[Comprehensive martial arts] The bright moon shines on you

Mingyue Yezai lived in Yihua Palace until March of the next year.On the way, he also went back to Wanmei Villa to spend a year with Ximen Chuuxue and Lu Xiaofeng, and then brought Lixia and the others to Yihua Palace.

Palace Mistress Lian Xing's body, under the care of Ming Yue Ye, survived the initial and most dangerous stage, and began to slowly improve.

In the early spring of this year, the snow in the plum blossom forest had just melted, and the sunshine from the sky also brought a little warmth of spring.It was at this time that Mingyue Ye got some news that had just spread all over the Jianghu.

"Plum blossom thief?"

There was a little surprise in Qingya's voice, and Qingming who brought the news nodded.

"Heh... that's interesting." Ming Yueye turned around and sorted out several herbs on the medicine shelf.The light-colored sunlight was shining in the sky, and the girl standing in the courtyard was wearing a water-green dress, and her long black hair was tied up casually by a headband.She simply stood in the sunshine, her dress was extremely elegant, but at a glance by others, the whole garden had lost its color, and the skirt brushing the ground at her feet was the first touch of fresh green in early spring.

Picking up a few other herbs from the bamboo basket at hand and placing them on the shelf in front of him, Ming Yueye's movements were careful and careful, but his tone of voice was quite casual, "Tell me specifically, what exactly did the plum blossom thief do?" thing."

"Actually, the Plum Blossom Pirate had already shown signs of being active in the Jianghu in the second half of last year, but because there were too many big facts that happened last year. In addition, after the Plum Blossom Pirate passed away 60 years ago, there have been Xiaoxiao who used the Plum Blossom The crime was committed in the name of a thief. So we originally thought that this one was the same as those before, and didn't take it to heart."

"Since the beginning of this year, the crimes committed by the Plum Blossom Bandit have become bigger and bigger. The targets have also changed from ordinary wealthy households to some small aristocratic families in the Jianghu. Even a direct female disciple of the Huashan School was murdered by him. The martial arts of the people in his hands are getting higher and higher, and they are all the same as the person who died under the hands of the plum blossom thief 60 years ago. They have five red spots on their chests like plum blossom petals. The most important thing is that the real Plum Blossom Bandit reappeared 60 years ago."

The slender hands separated the herbs on the medicine shelf, and the soft sleeves brushed the bamboo dustpan, and the beauty in green chuckled without raising her head, "In 60 years, the bones of the plum blossom thief in those days may have been turned into ashes." Now, does anyone really believe it?"

"That's why some people speculate that it is the descendant of the Plum Blossom Pirate."

"It's all the same." Ming Yueye chuckled and shook her head, handed the bamboo basket in the crook of her arm to Gu Yu who was waiting at the side, and walked slowly to another medicine shelf, "Any other news?"

"What's more, that little Li Tanhua from the Li family in Taiyuan will enter the customs in the near future after staying outside the customs for ten years."

"Little Li Tanhua... Li Xunhuan? He's coming back?" Ming Yueye stopped, Qingming nodded seriously behind her.

The beauty in green thoughtfully picked up a herb from the medicine shelf in front of her, "Speaking of which, it seems that he should come back from beyond the Great Wall. It's just at this time, so he won't bump into Li Xunhuan..." The last sentence If the voice was whispering, even Gu Yu and Li Xia who were standing next to her could not hear clearly, and the two maids stood quietly in place without asking any further questions.

Shaking her head, Ming Yueye put this matter aside.When mentioning Li Xunhuan's entry, she remembered another thing.

"I remember that Yang Dazi's fiancée, who is the head of the 72nd Waterway Wharf in the south of the Yangtze River, eloped with someone 20 years ago?"

"That's right." Lixia is more familiar with this kind of news about the secrets of the world than Qingming.As soon as Mingyue Ye finished speaking, she smiled and said, "This matter caused a lot of trouble in the Jianghu. After all, his fiancée, Mrs. Qiangwei, was a famous beauty at that time. He is also the number one figure in the limelight. At that time, Yang Dahuzi led more than 72 masters from the 20 waterway piers in the south of the Yangtze River, but failed to stop them. I heard that they escaped from Yang Dahuzi and ran outside the Great Wall. In the past 20 years, no one has seen them in the rivers and lakes again."

Ming Yueye looked back at her when she heard the words, and asked with great interest, "Yang Dabeard is still looking for them?"

Li Xia blinked, "On the surface, he didn't go to war anymore, but in private, he still didn't give up."

"This kind of shameful thing, no man can give up easily." Ming Yueye put down the herb in her hand and turned around slowly, her delicately embroidered skirt meandered across the bluestone floor, "20 years, It's time for Yang Dazi to step down from the position of the chief executive."

Qingming nodded, "It's time to retire. Now there are two candidates within their gang to take over as the next chief executive. The specific one has not been decided yet."

Ming Yueye looked up at her faintly, Qingming said softly, "One of them is the sixth son."

The girl in green walked to the soft bed on the other side of the yard and sat down. Hearing the words, she paused for a few seconds, as if remembering something, she said thoughtfully, "He wants to integrate the waterways of the Yangtze River..."

