This king wants to be the leader of the martial arts alliance

When the two walked out of the study, they saw the brothers of the Yan family who didn't know that they had been found out were competing.

The two held a branch in each hand, and their movements were extremely fast, and their figures suddenly appeared.

Ning Yanzhi squinted his eyes, unable to tell what it was like in his heart.

Originally, there was a mess in the court, but Queen Hui actually dragged people from the Jianghu into it.

The water is muddy, what good can it do?

When he came back to his senses, Yan Dingnan and Yan Jujiang had already withdrawn their moves.

Yan Dingnan walked towards him, with a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, he saluted with Yan Jujiang and said: "My lord."

Ning Yanzhi didn't say anything, but Ning Yezhi smiled and said, "Why should my family be so courteous? A few days ago, assassins entered the palace, and this king knew that Ju Jiang's martial arts skills are good. I didn't expect that Ding Nan was not inferior. .”

Yan Dingnan didn't know that he was probing, and didn't hear anything unusual, so he replied honestly: "Brother gave way to the minister."

Ning Yezhi praised: "That's not bad."

Then he said: "It's getting late, the king and Ju Jiang will go back to the palace first."

Ning Yanzhi and Yan Dingnan said, "Brother Huang, go slowly."

When sending people out of the palace, Yan Dingnan was still looking at Yan Jujiang reluctantly.

From Yan Jujiang's point of view, they hadn't seen each other for only two months, but from Yan Dingnan's point of view, it was two years.

During the period, life and death were separated.

The incompatibility he felt when he first met him has mostly healed after finishing the sword, and now his heart is full of reluctance.

Yan Jujiang didn't notice anything different, he just felt that his younger brother was extra clingy this time, and he only thought he was a child at heart, so he smiled and said, "I'll see you again when I have a chance."

Yan Dingnan responded dully, and followed him step by step, even forgetting about Ning Yanzhi.

After seeing off the people, Yan Dingnan thought of the business and asked, "My lord, are we going to give gifts to the imperial concubine in three days?"

"No." Ning Yanzhi felt irritable when he mentioned this matter, so naturally he didn't give him a good face, and he was even more unwilling to give gifts to the imperial concubine.

"But the imperial concubine is being favored recently, if she said a few more words..." Yan Dingnan checked his expression carefully, and said a few more words.

Ning Yanzhi frowned and stopped, and looked him up and down, Yan Dingnan remembered the conversation he had just had with Yan Jujiang, thinking that Ning Yanzhi suspected that he was the imperial concubine's person, and his heart tightened.

But Ning Yanzhi sneered after looking at it and said: "Go practice your sword, I don't understand anything, and I still have to learn what others say."

Then he grabbed the wooden stick in Yan Dingnan's hand and threw it aside, and the servant next to him quickly picked it up.

Ning Yanzhi only took a glance, then looked away, and said: "The palace doesn't lack you who know kung fu. If you have time, it's better to take care of your body, so as not to catch the wind and cold and develop a high fever next time."

Yan Dingnan opened his mouth and closed it again, really didn't know what to say.

Ning Yanzhi felt that his concubine's high fever was really stupid and ingenious, so he could only say: "Aren't you usually very wary? How come you dare to speak ill of the imperial concubine in the courtyard this time?"

Yan Dingnan looked at him blankly, and said, "Is this considered a bad word?"

Ning Yanzhi didn't bother to talk to him, and continued, "Or are you acting like a fool? You don't know such an obvious thing?"

Yan Dingnan, who didn't dare to say "yes", silently pretended to be dumb.

Already in the backyard, there are few people here, and Ning Yanzhi, who is so careful, no longer cares about being heard, and sarcastically said: "Do you need to bring a gift to the palace banquet? It's not for her birthday, but this king is neither Her son is not her lover, it doesn't matter when she is born."

Yan Dingnan, who understood, agreed: "Then I won't give it away."

The prince is neither the concubine's lover nor the concubine's son, and there are factional disputes and battles for the throne. Everyone knows that they have a bad relationship.

If they continue to give gifts, they will only be regarded as having ulterior motives.

Even if the emperor believed it, the imperial concubine only needed to fiddle with the gift, and blow the wind beside her pillow. It's hard to say what the scene will be like at that time.

Ning Yanzhi glanced at him critically, and said, "From now on, I will listen to this king."

Yan Dingnan nodded gloomily, feeling that the Ning Yanzhi in front of him was much different from the Ning Yan he remembered.

With that in mind, he said it.

"This king didn't expect that either." Ning Yanzhi said: "You are also quite different from the person in this king's impression."

Yan Dingnan didn't dare to tell him about going back in time, so he stopped talking.

But Ning Yanzhi seemed to talk too much today, he tried the temperature on Yan Dingnan's forehead, and when he knew that he was no longer hot, he said, "You know kung fu?"

Startled by his action, Yan Dingnan froze and didn't dare to move, but subconsciously replied: "Yes."

He is still not used to Ning Yanzhi's closeness.

"Kungfu is not low." Ning Yanzhi smiled at him.

