Chapter 82: You are surrounded

In winter, the water is dry, both sides of the river are mostly repair the embankment of the civilian workers, is like ants as hard to carry the stone and sand, I heard that the silver above has not been fully allocated down, so in addition to the generation of workers, the rest of the civilian workers are a bit lethargic, busy day without the copper plate into the bag, who will not be able to put in a lot of effort. Grinding folk, only have extra time to take a look at the river has long been tired of seeing, learn those high on the scribe officials.

A look, but the crowd was surprised, only to see will enter the Jiangnan Road on the river, suddenly more than many boats, is cruising up and down, winter shipping is not as good as the rest of the three seasons, there are few times so lively, as if overnight, there is who cast what magic, airborne many boats fell on the river.

Those boats or large or small, different shapes, speed is not the same, and even inside there are a few were small modified three-winged ship. The three-winged boat is the Jiangnan navy official boat, speed is very fast, has always been forbidden to civil use. The same is, these boats stand of the men, waist are bulging, think are hidden blades, dull black cheeks in addition to the conspicuous water rust, is silent killing intent and vigilance.

Can in two days, mobilized so many ships concentrated in this piece of waterway into the south of the river above, and did not alarm the government out to speak, can have this ability, can only be the far-reaching reputation of the Jiangnan water fortress, single control of the river’s ability, even the Jiangnan famous that the several big families, are far worse than the Jiangnan water fortress.

Jiangnan water fortress full name of Jiangnan and related waters twelve chain dock (the name is lovely), specializing in Jiangnan as dense as a spider web of waterways to make a living, whether it is the transportation of goods, passengers or related industries, have to look at their faces. Especially the business of private salt, private tea and horse trading, which is carried out secretly, makes them hold extremely powerful strength. And after that Ming’s, the character under the name of Xia Qifei when the water fortress chief, but also efforts to make good relations with the government, and even legend has it that this Xia master can be with the sand lake in the governor of the water division of the Lord brother and brother.

Hooligans plus the government, who can not stop. So over the years, although the Jiangnan water fortress explicitly cut down on the black trade, but began to gradually out of the lake water grass, squarely come to the folk, the prestige is even better than before.

It is also such a powerful force, can be in the river above the unhindered, not afraid of things to discuss along the river to ask for a boat.

Issued the order, is the Jiangnan water fortress of the big head Xia Qufei, although he is not very concerned about the life and death of his men, but this time suddenly disappeared Guan Feminine and his own maternal some relatives, and more let him alert is, in the end, what is the holy spirit, actually can be so unknowingly in the bite of their own so big a piece of meat!

In March, the library will be reopened, in accordance with the previous year is not always Cui family and the Ming family of two small dishes, but this year, because Cui family has fallen, and the world knows that the jurisdiction of the library has been moved by the Princess Royal Highness to the Supervisory Yuan of the hand of Fan Tisi, so Xia Qifei decided to try to see in the new situation, they can not take advantage of the situation, to take back the original belongs to their own things in a clear way.

Just the inner library business is too big, the number of silver labeled to 100,000 to start, in March even if you want to go into that God of Wealth door to sit and drink tea, to take out the silver will be scared to death.

Has collapsed Cui family, still red-hot Ming family have this strength, Xia Qufei but absolutely no, even if his men control the largest gang on the waterway, but the hands of the silver, and the Ming family compared to, but also like a beggar. That’s why he was in a hurry to scavenge around for silver, and even secretly ordered Guan Feminine to get back into the river pirate business.

He refused to let go of even such a small amount of silver money, and it was obvious that he had been driven to the brink of madness. As the saying goes, it’s hard to kill a hero with a penny, and the first problem encountered by heroes who mix their lives on the river to learn how to do business, is money.

At this critical juncture, Xia Qufei was more and more careful and did not lose his mind, he was guessing whether what happened on the shore of Yingzhou would be directed at himself.

When it happened, he was in the city of Shazhou to invite the guardian of the Jiangnan naval division, Xu Shoushan Xu, to drink wine, the jianghu legend is always exaggerated, and the highest level of generals of the naval division that he has access to nowadays is the first level of the guardian. This Xu adults know this thing, keep silent, let Xia Qufei to search the boat, but still gave the water village in a warning: any thing, must be done before the beginning of March, after it is done, you have to wash clean, the smell of blood on the body to wash off!

