To catch a thief, to catch a phoenix first

In late June of the second year of Taiyi, during the war between Annan and Dahong, it had no effect on Chengning and other northern regions, so the rivers and lakes were naturally in chaos.

Hundreds of families gather in Chengning City, and the three giants of martial arts today are naturally also here, namely the Tianhe Mo family, the Yanmen Sun family and the Wolong Yun family.Thousands of people entered the venue of the martial arts conference, and the scene was very grand and spectacular, but there was no one fighting in the big arena in the middle, so it can be seen that the competition has not yet started.

Xue Yueyue glanced casually over the crowd, and sneered: "Wu Xiaozong, Yangyan Villa, Yuanrong Pavilion, heh... people come together."

Hua Yuerong sighed: "Young master, keep your voice down, don't let people hear you, and cause trouble. And that little highness, don't be discovered by the palace lord, otherwise the palace lord will be furious and come There will be good fruit for you to eat in time."

Xue Yueyue frowned, sat with her body crooked, yawned, and said disapprovingly, "What do you do if you find out? Bringing a long princess out for a walk, our family is so majestic. Others are envious, and so are they." Not coming."

Shi Yuanyuan remained silent, noncommittal. After all, as a long princess who was slipped away, she was still very grateful to Xue Yueyue for taking her into the arena.

The girl in yellow who spoke was sitting on the left side, and beside her was an unremarkable little maid, Xue Yueyue and Shi Yuanyuan.Among the fifty seats specially reserved for the Mooncry Palace, a golden banner was planted beside the main seat, with bird feathers embroidered with ice silk thread on it, and the seat was still vacant.

The previous leader of the martial arts alliance, that is, Sun Chenyuan, the former owner of Yangyan Villa, died three years ago of going crazy, leaving only his only son, Sun Bao, who is now fifteen years old.It's ridiculous that his fame throughout his life was ruined by his notoriety of practicing evil skills.

After he blew himself up and died, he didn't even see his whole body. Although the hundred families hadn't been punished, they had already begun to crowd out them secretly.In addition, the new owner, Sun Bao, is an out-and-out trash, so he looks down on Yangyan Villa even more.

Up to now, Xue Yueyue is still able to restrain herself and not replace them. Xue Yueyue sincerely admires Zhang Chengji for being able to save their lives. He has such a benevolent face and is very hypocritical. According to her opinion, Sun Chenyuan's death is very unlikely. Bajiu and Zhang Chengji are inseparable.

Hua Yuerong, who was sitting behind her, was afraid that she would cause trouble and was restless, so she quietly leaned towards her again, and said in a low voice: "Young master, please don't cause trouble, and try to win the reputation of Mooncry Palace. The Palace Master will also Come on, I'm afraid it will be here in a while, you..."

Xue Yueyue was too lazy to listen to her nagging, so she quickly interrupted her eloquence: "Okay, okay, I understand, if Yan Jiang comes later, I will beat him down with three tricks! Take the first place and go back So that you can show off and show off, it’s not difficult, but I didn’t do it before.”

What is rare is that Yan Jiang, who has led the Bu Erfeng people in seclusion for many years, will also attend this martial arts conference as a witness.

How can the witnesses just say to fight?Although Xue Yueyue is talented, she is definitely not Yan Jiang's opponent. Yan Jiang will not fight with her because she is a junior.Hua Yuerong knew she was making trouble, so she flicked the back of her head dumbfounded.

"Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooows

Unexpectedly, her head exploded, Xue Yueyue quickly raised her hand to cover her head, gasping for cold air while hissing, while turning her head to stare at the culprit.Seeing this, Shi Yuanyuan also quietly covered her lips and smirked. This is the world that Seventh Sister and her yearned for when they were young.

Suddenly, a cold and low voice came from behind: "It's not proper to fight and fight!" This voice was not Hua Yuerong's voice, and the tone was colder and harder than that of ordinary women.

