Chapter 023: Voluntarily go to fetch firewood

"Auntie, why are you stepping on my toes?" Gong Changyu shouted.

"Boy, what do you think I'm going to do?" Lan Ping stepped on her toes.

Gong Changyu looked down, only to find that he was in a panic, and his shoes were worn backwards, so he hurriedly pulled his feet back. So he grabbed Lan Ping's hand, came to a beautiful golden rooster independence, and quickly changed his shoes.

"You know it's wrong, right? Boy, my aunt will give you a word, those who practice martial arts must learn how to use Zhang Fei's tricks. Don't act recklessly, especially when your opponent is playing against you, and keep a fresh mind at all times. Lan Ping said earnestly.

"Auntie, I don't really understand what Zhang Fei means. Isn't Zhang Fei just a big old man in the Three Kingdoms period, and his strategy is all based on Zhuge Liang, how can he use strategy? Can you put it in layman's terms? Gong Changyu looked up at Lan Ping.

"Little ghost, I want you to study hard and don't read, now you know that the glutinous rice is from Mi Chung, right?" Lan Ping poked Gong Changyu's forehead.

"I've only been in private school for a month, and Mr. Yu hasn't taught me yet, so I don't know." Gong Changyu felt that his forehead seemed to be a little painful, and wiped it with his fingers, and after a closer look, there was a little blood on his fingers, it turned out that Lan Ping's nails accidentally pierced a little skin on his forehead, "Auntie, you punctured my forehead......"

"Old learner, what is this little injury, your aunt and I fought against those robbers who came to the Zhujia compound to rob, and bloodshed is commonplace." Lan Ping rolled up his sleeves and exposed his arms, and the scars on his hands were vivid.

"Auntie, are the robbers tired of being alive and dare to come to the Zhujia compound to make a mistake?" Gong Chang was puzzled, tilted his head and asked.

"Not really. Every autumn harvest season, the robbers have to come to Tangwei to rush to Guan Yang (take hostages and extort money). If it weren't for me and your uncle, Aunt Yinyue, and the brothers of the musket team who resisted desperately, I don't know how many times they set fire to the big courtyard? Lan Ping smiled.

"Abominable robbers, why don't you drive them all out?" Gong Changyu raised his small fist.

"I can't finish killing, in addition to the robbers in Wuyou County, there are also robbers in the counties of Baocheng Prefecture, and they are in cahoots with the Blue Wolf Country on the border of Western Guangdong. Lan Ping sighed, "Is the sky dead?" ”

"I'm almost out of gas. These robbers and bandits have a background. Feng Zun, the lord of the Blue Wolf Country, used the Red Lotus Sect to collude with the robbers and bandits in our Qinghe country to bully the common people and disturb the people's hearts, and then gave these robbers some meaningless titles and land. Shaw's mother-in-law said as she looked at the river that was rushing eastward.

"Today's world is very chaotic, the Qinghe Kingdom is at war with foreign armies, and there is no time to take care of the remote areas of Jingnan County, the power of the Red Lotus Sect cannot be underestimated, I wish the family compound a little bit of armament, and it will be all right to be able to drive them away."

"Grandma, the Red Lotus Sect has exhausted our Gong family's business, and almost everyone is ruined, if I don't kill them with my own hands in this life, I will not be a man!" Gong Changyu pushed a boulder on the bank of the river into the water.

"Silly boy, if you are not a human, do you still want to be a monster?" Lan Ping said with a smile.

"Auntie, if Lao Xue goes to the battlefield and holds a sword, gun, sword and halberd, he will no longer be a human being, but a mobile meat grinder. In the future, if I am fortunate enough to become a warrior of the Qinghe Kingdom and meet the army of the Blue Wolf Country on a narrow road, they will be the radish and cabbage in my eyes! One knife and one ......" Gong Changyu was excited.

"Yo ho, when it comes to fighting, you're endless. Kid, real knives and guns are not just words. You're still young, practice your real skills first, don't worry about no chance! Lanping gave Gong Changyu an approving look, "Let's go, let's go to the City God Temple to kowtow to the land mother-in-law and the land father-in-law a few times, maybe the dream will come true." ”

"Auntie, you're fooling me again. If the Bodhisattva works, I will kowtow to them a hundred times, and they can ...... a thousand times" Gong Changyu stuck out his tongue and made a grimace.

"Don't talk nonsense, sincerity is spiritual." Lan Ping carried a basket containing a large grass carp and pulled Gong Changyu to Sifang Mountain.

Twenty minutes later, the group arrived at the Chenghuang Temple on the top of the mountain, Gong Changyu was the first to run into the temple, put the big grass carp in front of the Bodhisattva, knelt on the ground, folded his hands, and whispered: "Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva, if you protect me on the road to glory and help me, smooth sailing, I Gong Laoxue will use the whole pig and whole sheep to worship you in the future......"

Several adults couldn't hear what Gong Changyu was saying, and when they saw that he was very pious, they couldn't help laughing.

"Shhhh Gong Changyu raised an index finger between his lips and teeth and said.

"Okay, okay, then you can kowtow to the Bodhisattva a few more......" Gong Liu said to his son with a smile. Gong Changyu really kept kowtowing to the Bodhisattva, and he didn't stop until everyone went down the mountain......

After returning from the Chenghuang Temple, Gong Changyu lived in the Zhu family compound for a few days, because his aunt asked him to accompany his little cousin to study, which was really boring, and he missed his grandmother and mother, so he secretly ran back to Baishui Village.