The reason is that Mr. Tiji will be coming to Jiangnan from Tanyu in March.

Dozens of boats of Jiangnan water fortress searched the river for a long time, but still did not find the big ship with obvious appearance, not without some surprise. Xia Qufei listened to the return of his men, coldly narrowed his eyes and said, “It seems that those people did not come down …… that box is not so easy to move off the boat, it should still be in the vicinity of Yangzhou, have you guys gone to check it yet?”

That head wrapped in white cloth to resist the river wind of the Hanzi froze, embarrassed, said, “Underlings counted the time, two days, the boat should be near the sand state …… did not expect the other side was dead and relied on not to go.”

Xia Qufei annoyed beyond measure, nearly kicked a foot over, scolded, “You are a pig!” After a slight pause, he drank grimly, “Search upwards, live to see people, die to see corpses, the least you can do is drag that ship back to me!”

That han led the order and went away, not noticing that the Walled City Lord’s words appeared to be the beginning of a lack of confidence.

Xia Qufei sat at the table, gas puffing for a long time can not be calm, this half a year is the most important half a year of his life, absolutely do not allow anyone, anything to interfere with their own, or else planned for a long time the revenge of the great cause will have to re-planning.

A mouthful of cold tea in the bowl, he was a little feverish, his eyes showed two touches of hostility and ruthlessness, simply walked to the atrium, waiting for the good news from the brothers. He unlocked the chest buckle, revealing the horizontal flesh above the road scars, but these scars are a little strange, neatly side by side, not like the jianghu killings in the fall of the knife and axe scars, but rather like being tied up and then whipped hard in general.

At noon, a large ship slowly sailed away from the bustling pier in Yangzhou, marching down.

At the same time, dozens of Jiangnan Water Village boats aggressively marched against the current, braving the dangers of nighttime traveling and searching for traces of the enemy.

God did not intentionally arrange the time for hide-and-seek, before the sun sank into the mountains, both sides finally met in the section of the river around the most gentle mirror bend.

Dozens of boats swiftly came up, the natural boat handling ability of the water bandits was most effectively utilized at this time, but with a few changes in formation, they surrounded the big boat in the center of the river.

Jiangnan Water Village’s boats carefully surrounded the Kyoto boat in the center, the leader of the three-winged airship leaned over to the big boat, the big boat had already stopped at this time, seemed to have given up resistance.

The leader of the water fortress on the three-winged airship shouted towards the big ship, “Listen up people on board, you have been surrounded, put down the weapons in your hands at once and accept the inspection.” (Pardon my laziness.)

There was still silence above the big boat.

The leader of the water fortress, with a slightly stern look on his face, gestured a hand signal, and within the same time a total of six boats leaned over, stretching out their long embroidered poles, with some difficulty hooking onto the gangplanks of the big boat, and taking out the short swords they had on their person, they were ready to forcibly board the boat.

Just at this moment, the ship suddenly moved!

This movement is full acceleration, to make these water bandits jaw-dropping speed, towards the outside of the encirclement line rushed over, in an instant, the boat’s huge driving force, just on the side of the boat on the embroidery of long hooks all shredded, more than a dozen of the water bandits are climbing upward miserably into the water, stirring up the waves countless, the river is a chaotic!

And the front blocking the big boat of the water fortress, just like this without any fancy and Kyoto boat collided – then without any fancy, a turn of the head, a folded waist, slinking and sliding away.

Of course, this wonderful maneuver was accompanied by the unpleasant accompaniments of cracked decks and shrieking sailors.

Leaving a white wave of water at the rear, the Kyoto Lai boat sailed downstream at a rapid pace, only leaving behind countless wood shavings and the water bandits who were floating on the surface of the water on the mirror-like surface of the river.

The leader of the water fortress grabbed the edge of the boat and stabilized himself in the middle of the big waves, and looked at the stern of the big boat with his jaw dropped, and was shocked abnormally in his heart, this boat …… is also too sturdy! And from completely static to such a fast speed, how did the sailor who operated the boat do it? How than their own level seems to be higher!

Kyoto to the sailors on board, all were withdrawn from the Quanzhou naval division of the school officers, always studying is the art of water warfare, the level of control of the boat water warfare, naturally, than these Jiangnan water village to play ants eat elephants boatmen to be much stronger.

