Chapter 238.
Whether or not the Zhao Family’s matter was done by Ke Beisheng was left aside.
He was able to withstand the heavy pursuit, from a young man, mixed to an old man, and also hard to make a name for himself as a Demon Leaving Strange Old Man.
It was conceivable that this person was not simple.
After Jiang Ran had finished speaking, neither Dong Qingcheng nor Ye Jingxue felt that Ke Beisheng would be able to agree.
However, Ke Beisheng pondered for a long time and actually reached out and took the bottle.
Opening the lid, he tilted his head and swallowed the pills inside.
Then he kowtowed heavily and opened his voice:
“The world has slandered me as a devil, but only Your Excellency is willing to give me the opportunity to defend myself.
“Ke Beisheng is willing to follow the right and left of Your Excellency!”
Jiang Ran looked at him twice, if it was when he was first starting out, he might have actually believed the words straight away.
But nowadays, the more he experienced in Jianghu, the more complicated his mind became.
It’s already hard to trust others.
This is not to say that Ke Beisheng’s words are false, just this jianghu is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, what to say is not important, what to do is important.
Jiang Ran gently nodded:
“Good.”
Then he looked up at the others present and so on:
“What do you all think?”
Now that this is actually asking some unnecessary, he has already done the disposition of the bystanders and what qualifications to comment?
Dong Qingcheng nodded:
“I will listen to everything as Jiang Warrior.”
“That’s good.”
Jiang Ran smiled.
Ye Jingxue, on the other hand, couldn’t help but speak:
“I haven’t said anything yet. ……”
“You listen to me.”
Jiang Ran looked at her.
Ye Jingxue was speechless for a long time, feeling that Jiang Ran really didn’t take himself as an outsider.
Subsequently, Jiang Ran unlocked Ke Beisheng’s acupoints, and in the meantime gave him a push to pass the blood.
Don’t look at Jiang Ran’s punch seems to be just pressed to the ground, the force of vajra voodoo fist has actually penetrated the tendons and bones, if you don’t unravel the middle of the meaning of these injuries are bound to gradually erupt in a couple of days, then it’s completely hopeless.
Now that Jiang Ran had helped to condition them, there was no problem.
After doing this, everyone gathered in one place to explain the reason.
The Blazing Sword Sect had been dispatched to the Jin Yang Province by their division.
The reason is very simple, there are a few years old devil, recently reappeared in the jianghu, in the jinyangfu show traces, so the division to go to investigate them.
According to Dong Qingcheng, this trip was not a small matter, not just for the Blazing Swords Sect.
In addition to the Blazing Swords Sect, the other six sects and even the Daoyi Sect would also be there.
Before they left the house, the sect had orders for them to meet up at Gu Zhang County within the Jin Yang Prefecture and then rush to Jin Yang Prefecture together.
Jiang Ran had seen the map and knew that this Gu Zhang County was at most three days away from Jin Yang Province.
It was indeed a relatively close place.
However, the seven sects were scattered north, south, east and west, and the Blazing Sword Sect side went to Guzhang first, and then to Jinyang.
But some sects, but first to Jinyang, and then to Guzhang.
If you bypass the Jin Yang Province, and then travel three days to meet in Guzhang County, but it is a waste of time.
This is a waste of time. If you focus on this, it makes people think that there are some problems in Guzhang County itself.
However, Jiang Ran did not explicitly say anything about this matter, but only nodded:
“I happen to have something to go to the Jin Yang Prefecture as well, if you all are willing, we can travel together for a while.”
Dong Qingcheng immediately agreed, seemingly afraid that Jiang Ran would backtrack.
In the middle of the conversation, he heard a muffled grunt coming from the mouth of someone on the side of the Flaming Blade Sect, and it was the one who had been injured earlier, and Dong Qingcheng had pushed his blood through the palace, but now it seemed that he still couldn’t suppress it.
“Zhou senior brother.”
Dong Qingcheng’s face changed, coming to the front to probe and take his pulse.
The others looked at Ke Beisheng with some indignation.
Ke Beisheng stood with his hands behind his back and grunted:
“What are you looking at? Fiery old man nearly took my life, I’m just taking it out on his disciples and grandchildren, and I didn’t really get you all killed ……”
“Hmph, Devil Li strange old man, the name is not small, but is as timid as a mouse.
“The ancestor has a grudge against you, you don’t dare to seek the ancestor, but only dare to look for trouble from us juniors.”
Finally someone couldn’t help but open his mouth and sneer back.
A single sentence was one that poked Ke Beisheng’s sore spot.
