Chapter 12: Serious Bandits
Jue and Ah Wu walked slowly in warm deerskin boots, and they paced for two hours before they saw the grass hut.
"Childe, don't move." Ah Wu stopped his steps, he turned into a tree, moved quietly, and soon turned into Jue's shadow again.
"Ah Wu," Jue asked very seriously, "What's wrong?" ”
Ah Wu grinned and said, "Childe, I'm afraid we've met bandits."
After half a day's work, a nest of newcomers came to the Bashan Cottage, who took the cottage for themselves, cooked porridge, and made a mess.
Jue lifted the knife in front, Ah Wu followed closely like a shadow, and finally the black horse, a wolf, a dog and a horse swaggered to the grass house.
Three men with different expressions but a bandit character written on them came out when they heard the sound, and one of them was still holding a clay bowl and licking the porridge.
"This is my territory," Jue pointed to his feet very seriously and said, "I'm a bandit." ”
Ah Wu was still lurking nearby, perhaps behind the hut, perhaps behind a tree, or in Wengli.
"This horse can be sold for some money." A bandit said.
"Look," said the other bandit, pointing to Jue's deerskin boots, "these boots are very gentle." ”
The third bandit put down the bowl in his hand, burped, and slashed at Jue with a knife.
The sudden attack almost made Jue lose his temper, and his instinct to practice knives and boxing for a long time allowed him to avoid that knife.
"I can let you go, and I can even give you some rice," Jue calmed his trembling heart and said, "provided that you promise not to come back." ”
The three bandits seemed to hear the funniest joke in the world, two laughed heartily, and the evil bandit who carried the knife put away the knife and said, "You say you are a bandit?"
Jue nodded very seriously, he was completely a bandit.
"Do you have any misunderstanding about bandits?" A bandit asked.
"A real bandit never admits that he is a bandit." Another gangster chimed in.
The bandit who carried the knife glanced at Jue with compassion and said, "Since you said that you are a bandit, then I have no choice but to eliminate harm for the people."
When the words fell, he lifted the knife and went up again, the knife technique was not a few ways, and the victory was in strength.
Jue's strength is not small, although he is only fourteen years old, but whether it is practicing boxing or selling goods, it is hard work, and he is now full of punches enough to break a tree with a thick bowl.
Jue's definition of himself is a bandit, and a bandit must have the backbone of a bandit, so Jiang Wangshu showed favor to him several times and was unmoved.
To be fair, this was the first big battle he had encountered, and he was a little nervous, just dodging, like a clumsy skinny dog.
Ah Wu didn't know when he came out, he carried a slightly longer knife and pierced the bandit's ass.
The two onlookers behind thought that they had the chance to win, but they were startled by Ah Wu, who suddenly appeared.
"Childe, don't be soft-hearted, like killing a deer." Ah Wu drew his knife and stood aside with low eyebrows.
The two bandits watching the play were like falling into an ice cave, Ah Wu suddenly appeared, and the knife that spared no effort really shocked them.
The man who had been stabbed fell to the ground, his face twisted like a wild animal skin, his body twisted like a snake.
"Let's go." Jue still can't do it in the end, he can't hand a knife to someone like killing a deer, even if it's a bandit.
The backbone of bandits is true, and bandits also have the principle of bandits. Whether it is Ah Da Ah Er or Ah 3 Ah Four, or even Ah Wu Ah Liu, they have never killed anyone, at most they will go down the mountain to steal a chicken when they are hungry, of course, Ah Da Guan this is called Na.
Ah Er's death was very abrupt, but it made Jue understand many things, such as fists, which are not necessarily used to bully others, but can also be used to protect.
Ah Da's fist is used to guard, and his fist is very big, so he is the first to die.
Ah San didn't know how to make clothes, but he never moved the idea of snatching them, so that for many years the bandit den only wore tops and straw sandals.
Ah Si said that he wanted to make a round meal that he could eat without rice or meat, and Ah Si's knife would only kill the deer and cut vegetables, and would not kill anyone.
Ah Liu walks very fast, Jue likes Ah Liu very much, and he has to walk a thousand miles like Ah Liu without stopping, and moving forward with the wind.
"Childe, you have to be careful behind you, sometimes you can't be too soft-hearted." Ah Wu sighed.
It turns out that Ah Wu will not only hide in Weng, he will also hide in the dark, waiting for the opportunity to move.
"I know." Jue felt that nature had disappointed Ah Wu, so he ran to Duruo Lake and plunged headlong into the icy water.
"Childe, cold." Ah Wu stood on the shore and called anxiously.
Jue crawled out of the water, a little trance for a while, as if he was in a vast and desolate plain, like a thin fish, walking like a thin dog.
Like a dog and a fish.
A dog is a docile wolf, and a wolf is a dog that has not yet been civilized.
