Chapter 90.

Perennial!

Jiang Ran looked at the man in front of him with some surprise:

“Lord Chang, is Lord Magistrate?”

“Precisely.”

Chang Nian smiled and nodded:

“Young warrior please.”

He extended his arm as a guide, inviting Jiang Ran to sit down.

Jiang Ran nodded:

“Thank you, Your Excellency.”

The two of them took their seats as guests and hosts, and Chang Nian then ordered someone to serve tea.

Jiang Ran then smiled and said:

“There is no need for you to be polite, Lord Chang, I came here today for this.”

He lifted the bag in his hand.

Chang Nian glanced at it:

“This is?”

“A person named Xu Hongyi.”

Jiang Ran said, “As far as I know, this person’s court once had a reward of five hundred taels of silver.”

“I see.”

Chang Nian nodded, “Since the young warrior has the knife catching order in his hand, I think this matter is not false, come on.”

With a call, a magistrate outside the door immediately answered, and within moments two people walked in.

Changnian said softly:

“Go and collect the five hundred taels of silver tickets over.”

“Yes.”

The two yamen promised and turned to leave.

Jiang Ran saw this before he could be considered to have completely put his heart down, only to look at Chang Nian again, but with a smile:

“Your honor doesn’t know my intention to come, yet you see me so easily, is it possible that you don’t know me?”

“Catch knife order a government land temporarily only one, you this one on the seal of the Cangzhou government, young warrior is bound to hit the Cangzhou government to, must have got the trust of the government magistrate.

“In that case, this official naturally can not not see.”

Chang Nian said with a smile, “I thought it was Lord Prefect who had something to seek me out, but I didn’t expect it to be for this matter.”

“I’ve disappointed Your Excellency.”

“Where are the words?”

Chang Nian hastily shook his head, “Young warrior is doing the people a favor and sharing the court’s worries, this is a reasonable thing to do, how could you let this official down?”

The two people were slightly more polite about this, and the two magistrates had returned.

The five hundred taels of silver checks were handed over to Jiang Ran, and after checking them clearly, Jiang Ran proposed to take his leave.

Chang Nian did not keep the guest and stood up to send Jiang Ran out.

Along the way, did not say anything, Chang Nian thought Jiang Ran was authorized by Guo Chong to look for him, which is personally received, and now know that it is a misunderstanding, is not familiar with the natural nature there is nothing to say.

Can only casually gossip about some interesting anecdotes, ease the awkward situation.

Jiang Ran, on the other hand, was thinking more about Dao Wu Ming’s identity.

Although he knew before that the identity of the person he asked him to protect was bound to be special.

The person that the people from the Left Dao Zhuang wanted to investigate that ‘old monster’ they talked about in Penma County but couldn’t get around was naturally extraordinary.

Yet, he didn’t expect that it would be the magistrate of Penma County.

What kind of relationship did Dao Wu Ming have with him?

Or, what exactly was the identity of this person, Dao Wu Ming?

After a little bit of consideration of the two times that he had seen Dao Wuming.

Once was the Heroes’ Meeting, and once was the gathering of a group of people from the left channel at the Left Dao Zhuang.

It seemed that each time, it could have triggered something big.

And every time, Dao Wu Ming was at ……

As he was thinking about this in his mind, Jiang Ran suddenly furrowed his brows slightly, his eyes looking towards the flying eaves in the distance, on which was squatting a man with his arm raised, and a somewhat strange looking object tied to his arm.

With a grip on his palm, he heard the sound of whooshing projectiles breaking the wind in the blink of an eye has arrived in front of him.

Changnian was completely unaware of this, and was still laughing with Jiang Ran about anecdotes.

Jiang Ran had already extended his hand and clasped Chang Nian’s shoulder.

With a single point of his foot, the Nine Steps of Heavenly Qianqian swiftly moved, dragging the remnants of shadows, and then he had already rushed up to the sky.

Between the flying bodies, he landed on top of the building behind him.

Just to hear the sound of several bangs, that person hit out of the things, is landing in the square two people’s foothold.

At this time, the sound of explosions came together, and there was smoke that filled the four directions.

Changnian the whole person is dumbfounded, just now also in the laugh talk, how to turn the eye, they actually run so old high?

What was that thing that exploded on the ground? Pink pink green, quite good looking ……

Two thoughts flashed, then knew that the situation is not right.

