My enemies became my companions

Chapter 285: Death if Fraudulent (Additional Two-in-One)

The long sword fell to the ground. Chen Yi paused slightly and looked at Wu Qingyan for a long time.

Wu Qingyan took a step or two back and almost fell out of the door.

Seeing this scene, Min Ning felt a little puzzled and couldn't help but say:
"Why are you giving up so soon?"

After traveling with Chen Yi so many times, this was the first time someone admitted defeat in person.

To be honest, Min Ning never wanted to miss the opportunity to watch Chen Yi fighting with others. Watching these scenes could not only improve his martial arts attainments, but also perhaps bring him sudden inspiration.

Upon hearing this, Wu Qingyan said directly without any ambiguity:
"My master taught me that when traveling in the martial arts world, the most important thing is to fight if you can beat him, and not to fight if you can't. Now I can't beat this guy. If I don't admit defeat, do I admit death?"

After these words came out of his mouth, Min Ning, who was usually straightforward, widened his eyes slightly, as if his eyes had been opened.

Cui Heng, who was lying on the ground, heard these words in a daze. Blood welled up in his throat and he pointed at Wu Qingyan and said:
"Brother Wu, you..."

Chen Yi glanced at it and said casually:
"Your brother is calling you."

As soon as he heard the words, Wu Qingyan's palms began to sweat. He raised his sword slightly, and then... took another step back.

He immediately said, "In the martial arts world, the most important thing is righteousness. He is my sworn brother, so I should seek revenge, but he must have been wrong first. Moreover, the senior was born in an official family and has great martial arts skills. Given the two, I will sever my brotherly relationship with him now and kill my relative for the sake of justice."

Cui Heng, who was severely injured, was furious when he saw this scene. He was so angry that he kept saying:

"I am so arrogant that I would become sworn brothers with you!"

When Wu Qingyan heard this, his face turned slightly pale, and then he looked up at the man, only to hear the latter say slowly:

"Oh?"

Wu Qingyan no longer hesitated, turned around, looked at the disciples and said:

"We all know Brother Cui's character. The deputy owner also said that he is arrogant and will do something bad in the future. Now that something has happened, you can't blame anyone else. You should explain clearly to the deputy owner what happened here."

Wu Qingyan's words startled all the disciples. Some of them looked at each other in bewilderment, but the smart ones reacted quickly and responded in unison.

The people from the Sword Forging Villa nodded repeatedly, and finally took a few steps back. Chu Huonan, who was lying on the ground, couldn't help but show a look of joy.

He risked his life to survive and actually survived.

However, when he turned his eyes, he saw Chen Yiwei raised his hand and made way for the other two.

"We have nothing to do with this person. Please let the villa handle it on your own."

After these calm words were spoken, Chu Huonan's face gradually turned pale.

After hearing this, Wu Qingyan couldn't help but clasped his fists and said:

"Okay, this man attacked and killed a fellow disciple, and then secretly hid the sword manual. Now we are going to capture him. Senior, don't worry. We will report it to the Zhige Division and handle it according to the rules."

Chu Huonan exclaimed:

"Senior, senior, please stay!"

However, Chen Yi and others were too lazy to continue to get involved in other underworld affairs.

The three of them untied the horse ropes tied to the pillar. Min Ning looked back. Although she had the idea of ​​being chivalrous in her heart, she could still see that Chu Hongan had previously diverted the blame. Moreover, both parties insisted on their own opinions, and it was difficult to judge who was right. Who could know whether Chu Hongan, who was being hunted, was right, or the Sword Casting Villa, which was hunting him, was right?
Moreover, Zhujian Villa is considered a well-known sect in the martial arts world.

Although Min Ning has not yet started to travel the world, he has seen a lot of gossip in the capital. In addition, with his sister's advice, Min Ming, who used to be the intelligence chief of Wuyong Building, knows much more about the strange things in the world than Min Ning.

After a brief episode, the group left the dilapidated land temple.

As the horses did not need enough rest, which was only the time of one or two sticks of incense, the three men did not ride the horses but walked, leading the horses.

Chen Yi turned his head and glanced at Min Ning:
"I thought you were going to ask."

"Well, what's the question?"

"Ask me why you just left." Chen Yi said.

Min Ning raised his eyebrows, turned his head and said:

"I still have some trust in you."

Chen Yi smiled. If Li Wenhu had not been there, he would have put his arms around her waist.

There were actually many reasons for just walking away. In addition to not wanting to be involved in any trouble for no reason, the Sword Casting Villa was considered a law-abiding sect in the capital area. And there was also the name Wu Qingyan... It sounded like he had some connection with the governor Wu Qingsheng, with only one letter difference.

For the above reasons, Chen Yi didn't want to meddle in other people's business.

Chen Yi thought for a moment and smiled at Min Ning:
"Mind your own business if you can, unless you really can't stand it anymore."

