Chapter 12: Not Topping at a Critical Moment
"Mei Renhou!" When Autumn Meizi solemnly recounted the past, her facial expression became more and more blurred, and her form was as illusory as a ghost, as if a mist was blocking the priest's vision, as if she had walked into a dream.
Everything has to start with the funeral of the old lady of the Mei family.
That winter, there was a great funeral scene at the door of Mei's house.
Outside the tall gatehouse, snow-white spirit flags fluttered in the air. On both sides of the gate, a shed was built, and two groups of drummers played together. In the midst of the low, mournful music, like the whimper of the autumn wind sweeping through the fallen leaves, a thick and loud percussion of a brass drum was inserted from time to time.
The most tearing thing is the three-foot-long brass trumpet, which blows like the wail of a grief-stricken man in a graveyard in the dead of night.
Outside the courtyard wall, there are horses tied to the locust trees, some are beautiful in the snow, some are chestnut red, some are silver-gray, and there are many unfamous ones, and the people in the village have never seen so many horses in their lives. This fully shows the status of the Mei family in Qinglong Town.
Entering the gate, there is a tall spirit shed, draped in white ribbons, on both sides of the spirit shed, full of golden boys and girls, paper horses and paper cows, as well as paper gold and silver ingots and other offerings. Under the mourning shed, there were two columns of people with filial piety, who were gunmen hired by Master Mei to show his wealth and filial piety.
Their task is to come to kneel and pretend to cry. The second fool is one of them, he cried more sadly than the death of his own father and mother in order to mix a few meals and drink a few meals and eat a few full meals.
He didn't try to cry like others, he couldn't squeeze out a few tears, he couldn't let out a cry or two. He was like a genius tragic actor, tears flowing, crying shook the sky, and the ground was wet. Who is he crying for? The old lady of the Mei family?
No, he once begged Mrs. Mei to reward him with a mouthful of leftovers, but Mrs. Mei would rather feed the dog than give him food, and scolded him.
The second fool cried about his father who starved to death, and his mother who died of illness, he cried about his tragic fate, and cried about this unequal and unequal life.
Perhaps, he cried for a few steamed buns, he was hungry several times, and when he grabbed the Mei family's steamed buns and stuffed them into his mouth, the sweet taste made him so excited that he burst into tears.
Anyway, he wasn't crying for this old guy.
The relatives of the deceased are all inside, Mei Renhou's newly married, the third aunt who has not yet spent her honeymoon together, although she is wearing heavy filial piety clothes, she can't hide the delicate red inside, no matter how much she hides her love for the new man. From time to time, she threw a flattering look at Mei Renhou, as if to say, "Tonight, why do you have to go to my house." ”
Wake? Let them keep watch.
At noon, the housekeeper came to the mourning room, put his mouth on Mei Renyi's ear and said: "Master, there are about 30 people who burn paper money outside, and it seems that the funeral is very heavy, and the honor guard is also very pompous."
Who are these guys?
Just when everyone was hesitating, they suddenly heard a burst of scolding.
It turned out that this gang of people pulled out the guy from the box, and there was a gang of horse bandits outside, and they came into the village together and surrounded the Mei family compound.
A sound of * sounded, startling the guests in the Mei family's house. One after another, the cries of various tones stopped, and turned into an exclamation: "The bandits of Qinglong Mountain are here!" ”
Mei Renhou has seen the world, he held the third aunt who threw herself into his arms with his left hand, waved his right hand in the air, and shouted in his mouth: "Nurse!" Nursing home! ”
Master Mei invited a well-known security team from the rivers and lakes, which is the strong dragon and tiger of the hospital, led by a man named Cui Si, he is the big man in the county, and it is rumored that he has "three unique green dragons" in the rivers and lakes, one is to kick flies, two is to sleep on a spider web, and three is a handstand with two fingers.
The first time they met, Master Mei greeted him. "I heard that in the martial arts, it is often said that the southern fist and the northern leg are used, which sect does Cui Ye belong to?"
"Master, how many have you heard of?" Cui Si asked him rhetorically.
"I've heard that plum blossom boxing is very powerful! I also heard that ...... "Mei Houren should be an idle story."
"Master, do you know, there are plum blossom boxing in the north and south, and the north is divided into ten ways, one way mother and son, two way hands, three ways flying feet, and seven roads are plum blossoms. South boxing is divided into large and small plum blossom boxing, and the powerful ones are Cai Li Buddha boxing, black tiger boxing, Longmen boxing, ......."
This Cui Si took a breath and said dozens of things smoothly, and Master Mei heard it in a fog, and the five bodies of admiration fell to the ground.
This old man Mei deliberately flaunted his knowledge, and said, "This form is created by the ancestor of Bodhidharma, right?" ”
"Haha, this is all spread by people who don't understand martial arts. This shape is created by Ji Longfeng, a native of Puzhou, Shanxi, who traveled all over the world, visited famous teachers, and finally Nanshan, got Yue Fei's five fist spectrum, figured out its essence, created Xingyi, and passed it down...."
This Master Mei saw that Cui Si was talking the truth, and sincerely wanted to see his true kung fu. This "Green Dragon Three Uniques" is not easy to display under normal circumstances, but you always have to show your hands, otherwise, if you take out so much silver to support them, your heart is not steady.
I saw this Cui Si, lifting the placket of the robe and pinning it to the waist, and played a trick "chain leg", the two legs used kicking, kicking, kicking, pointing, sweeping, shoveling, bulleting and other moves.
This Master Mei no longer hesitated, and immediately signed and drew a pledge, and took care of the family and the hospital for three years, with a hundred taels of silver per year. That's a lot of money at the time.
Who would have thought that at this critical moment when the bandits rushed in. Master Mei is calling the heavens and the earth not spiritual.
Cui Si seemed to suddenly disappear from the ground. "Damn it, Lao Tzu raises you every day, feeds you, and wants to use you, and he gets into the rat's ass." After Master Mei finished scolding, he began to be afraid......."
Cai Feihu, the big pole on Qinglong Mountain, smiled coldly, came to him, and put a handcuff on his chest.
"Good man, okay, there's a funeral going on at home!" Master Mei pleaded.
"Bird, you have a happy funeral, take out the key to the vault!" Cai Feihu shouted angrily.
Legend has it in Qinglong Town that the Mei family's vault hides a lot of gold, silver and jewelry.
Master Mei never cried for his father, but this time, he really cried, and tears flowed all over the ground........