Morning in the Tower of Swords

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"Master Shen, although I am not an expert in business, I do know a little about Fengshui. I must be quite troubled by the production and sales of peanuts in the boundary of the Three Mountains and Seventeen Peaks in Shangshu."

"Oh, how do you see it?"

"With such beautiful scenery on such a beautiful day, and the wind and the moon as companions, why do you need to drink with other things?"

"...Mr. Li is really humorous, but no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it is not enough for the people to live and work in peace and contentment. For us locals, the geomantic omen of the land, mountains and rivers is not as important as Master Liang, the magistrate of Shangshu."

On the Dayan River that flows in front of Shangshu City, a man sitting astride the prow of a small boat with a black awning, dragging a koi tail behind him, and dressed like a modern-style swindler, is chatting with the boatman .

The images of the two can be said to be diametrically opposed. The clothes and objects on the "charlatan" are obviously luxurious and complicated, but he made them inconspicuous by himself, only showing a sense of slipperiness.

The boatman, Master Shen, only has a coir raincoat, cloak and bamboo hat, and is very easy-going when he speaks, but his temperament is like a javelin standing at the stern of the boat. The master of the market.

And this "big koi" is the boss of Li's Detective Agency, Lao Li. Although he has a fish tail, gills and scales on his body, his race is actually a dragon unique to Yan Kingdom. It has the same origin as a certain Red Sea Emperor.

Lao Li came to Shangshu this time because of a secret entrustment from Liang Xun, the magistrate of Shangshu, the fourth rank of Yan Kingdom, who was his former classmate and best friend.

Although Liang Xun didn't ask for any specific requirements other than asking him to personally transport a wine cup from Longmen to Shangshu, his best friend who hadn't been in contact with him for many years specially sent someone to him to solemnly explain the commission, and he was still a member of the government. People, this has already demonstrated its importance.

So Lao Li didn't tell anyone else, and didn't even disclose the entrustment to his employees, he just said that he was going to Dayan to meet an old classmate.

And the reason why Lao Li couldn't keep his mouth shut now, of course, was because the boatman, Master Shen, was appointed by Liang Xun to meet him, so Lao Li poured the boredom of walking alone into the torrential river.

"It is said that ideals and reality are often difficult to meet, but who would have thought that the boy who cared about the country and the people back then, who was so serious that he had almost no relationship with the opposite sex, would actually become an official of a parent now? Liang Xun is sure to hear your praise. Will be very happy."

"Mr. Li doesn't know something, if you go to Shangshu and pick up a random passer-by to ask, the evaluation of Mr. Liang will not be worse than what I said just now, Mr. Liang must be tired of hearing it.

Therefore, the simple people in Shangshu care more about practical actions. If you don’t believe me, Mr. Li can try to speak ill of Mr. Liang on the street, but you have to prepare your own medicinal materials in advance, because even the doctors will not admit them for a while. "

Lao Li, who has always been glib, never expected that the seemingly serious Master Shen could say such a thing, and he was stunned for a few seconds before he burst out laughing.

"Pfft...hahaha! Master Shen is also a wonderful person! Let's forget about poking the spine, my body can't stand such a toss, please take care of me later."

"Of course it should be. You are Mr. Liang's honored guest, and that is Shang Shu's honored guest."

Speaking of this, the conversation between the two stopped for a while. Lao Li looked at this mountain city standing on the other side of the river, which was a combination of tradition and modernization, and was full of emotions for a while.

Longmen used to be full of humanism like Shangshu, but because of politics and war, it had to be ruthlessly separated. Humanities belong to humanities, and Longmen belongs to Longmen. This is the origin of the slums and the main city.

Although Longmen gained a lot of advantages in exchange for this and became the most powerful mobile city in Dayan, but only for the common people, Liang Xun did better than Wei Yanwu, at least in terms of reputation.

But Lao Li actually didn't want to be emotional, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to leisurely become a private detective, or raised his own employees and left all the chores to their hands-off shopkeeper.

Therefore, he was also looking around, trying to find a topic that he could talk about a few more times and avoid this disturbing thought.

"Master Shen, is there a waterway at the bottom of this river?"

"Huh? Mr. Li, can you say it again, I don't quite understand what it means."

"There are dry roads on the land, and there are naturally waterways under the water. What I want to ask is, is there a waterway under the river for people to cross the river on foot?"

"...???"

Even though Lao Li explained it clearly, Master Shen became more and more confused. Shouldn't this fucking be called a "bridge"?What the hell is the waterway!

