"You evil slave, dare to rob your master's property, aren't you afraid that I will report to the official?" a thin scholar dressed in green clothes struggled to get up from the ground, not caring about dusting off the dirt and grass clippings on his body, but pointed to a young man of a similar age, but much stronger than him, and shouted.

"Report to the official? I said Huang Xiucai, where are you going to report to the officials in the barren mountains and mountains here? Besides, here, I, Huang San, will kill you, and no one will know. Huang San said with a smile.

"You dare to !?" Huang Xiucai heard the words of his evil slave, and his heart was also a little empty, this other party really had murderous intentions and threw himself into the wilderness, I'm afraid that no one really knows. I had credulously believed what he said that copying the trail could shorten the journey by several days, so I chose this wilderness trail, and now it's too late to regret it.

"Hey!" Huang San flipped through the package in his hand, found a few taels of silver, and a blue-white jade wrench, and said with a smile, "Tut-tut, the silver is a little less, but this jade wrench is something you have worn since childhood, the best beautiful jade, how can it be worth dozens of taels of silver, for the sake of this silver, I will also take your life." ”

"No, the silver can be given to you, but the jade wrench cannot!" Huang Xiucai how could someone snatch his jade wrench, although this jade wrench is not a treasure, but after all, his father instructed him to keep it well, it is his father's relic. Therefore, Xiucai shouted and rushed towards Huang San, but he was the opponent of the strong and evil slave.

Before Huang Xiucai got close, the other party kicked him hard, kicked him to the ground again, and said with a sigh: "Don't you know what's wrong, just rely on your powerlessness, and you still want to do it with me, you Xiucai have a fart in addition to dying and studying? Don't be embarrassed, but spare your life today, that is a good mood for Uncle Ben." And your bullshit sage article, also returned to you. ”

After speaking, he stepped forward and kicked Huang Xiucai several times, and then threw down the package with only a few clothes left, and the other was the big package he was carrying, and after the big package was still on the ground, several books fell out of it.

Huang Xiucai's name is Huang Xiao, 16 years old this year, he was originally a Xiucai, this time he went to the provincial capital to participate in the township test, but unfortunately his name fell to Sun Shan.

Huang Xiao is considered to be the son of his parents, but his appearance is not at all like the second elder, and there is a lot of gossip around him, saying that he is not the biological son of his parents. Huang Xiao naturally heard about this, but he didn't care about it. The second elder died two years ago, leaving behind dozens of acres of land, so he has no worries about life. However, he concentrated on studying for the scientific examination, so he sat on the empty mountain, and now he has sold the family's land and brought one of his slaves to take the exam. It's a pity that after falling off the list, this slave also thought about it, so he took away his only few taels of silver.

Picking up the package on the ground, Huang Xiao was sad, originally this time he was full of confidence in participating in the township test, thinking that he would be able to lift people, so that it didn't matter if he poured out his family property, but he still didn't understand the world's people's hearts, and he didn't have the money to dredge those examiners, no matter how good your article was, it was useless.

Huang Xiao sat stunned in place for a long time before he sighed and said: "The most useless thing is a scholar, the ancients did not deceive me, and now I am penniless and have no means of making a living, that's it, that's it, the sky is going to kill me, why should I struggle again?"

Huang Xiao packed up the books, and then the whole person was a little confused, the blow of falling off the list and the sadness of being penniless now, he didn't know the road in this barren mountain and wilderness, so he had to follow the trail.

"Stop, I opened this road, I planted this tree, if you want to live from now on, leave and buy road money!" I don't know how long it took, several figures on the side of the mountain road jumped out and shouted towards Huang Xiao.

This shout brought Huang Xiao back to his senses, and when he raised his eyes, there were already more than a dozen men standing in front of him holding different weapons such as steel knives, iron forks, wooden sticks, and iron swords.

Huang Xiao knew that he had encountered robbers and bandits, and he instinctively felt a little frightened in his heart, but he suddenly remembered that now he was almost cornered, starving to death and being killed by robbers, so what was the difference?

Thinking of this, his courage suddenly increased, and he shouted at the robber in front of him: "You thieves, Ben Xiucai is a dignified scholar, how can you give in to you wicked people, and if you have the courage, come and kill me!"

"Huh?" one of the leading robbers was obviously a little surprised, but he didn't expect that the thin boy in front of him would have such courage.

"Three masters, this kid is Xiucai!" said a robber on the side whispered to the leader.

"I didn't expect you to be a timid kid, let me ask you a word, if you answer well, maybe I can spare your life. The three masters said to Huang Xiao.

"Hmph, if you want to kill, you can kill, why do you need to say more?" Huang Xiao was completely out of the way.

"Are you really a showman?"

"How can there be a fake?" Deep down, Huang Xiao still attaches great importance to his identity as a scholar, after all, as a scholar, isn't it just to gain fame? Even if he just said 'the most useless is a scholar', in fact, he still cares.

"That's good, take it away!" said with a smile on the third master's face and a wave of his hand.

Before Huang Xiao could figure out the situation, he saw two big men coming out from the opposite side, one left and one right, and set him up.

