Cangshan Jinbai, forty iron horsemen roared through the forest, the battle array was neat, and it was free to retract and release. They came here with the afterglow of the setting sun, like the soul-summoning Yin soldiers sent by the king of Yama.

Li Huanglai, who was hiding behind a boulder, looked at the sky with blank eyes, listening to the whistling of cavalry on the official road outside, and his heart was panicked.

And the man beside him took care of the long knife in his hand, shook his head indifferently, and said: "The alliance of the Yuanyuan has given these soldiers to nourish oil! When I was a child, the door of the house sent troops to fight every day, and the Great Song Iron Cavalry at that time was not so loose. ”

Li Huanglai's eyelids moved, and he said in disbelief: "You call this loose?"

"Alas, it's not that I want to rely on the old and sell the old, you are really born at the wrong time, when you didn't see our Great Song Dynasty soldiers. Duan Hunttian sighed, shook his head again, and said, "But it's also." Now is a peaceful and prosperous era, there is nothing bad, anyway, the rivers and lakes are still as flavorful as they were back then, and there is a little bit of family and country feelings. ”

Li Huanglai didn't know what to say, but he still said sincerely: "Thank you for saving me." ”

If it weren't for Duan Hunting Tiandao who met him by chance and carried him behind this boulder, he was afraid that Li Huang would be crushed into a meatloaf by the roaring forty iron horsemen.

"When the road is uneven, why worry about it. Duan Hunttian didn't care.

"But what are these officers and soldiers doing in Zhongshan?" Li Huanglai was puzzled.

Duan Hunttian laughed at himself: "I'm ashamed, most of them came to arrest me." ”

"Catch you?"

"I drank in a city inn and killed someone. Duan Hunttian said lightly.

Li Huang woke up like a dream: "You were a swordsman at that time......"

"Oh, are you there too?" Duan Hunttian laughed at himself, "The class has an axe, and it's ugly." ”

Li Huanglai was puzzled: "Your Excellency has almost won effortlessly, how can you say that you are ugly?"

"I don't know if you've ever heard of Zhao Wu'an?" Duan Hunttian asked after a few moments.

Li Huanglai was about to shake his head, when a lazy voice came from the top of the boulder: "Not only have I heard it, but I am also very familiar with it." ”

Like thunder in the day, Duan and Li were both taken aback. When I looked up, I just saw a human face, squinting and looking down as if I had bad intentions.

Li Huanglai's expression changed, and his feelings for this life-saving benefactor could not be said to be good or bad, anyway, it was very complicated. Duan Hunttian next to him was very interested: "Zhao Jushi! I didn't expect to meet again after half a day!"

Zhao Wu'an barely squeezed a smiling face, and said bluntly: "This is not a good place to talk, it's getting dark, I think we should pick a place to eat something, and then talk about what happened today." ”

Li Huanglai hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Don't dare, don't dare to ......" Duan Hunttian said in distress: "I only killed someone during the day, I must not be able to enter the city." ”

"It's okay, I know a place where you can have a hot meal without going into the city. ”

Extremely rarely, Zhao Wu'an showed a smile on his face that seemed to be called proud.

Duan Hunttian already had a very good impression of Zhao Wu'an, and he was bold, so when he heard this, he immediately stood up and responded in a good voice. Li Huanglai was still sitting on the ground and meditating for a while. It's not that he is too injured to stand up, it's really because he doesn't have a good impression of Zhao Wu'an, who took Duan Taoli away without permission.

However, thanks to Duan Hunttian's rough pull, Li Huanglai still walked out of the boulder. When I went around the road, Duan Taoli was also behind Zhao Wu'an, but his face was not very good. It was already dark, and he couldn't see it clearly, so he couldn't make sure in his heart, and he dispelled the idea of asking.

The four of them gathered, and Zhao Wu'an took the lead and walked towards the outside of the mountain.

It doesn't matter if you go this way, in order to get out of Zhongshan, you almost made a big circle around Xuanwu Lake, first south and then east, and it took more than an hour to go. Until the stars were hanging high in the sky, and the plaque on the gate of Jiangning Mansion could be seen at a glance, there was no intention of stopping.

