The Quanzhen Zhuzi didn't know that this "Yelu is very curious" was a pseudonym casually pinched by Qian Qingjian. The surname "Yelu" was the surname of the original Khitan royal family, but it failed to arouse the hatred of the sons of Quanzhen in terms of nationality. They were only dissatisfied that "Yelu was very curious" for snatching Zhen Zhibing's robe and silver taels [Note 1], but no one considered the reason for "Yelu was very curious" to do so.

Speaking of ethnic disputes, more than 100 years ago, the Liao State, ruled by the Khitans, was certainly the sworn enemy of the Northern Song Dynasty. But later, the Jurchen people rose in the north and destroyed the Liao State and the Northern Song Dynasty successively, and the national hatred and family hatred of the Song people were transferred to the Jurchen people. "The shame of Jingkang" is a pain shared by the temples and rivers and lakes of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The predecessor of the Quanzhen Sect was the anti-Jin forces led by Wang Chongyang. [Note 2] Although Chongyang Zhenren died twenty years ago, his disciples have always adhered to Wang Zhenren's will to help Song and resist Jin, and have been active in the rivers and lakes. The anti-Jin activities of the Quanzhen Sect are embodied in three aspects: on the one hand, they assassinate the lone Jin soldiers, burn grain and grass, and engage in sabotage; on the other hand, they spy on the large-scale assembly and mobilization of the Jin army; and on the third hand, they unite with the martial arts people in the rivers and lakes to expand the anti-Jin forces.

This time, the four sons of Quan Zhen came to Nanyang for two purposes, the first purpose was to persuade the martial arts people in the Nanyang area to unite against the Jin; the second purpose was to gather the troops of the Jin State in the Nanyang area one after another in the near future, facing the Xiangyang City occupied by the Southern Song Dynasty, and there was a possibility of waiting for an opportunity to attack. The Quanzhen faction came to spy on the reality of the Jin army.

The first step was Sun Buer and Zhao Zhijing, Zhen Zhibing, Li Zhichang and Cui Zhifang, four third-generation disciples, and the remaining three sons of Quanzhen came a step late, and just now it was Sun Buer and others who came out of Nanyang to greet the other three sons.

Everyone criticized "Yelu is very curious", and guessed whether this person had taken refuge in Jin Guo as a lackey, and then Sun Buji informed the three senior brothers of the news she got in Nanyang.

Sun Buer said that after a day of investigation by her and four disciples in Nanyang, she found that there is a martial arts sect in Nanyang that has been inherited for hundreds of years called the Barberry School.

There are also rumors among the locals in Nanyang that the head of the barberry faction will marry in three days, and if he brings gifts to congratulate him and show his goodwill, at least it can create a safer foothold for the Quanzhen faction in Nanyang.

The rest of the three sons of Quanzhen all agreed with Sun Buer's suggestion, so all the Quanzhen Dao came to Nanyang together.

As the saying goes, you can't do things well without hair on your mouth. Sun Buer and Zhao Zhijing and other disciples were still not experienced enough, and in just one day, they didn't find out more news, so they didn't know that Nanyang had been making trouble in the past two days.

They wouldn't even know that at the same time that they encountered "Yelu is very curious" on the official road, the daughter-to-be of the head of the Barberry Sect mysteriously disappeared from the boudoir.

When the day was bright, the barberry manor was slaughtered. The disciples who came and went didn't dare to take a breath, they all knew that the head of the sect was upset.

Of course, the head of the Barberry faction is very annoying, and if he loses his daughter, whoever is left on him will be annoyed to death.

The head of Barberry Love is called Ke Yinnong, a middle-aged man in his forties, his body is slightly fat, his face is a little dark, and he is pacing back and forth in the hall at the moment, like an ant on a hot pot. Let the tiger-skinned chair high up in the hall sit empty in the middle. A young and delicate servant woman stood beside the tiger-skin chair with her hands down, waiting for his orders.

There were martial arts people in the hall one after another, among these martial arts people, there were disciples of the Barberry Sect, and there were also martial artists of other factions who were also in the same line of Nanyang Martial Arts, and the disciples of the Barberry Sect beckoned them to take their seats.

The two guests who had just arrived were arranged by the disciples of the Barberry Sect to the left and right of Ke Yinnong's seat, and they looked extremely honorable, one of these two people was an old man who was close to the age of sixties, the old man had gray hair, but his spirit was very strong, and the other was a young man with eight sacks on his back, the existence of the sacks was incompatible with his luxurious robes, this young man was in his twenties, and he was full of heroic spirit. The old and the young nodded to each other, and they didn't greet each other, and they seemed to be extremely familiar.

There were fifty or sixty people sitting in the entire hall, but they all knew these two, and the old man was Ke Yinnong's eldest brother, the head of the Divine Fist Sect, and he was over nine cows. According to the legend of Nanyang martial arts, the head of the god fist is invincible and can kill nine cows in a row. The young man is the beggar head of the beggar gang who leads the Jinghu two roads, he is the eighth generation disciple of the beggar gang's pure clothes faction, and he is also Ke Yinnong's future son-in-law.

