Xiao Bei and Hongyan searched in the Meridian Valley, went around and around, delayed for a week, and finally found a way out of the valley, so they went all the way non-stop, passing through Xi'an, Henan, and Hebei. The www.biquge.info finally arrived in Beijing on the fifth day of the lunar month.

Xiao Hong and the others tried to contact Lu Guanzhong near the city gate, but it never worked, and the two thought that the ice diamond effect had passed, and they could only enter Beijing first, and then make plans when the competition came.

Somehow at the gate of the city, the gate is extremely strict, and those who want to enter Beijing must be searched and interrogated, fortunately, Hongyan showed the guard the red line given by Ming Feng when he entered the city, and the guard was suddenly solemn, and pointed out that the two of them found the royal guest house for the martial arts competition.

This imperial residence is a famous inn and restaurant in the capital, and the imperial court funded it to be used for reception. Xiao Hong and the two saw that there was a shop outside the Emperor's Residence, which was selling books, and when they came forward to ask, they learned that Chongzhen did not know where to get inspiration, and became very business-minded, and drew a roster of participating families and princes and county lords, supplemented by illustrations, which can be described as illustrated and illustrated, with a price of ten taels of silver, and set up a stall in front of the Emperor's Mansion to sell, and the business was quite prosperous.

Xiao Bei has experienced several battles in a row, his clothes are tattered, and the silver taels are almost thrown cleanly, fortunately, Hongyan still has a few gold leaves, and the two of them have been frugal all the way, and finally got to the imperial city, how can they have spare money to buy this roster at this moment? Although Xiao Bei is very interested, he has no choice but to look at the book and sigh.

After that, Xiao Bei showed the red thread on his wrist to the shopkeeper of the Huangqiju, and the shopkeeper took a look, and saw that there was a word "Chu" on it, so he immediately bowed politely, and sent a cousin to lead Xiao Hong and the two of them, through the hotel lobby, and to the backyard.

As he walked, the hall said: "Two distinguished guests, His Royal Highness the King of Chu has already arrived in the capital, but he and his family have another place to live in the capital, so the house that was originally used to receive the King of Chu is now empty, just for the two to live. There are all applications here, and if the two of them have needs, they only need to pull the bell in the house. ”

Xiao Bei nodded and asked politely: "This little brother, we have just entered Beijing, and we don't know the customs here." Although it has not yet reached the end of the year, but Laba is approaching, if it was in my hometown, it should have been a long time ago, with colorful lights, firecrackers and noisy sky, everyone wearing red and green, smiling. But this capital is heavily guarded, the streets are full of soldiers, and the pedestrians are scarce, I don't know why?"

The cousin said proudly: "You are asking the right person! This matter is very secret, if it weren't for my cousin's daughter-in-law's aunt's neighbor's son working in the palace on an errand in the palace, I'm afraid you wouldn't have been able to ask for a long time." Let me tell you, this week, someone intends to assassinate the emperor, has been three times in a row, although failed to touch the emperor half of the hair, but Jinyiwei did not catch the prisoner, no, the emperor Longyan was furious, decided to impose martial law in the whole city, and searched for the prisoner. ”

Xiao Bei thought to himself: "It seems that this matter is not very secret, otherwise you have such a relationship, how can you still know?" But it was inconvenient to say this, and then asked: "What does the prisoner look like?"

The cousin was even more excited, squeezed his eyebrows and said, "This guest officer, I won't tell you that this assassin has a black veil and a slender figure, but he is a woman. And it is said that the supernatural powers are vast, even if they are shot by arrows, they can move freely, and they do not shed half a drop of blood, I am afraid that there is a body that is not bad for King Kong. ”

"King Kong is not bad? Is it ...... To the Yin Ice?" Xiao Bei was startled.

As he was talking, the three of them came to a three-entry bungalow, and the pardon said, "Two, this is the residence of the two." I still have something to do, so I'll take my leave. With that, he took a deep stab and turned to leave.

Xiao Bei nodded to him in thanks, then stretched out his hand to push the house open, and looked around, only to feel that the decoration of this house was quite luxurious, which was very in line with the bearing of the imperial city. However, compared to their residence on the ground floor of the Black Corpse Tower, it was still a little rough and unelegant.

