chapter eight
Li Qiang was not wrong. Since he moved into the prefect's office on the first day, Feng Kaiyun sent an emergency document to the capital through the post station. Feng Kaiyun cannot be blamed. No matter which country Li Qiang appears in the Heavenly Star, he will report it immediately as long as he discovers it to the local officials. The power of a cultivator is an important resource for any country, especially the masters among cultivators, and the target of every country's struggle for.
Feng Kaiyun's report directly alarmed the emperor. The reason was that Li Qiang could speak official palace language, and it was the kind of royal family members in the palace. The emperor issued an order to inquire about Li Qiang's birth. The official documents had been back and forth several times, but they were still unaware of the key points. Finally, it was determined that it might be the descendants of the royal family members scattered among the people.
Li Qiang showed his might in Hanlin City and severely injured the Black Flag Army. After the leader of the Black Flag Army Engang was seriously injured, he had no choice but to withdraw from Hanlin City, Feng Kaiyun hurriedly activated the sound transmission array established by the royal family and reported the situation to the palace.
Li Qiang's head was too big, and he didn't want to accept any imperial edicts. He asked quietly, "Mr. Cheng, what will happen if I don't go to accept the edict?" Cheng Zizhong broke out in cold sweat and said in panic: "No, if you don't obey the edict, you will be beheaded. Not only will you kill your head, Mr. Zhao's family's head cannot be kept. You must not." He thought to himself, "If he does not obey the edict, I'm afraid my head cannot be kept. If he really refuses to accept the edict, who can stop it."
Li Qiang thought to himself, "What is dictatorship? It's unreasonable. If I want to escape, no one can do anything to me, but my old apprentice family will be completely finished. Oh, forget it, let's talk about it." Cheng Zizhong looked at Li Qiang nervously, but his face was gloomy and he advised, "You should accept the order, listen to what is said in the order before making a decision, okay?" Li Qiang could only nod and said, "Okay."
He turned around and called Zhao Hao, but he saw that the incense table in the hall had been set up. The proclamation officer stood behind the incense table and extended the imperial edict as if singing: "The holy... the edict... the edict... the edict... the edict... the edict is here, Li... the edict... the edict."
All the people standing there knelt down, and Li Qiang stood there straight. Cheng Zizhong was so anxious that he kept pulling his pants behind Li Qiang. Li Qiang lowered his head and said, "My master, stop pulling his pants down, you will pull them down." Cheng Zizhong almost fainted.
Li Qiang said with a smile: "This brother, I can't kneel down because I'm injured. Please give me the imperial edict, and I'll accept it. I'll do it for you to be convenient for me, can you do it?" I thought to myself: "No, no, the last sentence is wrong. Isn't it convenient for you to go to the bathroom? Alas!"
Cheng Zizhong knew that it was not good, but saw that the body of Xuanzhi was trembling, and was about to start, so he hurriedly kowtowed and said, "Sir, the villain has heard of him secretly." Xuanzhi said, "Tell me!" Cheng Zizhong stood up and walked to him, whispering to his ears. Xuanzhi said, "Okay, everything will be solved by you." He handed the imperial edict to Cheng Zizhong.
Who is Li Qiang? As long as he wants to hear it, it is useless to suppress his voice. He heard Cheng Zizhong say to the proclamation officer: "I have a secret decree. I will do everything cheaply. Please give me the imperial decree and let me proclamation." Li Qiang looked at Cheng Zizhong with some insight.
Zhao Hao gave the official to the imperial edict a lot of money, watched him leave with a smile, wiped his cold sweat, and muttered in his heart: "My master is really unique, he doesn't take the imperial edict seriously." Li Qiang patted Cheng Zizhong's shoulder and said, "Master, I underestimate you, tell me, what is said in the imperial edict?" Li Qiang didn't want to expose him, but just clicked him gently, meaning I knew everything.
Cheng Zizhong's face turned slightly red and said, "I'm asking you to come to the capital to face the saint." Li Qiang didn't understand, "What kind of saint, I don't understand." Cheng Zizhong said, "I'm asking you to meet the emperor." Li Qiang thought to himself, "It's quite fun to meet the emperor. I haven't seen the real emperor since I was so old. I have to go and see it for a long time." Li Qiang smiled and said, "I'm just about to go to Beijing to have fun. Go, I'll definitely go."
