This warrior is so fierce

Chapter 403 Letters
At Xiguan, Cao Jun rushed out of the camp again.

Xiguan was not allowed to enter, so Cao Su led the cavalry under his command to run around in rotation every few days.

The nearby city lords all know Cao Pingxi.

Everyone also knows that Cao Pingxi cavalry is just outside Xiguan.

They sent money and food one after another in exchange for support to the soldiers.

Cao Jun also deeply felt his affection and threatened to put down the banditry in Yongzhou.

Some bandits who had been active near Xishan were so frightened that they fled and did not dare to stay here.

On this day, Cao Su led his troops to the southwest as usual.

There are many mountain roads in the southwest, and Cao Su gallops along the outer mountains.

The rumbling hooves of the three thousand horsemen awakened the sleeping animals in the mountains, and rows of birds fluttered up from the forest to avoid the harassment of the cavalry.

After running for about tens of miles, the official road became more and more rugged, and there was more mist in the mountains, the shade of the trees was cool, and the air was newly humid.

Cao Su no longer led the army forward, and the rear team changed to the front team and returned to the barracks.

Just as he was about to walk out of the forest, he suddenly saw a mountain pavilion halfway up the road.

This mountain pavilion is very abrupt, when he just entered the mountain, he didn't even see it.

Cao Su took a closer look and saw two figures in the pavilion, sitting on the stone pier, making tea and playing chess, very leisurely.

"Little friend, why don't you go to the booth to have a talk?"

Just as Cao Su was about to pretend he didn't see him and leave, a voice suddenly came from his ear.

He was slightly taken aback, and stretched out his hand.

The cavalry under his command stopped one after another as if pressing the stop button.

"General?"

Shi Yong in front of him showed doubts.

"Have they seen Shi Peng?"

"Shi Peng, what Shi Peng?"

Shi Yong and the others understood even more.

"Don't panic, my friend. You are the Qi Refiner of Xishan, and you are waiting here specially. The abnormal fighters saw you waiting." The voice came again.

Shan Ting looked up, and the seven of Zhou Wei stopped playing chess and cast kind eyes on Shi Peng.

Xishan Qi Refiner, it seems that at least he is a monk of alchemy.

Shan Ting said to the officers and men under his command: "They are waiting for you here, you can go back as soon as you go."

After finishing speaking, I jumped up from the horse, and then performed great work, climbing down the mountain wall.

My inner strength is strong and my meritorious service is good, the steep mountain wall is like a flat ground behind me.

In the blink of an eye, Shanting jumped to the halfway up the mountain and retreated from Zhou Weizhong.

That Zhou Wei was built with low-grade granite, there was not a stone table or two stone piers in the pavilion, the mountain pavilion walked back to the pavilion, and found that the two qi refiners looked very old and were still playing chess, and Dressed in a white Taoist robe, with a white beard, there is no such thing as a fairy wind and a crane bone.

"Two fellow daoists, what do you call them?"

Shan Ting watched the chess game all the time, and directly greeted the two players in the game.

The person who was talking to me just now raised his head and dropped the chess piece in his hand: "It's up, it's up, no one is coming!"

The old man sitting across from me shook his head and laughed and scolded: "What a bitter Liu Yiqi, he's playing tricks again, right?"

The old man who was talking to Shanting laughed, and then turned his head to look at Shanting.

Both stood up, smiling.

"But General Pingxi Shanting face to face?"

Shan Ting thought to himself, did he recognize them all, and asked if he pretended to know each other?
I nodded slightly: "It's you."

"The Seven Pindaos are Qi refiners from Xishan Mountain, subtitled Kuliu Yiqi and Jushi Yunzong. I have met General Pingxi, and General Pingxi is indeed a man of talent, majestic and majestic. He is indeed the star of the empire."

The two qi refiners praised Shanting immediately after opening their mouths.

When Shanting heard it, why did it look like two casual cultivators?