Lao Li is a person who is very good at observing words and expressions. When he saw Master Shen's expression, he naturally knew what he was thinking, so he also pointed his hand to the side and rear of the boat with a puzzled face.

"Otherwise what is that man walking on?"

Master Shen looked in the direction that Old Li was pointing at, and saw a man in a dark blue suit running like flying on the river, and he was about to overtake the boat.

However, unlike martial arts novels where he uses his internal strength to cross the river with a single reed, this man is treading water with exaggerated speed and strength, so the splash behind him is as high as several meters, like countless ska Ti puts dumplings on and off the ten-meter diving platform on the surface of the river.

It's also like a character in a children's animation swinging his legs like a wheel speeding across the water.

"...Damn it!!!"

General Shen Loushen, known as "Duckweed Rain Master", who had been stationed in the northern border of Dayan for many years, gave a very concise and easy-to-understand evaluation of this man's kung fu.

The river that Shen Lou and Lao Li are crossing is not a small moat in Shangshu, but the longest river in Dayan that originates from the snow-covered mountains of Kjerag and spans almost the entire Yan Kingdom. One of the two mother rivers at its source.

Besides irrigating farmland to nourish life, the most important function is of course to do logistics. In the era when natural disasters occurred frequently on land, wild animals were rampant, bandits were rampant, and the sea was full of sanity, the inland canals were completely worthy of the name. It is the "golden route".

Although there must be crimes where there are interests, and there must be water bandits on the river, but the Yan Kingdom court also issued a heavy code for rectification. Bandit General.

Using the superb skills and martial arts of "pointing the rain as a sword" to kill hundreds of bandits, the fighting scenes are full of aesthetics of elegance and violence like a martial arts blockbuster, which is how the nickname "Duckweed Rain Master" comes from.

After retiring, I deliberately returned to the riverside to ferry, which can be regarded as a professional counterpart.

So there must be far more than just the two people on Shenlou, a small boat on the river. There are hundreds of sailors on various transport ships going along the river, and they all witnessed this man who was running on the river to cross the river with his own eyes. guy.

At first, of course, they would be extremely shocked, but most people think about it, this is probably some kind of Originium skill, right?Oh no, the local term here should be called Tianshi Shufa.

Anyway, all things that cannot be understood can be explained by spells, just like all things that cannot be seen clearly in the water are all called water monkeys.

But there are still very few experts who can understand that this is not an Originium skill, such as Shenlou, but sometimes it will make him even more confused if he understands it. Can you understand this?

"Heh, heh heh cough, there are really talented people from generation to generation. When I was young, I was proud of swimming across the river naked. I didn't expect to have to run now. Haha, hahaha..."

Lao Li even sensed a hint of sanity collapse from Shen Lou's tone and micro-expressions, and these words obviously had some self-hypnotic meaning in them.

The reality has become like this, just make do with it!How far can we go?

In fact, it’s no wonder, it’s as if you’ve been proud of getting 100 points in exams, and suddenly you see a monster with 500 points in the exam...

The roll noodles are clearly only 100 points! Hey! !How did you get the extra 400 points out of thin air? The math semicircle taught you! ?

However, although Lao Li's experience is definitely not as good as Shen Lou, who was a soldier in his life, he has definitely seen more strange things than Shen Lou. Who told Lao Li Detective Agency to sign a contract with Rhodes Island?So he should be much calmer now.

Seeing that the local man didn't know what was going on, Lao Li simply went to observe the spectacle carefully by himself.

It's just that as the man running on the water got closer, Lao Li's expression gradually became stiff.

That face, although there are some obvious and subtle strange differences, but it is definitely what I have seen before!And also wearing the same color of clothing, the kind that is particularly impressive!

You motherfucker...shouldn't you work with the rabbit lynx in Rhode Island?

Perhaps it was because of the "telepathy" in the "thousands of armies" that he noticed this special gaze. The other party suddenly turned his head and met his gaze. .

With a loud voice that almost drank the water from the river.

"Ouch! Isn't this the old carp of Nagada! Why did you leave it here?"

By the way, Qiao Ge's nonsense about Baihupo is actually Heilongjiang, so King Lie Hai is probably from the Northeast. Even if he is not, he will have no accent if he stays in the Northeast for a long time.

So Jhogo is just faithfully restoring it.

For some reason, Lao Li, a detective who was supposed to be well-rounded and slick, now seemed like the kind of social phobia patient and social terrorist who met at both ends of the street, and wanted to find a hole in the ground and sneak in quickly.