Hurriedly looked at Jiang Ran, not waiting to ask, the corner of the eye suddenly glimpsed a flash of light.

Following that light, above the flying eaves in the distance, at an unknown time there were two people standing.

A woman with white clothes like snow and a face like frost.

She was holding a long sword, the blade of which had already stabbed into the chest of a man in black.

That black clothed man’s mouth and nose bled, and seemed to want to say something, but saw that the sword light a cross, half of the body was torn by that sword light, the body was soft and rolled down from above the eaves of the house.

The woman in white casually shook off the blood on the sword, and glanced back at Changnian and Jiang Ran.

Slightly pondered, body shape a turn, since the eaves leap down, do not know where to go.

Chang Nian looked confused, what is this all about?

“Chang adults, you rest easy, feet this smoke, when it is a kind of smoke, a moment with the wind dispersed, you can go down.”

Jiang Ran’s voice at this time into the ear:

“I have something to do, I’ll go first.”

“Huh?”

Chang Nian froze, and then he saw a flash of shadows as Jiang Ran flew away in the air.

Only Chang Nian was left standing alone on the roof, confused by the wind:

“How should this official …… this official go down?”

At this time the sound of footsteps came, but the yamen in the yamen were attracted by this side of the commotion, have rushed to check the situation.

As a result, the head of the first two have not yet figured out what is going on, head first into the mist in the turn over and fall.

The back of the eye to see this, suddenly dare not rush forward.

Changnian then quickly shouted:

“It’s misty smoke, wait for it to disperse before coming in.”

Hear their adults are fine, the rest of the people this is considered a sigh of relief, each press, waiting for the smoke to dissipate.

……

……

Jiang Ran left in a hurry because of Shi Miao.

He naturally won’t worry about anything happening to Shi Miao, even if it does happen, isn’t it her own choice?

As far as this aspect is concerned, Jiang Ran never felt that he had any obligation to pay for other people’s choices.

But …… he has to care about Zuo Daozhuang ah.

This person, Shimiao, is too strong a killer.

Practicing is a murderous sword, and wherever she passes, her men never show any mercy.

Now that she turned away, she is bound to find traces of Zuo Daozhuang.

If she was allowed to go on another killing spree, who would investigate the whereabouts of the ‘old monster’? If the old monster couldn’t be found, how could Jiang Ran determine if this matter had anything to do with the old drunkard?

This was the primary matter of importance to him.

In comparison, the Heartless Ghost Mansion, and the Red Maple Leaf Family’s matters had to be put on the back burner.

As a disciple of the Danyang Sword Sect, Shi Miao’s martial arts skills naturally do not need to be mentioned, and what he saw that night alone was far above Li Tianxin.

However, her traces are too heavy, want to chase her is not difficult.

Jiang Ran followed the map, and in a few moments he had already circled out of Penma County.

Further ahead, he stepped into the forest.

Jiang Ran was careful in his heart.

It is often said that one should never enter a forest.

This was a lesson learned with blood.

The terrain in the forest was narrow and varied, the trees blocked the view, and it was easy to hide killers in unseen places.

The grass and trees are thick, and there may be traps hidden under the ground.

If someone with the intention of counting mindless, in the forest set up, will lead people here, it is most likely to come in, can not get out.

In the jianghu on the loss on the bait, tired of life, is really where there are many.

But Shi Miao does not care about these.

Swaggering directly into the forest, where he passed, the sword rushed to the sky.

Jiang Ran along the traces of this not far ahead, will hear the sound of weapons collision.

Flying to his left, he saw that Shimiao was fighting with a group of people.

This group of people Jiang Ran carefully distinguish a bit, really can not see the road, may be that night the left road Zhuang assembly in the left road in the middle of the people, may also be a few days just rushed to the ……

However, no matter who it is, this group of people will be beaten back by Shi Miao.

In terms of martial arts alone, Shimiao was simply too strong for them.

But soon, Jiang Ran realized that the situation was not right.

Although Shi Miao has the upper hand, but until now has not been able to kill a person.

Slowly Jiang Ran tasted the oddity.

There were a total of six people on the other side, and the means they used were different.

Two used fists and palms, two used swords and knives, there is a drum, a gong.

The person who used the sword was the closest to Timiao, and the sound of clanking as the blades interlocked was the sound that Jiang Ran had heard just now.

The person who used fists and palms afterward was seeing the cracks and adding to the breaks, or taking advantage of the situation to attack.

