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The three followed the sound and looked up to the door. No one knew when or how this person came in. Shopkeeper Chen and Ye Jiu even stood up straight away, their faces full of vigilance.

Su Lang raised his head and said hello: "Chu Heng."

Chu Heng bowed his head to pay tribute to him, then glanced sideways at Ye Jiu, and said lightly, "You are not small."

Shopkeeper Chen and Ye Jiu had heard of the name "Chu Heng", but had never seen it before.Chu Heng is the disciple of Mu Xiyun, the master of Xinghui's mother's astrology pavilion. He has poor aptitude and shallow martial arts, but his appearance is very beautiful. ".

But now is not the time to rely on face, Ye Jiu wondered why Chu Heng came in without a sound, and didn't pay attention to his words, just frowned and whispered: "Why did you come to Huaize City?" When the fire is imminent, is it possible to allocate energy to take care of "Shanhua"?

Chu Heng smiled lightly, raised the scabbard in his hand, pressed Ye Jiu on the chair, and said meaningfully: "You said why I came to Huaize City, Dong Junling can't command you, so I can only change Dong Come here, see if I can command you."

When Ye Jiu and shopkeeper Chen heard the words "Dong Jun himself", they looked at the Ming Ji sword in Chu Heng's hand, which no one in Lishan Mountain didn't know, and their minds buzzed, and they looked at each other. Immediately froze on the spot, as if struck by lightning, and couldn't recover for a long time.

Chu Heng ignored the two of them, sat down and put the sword case on his back on the table, and gently pushed it in front of Su Lang: "Here."

Su Lang was a little confused, and opened the sword box according to the words, and an ancient black gold sword lay across it.Su Lang looked at the geographical pattern of mountains and rivers on the scabbard and the five-clawed golden dragon seal, and it took him a long time to find his own voice: "Floating Clouds?"[1]

Fuyun Diji is the sword of the Son of Heaven, implying the authority of the Son of Heaven. Su Lang naturally understands the weight of the sword. It is not an exaggeration to say that His Majesty will visit the sword. Su Lang looked at Chu Heng in disbelief: "Give it to me?"

Chu Heng laughed lightly: "Of course, Chu Heng from Zhongpinghou's Mansion is a concubine, and he is a well-known embroidered pillow in martial arts, but he can't hold" this sword. The Mahayana realm in Kyushu has always listened to the tune and did not listen to the announcement. Shandong Junji Wuyue is even more inappropriate to take this sword. Yingguo Duke's Mansion is the most suitable, if not you, who else can you give it to?"

Chu Heng knocked on the sword box again with his fingers: "The northern border has not been very stable recently. Your Majesty has his own considerations. You and Lian Songcheng are in charge of the affairs of Huaize City. Your Majesty will lend you another Shadow Guard of the Son of Heaven." Help from the side, and anyone who stands in the way will be killed without mercy."

Su Lang and Chu Heng looked at each other, and they knew who the last sentence was.

The reason why Su Lang wanted to hold down Yuan Zeliang, the general soldier of Huaize City, was because the mistress of the Zhou family in Dingguo Duke's Mansion in Dingkang City and the Jiang family's mistress in Anping Bo's Mansion in Lianyan City both had the surname Yuan, which was the same as that of Huai Ze City's mistress. This Yuan Zongbing is of the same clan.

The matter of Dingkang Zhou's smuggling of martial artists can be big or small, but if it involves two Mahayana realms, Cangwu Martial Venerable Fang Hongzhen and Qianyong Realm Master Yan Zhefei, the matter will definitely not be small.

More importantly, Xinghui had sent people to find out that Zhou Kui, Duke of Ding, had secretly visited Jiang Jincheng, the fiefdom of Jingwang Lingyi, when Wanzhou dealt with Jiang Chengan, the prince's son-in-law of Qinghe, for Lianyan City. , Dingkang Zhou and King Jing have already hit the line.

Not to mention the Lianyan Jiang family, the concubine Jiang Chengan, the concubine of the princess, wanted to bring back to the mansion was the daughter of a wet nurse of King Jing.

Starting from Huaize in the east, then to Dingkang, and finally to Jiangjin, this waterline traverses the two prefectures of Changwan and Wanzhou, and accommodates most of the Lanjiang River.

On March [-]th, when the heads of various families came to the imperial capital to report their duties, the Dingguo government did not let go of the matter of diverting the Lanjiang River. Needless to say, to control Lanjiang is to grasp the lifeblood of most of Kyushu. King Jing’s waterline has been laid for so long, and Dingkang is the most critical link in the middle. The king's ship has a heart of disobedience, so of course he refuses to let the court intervene in the Dingkang waterway.

