The journey from Mount Tai to Mount Qingcheng is not very close, almost half of the Zhou Dynasty. If you want to arrive in half a month, you must not slow down. Fortunately, even a little girl like Zhou Yexue is a former Those who are out on the road overnight, hurry up and hurry up. Finally, after passing Chang'an in ten days and arriving in Hanzhong, there are still five days left, so you can slow down your journey and walk slower.
All the way on horseback, even the horses can't bear the high load of running around, they can finally stop to take a breath, everyone is very happy, especially the two young people Fan Yuanbai and Zhou Yexue, their faces are full of excitement , Li Qingyu is not two years older than them, but he has more than one level of composure, his face is solemn and solemn, and it has been like this from the beginning to the present.
The news of the Sword Trial Conference has spread all over the world. Along the way, you can see many people from all corners of the world with swords and knives. After entering Hanzhong, there are more such people, all kinds of weapons.
Where there are many people in the rivers and lakes, there will be more affairs in the rivers and lakes. Xia is forbidden by martial arts. Many people have martial arts skills and can look down on ordinary people. It is inevitable that they will feel arrogant, feel that they are superior to others, and act presumptuously.
I came back early this time. It was just dawn after entering the city. The inn just happened to have a lot of rooms vacated, and the lobby on the first floor was sparse.
Zhao Chiying and others made a reservation first, and then took their seats.
Yan Wushi has a special status. Most of the people in this group respect him and stay away from him. Zhao Chiying is afraid of the Huanyue Sect master who is neither an enemy nor a friend. He neither wants to offend nor get too close. Now, how dare to provoke him, Zhao Chiying took two disciples, and Li Qingyu happened to have a case of four people, and Yan Wushi was left alone in a case, and there was no one in front of him, left and right, and others looked a little strange.
Shen Qiao walked over and took a seat opposite him.
Yan Wushi smiled: "A Qiao couldn't bear to see me alone, so did you come here to sit with me on a case?"
Shen Qiao: "There will only be more and more customers. There will not be enough seats at that time, so it is inevitable to rush customers. I just don't want to cause trouble to the store."
Seeing that he was not sincere, Yan Wushi didn't take it seriously. He raised his hand and poured him a glass of just-warmed wine: "It's a blessing for the store to have a customer like you."
When Shen Qiao first heard it, he only felt that this sentence was meaningful, but when he shook his head again, it seemed like an illusion.
Yan Wushi: "After this meal, I have to take a step first, and I won't go with you."
Shen Qiao was a little surprised: "I thought you walked all the way, just to go to the Chunyang Temple for a while to ease the dust."
With Yi Bichen's martial arts, even if he can't be called the number one in the world, it's not a problem to be in the top three. It's a strange thing that Yan Wushi didn't personally go to ask for a fight.
Yan Wushi shook his head: "Yi Pichen can do it anytime, but it's not every day that you can see other people's bad luck."
His gloating tone was so strong that Shen Qiao immediately thought of a name: "Dou Yanshan?"
Yan Wushi: "The bait has been cast out for a long time, and now it's time to close the net. With such a lively situation, how can I not go and see it in person?"
Shen Qiao: "You told me before that Yun Fuyi and Dou Yanshan were at odds with each other and would take action sooner or later. Yun Fuyi's influence in the Liuhe Gang was not strong enough, so she had to resort to Huang Jiaji. The Turkic forces behind it came to do it secretly.”
Yan Wushi: "Not bad."
Shen Qiao: "You were able to know their every move in time, presumably it also played a role in fueling the flames?"
Yan Wushi said with a smile: "My family's Qiao is smart, Dou Yanshan is a very suspicious person, and he will not let untrustworthy people hear any secrets up close. It is precisely because of his cautiousness that Liuhe Gang's Over the years, it has been able to grow step by step and become the leader of water transportation that dominates the north and south of the river. Guess how I broke through the siege and laid a dark line inside?"
