It's even more dilapidated than the messy knife village, with simple mud and straw houses connected to each other, and more than a dozen houses are connected by doors, and strangers come out and enter, and no one cares.

There was nothing of value in the house to steal or rob.

Gu Shenwei walked through one earthen hut after another, passing a thin boy, an old woman shivering from the cold, two men sleeping soundly, flocks of chickens, and cattle and sheep leisurely munching hay, and finally found his target.

The thin man was lying on the clay kang, his skin sallow and loose, as if he had not eaten a full meal for a long time, only the eyes were still shining, like a sick lion that would jump up and hunt at any moment.

In his hand lay a narrow knife with a sheath, the scabbard was as tattered as the room, barely enough to cover the blade.

Xu Xiaoyi spent a lot of energy to find out the whereabouts of this person, because this person was not well-known in Biyu City, and he had almost disappeared recently.

Gu Shenwei looked at it for a while, and couldn't recognize the man in front of him, so he asked, "Are you Hu Shining?"

The thin man seemed to be dead, and did not react, but after a while he moved his eyes, squinted at the visitor, and did not move his lips, and spat out a very slight "um".

"The teacher of the Dongbao Carving Academy?" Gu Shenwei had to ask again, he really couldn't connect this corpse-like man with that sturdy Master Hu.

A few years ago, Hu Shining was a teacher in Jinpeng Castle, specializing in basic training for teenagers who wanted to be killers, and it was he who regretted that Huan Nu refused to accept a complete initial training, and recommended this unique apprentice to Tie Hanfeng.

A year later, he lost his position as a teacher.

The Killer's Fort was still full of complicated personnel struggles, and Hu Shining was considered to be a member of the faction of the Great Young Master, and as soon as Shangguan died, he was immediately purged.

He could choose to keep the title of Jinpeng Killer, live in small houses on both sides of the mountain road, receive a meager amount of silver every month, and live for the rest of his life, but he was not yet forty years old at the time, so like many killers who refused to accept old age, he voluntarily ended all relations with Shibao and roamed the rivers and lakes as a wandering swordsman.

The first year or two was okay, the killers who came out of the stone castle had their own circle and gave him a lot of help, but they had an unwritten rule that they would never participate in any battles related to Jinpeng Castle, so when the Kunqi War was in full swing, these middle-aged killers chose to stand by and watch.

Then Hu Shining began to have bad luck, and one after another, first he had a serious illness, spent most of his savings, and then participated in two tasks that were not completed well enough, lost the trust of his employer, and began to be excluded in the circle.

Hu Shining was defeated in the personnel struggle for the second time and became a complete wandering swordsman, but ordinary swordsmen also have various circles, sects, hometowns, acquaintances, and money, and he has none of them, and after inadvertently offending a few small covers, he became an unpopular swordsman.

In this way, he gradually fell into the poorest corner of the southern city, eating and waiting for death, and he couldn't even find a way to be a robber.

Hu Shining was lonely and unheard of during this time, and he didn't even know that the young man standing by the kang was the famous Dragon King, and he couldn't recognize him as the Huan slave who insisted on being a killer.

This is probably the person who came to kill me to avenge me, he thought, hoping that the other party would do it quickly.

Gu Shenwei also felt that the most merciful way for this middle-aged swordsman who had lost his fighting spirit and vitality was to give him a knife immediately, but he said: "I have a job for you." ”

Hu Shining twisted his neck, looked at the pale-faced young man in surprise, and recognized some of the traits that only Jinpeng killers have, "Who are you?"

"My name is Yang Huan. ”

"Yang Huan?" Hu Shining repeated the name, with no impression in his heart, "I can't even hold a knife, I'm afraid I can't do things for you." ”

The young man was clearly connected to the castle, and he would rather starve to death than get involved in the struggle in the fort.

"You think about it slowly, and when you want, you can ask where I live. Gu Shenwei was a little disappointed and felt that he had found the wrong person.

Gu Shenwei turned around and took two steps, and Hu Shining, who was lying on the kang, suddenly said, "You always turn right, this is not good." ”

Gu Shenwei was stunned for a moment, he had never paid attention to such details as the direction of turning, and besides, after he walked into this room, he seemed to have only turned around once, how could the other party see that he "always turned right"? He suddenly regained interest in the half-dead Hu Shining.

"That's what you do, if you will. Gu Shenwei added before leaving, "Correct the mistakes of young people." ”

Gu Shenwei walked through the poor and indifferent residents again, stood at the gate of the courtyard, considered his habit of turning, and then suddenly struck out a teenager from a bundle of rotten straw mats leaning against the wall.

The boy was like the poor people who lived here, his clothes were ragged like a child, his dirty face was visibly frostbitten, the only difference was that he had a single knife in his hand.

The single knife is smooth and sharp, spotlessly clean, and contrasts with the owner.

Gu Shenwei had already discovered this little stalker, and he had some admiration for him in his heart, but his eyes were as cold as ever, and most people would panic and beg for mercy under the pressure of this gaze.

