Li Xian took Yi Dan and settled down in an inn in Youzhou City. Yi Dan couldn't suppress the urge to be curious, and wanted to go out for a walk and see the bustling and lively Youzhou City. So she said to Lixian: "Master, I didn't expect this Youzhou City to be so lively, I want to go out and have a look, okay?"

"The rivers and lakes are dangerous, we just came here again, don't walk around," Lixian said.

"Master, I'm just going to take a casual look at the door and I'll be back soon, and I won't go far. I'm such an old person, and I'm not a three-year-old child, so you can't lose it, so don't worry," Yi Dan said.

"Okay, just take a look at the door, don't go far, don't make trouble, go back to the inn early to eat and rest, tomorrow morning, we will go to Yongyi Villa" Li Xian said.

"Got it, Master, I'll go out first" With that, Yi Dan took his sword and walked out of the inn with a curious heart.

This Youzhou city has just been taken by Li Keyong's son, Li Cunxuan, the king of Jin, from the hands of the brutal Liu Shouguang. The city soon returned to its former prosperity. Everything is in order, the displaced people are properly settled, the army and the people are safe, and the people have kind smiles on their faces. On the street, bustling with people coming and going, as well as many merchants dressed in hufu, walking around and around, it is very lively. It's getting dark, and there are still many street vendors, shouting and shouting in the streets and alleys. This is the best scene that Yi Dan has seen in the past few days.

Yi Dandong looked, looked west, and wandered. Suddenly, I heard someone behind me shouting, "Sharpen scissors, sharpen knives." Sharpen the scissors, sharpen the knives..."The voice was getting closer and closer to her. Suddenly, a young man's voice came from behind her: "Girl, do you want to sharpen your sword?"

Yi Dan looked back and saw that a man wearing a gray and blue cloth coat, wearing a straw hat on his head, carrying a burden on his shoulders, looking twenty-seven or eighteen years old, about seven feet tall, with slightly dark skin, but with thick eyebrows, big eyes, high nose bridge, and a heroic man, was looking at her from behind.

After the man saw Yi Dan who turned around, he couldn't help but take a second look. Yi Dan said: "Oh, no need, thank you"

The man was just about to leave, when Yi Dan suddenly asked, "Oh, by the way, you shouldn't be a member of the Knife Sharpening Gang, right?"

The man calmly replied, "I'm not from the knife sharpening gang, I'm just a craftsman who sharpens scissors and sharpens knives, girl, do you recognize the wrong person?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were grinding..." At this time, I saw a group of Hu people passing across the street, wearing strange Hu clothes and strange hair accessories, passing through the alley. When the knife sharpening man saw this group of Hu people, his eyes were fixed on them, and then he threw off the burden on his shoulders and said to Yi Dan, "The girl is out of company."

With that, the man who sharpened the knife followed in the footsteps of the group of Hu people. Curiosity drove Yi Dan, and she couldn't help but follow the knife sharpening man, quietly chasing after her, wanting to see what was going on.

The knife sharpening man followed the group of Hu people to the grass beach by a river outside Youzhou City, and the sky was already dark. Not far ahead, dozens of Hu people had gathered, and they lit torches, as if they were secretly meeting here. So the man who sharpened the knife lay down in the grass not far away, listening to what these nonsense people had to say.

At this time, Yi Dan quietly came behind the man who sharpened the knife and patted him on the back shoulder, the man was startled and looked back. Yi Dan was pointing at him, lowered his voice, and said mischievously: "Okay, you still dare to lie to me, saying that you are not from the Knife Sharpening Gang, so what are you doing sneakily here?"

The man stretched out his hand, pulled Yi Dan down, squatted with him, put his index finger to his mouth, and made a gesture to her, "Shhh, don't talk"

This is the first time Yi Dan has come to the place north of the Yellow River, where have he ever seen such strangely dressed Hu people? She slashed in the direction of the man's eyes, and the group of strangely dressed Hu people in front of him really puzzled him, only to see them dressed in Hu clothes, shaved on the top of their heads, leaving only a circle of hair around them and two temples, naturally drooping, Yi Dan couldn't help but whisper: "Who are they? Why is their hair so strange?"

"This is called the hair hair, it is the exclusive oath of the Khitan people, they are all Khitan merchants in Youzhou City, but I look at their figures, they are obviously people who know martial arts, I don't know what their intentions are to dress up as merchants and do business in Youzhou City?" the man whispered.

"Who are the Khitans?" Yi Dan asked.

"The Khitans were originally descendants of the Xiongnu and Donghu Xianbei people, and were nomadic tribes that rose in the Mobei grassland in recent years, and the Khitan had always been subject to the Tang Dynasty in the past. However, during the Xuanzong period, An Lushan killed good people and took great risks, and instigated the confrontation between the Khitan and the Tang Dynasty for a long time, so the relationship between the Khitan and the Tang people was sometimes good and sometimes bad. Three years ago, Yelu Abaoji unified the Khitan tribes, established the Khitan State, ascended the throne and became the emperor, and he was also eyeing the Central Plains" The man stared at the Khitan crowd in front of him, and blurted out a series of words to Yi Dan.

With admiring eyes, Yi Dan looked at the man in front of him closely, and asked suspiciously, "How do you know so much?

"Be quiet, don't be caught by them," the man reminded.

Yi Dan looked at the handsome face of the man in front of him, and suddenly felt that his heart was beating faster and he couldn't breathe. The man also faced her face and looked at her closely, and after a while, the man was a little embarrassed, and took the initiative to turn his head away and continue to observe the group of Khitans in the distance.

At this time, in the group of Khitans, suddenly another person opened his mouth and asked the others loudly, "Have all the people arrived?"

The man on the side looked left and right and said, "It's all here."

