12. The real rivers and lakes
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At this time, how can you see that Mrs. Ye should not be a person who wants to eat white food.
"This is too precious, little brother, since you are not them, just wait for the next time you pass by, settle the money, who hasn't had a difficult time." The old man reasoned and handed the gem back to Mrs. Ye.
"It's okay, these possessions are nothing to me." Mrs. Ye shook her head and said.
But the old man insisted on returning the gem, and Mrs. Ye could only accept it, and said, "Then tomorrow I will go to the pawnshop to exchange some money and settle the account again." ”
At this time, the girl called Komarimaru also turned her head from the old man's arms, her eyes were still hazy with tears, but she was not so afraid.
She said timidly: "You, aren't you really one of those people?" ”
Mrs. Ye touched her head and said with a smile: "It shouldn't be, why did you just say that there are no chivalrous, only demons?" ”
Xiao Maru wiped his eyes with one arm and said, "Because heroes can only kill, they also made Marimaru crippled, and Tingting is avoiding me when she sees me now." ”
Mrs. Ye turned her head to look at the old man who was frowning deeply, and asked, "Uncle, can you tell me what happened?" ”
The old man hugged the pill, sighed and sat down, and explained the truth of the matter.
It turned out that the old man's surname was Xu, and he had a son named Xu Ying, who was a disciple of the Huwei Gang, a small sect in Jingzhou City.
In these years, who doesn't want to take on a three-foot iron sword to turn the rivers and lakes that they think are magnificent and full of pride?
Although every chivalrous man has this kind of ambition, most of them are silent in this rivers and lakes that eat people and don't spit out bones, and they can't make any waves.
Take this Huwei Gang as an example, it is not a decent family, and naturally there will be no pilgrims and believers.
The sect wants to run, what should I do?
In addition to charging a high entrance fee in order to get a basic cheatbook, the disciples are also responsible for doing the "private work" that those gangs take over, such as helping people dart today, doing security for people tomorrow, and having a good gang to fight with others the day after tomorrow, and there is an urgent shortage of thugs, what should I do?
A few taels of silver for one person.
Yes, this is the underlying rivers and lakes, and it is also the main tone of the rivers and lakes.
There's no way, heroes also have to eat, you can't put down the sword in your hand, you can't afford to hold the hoe at home, and you don't have peerless martial arts, if you don't tie your head to the waistband of your trousers, what can you do to support your family?
Didn't you see that every year in the pawnshop, a large number of "peerless swords" will be collected at a low price, and then placed in the corner to make dust, and there are not a few heroes who swore at the beginning to come back to redeem?
And for this kind of gang dispute, the government also turns a blind eye, if you really want to manage it, how can you manage it?
Which decent disciple doesn't have a few lives on his hands?
Even the compassionate Shaolin Xuanci Abbot, if you say that if you kill one person and pay for your life, it is not enough to cut off ten heads for him.
Besides, if it were those famous and upright families, they would have already formed a form of sub-jurisdictional jurisdiction with the imperial court, such as Shaolin Kunlun and other big factions, the disciples of the past dynasties add up to thousands, and everyone is a martial arts expert, how many talents are there in the local government who can do martial arts?
If your imperial court really rushes in to arrest people, then I'm afraid you will have to transfer tens of thousands of armored soldiers from the imperial city or the frontier, and divide them into several ways to encircle and suppress, and it will also cause a backlash from other sects!
For the sake of a person's life and death, you launched a large-scale battle of tens of thousands of people in the country, is it worth it?
Therefore, the government and martial arts people also have a certain consensus, that is, the gang's affairs are solved by the gang itself, and if you report to the official, it will be a broken rule.
And Xu Ying is one of the few chivalrous warriors who still has the beliefs of the past after seeing the real rivers and lakes.
Compared with those "chivalrous" who are committed to fighting, eating meat and drinking a lot, and forgetting why they took the sword in the past, they do justice on weekdays, and they do not do less things that are uneven, and they have also won a good reputation between Sanxiang and Wuli.
Fellow villagers, regardless of whether they know each other or not, when it comes to him Xu Ying, who doesn't give a thumbs up, saying that the old Xu family has a well-known hero.
But his mistake was that he was nosy when the disciples of the "Xuanyuan Sword Sect" sect of the first major faction in Jingzhou were traveling.
On that day, Zhao Fei, the son of the king of Jingzhou County, went out to hunt in autumn, and the momentum was huge, in addition to the fifty Huangjia iron horsemen, there were also several elders of the Xuanyuan Sword Sect who led a large group of disciples to accompany him.
All the way, the ban on riding on the official road is like a decoration, people turn over on their backs, and they scatter one after another, but who dares to say it out loud?
Although the number of private soldiers nominally raised by the county king is only three hundred, but his Xuanyuan Sword Sect can become famous in Jingzhou, and he is more or less dependent on this prince, it can be said that although he is not a private soldier, he is better than a private soldier, and it is said that the tribute to the palace every year is carried by several carriages, and boxes of real money and silver are carried into the Hanging Flower Gate.
Once on the painting boat of the Hudu River, an Oiran who dared to resist was stabbed through the chest and abdomen with a shot, and hung on the flagpole for three days to expose to the sun, so he was called the "evil Jiao", where would he care about the thoughts of these flat-headed people, it was all the way to his hunting place, declaring that he would slaughter the lions, tigers and bears in that mountain.
The people of the Huwei Gang were on the side of the official road at that time and witnessed this scene completely.
At that time, in the center of the official road, there happened to be a pregnant woman who was close to giving birth, and when she saw a large group of people rushing to kill, she was naturally frightened, and when she hurriedly wanted to avoid it, it happened that the amniotic water broke, and she knelt down in the center of the official road alone in horror.
Xu Ying was the only one present, and he dared to go to the rescue when the iron horse was approaching.
But the Huangjia Iron Rider who can open the road cares so much, the prince is interested, and he doesn't look at whether it is a pregnant woman, so he directly picks up the tip of the gun, hangs it on the barrel of the gun, rides a few feet, and throws the corpse aside.
Xu Ying, as the only one who stepped forward to help, was not saved, but let the fishy amniotic fluid and hot blood splash his face.
Pifu is still angry, not to mention that he is a seven-foot man?
So Xu Ying, a third-rate disciple of the third-rate sect, drew out the third-rate sword.
But the high-ranking prince didn't look at him much, and the scabbard of the guard beside him swept away, and he flew away with his iron sword, and drove straight away.
However, there were two disciples of the Xuanyuan Sword Sect who stopped at the signal of the elder.
There were no evil words against him, no insults to the deceased, but just indifferent and pitying eyes, thinking that it was his wife, and bluntly said that he would compensate him with money.
Xu Ying, whose face was covered with scarlet blood, bent down, but instead of picking up the silver coin thrown on the ground, he glanced at the Huwei gang who had dispersed in a hurry and picked up his iron sword.
Uncle Xu remembered that Xu Ying was pressed back by two disciples of the Xuanyuan Sword Sect, covered with scars, bleeding from the seven orifices, and when he was conceited of the sword, this man, who had never shed a single tear, knelt straight in front of him and Xiao Marumaru, howling and crying, kowtowing and repenting.
He said that he had killed someone and was going to pay for his life now, but he didn't regret it, he was just afraid of implicating his grandfather and grandson, and if he was given another chance, he would still cut those two swords.
He is a third-rate swordsman, but he is a first-rate knight.