Under the sky

Chapter 336 is imminent

Shen Yuqing immediately understood Yan Xuancheng's intention, which was an attempt to make Hengshan Qingcheng suspicious of each other.No matter what the outcome is today, Huashan will not hand over the land of Hannan obediently. alienating Qingcheng and Hengshan will allow Huashan to focus on dealing with Qingcheng.Although Huashan's strength has been greatly reduced, Qingcheng cannot capture it at will.

Shen Yuqing didn't know how Yan Xuancheng could convince the Dian Cang Beggar Clan in such a short period of time. The most important point was that the support of these three families was tantamount to declaring that Li Xuanxuan's attempt to divide the Dian Cang Alliance had failed. The three Dian Cang factions were still united. .

Perhaps Yan Feixi had always underestimated his son. Although Yan Xiangcheng was kind, gentle, and even cowardly, he was not incompetent.

Shen Yuqing's mind was racing.The top priority is that he must choose to accept or reject the position of alliance leader. Whether it is a gift or a disaster will be clear in an instant.His first reaction was to refuse, but before he could get up, he heard Tang Jueyan's charming laughter: "I also agree with Master Shen to be the leader of the alliance."

That’s four votes?The change was caught off guard. Shen Yuqing stood up immediately and said in a deep voice: "Qingcheng has no intention of taking the position of alliance leader. Moreover, at the beginning of the meeting, Head Li asked everyone if they recognized Hengshan as the alliance leader, and everyone admitted it."

"According to the Kunlun consensus rules, the leader of the alliance is elected. Without the joint recommendation of the nine families, Leader Li is only the acting leader." Yan Xuancheng immediately stood up and asked, "Who else supports Leader Shen as the leader of the alliance?"

Shen Yuqing smiled and said: "Master Yan, don't be joking. The leader of the alliance is recommended by the leaders. There are only three leaders here."

Yan Xuancheng said: "Kunlun has agreed on this rule? Juekong has always acted as the abbot, and there has never been any delay."

Tang Jueyan also said sweetly: "I went to the Kunlun Conference last year on behalf of my grandmother, so I didn't say no." She pointed to the tattoo at the corner of her eye, "This scar was left at that time."

"Chief Juekong and Madam Lengmian are not the exception. Otherwise, why would the heads of the nine families go to Kunlun Palace in person?" Shen Yuqing cupped her hands and said, "I am favored by several people, but Shen has no intention of taking this position."

"You don't have any intention in the future?" Yan Xuancheng asked.

"Shen really didn't mean it." Shen Yuqing looked at Li Xuanxuan out of the corner of her eye. Li Xuanxuan's pair of deep black phoenix eyes were unruffled, complementing Zhu Zhixia who was always smiling politely.

Knock, knock, Yu Jien lightly knocked on the table and said to Li Xuanxuan: "Wudang also agrees with Master Shen to be the leader of the alliance."

Shen Yuqing was surprised again.

Xiao Qinggu was silent for a while and said: "Xiao Dai Shaolin recommended Master Shen as the leader of the alliance."

Shen Yuqing couldn't figure out why these two people said such things. Fortunately, someone saved him.Jueji stood up and shouted: "You traitor can't represent Shaolin!"

Xiao Qinggu glanced at Shen Yuqing and immediately started arguing with Jueji. He was specifically trying to buy time for Shen Yuqing to think.With this buffer, Shen Yuqing understood a truth: the person on the sedan refused to move, but the person carrying the sedan refused to stop.Yu Jien must have known that Yan Xuancheng's proposal would make Qingcheng and Hengshan suspicious of each other, which would not be conducive to the transfer of the Xiangyang Gang to Qingcheng. Instead of doing this, it would be better to simply fall out and let Qingcheng become the leader of the alliance, making Xing Zhouzi fearful.

When Xing Zhouzi sent him to Hengshan, he never expected that such a thing would happen.