Xiao Jie suddenly caught a glimpse of something, cheered, stepped forward quickly, picked up a booklet from the round table in the living room, Hong Yan looked at the cover, it was the list of contestants, and sat next to Xiao Cheap at the moment, and watched with great interest.

The book begins with dozens of pages of an introduction to the ten county lords who participated in the conference

Daughter of the King of Chu: Lord of Mingfeng

Daughter of King Qin: Lord of Haoyue

The daughter of King Jing: Lord Qianqian

Daughter of King Ning: Lord Ruiruo

Daughter of King Zhou: Lord of Hyosung

Daughter of King Guang: Lord Yaoqi

Daughter of the King of Dian: Lord of Tianchi

Daughter of King Sui: Lord of Zimo

Daughter of King Huai: Lord of Luofan

The daughter of King De: The lord of Diemeng

Between the words, these ten county lords are described as extremely beautiful and dignified, as if they are all fairies in the world, but Xiao Bei took a closer look and found that most of these county lords were between twelve and sixteen years old, and they were not yet adults at all, so there was no need to talk about marriage, and he couldn't help but feel a little confused in his heart, and he didn't know how these girls chose their husbands.

The next hundred or so pages introduced more than 20 sons of the family who participated in the competition to recruit relatives, Xiao Jie flipped a few pages at random, and suddenly found that the representative of the Gongyi family was his unsuccessful disciple Lu Guanzhong.

"No wonder Guan Zhong wants to ask you to compete, it turns out that he is also registered. However, with his conditions, if he wants to be selected, he is afraid that it will be a castle in the air. Hong Yan smiled at the corner of his mouth and said mercilessly.

Xiao Bei was speechless, sighed and said, "No matter what, we will do our best to at least help Guan Zhong earn some face." I flipped through the books again, and saw that Yuwen Tianzhou, the famous sword Fengyue, Tie Mandao, Hua Zhengxiong and many other students of the Truth Academy were on the list, and even the Nangong family sent Nangong Cangqiong, the third son of Nangong, to participate in the competition.

After the disciples of the Maison, this book also gives a brief introduction to the martial artists sent by the Maison to participate in the competition. In particular, the world-famous Four Sages of Wuzhong are introduced in great detail, and the rest are vague.

"Wait...... Xiao Yan...... It's a member of the Nangong family. Is he the one who was sent by Ji Wuliang and the Sword Xiao Palace to make a beautiful man's plan?" Hong Yan suddenly saw Xiao Yan's name and interjected. ”

"It seems to be him. Xiao Bei had already read through the entire book at this time, put down the book and said.

"This Ling Fox Nine Swords, we lived and died with him in Jianxiao Palace before, and we also indirectly matched him with Nangong Xinlan. He didn't recognize anyone in a blink of an eye, and helped Jianxiao Palace to plot against us, which is really hateful. Hong Yan said indignantly.

"Not necessarily, this is a lot of tricks, maybe even Brother Linghu is in the dark, let's not jump to conclusions, let's go to meet this Xiao Yan first and see who he is sacred. Xiao said.

The two of them took a break and wanted to go out to see what was going on. Suddenly, hearing a knock on the door, Xiao Bei did not doubt him, and immediately stepped forward to open the door.

I saw that the county lord of Mingfeng was dressed gracefully and luxuriously, smiling, standing outside the door, and Wang Ruolan behind him was also dressed in luxury, not inferior at all, it seems that the two of them have continued to fight for wealth since they separated from Xiao Bei. Under the brilliance of the two, Wang Xiyi beside Wang Ruolan looked bleak.

"Xiao Daxia, I have been waiting for you in the capital for a long time, and I have heard that you have repeatedly performed miraculous feats in Hanzhong, and I am happy for you in my heart. Lord Mingfeng shook the jewels all over his body, held Xiao Bei's hand and said.

"Where, where, you have been entertained...... But I don't know where you live, and I haven't come to visit. Xiao Bei only felt that Ming Feng's little hands were smooth and soft, and he withdrew his hand in embarrassment, and said with a red face.

