At night, the moon is in the sky.

Jiang Xiaoman's inn is facing the street, sitting in the room on the second floor, and when he opens the window, he can see the noisy night market in Jincheng.

Even compared with Fancheng, the night scene here is more lively.

The lights are as bright as day, and the cries are still endless.

As an important commercial town in the border area, when the barren grassland did not belong to the Wolf Emperor Lan family with the surname Jiang, it was one of the few border markets in the Great Xia Dynasty and the Manghuang Dynasty.

Even if it was the merchants who came and went to the Southern Regions to do business in the other four regions, most of them had to pass through here and then enter the wilderness, or the hinterland of the dynasty to do that big or small business.

It is also thanks to this that the folk customs of Jincheng are more open than those of other big cities in the border areas.

This custom is also more exquisite.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, on the Lancang River, the largest river in the border area outside Jincheng City, there will inevitably be a lantern festival of large or small scale.

This lantern festival is the most prosperous in the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Spring Festival.

At that time, not only the three counties of Shuzhou, but also other important towns in the border areas and even the great families of the three states in the north of the Great Xia Dynasty, most of them would come to participate in these two grand events.

At that time, on the Lancang River outside Jincheng, there will inevitably be large and small painting boats belonging to various families.

This is a gathering that belongs to the whole frontier, not only the big families, but all the more well-off families will participate in it and stay up all night.

Especially after the Spring Festival, the Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar is the most lively, if you catch up with a snow, it will definitely have an excellent effect.

The customs of the border people pay attention to eating meat and drinking wine in large bowls, and there will be a faint aroma of wine and meat in the wind and snow over the whole Jincheng that night.

After the wine and meat, there is naturally a show to help the fun.

In addition to the lantern festivals and poetry meetings that will be held in other places in the Five Domains, there will also be martial arts competitions jointly organized by major clans in the border areas.

Every time there is a martial arts meeting, it is naturally a grand gathering of young people who are full of blood and spirit.

Every year, the top ten will be determined just like the imperial examination, and the rewards are jointly produced by the major clans and clans in the border areas, which is naturally extremely rich.

There was a year when a young man who later became one of the leaders of the border area, after winning the leader of the martial arts competition that year, he was even appreciated by the seven generations of town border soldiers, and since then he has climbed to the sky.

It's a pity that God is jealous of the talent, and the young man surnamed Wei followed the seven generations of town border soldiers to make a reckless desolation and suffered an accident.

There was no way back from that trip, and none of them were spared the dozens of powerful people in the inner border land who were ambushed by the masters sent by the Reckless Lan clan when they returned to the borderland.

The young man surnamed Wei, who was expected to be the only one to supervise the army under the military waiting after accumulating enough military exploits in a few more days, blocked 19 knives for the seventh generation of military candidates in that ambush, and never fell down before he died.

That year, the young man named Wei Qing was only seventeen years old, the same size as Jiang Xiaoman now.

Later, when the Wei clan of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the Western Regions came thousands of miles to retrieve the young man's body.

The world finally knew that Wei Qing, whose origin had never been known to outsiders, was actually from the famous Wei family in the Western Regions.

The Wei clan of the Great Shang Dynasty of the Western Regions, one of the only nine major clans in the Western Regions of the Supreme Yin clan, is in charge of commanding more than half of the forbidden army of the Great Shang.

Even Emperor Taizong, who pioneered the Great Shang Dynasty, once personally wrote a poem for the Wei family.

"The children of the Wei family crown Chang'an, and the iron-clad cold bow is like a rainbow. ”

Wei Qing, the son of the head of the Wei family, left home at the age of thirteen with a bow and traveled to the five regions of Kyushu in hiding.

At the age of fifteen, he entered the Great Xia Dynasty in the Southern Regions, and met Jiang Shu, a seventh-generation Zhenbian soldier who was only thirty years old, in Jincheng.

The two hit it off at first sight, made a blood alliance and swore as brothers.

Since then, Wei Qing has stayed, stayed in the Southern Regions, and beside his eldest brother with a different surname, he has become the sharpest sword of the seven generations of soldiers.

Yes in life, so it is after death.

It seems that he has long expected that he will bury his bones in another country, and Wei Qing has already left a suicide note saying that if he dies unfortunately, he will be buried in the border land of Great Xia in the Southern Regions.