Songshan is the same way. Having Qingcheng as the leader will help Songshan become the tenth clan, especially when the Dian Cang Beggar Clan supports Qingcheng. As for the Tang Sect, it is definitely better for an in-law to become the leader than Hengshan to be the leader.Diancang and the Beggar Clan simply wanted to drive a wedge between Hengshan and Qingcheng, especially the Beggar Clan. Shen Yuqing didn't know how Yan Xuancheng persuaded these two sects, but this showed that the Diancang alliance was still maintained and was not divided because of Li Xuanxuan. And ended.

As for Hengshan, what can we do if we are dissatisfied?With the miserable situation in eastern Hunan, Hengshan is not only unable to send troops, but also has no name to send troops.

In this game of chess, everyone has a plan. You never know where the move that will kill you will come from.

No, maybe this is not a bad thing. Shen Yuqing is still calculating. He is a little resentful that he cannot quickly sort out the pros and cons and make a choice.

The benefits of becoming the leader of the alliance are obvious. Perhaps Qingcheng can rely on its growth in these eight years to unite the nine families and fight against the barbarians with the least sacrifice.Qingcheng can abandon the land of Hannan and only ask Huashan to give up a Han River waterway to Kongtong. Maybe this can make a good relationship with Kongtong, and use the Iron Sword and Silver Guard to break up the conflicts among the nine families, without even starting a war.

He can also immediately decide who will occupy the title in the dispute between the secular and the secular. And if Li Xuanzhen no longer trusts him, keeping Hengshan as the alliance leader may not be better than holding the power of the alliance leader in his hands, and rejecting the alliance leader will disappoint the allies.

But the current Kunlun consensus is so fragile. Each sect is cautiously maintaining the increasingly thin agreement without being sure. If the situation develops not as expected and the three Diancang sects unite again, Qingcheng may be the first to bear the brunt. .

"It seems that Head Shen is the one everyone expects." Zhu Zhixia seemed to be planning something. What was the head of Kongtong, who was the most elusive and unfathomable to Shen Yuqing, planning?
"Kongtong also supports Qingcheng as the alliance leader." Zhu Zhixia smiled slightly.

Shen Yuqing just wanted to bring peace to the world and let the Nine Families preserve their strength to fight against the barbarians, but except for herself, no one cared about this matter, and no one cared when the biting north wind howled outside the pass.Everyone is calculating for their own interests, pushing the world into an unknown situation.

Li Xuanxuan said: "Master Shen, are you willing to become the leader of the alliance?"

Is this alliance leader worthy or inappropriate?Shen Yuqing was unable to make a decision for a while.

■

Winter of October 91, Kunlun Era

After dawn, Huaishu Town will fall, and everyone in the town knows it. It is too difficult for 2000 people to fight against more than 4000 horse bandits, and Huaishu Town does not even have a decent city wall. The mud wall less than eight feet high is not as good as the walls of wealthy families in Qingcheng. Li Jingfeng can see outside the wall by standing on his tiptoes. With eyes full of fire, the horse bandits broke in and were able to kill people and steal goods immediately.

People in the town were crying.In front of the broken wall of the low house, the residents carried torches and moved their belongings out while crying.Noodle jars, quilts, bags of grain and silver, pots, pans, cattle, horses and sheep, and valuable and non-valuable utensils were piled in front of the door.In even poorer families, the girl would simply take off her pants, wrap herself in a fur jacket and cover herself with a quilt, lie down on the kang, and wait with her eyes closed and her legs stretched out to kill the ferocity of the horse bandits, so as not to suffer the consequences.Li Jingfeng knew these things. He had heard that the rules of the Nine Families did not apply here.

Almost half of the villains and robbers from the solitary cemetery are here. They are all fierce and stubborn people, waiting to get on their horses to discuss life and death, and sit on the ground to divide gold and silver.

