His eleven people entered Jiangxia City without taking the water route and taking the land route to avoid a lot of trouble, just because most of the forces of the Fish and Dragon Gang are in Jiangshui, although there are many eyes and ears of the Fish and Dragon Gang in the city, but after all, they have not yet reached the point of madness when they see people, not to mention that in addition to Yang Youqian, the others among the eleven people look really mediocre, the old man is no different from an ordinary old man, the princess and He Qingxiu can't see it by pretending to be men, but no one thinks that these eleven people are fat sheep, Sima Yun and Zhang Mingyue entered the gambling stall of selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, and they deeply felt the miasma hidden under the prosperity。

"What do you want to play? Pai Gow Dice Ball?"

Sima Yun asked with a smile.

"You should know that you never taught me these things, and I won't. ”

Zhang Mingyue had no choice but to spread her hands.

"It's true, I almost forgot, I just had some broken silver left, so I just played a few hands, maybe I could win a lot, and it would be a double kill. ”

Sima Yun wanted to play pai gow and win from ten taels of silver to one hundred taels, and he played dice and won from one hundred taels to one thousand taels, but when he won one thousand taels, Sima Yun never bet again, and went out of the gambling stall with a thousand taels of silver tickets.

"You should be able to win another thousand taels, why stop there. ”

Zhang Mingyue didn't understand what Sima Yun meant, he had never seen Sima Yun gamble money, he didn't expect that it was such a person who didn't seem to know how to win a thousand taels in just half an hour, he knew that the two of them had to work so hard to make money before? Sima Yun seemed to see Zhang Mingyue's thoughts, he smiled.

"Do you know that all the money in this world can be considered your own, but the money won from gambling is not counted, do you know why?"

The two of them stepped into a quiet alley that didn't seem to be a normal day for many people to pass by.

"Because gambling money runs out quickly. ”

Zhang Mingyue replied in a deep voice, but Sima Yun shook his head slightly.

"It's normal for gamblers to spend their money quickly, but it's not because of this, but because the money won by gamblers is rarely really brought out, let alone the territory of the Fish and Dragon Gang. ”

Sima Yun looked at the road in front of him that was suddenly blocked and said with a smile, there was an extra group of thugs at the exit of the alley in front of him, armed with sticks, and the entrance to the entrance behind him was also blocked.

"Now you know why I'm making such a big fuss?"

"Got it. ”

Zhang Mingyue also smiled coldly, it seems that this is not the first time that this fish dragon gang gambling stall has done this kind of thing.

There was a one-eyed dragon who stopped the two of them at the exit, and the one-eyed dragon glanced at the two coldly, making sure that these two people were not gambling stall changleke nor Jiangxia celebrities before relieving his heart.

"The money stays. ”

"Just the money left, does that mean we can go?"

Sima Yun said with a smile, the one-eyed dragon didn't seem to be a person who liked to laugh, he just said coldly.

"It's better for the two of you not to negotiate terms with Lao Tzu, otherwise Lao Tzu won't kill you, and maybe my brothers won't kill you. ”

"It looks like we're running out of options. ”

"Yes, and I can tell you that you're a big guy, and I don't really like people like you. ”

"If you have something to say, it's not just silver taels, just give you this thousand taels. Sima Yun took out the thousand taels of silver ticket in his arms and shook it in his hand.

"But this thousand taels of silver tickets can't be given to you for the time being, after all, I won the money back by myself. ”

"You still want to negotiate terms with us?"

The one-eyed dragon is also a little surprised, but he has lived in the market for many years, and he has also developed a sharp eye to recognize people, although the two people in front of him seem to be mediocre but they are still not in a hurry in the face of so many people, this kind of person usually has only two possibilities, either this kind of person must have a strong background or is not easy to deal with, or this kind of person is a fool, and the two people opposite do not look like fools.

The one-eyed dragon's eyes were burning, and the more he looked at Sima Yun and the others like this, the more light and light they became.

"I guess you know what to do, don't you?"

Sima Yun chuckled, and he threw all the silver tickets to the ground.

"These thousand taels of silver should have belonged to me, but wouldn't it be tiring to see you so hard today if you get nothing? ”

After Sima Yun said this, he went straight to the mouth of the alley, and the one-eyed dragon didn't stop him, letting him leave, Sima Yun still left a word before leaving.

