The flash of swords and swords flashed in front of me, the scene was so familiar yet so strange.

"Li Gang, take three steps back to the left and attack the top!"

"Zhen Ping, this man uses brute force. Don't fight him head on, use skillful strength!"

"Xiao Jin, you don't have to protect me, go help Li Gang and Zhen Ping!"

"No!" These two decisive words came from the mouths of three people, but they were rare and neat.

"Young Master, I have to stay by your side!" Nie Duo waved his sword and guarded Mei Changsu tightly behind him, saying coldly.

When the first wave of killers appeared, Li Gang and Zhen Ping fought, and Nie Duo protected him behind him. Mei Changsu felt frustrated for the first time in his life.

Lin Shu was born to protect others, but Mei Changsu...

My martial arts skills are all lost, my body is torn apart due to illness, and my life is difficult to live forever...

It's uncomfortable to hear, and even more uncomfortable to sit next to...

Looking at Li Gang, Zhen Ping fought, and he became the object of protection.

He was lost and sad, but he didn't dare to cry.

He shed tears, what should Nie Duo and others around him do?

He swallowed his tears, put on a smile and said to Nie Duo, who was protecting him: "Am I very similar to Uncle Nie Zhen now? So, what Uncle Nie Zhen can do, I can too."

He stood behind Nie Duo, watching the battle unfolding and instructing Li Gang and Zhen Ping on how to fight against the assassins who had no tactics at all.

"This is the first wave!" Within a quarter of an hour, several masked men in black were shot to the ground by Li Gang and Zhen Ping. Mei Changsu raised his eyebrows and shrugged, looking at Li Gang while Zhen Ping dealt with the aftermath.

He laughed at himself and said: "I actually send a killer for someone like me. I really admire myself!"

"Young Master...!" He was poisoned, robbed and killed without stopping for a moment. Nie Duo didn't understand why Mei Changsu was still so calm. He lowered his voice and said, "Don't imitate Pavilion Master Lin and say some inappropriate things!"

"Xiao Jin, do you think I'm not serious?" Mei Changsu's tone changed and he looked sideways at Nie Duo.

Come on...!" Jinshuang was his current name. Every time Nie Duo heard this name, he would get flustered for no reason.

Pavilion Master Lin thought that the name "Nie Duo" was too ostentatious, so he laughed and asked him to think of a new name. He pushed the naming to the young marshal. Before the young marshal could say anything, Pavilion Master Lin said

He has already interjected, take one side of the word Nie Duo and call it Jin Shuang.

"Okay!" The young marshal's word "good" determined the name he would use in the future.

"Chang Su, look at Jin Shuang, he is glaring at me!"

"No, Jin Shuang's eyes are naturally big!"

…

I recognized the pseudonym of "Jin Shuang" just for the young commander's rare smile.

On the third day of the battle with Lin Chen, Mei Changsu moved Zhen Ping from the light to the dark. On the fourth day, he handed the carriage to Li Gang to drive empty, while he and Nie Duo rode slowly. But just like that, he ambushed them all the way.

The killers are still coming in droves.

Fortunately, although there were constant storms along the way, it was still smooth.

This day was Lin Chen's last day to fight Mei Changsu. Nie Duo, Li Gang and Zhen Ping were surprised to find that they had just arrived at Linjiang, facing Jiangzuo across the river. Regarding this, Mei Changsu

Changsu disagreed. It seemed difficult to calculate the exact distance, but it was also easy. Especially when he knew when he needed to arrive in Jiangzuo, it was even easier to calculate their itinerary.

"Is today the deadline agreed upon by Pavilion Master Lin and I?" In a private room of a restaurant in Linjiang, Mei Changsu poured hot tea for everyone present, but he did not raise the cup to drink, but asked with a knowing tone.

smiled and asked.

"Yes!" Nie Duo said with great joy, "He has not found us until midnight today, so we have won!"

"...! Xiao Jin, I lost! Lin Chen found us three days ago, but he just didn't show up!" Mei Changsu's tone was relaxed, not at all the behavior expected of someone who lost the battle.

"...!" Nie Duo and Li Gang looked at Mei Changsu with shock on their faces. The battle lasted only seven days, but they were found on the fourth day.

"Three days ago, we stayed at an inn for the night. After turning on the lamp, the waiter brought me a cup of medicinal food, saying that the landlady stewed it specially when she saw that I was not looking good!"

"Is it possible that this medicinal meal was not a gift from the innkeeper's wife, but from Pavilion Master Lin?" Li Gang exclaimed, "No wonder the young master drank every drop of it after Zhen Ping checked that it was non-toxic!"

"...!"

When he could just sit up, Lin Chen let him eat alone. He didn't care how much he had eaten or whether he had spilled the soup or dropped the spoon. He only cared about amusing himself.

The light raindrops or the various small mechanisms in the bamboo house are played to adjust the various furnishings in the house.

One day, he was holding the spoon unsteadily while eating the stewed medicinal food. He watched Lin Chen playing with the various pottery pots on the wooden stand and accidentally got a thin bone stuck in his throat.

…

From then on, all the ingredients in his medicinal diet had their bones removed...

"When I was recuperating in Langya Pavilion, as long as I lost the battle, the medicinal food would not be seasoned that day." When the waiter served a whole chicken with boneless, tasteless medicinal food, he knew that he would lose again in the second fight.

