It was night, in Qidong County, outside the courtyard wall of a small house, two uninvited guests came.

These two people were tall, carrying big knives, covering their faces, their eyes were fierce, leaning against the courtyard wall and listening carefully to the voices inside, and when they heard the militia patrolling at the other end of the courtyard wall walking away, the two looked at each other and nodded, and with light skills, they easily jumped over the courtyard wall that was a few feet high.

There were some militiamen walking around the house with torches, but they all looked listless. Obviously, in this remote and small county, there are no elite soldiers. The two masked men hid their bodies for a moment, and then came to the depths of the house without the militia noticing.

There is a brightly lit room in the house, which should be a study, and the lights and shadows flicker behind the window. The murderous look in the eyes of the two masked men burst into flames and headed straight for the room.

Suddenly, a sword flew in the air from the oblique stab, straight to the throat of one of the masked people, this person was shocked, raised his knife to block, but the sword was strong and heavy, although the masked man barely blocked the sword, but was also repelled a few steps, and the other masked figure in front, seeing this also turned back in shock, only to see that after the person who made the sword repelled a person, the next sword did not hesitate to come at his vest, this sword came very fast, the masked man did not have time to defend back, he could only roll sideways on the ground, and dodged dangerously.

"It's not professional to come and play assassination tricks before this is even here. As he spoke, the man of the sword took a sword flower and stopped him at the door of the room. This person is in his thirties, with a look of not waking up, and the stubble on his chin is sparse, it is Xu Xian.

The two masked men were shocked and angry, and after looking at Xu Xian a few times by the moonlight and the lights in the house, one of them said: "Xu Xian, fucking fuck off, otherwise our brothers will chop you into meat paste and feed the dogs tonight!"

Xu Xian laughed dryly, raised his sword, pointed at the two masked men, and said: "Ha, your mouth is so stinky, or two brothers, you are the money leopard and the money tiger, right? Two months ago, I heard that you went to Jiangyou Province to grab a car of darts, why did you spend all the money so quickly?

The two masked men didn't want to talk nonsense with him at all, and yelled, "Fuck you, die!" and pounced on him with a big knife. Xu Xian shook his head and smiled, he was not frightened at all in the face of these two big men, and the sword in his hand met it without hesitation. Suddenly, the three of them were in a mess, and the sound of swords intersecting was endless.

The two brothers of the money, tiger and leopard fought with Xu Xian with the intention of killing, but after only a few rounds of fighting, they had a feeling of shock. In fact, they are all Jianghu guests on the underworld in southern Shonan, and they have a rough number in their hearts about these "peers" with names and surnames. Xu Xian's reputation in southern Hunan is acceptable, his reputation is not big, and his strength is also ordinary, and he has long heard that his swordsmanship is mediocre and his light skills are good. Judging from some past deeds, the two brothers rushed up, and at most dozens of rounds could split this Xu Xian into seventeen or eighteen pieces.

But in this sword collision, the two brothers realized that something was wrong. The Xu Xian swordsmanship in front of him is far more powerful than the likeness, not to mention that this set of swordsmanship is very exquisite, and the two brothers are tired of coping with it, just the strength of his sword and sword, it is not that the two brothers can resist, and after only a moment of fighting, the two of them felt numb in their mouths and pain in their forearms, and faintly gave birth to a heart of retreat.

Suddenly, Xu Xian's eyes flashed, he shook a false trick and sold a flaw, the two brothers were suppressed by him, at this time, he drilled when he saw the crack, and subconsciously handed the knife to attack, who knew that Xu Xian's sword momentum changed suddenly, taking advantage of the two brothers to turn the defense into the attack, the speed suddenly increased, before the blade slashed at him, a sword stabbed into the throat of a masked man, the big man's eyes protruded, blood foam gushed out of his mouth, with a strong unwillingness, and fell heavily to the ground.

Seeing this, the other masked man mourned and shouted "Brother!", but he was distracted, and Xu Xian slashed two swords on his body, and the blood flowed profusely. Xu Xian laughed and said, "It turns out that you are the money leopard, don't you go down to accompany your brother?"

