Chapter 1248 The Sword God Smiles (IV)

Captain Fang is forty-three years old this year, of medium build.

He has a very straight square face, but between his eyebrows, there is a hint of coldness and murderousness.

When he walked into the inn, every old man who saw him had a consensus in his heart - this person should not be provoked.

They are right...

Fang Jin in front of him, his physical strength, martial arts, experience... are at the peak of his career.

Among the six gates, he can also be regarded as one of the best.

If not, he would not have been sent to such a border town at such a time.

"Shopkeeper." After Fang Jin stepped into the inn, he looked forward and said these three words loudly.

"My humble servant greets you, sir!" The shopkeeper of Kelaixuan responded hurriedly and came out from the counter: "May I ask what you want, sir?"

Fang Jin didn't even look at him: "I'm asking you... Is the person lying outside a guest of your store?"

"Uh..." The shopkeeper had nothing to hide, because similar things like today had happened several times in the past month, and it was not the first time he and Fang Jin had such a conversation, "It's... It's someone who lives in my store."

"Okay." Fang Jin immediately said, "I'll take the body away..." As he spoke , while taking out some loose silver from his pocket, holding the silver in his fist, and stretched it in front of the shopkeeper, "This money... was found on the corpse, take a look, how much is needed to pay for his stay in the hotel and the damage to the things."

"Oh~" the shopkeeper quickly raised his voice, "Master, look at what you said... Just my small shop, the things that were broken are worth a few melons and dates... As for the money for the shop... he... he has already paid it."

Although the shopkeeper is very greedy, he is not stupid, he knows very well - some money can be taken, and some money... can't be touched even if you are beaten to death.

"Oh... so..." Fang Jin muttered, and took the money back into his arms. During the whole process, his hand holding the silver had no intention of loosening. "Then... I will hand this money over to the government on your behalf."

"Hey~ Master." The shopkeeper nodded and bowed, "Everyone in our town knows that you are honest and upright, and you are the reincarnation of the justice... You can handle this money, and you will never lose a penny."

"Hmph..." Hearing this, Fang Jin glanced at the lobby of the inn, sneered lightly, and then turned and walked out.

"Okay, okay, everyone go away! There's nothing to see!" As soon as he went out, he shouted a few times, dispersing the crowd around, and then called on the few constables he brought with him to roll up the body and put it on the cart, and then he packed up and left.

This is not the first time Fang Jin has done this, and it will not be the last time.

In this era, the imperial court and the martial arts world have returned to the relationship of "minority"; as long as the vendettas in the martial arts world do not involve ordinary people, the officials usually do not care; it is redundant to care anyway, and it is easier for the government to let you retaliate against each other.

So, like the current situation in Linlu Town, when a dead person appears, Fang Jin only needs to show up, confirm that the identity of the dead person is a martial artist, and then he can collect the body and leave; if the dead person has family members and fellow disciples who can deal with the body by themselves, then Fang Jin can even save the trouble of collecting the body.

However, Fang Jin does not mind doing this kind of corpse collection work a few more times, the reason... everyone has seen it.

These martial arts people have some money on them, and it is just the right amount that no one will say anything if you embezzle.

Of course, Fang Jin is a thoughtful and meticulous person... Even if no one will say anything, he still has to have that conversation with the shopkeeper, and in front of many people.

No matter how fake the play they sang was, at least the plot of the play was fine. If someone wanted to make a fuss about this matter in the future, they would not be able to find any handle.

From this little thing, it can be seen that Fang Jin is obviously an old comrade with rich experience in struggle...

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After finishing his official duties, Fang Jin ordered his constables to transport the body back to the nearby county government as soon as possible. He himself came to a teahouse at the entrance of the town and asked for a hot tea and a few steamed cakes.

Fang Jin was a constable who was quite good at "making money", but he rarely spent money on eating, drinking and having fun.

He was not particular about food and never drank alcohol. He could wear a constable's blue clothes from the beginning of the year to the end of the year; even in terms of women, he was very restrained.

This kind of self-discipline, this "restraint", is an extremely valuable quality.

Many people can't even live through a day like this, but Fang Jin can live through a year, ten years, twenty years...

Therefore, he can stay sober most of the time.

Therefore, he rarely reveals flaws and weaknesses.

Therefore, his martial arts and physical fitness are outstanding among his peers.

More importantly, he can use the money that others spend on eating, drinking and having fun to do something more meaningful.

In the officialdom, it is very important to keep some "family assets", which can be used for promotion and survival in desperate situations... No one knows when the boat you are on will capsize. At that time, "money" is just a life-saving piece of driftwood, and those who have nothing left can only sink into the abyss with the boat.

