Chapter 128 Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger Bronze Drum City
The next morning, the small town of Tonggu County in the northwest of Jiangxi Province was more lively than yesterday, the three main streets and bridges and ferries were full of villagers rushing to the east of the city, occasionally there were groups of villagers beating gongs and drums, wearing red and hanging colors, in the festive gongs and drums to raise the flags of their villages, extremely proud to the east of the city of Shuaijiaba, attracting countless villagers to discuss and speculate.
Many villagers in the crowd who had watched yesterday's afternoon performance were excited, and their saliva splashed to describe the grand scene they saw: more than a dozen generals and captains came to the stage to salute the villagers, a general surnamed Jiang then announced the abolition of all excesses and miscellaneous taxes in Tonggu County, and the national political axe will soon send county officials to Tonggu to lead the people to develop production, and several knowledgeable old masters in the city are saying that this general surnamed Jiang is likely to be the younger brother of the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army with hundreds of thousands of horses, which is enough to see the importance that the national political axe attaches to our copper drum; Also, the two old opera troupes that have not appeared for many years have come up with the repertoire at the bottom of the box, and the blowing, playing, singing, and singing are very enjoyable...... In the middle of the performance, more than 100 officers and men of the "model battalion" of the revolutionary army rushed to the river beach for training shouting trumpets...... What is Model Camp? Don't you even know the old watch? It's the army that built one or two roads east of the city in half a morning, smooth and sturdy! I heard that the three words "model battalion" were personally sealed by the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army, Jiang, and his reputation for his repeated exploits in the Northern Expedition was well-known...... They are neat and in unison, the guys on their bodies are black and bright, more than 100 people are majestic, the other 30 officers and soldiers rushed out, raised their guns at the foot of the mountain on the other side of the river, a round of gunshots, 100 meters away clay pots were all broken, on the spot to stop the heroes of all walks of life, originally wanted to go to the stage to compete for the 500 oceans of the green forest all lost their courage; Before the end of the performance, a tall officer with a white belt with an injured arm came to the stage and loudly announced that starting tomorrow morning, the revolutionary army would show off one by one, and immediately let thousands of people cheer and applaud, and all the birds and sparrows on Dawei Mountain behind him were frightened away...... At the ferry in the city, there are a few sturdy men with calm faces and drifting eyes in the bustling crowd, and a group of people squatting on the stone slabs on the bank of the river smoking dry tobacco, no different from the surrounding villagers, it seems that they want to take a break and then rush to Shuaijiaba to see the excitement.
After a while, a sturdy young man in a short jacket and barefoot crowded into the crowd, took the cigarette pouch handed by the brother to the side, took a few puffs, and turned to the twenty-three or four-year-old man with a square face and a broad mouth.
The thick-eyebrowed man's eyes sparkled and looked quite arrogant: "Little Bean, can you see clearly?" ”
"See clearly, Qiping, Gaoqiao, Xianglu Pit, Xianren Cave, Huangti Temple, Daxian Temple, Hejiawan and other cottage heads are all dispatched, and the younger brother listened to the fourth child of Mengziling, and the third Lai of Yifeng is also floating in our Tonggu County."
The clever young man known as Xiaodouzi thought for a while and asked: "Second brother, this revolutionary army has set up sentry roadblocks inside and outside the city, but they don't search our bodies at all, and they easily let us in, will there be fraud here?" ”
The thick-eyebrow man snorted, and ordered the brothers to disperse to Shuaijiaba and contact the brothers from all walks of life, to see which boss planned to compete on stage this afternoon, and when the more than ten brothers dispersed, he tightened the wide cow belt around his waist in his short jacket, stood up and took Xiaodouzi and turned into the street and walked east.
The two walked to a butcher's shop and stopped, walked up to the sturdy butcher in the meat case, and whispered like a normal greeting between old acquaintances.
