Chapter 64: A Rain of Smoke

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The journey around Xiguan is much longer than going straight to Luoyang and then south.

Xiguan is vast and desolate, and it is white during the heavy snow season.

Although the snow is already much lighter.

Nowadays, almost all the cities of the Northern Wei Dynasty have begun to open the city and release people, but there is no ban on the city, but the ice on the road has not yet melted, so the outside is still sparsely populated.

At the end of December, the heavy snow will stop.

This heavy snowfall, which has not been seen in decades, will finally leave.

And a new year is coming.

The heavy snow on the ethereal slope is regularly cleaned, and the soldiers guarding Xiguan basically can't tolerate a little stain on the tombstone of the vassal king.

Jiang Qingyi stretched his waist, and the night had passed outside the window, and the dawn was faint.

He had read a book in this tavern for a long time, and was a little tired, and he had taken a nap near dawn, and now he woke up, and looked around, and found that the drunkard had already woken up, but squatted motionless in his chair, and swept away his decadence, staring out of the house with his eyes blazing.

Jiang Qingyi rubbed his sour eyebrows, and said softly to the drunkard: "I'll go to the Misty Slope to give that person all the wine, and I'll come back later to invite you to drink." โ€

The drunkard hummed softly.

Jiang Qingyi didn't care about the unusually drunkard, and walked out of the tavern while stretching his body.

The thick curtain outside the house was lifted.

As the morning light first enters, the gloomy tavern is full of light.

Jiang Qingyi frowned and looked against the light, and saw a tall figure clearly.

Something familiar.

The man was tall and burly, a head taller than Jiang Qingyi, and he lifted the curtain and walked straight into the house.

Jiang Qingyi suddenly remembered this person.

It was the six-rank commander who used Yuan Force to beat the drunkard to pieces not long ago!

Jiang Qingyi transferred the file from Yuan Sizhi at that time and found out the origin of this person.

This commander is named Xu Man, a native of Xiguan, who has no background, and has relied on military merits and hard power to step by step to become a commander.

As for the previous incident of beating the drunkard, it belonged to one who was willing to fight and the other who was willing to suffer, and the drunkard didn't complain about this person after taking the wine and drinking, so Jiang Qingyi couldn't stop it and couldn't control it.

The sixteen-character battalion in Xiguan all know that Lord Yuan Sizhi is paying more and more attention to this light-shirted boy, if nothing else, this thin boy is likely to be the person who will take the lead in Xiguan in the future.

After more than a year, no one wants to offend Jiang Qingyi.

When he is in the tavern, the drunkard will not go without wine, and even if these soldiers hold back their anger, they will be forbearant and restrained, and will not spill it on the drunkard's head.

The military camp in Xiguan was quite far from the Ethereal Slope.

The town where this tavern is located is further away from the barracks and the Ethereal Slope.

Jiang Qingyi only recently brought the drunkard to this town, there is basically no harassment from the barbarians in the army, and Jiang Qingyi also gave the drunkard enough daily wine money, just hoping that he can live in peace and security without being beaten.

Jiang Qingyi narrowed his eyes and looked at Xu Man's back.

He said calmly, "Stop. โ€

The six-rank commander stood firmly on his feet like an old tree rooted, his face was immovable, and he exhaled softly and said: "Lord Jiang, my subordinates are here on the orders of Lord Yuan, I hope that my lord will not stop me." โ€

After saying that, Xu Man took a deep breath, ignored Jiang Qingyi, whose face was uncertain, and walked straight to the drunkard's table.

The drunkard ignored the six-rank commander, his eyes still staring out of the house.

Xu Man sat across from the drunkard's table.

The two men did not say a word.

Jiang Qingyi suppressed the anger in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Xu Man, I don't care who you are ordering, before I come back, if you dare to act rashly, there will be no place for you in Xiguan." โ€

Jiang Qingyi's face was gloomy, he lifted the curtain and left, turned on his horse, and went to the ethereal slope, this is because his mind is no longer on the white-robed vassal king's wine, but wants to talk to that Yuan Sizhi in person.

When leaving the town, the fast horse stirs up the snow and dust, and the dust is completely unstoppable.

Jiang Qingyi didn't see the two visitors from outside the town.

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People came in the tavern one after another.

Xu Man pressed down the complicated emotions in his heart, narrowed his eyes, and there was nothing entangled in his heart.

Jiang Qingyi pressed himself several levels on the official rank, but it was a pity that the commander who was called a barbarian had never cared about this kind of scholar's soft threatening words.

Lord Jiang is an adult, but it's a pity that the biggest adult in Xiguan is Lord Yuan.

I can take care of the present, but I can't take care of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Manzi is this kind of person.

So he was ordered by Lord Yuan Zhongzhong, the leader of Xiguan.

Captain Liupin is waiting for an opportunity.

His eyes were fixed on the scruffy and skinny drunkard, whose face looked haggard, unshaven, and oily, but his eyes were shining, fixed in one direction.

This direction is the direction outside the house.

It's also the direction outside the town.

Wuwu Town.

There are many small towns like Wuwu Town in Xiguan, and the taverns in the town are constantly crowded, and few old faces appear, and the military masters who pass through here to rest on the way to change city patrols, or the prodigal sons of the rivers and lakes in Xiguan, will rest in this cheap tavern.

The drunkard's gaze was fixed on the outside of the town.

Then move slowly.

Finally moved to the door of the tavern.

Then the drunkard's eyes narrowed.

