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The house was filled with the smell of dust, which was the smell of the house that had been rotting for many years, and it was also the dust that Lu Qian had fallen into the dust and kicked up.

Lu Qian didn't faint, staggered a few times on the miscellaneous objects he didn't know what it was, and stood up. Anger, shame, embarrassment, surprise, and amazement mixed in his heart, and he got to his feet, but he didn't know what to do.

Anger is because he was knocked away by someone with a punch; is ashamed because he was shot away in front of Cai Jing; is embarrassed because the other party is just an understatement of the punch, and when he is prepared, he does not block it.

Surprised, because since his awakening in this life, until now, no one has ever been able to knock himself away so easily, even if the mysterious monk only took a small half step back in the case of a sneak attack.

So, he was amazed.

-- All this shows that there is a gap between myself and this person, a very obvious gap.

So, who is this person?

Lu Qian came out of the corner, patted the dust on his body, and saw that his fist was in front of Cai Jing, so he stopped.

When Cai Jing heard the movement, he didn't care about the knife sharpener in front of him at all, he didn't care about the fist that was inches away from the door, and turned his head and said, "It's okay, right?" ”

Lu Qian said softly: "It's nothing." ”

"That's good."

Cai Jing turned his head again, looked at the fist in front of the door, frowned, and then reached out and pressed it on the fist in front of him, pulling it to the left.

The fist facing the door did not move.

Cai Jing didn't use any force, just looked at the pair of eyes under the fluffy hair on the other side, bright as a lamp.

"My name is Cai Jing, and I think we can have a good talk."

The knife grinder still maintained this posture, even if his arm was straight, but as long as he wanted to kill, he could still kill the person in front of him.

"I've read the Water Margin, and there are many things I don't understand, I hope you can solve my doubts."

Cai Jing was still laughing, laughing gently, speaking gently.

The knife sharpener looked at Cai Jing's expression and did not move.

Cai Jing pulled the fist in front of him to the side with his hand again, and said, "You also have doubts for me to solve, right?" ”

The fist in front of him was easily pressed down by Cai Jing, and the knife sharpener turned around and walked towards the corner where he had been before.

Where, it is darker, where there is a whetstone, and there, there is a black stick.

Lu Qian walked over and stood by Cai Jing's side again, after all, the person in front of him had spoken very limited words from the beginning to the present, and he acted in a strange style, so he wasn't sure when this person would go crazy again.

The sound of grinding sounded again, and the sharpener continued his previous work, as if Cai Jing and Lu Qian did not exist.

"Have you seen the Water Margin?"

The sharpener paused, lifted a little of the water from the bowl next to him to the whetstone, and continued to sharpen.

"It seems that you have seen it, then it will be very easy to do, let's talk about a person you don't want to mention first, your senior brother, how about it?"

The speed of the sharpener's grinding suddenly became faster, and only the sound of the sound of the knife sharpener sounded rapidly, faster and faster!

Cai Jing didn't speak, and Lu Qian naturally didn't interject, so the sound of polishing echoed in the whole room, as fast as a storm, as wild as a rainstorm, and in this dense sound, a storm brewed about to kiss her husband's world.

The grinding sound is getting faster and faster, and it is getting more and more urgent, such as the sound of a storm hitting the leaves, like the sound of ten thousand arrows breaking through the air, and like the sound of thousands of war drums beating in unison, making people's eardrums shake and their eardrums hurt.

Lu Qian frowned, and Cai Jing smiled.

Suddenly, the sound stopped, and the rain cleared.

In the room, only the wheezing sound of the knife sharpener remained, rapid and heavy, like an athlete who has run tens of thousands of meters, like an old cow who has plowed a few acres of land, like a patient who has been suffocating for a long time and suddenly breathes fresh air.

Cai Jing was still waiting, waiting for the sharpener's breathing to be smooth, and waiting for the depressed breath in his chest to be soothed.

"What he told Shi Yong is that he practices knives, but he appeared in the book, and in the end, the weapons he used were guns and whips, I always thought that Shi Nai'an wrote the book wrongly, or forgot, but since entering the door, looking at what you have done, I think Shi Nai'an has not written wrong."

The sharpener stood up, picked up the polished object in his hand, walked over, and handed it to Cai Jing's eyes.

Cai Jing and Lu Qian knew his intentions, and carefully looked at the dark and glowing stick in front of them.

Without any clues, Cai Jing stretched out his hand and grinded it, non-iron and non-copper, I don't know what material it is.

"I've been grinding for three months and nine days, and I've broken three whetstones."

Cai Jing and Lu Qian suddenly raised their heads, looked into the eyes of the knife sharpener, and then looked at the stick in front of them, their eyes shrinking sharply.

In March and nine days, three whetstones were grinded, but there was no change in the stick in front of me.

"You're right, he's not wrong, and the book writer is not wrong, our course, the foundation of entry is the knife, and then the master will teach him his strengths, guns, whips, and fists according to their respective qualifications."

Cai Jing raised his head, looked at the knife sharpener, and said, "In other words, he is stronger than you, he not only learned the knife, but also got the marksmanship and whip skills taught by your master." ”

The knife grinder shook his head silently and said: "At that time, there were three of us in the division, and it was Senior Brother Zhou who could really say that he had the best talent in martial arts, and he and I were just equal. ”

"So, you've also learned other martial arts?"

The knife sharpener shook his head and said, "He and I both passed the master's examination, but the master taught him marksmanship and did not give it to me." ”

Cai Jing was slightly puzzled and said, "He taught you the stick method." ”

The sharpener nodded and said, "The master said that if one day, I can sharpen this stick he gave me into a gun, and he will teach me marksmanship." ”

"It's a pity that you didn't sharpen it into a gun."

The sharpener looked at the black stick in his hand and threw it out.

