The old village chief smiled and said, "Jiang He, you don't need to say it, I've been thinking about this matter for a long time, and this time can be regarded as a test for you," the old village chief turned his head and asked the other three village elders: "Old guys, you also tell me what you think." ”

The three village elders also said: "We also think, Jianghe, it's time for you to take on this responsibility, the position of village chief has always been passed on to the next person when it comes to major events, and now is the right time." ”

The old village chief then asked Liu Dayong, "Dayong, what do you think?"

Liu Dayong knew that the old village chief was worried about what he thought when he asked this, so he said: "Old village chief, Jiang He is indeed more suitable to be the village head, and I fully support it." ”

The old village chief smiled and said, "Okay, Jianghe, come here." ”

Liu Jianghe listened, walked to the village chief and knelt down, the old village chief and the three village elders each used scissors to cut off a lock of hair, tied the hair with a thin hemp rope, and tied the two ends of the hemp rope together to make a top chain.

The old village chief and the three village elders sang in unison: "From now on, I am no longer me, I am the whole clan, there is no more danger ahead, only the direction I want to go, there is no longer myself in my heart, only all the clansmen, please the blood in my heart to point out where I will be in the future." ”

The song is low and sad, as if it contains an old man's ardent expectations for future generations when he is dying.

The old village chief hung his tied hair around Liu Jianghe's neck, and then the four of them each used a knife to cut the middle finger of their left hand, and printed blood on Liu Jianghe's forehead in turn. Then Liu Jianghe kowtowed three times to the four elders, and the simple ceremony ended hastily, and the old village chief helped Liu Jianghe up: "Okay, Jianghe, hurry up, from now on, you are the village chief of Liujia Village, you come to assign tasks, including the four of us old guys will listen to you, if someone does not obey, you can make a disposal in the name of the village chief." ”

Liu Jianghe listened and said, "Yes," and then said to Liu Dayong and Dashan, "The situation is unclear now, what we have to do now is to guard the village, and then I will divide the young hunters in the village into two teams, led by Dayong and Dashan, Dayong leads the team to guard the first half of the night, and Dashan leads the team to guard the second half of the night. ”

"Okay", "I know", "I know" More than 30 people agreed, and Liu Jianghe said to the old village chief and the three village elders: "When the time comes, please ask the old village chief and the three village elders to help pacify the villagers and avoid chaos." The old village chief and they all agreed to come down.

Everyone began to disperse, each went home to prepare things, the old village chief called Liu Jianghe, Liu Dayong and Dashan, and the villagers were almost gone, and said to them: "We don't have any experience in this matter, I think that the master should be able to teach us some methods, we might as well ask him, it's better than us tossing around like a fly here!!"

Liu Jianghedao: "I also want to ask again, then we'll go." ”

The four of them walked towards Uncle Yan's house together.

Speaking of which, this grandfather came to visit people, and now the master is not at home, he is unceremoniously living in, and also put a few jars of old wine buried in the ground that Uncle Yan has saved, and drank them all, although he said that he left a lot of silver, but he is too much to treat himself as an outsider, but he looks very good, and his bearing is extraordinary, and everyone didn't say anything, after he drank those jars of wine, he went to collect the fruit wine brewed by each family, and gave a lot of money, the people in the village have never seen such a generous person, and he is even more polite.

When the four of them arrived at Uncle Yan's house, Ba Ye was sitting in the courtyard drinking water, and when he saw them coming, he didn't get up, and asked with a smile: "How are all the arrangements?" Liu Jianghe replied: "Everything has been arranged." Then I told him how to arrange it.

When Ba Ye heard this, he was noncommittal, and asked, "Then you are coming to me now??" The words stopped here and waited for Liu Jianghe and them to answer.

The old village chief stepped forward and said: "Ba Ye, the matter is urgent now, but we don't know much about the star and moon wolf, and we really don't have a clue how to deal with it, so we came to ask Ba Ye, and I also asked Ba Ye not to shirk." ”

Seeing that the seventy-year-old man was careful in front of him, and the four of them were all serious and expectant, he smiled and said, "It's okay, let's talk in the house." ”

The five of them entered Uncle Yan's house together, and after sitting down, Ba Ye said: "This is a long story, in fact, I have seen this kind of wolf twice, about eleven years, that time when I visited the Wei Mountain in the south with my lord, I went to a place, and now I think about it, that place is still very impressive. ”

Ba Ye looked out of the house with his eyes foggy, recalling the past eleven years ago, and recalling that mysterious and legendary place.

