After entering the martial arts hall of Pei Mansion, I saw that the place was very spacious, the weapon rack was full of swords, guns, swords, halberds, and there were a few stone locks on the ground that polished their strength.

Pei Jun waved his big hand and said: "Please, I have all the eyebrow sticks, strip sticks, whip rods, and bead sticks here, and the brothers can choose the ones they can use", when even a few family members held sticks of various lengths and styles handed over.

Cao Lu picked a wooden five-foot eyebrow stick, sang a song around, walked to the middle of the hall, put on a posture of raising his hands, and then wheeled, split, swept, and smashed the five elements stick method passed down by the master in one breath, and finally stopped and closed the stick and stood in the hall.

Wei Qing turned his head to look at Pei Jun, but saw him stroking his palms and laughing: "Okay, good, good stick method, it is indeed the five-element stick method of the Boyang faction, this set of stick method is rare to see in my Huaixi, today called Pei Mou to open his eyes, come on, let's meet friends with martial arts, and just learn a few tricks to have fun", he got up and wanted to go to the field.

Wei Qing looked at Pei Jun's smiling appearance, and said in his heart that this person should be really a good martial arts idiot, no matter what he said, he can be regarded as a guest, he is now seeing Hunting Xinxi, and he has to try martial arts on the spot regardless of hospitality, but Wei Qing also saw that Pei Jun's move was not malicious at all, so he had to smile helplessly and shook his head, hugged his fists and said: "Brother has been on the road for several days, and he just arrived at Guibao Land today, he is really tired, and I hope that Pei Guanren will bear me, and it will not be too late to pick another day."

"Oh, yes, I'm careless, brother, don't blame", Pei Jun patted his head and said calmly, "I saw that the Five Elements Stick Method was exquisite, and I forgot for a while, but I forgot that you were tired of traveling, no wonder."

Pei Jun called a housekeeper-like person and instructed him to arrange a room for Wei Qing and the four of them to rest, Li Rui and Liao Lingping are both women, and they have their own maids to lead them to the back house for placement, Wei Qing and Cao Lu followed the housekeeper to the guest room in the East Courtyard, and each occupied a large room with luxurious furnishings, Wei Qing wanted to share a room with Cao Lu, and it was good to discuss things and take care of each other on weekdays, but the housekeeper said that Pei Jun had specially told him, saying that the sages of the beggar gang were different from the ordinary Jianghu men who came to take refuge, and they should not be neglected, otherwise they would blame themselves. Wei Qing didn't want to be embarrassed by the housekeeper, so he had to live according to the other party's arrangement.

At noon the next day, Pei Jun set up a banquet at home to entertain the four of Wei Qing, people in the rivers and lakes are not as many rules as the scholars and high families, Li Rui and Liao Lingping were also present, Pei Jun also invited some famous local martial arts masters in Haozhou City to accompany them. The Beggar Gang has an outstanding reputation in the martial arts, and the guests at the banquet heard that Wei Qing and the two were the personal disciples of the Beggar Gang's righteous rudder master, and they all seemed extremely polite and affectionate, and they kept toasting.

Wei Qing couldn't hold back the wine after drinking for two rounds, but Cao Lu was like a fish in water, and he did not refuse the guests who toasted. Pei Jun seemed to have a very good amount of wine, he saw Cao Lu swallowing the wine cup by cup, and he couldn't help but be interested, and ordered the servant to remove all the wine glasses on the table and replace them with a big sea bowl.

Pei Jun and Cao Lu drank very much, and at the instigation of everyone, they competed for the amount of wine, and drank more than a dozen bowls of wine in one go, and finally both of them were drunk before they stopped. Pei Jun had his own family to serve him, Wei Qing helped Cao Lu back to the room and put him on the bed, and was about to go back to the house to sleep, but saw Li Rui and Liao Lingping coming to look for him.

Wei Qing ushered the two into his room, and as soon as he sat down, Li Rui said, "Has Brother Wei ever inquired about any useful news?"

Wei Qing scratched his head and said, "No, I only took pictures of it last night, how can I inquire so quickly."

"That's because you patronized and went drinking, so naturally you can't inquire about anything", Liao Lingping pouted, with a bit of banter in her tone, "You can't do it, you can't say that others can't do it, you think everyone is as useless as you."

"Ha, I'll hurry up, it won't take too long", Wei Qing was a little embarrassed by Liao Lingping's words, and suddenly his mind changed, and he said with a smile, "You, what you mean by saying is that you have heard the news, say it quickly."

Liao Lingping snorted, turned her head and didn't speak, but Li Rui took over the conversation and said: "I went with Sister Ping to invite Mrs. Pei to enjoy the flowers early this morning, and I talked about Pei Guanren's daily behavior, because I knew some things about him, but I don't know if it is useful."

"Of course it works, otherwise why would we ask Baba to come over and tell him", Liao Lingping said disapprovingly.

Li Rui smiled and said to Wei Qing: "According to Mrs. Pei, the Pei family lives in Haozhou, and they are a local clan, with thousands of hectares of fertile land under their names, and they have a monopoly on the grain, salt and cloth business in a state, so they are extremely rich in their family background."

"No matter how rich he is, he is just a squire, why should he collect his name and record it on that list", Wei Qing was puzzled, "If the Jin people want to rob the squires to enrich their military resources, they shouldn't stare at the rich gentry in the Great Song Dynasty, how can they come here if they want to come and loot."

Li Rui slowly continued: "Since ancient times, Pei Guanren took over as the patriarch, because of his own martial arts, he has accepted and raised a lot of martial arts people who have come to take refuge, and he has also explicitly ordered the children of the clan, Zhuang Ding, and tenants to practice martial arts regularly during the agricultural slack, and reward those who are skilled in martial arts.

Wei Qing pondered for a moment and then said: "I guess you want to say that Ha Mi Chi plans to buy Pei Guanren for his own use in order to seek Haozhou, right? If Pei Guanren refuses, you must try to get rid of him, lest he help the Great Song Dynasty officials and troops defend the city."

"No, I don't mean that, there are more than a thousand farmers who have learned a little rough martial arts, probably the Jin people will not be so solemn in their eyes", Li Rui shook his head and said, "How powerful the iron horses of the Jin people are, Brother Wei, you have not seen it with your own eyes, where can they resist."

Wei Qing was even more puzzled, and asked, "Then why do you say that Ha Mi Chi wants to be like this?"

"Because Pei Guanren's deterrence of them is not on the battlefield", Liao Lingping interjected on the side, "Pei Guanren They are the local snakes of Huaixi Hometown, they are very familiar with the topography and hydrology of this area, and often gather more than 100 people, less than a dozen people, and even a few people dare to touch the junction of the two Huai to knock on the stick, the Jin people have only occupied Huaidong for more than half a year, not to mention that they have also killed one or two hundred people, so that now they don't even dare to send out the horses, can the Jin people not be in a hurry to deal with him."