"Okay, then let's start..."Man A, looking around, continued: "You all already know that this time the Knife Grinding Gang has summoned people from all walks of life in the Central Plains martial arts to hold a martial arts conference in Yongyi Villa. This meeting is actually He Rang, the head of the five elders of the Knife Grinding Gang, who wants to compete for the position of the gang leader. Our Khitan emperor has already agreed to this congratulatory concession, first help him sit on the position of the leader of the Knife Grinding Gang, and then let him cooperate with the outside to help my Khitan get Youzhou, and after the matter is completed, the emperor will make him the king of Yan."

"Title him as the King of Yan? Although he does things for my Khitan, but he does this, he is a villain who forgets his ancestors, how wise and wise our Khitan emperor is, how can he believe in such a villain as He Rang? He can betray his country today, and he can also betray us tomorrow" Man B questioned loudly.

"Of course, the emperor knows that He Rang is a villain, but now is the time to employ people, this is also an expedient measure, the emperor is now busy with the party items, Murwei and Bohai, and has no time to look south, so let us help He Rang, but also to monitor him, if he repents, or Youzhou will get rid of him after he gets it" Man A said.

Man B said: "But our Khitan emperor, aren't we sworn brothers with Li Keyong? In this way, don't we break our promise?" (In 905 AD, Li Cunqiao's father, Li Keyong, in order to stabilize the Khitan people rising in the north and prevent them from invading south, took the initiative to become brothers with the Khitan leader Yelu Abaoji)

"Li Keyong has been dead for more than ten years, and now it is his son Li Cunqiao who is taking over the Jin Kingdom. A few years ago, Li Cunqiao defeated Liu Shouguang and swallowed Youzhou alone. didn't even share it with our Khitan, our emperor and his father have eight friends. So of course our emperor has to find an opportunity to take Youzhou, if Youzhou is in hand, then the door of the Central Plains will be opened, and my Khitan people will be just around the corner when the Central Plains will be chased. ”

"Well, if Naga Jean Ken really helps us, we'll do everything we can to help him become the leader of the Knife Sharpening Gang. So, what should we do now?" said Man B.

"He Rang thinks that someone may come to make trouble at tomorrow's martial arts conference, we have to discuss a countermeasure, everyone come over and listen to me..." The man sharpening the knife was too far away to hear what they were saying.

After a while, the meeting ended, and the group of Khitans also dispersed. The knife sharpening man was still thinking about this question, and Yi Dan on the side took the initiative to speak: "If what these people say is true, then this He Rang must not be a good person, if he really becomes the helper, your knife sharpening gang will suffer."

When the knife grinding man heard Yi Dan say this, he looked at her innocent and lovely face and said, "You little girl is really chivalrous, aren't you afraid that I will be Na Herang's accomplice?" the man said.

"Why should I be afraid? If I do something bad, I will do something bad, and it will not help to cover it up, how can I say that? Oh, 'justice is in the hearts of the people'," Yi Dan said in a heartfelt manner.

"I didn't expect you to be a woman, but you are so open-minded, it's really rare," the man said.

"What? You look down on women? Isn't your mother also a woman? Women can also be heroes and emperors," Yi Dan said disdainfully.

"I don't look down on women, I just never meet a woman like you, who knows right from wrong, and is smart and open," the man quickly explained.

Oh no, it should be said that He Rang was too confused, he would believe such a promise, use his own head to pave the way for others, become someone else's pawn, and finally don't even know how he died, it's really a fool," Yi Dan said.

"As the saying goes, the authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear, how many people in the world are doing foolish things, but they themselves are still wishful thinking, thinking that everything is under their control," the man said.

"Well, you're right, I don't want to be such a fool," Yi Dan said.

The man deliberately looked at Yi Dan's beautiful face and innocent eyes, so he smiled knowingly and said, "It seems that you are also from the rivers and lakes, girl, right?

Yi Dan suddenly became a little at a loss, rolled his eyes, and thought: Master and Master Niang are both people who have left the Dangshan Upper Cultivation Sect, they don't want to mention the Upper Sect, embarrassing the Master, of course, they can't say that they are disciples of the Upper Cultivation Sect, but they can't always have no sect and no faction, how imposing it is? How embarrassing it is to walk the rivers and lakes. So Yi Dan thought about it, and lived in Lingxi Valley for more than ten years with her master and mother, so she had an idea, plucked up her courage, and said to the man with a little timidity of lying: "I, I am from the Lingxi Sect"

The man thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't remember which sect the Lingxi Sect was, so he said: "Maybe it's a lonely and unheard of it, and I haven't heard of the deeds of your sect."

Yi Dan took advantage of the reason and said: "Our sect has always been very low-key, but what we do is a good thing. It doesn't matter if you don't know, doing good deeds is never nameless," Yi Dan smirked as he spoke.

"I can already see it," the man smiled.

"What do you see?" Yi Dan asked blankly.

"You have two words written on your face," the man said solemnly.

"Really, where is the word on my face?" said Yi Dan, touching his face.

"Don't you just have the word 'good person' written on your face? I don't believe you can see for yourself, the left side is 'good', and the right side is 'person'" As he spoke, the man pointed to Yi Dan's face.

"Ahh

"Okay, I won't tell you, let's go back and rest, there will be a martial arts conference tomorrow" The man changed his words and said.

"Okay, will you also go to the martial arts conference tomorrow?" Yi Dan asked.

"I guess so, I can't tell."

"Then I haven't asked yet, what's your name?" Yi Dan asked.

"When fate comes, you will naturally know, oh yes, it's chaotic outside, you girl don't go around, go back quickly" With that, the man jumped and disappeared into the jungle of the night.

Yi Dan looked at the man's back, with a look of admiration in his eyes, and until he returned to the inn, he was still slowly reminiscing.