The three of them were so full after the meal that they walked out of the town with a shaky step. There was a tent specially prepared for the "year-old competition". The three of them shared two tents. Li Erhu from Li Tieshan's family went to get them.

"Dad! Erwa! Tiedan!" Seeing the three of them coming, Li Erhu hurriedly went up to them, took the reins from his father, led the ox cart, and tied it to a tree nearby.

"Old Er, why are you wearing a military uniform? Aren't you a handyman?" Li Tieshan only then noticed his son's clothes: a gray military uniform on the upper body, small-legged pants on the lower body, a bandage on the legs, and flat shoes on the feet.

"Haha, I broke through to level four half a month ago. There was a shortage of people in the patrol area, so I was transferred there!" Li Erhu smiled, but he couldn't hide the pride in his eyes.

"Good boy!" Li Tieshan patted his son's shoulder heavily, and his eyes were full of joy.

"Congratulations, Brother Hu!" Xia Ming and Li Changgui were also happy for Li Erhu, saying in unison.

"Haha, what's the big deal? If someone bullies you later, tell me!" Li Erhu grinned and patted his chest heavily.

"Haha, haha, a toad yawns with such a big tone. If you don't know, you might think it's a general! Haha, haha" a discordant voice sounded, with contempt and disdain.

"Isn't it? It's really ridiculous, haha, haha!"

"Haha, haha..."

The disdainful laughter continued. Xia Ming and others turned their heads and saw five or six young men stopped the tent they were building, hugged their arms, looked at this side, and laughed with their shoulders shaking.

"Level 5 fighter?!" With the help of the Purple Qi Jue, Xia Ming could tell at a glance that the leader was stronger than Li Erhu.

"Humph!" Li Erhu clenched his fists slightly with anger in his eyes.

"What's the matter? Is there a grudge?!" Li Tieshan raised his eyebrows and noticed his son's abnormality.

"This man is the squad leader of another team, Xie Lin. Ten days ago, we caught a thief and were about to succeed, but they intercepted him. There was a conflict between the two sides and our squad leader was injured. Now he can't go out on duty!" The squad leader was very kind to Li Erhu. As he spoke, his fists clenched tighter.

"Hmph, I'll teach him a lesson for you!" Li Tieshan, who was already past the age of saving face, didn't care about his reputation of bullying the weak and raised his legs to walk towards the other party.

"Li Huzi, what do you want to do?!" A man jumped out from the other side of the tent. He was somewhat similar to Xie Lin, but much darker.

"Xie Laonian! Is this kid your child?!" Li Tieshan stopped when he recognized the person at a glance.

"Hehe, you have good eyesight. It's my child. It's better than yours!" With a grin, Xie Laonian laughed wickedly.

"Tsk, much whiter than you, it's not your brother who helped, haha, haha!" Li Tieshan is not easy to mess with, he insults people without using dirty words.

"You are looking for death!" Xie Laonian, who hates others to bring this up, glared at him fiercely.

"Come, come, come, I think I didn't beat you lightly last time, I'll give you a good beating today!" Li Tieshan twisted his mouth and didn't take the other party seriously at all.

"Swish!" Drawing out a long sword, Xie Laonian knew his own weight and drew his weapon as soon as he came up.

"Use weapons?!" Unexpectedly, the other party actually used real force, Li Tieshan hesitated instead, he could defeat the other party, and if he used real force, he could kill the other party, but there was no unsolvable hatred, there was no need for this!

"What are you doing!" A sharp shout sounded, and a tall and strong man appeared at the edge of the camp.

"Centurion!" Xie Lin and Li Erhu hurried forward to salute, and several material officers beside them also hurried over.

"No noise is allowed in the camp, otherwise you will be disqualified, get out!" With a loud voice and full of momentum, the centurion glared at Xie Laonian and Li Tieshan fiercely.

The two did not say anything back, both felt the other's strength, shrugged their shoulders, and walked back to their own place.

"Dad, don't worry, I will deal with him myself later. This guy is two years older than me, and there is nothing great about him!" Returning to Li Tieshan, Li Erhu glanced at Xie Lin and said fiercely.

"Okay, that's right, but you have to be careful of him playing dirty. Xie Laonian is not a good bird, with a belly full of bad water!" The village heads are familiar with each other. Xie Laonian is a well-known thief. Li Tieshan doesn't believe that the other's son will be a straightforward man.

"Yeah!" Nodding, Li Erhu knew that his father's words were true and had been on guard for a long time.

The two sides had a grudge, so Xia Ming looked carefully and found that Xie Laonian was a fighter at the peak of level 6. The remaining young men were about the same age as himself, and the strongest one was a fighter at level 3.

"Dabao, if you meet those two guys in the competition tomorrow, beat them up!" Xie Lin also looked at Xia Ming and said fiercely to a young man.

"Don't worry, Brother Lin, at least they can't get out of bed for a month!" The young man grinned and showed his white teeth. It was the fighter at level 3.

