thousand words

On the eve of Lidong, in the city of Liaoyi.

In the late autumn season, the dawn is relatively late, and it is not until Chenshi, when the gate of the city is slowly opened in the frosty fog that has been enveloping the night.

There were not many people entering the city, and Che Feiji followed the flow of people, and set foot on this land again after a lapse of seven years.

I dare not count the seven years, but the changes in Liaoyi are so great that Che Feiji almost lost his way.In the past, Che Feiji had never been to any wine shop in the streets and alleys of this city, but today he could still recall the shouts in the streets and alleys and the lingering aroma of wine in the flowers and lanes when he closed his eyes.But it was a city he was so familiar with back then, but after seven years, it was completely changed.

Che Feiji walked towards the city following his old memories. The streets were bustling with people, mostly local people and business travelers, but he hadn't seen a few of the sword-bearers who had been everywhere since he entered the city.Che Feiji was puzzled. This Liaoyi is the place where the martial arts alliance is stationed and where the martial arts conference is held every year. It is known as the capital of the rivers and lakes.

While walking, he found a restaurant by the Yishui Lake, went in and sat down, called Xiao Er to come over and ordered a few special dishes of Liaoyi, and then called Xiao Er.

"Guest officer, this is your first visit to Liaoyi. You don't know that Liaoyi is no longer the capital of the rivers and lakes as rumored. The guest officer is a person in the rivers and lakes. He should have heard of the catastrophe seven years ago." Er said while pouring wine for Che Feiji.

Che Feiji frowned slightly: "You're talking about the Cangyuntai incident?"

Xiaoer nodded hurriedly: "Isn't that right? That catastrophe severely damaged the four famous families in Jianghu, and the Qianjia in Yishui was destroyed overnight. The largest famous family in Liaoyi is the Qianjia at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain outside the city. Now that Qianjia is gone, Liao Didn't Yi fall into decline in the Jianghu? Thinking back when Qian Xingyun was the leader of the martial arts alliance, Liao Yi was so prosperous, and his only son Qian Yuhan was amazingly talented. There are several restaurants and inns... It's a pity that the world is unpredictable!"

"What about the collateral descendants of the Qian family?

Xiaoer looked sympathetic: "The main family has been wiped out, how long can the remaining poor offspring live on? I heard that Qijue Villa sent people to wipe out the mansion of Qianjia in Xiangshan, and then suppressed and bloodwashed other families one after another. Later, a gang was stationed here to prevent these side branches from causing trouble."

Che Feiji was surprised by Xiao Er's information network, and couldn't help sighing: "You know it quite well..."

Xiao Er smiled helplessly, and suddenly lowered his voice: "Everyone in Liaoyi City knows about this matter, and you can see that this routine inspection is coming soon."

Following Xiaoer's gaze, Che Feiji looked up, and saw a few men with knives walking in swaggeringly from the door of the restaurant, all in dark-colored short robes with arrow sleeves, and the leader was big, thick and greasy With a greasy belly, he looks like a fox pretending to be a tiger.Che Feiji couldn't help sneering when he saw it, wondering how to inspect the martial arts level that can be seen at a glance.

It's okay to hold back the sound, but if you don't want to laugh out loud, it immediately attracted the attention of the leader. He looked up and down at Che Feiji with his nostrils, and strode over angrily, "What are you laughing at?!"

Che Feiji smiled and said without looking at him: "It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered that the fat pig in my pigpen should be slaughtered, so I'm happy."

The man was taken aback, and although he didn't understand why, he still sneered arrogantly: "You are such a poor boy, you can be so happy butchering a pig."

The voices of the two of them were not low. Before hearing Che Feiji's words, the diners around him suppressed their laughter, but now this man couldn't hear the sarcasm in Che Feiji's mouth, so he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Seeing his leader being slapped in the face, the skinny follower behind couldn't bear to listen, and came up and whispered a few words beside the man. The man's face flushed immediately, and in shame and anger, he drew out his knife and slashed at Che Feiji, cursing at the same time. Said: "Where did the little boy come from and dare to call me a pig, see if I don't want your life!"

