Chapter 4: Traps
Shen Yigong entered the Huo Mansion in this way. After Old Man Huo was buried for the first seven years, he recovered from his injuries and officially worshiped Huo Zuomen. Except that the daily food is much better than before, the work of pulling the rickshaw has not changed.
Huo Zuo asked his subordinates to scoop him up from the bed before dawn in the morning, and he had to drag Xu's mother to Hongkou to buy vegetables from four o'clock in the morning. It turned out that there was a special food delivery worker, and after Shen Yigong came, the food delivery worker also resigned. In the morning, I delivered the food, which was to run errands and pull people, so I sent this wife to Xuhui to buy a piece of cloth, and pulled that gentleman to Yangpu to find someone. If Huo Zuo also has something to use the car, no matter how far Shen Yigong is, he has to run back to pick him up.
Since entering Huo's house, Huo Zuo has not taught him any kung fu, only asked him to pull the cart, and the things he sent became heavier and heavier. He arranged it like this, Shen Yigong didn't dare to complain, and he did whatever the master said. Over time, he also found that after eating, he ran more distances throughout the day than before, but for some reason, the more he ran, the more energetic he felt.
From the end of December to the New Year, and then from the New Year to the beginning of spring. The snow melted, the weather was warm, and the begonia flowers in the Huo family's yard were blooming.
Shen Yigong has already developed the habit of getting up before dawn during this period of time. On this day, I had breakfast as usual and went to find Xu's mother, Xu's mother said that there is a food delivery worker from now on, and you don't need to pull the car anymore. asked his subordinates to take Shen Yigong to see Huo Zuo. Huo Congyi died, and the young master became the master. Huo Zuo also got up early, made a pot of tea and sat on the rattan chair outside the practice room, looking at the pot of iron trees in front of the practice room. After the servant brought Shen Yigong into the house, he turned around and closed the door and left.
Shen Yigong stood in front of Huo Zuo with some uneasiness. The morning sun casts through the skylight on the roof of the practice room, and there is an orange spot just above the ground. Huo Zuo came in from Shen Yigong, Tie Shu didn't look at it, closed his eyes and didn't speak, Shen Yigong didn't dare to speak first.
The light and shadow are ethereal, the dust is floating, and the air is filled with the fragrance of begonias in the courtyard. Suddenly, Huo's left fingertips tapped lightly on the table, and Shen Yigong bowed his hand respectfully and said, "Master." ”
"Pulled a car for a few months?"
"Three months."
Huo Zuo opened his eyes and looked at the young man whose head had risen slightly. Young people are like weeds, and when they have eaten well, they move a lot, and their heads grow uncontrollably.
"Don't pull the cart from now on." Huo Zuo threw two short wooden knives to Shen Yi's bowed feet, "Come with me." ”
Shen Yigong squatted down and picked up the knife.
Huo Zuo raised his steps and got up and walked towards the practice room: "Practicing martial arts is like climbing a mountain, a mountain is higher than a mountain, but you can't see where you are if you don't reach the top of the mountain." Killing people is like water, and how much skill you have is hidden under the water. In the final analysis, martial arts seek great goodness, but what people do is to lose their conscience and ruin their families. ”
After a pause, he stopped and glanced at him falsely, "I'll give you one last chance." It's too late to stop. As long as you kill someone, you can't go back. ”
Shen Yigong said firmly: "I came here, and I never thought about turning back. ”
Huo turned to the left, he happened to be walking under the skylight, half of his body was in shadow, and half of his body was called light. Hearing Shen Yigong's answer, he took a step back and completely fell into the shadows, as if he had bowed his head: "It's okay." ”
Shen Yigong looked at him.
"You can learn from me today."
Huo Zuo said that the Huo family's double knives were turned out of Guangdong boxing, and Huo Congyi himself melted the tricks of street killing into it, and the moves were completely deadly, and he didn't intend to leave the opponent alive at all. Huo Zuo came to the practice room every once in a while, and when he came, he only taught Shen Yigong and one move, and after teaching, he let him practice for half a month, and then teach him the next move when he was familiar with it. Playing basic skills, standing piles, squatting horse steps, and pulling the car for the first three months, Shen Yigong's lower plate is particularly stable.