There was no sound of breaking wind, only the sound of shattering, it was the stick that smashed the previous whetstone.

"I have been grinding on the mountain for seven years, and I saw that it was about to be completed, and then the head of the gun broke, and the master said no, saying that the barrel and the head of the gun are one and inseparable, so I kept polishing until I died, and I didn't finish it, and now, I found it, but I couldn't grind for half a minute."

Cai Jing walked over, picked up the stick lying in the rubble, and walked back to hand it to the sharpener.

"You can't grind, not because your master is gone, but because, this is you, this is your life!"

The sharpener looked at the stick in front of him and was silent.

"Because, you are the 'iron rod' Luan Tingyu!"

The knife sharpener held the stick and looked at Cai Jing, thinking and guarding.

"If you want to find out why your master didn't teach you marksmanship, then you have to ask your senior brother, 'Sick Lieutenant Chi' Sun Li!"

The sharpener raised his head slightly and said, "Then you shouldn't have come to me." ”

Cai Jing smiled and said, "Of course, if you can tell me more, I can also help you." ”

The knife sharpener was silent for a moment and said, "Although the master is gone, the rules that should be followed are still observed." ”

Cai Jing was not reluctant, nor did he dwell on this matter, and said: "There is another question, after you hit Zhujiazhuang three times, where do people go to see, as written in "Dang Kou Zhi", kill your senior brother and become a big official, or like in the biography of the Water Margin, release the previous suspicions with Sun Libing and help Li Jun establish a country abroad?" ”

Luan Tingyu shook his head and said, "Since you have finished reading the Water Margin, you shouldn't have such doubts. ”

"Who dares to say that legends and myths are false."

"Then I'll tell you, it's neither."

Cai Jing smiled slightly: "It's not like Jin Shengsi's analysis, you died in the chaos, I don't think it's possible, Lian Hu Cheng can escape, how can you die!" However, if you hadn't died, after hearing the news of our attack on Liangshan, you should have taken the initiative to come over and recommend yourself, with your ability, with your festival with Liangshan, it is impossible for us not to use you, but, until the end, you didn't show up, then there must be something wrong in the middle, right? ”

Luan Tingyu looked at Cai Jing and said, "You, you have asked too much." ”

Cai Jing smiled slightly: "Not much, because I want you to come over to help me." ”

Luan Tingyu said: "Impossible. ”

Cai Jing laughed, laughing unscrupulously.

"Someone who died once, now give you a chance to start over, will you miss such an opportunity?"

Luan Tingyu's eyes widened, bright as a lamp, and the stick in his hand was slowly raised.

"As I said, we have our rules, and we are different from you."

That's when the door opened, very softly and loudly.

"Anyone?"

Cai Jing and Lu Qian turned their heads, and Luan Tingyu also looked over.

"So there are people..."

At the door, an old man with a cane stood outside the door, and beside the old man, he pulled a black puppy, completely black, even the eyes were black, without the whites of the eyes, and on the dog's body, there was a cat lying on his stomach.

As he spoke, the old man walked into the shop, not asking the shopkeeper at all.

Cai Jing raised his lips slightly, Lu Qian became vigilant, and the rod in Luan Tingyu's hand was slowly put down.

Because of the dog, and because of the old man standing at the door.

The sunlight outside the door stretched the shadow of the old man at the door and his pet slender.

Sunset, slanting sun, long shadows, old people on crutches, fluffy pets, this is a scene of leisure in old age, but Cai Jing and others do not feel warm, and the intuitive wind in early winter is a little cold.

PS: Last week, all kinds of absences were also because I was thinking about where to start writing the battle of Liucheng, including the manpower that Cai Jing, Fang La, Tian Hu, Wang Qing and others would put in, as well as the abilities of the characters, and the application in the battle situation, especially Cai Jing, his standing in this area was relatively scattered and needed to be connected.

"Iron Rod" Luan Tingyu officially appeared, I have been thinking about the image of the knife sharpener for a long time, especially letting him come out and sharpen the iron rod, in addition to his nickname is Iron Rod, it is also related to the "Sick Captain Chi" Sun Li on the beam, and the division behind them is involved, which will be analyzed in the subsequent chapters, coming from the Water Margin, and it is reasonable.

In this section, Luan Tingyu heard Cai Jing mention Sun Li, and I think it can reflect his emotions very well, which is very good.

Attached: The legend about Luan Tingyu.

Luan Tingyu also appeared in Chen Chen's "Water Margin" and Yu Wanchun's "Dangkou Zhi".

In "Dang Kou Zhi", Sun Li was captured, Deng Fei and Yang Lin were killed, Sun Li was killed alive, and he was awarded the title of official after Pingliang Mountain: the head of Yanzhou Town, Shandong, and Xiangwuzi. In "The Legend of the Water Margin", he reconciled with Sun Li and others, and was promoted to be the owner of Dengyun Cottage, and later joined Li Jun's "Overseas Corps". Luan Tingyu, Wang Jin, Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, and Li Ying were the country's five tiger generals, and they also served as the secretary of the military department. (I haven't watched "The Legend of the Wandering Kou", but I have seen it in the later series, I especially like Yan Qing, who is still exquisite, and the most regrettable thing is that he reunited with Master Li, but he was not together.) ）

Jin Sheng sighed that the forty-ninth chapter of the Water Margin Commentary, Wu Xuexue's double-palmed serial plan, Song Gongming's three dozen Zhujiazhuang Wenqian's general approval), said that Luan Tingyu was dead, but the author Shi Nai'an thought that Luan Tingyu was a good character, so he used the Spring and Autumn penmanship to hide his death. (This book adopts this statement, but how exactly he died, this book will be written, after all, Cai Jing wants to accept the fierce general.) It feels like he's about to become the protagonist.,~~~~(>_