Zhao Hao said, "Master, I have also opened a silver building in the capital. When I arrive in the capital, I will live in my disciple's house." Li Qiang asked, "Don't you go?" Zhao Hao said, "I have decided to practice Taoism with Master. No matter where Master goes, I will never leave." He thought, "I finally found a master who is willing to teach me how to practice. This opportunity is fleeting, how can I let you leave?" Zhao Hao said, "There is a batch of local mountain goods in Lingji Store that I want to transport to the capital. It is the big man in a blue shirt just now in the hall, named Ling Hongxuan. Master, do you think you are going with him?"
Li Qiang felt it was indifferent: "Okay, please arrange it and see what else to prepare?" He said meaningfully to Cheng Zizhong: "My master, you are going to the capital, right?" Cheng Zizhong was about to find a reason to go with Li Qiang. He smiled and said, "Haha, yes, with a master like you, you will be much safer along the way." He thought to himself, "Good guy, he is really not simple."
Li Qiang returned to the house and fell into deep thought. After this sudden battle in Hanlin City, Li Qiang woke up. He was not powerful in fighting with the cultivators, and the killing of ordinary soldiers was meaningless. They didn't even have a chance to fight back. It was really unfair to win.
Li Qiang thought to himself: "I can't kill like this. I'm just a traveler. On this planet, I'm just a passerby, and there's no need to participate in the disputes in this world." In fact, it's impossible for Li Qiang to stay out of the matter. Unless Fu Shan takes him away immediately, he can't help it.
Starting from Fengling Town to the capital, you have to pass through three extremely dangerous places. These three places are Qicha Ridge, Jinghunpo, and Jinghunlin. After the caravans passing by, they must gather and form a large group of troops to pass. Qicha Ridge is a place where more than a dozen bandits of robbers and bandits appear. Jinghunpo often encounters unknown monsters. In the forest of the Jinghunpo, a star secret formation built by cultivators will be abandoned. If you step in accidentally, you will be trapped in it.
Ling Hongxuan felt very at ease when transporting the goods this time because Li Qiang and Mr. Zhao were with him. He felt that Li Qiang was very mysterious and often gave them something he had never seen before. He was not arrogant at all. He laughed all day long, always looking very happy, interested in everything, and kept talking about everything, and everyone in the caravan was happy with him.
Li Qiang was really happy. The scenery along the way was so picturesque and pleasing to the eye.
Li Qiang pestered Cheng Zizhong and Zhao Hao to understand the local customs and culture.
Zhao Hao said, "Master, there is Qicha Ridge ahead." Li Qiang asked curiously, "It's a place where robbers often appear?" Ling Hongxuan interrupted, "What our caravan fears most is to go to Qicha Ridge. If you meet a small group of robbers, you will be lucky and just give some money. Otherwise, you will force yourself to pass by with more people. You are afraid that you will encounter a large number of bandits. If one of them is not negotiated, the goods will definitely be gone. If the person can't escape, it will be miserable."
Li Qiang suddenly thought of a question and asked, "How many days will it take for us to get from Fengling Town to the capital?" Ling Hongxuan smiled and said, "It will take about forty days to get on the road faster, but it will be hard to say it if you are slower." Li Qiang shook his head and thought, "How could that imperial envoy arrive in Fengling Town so quickly?" Cheng Zizhong said on the side: "The royal family has built small teleportation arrays everywhere, but they can only teleport important people and objects, and they must be ordered to be activated." Li Qiang looked at Cheng Zi's center of gravity and thought, "Hey, it's quite clever, so I can guess this." Cheng Zizhong smiled slightly and stopped talking.
Arriving at the Qicha Ridge, Ling Hongxuan waved his hand to stop the convoy and said to Zhao Hao, "Old man, come and arrange it." Li Qiang looked curiously. Zhao Hao jumped to a big car: "Listen, it's not the first time you've been through Qicha Ridge. Don't talk much, listen to my arrangements. Every rider just watches his car and don't fall behind. Brother Hongxuan is in the middle to support him. Ten men are leading the way in front of him, and they all bring me weapons, and the others take arrows. In addition, tie the goods on the car tightly. There is no time for you to wait for you in Qicha Ridge, so you have to walk over quickly. If you are lucky, you can go to Panshi Town in the afternoon. When I arrive, I'll treat you to a drink. Are you clear? Let's louder! I can't hear it clearly!" The friends shouted, "It's clear!"