This was clearly the way of formation changes.

The last two gongs and drums, but in the outermost, even the most crisis, the other several people have not let them to replace, on the contrary, everywhere to protect, for fear of loss.

And this gong sound drums, every time it comes, will make the sword of timiao slow down one point.

Obviously only one point, the person in front of her will be her sword through, the results of the hard to let it escape from life.

Timiao face expressionless, surrounding the cold miserable, just focus on waving the palm of the long sword, for the outside of the two people, but since the beginning of the two people, but never looked at a glance.

“Formations and sound techniques?”

Jiang Ran frowned slightly, somewhat unsure.

Because this was something he heard in his ears, he really didn’t feel that there was anything odd about it.

But Shi Miao’s performance was definitely not as simple as it seemed.

And it was Jiang Ran who had watched for such a short while that Shimiao had gone from originally having the upper hand in a big way to being in crisis every step of the way.

She was now starting to get tired of dealing with it, and her sword technique was somewhat similar to Jiang Ran’s Kun Zi 13 Crazy Devil Claws.

Walking is a forward path, occupy the upper hand when, naturally, unbeatable, the opponent is difficult to resist.

But once fell into the wind, into a defensive position, is stretched to the limit.

Moreover, whenever the key time, the gong sound drums will follow.

Let Timiao’s movements slowed down so much that within this short period of time, there were many close calls.

Jiang Ran pondered for a moment and suddenly smiled:

“One can try ……”

He watched with cold eyes, seeing that Timiao was in danger again, and that the gong and drums were about to sound, right at this moment, he pinched his lips to make a whistle, and a sharp and ear-piercing ‘whistle’ sounded briefly and sharply.

It was at the very moment when the gong and drum sounded.

The two voices suddenly met, and with a shake of the longsword in Shi Miao’s hand, he heard a buzzing sound, a flash of blood, and the one person who used the sword in front of him already had an additional scar on his arm.

The other person’s face is shocked, foot changes one after another, to escape from Timiao pursuit.

The silhouette on his side flashed, and a punch arrived right in front of Shi Miao’s face.

Shi Miao could only deal with the situation in front of him first, and couldn’t be bothered to continue killing.

The man with the sword was able to get out of trouble and looked back at the two men beating the gong.

All three had confusion in their eyes.

Just look at the time again Miao, but really can not bear to let go, immediately regrouped, the old tricks.

The sound of gongs and drums also re-repeated again at the critical moment.

But every time this sound rings, that a touch of short sharp whistle, will come again.

This sound also contained internal force, breaking their gongs and drums cleanly.

Before and after just two or three times, the four people who were the main strikers among these six people were already bruised and battered all over their bodies.

“It can’t go on like this ……

“There’s a high level person stirring things up in the dark, under these circumstances, if we keep fighting like this, we’ll have to die here.”

Someone opened their mouth to speak, and immediately, some people agreed.

But there were also people who held a different opinion:

“But now even if we want to leave, can people just let us go?”

When these words were spoken, a few people instantly fell silent once again.

Hidden in the dark this person, although has not appeared, but from that whistle contained internal strength, they are absolutely not his opponent.

Not to mention that there was also an expert from the Danyang Sword School.

The other side does not even need to do anything, as long as there whistle, their side will have to let the timiao decimated.

Now that he wanted to leave, how could that person be willing?

“Fight! Since he only sent out whistles to block, did not show up …… think may not be to be difficult with us, perhaps, just can not see that we bully the few with the many.

“Even if it is not, now fight a still have a chance to escape from life, otherwise, next year’s today is the anniversary of our death.”

This statement, the remaining several people immediately nodded, six people reached an agreement, heard the gongs and drums together, a few people to close the formation will go.

And originally every time will sound the whistle, this time really did not sound.

After this beat, when Shi Miao reacted, these people had already run out a cut.

She immediately went to chase, and then the gong and drums sounded again …… she again a beat, but after a beat, continue to be indomitable.

She is really like a persistent sword, once sheathed, not stained with blood will never return to the sheath.

Jiang Ran looked for a long time, do not know what to say.

Although the sound of the gongs and drums is a bit of a good idea, it’s still a bit difficult to completely restrain Shi Miao.

Killing is okay, but want to get rid of, but not too easy.

Jiang Ran slightly pondered, then gazed at the back of the heart of Timiao.

The next moment, Shi Miao really stopped moving.

