Chapter 57: The Mysterious Old Man
As early as last autumn, there were rumors that Jiang Dadao, the magistrate of the county, was going to use a lot of money to hire a head of the forbidden army with the word 'day' to teach martial arts in the county. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Li Yanqing smiled and said nothing, he knew that it was true, it must be Zhou Tong who was coming.
Wang Gui was the first to jump up and shouted, "Is it true or is it a rumor?" ”
"It's my dad who said it, he just came back from the county, and said that the school has been announced."
Li Er's father, Li Zhen, took over the position of Li Wengui's Du Baozheng last year, and his words will certainly not be groundless, Wang Gui's! The ground cheered, Tang Huai shook his fan and said: "People are teaching county studies, not us, what are you excited about?" ”
Li Yanqing quipped: "Didn't Lao Gui be ruthless just now?" You have to hang a rope around your neck and stick a needle in your buttocks, you will definitely be able to get into the county school, you're expensive, isn't it? ”
Yue Fei took out a sewing needle from the table and handed it to Wang Gui seriously, "I happen to have a needle here." ”
There was laughter in the school room, but Wang Gui was not angry, and still said triumphantly: "I'm not afraid of your jealousy, my grandfather has already visited Jiang Zhixian, and Jiang Zhixian personally promised to let me enter the school without examination, what do you think?" ”
The more than 20 students in the school who were preparing for the exam were all exclaimed, and everyone was envious, but Tang Huai pouted and said: "If you don't take the county exam, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army will look up to you?" We all worship the head of the forbidden army as a teacher, and you are still sharpening the knife with the old beetle, and you are in a hurry to die! ”
Tang Huai's words suddenly added a little worry to Wang Guiping, although martial arts is a compulsory subject for county learning, but Jiang Dadao is also flexible, and spending money to study in the county can not be tested for martial arts, but ..... The person sitting on the main examination seat must have the head of the forbidden army, and if he did not pass the eye during the county examination, will the head of the forbidden army look at himself in the future?
Li Yanqing patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "So! It's not okay to steal tricks, or go to a martial arts test, you should have no problem. ”
Wang Gui was suddenly deflated, sat down listlessly, and had no words to talk about, and everyone began to do their homework quietly.
The county school examination will be carried out on the fifth day of February ten days later, after so many years, everyone knows the roots, the exam itself is not difficult, it is to test the "Analects", "Mencius" and "Filial Piety" three articles, test the understanding of students, only to memorize these three articles backwards, and then do the questions of the county school examination several times over the years, the problem of knowledge is not big, it is rare to be calligraphy, the county school examination has higher requirements for calligraphy, if you can't pass the test, it must be calligraphy has not passed.
As for martial arts, in fact, Jiang Dadao is still quite humane, as long as the body is strong, run five laps along the county school wall in a stick of incense, and then lift fifty pounds and shoot ten arrows, it will be considered a pass.
Therefore, the key to the county examination is calligraphy, on the eve of the exam, everyone practiced calligraphy hard, the room was very quiet, only a rustle of writing was heard.
In the past five years, Li Yanqing's calligraphy has been from the initial upright and beautiful, began to copy everyone's development, the Northern Song Dynasty popular 'Su, Huang, Mi, Cai' four major calligraphy, was copied the most, Li Yanqing is especially good at writing calligraphy, he learned Yan Zhenqing's atmosphere, and learn Su Dongpo's beauty and refinement, and then practice Huang Tingjian and Mi Fu's calligraphy, the more the word is written, the better, even his father Li Daqi and Master Yao Ding are a little ashamed.
It is precisely because of his excellent calligraphy that his father Li Daqi wants him to go directly to the exam, in comparison, Yue Fei's calligraphy is a little worse, but he is only a little less charming than Li Yanqing's calligraphy, and his basic skills are as solid, second only to Li Yanqing in Lushan School.
was writing quietly, Li Yanqing suddenly had a note on his desk, Li Yanqing opened it, and it was actually written by Wang Gui, asking him to compete by the river after school.
In the past five years, they have not given up learning martial arts while studying, with the development of their bodies, each of their specialties has gradually been revealed, Li Yanqing still retains the talent of fast, he will Uncle Hu left a book of swordsmanship for himself to practice like fire, out of the sword like electricity, incomparably fast, followed by the stunt of hitting the stone with one hand, within seven zhang of a hundred shots.
However, in terms of strength, Li Yanqing is not as good as Yue Fei, Yue Fei is born with divine power, and he walks a fierce way, which is quite a bit of Uncle Hu's momentum back then.
Among the four, Tang Huai likes to practice light exercises, he is the oldest, but he is the shortest, and his body is the fastest and flexible, while Wang Gui's characteristics are miscellaneous, he knows a little about everything, but he is not good at anything, and he even learned to beat stones from Li Yanqing, but his talent is limited, and his head is limited to one zhang.
Li Yanqing smiled, wrote a 'quasi' word on the paper, and crumpled the note, Wang Guixi raised his eyebrows, he had practiced a set of whipping methods in the past six months, and he wanted to try his skills with Li Yanqing.
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After school in the afternoon, the four of them crossed the official road and came to the Tang River behind the store, which was also the place where Li Yanqing competed with Wang Gui for the first time, there was a large lawn by the river, the air was filled with a warm atmosphere, the willow branches had given birth to a little green shoots, the river had just thawed, there were few boats in the river, there was a passenger boat moored by the river, the boatman went to buy things temporarily, the boatman was an old man, standing on the bow of the boat with his negative hand looking at the new shoots on the willow branches.
"We're ready to go!"