.

"The carriage has been modified, Zhen Ping has changed from the light to the dark, the four of us have become three, and Nie Duo and I have changed our faces... How did Pavilion Master Lin find us?" Li Gang exclaimed.

He said, "As for the killer, is it the same?"

"I think it's the route. Lin Chen and the killer don't need to look for us at all. They just need to arrive at the place we pass in advance and wait for us. As for Lin Chen, I don't think your disguise technique can deceive him. And

As long as one wave of killers finds the right direction, the ones behind will be easy to identify. Oh, who asked me to let you show mercy at the beginning and let several killers go!" Soldiers are not tired of deceit, Lin Chen and the killers can chase or wait.

, the art of war is like this, and so are the rivers and lakes. And his mercy also brought subsequent disasters.

The fierceness only flashed across Mei Changsu's eyes, and then, Mei Changsu showed his face and said, "Li Gang, go find Zhen Ping, and ask the waiter to bring more dishes, and Lin Chen will come!"

Eight dishes and one soup.

They had never had such a sumptuous meal together since Meiling.

A rare get-together on New Year's Eve is also a pot of dumplings and a pot of broth.

Going to Jiangzuo, although they did not sleep in the open air, at Mei Changsu's request, their accommodation and food were extremely simple.

"Li Gang, don't look like that, you still have to spend money where it should be spent!" He has never worried about money, but now he needs to count every money he spends, and he is not allowed to squander it at all, but

As for Lin Chen... we can't let him suffer.

"Sir, I've tried everything, and it's not poisonous!" Zhen Ping replied after checking the tea and dishes with a silver needle, "It's already noon, do you still have to wait for Pavilion Master Lin?"

"If you order his favorite crispy duck, he will come!" Lin Chen once deliberately mentioned to him that this crispy duck restaurant has a limited supply every day, and it is only available at lunch. The last crispy duck in this restaurant today

It's just on the table, and you're afraid he won't come?

"...!"

"Li Gang, have you contacted the boat crossing the river?" Mei Changsu asked softly, as if he didn't notice the dissatisfaction of Nie Duo and others.

"Well, it's booked, at three o'clock in the morning!" Li Gang replied, "The boatman said that if you miss today's boat, the next one will be two days later!"

The next ferry is two days away? Is this why Lin Chen set the last date for the battle to be today? Why did the ferry stop for two days?

"Li Gang, is there anything else?" Mei Changsu couldn't help but ask when he saw that Li Gang wanted to stop talking.

"When I was booking the ship, I heard from the boatman that the ferry was suspended because Zhang Hong, the deputy general of His Highness Prince Jing, had requisitioned the ferry for the next two days. His Highness Prince Jing was going to Liuzhou from here to garrison in Wuzhou...!"

Li Gang said softly.

"Oh." Mei Changsu responded and played with the teacup in his hand: Jingyan, it's been a year... I'm fine, how about you?

"Master... do you want to see him?" Nie Duo said in a low voice, "Book an inn and we can...!"

"...The ship waits for no one!" Mei Changsu held the teapot and poured himself a full cup of tea. He drank it in one gulp like fine wine. Perhaps he drank a little too fast, choked, and kept coughing, which attracted people on the side.

Zhen Ping hurriedly stepped forward and slapped his back.

"What can I do if I see him like this now? Recognition will cause trouble, and not recognizing him will cause trouble! It would be better not to meet him!"

For a moment, there was silence in the dining room.

Mei Changsu smiled faintly. The hand that once held the bow and the eight-stone bow could now only hold the pen and lift the teapot.

"Okay, you don't have to be sad. If I can pacify Jiangzuo by myself, I will be helping him!" Mei Changsu whispered, "At least in the fourteen states of Jiangzuo, we will never let Xiaoxiao run amok.

He is working hard for the fourteen states of Jiangzuo!"

"After I gain a foothold in Jiangzuo and find out Chi Yan's case, I will definitely go see him!" Mei Changsu sighed, "I understand his temperament, and even if he is dissatisfied, he will not blame me.

."

…

"Changsu, here I come!" With a cheerful voice, a white figure broke through the door and said, "Wow, so many dishes, including crispy duck. Changsu, did you order this specially for me?"

Lin Chen, who didn't know how to be polite, picked up chopsticks and tasted the entire table of dishes as soon as he sat down, "It's a bit cold, but it tastes good. Hey, aren't you hungry? Why don't you eat?"

Nie Duo, Li Gang, and Zhen Ping had dissatisfaction written on their faces, but they all kept silent because of Mei Changsu's prior attention. However, Mei Changsu opened his mouth leisurely after Lin Chen tasted the entire table of dishes.

Mouth: "Pavilion Master Lin has already eaten it. It seems to be really not poisonous... We can eat it too!" After saying that, he raised his chopsticks and put a piece of crispy duck into his bowl.

Lin Chen's hand holding the chopsticks stopped in mid-air. He was stunned for a moment, and then asked doubtfully: "Chang Su, are you not waiting for me to eat, but are you waiting for me to try the food for you?"

"Yeah!" Mei Changsu nodded honestly, "You are more effective and easier to use than the silver needle...!"

"...!" Lin Chen.
To be continued...