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When Lin Yan walked to the foot of the mountain, he found that the two unfamiliar guards had been replaced by others when they went up the mountain, and they must have changed shifts.

Seeing that Lin Yan was walking down the mountain, the new guard let him go without saying a word.

After leaving the Qingwu Gate, Lin Yan touched the two small porcelain vases he got from Bai Xiaoyu, after thinking about it, he didn't throw it away after all, but took out a picture that was in his arms with the two porcelain vases.

The drawing paper is delicate and smooth, and the material must be expensive. On the screen, a woman in white is sitting upright, with no smile on her face, and her expression is even colder, but she naturally exudes an ethereal and spotless aura.

Lin Yan is familiar with this woman, and Mei Jiangxue should be even more familiar.

However, there were a few stains left on the good drawing paper, which looked rather indecent.

This is also the reason why Lin Yan didn't show this painting to Mei Jiangxue. If Mei Jiangxue saw it, she would go to Songbailin with a shovel in a rage and dig up the corpse directly.

After tearing the drawing paper into pieces, Lin Yan casually threw it away.

When he returned to Tie Niu's home near the Xiaoshui River Wharf, Tie Niu, who was sitting on the threshold and staring anxiously at the front, had his eyes lit up, and hurried forward to meet him.

"Brother Lin, you are finally back safely!"

Lin Yan nodded with a smile, and then said in a low voice: "My matter is settled, but Tieniu, please stop paying attention to this matter, so as not to cause any misunderstanding."

Naturally, Tie Niu didn't know that the real murderer was Bai Xiaoyu, and thought it was Cao Sanshui who sent someone to kidnap them, but if Cao Sanshui and Tie Niu ran into each other, or Tie Niu accidentally said something wrong, it would only cause trouble.

"I know, I promise not to talk nonsense, and so is my wife." Tieniu patted his chest and said.

"The Niu family must not be able to continue the wheat business on the wharf. In this way, Tie Niu, you are familiar with the wharf area anyway, and you have a bunch of friends. You might as well take this opportunity to sell this business."

This was one of the issues Lin Yan considered last night, and he thought it should work.

"Familiarity is familiarity. I have a few brothers to help. As long as we make a new agreement with the owner of the wheat shop, the unloading business at the dock is not afraid of being disrupted. It's just that I have no money and can't start the work."

Tieniu's originally joyful face became sad because of the money problem that immediately came to his mind.

"Here, taking these should be able to make a business."

Lin Yan gave two-thirds of the two taels of gold he got from pawning Ye Mingzhu to Tieniu.

"Brother Lin, how is this possible?" Tieniu refused to answer, waving his hands repeatedly.

"Count me as a shareholder." Lin Yan smiled slightly, and stuffed the money into Tieniu's hands, "The wheat business is done, and you can also consider relying on other businesses on the wharf. When I have money in the future, I will also be a brother of Tieniu." light, so that I can get some money from it, so this money should be considered my investment."

"Okay, then it's settled like this! I actually wanted to do it alone at the wharf with a few brothers! I will keep the money, and when the business is done, I will repay Brother Lin!" Tieniu said emotionally.

In the next few days, Lin Yan has been paying attention to the news about Bai Xiaoyu in Xiaoshui City, and also heard that the Bai family is looking for people, but fortunately, the people of the Bai family have no suspicion of going to Qingwumen, as long as Mei Jiangxue keeps his mouth shut , the matter of killing Bai Xiaoyu himself would not be exposed.

The tragic death of Niu Si and the simultaneous death of a large number of warriors of unknown origin in Niu Si's new house were also widely spread in Xiaoshui City. It was heard that the government was involved in this matter, but because there is no evidence, the progress of the investigation has stopped. Not before, I believe it will not be long before this murder case will become a case without a head.

This afternoon, it had just rained, and the unloading business of wheat under Tie Niu’s plate could not be started. Tie Niu himself was sitting at home sitting on the threshold to watch the rainbow bored. Just in time, Lin Yan came over. Seeing that it was still early, Tie Niu said: "Brother Lin, I've already gained a firm foothold on the pier, but I'm fine this afternoon, how about going to the tavern for a drink?"

Lin Yan walked along happily.

Still in the tavern where I had a drink with a few porters before, there is still some time before dinner, but just after a heavy rain, many people couldn’t do their work, so I chose to sit around a table in the tavern Drink happily, so there are quite a lot of guests in the tavern, and the atmosphere is very lively.

Lin Yan and Tieniu waited until the table had finished drinking before finding a seat. There was no way, the business of the tavern was always surprisingly good at this time.

There are many people, so naturally there will be many chats. Everyone is talking about their parents' short stories, but some people are talking about the recent famous events in Xiaoshui City.

The conversation at the nearby table quickly attracted Lin Yan's attention.

