Chapter Thirty-Eight: Seven Swords Together
The masked man was a man.
His name for Xu Yongzhi is "Xu Jin".
The names, characters, and numbers of the ancients are complicated to say, but there is one principle that is certain.
Ordinary words are called among peers.
If you address a teacher, an elder, or a leader, you often address the position, or even the place of origin of the other person, which is an ancient courtesy.
The word that an elder calls you is a great lift, and of course, it may be like Sun Yijin who is holding back his calculations and harboring evil intentions.
The king can call the ministers by name, the teacher can call the students by name, the elders can call the younger generations by name, Xu Zhixun can call him "Jin'er", and the three Zhang Daoye can also be called, but between brothers, no.
This person is not very old when he hears the voice, but he directly calls him "Xu Jin", which shows that he is not a friend, but comes with a hostile mood.
The man gently removed the mask, and sure enough, it was an old man.
"Xu Jin," the man repeated, "what you have done is really disappointing. β
This person's name is Yi Zongmin.
The word zongzi is the ranking of generations among the disciples of Zhang Bei and Zhang Huan, and the disciples with foreign surnames who are monks all use this word.
Yi Zongmin is Xu Yongzhi's junior disciple, one of the seven disciples who were expelled from Longhu Mountain by Zhang Huan.
"Do you still recognize me?"
"Brother Zongmin, our own brother, how could we forget."
Yi Zongmin is seven years older than Xu Yongzhi, but he started more than a year later, and all kinds of teachers are like this, in order of entry.
So the thirteen-year-old Yi Zongmin wants to call the six-year-old Xu Yongzhi a senior brother, and the thirteen or fourteen-year-old child is of course not satisfied, where is the reason to call the first-grade little bean bag a senior brother, but Zhang Huan emphasized several times that the eldest and youngest must be decided, so Yi Zongmin also swallowed his anger, calling him senior brother in front of people, and Xiao Xu behind him.
Tian Xiaoqian understood that there was such a senior brother, so she told Xu Yongzhi, don't really call Yi Zongmin "junior brother", call him Brother Zongmin, you can't be shorter, so Xu Yongzhi has always been called that.
Yi Zongmin is often taken by Zhang Huan's side, Zhang Huan came to the Xu family to pass the sword, Yi Zongmin came with him, Tian Xiaoqian knew that this child was from a poor family, every time he came, there were cotton clothes in winter and orders in summer, and he always had pocket money on weekdays, and he also took care of Yi Zongmin in every way.
Yi Zongmin, a child, is also reciprocating with peach, and he is becoming more and more friendly to Xu Yongzhi, taking more and more care of him, helping Xu Yongzhi to feed and dismantle tricks, and is an excellent teaching assistant and sparring partner.
"Zong Min, this kid is simple." Tian Xiaoqian said.
But Zhang Huan felt that Yi Zongmin, an apprentice, was a little stupid, if you want to talk about the diligence of practice, Yi Zongmin is the first in the portal, but in terms of talent, I am afraid that I have to rank seven or eight outside, Zhang Huan likes smart children, and looks at Yi Zongmin's eyes, and gradually has a little bit of blue-collar players and bench players.
Zhang Huan once made an assessment of his apprentices the year before last:
In terms of strength, Yi Zongmin is the first, and Xu Yongzhi is the second.
In terms of talent, Xia Xiaogui is the first, Xu Yongzhi is the second, and Yi Zongmin is not ranked.
When I was a child, the gap between the ages of seven was an insurmountable gap, and the age of seven could never beat the age of fourteen, but the distance between the ages of twenty and twenty-seven gradually narrowed.
In the past two years, Xu Yongzhi has walked the rivers and lakes, and he has enough hands-on experience, but the injured hand has made his strength drop significantly.
When grievances and hatred are against each other, when brothers and sisters are fratricidal.
Either way, ask questions.
"Brother Zong Min...... How do you hang out with these bad guys? βγ
"Xu Jin, you said that others are bad people, let me ask you, are you a good person?"
This sentence asked Xu Yongzhi's heart.
Xu Yongzhi's heart suddenly felt empty.
Am I a good person?
Ge Laodao is a negative person, he received the favor of my family, but he came to force my master to hand over my sister.
I stabbed him, and he deserved it.
But I, Xu Jin, am I a negative person?
I took Duan Meimei's key, but I took it and gave it to Li Lianqiao.
I talked to Li Lianqiao about love and life, and after discovering all kinds of terrible things about her, I avoided it, although there was Li Lianqiao's coercion, but myself, am I a good person?
If I don't have such an unfortunate family, can I still be considered a good person?
I had mixed feelings for a while, and I didn't know what to say.