Jue tries his best to think of himself as a bandit, a bandit and a man, a wolf and a dog.
However, he is just a skinny dog, and it is wishful thinking to think of himself as a wolf.
"Ah Wu, am I not like a qualified bandit?" Jue crawled out of the water, wet. Only when he is in the water, he is like a skinny fish, and he does not have to struggle with the similar but opposing roles between the wolf and the dog.
"Childe just be himself, there is Ah Wu." Ah Wu turned his head and left.
Jue was fishing in Duruo Lake, and he felt that he was very suitable to be a fisherman, and he did not feel bored after sitting all night, although he did not catch a single fish.
It took three days for Ah Wu to come back, and Jue almost forgot about him after a long time.
"Childe." Before Ah Wu could scream, he fell on the snow.
Ah Wu slept for a day and a night before waking up, Jue didn't ask him what he was doing, and Ah Wu didn't say.
The days are still plain, practicing the knife, it is still a three-way knife draw, out, and back to the sheath; Practice boxing, one punch, ten punches, one hundred punches, and pick a thick tree; Ponder the vast, mysterious, and realistic question of the sky, the earth, and the grain; Cooking rice, boiling tea, boiling wine; make blouses, deerskin skirts, straw sandals; hidden, watery, fishing; Go around in the cottage, linger in Bashan, and occasionally go to Bayang or Lanpu.
One day, Ah Wu fell, cut off the dead leaves under his feet, and shouted happily: "Childe, the buds have been drawn."
Jue was practicing the knife, Ah Wu Ghost screamed and scared away the inspiration he was about to touch, he came over with a straight face, showed an indifferent attitude towards the seed breaking the ground, and said after carefully examining it: "This is a tea tree."
"How can Childe tell the difference?" Ah Wu asked.
"It was the seed I planted, and the mark." Jue carefully gathered the dead leaves, buried the new seedlings, and continued to practice the knife.
Because of the large influx of Qi people and the disappearance of the three evils of Bashan, the Bashan trade road began to be lively.
In fact, it can't be said that the three evils of Bashan have disappeared, after all, the Bashan wolf is still coiled in Zhongba, but it rarely goes down the mountain, and even the Jue who lives on the mountainside is rarely seen. As for bandits, aren't Jue and Ah Wu serious bandits?
"Ah Wu, we're bandits, aren't we?" Jue sat on a high place and looked at the pedestrians on the trade road, and suddenly asked a question that caught Ah Wu off guard.
Ah Wu is like a tree, and like Jue's shadow, he almost forgot that he still has the identity of a bandit, so he scratched his head quite shyly and said, "It seems to be."
"What does a bandit look like, tell me about it?" Jue asked with interest.
Ah Wu tugged at the corner of his clothes and blushed, and said: "Childe, in fact, we are not serious bandits, and we haven't opened a few times a year, so we are really hungry and desperate to take risks."
"Then from today onwards, we will be serious bandits." Jue said in an unquestioning tone.
Ah Wu also reacted that Jue had already jumped down the mountain with a run.
Jing Qijun was already slim, and the wind on the battlefield did not blow through her delicate face, but added a lot of heroic spirit. After the reconstruction of Shuli Palace, she had personally come to Zongxi, wanting to see if the sword embryo that Fan Di was worried about was still there, and she didn't want to pounce, the old farmer Yuniu said that Yuchan took refuge with her uncle.
Zongguo rebuilt order under the protection of Jiang Wangshu, and took advantage of the beginning of spring, she specially rushed to Zongxi again to see if the girl named Yuchan had returned.
The surname is not married, and the family name is not noble or cheap; Women are called surnames, and men are called names; The noble have a surname, the food picker has a name, and the cheap have no surname and no name.
This is the rule set by Boqi, which runs through the era of etiquette and the era of overlords. The turbulent era lasted for a hundred years, and the order of people divided into three classes and nine orders was gone, and many inferior people rose, so the lowly also had a surname, but the first surname was not married, and the family name was still the same.
Jing Qijun only brought two young swordsmen from the palace, a man and a woman, and the three of them rode horses from Jiangcheng, and now they are trading in Bashan.
"Palace master, that Yuchan has been talking for a long time, and you have come to look for someone three times and twice, this pomp is really big enough." The woman's name is Jiang Yu'er, a native of Qiguo, who at first thought it was interesting and volunteered to come with Jing Qijun, but she suffered all the way and complained.
"Aren't going to see grandpa?" Jing Qijun replied.
"Palace Master, take a break." The man said.
Jing Qijun raised his eyebrows, and said as gently as possible: "I can't bear this bit of hardship, what should I do when I meet Chu people and Shu people?"
The man stopped making a noise and followed behind.