And those spirit bones on the Zhou's cargo ship were given to Cangwu Wuzun Fang Hongzhen, and now they are probably King Jing and Dingkang Zhou, Lianyan Jiang, Huaize General Yuan Zeliang, Cangwu Wuzun Fang Hongzhen and even Qianyong Landlord Yan Zhe Fei, all of the same series.

Now that the Zhou family's cargo ships were about to arrive at the port of Huaize, they had no time to wait for the imperial decree, so they had to stop these ships here first.

Su Lang was [-]% sure, Lian Songcheng didn't have an imperial decree or amulet to transfer troops, and with Fang Hongzhen, a Mahayana in Huai Ze City, Yuan Zeliang dared to fight against his immediate superior. The three thousand naval forces will all be stopped at the periphery, unless Lian Songcheng really takes action against the Huai Ze navy and transports Changhong to attack the city, but Lian Songcheng will never really attack Huai Ze's soldiers and civilians until the last step Heavy hands, so Su Lang had to preemptively lead someone to hold Yuan Zeliang down. As long as Lian Songcheng led his troops into Huaize City, even with Fang Hongzhen around, Dingkang Zhou's boat would not be able to enter the Lanjiang waterway.

Without an imperial decree, Su Lang could only do the matter of holding Yuan Zeliang in his own name. He had a stalemate with Ye Jiu and shopkeeper Chen just to bring enough people to Huaize General Military Mansion.But now Chu Heng brought Fuyun Diji, with the sword of the Son of Heaven in his hand, it was more than enough to hold down a Yuan Zeliang, unless Yuan Zeliang dared to openly rebel, it would undoubtedly give Lian Songcheng a reason to mobilize troops.King Jing was able to extend his hand to Huaize because of the presence of General Yuan Zeliang, so he will use the incident of the Dingkang cargo ship to cut off King Jing's hand.

This Floating Cloud Diji came at just the right time.

Chu Heng's eyes fell on Ye Jiu, who was staring at his nose and nose and watching his heart, who was as dumb as a chicken and didn't dare to move. The corners of his mouth slightly turned up, and he stretched out his hand in front of Ye Jiu's eyes: "Come back to your senses."

Ye Jiu's complexion was slightly pale, and his scalp was numb, God knows he mustered up a lot of courage to dare to lose weight this time, in order to give priority to Xinghui's safety and disregard Su Lang with Dongjun's order in hand, who knows the word "no" As soon as he said it, he was caught by Dongjun himself.

Seeing that Chu Heng's gaze fell on him at this moment, his heart was even more flustered and he couldn't get it right. He couldn't find any trace of the arguing with Su Lang just now, and he just bowed his head deeply and didn't dare to say a word.

Chu Heng put his hand on his shoulder and tapped twice, then chuckled lightly: "Okay, I don't have time to deal with you, you take someone to follow Su Lang to Huaize General Army Mansion. I will help you follow the orders of the head, young master I will protect your safety."

Ye Jiu buried his head even deeper, and whispered "Don't dare".

Chu Heng let out a "hmm", smiled and stood up, looked down at him, then glanced at shopkeeper Chen, who was also looking at his heart, stretched out his index finger and tapped lightly on the Dongjun card on the table. Ling, said lightly: "There is no next time. If there is anything to do later, listen to Su Lang."

Ye Jiu and shopkeeper Chen stood up immediately, saluted and said yes respectfully.

Lishan's rules are not strict, but one of the most important ones is that Dong Jun's orders cannot be violated.If you are not a Mahayana, you cannot be an Eastern Lord. For hundreds of years, there have been many masters in Lishan Mountain, but only three Eastern Lords. The word "Eastern Lord" itself is a symbol of absolute strength.

It's just a coincidence that Lishan's generation, Ye Jianwei, the head of the sect, is also a Mahayana realm, and Dongjun Ji Wuyue is a junior, who never cares about things, and no one has seen him a few times in Lishan, so Ye Jiu dared to be bold Fortunately, Chu Heng didn't pursue it once, and Ye Jiu was lucky and gloated at the same time. I don't know those Lishan fellows who want to touch the mountain flowers every day, if they know that Chu Heng and Ji Wuyue are actually the same After the individual, what will be the reaction.After all, touching the hug and pinching Senior Brother Chu's waist is what they all wanted to achieve, but if it was Senior Brother's waist... Ye Jiu couldn't help but shudder, and couldn't help but want to laugh.

Ming Ji twirled in Chu Heng's hand, and he said to Su Lang: "Xinghui is in the southwest of the city, I'll go there first."