There were originally nearly [-] guards in Huaishu Town. Usually, bandits with hundreds of people would not dare to commit a minor offense, but a group of a thousand people could be repelled. Li Jingfeng defeated the horse bandits gathered nearby more than once.It is difficult for this group of people to unite, because they all want to grab the secret treasure in Sophora Tree Town. If there are many people, the division will be thin, and if there are few people, there is nothing they can do to the big Sophora Tree.

But this group of people is different, and I don’t know who actually gathered more than [-] people.More than four thousand people... Ordinary horse bandits and their families have nearly a thousand people. Even if they are big thieves, they can only make up this number in the lonely cemetery.Seeing this momentum, the people of Huaishu Town dispersed even before the fight started.

Guo Sanhuai's thin body was leaning against the mud brick wall, wrapped in a dirty and black leather jacket, cooking a pot of mutton in the cold wind.Each piece of meat was two inches square. After cooking it for a long time, Guo Sanhuai used a spoon to take out the hot cooked meat from the pot, drained the soup and ate it in his hands.There was smoke in the cold wind, but he felt like eating a piece of cold meat and didn't feel hot at all.

The first time I met Guo Sanhuai was more than three months ago. He lived in a small courtyard next to the most famous big locust tree in Huaishu Town. He opened the courtyard gate and walked around the screen wall. There was a tree in the middle of the courtyard. There is an eye-catching mud brick house. The mud brick house is Guo Sanhuai's residence. After Guo Sanhuai got married, he built this courtyard around the brick house to take care of the growing Huaishu Town.

Relying on Li Jingfeng's reputation and the relationship with Qiniang's bodyguard Xiao Shuoshui - he once lived in Huaishu Town and was the captain of the escort team - Li Jingfeng easily met Guo Sanhuai .

Li Jingfeng originally thought that this legendary figure in the lonely cemetery would be at least a heroic and generous hero, even if he was not as tall as Mr. San. However, Guo Sanhuai was just a thin, middle-aged man with a complexion tanned by the sun and thick hair. He has two beards and a neglected gray stubble on his chin. He is more than seven feet tall. Although he is not skinny to the bone, looking at his lonely frame and thin shoulders and legs, he can pick him up and carry him with just one hand. It's easy to use as a weapon.

He is a middle-aged man who can be seen everywhere, perhaps an old farmer plowing the fields, a hawker selling candied haws, or a clerk in a shop, or like himself, a waiter in an inn.

Guo Sanhuai threw a piece of mutton over, and Li Jingfeng took it with his hand. It was very hot to the touch.He leaned against the wall, a few feet away from Guo Sanhuai, took out a pancake from his arms, wrapped it in mutton and ate it.

After finishing the mutton, Guo Sanhuai threw the noodles into the pot and cooked them.He is very good at eating. Looking at his figure, you would never expect this little man to be so good at eating.When the noodles are finished and the soup is finished, you will hear him burping, sticking out his tongue to lick the oily spots from the corners of his mouth, wiping his mouth with his sleeve, and rolling his tongue several times between his teeth until he removes the vegetable residue from his teeth. After picking them all out, I made a bowl of noodle soup, gargled it and swallowed it.

"There is a letter from outside." Guo Sanhuai said, "I heard that you committed another big case in Guidi."

"Me?" Li Jingfeng laughed dumbly, "This is the third crime, right..." Guo Sanhuai laughed, his laughter was honest and honest, like an honest man: "Brothers can commit crimes in the lonely cemetery, from all over the country, and they are indeed worthy of being Hero Li. "

"It doesn't matter if the person you kill is a local tycoon or someone who has done many evil things. It's just a name. I'm afraid of killing innocent people indiscriminately." Li Jingfeng said.He didn't mind if someone used his name to commit crimes. The fake Li Kui and the real Li Gui were beyond his reach.

"There's no need to worry. If the person killed was innocent, no one would believe it was Hero Li." Guo Sanhuai said.

