This day is less than half a month before the New Year, and there is a thick layer of snow on the ground, and snowflakes are still falling in the sky.

There was a jagged sound of reading in the school, and the Qing slaves and others stood guard outside the gate, covering their ears and stomping their feet to keep warm.

"The two sons won't be here today, it's a cold day. Qing Nu guessed hopefully that under normal circumstances, if the twins missed the morning class, they would basically not come to the school, and they could disperse and find a place to drink.

But that day was not destined to be an "ordinary" day, not long after the Qing slave finished speaking, a group of children flew over, no need to look, the only people who dared to be so flamboyant in Jinpeng Castle were the twins.

Sure enough, Shangguan Ru, who was dressed in a brocade jacket, ran in front, followed closely by Shangguan Yushi and Shangguan Fei, and a few steps further back were the panting companions of the reading boys.

"Follow me. ”

Shangguan Ru did not stop, and ordered loudly, she didn't want to be reprimanded by the old man when she entered the school at this time, and the old man was not polite to anyone.

Half of the thirty or forty companions at the door belonged to twins, and they were extremely bored and stiff, listening to the order of the ninth prince, they all followed, only the Qing slave Lao Cheng was serious, his steps were hesitant, and he knew to ask "what are you doing".

"Someone came to the door to challenge, and they didn't go to see it?"

Shangguan Ru threw down a sentence, people had already run far, and all the people who heard it were shocked, Jinpeng Fort is not an ordinary martial arts sect, there are very few things like this kind of door-to-door challenge, and there was some hesitation at this time, and they also accelerated their pace, only by following the twins, they can run around in the fort, and they can go to the gate to see what the challenge is.

Qing Nu also followed, still not believing it in his heart, thinking that this might be another prank by the two sons-in-law, who was born in the castle and had never heard of anyone daring to challenge Jinpeng Castle in decades since he was a child.

The other slaves at the gate of the school did not dare to leave without the permission of their masters, but their hearts were itching, and they all made up their minds that they would do their best to persuade their masters to see this rare bustle.

Gu Shenwei's footsteps are fast, closely following behind the twins and Shangguan Yushi, after these months of experience, he is now much more mature than children of the same age, and thinks a lot, it is very unusual to come to the door to challenge Jinpeng Castle, Jinpeng Castle is located on the top of the peak, there is a whole Biyu City guarding the portal, it is unimaginable that outsiders can come up smoothly, not to mention that this person is still here to challenge openly.

There were already a few people standing outside the gate of Jinpeng Castle, and the twins knew the news early in the inner house, and they arrived in time, and the battle had not yet begun.

There were three challengers, a tall and mighty old man, and two young monks, who stood guard in the open space facing the gate, nearly a hundred paces away from everyone, and behind them were the stone beams that must be passed to enter the fort.

The old man must have been majestic when he was young, a head taller than the monk beside him, with broad shoulders and unkempt beard, like a silent lion, but he was already old, and only a skeleton remained, and even though this skeleton was larger than ordinary people, it had no inexhaustible strength.

The two monks looked respectful, their eyebrows lowered, neither like the old man's entourage nor like partners, but as if they had nothing to do with themselves, and they had come here just to meditate.

The old man erected a flag more than two feet high in his left hand, and a line of big characters was written on the low-hanging white flag: The butcher's knife is difficult to put away if the deep revenge is not avenged. To the right of the old man was a simple weapon rack, with only two weapons: a spear and a single sword.

"What, such an old guy, plus two monks, how did those minions let them go up the mountain?"

Seeing such a challenger, the little boy Shangguan Fei was very disappointed, those who came out with him also had the same idea, and thought that the people who came had a lot of momentum, but it turned out to be just three ordinary people, and these teenagers could beat them and run away as soon as they swarmed up.

Shangguan Yushi looked carefully, and then sneered, "I don't have eyesight, you are still the son of the king, look at the flagpole." ”

Shangguan Fei was robbed of white by his cousin, his face was red, his ears were red, and he muttered in his mouth, but he still looked at the flagpole again, and the others did the same, and gradually the laughter subsided, and the exclamations were everywhere.

The flagpole was a common poplar wood, standing straight on the ground, unsupported, standing in the cold wind, barely shaking, and the bottom of the flagpole had been firmly inserted into the ground.

The open space outside Jinpeng is all paved with boulders, there is no layer of floating soil, the flagpole is only wooden, and it can actually enter the stone for a few inches.

"What's so powerful about this, just send a killer in the fort to kill these three people. ”

Shangguan Fei was still not convinced, Shangguan Yushi ignored him, took Shangguan Ru's hand, turned around and looked inside the fort, the challenger was ready, Jinpeng Castle should send someone out to end at this time.

Gu Shenwei was standing behind them, and at this time he also turned around to prevent others from seeing the tears that suddenly welled up in his eyes.

These tears have nothing to do with the cold wind, and he doesn't know the old man and the monk who came to challenge him, but he recognized that the knife and the gun were clearly the style of the Gu family, and there was no doubt that the old man had a deep relationship with the Gu family.

