Early in the morning of this day, Shen Du walked out of his room. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, the inn had just opened, and many of the tenants were still asleep. On the first floor of the inn, a few guys were tidying up, as if they didn't want to disturb the peace of the morning, and they were all gentle in their movements.

Shen Du descended the stairs and walked to the counter.

"Ahh Luo Xueniang looked up and saw him, a little surprised, and then smiled and said, "Mr. is up." ”

Shen Du nodded: "Well, I was just going to Jing Shuzhai to buy books, and I happened to buy some ingredients in the store." ”

In order to understand the mysterious words on the fragment, in the past two years, Shen Du has bought various books in ancient languages from time to time and studied them against each other.

Every once in a while, he would go to the nearby Jing Shu Zhai, which seemed to have become a habit.

Luo Xueniang took out a bunch of money and a piece of paper from the drawer, handed it to Shen Du, and said, "There are not many ingredients that are missing today, and they are all recorded on this." ”

Shen Du took it, and after greeting her, he turned around and walked out of the inn.

Walking through the crowded streets, he arrived at the morning market in a short time.

At this time, there were not too many people in the morning market, and he didn't feel crowded between walks, so Shen Du calmly walked for a while, and bought some ingredients from the roadside stalls.

Liu San was disabled by him, and he disappeared without a trace. The fish market is one less hegemon, and of course people applaud. And the elderly Yu Lao finally doesn't have to be so diligent.

Yu Lao is experienced, and the fish he catches is the most fatty, and every time he buys fish at Longfu Inn, most of them come to buy with Yu Lao.

In the old place of the market, there is a small fish stall. A woman bought a carp that was bouncing around, paid for it, and turned away satisfied.

Shen Du carried a few ingredients in hand and walked to the front of the fish stall.

When Yu Lao saw him coming, he smiled and said, "Shen Gongzi is here." ”

"Elder Yu, I want two grass carp. Shen Du nodded and said with a smile.

"Okay. Yu Lao shook a fish basket, reached in, took out a live grass carp, took a hemp rope with the other hand to pass the fish gills, tied it and handed it to Shen Du. As it was concocted, he took another fish and tied it and handed it to Shen Du.

"It's a total of forty dollars. ”

Yu Lao has been fishing and selling fish for many years, and the fish has a few catties and taels, and he can distinguish it clearly with his hands, and there is no difference.

Shen Du took out forty copper coins and handed them to Yu Lao.

"Let's go. Shen Du picked up the fish and was about to turn around and leave.

Yu Lao seemed to suddenly remember something, and hurriedly said, "Wait, Shen Gongzi." ”

Seeing this, Shen Du couldn't help but wonder slightly: "What's wrong." ”

"I went fishing this morning, but I fished something out of the water...... "Yu Laozheng said, reaching out behind him to touch it, "It's a bit weird." ”

Then he took in his hand a long strip of something wrapped in a coarse cloth.

Yu Lao came close to Shen Du, and there was still a bit of a mysterious appearance, and he opened the rough one.

The cold light flashed, and it brightened people's eyes, and inside was a cold long sword.

Counting the hilt, the sword is about four feet long, and the sword is more than two inches wide. The hilt of the sword is completely uncarved, simple and simple, implying a little rough style, the sword body is solid and heavy, the blade is cold, sharp and compelling, it is not difficult to see that this is really a rare sword, extraordinary.

Shen Du's complexion changed slightly, and he hurriedly took the long sword.

"Old Yu, where did you get this sword from?" he asked, flipping through the long sword a few times.

"It was fished in the Yu River. Yu Lao said.

"Yuhe ......" Shen Du couldn't help frowning when he heard this.

This Yu River flows in from outside the city, flows out of the city, originates from the Manjiang River, and also returns to the Manjiang River, and finally joins the East China Sea. It has traveled a lot upstream, but there is no way to judge the origin of this sword.