Su Lang responded: "Fang Hongzhen is not that simple, I'm afraid there is another trick, after taking Yuan Zeliang, let General Lian stop Zhou's cargo ship, I will go there later."

Chu Heng nodded, his meaningful eyes swept across Ye Jiu slowly, but he turned around and left without saying anything.

Ye Jiu's uncontrollable laughter swallowed it all up again.

Xing Hui sat on the ground with bent legs, and swept his fingers over the cell wall tiles with engraved inscriptions one by one. When he touched the bottom row of wall tiles, he couldn't help frowning. After investigating, the door of the dark prison suddenly heard the sound of opening and closing.

Xing Hui withdrew his fingers and looked towards the past. Two guards of the Fang family at the end of the stone road half-pushed a person in, and a faint voice came from a distance: "Who knows, I sent you to the door without thinking. It's really good to be tall, but it's a pity that it's just a show, and it's really rare to be so bad at martial arts, it's too much to seal his internal strength, the boss said it belongs to Lishan anyway, so we should shut it down first."

When they approached, Xinghui saw clearly who the so-called "fairy" was, but Cheng Ji had already stood up abruptly: "Senior Brother Chu?"

The guard opened the door of Cheng Ji's cell, pushed Cheng Ji back first, and threw the "flower shelf" into it. Chu Heng let out an "ah!" and fell to the ground delicately and limply. Unable to get up for a long time, the guard shook his head and smacked his lips, locked the door and turned away.

Seeing from a long distance away, the guard had already left, and the senior brother who was still lying on the ground and refused to get up, his face darkened for a moment.

Cheng Ji and the younger brothers beside him hurriedly helped Chu Heng up, their faces were full of concern: "Senior Brother Chu, how are you doing? Did you hurt from the fall?"

Then Xinghui heard his elder brother—Ji Wuyue of Lishan Mountain stood up and patted the dust on his clothes, and said aggrievedly: "It's okay, it doesn't hurt too much."

... Is this still pretending to be addicted?

Cheng Ji couldn't help looking, hearing and questioning again, Xing Hui listened to both ears, and couldn't help wondering if his elder brother had been a mountain flower for too long, pretending to be too fascinated in front of his juniors and younger sisters, he had already forgotten who he was.

Before they had time to say a few words, there was another sound of opening and closing at the door of the dark cell, but this time no one was arrested.

A dozen or so black-clothed guards lined up, respectfully leading a young man in brocade clothes to walk in.

Xinghui remained motionless, stood up, and looked at the person with a blank expression.

Fang Xiuran's face was still pale after the injury, and he walked straight towards Xinghui, raised his chin slightly, and motioned for the guard to open the iron gate, and walked in with his hands behind his back.

"Ye Xinghui."

Xinghui raised the corners of his lips, and said half-sarcastically, "Fang Xiuran, have you recovered from your injury, so you're not afraid that I'll mess with you again?"

Fang Xiuran remembered what happened yesterday when he was bombed on the official road outside Huaize City, and his anger started from his heart, sullenness flashed across his face, and he smiled angrily: "Ye Xinghui, you have sharp teeth now, Who is locked up here like a dog now?"

"Then who brought dozens of people to the official road to rob me last night, and was brought back unconscious in the end, isn't it similar to dragging a dead dog?"

Fang Xiuran's eyes almost burst into flames, and his fists creaked. Seeing this, the guards on the side quickly reminded him in a low voice: "Young Master, Wu Zun has ordered that you should not use your internal strength now."

When Xinghui heard this, he laughed directly: "Fang Xiuran, you only have the ability to show off with dozens of guards. Without them, you are nothing now."

Fang Xiuran glared bitterly at the guard who had just reminded him, gritted his teeth and looked at Xinghui, but he couldn't say anything to refute for a long time, his eyes swept over the inscription carved on the cell wall, and suddenly remembered something , smiled sinisterly: "Ye Xinghui, have you seen those skull lamps on the stone path, you will be one of them."

As soon as the words fell, Xinghui's face really darkened.

Fang Xiuran's heart suddenly rose with joy, feeling that he had pinched his weakness, and said with a sinister smile: "Ye Xinghui, guess how many of those skulls are your disciples from Lishan Mountain?"

Xinghui remained silent, only staring at Fang Xiuran, his eyes full of killing intent.

Fang Xiuran laughed loudly, and pointed in the direction of Cheng Ji's cell: "Ye Xinghui, do you think I should kill a Lishan disciple first to open your eyes?"

Xinghui was about to rush forward to fight Fang Xiuran, but the guards on the side quickly held him down, and Xinghui's voice trembled with hatred: "How dare you?"