A whimpering wolf howl could be heard outside the wall.In larger villages and towns, it is not easy to hear the cry of wolves. People compete with trees for land. The trees around large towns will be cut down. It is difficult for wolves to hide and they have to go to the mountains to find them.It was rare to hear wolves howling in Huaishu Town. Li Jingfeng knew that the howling came from one of the leaders of the horse bandits - Wolf Leader Gan Mao, a man who could raise wolves as dogs.

When I think of wolves, I think of Third Master. Li Jingfeng passed the Iron Sword and Silver Guard trial by fighting a wolf. Third Master catching the wolf is like catching a dog.

"Can you win the fight?" Guo Sanhuai asked.

"I have fought harder battles." Li Jingfeng reassured Guo Sanhuai, "I will go out and Mr. Guo will stay."

Guo Sanhuai's legs in the cross-legged position remained motionless. He stretched out his hand and pressed down on the ground, using the force of his body to cross-legged and fly up. He could see over the wall and saw the stars of fire outside the town. Then he suddenly fell down and sat up in a pile of ashes.

Li Jingfeng said: "There are a lot of people. There is no wall in the town that can't stop them. Even if one group is blocked, the rest can invade and plunder."

The townspeople have given up resistance. If they didn't want to live a peaceful life, they would not go to the big locust tree to avoid disaster.

"It's a pity that there is no secret treasure they want in the town," Guo Sanhuai lowered his head and chuckled, "All the silver has been spent, and reclaiming wasteland costs money. A hoe and two pounds of iron cannot cultivate an acre of fertile land. It's hard to move rocks and turn over land. Soil must be nourished. To grow wheat, hemp must be grown, and mulberries and vegetables must be planted. The treasure of Huaishu Town is the cultivated fields. The treasures will be spent, and the seedlings in the fields will never end. Children and grandchildren will all have them. If you have food to eat and shoes to wear, that’s what you call treasure.”

Li Jingfeng nodded: "I have seen those treasures."

"No, you didn't see it." Guo Sanhuai said with a smile, "I really have a treasure."

Li Jingfeng didn't ask what kind of treasure it was. He believed that Guo Sanhuai would say it if he wanted to.

"I had studied and originally wanted to be a bookkeeper. Huaishu Town was under the control of Huashan at that time. When I was ten years old, my father gave me a book and asked me to practice martial arts according to the above, and told me not to let anyone know I have learned martial arts myself. I didn’t even know that my father had learned martial arts, so I asked, Dad, have you ever practiced any of the above martial arts?”

"My father said that no one in the Guo family has practiced martial arts for eight generations, so the Guo family has not practiced martial arts for eight generations. I said, there are so many people learning martial arts, so why don't you ask others to teach you? My father said... …”

"Slow down!" Li Jingfeng waved his hand to stop him, "If you want me to take care of Mai'er Ma'er, just choke on the pot of mutton and put it back in your stomach. I'll have enough trouble taking care of Amao."

Guo Ma'er Guo Ma'er is a pair of children of Guo Sanhuai. The elder sister is sixteen and the younger brother is fourteen. They are as thin as their father. They are currently taking care of them - according to Amao, it is Amao who is looking after the siblings.

"A few people know, just in case." Guo Sanhuai said.

"Your martial arts skills are very good." Li Jingfeng thought for a while, "No worse than Senior Peng. You also have to protect Amao, lest I can't find her when I look back."

Li Jingfeng has seen Guo Sanhuai's martial arts. With his current vision, he would not say that this person is unfathomable, but it is difficult to count five people who are more powerful than Guo Sanhuai with his fingers. If his moves are not too rough, maybe this person is more powerful than Guo Sanhuai. Beggar Peng is even more powerful.

Guo Sanhuai warmed his withered hands on the fire. Perhaps with his martial arts skills, he was not cold at all and just wanted to get closer to the light.

"My father said that this martial arts cannot be revealed to others. Let me practice it just to take a chance. If it is not passed down from my ancestors, learning martial arts is not a good thing."