Ka——

"Hmm?" Just when Fang Jin was about to put the second steamed bun into his mouth, suddenly, the sword on his waist... trembled slightly in the scabbard.

If it were someone else, they probably wouldn't notice this little movement, and even if they did, they wouldn't care.

Perhaps the tip of the sheath hit the chair, or the sheath was moved by the wind and hit something, or maybe someone passed by and touched it...

No one would think too much.

However, Fang Jin, at the moment when the knife trembled... his whole body tensed up.

"Who is it?" He immediately asked himself this question in his mind, and began to observe the passers-by around him calmly.

It was afternoon, and there were not many people entering and leaving the town, but this was the only main road in the town after all, and there were quite a few pedestrians, cars and horses.

Fortunately, Fang Jin quickly found the person he was looking for from the mediocre crowd...

It was a woman, a woman with a knife.

She was dressed in white, with a beautiful figure and a vigorous gait.

She covered most of her face with a piece of cloth, revealing only the part above the bridge of her nose; however, just by looking at her eyes and forehead, it was enough to make people conclude that she was a beauty.

"There is such a thing..." At this moment, Fang Jin had no mind to consider whether the woman's face was really beautiful. He only cared about the pair of swords on her waist.

Fang Jin knew very well that the "trembling" of his sword just now was a reaction similar to "resonance".

Few people knew that Fang Jin's sword was not an ordinary sword.

Although this sword was sheathed in a very ordinary scabbard, it looked no different from the waist swords used by ordinary yamen runners.

But... Fang Jin knew that the sword hanging on his waist was one of the four great magic weapons in the world - the blue bird.

The jade hook on the pearl scroll still locked the heavy tower with the previous spring hatred.

The blue bird did not pass on the message beyond the clouds, and the lilac only tied the sorrow in the rain.

These are four lines of poetry that everyone in the martial arts world knows, and the [jade hook], [heavy tower], [blue bird] and [lilac] correspond to four magic weapons respectively.

【Jade Hook】 is a curved knife, shaped like a "Wu Hook", made of a strange black jade; the last time it was seen was in a treasury in Wang Qiong's house.

【Chonglou】 is a long halberd, a "hollow" halberd; because it is hollow, it is as light as a bamboo pole. However, after it is stained with blood, it will absorb blood into the halberd. The more blood it absorbs, the redder the color of the Chonglou becomes, the heavier it becomes, and the more violent it becomes... Legend has it that after killing thousands of people in a row, the power of the Chonglou can split mountains and seas.

However, the Chonglou is the only one of the four magic weapons whose whereabouts are unknown, and no one has ever dared to say that they have seen the real Chonglou. Everyone just heard it from others. Therefore, there are also rumors that the Chonglou is simply a fabricated weapon, which was made up just to make a poem with the other three.

[Bluebird] is a short knife, slightly smaller than the waist knife used by ordinary yamen runners. It is undoubtedly in Fang Jin's hands at present; Fang Jin inherited it from his master "Daohuang-Meng Qing".

As for the last [Lilac], it is a sword. The current owner of this sword is called Xie Wuhua.

This Xie Wuhua is the young master of the famous martial arts family Xie. His ancestor should be familiar to everyone. He is the legendary swordsman Xie San.

In the years after the "Cangling Sword Contest", the Xie family also had ups and downs. When it was passed down to the previous generation "Confucian Swordsman Xie Xiuwen", it prospered again; and Xie Wuhua is Xie Xiuwen's eldest son and grandson.

In the previous article, the young man called "young master" in the lobby of the inn was Xie Wuhua. The "Uncle Liu" beside him was also a famous figure in the martial arts world when he was young. He was known as "Liu Xilai, the all-powerful Liu Xilai". However, when Liu Xilai was forty years old, he suffered a disastrous defeat. He was not only seriously injured but also disabled. He wanted to retire from the martial arts world, but was fortunately taken in by Xie Xiuwen and later became a head of the Xie family.

Let's get back to the point. For now, let's talk about Fang Jin first.

There is a saying that "the blue bird sings, and the magic weapon appears". Fang Jin's master Meng Qing once said when he passed the precious sword to him that the blue bird is a spiritual sword. If there are other magic weapons around, it will react.

Therefore, after feeling the sound of the precious sword, Fang Jin took it for granted that one of the other three magic weapons appeared nearby, but he didn't expect that... after searching, he found that the only master with a super aura nearby was a person who used two swords.

"Could it be that... there is a fifth peerless divine weapon in this world?" Fang Jin was muttering to himself, when suddenly, his [Blue Bird] trembled again... (To be continued.)