Huashan is only 300 miles away from Chang'an, set off early in the morning, to the next evening, the full count of two days will arrive, I was going to rest in Chang'an City for one night, but the city gate is closed, it is already a curfew.

Since the Zhou and Ming dynasties divided the north and south, Chang'an City is the first heavy city in the northern border of the Ming Dynasty, with a perennial curfew, strict public security, but at this moment the sun has not completely set down, the city gate is closed and forbidden to enter and exit, it is rare, and it is almost the same to push back an hour and a half.

Of course, since the city is closed, they can't force their way in, and it is too arrogant to make trouble, so they take advantage of the fact that the sky is still dark and find another place to settle outside the city.

Chang'an City is about three or four miles to the south, there is a meridian town, because it is the first town through the meridian road of the old road of Shu, although it is stained with a little light, but the people who go north, can go directly to Chang'an City to get here, will not stay, and the people who go south out of Chang'an City, will not just go out of the door to stop and rest, this position is actually quite embarrassing, so that the scale is always average, it is difficult to develop.

Meridian Town is a small town, but dozens of households, said to be a town, in fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a village, there is no high wall thick Guo, simply a single archway, has never hindered the entry and exit, but now there is actually a guard stationed in the patrol, the atmosphere is solemn, the guard interrogated, and after Liang Wufa showed his hands "Huashan Superb Art", he was allowed to enter the town for a while.

The control of the government of the past dynasties and the people in the rivers and lakes is polarized, basically following such a rule: that is, the former is strictly controlled, but if the offender is caught, he must not be served by the big board, and the latter is mainly pacified, walking at will, with very few constraints, which can have the word "wandering the rivers and lakes", the difference can be described as a huge disparity- Of course, this is not absolute, the former Dafeng Dynasty had a bloody suppression of the forces of the rivers and lakes, strong rule, at that time was a well-deserved boss of the court, to say the same, the rivers and lakes, there is no storm at all.

And martial arts is the biggest difference between the Jianghu warriors and the people in the market, and if they can show their hands, they are considered Jianghu people. At present, it is interrogation, and it is to check the identity of the Huashan disciples, and it is to show his skills, before he is willing to let go, this Chang'an City is heavily guarded, which shows the general, I don't know what happened, I asked the people in the town, but also only a few words, unwilling to say more, only to say martial law for about three or four months.

There is only one small inn in the town, next to the archway of the town, you don't need to inquire to see, only to find after entering that the room is a small meal, the conditions are really not very good, but you have no choice, you can only settle down here.

Soon after they arrived, there was another group of Jianghu people, but they were the Xie family swordsmen who were uniformly dressed in gray and carried swords when they walked outside, two people, one was a middle-aged swordsman and the other was a young swordsman.

The middle-aged swordsman had never seen it, but another young swordsman was no stranger, it was Xie Ying who went to Huashan a few years ago to find Dugu Wuchong Xue, but was repelled by the starry night. I haven't seen him for a few years, and now he can be regarded as condensing his sword qi and truly becoming a swordsman from the Xie family.

When they entered the inn, the four of them were still eating in the hall, so they could see it. The starry night recognized an acquaintance, so he did not shy away from beckoning.

The two booked a room, looked around in the hall and planned to find a table and wait for food, when they heard the greeting, they looked at her suspiciously, hesitated slightly, and after approaching, Xie Ying looked at it a few times before frowning and asking, "Are you ...... Miss Ling from Huashan?"

When we first met, the white veil masked, but today there is none, the rules that the disciples who have not been released in the Valley of Flowers need to cover their faces when they travel, have long been thrown away by the starry night to the clouds, and if you want to wear it, you will wear it, and if you don't want to wear it, you will not wear it, and Mingyuetian will not force her for a long time. Xie Ying has never seen her true face, so although she guesses, she is not sure.

Yu Xingye smiled: "Yes, yes, it's me." I have a relationship with your Xie family, and I met your new head some time ago, and I met you again today, come and come, let's get together at the table. ”

This new head of the family is naturally Xie Qifeng.

