Chapter 21: Bitter Water Village
Arnold carried the fruit wine brewed at home and grinned: "Sister, come and try this." β
He poured a bowl for Chen Tongsheng and Fang Heming, and the dark reddish wine wafted out a mellow aroma. Fang Heming said that he drank a bowl in one go, and snorted: "You brewed it yourself, kid?" Almost meaningless. β
Arnold smiled and filled Fang Heming: "It's not good, it's okay." Sister, will you teach me boxing today? β
Chen Tongsheng: "? β
Fang Heming was another bowl: "Boy, have nothing to do today?" β
Arnold said: "My father went to entertain guests, and I have nothing to do." β
Fang Heming's eyebrows jumped: "Guest, what guest?" β
"I know that." Arnold's eyes glanced directly at the short knife on Chen Tongsheng's waist: "It seems that I came to buy skins, and I also know my father, and after drinking at my house, we went out together." β
"Last winter was cold, everyone saved skins, and there shouldn't be much to sell...... Thank you, sister! Arnold grabbed the short knife thrown by Chen Tongsheng and pulled it out to see: "Wow-it must be fast to cut the skin with this." β
"Sister, what else do you have?"
Chen Tongsheng nodded: "Also, a bow." β
"Let me see, let me see!"
Chen Tongsheng pointed to the house, and Arnold ran over happily.
"Do you want to go and see it, guest?" Chen Tongsheng asked in a low voice.
Fang Heming didn't know what he was thinking with the wine bowl, and only said after a while: "I'll go." You stay here with this kid. β
Arnold's startled voice came from the room: "Sister! Where's the bow? β
Chen Tongsheng nodded, turned to the wall on the side of the house, and took down the longbow that was hanging: "Here." β
"Wow, you're fooling me!" Arnold jumped out and grabbed the bow and touched it up and down: "Really good, sister, go!" Let me see your technique. β
Fang Heming's small courtyard is partial, the terrain is high, and when he walks out, he sees the lower peaks not far away, undulating, distant clouds and near fog, entangled in the greenery. A path winds through the dense forest from the bottom of the mountain to the courtyard.
The young man was babbling about which mountain had more beasts and which col had more rabbits, Chen Tongsheng followed him with a quiver on his back, and finally glanced back at the yard when he turned the corner. Fang Heming has a high nose bridge, long eyebrows and long eyes, so he looks unruly, he is not young, but he is far from being old. Chen Tongsheng often felt that he was born early, and when he sat in a daze, he always showed a tired face.
Fang Heming sat in the courtyard, hanging his head and feeling a little old. It's very different from usual. Speaking of which, it was actually the last look, but Chen Tongsheng didn't know it yet, she was still thinking about waiting for the hunting to come back, and tell the master about this problem.
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Arnold is focused on Chen Tongsheng's kung fu.
He pulled Chen Tongsheng's bow with a lot of difficulty, and he didn't believe in evil so much that he ran to break his wrist with someone. Chen Tongsheng carried two rabbits in one hand, and easily pressed Arnold on the stone with the other, and asked, "Are you convinced?" β
"Impossible! I don't believe it! Arnold reversed, holding Chen Tongsheng's arm with both hands and working hard: "-Hey! β
Chen Tongsheng's arms were like iron casting, not moving at all, and said: "Why, you always like to do nothing, useless work?" β
"It's not early, let's go back."
"Go back?" Arnold puffed out: "I don't want to go back." β
"Why?"
Arnold looked at her for a while, and said carefully: "I'll tell you this, don't tell Mr. Fang......"
"My father and mother quarreled over Mr. Fang's affairs." Arnold said sullenly, "Hey, I say, who are you?" My dad said that he and Mr. Fang were friends, and it didn't matter. My mother said, you don't want your head! β
ββ¦β¦ You're not going to be fugitives, are you? Arnold looked at her with round eyes: "Then you can't do it, if someone dares to arrest you, you will 'hey!'" ''Hah! 'Beat them all!' What are you hiding here for? It's so close to Kyoto, and there's no good stuff or place to play. β
He gestured and said, "But you're not like it, isn't Mr. Fang the gentleman from the martial arts hall?" You are his apprentice, what bad can you do? β
"What if," Chen asked, "what if we are bad and bad people?" β
"Where is there a bad guy like you who stutters!" Arnold rubbed his foot against the mud on the ground: "If you do do something that will cost you your head, I want ...... I want you to leave the village. β
He bowed his head and said, "Shouldn't you run as far as you can if you make a mistake?" Staying in the village, everyone is not safe. Arnold said, "Isn't that right? β
Chen Tongsheng stuffed the rabbit to him: "Yes." β
"If not, it's not safe, we'll go." Chen Tongsheng touched his head: "Don't worry. β
Fang Heming did not return to the courtyard that night. Chen Tongsheng had already planned for the Chen family, but when he was halfway through, he suddenly had a bad premonition and turned around temporarily.
In the middle of the night, for some reason the lights in the village were bright, Chen Tongsheng hurried to the small courtyard, but he didn't see Fang Heming. I had to go to my village again.