The butcher glanced around vigilantly, put down the cleaver more than a foot long and said in a low voice: "This group of revolutionary troops is very talkative, and different from those old troops who carry guys to grab Lao Tzu's pork, yesterday morning two officers of about thirty came to me with short guys on their backs to buy two pork, and after that, they paid me a lot of cash, and the officer surnamed Han also gave me a good cigarette made by foreigners, and told me to buy meat today, and let me slaughter three more pigs."
His elder brother made my family busy with a word, and finally bought three heads from Tang Jiacao in the west of the city to the house and was busy until the sky was dark, and I couldn't see the singing drama and the practice of the revolutionary army model camp in the afternoon yesterday, my mother-in-law scolded Lao Tzu for this all night, and my mother-in-law did not want to work after killing four pigs before dawn, and led my mother and children and nephews to a group of people, and ran to Shuaijiaba to see the revolutionary army after picking up two mouthfuls of breakfast.
I was planning to wait for the revolutionary army to carry away a few pigs to take a look, I heard that the model battalion performed a unique performance today, our five hundred brothers in Yangjiazhai have been wandering around this hundred and eighty miles for more than ten years, and have never seen the army outside show their true skills, unlike the second master, you have followed Master Zhou since you were a child and had the opportunity to travel to the three mountains and five mountains everywhere to meet friends with martial arts, and play all over the outside world of flowers, brother, I really don't know what new things are in this model camp that builds roads and repairs very well, it's a pity not to see it! ”
The young second brother Gu smiled slightly: "Where the army is the same as the fuck, eating, drinking, gambling, and doing all kinds of evil, Lao Tzu can't get used to those dogs saying that the army is doing things, otherwise where will he kill six officers and soldiers on the ground in Xiangxi and cause fire, and finally be forced to return to his hometown to go up the mountains and fall into the grass?" Lao He, don't think too highly of this bullshit army, no one is afraid of the real Lao Tzu, no one cares if the fucking model is not exemplary, provoke Lao Tzu to beat him up like the dog, haha! ”
The three of them laughed, but the old Han Tou of the model camp led more than a dozen brothers from the logistics squad to arrive at this time, and the two brothers behind them led two variegated pack horses with shelves, obviously buying pork according to the agreement.
Gu Lao Er and his assistant Dou Fang quietly took two steps back and stood between the butcher shop and the aisle, and Butcher He hurriedly greeted him.
Old Han Tou instructed his two soldiers to help raise the scale, and together with Butcher He, he carefully weighed eight pork, and immediately took out Dayang to settle the account, and sure enough, he paid in full for a lot of money, and ordered the brothers to move the pork to the horse, and took out a bag of foreign cigarettes as yesterday and smoked three sticks and distributed them to Butcher He and Gu Laoer, who did not know him, and politely told Butcher He to come to buy it tomorrow, and it was best to kill eight pigs, otherwise the brothers would not have enough to eat.
Butcher He, who usually only kills one pig in three days, was very excited when he saw this big deal, and when he saw that Lao Hantou was so honest and so good at talking, he was grateful and hurriedly ran back to the house to bring back a basket, and gave half a basket of pork belly, pork liver, and seven-inch large intestine to Lao Hantou.
Old Han Tou was very happy to see such a good pork belly fat sausage, and said that his battalion commander hadn't eaten Sichuan-style fat sausage for a long time, thanked him vigorously, and took out a pack of foreign cigarettes and stuffed it into the greasy trouser pocket of Butcher He, and ordered his brothers to put on horseback and was about to leave, when he was suddenly stopped by a loud voice on the road.
"Old Han, what good things did you buy today?"
An Yi, who hung his left arm with a dirty white belt, rode on the back of a tall black horse, and his beard rode on an equally tall jujube red horse.
Old Han Tou hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Report to the battalion commander, Deputy Hu Ying, there are good things today, and tonight the commanders will definitely be able to eat a few Sichuan-style roasted stews under them." ”
An Yi laughed: "Okay, I'll give you a cup tonight, haha!" ”
The bearded pair of cold eyes didn't seem to see everything else at all, but coldly covered Gu Lao'er's whole body under the low shed of the meat stall and took a closer look.
