number one leader

Chapter 206

In the city of Pan'an, as expected, there are other guests from all walks of life who have their own sects and corresponding righteous arrests have arrived.

Under the leadership of Cen Liang, Chu Sheng, Niu Dehai, and Qi Ziyi stepped into the six gates in the city and met the other guests that night.

It's just that there were only five of the originally scheduled six guests gathered in the hall at this moment, and the atmosphere was solemn and depressing, which was obviously abnormal.

Because Chu Sheng delayed for a while on the peak, he came here a little bit late, Niu and Qi were both based on him, so Chu Sheng stepped into the hall and acted as the leader of Luolongcheng all the way. , and others have met one by one.

No matter how many people lead different sects, but here, they all have the identity of the guest ministers of the six sects, so most of them are also kind to Chu Sheng, especially the Qingxuan Guanzhu, with whom Chu Sheng once People have met face to face, so they greeted each other for a while.

But among them, there was one person who watched with cold eyes. Seeing that Chu Sheng attracted everyone's attention, he couldn't help but sneered: "Are you the new guest minister? At such a young age, I'm afraid you are more than just a child." .”

Chu Sheng turned his head and glanced at this person. His cheekbones were high and his face was rather dark, which made him unhappy at that time.

Therefore, Chu Shengquan assumed that he had never heard him speak, and just regarded this person as air. Shi Shiran sat down with a calm expression on his face.

"I waited for everyone to arrive a few days ago, but you are so slow in coming!" The man stood up suddenly, his brows twitched, and the words in his mouth were quite sinister, "You are such a child, how many hands do you have?" Is it true? I'm afraid it's best not to come and make trouble for us!"

Lifting his eyes slightly, Chu Sheng took a sip of the teacup calmly, his left hand was still in the habit of twisting flowers, and after swallowing the tea, he said in a leisurely manner: "The boy is indeed delayed for a few days, just to add to the confusion Once you say it, it’s a little bit too much.”

"I am not talented, but I came together with my two masters of the three mountains and thirteen peaks, and brought a total of 130 eight disciples from the two peaks to eliminate the sword bandits."

"So, what do you think?"

The other party was at a loss for words, and sat down angrily under Chu Sheng's interested gaze, but he couldn't speak a word when he opened his mouth.

At most, they have only five or six close disciples. Unlike Chu Sheng, there are nearly 100 people in front of him. They are useless people.

Beside Chu Sheng, there was a slightly affluent man, who leaned slightly towards Chu Sheng to smooth things over and said, "Pavilion Master Cheng is also angry and anxious, and his words are bound to be too aggressive. I hope Master Chu will not be offended."

Slightly glanced at this person, Chu Sheng nodded with a smile, "Master Chun was joking, you are all senior boys. This time it is indeed the boy who has been slow in his journey. I hope you don't take offense."

This man who looks like a wealthy businessman is Chun Bohou, the head of the Linjiang Cao Gang. Although he looks harmless to humans and animals on the surface, he is actually a man with means. Linjiang City is a waterway hub in the south, and there are so many Cao Gangs Jiang Zhicrucian, this person defeated many gangs and unified many Cao Gangs in Linjiang City.On the other hand, this person has the temperament of a businessman, so his other identity is indeed a businessman, and he has made a lot of money by taking advantage of the waterway.

"Master Chu is indeed a young talent. I am ashamed to think that at my age, I was just an unknown person." Another person praised him and smiled kindly.

The temperament of the person who speaks is completely different from that Chunbohou. If the latter is said to be like a wealthy businessman, then the former has a bit of Confucian temperament.Wearing a green shirt and accompanied by that rather handsome appearance, it is indeed quite attractive, at least on the surface, he seems to be a man who has read a lot of poetry and books.

"Master Zhang, you are welcome. Dongyang Mountain Villa is well-known in Ningzhou, and I have admired it for a long time." Chu Sheng also bowed his hands in salute. The so-called don't hit people with smiles, others respect themselves, so Chu Sheng naturally respects himself. He is one foot.

"I just have a question and I don't know whether I should ask it or not." Chu Sheng looked around for a while, hesitantly said;

"It's true that a road is missing." Guanzhu Qingxuan put the whisk on his left arm, closed his eyelids slightly, and explained in his mouth: "Guild Master Zhan of the Yongkang City Council has lost his way."

Chun Bohou whispered in Chu Sheng's ear again: "Pavilion Master Cheng is quite friendly with President Zhan."

Chu Sheng was silent in his heart, and his dissatisfaction with Cheng Shengji, the owner of the Wuyi City Pavilion, calmed down a little. If Chu Sheng was in his position, he would naturally be dissatisfied.

At this time, a person suddenly entered the period from the outside, and just as he took the first step into the hall, a loud and thick voice sounded in everyone's ears:

"All guests from Ningzhou have arrived, let's get started."

The voice was continuous, not necessarily deafening, but surprisingly suppressed the voice in the hall, one could tell it was someone with deep inner strength.

