Nine-layer armor-breaking

Chapter 201 City Lord Li

Jiang Xuan handed the document to the personal guard and waited for him to check it.

Of course, according to what was written in the document, his current identity was Ling Honghe, a Fuzhou warrior and a dismissed disciple of the Fuzhou Martial Arts School.

The personal guard put down the halberd in his hand, took the document handed over by Jiang Xuan, and compared the appearance of the warrior in front of him with the portrait on it.

Nodding and handing the document back to Jiang Xuan, the guard said, "Junior Brother Ling, the City Lord's Mansion has already received news that a Fuzhou warrior named Ling Honghe will be reporting to the City Lord's Mansion."

After hearing this, Jiang Xuan smiled and nodded, then clasped his fists towards the guard and said, "How should I address you, Senior Brother?"

The guard had already confirmed Ling Honghe's identity, so his suspicions naturally dissipated. He spoke to Jiang Xuan in the easygoing tone of a senior brother, "My last name is Zhang. You can call me Senior Brother or Senior Brother Zhang, either is fine."

"Senior Brother Zhang!" Jiang Xuan clasped his fists again.

Senior Brother Zhang was very pleased to hear this. He picked up his halberd, knocked on the gate of the City Lord's Mansion behind him, and shouted, "Junior Brother Ling from Fuzhou is here, open the door!"

As soon as the voice fell, the door behind Senior Brother Zhang slowly opened with a low voice.

As Jiang Xuan walked into the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, he was shocked by the scene before him.

Although the huge city lord's mansion looks very grand, it does not have any luxurious furnishings and appears very simple.

There are many flowers and plants planted in the courtyard, and Jiang Xuan was surprised to find that in addition to those flowers and plants that are often planted as landscape plants, there are also a large number of fruits and vegetables planted in the courtyard.

Suddenly, a child about six or seven years old entered Jiang Xuan's sight.

"Slow down, slow down."

The little boy was holding a fruit in his hand and running back and forth in the courtyard, followed by a warrior in full armor.

The two of them ran and chased all the way, which made the armored warrior complain in pain.

It wasn't because the warrior's skills were not good enough, but because there were too many fruits and vegetables in the courtyard, and the warrior was afraid of stepping on them, so he was timid and didn't dare to let go and chase the child.

"Wow……"

With a cry, the little boy stepped on a fruit and fell in the courtyard.

The warrior hurriedly took a few steps and picked up the child.

Seeing this, Jiang Xuan was worried about the child, but he suddenly found this situation interesting, and the smile on his face deepened.

"Are you okay?" Jiang Xuan walked up to the little boy and asked.

"It's okay, he's like this every day, I'm used to it." The warrior holding the child smiled when he saw Jiang Xuan.

"Are you Junior Brother Ling?" The warrior suddenly thought of something and asked Jiang Xuan.

"It's me, Ling Honghe from Fuzhou." Jiang Xuan said.

"Junior Brother Ling is from Fuzhou, which is not close to here."

"By the way, my last name is Cheng, and I'm also a personal guard of the City Lord's Mansion." The warrior was holding the child, so naturally he couldn't take his hands away. He smiled and nodded to Jiang Xuan to express his welcome.

"Senior Brother Cheng!" Jiang Xuan clasped his fists.

When the child saw Jiang Xuan, he wasn't afraid of the scar on his face. He handed the fruit to Jiang Xuan and said, "Here you go, Junior Brother Ling," just like Senior Brother Cheng. Jiang Xuan was delighted by the child's cuteness. He didn't take the fruit and said, "Hello, little Senior Brother. You can keep the fruit."

"Junior Brother Ling, just accept it, otherwise he won't give up." Senior Brother Cheng said.

Jiang Xuan took the fruit, put it in his arms, and said, "In that case, thank you, Junior Brother."

Really curious about the identity of this child, Jiang Xuan looked at Senior Brother Cheng again and asked, "Senior Brother Cheng, I wonder who this little brother is?"

"The city lord's grandson." Senior Brother Cheng replied.

The child was probably a little bored being held in his arms, so he shouted, "Go play, go play."

Although Senior Brother Cheng was helpless, he still instructed Jiang Xuan, "The City Lord is in the hall, go ahead."

Jiang Xuan clasped his fists to Senior Brother Cheng and walked towards the hall of the City Lord's Mansion.

Walking into the hall, Jiang Xuan found an old man with white hair and beard sitting on the main seat.

"Ling Honghe?" When the old man heard the footsteps, he put down the few pages of brown paper in his hand and asked Jiang Xuan.

"Junior Ling Honghe, greetings to Senior City Lord." Jiang Xuan bowed respectfully to the old man.

"Haha, come and sit down." The old man smiled and invited Jiang Xuan to sit on a seat next to him.

"Thank you, Senior City Lord!" Jiang Xuan clasped his fists in greeting to the City Lord, walked towards the seat and sat down.

This place was not far from the city lord's seat. Jiang Xuan looked up and saw the city lord's face. It was the old city lord whom he had only met a few times.

"My surname is Li, and you will be my personal guard from now on. Since you are my personal guard, it would be too formal to call you senior, so just call me City Lord." City Lord Li's words were full of the kindness of an old man to a young man.

"Before the martial arts performance began, several of us city lords sat together and discussed this matter. We didn't expect that the top scorer in the Heavenly Class group would choose Yingzhou." City Lord Li stroked his beard and said calmly.

Then, the scene suddenly changed, and City Lord Li burst into laughter: "Hahaha, I didn't expect that Yingzhou, which these people looked down upon, would be chosen by you, the top scholar."

Jiang Xuan didn't know what was happening for a moment.

It is true that among the five states, although Yingzhou has a more developed business, it is obviously behind the other four states in terms of the number and quality of warriors.

Qizhou goes without saying, Gao Rubang and Cheng Xiuyong from the peak group are good examples.

The same is true for Jinzhou. Although Chi Yunfeng is the second in the Tianjie group, he has also demonstrated an understanding of swordsmanship that far exceeds that of ordinary people.

Although Dianzhou may seem remote, for the warriors of the entire Dianzhou, the Dian Forest is a rare and precious place for training. It is precisely because of the existence of the Dian Forest that the upper limit of Dianzhou warriors is raised very high.

In the previous five-state martial arts performance, although the number of Dianzhou warriors participating was relatively small, they had already demonstrated their strong strength. This time, Dianzhou sent more warriors, which indeed allowed the warriors of the other four states to have a clearer and more accurate understanding of the strength of Dianzhou warriors.

Apart from Yingzhou, which Jiang Xuan is most familiar with, Jingzhou is a relatively mysterious and unfamiliar state.

However, among the people of Jingzhou, there was one person Jiang Xuan was familiar with. He was the wealthy young man Xu An from Jingzhou whom Jiang Xuan met by chance on his way to Qizhou.

Although Xu An alone cannot represent Jingzhou, the financial resources that Xu An represents are incomparable to the Jiang family where Jiang Xuan belongs.

Not to mention the Jiang family that Jiang Xuan belongs to, even the Xu family, which has the most financial resources in Yingzhou Chamber of Commerce, cannot be compared with Xu An in terms of generosity.

(End of this chapter)