Chapter 22 Good Hardship Seeking Skills
As soon as the door closed, Zhong Wuregret did not panic. He believed that he had hidden fighting knives and throwing knives in his robe, and in case of danger, he still had the ability to fight to the death.
The eight flying knives that have just been completed are placed in front of Zhong Wuregret, and each knife is a genuine boutique.
"Is the guest officer still satisfied?" The old blacksmith asked.
"I didn't get a closer look, but after a cursory look, I was quite satisfied." The old blacksmith didn't let him get his hands on the throwing knife. Zhong Wuregret secretly showed dissatisfaction,
The old blacksmith didn't seem to care about Zhong's unrepentant attitude, and continued: "In addition to the throwing knife, I also want to give the guest officer a gift. As he spoke, the old blacksmith beckoned. A strong man handed over a long baggage, and as soon as the burden was opened, a long sword was placed in front of Zhong Wuregret.
The sword body was faintly clouded, and under the light of the fire, the dark blue brilliance overflowed on the sword body.
Zhong Wuregret couldn't believe his eyes, in the Bronze Age, a steel sword actually appeared, teaching him how not to be excited. But he estimated that the main owner of the Doufu Golden Order had arrived in front of him, and he was not careless at all.
"The guest officer will see if the sword fits." At the signal of the old blacksmith, the strong man handed the long sword to Zhong Wuregret.
At this time, another strong man held Changge in his hand and aimed his head at Zhong Wuregret's throat.
"Slash!" The old blacksmith didn't talk nonsense.
Zhong Wuregret slashed at Ge with his sword. The head of the sword was immediately decided, but the sword was unscathed.
"Extraordinary things are given, and there must be extraordinary things to ask for, right." Zhong Wuregret held the sword, and said with his hand on the cloud pattern on the body of the sword.
The old blacksmith nodded approvingly, and said, "The guest officer is smart and agile, which is really rare in my life, so we can avoid a lot of unnecessary nonsense." ”
"Please." Zhong has no regrets and doesn't say much.
The old blacksmith beckoned, and a young girl appeared beside him, and Zhong Wuregret's eyes lit up. I saw her dressed in a strong suit, a pretty face as beautiful as a flower moon, full of frost, and a chilling atmosphere, which made people shudder.
"This is my righteous daughter, named Doulan, the guest officer is willing to show the skill of throwing a knife first, so that she can open her eyes." The old blacksmith said.
Zhong Wuregret saw the corners of Doulan's disdainful lips, and the contempt of the beautiful woman hurt his self-esteem greatly. With a surge of blood, he said casually: "What's so difficult about that." As soon as the words came out, I immediately felt too impulsive. There is no way, the words spoken, the water spilled, he can only perform hard.
He asked the strong man to bring a wooden plank, drew a small circle on it, and erected it on the wall, and then walked outside, picked up the flying knife, "swished", and three in succession went straight into the bull's-eye, and the people in the room, including the old blacksmith, were stunned. However, Zhong Wuregret's favorite thing to watch is the surprise of Doulan's beauty.
The old blacksmith man was extremely excited, and kept saying, "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect there to be such a miracle in the world." ”
He immediately said: "The guest officer asked me to fight this knife, I expected that the guest officer must have a miraculous skill, but I didn't expect that there would be such a world-class sword skill in the world." ”
"It should be said that I don't call this a knife skill, but a hidden weapon skill." Zhong Wuregret said.
"Hidden weapon?" The old blacksmith was stunned for a moment, and said to himself, "Hidden weapon? That's great. Value! With a wave of his hand, only torches were left in the scene, and all the strong men disappeared into the darkness.
"What I ask the guest officer is to pass on this magic skill to my righteous daughter Doulan, how about it?"
"Such a small matter, but it takes such a lot of trouble, is there some trickery in the middle?" Zhong Wuregret secretly guessed.
In fact, he was too worried, as a modern person, he felt that there was nothing to do, and at that time, the so-called stunts and stunts were priceless treasures, and even the secret skills in the family that made a living were passed on to men and women, let alone to outsiders, so the old blacksmith would be so cautious and give a big gift.
But he thought about it again, and the big tree next to Doufu would be of great benefit to his life in the county, so he agreed.
The old blacksmith suppressed the joy in his heart and said cautiously, "Since you have agreed to my request, can you let us see your true face now?" ”
"It's not the right thing, it's not the right person, just do it well, why bother to see the real face?" Zhong Wuregret politely refused.