After a few months, Huo Zuo said to Shen Yigong: "I'll hand over all the tricks to you, take a real knife and hit the stake." ”
The knife that Huo Zuo gave Shen Yibow didn't open, and it hurt when it hit his body. Shen Yigong was calm, not afraid of hardship or pain, he did whatever the master told him to do, he didn't talk much, he didn't slip his head less, and he only thought about revenge. With this breath in your heart, you will have a bone in doing things, and if you have a bone, you will naturally learn things quickly.
From the day he drove the stake, Shen Yigong only stayed in the practice room in the morning, accompanied Huo Zuo out in the afternoon, changed into a black gauze shirt, and followed the group of brothers behind him, like the shadow of this man.
Out of spring and into summer, the ventilation in the practice room was also hot and humid, and Shen Yigong had jumped up several inches in the past half a year. When he first came, he was full of injuries, and he couldn't stand up straight, and his body was up to Huo's left shoulder. Now it's as tall as Huo Zuo.
After Cheng Changyu entered the summer, he asked Huo Zuo to watch a play at the Qiankun Grand Theater, and when he saw Shen Yigong, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Half a child grows really fast, and he is so tall in half a year." ”
Just after the beginning of summer, the weather was not particularly hot, everyone wore linen shirts, only Cheng Changyu was foreign, shirts, suspenders and small leather shoes. A few people walked to the side room under the bag, and Shen Yigong followed closely behind Huo. He sat down, and he stood behind his chair. This kid has dark skin, and standing beside Huo Zuo, he is white and glowing. Huo Zuo ignored Cheng Changyu's words, and took the play list by himself: "Which one is singing today?" ”
"Dingjun Mountain, Boss Yu's."
Huo Zuo's trick was put down after a cursory glance: "You didn't just want to watch Boss Yu's play when you called me, right?" ”
Cheng Changyu grinned: "Let you say it." Two days ago, I went to a friend's house to play mahjong, and someone told me that there was a new girl named Jin Xiaoxu. Please take a look, and if you like it, please sing it at your house on your birthday next month. ”
"I can't understand the play, you can call it if you like it."
While talking here, the gong sounded on the stage, the curtain began to play, and these heroes also appeared one after another. Playing Xipi Erliu, Cheng Changyu shook his head and shook his head.
Huo Zuo leaned into the chair, he was not as obsessed with things on the stage as he was, he only looked at the audience. Wei Yiyi noticed Shen Yigong's eyes, and he was following Huang Zhong on the stage. Huo Zuo tilted his head and asked in a low voice, "Haven't you been to the big world before?" Shen Yigong came back to his senses, bowed his head with a little embarrassment and replied: "I only sent guests to the door, and I never came in." "Do you want to play?" "I don't want to. I will be there wherever Master is. ”
Huang Zhong on the stage said: "I will work successfully at three o'clock tomorrow afternoon." After singing, Cheng Changyu stood up excitedly and said hello, he didn't seem to notice the conversation between the two next to him, and stood there to greet the two: "Big brother, how is this old student's opening?" It's the Jin Xiaoxu I told you! ”
"This old student is not bad."
"Not bad! I'm going to look for her, do you want to come along? ”
"You're going to be a nymphomaniac, go yourself. Pull on the two of us to do something. ”
Huo Zuo joked like this, Cheng Changyu was not angry, his suit and tie were neat, and he really walked out of the box: "I'll go by myself." You don't regret it. ”
"I don't regret it."
Cheng Changyu went downstairs in a hurry, and Huo Zuo asked Shen Yigong to sit down.
Shen Yigong hesitated: "This is Mr. Cheng's seat, and he still has to come up." ”
"Come up, wouldn't it be nice if you got up again. That guy went downstairs and became a nymphomaniac, and he couldn't come back for a while. Sit down and watch the play. The theater's running hall came over to serve tea, Huo Zuo said nothing, and drank tea by himself without raising his eyebrows. Shen sat down with a bow. Fang is the opening excerpt, which made the newcomer take the stage to warm up, and this time it was Boss Yu's "Dingjun Mountain" that was sung again. Huo Zuo raised his head from the heat of the tea and saw the young man staring at the stage with burning eyes. The corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he didn't know what to laugh at.
Huo Zuo's fingertips were lightly raised, and the people behind him all exited the box, leaving the master and apprentice inside.
