Chapter 22: The First of the Nine Knives
Although she hired two carriages, Shan Chixia asked the two coachmen to catch one together, and specially told the two coachmen to be careful not to bump easily, the two coachmen were rewarded with an additional 200 yuan, and the second was to drive a car by two people, which was much easier invisibly, patting her chest and agreeing, saying that the old housekeeper can rest assured, both of us are more than 20 years old, and we will never upset your family.
The road from Shuntianfu to Tianjin Sanwei is repaired by the imperial court every few years, and the road is very easy to walk, but even so, more than two hundred miles, it is not a day to arrive, Shan Sinan has a child's surname, no homesickness, pestering Zheng Guofan to ride the pony for himself, this horse is a horse, the surname is extremely docile, he happily rode on the official road to run back and forth, Zheng Guofan sat in the carriage and watched him ride back and forth, right to be a fun, smile and look.
It was the old housekeeper Shan who scolded his son, afraid that he would hurt the horse's foot strength, Shan Sinan was scolded by Lao Tzu, obediently pulled the reins and slowed down, and walked slowly next to the carriage outside Father Zheng Yuan.
After scolding Shan Sinan, Shan Chixia talked to Zheng Guofan while driving the carriage, but she told the obedient officials about her many years of experience in walking outside, and a way to say that it is to teach the experience of walking the rivers and lakes, such as where you can live in a sharp store, and where even if there is a store, you must not live in a sharp store.
Although the Ming Dynasty is rich, it is by no means a country of gentlemen who do not leave no stone unturned, such a vast centralized country, a Kyoto official appointed to the place, it is likely to walk thousands of miles, and it is not uncommon to encounter robbers who block the road and rob them, and it is not uncommon for a black shop to make human meat buns.
This kind of thing is really not an uncommon thing in the Ming Dynasty, and what is even more absurd is that in the history that can be checked, there were robbers who killed the official master and pretended to go to office, and as a result, the head of the local government was the way, and he was also assessed by the official as a "superior", which is equivalent to being the mayor in later generations to take the lead in getting rich and being called on by the central government to learn like this.
Look, it's so dangerous for even an official to take office, let alone the common people?
Therefore, this experience in the rivers and lakes is a must, for example, between the poor mountains and bad waters, there is suddenly an inn, which can live or not, just between the two, if you live in it, maybe the next day will be made into human meat buns.
Shan Chixia broke these experiences and crumpled them, and told them in detail to the good official, but the good official listened to them with relish, talking and talking, and at noon, there was a small shop with a sharp tip just around the corner in front of him.
The old butler shook the reins, drove the carriage to the side of the road, and said to the obedient officer next to him, "In such a place, it is better to stop for a while, first, to replenish dry food and drink, and second, to sit down and see if anyone will follow you." ”
Hearing this, the obedient official nodded again and again, isn't this the number of anti-reconnaissance tracking in later generations, just like in those movies, anti-tracking often has to stop at the door of a hypermarket or something with a lot of people, look at it naturally, and then take advantage of the flow of people to slip away.
You must know that his girlfriend who has been dating for seven years is a police flower, and he was nicknamed the first family member of the police community in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River by his girlfriend's colleagues, why? In order to chase his girlfriend, he practiced Aikido to the level of the second dan of the black belt, you say, a guy who is also a literati who eats by writing, and he runs to practice Aikido every day in order to pick up girls, and he actually got a black belt in three years and two black belts in five years, and it is not an exaggeration to praise him as the first family member in the police world.
Of course, the consequence of soaking the police flower is that if the author of the same publishing house invites him out to drink flower wine, he has to be like an underground party joint, and it is not enough to describe it with caution, maybe it has to be said that he is walking on thin ice in the abyss, because as long as he accidentally shows his feet, the police flower may have to use the stunts of Ryu roll and heaven and earth to teach him a lesson. Who told the police flower to practice Aikido since he was a child, and he has a six-dan teacher qualification, and he is only two-dan!