Suddenly, the money leopard took half a step back and threw the big knife in his hand at Xu Xian, because the distance was too close, Xu Xian didn't have time to dodge, so he could only raise his sword to block, but after he opened the big knife, he saw the money leopard turn around and run, the pace was like wind and thunder, Xu Xian was stunned: "I didn't expect this guy to run and even want my brother's corpse, and he ran faster than me, it's really hidden." ”

However, the leopard didn't get far. Just as he was about to climb over a courtyard wall, a sound of breaking through the sky roared, and the leopard was startled, and turned his head to look, only to see a spear killed in the night, and the cold light reflected on his face, reflecting his frightened expression. In the next instant, the spear impaliated the head of the leopard, lifting him high into the air like a flag.

The man with the spear was a young man with a square face, who was Ning Liang's subordinate Luo Yong. He held a spear in one hand and carried the corpse, walked steadily towards Xu Xian, who was holding a sword not far away and watching this scene, and said in his mouth: "Brother Xu, why don't you stop this person?"

Xu Xian smiled: "Little Brother Luo, with you guarding by the side, is it possible for this guy to run away?"

Luo Yong pulled the corners of his mouth, and he laughed. He shook the corpse he was carrying on the head of the gun and threw it onto the other corpse that was blocked by Xu Xian, and a small group of militiamen behind him hurriedly stepped forward and began to clean up the two corpses. Luo Yong didn't turn his head, and said to Xu Xian: "But Brother Xu's swordsmanship talent is really powerful, he has entered the realm to such a point in just a few days, and he will definitely be a master in the rivers and lakes in the future." ”

"I have won awards," Xu Xian stretched his waist and said: "In the past, no one taught me swordsmanship, I saw that those Jianghu people used swords very chicly, so I bought a sword to play, but in fact, I didn't know any tricks." This time, that Xuanyuan Jinyu sent a few sets of swordsmanship, and I realized that the sword could be practiced like this. ”

Luo Yong was about to say something, but saw the door behind Xu Xian creak open, and Ning Liang walked out, so Luo Yong hurriedly saluted: "Master." ”

Ning Liang nodded at Luo Yong, turned his face to Xu Xian, seemed to be in a good mood, stroked his goatee and asked, "Is it worth it to use those sets of swordsmanship in exchange for you to do things for this official for a few more months?"

"It's worth it, it's worth it!" Xu Xianxi smiled: "If you have a few more sets of more clever swordsmanship, the small one can be a cow and a horse for adults!"

Luo Yong didn't seem to like Xu Xian's tone of speech, and secretly frowned, but Ning Liang didn't care, and instead laughed: "You are not a person who is a cow or a horse. Then he said, "However, you do have to do something for this official tomorrow." In the whole of Shonan, I'm afraid I can't find someone more suitable for this than you. ”

Xu Xian didn't ask what was going on, he opened his mouth to respond, and then hugged the sword in his arms and left slowly. Before leaving, he quietly blinked to a corner, where two little maidens secretly hid behind a tree and watched them, and when they saw Xu Xian's flirtatious gaze, the two little maidens rolled their eyes.

The next day, on the official road from Yancheng to Qidong, in a big wine inn, the voices of people were boiling.

The inn is not in the city, but on the avenue, business has been good. Because it receives most of the people from the nearby rivers and lakes and the dart masters who come and go. At the same time, it also has a special place, that is, the place where these Jianghu people take on tasks.

There is no big sect in Xiangnan, but there are small sects everywhere, some "sects" may have two or three people in them, the whole Xiangnan martial arts is very chaotic, these Jianghu people have no serious source of life, it is impossible to carry a hoe to farm, and it is impossible to work for people, so there is such a place called "Geely Restaurant", which is specially for these Jianghu people to take on tasks, do some thugs or temporary nursing work, and occasionally do vendettas and other things. In the eyes of outsiders, Geely Restaurant may be a wine inn with a chaotic environment, but for these low-level martial arts people in Shonan, this is the place where they can decide whether they can eat meat and drink wine tomorrow.

At this time, Xiao Er in the restaurant lowered his head and walked through a group of dirty and smelly Jianghu heroes, with a board under his arm, and the Jianghu guests in the wine house saw Xiao Er with the board, and they all quieted down, and watched him go all the way to the second floor of the wine inn. The little two didn't speak, lifted the plank, hung it on the wall on the second floor, and then turned around and left.

And the people who filled the lobby swarmed away, gathered in front of the board, and shouted: "Where are the people who know how to read, and who knows how to read, read it quickly!"

"Don't look at it, I'm still thinking about making money at this time, let's run for my life first!" Suddenly, such a discordant voice came from the lobby, and everyone looked angrily, seeing that the person who said this was sitting in the hall drinking wine, but it was a person everyone knew, it was Xu Xian, a frequent customer of Geely Restaurant.