"What do you want to do?" Huang Xiao knew that the robbers in front of him didn't seem to want to kill him, and the momentum just now was gone all of a sudden, so the instinctive fear and fear returned to him.

"Boy, count yourself lucky, we have a big boss. A robber holding Huang Xiao laughed.

Although Huang Xiao struggled for a while, with his little strength, in the hands of these two big men, it was simply negligible.

Half an hour later, Huang Xiao was taken to a mountain valley, where a simple cottage was built. Huang Xiao found that not all of them were fierce robbers, there were still many old and weak women and children in the cottage, and he also found that after these robbers came back, the vicious look on their faces disappeared. Huang Xiao thought about it, this is their cottage, and there is no need to be so fierce.

"Big boss, look who I brought you?" the three masters took Huang Xiao into a courtyard in the middle of the cottage and shouted.

It seems that he brought himself to meet the leader of the robbers, Huang Xiao was a little apprehensive in his heart, he didn't know what the leader of the robbers wanted to do by himself, but no matter what he did, there was nothing good.

"Third child, you're back, I've said it, you don't have to shout anything when you go home, just shout outside. A middle-aged man came out of the house and smiled, "Huh, this little brother?"

"Yes, big brother, he's a showman. The third said.

"Xiucai?" After hearing this, the eldest brother was overjoyed, and walked quickly in front of Huang Xiao.

Huang Xiao stepped back in fear and shouted, "You thieves, you have done many evils, and there will be retribution." ”

After seeing Huang Xiao's somewhat panicked look, the eldest brother hurriedly said: "Little brother, don't get me wrong, we are not real robbers and robbers, it's just because we can't survive, so we rob some rich and unkind landlords on the mountain road, and we won't hurt ordinary people." Third child, did you take something from the Xiucai brothers?"

"Look, these are his two packages, and I'll hold them for him. Looking at his appearance, although he is not like the poor and sour talent in our village before, it is not much better. The third child put the two packages in his hand at Huang Xiao's feet and said.

Huang Xiao looked at the two of them, and had some doubts in his heart, could it be that the two people in front of him were really not robbers? Or they were lying to themselves, but they didn't seem to need to lie to themselves. Although he thought so, it was impossible for Huang Xiao to fully believe them in his heart.

"Don't talk too much, you can go back first. The eldest brother didn't let the third child continue, and after seeing the third child leave, he watched Huang Xiao sort out the package again, and then asked with a smile, "Little brother, don't worry, we are all ordinary people, not those things that squeeze our landlords' old wealth, we will not rob them." ”

"Everything is there. Huang Xiao replied.

"That's good, my name is Liu Qiang, and I am the owner of this cottage. Liu Qiang said. The next day, Liu Qiang came to Huang Xiao with a thin book.

After Huang Xiao took it, he looked at the cover that said "The Hand of the Snake", and couldn't help but say secretly in his heart: "What kind of book is this?" He has also read a lot of books, and the book of Sage Kong naturally reads the most, but there are many others, and he doesn't seem to have heard of such a book, and the title of this book is also very different from the book he reads.

Liu Qiang was stunned when he saw Huang Xiao staring at the book, and he couldn't help but hurriedly ask, "Brother Huang, is there something wrong with this book?"

"Oh, no, it's the first time I've seen a book like this, it's different from what I've read before, a little curious, a little distracted. Huang Xiao smiled.

"Haha~~ This must be different, it must be different~~ This is ~~" Speaking of this, Liu Qiang stopped abruptly.

"What is this?" Huang Xiao didn't notice Liu Qiang's change, and when he saw him stop, he couldn't help but ask.

Liu Qiang hesitated for a while, although he didn't know anything about this book, he also knew that this was a martial arts secret, which he got by accident. It's just that he can't read, so naturally he doesn't know what the book says, let alone how to practice. So he always wanted to find a literate person who could help him explain. But he didn't want others to know about this martial arts secret, especially the people in the martial arts, after all, this was what he obtained, if it was seen by others, wouldn't it be cheap for others? So he thought that he should find a person who didn't know martial arts to help him see it, most of this literate person was Xiucai, so he ordered his brothers to invite him if they saw Xiucai and other scholars at the foot of the mountain.

It's just that they were originally ordinary people gathered together, and with their large numbers, they only dared to rob some of the landlords' old wealth on remote roads. I didn't dare to go to the avenue to rob money, if I did that, I would be wanted by the government, and it would be troublesome. So I didn't find a literate one until Huang Xiao appeared.

"Actually, this is a book of martial arts secrets. Liu Qiang finally told the truth, he knew that even if he didn't say it, when Huang Xiao read the content inside, even if he didn't know martial arts, he would know that this was a martial arts secret.

"Huh, this is the secret of martial arts?" Huang Xiao said in surprise. Although he is a showman, he used to read sage books and never met any people in the rivers and lakes, but he still knows something. For example, there are records of assassins in ancient times, rangers, etc., which are the so-called people in the rivers and lakes.

"That's right, after Brother Huang understands, can you tell me how to cultivate the martial arts inside?" asked Liu Qiang.

