Chapter 2: The Knight with a Broken Arm (Collect!)
"It's so boring! Uncle Zhang, why did you come so fast! I haven't had enough of it!"
The little girl pursed her mouth dissatisfiedly, touched the ground with one foot, and her petite body rose into the air and landed behind the knight, her movements were light and agile, and she was extremely graceful.
With a gentle wave of his hand, the shabby clothes on his body were gone, and the black mud on his face had completely disappeared, revealing a young face like pink makeup.
Clear and lovely eyebrows and eyes, with a purple long dress, the little girl on horseback, where is the little beggar covered in gray and black?
Although he is only eleven or twelve years old, he has begun to have a refined temperament, and when he grows up in the future, he will definitely be a character who will captivate the country and the city!
Lin Feng was lying on the ground, and a self-deprecating wry smile appeared on Qingjun's little face.
Come out for this little girl, who knows that people are the real masters!
It is also said that there are only more than 100 households in Blackstone Town, and such a small place is very far away from other villages and towns. How could there be a strange little beggar here? This is problematic in the first place.
It seems that the little girl also has a very high status in the Luoyun Sect, otherwise the captain of this Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry would not call her Miss.
The little girl glanced at Lin Feng and whispered a few words behind the knight captain, the captain nodded, and with a wave of his big hand, a white light enveloped Lin Feng's body.
Lin Feng felt a clear stream enter his body, and in an instant, most of his body's injuries had healed. The broken bones naturally couldn't be connected, but they were all in place and connected.
It only takes a little more time for the injury to heal.
"This knight captain should not have a low status in the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry. Lin Feng judged in his heart.
Because of his father, Lin Feng knew more about the Xuanjia Heavy Ride. A character who can have such means is at least a centurion level in the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry, just like his father back then.
"Big brother, what's your name?" the little girl looked at Lin Feng and smiled sweetly, looking extremely cute.
"Lin Feng. Lin Feng sighed and said.
This little girl is a big ghost, but she is not as simple as she seems.
Just now, he was obviously making a show, but he was crying like pear blossoms and rain, which is what ordinary little girls can't do.
"Brother Lin Feng, thank you today! This is for you!" The little girl took a small jade pendant from her neck and threw it at Lin Feng.
"Miss, no!" the knight captain waved his whip and rolled the jade pendant back, grabbing it in his hand.
"Uncle Zhang!" the little girl screamed with wide eyes.
“...... Okay!" The knight captain shook his head helplessly, waved his hand and threw the jade pendant to Lin Feng again.
"Brother Lin Feng, remember, my name is Ling'er!"
With a wave of the knight captain's whip, more than a dozen heavily armored war horses struck the ground like thunder, rushing in the direction of the mayor's house.
The little girl's crisp laughter was still echoing in her ears, and the Xuanjia Heavy Rider had already gone far.
Once a year, the Xuanjia Heavy Rider came to Blackstone Town for the purpose of collecting taxes, and this year was no different, and the townspeople's taxes had already been paid to the mayor's family.
Lin Feng put away the jade pendant, gritted his teeth and stood up, and walked towards his home.
Such injuries are just a common occurrence for him, and there is no problem with walking.
Wang Hu and the others stood on the side of the street, looking at Lin Feng's distant back, with a deep sense of despair and unwillingness in their eyes.
Just because he chased a little beggar, he ruined his hope of joining the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry and ruined his biggest dream in this life!
Feeling the gaze of the young people behind him, Lin Feng didn't look back, and sighed in his heart.
His own hope of joining the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry had been dashed three years ago. The mood at that time is still fresh in his memory, so he can now understand the mood of Wang Hu and others.
But this has nothing to do with themselves, when Wang Hu and the others chased this little girl who pretended to be a beggar, the result was already doomed.
The little girl who came out of the Luoyun Sect was so easy to offend?
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This world is called Xuanwu Continent, and it is a world of warriors. There are no kingdoms here, just large and small sects.
This is a world ruled entirely by sects!
The closest sect to Blackstone is called the Falling Cloud Sect. The place where the Falling Cloud Sect is located is called Falling Cloud City.
With Luoyun City as the center, within a radius of thousands of miles, it is the territory of the Luoyun Sect.
Within this range, the Falling Cloud Sect controls everything. The collection of taxes, and even the appointment and dismissal of officials, were all decided by the Luoyun Sect.
The Xuanwu Continent is still martial arts, and within the sphere of influence of the Luoyun Sect, an internal boxing method called "Tiger Shape Boxing" has also been handed down for ordinary people to practice.
Tiger Fist is a method of refining the body, which is divided into nine layers, and each time it is practiced, the body will undergo some changes, becoming more powerful, and the body will be more powerful.