The young man bravely looked directly into the eyes of the dragon king, refusing to flinch at all, "I'm not afraid of you." He said, his voice trembling slightly.

Gu Shenwei threw the boy into a corner, "If you're not afraid of a person, you won't say it." What people say is often the opposite of what they think in their hearts. ”

"I, I'......" The boy was confused by the dragon king's words, and didn't know what to say.

The young man's name is Nie Zeng, he is only thirteen years old, and he ran to Biyu City to avenge his uncle's family of three, all of whom died at the hands of Tie Hanfeng and Huan Nu.

He had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for revenge in the Dragon King's Mansion, but he missed the opportunity because he was too timid, and although the Dragon King didn't kill him, he blamed himself so much that he wanted to jump into the river.

Nie Zeng had been wandering around the Dragon King's Mansion, hoping to meet such an opportunity again, and this time, he would never be relentless.

The Dragon King rarely walks through the main gate when he travels, and Nie Zeng walked around the Dragon King's Mansion with a persistent energy, with only one thought in his heart, "I can always happen to meet the Dragon King." ”

This "coincidence" happened today.

But the Dragon King was no longer in the situation when he went mad, and he didn't even have a chance to make a move.

"You want revenge?"

"I want revenge. ”

"Do you know how hard it is to get revenge?"

"I know how hard it will be for me to take revenge, unless you kill me now. ”

"I've been preparing for revenge since I was fourteen years old, and it's been more than six years now, and I haven't done it yet, how many years can you endure it?"

Nie Zeng leaned against the wall, staring at the pale face of the Dragon King, speechless, he had heard of the Dragon King's hatred for Jinpeng Castle, but he had never thought that this was the same as his own hatred, the Dragon King's words made him suddenly feel ashamed, and whispered: "I am different from you, you have a master, who do I go to learn martial arts from?"

"There's a man lying in there, named Hu Shining, you can learn from him. ”

Nie Zeng watched the Dragon King disappear around the corner of the alley, dumbfounded, the Dragon King shouldn't be like this, didn't he kill people without blinking?

Gu Shenwei returned to the Dragon King's Mansion, and the lotus girl said: "That child has a savage energy, and he is indeed a good seedling, I am afraid that he will really seek revenge on you one day." ”

The Dutch girl followed him all the time, but most of the time she never appeared.

"It's okay, there's a needle in my back that keeps me on my toes. ”

Hatred is a powerful force, this is one of the important things that Gu Shenwei learned in Jinpeng Castle, as long as he is trained correctly, he can manipulate this power and make it external and not internal.

The lotus girl didn't speak again, silently thinking about what kind of role she was by the side of the dragon king, probably a needle in her heart, she thought, both sad and proud.

Fang Wen was already waiting for the Dragon King, he didn't even have the mind to discuss peace in the past two days, he had been analyzing the purpose of Jinpeng Castle wanting to marry the princess, and got a lot of information from the envoy of the Central Plains, which made his eyes finally brighten.

"King Dubu is really treacherous, just to let his son marry the princess, he pretended to negotiate peace. As soon as he saw the Dragon King, Fang Wenshi began to say, "Do you know how perfect Princess Shiguo is?"

Gu Shenwei didn't know, Fang Wen didn't plan to get an answer, and said to himself, "She is the sister of the current king, the king has no heirs, and he has always been sick, and it is said that he will not live for a few years." As soon as he died, the royal family had no more children, and according to the tradition of the Western Regions, the princess's son was eligible to inherit the throne. So, you get the idea, right?"

Fang Wen kept beating his left palm with his right fist, "All the countries in the Western Regions are going crazy, this is a clear thing, whoever marries a princess is basically marrying back to a country, and the only thing left to do is to try to have a son." I have heard that there are several kings in their seventies and eighties who also intend to propose marriages in person. ”

Fang Wen is thrashing faster and faster, and his thinking became clearer and clearer, "King Dubu wants to make his grandson king, and then ...... Then I will give him the throne in a few years! Biyu City is long and narrow from east to west, but there is no depth in the north and south, once he grabs the stone country in the south, no one can stop him from becoming king. ”

Shi Guo, Gu Shenwei has the image of a thin young man in his mind, the young Huan slave was once involved in a royal conspiracy, the eldest prince of Shi Guo was killed, and the last beneficiary is the second prince, the current king of Shi Guo.

Dubu King wants to marry Shi Guo, Gu Shenwei has a hunch about this, this is by no means something that he has only started planning recently, maybe Jinpeng Bao has secretly extended his hand to Shi Guo a few years ago, and at that time, he inadvertently helped Dubu King a lot.

Fang Wen is no longer beating around, his hands spread, there is a sentence he has been hiding in his heart for a long time, and he feels that it is time to say it to the Dragon King, "You must not let the Dubu King get his wish, but there is only one way to stop Jinpeng Castle, Dragon King, you have to go and marry the princess back." ”

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