"Tell your boss that I'll come tomorrow and I'm going to win 10,000 taels tomorrow. ”

When the two returned to the inn, it was already dark, several women went out shopping, and they had to take the old man together, a few guards and Li Muzhi stayed, and the three guards said that they were protecting the safety of the princess, but everyone knew that the safety of the princess on the road was almost all the responsibility of the old man, and the three of them also recited a name to protect the princess.

"Why don't you go to this Jiangxia city to see? I heard that the chain bridge will come and go every night, there are many tourists, and there are a lot of lanterns on the river, very beautiful, and there are many beautiful women, if you can climb the Jiangxia Tower to chant poems and make a poem, it is a great honor for you scholars, I think you should not be absent from this kind of occasion." ”

The three guards drank and chatted by themselves, Li Muzhi didn't like to talk, they were probably used to this scholar, so they didn't pay attention to the scholar, but Sima Yun talked to the scholar when he returned to the inn.

It's just that the scholar is still very cold.

"There are many kinds of scholars in this world, and you said this, and poetry is just one of them, and I am not like this. ”

"And which one are you?"

Zhang Mingyue couldn't help asking, but the scholar no longer meant to speak, he was too lazy to ask for himself, so he didn't ask anymore.

Sima Yun didn't have the idea of going to bed so early, he came to Jiangxia on the first night, no matter what he came for, he should go out for a tour, he thought that the scholar would not go, but he didn't expect that as soon as Sima Yun opened his mouth, Li Muzhi nodded and agreed like a zombie.

The three of them went out of the inn, Sima Yun and Zhang Mingyue were in front, and Li Muzhi was behind, but they rarely communicated with the two, the lights in the city were on, a harmony, and the loud shouting of the street and selling martial arts was not good-looking and did not want money, and there were also street vendors shouting all kinds of Jiangxia snacks, so it was not lively, and the girls also came out in groups, and from time to time they were teased by the ruffians and hooligans, but after all, they only stayed at the point of flirting, because this is the territory of the Ichthyosaurus Gang, and there are the rules of the Ichthyosaurus Gang.

"If you want to see the sins of a place, you must see it after the sun sets, have you seen the sins of Jiangxia?" Sima Yun asked the two at the same time.

"You must think that Jiangxia is not as terrible as rumored, right?"

"That's right. ”

Nerd Li Muzhi nodded.

"I used to think so, I imagined that Jiangxia must be a place where officials and bandits bully men and women are bullied, but in fact it is not, it seems that the mountain hunting eagle is not as easy to deal with as we imagined, and this person is good at strategy, in order to take care of the Jiangxia underworld so well-organized, only to bully the good and fear the evil and oppress the people can only be called ruffians and hooligans, far from being a character on the road, such a character as the mountain hunting eagle is not only a mixed underworld, I am afraid that it will be easy to enter the court, but then I am more and more worried, this person is definitely not so easy to see, it seems that it takes a lot of effort。 ”

"But didn't you already work the gambling stall during the day?" asked Zhang Mingyue.

"The gambling stall is not a lot of kung fu, but I am lucky to see if I can pick it up from below layer by layer and pick up the hunting mountain carving. ”

"Why don't we go to Jiangxia Taishou? He must have a way to find the mountain hunter. ”

Zhang Mingyue asked again, but this time it was not Sima Yun who answered, but the nerd Li Muzhi.

"When we came, the princess had already said that she wanted to save the name of Jiangxia Taishou, if we went with such fanfare, with Zhu Shijun's temperament, his life was high, he saw the princess, do you really think he will survive for a long time? ”

"In this way, there is no other way but to go up layer by layer? When do we have to wait? The martial arts conference will start in March, and we have only walked three places in half a month, how can we step on this river and lake in three months?"

"Don't be in a hurry, it's a matter of course, there is always a way to find it out, but before that, you have to find out the boss behind the gambling stall, although there are many gambling stalls in Jiangxia, but the boss should be the same person, after all, there is no reason for a steamed bun to be eaten by several people, let alone on the territory of the Fish and Dragon Gang. ”

"Is it for Yang Youqian?"