After drooping her eyes and thinking for a while, she raised her head and looked at Gu Yu, "I remember asking Shui if he has traveled outside the Great Wall recently."

"That's right." Gu Yu put a stack of refreshments in Ming Yueye's hand, and said with a slight smile, "Master Xiao sent you a letter yesterday, including a few poems he found outside the Great Wall."

Ming Yueye smiled slightly, "Send him a message, let him go to the border, and then mobilize the Yinyuanhui's staff to find an inn."

Gu Yu was slightly taken aback, "Inn? Is there anything special about this inn?"

"Of course it's special." Ming Yueye curled her lips, and the aura flowed in her bright eyes like autumn water, and she condensed a faint smile, "It will be Brother Six's birthday in a few months, so I just gave him a gift."

Qingming nodded and didn't ask any further questions. After explaining all the news for today, he turned around and went down to make arrangements.

Mingyue Ye took a sip of the tea that Gu Yu handed to him, and looked up at the sky.The sky far away is as clear as blue, without a trace of wandering clouds.

"It's already March."

Gu Yu stood quietly by the side, watching his young lady's gaze fall endlessly on the blue sky like a mirror, after a long while, a murmur came out.

"...The peach blossoms in Junshan are about to bloom."

Before the last cold plum in early spring falls from the branches, the spring has already dyed patches of fresh green on the land of the Central Plains.However, thousands of miles away, the place where the spring breeze has not yet passed is still thousands of miles of flying snow and thousands of miles of ice.

The first place close to the frontier is a border town. This town is so small that there is only one inn in the whole town.Because there are no other competitors, the business of this inn is also very good. Whether it is the guest rooms upstairs or the wine tables in the lobby, they are often full of people.

Although this town is small, it can be regarded as located on the only road that must be passed outside the customs from Saibei.Therefore, in addition to the tourists who have traveled here, the most regular customers in the inn are caravans traveling far outside the Great Wall and escorts traveling north and south.When such a group of people gather together, they are all well-informed people, and they can chat happily after drinking two glasses of wine.At this time, such a group of people gathered in the lobby of the inn.

The leader of the caravan at the table on the north side of the lobby was a big man in a sheepskin jacket with his clothes open. He was middle-aged and had a weathered look on his face, but he shot very generously.He laughed and chatted with the people in his caravan, and invited other guests who came around to drink.The busiest place in the entire lobby was their place. The men in sheepskin jackets escorting the carriages were very forthright, and other guests were also willing to crowd around and listen to their chatter.A young man in a gray shirt and an ordinary overcoat was also sitting in the middle of them. He had an ordinary face, but his eyes were lively.Holding a stack of peanuts and talking to someone with a smile, he blended into the crowd, squatting aside and listening to other people chatting with relish.

The atmosphere of this group of people is really happy, even a young man who looks weak and weather-beaten sitting alone at the other end seems to be infected by their laughter, and there are some smiles in his eyes when he looks over, The gloomy atmosphere around him also dissipated a little.

This relaxed atmosphere lasted until several people opened the door curtain and walked in.

The leader was a big man with a purple face, he was a little fat, at least he was the fattest among the three people who walked in.As soon as they entered the door, they had already started talking about the "blood licking" activities in the Jianghu, as if they were afraid that others would not know how powerful they were.

The three people who walked in were indeed well-known in the world.Especially the purple-faced fat man at the head, Zhuge Lei, the head of the "Golden Lion Bodyguard Bureau", one of the thirteen largest bodyguard bureaus in the Central Plains, is also known as the "Gallery Sword" in the Jianghu.

To be honest, compared to the ordinary caravan at the table in the north and the bodyguards from other small bodyguard agencies around them, these three people are indeed big men.It's no wonder that the leader of the "Storm Sword" Zhuge Lei held his head high and didn't look at the others when he walked in. Perhaps in his eyes, the other people here were really not worthy of him.

The three people sat down at the wine table in the center of the lobby and were still talking and laughing loudly, but the momentum of the caravan at the table in the north gradually weakened.We are all people who risk their lives in the arena, and they can see that the three people in the "Golden Lion Bodyguard Agency" are probably not very good-tempered, and they are all drinking alcohol, and they may cause trouble if they are not careful.After a while, the people around the caravan at the table in the north dispersed, and the big man who led the caravan also went upstairs with his own people.Only the young man in gray cloth was left and sat on a chair with peanuts. Instead of leaving, he took the jug of wine left on the table, and ate his peanuts while drinking.

On the other side, the three people from the "Golden Lion Bodyguard Agency" were also drinking, and after three cups of yellow soup, they started talking nonsense, boasting about Zhuge Lei's glorious past.They were mentioning that they met the "Four Tigers of Taihang" in Taihang Mountain while walking darts a few years ago.

The name "Four Tigers of Taihang" sounds aggressive, but in fact it is just a group of bandits who make a living by robbing in the Jianghu. nickname.The other people near Taihang Mountain were afraid of their power, so they acquiesced in this name. In essence, they were just four gangsters with some martial arts.But in any case, compared with other green forest thieves, these four people are also on the list. It is indeed worth bragging for Zhuge Lei Taihang Mountain and his party to give these four "tigers" the first sword.