All countries in the world have standard styles of knives and guns to equip the army, but there is no unified specification for the weapons of the people in the martial arts, almost the same family, which has also become one of the ways to identify the various sects, Gu's spear is one of the longest guns, Gu's single knife is two feet and seven inches long, but it is a little shorter than ordinary knives.

Although he only glanced at it from a distance, Gu Shenwei could still recognize that the knife and gun around the old man were no different from his own weapons, although he was not diligent in martial arts, but he was extremely familiar with this knife and gun, and he would never admit his mistake.

The emotional dam that he had painstakingly built for several months almost collapsed in an instant, he had always thought that he was the only survivor of the Gu family, and the burden of revenge was all on one person's shoulders, and suddenly he saw that there were still people who came to avenge his relatives, and his heart was agitated and difficult to hold himself.

Fortunately, no one paid attention to him, and everyone looked around, looking at either the challenger or the road inside the fort, wondering who would come forward to destroy the prestige of the people.

Jinpeng Fort has not been broken for a hundred years, Jinpeng killers are invincible in the world, although most of the people are teenagers, they are convinced of this, the old man and the monk planted the flag deeper, the same is to send their lives.

There were people coming out of the fort constantly, but they were not fighters, but came to see the excitement, and the Dubu King did not seem to pay attention to the challengers, neither waiting for them nor forbidding them to enter and exit.

"Who is here, so bold. "That's the first thing everybody asks about.

"Aren't those two monks the mages of the Four Noble Truths? We give more than anyone else on weekdays, why are the monks still not satisfied, and want to take advantage of the fire to rob?"

Gu Shenwei hadn't heard of the "Four Noble Truths" and didn't care, he just wanted to know the origin of the old man.

It wasn't until two quarters of an hour later that the fort finally sent out the fighters, and in the excitement of the shouts of "coming, coming", the identity of the old man was also revealed.

"Marshal Yang, the old man's name is Marshal Yang. ”

"What marshal? If you dare to call me a marshal with two monks, then I won't be a generalissimo." ”

The teenagers laughed at this strange name, and Gu Shenwei was shocked in his heart, it turned out that there was really a "Marshal Yang".

On the day of the tragedy, the old man Gu Lun ordered the loyal old servant Yang Zheng to take away a pair of children, Yang Zheng defeated a group of chasing soldiers on the road, knowing that the danger was not over, so he asked the little young master to change into the clothes of a scholar, and went to Shule City overnight to find "Marshal Yang" to move the rescuers.

Gu Shenwei thought that "Marshal Yang" was a lie made up by Yang Zheng to deceive him, and returned halfway, but a series of accidental events occurred, which made him enter Jinpeng Fort by mistake.

If he had been driving his horse forward at that time, he might have stood opposite everyone today and challenged Marshal Yang together.

Gu Shenwei was full of remorse, he endured a lot of hardships and endured shame that he had never imagined, but he ended up taking the wrong path.

"What's wrong with you?"

Shangguan Ru asked curiously, and she noticed the strange look on Huan Nu's face.

"It's nothing, it's the wind. Gu Shenwei hurriedly wiped away his tears, he couldn't reveal his identity yet, even if Marshal Yang could really defeat King Dubu, he would have to find a chance to recognize each other in the future, and he couldn't let people know that the descendants of the Gu family were actually slaves in Jinpeng Castle.

"He was scared. Shangguan Yushi also glanced at Huan Nu and came to the conclusion that she had never liked Huan Nu very much, and it was no wonder that she didn't like anyone except Shangguan Ru.

A team of black-clothed and red-belted killers walked out of Jinpeng Castle, all with grim expressions, and walked straight past the teenagers who were watching the excitement, without bowing to the two sons as usual.

"So many!" someone exclaimed in a low voice, the killer is the essence and pillar of Jinpeng Castle, the combination of three or five people is rare, but this team of more than twenty people, even the most difficult task is enough.

"The old man and the monk are dead. ”

"That's that, that's. ”

Everyone thought that more than twenty killers would attack together to encircle and annihilate the challenger, they had lived in Jinpeng Castle since they were children, and they were calm about such things as winning more and less.

However, this time they thought wrongly, the killers walked more than twenty steps in front of Marshal Yang and stopped, forming a sparse semicircle, and then a killer stepped forward and pulled out a narrow knife, he wanted to fight alone.

This is not the "rules" of Pengbao, but it makes the teenagers who watch the excitement even more excited, no matter what kind of edification they have received since childhood, no matter what kind of principles they believe in when they grow up, at this age, they still worship the fair and honest force.

"Ye Sheng, Ye Sheng in the courtyard of the Five Young Masters. ”

Someone recognized the first killer to fight.

Gu Shenwei actually recognized this killer, he was the man in black who killed the swordsman Long Fei of the Great Snow Mountain at the T-junction, and refused to reveal his name at that time.

Gu Shenwei really wanted to warn Marshal Yang, this Ye Sheng was good at plotting, and Long Fei was killed by this person's knife because of something like a drug.

But he couldn't and didn't dare, he could only count on Marshal Yang to be more powerful and smarter than Long Feidu, not only knew the methods of Jinpeng Castle, but also had been fully prepared.