"Not all, okay, today is the first day we came, let's take a look at the human geography of Jiangxia first, I heard that Jiangxia Building has seven floors, if you climb the seventh floor, you can see the whole Jiangxia, presumably the princess and the old man they also went, let's try our luck Maybe we can also meet." ”

Sima Yun took the lead, Jiangxia Lou was built by the mountain, not on this side of the river, but on the other side of the river, if you want to go to Jiangxia Tower, you must pass through the iron chain bridge of up to two hundred zhang, at this time the chain bridge has stepped on the back and forth of countless pedestrians, twelve thumb thick iron chains across Jiangxia Lake, paved with a layer of strong wooden planks in the middle, there are still guardrails on both sides to prevent pedestrians from falling into the ginger water, two hundred zhang is not achieved overnight, there are still three places by two huge logs standing in the ginger water to firmly support the iron lock, want to build such a vast project needs to spend a lot of manpower and material resources, the iron lock bridge hangs four huge ancient swords engraved with dense Taoist exorcism runes, the name of the Jiao Sword。

"Speaking of the origin of this sword, there is a very interesting story, do you want to hear it?"

Sima Yun asked with a smile, if the two-hundred-zhang chain bridge just walks, it won't take long to walk, but the figure is longing, and there are countless lanterns floating on the river, and it is even farther out of Jiangxia Tower, the cool breeze is blowing, and the river is sparkling, it is really not fast, the nerd Li Muzhi and Zhang Mingyue were already interested in this ancient sword with inscriptions, and they were both interested in hearing Sima Yun say this.

I saw Sima Yun say lightly.

"There is a saying in ancient books, the snake practice for a hundred years, Jiao practice for a thousand years, but the avenue is three thousand, everything in the world has its own way, people are humane, the sky has the way of heaven, the snake has the snake road, Jiao has the road, Jiao wants to turn the dragon is against the sky, into the sea to turn the dragon, must go through a dragon gate, the dragon gate is the bridge of the world, but Jiao is in the mountains into a fine, want to enter the sea into the dragon is not easy, after all, the world is afraid of monsters, if it appears directly in broad daylight in the world will suffer disaster, so Jiao wants to enter the sea into the dragon must wait for an opportunity, wait for a heavy rain downpour torrent opportunity to mix in the rolling torrent over the river into the sea into the sea dragon, so the world has a sayingOtherwise, the evil Jiao of Yanming Mountain would not have attracted so many famous immortals in the Central Plains to besiege the Jiao Mountain, and the people hated Jiao, and they could not allow it to cross east into the sea to turn into the dragon, so there was the origin of the sword with the inscription on it, the inscription drove away evil spirits, Jiao did not dare to cross the dragon gate with the sword of Jiao, and could only wait for the day in the deep mountains, which is why we in the world would see so many ancient bridges in the mountains, and often this kind of bridge will hang the sword of Jiao, and this Jiangxia Bridge is divided into four sections, so it will hang four, this is the origin of the sword, you can understand？”

The two-hundred-zhang bridge is not long, it is not short, and the three of them have come to the end of chatting for a while, and the seven-story Jiangxia Building is already close at hand, but Zhang Mingyue and the scholar feel that they can no longer step on their feet, and their eyes are burning and looking at the gentle Jiangxia Lake, as if there is an evil Jiao that is about to overturn the river and the sea under this lake.

"You don't have to be so surprised, although there are evil Jiao in the world, but after all, there are a few, not to mention that there are heavenly sanctions, it is not so easy for these monsters to turn into dragons, not to mention that there are many people who escape the world in the ancient temples in the deep mountains, and they will not let the evil cause trouble sit idly by. ”

"I didn't think about what you said. I'm just wondering if there really are dragons in this world, and if so, where are they hidden, and why can't the world see them?"

"Your question is stumped for me, after all, I am not a know-it-all know-it-all, but since there are dragons that harm the world, there should be dragons, but as for where the dragons are, it is not known, it should be in the sea, but even in the sea, how many people in the world can cross the ocean to find the legendary dragon? Wang Changsheng, the most legendary in the rivers and lakes, sits on the Star Picking Building and faces the East China Sea, and likes to practice swords in the East China Sea in sweatshirts all the year round, I am afraid that even he may not have really seen what a dragon looks like, it is important to solve the current matter first, as for the rest, it is not too late to explore it when he has the ability in the future. ”

Jiangxia Building built by the mountain is magnificent, covers a huge area, even compared to Yanguilou in Bianjing City, it is not much better, the first floor is set up to eat and drink, there are all kinds of Jiangxia's most distinctive snacks, and there are more fresh crucian carp that are caught from ginger water for guests to choose, and the wine is even more dazzling, but the three of them do not have the intention of eating.