The other three have traveled to the rivers and lakes, and they are all used to suffering, and now they don't feel tired when they walk these roads, but they are suffering from Li Huanglai, who has been hanging behind him. Not to mention being slapped twice by Chu Ting, his own martial arts are also commonplace, and it is really painful to have to go such a long way.

When he was about to reach the base of the wall, Zhao Wuan stopped. In front of it is already the junction of Xuanwu Lake and the center of the river, where many boatmen are moored. As long as you go around the city again, you will see the Jiangning Wharf full of people during the day.

Zhao Wu'an looked back and forth in the many ships with red lanterns for a long time before leading everyone to board a merchant ship with the flag of Anzi.

The owner of the ship, who had been sitting on the deck with a candle light and talking to the guys, saw it and hurried up to meet him. He was not very old, only about twenty years old, dressed in a coarse cloth short, stepping on wooden shoes, with copper-colored skin, and a muscular body, looking strong and capable.

The boatman looked Zhao Wu'an up and down, and before he could speak, he said with a proud face: "White-clothed backpack, heading straight for my Annan's boat, you should be the Zhao Jushi mentioned in the little sister's book, right?"

Zhao Wuan smiled and said, "Don't dare to be." ”

"Hahaha. Zhao Jushi doesn't have to be so stubborn!" The sturdy boatman smiled, "Since I have been with my little sister for so long, Zhao Jushi will not be unclear about her temper." Xiao Nan'er is not a timid person, there is no need to be polite, Zhao Jushi regards this ship as his home. It's rare for my little sister to ask me to take care of others, and I will definitely not let Zhao Jushi suffer! Although it's not much, I still have everything here!"

Zhao Wu'an said with a smile: "The boat family and An Qing are really brothers and sisters. ”

As the saying goes, at home, rely on parents to go out and rely on brothers, although Zhao Wu'an is alone, An Qing has two brothers, one is in the army outside, and the other is Annan, a boatman who has been going back and forth on the Yangtze River waterway and occasionally goes to sea. When he agreed to meet An Qing in Jiangning, Zhao Wuan learned that An Qing had a brother here.

The little girl who was reluctant to give up Zhao Wu'an also swore that she patted her small chest and promised that she would write a letter to her brother, asking him to take more care of Zhao Wu'an. Originally, Zhao Wu'an just smiled, after all, he had been used to being single for many years, but he didn't expect to really find Annan so quickly.

Fortunately, Annan is indeed no different from what An Qing said, he treats people warmly and does not see outsiders, and the three people who come to Li Huanglai are also entertained with good wine and food. After eating, Annan instructed his subordinates to take away the dishes and chopsticks, and he also went to the stern of the boat very tacitly without disturbing the four of them.

As soon as Annan left, the four of them looked at each other, and the atmosphere was quiet and secretive.

Zhao Wu'an has always been accustomed to this kind of atmosphere, and he was not in a hurry to speak for a while, but just took two sips of the hot tea sent by Annan to ward off the cold, and waited quietly.

Sure enough, after a while, Li Huanglai said with a look of annoyance: "This matter is because of me, the stakes are very high, I didn't want to raise the army, but I didn't expect that I didn't even see the face of the bandit." ”

Duan Hunttian looked dazed, and Zhao Wu'an said lightly: "I heard that you had something stolen by Lan Zhouzi, what is it?"

Li Huanglai frowned, looking at Duan Taoli, obviously very embarrassed. Duan Taoli sighed: "The things have been lost, so there is no need to hide them." ”

Li Huanglai sighed and said: "It's the Jinling armory blueprint left by the former Tang Dynasty, it's genuine. ”

"How did you get it?" said Zhao Wu'an.

"In Jiangning Mansion, there is a woman who claims to know everything, but not many people have heard of her name. I bought this drawing from her at a high price. Li Huang said, "Of course, she also showed me the evidence." She showed me a weapon of the Southern Tang Dynasty, which had been destroyed as early as the Chunhua period, but the weapon in her hand was still in the style of the Southern Tang Dynasty, sharp as ever. ”

Zhao Wu'an suddenly said, "Is that woman called Residual Eyebrow?"

Li Huanglai was stunned for a moment, and said unexpectedly: "You also know?"

Zhao Wu'an said helplessly: "This is really a loss, I'm afraid that you will fall for them from the beginning." Sell the blueprints to you first, and then compromise and steal them, preferably even kill you together, most likely the black clouds will fight this idea. ”

Duan Taoli repeated: "Black Cloud Society?"