Looking along the source of the voice, Shi Yuanyuan's eyes widened slightly. The woman in front of her was really too similar to Xue Yueyue.If it wasn't for the genuine Xue Yueyue sitting beside her, she really wouldn't be able to tell who was who.

Taking a closer look, this young woman in apricot clothes has a golden cloud-patterned long sword tied around her waist, which is not extraordinary at first glance.Her hair is moist, her skin is delicate and fair, her eyebrows and eyes are exquisite and beautiful, and she has a ladylike temperament. How can she look like a woman who is nearly forty years old?

Others can only deduce that she is Xue Tang, the lord of Yuetiao Palace, based on her clothes and her calm and dignified expression.

Sure enough, it was printed from the same mold. Xue Tang and Xue Yueyue looked almost exactly the same, but the demeanor of being a girl was not as calm as that of being a mother.Seeing her mother, Xue Yueyue's nerves also tensed up, she quickly turned her body and saluted.

All the people in Yuetiao Palace were all young women, when they saw the palace lord coming, they stood up to greet him, and said in unison: "Welcome to the palace lord."

Shi Yuanyuan, who had been wandering too far away for a long time, was startled by this sound, fearing that someone would discover her identity, so she quickly knelt and bowed her head, but in the end she was still more than half a beat behind the others.Fortunately, Xue Tang only glanced at her indifferently, and didn't care. He raised his hand to avoid the etiquette of everyone, and sat down beside Xue Yueyue again.

At this time, Shi Yuanyuan noticed that the two servants who had just followed behind Xue Tang had delicate features and a cold demeanor. They were holding together a narrow rectangular brocade box, which was about the length of a child. What.

Even the servants are as beautiful as a flower, no wonder some people always say that if they die at the hands of the disciples of Yuetiao Palace, they will die under the peony flower, and even ghosts are romantic.Whether they are the children of the aristocratic family or the vagrants, all of them yearn to see the beauty of those female disciples.

Mooncry Palace is the gentle hometown in the hearts of young knights.

When she sat like this, Xue Yueyue, who had just threatened to win the first place, immediately sat in a well-behaved manner, not daring to make any further remarks.People from the three great families were almost here, and only the leader of the martial arts alliance, Zhang Chengji, and the leader of Fuji Peak were left.

Xue Tang put one hand on the desk and the other between her eyebrows, and said softly to Xue Yueyue, "I brought you your sword." As she spoke, she glanced sideways with her beautiful eyes, signaling for Shuangshu to present the sword to you. superior.A sword that requires two people to hold it together is of course not an ordinary weapon.

"Thank you mother."

With such a weight, is it true that someone can use a nimble and light sword technique with just one arm?Shi Yuanyuan couldn't help but looked at Xue Yueyue suspiciously, and couldn't take her eyes away again.

A fair and beautiful hand rested on the lock of the brocade box, and with a slight push, the brocade box opened, and a long sword was placed on the Guxiang forge, Xue Yueyue easily pulled out the sword, this was to prevent others from being caught by the sword. Get started.

The whole body of the sword is like jade, and the hilt is ingeniously emptied into a colorful butterfly. If you look carefully, you can see that it is inlaid with different gemstones.

Shi Yuanyuan admired secretly from the bottom of her heart: "It is said that Xue's family is rich and powerful. Now that I look at it, it is true. This rogue sword is priceless. It sounds like it is used by idle rogues. In fact, it is even more gorgeous and precious than the golden hairpin on the imperial concubine's head. , as expected of a descendant of the Xue family."

Of course, she didn't realize that she said the latter sentence unconsciously.She didn't know it, but all the disciples beside her heard it. Xue Tang was looking her up and down, and his red lips parted slightly: "You look strange, whose disciple is it?"

Each faction is limited to bringing 50 people to attend this martial arts conference, so the disciples attending must be carefully selected, and they must not learn from unknown people.

