Chapter 40: The Stranger and the Swordsman (1)
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Sneezed and sneezed, Chen Kai didn't think it would be caused by Li Yu, who had a clear understanding of the thief ship, but only felt that it was the mountain wind blowing on his body in the early morning. Some, it's cold.
It has been several days since I left Hangzhou. Chen Kai first went to Fuyang, got on the boat of Li Yu's fellow boat owner at the wharf in Fuyang County, and went all the way to Lanxi. When he arrived in Lanxi, the owner's boat had only run from Jinhua to Hangzhou, and had little intersection with the boat gang in Quzhou, and he did not dare to enter that water rashly, Chen Kai claimed that he was still going to enjoy the mountains and rivers, and politely rejected the owner's kindness to help him contact the boat that ran Quzhou, and bought a few carriages and donkey carts to travel, and then went to the next stop - Longyou County in Quzhou Prefecture.
To the west of Quzhou Mansion is Guangxin Mansion in Jiangxi, to the north is Huizhou Mansion in South Zhili, to the south is Jianning Mansion in Fujian, and to the east is Jinhua Mansion in Zhejiang, where Lanxi County is located. Located at the junction of these four provinces, Quzhou has a strong business atmosphere, and the Longyou merchant gang is not in a hurry to be famous in later generations, but it is also one of the top ten merchant gangs in ancient China, with its own characteristics and strength that should not be underestimated.
Quzhou has five counties, the capital city is in Xi'an County, the east is Longyou, the west is Changshan, the northwest is Kaihua, and the southwest is Jiangshan. Subsequently, it went south from Jiangshan County, crossed Xianxia Pass, and entered the northern Fujian region. When I got there, there should be Zheng Chenggong's answering people, and there were no more than a dozen guards at the moment.
Disembarking in Lanxi County, Chen Kai and his entourage crossed the Wu River, reached the south bank of the Wu River, and then headed west. Jinhua Mansion is a prefecture and eight counties, Lanxi is not the westernmost place, Chen Kai crossed the Wujiang River, and soon entered the territory of Tangxi County, which is closest to Quzhou, which is still the scope of Jinhua Mansion, but the folk customs are more obvious differences from Lanxi's similar places to Fucheng.
The folk customs were not Chen Kai's concern, and he took such great pains to further get rid of the connection with Hangzhou and prevent the local officials of the Qing court from discovering it. got off the boat in Lanxi and went to Quzhou Mansion, but I didn't mention it; Go to Jinhua Mansion City, trace the river to pass Yiwu, Dongyang, and then enter the boundary of Shaoxing, or turn south to Taizhou, you can enter the sea; Or go south to Yongkang County, enter the state capital, arrive at Wenzhou capital, and also enter the sea. The more choices, the more difficult it is for the Qing army to pursue, there is only one chance, and on other people's turf, you always have to think more to be able to be safe.
Along the way, Chen Kai didn't talk much with Wang Jiang, only saying that he saved him to go to Fujian, and that's it. Wang Jiang's family is very grateful for this, but unfortunately they don't know that a few years later in history, Wang Jiang's mother died, and Wang Jiang set up a not very complicated bureau and took his wife to swagger out of Hangzhou City, and then went to Dalanshan to fight against the Qing Dynasty.
Such an example, as well as that Li Changxiang, in Nanjing more than ten years later, this person also escaped from Nanjing City by a less complicated means, and even kidnapped a confidante from the city. Since then, the two of you are the wind and I am the sand lingering around the world, wandering the rivers and lakes for several years, going to Zhili and Xuanda in the north, walking through Guangdong in the south, and finally blatantly settling in Changzhou Mansion, which is not far from Nanjing, is also a strange person.
It can be seen that the IQ of the Ming Dynasty scholars is generally not low, as long as they use their minds in place, it is not that there is much lack of methods compared to this guy who has watched dozens of episodes of Detective Conan.
From the waterway to the land route, Chen Kai did not plan to go to Tangxi County, just go west along the Qujiang River, passing through villages and towns, the possibility of encountering the Qing army is not great, and he is safe and guarded, and his face is harmless to people and animals, but there are fewer incidents. It wasn't until I camped in a small village that I suddenly changed a little.
