"Doors and windows are closed, fire and theft prevention, when the time is ~~~~"

In the twilight, a few galleys wander the sparsely populated streets of Huansha, banging gongs and shouting clichés that have not changed for thousands of years.

I walked out of the back door of the liquor store with four taels of silver I got from Li Gongzi in my arms, and stared at the thin middle-aged people in front of me who were severely malnourished.

Day after day, they tirelessly repeated this tedious work, for nothing more than a few copper coins a month.

And the taels of silver I received tonight with just a few words were enough for them to sustain themselves for a whole year.

However, I have no intention of pitying them, and in the past three years I have already learned that everything in this world seems to be man-made, but in fact it is just fate.

Take me as an example, if it weren't for the fact that I had a well-off family and studied in a private school for a few years when I was young, and I happened to read a few military books, how could I get this windfall of Li Gongzi in vain as an ordinary wine shop?

So, it's all fate!

Indeed, everyone is born with limbs and eats grains, so it stands to reason that everything should be fair and fair, but what is the truth?

The way of this world is that some people are born with fine clothes and food, some people are born as cheap as ants, some people are full of strategies but have nowhere to show them, and some people are in high positions but have a vegetarian diet.

Taking a step back, even if I am really as talented as Li Gongzi said, what should I do?

In the past, Jia Yi, who was mad, was the most talented in the world, but in the end, didn't he end up in a miserable situation of "poor night in the middle of the night, don't ask the common people to ask the ghosts and gods"?

I shook my head, trying to completely remove the words of Li Gongzi from my head.

"Chao is Tian Shelang, and the twilight is in the Tianzi Hall?"

If I really took it as a guideline, I might not be able to live now.

However, after several attempts, I still failed after all, and Li Gongzi's words still lingered in my mind.

At the same time, a voice full of longing began to echo deep within me:

"Xu Junwen, if an opportunity really comes to you one day, you must seize it!"

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"Eh, eh! Brother Xu, stay here, stay back. ”

As I walked towards my home while immersed in my fantasies, a deep voice rang out from not far away.

I looked up in confusion and saw a shriveled old man in a cloth robe looking at me with a smile.

Seeing the appearance of the person who came clearly, my originally melancholy mood suddenly improved, and I stopped and smiled at him:

"Yo! Isn't this Master Zhang? What are you doing all the time? ”

The old man in front of me is indeed an old acquaintance of mine, surnamed Zhang, who runs a small bookstore near our wine store.

His shop is well-known to everyone on Huansha Street, not because of how good the business is, but for two other reasons.

First, it is because it is too absurd to open a bookstore in such a gold-cutting cave as Huansha Street, and it is quite a feeling of standing out from the crowd.

The second is that the books he sells in the store are strange, not the most popular market novels at the moment, but all military books, ranging from "Wu Zi", "Sun Tzu", "Liu Tao" to military generals' miscellaneous conversations, and annotations on the art of war.

Therefore, it is famous, but it is conceivable how the business of his shop is, Rao is his ancestor left a lot of industry, and the shop has not collapsed.

However, his existence is a great blessing for me, in the past few years, I have basically spent my spare time in Lao Zhang's shop rubbing books to read, his business was not good, and he simply did not rush people, let me be the bookworm of the "life and death text".

Not only that, but he often discussed with me ancient and modern battles and anecdotes of famous generals, so that we became friends in the old year.

Today's Lao Zhang seemed to be in a good mood, with a smile on his wrinkled face, he approached me and said:

"Brother, the old boy just had something to do, and he didn't have time to come to see the soldiers, how about it? Is today's game exciting? Let's talk about it in detail. ”

I waved my hand and said in a rambling voice:

"It doesn't mean much, today a person named Xiao Huaiyin came to challenge Zhuge Sai, I thought he had some ability, but he didn't expect it to be a straw bag. You know what? He actually adopted Wei Yan's Meridian Valley strategy, and also insulted Zhuge Wuhou Yitong unashamedly, but as you can guess, Sai Zhuge didn't take much effort to kill him, and this person had to slip away. ”

Lao Zhang pursed his lips and said stupidly:

"Hey, I can't imagine that there are such straw bales among Anyi's people who like the art of war, which really insults the reputation of my generation. This is really not as good as a battle, so don't watch it in the future~~"

I laughed and said:

"Lao Zhang, you've said this no less than ten times, and I haven't seen you come less?"

"Hahaha, isn't this idle and idle~~"

Lao Zhang scratched his head embarrassedly at first, and then changed his mysterious expression and said in a low voice:

"Don't go back tonight, just live in the old children's shop, I bought a copy of "Three Strategies" today, it is said that it is the original manuscript of Zhang Zifang taught by Huangshi Gong back then, I just read it roughly, and the existing "Three Strategies" is indeed quite different, how about it, are you interested in reading it together?"