Yan Dingnan knew that he was suspicious, and didn't want to hide it from him, so he said, "Does the lord know about the Tao family in Zhongzhou?"

"I've heard of it." Ning Yanzhi sat on the stone bench, looked at Yan Dingnan sitting beside him, and asked, "Are you related to the Tao family?"

"Yes." Yan Dingnan thought he had sent someone to investigate, so he replied: "Chen's father was born in the south of the Yangtze River, but when he was young, he met his father who came to the Liu family to discuss swordsmanship, and they got married. According to seniority , the Patriarch of the Tao family is the minister's uncle."

"The queen mother is kind to the Tao family." He thought for a while, and said: "I don't know the specific subject, I only know that the queen mother went to Zhongzhou to hide for a period of time, and the minister and elder brother also met her at that time."

"A few months ago, my mother said that you and the emperor were in trouble, and asked us to help... It seems that something happened to the Tao family, so my father simply let me and my elder brother go into the palace to hide."

Ning Yanzhi became angry, and asked calmly, "Go back after hiding?"

"I can't go back." Yan Dingnan didn't doubt him, and said: "People from the Tao family said that they must never have contact with the officialdom, even if they are seventh-rank officials. If they enter the palace, they will sever ties, and then they will give away their father's name." removed from the family tree."

"Sever the relationship?" Ning Yanzhi's anger just now turned into astonishment.

Fallen leaves still have to return to their roots, let alone people who have relocated?

A person whose genealogy has been removed is like a tree without roots. Even if he has been living with Yan Fu in Jiangnan, he shouldn't have agreed so readily.

Ning Yanzhi couldn't help but ask, "How is the Tao family's relationship?"

"Very good..." Yan Dingnan glanced at him and knew that he was still doubting his identity, so he said, "I still think there is something wrong with the Tao family. My uncle has adopted a adopted son named Tao Wuya, who is my son. Cousin, very talented, has been practicing swords in the family, and has never left the house."

"At the end of last year, my uncle gave him a sword and a bag of silver, and asked him to go out to practice." Yan Dingnan said: "Uncle has no son, and he has always used his cousin as the head of the Tao family to train him, saying that he is waiting for him. After the experience is over, the position of Patriarch can be passed on to him."

"But I heard from my father that there was no such rule in the past." Yan Dingnan said: "My cousin has married into the Zhou family, and now most of the younger generations of the Tao family are not in the Tao family. Chunyi and Qiuluo are disciples of the Tao family, and they came here because Uncle is worried about ministers."

People in Jianghu attach great importance to the inheritance of martial arts. Tao's parents and daughters are not very good at internal skills, so Patriarch Tao has no plan to pass on the position of Patriarch to her. It's better to pass the position of head of the family to the adopted son.

Anyway, it's okay to wait until the eldest child gives birth to a son and then take him back to learn his own skills.

Ning Yanzhi thought about it for a while, half believed it in his heart, and planned to send someone to investigate.

But it was almost noon now, and it was originally cloudy and windy.

The sound of the wind overwhelmed the original cicadas. I wonder if those noisy little things also know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages and hide.

He stood up, pulled Yan Dingnan up as well, and said, "You are just fine with the wind and cold, so go inside and rest."

Yan Dingnan was overwhelmed by flattery, and quickly said: "I'm not cold."

"Let me enter the room even if it's not cold." Ning Yanzhi's three words were in keeping with his nature, and he immediately became impatient.

Yan Dingnan rolled his eyes happily, responded, and ran into the house.

With a smile on the corner of Ning Yanzhi's lips, he said, "Is it so happy to be scolded?"

The wind picked up, and the sky gradually became cloudy, and it started to rain lightly in the middle of the afternoon.

A trace of residual heat dissipated cleanly, which is really worthy of the phrase "one autumn rain and one cool".

Yan Dingnan was really bored, so he sat by the window and flipped through the sword manual.

They are all the kind of bad street sword moves that can be bought for a dozen copper coins on the street, which made Ning Yanzhi very curious.

Yan Dingnan explained: "When fighting for life and death, there is no time to think about sword moves. They all rely on instinct. Just take a look at these. There are no sword books in the family, only the cultivation method of internal strength."

"However, the Zhou family has a lot of sword books, and their moves are very delicate, just the opposite of the Liu family." Yan Dingnan said: "The Tao family is good at light swords, and their moves are extremely fast. The Qin family is the opposite of the Tao family, specializing in heavy swords."

"My lord, do you want to learn?" Yan Dingnan remembered that when he was hunted down, if the lord knew how to do light work, he wouldn't be unable to escape, and maybe he could protect the cub.

He persuaded: "People have eight extraordinary meridians and twelve serious meridians, which produce different internal forces according to different luck. The Tao family has a long breath, which is very useful whether it is fighting or escaping."

But the point of Ning Yanzhi's point is not that this exercise is the secret of the Tao family. He asked in disbelief: "Look, this king seems to be a deserter?"

Yan Dingnan had no choice but to give him a slap in the face, and said: "It's not like, I just said it slickly, the prince is not to blame."