"According to the message left by Lan Zhouzi in the teahouse, maybe it is calculated that you should stay in that farmhouse, and then they will kill them all. One or two corpses may attract attention, but a whole village of dead people will not be able to be traced at all, and you will not be able to see it. Zhao Wu'an said lightly.

I'm afraid that even the Black Cloud Club wouldn't expect Chu Ting to come out halfway, and almost killed Li Huanglai directly. However, Rao had an accident, and the Black Cloud Society should not blindly slaughter the village directly, and the fish were in a hurry to collect the net before they could bite the bait, which was not like Xie Hui's means. What's more, it was Zhao Wu'an's acquaintance Tu Mi who slaughtered the village. She didn't look like she was being controlled by magic, but there was something helpless.

In other words, the black clouds will slaughter the village, and there must be other purposes. And for this purpose, Hugh said that Li Huang came, but I was afraid that even Lan Zhouzi, who stole the drawings, didn't know. At present, it is certain that Chu Ting has nothing to do with this matter, he just made a scene, but there is no clue whether there is a connection between Lan Zhouzi and the Black Cloud Society.

Duan Jiatian coughed twice, and interjected: "I've been listening to this for a long time, and I can understand it." This boy spent a lot of money to buy something, but it was stolen before it was accepted. When I followed the clues, I was almost hacked halfway, isn't that the case?"

What he said was Dao, Li Huang couldn't stop echoing, and Zhao Wu'an also nodded slowly.

Duan Zhantian spread his hands and said, "In my opinion, Zhao Jushi is right, most of these two groups are together. Sell you first, then steal it, prevent you from retaliating, and then lay a black hand on you on the way. ”

"There's no need for that. Lan Zhouzi is a well-known thief, and even if Li Huang comes to report the case, it is useless. What's more, in the dense forest of Zhongshan Mountain, the person who wanted to kill him was Chu Ting of the Greedy Demon Palace, which had almost nothing to do with this matter. Zhao Wu'an frowned.

"I don't know. Duan Huntian shook his head honestly, "But there is another strange thing, I originally thought that the group of officers and soldiers were here to chase me, but Zhongshan is so big, and there are countless hidden places in the forest, they seem to be rushing forward along the road in one go, and that road is not the main road in the first place." It looked like I was heading straight for the farmhouse. ”

Li Huanglai came to his senses and said: "Yes, yes, and I didn't see any other soldiers all the way back, so it seems that I sent that one." ”

Zhao Wu'an frowned.

Remnant Mei did say early that there would be soldiers from the Treasury Division rushing to the farmhouse. It's just that it came so quickly that he was also surprised. It's like the Black Cloud Society killed innocents indiscriminately, and on the other hand, he also went to the government to report the news, and sent forty iron horsemen to arrest the murderer.

Thinking that the murderer was Tu Mi, Zhao Wuxin was nervous again.

Although he has great ambitions, Zhao Wuan also has self-knowledge. Before everything is ready and only the east wind is owed, subverting the Great Song Dynasty is like a fool's dream after all, and he doesn't have much hope for it in this life. There is no peace in the world, more like an empty shout with a laugh.

But when it comes to small things and things around him, he has a sense of duty. This mentality is very contradictory, and he has been swaying between the two, but he is still determined to judge the guilt and blood, and will never waver.

Dai Lou Duyun poisoned the twenty-nine women around him, and he vowed to kill Dai Lou Duyun in this life. So Tu Mi slaughtered a village of people not far from him, should he let Tu Mi pay for his crimes?

According to Zhao Wu'an's reasoning, it must be as it should be. But Tu Mi is Yan Daohuo's apprentice after all, and it is reasonable that Zhao Wu'an should not raise his sword to her.

What's more, recalling the blue and white Taoist robe fluttering in the wind on the Yangzhou Bridge, Xiao Daogu's cheeks were crimson, obviously embarrassed, but she said stubbornly: "Zhao Wu'an, you want to marry me." ”

After drinking the hot tea in the cup, Zhao Wu'an only felt that the ice blood in his whole body was slightly cold.

It is really difficult for a person like him to live with a clear conscience.