In front of Chen Yongfu, Fang Jie beat a ninth-rank practitioner to scum, but did nothing else, but politely said goodbye, and then left Liangcheng with the team. According to the previous agreement with Zhong Xin, Fang Jie did not stay in Liangcheng for an extra minute, and the team set off immediately after receiving the supplies provided by Liangcheng, which made everyone in the city breathe a sigh of relief. Not only the defenders and the wealthy households, but also ordinary people are also worried about whether there will be a sudden fight.
In fact, Fang Jie’s attitude in doing this is very clear. If you don’t provoke me, follow the rules and I will follow the rules.
In the carriage, Mu Xiaoyao peeled a piece of orange and put it into Fang Jie's mouth. Although it was not new, it was still sweet and juicy. Southerners have their own way to preserve tangerines, and then sell them around a year ago. The price is at least twice that of when they were just produced.
Shen Qingfan sat quietly reading a book, and suddenly thought of something: "You killed a ninth-rank strong man in front of the Chen family, and this beam has been settled. Don't you worry about the future of the southwestern families?" What trouble are you looking for? It seems a bit irrational to offend people so directly. "
Fang Jie smiled, took an orange from the plate and threw it over, Shen Qingshan stretched out his hand to catch it without even looking.
"on purpose."
He lay back to make himself more comfortable: "If the opponent's first temptation is not redoubled, they will be very annoying in the future. What these guys are best at is to push your boundaries and test your bottom line little by little. Where is it? I killed a person directly to tell them that you don’t need to test my bottom line, and no one can provoke me. And these people in the Southwest have been here for a long time, and they will have a very strong sense of ownership. They look down on all the people, if they don't frighten them, some disgusting things will inevitably happen."
"But in this way, isn't the conflict intensified too quickly?"
Mu Xiaoyao asked.
"I didn't expect to live in peace with them."
Fang Jie pointed to his mouth to indicate that it was time to feed, Mu Xiaoyao stuffed the peeled orange into his mouth, Fang Jie chewed contentedly while saying: "From the beginning, these people hoped that my Black Banner Army would go south without any worries. With a good plan so I can get as much out of them as you can get, you know what's the best way to deal with thugs on the street? Not convincing or magnanimous , but to give you a severe beating, so that those rogues will be afraid of you, and they will not even dare to think about provoking you again, so that they will be clean."
Mu Xiaoyao shook her head: "It's too much brain work, I'd better think of something else."
Shen Qingshan peeled the orange that Fang Jie threw to him, and threw it back instead of eating it himself, and Fang Jie caught it with a smile. Shen Qingfan put the hair hanging down on his forehead into his ears: "The intrigue between you men is more ruthless than that between women. We only value the immediate gains and losses, and you don't even care about the interests of tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or even the next month." It’s all calculated, and I don’t think about it anymore…”
Fang Jie smiled and shook his head: "Actually, the reason is very simple. I promised them to go south. The two of them, Zhong Xin and Chi Haonian, have been to Suzaku Mountain and know the power in my hands, so they will behave well. But for Southwest In other words, these governors are actually outsiders, and the real power is in the hands of those local rich families. Zhong Xin Chihao's honesty doesn't mean they will be honest."
"They will test the bottom line of my tolerance for them, because to have their current status shows that they are more greedy than ordinary people in their bones, and they dare to do things that ordinary people dare not think about. See me bring thirty thousand spirits Riding south, at first they wanted me to fight the Southern Barbarians, but then they couldn't help but wonder if they could take the Black Banner Army over."
"If I let them wear down my patience with little things one by one, it will be a very annoying process. Why don't you just call back and let them know that the most correct way is to put those Put away all the small thoughts. Of course, some people will feel dissatisfied because of this, but when they want to do it again, they will involuntarily think about how the ninth-rank practitioner died."
Fang Jie smiled: "I'm not afraid that they will think I'm a dumbass, because dumbass doesn't make sense."
Shen Qingshan hummed: "But I always feel that it is more dangerous to go south to Yongzhou this time. Although there were fewer people last time, Luo Yao was still there, but I didn't worry too much. But this time, although there are many people around you Wan Jingqi can't be at ease in his heart."
Fang Jie thought for a while and said, "We were just passers-by last time, so we didn't touch their interests. But this time, they know that I am not a passerby, so they will naturally find a way to get rid of me."
"Next time if someone doesn't open their eyes and sends a practitioner to assassinate you, I will kill you."
Shen Qingshan said lightly: "Let those people know that not only you have a good cultivation, but also the women around you can kill a ninth-rank practitioner, so they won't dare to think wildly."
Fang Jie was more interested in the word "woman" and smiled with squinted eyes: "Woman, stay in the carriage tonight and protect me personally."
Shen Qingfan was slightly taken aback, then turned his head away from him.
Last night she sent Wan Xingchen's notes to Fang Jie, but Fang Jie dragged her and refused to allow her to go back to his carriage. She tossed about half the night, and now she was still feeling a little unwell, and the carriage almost swayed to pieces. She sat here lazily reading a book throughout the day, and it was not because her legs were a little weak from being tortured by that guy.
"Let Xiao Yao protect you, it was like this before."
Shen Qingfan shifted the topic to Mu Xiaoyao, but Mu Xiaoyao didn't understand the meaning hidden in their two words.
"Where can I protect him now?"