Zhao Hao whispered to Li Qiang: "Master, are you okay walking in front of the caravan with your disciples?"
Li Qiang smiled and said, "There are no robbers, right?"
Li Qiang's luck is really unspeakable. Not only did he meet a robber, but he also...
The terrain of Qicha Ridge is very strange, just like a giant fork falling from the sky, smashing the earth deeply, leaving seven deep ditches. These seven ditches stretch for more than ten miles, gather at the fork handle, combine into a road, and then lead to the front. For robbers, this crisscrossing terrain can attack and retreat, and it is also a necessary path for business travelers. It is really ideal to gather here.
Ling Hongxuan's caravan entered from the second road. Li Qiang and Zhao Hao's master and apprentice were exploring the way in front, and there were ten sword-holding buddies not far behind him. Li Qiang was not nervous at all. He knew clearly that as long as he was not fighting with the cultivator, ordinary people could not hurt him, even martial arts masters could not do it. Zhao Hao did not want Li Qiang to take action at all. He still remembered everything that happened in Hanlin City.
Walking on the road at the bottom of the valley, Li Qiang's head was like a wave drum, looking around, and asked, "Who are the bandits and robbers here?" Zhao Hao held the sword and replied, "There are all people, there are prisoners who escaped, deserters who were defeated in the war, and there are people who cannot survive. The bandits and robbers here are very famous in the green basin, with a stream of each stream, with a complex background, and people from all countries."
"Oh, why don't the country come to clear the enemy and let these bandits run rampant?" Li Qiang felt a little incredible, "Isn't this the key to the throat leading to the capital?" Zhao Hao was about to answer when he heard a sharp whistle, Zhao Hao shouted, "It's a sound of arrow!" He immediately waved his hand to the friend behind him, and one of the guys turned back and ran back to report the message.
Li Qiang asked with a little curious and excited, "Are there any robbers coming?" Before he finished speaking, he heard the "kick" gongs and couldn't help but laugh, "It's quite lively, it's both whistle and gongs. Haha, why don't they beat the drums?" Zhao Hao was so amused and laughed, thinking, "Often people see robbers so scared that they are gone. Master is like watching a show, it's too unscrupulous."
Zhao Hao smiled bitterly and said, "I hope it's not a big bandit. Master, don't do it first and let the disciples come." Li Qiang was unwilling to kill anyone anymore and said, "Okay, I'll watch it."
A large group of people rushed out of the mountains and forests by the roadside. Li Qiang couldn't help laughing when he saw it.
This group of robbers wore a little better than beggars. They were tattered and had good weapons. There were all kinds of knives and sticks. The leader was a big man nearly two meters tall, with a beard, black-skinned, big eyes, lion's nose, wide mouth, and no color of cloth straps on his forehead. The clothes were also torn and ragged. He held a big axe in his hand. This big axe was very outstanding, two meters long, the axe was as big as a basin, and the black one was not visible.
Li Qiang suddenly felt aroused, jumped to the big man, and smiled and shouted, "Ye! I'm the mountain blooming! I planted this tree! If you want to give your life, leave it to buy wealth!" Zhao Hao laughed and said, "I'm wrong, I'm wrong!" Li Qiang scratched his head and said, "That's right, that's what the book is written."
The big man holding a big axe shouted, "Ye! I'm building this mountain! I'm planting this tree! If you want to fight this time, stay to buy wealth!" Li Qiang couldn't hold it in and laughed out loud: "Haha, haha, is it that I was wrong or the big man said it right." Zhao Hao said, "That's right, it's just that, it's both dead and wealth, and such a robber is too cruel." The big man made the two of them confused and muttered to him: "Who is the robber? Why are they not afraid at all?"
The big black man swung his long axe and shouted again: "Leave your silver, goods, and clothes. I won't kill you, hurry up!"
The minion behind him shouted in a silence: "Put down the silver!"
"I want that man's clothes!"
"Hey! I want those shoes, don't compete with me!"
The big black man turned his head and scolded, "***, shut up!"
Li Qiang asked with interest: "Hey, I said, "Hey, why do you have to give me my money? How good I can keep it for myself." Hei Da answered very simply: "Because I am a robber, my fist is big, and my axe is powerful, so you have to listen to me. I will not kill you if I put down my things."
