The Huashan faction stayed in Xi'an for two days and then headed west.
However, the team was still in great fanfare along the way, which made Li Jiang, who was holding the flag, keep frowning.
This guy is not low-key at all. Are we here to suppress bandits or are we here for an armed parade? The Wusheng faction is not a fool, so they will definitely get the news.
If they were not strong enough, it would be easy to say that they would just run away.
The most fearful thing is the second possibility. If they have good strength or they think they are good, and an ambush occurs midway, it will cost them their lives.
No one from the Huashan faction has been here before. The terrain is unfamiliar, the climate is unfamiliar, and even the ethnic groups are different from the local area. The right time, place and people cannot be taken advantage of. If there is an ambush, according to Li Jiang's estimation, only he and
Linghu Chong was able to escape intact.
So, as the commander-in-chief, Linghu Chong really doesn't understand?
With this worry, Li Jiang was quickly verified.
A group of more than 20 people from Huashan sent to Lanzhou City. After entering the city and finding an inn, Linghu Chong ordered repairs, and he called four disciples to go out together.
Linghu Chong did not ride a horse and walked out of the inn first with his hands behind his back.
Zhao Shoujian, Sun Zhuoyan, and Cao Chao looked at each other with regret in their eyes.
The three of them all learned to ride horses under the guidance of their uncles on the road from Huashan to Lanzhou. Now they are all in the novice stage, full of enthusiasm for driving, and wish they could stay with their beloved horses every moment.
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Now they have to walk, which makes the three of them a little dazed.
Li Jiang followed for a while, but when he saw that the three of them hadn't followed, he turned around and shouted, "What are you thinking about? Hurry up."
"Oh, alas, here it comes!" The three of them quickly agreed and followed.
The three of them are not afraid of the master, because the master rarely comes. They are afraid of the senior brother. Although the senior brother is gentle, he can be really thunderous when angry. He never hits anyone, but the punishment methods he comes up with are incredible and various.
For example, copying the "Tao Te Ching" a hundred times would cost them their lives. Several of the disciples came to practice martial arts because they were not good at studying. If they could study, they would take the exam to become a scholar. Who would be willing to endure hardship?
Another example is that they were banned from speaking for three days and were not allowed to speak for three days. Laowu Huashu was a little better. He was relatively dull and could talk or not speak. But the other people couldn't do it. They held it in for two days.
Life will be worse than death.
Therefore, in the minds of the eight disciples, the senior brother is both amiable and scary, more like a master than a master. As for the real master, he usually laughs and laughs when he comes, mostly with praise, and everyone has no other thoughts except respect.
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Linghu Chong didn't care at all about the situation of the four disciples behind him. He walked in front alone, shaking his head. After passing through two alleys, they turned onto a street.
Looking at the flow of people on the street, Linghu Chong called Li Jiang and said: "Haichuan, go and ask where Wanjianmen is?"
Oh, it turned out that he didn't know the way. Li Jiang looked for a restaurant with disdain and gave the shopkeeper a small piece of silver as information fee to find out the way.
The shopkeeper probably felt a little embarrassed about charging an information fee for information that everyone knew, so he forced Li Jiang to have a jar of wine.
Li Jiang took it dumbfounded and praised him: "The boss is honest."
When he walked back, Linghu Chong's eyes immediately focused, the corners of his mouth trembled, and he looked anxious.
When Li Jiang walked up to him, Linghu Chong's first question was not to ask Wan Jianmen if he had heard about it, but instead sniffed and said, "Haichuan, did you go to the restaurant?"
"Yes, there are many customers coming and going in the restaurant, so the information there is very good. No, I immediately found out the location of Wanjianmen." Li Jiang knew what Linghu Chong was thinking and secretly laughed in his stomach.
"You're just asking for information, and what do you mean by buying a jar of wine?" Linghu Chong rubbed his hands, pretending to be blaming.
"Oh, what do you mean?" Li Jiang raised the wine jar in his hand and said: "I didn't think I couldn't ask for directions in vain, so I gave the shopkeeper some money, but he... Hey, don't pay it back.
no."
"Haichuan, it is legitimate to ask money for directions. However, we, chivalrous people, cannot care about everything, when..."
Li Jiang interrupted in time: "How about I return it to the shopkeeper?"
Linghu Chong made a "gudong" sound in his throat, looked embarrassed, and stammered: "This, this, this is also someone else's intention, um..."
Li Jiang took two steps forward and whispered in his ear: "Master, how about we share this wine? Don't waste other people's kindness!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Linghu Chong looked around like a thief. Except for the four disciples, no one knew anyone. But in the end, his reason prevailed and he subconsciously replied: "Isn't it good?"
Linghu Chong was really greedy for wine. When he was in Huashan, his wife and daughter were watching him and he couldn't drink. When he came down from the mountain, his junior brothers followed him and he had no chance. Every time he ate, he felt like he had been scratched by a cat, scratching his heart and lungs.
It's different now, there are only disciples around me...
While he was hesitating, Li Jiang's devilish voice came into his ears again: "Master, how about we go to that restaurant and open a private room? I just saw it, they have a lot of wine, and my jar is just ordinary, what else is Fenjiu?"
, Xifeng wine, tribute wine..."
"Stop talking and let's go." Linghu Chong couldn't bear it anymore and took the first step to leave.
Hehe, I didn’t expect that my brother would become a returning minister. Li Jiang greeted the three junior brothers who were stunned and followed him to have a drink.
The three junior brothers were dumbfounded and followed behind like zombies. At this time, they admired the senior brother ten thousand times in their hearts. They dared to ignore the order of the junior wife and instigated the master to drink. Isn't he afraid that he would be imprisoned after returning to Huashan?
An hour later, five men with red faces walked out of the restaurant.
"Hiccup, let me tell you, I will pluck out the skin of anyone who dares to tell anyone about what happened today! Hiccup..." Linghu Chong threatened the four disciples without hesitation.
"Well, well, it won't happen. Master, don't worry, you won't even say anything if you beat me to death." The four apprentices nodded like chickens pecking at rice and made their respective guarantees.
"Okay, Haichuan is good. Well, you three are also good." Linghu Chong was in a good mood. He was a good friend who could drink with him.
The five people staggered around and found the Wanjianmen station by following the path they had inquired about.
As soon as the sect master heard that Linghu Sect Master had arrived, he immediately opened the middle door and welcomed the five people in. He was so enthusiastic because Wanjian Sect is a sword sect, and any sect that focuses on swords must abide by the Five Mountains Sword Sect.
Lord, so Wanjianmen can be regarded as a peripheral organization of the Five Mountains Sword Sect.
The sect master came, but he couldn't be less enthusiastic. After the maids brought him fragrant tea, and after a round of drinking, Ling Guchong explained his purpose of coming. He wanted to find a guide who was familiar with the situation in Qinghai.
The leader of the Wanjian Sect breathed a sigh of relief. He knew the news that the Huashan Sect was going to Qinghai. However, the leader of the Linghu Alliance came to the Wanjian Sect out of nowhere, which frightened him.
He thought that Linghu Chong knew about his secret contact with Xiaolin Temple, so he sent him a fake Taoist order to defeat Guo, and wiped out Wanjianmen.
Unexpectedly, this was a false alarm. The owner immediately expressed his loyalty and patted his chest to ensure that there would be no problem.
He found the best candidate, his eldest disciple, Hong Jian.
(Thanks to the "Red Sword" book friend for the guest appearance)