I saw one of them describe with high spirits, "At that time, those four stupid people said, 'As long as you, Zhuge Lei, crawl around on the ground, we will save your life'. Dare to talk like that to big brother, it is simply He was so bold that he was pierced through the throat by the sword before he finished speaking."

Another person also laughed and said, "It's not that we are boasting. In terms of strong palm power, of course it is our chief escort's 'Golden Lion Palm'. But if you count the world's fastest swordsmanship, I am afraid no one can match it." It's time for our big brother!"

Hearing these words, Zhu Gelei laughed proudly and drank a glass of wine, and was about to pretend to be humble to refuse, when suddenly there was an unknown chuckle from beside him.

At this time, the people in the inn lobby had almost left.Only Zhuge Lei and the others were still talking and laughing loudly, and this laughter happened to be in the gap between the conversations of the few people, and it was particularly conspicuous.

Zhuge Lei frowned, put down his chopsticks and did not speak.His sworn younger brother Zhao had already heard the sound and glared in the direction of the chuckle. Seeing that he was just a young man with an ordinary face thrown into the crowd and couldn't be found, he gritted his teeth and snorted sinisterly, "Boy, what are you laughing at?"

The young man in common clothes didn't seem to notice the danger in his words, he just picked up a peanut lazily and said with a smile, "I'm just laughing... this is Saibei, the site of Wanmei Villa. Your Excellency It’s fine to boast elsewhere, but boasting about your sword skills here, have you asked the owner of this place for his opinion?”

As soon as the young man in civilian clothes uttered the words "Wanmei Shanzhuang", Zhao Er was at a loss for words, faltering and uttering nothing.The other person next to him, who had just praised Zhuge Lei's swordsmanship, immediately woke up from the smell of alcohol, raised his head and looked around nervously, as if he was looking for people from Wanmei Villa to hear him. Just that sentence.Even Zhuge Lei changed his arrogant look that was not worthy of anyone's attention before, and raised his head to look at him with frowns.

The young man in civilian clothes was still sitting leisurely eating his peanuts. His face was so ordinary that he might not be able to be found after being thrown into the sea of ​​people.The hand holding the chopsticks was also very casual, with sallow fingers and a little dust on the back of the hand, no matter how you looked at it, it was no different from a child in an ordinary inn waiter.However, it is impossible for an ordinary Xiao Er to maintain such a calm demeanor under the scrutiny of three escort heads full of evil spirits.

Zhuge Lei looked him up and down, but couldn't see the depth.Although no matter how you look at this person, he is just an ordinary person with low martial arts, but Zhu Gelei has been able to live in the Jianghu for so long, he looks crazy, but he is also much more cautious than others.Considering that this place is indeed the territory of Wanmei Villa, what he said just now was indeed a moment of drunkenness and arrogance, and in the end he stood up with the intention of not causing trouble.A few people turned their heads, as if they didn't hear it, they stopped looking at the kid who didn't know what to do, and continued drinking on their own.But the voice of high-spirited talk has indeed gradually decreased.

This scene fell into the eyes of the sick and weak young man who was sitting at the table on the east side. He lowered his head and continued to drink, taking his finger back from the carving knife beside the table.The tall and strong servant like a black tower who went upstairs to deal with the guest room problem for him also came down from the stairs at this time, walked up to him, and whispered, "My lord, the south room has been cleaned and vacated." Now, you can rest anytime."

The sick and weak young man nodded, and continued to drink without any surprise.

The tall and strong servant glanced at the much smaller people at the central table, and said with a smile, "Wanmei Villa's deterrence is getting stronger and stronger in this northern part of the Great Wall." In the scene just now, he was upstairs Also saw it.Originally, if the three of them didn't stop temporarily, he would also stop them.After all, the young man just said a word, and the crime is not worthy of death.

The sick and weak young man picked up his wine glass and smiled slightly, "Not only in Saibei, but also in the entire Central Plains."

Gao Zhuang's servant nodded in agreement, and then turned to be a little puzzled, "We also dealt with people from Wanmei Villa once when we were outside the Great Wall, and watching them act is not considered domineering."

"It has nothing to do with their behavior style." The sickly young man drank another glass of wine, coughed lightly and explained to him, "Even if the tiger is full and stands in front of you, you know it won't eat you at this time, but you will still eat it." feel scared."

The servant nodded thoughtfully.

The sick and weak young man smiled, and there was some emotion in his tone, "The master of Ximen is a sword hanging high above the entire rivers and lakes. With his existence, those heinous people in the rivers and lakes will have to restrain themselves. Opportunity, I would like to pay a visit to see what kind of person this is."

Gao Zhuang's servant was also fascinated, but he said with a smile, "But it is rumored that the master of Ximen doesn't drink alcohol."

"Ahem... so this is not very good."

The master and servant were laughing and chatting, at this time, two more people opened the curtain and came in.