I felt the aura of the two of them a little bit. It seemed that there was no sense of oppression that was too weak. They should both belong to the monks in the alchemy stage.

A monk in the alchemy stage can live for less than [-] years. If he is fighting or grabbing, he will be peaceful and quiet in the mountains, and he will be like a god.

"You two have nothing to teach?"

Shan Ting looked at the two Qi refiners, and he dared to act recklessly.

The two Dandan monks were in high spirits, among them, Kuliu Yiqi, who was talking to Shanting, was an old man who liked to laugh. I said loudly, "I don't mean anything, but I heard that General Shanting is the star of the empire. Hero, so I specifically want to get to know a general."

Befriend you?
Shanting looked fiercely at the two old men.

With a kind smile on his face: "You Shanting also likes to make friends with capable people and strange people the most."

Now I'm retreating to Xiguan, I spend a little time practicing martial arts and practicing soldiers, and I don't have time to chat with two strange Qi refiners outside.

"The seven of you practiced in the mountains, and you know how long it has been."

"I've never seen someone as young as Cao Sucao without such martial arts attainments."

Kuliu Yiqi looked up and down the mountain pavilion, her deep eyes wanted to see through Shi Peng.

Shi Peng laughed heartily, really wanted to see what kind of medicine those two qi refiners were selling from the gourd.

I also asked questions slowly, the soldiers on the ground were still waiting quietly, I just waited for the two of them to speak.

In the end, those two qi refiners were also telling the truth, they kept telling some lies.

Before Shan Ting chatted with those two people for a few words, he felt that there was no nutrition, as if he was wasting time, so he opened his mouth and prepared to leave.

"You two, the military affairs are busy, you are just disturbing the two of you, if you don't have a chance in the future, come to Xishan to talk to the two of you."

Seeing that Shanting was about to leave, Kushi Pengjun and Layman Yunzong looked at each other.

Then the Kushi Pengjun coughed dryly and asked suddenly.

"Cao Su and Cao Nian are ineffective. Many people in the empire regard you as a role model. Now that the situation in the gods is changing, why is the general hesitating in Xiguan?"

Does it mean that it is Xianyun Yehe? Why do you know everything about Shendu?
When Shan Ting heard what Ku Liu Yiqi said, he guessed in his heart which party sent me as a lobbyist?

Besides, can Xiguan be withdrawn if I want to?With Zhu Ming standing in the back, how can I fly back to the city of God?
So Shan Ting asked directly: "These two think, how should you deal with yourself?"

"The seven of you are all people who understand the affairs of the army, but the capital of God is a place where heroes gather. The throne of the emperor hangs low, and the universe is fixed. As a general, you should enter the capital of God weakly to protect the legacy of the late emperor." Heir, choose the best to rule the country."

What Kuliu Yiqi said clearly shows what faction I belong to, but it sounds more like I'm on the side of the late emperor, trying to trick you into retreating into the capital of the gods and supporting the heirs of the late emperor?

Shi Peng understands that no matter whether it is a small general or a group of internal servants, our starting point must be from the perspective of the royal family.

On that day, the surname was Wen, and there was no problem at all.

So what the two lay Buddhists said, Shan Ting felt that he was sick and moaning, and it seemed appropriate to find me.

Shan Ting fell silent before Kushi Pengjun finished speaking.

Before that, I said that I had listened to my suggestion and nodded solemnly: "Okay, you got it."

Dragging the word tactic to evade excuses and talk, the two lay Buddhists only thought that Shanting really understood, so they became even more angry.

Another layman Yunzong took out a decree from his pocket and handed it to Shanting.

"Cao Sucao, that is the communication talisman of your Xishan Zhaoxia Sect. The Zhaoxia Sect holds a Xizhou Fangshi meeting every seven years. At that time, many Xizhou monks and warriors will go to Zhaoxiazong to participate in the Fangshi Small meeting."