At that time, he followed his lord, Zhan Jiasheng, and Han Dong, the personal housekeeper, to Chenhe City in Tongbei County, to handle a fur transaction with the Southeast Cheng family, this matter only needed to be handled by local people, one came to the head of the Zhan family, and wanted to go out for a long trip, and secondly, this was the first contact between the Zhan family and the Cheng Mansion of Southeast County--- Cheng Mansion was not only powerful in Southeast County, but also had a pivotal position in the entire Zhongzhou, Zhan Jiasheng decided to go in person.

The transaction with Cheng Fu was very smooth, and it was completed in less than half a day, and then, the three of them played in Chenhe City for a while, and when they were eating in the Chenjiang Restaurant in the city, they heard a few mountain people at a table next to them say that they were going to Weishan to pick Zhengyang grass, and they also said how valuable Zhengyang grass is, and there is a saying that a leaf is one or two gold. The three of us have never heard of Zhengyang grass, and we can't help but be curious, and after inquiring carefully with them in the past, we learned that this Zhengyang grass is unique to the area of Weishan Mountain, and it is very rare, and it generally grows in the mountains and forests of Xiangyang, and the reason why this grass is so precious is mainly because it has a function that can suppress the soul and drive away evil spirits. Seeing that these nine people were dressed as shabby mountain people, afraid that they would be shallow and ignorant of the real situation, Zhan Jiasheng and the three of them went to find Ruan Jingyun, the local manager of Chengfu, after eating, and inquired carefully. Inquired and learned that this Zhengyang grass does have the miraculous effect of calming the mind and driving away evil spirits, and it is indeed very valuable.

It turns out that the two counties of southeast and Tongbei, especially Tongbei County, often have evil spirits in their people, and the people in the evil are either asleep or crazy, and if they cannot be treated in time, they will die in ten days and a half months. In the beginning, there was no way to treat it, and once a person was unlucky enough to encounter this incident, he could only wait for death. Later, Yuan Yu, a famous doctor in Liuxi City, inadvertently used this Zhengyang grass to cure an evil person in the body, once it spread, this Zhengyang grass was known to everyone, but this Zhengyang grass is very rare, originally found occasionally in the nearby mountains and forests, but because its value is so high, it can't withstand the digging of everyone, but in a few years, west of the mountain, this Zhengyang grass is almost extinct. Later, a hunting team found Zhengyang grass near the Wei Mountain, so the Wei Mountain has become an ideal place for some people who want to get rich, but this Wei Mountain is a very dangerous place, according to the description of the people who came back from inside, there are often wolves there, and people sometimes fall asleep there inexplicably, where there are all over the beasts, and falling asleep means that the life has been lost. Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, ordinary people still won't go to Weishan Mountain.

The three of them were also masters of the arts, and they immediately decided to go to Na Wei Mountain to see if it was so evil. That Ruan Jingyun originally saw him and asked us about this, and thought that we were looking to see if we could do the business of this Zhengyang grass, so he suggested that we dispel our thoughts, because although it is said that these evil things are rare in the land of the two counties, they are far from being as common as ordinary diseases, and there is no point in doing them. Where did he think that the three of them were curious from head to toe at this time, and they wanted to go to Weishan to have a look, and they never thought about doing Zhengyang Grass's business. The three of them casually said goodbye and left.

After coming out, we hurried to find those mountain people, and at that time, we thought that since these mountain people dared to go to the Wei Mountain, there were people who wanted to go to the mountain with them, and when the time came, we could also save a lot of troubles such as unfamiliarity with them.

Chenhe City, that is, a small town, is a local place for the trading and distribution of goods, no need to turn around, the three of them found those mountain people, at this time a closer look, found that they are nine people, the leader is a strong man with a big waist and a round waist, more than eight feet long, a face of horizontal meat, two small eyes dripping and turning, a look is full of oily energy. The three of them stepped forward to tell them about the situation, and when the man heard that the three of them were also going to pick Zhengyang grass, he was embarrassed and full of excuses, but seeing that the three of them were dressed extraordinarily, he didn't dare to say no, but he just said that the mountain road was difficult, and there were fierce beasts in the mountains from time to time, so he was afraid of hurting the three of them, and he couldn't afford to wait and so on.

It wasn't until Han Dong took out a piece of silver and put it in his hand, looked at him with his usual cold eyes and said, "You don't have to worry about the safety of the three of us, you just have to lead the way then." ”

The man looked at the ten taels of silver in his hand, and while he was busy putting it into his arms, he changed his smiling face: "Look at what this uncle said, if there is anything on the road, just give orders, and our brothers can do it for you without a word." The little one is called Mao Er, and the latter ones are all small good brothers. The eyes of the people in the back had already been straight, when had they seen such a generous master, and they wanted to move forward, but their boss glanced back, thinking that it was to signal them not to be in a hurry with his eyes, so that these eight people stood behind their boss and did not come forward to offer courtesy.

