That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 292 Prosperous Jiangdu Tianxiang Building

The top floor of Tianxiang Building is brightly lit.

The entire top floor was empty, and all the tables were removed, leaving only a round table in the middle. Xu Beiyou sat on a chair behind the table, facing the stairs.

On the table was a pot of tea, two teacups, a bowl of snow-treading bird's nest, and two small celadon bowls. Xu Beiyou used one of the bowls to fill himself with a bowl of bird's nest to taste slowly.

Not long after, there was a sound of footsteps on the stairs, and then a woman in a white dress and a black veil appeared at the stairs, with white embroidered shoes, a jade buckle head, a string of jade-white number beads wrapped around her wrist, and a crown on her head. The veiled hat that women often use when going out, the white gauze hanging from the brim of the hat is not too long, it only covers half of the face, exposing the fair neck and half of the chin.

The black and white costumes blend together a different kind of beauty, coupled with the woman's extraordinary aura, she looks like a god in a trance in this splendid Tianxiang Tower.

Xu Beiyou put down the bird's nest in his hand, stretched out his palm and said, "Senior, please sit down."

The woman sat on the chair opposite Xu Beiyou, took off the veiled cap on her head, and revealed a delicate face. The woman was only about 30 years old by appearance, but she looked like she had gone through vicissitudes of life, and suddenly felt that time and space were intertwined.

Xu Beiyou was not at all surprised by this, because Zhang Xueyao, Qin Mumian, Tang Shengyue and others were all like this. Youth can last forever, but it is difficult to be young in mentality.

Xu Beiyou made three appointments today, namely Zhang Xueyao in the morning, Xie Suqing at noon, and the person in front of you at night.

Since Xu Beiyou put this person on a par with Zhang Xueyao and Xie Suqing, it meant that her status would never be lower than the other two. Judging from Xu Beiyou's putting her last, she was even more important than others.

The woman glanced at the bird's nest in the middle of the table, and asked, "Master Xu, the reason why you invited me here is probably because of the Chu Clan's Sword Cottage?"

Xu Beiyou nodded and said: "Senior is worthy of being a famous person in Jiangbei. He is really well informed, and I don't hide it. This time is precisely for the Kunshan matter."

The woman frowned and said, "Chu's Sword House and Kunshan are not the same thing."

Xu Beiyou picked up the bird's nest, tasted it slowly, and said, "I'm not going to hide it from seniors, Chu's Sword House and Kunshan are the same thing. As soon as Chu Tiankuo of the Chu's Sword House arrived in Jiangdu, people from Kunshan followed. , and it was Zhang Zhaonu who went out in person to trouble the suzerain of Kunshan for a sword house of the Chu family? I think it was Xiang Zhuang who danced the sword with the intention of Peigong."

Inside the Tianxiang Building, the lights were bright and the bird's nest was fragrant. A man and a woman fell into silence.

After a long time, the woman asked softly, "Where is Zhang Zhaonu now?"

Xu Beiyou said calmly: "I only know that he is outside Jiangdu City. As for where exactly, I don't know."

The woman's heart was slightly shaken, but she didn't show it at all: "You guys are able to keep an eye on a majestic No. [-] master in the world."

Xu Beiyou said expressionlessly: "Zhang Zhaonu was too conceited and unprepared, that's why he exposed his traces, but I guess he will notice soon, maybe tomorrow morning I won't know where he will be."

The woman asked again: "What do you want? Make peace with Zhang Zhaonu? Or do you want to drive him away?"

Xu Beiyou put down the porcelain bowl containing the bird's nest, picked up the teapot and poured two cups of tea, and said softly, "If it's just to negotiate a peace, I don't need to come to see the senior, just let Xie Suqing come forward. In this world, there is no one except Daoist sects." Dare not to betray the court's face."

The woman didn't go to pick up the teacup, she lowered her voice slightly and asked, "Mr. Xu wants to fight?"

Xu Beiyou nodded and said: "Actually, I don't want to do that either, but Zhang Zhaonu is too deceitful, my teacher's bones are still cold, I can't be a coward and let my teacher's reputation be damaged."

The woman raised her teacup, took a sip, and said softly, "I still want to persuade Mr. Xu that Zhang Zhaonu is not an unknown person. Although the title of No. 1 in Jiangbei is a little watery, it is by no means a vain name. Mr. Xu, you are still young and have a bright future, any reputation and prestige are fake, there is no need to make dangerous moves for the sake of gaining popularity."

Xu Beiyou nodded with a smile, "Thank you, Senior, for caring."

The woman fell silent again.