Wang Gui was very excited, holding a wooden whip and moving his muscles and bones, but it looked like a monkey jumping and jumping in place, he learned a set of clever whip techniques from the martial artist half a year ago, and he had long been eager to compete with Li Yanqing again.
"You two testify, I want to fight Lao Li!"
Wang Gui pulled out a posture, a little like the bright wings of a white crane, and a little bit of Huang Feihong's charm, his palm slightly bent to Li Yanqing and beckoned, but Li Yanqing stood casually with a wooden knife, looking at Wang Gui's appearance with a smile.
The other two referees didn't do a good job, Tang Huai shook his folding fan, so he recited a few Fengyue words of Liu Sanchang elegantly, he had never been interested in words, but since he had this folding fan, he actually memorized hundreds of Fengyue words.
Yue Fei was also distracted, chewing on the grass stems in his mouth, looking at Tang He in a daze, he was thinking about his future, whether to go to the state school to continue his studies, or to go to Xiangzhou with Li Yanqing at the end of the year to try to take the test?
Wang Gui felt that he had been snubbed, and he shouted to Li Yanqing as if he was ruthless: "This time is different from usual, if you don't take it seriously, don't cry when you get beaten later." ”
"Just let the horses come!"
Li Yanqing shouted, this sentence attracted the attention of the old man at the bow of the boat, he turned his head to look at Li Yanqing, and found that it was several teenagers who were competing, and couldn't help but feel a little interested.
"Then you're welcome!"
Wang Gui shouted, and the whip began to dance wildly, as if he had three heads and six arms, and rushed towards Li Yanqing while dancing, dancing in a chaotic manner, but it was quite orderly when you looked closely.
This is the whip method of Lu Wushi of Wang Gui's nursing home, he is ready to resign and return to his hometown of the Daimyo's Mansion, so he has taught Wang Gui several sets of real kung fu for the sake of the Wang family's treatment of him over the years, and this set of whip methods is one of them.
It's just that Wang Gui has only been practicing for a few months, and he has not yet fully comprehended the subtlety of the whip method, so he only has its appearance, and lacks a little charm.
The old man on the boat nodded, this young man's whip method is a bit interesting, chaotic but not mixed, it is a famous whip method of the Lu family in the Daimyo Mansion, which is rarely passed on, and it was actually used by a teenager in Tangyin County, it seems that the small Tangyin County still hides the dragon and the crouching tiger.
Li Yanqing didn't move at all, Wang Gui was about to get closer, he suddenly laughed, his body flashed, his body was as fast as lightning, and he stabbed Wang Gui's left shoulder with a sword.
"Good swordsmanship!"
The old man on the bow of the boat exclaimed, causing the four of them to turn around together, only then did they notice that there was an old man standing on the boat.
The old man saw very clearly, Li Yanqing's sword was simple and unremarkable, there was nothing fancy, and with lightning speed, it became extremely powerful, even ordinary martial artists would never be able to use such a swordsmanship, this was already a swordsmanship that simplified the complex.
The old man was a little stunned for a while, he couldn't have imagined that he had actually seen such a clever swordsmanship in Tangyin County, and it was from the hands of a young man.
Wang Gui's face was as ashamed as a red cloth, and Master Lu told him that he could beat the invincible opponents of the young people in Tangyin County with this whipping method, which made him excited for several nights and didn't sleep well, but he didn't expect to be broken by Li Yanqing for the first time.
Wang Gui was ashamed and annoyed, threw the wooden whip to the ground fiercely, and scolded: "What bullshit master, he is a liar, if he dares to come again, a rope will tie him to see the official!" ”
At this time, the old man stepped off the boat, picked up the wooden whip on the ground and handed it to Wang Gui and said with a smile: "You don't have to be angry, your whip method is actually very good, it is the pressure box treasure of the Lu family of the Daimyo Mansion, and it is rarely passed on to outsiders, you just make it unskilled, practice for a few more years, and you can block the sword just now." ”
Only then did Li Yanqing and the others realize that the old man's figure was extremely tall, and he didn't see it on the boat just now, but now he was standing in front of them like a half-cut iron tower, especially a pair of arms that were extremely majestic.
Wang Gui was overwhelmed by the other party's momentum, and was surprised that the other party actually knew the Lu whip method, he whispered: "You.... How do you know? ”
The old man smiled, and said to Li Yanqing: "I can't see the origin of your sword, but it must have been summed up from thousands of tempers on the battlefield, it is a killing technique, and you need to be cautious when using it in the future, especially when holding a real sword, don't easily use this sword technique to your friends, it will be injured by mistake." ”
Li Yanqing hurriedly bowed down and said, "The words of the old man Jin Yu are remembered by Li Yanqing. ”
"Your name is Li Yanqing?"
"Exactly! We are students of Lushan Academy, these are my classmates and friends, Yue Fei, Wang Gui and Tang Huai, please give me more advice in the future. ”
Li Yanqing introduced the four friends to the old man, and the three of them hurriedly saluted, and the old man nodded, "They are all good talents, and we will meet again when we have the opportunity in the future." ”
At this time, the boatman came back from shopping, and he greeted with a smile: "Master Zhou, we are leaving!" ”
The old man got on the boat and waved his hand to everyone, and the boat left the shore and headed for Tangyin County in the north.
"Who is this old man, he actually knows my Lu whip method." Wang Gui was still very surprised.
Li Yanqing smiled faintly, "If I guessed correctly, he is the new head of the forbidden army in the county." ”
"How do you know?" The three of them asked in unison.
Li Yanqing didn't answer, but his heart was like a mirror, this figure, surnamed Zhou, who would be Zhou Tong if he wasn't an iron arm?