The village is not large, with dozens of families and more than 100 men, women and children. It was almost time to enter Quzhou Mansion, and because the axle of a donkey cart was broken and needed to be repaired, Chen Kai and his party planned to stay for the time being. It's just that before entering the village, the squire in the village wanted to bombard Chen Kai and others out, saying that they would not let Chen Kai and others live in.
"This person is quite skilled in martial arts."
"Who? That squire knows martial arts? Can I beat you? ”
Curious three times, Daozong stared at Chen Kai for a long time with an idiot-like gaze, and it seemed that it was not until after this long time that he remembered that Chen Kai's martial arts were the most effective way to shoot at the opponent's head with a flintlock pistol, and only then did he explain to Chen Kai after leaving the village.
"Just now, the squire didn't let us into the village. The poor monk looked behind the squire, and there was a lot of dark red on the dirt road in the village, and some houses and utensils also had this color, which was splashed, and it should be bloodstains. Some utensils and wood breakage, as well as cuts. The poor monk could conclude that there had been a fight here not long before we arrived. One of them used a Miao knife that was not short, well, it should be a two-handed knife. The poor monk said that this is the man. ”
The martial arts of the Taoist sect are the most clever in their group, and killing a character like Shi Lang at the beginning is almost the same as killing a chicken, which can be seen. Along the way, Daozong never showed martial arts again, but he gave some guidance to Cai Qiao and others, and was very admired by Cai Qiao and others. The chaos in the village, Chen Kai also saw it in his eyes, but like Daozong, he could even see special weapons, and it was really possible to do it with extremely high talent and actual combat experience in martial arts.
"How does this man compare to you?"
"Killing him with bare hands will not be much more difficult than killing Shi Lang. But if it is a fight with troops, it is difficult to say who can win against whom. ”
"A master has a trick, and the victory or defeat is only a millimeter?"
"Yes."
Nodding solemnly, the expression of the Taoist sect was full of sympathy for the people in the same way. Immediately, he closed his eyes and thought about it, as if he was recalling the scene of the village and fantasizing about the fight that had just happened.
It should have been a desperate fight with more than one enemy, the person holding the Miao knife opened and closed, the blade rolled wildly, and the besieging several people subconsciously retreated, making their original joint attack completely gone.
Next, the person holding the Miao Knife looked at the person who retreated the slowerest, and his hands suddenly changed to one hand, stabbing straight at the door from the top of the oblique, forcing the person to retreat and lose his balance. As soon as his body twisted, one hand returned to his hands and slashed down, which was the longest blood stain on the dirt road.
The knife went straight down, without half a moment's hesitation, and just as the others returned to save him, the figure of the person holding the Miao knife moved again, and with the remaining force of the chop, he waved the blade and returned to the position of Fang Cai. Except for the man who had fallen to the ground, as if he had never moved.
In the following time, he opened and closed widely, and when he retreated, the knife was close to his body, and the blade protected his body like a flash, looking for every opportunity to advance and kill him. In the imagination of the Taoist Sect, between the advance and retreat of the person holding the Miao Knife, the knife seemed to be a part of the body, like an arm and a finger, flexible and free. What's even more rare is that every time the knife goes down, there is no mud and water for half a day, it is completely for the purpose of killing, and the knife is fatal.
After a long time, Dao Zong's forehead was already soaked with rising sweat, but the excitement in his expression was something that Chen Kai had never seen. When this fantasy finally ended with the Miao Knife wielding killing all the besieging people, he finally said some of his last thoughts: "This person's knife technique, judging from the distribution of those incisions and blood stains, has a bit of the feeling of "Xinyou Knife Technique"!" ”
"The Xinyou Knife Method?"
This name, if it was Chen Kai in the past, he might still not know why, but in this era for several years, Qi Jiguang's military books and tactics have been read many times, and he doesn't understand the reason for the existence that this represents.
"Qi Shaobao's Qi family knife!"