"My ancestors' surname is not Guo. Grandpa said that it takes ten generations to change the surname." Guo Sanhuai said, "You are the first outsider to know this secret."

"My family name is You."

Li Jingfeng was surprised.

"General You Changbo is my ancestor." Guo Sanhuai said, "This secret was only told to me when I was 15 years old and my father was sure that I could keep it a secret. It was only passed down, and none of my other brothers knew about it."

"King Nu is a hero respected by everyone, and You Changbo is the eagle dog of the court. Of course, You Changbo's descendants have to avoid the pursuit of the nine families. Before the Kunlun meeting, our family hid in the lonely cemetery. You Changbo expressed his gratitude to the former dynasty. The emperor was loyal and dedicated to serving the country, so he took the homophonic word Guo as his surname to show that he did not forget the country's roots. Everyone said that the angry king was a good man, but our ancestors saw the angry king as a rebellious bandit. The past is just a souvenir, not to be forgotten by future generations. People really think of our ancestors as bad people. My ancestors can’t even practice martial arts and don’t think about anything else. They just want to live peacefully."

"I didn't expect that I actually learned it." Guo Sanhuai chuckled, like an old farmer who had just harvested a good harvest. "When I was 16 years old, Fenyang attacked at night, Shaolin Huashan all ran away, and the lonely cemetery was in chaos, so I became interested. , build a Sophora Town so that the people here can settle down easily."

He said it simply, but this Sophora Tree Town has stood in the lonely cemetery for more than [-] years. It has grown from a big tree to a town of thirty miles, from not a blade of grass to full of fertile fields. How many fights and battles did it have to go through?It is not only water that irrigates the seedlings, but also blood.

Guo Sanhuai is a master, but there is no trace of a master in him.He has no majesty or magnanimity. He is the mayor of Huaishu Town and a legend in the lonely cemetery, but he looks like an ordinary middle-aged farmer.

In fact, he is just a farmer, but this farmer has great martial arts skills and wants to irrigate a lot of land. It is the seeds he sows in Huaishu Town that sprout and grow.He just wanted to farm, plant acres and acres of fertile land, and feed more people.

"I will keep Huaishu Town." Li Jingfeng said, "I can win this battle."

"Help me keep this treasure." Guo Sanhuai took out a small bundle from his arms and threw it to Li Jingfeng.

"This is my family's heirloom. I know it by heart. If something happens to me, I will pass it on to my son. He won't be able to practice it anyway. If you haven't learned martial arts, brother, you can practice it."

Li Jingfeng asked: "How to say?"

"You cannot learn other martial arts before practicing this manual, otherwise you will not be able to practice it." Guo Sanhuai said.

Li Jingfeng said "Huh", he couldn't learn martial arts only if he had a foundation in martial arts. He remembered seeing it before.

"What is the name of this book?"

"The art of righteousness."

Li Jingfeng was surprised. Isn't this one of the four tomes placed in the Guigu Palace?That righteousness technique of unknown origin turned out to be the martial arts of General You Changbo?
"I'm going to tell you something again, just listen. It's a story that has been passed down by our ancestors for hundreds of years. I'm adding jealousy to it, but I don't know whether it's true or not." Guo Sanhuai said in a low voice like an old neighbor who loves to hear gossip on the street, "It is said that our ancestors He and King Nu were good friends, but they fell out because of a woman."

Li Jingfeng didn't like to hear this jealous story. He thought that if You Changbo and Nu Wang really knew each other and were good friends, the Righteousness Art in Guigu Palace would have its origin.You Changbo was actually willing to hand over the family heirloom to King Nu for safekeeping. What kind of deep friendship was that?In the battle at Sanlong Pass, what thoughts did the two have in fighting each other?

"I'll take a rest first." Guo Sanhuai curled up and fell under the brick wall with his clothes on.

(End of this chapter)