced to a table by the window on the second floor and sat down, Xiao Er brought the food, and Yang Xiao began to eat, while eating, he listened attentively to the words of the diners next to him to see if there was any useful information.
The members of the Ming Sect in Fengyang City have various identities, including farmers, vegetable sellers, coolies, warehouse guys, etc., and even government officials, pawn peddlers, small merchants and hawkers. These people usually just go their own way, once there is something to do, they will open the altar under the leadership of the altar owner incense master, so of course these people do not have a fixed place to go on weekdays, but most of them know each other.
If Yang Xiao wanted to find these people, he could only leave the flame signal of the Ming Sect, and the disciples in the sect would naturally contact him after seeing it. Therefore, Yang Xiao planned to leave to look for it after eating.
At this moment, there were four or five men sitting at a table next to him, who looked like they should be dart masters, only to hear one of the young ones lower his voice and said: "A few days ago, I was in this Linhuai Pavilion, hehe, that incident happened, I don't want to see that Linhuai Pavilion is still full of people today, business is booming, it seems to have no impact!"
At this time, another middle-aged man asked, "What is the matter?"
The young man who spoke earlier said: "Hehe, Lao Wang, you went out to hang the stake that day, but you happened to be absent, and you missed a big event. In this Linhuai Pavilion Restaurant, the Holy Hand of the Kongtong faction, Jialan Jianjie, the Huashan faction Xue Gongyuan, as well as the Shenquan Sect and the Beggars Gang, there are many sects, about more than ten people, by the way, there are two more Emei factions, but they are not pinching classes, the two of them, the woman has a small bean, hehe! These famous sects are really less and less particular these years. None of these people ran away, and they all let an old kneading class take care of them. β
"Got flooded?" the middle-aged man asked.
"There's no dirt anymore, but it's all painted, hehe. The young man gloated.
"I'm afraid this is a tie!"
"No, these people have handed over the threshold before they start, and besides, how can anyone tie up with so many sects. β
At this time, a bartender came over and brought a pot of wine and said: "A few heroes, this is a few of our shopkeepers, and please let these brothers be affectionate, we are doing business, and we don't want to recruit wings." β
At this time, a middle-aged man sitting on the throne in the group stood up, bowed his hand and said: "I'll wait for my brother to make a point, and I'll go on the road in a while, please take this pot of wine back, don't drink when you go out, thank the shopkeeper for me." β
Then he sat down and glanced at the men, and the young man wanted to say something, but the middle-aged man whispered, "Nian is short!
At this time, Yang Xiao on the side walked straight to the table, stretched out his hand and slapped a piece of silver into the table, and then said lightly: "I am very interested in the pair of women of the Emei faction you said, and tell me the original thing This bit of silver is counted as honorarium." β