The second floor is set up to play the place, there are a lot of piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, singers and geisha, all of them are local women in Jiangxia, as well as the qinist and the painter are all kinds of erudition, when there are many Jianghu children are proud of the painter to leave a portrait on the Jiangxia floor, and then listen to a small song, if you can get the favor of which Jiangxia woman to do the mandarin duck in the water, it is even more a beautiful story, but Zhang Mingyue knows that the rivers and lakes are really mixed with silver to come to Jiangxia Lou chic is just a handful, after a sentence, that is, this Jianghu is not as people imagine that the white horse fighting sword is chic and happy, in fact, most people are mixed and can't even eat a full meal, forced to enter the green forest bandits, just like when the town met the ranger Er Guyue, the rivers and lakes are not so easy to walk, and the money is not so easy to make, at least Zhang Mingyue feels that his money in the past three years is not easy to earn, and there are not a few times when he is not almost killed.

Usually people who come to this kind of land of wind and moon, except for the rich and eunuchs, are probably divided into two kinds, either they are really rich, or they are swollen and fat.

The three of them no longer belong to the type of person who has no money, because they almost already have a fixed errand, but even so, the three of them will not spend some meaningless money to find some sense of existence, such as the white-clothed Confucian who leaned on the open window on the second floor, seeing that his age is only between thirty and forty years old, but he is born with a good appearance, and a jade pendant hangs around his waist, this jade seems to be expensive, but in fact it is just a fake of a few taels of silver, ordinary people can't see it, but Zhang Mingyue, who has been with the princess for so long, has seen a lot of good thingsThere is a young painter is sketching the appearance of this Confucian on rice paper, just a few strokes on the sketch vividly, is indeed a bit of a level of painter, not on any paint, just a piece of paper, a shelf, a wolf pen, a inkstone, it is not difficult to see that this young painter has already been familiar with the road, a painting is only a few dozen breaths to paint into the wood, and the windowsill and even the night scene outside the window are outlined.

"Thank you, three taels of silver. ”

The young painter stretched out his hand and smiled gently, the Confucian did not hesitate, but only groped for a long time before barely scraping together three taels of silver from the money bag, from this point it can be seen that he is the second kind of person who came to Jiangxia Building, a person who slaps a swollen face and fills a fat man.

Zhang Mingyue and the three of them just looked at a painting for a while, and after the painting, they no longer had the interest to look at it, and after carefully searching to make sure that there was no princess on the second floor, they were ready to go up to the next floor, but at this time, the Confucian who rolled up the painting stopped the three of them.

"Why don't the three of you leave a painting here? You must know that there is no more beautiful scenery in this world than this Jiangxia Tower, and it would not be very disappointing to come here empty-handed. ”

After the Confucian student finished speaking, he walked up and patted Sima Yun on the shoulder very invisibly.

The three of them obviously didn't expect that this poor jingle would have to take out three taels of all his belongings, and the Confucian students who painted were so "enthusiastic." ”

Zhang Mingyue said with a smile.

"Three taels of silver to make a painting, we are not so rich, and ordinary people can eat for a while for three taels of silver. ”

"Little brother, what you said is not right, isn't it just three taels of silver? Without three taels of silver, you won't starve to death, right?"

The Confucian laughed, Zhang Mingyue wanted to laugh more and more when she heard this, but she didn't laugh in her heart, this Confucian didn't win the favor of the three of them, he said lightly.

"We don't have much interest in leaving portraits, and we don't do anything to slap a swollen face and make a fat person, so if nothing else, we'll go first. ”

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Zhang Mingyue is not to be seen in these words, but who knows that Confucianism seems to be completely unaware.

"I guess the three of them aren't locals, right?"

"What's the matter? Could it be that Jiangxia Tower doesn't allow outsiders to come up?" Zhang Mingyue felt that she was becoming less and less fond of this Confucian student, so her words seemed to be stiff.

"That's not it, it's just that the three of you should be coming to my Jiangxia for the first time, and they are not familiar with the customs of my Jiangxia, so I'm afraid that you will hit a wall. ”

"What does this mean? Why did you hit a wall?"

Zhang Mingyue asked puzzled, and the Confucian laughed softly.