Although he was very famous before, and the name of the Xie family's sword god was inherited early, but that was mainly obtained by replacing the old sword god to meet various challenges, and within the Xie family, he was actually the young master, and he came back from Longmu Island this time to officially take over the position of the head of the family.

For more than a year, the conflict with Tianzun Dao has come to an end temporarily, Xie Qifeng has not come out of the Xie family, quite low-key, and the most publicized thing is probably to challenge Tianzun some time ago, but this matter is also anticlimactic, and in the end it did not take place, Tianzun did not respond to this at all, let alone show up in the competition, Xie Qifeng waited in Hangzhou City until the appointed time and did not see anyone, and then returned to Shenjian Villa, the matter was hastily concluded.

"It's the starry night that helped the junior sister in West Lake some time ago. ”

Xie Ying whispered an explanation to the middle-aged swordsman next to him.

The swordsmen of the Xie family have always been unfamiliar with others, but probably because of this incident, even if the two of them did not treat Shi Feiyan's personal disciple of the family, even if they did not agree with the nickname of the sword god of the starry night, they should still admit it, although they still looked faint, but they did not refuse.

The two of them took the lead in the middle-aged swordsman, named Xie Fan, who appeared here, of course, they also entered Shu to go to the Tang Gate.

Speaking of which, although the Tang family and the Xie family are both the four great families, they actually have no deep friendship, but since Huashan can receive invitations, it is not surprising that the Xie family is among the invitees.

After introducing the two sides and finding out the meaning, Yu Xingye smiled and said: "The news I got was sent to Huashan by Bai Jiesheng, and listen to his meaning, Tang Men spent money to completely hand over this matter to them to convey, so what about you? Could it be that there is still a Bai Jiesheng who dares to approach the Divine Sword Mountain Villa now?"

Xie Ying said: "Baijielou invited the Luoyang Sword King to go to the Divine Sword Villa to deliver the message. ”

Yu Xingye said: "I see. However, since there is no Bai Xie Sheng to go to the Xie family, I am curious whether Shaolin Temple and Songshan Sword Sect have Bai Xie Sheng to inform. ”

Xie Ying said: "Songshan is still within a hundred miles of Shenjian Villa, so naturally no Bai Jiesheng dares to approach it." ”

The difference between these two and Shenjian Villa is just that the mountain is up and down the mountain, they all rely on Songshan to build a sect, since Baijielou has made up his mind to avoid the Xie family, naturally he will not go to Songshan, at least he will not go, as for whether Baijiesheng secretly sneaked up, it is not clear, but this is inevitably a loss of prestige, as if the Xie family is not enough to deterrence, so that people still have the courage to disobey the yang and the yin, so they did not say it.

Although they were close for three points, most of the Xie family were silent after all, and the two had little to talk about, and they didn't have the mind to talk about it with the starry night, and they ate some things hastily to satisfy their stomachs, so they resigned and rested.

The next day, two groups of people walked together.

When I arrived at the mouth of the Meridian Valley, I found that the guard post at the mouth of the valley was under martial law, and after some interrogation, I was allowed to go, and then a similar situation was experienced twice in the Meridian Valley for hundreds of miles. After two days, they passed through the narrowest section of the southern section of the Meridian Valley, and were about to leave the Meridian Valley, when suddenly the sound of horses' hooves and the movement of a large number of people. Rushing over, but it was a grain team, at a glance, there were one or two thousand people, most of them were people carrying grain, and about thirty percent were soldiers with guns and weapons to protect the grain, the men and horses were swinging, and the smoke and dust were billowing.

Seeing that it was a grain transport unit, they hurriedly abandoned the road and went up the mountain to avoid it, so as not to be regarded as an enemy and cause conflict.

The grain team of thousands of people is already a big caravan for the merchants, but for the army of tens of thousands, it is only a small grain team, but even if it is small, it is also military food, and it is related to what Chang'an City has seen and heard along the way since then, knowing that not only martial law and martial law has been under martial law for a long time, there must be many similar small grain teams during this period, and large grain teams may not be lacking.

The so-called three armies have not moved grain and grass first, and with such large-scale dispatch, I am afraid that the two countries will be about to fight again next week.