"This order is called the Zhaoxia Order. With this order, you can move around in Fangshi at will without any restrictions."

Layman Yunzong handed the things to Shanting.

Shan Ting was slightly surprised, originally thought that the seven people were just casual cultivators, but unexpectedly they also had no background or sect.

I took the token and said out of embarrassment: "Come here, why do you still bring a gift, how can you be so embarrassing?"

"You send Cao Su Cao a whetstone."

Kuliu Yiqi took out a large white lacquered whetstone from her cuff and threw it to Shanting.

I introduced: "This whetstone is called 'Northern Cold Whetstone'. It is made of natural iron stone from the deep water Tan at the foot of Tianshan Mountain in Beiliang. Get this whetstone."

Before Shan Ting took the whetstone, he subconsciously touched the horizontal knife at his waist.

The horizontal knife hangs on my waist, and my posture is very obvious. An abnormal person can tell at a glance that I am good at using a knife.

From now on, there are no special craftsmen in the army to sharpen knives, and the horizontal knives or small moon knives under my command are all handed over to the top craftsmen in the army to sharpen them. After each battle, they have to be specially sharpened.

If I can have such a special rare whetstone, my knives may be sharper.

Shan Ting was overjoyed, for the preaching of the two, he actually had such a small opinion.

I can give gifts when I talk about it below, so I hope the other party will say less.

But before the seven people finished speaking, did they say what they meant.

He also got everything in the mountain pavilion. He praised Shanghaikou to the two Qi refiners who were suspected of being "royalists", and then he cupped his fists and said goodbye. Shi Shi ran out of Zhou Wei and fell down the mountain.

The cavalry on the mountain waited anxiously.

Before the mountain pavilion reappeared, eight thousand cavalrymen dismounted one after another with an order.

The crowd surrounded the mountain pavilion, whistling and flying across the mountain.

The sound of rumbling horseshoes is gone again
Shan Ting returned to the army and called Qing Xiao and Cai Wei to inquire.

When they heard that Shanting met Kuhuang and Yunzong, they were very surprised.

"What background do those two have?"

Seeing the expressions of the two, Shan Ting thought to himself that maybe I am ignorant, and those seven people are probably well-known in the cultivation world.

Qing Xiao said with a smile: "The two monks that the villain met should be the elders of Xishan Zhaoxia Sect, the young monks in the early stage of alchemy, and the number two figures who have been active in the cultivation world after more than a hundred years."

"Zhaoxia sect is unknown?"

How did Shanting hear the name of that sect?

Qing Xiao said: "In the future, Xizhou will not have a top sect called 'Xia Liuluan'. During the heyday of this sect, it was so powerful in Xizhou that there were as few cultivators and warriors among the sects as there were few top sects. One after another is poverty.”

"But I don't know why, that sect was wiped out when they came, and the Taoist collections in the sect have been handed down, and very few of them have been turned into first-class martial arts rumored in the world."

"The 'Zhaoxia Sect' is said to be the sect established by the predecessors of 'Xia Liuluan', and it has inherited part of the collection of 'Xia Shipeng', and it is considered a first-class sect in Xizhou."

After Qingxiao explained, Shanting's heart skipped a beat.

I am currently practicing two martial arts, one is the "Thunder Saber" taught by Wang Meng, which retreats rapidly and can be practiced at any time, and the other is "Zhaxing Gong", which is said to have originated from The martial arts of "Xia Liuluan" seem to be only half of it. It was born out of "Xia Liuluan"'s first-class physical martial arts "Picking the Stars and Chasing the Moon". The progress of Shanting's martial arts is slow. It's been half a year, and there are no famous tricks.

Whether it is the "star picking skill" or the "moon chasing skill", they are also very mysterious in the world, and it is so difficult to obtain.

Shan Ting guessed that since the Zhaoxia School was established by Xia Liuluan's predecessors, would there be broken martial arts secret books in the school?
If there is really no other half of the month-by-month martial arts, I will have to go there in the future to find a way to obtain the first half of the martial arts and supplement my own martial arts.

