Chapter 16: The Imperial Court Eagle Dog
At this time, on top of a tower in the distance, watching the weak figure carrying Qin Yu on his back gradually fade away, a silver-haired old man frowned, this old man was also the one who used the method of transmitting sound for thousands of miles to warn Qin Yu.
Behind the old man, a man dressed in a scribe's garment, stood quietly. If it weren't for the empty right cuff, the young man's appearance and demeanor would not be weaker than Qi Yufei's, or even better.
But to say that the two are very different, Qi Yufei is just relying on the name of the young owner of the famous Sword Mountain Villa, and he has some face in this northwest martial arts.
The one-armed scholar is a world-famous swordsman, and Li Bai's famous sentence in the chivalrous line "Kill one person in ten steps, and don't stay for a thousand miles." Brushing off the clothes and going away, hiding deep with the name. That's the best way to describe him.
No one knows the one-armed scholar's real name, everyone only knows his surname is Li, he once single-handedly broke into a second-rate sect, not only killed several first-class masters in a row, but also wiped out the entire sect with the power of one person.
This is also the battle of the one-armed scholar's fame, but unfortunately he also paid a lot of price for it, his right arm was lost in that battle, after which the one-armed scholar was silent for several years, and no one knew where he went.
Rumor has it that he is dead, at the hands of his enemies. Some people also say that because his martial arts are completely useless, he hides incognito in the deep mountains.
Gradually, people stopped talking about him, the rivers and lakes have always been like this, no matter how brilliant you were at the beginning, what earth-shattering things you did, in the end they were just like meteors fleeting.
But just when people gradually forgot about him and completely reduced it to a legend. The one-armed scholar was born with the already lost left-handed swordsmanship, and once again became a super-first-class master in the world, and even the sword saint Qiu Feng did not dare to look directly at his sword.
The prestige of the one-armed swordsman made those Jianghu Xiaoxiao frightened, but what shocked people was that the chivalrous man who had always prided himself on being chic and uninhibited actually took refuge in the imperial court and became the court of the Great Wei Dynasty.
was even given the name Li Wei and completely became the sword of the Great Wei Emperor to deter the Jianghu sect, some people ridiculed and some despised him, but no one dared to accuse him face-to-face.
The appearance of the one-armed scholar Li Wei here today is definitely not a coincidence, it can only show that there is an invisible net slowly enveloping the Northwest Martial Arts.
It was the old man on the tower who issued a cold snort to warn Qin Yu just now, and the old man had a single surname of Situ and a single name. It was arranged by the imperial court to be worshiped at Tianxia Pass to deter those rivers and lakes.
Situ Yun has been guarding Tianxia Pass for nearly ten years, and has never made a major mistake, but tonight he did not let the old man worry, Situ Yun said without worry:
"I didn't expect Sanniang and them to wade into this muddy water, although the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, but this time even you were invited, and even I couldn't protect them if they got into trouble!
Forget it, now for the sake of Sanniang's father's affection, even if she fights my old bones, she has to protect her thoroughly. ”
The one-armed scholar smiled slightly, and did not speak, Li Wei knew that the old man's words were for himself, and Situ Yun hoped that he could help Feng Sanniang and them at a critical moment.
Now the situation in Tianxia Pass is very delicate, and under the calm on the surface, there is actually an undercurrent surging, and if you are not careful, you will be involved in it, and there will be no bones left.
Even if he is a one-armed scholar, he has an important task to be sent here by His Majesty, and when the time comes, not to mention saving people in the chaos, it will be difficult to be alone.
So he didn't dare to make any promises to Situ Yun, but he didn't know that his silence was the best promise to Situ Yun.
At this time, there was a knock on the door of the house, and without waiting for the people inside to answer, a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of a third-rank military attache walked in, followed by a young man like a clerk.
Situ Yun looked displeased with the middle-aged man's unreasonableness, but he didn't say anything. And the one-armed scholar smiled slightly, not caring at all.
