The heavy rain is pouring down, the rain curtain covers the four fields, and the sound of dripping rain is like a tide.

Let's go!

The deerskin boots stomped into the small puddles of mud, and the muddy water splashed on all sides, leaving a hollow shallow pit, which was submerged by the rapidly returning muddy water.

On the official road, five soap-clothed swordsmen broke through the rain curtain and ran quickly, their heels splashing with mud, they walked in a hurry, looking back from time to time. Traces of blood were oozing from the rain-soaked clothes, and the rain flowed down his body.

The person in the middle was wearing a hat and a hat, a middle-aged man with a resolute face, he was pale and clutched his chest, never looked back, always gritted his teeth and stared ahead, his eyes were full of hatred and eagerness.

The front is the north, the north is the east of the river, and the foot is the return journey. But when you embark on the journey home, you may not be able to return. Because the middle-aged man was an envoy from Hedong, the envoy Zhaoyi was to unite Kang Chengqian and deal with Li Ye together.

Now, Li Ye is on the southern border of Luzhou, greeted by the civil and military bureaucrats led by Kang Chengqian, and he fled in a hurry on the northern border of Luzhou.

The raindrops the size of beans flew on the hat, shattering and crackling, and the disordered rhythm was very suitable for the middle-aged man's mood.

A pavilion appeared next to the official road ahead, standing quietly in the distant wild rain curtain, lonely and quiet. Pavilion, stop also. Ordinary travelers, when they come across the pavilion, will stop to rest, drink water, eat some dry food, and then continue on the road.

The five had no intention of stopping. The long pavilion is shorter, where is the return journey? At least not here. On the way to escape, you can't stop until you have a place to return.

They don't want to stop, someone wants them to stop.

There were people in the pavilion. Alone. A man with an umbrella. A half-centenarian with an umbrella.

He was carrying one hand behind him, facing the official road, looking at the heavy rain. In the sight, the wilderness is ten miles, the forests are cold, and the mountains are quiet. He didn't look at the people who were running from the official road to the south, like they weren't enough to get his attention, but the people who were running couldn't help but look at him.

His cultivation is too high, so high that no one can ignore it.

The five people who were wounded and ran around flashed a flash of despair in their eyes when they saw this person.

The four swordsmen who were guarding on all sides secretly gritted their teeth, and one of them suddenly said to the middle-aged man: "General, there are still thirty miles, and you can enter the boundary of Qinzhou in Hedong." There's someone there to pick up the general, go and leave us alone!"

His voice was like Jin Ge, and after he said that, he had already brought the power of cultivation, and the rain around him was all shattered.

The middle-aged man's face changed, and a look of extreme pain flashed in his eyes, but he did not refuse.

The four swordsmen had already jumped up one after another, broke through the rain curtain, and killed everyone from each other to the pavilion.

The old man with the umbrella finally retracted his gaze towards the wilderness, glanced at everyone lightly, and immediately showed a sneer of disdain: "A few ants that are difficult to protect themselves dare to attack the old man?"

He didn't use his hands, not even a flick of his fingers.

It's just that the cultivation power on his body suddenly exploded, and with him as the center of the circle, a wave of qi exploded, rising like a bowl of upside-down light curtain!

The swordsmen who ran to the outside of the pavilion collided with the light curtain, and all of them flew out dozens of steps upside down like a broken kite. The blood mist around his body flashed, smashing down the wet ground, and there was no sound, only a large pool of blood spread under his body.

The four swordsmen died, and the middle-aged man in a coat and hat had just rushed to the pavilion. The guards fought for their lives, and the extravagant hope of buying time for him has turned into a dream.

The middle-aged man gritted his teeth, suddenly roared, and jumped towards the old man with an umbrella with a knife, the person was in mid-air, the long knife slashed vertically, and the knife qi of more than ten zhang was condensed like a substance, and it slashed down towards the pavilion!

The old man was always expressionless, even in the face of a middle-aged man's dying counterattack. He just raised his umbrella and swiped it from the bottom to the top, a blue aura, like a flame, met the sword qi, "People who are going to die, why do you have to struggle?"