Everyone followed the prestige, and saw a man with a dignified appearance and a serious face, but he couldn't hide his chivalrous air.There was a gleam in his eyes, and he was walking quickly, with a pair of palms hanging slightly by his side, covered with calluses.In the gazes of several people, he was full of momentum, like a fierce tiger and a fierce sun, scorching hard to conceal his splendor.

The atmosphere was treacherous for a while, and Chu Sheng and the others couldn't help bearing some oppressive force. Several people gathered together, but they were firmly suppressed by one person.

Cheng Shengji couldn't hold back his face, and finally asked, "Where is Ye Yi arresting him? Shouldn't he be the one in charge of arresting him?"

"That's true." The visitor nodded slightly, and sat down in the first seat without hesitation, his body leaned slightly, and his gaze gave him a palpitating feeling.

"I happened to be approaching. I heard that there were knife bandits coming from the southern border, so I rushed over. I am now in charge."

"Who is your Excellency?"

"clang"

There was only a sound of a heavy object falling. It was a waist card, one corner of which had not moved away from the center of the long table.

Chu Sheng and the others paused for a moment, and it was Cheng Shengji who got up and pulled up the heavy object, which was several inches deep into the table. He turned over the waist card, and the word "Heaven" was engraved on one side.

The astonishment in his eyes could not be concealed, Cheng Shengji immediately got up and saluted, bowed his head and offered the waist badge, but said in his mouth: "I have seen Tianzi catch the head."

Looking at each other for a moment, everyone stood up and saluted. There were only four head catchers of the Six-Fan Tian brand.Those four people must deal with important cases in the Jianghu, and the reputation of the four arrests spread with the location of the six doors, and there are few people in the Jianghu who don't know it.

Chu Sheng had only heard of one of them, and Jiangnan Ke, one of the Four Swordsmen in the World, was also one of the Four Arresters of the Six Doors.

It's just that he really doesn't know who this person is.

The person who came took back his badge, looked around, and said calmly, "I'm next to Yuan Fang, I've seen you all."

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Originally, the Keqing of a state, although he did not have the right to command the six gates in the mansion to be stationed in Xuanziyi arrest, but he was not restrained by him at all.

Therefore, all five guest officials have arrived, and they have no right to order them to come here to advocate righteous arrests.Based on Chu Sheng's thinking, Ji Yichun should have appointed someone to lead everything, but he never thought that the person who came would be one of the four famous arresters.

This Yuan Fang has always been jealous of evil, and has never held back against thieves, so he has the nickname "Iron Face".

After he revealed his identity, the first thing he said made everyone speechless.

"The head of the Jimen in Ningzhou sent the master to arrest him for righteousness. When he reached the territory of Pan'an City, he was ambushed and killed by thieves."

Several people looked at each other, but his face remained unchanged, and he did not express any opinion after talking about this matter. Before Chu Sheng and others took a moment, he continued to talk about the next matter.

"I have entered Pan'an city prefecture, and I have killed all the sword bandits and obtained their information."

He squinted his eyes, and his voice was cold and sonorous, "There are four groups of sword bandits who violated the border this time. The other three groups are disciples of Tsukahara Kenryu from Yingzhou, and the leader is Yuji Tsukahara; Really led the way to the sword bandits, and Sugiura Onimori, a disciple of Sugiura Kenryu, led the last way."

"The first three groups are all good sword bandits, each with about 50 people; the last group led by Sugiura Onimori has about 500 people, which is a little more sparse."

Chunbo's thick and fat face wrinkled. As a businessman, he secretly thought about it. After a moment, he said: "If there are such a number of people, it seems difficult for me to defeat them."

Yuan Fang was noncommittal, just looked around at the crowd.

Chu Sheng thought for a while, and then he said: "When I came down, there happened to be a state soldier and a Sugiura ghost guard all the way to fight in the wild. The sword bandit defeated [-] state soldiers with a hundred people."

The complexions of several people changed. If this record is taken on the surface, it is indeed very sturdy.

Yuan Fang just glanced at Chu Sheng, snorted coldly, seemed a little disdainful, and said: "In recent years, the soldiers in the southern border state have long been deserted, and General Qi is no longer in Guangguanghua. The defeat is just the meaning of the question. If they If I can stop the knife bandits, I don’t need to wait here to worry about things.”

Chu Sheng nodded and continued: "That's true."

"But after all, there are bandits with three or five hundred knives." Zhang Chenyi, the owner of Dongyang Villa, said in a solemn tone, "We are less than half of the opponent."

"There are nearly two hundred people on the next road."

Cheng Shengji shook his head, "Sword bandits have always been vicious. Ordinary disciples are afraid that they won't be effective, and they will be defeated like state soldiers."

Niu Dehai, who was behind Chu Sheng, was unhappy, and was about to speak, but Chu Sheng turned his head to look at him, and then said Shi Shiran: "These disciples have their own methods to break the pig's sudden style of the knife bandit."

