As the elder brother of the Hanging Knife Gate, Jia Ruan has a more comprehensive ability than the junior disciples, and he must also have more thinking, after the master died unexpectedly more than ten years ago, he propped up the Hanging Knife Gate.

Two years ago, Jingkou County was broken by the rebels, and the hanging knife gate was ransacked, and he hid in the cellar with his junior disciples and did not dare to come out.

When the master was there, the days of hanging the knife gate were quite good, but it didn't have much to do with the master, mainly because the years were quite passable at that time.

The master is gone, and the year is also bad, first there was a drought for two consecutive years, and if they survived, it was God's eyes-opener, and then the rebels were rampant, and it was not just God's eye-opening thing to survive, it might be that God really loved them.

In the words of the little junior brother Zhen Gen, I used to think that the master was idle and didn't do anything, but now I know that he has such a great influence on the world, and the master is gone, and there is a great drought and a rebel.

The brothers actually felt more or less that the senior brother was a bit of a wimp, for example, when the rebels entered the city, they hung the knife gate, these hundred and ten men, everyone had martial arts, and they fought to the death, can they still keep the hanging knife gate?

Those rebels are also bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, if you are a hundred and ten big men, the rebels will not dare to really fight hard, and they are also afraid of death.

But what the senior brother means is that money and everything are outside the body, not to mention money, even the knives hanging at the door are all things outside the body, it is good to be alive, everyone is alive, and no one is missing.

Jia Ruan looked at Li Qi, who was speaking, and heard him say that if he could take that person's move, he would be qualified, so he smiled and said, "It turns out that you are here to challenge the Hanging Knife Gate." ”

The juniors and disciples immediately began to coax, the hardships of their lives, the hanging knife gate is actually hard to support, where can it be regarded as a sect, but they have not broken up like this, it can only mean one thing.

They really care about hanging knife doors.

"Senior brother, it seems that they are kicking the hall."

The little junior brother Zhen Gen took off the apron and stepped forward and said, "I'll try it." ”

Senior Brother took a step to stop the little junior brother, shook his head, and said to Li Qi with a fist: "If you are friends in the rivers and lakes who want to come to learn, I think you can be exempted, you have also seen the current appearance of the Hanging Knife Gate, we are no longer a martial arts sect, please go back, I will not send it far." ”

Li Qi said: "You misunderstood, I did come to ask you to do something." ”

The senior brother still shook his head: "We can earn some hard-earned money with our strength, it's good to be alive, we don't want to be rich." ”

His juniors and disciples looked at each other, and some thought that the senior brother was here again...... Last year, the county commander sent someone to say that Prince Yu was recruiting troops, and if they were willing to go, he could write a recommendation, and the senior brother politely declined.

The county magistrate came to the door in person, and said Look at the life you are living now, a group of men who stand up to the sky, sewing and mending, spinning threads, living by working hard for people, are you worthy of your ability?

The county magistrate also said that the man's husband was going to make meritorious contributions, went to the command of Prince Yu, and killed the enemy on the battlefield to make meritorious contributions.

The senior brother still didn't agree, and the junior brothers persuaded him that he wanted to try, and he said that he was the senior brother, and he had the final say, and whoever went would no longer be a disciple of the Hanging Sword Gate.

What else did Li Qi say, the senior brother hugged his fists and said: "This son, in fact, I can see that you don't look like people who do business, we are ordinary people, we don't have any real skills, and what happens in the world has nothing to do with us, so we don't need to say anything more, we won't go." ”

The junior brother Zhen Gen pulled the senior brother's pants, and the senior brother looked back at him, shook his head and said, "We're fine now." ”

"Big brother!"

A man looked at him and said, "Where are we doing now?" I don't know if you remember, last year the little junior brother wanted to eat a mouthful of meat, and he cried greedily, and we stood by and looked at him, only feeling that we were incompetent. ”

"Look at the clothes on the little junior brother's body, they are all leftovers from what we wear, sew and mend and sew and mend, if we have studied art for so many years, we can't eat meat with our ability, what is the use of us learning art?"

The senior brother said: "I am the senior brother, I have the final say, and no one can go if I say that no one can go." ”

I don't know why, at this moment, Li Qi looked at this senior brother who seemed to be very cowardly and self-serving, and he was not very likable, and thought of his master.

At that moment, the figures of the senior brother and the master of the Hanging Knife Gate in front of him slowly coincided together.

The juniors and disciples may only feel that the senior brother is a nest, afraid of things, and afraid of death.

But they haven't understood how much responsibility is contained in these three words, he is a senior brother, the master is gone, he is a father and a mother, it is okay to say that he is timid and afraid of things, it is okay to say that he is a waste of waste, he is a senior brother.

Li Qi was silent for a moment, feeling that he shouldn't deceive people.

He looked at Tang Pidi, who should have understood Li Qi's eyes at this moment, so he nodded.

Li Qi exhaled slowly, walked to the steps on the side and sat down, holding on to the door and sitting down, because the injury on his body was not healed, and he forcibly pulled off the iron tire bow when he was in Jizhou before, so his injury recurred, so it looked like the cloud was light and light, but he could hold on.