Just river boat, because of the fear of underwater reefs, do not dare to straight across, so Kyoto to the boat above did not hang full sail, and those sailors with the three-winged airships compared to the speed and does not account for any advantage, Kyoto to the boat rushed a defense, will immediately be followed by more than a dozen airships to keep up with.

At this moment, the river was half red, the Kyoto boats were first, the Jiangnan Water Village boats were second, and they were rushing downstream at high speed, making countless light-colored scars on the water surface, stirring up the yellow river water, making a wonderful picture of a hundred boats racing against each other.

“Use the throwing hook!”

Seeing that the Kyoto Lai boat was so aggressive and its hull was made of something unknown, it was so sturdy, the Jiangnan Water Village’s leader shouted loudly while comparing a few hand signals. Although the river wind was extremely strong and blew his words to the sky in a flash, but watching his gestures, those water thieves who surrounded the big ship tacitly took out a bunch of ropes and threw them towards the big ship.

A dozen or so ropes broke through the air and drew a beautiful arc and accurately landed on the deck of the big ship, the water bandits were extremely skillful, and they were really used to doing this kind of skillful work. The people then tighten their hands, the rope head with the hook will be firmly hung on the board, at this time both sides of the speed is similar, the rope is not a hard product such as bamboo, the water bandits no longer worry about anything, hand and foot along the rope will begin to climb to the ship.

Climbed to half, poor half, the side of the ship above the opening of more than a dozen bulkhead windows, each window stretched out a long hook or a long axe, viciously to the rope on those who cut down – only to listen to the knife wind gusts, miserable cries again and again, blood with the river wind scattered, limbs with the turbid waves and down, a photo face to face, the water bandits were killed and injured! The water bandits were heavily wounded and killed in a flash!

There are also some people lucky to fall into the river, but those rope hooks were cut off, and then the windows of the Kyoto boat, stretching out more than a dozen of the arrows on the bow to be fired, indifferently aimed at the surrounding boats, although not fired, but the deterrent intent is full, as if to say, whoever dares to come near again, shoot on sight!

The rear of the water fortress leader to see the eyes want to crack, rage exceptionally, but also the heart of the cold – he long years mixed in the river, do not know how many times to fight bandits, of course, know that the long bow, spear, axe each four …… is the standard configuration of the imperial court sailors!

“Could there be any conspiracy?”

The ship let go of the sails and went down at a surprisingly fast speed, and immediately went out of the Mirror Bay and came into the middle of the sandbar waters.

The leader of the water thieves looked fiercely at the still besieged ship, knowing that although the other party was unexpectedly well-prepared and powerful, but elephants are also afraid of ants, as long as still walking on the river, these long years of growing up on the riverside of their own, there will always be a way to make the other party sink under the bottom of the river, all they need, is just time.

Seems to be in response to his request, the front of the river surface steeply appeared four large ships, horizontal row in the middle of the river, just blocked the downstream river, these four large ships a total of three floors, extremely tall, fell in the river shadows are drawn long, looks very majestic.

The leader of the water fortress squinted his eyes and realized that it was the sailor’s building ship that often secretly cooperated with these people of his own in recent years, he could not help but be overjoyed and shouted, “There is a brother’s helper, don’t be in a hurry everyone!”

Kyoto come boat still silent but firmly rushed toward the downstream, seems that those four sand lake sailor’s troop ship does not exist generally, and as if going to kill themselves as sad.

Looking at the scene under the setting sun, the Jiangnan water fortress leader was instantly dumbfounded and sat on his butt on the ground.

In the eyes of the Kyoto boat will be front and rear attack and death, into a heavy siege, the downstream sand lake division four warships, actually is a good discussion generally at the same time rudder, to give that kind of Kyoto boat to make a way, let the boat leisurely downstream!

What’s going on here!

The water fortress leader could not believe his eyes, but the remaining reason in his mind told himself that the ship …… that his own group of people had been chasing for a long time was really very similar to these four huge ships …… of the navy.

Did not give him time to think more, four sailor ships have been like four giant beasts across the Jiangnan Water Village in front of the crowd of ships, oppressive.