Of course, the pleasure of being ridden by the police flower is not enough for outsiders, but after seven years of devastation, his level is at least qualified for the criminal investigation team, so Shan Chixia told him about the experience of walking the rivers and lakes, he listened to it with relish, and was able to quickly draw inferences.
He nodded, jumped out of the carriage, and was about to enter the roadside shop, when he found a carriage in the distance, as if he had seen it when he went out of the city gate in the morning.
"Uncle Shan." He greeted Shan Chixia, Shan Chixia raised her eyebrows, and laughed twice, meaning that she already knew, and the good official was embarrassed, and her feelings for her anti-reconnaissance skills were average, and she still stayed at the level of being bullied by the police!
The two entered the small shop on the side of the road, a guy came up to say hello, here is only half a day's road away from Daxing County, most people are often too lazy to eat in this kind of small shop, it is better to hurry up, one or two hours will also arrive at Shuntianfu, there is nothing delicious, so the business is extremely light. They ordered two catties of cold-cut mutton at random, more than a dozen white-flour steamed buns, Shan Chixia asked Shan Sinan to send a little to Daddy Zheng in the carriage first, and then ate in the store, although the good official understands this anti-tracking principle, but it is really the first time to really use it in life, so he frequently looks up and sees while absentmindedly eating steamed buns.
The old housekeeper coughed, and the good official realized that he was too nervous, and his behavior was obviously abnormal and substandard! was quite embarrassed at the moment, and his face turned slightly red.
Shan Chixia looked embarrassed at him, but said to him with a pleasant face: "Young master, you are only thirteen years old this year, it is already good to be able to do what you are now, you don't have to be ashamed." As he spoke, he stood up, "I'll go get something and come back, you sit down first." ”
The obedient official said that I am not only thirteen years old! Forty-three years old is about the same, but then he comforted himself with the immaturity of later generations, thirty years old is still like a child and needs to be taken care of by parents in the later life, and the Ming Dynasty is also loose and common to start a family and start a business in the Ming Dynasty.
After a while, Shan Chixia came in with a long knife, startled the guy in the small shop, and subconsciously took two steps back, the old shopkeeper was originally squinting and napping in the counter, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw that a gust of wind rushed out to protect the teenage guy at a speed that was completely inconsistent with his age, "Old customer, what do you mean?" This is the official road, and the foot of the Son of Heaven ......"
This small shop is probably owned by a family, the old owner is obviously the father, the teenage man is obviously the son, and the cook is probably the wife.
Shan Chixia smiled at him, "Shopkeeper, little second brother, you don't have to panic, my young master is a talented person who travels to study, and he is qualified to wear a sword." ”
He is six feet tall, and his hands and feet look longer than ordinary people, to put it bluntly, it is a posture of a master of the rivers and lakes at first glance, the old shopkeeper protects his son, listening to him say this, he is slightly relieved, but the old customer in front of him is tall, and the knife in his hand does not look ordinary.
Butler Shan didn't care about him, walked up to the good official, and handed over the long knife, "Young master, you wear this knife!" ”
The obedient officer stretched out his hand to take it, looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar he felt, "Uncle Shan, this knife seems to be ......"
Shan Chixia smiled, "It's the village that paid the Japanese Kou back then, and then Qi Jiguang and Qi Shaobao rewarded me, and I have always been reluctant to use it, speaking of which, the family has been in a difficult situation over the years, I still have selfish intentions, and I should have taken out this knife and sold it for money......"
He said it a little embarrassed, and when the old shopkeeper next to him heard it, the subordinates of Grandpa Qi, the chief soldier of Jizhen Town? No wonder, it was really a good man, turned around and patted his son on the shoulder, and ran to the back of the store.