"Old Second, there are not many people this time?" After scanning the camp, Li Tieshan found that there were fewer people than last year.

"It's the Little New Year. Only about 60 people came from a hundred villages, about 120 to 30 people. It will be enough tomorrow!" Li Erhu answered while helping to pack up the tent.

"Okay, this food fee is enough!" Li Tieshan said half-jokingly, touching his purse.

"Haha, you don't have to pay for it yourself. The mayor attaches great importance to it this time. He will be there tomorrow. The stingy man, the patrolmen, and the three elders will all be there. We have ordered meat and steamed buns from the restaurant in the town. It's enough!" Li Erhu swallowed his saliva and wanted to come and eat and drink.

"There is such a good thing. You can come too!" Li Tieshan's eyes lit up and he naturally couldn't forget his son.

"No! There are a number. Here are the meal tickets. Three per person, morning, noon and evening, a total of nine. Keep them!" After nailing the last wooden wedge, Li Tiehu took out nine meal tickets and stuffed them into Li Tieshan's hands, and then said: "I have to be on duty at night, so I have to go back now. You should rest early!"

"Okay, then you rest more tomorrow, don't rush to come!" Li Tieshan nodded and said.

"Brother Erhu, go slowly!" Xia Ming and the others said with a smile, shaking their hands vigorously at Li Erhu.

"Well, do your best!" After encouraging the two, Li Erhu disappeared into the darkness.

"Okay, we are tired today, you guys take a rest first, I will take care of the ox!" Li Tieshan waved his hand to let the two sleep first, and walked towards the ox cart.

Never slept so early, Xia Ming looked at the "fat guy" who snored quickly, smiled bitterly and shook his head, secretly looked at the tent next door, and found that Li Tieshan was also asleep, so he secretly ran into the woods, found a vacant space, and began his routine practice.

After a stick of incense, Xia Ming finished his practice and quietly walked towards the camp, but accidentally saw a black shadow, walking quickly from a distance. Thinking that he was blinded, he hurriedly activated the Purple Qi Jue and finally saw clearly: not only was there someone, but it was Xie Lin just now. With a chill in his heart, he hurriedly hid behind the tree.

After a dozen breaths, Xie Lin's footsteps passed in front of the tree, without stopping, and continued to go deeper.

After a slight hesitation, Xia Ming followed him, and the Purple Qi Jue kept running, keeping a safe distance.

After a cup of tea, Xie Lin stopped under a big tree, looked around, and then came to the tree hole, fumbling inside. After a while, he took out a small package, opened it gently, and a silver light shone.

"Silver coins!" Xia Ming raised his eyebrows and was secretly surprised. Judging from the size of the package, there should be hundreds of silver coins!

With a happy face, he put the silver coins in his arms, and Xie Lin looked around again. Then he took out something and stuffed it back into the tree hole. He hesitated for a long time before putting it away. It seemed that he was still worried, and he patrolled back and forth for a while, and finally left with a look back every three steps.

"Such a secret must not be a good thing!" After Xie Lin walked away and made sure that he would not come back, Xia Ming curled his lips, rushed out in one step, and came to the tree hole. While observing around, he reached in to grope.

After dozens of breaths, he finally touched the small mechanism in the tree hole, broke open a piece of wood, and took out the thing. It was a folded piece of paper. With the sparse moonlight, the content on it was clearly visible. There were three sketches, many arrows, and some numbers. He only recognized the meaning of two numbers, one was June 18, which was tomorrow, and the second was six quarters of the hour of the ox.

"What is this? Who is it for?" Xia Ming frowned slightly, and was a little confused, but this place was not safe. He quickly put the note back intact, hid back in the woods, and stared at this place from a distance.

At about three quarters of the hour of the ox, a black shadow appeared beside the big tree, walked around vigilantly, and then came to the tree hole, took out the piece of paper, lit the fire, looked at it, nodded slightly, put it in his arms, glanced around, and floated away.

With the residual light before the fire was extinguished, Xia Ming saw the face clearly, delicate and fair.

"Female?!" He was slightly stunned. He didn't expect that the person he was meeting was a woman.

In this moment of distraction, the woman in black had disappeared into the night.

"I forgot to check her strength!" Xia Ming said to himself with a little doubt: "I feel that she is more powerful than Li Bo. She is so young, it's unlikely..."

After waiting for another quarter of an hour, seeing that there was no movement, Xia Ming hurried back to the camp and quietly returned to his tent. "Fatty" snored like thunder, and his saliva wet the pillow. I don't know what delicious food he dreamed of.

At most, there is more than an hour to practice "Purple Qi Jue". Xia Ming didn't sleep anymore, sitting cross-legged and meditating. What happened tonight was just a small secret between two small people. Compared with his great cause of cultivation, it had no effect, but the hundreds of silver coins and the strange drawings always made him feel a little uncomfortable. Finally, he decided to tell Li Erhu about this tomorrow. Anyway, he followed Youjiao, so let them worry about it!