He lowered his head and looked at the long sword carefully, but at this glance, he almost exclaimed.

I saw that at the bottom of the sword body, close to the hilt of the sword, there were two words engraved on it: Zhongxiao.

And under the word "Zhong", there is a deep scratch, as if something is gone at this moment.

This is the rumored Zhongxiao sword!

Seeing this, Shen Du's heart couldn't help but shake.

It's no wonder that he is like this, whoever sees this powerful sword, I am afraid that the reaction will not be smaller than this.

This sword is a rare blade in the world, and it is engraved with the word "Zhongxiao", and there is a scratch under the word "Zhong", which should be the rumored Zhongxiao sword is good.

And the rumors about Zhongxiao Sword have a lot of theories, and in the entire Song Kingdom, it is almost to the point that no one knows about it, and it is also the sharpest evidence that many people scold the royal family and the imperial court.

It is said that a few decades ago, when a vision fell from the sky, nine stars were aligned, and the people of the whole country were in turmoil, so some people raised troops to make a rebellion, which was a disaster.

Most of these rebels were only arrogant for a while, and they were soon exterminated by the imperial court, or beheaded, enslaved or migrated.

In the southwest of the Song Kingdom, there was a chaotic army called the "Taiping Army", burning, killing and looting, and the behavior was particularly brutal and deeply harmful.

In order to exterminate this rebel army, the imperial court has sent several generals, but all of them have been defeated and sunk in the sand, none of them succeeded, and two generals were captured alive, which was extremely tragic, and the whole country was panicked for a while, and the foundation was shaken, but no one dared to lead the army to recruit again.

Later, a young general named Yang Qinghong recommended himself to go on an expedition to defeat the Taiping army and made a military order.

To the surprise of the people of the world, this little-known young general, as soon as he entered the battle, was like a bamboo, defeating the enemy army one after another, and in only one month, he completely defeated the once invincible Taiping army, almost like a storm and clouds.

Yang Qinghong made such a great contribution that he became one of the most powerful generals of the Song Kingdom, and was given the "Zhongxiao" divine sword as a personal sword. With its prestige, it was entrusted with the important task of guarding the northwest frontier a few years later.

However, just twenty years ago, after the death of Wu Anjun and the empress. The first emperor, who had a great change in temperament, actually raped Yang Qinghong's wife who stayed in Song Jing when he was drunk.

Yang Qinghong's wife was humiliated and finally hanged herself.

Yang Qinghong, who was far away in the northwest, learned the news, and was immediately filled with grief and indignation, and almost wanted to send troops to rebel, but for the sake of the overall situation of the country, he finally endured it. It's just that since then, he has engraved the word "loyalty" on the sword of Zhongxiao with a "heart".

However, not long after, the traitor Wen Yu saw the nick on Zhongxiao's sword, and used this as a basis to secretly accuse Yang Qinghong of rebellion to the first emperor.

The first emperor was frightened, but he believed it and invited him to enter Beijing on the grounds of apologizing to Yang Qinghong.

Yang Qinghong thought that the first emperor was really remorseful, and after thinking about it several times, he still entered Song Jing. Unexpectedly, what was waiting for him was not the emperor's confession, but the severe torture of dividing the corpses of the five horses and beheading all over the house.

With endless remorse, Yang Qinghong and his family finally died tragically.

Yang Qinghong's death aroused the anger of many loyal people.

Jiang Liu, known as the second flying thief in the world, after learning of this, broke into Wen Yu's mansion in a fit of rage, seized the Zhongxiao sword, and killed Wen Yu with this sword.

After escaping, passing through the mighty Manjiang River, Jiangliu thought that Zhongxiao was contaminated with the blood of traitors and should be cleansed, so Zhongxiao was thrown into the Manjiang River.

At this point, Zhongxiao Sword was nowhere to be found.

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ps: In Yang Qinghong's story, there is a very strong hint related to Shen Du......