Xue Yueyue's heart skipped a beat, and she broke out in a cold sweat, but she didn't dare to tell the whole story. She couldn't say that she wasn't a disciple of our family. I gave her a seat, so I had to roll my eyes quickly to wink at the backup.

Naturally not good at words, Xue Tang disliked her eccentric appearance the most, and couldn't think of euphemistic words, so he said with a cold and pretty face: "Give me a look ahead, don't glance around. Roll your eyes Non-stop, what is the system?"

No one answered, only Hua Yuerong stepped forward bravely, bowed her head, and walked up to them: "Master Hui, I am a disciple my subordinate has taken outside." After she spoke, the two were visibly relieved .

A lie full of flaws, what kind of medicine is sold in this gourd.Xue Tang sensed something was wrong, but he couldn't get angry, so he kept his composure: "The Moon Tears Palace has regulations, you are not allowed to take disciples outside, after you go back, you have to be punished. The matter of taking disciples will be discussed later."

The three of them breathed a sigh of relief, not realizing that there was a mistake, and quickly responded that they knew their mistake.Xue Yueyue was so frightened that she lay down on the table all of a sudden, thinking, among so many disciples, her mother noticed Shi Yuanyuan alone.

Seeing her like this, Xue Tang frowned in dissatisfaction, and said: "When you go out, how can you sit so ugly? It seems that I, a mother, didn't teach you a good lesson. When you go back, you will be fined three hundred yuan for copying Xue's family rules. Do not go out until you have finished copying."

How decent is she again, Xue Yueyue laughed at herself, in the eyes of her mother, when did she become more decent?No matter how dignified and powerful she was, my mother had always regarded her as a waste, a piece of mud that couldn't support the wall.Except for teaching sword skills and reprimanding her, he would not say a word to her.

There are thousands of family rules in the Xue family, from childhood to adulthood, although Xue Yueyue copied it countless times, she never read a single one seriously.Hearing that Xue Tang asked her to punish her for copying, she could only reply weakly: "Yes, mother. The child knows his mistake."

He said he knew his mistake, but it took him a long time to sit upright. Just as Xue Tang opened his mouth to speak, there was a sudden commotion in the venue.

"Big news, big news! Peak Master Yan is here!"

"Ah, you are talking about that Young Master Canglan, Yan Zhaozhuo?"

"Brother Hu guessed it right. It is this person. I never thought that he would reappear after ten years of hiding from the world."

"Yes, I think I will be able to feast my eyes and see the legendary Cangmo Sword."

Young Master Canglan is Yan Jiang's name, while Zhaozhuo is Yan Jiang's name.What they were talking about was Yan Jiang, the leader of Fuji Peak who topped the double list.Shi Yuanyuan thought, this is strange, Yan Jiang has been hiding from the world for many years, why is she willing to come out this time?

Could it be that he was provoked by the sword thief?

As soon as the two sang together, they passed by everyone in Mooncry Palace, allowing Shi Yuanyuan to hear every single word.The faces of the other big shots were calm, as if they had gotten the news long ago, and the ones making noise were all younger boys.

Speaking of the Cang Mo Sword, the man was taken aback for a moment, and then continued to smile and said: "Brother Hu, you don't know about this. Some days it was stolen."

The other person turned pale with shock when he heard the words, as if he couldn't believe that there was such a bold person: "Stolen? Who stole it?"

"I heard that he is the younger brother of the shopkeeper of Yipinlou in Beijing. He is an unknown person."

"Children are ignorant! As the so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, this is really stabbing a hornet's nest and causing disaster. I don't know if he wants to be famous and crazy. Who is Yan Zhaozhuo? He is the top of the double list for a hundred years, a genius of the sky No. 1!"

They walked farther and farther, even if Shi Yuanyuan pricked up her ears, she couldn't hear a sound.It was even more curious to hear them exaggerating about Yan Jiang and talking in a respectful tone.