There were five people sitting at this table, all of them were strong men, even if they were not warriors, they should be practitioners, and the topics they talked about were inseparable from warriors.

"In another ten months, the biennial city-wide competition will begin. However, I heard that some rules have been changed in this city-wide competition, so the release time is four months earlier than in previous years."

A Chinese character at the head of the table raised the wine glass that his companion had filled for him, and drank it in one gulp, wiped his mouth with his sleeves, and said loudly.

"Isn't the city-wide competition in Xiaoshui City always an old rule? It is to go through screening and elimination in advance, and select ten qualified contestants as challengers to challenge the top ten young masters of the previous session. There are 30 contestants under the age of [-] in this grand competition, does this rule need to be changed?"

A question was immediately raised.

The person who spoke first threw a peanut into his mouth triumphantly, and said with a smile, "You don't know that, do you? The changes this time are really quite big! In order to increase the viewing experience of the competition, in addition to the 20 In addition to people, the organizer jointly established by the five sects also specifically allowed the previous top ten masters to nominate one more person, and these recommended people can automatically become challengers without being screened and eliminated. The throne strikes."

"Doesn't that mean that for the first time in the city-wide competition in late spring and early summer next year, twenty challengers will come together to challenge the top ten young masters of the previous session and compete for the final honor?" a player sitting at the table next to the big man asked. The shirtless and strong man said immediately.

"Not necessarily. Think about it. The new rules only allow the top ten experts to recommend players, and there is no mandatory regulation. I'm afraid some people won't recommend others, because recommending others is creating a threat to themselves!" an old man After touching a few handfuls of sparse goatees, he said calmly.

"That's not necessarily true," the strong man immediately began to retort, "I think this new rule is set by the great sects of Xiaoshui City to ensure their own interests. Think about it, everyone, the top ten masters are basically from the five major sects, so they are recommended Most of the players will also come from the five major sects, and these people can enter the final competition without prior elimination, which can not only hide their strength but also maintain their health. In this way, it is equivalent to adding a lot of competition to these major sects It is such a good thing, even if the top ten masters are not willing to recommend others to create threats to themselves, but the sect they belong to will definitely ask them to do so."

"In this way, this competition is very boring. It has completely become the five major sects playing the leading role, and the other sects are accompanying the prince to study. It's just going through the motions?"

Someone is confused.

"It won't be like this," the big man who revealed the news finally spoke.

"Although other sects in Xiaoshui City are weak except for the five major sects, there must still be some geniuses in the sect. It is unrealistic for the five major sects to want to include the new top ten masters in one fell swoop. Even if they want to occupy the top ten Most of the places among the masters have to be won through fierce competitions with geniuses from these small and medium sects; secondly, even if the final competition turns into a battle between the same sects, for the honor of the top ten masters, the same sect battles will be extremely fierce. It looks good, anyway, we viewers are blessed."

"It's really getting more and more lively!" After listening to the man's words, the tavern began to boil.

Although only one or two warriors can be produced out of [-] people, and the biennial competition is a contest between the young and middle-aged leaders of Xiaoshui City. These people have no chance to participate, but people worship warriors. The thrilling fighting between the two will make them even more excited.

Lin Yan listened quietly, but sighed in his heart: Now only nine of the top ten young masters are left, ha ha.

Lin Yan didn't feel the slightest embarrassment about killing Bai Xiaoyu because of "deception". Although the process is very important, so is the result.The important thing is not the method he used to kill the opponent, but that Bai Xiaoyu died in his hands in the end.

As for whether he can participate in the competition after ten months, Lin Yan did not insist.After all, I heard that the strength of the young warriors participating in the competition has all reached the stage of metamorphosis.

However, Lin Yan doesn't envy them, because he has done his best, and he has only been on the martial arts path for less than two months. Compared with these young leaders who have practiced for more than ten years, it is normal for them to fall behind temporarily.

Just as he was thinking, Lin Yan heard that man speak again.

"Don't think that the addition of players is just an attempt by the five major sects to do everything possible to compete for the ranking of the top ten young masters. In fact, it is not the case. There is another reason for this."

The man in charge of breaking the news obviously got the news in advance from some kind of channel, so with the mentality of satisfying other people's appetites, he deliberately played tricks, so as to show his face in front of others.

"Tell me, what is the reason?"

Seeing that the man was only focused on eating peanuts after finishing the first half sentence, everyone really couldn't hold back their curiosity and urged in unison.

"Another reason is, "

The man ate another peanut and dragged his voice.

Now, not only the other drinkers, but even Lin Yan became interested in another reason.

"Discover all the best young warriors in Xiaoshui City, select the new ten strongest young masters in Xiaoshui City, and go to the mysterious snowy plateau in Tiandi City to practice!"

Complacently, the man finally revealed the reason.

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