A hand wrapped in a black robe lifted the thick curtain of the tavern, and the drunkard's gaze remained on the owner of this hand.

It was a young man dressed in a robe, stained with snow stains, and under the robe was a protective black robe.

Next to him is an elegant man with the same slender figure and a robe, the two of them are silent and introverted and do not let go out, plus a coat and hat, and the standard configuration of hiding from the snow and walking in Xiguan to roam the rivers and lakes.

Two authentic Jianghu guests.

Once I was seated, there was no sound.

The drunkard closed his eyes and looked thoughtful.

Xu Man's buzzing sound suddenly sounded like thunder in his ears.

"Rammed goods, Lao Tzu invites you to drink today!"

Commander Liupin Qianfu stared at this thin drunkard with his eyes closed, and saw the latter frown slightly, leaned back slightly, and said in a soft voice: "Don't drink today." โ€

Xu Man smiled, raised his hands and pressed.

A long knife and a long sword were pressed against the table at the same time.

Xu Man thought of what Lord Yuan Zhongzhong had said to him before.

Provoke him.

This drunkard, even if he was knocked to the ground and his spine was broken, he never got angry. Even if you use the most vicious and filthy words to insult him and insult him, you have never had half a cent of anger.

Xu Man couldn't think of a better way.

He didn't know why Lord Yuan had to get along with a drunkard who had no cultivation.

He didn't know why Lord Yuan told him to wait until the drunkard closed his eyes before making a move.

He just said the lines that Lord Yuan gave him.

"I know where your sword is. โ€

Xu Man paused word by word, and his voice was extremely clear.

"If you don't strike today, I'll smash that sword to pieces. โ€

The voice fell.

The drunkard opened his eyes suddenly.

The mud walls of the tavern, which were more than three feet thick, were interspersed with swords and swords, and the swords hummed incessantly.

Then there was a bang and the courtyard wall was pushed open, and a figure flew out. Half of the tavern was unloaded by a sword.

A sword and a sword turned into silver light and flew, chasing each other in the air, and finally returned to the drunkard with great speed, and in the process of floating, the drunkard slowly pressed down with his raised fingers, and the sword plunged into the ground left and right.

Everyone in the tavern was dumbfounded.

Xu Man, who flew out, turned pale, but still had the strength to sit up, with a sharp pain in his spine, and he didn't know how many bones he had broken.

The drunkard said lightly: "You invited me to drink a meal and broke my four vertebrae, and I will also break your four today, and return you a meal, and the two of us will write it off." โ€

Xu Man's face was pale, looking at the drunkard with a flick of his sleeves, there was a sword aura in the tavern that was half of the emptied, and a jar of wine held by two people flew out of thin air, and the bell was about to smash into his chest, hovering in an instant.

There is no danger.

The drunkard lowered his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Don't get out of here, remember to piggyback on Yuan Sizhi, it doesn't matter if my sword is broken or not, if Jiang Qingyi suffers the slightest grievance in the Ethereal Slope, today I raise my sword, and no one in Xiguan can stop me." โ€

The commander of the six pins didn't have time to kowtow, and was frightened by this real kendo master, so he hurriedly turned over his horse and hurried towards the ethereal slope with a crying voice.

The drunkard took a sip of wine with a blank face.

The tavern was almost completely populated at the moment, and the entire town was so frightened by the horrific sight that they fled in panic.

Half of the tavern that was opened by the sword qi was shattered at this moment, and countless broken stones were still suspended in the air, maintaining a high frequency of vibration.

It's a lot of control.

Domain meaning.

Extremely strong sense of domain.

"We had a relationship. โ€

The drunkard's face was complicated, he looked at the only table left, and said softly, "In Fengting City." โ€

The black-robed man in the hat at the table nodded and said calmly, "I remember you." โ€

His Royal Highness raised his hand slightly, took off his hat, and said indifferently: "Your cultivation is much stronger than at that time." โ€

The drunkard was silent.

Yi Xiao pressed the hat on the table and raised her eyebrows: "Although you were a ninth grade at that time, you were really not famous in the sword party." โ€

The drunkard laughed at himself and said, "I shouldn't be able to rank now." โ€

Yi Xiao smiled and asked, "Why are you so down?"

The drunkard said indifferently: "Rise because of the sword, die because of the sword." โ€

"Losing to Jian Zongming is not a shameful thing. โ€

Yi Xiao didn't stand up, sensing the increasing pressure around her, she still said lightly: "Whoever hits him is a loser." โ€

The emaciated drunkard shook his head with a smile and whispered the word "up".

The remaining half of the tavern rose from the ground, crushed by the huge force into countless fine stone chips, and they all revolved around one person.

What kind of arrogant and domineering sword domain is this?

Yi Xiao asked himself, even if his Killing Sword Domain cultivation reached the end of his life, he might not be able to have such a terrifying scene as he is now.

There was a constant sound of the wine vat exploding in the rubble tornado, and the sword qi in the sky danced wildly with the wine gas.

The drunkard's eyes became clearer and clearer.

His messy hair and beard were all blown up by the sword aura.

It was a young, thin face.

Once high-spirited, he stopped Jian Zongming in Fengting City.

No one could have imagined that he would become like this now.

The drunkard muttered softly: "A cloud of smoke and rain is lifeless, and there is no wind and rain and no sunshine." โ€

In an instant, the sound of the sword roared loudlyโ€”

A sword and a sword around him turned into silver light and rose from the ground, and there was no light and shadow in an instant, and then the wine and sword qi exploded in the sky, turning into smoke and rain and shrouded down!