Have Sword Will Travel

Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor,
is an expert swordsman whose escort
business transports 200,000 taels of
silver to the capital each year. This
year, however, he is afflicted with an
infirmity that renders him unable to
use his sword. Rather than give up
this
important commission and let the
martial world know of his precarious
health he means to entrust the
consignment to two young knights in
his
manor, Hsiang Ting and Yun Piao-Piao.
As it happens, these two are also
betrothed; clearly they have their
swordsmanship in common. At Peerless
Manor, everyone is suspicious of
malevolent strangers who may be
sniffing around the silver transport.
So when Le I appears astride a high-
quality charger but otherwise clearly
down on his luck, Hsiang Ting thinks
Le
I may be a spy for the bad guys in the
Flying Tiger Manor. It doesn’t help
that Le I and Yun Piao-Piao hit it off
right away. Even or especially when Le
I saves Yun Piao-Piao from a Flying
Tiger thug, Hsiang is not assuaged.
Yun
Piao-Piao is torn, though it seems
that
a certain sisterly compassion finally
wins the day when she arranges to
reunite Le I with his horse. It’s a
cute horse, and Le I seems rather
attached … When the silver convoy
passes by a pagoda that happens to
house the Flying Tiger gang, Chiao
Hung, the Flying Tiger chief, tries to
steal the shipment. To win the day,
Hsiang and Le must fight together,
despite their mutual disaffection.