"I'm not sure about this, after all, I don't know martial arts, of course, if I understand, I will naturally tell you everything. "Huang Xiao is not lying to Liu Qiang, he really doesn't know if he can understand the secrets of martial arts, he has never been exposed to these.

After speaking, Huang Xiao opened the book and read it carefully.

"Snake wrapping hand, foreign locking skills, shaped like a long snake moving around the body, like a long snake locking the body, the method of entanglement, the art of locking people, trapped people can not move the realm......"

It took Huang Xiao two hours to read the secret book of "Snake Stalker", which was only eleven pages. As a showman, he naturally knows all the words in the book, and the text of this narrative is extremely simple and clear, unlike the sage books he read before.

The general meaning of the book, Huang Xiao understands it, and he naturally understands it in his heart, but it also involves a lot of martial arts terms, but he doesn't know much about it, so it is not easy to really understand, and he is also a little confused now.

"Brother Huang, how's it going?" Seeing Huang Xiao close the secret note, Liu Qiang hurriedly asked.

Huang Xiao exhaled a long breath and said apologetically: "Master Liu Zhai, this book is a practice called "Snake Stalker", which is a grappling technique. ”

"The Snake Stalker", the art of grappling, good, good name, good exercise. After listening, Liu Qiang was extremely excited, when he was young, he had learned martial arts and knew some moves, and it was absolutely no problem to put down three or five ordinary men, but he also understood that he was just a little fur, and he didn't have any good moves at all.

Now hearing Huang Xiao's words, his heart is naturally very happy, the art of grappling, no matter what the technique is, if he learns this art of grappling, then his strength will definitely be greatly improved.

"Brother Huang, how to practice, tell me quickly. Liu Qiang hurriedly asked.

Huang Xiao's face couldn't help showing embarrassment, and he replied in a low voice: "Master Liu Zhai, don't worry, I don't know how to practice!"

"What? how can this be?" Liu Qiang's face changed, this was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue. Huang Xiao gave him a great news just now, and now that he doesn't know how to practice, this is completely a desperate blow.

"Master Liu Zhai, listen to my explanation. Huang Xiao hurriedly said, "I mean I don't know how to practice now, that's because there are still some in it that I haven't comprehended, you know, I don't know martial arts, so some of them have to be pondered, but I'm sure, give me some time, I can tell you the method of cultivation." ”

Hearing Huang Xiao's explanation, Liu Qiang finally breathed a sigh of relief. It's nothing to spend a little more time, after all, I've waited so long, and I'm not in a hurry.

"Brother Huang, I was anxious just now, but can I ask, how much time will it take?" asked Liu Qiang.

Huang Xiao thought for a moment, and then said, "Ten days and half a month at most." ”

As soon as he finished saying this, Huang Xiao noticed that Liu Qiang's expression changed, so he hurriedly said: "At least three or five days, I think Master Liu Zhai should understand martial arts, so it may be better to understand some martial arts terms with you." ”

"Okay, good, good, although my kung fu is not very good, but I still understand some of it, you say, what do you don't understand, let me listen, maybe I can explain it to you." Liu Qiang nodded hurriedly.

After the exchange, although Liu Qiang explained something to Huang Xiao, most of them, Liu Qiang was also inexplicable, so the rest could only rely on Huang Xiao's help to figure it out.

It wasn't until Liu Qin came over and called the two to eat that Huang Xiao and Liu Qiang came back to their senses from the discussion. Huang Xiao found that he seemed to be immersed in it unconsciously. This is different from reading the sages by yourself, it is for scientific research, and even if you don't understand it, you have to memorize the content. According to Liu Qiang, this practice is full of danger, once you go crazy, you will be seriously injured and killed. However, Liu Qiang also explained that this is for those people in the rivers and lakes who have practiced internal strength, and people like him who have no internal strength do not have to worry about going mad.

Of course, even if you don't go mad, once there is a mistake in the practice of the exercises, then it will cause some harm to the body, and if it is serious, it will hurt your life.

That night, when Huang Xiao was about to fall asleep, there was a knock on the door.

When Huang Xiao opened the door, he found a girl standing outside, this girl was about eleven or twelve years old, although she was wearing a coarse cloth coat, but she couldn't hide her delicate appearance.

"Are you Brother Huang Xiucai Huang invited by the third uncle today?" Before Huang Xiao could speak, the girl looked at Huang Xiao and asked.

"Exactly, I don't know the girl?" Huang Xiao replied, but he muttered in his heart, today he was not invited, but captured.

"Then you must know a lot, can you teach me to read?" Hearing Huang Xiao admit it, the girl asked happily.

"This?" Huang Xiao hesitated, although he didn't know who the girl's surname was, but he also knew that most of them were the daughters of Liu Qiang's family. I can't live here for long, and naturally I can't teach her anything.

"Brother Huang, are you okay?" the girl said expectantly as she looked at Huang Xiaoba with big eyes.

"Let me think about it. Huang Xiao will definitely not agree, and after helping Liu Qiang explain the book he can't understand tomorrow, he will leave here, whether this is a robber's den or not, it has nothing to do with him.

The girl did not doubt him, but still replied happily: "Okay, Brother Huang, you have a good rest, by the way, my name is Liu Qin, and the owner of the village is my father." ”