Chapter 11: The Men of the Xie Family
It has been ten years since Xie Shence left Jindu to Chuzhou, and he has not met his family except for four times when he went home to worship his ancestors, and he has learned about family affairs through correspondence.
Uncle Xie Yi is as usual Tang Seng mouth, once a month family letter counts his longest and most smelly, from the eldest sister's youngest son can walk on the ground can be pulled to the correction of the law of the Western Qin, of course, there is an indispensable part of bragging about his courage back then.
The parents' letters are very short, and they are basically written by their mothers, which are delicate and graceful, without losing the atmosphere, but Xiao Xie rarely feels family affection from the light words.
The letter from the eldest brother Xie Shenwei has always been a few lines, and the words are extremely ugly, obviously impatient to write it casually. Every time Brother Xie saw Xie Shenwei's words, he couldn't help but think of the drooling he slept while reading. Although the letter is short, there are often several books to bring, generally like martial arts books such as "Wu's Fist Sutra", "Yijin Sutra", "Plugged Sword Spectrum", and "Jiangnan Knife Collection". Among them, there was a copy of "The Book of Shame" that was "stolen" from the Xie family's sealed library, which made little Brother Xie very impressed. Just looking at the name makes Brother Xiao Xie very excited, his heart is still a brother who will hurt people, and he knows his needs as a normal man! But in the dead of night, after secretly borrowing the moonlight to open it, it was actually a human meridian bone diagram! Meridian bones, meridian bones, your sister! Brother thought it was a shameful book, your name might be normal! It's obscure to play with hair! No wonder it's a lone book, it's strange that this kind of book that doesn't live up to its name is sold!
However, the martial arts and most of the books that Brother Xiao Xie needs are in the possession of the old monk and the old Shangshu, and only a few books that may be out of print may also be found by Xie Shenwei from the Xie family's sealed library, but there are also quite a few books that cannot be obtained. For example, the old monk highly respected "Fahua Commentary" and "Xiangshui" seem to have become extinct, the former according to the old monk said that it was written by the six ancestors, and he only read one and no longer saw it, and the latter is the grammar handbook of Qu Tanmo, the great Chu writer of the previous dynasty, which is extremely precious, but unfortunately only a few words have survived so far.
The old lady's letter is a single copy, not in the same bag as the family letter. This is what Xie Shence needs to read and reply to carefully, every time he writes a letter to his family, the old lady will comment on Xie Shence's reply, similar to homework, which is also the most necessary thing for Xie Shence.
During the "practice" of Zen Master Zhiyong in Langya Mountain, the first year of the old blacksmith Zuo Tiehammer came a few times, once he discussed the arc of the knife with Xie Shence, the old man Zuo deserved to be a famous craftsman, and a few glances can see that the arc and length of the Taidao drawn by Xie Shence are not harmonious, and the two improved it a little after discussion, and increased the length of the knife to the length of the Dajin standard saber, and later changed the name, called the Han knife. In addition, Xie Shence asked for another three-edged military thorn, a tiger tooth whaling fork and a Han knife. All the blades were made in the second year after Xie Shence arrived in Chuzhou, which lasted a total of one year and three months. This long time was the result of the old blacksmith putting aside all other matters and concentrating on them.
After getting the old blacksmith's painstaking work, Xie Shence was very excited, a three-edged military thorn, a Nepalese dog-leg knife, two tiger tooth whaling forks, and two Han knives. Xie Shence looked at the past one by one, tried it one by one, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and the more he tried, the more he couldn't put it down. Immediately, he waved his hand and gave Xie the old blacksmith fifty taels of gold, but the old blacksmith didn't take a penny, but just asked Xie Shence to say that when he was asked about these knives in the future, he said that it was made with a left-handed hammer. After holding the gold in his hand and watching the old blacksmith leave, Xie Shence sighed very much: Look! This is the master! If there is something, I will go to hide my merit and fame.
Well, I laughed at the fifty taels of gold that I begged for from my uncle
In the third year, when Brother Xie was seven years old, when he returned to the Xie family in the Jin capital for the first time to participate in the ancestor worship, he brought Xie Shenwei a tiger tooth whaling fork and a Han knife, and the Han knife body had the word "Shenwei" inscribed on the sword. I brought a triangular army thorn to Xie Yi, and the others were some medicinal herbs and books that my aunt helped select.
A military stab made Uncle Xie smile, and he was so moved that he almost burst into tears on the spot, and when he played a few times, he was even more excited, and he couldn't stop sighing at the value of fifty taels of golden flowers.
Xie Shence secretly embarrassed and at the same time understood the feelings of this kind of war maniac about weapons, but he still sympathized with it a little in his heart.
Sure enough, after Uncle Xie saw the two knives that Brother Xie gave to Xie Shenwei, his heart was completely cold, pointing at Brother Xie's nose, trembling hands and feet, and his face was pale, and he said a word.