The lord of his own family is accustomed to seeing this kind of greedy face, standing aside, silent, and Bazhuo himself has never looked down on this kind of money-eyed goods, and is too lazy to take care of them.

Zhan Jiasheng and the three of them followed the nine mountain people to a house where they were staying outside the city, where a man in his thirties brought a six or seven-year-old boy to wait for them.

When he saw this big man, Bazhuo couldn't help but be amazed. This man is nearly nine feet tall, with an extraordinary bearing, although his face is full of weather, but his eyes are clear and energetic, but his voice is more ugly, soft, like a sissy, less temperamental, the little boy next to him is pale and weak, especially the hands, feet and neck are thin, and he is sick all over his body.

Ba Zhuo only thought that the man was quite attention-grabbing, but he did not expect that the head of the family would be more interested in the child. At that time, Mao Er and his brother paid the rent, so they each went to the house to get their own guys--- each of them a bow, Mao Er carried a thick-backed machete, and the other eight people carried hunting forks of different lengths, and the man carried a weapon six or seven feet long, wrapped in layers of gray cloth, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a knife or a sword. The head of the family, Zhan Jiasheng, kept smiling at the child, and the child also looked at him curiously, the two looked at each other with big eyes, and after looking at it for a while, the little guy seemed to be shy, hid behind the man, and tilted his little head from the right side of the man to look at the three of them. Later, I learned that this person's name was Fu Haodong, and the little guy was his son, named Fu Siyun. At that time, Ba Zhuo had just come to the lord's side from the grassland, and he didn't know the characters in the southeast county, and he didn't know the meaning of the name Fu Haodong in the entire southeast, he didn't know how much Han Dong knew, but his own lord shouldn't know the first swordsman in the southeast, because of this matter, Ba Zhuo himself was depressed for a long time, remembering that he was full of boasting at the beginning, and now his old face is still a little hot, so after thinking about it, he felt more and more that Han Dong, the old boy, was not authentic, he must have known who Fu Haodong was at that time, so he held back and didn't say it, looking at his own jokes。

It turned out that Fu Haodong's wife died soon after giving birth to Xiao Siyun, because of premature birth, Xiao Siyun has been weak since he was a child, and his major and minor illnesses have not been broken. First, he has always been alone and has few friends, and secondly, he is unwilling to bow his head and beg for help, so he has been taking his son to run around, thinking of earning money, and then spending all the money to treat his son. Not long ago, I heard that this Zhengyang grass is very valuable, so I wanted to go into the mountains to pick some to sell with my own skills, but he knew it too late, and he didn't catch up with the good time, so he had to go deep into the Wei Mountain, but in his mind, this is very difficult for others, and it should not be difficult for him, and maybe he can pick some other herbs that can be used for his son when he enters the mountains. Over the years, because of taking care of Xiao Siyun, he has put a lot of effort into inquiring about a lot of herbal medicine with famous doctors, and he has made a lot of money by collecting good herbs.

Walking on the road, the head of the family teased Xiao Siyun from time to time, asking him what his surname was, what his name was, and where he lived, don't look at this little guy holding his father's neck, his chin resting on his father's shoulder socket, looking sick, but his speech was very clever, and it was not difficult to speak at all. After a while, the head of the house became acquainted with the little guy.

At that time, I felt that the owner of the family also liked this little doll a little too much, and I just wondered in my heart, the owner of the family had never been so enthusiastic about his son, could it be that this little sick doll was really unusual, and I carefully observed it for a while, but I didn't see anything unusual---- that is, a child who was about to get terminally ill.

The nine Diao people in front of him originally wanted to have some fun, but Han Dong directly led them forward, and he didn't know how Mao Er's birdman scolded him in his heart. As he walked, the head of the family asked Fu Haodong if he could let him hug Xiao Siyun, okay, he said hug him, and he hugged him all the way and didn't let go. At the beginning, the head of the family just held the little guy in his arms with one hand, patted his back with one hand, and talked to him on the other hand, talking about some new things in the South China Sea and the North of the Sea, what the big dragon turtle in the South China Sea is as big as a boat, the snow bear in the north is as high as a hill, and the goshawk on the grassland has even beaten the wolf, etc., anyway, what is bizarre and what to say, all the way, the three of us listened to this big and small talk, Fu Haodong occasionally looked at his son and Zhan Jiasheng, and he was always silent, Han Dong walked in front of the head of the house Zhan Jiasheng, Ba Zhuo and Fu Haodong walked behind, he was careful, and always kept a step away from the head of the house。

