Tao Zhu Villa, in fact, has nothing to do with the famous Tao Zhu Gong in history. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info only because the owner Fan Taiming thinks that he is a descendant of Tao Zhu Gong, so he gave his villa the name "Tao Zhu Villa".

However, although Fan Taiming is not a descendant of Tao Zhugong, he is at least similar to Tao Zhugong, that is, he has endless silver. He relied on selling illicit salt and tea to accumulate a large amount of gold and silver treasures, so he was able to build an unimaginably large Taozhu Villa on the edge of Taihu Lake.

How big is Taozhu Villa? Fan Taiming didn't count it in his heart. However, if you want to hold a martial arts conference here, it is still more than enough.

In the early morning of the tenth day of the first lunar month, the door of Taozhu Villa was already crowded with people who came to participate in the martial arts conference. Although there are many people coming, as long as you want to enter the door, you have to take out the invited hero post, otherwise you will be kicked out of the villa. Of course, if you're good at it, you can also choose to fly over the high walls of Taozhu Villa - provided you have the means to deal with the powerful bows in the hands of hundreds of guardians.

Xu Yun and Zhang Baiqiao saw that the front of Taozhu Villa was too crowded, so they went to a nearby tea shed to rest, planning to wait less before entering. After all, it was clearly written on the hero's post that the martial arts conference would not start until the end of the day, and it was still early.

However, there are not a few people who have the same idea as the two of them, so the tea shed is also overcrowded.

Zhang Baiqiao took a sip of tea and whispered to Xu Yun: "Senior brother, there are so many people here, do you know anyone?"

Xu Yun looked at the people sitting in the tea shed, most of them were young adults in their twenties and thirties, so he shook his head and smiled: "I haven't been down the mountain for ten years, and most of the heroes and heroes who are walking around the rivers and lakes now I don't recognize." ”

"Yes. Zhang Baiqiao said, "The people you know are either elders or old monks, and when you talk to them, they all talk about things ten years ago or twenty years ago, and you always feel as if you are a generation with Master." ”

Xu Yun said with a smile: "When I followed Master to the rivers and lakes, I was just a little doll, what Master has experienced, I have basically experienced it, if you want to talk about the qualifications of the rivers and lakes, you say that I and Master are a generation, but there is some truth." ”

"Senior brother, if you hadn't been on the mountain for ten years, I think the people who are in the tea shed now, even if you don't recognize them, they will recognize you. Zhang Baiqiao whispered, "Alas, I don't understand, why did you live in seclusion in the first place? At that time, you were not even twenty years old, aren't you in your prime of life?"

"I ......" Xu Yun smiled, avoiding Zhang Baiqiao's question, and just said: "Actually, it's a good thing that these people don't recognize me, so as not to let others know that we are here to participate in the martial arts conference." Don't forget, we didn't get the hero post in the first place. ”

"Your mother, dare to steal Lao Tzu's things!" only one person shouted violently, and the tea shed suddenly became a mess. Xu Yun turned his head to look and saw five big men outside the tea shed punching and kicking one person, and couldn't help but shake his head. He saw that Zhang Baiqiao seemed to have a sense of grievance, so he beckoned: "Don't meddle in things." ”

"They bully the little with the more. Zhang Baiqiao was a little angry.

Xu Yun said: "There are so many martial arts people sitting in this tea shed, and the sword hook fork has set up a table, and this person dares to take the risk of stealing things, most of them to steal the hero's post, so as to sneak into Taozhu Villa." ”

"Then you can't fight one by so many people!" Zhang Baiqiao said.

Xu Yun said: "Let him go, we'd better not cause trouble now." ”

Zhang Baiqiao nodded and sat honestly for a while, but he listened to the beaten man moaning on the ground, which was really unbearable, so he slammed the table and got up and said, "Hey, have you fought enough!"