Che Feiji jumped onto the table and easily avoided the man's tricks, and smiled while eating the peanuts in his hand: "Quickly practice to lose weight, you don't know that if you eat too much pigs, you will be slaughtered early ?"

"Whoa-"

The man was so angry that he didn't care whether anyone around him swung the big knife in his hand and slashed wildly. Several tables of innocent diners were affected, and the diners in the kung fu lobby were scattered in a blink of an eye.Xiao Er has never encountered such a messy person, and has long since hid to the side, for fear that the sword will accidentally injure him.

Che Feiji jumped up and down intentionally playing tricks on the man. After two or three times, he also noticed that the restaurant was in a mess. He didn't want to make trouble anymore, so he came to the man in a flash, and firmly clamped the man's head when he raised his hand. The batch of big knives.

The man was taken aback, and before he could react, he heard a 'click', and the big knife in his hand was snapped off by the fingers of the little white face in front of him.

The man immediately stayed where he was and turned off the ignition on the spot.

But at the same time, Che Feiji was also stunned, with a frozen smile on his face, and a pair of quiet starry eyes fixed on the lotus pattern on the man's cuff.

The Qinglian Gang, the gang that Bai Lichen arranged to station in Liaoyi turned out to be the Qinglian Gang!

Che Feiji didn't stay any longer, and threw a piece of silver to Xiao Er who was nesting in the corner as compensation. Before waiting for the reaction of the Qinglian gang members who stayed in place, they mixed into the crowd of people on the street and left quickly.

The excitement also ended with Che Feiji's departure, and the people around the door also dispersed.The waiter got up and handed the money to the shopkeeper to clean up the mess, but when he turned around, he found a woman sitting in the corner of the lobby.The woman was wearing a lavender flowing fairy dress, and looked at him quietly. Although she couldn't see her face under the veil, her pair of smart almond eyes captured Xiao Er's soul the moment they looked at each other.

"This... this girl... just now, uh... are you alright..." Xiao Er rubbed his hands for a long time before uttering this sentence.

The woman shook her head lightly, her eyes were bent as if she was smiling, and she handed a letter to Xiaoer immediately and said: "The young master will be back in a while, you will hand this letter to him at that time."

Che Feiji has been going straight to Lizhou since Huangquangu left, but he has been searching in Lizhou for a month, but there is no news of Rongshu, even the white envoys of Qianji Pavilion who can be seen everywhere on the street in the past can't be found. However, after inquiring about Qianji Pavilion, no one knew its exact location, as if Qianji Pavilion disappeared from the rivers and lakes together with Qian Yuhan.

Now that he came to Liaoyi, he wanted to try his luck, but when he entered the city, he met the lackeys of Qijue Villa.

When it comes to Qijue Villa and Baili Chen, he and Qian Yuhan are on the same side. If Qian Yuhan hadn't kidnapped Rong Shu, as long as Qian Yuhan said to seek revenge from Qijue Villa, Che Feiji would be the first to help.Back then, Bailichen had no grievances or enmity with him, but because he wanted to help the Qian family, he was besieged and killed by many masters, and in the end he was imprisoned and tortured, so that his meridians were severely injured and he was on the verge of death... How could he not avenge this hatred!

Che Feiji took a deep breath, and suppressed the anger in his chest. Suddenly, he seemed to remember something, and stopped in place.

Bailichen sent the Qinglian Gang to garrison Liaoyi, and the Qinglian Gang acted like a tiger to suppress the Qian Family's offshoots everywhere. If Qian Yuhan was going to deal with Qijue Villa, the first one to clean up would be the Qinglian Gang in Liaoyi!

Maybe Qian Yuhan has already made contact with the Qinglian Gang, just ask if the Qinglian Gang has been attacked by unknown people recently, maybe you can follow the clues to find Qian Yuhan's clues!

After figuring out the joint, Che Feiji immediately turned around and ran towards the restaurant.

Xiao Er closed the door early and was sorting out the broken tables and chairs, when suddenly the door was pushed open, and looking back, it was indeed the handsome young man from before.

"Where's that gang just now?!" Che Feiji cut to the chase.