That night, the group came to a village about forty miles west of Chenhe City, and stayed in the village, after dinner, Zhan Jiasheng put Xiao Siyun on his lap and sat in the courtyard to continue their endless topic, while Han Dong, Fu Haodong, and Ba Zhuo were talking in the house, Han Dong casually talked about the heroes in the rivers and lakes, and asked Fu Haodong what they were. Fu Haodong thought about it and said in his soft voice with numb ears, the most famous in the rivers and lakes is naturally Cheng Linxing, the old man of Chengfu who has the title of "Southeast Cliff", and then there is the first swordsman of Xicheng Mansion--- he was uncomfortable when he heard him speak so softly, Hearing this, Ba Zhuo interrupted him and said, If you want to say that the first master in the world is still the king of Liu Juyan, what is the "southeast cliff", and the first swordsman in Xicheng, in front of the prince of Juyan, that is the kung fu of the three-legged cat. Fu Haodong said when he heard it at the time that Liu Juyan Wang has been famous for more than 100 years, and he is indeed a hero in the world, but he is a man in the army, and a hundred-year-old man, his strength may not be as good as that of the old man and the hero.

As soon as Ba Zhuo heard this, he got angry, and said that Fu Haodong was ignorant, what happened to the people in the army? !

Han Dong gave Ba Zhuo a look, Ba Zhuo understood, looked outside the door, only to see the head of the family, Zhan Jiasheng, glaring at him, and seeing that Ba Zhuo saw him, he turned his head and continued to tell Xiao Siyun the story.

Fu Haodong also wanted to continue to explain to Ba Zhuo that heroes in the rivers and lakes are not the same thing as heroes in the army, Han Dong took over and said that Ba Zhuo was messing around, and asked him to ignore me.

If it weren't for the head of the family there, Ba Zhuo would have wanted to finish with Han Dong at that time, what is nonsense?!

Han Dong said to Fu Haodong that the three of them were all from the Jade Sword Mansion, and they didn't know much about the rivers and lakes in the southeast, so please ask Fu Haodong to tell us about the situation here.

Although Fu Haodong spoke a little girly, he was quite straightforward, and after being a little polite, he told them in detail about the situation in the southeast area.

Listening to him, it is similar to the Jade Sword Mansion here, there are no more orthodox official forces, and the power class in the southeast is mainly composed of four local family forces. These four families are the Cheng family in Liuxi County, the Liang family in Nanhai County, the Ruan family in Tongbei County and the Li family in Liuhe County. Among the four families, the Cheng family is the most powerful, needless to say the old man Cheng Linxing, there is also a Cheng Linyi, who is the brother of the old man Cheng, it is said that the talent and martial arts are not under the old man Cheng, but he has been missing for many years. Now Cheng Wentai, the head of the Cheng family, is the eldest son of Cheng Linxing's old man, and the second son Cheng Wenkai, the head of the Cheng family, Cheng Wenxuan, is the son of Cheng Linyi, who was brought up by Cheng Linxing since he was a child. And Cheng Wentai's wife was born in the Liang family in the South China Sea, and the Li family and the Ruan family also have an in-law relationship with the Cheng family. Among the three families, except for the Ruan family, a young master named Ruan Jingxing who recently appeared, there are no outstanding figures. In addition to the four family members, the famous masters of the rivers and lakes in the southeast include Duan Xingye, the soul chasing sword, Qian Shafei, the ghost king of the South China Sea, Xia Jinsong, the iron finger flying eagle, Fu Mingzhan, and the Zhongzhou iron halberd Zhu Wei, these five people can be regarded as first-class masters in the rivers and lakes in the southeast.

When Ba Zhuo heard him talk about Zhongzhou Iron Halberd Zhu Wei, he said that he had only heard Shatang Iron Halberd Zhu Tong, who was a fierce general of Shatang Country, but he had never heard of this Zhongzhou Iron Halberd Zhu Wei.

Fu Haodong told them that Zhu Tong was Zhu Wei's father, because he was framed, the whole family escaped alone, and all his relatives were killed.

As soon as Ba Zhuo heard this, he scolded angrily, those bitches in the court raised them, they have no ability to fight wars, they fabricate criminal evidence, but they are capable of killing heroes, grandma, don't touch him Lao Ba, let him touch, and he will skin these animals alive. Ba Zhuo asked Fu Haodong how Zhu Wei was doing now.