Xie Shenwei's expression was calm after getting the two knives, but his heart was turbulent, good knives, good steel, good momentum!
Uncle Xie looked at the knife pattern for a while, touched and touched the blade, and only at the urging of everyone that he solemnly made a knife in the hall. Xie Shence is excited and addicted to seeing this knife technique. Uncle Xie is worthy of being a war maniac, a set of knives makes him domineering, strong and light, atmospheric and simple, sometimes like a spring breeze, sometimes murderous, so that little Brother Xie and Xie Shenwei slapped their palms red after seeing it.
Brother Xiao Xie knows that the Japanese have their own set of routines for the use of the sword, which is different from the traditional Chinese knife method, and the knife used with both hands is not small in terms of picking and chopping or body movement, even the improved Han knife is also not known to have a gap with the Dajin standard saber. Xie Yi, who has never been in contact with the Han Knife, was able to find a way suitable for the Han Knife in a very short period of time, and it is mellow and familiar, which is no longer a genius that can be described, and can be explained as a combination of intuition and talent.
Of course, Xie Shenwei was excited, but he did not relax his "surveillance" of Uncle Xie. Just kidding, is there anyone in the Xie family who is more unbounded and shameless than Uncle Xie? Just when Uncle Xie thought that everyone was immersed in the knife skills just now and couldn't extricate himself and secretly wanted to hide the tiger tooth whaling fork in his big sleeve and go away, Xie Shenwei rushed over with an arrow step, snatched the dagger with his hand, and his eyes were angry: I knew that you would do this, and even dare to obey your nephew's things!
Uncle Xie looked embarrassed, put down the knife and said "Good knife, good knife" and pretended to have nothing to do, Xie Shenwei was even more angry, and he was about to punch Uncle Xie immediately, and he was easily dragged by Brother Xie for half a long time. However, at the dinner table, Xie Shenwei still ignored Uncle Xie's almost flattering and flattering dishes. Except for the secret smile of the eldest aunt, everyone at the table acted as if they hadn't seen it, and even the maid didn't squint, and the grandfather was even more expressionless. Let Brother Xiao Xie sigh at the high quality of the slaves in the family, and at the same time affirm Xie Yi's unpopularity in the Xie family, this kind of hand-taking thing must be done, and the number of times people have been stolen is also a lot.
When I went home for the first time in two years, I didn't expect to have too many words with my parents, but just answered some of my father's and mother's life and learning overview, and I also received some formulaic admonitions and encouragements, and there were no more superfluous words.
The second time I went home was when I was nine years old, the third time I was eleven years old, and the third time I went home with my aunt Xie Yun. Last time, there was also a little Lori Wang Xie Hua together.
I remember that after arriving at the Xie family, Xie Shenwei squeezed his eyebrows at Xie Shence and felt that fate was unfair. said that he asked Xie Shence to turn around and bring a horse chopping knife made of stainless steel as an apology. Of course, Brother Xie agreed, and at the same time did not forget to add a sentence to bring the same to the uncle, which made Uncle Xie, who was hiding behind the wall and eavesdropping, pacing away with satisfaction.
Little Lori's first appearance in the Xie family caused everyone except the old lady to be amazed, and while sighing that the blue is out of the blue, she also saw the intelligence of the little Lori, and she couldn't help but add a sentence behind the blue that may be better than the blue.
After the Xie brothers took the little Lori to visit the Jindu, the people who saw the true face of the little Lori exclaimed, "Could it be that everyone has reappeared"? This is because Wang Jiehua has a ** similarity with Xie Yun when he was young, so he can be remembered by some middle-aged and elderly people.
After people with inside information intentionally or unintentionally spread that Xiao Lori was the daughter of everyone Xie, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and it spread all over Jinyang City in one day. There are good things and more "everyone was shocked in the past, and now Xiao Xie is better than in the past", "Qunfang Yanyan, not as good as Xiao Xie Yizhi is full of spring" and other sycophant poems came out, and some people even turned out the past of Xiao Xie and exclaimed "Giving birth to a daughter should be like Xie Yanzhi (Xie Yun's words)", and there are good people who even pulled Uncle Xie out, calling the brothers and sisters "Xie Family Double Rejection", "Jinyang Double Xie", and even brought Uncle Xie out of the limelight.
However, Xie Xiang, who is also a member of the Xie family, seems to have been selectively forgotten, and no one mentions it.
Just like His Majesty the Emperor said with a smile, "I have three thanks in Dajin, and I am lucky"! "Three thanks": Old thank you Daoji, big thank you, little thank you Yun.
Only, Xie Shang, the second master of the Xie family, is no longer listed.
(ps: Thanks for the red ticket ~~.)
The first chapter of this book is so excited to say~~
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