The official standing in the bow of the sailor ship, Jiangnan water fortress leader also recognize, is the Xia Zhaizhi master’s confidant, the sand lake sailor guardian adults – Xu Shoushan adults!

Xu Shoushan stood indifferently at the bow of the boat, only the clothes on his body seemed to have been put on in a hurry, and the straps were not fastened, looking a bit funny. He looked down at the “old acquaintance”, frowned slightly, with a look to the other side to indicate that it is best to hurry to surrender, also do not care about the other side actually read it or not, then said in an official voice full of authority:

“People on board listen, you have been surrounded, immediately put down your weapons and accept the inspection.”

(Please forgive my laziness again)

Shazhou state city is right at the point where the sand lake enters the river, the water is in collision with each other, ten thousand years down the line, accumulating under the fertile soil countless, coupled with the hard work of the people to cultivate, has always been one of the famous grain producing places along the big river, and with the withdrawal of Quanzhou sailor division more than ten years ago, Shazhou sailor division, after accepting part of the manpower, has become the biggest sailor division base in the Qing country, and the daily lives of thousands of sailor division officers and soldiers have to rely on this state city which holds the throat of the south of the Yangtze River.

Drenched in sweat and watery smell of the navy officers and soldiers, in the Shazhou people bring endless trouble, Shazhou girls bring endless risk, Shazhou officials bring countless problems at the same time, but also for the Shazhou city has brought countless silver and business opportunities, the imperial court year after year, allocated to the salaries of those who are barefooted men, I’m afraid that there are 90% is used in the Shazhou in the brothels and gambling houses and restaurants, so Shazhou entertainment industry, accurately speaking, is the tertiary industry is quite Developed, all kinds of restaurants, the west side of the building full of red sleeve strokes, the east side of the morning to dusk dice constantly shaking …… is not lively.

This day, playing from the most famous inn in Shazhou out of a few people. This line of people with some strange, a young man, a girl, a scholar, a child, followed by a few solemn guards. The group directly hired a large car and drove directly to the southern city.

This pedestrian is naturally Fan Xian, Si Si, the third prince, Shi Hanyan Li and those seemingly ordinary tiger guards, they stopped overnight in Yangzhou, agreed to set the next trip, by the local people around the transfer of the sand lake sailor, as for what formalities are not known, but think that the military in any case will have to protect the Supervisory Board of the adults, Fan Xian look at the appearance of seemingly not ready to hide their identity, so that at this time is still left on the boat Su Wenmao very good. Su Wenmao, who was still on the ship, was puzzled.

Let the big boat in the river and those bandits around, Fan Xian but with the side of the people early in Yangzhou night off the boat, sitting in a carriage, comfortable along the official road to the city of Shazhou, to do the secret, actually was not noticed.

The atmosphere of the southern city of Shazhou is somewhat tense. This place is mixed with the three religions and nine streams, everyone knows that the overlord of the road – Jiangnan Water Walled City’s Xia Zhaijiao is doing a thing, the specific details are not known, but from that small courtyard constantly in and out of the Water Walled City Commander know that this thing is a bit troublesome.

That small courtyard might seem inconspicuous, but everyone knew that it was the rudder of Jiangnan Water Village’s seventy-two linked docks in Shazhou.

So when the carriage that Fan Xian rode in came to a few dozen feet outside the small courtyard, someone had noticed it, especially the eyes of the Water Village spread out in the street, but they were staring at it, as if trying to judge the pedestrian’s intention, but no one noticed that in the dim twilight, those seemingly ordinary assassins of the six divisions had already occupied a few of the most advantageous spots on this street.

With the carriage getting closer and closer to the rudder, gradually some people leaned over, intentionally or unintentionally aiming at the carriage, the atmosphere was a bit tense. The people in the carriage didn’t seem to notice anything, and drove straight to the entrance of the courtyard before stopping, a scholar lifted the curtain and went down, walked up the stone steps, and calmly said a few words to the doorway’s fighter.

Not long ago, beat the rudder out of a upside-down eyebrow, soybean eyes of the master-like people, face with a guarded look at him, narrowed his eyes and asked: “What are you people? Why do you want to see Master Xia?”