She climbed the backyard and climbed the wall when she heard the people inside arguing: "I believe in you so much, and you should believe in me too!" It was okay in the past, but it should be okay this time! β
"Everything is good, but you shouldn't take this batch of goods!" Chen Tongsheng heard Fang Heming's voice: "Go, go now, take your family with you, and shout to the people in the village, let's leave quickly at night!" β
"Let's go? I've been here for three generations in Kushui Village, and there's no reason to leave because of that thing! Brother Fang, I've never had anything to do in Kushui Village, but as soon as you came, you said you couldn't take it, it wouldn't be that you told the secret, right? Where's your little apprentice? The village cried out, "Where is that apprentice?" β
What goods? Chen Tongsheng didn't have time to think about it, and when he heard a strange noise downstairs, he jumped down to look.
The backyard of the village used to have a cellar and a dry well. At this time, the door of the cellar was wide open, and the village chief's wife carried the lamp down, and asked with a probe, "Are you alright, Nuo'er?" β
"Nothingβnothingβ"
"Mother," Arnold asked as he climbed up, "when are you coming?" Why is it so late this time. β
"Don't ask too much, go to bed late, and I won't urge you to get up tomorrow morning."
Arnold grinned: "Oh, that's a good feeling." β
At this moment, Chen Tongsheng's face changed suddenly, and she heard a neat voice from a distance. Hurry, fast, that is the sound of specially trained, marching footsteps in the night.
Immediately afterwards, the villagers screamed and screamed. The villagers resisted and fought in confusion.
Chen Tongsheng heard a voice that stunned her: "Kushui Village secretly hid the Flying Light Essence and arrested all the people in the village!" β
Feiguang, that is a forbidden item that the law of the Great Zhou prohibits the sale and possession. Whether you use it or not, the private collector - the capital offense does not matter!
Arnold was about to crawl out when he heard this, but the village chief's wife was obviously quicker and more aware of the seriousness of the matter than he did, so she jumped up and threw herself at the back wall, and with a strong knock, she unloaded a bluestone slab from it.
There was a compartment behind the bluestone slab, which was only large enough to hide a person, and the village chief's wife pushed her son inside: "Go in!" Get in, don't come out! β
"Mother, what's going on?" Arnold his mother, against the stone slab: "If you don't say it, I won't go in!" β
"Don't move!"
The officers and soldiers had already kicked open the courtyard door, and the torches floated into the courtyard after them: "Who is the village chief?" Come out! β
The village chief almost crawled and ran down from the stairs with a loud sound: "This, what is this official here for?" What about our county master? Why didn't the master give any news in advance......"
The officers and soldiers looked at each other: "You mean the county order of Wankai County?" β
The village chief rubbed his hands: "I'm ......"
"It turns out that the county magistrate of Wankai County is also involved in this matter." The officer and soldier at the head beckoned: "Take it away!" β
So that's the case, Chen Tongsheng thought, Feiguang is probably the goods in the master's mouth. The black market is worth thousands of gold, and it has been banned repeatedly, and it turned out to be from this kind of place.
After processing, it can be drunk or added to meals and pastries to take it together, which has hallucinogenic effects, and is said to make the eater fluttering and happy like a fairy, and is extremely addictive. What's more, once you become addicted to Feiguang, you will never be able to get rid of it for the rest of your life.
Chen Tongsheng has heard that some people have died and gone bankrupt because of this, but he has also heard in the Chen family that some brothers and sisters will buy Feiguang to use if they are really boring. It seems that in the famous aristocracy, eating this thing is a common thing. Therefore, she is not surprised by Feiguang, but she is not so resistant and disgusted.
Chen Tongsheng's eyes wandered around the crowd, but he didn't find the master. Fang Heming came out at this time, I'm afraid it will only cause trouble for himself.
This matter has been found to be controllable and normal until now.
Kushui Village should be punished for breaking the law, and the villagers should be arrested for breaking the law, Chen Tongsheng just hesitated to go down quickly and push the village chief's wife behind the bluestone slab - after all, the village family treated them well.
However, then, just as Chen Tongsheng retreated, a salamander blade stabbed out of the dark night behind her, the speed was too fast, and the owner of the knife had been silently lurking for too long, so that Chen Tongsheng didn't have time to resist at all, and the blade had already reached her back.
"Dang!"
The bow behind Chen Tongsheng resisted this blow for her, and then the fabric on Chen Tongsheng's back broke, and the longbow fell straight down.
Chen Tongsheng raised his hand to block it, and saw the dark lines on the salamander wing knife, which also flickered in the night.
"Dark Guard?"
She whispered.
The secret guard's knife also exposed his actions, and the village chief's wife in the backyard screamed and ran into the house. However, in the darkness of the night, one after another, the people wearing sea whale robes were lowered, and the village lady was only one step away from the door when she was stabbed through the door.
Arnold had been hidden behind the bluestone, but it was clear that everything that had just happened in the backyard was clear and unguarded in front of the guards.
Those officers and soldiers are here to check Feiguang, and these secret guards, who have been lurking in the village for a long time, are here to arrest Fang Heming and Chen Tongsheng!