In the end, the Wei clan complied with Wei Qing's last wish and buried the bones of Tianjiao, a seventeen-year-old boy who had just risen and fell, on the bank of the Lancang River, together with the town of the seventh generation of Great Xia.

Two tombstones, one high and one short, stand on the bank of the Lancang River, in addition to life, there are two words behind the monument, Yongzhen!

Even if you live and die, Yongzhen is on the border.

The Great Xia Dynasty was grateful for this young man's courage in the frontier, and when the Emperor made a holy decree, he was named the Champion Hou.

Wei Qing became the first person in this life to be awarded the title of marquis in the army as a person who was not a person from the Great Xia of the Southern Regions.

The eight generations of town border soldiers waited for Jiang Ye, and after entering the border land, they looked at the Lancang River alone next to the tombstone.

When he turned to leave, he wrote what the literati and writers of the Southern Regions called domineering.

"Drink 800 cups of spirits, envy the champion is young, majestic and heroic for 3,000 miles, blood-stained and reckless, and go to the marquis!"

That year, Jiang Ye was twenty-two years old, took off his white robe and changed his iron armor, and followed the eight generations of military candidates, and he was reckless.

It is precisely because of this that since then, the biggest dream of the hot-blooded teenagers in the border area is to be like that Wei Qing, to be crowned the champion Hou, and to gallop on the battlefield with an iron bow on a fierce horse.

The scale of the martial arts conference is even greater than before.

When Jiang Xiaoman was one year old, not long after Jiang Yao and his wife first came to the border that year, they once participated in the infant Xiaoman'er once.

It's a pity that he was too young at that time, and the boy has long lost his impression.

Right now, it's still early for the Shangyuan Festival.

Jiang Xiaoman, who aims to be a hero, originally planned to participate in the last martial arts meeting.

But now, because of his own bad stomach and black heart, Uncle Dugu, is about to fight with people in Cangyue Lake.

I was in a hurry to cheer, so I put this idea down for the time being.

But once the thought arises, it's hard to give up.

If you have the opportunity, you will still run back and take advantage of this event to make a move with many Tianjiao of the same age in the Southern Regions, so as to make your name Jiang Daxia more resounding.

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Ji Xiaoyue was lying by the window, staring at the street scene outside the window with a pair of clear big eyes, but her ears were pricked up to listen to what Jiang Xiaoman and the woman in pink clothes were talking about at the table.

Although the fat shopkeeper is not a person in the rivers and lakes, he admires the knights of the rivers and lakes from time to time.

Jiang Xiaoman's righteous action earlier made the fat shopkeeper sincerely admire, so he specially changed two guest rooms facing the street for the two of them.

The furnishings in the room are very different from before, and they are definitely not half a penny to live in.

After all, there are not many people in Jincheng who dare to go against the Iron Cloth Gate.

As for whether the iron-clad door would come to take revenge on the young man after the incident, the fat shopkeeper was not worried at all.

Not to mention that his inn itself belongs to the Giant Whale Gang, one of the ten major forces in Jincheng, and it is still above the iron-clad gate.

This opens the door to do business, and you have to have the eyesight.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to make this business bigger.

As one of the top ten forces in Jincheng, even if it is ranked tenth, it is not something that ordinary people can provoke.

On weekdays, few people even dare to scold one or two in public.

Not to mention that it was like today's daytime, openly snatching people from the hands of the iron-clad gate.

Later, in addition to the tower-like iron-clad deacon, the remaining burly men were not spared, and they were all beaten by this young man.

In the end, he didn't even have time to say a cruel word, so he hurriedly fled for his life.

The man called the Iron Bull, the fat shopkeeper is very clear, and the real cultivation of the acquired martial arts realm can be regarded as a master in the Iron Cloth Gate.

But in the hands of the teenager, he didn't even walk on a round, and his hands were wasted.

It can be seen from this that this young man's cultivation must be above the iron bull.

Take a peek and see the whole leopard, to be able to have at least the acquired or even the pinnacle of cultivation at this age, it is not difficult to guess how terrifying the family background behind the young man will be.

From this point alone, it is worth the fat shopkeeper to take out two Tianzi guest rooms as a favor.

At this time, Jiang Xiaoman sighed, frowned slightly, and said softly: "Just with such a little clue, it is really not easy for you to come to the Southern Regions alone. ”

Ji Xiaoyue also frowned, whenever Jiang Xiaoworm's brows frowned, the little girl always thought of running forward and stretching out her fingers to rub them open.