Li Qiang said with a smile, "If my fist is bigger than you, if my knife is stronger than you, and if you can't beat me, what should you do to me? Oom!" Zhao Hao laughed and thought to himself, "Master is not an ordinary poor man. I'm coming and going, and I'm dizzy."
The big black man looked at the big axe in his hand with a questioning face and said, "Impossible! I'm going to be in half with my big axe. I see you are so handsome, it's a pity to cut me to death. If you don't put down your things, I'll spare your life!" Li Qiang thought to himself, "This big black man is pretty good, it seems a bit stupid, quite fun."
Pointing at Zhao Hao, Li Qiang said with a smile, "Big man, do you dare to bet with me? I bet you can't even beat my apprentice. Do you dare?" The big man looked at Zhao Hao and suddenly laughed and said, "Haha, don't coax me, I know, this old man can't be your apprentice. I think he is old enough to be your father." Zhao Hao was a little angry and said, "Hey, I said big man, don't talk nonsense. My master is easy to talk, but I'm not easy to talk!"
The big black man said in surprise, "Hey, it's really your apprentice? Okay, what do you think you are betting? Zheng Peng bets with you!" Li Qiang smiled slightly and said in a gambler, "You can't beat my apprentice. If you win, we will give you all our things, but what if you lose, what do you do?" The big black man said in a gambler, "I won't lose. If I lose, I will give you my life, look at the axe!"
Zhao Hao took back the sword and greeted him with empty hands. He had already heard that Li Qiang had a good impression of this big black man, so he was unwilling to use the sword to hurt him.
After the two fought, Zhao Hao immediately realized that Zheng Peng was just relying on his natural magical power, and his kung fu moves were only three times, which was too far from him, and he was a little unfair. Zheng Peng was so angry that the old man hid faster than a ghost, and he couldn't cut him no matter how hard he picked up his axe. He shouted, "Old man, stop and don't move, cut me an axe!"
Li Qiang's legs were soft when he smiled beside him, and he said, "That's right, just chop him up with an axe." Zhao Hao also smiled and said, "Okay, you cut him!"
Zheng Peng was excited and shouted, "Take me an axe!" He held the big axe in both hands and slashed from top to bottom, and the wheel was round and slashed down. The strength of this axe could be split in half even if it was a big stone. Zhao Hao's martial arts were first-class, and he didn't look down on this brute force without skills. He used the "four ounces of force" technique to gently tweak the side of the axe, "Bang!" Most of the axe chopped into the ground. Zhao Hao reached out to rub the axe handle, and Zheng Peng shouted and let go of his hands, his hands were covered in blood.
Li Qiang smiled and said, "You lost!"
Zheng Peng looked at his bleeding hands incredibly, and said with a bitter face: "Uh, I lost, I am willing to accept the loss, you can kill me." Not only Li Qiang, but also Zhao Hao began to like this honest man.
The minion soldiers behind Zheng Peng were in a loud noise, "The three camp masters have lost, go and notify the big camp master." "No, this old man is so powerful." "Escape quickly, the old man wants to kill us but can't beat him." The minions scattered.
Li Qiang said seriously: "Big man, I think you are not a robber, so you should go home. Don't be a robber, I won't kill you either." Zhao Hao shook his head and said: "Master, I think he is a homeless person, otherwise he wouldn't be a robber. If you don't want him to be a robber again, unless you can take him in."
Zheng Peng is honest, but he is not stupid. He can tell whether others are good or bad to him. He heard Zhao Hao say this, and he hurriedly said, "This guy, since I lost the bet, I will do it at your disposal. If you don't kill me, I will follow you." Li Qiang thought to himself, "Hey, this big man is quite good at crawling along the way!"
Li Qiang felt that it was a pity for a person like Zheng Peng to be a robber, so it would be better to take him away, so he said, "Okay."
"Hey, who beat my brother? Xiao Heizi, tell my sister who bullied you, and I will teach him a lesson!"
Li Qiang said in surprise: "There are female robbers?" Zheng Peng's face turned slightly red, and he said: "She is the leader of the big village, much better than me." A girl turned from behind the tree, and walked over gracefully with a whip on her hand.
Chapter completed!