Back then, the Blazing Ancestor’s slash had indeed made his life worse than death, and he had suffered for many years.
To this day, he still suffers from fire poison attacks from time to time, resulting in a splitting headache.
This knife nearly took his life not to mention, also let him produce a huge psychological shadow, these years although the martial arts advanced, but always dare not go to find the Flaming Ancestor revenge.
Now by the Blazing Blade Sect’s junior, a sentence to reveal the cloth of shame, immediately feel face can not hang.
The eyes were flooded with killing intent:
“What you said just now, dare you say it again?”
Fiery Sword Sect people are also fierce temperament, heard soft words can let them calm down, once aggravated, is the flame ruffled.
That young man immediately laughed coldly and was about to open his mouth when he heard Jiang Ran gently drink:
“Enough.”
“Great warrior Jiang ……”
That disciple of the Flaming Blade Sect glanced at Jiang Ran and took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his anger.
Jiang Ran then glanced at Ke Beisheng and gently shook his head:
“There is nothing wrong with what people say, if you are indignant in your heart, you can go and find that Flaming Ancestor to take revenge, nothing to do with laying hands on someone else’s disciple, not only is it meaningless, but it’s also a flat out fall in status.
“This brother is in your means?”
Ke Beisheng could bare his teeth with the people of the Flaming Blade Sect, but he didn’t dare to be reckless with Jiang Ran.
Immediately, he nodded honestly:
“Precisely, he was hit by my [Three Intercepting Vein Locking Fingers], and when the finger force wanders away, he suffers a lot of pain.
“This finger force is my unique technique, it is difficult for others to lift it. It has to be painful for a full seven days before it dissipates on its own.”
“Is it possible to undo it?”
“Naturally.”
Jiang Ran looked at Dong Qingcheng when he heard this:
“Brother Dong, let’s put aside today how things were back then.
“Now that Ke Beisheng is with my seat, please give him a chance to resolve this grudge for the time being for my sake.
“If there is a day when the truth about the past years can be revealed, and then we can do the act of discussing the matter, what does Brother Dong think?”
Dong Qingcheng first frowned at his words.
It felt like Jiang Ran had taken all the advantage of this statement ……
Now because Ke Beisheng had arrived under Jiang Ran’s seat, the past could not be taken into account.
In the future, if what happened back then comes to light, they will still have to come back to settle their scores ……
But on second thought, if what happened back then was really the Blazing Blade Sect’s fault, or the Jianghu Lake was unfair to him, Ke Beisheng.
Then he has endured all these years, should not have.
People want to settle scores, but also can not be wrong thing.
Immediately, he sighed softly:
“Listen to warrior Jiang.”
“En, Ke Beisheng, go untie him.”
Jiang Ran said.
“Yes.”
Ke Beisheng sniffed and clasped his fists in agreement before arriving in front of that Blazing Blade Sect disciple.
Under the gazes of a group of young men gawking intently, he casually clicked a finger on that Blazing Blade Sect disciple.
That person’s pale face immediately took on a blood color.
However, this finger was not the end, there were a total of seven fingers before and after, before everything ended.
That person may be the pain for a long time, now once the pain is gone, they will fall asleep.
Ke Beisheng put his hands behind his back and returned to stand behind Jiang Ran.
After such a small episode, the crowd did not continue to talk.
Now that the night was deepening, everyone was beginning to rest.
Jiang Ran sat on the edge of the fire, casually picking at it to make the flames burn a little more vigorously.
Tang Yuyi was lying not far from him, occasionally opening one eye to look at Jiang Ran’s opposite side, where Ye Jingxue was sitting.
Ye Jingxue hugged her legs, sitting on the ground, her chin resting on her knees, clearly gazing at the flames, but in reality, her eyes had never left Jiang Ran.
Jiang Ran occasionally looked up, she pretended not to look at him.
Jiang Ran was dumbfounded and said softly:
“Anything you want to know, you can ask me by all means.”
“…… So much.”
Ye Jingxue thought for a moment, then said:
“But, yet I don’t know where to start asking.”
“Then think about it.”
“How did you and my sister meet?”
Ye Jingxue finally thought of where it all began.
Jiang Ran looked up into the darkness beyond the Taoist temple and also remembered that night.
The sight of that girl, who was in a sorry state and covered in blood, when she broke into the broken temple, so he told Ye Jingxue about it.
Of course, he did not say that at that time, he asked people Ye Jingxue whether they robbed money or color and these things.
Jiang Ran also opened the box, will he and Ye Jingxuan since the acquaintance of the bits and pieces, all recalled.