But now, she has eaten the Illusion Pill, and it is not the lawless Ji Xiaoyue, but the small hall Ji Xiaoyue.

The little girl sighed lightly and couldn't help but stop the thought in her heart.

Jiang Xiaoman and the woman in pink clothes, the two chatted for a long time.

He finally learned the origin of the girl in pink.

This girl named Xiao Ying was not a person from Great Xia, but in accordance with her mother's last wish before her death, in order to deliver a letter to an old man in the Southern Regions.

For this reason, she set out from the Yu Dynasty in the Middle Regions and took two years to walk to the border of the Southern Regions.

Originally, there was an old servant with good cultivation by his side, so there was no danger along the way.

But not long after coming to the Southern Regions, the old servant who was waiting by her mother's side and now escorting Xiao Ying all the way south suddenly disappeared one day.

Fortunately, it was not far from Jincheng, Xiao Ying was thinking about entering the city first to find a place to settle down, waiting for the old servant to find himself if he came back.

But I didn't want to, somehow, not long after I entered the city, I was targeted by the people of the iron-clad gate.

Fortunately, although Xiao Ying is also new to the rivers and lakes like Jiang Xiaoman, fortunately, there is an experienced old servant along the way, and his agility is far from being comparable to that of a teenager.

After realizing that he was being followed, he hid in the inn.

Originally, I thought that there were many people in the inn, and those people didn't dare to make a move, but they didn't expect this iron-clad door to act so domineering.

Not long after she entered the inn, those people followed and grabbed people.

If it weren't for Jiang Xiaoman's move, I don't know what would happen later.

"Thank you Gongzi for coming to the rescue today, Xiao Ying will definitely remember this kindness. ”

As she spoke, Xiao Ying stood up, saluted slightly to the young man sitting opposite, and said gratefully, her voice was very soft and good.

"Well, Miss Xiao doesn't need to be like this, those people are acting so badly in broad daylight, whoever they are, they will definitely not be able to see and help. Jiang Xiaoman waved his hand and shook his head, a little embarrassed.

Ji Xiaoyue slammed her chin on the windowsill and looked outside, secretly relieved in her heart.

She was afraid that this tall woman named Xiao Ying would say that her son's kindness could not be repaid, and the little woman could only say what she promised.

Fortunately, the girl in pink clothes knows the general situation, and she doesn't seem to be interested in Jiang Xiaoman.

This made her finally put her mind at ease, no longer eavesdropping on the conversation between the two, and looked out the window with a smile.

After thinking about it, Jiang Xiaoman looked at this woman with very good-looking eyebrows and eyes, and asked softly: "The girl just said that the person your mother wants you to come to is called Dugu Zhai?"

I have to say that Xiao Yingsheng's beauty is indeed not as amazing as Jiang Moli, but it is not much worse.

Especially the eyebrows and eyes, the two bent eyebrows that seem to be frowning but not frowning, and a pair of eyes that seem to be happy but not happy.

The boy was a little embarrassed to look directly at the girl in pink clothes.

"Yes, it's indeed called Dugu Zhai, my mother just said that this Uncle Dugu said that he was from the Southern Regions, but I don't know which state and which city in the Great Xia Dynasty. Xiao Ying nodded and said softly.

She originally planned to wait for the Southern Regions to come and inquire about it state by state.

Come to think of it, as long as you keep looking for it, you will definitely be able to find Uncle Dugu.

But he didn't expect that when he entered Jincheng, he was somehow entangled by the iron-clad people.

"The surname is Dugu, maybe it has something to do with me, why don't you follow us to the three states of the Northland to find it. Jiang Xiaoman smiled and explained softly to Xiao Ying: "In the Southern Regions, most of the people surnamed Dugu are from the Dugu clan in Beiliang City, and my grandmother is from the Dugu clan, and I can help you ask when you get to Beiliang City." ”

"In this way, there is Lao Gongzi. Xiao Ying smiled lightly, looked at the good-looking young man in front of him and said softly.

As he was talking, there was a sudden noise of neighing horses and people outside the inn.

"Do the iron-clad door, don't enter the living!"

A soft shout came from downstairs, and he listened to the footsteps of a large group of people pouring into the inn.