Mu Xiaoyao smiled: "It's time for him to protect us."
Fang Jie nodded vigorously: "Yes...it's time for me to protect you."
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The four roads in the southwest are long from east to west and short from north to south. After passing through Liangcheng, they walked for another seven days and left the border of Beihui Road. The governor of Nanhui Road, Du Jianzhou, sent someone to wait at the place where he had just entered Nanhui Road. When he saw the Black Banner Army team appearing from a distance, he hurried to meet them. In this place in the southwest, the speed of news transmission between aristocratic families is astonishingly fast. Needless to say, he knew that Fang Jie killed a ninth-rank practitioner of the Chen family in Liangcheng, and those big figures in the South Hui Road already knew about it.
So all of these people waiting outside Qiuqiang County had very gentle and modest smiles. Of course, these people were just sent by those big shots to stand in front. The people in Nanhui Road basically had no contact with Fang Xie, and they didn't know Fang Xie at all.
So they need their own men to inquire and bring back the most direct news.
At least a hundred people, including the county magistrate of Qiuqiang County and the county magistrate, were waiting outside. When they saw the huge flag of the Black Banner Army approaching, they hurried over, but after asking, they found out that Fang Jie was a few miles to the north. Leaving the team, it is said that he was fishing by the small river with his entourage.
arrogant!
Everyone's first impression was that this man named Fang Jie was too arrogant!
There were so many of them waiting here eagerly, but that Fang Jie actually left the group and went fishing. Although the magistrate of Qiuqiang County knew that he was a small person compared to Fang Jie, this kind of humiliation was extremely difficult for literati to accept. But even if he felt uncomfortable, he still had to entertain Fang and relieve his subordinates politely.
He planned to wait for Fang to solve it, but the generals of the Black Banner Army said that the general told him not to wait for him, and he didn't know when he would stop fishing by the river. The county magistrate and his entourage had no choice but to invite the generals of the Black Banner Army to serve in the city first.
Soon, news of Fang Xie's arrogance and rudeness spread through various channels.
Less than five miles north of the county seat of Qiuqiang County, there is a small river running from east to west. It is said that at the end it will eventually flow into Yishui. The river is not wide, only about ten meters, so there is no need for a ferry. There are seven-hole stone bridges erected every ten miles along the river. The age is unknown, but they are still strong.
Fang Jie was sitting on the stone bridge fishing, while the white lion Hun Chao was napping beside him.
The big dog squatted on the railing of the bridge, smoking a pipe, looked at the fish jumping out of the water from time to time in the river, and asked in puzzlement: "If you say that killing people in Liangcheng is to make those people afraid of you, then this time, you deliberately indifferent to those who welcome you. Why is the local squire?"
"You can't guess?"
Fang Jie asked.
The big dog boy thought about it carefully and said: "The reason for killing people in Liangcheng is to prevent those people from coming to test anything. This time you pretended to be arrogant and rude and didn't go to see those local gentry. Could it be that you want those people to think that you have no What kind of scheming, just a brave man?"
Fang Jie smiled: "It's difficult to make them feel too jealous of me, and not let them be too presumptuous."
Big Dog nodded: "It's just that they can't look down on them, and they can't make them care too much."
"It's easy to make your opponent think you're nothing but that. It's hard to make your opponent think that you're terrible."
Fang Jie lifted a fish out of the water with a shake of his hand, looked at it and threw it into the river casually. The big dog squinted his eyes and looked at it, puzzled again: "Since when have you been so merciful, and you have to release the fish after you catch it? Is this the artistic conception in the legend? Fishing is actually not for fish?"
"Pooh!"
Fang Jie rolled his eyes at him: "Fishing is not for fish. Those who say this are either nonsense or pretentious. Fishing without the purpose of catching fish is hooliganism. I catch it and then throw it away because I am greedy. Just now The tail is too small."
He said seriously: "If you want to catch a fish, you have to catch a big fish."
Da Quan seemed to understand, but suddenly thought of the relative who wrote to him in the south of Yongzhou, and his heart tightened. He was worried that Fang Jie and his relatives would meet on the battlefield. At that time, it was actually him who had the hardest choice.
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Dagu City, where Nanhui Daozhi is located, is only 110 miles away from Qiuqiang County. According to the speed of the Black Banner Army, it can be reached within two days at most. But if a person who spares no effort to deliver news, he can get there in less than a day if he changes horses back and forth. So when the Black Banner Army arrived in Qiuqiang County in the morning, and when it was getting dark, Fang Xie's rude behavior was already known to a group of big shots in Dagu City.
"What do you think?"
The head of the Liu family, Liu Di, asked Du Jianzhou, governor of Nanhui Province, "Did you give this surname Fang too much credit?"
Du Jianzhou shook his head: "When Chi Haonian came back, he specifically explained that he should not have any conflicts with this person, and let him go to Yongzhou safely. After the victory is decided with the Nanyan army and the He people, even if he wins, how many soldiers will he have left? At that time, we will block the way back to the north and trap him to death in Yongzhou. Is it not the food in our hands?"
"Listen to you."
Liu Di nodded: "Whether he is really domineering and arrogant, or just pretending, let's not provoke him, let him go across Nanhui Road to Yongzhou as soon as possible."
"but… "
He paused and said: "The matter of the 10,000 soldiers in the county cannot be compromised no matter what!"