Chapter 2 If there is a good cause, it will bear good fruit

Peng Wuwang was a burly soldier in his thirties, tall, with a large face, a straight nose and a square mouth, a beard on his face and an inch-long scar on the brow bone of his left eye. While the soldiers lined up along the eaves of the street to avoid the rain, Peng Wuwang stood alone in the heavy rain in the middle of the street, staring at the extinguished fire in a daze.

He was born in a frontier army camp within the northern border wall, his ancestors have been fighting for Emperor Seris for generations, imitating adults to fight on horseback is the only game he and his childhood companions, early to go into battle to kill the enemy, kill the enemy and receive a reward for drinking wine and eating meat is the greatest hope of childhood Peng Wuwang for the future life.

However, my father, who was lying in a small mound in the back mountain, led the brothers to make a fuss, and not only was he beaten to death with a stick, but he also obeyed military law. After his death, the whole family was expelled from the Yingyang Mansion, and after he became a prisoner, he even blocked the way to join the army and fight, and then looked at his poor and sick mother, Peng Wuwang understood that all he could rely on in the future was the knife in his hand. The miserable life made this child understand the goal of life earlier, and when his peers of the same age also regarded dancing knives and guns as just a game, Peng Wuwang had already wielded his wooden knife with one move.

When Peng Wuwang was ten years old, the knife in his hand finally saw blood for the first time, and he killed a sow weighing 300 catties that had broken a rope from Wang's butcher's shop. This beast is fierce enough, it should be a domestic pig but it has two long fangs at the corner of its mouth, the whole body is pitch black and round, and the fat body is strong and infinite, when the sow is desperate to escape, there are many pedestrians on the road who can't dodge and are knocked down, and the rest of them scream in surprise when they see it, and avoid both sides. Peng Wuwang, who had returned home, happened to be in the way of the beast's escape, and the sow showed enough disdain for the little man in front of her, and rushed straight over. And the boy did not hide.

A burst of smoke and dust billowed out, and there was no need to say anything about the embarrassment, after the sow's tusks scraped a bloody hole in the eyebrow bone of the left eye, and the ribs were also broken, the young Peng Wuwang had stabbed the sow more than ten or twenty times with the wooden knife that was so broken that only the handle of the knife remained. The sow who fled for her life finally became timid when she met the young man who didn't want to die, bypassed Peng and ran away from the hopeless, and finally fell to the ground when she continued to run seven or eight feet away. The onlookers and the butchers who rushed over showed great amazement that a teenager could stab the tigress to death with a hardwood knife, and said that he could stab the sow to death with a wooden knife at such a young age, and soon the child would be able to stab someone to death with a real knife, and it would not be far from being able to stab someone to death in the eyes of this group of border soldiers.

At this time, a man came over and invited Peng Wuwang to talk to the wine shop on the street, and Peng Wuwang met the noble man in the wine shop. Although the height and physique of the noble man are no different from that of an adult strong man, he can see that he is not very old in his face, and he is only three or four years older than Peng Wuwang. Dressed in hunting attire, although it is an ordinary dress, it is difficult to hide a noble spirit in speech and demeanor, and it is rare to be extremely bold and modest, gentle and polite, and there is no underestimation and contempt for Peng Wuwang in his words and words, which is heartbreaking.

The little nobleman told Peng Wuwang that their group had traveled from Chengtianfu to here, and happened to see Peng Wuwang's feat on the street, and felt that Peng Wuwang was brave at a young age, so he invited him to talk about it. Peng Wuwang, a child of a poor family in the border army, has never seen such a scene, but he only responds, but his heart is excited and warm because he is praised and appreciated by such a rare nobleman in the border land, not to mention that he was invited by the little nobleman to drink the first glass of wine in his life!

The little nobleman carefully inquired about Peng Wuwang's family situation, and after hearing that Peng Wuwang only had a widowed mother in the hall and was living in poverty, he immediately arranged for his entourage to take silver money and silk cloth for Peng Wuwang to take home to subsidize the family. I also heard that although Peng Wuwang's family was poor and bumpy, he had been constantly striving for self-improvement and practicing swordsmanship, and the little nobleman loved it even more, so he asked an entourage to come forward and leave a post for the local military government, making up for Peng Wuwang's military registration in the Yingyang Mansion.

When they were separated, they also gave Peng Wuwang a knife book called "Five Tigers Soul Breaking Knife", encouraging Peng Wuwang not to be ruined by a moment of adversity, and then the little nobleman left abruptly, and the little nobleman never revealed his identity from beginning to end.

Peng Wuwang practiced day after day in the army, autumn defense, and battle, with his thoughtfulness, diligence and courage to fight, and the Five Tigers Soul Breaking Knife that became more and more proficient in one hand, he was slowly favored by his superiors, and was promoted all the way from the auxiliary soldiers, regular soldiers, captains, and team members. Over the years, Peng Wuwang has not given up on exploring the news of the little nobleman, but unfortunately he has found nothing, until he entered the Zuo Yulin Army, Peng Wuwang, who has made a successful career, finally found out who the little nobleman was back then, but unfortunately the rich and graceful and proud young man has died because of his sin and is no longer alive.