When the five big men heard Zhang Baiqiao's shout, they all turned around and looked over. When one of them saw that it was a young man with a white face who was speaking, he said, "Boy, don't meddle with your business!"

Zhang Baiqiao said: "Even if this person is wrong, so many of you beat him, and after beating him for so long, it's okay, don't deceive people too much!"

The five of them laughed and said, "It's interesting for the stinky boy to speak, but I'm just deceiving people too much, so what?"

"Then I have to persuade you to stop!" When he said this, Zhang Baiqiao remembered that Xu Yun had just persuaded him not to cause trouble, so he squinted at him, and saw that he was just smiling and drinking tea, and had no intention of stopping him, so he took his sword and walked out of the tea shed.

When the five of them saw that Zhang Baiqiao was about to make a move, they shouted in unison: "Look for death!" and each took a big knife and slashed at Zhang Baiqiao.

Zhang Baiqiao patiently did not draw his sword, and when the knife of the five people was about to cut him, he saw that he suddenly drew his sword out of the sheath, and only stabbed the wrists of the five people in an instant, forcing the five people back a few steps.

The five big men saw that Zhang Baiqiao had let himself fall behind with only one move, and they all secretly said in their hearts: "This kid's swordsmanship is so evil!" One of them thought about the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by the Taihu Lake today, and he didn't know how many nameless masters gathered here, so he said: "Okay, the son is really good at kung fu." Anyway, this person also beat up, and he didn't lose anything, so we won't stay here anymore, and we will take our leave!" After that, the five people left scolding and went to Taozhu Villa.

The person who was beaten dared to sit up at this time, hugged his fists at Zhang Baiqiao and said: "Thank you for the rescue, thank you for the rescue-hey, isn't this the little master of Baiqiao?"

Zhang Baiqiao exclaimed: "Do you recognize me?"

Xu Yun in the tea shed walked out when he heard this, and saw the person sitting on the ground, with thief eyebrows and mouse eyes, and described him as obscene, wasn't it the Mao mouse who went down the mountain with him?

Seeing that it was Xu Yun, the Mao mouse was overjoyed, and hurriedly got up and said, "Yun-" He saw Xu Yun frowning at himself and shook his head, and immediately understood, so he changed his words: "Master Yun, I saw you again, business has been good recently!"

"Not bad. You get up pretty neatly, and it doesn't seem like a big deal. Xu Yun smiled, "You owe me the gambling debt, when are you going to pay it back?"

"If you have the money, you will pay it back immediately. The Mao mouse smiled, "Master Yun, please, I'll invite you to have a drink." With that, he led Xu Yun and Zhang Baiqiao out of the tea shed.

"What's the matter, why did you come here?" asked Xu Yun when he reached a secluded place.

Mao Mouse said: "Young Master Yun, the fact that this Taihu Taozhu Villa is going to hold the Jiangnan Martial Arts Conference has already spread in the rivers and lakes! As soon as the Third Young Master Long heard about this, he couldn't sit still and wanted to join in the fun." Originally, Young Master Hua Qian was also coming, but he had just become a helper, and there were many things to do, so there were only two people, me and Third Young Master Long. But if you want to enter the Taozhu Villa, you have to ask for any heroic posts, and I don't have any of them with the Third Young Master Long, so I just wanted to steal one, but I didn't even touch this hair, and I was arrested. ”

Xu Yun smiled: "It seems that you are only suitable for digging holes in the ground! You said that Senior Brother Long is also here, where is the others?"

"Isn't that the one in front?" Mao Mouse pointed with his hand, and saw that not far ahead, Long Yiwen was sitting with his back against a weeping willow, holding his wine gourd and licking the gourd's mouth.

"Third Young Master Long, who do you see coming?" When he got closer, the Mao Mouse shouted at Long Yiwen.

Long Yiwen put down the wine gourd and shouted, "Who?"

"What's the matter, third junior brother, you drank too much wine and don't recognize me?"