He was outwardly careless, but in fact he was fully guarded. You must know that the sword in front of Zhong Wuregret can be described as a divine weapon, even the princes of various countries may not have this kind of sword. The weirder things go, the more vigilant he becomes.
"I've already given enough face to the guest officer, so now I can't blame me." The old blacksmith man sighed and waved his hand.
A powerful dark force lifted Zhong Wuregret's hat.
Suddenly, all three of them were stunned.
"Whore, take your life!" With a coquettish shout, the young girl swung her sword and stabbed Zhong Wuregret.
Before Zhong Wuregret could make a move, the old blacksmith flicked away the young girl's sword with one hand, and grabbed Zhong Wuregret in his hand with the other.
Zhong Wuregret thought that he was so vigorous, but before he could react, he was captured. He only smiled bitterly: "Why are you so old-fashioned, call you a thief, and look at the sword again!" ”
The old blacksmith also felt very strange about Zhong Wuregret's composure, and he stared at Zhong Wuregret and stopped the young girl from further assassinating Zhong Wuregret.
At the end, the old blacksmith man sighed and asked, "Are you the famous thief of the Chu State?" ”
Zhong Wuregret said confidently: "If you find a beautiful lady, you will be called a thief, won't everyone in the world be a thief!" ”
The young girl's silver teeth clenched: "Nonsense, if it weren't for you, a thief, to deceive my sister, how could my sister ......", speaking of this, she was already teary-eyed.
Looking at the old blacksmith again, his expression was also gloomy.
Zhong Wuregret didn't dare to make a mistake this time, he said to the old man blacksmith: "Don't hide it from your old man, we're 'Luming Garden' originally came to Chu from Chen to avoid trouble, and I also lived with my father in the mountains for more than ten years, until my father unfortunately died, I went out of the mountain alone, not to mention knowing this young lady's sister, even this county is also the first time to step in, I think there may be some misunderstanding in the middle, please forgive the old man!" ”
"You whore thief don't want to deceive my father-in-law, when you lied to my sister, you ran to my house twice a day, but after my sister had your child, you left my sister to find a new love, but my sister felt that she had no face to see people, so she looked for a short time, you whore thief, turned to ashes, I know you! Still want to be cunning? The young girl gritted her teeth and said, it seems that if it weren't for the old blacksmith to stop her, this young girl might really want to stab a hundred swords and thousands of holes in Zhong Wuregret's body before she was willing.
"If I tell a lie, heaven and earth will be destroyed! This should be okay, right? Zhong Wu was in a hurry, and remembered the trick of swearing, he took advantage of the characteristics of the Chu people to worship ghosts and gods and renew the oath, and tried and tested it again and again.
Sure enough, hearing Zhong Wuregret's heavy oath, the old blacksmith also began to wonder if the young girl had recognized the wrong person, he let go of Zhong Wuregret and said to Doulan: "Let your sister's go in advance, after all, the family hatred is greater than the family hatred." If he is really the thief who harmed your sister, as long as he can help us avenge it, don't mention it again. ”
Looking at the resolute attitude of the old blacksmith, Doulan felt hopeless for revenge, and couldn't help shedding two lines of tears, with a sad look, even Zhong Wuregret felt sour in his heart.
He knew that in that era, women were not included in the category of people, they were just playthings, tools, if for the sake of the family's interests, they could not let go of their private thoughts, and they would inevitably be tolerated by the family. With bitter hatred in his heart, he must be calm in the face of the enemy, and the pain in his heart can be imagined.
Zhong Wuregret looked at the young girl and comforted: "Little sister, I really don't know about your sister, if I run into the lewd thief you said, I will definitely cut him with a thousand knives and avenge your sister." ”
He doesn't believe it himself, but he is very complacent, the beauty of a woman lies in being stupid without regrets, and the beauty of a man is in lying and telling a day. The shell of his body is obviously the thief, what are you talking about?
The old blacksmith said to Zhong Wuregret, "I said that the past will pass when it is past. ”
Zhong Wuregret asked rhetorically: "The old man is the one who used the Doufu Golden Order to relieve me from the siege, right?" ”
The old blacksmith was silent.
After the two sat down, the old blacksmith asked tentatively, "You made all this thing with your own thoughts?" ”
Zhong Wuregret nodded.