Fang Xiuran looked at Xinghui whose eyes were red with hatred, and walked towards the cell where Cheng Ji was, "I'll let you open your eyes today." Then he turned to the guard who was holding Xinghui They ordered: "Bring the young master of Lishan here and let him see it with his own eyes. This will be fun."

Cheng Ji stood up vigilantly, keeping Chu Heng and a group of juniors and juniors behind him, Fang Xiuran walked to the iron gate and glanced casually, his eyes suddenly stopped on Chu Heng's face, and the corner of his mouth curled up.

"Ye Xinghui, I've changed my mind again." He pointed at Chu Heng, "Bring him out to me to wash him up, and tie him to the bed first."

Xinghui was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and a trace of pity flashed in his eyes.

Cheng Ji hurriedly blocked Chu Heng behind him, clenched his fists and said bitterly: "Fang Xiuran, you are courting death."

"Looking for death?" Fang Xiuran glanced at him indifferently: "What are you, go and bring me out."

The guard behind Fang Xiuran bowed and said yes, then opened the iron gate and strode towards Chu Heng.

Seeing Fang Xiuran's guards coming straight towards Chu Heng, Cheng Ji gritted his teeth and was about to charge up with his fists, but Chu Heng suddenly reached out and patted Cheng Ji on the shoulder from behind, Cheng Ji's body froze for a moment— — This seemingly powerless slap unleashed the impenetrable internal force seal in his dantian's sea of ​​energy.Suspicions abounded in Cheng Ji's heart, but his face was still expressionless, his gaze met Xinghui's in the air for a moment, and the latter gave him a comforting look.

Cheng Ji's thoughts turned, and he immediately yelled curses, watching Chu Heng being dragged out by the rushing guards, struggling and whimpering, being taken out of the dark prison to "clean up."

Fang Xiuran took two steps towards Xinghui who was being escorted, leaned close to his ear, and said with a sneer: "Your elder brother is really first-class, don't worry, wait until you play." When it's over, I'll bring him back to open your eyes."

Xinghui looked at Fang Xiuran's back as he walked out triumphantly, and for a moment didn't know whether to laugh or laugh loudly. Did this Young Master Fang think his life was too long? His father Fang Hongzhen only robbed Lishan's disciples. But he turned around and sent himself to Mr. Lishandong, he was indeed a talent.

Dayin East Sea is less than [-] miles away from the coast of Huaize. Hundreds of warships lined up and headed for Huaize City by riding the wind and waves.

Huai Ze City, General Military Mansion.

The summoner knelt on one knee and cupped his fists in salute: "My lord, the boat from Dingkang is coming soon."

Yuan Zeliang, the general soldier of Huai Ze, was wearing single clothes, and was boxing in the martial arts arena, he didn't turn his head when he heard the words, he just responded indifferently: "Go and send someone to report to Wu Zun Cangwu."

The summoner was about to take the order to leave, when suddenly another person rushed in at the gate of the martial arts field: "Report, my lord, General Lian Songcheng, the governor of Changzhou, sent an order, ordering Huaize City's shipping department to immediately set up a card to intercept Yiying from Huaize port. Ships entering the Lanjiang waterway."

As soon as Yuan Zeliang stopped punching, an ominous premonition surged in his heart. He turned around and stared sharply at the soldier who sent the order: "What did you say? Ships are not allowed to enter the port? Where is Lian Song adult?"

"General Lian first sent his own soldiers to pass the order, but they haven't entered the city yet."

Yuan Zeliang's complexion changed drastically, and he suddenly roared with a ferocious face: "Didn't the people sent by Rui Hesi say that Lian Songcheng was seriously injured and couldn't come to Huaize City?"[2]

As soon as he finished speaking, another person rode in at the entrance of the martial arts field, galloped up to Yuan Zeliang, barely restrained the horse, jumped off the horse with sweat profusely, and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, it's not good, There are [-] East China Sea navy coming towards Huai Ze, less than [-] li away from the coast of Huai Ze."

Yuan Zeliang's eyes were about to burst, and he punched the wooden post with a fist. After a moment of suspense, he suddenly laughed slyly again: "He farts! There is no imperial decree, no military amulet, no foreign enemy invasion, no natural disasters, Lian Songcheng dared to act privately." The navy in the East China Sea is regarded as an accomplice to rebellion, and I will see who dares to stop the cargo ship of the Zhou family! Huai Ze coastal defense is immediately under martial law!"

The author says:

【1.】Fuyun Diji: Taken from "Zhuangzi? Miscellaneous articles? Shuojian".

【2.】The people sent by Changzhou Murui Hesi said (in fact, they thought) that Lian Songcheng was seriously injured, referring to the assassination in the forest that Lian Songcheng encountered in Chapter 58.