Chapter 5: The Past of Black Jiao
Datang. A small border town. Fair.
The bustling market is orderly filled with all kinds of stalls, selling fruits and vegetables, armor fabrics, rouge gouache, steamed buns, and exotic ornaments.
The stall owners are different races from all over the world, including pure-blooded demons, pure-blooded humans, mixed-blood demons, Oriental Fuso, the Far North, the Qin people, the Three Kingdoms, and the Southern Barbarians.
This is the prosperous Tang Dynasty, all-encompassing, under the protection of the Great Wall, people live a life of peace and contentment.
"My Uncle Heijiao is here, why don't you take the initiative to pay the protection fee!" A domineering voice ruined the peaceful scene in front of him, and a man with a long black dragon tattooed on his arm, chewing dog's tail grass in his mouth, swaggered into the market, as if no one was around.
He was followed by dozens of small followers, equally vicious.
The stall owners in the market couldn't help but have a headache when they saw this black Jiao that made them hate the root of their teeth!
This black Jiao is a local head snake. I don't know where I learned kung fu, but I took in a few ruffians in the local area, and I even openly began to ask for protection money in the town!
These stall owners didn't buy it at first and refused to pay the protection fee, but after Hei Jiao beat the stall owner unreasonably, he took all the goods on the stall away!
The stall owner in the back saw this situation and obediently paid the protection fee.
Wait for the black Jiao's waist bag to be stuffed and leave.
These stall owners gathered and went to the yamen to report the case, but as soon as they entered the gate of the yamen, they were collectively dumbfounded: the local county magistrate was respectfully serving tea and pouring water to a person, and this person was none other than Heijiao, who had just asked for protection money!
The stall owners went home in disgrace, and from then on, no one dared to resist and not pay the protection fee.
At first, it was okay, the black Jiao was harvested once every half a month, but recently it has become more and more excessive, and it has been shortened to once every five days!
And the last time I paid the protection fee, it was the day before yesterday!
Hei Jiao proudly chewed the dog's tail grass and stretched out his hand, and the Fusang man who sold the fan dared not speak angrily, and honestly put the silver in the palm of Hei Jiao's hand.
Hahahahaha! Heijiao couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh!
Heijiao comes from a nomadic people outside the Great Wall, his parents were killed by the demon seed when he was just remembering, and he escaped because his mother was stuffed into a hole in the ground before she died.
Heijiao fled to the Great Wall, wandered the streets since he was a child, grabbed food with wild dogs, was bullied by homeless people, and suffered all over the world.
Once, he really couldn't get food, so he gritted his teeth and ran to a deep mountain that the locals feared: Buzhou Mountain.
It is rumored that there are supernatural ghosts in this Buzhou Mountain, who specialize in eating the brain marrow of lost humans!
But Heijiao has not eaten rice for three days and three nights, and he knows that this mountain is full of hares and pheasants that are not afraid of people, so he was carried away by hunger and rushed into Buzhou Mountain desperately.
Buzhou Mountain is full of towering trees, and the ground is piled up with fallen leaves, which are almost knee-high because no one comes in all year round!
In the silent forest, there was an occasional strange sound of "fluttering", and there were also unknown birds screaming coldly, and Heijiao regretted that he had strayed into this forest.
Suddenly, a gray hare ran up to the black dragon and tilted its head to look curiously at the unknown creature.
It may be curious, what is this? With neither sharp claws nor sharp teeth, does this creature also eat grass?
Hei Jiao was shocked at first when he saw this somewhat large and unusual rabbit, and then ecstasy welled up in his heart!
This rabbit is enough to feed itself for at least five or six days!
He reached out and grabbed the rabbit's ear, but the rabbit still didn't show any fear.
Kill the rabbit with the knife he carries, easily find the dry leaves and branches, and a fragrant rabbit is formed.
Under the roots of the tree, there are a lot of mushrooms, and the black Jiao, with its rich experience in surviving in the wild, selected a few harmless matsutake mushrooms, cut them into slices with a knife, and put them in the belly of the rabbit, and the aroma emitted by the rabbit is getting stronger and stronger!
The bubbling rabbit meat made the black Jiao salivate, and the black Jiao, who had not eaten for many days, ate it happily!
He carefully packed the remaining rabbit meat into his dry food bag, thinking that after going out, he would be exposed to the sun and dried into jerky, so that he could eat it for several days!
Heijiao extinguished the fire and stood up, but unexpectedly found that there was a person standing in front of him!