Shen Qiao frowned, thought for a moment, and said slowly, "I can't guess."
Yan Wushi smiled: "It's actually very simple, Dou Yanshan is indeed very cautious, but the people around him are not necessarily. He has a personal attendant who has followed him for eight years. , repeatedly asked her for money, and the woman did not want to embarrass her sweetheart, but she was unable to do anything. At this time, I asked Bianyanmei to send someone to help her solve the problem and did one thing."
Shen Qiao: "Use her to control Dou Yanshan's attendant?"
Yan Wushi shook his head and laughed: "A Qiao, you are too naive, since Dou Yanshan's attendant is shrewd and capable, how can such a simple and rude method be suitable for him? Bianbianmei just let the other party win the woman's favor through these things. Good feelings, fake identities, pretend to be distant relatives who have not been in contact with their family for many years, gain the trust of the woman's family, and appear as the woman's distant cousin."
Shen Qiao: "This is too tortuous."
Yan Wushi: "Don't underestimate this level of kinship, if it's just an outsider who has nothing to do with it, why should others believe your good intentions, and having this level of identity is equivalent to making the other party less vigilant, After getting along like this, the woman trusts her cousin, and introduces this cousin to Dou Yanshan's attendant."
Shen Qiao sighed inwardly when he heard this method.
This person regards all the rivers and lakes as a game, his eyes are higher than the top, and he is arrogant, so he will make countless enemies, and finally be besieged by the five masters, almost to the end of his death, but other than that, no one can Denies his military endurance means.
Shen Qiao: "According to what you just said, Dou Yanshan's attendant is shrewd and capable. How can that cousin win his trust?"
Yan Wushi smiled in a relaxed manner: "Benefits. In this world, only common interests can bring people closer together, closer than a brother and a couple. That attendant follows Dou Yanshan, and he is immersed in his eyes and ears every day, and he must have seen many arrogant and extravagant grandfathers. The scene, but he himself is still a servant, do you think he can be reconciled to a shrewd and capable person? If the woman's cousin now provides him with a way to make money, so that he can also have his own business. Over time, do you think he will see each other as an ally and a friend?"
Shen Qiao suddenly said: "So you chose a shrewd person because you knew that he would not be content with the status quo, instead of choosing an honest person?"
Yan Wushi: "Honest people also have the weaknesses of honest people. How can there be perfect people in this world?"
Shen Qiao nodded: "That's right, if you didn't think too much of yourself back then and didn't put other people in your eyes, you wouldn't be able to take advantage of it later by Guangling San, Dou Yanshan and others."
This is obviously a joke.
But he ignored Yan Wushi's face, the latter smiled slowly: "You are wrong, that is my weakness in the past, not the present."
Shen Qiao couldn't help laughing: "Your weakness now is that your face is thicker than the stone of Mount Tai?"
He always had a smile on his face, genial and gentle, but rarely laughed out loud.
Although he didn't laugh at this moment, the corners of his lips couldn't stop the smile, and even his eyes became brighter, like jade soaked in rain, alive and fragrant.
"That's an advantage, not a weakness." Yan Wushi belongs to someone who wants to do something when he thinks of it. The thought just came up, and his hand was already on the back of Shen Qiao's. "This seat's weakness now is you!"
Shen Qiao shook his head, his face seemed to have heard something more amusing, he wanted to withdraw his hand, but was tightly held by the other party.
"Sect Master Yan, there are some tricks that make you tired of playing them once, so why play them again and again? No matter how stupid a person is, it's impossible to fall into the same river in a row?" There was a hint in his words that maybe he didn't even notice it. self-deprecation.
"Do you remember the story I told you last time?" Yan Wushi's smile remained unchanged, his eyes fixed on him, but he refused to let go.