The scholar is Shi Elan Li, he where in the so-called rivers and lakes in the water, looking at the master of the sinister expression, and then look around the surrounding up those fighters, obviously the other side of the body are carrying a murder weapon, the scholar heart really some panic, can not help but secretly slandered the door division masters to let themselves do this kind of thing is too inhumane, but still forced to suppress the tension and said: “We come from Kyoto, face to face with Master Xia Zhai, there are important matters to to discuss.”

The master of the rudder looked at him with contempt, quite dissatisfied with the other party’s behavior, squinted at the carriage and said, “Is it you, or is it the person in the carriage? If it’s the person in the car, why don’t you get out of the car when you arrive at the door, being so sneaky, is it not a reason to be a guest.”

The three in the carriage, however, did not listen to what was said outside, Fan Xian threw Shi Yanli out, also with the idea of exercising the mind of a fellow scholar, at this time he was focusing on talking to Lao San, he said gently, “Your Highness, from Yangzhou to Shazhou, the people’s livelihoods seen along the way are very different from those in Kyoto, please keep this in mind.”

Traveling all night long, along the way, Fan Xian deliberately let the third prince get in touch with the ordinary people along the way, so that he could see the most genuine folk life, no matter whether it was the old man carrying a salary by the side of the road, or the Erniang selling herbal tea in the store, they would all stop specifically to say a few words of gossip.

Fan Xian has no experience in the education of the so-called emperor’s son, and there is no method, so he has to cross the river by touching the stone, and try to see if this kind of method can work well or not.

Shi Yanli seemed to smell something about Fan Xian’s arrangement, and couldn’t help but worry a bit about his mentor. The Third Prince, however, accepted it calmly, maintaining his silence with a maturity far beyond his years, rather than speaking carelessly.

“People’s livelihoods are much more grueling.” The Third Prince respectfully replied, “Although my Great Qing Dynasty is not heavily taxed, the people’s lives are still not easy, but looking at the people along this route, there is much peace and happiness on their faces, thus we can see that the people’s demands are really not high. The key point of the government is to satisfy the people’s basic requirements of food and clothing.”

Fan Xian purely belonged to the blind man’s guide, how to know how to govern the world, nodded noncommittally and said, “The people are easy to appease, and all the palace needs, the salary of the court officials, are all from the people’s demand, your highness in the future to help his highness to govern the world, you should pay attention to ask for the right degree, as long as it does not go beyond the boundaries, there is no big problem.”

The third prince looked at Fan Xian twice, and suddenly laughed innocently, “Teacher, the people of Yangzhou are far tougher than those of Shazhou, and there is a sense of resentment on the faces of the people there, so I think it is because the imperial court is asking for too much.”

On the boat, the young third prince will be extremely close to ask for Fan Xian teacher, and no longer the Secretary Lord, deliberately want to draw closer to Fan Xian relationship, Fan Xian blocked a few times, no effect, then let him go, at this time listening to this sentence, but subconsciously thought of being their own Yinzhou governor, they do not want to continue this topic, and turned to ask: “For the …… Jiangnan water fortress, your highness what do you think?”

“Teacher said, chivalry with martial arts to violate the prohibition, not to mention the so-called water fortress, but is a group of water gangsters, boat hooligans, plotting to kill, to violence to invite wealth, and there is no chivalry as teacher said.” A hint of ruthlessness flashed across the Third Prince’s clear and childish face, “In the student’s opinion, then the army should be mobilized to wipe them all out, with the chief villains decapitated and those who follow the villains exiled to the northern border.”

Fan Xian froze and said, “As I said earlier, the people’s culture is caused by the terrain and environment and the living environment, a single-minded purging is just like a wildfire that has gone too far, and may be able to clear out the weeds for a time, but if it does not start from the people’s livelihoods, the people will not be able to live on, and they will still fall into the path of banditry, and it will be just like a spring breeze followed by a rebirth of the weeds, and so on and so forth, when will it be the end of the cycle?”

After thinking about it, the third prince shook his head and said, “Teacher this is not right, the court certainly has to use heavy punishment for such chaotic people. You also said that the Jiangnan water fortress must be involved with the sand lake sailor to survive until now, if we allow these chaotic people to secretly destroy the court, how will we clean up in the future?”

He then said coldly and fiercely: “Pacify the people’s livelihood, let the people live well, naturally is to let the world free of thieves necessary thing, just for those who dare to venture out of the head of the thieves, but can’t be soft, the kill must be killed!”