"You don't have to teach me." Min Ning didn't look at him.

Chen Yi laughed and shook his head:
"Just remember it anyway."

Li Wenhu led the horse and walked in front. He did not turn his head, but looked straight ahead. He suddenly said:

"He has a good temperament and is suitable for shooting practice. I was right."

Chen Yi hesitated for a moment and said:

"Who asked you?"

The old man with the gun on his back snorted coldly:

"I can ask and answer my own questions, can't I?"

"..."

Chen Yi was speechless for a while about this strange old man, and then he said:

"Row."

Li Wenhu led the horse forward down the slope, glanced at Chen Yi and asked:

"Boy, you really don't want to learn?"

Seeing that he still mentioned this matter, Chen Yi asked curiously:
"Didn't the old man say that my bones are not good?"

"But you have a good personality. And spearmanship is not about aptitude, it gets better with age." Li Wenhu replied, paused, and continued: "Boy, you can be a Sicheng, you must be at least a fifth-rank, but I want you to learn spearmanship, not to take a fifth-rank apprentice to flatter myself."

Chen Yi was still a little surprised to hear such direct words, so he asked: "So why do you want to accept a disciple?"

Li Wenhu continued, "Hu Youxing is my true disciple, but this boy has left the sect. Now I have to clean up the sect. According to the rules of the martial arts world, once the master kills the true disciple himself, his martial arts will be cut off."

Chen Yimian was confused.

Seeing this, Min Ning explained in a low voice:
"Killing the true disciple with my own hands would mean announcing to the world that I am a bad disciple and have poor martial arts skills. I am ashamed to face others. I would be ashamed of myself and my ancestors, so I can no longer accept disciples."

"You are also very direct in your speech," Li Wenhu said with a hearty smile, even though he is old. "So I want to take another disciple before I kill Hu Youxing."

Chen Yi scratched his head and couldn't help but complain in his heart, Li Wenhu's behavior was clearly a bug.

However, Li Wenhu would rather do so than accept a disciple after killing someone. This shows that these underworld rules are still quite important among the elders of his generation.

This reminded Chen Yi of You Xu of the Bai Liu Sect. To be honest, when facing You Xu, this down-and-out swordsman did not have much hatred towards him. He even said that after killing him, he would go to the King Jing's Mansion to avenge his apprentice. Regardless of whether this was true or not, it seemed that You Xu and Li Wenhu were probably the same kind of people in the martial arts world. Li Wenhu saw that Chen Yi did not seem to have much interest and seemed to want to fight for it. However, it would be embarrassing to say it directly, so he pretended to be casual and said:
"There are at least 800 spear techniques in the world, and the famous ones are like Zhao Zilong's Eighteen Spears and Yang Family's Pear Blossom Spear. But my spear technique, Li Wenhu, is not inferior to these famous spear techniques, even if I am being modest."

"What about being immodest?"

"Of course I am the best in the world." Li Wenhu was indeed not modest.

"..."

Chen Yi really didn't want to talk more about this issue, even though he had no ill feelings towards the old man, so he said directly:

"Don't tell me, old sir. I practice swords, not spears."

Li Wenhu's eyes dimmed when he heard this, and he stroked his beard and said:

"What a pity, what a pity. When I saw you knew Cangshan Fist, I thought you and I were destined to be together."

A strange look flashed across Chen Yi's eyes.

But this time, it was not him who spoke, but Min Ning who spoke first and asked curiously:
"Old gentleman, do you know Cangshan Fist?"

When Li Wenhu saw Chen Yi's boxing style, Min Ning was a little surprised. Now that Li Wenhu had spoken, Min Ning asked.

Li Wenhu nodded slightly, as if recalling the past, and said with some melancholy:

"Of course I know. This punch came from Jinyiwei Commander Min He. I sparred with him in the past, but we stopped communicating after a long time. Then when I heard about him again, I heard that he was involved in a major case involving the Prime Minister and his head and body were separated."

When Min Ning heard that this person knew Grandpa, he couldn't help but say:

"Old sir, my last name is Min."

Li Wenhu was slightly startled, and stopped walking, his face a little excited, but after glancing at Min Ning, he calmed down and sighed:
"I didn't expect to meet the grandson of an old friend here. What a pity, it's not suitable for practicing shooting."

Min Ning was surprised. He glanced at Chen Yi and said with a little dissatisfaction, "Why is he suitable but I am not?"

"I have a very good character and a very straightforward personality. I am afraid I will repeat the same mistakes." Li Wenhu sighed, "Alas, alas..."

The words revealed some past events. Upon hearing this, Chen Yi and Min Ning fell silent and did not speak.

After walking for a while, Li Wenhu looked back several times.

Chen Yi and Min Ning both blinked, confused, but neither of them spoke.

The old man with the gun on his back said anxiously:
"Why don't you ask? Aren't you curious?"