When the tiger-shaped fist is practiced to the fourth level, it has the power of thousands of catties, and it can capture the tiger and leopard alive!
If you can practice to the fourth level of Tiger Shape Fist before the age of fourteen, you will be eligible to participate in the test of the Falling Cloud Sect, and after passing, you will become a member of the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry!
The Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry is the core army of the Luoyun Sect, with a total of only 5,000 people. When there are new knights who are riding in the armor, there are old knights who are riding in the armor.
Within a radius of thousands of miles, the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry has a supreme position. Becoming a member of the Xuanjia Heavy Rider is the dream of every teenager.
Three years ago, Lin Feng had just turned ten years old, and the Tiger Shape Fist had already been practiced to the fourth level, and he was already qualified to participate in the Falling Cloud Sect test!
This has never been done in the tiny town of Blackstone!
At that time, the young Lin Feng was also full of ambition, dreaming of joining the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry and experiencing the life of blood and fire.
However, overnight, his skills were completely lost, and he could no longer practice Tiger Shape Fist!
This was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for the young Lin Feng! In front of his eyes, it seemed as if everything had lost its color!
From a genius who is incomparably eye-catching in the eyes of everyone, he falls into a waste that cannot be cultivated, which is tantamount to falling from the clouds to the ground!
The scenery of the past is no more, and while losing the aura of genius, endless ridicule and abuse will follow!
The teenagers in Blackstone Town have been practicing tiger boxing since childhood, and most of them have a lot of skills. Lin Feng, who didn't have a trace of skill, naturally became the target of their bullying.
Those who were the most humble in front of him at the beginning, such as Wang Hu and others, bullied him the most!
The world is hot and cold, and the people are warm and cold, in the past three years, Lin Feng has really felt it. The cold eyes and ridicule of others made Lin Feng's character extremely stoic. Compared with teenagers of the same age, his mind is obviously more mature......
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"Father, I'm back!" Lin Feng walked into the small blacksmith shop in the middle of the town, and looked at the tall man sitting at the wine table and said respectfully.
That man's muscles bulged all over his body, and he looked extremely strong, it was Lin Feng's father, Lin Heng.
Lin Heng's eyebrows were sharp, and he looked quite heroic, but his hair was unkempt and his face was decadent.
Lin Heng's right arm was broken, and he was holding a wine jug in his left hand, exuding a strong smell of wine.
"Hmm!" Seeing Lin Feng come in, Lin Heng nodded casually, drank a sip of spirits, and after putting down the wine jug, he stretched out his fingers and picked up a grain of salted boiled peanuts, put it in his mouth and chewed it happily.
Looking at his father, Lin Feng's heart ached slightly. He was born with an unusual memory, and he remembers the events of his youth vividly. When he lived in Falling Cloud City, his father was not what he is now......
Lin Feng silently walked to the kitchen, boiled a little boiling water, took out the only little rough tea leaves at home, made a cup of strong tea for his father, brought it to the table, and then stood aside with his head down.
Lin Heng finished drinking, sighed pleasantly, picked up the strong tea and drank it all, and then his eyes fell on Lin Feng's body.
"What, you're fighting with someone again?" Lin Heng frowned and snorted coldly.
Most of the injuries on Lin Feng's body had healed, but there were still many footprints on his clothes. Of course, he didn't mean to let Lin Heng see this scene, but this was the only piece of clothing he had, and there was nothing to change at all.
"Who told them to call you a waste!" Lin Feng clenched his fists and said.
He didn't tell Lin Heng the real cause of the incident, after all, his father's relationship with the Luoyun Sect and the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry was really delicate.
And scolding his father Lin Heng for being a waste is the most common reason for his conflict with Wang Hu and others. Even if it wasn't for this little girl, just because of a few words from Wang Hu and others, today's conflict is indispensable.
"Hehe, I'm a waste, and I can't complain about what others say. When Lin Heng heard this, he smiled lonely, and a trace of pain appeared in his eyes.
"Father is not a wasted person!Father was the only Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry Knight in Blackstone Town back then, and he was also a centurion!" Lin Feng clenched his fists hard and said loudly.
Even though he is more mature than his peers, he is still a child after all, and in his heart, the image of his father is still the most magnificent.
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At that time, Lin Heng was also a genius who had not been seen in a hundred years in Blackstone Town, and at the age of fourteen, the tiger-shaped fist had been practiced to the sixth level, which was twice higher than the test line of the Xuanjia heavy horse!
After that, Lin Heng naturally joined the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry smoothly, and accumulated military exploits to become a centurion, and he was the most beautiful person in Blackstone Town.
Before Lin Feng was six years old, he spent time in Luoyun City with his parents, and Blackstone Town would only come back once a year when he followed his father to save his relatives. At that time, Lin Heng's return to his hometown was the most important festival for Blackstone Town.