Fan Xian looked at the third prince with a smile on his face, and realized that this little kid was really much more straightforward than himself, but his cover-up efforts were still far worse than his own, and he was brave enough to raise objections in his own face, thinking that he wanted to show his openness and honesty, and proposing to use the word “annihilate” to deal with the Jiangnan water fortresses, and wanting to show a decisive and unobtrusive side in front of himself, so that he would feel his sincerity! –Own Jiangnan line want to deliberately inculcate change Lao San, Lao San why not want to influence himself –The little guy although not done enough mellow, but a young age will be able to have this mind, is really very powerful.

“Then why does Your Highness not oppose …… the minister to come to this Jiangnan water fortress sub rudder today?”

“Teacher has his own wonderful calculations, it is not something that students can guess.” The Third Prince regained his composure and smiled cheekily.

Fan Xian raised an eyebrow, knowing that although Lao San did not know the details, he should be able to guess his general direction, and smiled to himself, thinking that he was indeed a somewhat hypocritical fellow. At this time, the conversation outside the carriage was also halfway through, I don’t know what Shi Elanli said, that master’s face finally became flustered, and those thugs surrounding the carriage leaned in a little closer.

The carriage curtain lifted, Fan Xian walked down, looking around at the twilight scenery, did not seem to care much about the water bandits who were forcing their way up.

Then he turned back and led the Third Prince and Si Si down.

The Third Prince stood by his side, willed his armpits together, looked around at the fighters with great interest, and asked softly, “Teacher, is this the so-called Jianghu people?”

Fan Xian responded, “It should be even so.”

The third prince was a little excited, but had little fear, he was after all a bit of a prince, how could he know the perils of the jianghu, and following Fan Tisi’s side, he would never think about his own safety, ever since the incident at the Hanging Temple, the oldest recognized that with Fan Tisi in place, there was no one who could harm him, not to mention the fact that now the whole world knew Fan Xian’s origins… …The family of the Son of Heaven is inherently merciless, but the Third Prince thought that Fan Xian was the exceptional one.

Fan Xian gave him a sideways glance and curiously asked softly, “Young master, why aren’t you worried at all?”

The Third Prince smiled cheekily and said, “There’s teacher here, what are you afraid of?”

In everyone’s mind, Fan Xian was still that martial arts prodigy who could be compared to Beiqi Haitang, yet no one knew his true condition. They just didn’t understand why Fan Xian also dared to go so deep into the tiger’s den, disregarding his own safety.

The conversation between the two, which fell on the ears of the people of Jiangnan Water Village, seemed to indicate each other’s identities; the child was probably the son of a certain great clan, while Fan Xian, the pretty scholar, was a seer, who just seemed to be a bit too young in age.

“Young master, let’s go in.”

Ignoring the vigilant and nervous gazes of the people around him, Fan Xian calmly led the young child in one hand and the woman in the other, and walked towards the courtyard door.

Shi Yanli lowered his head and followed with a very sweaty face, this exam was considered to be a smash, the door master told him not to reveal his identity, yet he had to enter the door in a dignified manner, the scholar really had no way out.

The master s face changed non-stop, looking at the other party s personnel collocation, guessing that the other party is the enemy that the walled city master is struggling to find, but …… how does the other party dare to find the door? When did the other party get off that ship!

At this time, countless brothers under Jiangnan Water Village were laboriously pursuing Fan Xian’s crowd above the river, and were fighting to the death with that big ship, who would have thought that the enemy they were searching for would come to Shazhou so boldly, and just arrogantly come to the door of the branch helm, and barge right in!

“Take them down!” Master Shifu’s face was green for a while and white for a while, it seemed that he had never seen such an arrogant enemy before, and deep down he was also a bit panicked, but all bullish people, except for the weak-minded, always have some credentials to be, but Master Xia was in the courtyard at this time, and if he was slow to respond to the situation, he was afraid that it would only go very wrong.

With this shout, the fighters drew their short swords, let out a roar, and killed towards Fan Xian’s crowd!

Fan Xian felt a slight tightening in his right hand and turned his head to look, only to see that the Third Prince still had an innocent smile on his face, but his palms had subconsciously clenched earlier, thinking that outside of his disguise, he was still a little scared.