These people came here for only one purpose, that is, to wait for Ke Yinnong, the head of the Barberry Sect, to give orders, and then these people would take their men and search all over the inside and outside of Nanyang City.

Ke Yinong did not give the order for a long time, because he felt that the search in the houses and streets was mostly fruitless.

It has been two days since Nanyang City was picking flowers, and the two women who disappeared the day before yesterday were the same as the daughters of Ke Zhangmen, both of whom disappeared mysteriously from the boudoir at night, both of them were daughters of martial arts families, and they were both armed with martial arts. Of course, the two martial arts families who encountered flower picking have searched several times inside and outside the city, but there has been no result so far.

This flower thief seems to have a distinctive feature, that is, he only robs women who know martial arts. And those girls in the martial arts sect who don't know martial arts are staying at home at this time and have not been robbed.

At this time, Ke was in a hurry, and everyone in the hall was even more anxious, and the most anxious person was Guo Jiuniu. He was the first to ask the woman standing next to the tiger skin chair with his hands down: "Xinghua, think about it carefully, when you and Miss went out a few days ago, did you meet any strange men, such as those who looked at you a few more times, or who accosted you?" ”

Guo Jiuniu knew a lot about the servant women and disciples in Ke Yinnong's family, and naturally knew the servant women Xinghua.

Xinghua's surname is Li, originally a native of Licheng County, Shandong, her parents died tragically during the Song and Jin wars, she fled to Nanyang two years ago, and was taken in by Ke Yinnong's wife and became the servant of Miss Ke's family. Li Xinghua is two years older than Miss Ke Yurong, with a good appearance and a woman's charm, if she goes out with Miss, she will attract no less attention from men than Miss.

At this time, Xinghua also stayed awake all night, and her pretty face was quite haggard. Since last night when she found out that the young lady was not in the boudoir, she called someone to go and inspect, and then was called to the hall by the old man Ke Yinnong.

She couldn't think of any clues, the Ke family had been preparing for Miss's marriage recently, and Miss had only taken her out once, but she only came back from buying some rouge jewelry in the shop, and she didn't encounter anything unusual.

Faced with Jiuniu, it was also a superfluous question, Xinghua shook her head helplessly. Ke Yinnong sat down instead, waved his hand to Xinghua and said, "Xinghua, you change a cup of tea for the guests, go and rest, and after the rest, go to accompany Mrs. ”

Xinghua went to make tea, Ke Yinnong took a breath, and looked around at the people in the hall: "Have you met any strange martial arts characters in the city recently?"

Ke Yinnong's quasi-son-in-law, Mo Youdi, immediately replied: "According to the report of our beggar gang disciples, two groups of characters have recently come to Nanyang, both of which arrived the day before yesterday, and one is a leader with a hair, leading a team of cavalry to the military camp in the south of the city. In addition, there is a Quanzhen Daoist Gu and a few Taoist priests, but these Quanzhen Sect figures left the city early yesterday morning and headed north. ”

Ke Yinnong's face changed, and he said, "The day before yesterday, wasn't the daughter of the Wang family in the east of the city and the Zhao family in the west of the city robbed by someone the night before yesterday? Could it be that Jin Bing is doing this?"

Guo Jiuniu handed the teacup in his hand to Xinghua, and said in a deep voice: "At this moment, the soldiers in the south of Nanyang City are gathered, if the Jin soldiers want to plunder the people's daughters, it seems that there is no need to do it so secretly, I am a little suspicious of those Taoist priests!"

Ke Yinnong shook his head slowly and said, "No, right? Although my disciples don't walk the rivers and lakes, they also know that the reputation of the Quanzhen Sect on the rivers and lakes is still good, how can they do such a thing?"

At this time, a strong martial artist present snorted coldly: "Those bull noses have studied the Taoist technique of collecting yin and supplementing yang, even if the Quanzhen sect is not good at this, but a group of big men have not touched women for many years, I am afraid that they will be uncomfortable!"

When this martial artist said this, most of the people present nodded yes. At this time, a disciple of the Barberry Sect came in from outside the door and reported to Ke Yinnong that there was a young man wearing a Quanzhen Dao robe outside who asked to see the head of the sect.

Ke Yinnong's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he said, "Let him in!" Then seal the door, and you are allowed to enter but not out!"

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Note 1: During the Song Dynasty, the currency in circulation was not silver taels, but copper coins and jiaozi. Here the author follows Mr. Jin Yong's original work.

Note 2: Chongyang Zhenren and Quanzhen Sect anti-Jin are also not historical facts, and the author also follows the original work. And in the future, if there is any contradiction with historical facts in this article, first consider following Mr. Jin Yong's original work. It will not be specifically noted.

The author thinks that since it is a work of the same people, it should be written like this.