Peng Wuwang thought that it would be difficult to repay the kindness in this life, and he often regretted but was helpless. Unexpectedly, on July 1, he suddenly received a military order from General Zuo Yulinjun, asking him to select soldiers and horses, and follow General Zuo Yulinjun to slaughter the benefactor's bereaved family and the only bloodline left by the benefactor in the world. failed to repay the favor, but wanted to take revenge and be the executioner who slaughtered the benefactor. I want to disobey the order, but I am worried that not only will I be dealt with by military law, but I am afraid that even the widowed mother who has only lived a good life for a few years will be implicated by herself, and besides, she has already married a family, how can she ignore his wife and children. Peng Wuwang was full of pain and entanglement, and finally came to the benefactor's house with the team.

Although it has been almost three years, there is still a group of well-gracious men who live near the house, silently protecting the descendants of the benefactor's family. When the Zuo Yulin Army moved, a large group of alarmed heroes spontaneously gathered and fought to the death against the Yulin Army under the leadership of Zhang Baifu, the hero of the Yellow River, and the Muyu monk. The official army failed to attack repeatedly, and Peng Wuwang was ordered to lead more than 100 of his men to attack the back door.

While his subordinates burst in through the back door, killing people everywhere and setting fires, Peng Wuwang looked at the fires in the courtyard and the miserable corpses everywhere. Confused to a small cross-garden rockery, thinking of the benefactor such a heavenly figure, innumerable grace, casually helped himself, his own life is different from this world, and this world has received the favor of the benefactor and I don't know how many, it is really a good person of the first class in the world, and today, such a good person is going to be destroyed, and the heirs are cut off. Thinking of Zhang Baifu and Muyu Monk again, they are deeply righteous and have no regrets about dying, and they are also a good man with clear grievances, not only can they not repay their benefactors today, but they also have to use the five tiger soul breaking knives taught by their benefactors to slaughter their benefactors' relatives, and they can't help but feel inexplicable in their chests, and can't help but slash at the rockery next to them.

"Ahh

Peng Wuwang suddenly heard a suppressed low exclamation from behind the rock, and when he looked closely at the place where the knife was cut, a thin iron chain had been cut to deformation. Peng Wuwang was shocked, looked around the courtyard, his subordinates have been scattered everywhere, only one person in this small courtyard, so he suddenly pulled the iron chain, there should be a mechanism under the rockery, and the squeaky revealed a one-person-sized hole, the cave is very small and only allows a middle-aged man to hide, the hole is crowded with a hairpin messy, pale face woman, and two dressed in the same color, are two or three years old children, one of the children was stabbed in the back, bloody, eyes closed, I don't know whether it is dead or alive. The other stared roundly, I don't know if he was stupid or what, he didn't cry, he just stared at Peng hopelessly.

"The general spares his life! Spare your life! The woman seemed to be greatly frightened, and knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to Peng Wuwang and begging for mercy. The slave and the maid are willing to sacrifice the son of the world, and beg the general to spare the life of the slave and the maid! ”

Peng Wuwang was shocked when he heard this, "Who are you?" Where is the son? The woman hurriedly replied: "The slave and maid Xuemei are the maids beside the son, and after the death of the master's mother in childbirth, it is the slave and the maid who have been taking care of the son. The child who died was Zhang Daxia's grandson, and he was sent to be a stand-in for the prince a few days ago just in case, and the official soldiers who were chasing and killed when he fled for his life just now were slashed, and the other was the son. Zhang Daxia hid the three of us in the cave, and only then did he hear the general cutting and chiseling the rocks, and the slave knew that the general's eyes were like torches and he had seen through this place! The slave and maid are willing to sacrifice the son of the world, only to save the general from death, only to save the general from death! ”

In order to survive, the woman's cry for help was loud, and Peng Wuwang stared at the woman who was lying on the ground and kowtowing more than once, and the two children on the side, thousands of thoughts flashed through his heart like lightning. Immediately made up his mind, he first looked around the courtyard, this small courtyard seemed to have no one to pay attention to, and then stabbed the woman to the ground with a lightning bolt. "How many loyal and righteous people have died here today, how dare you, a slut who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and a traitor to survive?"

Killing this woman, Peng Wuwang picked up Xiao Shizi and put him back in the secret room, how did he expect that this rockery secret room was very exquisite, Peng Wuwang didn't know the steps of the mechanism, and he couldn't close it for a while. In a hurry, he suddenly heard a burst of human voices outside the courtyard gate, Peng Wuwang knew that Zuo Yu Lin Jun would soon search this courtyard, and under the electric thought, he immediately untied the Mingguang armor and wrapped Xiao Shizi in the armor, Peng Wuwang was tall, plus the sky was dark, and the courtyard was full of smoke, and it was difficult to find the abnormality if he didn't look closely.

After wrapping it properly, Peng Wuwang picked up the bodies of the woman and the stand-in boy on the ground and threw them into a burning room in the courtyard. He hurriedly flashed to the stable next to the courtyard, found a horse corpse in the deepest part of the stable, cut open the horse's belly, stuffed Xiao Shizi into it, and then took the stable sink and poured half a tank of water into the horse's belly. Fu pushed a few horse corpses and surrounded and suppressed the horses that hid Xiao Shizi. After the arrangement was completed, Peng Wuwang let out a sigh of relief, and kowtowed three more times to the pile of horse corpses, "God bless!" Then he hurried away, shouting as he went, "Someone! A woman rushed into the backyard with a child in her arms, there is no doubt that she should be a descendant of the bandit, and the people who came quickly rushed in with the general, and the kings moved forward! Get promoted and make a fortune today! ”

With Peng Wuwang shouting, both the remaining resisters and the officers and soldiers of Zuo Yulin rushed towards the backyard like moths to the fire...