When I heard the word "Huang Shigong", I secretly said that it was not good, and said that this old man must have been deceived again, so I hurriedly said to him:

"I said that the shopkeeper, "Three Strategies" was written at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, not the end of the Qin Dynasty, and the historians have already concluded that Zhang Liang had been dead for almost two hundred years at that time! What's more, Huangshi Gongqi is very likely to be made up by later generations, and it is not enough to believe it at all, I think which down-and-out scholar changed it casually and took it out to deceive you, is it still looking for a seller? Get the money back. ”

After listening to my words, Lao Zhang's old face began to become cloudy, and after a moment of hesitation, he asked weakly:

"Uh....... Brother, not to mention whether this "Three Strategies" is true or false, how do you know that it was sold to me by a down-and-out scholar......."

"Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang, have you suffered less losses under the hands of scholars? Do you think, if you weren't a scholar who had read for a few years, how could the changed military book fool you? If you weren't really down, how would you think of using books to make a fuss? That's why I said that he must be a down-and-out scholar, but he is probably a local, and he knows that you like to collect all kinds of unique books, so he can be so accurate and suitable for your liking. Tell me, whatever his name is, I will go with you to him. ”

After listening to my words, Lao Zhang began to sigh for a long time:

"Hey, you're right, it's true, the person who sold the book was none other than my distant nephew. A few years ago, his parents died and came to me, I asked someone to find him a bookkeeper to make a living, at first he did a good job, and then he didn't know what evil he had, and he quit his job and wanted to participate in the scientific examination, I knew that he was not the material for studying, and I persuaded him, but he didn't believe it. Later, he really fell off the list, but he was still unwilling, he only thought about taking the exam again next year all day, and he didn't want to work hard at all, and he was penniless when he came and went. Today he took this "Three Strategies" and came over to say that he wanted to honor me, I was very moved, and gave him two taels of silver, where did I know that he has now begun to learn to deceive others, the family is unfortunate, it is really a family unfortunate! ”

Old Zhang was still beating his chest, and a slender black shadow suddenly turned out in a small alley not far away, which immediately startled the two of us. I saw this person holding a large pile of books in his arms, and he was looking around sneakily.

After seeing his appearance clearly by the moonlight, Lao Zhang suddenly shouted loudly:

"Wang Zhi! You little rabbit cub, you have deceived people to Lao Tzu! Don't stop me! ”

As soon as the black shadow heard that it was Lao Zhang calling him, he didn't respond, he immediately turned around and ran, and after a short time, he turned into the alley and disappeared.

Seeing that the situation was not good, we hurried after him in the direction of his escape.

So the old and young chased each other in the intricate alleys of Anyi City.

I originally saw that guy named Wang Zhi was disparate and emaciated, and I thought he would be as useless as me.

Who knew that as soon as this king ran up, it was as if he was dead, and the rabbits were all his grandsons, and even if I tried my best to catch up with him, I couldn't catch up with him at the first time.

Lao Zhang was old after all, and he didn't run a few steps before he fell behind me, and I didn't care about him, so I continued to chase forward. At this time, I was already secretly fighting to myself, and my heart said that he was also malnourished, why couldn't I run away from him?!

After running for about three sticks of incense, Wang Zhi finally couldn't hold on, and stopped by a bush on the bank of the Huansha River while holding the book.

Seeing him stop, I was happy in my heart, although he always held the book when he ran away, I was somewhat invincible, but from the result of the end, I won, you must know that this is the first time I have outperformed others since I was a child!

Even though I was at the end of my crossbow at this moment, I still managed to reach out to his shoulder with the support of the joy of victory.

As it turned out, I was a little too early in my joy, and just as I was about to put my hand on Wang Zhi's shoulder, he suddenly twisted his waist and turned sideways to avoid my hard grasp.

I was already exhausted and my steps were weak, and when he dodged so suddenly, I immediately stumbled on the soles of my feet and rushed to the bushes not far away......

This fall was so hard that my eyes instantly turned black and I lost consciousness, and by the time I came to my senses again, Wang Zhi had already disappeared.

I struggled to my feet up from the bushes, my heart filled with sadness. I don't know when I will be able to find an opponent like Wang Zhi again after missing this opportunity! It seems that I promise someone that in this life he is destined to not taste victory in the way of running.

"Help me....... Save ......."

Just as I was feeling sorry for myself, a faint moan suddenly came from the riverbank not far away.

I immediately turned my head to look around, and saw a black figure lying on the edge of the river, and at this time he was trying to drag his lower body out of the river with his hands on the ground.......