Ming Feng didn't care, took Wang Ruolan and Wang Xiyi into the room, greeted each other with Hong Yan, and then said: "Xiao Daxia, the reason why I invited you to Beijing this time is to ask you for something. ”

As the saying goes, eating people with short mouths and short hands with people, Xiao Jie and Hong Yan received a large sum of silver taels from Ming Feng and Wang Ruolan out of thin air before, and it was not easy to refuse, so they arched their hands and said: "His Royal Highness the county lord, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

Ming Feng smiled, but said with a hideous expression: "Please also ask Xiao Daxia to help me teach Zimo, Diemeng, and Lord Hyosung a hard lesson at the martial arts recruitment conference." ”

Xiao Qiqi said: "Isn't this competition between families?

Ming Feng explained: "Xiao Daxia, don't you know, this thing gathers by like, people are divided into groups, and the world's families are also divided into three, six, nine and so on. When our county lord chooses a future husband, he wants to inquire about the other party's wealth and appearance. If you want to say that the first son of today, it is Li Zhongpan of the Li family, who is better than Pan An, Wending Qiankun, and the immortal son of Wu'an. But as far as I know, in addition to me, the three daughters of Zimo, Hyosung, and Diemeng also fell in love with Li Gongzi and wanted to recruit him as a husband. In this way, there must be a fight between the county lords, and if they are not convinced, I am afraid that they will not give up. ”

"Do you want me to fight indiscriminately in front of the emperor at that time?" Xiao Bei felt a sense of absurdity in his heart.

"You can rest assured that this conference was originally based on force, and if there is any unresolved matter, it can be resolved by force. At that time, as long as the county lord had objections to the results of the son-in-law election, he only needed to challenge it. ”

"But as far as I know, there are more than 20 princes of the family participating this time, and there are only ten county lords, which is a situation where there are more monks and less porridge, is there no one who can enter His Highness's eyes except for Li Zhongpan?" Hong Yan said on the side.

Ming Feng turned his head to Hongyan and said, "Hongyan Fairy, don't you know, there were originally two candidates in this palace, in addition to Li Zhongpan, Nangong Xuanyuan of the Nangong family is also a good candidate. But it is said that he has not set foot in the rivers and lakes in the past year, and there are even rumors that he saw through the red dust and left home. The rest of the sons are mediocre, and my father is the most face-saving of the princes, how can he deign to choose her and pick the rest?"

Ming Feng paused, and then said: "And some of these family disciples have already communicated with the county lord, and they have already decided on family affairs, such as the down-and-out Qin King's Haoyue county lord, it seems that he has already decided to marry Lu Guanzhong, the loser, wouldn't it be a fool to interfere again?"

Where did Xiao Jie think that there were so many doorways in this martial arts competition, and he felt that he was in trouble for a while, and he just wanted to pick his son and leave.

"By the way, Xiao Daxia, I came here this time for another matter. Ming Feng smiled flatteringly and said, "My cousin Zhu Youzhen wants to see you, so he specially instructed me to inform him as soon as you come." ”

Zhu Youzhen ...... Who is it?" Xiao Bei has always been lonely and unheard, and this time is no exception.

"That is the current saint, Emperor Chongzhen. Ming Feng covered his mouth and smiled.

"The Emperor...... The emperor?" Xiao Bei was already retired, but when he heard that he was going to face the saint, he felt that his head was as big as a fight, and he kept thinking in his heart, wanting to find an excuse to refuse.

After thinking for a long time, Xiao Bei coughed twice and said: "Your Royal Highness the county lord, I'm really embarrassed, I've always been used to being casual, and I don't know what etiquette is, if I do something wrong or say something wrong in front of the emperor, then the crime is not small, I think it's better to forget it, you just tell the emperor that I haven't come." ”

"That's not good, I told him a long time ago, if you don't go, I'm going to be annoying. Ming Feng frowned and said.

"Yes, if you don't report it, it's a crime of deception. There was a burst of laughter outside the door.

Ming Feng was startled, and hurriedly pushed open the door, only to see a handsome-looking young man standing outside the door, and behind him stood Lu Biao, the leader of the Jinyi Guard.