The old blacksmith man suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, and kept saying, "As expected, it was as I expected." Then he looked at Zhong Wuregret and said, "Do you know who I am? To tell you the truth, I am Doubo's brother. ”
"Doubo?" Zhong Wuregret was taken aback. Dou Bo, literally, was originally the father of King Mu who is now in power - Ling Yin of King Chu Cheng, who is the former premier of the State Council.
"Yes, my younger brother Dou Bo is loyal to the Chu State, just because he offended his father and rebel because of the establishment of the crown prince, and the current king, King Mu and Shangchen, he designed to kill my younger brother."
Zhong Wuregret knows this history, during the period of becoming a king, the older merchant ministers had a lot of scheming compared with other royal brothers. He often used jewels such as pearls and jade rings to buy off the close ministers around King Cheng to find out the news in the palace, and asked them to speak well for himself, and he took the opportunity to enter the palace to ask for peace, and behaved very diligently and respectfully in front of King Chu Cheng.
However, Dou Bo objected to the position of the heir of Chu Jun, the establishment of a young man and not a long one, and the rules of the ancestors, as well as the appearance of the merchants, the sound of bee eyes and jackals, the cruel temperament, and the insidious and cunning, which aroused the murderous intentions of the merchants.
Shang Chen took advantage of the death of a generation of overlord Jin Wengong, Xu and Cai, the two princely states surnamed Ji in the Central Plains, rebelled against Jin and attached to Chu, and when the Chu army and the Jin army were opposed, they were slandered and accepted bribes from the enemy country and retreated without a fight.
King Cheng was furious and sent someone to send a sword to Dou Bo and told him to commit suicide. Dou Bo wanted to enter the palace to plead, but was blocked by the merchant at the palace gate. Asking to see him, Dou Bo couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed: "Dou Bo is loyal, but he can show the sun and the moon, but today he can't see the king." The prince resents me, all caused by the heir. The cruel nature of this is evident today. "Draw your sword and kill yourself.
Soon, the merchant killed his father, killed King Cheng, and told the ministers that King Cheng of Chu died of a violent illness and established himself as King Mu.
The old blacksmith said fiercely: "After the death of Dou Bo, Shang Chen did not greatly reduce his hatred, and on the second night of his self-establishment as King Mu, he dispatched the palace guard Tiger Ben, pretending to be a robber, and killed all 327 people of the Dou Bo clan, leaving only the two youngest daughters brought by the nurse. ”
Speaking of this, the young girl couldn't cry anymore. Not to mention Zhong Wuregret, he also understands that the young girl in front of him must be one of the daughters.
"Her name is Doulan." The old blacksmith pointed to the young girl and said.
"Iniquity!" The old blacksmith man continued: "Doulan's mother is Dou Bo's favorite beauty, and she is all good at piano, se, singing, and dancing. Dou Bo has always put state affairs first, and he will not become a king for such a trivial matter.
On the night of the destruction of Doufu, Doulan's mother was robbed into the palace, and the merchant wanted to take her in the palace as a singer, but Doulan's mother refused. Shang Chen hated her old affection for Dou Bo, and after insulting her in every way, he cut off her tongue, tortured her feet, and chopped off her two kneecaps with a knife. Then, stripping her naked, leading her in chains, crawling through the case of the courtier's banquet, anyone could stuff a piece of meat in her mouth and pour a glass of wine. ”
There was silence for a long time before the old blacksmith spoke: "It was not until she managed to commit suicide that this humiliating life ended." ”
Doulan had already cried into tears.
"I've been thinking hard about revenge, but there is no way, I dismissed all the people in the house, went incognito, worked as a craftsman myself, and wanted to create a magic weapon to assassinate the traitor, but how many times I survived the summer and winter, and finally achieved nothing, until the guest officer taught me, this was the wish.
From the short knife that the guest officer asked me to fight, I fell in love with the guest officer's knife throwing skills.
The old blacksmith was very excited, and said: "Although Doulan has learned my martial arts, although I have a sword and a sharp weapon, it is difficult to get close to the sword alone.
If she has the skill of throwing knives and hides in her body, she can pretend to be a dancing queen and assassinate the merchant at the palace banquet, and the great revenge will be avenged. I've said it all, do you help me or not? ”
After that, the old blacksmith stared at Zhong Wuregret, and Zhong Wuregret felt that the murderous aura on his body was getting heavier and heavier, and there was an almost suffocating feeling.