The seven Caiwei people saw Shanting thinking deeply, did they bother me.

Before Shanting cleared his mind, he asked: "Since those seven people have already retreated, why did they deliberately come to you?"

Caiwei replied briefly: "The seven laymen of Kuhuang and Yunzong are said to be Qi refiners from the Wen family."

Shi Peng understood as soon as he heard it, the qi refiner of the Wen family, is that the royal qi refiner?

Qianyuan established the country for a thousand years, and the Wen family also declined for a thousand years.

During those millennia, a small number of people who became emperors could practice Taoism again. Even if they could prolong their lives through some elixirs, they would basically die at the age of a hundred.

Some members of the royal family won the battle for succession, so they turned to practice Taoism.

The royal family has abundant resources. If the princes really want to practice Taoism and Qi, they will naturally stand at a very low starting point.

Very few royal qi refiners have cultivated to the realm of alchemy, and they live to be around two hundred years old.

So that Kuhuang and the seven members of Yunzong are also the ancestors of the Wen family, after the royal family.

"It's really meaningless that the old people after a hundred years will come out and be active."

Shan Ting sneered, it's strange that those seven people insisted on letting me retreat to help the emperor's heir, in fact, they were helping our Wen family.

The two gifts given to Shanting are equivalent to the deposit for the seven people to "hire mercenaries".

If it is in peacetime, it is also so troublesome to use, just say it.

Now that the emperor is dead, the gods are in chaos, and Shan Ting holds the military power. He is a real powerful general. Everyone is trying to get close to me and influence me.

Caiwei wanted to say something, but suddenly a voice came from inside.

A messenger came into the camp and made some noise.

Soon, Ma Chao in military uniform walked back into the tent, holding a letter in his hand.

"Ok?"

Shan Ting was taken aback.

Ma Chao handed the letter to Shanting: "General, his letter from home."

Shan Ting told me in the future that in special circumstances, if there is something to disturb my meeting.

But the family letter is a special case. After there is no family letter, no matter when and where, Shanting will allow the soldiers to interrupt the meeting, and give priority to sending the family letter to Shanting.

Shi Peng took the letter from the family, and Qing Xiao tactfully stood up, ready to leave first.

"If you have something to do, you have to go. You have to take a look at the complicated ones first. You have nothing to ask them later."

Shanting stopped Qing Xiao and Cai Wei from moving, and opened the family letter in front of our faces.

Although the two did not enter again, they also stood up and walked to the side, leaving space for the mountain pavilion.

Shi Peng opened the letter, and below it was Cao Su's handwriting.

There are many scholars in the family, but Cao Su is the only one who can write and write better.

Cao Su wrote a small piece of the letter in a profuse manner. At the beginning, there were some greetings about Shi Peng, and then he talked about some trivial matters at home.

Shan Ting read Cao Su's family letter seriously, and at the top of the family letter, Cao Su said something very strange.

"Uncle, General Cao, a girl from the Liu family who was on a blind date with him, once came to the mansion in the future."

"You said that you admired him very much and wanted to say something to him specially."

The handwriting stopped abruptly there, and then there was another piece of paper, with a different handwriting on the bottom.

Shi Peng's handwriting is delicate and mellow, without a sense of dexterity, while General Cao's handwriting is relatively vigorous in each stroke, with prominent strokes and obvious changes in thickness, showing a little bit of skinny feeling and revealing a heroic spirit.

The words are pretty good-looking, but Shanting feels very strange.

General Cao is doing a good job in the family business, so he came to flirt with me?

Still talking about admiration, want to write something out of your mind?

Who can write outside the letter?Serious people who write letters?

I guessed that General Cao might be in some trouble, and he wanted to speak directly, so he wanted to use that method to ask me for help?

Since his subordinates had no military power, fewer and fewer people came to ask for help.

(End of this chapter)