"Stop," Jue jumped out, stopped the three of them with a knife in his hand, tried to be as fierce as possible, and shouted, "I opened this road, I planted this tree, if you want to live from now on, leave to buy road money." ”
Jing Qijun has seen bandits, after the tiger of Ritan left, a nest of homeless people occupied Shangba and often did some stealing chickens and dogs, she went with Jiang Wangshu to exterminate them, but the bandits' nest was empty, leaving only seven or eight corpses. He had seen bandits, but he had never seen such a well-spoken bandit or even a bandit with such an elegant atmosphere, she seriously looked at the young bandit in front of her, who had changed greatly compared to back then, and asked, "Who are you from, playing such a boring trick here?"
Ah Wu has been hiding in the dark and has not appeared, he clutched the handle of the knife in his hand, calculating the odds in his heart.
The male swordsman who left the palace was called Wu Xu, who was already holding his breath, and stepped forward with his sword on his horse, wanting to punish him slightly.
Ah Wu still didn't move, Jue saw Wu Xu coming with a sword, restrained his slackness, and waited for a strict battle with a knife.
Jing Qijun was afraid that Wu Xu would injure this young man lightly, so he stopped Wu Xu's attack with a sword, and Wu Xu walked away angrily.
"If it weren't for the palace master stopping you......"
Wu Xu didn't finish his sentence, Ah Wu appeared behind him, the short knife lowered his heart, and said coldly: "If someone hadn't stopped you, you would already be a corpse."
Jing Qijun asked herself whether she was learning swords in the Huangli Palace or killing enemies on the battlefield, her vigilance had increased a lot, but she didn't notice where Ah Wu was lurking and how she appeared quietly.
Jue and Ah Wu are both heartless horns, Jue ignored Wu Xu, he felt that Jiang Yu'er was a little familiar, and asked with a teasing heart: "When will you marry me?"
Jiang Yu'er's face was slightly red, don't look over her head and stop looking at Jue.
"Childe, you recognized the wrong person." Ah Wu let go of Wu Xu and said with a bitter face.
Jue also felt that he was indeed out of shape, so he stepped aside and waved his hand to let the three of them go.
Jing Qijun didn't care about this farce, and Ah Wu's "son" dispelled his doubts even more, so the three of them continued to move forward.
"It's really disappointing, I haven't even seen a thin sheep," Jue Bai waited boredly for a long time, and suddenly sighed, "It's really difficult to be a bandit." ”
"Childe, it's because your heart is too soft," Ah Wu shouted with a bitter face, "You can't do it old people, you can't do it anymore, you can't do it when you meet a delicate girl." ”
Today, a total of five groups of people passed by, the first group was Jing Qijun and three people, Jue let go; The second group was an old man who came to look for relatives, and Jue also let it go; The third group is a family of three generations of grandchildren, and Jue let it go again; The fourth group was a woodcutter who was injured in a fall, and Jue still let it go; The last group was a caravan that had just passed, but Jue didn't dare to do it because there were too many people.
"Boring, call it a day." Jue went back to the Bashan grass house with his hands behind his back, and Ah Wu followed unhurriedly. wanted to be a serious bandit, but he failed on the first day.
"Ah Wu, Ah Wu." Jue caught a fat fish in Duruo Lake, this was the first time he caught a fish, and he was pleasantly surprised like a child.
Ah Wu appeared on the shore of the lake with a blank face, saying that he was dissatisfied with the robbery during the day.
"Ah Wu is angry?" Jue deliberately stiffened his face and said, "Ah Wu doesn't eat fish anymore?" ”
"Yes." Ah Wu was so hungry that he drooled, and his hairy hands and feet were fruitful, and he used a straw rope to pass through the gills of the fish.
"Ah Wu, why do you say there are fish in this lake?" Jue sent out a soul torture, the water source of Duruo Lake is the stream of Bashan, there are no fish, and it is very strange that there are fish in Duruo Lake alone.
Ah Wu thought for a moment and replied, "Because there is water, where there is water, there are fish."
Jue was choked by this answer that was not the answer, and his interest in fishing was gone, so he had to return to the grass hut.
"Ah Wu, that girl is so good-looking today." Jue suddenly remembered Jiang Yu'er, so he said.
"It's good-looking," Ah Wu naturally knew who Jue was talking about, he thought about it and said, "Childe, she can't marry you." ”
"Why?" Jue was a little angry.
"Because we don't have any money." Ah Wu spread out his hands and replied with a wry smile.
"I have to find a way to make money," Jue set a small goal for himself, and asked again, "Ah Wu, I seem to know her." ”
Ah Wu killed the fish, and there was a supper to eat tonight, and it was still a tender fish soup. Although he can't be a serious bandit, such a small life is really good.
"Ah Wu, have you listened?" Jue puffed up and asked, "Have I seen her?" ”
Ah Wu shook his head.
Seeing Ah Wudu shaking his head, Jue had no choice but to do it, he was thinking about how to make money, and he had the basic qualities of a serious bandit.