The knife qi dissipated, and the middle-aged man was struck by lightning, his body suddenly stiffened, and his coat and hat suddenly shattered and exploded, and he didn't know where he flew. He himself was bleeding from all his senses, and he fell freely from mid-air and fell heavily in front of the pavilion.

The old man's eyes were indifferent, and he walked step by step to the middle-aged man who was lying in the dirt and couldn't get up, and said lightly: "Pavilion word, stop." Your path in the world should come to a halt here. Isn't it also a good thing that you don't have to continue to run around and work hard? Although your head is not valuable, it just shows my righteous attitude, and the old man has no choice but to borrow it from you. ”

The middle-aged man barely raised his head, without the slightest fear in his eyes, but full of hatred and unwillingness: "I didn't expect that Changshi would come to stop me in person." In order to tie up Li Ye, you really don't even want to be cheeky...... However, I am the envoy of Hedong, if you kill me, the king of Longxi will definitely not let you go!"

This old man is none other than Kang Xiqi.

That night, Kang Xiqi, Kang Chengqian and others agreed on the major matter of taking refuge in Li Ye, and the first thing they did was to catch Li Keyong's envoy who happened to arrive at the Jiedu Embassy and kill him to show their righteous aspirations, but they unexpectedly sensed the danger and ran away in advance.

The umbrella in Kang Xiqi's hand still hadn't been opened, and the tip of the umbrella was pressed against the middle-aged man's throat, "Only the living are qualified to worry about the affairs of this world, and there is no need for the dead to ask." Besides, compared with King An, what is the king of Longxi County? It won't be long before I, Zhaoyi, will help King An and go to level Hedong!"

After that, the cold light flashed in front of the tip of the umbrella, the blood splashed on the ground, and a good head flew high in the heavy rain.

......

Kang Chengqian greeted Li Ye to Luzhou City, and set up a banquet in the Jiedu Embassy that night, and entertained Li Ye and the officials and generals of the Ping Lu Army lively.

The banquet was full of singing and dancing, and the planning was staggered.

Kang Chengqian kept toasting, his attitude and posture were very low, he regarded himself as an official everywhere, and kept praising Li Ye's past achievements. From Li Ye's one-day achievement of practicing qi to pacifying Huangchao, no matter how big or small, every time he touted something, he had to toast a glass. He is so attentive that people who don't know see it and think that he is a subordinate promoted by Li Ye.

It's also a shame that Kang Chengqian's cultivation is good, otherwise if he drank it like this, he would have turned it over a long time ago.

Xue Wei and Secretary Henghaizhang's food table was nearby, and unlike the others present, their faces were not good-looking.

Xue Wei stared at Kang Chengqian with resentment on his face, feeling that this guy was really shameless to the extreme, worthy of being a scholar, flattering one by one, and the words of praise were not repeated, which was simply full of charm of relying on Ma Qianyan.

Compared with Kang Chengqian, Xue Wei felt that his praise for Li Ye before was even as good as a fart. If Kang Chengqian continues to be so flattering, Xue Wei feels that his position is in jeopardy, and this guy may want the latecomer to take over and climb on his head.

Secretary Henghai was also depressed, shaking his head and sighing, saying insulting Sven and insulting Sven. As he spoke, Secretary Henghai left the table and went out, and Xue Wei saw that the other party's expression was different, and hurriedly followed quietly.

When the secretary arrived outside the hospital, he called his subordinates and asked them to find pen and ink. Then he used the other party's back as a desk and began to write. In the end, he solemnly handed over the written things to his subordinates, and asked him to hurry up and send them to the Henghai Jiedu envoy.

Xue Weixiu was not low, and after a few glances, he saw the content of the letter, although he didn't see all of it, but the words "please increase the number of troops" are extremely obvious. Xue Wei chuckled in his heart, and secretly said that it was not good, this guy was going to invite the Henghai Festival envoy to send a large army over!