At this time, the obedient official hurriedly followed Shan Chixia's words and said: "Uncle Shan, what are you talking about, this knife is Uncle Shan's honor, and others can be sold, but a man's honor and self-esteem cannot be sold." ”
This is heartwarming, Shan Chixia also warmed his heart when he heard it, and sat down opposite him, "This knife is excellent, but the style of the Japanese knife is not suitable for literati to wear, and I looked for someone to change it to the style of a horizontal knife, so that the young master does not look abrupt to wear." ”
The obedient official said that it looked a little weird, and the feelings were mixed-race products.
The knife plate or handguard of the sword is generally round-shaped, and there is only a samurai knot, which can only be inserted into the waist but it is not easy to wear, and the handguard of the horizontal knife is generally a cloud-shaped swallow, which is similar to the handguard of the sword, and there is a Persian double ring on the scabbard of the horizontal knife, which can be hung on the belt to wear, in line with the identity of the literati, otherwise, a literati wearing a Confucian shirt has a Japanese knife pinned to his waist, that is really a monk wearing a skirt, how to look at how strange.
The knife in front of me, the handle is not the general knife rope wrapped, but wrapped in fish skin, compared to the rope can absorb sweat, the fish skin handle is more beautiful, but the sweat absorption ability is poor, and the knife generally has no tassels, this knife at the end of the handle of the nose is tied with a child forearm length spike.
This is also a characteristic of Chinese culture, martial arts novels say [knife clothes] refers to this, generally with light color, the ancients went to war, when returning to the battlefield, if the sword clothes are blood-red, it is regarded as a brilliant battle, is the supreme honor. And the sword spike is the same reason, it can be called [sword robe], sword clothes or sword robes, at the beginning, they were all to highlight the warriors' exploits, and then slowly evolved into decoration, and the color directly became red, but there is no need to dye red with blood.
The scabbard of this knife is also wrapped in black fish skin, and there are two copper hoops at the front end of the scabbard, on which are tied with thin strings the thickness of the little finger, which is the so-called Persian double ring, which was first transmitted from the Western Regions, and then gradually became the way to wear the sword, which can be hung around the waist, especially loved by the literati.
He gently stroked the hollow knife head, slightly forced, and pulled out half of the blade, the copper cut under the knife head, also known as the jaw, mainly to increase the friction between the knife body and the scabbard, and the inscription of the knife is generally engraved on the jaw.
The jaw of this knife is engraved with [Muramasa], and the blade under the jaw has extremely beautiful cloud patterns caused by forging, and the obedient official gently strokes the blade with his fingers, and a trace of blood slides down the blade into a bead of blood, and then he feels a trace of pain.
The obedient official was excited, and sure enough, it was Muramasa, the legend says that the ninja turtle Tokugawa Ieyasu was also cut by Muramasa when he was a child, and his father and grandfather also died at the hands of Muramasa, that is, the demon knife.
Of course, the so-called Muramasa can never have only one, and the village is the name of the sword-making family of the Ise country at that time, as long as the knives made by this sword-making family are engraved with the inscription of Muramasa, they are all Muramasa, and they are all known for their gorgeous blades and sharpness.
put his finger in his mouth, put the knife into the sheath, held it in both hands and said to Shan Chixia: "Uncle Shan, don't talk about the value of this knife, first of all, it has an extraordinary meaning to Uncle Shan, it is given by Qi Shaobao, it can be said that this knife represents Uncle Shan's lifelong martial arts, and the obedient official dare not accept it." ”
Shan Chixia smiled with satisfaction, "Even if it's a family treasure, don't you have to pass it down from generation to generation?" Come, I'll put it on for you. ”
As he spoke, he got up and walked around the table, walked to the obedient official, and tied the appearance of the Tang knife to the waist of the obedient official, and then took a few steps back, and looked, the obedient official was wearing a Confucian shirt, his long hair was tied behind his head with a copper ring, and after the knife was worn around his waist, it seemed that he suddenly added a bit of martial courage to the gentleman's literati temperament, what a beautiful young man, Shan Chixia was extremely satisfied, "This is the perfect obedient official in my heart, both civil and military." ”
Demon knife, Muramasa starts.
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