The middle-aged man casually arched his hand like Situ Yun and Li Wei and said that he had seen a salute, Li Wei also nodded and smiled back, and Situ Yun said that it was a return gift.
The middle-aged man didn't pay attention to Situ Yun's dissatisfaction, and said to Li Wei with a smile: "Li Daxia came all the way from Beijing and doesn't know the situation here, so I will give you a brief introduction to the situation here."
After speaking, he pointed to the young man behind him, and the young man had no stage fright in the face of these two super-first-class masters who were famous in the rivers and lakes, and stood up generously, and did not say much nonsense and made a military salute, and briefly introduced the causes and consequences of this incident.
To say that the origin of this trouble, is the deputy master of the Tiandaomen who hurriedly received a boxed lunch, and the main income of the Tiandaomen, as a second-rate sect, mostly comes from the trade with the grassland tribes through the Tianxia Pass.
The business handled by the Heavenly Sword Sect alone accounted for thirty percent of the total trade volume, and there were naturally many sects coveting such a large piece of interest.
Just because Wu Kaiqu, the chief garrison of Tianxia Pass before, was a disciple of the Tiandao Sect and a cousin of the deputy sect master of Wu, he naturally took care of his sect.
Besides, although the Heavenly Sword Gate is only a second-rate sect, it is a low-headed snake after all, and it is also a well-known sect in the Northwest Martial Arts, so no one has really snatched this piece of fat from the Heavenly Sword Gate for a long time.
But recently, something more troublesome happened, the original chief soldier Wu Kaiqu was transferred, and the new chief soldier Feng was famous in Sword Villa.
The Northwest Martial Arts is basically controlled by two sects, namely the Famous Sword Villa in the Sword Valley and the Qingshan Sect in the Qinglin Mountains.
Both sects are first-class sects, and they are quite prestigious in the entire martial arts world, in order to compete for the top spot in the northwest martial arts, the two sects have been fighting openly and secretly for hundreds of years and are still evenly matched.
Once the Tianxia Pass fell into the hands of the Famous Sword Villa, the Heavenly Sword Gate had no chance to take it back, and it did not dare to snatch it.
If the Heavenly Sword Sect still wants to maintain the free life of the hegemonic side like this, it must find out the attitude of the imperial court and the new chief soldier.
Therefore, he sent Wu Zhijun, the deputy master of the gate, to take the elites in the gate to the Taishou Mansion to listen to the news, and then contact the new garrison commander of Tianxia Pass to have a relationship.
The reason why the head of the Tiandaomen sent the deputy master of Wu to take on this important task was because Wu Zhijun's surname was Wu, and the Wu family was a big family near Tianxia Pass, and he had an unclear relationship with the Tiandaomen.
More importantly, the Wu family can also speak in the Taishou Mansion, with this relationship and the prestige of the Tiandaomen in the local area, the deputy master of the Wu family successfully met the Taishou Wang Chengyu of Fengxian County.
And they got the promise of Lord Wang, they would not cut the road guide and customs clearance documents of the caravans under the Heavenly Sword Sect, of course, this regular caravan of the world can earn a few dollars! Their biggest trade entry is smuggling through the checkpoints, and the so-called customs clearance documents are just to give the imperial court some face.
Therefore, the attitude of General Soldier Feng of Tianxia Pass is very crucial, and the Chief Soldier will always have various ways to deal with these businessmen. After all, the county officials are not as good as the current management, even regular businessmen dare not offend these Qiu Ba, not to mention smuggling at the border, if you can't get a hat of collaborating with the enemy and treason, it is a big crime to punish the nine clans.
It's a pity that the Heavenly Sword Gate has not been going well, and the people sent out were intercepted and killed halfway, only Qin Yu escaped, and the leading Deputy Sect Master Wu was also killed by Qin Yu.
This also means that the competition for the interests of all parties has not yet begun, and Tiandaomen, which has the home advantage, has withdrawn early, and the degree of bad luck is comparable to that of Chinese football.