"Xu Jin, Longhu Mountain is my master, Master Zu may not recognize me, but I still feel that this is my eternal teacher, I was in the rivers and lakes back then, it was Zhang Huandao who accepted me and gave me a bowl of rice in Longhu Mountain."
"I know, Brother Zongmin."
"Longhu Mountain is my home, my everything, the people who defile the master's family, I am inseparable from him."
"Me too."
"What are you? You are the one who defiled Dragon Tiger Mountain! Do you know what the rivers and lakes say about you? You are lascivious and lustful, and you are acting absurdly, and when others see your news, they are asking me, hey, the person who played with women and ruined his family was your senior brother, right? You tell me, how should I answer? β
"I'm sorry...... I'm a problem to everyone. Xu Yongzhi said.
"I have been practicing swordsmanship hard, practicing conscientiously, diligently, studious, and virtuous, and I have nothing to owe at all." Yi Zongmin said.
"Brother Zongmin, you are indeed better than me."
"The junior disciples clashed with Zhang Bei's subordinates, I didn't make a move at all, I tried my best to maintain it, I didn't expect the master to listen to the explanation, he fired our seven junior brothers, Xu Jin, where were you at that time? Have you advised him? β
"Brother Zongmin......"
"That's right, you are a lay disciple, you are a lay person who is beyond Longhu Mountain, you now know what it's like to be kicked out of your home, and that's how we've survived in the past two years."
"I'm sorry...... But you know, I'm not a monk, so I can't persuade this. β
"Man, he always looks at the pain endured by others as small, and his own troubles as great." Yi Zongmin said.
"Brother Zong Min, come with me to protect Dragon Tiger Mountain, repel these wicked people, Master Zu's grace will definitely allow everyone to come back." Xu Yongzhi said.
"Come back? It's late! You are a person with corrupt morals and defiling your master, and Master Zu actually recognized you just now! Longhu Mountain's rules of not distinguishing between right and wrong, wrong and foolish, I have changed it well! Yi Zongmin waved his hand, and the six people wearing masks behind him unfurled a huge banner:
"The head of the True Sect of Dragon and Tiger Mountain."
"I'm going to revive Longhu Mountain, in my own way." Yi Zongmin looked at the group of roads in Longhu Mountain proudly.
"Yi Zongmin, you are deceiving the teacher and destroying the ancestors!" Xu Yongzhi's face changed.
"I'm here today, it has nothing to do with Sun Yijin, I don't want to get my identity back, I just want to tell Longhushan that the seven of us are stronger than those miscellaneous fish under Zhang Bei, but you are here, I will also tell you, Xu Jin."
Yi Zongmin looked at Xu Yongzhi's eyes:
"I, too, than, you, are stronger!"
The six young people behind him also unwrapped their masks one after another, and sure enough, they were all Xu Yongzhi's junior disciples.
Sun Yijin laughed.
"Interesting, interesting, Longhu Mountain has always had two attributes, in addition to being the Heavenly Master's Mansion, it should also be a sword sect, Zhang Tianshi, old man, I think this matter can be considered like this, if these six young people are indeed stronger than those surnamed Xu and those disciples and grandchildren in your queue, what about you, you are still your Heavenly Master, but I think it's good to pass on the mantle of the head of Longhu Mountain to these young people."
"You brought these wicked people to threaten your master, Yi Zongmin!" Xu Yongzhi was furious.
Heavenly Master Zhang Qianren's face was solemn, although Zhang Bei had a solemn appearance and was full of joy and anger, he obviously hated Sun Yijin to the extreme.
"Yi Zongmin, what does the master want to do with the apprentice, the apprentice can only endure it. Master expelled you, of course I don't feel good in my heart, do you understand his old man's painstaking efforts? Why take revenge and come against the master at this time? β
"Xu Jin, you have said all the truth, then the court wants to deal with the people, and the people should also endure it, right, the emperor arrested your family by mistake, of course it is not easy to feel good, why do you share your worries for Your Majesty? Why take revenge and oppose the imperial court? β
Xu Yong understood at once that this former brother had now taken refuge in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and he was no longer a person from the road.
"Yi Zongmin, Master didn't kill your family like the emperor, Master never continued to send people to hunt you down and coerce you, compare these two things together, play with your kung fu, do you think you're very smart?"
Yi Zongmin was not angry when he saw that he had broken the loophole in his analogy.
"Disciples of the True Sect of Dragon and Tiger Mountain listen to orders!"
The six people in the back responded together.
"What do you command?"
"Form a haze sword formation and take down the villain Xu Jin!"
The seven of them put on masks together and surrounded Xu Yongzhi at the core.
"Okay, I'll clean the door for Master!"
"Adulterer, you yourself were expelled from the sect!"
The saddest thing on the rivers and lakes should be the real sword cannibalism between the same brothers.