However, the reason why a terrorist is called a terrorist is that he would rather blow himself up than care about other people's feelings. Before the old carp can study whether a hole can be drilled in the bottom of the black boat, Qiao Ge has already drifted with a wave The action turned and rushed over.

This time, no one really knew how he drifted on the water with his feet, and no one dared to ask. Even the sailor who slapped the sailor with his fin on the wild clear current of the river dared not.

thump~

Qiao Ge unceremoniously jumped onto the boat with a sharp somersault, and stood firmly in front of Lao Li and Shen Lou.

Although he stepped on the water aggressively just now, the movement when he boarded the boat was extremely light. Except for a little noise, the whole boat didn't even shake, and even the sound of a fish hitting it was louder than this.

This is of course extremely pure stilling power!

"Hey, old carp, long time no see."

"...Heh, heh, it hasn't been long, I drank tea in your office a month ago, forget it, it doesn't matter, why is the doctor in Shangshu?"

The moment Qiao Ge boarded the boat, Shenlou's involuntary warrior instinct had already been aroused, and he was always on guard against Qiao Ge. In fact, few people at his level and the state of mind that he was so comfortable until he retired and came here for the ferry It was worth letting him do it.

But when he heard what Old Li called Jogo, he was inevitably distracted.

"Bo, doctor?"

Shen Lou has never had a great inflammation in his life, so the understanding of the word doctor should be an academic official appointed by the imperial court, who is responsible for a certain aspect of education, such as Doctor of Art, Doctor of Law, Doctor of Leyi, Doctor of Medicine , Dr. Taibo, etc.

Of course, these people must first be dragons and phoenixes in all aspects, and thanks to Qiao Ge's behavior just now, Shen Lou has no doubts about his status as a doctor of martial arts.

It can even be said that Haoxuan breathed a sigh of relief for his own three views. It turned out that Dr. Wu of Dayan is now, and it is completely understandable that he scored 500 points in the exam, because the exam questions were all written by him.

So Shen Lou's eyes gradually changed from vigilant and defensive to respectful. As for Qiao Ge's obviously too young appearance, this is not a problem. There are also Terra Longevity People who can't tell their real age.

You say yes, big lynx?

Qiao Ge's next conversation with Lao Li made Shen Lou more convinced of the guess just now.

"Oh, don't call me doctor here, it's better to keep a low profile, just call me Qiao Haiwang!"

"Joe... Aquaman? Is this his real name?"

"Of course not, Neptune is a kind of martial arts honor that I plan to promote in this Great Yan. Only those who can use martial arts to protect one side of the land can get it, and I just want to start from Shangshu and bring two apprentices to practice. "

What Qiao Ge said is of course a real plan, but so far he hasn’t communicated with anyone in the Yan court. In theory, it’s just wishful thinking. batch.

But the two people present all believed it. Lao Li knew that he might have this ability because he personally investigated and witnessed some deeds of the doctor, while Shen Lou thought it was his job.

"It turns out that Lord Qiao Haiwang came to Shangshu. Please forgive me for being far away."

Shen Lou suddenly bowed to Qiao Haiwang respectfully, which made Qiao Ge a little surprised at first, but then laughed out loud.

"Haha! Very good, very good, it seems that the Shangshu people are still very martial, it's not in vain that I chose this place for the experiment and practice, I can't wait to start!"

No, I think it should be that there is a problem with your mutual understanding.

Old Li opened his mouth, but he still didn't say the words, it's none of his business anyway, probably so.

"Shopkeeper, the person you asked me to pay special attention to has already crossed the river, and will definitely stop by your shop if nothing happens, but I still found out..."

A man dressed as a boatman similar to Shenlou was reporting something respectfully to a man of the Caprini tribe who was twirling a rosary in his hand and was very handsome in figure and clothes. However, when he was listening to the report, his eyes were always looking outside the door. far away.

He is the shopkeeper of Xingyu Inn, the largest inn chain in Shangshu, Zheng Qingyue, and also the head coach of Xingyu Escort Bureau and martial arts. Basically, as long as you are a local young man practicing martial arts here, you will call him respectfully when you see him. Master.

So in fact, he can be regarded as a godfather-level gang leader like the Shu King. His power is deeply rooted in Shangshu, and his disciples or favors are everywhere, such as the boatman in front of him.

Fortunately, Zheng Qingyue did not want to be the emperor of the land, but was full of loyalty and patriotism. The prefect Liang Xun's active cooperation in governing Shangshu was indispensable.