Fu Haodong said that as far as he knew, Zhu Wei was bent on revenge, but he had been living in Cheng's house for several years.

Ba Zhuo couldn't help but wonder, if Zhu Wei wanted to take revenge and go to Chengfu to do something, why didn't he go to Xiling Lanhua Kingdom?

Listen to Fu Haodong said, Lanhuaguo's national strength is far inferior to Shatang, counting on Lanhuaguo to help him avenge him I don't know when, and although Cheng Fu is only a Cheng family, forty years ago, it was only Cheng Linxing and Cheng Linyi brothers who repelled the attack of 100,000 people in Shatang, at that time, Shatang State Coach Jin Zhinan and two deputy generals Dou Zhong, Meng Wu were all killed, 100,000 people were chased by the two to lose their armor and abandon their armor, and suffered heavy casualties。 Although the rumors sound false, it is a fact that Zhu Wei has fled to the southeast in the past few years, and Shatang has not come to ask for anyone.

In the legends and stories I have heard in the past, there is such a strange thing, and when I heard the real thing, I still felt unbelievable at that time, at that time, Ba Zhuo always felt that manpower was sometimes poor, no matter how high the talent was, no matter how strong the force was, it would be something that I never dreamed of defeating more than 100,000 people with the power of one person.

Originally, I was still a little curious to see this old man in Linxing, but because of this too mysterious legend, I couldn't help but lose that excitement.

Han Dong seemed to be similar to him, and then he didn't ask about Cheng Linxing again, but asked Fu Haodong what weapon he used, can he let us see it.

Fu Haodong said that he used a knife, and then he went to the back room to get the knife, and went to the cloth cover wrapped outside, revealing the black handle and scabbard.

As soon as I saw the knife, I became interested, because when I looked at the scabbard, I knew that this knife was different from ordinary knives, because the scabbard was actually rectangular, and the width and width of the front and back were average, but I had never seen it.

Han Dong pulled the knife out of the sheath, and saw that the blade of the knife had a slanted opening except for the tip of the knife, and the front and back were really the same width and narrow, and the knife was dark gray under the pale yellow light, faintly glowing with a trace of cold light. Han Dong looked through it carefully, inserted the knife into the sheath and handed it back to Fu Haodong, without any intention of letting Ba Zhuo play with it. Ba Zhuo said angrily, this knife is made of good material, but unfortunately, it is too rough to build.

Fu Haodong carefully wrapped the knife in a cloth and put it back in the back room, and came back to ask Ba Zhuo if he was a master of using a knife, and Ba Zhuo told him that he couldn't talk about being a master, and he could just play a few knife tricks. Fu Haodong asked him again why he didn't see him with a weapon.

Ba Zhuo directly told him at that time that the nine-foot Yanling knife he used was made by the weapon master Gongsun Fu, and he didn't bring it out because it was inconvenient. He didn't tell Fu Haodong that it was the head of the family, Zhan Jiasheng, who was worried that he would cause trouble on the road, so he didn't let him take it.

Fu Haodong came to his senses when he heard this, and said that he must see and understand when he has the opportunity.

Ba Zhuo didn't know what to think at the time, and told him unashamedly that he would compare with him at that time and let him see his sword skills. Probably because his colorful knife technique had just made a breakthrough at that time, he was too confident and looked down on others.

Fu Haodong didn't care, and then asked Ba Zhuo, do you know where Master Gongsun is now, more than ten years ago, Gongsun Fu at the age of twenty-seven years ago forged the Mojue Sword with black jade steel alone, but then disappeared, nowhere to be found, since then, the forging of black jade steel has become the secret of the Gongsun clan of Shatang Kingdom. It turned out that he inadvertently got a small piece of black jade steel, and he wanted to find Gongsun Er, the eldest brother of the Gongsun family, and Gongsun Fu's eldest brother with some fine iron to build a treasure knife, but he didn't think about it, but Shatang Guo issued a law that strictly prohibits private weapons, no matter how much you spend, Gongsun Er will not make it, and he has no choice but to find someone else to fight a knife, that is, the one he has seen, it is indeed too rough, but considering that the melting point of black jade steel is too high, it is not easy to make it like this.

Han Dong gave Ba Zhuo a look, and Ba Zhuo had no choice but to tell Fu Haodong that his nine-foot long knife was bought from someone else, not that he asked Gongsun Fu to build it himself.

Fu Haodong said that Shatang began to gradually control the production of weapons by the people in China, and instead incorporated those weapons masters into the national workshop, made a weapon armor to equip the army, and some of them were almost sold to other forces.