Good and evil must balance

The people of Jiangbei City are simple and simple. There has never been any catastrophe in the century since the city was founded. I thought that the swords and swords on the rivers and lakes were far away from me, but I didn't know that when I woke up in the morning, I found a blood-stained woman hanging on the city gate. The street vendors who got up early were so frightened that they screamed again and again, attracting many officers and soldiers to rush over to check it out. When they saw Ning Tian standing on the city gate, they ran back in disgrace.

Officials don't fight with chivalrous men, and the government has always maintained the attitude of leaving things alone if they can.

So, with Ning Tian sitting in the town, Cang Ruozhi tied his hands to the city gate, and was watched by the terrified and curious people in the city until noon, when Cangxi sent a group of talents to come out of the city in a mighty manner.

Yingze looked at the group of people outside the city with sullen faces, swords in hand, and a murderous look, and sighed, "Look, look. You still have to be ruthless, so that the big fish can take the bait!"

Gu Huo said suddenly from the side: "At the beginning, the left envoy specially ordered not to hurt people."

Yingze said: "Is there? How come I don't know?"

"..."

During the conversation, Cang Qingtian had already come to the gate of the city, and saw Cang Ruozhi's blood stained half of his body exposed to the scorching sun, his hands clenched into fists, his veins bulged, and he yelled at Ning Tian who was on the gate: "Ning Tian, ​​the devil! Teach me what a hero is to bully a weak woman! If you have the ability, come to this old man, come down and fight with this old man!"

"Master Cang, you would rather your daughter suffer and humiliate than hand over the relics of my sect, what kind of a decent hero are you?" Ning Tian sneered, "Master Cang, the same sentence, hand over the painting, and I will release Cang Ruozhi."

Cang Qingtian's eyes were filled with blood, and he took a step forward and said ruthlessly: "Ning Tian, ​​don't toast and refuse to eat fine wine!" After speaking, the disciples behind him shouted together, and drew their swords together and stepped forward.

Yingze waved at Gu Huo beside the city wall, and said quietly, "Cut it off."

Under the command of Gu Zhuo, he cut off the rope on the big knife that had been hanging on Cang Ruozhi's head, and the guillotine went down, approaching Cang Ruozhi's drooping head.

"No!" Cang Qingtian exclaimed.

Ning Tian quickly stepped forward and pulled the hanging rope. In an instant, the guillotine was hanging on Cang Ruozhi's neck, and his head fell to the ground just by an inch.

Cang Qingtian kept sweating on his forehead, and Chu Zheng stepped forward to look at the people on the city wall and said, "As long as we hand over the things, you promise to release them?"

Yingze said loudly: "That's natural, I keep my word."

Chu Zheng cautiously looked at Ning Tian beside him.

Ning Tiandao: "Hand over the painting with one hand, and hand over the person with the other."

Chu Zheng nodded to express his understanding, then looked at Cang Qingtian, and said with a sullen face: "Master Cang, I don't know how the paintings of the Demon Cult have anything to do with you, but if we drag on, I'm afraid Miss Cang... "

"...Why hasn't your grandfather arrived yet?" He stared straight at Cang Ruozhi, not daring to move.

Chu Zheng said: "A few days ago, Chu sent a letter to Grandpa about the situation in Jiangbei. It stands to reason that if you hurry up, Grandpa should have arrived in Jiangbei yesterday, and I don't know what happened on the way..."

Chu Xiao stepped forward and said worriedly: "It's not that the Demon Cult arranged for people to ambush on the road, right?"

Chu Zheng retorted: "Except for a few of us, not even the disciples of the Cangxi Sect know about the fact that Grandpa came to Jiangbei to support him. How did the Demon Sect know?"

"Also..." Chu Xiao scratched his head in doubt.

Cang Qingtian stared at Cang Ruozhi hanging on the wall, glanced at Chu Zheng, and remained silent.

For a long time, Cang Ruozhi, who was exposed to the scorching sun, suddenly moved, and looked up to see Cang Qingtian, who was below the city. Tears flowed down her blood-stained face, and she said in a trance, "Daddy..."

Cang Qingtian trembled, glanced over his head and took a few deep breaths before he came back to look at the people in the city, and said in a deep voice: "Are you really able to keep your word?"

Facing him, Yingze had no good temper, and deliberately said: "Whether we keep our word or not, you have no other way to save Cang Ruozhi."

"You—" Cang Qingtian stared at him fiercely.

Chu Zheng said: "Master Cang."

Cang Qingtian came back to his senses, looked at Chu Zheng, opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, then shut it tightly, and waved to the disciple behind him, who immediately handed him a long wooden box.

He took it, and said, "I've tried my best."

Yingze looked at the wooden box, and secretly said to Ning Tian: "Look at the wooden box, it seems that Cang Qingtian has already made a plan to replace him with a painting, if he can hand it over earlier, Cang Ruozhi will not die Suffering these crimes for no reason.”

Ning Tian glanced at him without denying it.

Cang Qingtian turned around and yelled at Yingze and the others: "Put down my daughter!"

Gu Huo took back the guillotine, Yingze said, "Paint."

Cang Qingtian threw the painting up vigorously, and Gu Huo jumped up to catch it instantly. Ning Tian cut off the rein hanging from Cang Ruozhi behind him, and Cang Ruozhi fell vertically. Cang Qingtian immediately stepped forward to catch it, holding her tight hugged tightly.

Hand over the painting with one hand, and the other hand over the person.