A man dressed in black, like a sculpture, stood there silently, I don't know how long!
Heijiao's whole body hair stood upside down, and a layer of fine and dense white hair sweat appeared on his forehead!
it! Is this the legendary goblin that eats human bone marrow?!
Oh my god! I wouldn't have ventured in if I had known! The bowels of the black Jiao are all green.
His legs trembled like chaff, and he didn't dare to move to look at the man in black in front of him.
The hood of the man in black was wide, revealing not a trace of skin.
For a long time, the two people stood opposite each other like this.
The silence in the dense forest was outrageous, echoing with the sound of the black Jiao's upper and lower teeth fighting, and the sound of trembling legs shaking fallen leaves.
The black Jiao is about to collapse!
Eldest brother! If you're a ghost or a demon, do it! It's scary! The black Jiao is about to cry!
Also, Hei Jiao is just a twelve-year-old boy.
"Alas!" The man in black finally let out a sigh!
This sigh was full of sorrowful emotions, if it weren't for Hei Jiao being too scared at the moment, he really couldn't help but sympathize with this man in black.
This sigh is really tear-jerking.
The man in black pointed to Hei Jiao's bag of dry food, and Hei Jiao had a question mark on his face?
Is the Men in Black targeting this rabbit? No way?!
After a moment's hesitation, Heijiao handed over the remaining rabbit meat in the dry food belt.
The man in black stretched out his hand from the wide robe, it was an unusually beautiful and slender hand, with distinct joints, he took the rabbit that was still steaming slightly, gently tore a piece, put it under the hood, and ate it slowly.
Sven, who eats abnormally, is not in a hurry.
Hei Jiao stood motionless on the opposite side, and there was a fierce struggle in his heart: "I'll rub!" What the hell is going on?! Is it inappropriate for Lao Tzu to go now? Could it be that this big brother should eat me after eating the rabbit?! But if you move now, you may anger the other party...... Damn it! Does Lao Tzu have to wait for him to finish eating?! ”
After a while, the man in black finally finished eating the remaining rabbit meat, took out a violet handkerchief from his pocket, and gently wiped the greasy on his hand.
Subsequently, the man in black actually repeated several actions over and over again in front of Hei Jiao, and at first Hei Jiao thought that this was a mysterious ritual before sucking his bone marrow.
Years later, he found out that these movements turned out to be a set of kung fu!
It's simple, but it's practical!
After repeating it at least seven or eight times, the man in black suddenly disappeared out of thin air!
Heijiao wiped his eyes, and there was no trace!
This person really disappeared out of thin air! No trace!
Is it a dream?
The cold sweat on his body was blown by the wind, and it was cold to the bone. Heijiao didn't dare to stay, so he quickly left Buzhou Mountain, and never dared to take a step again.
Hei Jiao lived a life of starvation every day, until three years later, after the food he had easily begged for was snatched away by an elderly beggar, Hei Jiao resisted for the first time!
He subconsciously used the actions of the man in black in Buzhou Mountain, and when he regained consciousness, the beggar had already been knocked to the ground!
Since then, with this set of simple but practical kung fu, Heijiao has embarked on the road of no return to collect protection money.
He chose a small town far away from the capital of the Tang Dynasty, where the sky was high and the emperor was far away, not only did there be many merchants who bought and sold freely, but also did not alarm the governor of Chang'an City.
He first used force to dredge the relationship between the county magistrate of the town, and then went to collect protection money, and in this way, he ran rampant and domineering in this town for several years.
In the past two days, Heijiao took in a few beggars who were also fatherless and motherless, and the days became tight, so he went to the market to collect protection money after only two days.
No way, who let themselves shoulder the food and clothing problems of so many people!
The owner of the next stall is a living man, dressed in crimson clothes and wearing a red hood, his face is not clear, and there is only a knife on his stall!
This is the sword of the Great Wall Guards!
It's not far from the Great Wall, and Heijiao naturally recognizes this weapon!
The knife specially customized by the lord of the Tang Dynasty for the Great Wall guards is made of high-quality steel and tempered thousands of times!
"Newcomer?! I'm afraid you don't understand the rules! Uncle Heijiao collects protection money, and there is never a second sound! ”
"Humph! With your three-legged cat kung fu? "It turned out to be a magnetic female voice!
Hei Jiao's face was a little unbearable: "Uncle Hei Jiao is invincible all over the world!" Although I never hit a woman, for the sake of my own face, I had to break my vows today! ”
"Fight all over the world invincible?! Ha! Sister let's show the high-end operation! ”