Chapter Twenty-Four: The Country Wine Shop (I)

The twilight of late midsummer is not very hot. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After a busy day, the villagers began to feel tired, some of them were ready to call it a day and go home, some came to sit under the big trees at the edge of the field, looking at the slanting sunset in a daze, and some went to the nearby tea pavilion in groups to drink a pot of tea and relax.

The shopkeeper ran back and forth in and out, but he didn't feel tired at all, because today's business was surprisingly good, and many people stopped to rest in his tea shed. These people don't look like locals, they should all be passing by here, their accents are different, their clothes are different, and the weapons they carry around them are also different, but it is certain that these people are martial arts people. The shopkeeper made a pot of tea here and changed a pot of wine there, and he was very busy. In his eyes, he didn't really care where so many martial arts people were going to go, all he cared about was why he hadn't found out that the location of this tea shed was so well chosen, and in the past few days, he has really made a lot of money.

"Little Er, another pot of good wine! Count it in Lao Tzu's account!" I heard a bearded man shouting loudly.

"Okay, here we go!" The shopkeeper took three steps and made two steps, came to a table in the middle of the tea shed, put down the wine jug and said, "Fifth Master Mu, your wine!"

"Good! Two horse brothers, this pot of wine is what my 'Yellow River Bull' Mu Lao Wu invited you to drink, come on, come on, it's full!" The bearded man who was called "Mu Wuye" by the shopkeeper said loudly while pouring wine, "Guys, where did you just talk about?"

"When it comes to martial arts, the sword technique is the best in the world!" Someone in the crowd around him answered the road.

"Yes!" One of the two middle-aged men surnamed Ma at the table said, "If you want to talk about sword skills, more than 20 years ago, it should be the 'Hundred Battles Sword Monarch' Xiang Shaolong is the first in the world!"

"Is there anyone in the Seven Kingdoms who doesn't know Xiang Shaolong's name!" Mu Wuye slapped the table and said, "It is said that the Hundred Battles Sword Method he created, once it is launched, the killers are serial and the momentum is terrifying, and there were many masters who were powerless to fight back in the face of this set of sword techniques, and in the end, they were all defeated under Xiang Shaolong's knife!"

"Xiang Shaolong's sword skills were unique in the world back then, and he was as famous as the 'Qi Mo Sword Saint' Cao Qiudao, and he was given the title of 'Sword King' by people, which is indeed well-deserved!" Another middle-aged man surnamed Ma continued, "But since Xiang Shaolong left Xianyang and sealed the knife and went into hiding, his Hundred Battles Sword Technique has never reappeared on the rivers and lakes, alas, ......" said and drank the wine in the bowl.

"Where did that Shaolong go after he left Xianyang? He must have an heir, right?" Someone in the crowd asked again.

"I don't know, I don't know," the middle-aged man surnamed Ma shook his head and said, "Since then, no one has seen him again......"

"Nonsense!" The middle-aged man surnamed Ma, who spoke first, shouted, "He has two wives, how can he not have a son!" Even if he doesn't have a son, can't he take in an apprentice! How could the dignified Hundred Battle Sword Technique be lost!"

"You're talking nonsense! Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing," the middle-aged man surnamed Ma who spoke later said, "Where did you know that Shaolong had a son or an apprentice?"

"Bah, what do you know," the middle-aged man surnamed Ma, who spoke first, chirped, "Our brothers and sons are the Ma brothers of the famous family, but what kind of Confucianism do you want to learn?" It turned out that the Ma brothers were a pair of twins, the one who spoke first was the younger brother Ma Dasheng, and the second one who spoke was the elder brother Ma Xianxing, both of whom came from famous families, and they were a special faction among the hundred sons.

"Okay, okay, two horse brothers," Mu Wuye hurriedly persuaded the two of them, "Let's continue to tell everyone more martial arts heroes!"

"Hmph, I'm my brother, I don't care about you." The horse woke up first and drank a bowl of wine.

"I guess I don't know you as well," Ma shouted, too, with a bowl of wine, "and you just came out of my mother's womb before me, what are you proud of?"

"Come out first and half a moment, I'm also your brother!" Ma woke up first and then replied.

"Manly man, why are you arguing back and forth here like a!" Mu Wuye filled the two of them with wine again, and said loudly, "Since this Shaolong sealed the sword and retired from the rivers and lakes, who should be the leader of the martial arts today?"

"That's a good question! Twenty or thirty years ago, Xiang Shaolong's Hundred Battles Sword Technique was as famous as Cao Qiudao's Qi Mo Sword Technique, but more than ten years ago, the name of the world's No. 1 swordsmanship became the number one swordsman beside King Yingzheng of Qin at that time, 'Guigu Sword Saint' Gai Nie!" The horse looked around loudly, and said with a sense of spirit.

Hearing this, the crowd exclaimed again, and Gai Nie's name is probably unknown to anyone in today's rivers and lakes.

"It is said that Gai Nie's swordsmanship has been superb, and his sword 'Yuanhong' is the second best divine soldier in the sword spectrum, with the edge of cutting gold and the benefit of breaking jade, it is really a peerless sword that people in the martial arts dream of!" Mu Wuye couldn't help but admire.

"When the Qin State annihilated the Zhao State, the army approached the border of the Yan State, and the Yan Prince Dan visited the Seven Kingdoms all over the country to obtain an assassin Jing Ke, and was willing to pretend to be an envoy to the Qin State, waiting for the opportunity to assassinate Yingzheng on the main hall of Xianyang Palace!" Ma Xianxing answered the road.

"According to legend, Jing Ke's earth-shattering sword is known as 'within five steps, a hundred people are inappropriate', no one in the world can stop him, isn't his swordsmanship as good as Gai Nie?" Mu Wuye asked.

"Legends are legends after all, and they can't be counted," Ma shook his head loudly and said, "Although Jing Ke's five-step lore sword is known as 'a hundred people are not appropriate', there is indeed someone in this world who has completely blocked his sword, and this person is Gai Nie!" [For details, see Chapter 24 of "The Hundred Schools of Thought" in the upper part of my "Hundred Schools of Thought" "The Smoke and Clouds of the Past"]

"Is Gai Nie an immortal? How can he block a sword that can't be blocked by a hundred people?" Someone in the crowd asked again.

"Have you ever heard of the Valley of the Remnant Moon?" Ma Xianxing smiled.

"Could it be that the rumors of the Battle of the Valley of the Lost Moon are true?" Mu Wuye exclaimed.

"Not bad!" Ma Xianxing slapped the table, "After Gai Nie defected from Ying Zheng's side, His Majesty King Qin was very furious, sent heavy troops to search for him, and offered a heavy reward to cut off Gai Nie's head. Two years ago in the Valley of the Remnant Moon, Gai Nie was surrounded by three hundred dragon and tiger cavalry regiments under the command of Ying Zheng, and the battle lasted from noon to sunset, and the entire Valley of the Remnant Moon was stained red with blood!"

"What is the outcome of this battle?"

"What happened to Ganie in the end?"

"Ouch, don't sell it, go on!"

……

The crowd around the Ma brothers exploded all at once.

"Don't make any noise! Listen to Brother Ma!" Mu Wuye slapped the table and yelled, and the crowd immediately quieted down.

"The result of this battle, hehe," Ma Xianxing poured the bowl full of wine, and then continued, "The dragon and tiger cavalry of the Qin State of three hundred people have been wiped out!"