But when everyone saw him at this time, they all seemed to have seen a ghost, and they blew up all of a sudden, and some people shouted, "Xu Xian, did you kill my brother, and I killed you!" and some people exclaimed, "Aren't you on an errand for Ning Liang? Why did you come here? Are we surrounded?"

For a while, the Geely Restaurant was in a mess, some people wanted to pounce on him and kill him, and some people stopped them, saying that they were afraid of fraud. Because everyone knows that Xu Xian is doing things for Ning Liang, now in the entire Xiangnan martial arts, not to mention everyone, at least eighty percent of the people are on the side of the fish and dragon guard when they see the wind, and want to kill Ning Liang to change the wealth of the sky, this Xu Xian is very special, standing on the opposite side of everyone, and even more people's friends were killed by Xu Xian when they went to assassinate Ning Liang, and they couldn't wait to eat his flesh and blood. But at this time, he suddenly appeared here, which also made a group of people in the rivers and lakes suspicious, for fear that Ning Liang had made a move and was going to deal with them.

However, in the face of the commotion in the whole wine house, Xu Xian didn't care, he casually stretched out his fingers and plucked out his ears, then slapped his sword on the table, and said loudly: "Lao Tzu didn't come here to quarrel with you! Although everyone has a different position now, they are all colleagues in Shonan, and they are just taking money to do things! I am here today just to tell you one thing -- run for your life! Let's get involved in a big deal!"

"Don't talk nonsense! Lao Tzu even dares to kill Ning Liang, and he's afraid of a bird!" someone shouted.

Xu Xian sneered and asked, "You tell me that the fish dragon guards who came to Yancheng died a thousand households and killed and injured nearly a hundred people, is it a big deal?"

This sentence is like throwing an explosive into the fish pond and blowing up all the fish. After a moment of silence in the whole wine inn, a louder noise broke out, most of the people were asking the people around them if there was really such a thing, and some people scolded, "That has a chicken feather relationship with Lao Tzu!", and some people pointed at Xu Xian and scolded him, telling him not to talk nonsense, which harmed everyone.

Xu Xian listened to these noises, stood up, and said coldly: "Brothers, although everyone has friction with each other on weekdays, I Xu Xian has not crossed the line in the rules that should be followed. You know that I am a person, and it is right to take money to do things, but I am very moral, you go out and ask, in the entire southern Hunan martial arts, have you said that I Xu Xian is not kind in handling things! Today I am full of food and support, and I came here to die? I can't hold back when I see things, and I am afraid that our brothers, who work hard every day to get some money for food, will be killed by someone for some reason, and I don't know yet!"

"You don't know yet, do you? A few days ago, Leng Qianqiu came! I don't need to tell you who Leng Qianqiu is? Within a few days of his arrival in Yancheng, he got into hands with Yulongwei! Do you think that you haven't seen Yulongwei in the city in the past two days? Because they have all been killed by Leng Qianqiu! They also confessed to a thousand households! Qianhu, there are only fourteen thousand households in the entire Yulongwei! One died in our Yancheng! Do you think that Yulongwei can give up and give up? Do you think that you people can stay in Geely Restaurant to eat some meat and drink some wine, and you can stay out of the matter? If you don't turn our Shonan upside down, this matter will be endless!"

"Don't think that you all have nothing to do with this, I heard it clearly under Ning Liang, that Leng Qianqiu still has a helper! Who knows who his helper is? Is it you, or him?" Xu Xian said as he pointed his finger at the people around him, and the Jianghu guests he pointed at subconsciously turned their heads to avoid it. Xu Xian sneered again and said: "Maybe, Leng Qianqiu himself is hiding among us? Yulongwei wants to investigate the case, and none of us can escape! I'm not afraid to tell you that Yulongwei has already sent another thousand households to investigate this matter, and I will be able to go to Yancheng tomorrow at the latest! Anyway, I, Xu Xian, can't stay here for a day, you can't leave or not, I don't bother to care, I have already said everything that should be said, and I will do my best." ”

When the words landed, the entire Geely Restaurant fell into silence. Xu Xian glanced at the people in the rivers and lakes present with a cold gaze, picked up the sword on the table, held it in his arms as usual, strode out of the restaurant, and quickly disappeared from everyone's field of vision. And in these Jianghu people in Geely Restaurant, no one looked at the wooden board hanging on the wall, everyone looked at each other, and an indescribable feeling of suffocation spread.