When Gong Changyu was ten years old, the family was really unsustainable, and there was no way, so Gong Liu had to foster his son in his brother-in-law's house, and told his sister to train his nephew to be a talent with both civil and military skills, so that he could inherit the family business in the future.

Gong Laoxue came to Zhu's house this time, and in the eyes of Zhu Qi's room, it was a good omen and would bring him good luck. Therefore, Zhu Yuanwai agreed without hesitation, and after Gong Liu left, his wife Lan Ping pouted and said: "Dead old man, treat an outsider as a baby, I think you will feel good in the future!" ”

Zhu Qimu was not annoyed, and smiled: "Don't we have a son yet?" Maybe in the future, we will have to rely on him. ”

Lan Ping scolded: "You just dream, you are lazy to eat, you are not hungry, you are strange!" ”

Zhu Qimu shook his head and said, "No, madam." Don't say that I don't remind you, be kind to Lao Xue, don't scold Lao Xue's short-lived ghost and chop you up at every turn, if he becomes a general, he will hate you for the rest of his life. ”

Lan Ping was unhappy: "Didn't I curse Lao Xue, is he like that, can he become a general?" I'm pretty much the same as the gambling stick. ”

Zhu Qi's room was convinced: "Madam, don't beat people to death with a stick." I told the fortune of Lao Xue, and I was the life of a rich and noble lucky general. ”

Lan Ping stopped talking, because she was her own aunt, her husband was proficient in the Book of Changes, and he generally didn't look away from people, so he temporarily believed that his old man was fine.

Returning to the Zhu family this time, Gong Changyu changed slightly. Under the influence of his uncle, he began to practice martial arts, dancing with swords and guns, but he was always absent-minded when he read. The little cousin Zhu Rongsen was only five or six years old, and he studied with him, and every time he recited the Four Books and Five Classics, he was better than him for thirty miles.

When his uncle spot-checked Gong Changyu to memorize the text, the little cousin always stood aside and secretly reminded him, so he was reluctant to make it difficult. If the little cousin is not there, it means that the cow's head is not in the horse's mouth and eats big duck eggs.

Zhu Qimuro looked at this unmotivated nephew, and was really a little discouraged: "Old learner, you can't memorize books, give me firewood in the mountains and forests every day to show punishment." ”

Gong Changyu hurriedly put down the book: "Okay, thank you, uncle, I'll go collect firewood immediately." ”

Zhu Qimu was so angry that he shook his head again and again: "Go, go, come back from collecting firewood, and practice martial arts again." ”

Gong Changyu took a firewood knife, stepped on a fish basket, and went out, don't go while humming a song about Hang'er Langdang: "I'm not a piece of material for reading, I smile when I go up the mountain to fetch firewood." When I came back from collecting firewood, I caught the loaches and took them home, and I collected them (eaten). ”

Aunt Lan Ping shouted in the back: "Old learner, remember to come back early, don't miss the time for dinner." ”

Gong Chang replied without looking back: "I know-"

Collecting firewood is a piece of cake for Gong Changyu, and in less than half an hour, a load of more than 100 catties of firewood will stand on the ground. Then he carried the firewood, walked out of the mountains and forests quickly, and as soon as he put the firewood on the side of the stream, he caught loaches, fish, and crabs.

The stream is fast, and most of the harvests will not be ruthless, because on a whim, Gong Changyu will always go to the paddy fields to walk around, and if the fish basket is not loaded with four or five catties of fish, he will not stop.

Lunch is basically to nibble on some dry food, or eat some wild fruits in the mountains to satisfy hunger, and drink mountain spring water or stream water when thirsty. As the saying goes, eating fish is not as flavorful as catching fish, and Gong Changyu has a deep understanding. Before the sun went down, he returned with firewood and a basket of fish.

At that time, the farmland was privately owned by landlords and rich peasants, and powerful people did not allow others to go to their fields to catch loaches at will. In Tangweichong and its nearby villages, because the people of Zhu Qi's room are strong and have always been generous and kind, others did not say anything, so naturally Gong Changyu's ability to catch loaches with his bare hands is getting higher and higher.

Every time Gong Changyu came back from collecting firewood, the fish basket was full. When my aunt saw that Gong Changyu was diligent and energetic, she began to like this nephew a little.

One winter, Gong Changyu took his eight-year-old cousin to the farmland where he was cut off to catch loaches, and unwittingly ran to the field of a landlord surnamed Dai in a neighboring village.

There are so many loaches, they are alive and kicking, and they keep drilling in the water. The two old watches caught happily, and after a while, there was a half-fish basket. Zhu Rongsen Coke is broken: "Old situation (brother), let's have a loach hot pot when we go back tonight." ”

Gong Changyu said: "That's natural, Lao Yi (brother) come and help, I can't catch it alone." ”

Zhu Rongsen also rolled up his trouser legs and went down to the paddy field, and grabbed them with Gong Changyu, and soon the two brothers' fish baskets were almost unfittenable.

The landlord Dai Mingshi and a few servants have been waiting on the ridge for a long time, when they saw two little guys catching loaches in their fields, they were angry, frowned, and said pretendly: "Gong Laoxue, come up quickly, I bought all your loaches!" ”

The two brothers didn't know what to do, and they climbed up from the paddy field in a hurry: "Okay, uncle." Look at how fat this loach isβ€”"