Looking at these six familiar faces, Xu Yongzhi felt uncomfortable.
He didn't know if he could kill these brothers who had shared snacks and fed each other.
A little softer, and he will die by the sword of these former brothers.
Looking at the eyes exposed on the mask, he recognized the angry eyes of his junior brother Lu Zongfu.
"And you, my little brother."
"Phew! Scumbag, who is your junior brother! β
Zong Fu is sixteen years old this year, later than Xiaogui started, and in Xu Yongzhi's eyes, he is a child.
"Why?"
"You know what you do!"
"What did I do?"
"Thou hast committed adultery with a maiden, and hast promised marriage to a man; You killed the whole family of the man who proposed to the woman; You play with the other person's feelings, control the other person's spirit, hurt the other person's body, and finally give up again. β
"Brother, who are you listening to?"
"Senior brother in charge, Director Sun, and many others, everyone in the rivers and lakes says so, everyone says so."
"Is it the truth that everyone says so?"
ββ¦β¦β
"You called me Senior Brother, and I still treat you as a brother. What happened to me, you didn't come to ask the senior brother who was close to you, but you went to listen to the rumors of the four or five hands on the rivers and lakes, listened to the vicious words of my enemies, and maybe added fuel and vinegar to spread the word, is this what my brother did? β
"Let me tell you, I didn't bully any girl, let alone kill her fiancΓ©, the woman I offended is in her thirties, she is one of the most powerful women in the Southern Tang Dynasty, she laid a trap, ruined my family, slaughtered the whole town of Linquan, my hand was also injured by her, and now my sister and I are still being hunted down by them, he wants to take the opportunity to destroy Longhu Mountain, do you understand?"
"Even if there are discrepancies in the details, it's always true that you are greedy for women and killed your whole family, and now you have to kill Master Zhang Huan and Longhu Mountain, and the senior brother in charge came to save the master, is it still wrong!"
Some people are not bad, they are really stupid.
Especially the kind of people who have a strong sense of personal morality.
The status is too low, the ability is limited, and the influence is zero, so I have to emphasize that my character is very good.
Lu Zongfu is such a child.
"Wang Zongyi, Zhao Zongchang, Li Zongsheng, Qi Zonglong, Zhang Zongfa, and Lu Zongfu," Xu Yongzhi said, "If you all listen to this kind of information, then I want to drink a bowl of wine with the six of you brothers." β
Xu Yongzhi made a gesture to Master Tian, "Please ask Master Heaven to bring us some vegetarian wine." β
Zhang Qianren hurriedly asked the personal Taoist boy Qingfeng Mingyue to get it.
Zhou Zhuocheng's wine, Xu Yongzhi can't drink it;
Zhang Bei's wine, these brothers don't know how to drink it;
Master Zu's wine, these people are acceptable.
The wine was brought over, and Xu Yongzhi picked up a bowl, "A few brothers, after drinking the wine, the real sword and the real sword are eyeless and ruthless for a while, which one will go first, wait in front, I, Xu Jin, am not ready to go out alive today." β
Although Xu Yongzhi is not always in Longhu Mountain, every time he comes to Longhu Mountain, he gives gifts to these brothers and sisters (it was good to have money back then), because he knows that their monks are hard, so it is common to give them money and help them buy clothes and swords.
How much everyone respected and loved him back then, and how much they hate him and hate him now.
The six junior brothers didn't say a word, and came over one by one to drink with Xu Yongzhi.
Xu Yongzhi dried six bowls.
At this time, Yi Zongmin came over to get the wine on the plate.
Xu Yongyi blocked his hand.
"I'm drinking goodbye wine with my brother, what kind of thing are you careerists who betray your master?!"
"What are you thieves who disobey the court!" Yi Zongmin didn't let it go at all.
"You eagle dog of the court, you won't let you out alive today!"
Xu Yongzhi pushed the wine bowl, and the wine suddenly stirred into a drop of water, Xu Yongzhi blew it over, and the wine went straight to Yi Zongmin's front door.
Yi Zongmin dodged the wine pillar, and Xu Yongzhi's sword stabbed over.
This one-shot action, the people on the other side all secretly applauded, in the end, it was the first disciple of Longhu Mountain, although Xu Yongzhi used a two-handed sword, but the speed and subtlety of the tricks were not slower than the one-handed sword.
Yi Zongmin couldn't be more familiar with Xu Yongzhi's sword, seeing that this sword was fast and ruthless, he shouted "Okay!" β
Dodge and dodge, and quickly returned the sword.
"Formation! Let's go up together and kill this lewd thief who defiles the master's door! Yi Zongmin shouted.
The six juniors and disciples together kicked smoke and dust out of their pockets, and the eight of them created a small whirlwind in the clearing at once.