She has seen too many so-called young talents, and there are really few who are as bold as Xu Beiyou.

Bold and bold, to put it nicely is courageous, to put it badly is to be ignorant.Whether this young man in front of her is astonishingly courageous or ignorant, even she, who has seen countless people, is a little unclear.

After drinking a cup of tea, the woman said slowly: "I will truthfully tell the master what Mr. Xu said."

Xu Beiyou raised the teacup in his hand, and said, "Then I will thank you, senior. In addition, I have prepared a small gift for senior, and I will send it to senior's house later."

"Mr. Xu has a heart." The woman picked up the veiled cap and put it on her head again, got up and walked downstairs, seeing Xu Beiyou wanted to get up and see him off, she softly and understandingly said: "Stay here, don't need to see him off."

Xu Beiyou was kind and did not persevere.

After the woman left, Xu Beiyou drank another bowl of bird's nest, rinsed his mouth with tea, left a silver ticket, and left Tianxiang Tower.

——After a young man in black took care of the two tails, he entered Jiangdu City in the dark.

The power of the young master of the Sword Sect is somewhat beyond his imagination. It is hard to believe that this young master has only been in control of the Sword Sect for only a year.

If he was given another 20 years, he would really be a giant.

A faint smile curled up on the corner of the young man's mouth, but this young master of Jianzong may not have a future.

This time the suzerain went to Jiangdu in person, of course it was not for a visit to the south of the Yangtze River, nor for visiting Jianzong, or even for the Chu Clan's Sword House.

As the ninth person in the world, how could Zhang Zhaonu not have a bit of ambition to match?

Zhang Zhaonu is not good at women, and has no heirs. There are only thirteen adopted sons. They are called the Kunshan Thirteen Taibao in the Jiangbei area. Over the years, four people have been killed or injured, and there are still nine people left, because Zhang Zhaonu has not been established for a long time. In order to clarify the successor, the nine righteous sons fought openly and secretly for the suzerain, and were jokingly called Jiulong Seize the Inheritance.

The young man's name is Zhang Daosuo, and he is also one of Zhang Zhaonu's adopted sons, ranking second.

In terms of cultivation, he can only be regarded as an upper-middle level among the nine adoptive sons, but he is very popular with Wu Lezhi, the second person in Kunshan. This time Zhang Zhaonu chose to take him to Jiangnan, Wu Le's contribution is indispensable.

From Zhang Daosuo's point of view, if he can help his adoptive father handle Jiangnan's affairs well this time, then most of the success of the suzerain will fall into his hands in the future, so no matter what, he can't make any mistakes.

This time it was Zhang Daosuo who volunteered to enter the city alone to make a stand for Zhang Zhaonu. It is true that there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in Jiangdu City, but Zhang Daosuo does not think that those high-ranking immortals will put down their airs and embarrass this junior. As for other people's fairyland, Zhang Daosuo dare not say In the realm of immortality, he is invincible, but it is more than enough to pay for his own life.

Nowadays, there is a growing rumor in the arena that there are four heroes, Qianlong, Crouching Tiger, Chufeng, and Youlin. Zhang Daosuo is quite disapproving of this. In his opinion, these four people do have some real skills, but they are definitely not in the top of the group. Lun's situation is just because of his background or his teacher's succession, so the saying of the four handsome men came into being. If life and death were really to be fought, it was still unknown who would win the battle.

I heard that the young master of the Sword Sect is You Lin, one of the four outstanding men. If there is a chance to fight him alone, he would like to see if the young master of the Sword Sect is worthy of this title.

Zhang Daosuo fell from the top of the city like a shadow, passed through several dark alleys, and came to the brightly lit street.

It has to be said that Jiangnan is very different from Jiangbei, no matter which aspect it is.

Zhang Daosuo took a deep breath, narrowed his eyes slightly, and showed a look of intoxication on his face.

Some people have commented on the two men among the four handsome men, saying that Zhao Tinghu is lustful and Xu Beiyou is lustful.

Zhang Daosuo, who was born in Kunshan, can be said to have combined the characteristics of the two, even more so. He likes beauty, power, money, fame, and elegant things.

It can be said that he has nothing to do with the four characters of pure heart and as few desires.

For Zhang Daosuo, Jiangdu City represented almost everything, women, money, face, inner face, everything he wanted was here.

The adoptive father, Zhang Zhaonu, has almost managed to dominate Jiangbei. He not only wants to inherit the position of the adoptive father, but also wants to be better than the blue.

Zhang Daosuo opened his eyes and whispered to himself, "Unify Jiangnan."

(End of this chapter)