Yingze stretched out his hand to take the painting in satisfaction, and Ning Tian was the first to snatch it from Gu Huo's hand.

Yingze snorted, "Be careful that there are hidden weapons on the box."

Ning Tian opened it calmly, turned over a corner of the scroll, seemed to be sure that the painting was indeed what they wanted, and shouted at Cang Qingtian at the bottom of the city: "Master Cang really keeps his word."

Yingze said quietly from the side: "Don't you know what's in the painting?"

Ning Tian glanced at him.

Cang Qingtian hugged Cang Ruozhi who was dying, and looked at them with bloodshot eyes, "Ning Tian, ​​I, Cangxi, will avenge my daughter's revenge in the future!"

Ning Tian replied: "Waiting for you at any time."

The Cangxi faction retreated outside the city early the next morning.

Gu Huo suddenly came to them with a serious face, "Ning You Shi, Ying Zuo Shi. Just now the spies came to report that people from Wuxiangmen are rushing to Jiangbei City."

Ning Tian was slightly stunned, and asked, "Have you made peace with the Cangxi faction?"

"Yes." Gu Huo nodded.

Yingze gloated and said, "What a coincidence. If they had come earlier, Cang Qingtian probably wouldn't have let go so easily."

Ning Tian hummed: "Whether he lets go or not, this painting is not part of his school, it would be a mistake for us to take back our own!"

Yingze said: "I have always been curious about a question. You said, during the battle of Tianlang Mountain, it was fine for these decent people to plunder some gold, silver and property. What did they do when they robbed the painting of the former leader? Moreover, they returned it completely. It has been kept intact for ten years?"

"..." Ning Tian didn't answer.

When mentioning the painting, Ning Tian basically ignored it, and ordered Gu Huo to send more people to monitor the Cangxi School, and then flung his sleeves and left.

The entire compound has been tensely vigilant all afternoon, everyone is seriously preparing to resist the attack of the Cangxi faction, but after waiting for a day and a night, there is no joint attack by the Cangxi faction outside the city and the Wuxiangmen.

Gu Huo ordered people to investigate, and found that the Cangxi Sect and Wuxiang Sect outside the city had long since disappeared. Gu Huo scratched his head in distress: Is the integrity too weak or are they too strong?They didn't fight like this!

Chu Zheng followed Chu Xiulin back, and Ning Tian let Yingze go for a walk around the city to get some air.

Walking to a restaurant, Yingze chose a seat by the window and sat down, chomping on peanuts in a daze.

Gu Huo was sitting on the side, busy peeling peanuts for him.

"That day in the middle of the river, Chu Zheng's wedding party was like this, walking past my eyes."

Gu Huo looked up, he didn't know which family was getting married outside the window, and the red wedding team passed through the street outside the window.

Gu Huo commented truthfully: "It doesn't have the style of that day."

Yingze said: "If I... don't need these etiquettes, as long as the other party can sincerely kneel down to heaven and earth with me and make an appointment for life, that's enough."

……

The welcoming team outside the window came in a hurry and passed by in a hurry. On the bustling street, the crowd dispersed and then moved closer again.

As if nothing had happened.

Yingze sat in the hotel for most of the afternoon, ate several plates of peanuts, and finally felt that he couldn't choke his throat anymore, so he just gave up and got up to leave.

As soon as he got to the bottom of the restaurant, Mo Yecheng suddenly jumped out from nowhere, standing in front of him with a look of hesitation.

Yingze asked in surprise, "Didn't you leave Jiangbei?"

Mo Yecheng looked at him with a frown, hesitatingly said: "I have something, I want to ask you for help."

Ask him for help?This is strange.Yingze looked at him with raised eyebrows, not in a hurry to answer.

Mo Yecheng took a deep breath and said, "I would like to ask you to help me prepare a boat and take me...back to the island. Shen Xuan...they may be in trouble."

Yingze seemed to have thought of something, and frowned, "What did you do?"

"I——" Mo Yecheng's voice suddenly dropped, so low that it couldn't be lowered, and he said, "I accidentally slipped my tongue and told Cangxi that the ice toad was stolen... The head of Cang brought many disciples I went to sea, and I said I was going to..."

Yingze suddenly asked, "Let's level the entire island?"

Mo Yecheng looked annoyed.

Yingze said coldly: "The island is hidden, how do they know the route?"

Mo Yecheng trembled all over and remained silent for a long time.

Yingze said harshly: "Mo Yecheng, you want to become famous and go crazy!"

"..." Mo Yecheng clenched his fist and inserted his fingertips into his palm, blood oozing out, but he felt no pain at all.

He suddenly raised his head and shouted: "What do you know? You, a cult leader, can still become famous in the world by deceiving teachers and destroying ancestors! And what about me! I entered the rivers and lakes by myself, fought for righteousness along the way, and did many good things. How many people know the name "Moye City"!"

His eyes were wide open, filled with hatred, "As long as I can take over the notorious Jiangbei Pirate's Lair, I can become famous like the jade-faced young master more than ten years ago!"

Before the Tianlang Mountain battle, who knew Ling Qingyun in the world?After that night of Sirius, who doesn't know Mr. Yumian!

Yingze stabbed him on purpose, and said: "Then you can follow Cangxi and send a group to Tudao together, what are you doing pretending to report."

"I—" Mo Yecheng looked lonely, and stood there for a long time before turning and leaving in silence.

Yingze looked at his back and said, "I'll go back and order someone to prepare the boat, you can go to the pier and wait."