Broken temple acquaintance, tea shop, Cangzhou respectively, reunion on horseback, and finally is the Red Maple Villa after a good get-together, each go their own way.
Ye Jingxue listened with great interest, and finally sighed:
“If it wasn’t for my sister’s benefactor’s accident, maybe I would have been able to see her today.
“Big brother Jiang, thank you for saving her.
“A long time had passed by the time the news of the accident at home reached my ears.
“Although I wanted to go down the mountain immediately at that time, Master refused to allow it.
“Said that both parents and relatives have been put away by the sister, even if it is back to the Red Maple Villa, but also can not see anything.
“And said, this thing is deep and complicated, not only sister’s letter said Tong Wanli and heartless ghost house, there is a bigger shadow hanging behind.
“If I want to avenge the Red Maple Villa, I should come to the Jinyang Mansion.
“To wait for the great revenge to be avenged, and then go back to pay homage to the Fang as a descendant of the Ye family.
“That’s why …… I have this line of work nowadays.
“I didn’t expect to meet you just in time.”
Jiang Ran smiled and shook his head:
“You’re not polite enough to meet and impersonate your sister?”
Ye Jingxue smiled:
“I’ve grown calluses in my ears from hearing your name, and as soon as I saw the jade pendant around your waist today, and heard you Frosty called you so affectionately, I naturally recognized your identity.
“Then wondered if you could recognize that I am not a sister.
“I didn’t expect that it was really recognized by you.
“But now that I think about it, I don’t think it’s strange …… You’ve been through so many things together, you must be familiar with each other.
“Unlike my father …… who can’t see my sister and I twice a year.
“In the future …… it will be even more difficult to see.”
She said here, look gloomy, perhaps the tears that should have flowed have already flowed, also may not want to cry in front of Jiang Ran, a somewhat familiar stranger, but did not fall into tears.
Jiang Ran was silent for a while, did not open his mouth to comfort, just added a firewood, let the flame burn a little more vigorously, and then said:
“Rest early.”
Ye Jingxue, however, didn’t want to sleep, sniffled and took another deep breath, followed by tilting her head to look at Jiang Ran:
“Has sister mentioned me to you?”
“Mentioned.”
“What did she say about me?”
“Said that you’ve understood things since you were young and are smart and resourceful.”
In fact, Ye Jingfang and Jiang Ran rarely mentioned Ye Jingxue, much less said words like ‘understanding since childhood, clever and sensitive’.
It was just that words couldn’t be said like this.
“Really?”
Ye Jingxue’s eyes did light up slightly, and the corners of her mouth spread a bit of a smile:
“Sister is the one who’s smart, I’m just a bit luckier.”
Jiang Ran glanced at her and didn’t pursue the question.
Ye Jingxue also didn’t know what came to mind and didn’t continue to speak.
On the contrary, it was Tang Yuyi, who had originally been peeking, who didn’t know when she had already looked brightly.
There were a thousand words she wanted to say, but due to the identity of ‘Li Tianxin’, she couldn’t say a single word, so she could only turn over with a black face and then closed her eyes as hard as she could to sleep.
Jiang Ran glanced at her, and for some reason the corner of his mouth hooked up in a tiny arc.
The night was then spent in this silence, which was smooth and uneventful.
The next morning, everyone woke up and packed their own pots and pans for dinner.
It could be seen that the Blazing Sword Sect’s group of people, including Hu Nan, hadn’t eaten or drank very well on this journey.
In the Jiang Ran and Tang painting seems, Li Tianyu that can not be entrance to the breakfast, they ate all the delicious …… as if what delicacies and food generally praised again and again.
This also made Li Tianyu’s confidence increase, decided to deeply explore this road.
After breakfast the crowd continued their journey.
None of the disciples of the Blazing Sword Sect rode horses and performed lightweight skills to catch up.
Ye Jingxue originally wanted to sit in Jiang Ran’s carriage, but in the end, after lifting the curtain and taking a look, she silently sat on top of the carriage.
It was really unwilling to accompany those heads to sit.
He also couldn’t help but say to Jiang Ran:
“Big brother Jiang, in the future, if you don’t use this carriage anymore, don’t ever resell it.”
“Why?”
Jiang Ran casually asked.
“It’s too lackluster ……”
Ye Jingxue muttered and sat down on her knees.
Dong Qingcheng, on the other hand, felt that Ye Jingxue’s words were reasonable, this carriage that had been loaded with human heads and was still wafting a corpse stench, it was not appropriate to sell it to anyone ah.