"At that time, the sword bandits defeated [-] state soldiers, and there were more than [-] remaining bandits. They wanted to fight my way, but they were defeated by all the disciples, and the remaining one hundred people left in a hurry."

Several people looked in astonishment, even Yuan Fang had surprise in his eyes, Chu Sheng naturally responded calmly, seeing that Cheng Shengji was about to question, he frowned and said: "Master Cheng, in this situation, I will Even if you want to show off again, you won't open your mouth indiscriminately, just let me wait for a misjudgment and trap myself in it."

Cheng Shengji looked embarrassed, but was blocked by Chu Sheng's words, so he had to shut up.

"Since that's the case, then use this as a plan." Yuan Fang's final word was beyond doubt.

"On the other hand, I asked the leading knife bandit along the way and learned that these knife bandits have been causing trouble all the way. Although their whereabouts are erratic and difficult to determine, they always target the Buddhist temple."

"There are 480 Buddhist temples in the southern border, and within the territory of Pan'an City, there are four or five Buddhist temples." As a Taoist, Guanzhu Qingxuan naturally knows a lot about Buddhism, so he opened his mouth first: "If you are not sure about the target, I am afraid it is true." Difficult to deal with."

"Chong'an Temple"

Yuan Fang opened his mouth lightly, and said firmly: "The remaining three sword bandits will gather in Chong'an Temple!"

The master of Qingxuan Guan pondered for a while, and was a little puzzled, and said: "Pindao has researched several Buddhist temples that have suffered disasters these days, such as Ningdeng Temple and Sanmen Temple. In Huilong Temple, Yucheng Temple, etc., there are temples for Buddhist monks in Ningzhou. Chong'an Temple is rarely heard of, and there are no eminent monks who are well versed in Buddhism, and there are no masters of Buddhism. I really don't understand. up"

Yuan Fang didn't hide anything, and revealed the answer to the mystery in a few simple words.

"There are noble people staying in Chong'an Temple to pay homage to the Buddha."

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Everyone decided that it was naturally the method of the mantis catching the cicada and the oriole behind.

Now that the next target of the knife bandits has been clarified, everyone's hearts are relieved. At that time, they just need to wait for work, and the odds of winning in their chests are [-] to [-] points.

But when the few people were discussing here, at the edge of the twilight sky, the village was already filled with the smell of blood like rust.

All the people in the village were dead in the streets and alleys, in the courtyards of their homes, all kinds of stab wounds, most of them were killed by a single knife.But in this place where corpses are everywhere, there is smoke from cooking, someone is cooking without any scruples, and the lit candles are flickering under the night.

Sugiura Guishou walked casually among the villages with a sword in hand, but saw several sword bandits still touching the corpses, he stepped forward and kicked out of anger, yelling and cursing in Japanese.

"It's not enough to snatch a whole body of beautiful gold and silver. How many coins do people in remote villages have? Is it worth touching?"

The knife bandit had a bitter face, and he began to cry. It turned out that after defeating the state soldiers, they wanted to take advantage of the momentum to swallow Chu Sheng's troops, but their teeth were smashed.At that time, he fled in a panic from the formation, he didn't care about other things, the gold and silver items looted by the sword bandits were scattered all over the ground, and he didn't dare to look back to pick them up, so he just ended up in vain.

In fact, thinking of this, Sugiura Onimori couldn't help but feel depressed, and he had no reason to dissuade him, so he simply turned around and wanted to go back to the courtyard for dinner.

But before he had walked four or five steps, he suddenly heard someone shouting in front of the village, but someone was coming.

After a lot of tossing around, he saw the two groups of people rushing over, which were the other two bandits led by Yagyu Toma and Tsukahara Yuji.

The three bandits also gathered together, chatting with each other, the two were not blocked, so there were not many casualties in the unit, after seeing Sugiura Oni Shou in such a distress, they couldn't help sarcasm.But after the ridicule, when the bright moon was high, no more knife bandits came.

"The road led by Tomita-kun must be dead." Sugiura Onimori sighed in empathy.

Tsukahara Yuji was disdainful, "Tomita-ryu's swordsmanship is no match for the three of us, and he is even more mediocre, just ordinary."

"It's just a pity that there was no manpower along the way." Liu Shengdouzhen shook his head and said to himself, but there was no regret on his face.

After speaking, the three of them inevitably had to make a decision on the follow-up matter.

In the middle of the night, Liu Shengdouzhen's complexion changed suddenly, and he raised his hand to signal silence, the other two couldn't help but grasped the Japanese swords that never left each other.

Yagyu Douma pricked up his ears and suddenly shot out, unsheathing the long sword in his hand.

The saber's momentum was combined with air, sound, and shape. The wooden window in front suddenly shattered.

"clang"

One finger flicked on the blade, the long blade buzzed and trembled, and he couldn't hold it. The person who came took a step forward, and the three of them saw his face clearly, so they woke up and saluted together.

This person's words were simple, he just left a sentence, and when the three of them raised their heads, the figure had disappeared like a ghost.

That sentence is: "The next place, go to Chong'an Temple"

(End of this chapter)