The people of Shu are simple, and for the people, the first and a half months of the beginning of the year need to be celebrated seriously. The festive gongs and drums were struck from the first day of the new year to the fifteenth.

On the night of Shangyuan, there was a long queue in front of the house of the painting workers who were usually uncared for.

Ingenious painters paint a variety of attractive patterns on their homemade lanterns, ranging from prayers for blessings and disasters to live a long life, as well as stories of animals and characters for children to play with.

Explosions were heard in the sky from time to time, followed by bright fireworks in the night sky. The city walls, where only guards could climb the city, are now crowded with young and old, and the streets and alleys are full of laughter.

Although the people who went to the street to watch the scenery were shoulder to shoulder, there were not many incidents, and the credit naturally went to the city guards who did not rest on the Shangyuan Festival, holding long guns and leather armor.

They marched in unison and lined up through the streets and alleys of Jinguancheng, the crowded streets that were spacious, which restricted the flow of people because of their control.

As a member of the escort team, Li Shun, the stupid big tall man and the little ghost head in red naturally took on such responsibilities.

After searching for a round of streets, when he changed shifts with his colleagues who came to hand over, Li Shun smashed the leather helmet heavily on the man's chest.

Ignoring his colleague's puzzled gaze, he walked to the wall and rested. The stupid tall man diligently handed over a bag of warm rice wine.

Li Shun waved it away.

The stupid tall man was defenseless, and he was in a hurry for a long time before he regained his grip on the wine sac, and looked at Li Shun complainingly.

Li Shun spoke first.

"I don't want to go on like this anymore. ”

The little imp in red brought half a roast leg of lamb out of nowhere, and he was gnawing on it with his mouth full of oil. Hearing this, he raised his head with concern: "What's wrong with Xiao Shun'er?"

"What the hell are we doing?"

His face was full of black gas, and he slammed his fist into the earthen wall in front of him. Smoke and dust fell.

"Jin Guan came without looking back, and entered the escort team with his face attached, then Dongfang Lianmo doesn't know us at all!

The other two looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Li Shun turned his face and took a deep breath.

"I'm leaving it for now, and you're going to have to explain it to me anyway.

"What is your identity, why did you desperately protect me to see Dongfang Lianmo?"

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"Wait here. ”

Sunset West Mountain, in front of a simple house under Shiniu Road.

Zhao Wu'an unloaded the bookcase, put it at the feet of Dailou Sangyu, and instructed.

Dailou Sangyu didn't ask much, and nodded obediently.

The middle-aged man standing by the door, dressed in a unique leaf-making costume, saluted respectfully to Zhao Wu'an.

"Upstairs please. ”

Zhao Wu'an took a deep breath, walked into the house, and leaned over to climb the low attic.

The corner is still lit with the kind of sandalwood that he was familiar with more than ten years ago, and there is a chessboard in the middle of the two bamboo couches, with the fragrance of tea curling, and the chess pieces on the board are black and white.

The roof of the attic was extremely low, and Zhao Wu'an had to kneel in front of the chessboard and sit down.

The man on the other side didn't say a word, and pushed a hot tea along the side of the chessboard.

"It's hard work along the way, drink a cup of tea to warm up. ”

Although it was a word of concern, he said it casually, his eyes still glued to the chessboard.

Needless to say, this person is the regent who turned his hands into clouds and rains in the leaf-making country, and Yuwen was alone.

Zhao Wu'an hesitated for a moment and said unexpectedly: "I didn't expect you to be here." ”

"It's better to stay here and wait for you, Zhao Wu'an. Yuwen didn't raise his eyes.

"Click".

A white piece fell from his right hand, and Yuwen Guhang used his left hand to twist a black piece from the chess bowl.

This kind of self-playing behavior is very different from him in normal times. Yuwen Guhang was of course a smart person, and since he expected that Zhao Wu'an might come to him, he must have guessed what he wanted to ask.

Zhao Wuan still decided to get straight to the point.

"Liao Niang's business, do you know?"

Yuwen was in a hurry to answer. After another "snap" sound, he said lightly: "Hmm." ”

Just as Liao Xiaoran knew about the changes in White Horse Town in advance, Yuwen Guhang must have a special means of contact with her.

If it is not overdue, there will be an incident.

"I have two more things to ask. ”

Yuwen smiled and said, "It's exactly the same as I guessed." ”

"The first one, the blacksmith shop in Whitehorse. Zhao Wu'an said, "I am familiar with the person who strikes iron, and the junior apprentice there has a mysterious kung fu of playing green qi with a fingertip, and he is not an idler." ”

Yuwen nodded and continued to focus on the chessboard in front of him.

"You, like Liao Niang, are Li Tang's relics, so Li Huang will have your help and respect you as a gentleman. Zhao Wu'an said calmly, "According to Liao Niang's words, the people who attacked the blacksmith shop and the valley in White Horse Town were all from the Black Cloud Society. Their target was the apprentice in the blacksmith's shop. ”

"And you, you will live and die with the black clouds. Zhao Wu'an said word by word.

"Click".

Yuwen Lonely Hanging pulled out of the chessboard and looked at Zhao Wu'an, smiling with his eyebrows.

"You say it's weird. Playing chess with myself, I was obviously biased in favor of white, but until now, black still has the advantage. ”

There are ravines on the chessboard, Zhao Wu'an doesn't know how to play chess, but he can see that the white son is resisting stubbornly in the corner, and the black chess is under the city if the army is pressing.