Jiang Ran smiled again:
“Okay, turn around and don’t use it, I’ll dismantle it and burn it.”
In the end, Ke Beisheng and Li Tianyu drove the carriage one on each side, Ye Jingxue sat on the roof, and the other people’s mounts remained unchanged.
The group rushed towards Gu Zhang County like this.
This journey is not really short, a walk is almost half a month.
As time passes, the deeper the winter, the colder it feels.
A group of people also changed into thick winter clothes.
The disciples of the Blazing Sword Sect also all put on cloaks with red stripes on a black background.
Jiang Ran hit the eye to look at feel a little familiar, and finally dawned, if it is a stand up collar …… this is not the Xiao organization?
And although his own internal strength is deep, cold and heat does not invade, but in order not to be too cranky, also changed a set of clothes.
It is a set of green long shirt that Tang Painting Yi picked out for him, with a tie at the waist and a straight body, together with his more or less red face, from the ready-to-wear store, he was surrounded by the girls on the street for a while.
Although this era is said to have male and female big defense, but just move the eyes without hands is no harm.
Therefore, the gazes were particularly intense.
They almost made Jiang Ran shy.
And along the way, Dong Qingcheng and the others finally understood how Jiang Ran’s head in this carriage actually came to be.
Facing the first wave of outlaws who rushed up and wanted to snatch Jiao Tail, they were still surprised.
They also wanted to talk to each other nicely, and when they realized that the other party was not moved at all, they drew their swords in anger.
After the second wave, they are relatively calm a lot.
And then later has been accustomed to it.
And these disciples of the prestigious sects were all very capable of learning, they could even go with Li Tianyu to clean up the battlefield and pack up the broken silver and pills.
There were also a few who were able to recognize the wanted criminals, and with nimble hands, they cut up their heads and came back and threw them into the wagon.
Dong Qingcheng didn’t take it seriously at first, but after a while, when he realized that these senior brothers of his were getting more and more skilled, he felt that something wasn’t quite right.
Good thing that at this time the ancient chapter county is already in sight, otherwise he is worried, if this continues he will have a junior brother to learn how to save the head with Jiang Ran.
This where is with Jiang Ran peer all the way ah, this is Jiang Ran in this training knife catchers it.
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The ancient chapter county is not big.
The location is also quite remote and does not occupy a transportation hub, so there are not too many people.
When you set foot in the county, it feels quite cold.
There were very few pedestrians on the streets.
Occasionally, when they saw a few of them, they were just hurrying past with their hands tucked into their sleeves.
Dong Qingcheng had been here before, and led the way first, leading the crowd to a place called Yunxiang Inn.
Only when the door of the inn was closed, there were people who were stunned:
“Could it be closed for good?”
“There are people inside.”
Dong Qingcheng opened his voice and said:
“Go knock on the door, it should be that the weather is too cold and it’s closed for camping.”
Immediately, a person from the Flaming Blade Sect went up to knock on the door.
Sure enough in a few moments there were footsteps arriving in front of them, the door opened with a creak, and a head peeked out furtively:
“Who is it?”
Seeing this group of people in front of the door, he was stunned:
“Is …… this …… you guys …… to beat the tip or to stay in the store?”
To make a stopover is to eat a meal and then leave, and to stay in a store is naturally needless to say.
“Live in the store.”
Dong Qingcheng said, “Are there enough guest rooms?”
“Yes!”
The store assistant’s eyes instantly lit up, hurriedly opening the door and said with a smiling face:
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry ah, the weather has been getting colder and colder these last few days.
“The cold wind is unbearable, so I closed the gate.”
He spoke this time, there are people inside shouting and cursing why open the door, hurry to close the door to freeze to death ah.
This store assistant also not afraid, turned back to distinguish two sentences.
They are so many people, directly live in the inn’s building, obviously can not live.
Fortunately, this inn is very large, there are courtyards at the back, Jiang Ran they asked for a small courtyard to rest.
The little second brother immediately became more enthusiastic.
Looking at Jiang Ran, he felt how to look at him.
Jiang Ran then asked in passing:
“Little Brother Two, in recent days, have there been guests like us, a group of people wearing the same clothes?”
“Yes.”
Little Brother Junior replied without even thinking.
Dong Qingcheng was stunned at his words, looking at the appearance of this inn, he thought that they were the first to arrive.
Immediately, he hurriedly asked:
“Where are they nowadays?”
“A few days ago a group of guests came, wearing the same thing, oh yes, on their sleeves, they all had a mountain embroidered on them.
“But they went out last night and haven’t returned until now.”