“Confidence.” At this juncture, Fan Xian still didn’t forget to paraphrase: “Those amongst the Heavenly Family must have overwhelming confidence.”

Dang dang dang dang, it was like that first song was absurdly loud, and the brothers of Jiangnan Water Walled Shazhou Branch Rudder also saw a very absurd scene, only to see countless short swords flying up at the entrance of the small courtyard, as if it was raining, mysteriously and inexplicably out of one’s control of one’s own hand.

This was followed by countless muffled grunts, but all the fighters who blocked Fan Xian’s path were sent flying!

Gouda led six tiger guards who drifted around Fan Xian’s four persons like a gust of wind, silently drawing out the long swords they carried behind them, and shaking those fighters away, their aura rising up to the sky, which could truly be described as those who stand in the way are not easy to be stopped!

Fan Xian was still full of calmness as he led the two of them, walking towards the small courtyard, his footsteps very stable in the company of miserable cries and the light of knives.

“Though there are millions of people, I will go on.” He explained to the Third Prince beside him, “The court doesn’t need to deal with the jianghu people, we only need to arrange for them to do their work, so don’t talk about anything at the beginning of the meeting.”

The third prince nodded, his eyes glancing chaotically at the tussle around him, thinking to himself that this feeling is still really cool, his heart is very excited, and the palms of his small hands began to sweat, slightly wet.

“Why is the kung fu of these …… jianghu people so unbearable?” The third prince was a little puzzled by the facts in front of him.

At this time, some of the Jiangnan Water Village people were already lying on the ground, unable to climb up for half a day, while those who were still able to stand, looked at Fan Xian and his party with eyes that had become very fearful, especially when looking at those silent longswordmen, they were even more shocked. The master teacher who was covered in cold sweat, his eyes staring deathly at those hands steadily holding the hilts of their swords, howled in his heart, when did there suddenly become so many seventh and eighth grade masters in the jianghu! It’s actually still giving people as guards!

At this time, the crowd had already walked under the stone steps of the main hall, and Fan Xian stopped and said to the Third Prince with a smile, “What is the purpose of practicing martial arts? As with reading, it’s all about power, profit, and fame. What the rivers and lakes can give to martial artists, the temples can give even more, so the truly famous scholars are all working as officials in the imperial court, and the truly powerful masters are all working for the imperial court. Young master must not be fooled by those words, the Jianghu is a poor place, collecting protection money such as a job with no future, where can attract real masters ……”

In front of the hall in the main hall, the Jiangnan Water Village’s Walled City’s Walled City Master Xia Qufei finally stood out, he coldly looked at this pedestrians who were approaching, and opened his mouth, “All of them retreat, don’t be a disgrace, I’ll come to meet these honored guests from Kyoto.”

His face calm, in fact, deep inside is also shocked, early guessed that the other party is that Kyoto to the boat people, how would expect the other party does not avoid their own, but instead so forceful to come to the door!

Without waiting for him to extend his hand, Fan Xian and his party entered the center hall naturally as if they were going home.

Fan Xian invited the Third Prince to sit down on the main seat, and then he himself sat down next to him, Si Si and Shi Yanli stood quietly behind him, and the seven tiger guards pressed their hands on the hilts of their swords, spreading out around the center hall.

Xia Qufei see each other so do style, angry nearly angry heart, here in the end is still not their own territory! He forced down his anger, and said to Fan Xian with an arch of his hand, “Qifei has met the lord …… just that there are heroes amongst the recklessness of the rivers and lakes, and the lord’s previous words were a bit too much.”

At this time, if he still could not see that Fan Xian was a powerful figure from Kyoto, then he would really be an idiot, that’s why he had to suppress his anger, within the borders of Qing, the imperial court was an unbreakable horror like an iron plate, and any force that tried to fight against the officialdom could only end up in a tragic end of ashes and smoke.

“Xia Qufei?” Fan Xian looked at the grim-faced character in front of him, confirmed the identity of the other party, and said with a gentle smile, “This official does not wish for the time being for anyone to know that this official has come to your residence as a guest, and there were many people who saw it earlier, so go and deal with it with some difficulty, and consider it to be this official’s first examination of the Summer Walled City’s master.”