In the sixth year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (381 AD), South Yanzhou, Jingkou Town.

It's May, on the verdant green paddy fields, the farmers in short shirts and bare legs are bending over to work, the breeze is blowing, the rice is hanging low, and from time to time there are buffaloes with plows, while flicking their tails, while moving slowly and leisurely, an official road more than five feet wide, loess flying, the road is facing the sky.

On the official road, an eight-foot man, on top of the earthy yellow cloth clothes, sewn with colorful patches, a strong and burly figure, was carrying a bundle of more than a foot high, the hill was also like, it looked like there were at least two or three hundred catties of firewood, walking forward.

This bundle of firewood was too high and wide, and almost half of the official road was completely blocked, and even pedestrians on the road behind could not see it.

What's even more terrifying is that despite carrying such a large bundle of firewood, this big man still walks like a fly, with a pair of broken straw sandals, and every time he steps on it, it will leave a small pit a few inches deep on the ground, and even this official road is shaking slightly.

The two peasants straightened up from the farmland and smiled at the big man: "Liu Yu, why did you come to Nanshan again today to cut salaries, didn't you go to the ferry to be on duty?" ”

The big man named Liu Yu turned his head and smiled slightly: "In the morning, we will collect firewood first, and then go to the ferry in the afternoon. However, I have to support my family first, just rely on this bit of rice, and the whole family has to drink the northwest wind. ”

This big man named Liu Yu is a person from Jingkou at the end of the Jin Dynasty, his parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by his stepmother, because the family was too poor, and his mother died because of difficult childbirth, and was once sent to his uncle's house by his father, and even got the nickname of a slave.

When he was about five years old, Liu Yu was finally taken home by his father, but soon his father died of exhaustion.

Probably God didn't want to see Liu Yu so miserable, so that he was born with divine power since he was a child, so aggressive and fierce that even this Jingkou people who are strong with folk customs are also sideways, and many children who call him a slave are under his fists, and they have become people with different levels of disability, toothless, broken nose, everywhere.

It is precisely because of this that in this troubled era where the fist is the king's way, he was promoted to Lizheng by the imperial court, and today, the new assassin is about to take office.

Liu Yu thought that after finishing the bundle of firewood, he would go to the market at the ferry to sell it, and by the way, he would be on duty, maybe the new Lord Thorn Shi would first inspect the ferry with a lot of people recently.

Another farmer pointed to the official road in front of him and said, "Liu Yu, there is a team of people over there, and the pomp seems to be not small, you better see if the assassin is here." ”

Liu Yu's eyes flashed coldly, and he looked ahead: "I'll go now." As he spoke, his pace quickened.

On the official road about 100 steps ahead, a group of people and horses, hugging each other in front of them, sounding gongs to open the way, the first one, in his early twenties, medium height, green clothes and small hats, high cheekbones, big eyes and thin lips, cold complexion, and the officials were dressed up.

Behind him, a man dressed in a fine brocade silk robe, wearing a scarf, jade belt and thick boots, dressed as a noble son, in his thirties, with a thick white powder on his face, held his head high, and rode on horseback.

Behind and on both sides of this noble son, dozens of people, all five big and three thick, with a face full of meat, holding a stick in their hands, and a leather whip wrapped around their waists, but they were wearing silk and embroidered eagle lackeys.

In the world of this high-ranking family, it is clear at a glance that these people are the evil slaves of a certain dignitary and nobleman, and they shouted loudly as they walked: "The nobles travel, and the idle people retreat quickly!" ”

A peasant with a hoe on his shoulder, who had just walked from a field on one side, sixteen or seventeen years old, black and thin, with black and yellow mud on his legs, reluctantly walked to the side of the road and said to himself: "What kind of person, so horizontal? ”

The noble boy on the horse moved his ears, stopped the horse, he gently took out a gauze towel from his arms, wiped his nose, and said very casually: "Ravage! ”

More than a dozen evil slaves immediately rushed in front of this peasant, the first one, a black mole the size of a copper coin grew on his right cheek, and a few sparse black hairs on the mole, with his angry scolding, he moved: "Blind your dog's eyes, don't you even know the son of the newly appointed Diao Assassin Shi family?" Teach you to have a longer memory! ”

The evil slaves scolded and beat, kicked and punched the peasant to the ground, and then he whipped him with a whip that cut his head and covered his face.

The peasant wanted to resist, but when he heard the word "thorn history", he suddenly felt like a deflated ball, only hugged his head, protected the vital place, rolled around on the ground, and shouted for mercy: "The small one has eyes without beads, and the small ones have eyes without beads." ”

A cruel smile appeared on the corner of Diao Gongzi's mouth, and he said coldly: "Diao Mao, let Yi go to see the doctor!" ”

The leader, a black mole evil slave named Diao Mao, took out a small bag from his bosom and checked it in his hand, and the sound of copper coins colliding in it rattled.

Diao Mao immediately threw the money bag in front of the disgraced peasant, and spat on him fiercely: "Remember, this is Diao Gongzi's reward for you." Next time, the trick will be highlighted! ”

He walked back to Diao Gongzi's side triumphantly, nodded his head, waved his hand, and beckoned his companions to swagger forward.

Diao Gongzi smiled and said to the official who led the way in front: "Liu Zhi, everyone in the world is strong and strong, from this point of view, but that's it!" ”

Suddenly there was a sound of breaking shouts from behind: "The folk customs of Jingkou are not something you can evaluate!" ”

Diao Gongzi's brows furrowed, Diao Mao jumped a few steps forward, and the whip slammed heavily on the ground, raising a cloud of dust: "Where do you come from the things that you don't know how to lift, you don't know if you are traveling, do you need to avoid it?" Itchy skin, isn't it?! ”

The person who came was Liu Yu, he stopped, raised his head, and a seventeen or eighteen-year-old face was revealed, full of heaven, ink-dyed thick eyebrows, a pair of bright big eyes, shining, the bridge of the nose was high, the jaw was as hard as a rock, and a strong muscle block, which made this patch and patch cloth cloth angular and angular, and this country woodcutter's dress could not hide his extraordinary heroism at all.

Diao Mao just wanted to splash and beat people, but he was frightened by Liu Yu's size, and unconsciously took half a step back, Diao Gongzi frowned in disgust, his nostrils pointed at the big man, and said in a deep voice: "Are you deaf?" Blocking the middle of the road, begging for death? ”

Diao Mao suddenly became bold again, and shouted: "Boy, if you say that the noble man rewards you, don't kneel down quickly!" As he spoke, he tightened the leather whip in his hand and was about to pounce, while more than twenty evil slaves also tightened their sticks and silently surrounded Liu Yu from both sides.