Gu Laoer, who originally wanted to leave, suddenly felt a chill in his heart, he knew that he had met a strong enemy, this kind of chilling feeling had not been a few times in his life, once when he was seventeen years old, he was found by the master to have an affair with the daughter of the squire who was about to marry, and he experienced it from the angry master, and the other time was felt from the battalion commander when he killed the local garrison battalion commander in Shishou in Xiangxi a year and a half ago, but this time the internal reflection was by no means the same, colder, more intense, and more weird, The increasingly heavy sense of oppression made Gu Laoer, who was young and had stunts, dare not take a step. He withdrew his raised left foot and slowly lowered it, leaned sideways and slowly raised his head, his sparkling eyes through the long hair covering his eyes, first glanced at the scabbard and grip of the dark green seven-star treasure knife hanging on the side of the jujube red horse, and finally looked at the beard without timidity.
When An Yi saw such a scene, he immediately remembered Hu Zi's introduction, and in surprise, a pair of bright eyes instantly locked Butcher He, whose face turned pale, and Xiao Douzi, who was standing motionless behind, and finally turned his gaze to Gu Laoer's face.
After taking a closer look, An Yi felt that this young man of the same age as himself and of medium stature was powerful and unyielding, with a slightly hooked high nose and a pair of slender Danfeng eyes that were cold and keen, and the two wide palms naturally hung down, and the calluses on the tiger's mouth and thumb and index finger on his hands made An Yi secretly frightened, and immediately realized that this young man who could still be neither humble nor arrogant under the forced gaze of his beard was not only a martial arts master, but also good at double guns.
Seeing such a scene, An Yi and the four police platoon brothers behind Hu Zi secretly clenched their machine guns, concentrating on vigilance and preparing to strike at any time, who knew that Hu Zi raised his legs and dismounted in a blink of an eye, and walked two steps in front of Gu Lao Er: "This brother, what are you doing?" ”
"Meat sellers."
Gu Lao Er felt that the pressure on his body had been greatly reduced, and he coldly replied to his beard.
Beard nodded and walked to Lao Hantou's side, raised his hand and easily lifted a fan of pork on horseback, and slammed it onto the meat table three meters away: "Since you are a meat seller, please remove the ribs on this meat." ”
Gu Lao Er saw that the beard was so easy to throw the hundred-pound half of the pig to the meat bank, the middle of the half of the pig just stopped in front of the tip of the knife inserted by Butcher He on the case, he secretly admired but did not show weakness in his heart, he walked to the meat case in two steps and pulled out a wide meat cleaver, lifted the pork spine with his right hand and turned it over suddenly, and before the swaying half of the pork stopped swinging, his left hand waved the knife out, and a complete piece of pork ribs was evenly separated in three or two strokes.
Hu Zi was secretly surprised, with a slight smile on his face, he said politely to Gu Lao Er with both hands clasped into his fists: "I am fortunate to be able to see the Five Tiger Soul Breaking Sword skills of the Huaibei Zhou family in the mountain city south of the Yangtze River!" It shows that the thousand-year-old bronze drum hides the dragon and crouching tiger, if this brother has Yaxing, please go to the Shuaijiaba model camp in the east of the city, and Hu Jialin, a disciple of Cangzhou Bagua Gate, will definitely prepare a thin wine and sweep the couch to welcome! ”
Gu Lao Er watched in surprise as Hu Zi turned around and got on the horse and left with An Yi, who was happy to laugh at the house, and was speechless for a while.
Xiao Douzi, who was extremely shocked, stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Second brother, how could that skinny-faced bearded man just now know that our martial arts are the Five Tigers Soul Breaking Knife?" And just call out our master from Huaibei Zhou Shizu? ”
Gu Lao Er sighed: "Little Bean, we have met a master...... I can't imagine that there is such a master in this revolutionary army, big brother, I underestimate the heroes of the world, last year's teacher's deathbed warning is right! ”
"Then should we go to Shuaijiaba?" Dou Fang asked anxiously.
Gu Lao Er nodded resolutely: "Go!" Why not? Lao Tzu wants to see what makes this model camp special. ”
(To be continued)