Long Yiwen stood up, saw that it was Xu Yun, and laughed: "Senior brother, since the day I met you, you have been wearing a haircut, and now that you are wearing a veil, I really don't recognize you! Why did you suddenly change your appearance?"

"It's rude to always wear a haircut. Xu Yun said, "Third junior brother, this is Zhang Baiqiao, Master's closed disciple, ranked eighth among our senior brothers. ”

Zhang Baiqiao had heard of the heroic deeds of the third senior brother before, but he had never seen him, and he was fortunate to see it today, so he hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted: "Third senior brother, Baiqiao is polite." ”

"Yes, yes. Long Yiwen also hugged his fists and said, "If you can become a close disciple of the master, you must have something extraordinary, and we will have to learn from each other another day." ”

"Don't dare, it should be Baiqiao who humbly asks for advice from his senior brother. Zhang Baiqiao said.

"They are all brothers in the same school, what are you being polite about. Xu Yun smiled and said, "Senior Brother Long, you let Lao Mao steal the hero's post, but you are happy here alone, it's really unkind." Do you know that Lao Mao was beaten?"

"No wonder, I also want to say why you suddenly became blue and swollen, it turned out that you went to steal the hero's post. Long Yiwen said to the Mao Mouse, "Didn't you say to buy me wine?

The hairy mouse smiled: "Hehe, it's okay." If I say I'm going to steal the hero's post, can you still let me go?"

"You didn't buy the wine?" Long Yiwen was a little disappointed.

"Yes......" said the mouse, "but I've seen it around here, and there's no wine sold at all." ”

"Alas, if you can't enter Taozhu Villa, it's already very disappointing, and now that you have no wine to drink, it's even more disappointing. Long Yiwen shook his head and asked Xu Yundao, "Senior brother, what are you doing here?

"Yes. Xu Yundao.

"Then do you have that hero post?" Long Yiwen shook the wine gourd in his hand and said, "Without that post, the gatekeeper won't let you in at all." Alas, it's annoying, and I can't wait to break in. ”

"If you really dare to break through, today's martial arts conference will become Long Yiwen vs. Jiangnan martial arts heroes. Xu Yun smiled and took out the hero post given by Dugu from his arms and said, "Look at this." ”

"What is this?" Long Yiwen took the hero post, glanced at it and said, "......Hero post! Luzhou Jiqing Gambling House?This hero post is not yours?"

Xu Yun said: "It wasn't originally mine. I was not invited to this martial arts conference at all, but the owner of this auspicious gambling house knew that I wanted to go to the martial arts conference very much, so he gave me this hero post. ”

Long Yiwen nodded, and handed the hero post back to Xu Yundao: "You said that you really want to go to the martial arts conference, could it be that it has something to do with Master?"

"Yes. Xu Yun nodded, "I think I know who the murderer of Master is, but I'm not very sure yet, I need to take this opportunity today to ask carefully." ”

"Who is it?"

"You'll find out in a moment. Xu Yundao, "How are your injuries, how are your skills recovering?"

"It's been around for a long time. I said that as long as I had wine, my wound would soon be healed. Long Yiwen laughed a few times, and then said: "You ask this, it seems that the opponent's martial arts are not weak!"

Xu Yun smiled: "Let's go, it's not too early, we should go in." ”

The gatekeeper of Taozhu Villa is indeed strict, and those who do not have a hero post will not be allowed to go. However, they only read the hero's post and don't recognize people. Xu Yun handed the hero post to the gatekeeper, and the gatekeeper glanced at it and said, "Jiqing Casino?"

Xu Yun arched his hand and said: "Yes, in Yunfei, Xialuzhou, these three are also from our gambling house." As he spoke, he pointed at Long Yiwen and the others.

"Please come in!" The gatekeeper saw that there was indeed a Luzhou Jiqing Gambling House on the list of invited guests, so he returned the hero post to Xu Yun, and then shouted at the people behind: "Next!"