They had masks to cover their mouths and noses, and they turned around in this haze, and Xu Yongzhi was in this haze, and it was difficult to breathe and see.
"So many people fight one!" Duan Zishou waved his stick and rushed in, Xu Yongzhi heard the voice, "Ah Shou, I'm here!" β
The two brothers were trapped in the formation, and all they could see was a haze of smoke.
Yi Zongmin used a bamboo whistle to urge the six to attack.
Although these six people can't see the enemy's location clearly, they can gradually narrow the encirclement and kill the enemy by listening to the whistle attack.
After a few attacks, Xu Yongzhi figured out the pattern, whistled, and took a step forward; Thorns, two short whistles, step back.
Yi Zongmin is outside the formation, if Xu Yongzhi rushes in one direction, once he rushes out of the formation, he will be intercepted and killed by Yi Zongmin.
"What a vicious formation," Xu Yongzhi thought secretly, "My strength is not enough for them to use such a clever formation against me, obviously this formation is here to besiege Master, seven people, it is too vicious." β
"Ah Shou, when the whistle blows, we attack back to back, attack three times and then retreat."
"Okay!"
At this time, a whistle sounded, Duan Zishou and Xu Yongzhi attacked separately, so that the other four swords were all stabbed in the air, and the two people in front of them were attacked by heavy swords and clubs, and they were quite embarrassed.
"It works."
Although it was effective, Duan Zishou was already hard to bear this haze, and he didn't know what was in those hazes, Ah Shou suddenly had a large red rash, and his face was swollen.
"This haze is poisonous!"
"Brother-in-law, I'm going to rush out!"
"No way!"
The silly boy picked up the stick, opened the three swords in front of him, and rushed out of the smoke and haze in one go, throwing away the stick and taking a big breath of fresh air. At this time, Yi Zongmin's sword was also on his neck. Duan Zishou was very brave, and when he came up, he twisted Yi Zongmin, this kung fu of grabbing and fighting, Yi Zongmin was not good at it, and he was torn up by Duan Zishou for a while.
Sun Yijin saw that Yi Zongmin was entangled, and with a wave of the fan, three silver needles went straight to Duan Zishou's legs.
Sun Yijin missed a blow, and regardless of the decency of any famous person, he pounced on it and slapped Duan Zishou in the back of the heart, seeing that Duan Zishou was about to be unlucky.
At this time, a gray figure came from a distance, snapping Sun Yijin to the right palm, Sun Yijin's palm is a dark palm, hitting the vital point, and the distance is far away, so the strength is inevitably insufficient, but this person in the palm has been accumulating strength for a long time, has been leading but not starting, seeing Sun Yijin in the hand plot, only to take this palm, this strong and weak, Sun Yijin suffered all of a sudden, kicked back more than a dozen steps, and spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Despicable!" Sun Yijin reprimanded angrily.
"Yes, it's so despicable, your grandson has five people and six people all day long, and he actually attacked a child behind his back!"
Sun Yijin saw that the person who was in charge of him was Zhang Bei.
"I'm careless, I heard that Zhang Bei's swordsmanship is mediocre, but I didn't expect his internal strength to be so profound." Sun Yijin turned his mind.
"Sun was actually caught off guard by Zhang Beidaoye, that can be regarded as Sun's blessing!"
This is called a scene, which means that you also attacked me, and I am not weak.
Zhang Bei didn't bother to pay attention to him, just took a serious look at Xu Yongzhi's situation.
A few people from the back came over to pick up Sun Yijin, and Sun Yijin secretly adjusted his breath and recuperated without mentioning it.
Yi Zongmin and Duan Zishou twisted together, the two of them rolled on the ground, and the dignity of the head of the house was lost at all, but the stupid boy turned over several times, and wanted to hold Yi Zongmin, but he tried to dodge it, and in the end, the two formed a balance of power and froze.
Duan Zishou looked at the billowing poisonous haze, anxious, and suddenly he thought of Ah Crisp.
"Crispy!"
"Rain!"
This reminded Ah Crisp.
She quickly shook her hand and summoned a rain cloud.
But when the clouds were getting lower and darker, it began to rain in the haze.
As soon as it rained, the haze gradually faded.
At this time, looking at the seven people in the formation, they were already injured.
Lu Zongfu was young and had poor skills, and he was the most seriously injured, and his right leg was already difficult to move.
The other five people also had varying degrees of sword wounds.
There was a hole under Xu Yongzhi's ribs, blood and dripping rain mixed together, flowing down, and his white clothes were already stained with blood.
Even if he can kill these six people, he won't last long.
Sun Yijin saw this scene and laughed out loud.
"What are you waiting for!"
This sentence is the agreed code.
The heroes picked up their weapons one after another, ready to start!