"It seems that you really don't understand too much, if the three of you don't mind, let me accompany you to watch the building and tell you what the rules of Jiangxia are in the open and in the dark? It's always good to know more, so as not to complain about me when the time comes, Jiangxia people are not authentic, right? After all, everyone is a Chu person, I don't think the three of you think I have the ability to sell the three of you, right?"

"Okay, I just wanted to hear about Jiang Xia. ”

Sima Yun, who had been a cold bystander, said with a smile.

"But it's really not good to say while walking, if Brother Tai doesn't mind, the three of us will invite Brother Tai to have a meal, drink some wine, and then take advantage of the moonlight to say how about it?"

"The best. ”

Zhang Mingyue somehow Sima Yun, who was not too enthusiastic about strangers except for business, could become so generous, but he also knew that Sima Yun was thoughtful, if he wanted to do something, he must have his reasons, so he was not in a hurry to find the princess, after all, there was an old man to protect the four of her, I am afraid that even the heavenly immortals who came down to earth had to weigh whether they could get a bargain from the old man.

The original three, now plus the Confucian Republic and the four people went down to the first floor, looking for a vacant seat, Xiao Er came up enthusiastically to greet, the three of them did not know the famous dishes of Jiangxia Building, so they handed over all the dishes to Confucian to order, and asked for two pots of Huadiao.

Since ancient times, there are few women in the restaurant, but this is not the case in this Jiangxia Building, there are many women who come and go, either plump or thin, or beautiful as a flower or difficult to compliment, as old as forty or fifty years old as seven or eight years old, and there is only one drunken man at the table and three women who are laughing with the men from time to time You should go home early to go to bed, drinking with a man in the middle of the night is just afraid that you will be taken advantage of, not to mention that the legs under the man's table are constantly rubbing against the three women, but what is surprising is that the three women do not refuse at all, and even intend to cater to them, what will happen to these three men and one woman this night, but Zhang Mingyue no longer wants to think about it. only muttered in his heart, it is really the style of the world, and the hearts of the people are not ancient.

"It seems that the little brother rarely seems to come to this kind of land of wind and moon. ”

Zhang Mingyue's eyes were completely seen by the Confucian student, and the Confucian smiled at Zhang Mingyue.

"Otherwise, it wouldn't be so uncomfortable. ”

Zhang Mingyue just said lightly.

"It's really rare, but I've been there once, but although the place I went to is known as the land of wind and moon, it is far from being as bold as this Jiangxia Building, and I won't do this kind of thing in front of everyone. ”

He is talking about the Rouge Building, although the Rouge Building is a rouge land, but there is indeed no such a bold thing, although there is inevitably an element under the feet of the Son of Heaven.

"Little brother is rare and weird, there are no surprises in the world, what is this kind of thing?"

"I just can't figure out if these women are in it for money or something else. ”

"There may be reasons for silver, but not all of them are for silver, and there are others among them, but the little brother seems to be unemployed, so I can't say it, and the little brother will understand what I mean after he tastes the happiest thing in the world, not to mention that the reason why this guy you are looking at is so popular is because he is not an ordinary person. ”

"The happiest thing?"

Zhang Mingyue was a little surprised, and directly ignored the second half of Confucianism's sentence, but then said with relief.

"The happiest thing I've probably experienced is walking with my family. ”

He didn't know why the old fox next to him turned red when he said this, and even the nerd Li Muzhi on the side was a little speechless.

"I said something wrong?"

"You're not wrong, but you probably don't understand what this brother means. Sima Yun said with a smile. He said that the happiest thing in the world is the thing that men love and women love. Do you understand?"

Zhang Mingyue's head was full of black lines, and then she looked at the men and three women not far away, and she felt even more uncomfortable when she put her hand directly under the woman's skirt.

"Could it be that there is no one in such a big Jiangxia to take care of such a bad thing?"

Zhang Mingyue was a little excited, and when she was excited, her voice became a little louder, and countless pairs of eyes looked at her in unison, including the man who drank a lot of wine and kept taking advantage, and a swordsman with a sword next to him.

"I allow you to retract what you just said, or you may be in a little trouble. ”

The swordsman came quietly, he looked at Zhang Mingyue, even if he was already drunk, his eyes were still sharp. Mutiny on the first floor.

"You may have found the wrong person. ”

Zhang Mingyue, who was watched by countless pairs of eyes, glanced at the swordsman lightly.

"I will allow you to take back your words, for I have never been one to be afraid of trouble. ”