Lin Feng had also seen with his own eyes the enthusiastic faces of the people in the town when they faced his father. But now all of this is a thing of the past!
When Lin Feng was six years old, Lin Heng broke his right arm in a battle, and his meridians were seriously damaged. After that, he quit the Xuanjia Heavy Ride and returned to Blackstone.
He was greeted no longer by flowers and applause, but by the endless cold eyes of the people. Since then, Lin Heng has no longer been the same as he was back then, but has been in a slump, and he has been drinking wine every day to drown his sorrows.
In less than a year, Lin Feng's grandparents passed away in sorrow, and after more than half a year, Lin Feng's mother also died of depression.
After that, Lin Heng became even more decadent. The ancestral blacksmith shop has no intention of cooking, and is just drunk and dreaming of death every day.
Lin Heng has been a centurion of the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry for many years, but he does not have much savings, he was righteous at the beginning, and spent too much money on the township relatives in Paoze and Heishi Town. After returning to Blackstone, the little savings he had were quickly spent.
Originally, Lin Feng's mother could still make a living by sewing for others, but after her mother died, the family's financial resources were completely cut off.
That year, Lin Feng was not yet eight years old.
After the death of his mother, the young Lin Feng not only could not be taken care of by his father, but had to take care of his father, who was addicted to alcohol. Hunger was a common occurrence, and the life of father and son was extremely difficult.
This situation did not improve until Lin Feng made a small achievement in cultivating Tiger Shape Fist.
Xu is because of his father's genetics, Lin Feng also showed a strong talent in tiger boxing, at the age of nine he practiced the second weight of tiger boxing, and at the age of ten he even practiced the fourth weight of tiger boxing!
And at the age of ten, there are still four years left before joining the test of the Xuanjia Heavy Rider! In four years, how far will Lin Feng progress?
Everyone thought that Lin Feng would inevitably join the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry like his father, and no one in Blackstone Town dared to despise the father and son, and the life of the father and son was also better. After all, Lin Feng relied on his own strength, which was enough to support himself and his father.
However, the good times didn't last long, and a few months later, overnight, Lin Feng lost all his skills again, and he could no longer cultivate Tiger Shape Fist......
After returning to Blackstone Town, the life of the Lin family has also had several ups and downs, but no matter how life changes, Lin Heng is still like that, greedy for the things in the cup, and never cares about Lin Feng.
However, Lin Feng never complained about his father, and in his heart, he would never forget his father's heroic appearance back then.
When he was in Luoyun City, every time his father came back from an expedition, he would always hold Xiao Lin Feng high, then pull down the mask and kiss Lin Feng's little face. The feeling of the stiff stubble sweeping on his cheeks was a memory that Lin Feng would never forget......
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"Xuanjia Heavy Riding ......" Lin Heng smiled lonely, his drunken and hazy gaze swept over the heavy black armor hanging on the wall, his face was full of bitterness, "That's all in the past....."
"Father, why didn't you stay in the Invalides to enjoy the blessings after you quit the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry, but took us out of Luoyun City and came to this Black Stone Town?" Looking at his father, who rarely had a trace of sobriety, Lin Feng plucked up his courage and asked a question that had been hidden in his heart for a long time.
Retired knights or disabled knights of the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry can choose to retire in the Invalides after leaving the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry, or they can choose to serve as officials in various places. If it weren't for worry-free, who would want to join the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry and work for the Luoyun Sect?
At the beginning, Lin Heng immediately left Luoyun City and returned to his hometown Blackstone Town!
"Feng'er, others say that I had to return to this Black Stone Town because I did something wrong and was punished by the sect, what do you think?" Lin Heng smiled bitterly, took a sip of strong tea, and looked at Lin Fengdao.
"I don't believe it!" Lin Feng said loudly.
His father, who was loyal to the Luoyun Sect, how could he do something wrong and be kicked out?
"Hehe!" Lin Heng smiled bitterly, "Back then...... Forget it, you're still young, and there are some things that I'd better tell you when you're older!"
"Oh!" Lin Feng nodded. He could clearly feel his father's pain, and since he didn't want to say it, it was better not to say it.
"Feng'er, I'll go sleep for a while. If you have a business, you can help me with the next step. Lin Heng got up and walked back to the inner room to lie down.
"Got it, father. Lin Feng nodded, the last time the Heart Dao Blacksmith Shop had business, it was more than a month ago, right?
My father's skills were good, but he was a heavy drinker and had a bad temper, and few people were willing to patronize the business of the small shop.
Looking at the set of black battle armor hanging on the wall, Lin Feng quietly clenched his fists.
"Father, I must practice into a tiger boxing, I must join the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry! I must get all the glory you have back then!"