It wasn’t until after those few people had gotten away for some distance that Shi Miao turned around violently, and with a glance, she saw Jiang Ran standing behind her:

“What are you doing?”

“Does your Senior Sister Ye know that you like to be beneficent?”

“I ……”

Timiao had the intention to differentiate, but since Jiang Ran would appear this time, it was obvious that the whistling sound just now had come from his mouth.

It was reasonable to say that he had saved her life.

Immediately, she took a deep breath, and the coldness in her body intensified:

“Why did you let them go?”

“What is Dao Wu Ming looking for you to do?”

Jiang Ran said as he moved forward in the direction that those few people had left.

Timiao subconsciously followed him:

“Protect Chang Nian and eradicate the Left Dao Zhuang.”

“You added this latter sentence yourself, didn’t you?”

Jiang Ran looked at Shi Miao.

Shi Miao was silent.

Jiang Ran was speechless for a moment:

“Do you know how to protect someone?”

Shi Miao didn’t even think about it, “Nip the threat in the bud!”

“So reasonable! But do you know where the source of the danger is?”

“Zuo Dao Zhuang.”

“Then you went to Zuo Dao Manor and killed the Manor Master?”

“…… I couldn’t find it.”

Jiang Ran secretly wiped a handful of sweat, listening to her meaning, if she could find the Left Road Manor, she would have just rushed in and killed someone ah.

At that moment, Jiang Ran sighed:

“In terms of today’s situation, the key is in that young master of the manor, and further down, it’s those people from the left channel who came to Penma County to do something.

“Among them, someone is bound to be the leader, even if it’s not the young master of the manor, it’s still extremely crucial.

“You today, even if you are a great show of strength, kill these few people who surround you, as well as the roof above, against the perennials, but what is the role?

“The key black hand is still hidden behind the curtain, you can only be on the side of the perennial, come one to kill one, waiting for the other party to continuously strike, their own tired to deal with.

“As the saying goes, if you defend for a long time, you will lose. How long can you defend?

“The slightest carelessness, Changnian’s life is not guaranteed …… I think Dao Wu Ming let you come, is never to let you give Changnian the end.”

“……”

The breath on Timiao’s body became more and more dull and cold, and there was not a single expression on her face.

Jiang Ran thought that she hadn’t listened to a single word of his words.

Just listening to her gritting her teeth, she squeezed out a few words from between her teeth:

“What should I do then?”

“Borrow these few people as a guide to find where they gather and find the person behind the scenes.”

Jiang Ran smiled faintly:

“In that case, it’s precisely knowing the enemy and knowing yourself that will help you win a hundred battles.”

“Alright, I’ll go find it!”

Shi Miao coldly opened his mouth, and with a turn of sword qi around him, he was about to speed up.

Jiang Ran froze and hurriedly said:

“You stand still!”

Shi Miao stood still with a buzz, looking back at Jiang Ran, his eyes as cold as frost, his breath around him as subdued as a sword blade:

“What’s wrong?”

“…… You’re too ear-catching.”

Jiang Ran said, “Keep your sword aura tucked away, lest you be noticed. Also, after finding the traces, don’t show yourself, or else you’ll spook the snakes, and it won’t be easy to find them again.”

“After finding them, just kill them directly.”

Timiao looked at Jiang Ran doubtfully:

“What’s there to frighten the snakes again?”

How in the world did this woman grow up, why is the killing aura able to be heavy to this extent?

Jiang Ran was speechless for a while as he listened:

“Are you sure?”

“…… barely a try, even if not no more than a death.”

“There is no need to die.”

Jiang Ran took a deep breath:

“You think ah, nowadays, your senior sister Ye is also in Penma County, there is also the palm in the sky Luo Tong senior, and then I am also here.

“If you are able to detect their traces, come back directly and explain.

“With so many of us together, aren’t we much more certain than you alone?”

Timiao thought carefully for a moment:

“But what if they are unwilling?”

“Why not?”

Jiang Ran was puzzled.

“It’s not like everyone who learns martial arts wants to be chivalrous and fight for justice, to sweep away the injustices of the world.”

Timiao said in a cold voice:

“This is what I want to do, I practiced the sword for this reason, this will until death do us part, but there is no reason to think that everyone else should be the same as me.”

Jiang Ran stayed dumbfounded, not expecting that such words would come out of a cold girl’s mouth.

With a smile at the end, he suddenly understood why she had become close friends with Ye Shocking Frost.