"Then why didn't you say anything?"

"Just because I don't say it doesn't mean I don't want to say it."

The old man blew his beard and glared, and then he stopped keeping the secret and said:

"Everything is from my disciple Hu Youxing. In the early years, I was a escort agent everywhere, and I had no intention or mood to recruit disciples. After I quit the escort agency and settled down, I opened a martial arts school. Naturally, I wanted to recruit disciples. But at that time, I felt that the people who came to the door had poor foundations and were not suitable for true disciples, so I didn't teach anyone.

Until I met Hu Youxing's father. He had good roots, high talent, and arrogant personality. I accepted him as my disciple. But I never thought that after learning the true teachings, he would do evil and become the son-in-law of the bandits in Langshan Village. He was also wanted by the government, so I signed a declaration of war to clear out the family."

When talking about the past, Li Wenhu couldn't help feeling melancholy between his old brows.

Chen Yi and Min Ning listened silently. The former's expression did not change much, while the latter had a focused look and some fluctuations in his heart.

"I killed Hu Youxing's father, and his mother also committed suicide after seeing his father's death. As for Hu Youxing, he was only five years old at that time. I had no intention of taking him in as my apprentice, but a month later, I heard that the Wolf Mountain Stronghold was wiped out by the government, and the remnants of the Wolf Mountain Stronghold came to me and asked me to adopt Hu Youxing as a disciple."

The old man said this, and he sighed deeply:

"There's no need to tell you what happened next. You can probably guess what happened. It was nothing more than Hu Youxing finding out that his parents were killed by me, and then trying to kill me. When he failed, he was expelled from the sect and went straight to Southern Xinjiang. Now he has joined the army of King Annan."

Min Ning kept saying:
"He challenged you, aren't you afraid there might be something fishy going on?"

"If it's a fraud, then I'll die." Li Wenhu said calmly with a hint of ruthlessness, "Anyway, the old lady of my Li family passed away four or five years ago. I have no children, so what if she died? If you can, send me ten miles away from the military camp, and that will be the most righteous thing you can do."

After the words fell, Chen Yi finally spoke:

"Unfortunately, we once had the honor of meeting the King of Annan, and we can probably send the old gentleman directly to the military camp."

"Well, that's a good point! Boy, I think you are suitable for shooting. It seems that I am old but my vision is still good."

Li Wenhu laughed.

"Are you asking and answering your own questions again?"

"Can't I boast about my own taste?"

.......................................

Time unknowingly came to dusk.

The military camp of King Annan was getting closer and closer. Min Ning watched the horses' hooves passing along this somewhat familiar path, then he looked along the side of the road, staring at the small village in the distance in a daze.

Since that time, the military camp of King Annan seemed to have really not harmed this small village again. The village before them was quiet and peaceful, and it was as peaceful and contented as before.

But when Min Ning thought of the woman who handed her the water, she felt a little upset.

She wanted to go to that house again and take a look, and if possible, give the person some money.

But it’s not convenient right now, let’s go on the way back.

Chen Yi glanced sideways, as if he saw through Min Ning's thoughts, and felt an inexplicable sense of relief in his heart.

Although I act in a chivalrous manner now, I can still become a villain at any time. Because of this, I don’t think I am a good person.

But even if you are a person who has done ten kinds of evil, you will more or less hope that the people around you are good people.

Chen Yi felt the same way, so his girlfriend's thoughts made him inexplicably relieved.

As the group approached the military camp, they could see scouts in the distance, and then soldiers blocked the road.

But after Li Wenhu issued the declaration of war, the soldiers seemed to have learned something and did not make things difficult for them, allowing them to pass.

After a little inquiry, Chen Yi found out that Hu Youxing was a captain in the army. After repeated requests, he got the prince's permission for this life-and-death battle.

Qin Qingluo has always been a person who values ​​military affairs. Even if Hu Youxing is just an ordinary soldier, Chen Yi feels that she may not necessarily disagree with this.

After walking all the way, they arrived at the parade ground. At this time, there were crowds of people inside and outside the parade ground. Chen Yiwei raised his head and saw the King of Annan, wearing heavy armor, standing with his hands behind his back on the ten-foot-high stand, standing like a small mountain.

Li Wenhu raised his eyes slightly and couldn't help but sigh:

"What a great momentum! I heard that the Zhu family spear is as high as a mountain. Now looking at the posture of this king of a different surname, it is indeed worthy of its reputation."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Qingluo happened to look over there.

The female prince only glanced at him and passed over Li Wenhu.

Then, her pupils shrank slightly and fell directly on Chen Yi...

No one could see that King Annan secretly clenched his hands behind his back.

This was the last time the Queen saw him before leaving the capital. She was about to find out, and after returning, she would have to give birth to a child and spend the rest of her life in a state of rage and frustration.
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(End of this chapter)