After standing for a long time, his injuries would suddenly ache as if something was about to bulge.

"I'm sorry, guys."

Li Qi sat down and slowly exhaled, he was a little sad now.

He saw that the little junior brother's hand was still holding the senior brother's pants, and when the other senior brothers stood up and said that he was senior brother, his eyes were full of requests when he looked at the other senior brothers, as if to say, don't talk about senior brother.

"What I said before is not a lie, because I do have a medicinal herb business, and I really need a lot of people with martial arts skills to help me guard these businesses."

He glanced up at Senior Brother Jia Ruan and said, "I'll tell the truth now, I am a member of the Green Eyebrow Army of the Yanshan Battalion, your senior brother is right, if you follow me, you may not fight in two or three years, and you will live a comfortable life for a while, but after two or three years, it will be difficult to protect." ”

He looked at those senior brothers again, smiled and said: "You are poor and afraid, and you feel tired of living, and you feel guilty and sad, I understand all of this, because I have experienced all of this, you see that I am not very old, but I may have experienced more than any of you." ”

"Do you think that the conditions I just offered are very good? Everyone has two taels of silver a month, and they are in charge of food and housing, just to do an errand in the nursing home, which is very good......"

He paused, smiled and said, "When I first arrived in Jizhou, I met a person, and he really didn't look like a good person at that time...... He told me that people cannot get used to being given alms by others, and once they get used to it, they become slaves. ”

He looked at those people and said, "I will give you two taels of silver every month, forty-eight taels of silver for two years, and after two years you will be accustomed to being my subordinates, and when I ask you to work hard in two years, you will feel that it is inappropriate not to work hard, or you have become accustomed to being obedient, and you will not even think about these things, and you will do whatever I tell you to do." ”

"You won't think about it anymore, forty-eight taels of silver bought your life, is it worth it?"

Li Qi slowly exhaled a breath, looked at Senior Brother Jia Ruan and said, "

You are right...... If I were you, I would do the same, for forty-eight taels of silver is not just money for life, but money for dignity. ”

Li Qi looked at Tang Pidi again, and Tang Pidi smiled: "Let's go." ”

Li Qi snorted, Yu Jiuling went over to help Li Qi up, and when Li Qi walked past the little junior brother Zhen Gen, he raised his hand and rubbed his head, and said with a smile: "You will understand when you are older in the future, how happy you are to have such a senior brother." ”

Zhen Gen paused for a moment, he felt offended.

Because it seems that Li Qi is about the same age as him.

Li Qi said to the senior brother Jia Ruan: "If bending down once can be exchanged for benefits, people will get used to bending over, and after a long time, the backbone will always bend, this is what the guy who didn't look like a good person said to me when I first arrived in Jizhou." ”

Senior brother Jia Ruan suddenly asked, "Then are you bending down now?" ”

Li Qi nodded and said: "Sometimes I bend down, but it's not an outsider, it's my own brothers, when I can bend down and explain well, don't keep feeling that I have no face when I bend down, that's brothers, not outsiders." ”

Yu Jiuling laughed, and that smile was extraordinarily proud.

When they walked out, the senior brother suddenly said: "Yu Chaozong, the green eyebrow king of the Yanshan camp, led the army to resist foreign enemies and defend the frontier, these things he did, our brothers admired, but I can hear from what you just said, you know the bitterness in my heart, I can't ......"

Li Qi didn't look back, raised his hand and shook it, signaling that he didn't need to say anything more, but also said goodbye.

Soon after Li Qi and the others left, the junior brother Zhen Gen pulled the senior brother's pants again, and he asked, "These people don't look like bad people. ”

The senior brother snorted: "Bad people can't say those words." ”

He slapped the little junior brother's hand: "How old are you still dragging other people's clothes!" What can you do in the future! You're already a big man, can you be more mature?! ”

The little junior brother let go of his hand quickly.

He took a few steps back and looked back at the other senior brothers, only to see that the senior brothers were approaching, and they surrounded the senior brothers.

Then many hands reached over and grabbed the elder brother's pants, and a group of people grabbed the senior brother's pants and shouted one after another as if they were very twisted and coquettish...... Senior brother, senior brother, senior brother, don't do this, you scared me so much.

Then a group of people suddenly ripped off the elder brother's pants, and then the group turned around and ran.

They dispersed, and the elder brother sat on the ground and looked at it, and the bastards had left themselves with a sock, and there were two holes in the sock, one of which exposed four toes, including the big toe, and then a stubborn line that separated the other hole, and the little toe was exposed in the other hole.

"I'm a senior brother, and I'm being bullied by you?"

He shouted.

The little junior brother who was standing on the side tried to get closer, and then bent down and picked up his sock, picked it up and shook it and ran away.

The senior brother sighed: "You bastards, why don't you give me something to cover, don't you feel inferior?" ”

At this moment, the little junior brother who ran back to the house came out with a new dress, he smiled and looked proud, everyone was proud.

"We spin our own thread and make it ourselves, senior brother, your clothes have been worn for more than ten years."

The juniors and disciples stood there, smiling, heartless.

They may not really care about whether they hang the knife door or not, what they care about is the senior brother, every senior brother.