"Because at the beginning, you let the seven sons go. Zhao Wu'an looked at the chessboard.

"Everything is like chess. In many cases, it is also helpless to let the son go. Yuwen said meaningfully.

"When I came to Shuzhong this time, I saw Xie Hui, Nie Baishuang, and all the people who were interested in competing for the leader of the martial arts alliance, but I didn't see the main leader. ”

Zhao Wu'an was stunned: "He is obviously near the restaurant where we live......"

"I did see that Dongfang Lian Mo. Yuwen smiled and said, "But he is not the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance." ”

Zhao Wu'an was stunned.

"The real Dongfang Lianmo has never been to Jinguan City. As for where he went, no one knows. ”

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Li Shun looked at the two people in front of him in a daze.

The stupid tall man, the red-clothed imp who couldn't be idle, knelt side by side at this time, and respectfully surrendered in front of him.

In the past dozens of days, he has endured their beating and messing around, and was dragged by them like a doll to Jinguan City, joined the escort team, and acted like a fool in front of Dongfang Lianmo's subordinates.

But he is not a fool, he has long seen that these two people have special skills, but he has never understood why he has a relationship with these people.

The sudden surrender made him stunned in place, and his mind went blank.

I only heard the tall man say in a deep voice: "Descendants of the Cheng family, Cheng Mo." ”

The red-clothed imp also said: "Xu Banfeng." ”

"On the orders of the first head of the family, he swore to be the first emperor. Now it is ordered to protect His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

The two of them said in unison.

The sound was drowned out in the hilarious crowd.

"This, this ......"

Li Shun was speechless.

He has a lot of speculation these days, but he still doesn't want to go beyond what he has known for many years.

He hopes that his father and mother will be his father, and the master will be the master, and he himself will be just an ordinary person who learns to make iron.

But the truth was clearly far beyond his expectations.

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"Li Shun? ”

Yuwen shook his head and sighed.

"It's a test subject that fails even more than you. ”

Zhao Wu'an frowned.

"Do you know why Prince Gong's Mansion was destroyed?"

Zhao Wuan shook his head.

"Because of fornication, the remnants of the dynasty. Yuwen smiled alone, "The emperor of the Zhao family, even if he knows that it is difficult to win and has to rely on external forces, he definitely doesn't want the remnants of the old Tang Dynasty to interfere in it. ”

Yuwen Lonely Hanging, who was sitting in front of Zhao Wu'an, was undoubtedly one of the remnants of the old Tang Dynasty in his mouth.

"Less than twenty years apart, there are two masters of the Creation Realm in King Gong's Mansion, which are regarded as the greatest hope for cultivating the Mandate of Heaven and helping the Great Song Dynasty. However, this plan was not the idea of the Zhao family, but Emperor Li Tang. ”

Zhao Wu'an was stunned.

"This century-old conspiracy...... At the beginning, it was planned by King Song Gong and Li Tang's remnants?"

"That's right. Zhao Caiwei is just a victim of borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, and the idea of creating the two courts of the Great Song Dynasty is opposed, and there are also remnants of the old Tang Dynasty who are ready to move in the future. Needless to say, it is the strategy reached by our predecessors, the four family heads of the previous generation, and King Song Gong. ”

Zhao Wu'an muttered: "No wonder after the destruction of Prince Gong's Mansion, the First Emperor immediately abandoned this plan......"

At that time, he recalled that he had been fooled, but he had to admit that the chess he had played with his own hands had reached the point where he could not regret it. Yuwen smiled meaningfully, "Although on the battlefield, it was the Li family who lost to the Zhao family. But outside the battlefield, we left a green fire for the old Tang, and it is really difficult to say whether the two families will win or lose. ”

Zhao Wu'an frowned and said: "But this world is still the world of the Zhao family after all." Over the years, they have not killed you completely, just because the people of the world want to have already favored Zhao Song. ”

"That's true. So over the years, neither I nor Liao Xiaoran have been regarded as a thorn in the side of the Great Song Dynasty. The two giants on the rivers and lakes alone are enough for them. ”

Yuwen put away his smile.

"However, some people don't think so. ”

Zhao Wu'an held his breath.

"Li Shun and Zhao Wu'an, one is under heavy protection, and the other is in the rivers and lakes. One is a descendant of the Li family, and the other is an outcast of the Zhao family who was held out of King Gong's mansion. ”

Yuwen hung lonely and "snapped" a white child and shook the folding fan.

"As far as the emperor of the Zhao family is concerned, whether it is Li Tang or King Gong, they are already defeated generals, and the remnants of the army are not to be feared. But for the descendants of the four of us, the two pieces of meat that were desperately torn from the mouth of the demon wolf of the Zhao family naturally had to be desperately protected.

"We deliberately wanted to hide these two people deeply, so naturally some people wanted to pull them out and find out. What's more, the world is on the verge of such a dead end, and there are only a few answers to how to solve the next few hands. ”

Zhao Wu'an thought about it carefully, and slowly spoke: "The general election of the leader of the martial arts alliance has nothing to do with you. After Liao Niang was killed, I pondered and meditated, and I only thought of one reason why you want to stay here. ”

"Since there is only one left, then it is probably the correct answer. Yuwen Gu hung at the corners of his lips.

Zhao Wuan looked at the chessboard in front of him.

Black clouds are like mountains, heavy and want to destroy the city, and white children are like dangerous buildings.

"You want to fight everything, fight to the death with the Black Cloud Society. ”