Before that, Shen Qiao never thought about the relationship between the two in a direction that he should not think about. He was bitten by a snake and was afraid of the rope for ten years. The ruthless coldness has a deeper understanding, knowing that this person is hard-hearted and sincere, I am afraid it is also wishful thinking, it is difficult to impress the other party, but deep down, Shen Qiao has long dared not believe it easily, the memory of the past It was so profound that he dared not trust this person anymore, for fear of repeating the same mistakes.
However, at this moment, being watched by the scorching gaze of the other party, Shen Qiao's heart thumped, feeling like a prey being targeted by a fierce beast, and he would not give up until the outcome.
"The shopkeeper, there are obviously two vacant seats over there, why are you saying it's full!" A loud voice came from not far away, distracting the two of them.
Shen Qiao took the opportunity to withdraw his hand and looked around, only to see that the inn was full at some point, and only their table was left. People can sit.
People nowadays are not used to sitting at the same table with strangers, and generally no one will insist on sitting with someone they don’t know. , it will often lead to turmoil in the rivers and lakes.
The shopkeeper obviously did not want to see this place become another scene of turmoil, so he hurriedly explained with an apologetic smile, saying that as long as he waited for a while, the guests would leave after finishing their meals, and the place would be vacated at that time.
Loud but unwilling to follow through, the few people who came with him looked like people who were not easy to mess with. Not only did they see Shen Qiao in the room full of them, but there were also two vacant places there, but they also saw Shen Qiao wearing The Taoist robe has a good face and is easy to deceive, and Yan Wushi doesn't even have any weapons. They seem to be soft persimmons that can be kneaded at will. If they were replaced by two fierce men sitting here, they might not dare to act rashly.
"I have seen these people before, they are people from Taohuawu. After Taohuawu was merged into the Hehuan Sect, they became arrogant, and their eyes were clean. , I don't want to be easily offended."
"No wonder it's so arrogant, it's like a dog chasing people's power..."
"Shh, be careful that misfortune comes out of your mouth. Their martial arts are not bad. Last time, even the Tianshan Jade Sword was broken in the hands of that loud voice!"
"Drink!" The other person gasped, "Tianshan Yujianzi can be called a second-rate master!"
"No? Otherwise, how could they be so arrogant, that loud voice is the younger brother of the Taohuawu Dock master, nicknamed the Dianliu Dao..."
"Oh - I've heard of it, Dengliu Dao Deming, it turned out to be him!"
The people at the next table didn't speak very loudly, but they all fell into the ears of Yan Wushi and Shen Qiao.
The loud voice had already pushed aside the shopkeeper and strode towards them.
Fan Yuanbai and Zhou Yexue were young and energetic, and they stood up to stop them.
Yan Wushi is naturally not their turn to protect them, but Shen Qiao is a kind person, and he is very kind to Bixia Sect. He has lived in Mount Tai for half a year, and he gets along well with everyone. He is not like Yan Wushi who points the country on a whim. Instead, he had an excellent attitude of answering questions, and let Fan Yuanbai and the others watch him when he taught his disciples, which benefited everyone in the Bixia Sect. Fan Yuanbai and others treated him like a teacher and a brother, so it was natural to see him being rude and abrupt.
After all, Zhao Chiying is more mature and more serious than them, she didn't move, but said loudly: "The shopkeeper, I just ordered the mutton pot for the sixth table of Tianzi, why haven't you sent it, Huanyue Zongyan Sect Master and Shen Qiao Shen Daoist It's been a long wait!"
When the two names, especially the one in front, were called out, it was like a cold wind blowing through the lobby of the inn, and everyone froze.
The footsteps that the loud voice originally raised stopped in mid-air, and could no longer step out.
The author has something to say:
Aah, I was going to follow the main line, so I stopped here because Lao Yan started to pick up girls again!
Lao Yan, give me a precise word, when will you start!
Lao Yan [slowly]: Well, it depends on when my family's A Qiao will let go of her guard and greet me in my arms.
The onlookers [sing in unison]: Today~~~ the tears you shed~~~ all of them~~you~~yesterday~~~Zuo died~~~~~