Xiao Er hurriedly said: "Those people are sent out by the Qinglian gang to make daily inspections. Now that they run into trouble, they will naturally go back to the main altar to file a complaint."

"The main altar?" Che Feiji asked after a little thought, "Do you know where their main altar is?"

Xiaoer said: "Everyone in Liaoyi knows that the Qinglian Gang occupied the former Qianjia mansion and set it up as the main altar, which is at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain outside the city."

Che Feiji walked away, but Xiao Er hurriedly shouted: "Guest officer, stay!"

Looking back, I saw Xiao Er handing over a letter, Che Feiji took it suspiciously, and asked, "This is it?"

Xiao Er: "A girl left it for you."

"Girl?" If it was in the past, Che Feiji would definitely think that it was a woman who admired him, but now that he has disappeared for seven years, he doesn't think anyone can be long-lasting and wait for him for seven years, or when he just returned. Liao Yi has grasped his whereabouts, not so much a girl, such a pleasant demeanor is like another person.

Che Feiji took the envelope, without signature or stamp, took it up and sniffed it lightly on the tip of his nose, and only tore open the seal after confirming that the five poisons were harmless.

The moment he opened the letter, he was stunned. There was only one sentence on the letter paper, which was concise and to the point, but he was very familiar with the notes.

"At three o'clock in the unitary hour, Xiangxue Pavilion on Fengyue Street.——Han"

The shop clerk saw that this extraordinary young man read the letter from the girl, his face turned red and then pale, and finally turned into a smile on his lips, turned and left quickly.He couldn't help but imagine a love-hate love-hate relationship between the sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes. Thinking of it like this, he couldn't help laughing 'hehe', laughing so much that he didn't even notice the people coming behind him.

"It's broad daylight, so it's closed?"

The visitor was dressed in a moon-white robe, his black hair was tied up with a jade crown and combed meticulously, his appearance was gentle and handsome, he looked like a teacher of a private school of a high-ranking official.He was still playing with a strangely colored small square in his hand. With a few fingers in one hand, he flicked the small square quickly, and in a blink of an eye, he put the messy small color squares back together in the same color and on the same side.

Xiao Er's eyes widened, as if seeing some incredible trick, and forgot to reply for a while.

"It's closed, then we'll change to another one."

"No, no."

Xiao Er hurriedly regained his senses, only then did he realize that it was not the teacher who spoke just now, and there were two people behind him.One of them was wearing a long purple robe, which looked expensive, but this person pulled up the hem of the robe and pinned it to his waist, looking very casual, and this person was the one who just spoke; the other was dressed in black and had a cold face , although he has sword eyebrows and star eyes, his eyes are too gloomy, and his whole body exudes a dangerous aura of 'don't mess with me'.Xiao Er only took a quick glance, then turned to look at the kindest person who spoke first.

Seeing Xiao Er's eyes cast over, the man smiled loudly, threw the jug in his hand over and said, "If you don't have any, help me make a jug of wine first and then serve some delicious dishes. I'm going to starve to death."

After speaking, he turned his head and poked the man in black beside him with a smile and said, "Whatever you want to eat, eat as much as you want. People are like iron and rice is steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry."

The man in black didn't answer, and didn't even raise his eyes.

The man in purple hit a wall, so he had to smile awkwardly and say to Xiaoer: "First, serve four or five dishes randomly, with meat and vegetables, and then a bowl of porridge for health."

"Okay—the guest officer sits first, and the food and drink will be here soon!" Xiao Er looked around, and found that the corner where the woman was sitting was safe and unaffected by the fight, so he arranged the three of them to sit there.

The three people in this group are naturally Shangguanzhe, Gu Shangqing and Baili Mingyan who just came out of Huangquan Valley.It took Gu Shangqing a lifetime of patience and effort to pull Baili Mingyan out of Huangquan Valley. Even Shangguanzhe, who has always been stern and prudent, expressed nearly a hundred words of admiration and a faint smile for his feat.

But the person came out, but the three souls and seven souls still haven't completely returned to their places, like a walking empty shell, one can tell at a glance that they have lost their hearts.