Speaking of which, the envoy of Henghai Jiedu sent 10,000 soldiers and horses to help in the battle, which is indeed not much, and it is firmly at the bottom. And Henghai has always been friendly with Pinglu, and Henghai's envoys are also stammering Li Ye everywhere, such a little soldier and horse, now it is not in line with Henghai's self-proclaimed identity as Li Ye's number one dog. Especially when he heard that Kang Chengqian kept promising Li Ye during the banquet that more than 100,000 people in the Zhaoyi Army would obey Li Ye's command.

Xue Wei saw Secretary Henghai turn around, and hurriedly shrank his head and hid himself. He thought about it secretly, and immediately went to find his henchman. Write down a military order on the spot, ask the other party to bring it back, and transfer the remaining soldiers and horses of the Tianping Army over. In any case, you can't let Henghai and Zhaoyi compare him.

"I'm the first one to take refuge in King An among the various feudal towns, how can I not contribute less than you, so that your credit is more than mine!" After giving the order, when Xue Wei returned to the table, he thought like this, and he was quite complacent, completely forgetting that he was captured by the Holy Son and had no choice but to follow Li Ye to fight.

Kang Chengqian's attitude was diligent beyond Li Ye's expectations, the other party was so knowledgeable, so loyal, righteous and courageous, which also made Li Ye inevitably have some doubts about whether the other party had ulterior motives.

Watching Kang Chengqian spitting and spitting, touting his past exploits, expressing awe and admiration, and promising that Zhaoyi would do his best to supply the army with grain and grass, and at the same time levy 200,000 people to help the army transport heavy loads, Li Ye pondered deeply.

Will Zhaoyi be digging a hole for him?

Of course, Li Ye didn't know that the strategy agreed upon by Kang Chengqian, Kang Xiqi and others was that if they didn't help Li Ye, they would do their best to help. Let Hedong not have the slightest chance of resistance, and he must be pressed to death at once.

If not, when Li Ye returns to Pinglu afterwards, Hedong will ease up, but Zhaoyi is next to Hedong, so he won't be retaliated by the other party desperately? Zhaoyi obviously can't beat others, Hedong has eleven states!

What is more terrible than the cold of the lips and teeth is that the teeth are thinking all the time, "Breaking the lips!" Teeth can bite the lips, can the lips bite the teeth?

Seeing that Li Ye was deep in thought, and gradually showed a suspicious look, Kang Chengqian's heart hung in his throat. Wang An: Are you still not satisfied? We are all so sincere! Is there anything else that we have not done well enough?

Kang Chengqian thought about it for a long time, but couldn't think of a reason, and gradually became nervous, sweating on his forehead. Fortunately, it didn't take long for Kang Chengqian to report that Kang Xiqi was back. His heart was relieved, and he immediately got up and saluted Li Ye: "Your Highness, Your Highness has a gift to present to Your Highness!"

"Oh, what kind of gift is Kang Shuai bothering so much?" Li Ye was interested.

Seeing Li Ye's lack of interest, Kang Chengqian's heart was even more stressed. This Pinglu army has welcomed the entry, and Hedong has also been offended to death, if Li Ye is not satisfied at this moment, Zhaoyi is not a person inside and outside.

Kang Xiqi walked into the hall with a flag box, and after the salute, he bowed down and raised his hands above his head, and presented them in front of Li Ye in a proper manner. His appearance at the moment, where is there still half of the high-spirited demeanor when facing the envoy of Hedong, and his every move is like a child who wants to please adults.

Shangguan Chengcheng took two steps forward, took the lacquer box, checked left and right, and after confirming that there was no problem, he slowly opened it. After seeing the contents of the box clearly, Shangguan Chengcheng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he dropped the lacquer box, and pulled his sword out of the sheath with a bang, pointing directly at Kang Xiqi. At the same time, the coercion of the general of the military family suddenly emanated, surpassing the strength of the ninth layer of Qi training, making everyone in the hall feel like a boulder was pressed.

I only heard her whisper, "What does this mean?!"

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PS: Today's three watches, one chapter in the next hour, eight o'clock, nine o'clock.