A scene can be sung for two or three hours, and Huo Zuo saw that Shen Yigong's kid was attentive and couldn't take his eyes off it.
When Liu Bei came to the stage in more than a dozen games, he opened his voice, and Shen Yigong suddenly let out a "hey". Huo Zuo looked at him: "What?" ”
"This old student who sang Liu Bei, wasn't he the one who came out to sing the excerpt before?"
Huo Zuo also took a closer look when he heard this, and it was indeed the "Jin Xiaoxu" of Cheng Changyu's nymphomaniac. But he was not in a hurry, he took the copper lighter and lit a cigarette and said: "You take someone to take a look near the backstage, and when you find Cheng Changyu, you can come back by yourself and don't disturb him." If you don't find it, look around to see if there are any strange people. ”
Shen Yigong hurriedly got up and went out. I went downstairs to look for the actor's backstage first, and asked around, saying that I had seen such a gentleman in a gray suit, but before Miss Jin came over, he asked his friend to call him away.
"Friends? What kind of friends? ”
The manager of the theater, Lao Youtiao, smiled: "I can't tell you this, there are so many people coming and going, who says a word of friend to everyone, you insist on me to say, that is a big guy in a floral shirt." ”
Shen Yigong withdrew from the backstage, and led people to think about where to start, when he saw a person with layers of bandages on his neck rolled up in the crowd. He first asked the brother to fetch the guy, and then went upstairs to report to Huo Zuo in the box: "Master, I saw someone from the Leopard Gang downstairs." ”
Huo Zuo seemed to have expected it, and shook off the ashes: "It's not surprising that it will come." ”
Shen Yigong didn't understand the meaning under Huo Zuo's eyes, so he just asked in a daze, "What now?" The brethren have gone to get the guys. ”
Huo Zuo's hand with the cigarette pressed it lightly, took the tea indifferently and took a sip, and didn't seem to be in a hurry: "Even if Qin Ye is here, he doesn't dare to brush the face of the old gentleman here, he is just a leopard gang, how big can there be a Buddha behind him?" ”
"That ......"
Huo Zuo's cold and slender peach blossom eyes swept downstairs, and said to Shen Yi: "There is a dock closest to here, and that piece of land is still the old man's." Counting the time Cheng Changyu disappeared, what to do, do you know? ”
Shen Yigong nodded: "I know." If anything happens, it will be done by myself, and it has nothing to do with Mr. Huo. ”
Huo Zuo waved his hand: "Go ahead." ”
As soon as Shen bowed and left, he also recruited the manager, got up and took the jade wrench on his thumb and whispered, "Let the old man see this thing with his own eyes." I am Huo Congyi's son, Huo Zuo. ”
A few minutes later, the manager came over and took Huo Zuo downstairs, and when he got downstairs, he saw from a distance that the guy who had opened his throat before was asking the thugs in the theater to surround him. The other party turned around and looked at him fixedly: "The surname is Huo, you should have killed me with one knife at the beginning, you didn't think there would be today, right?" ”
Huo Zuo was not in a hurry, he stood there and stared at him: "Look, have you found a big backer?" ”
"Backer? Ha. Your Huo family likes to be lackeys for others, but we are different. It's time for the Blue Dragon Club to come to an end, feng shui takes turns, it's our turn. ”
Huo Zuo extinguished the cigarette butt under his feet, put his hands behind his back and said with a smile: "From the very beginning, I felt strange in my heart. Your leopard gang eats bear heart and leopard gall again, this Huo Congyi is also an old man next to Qin Ye, and it is no good for you to move him. ”
"You killed so many of my brothers in one breath that day, so it was considered a 'benefit'?" The leader of the Leopard Gang had a black face.
"I've only killed a few people, and if you want to take it seriously, there will be a few more people." Huo Zuo's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he looked back at the light lit up at the entrance, who came, standing there and not yet walking, "You shouldn't have wanted to catch Cheng Changyu." As soon as Cheng Changyu grabbed it, your little foundation was transparent. ”
"What do you mean?"
"The Huo family's accounts are done by Cheng Changyu, what are you doing when you catch him as a powerless little clerk, in the end, it turns out that you are not seeking power but seeking wealth." Huo Zuo's unmoved back was inexplicably frightened, and he still had a smile on his face at the moment, the more he laughed, the more cold it became, "Do you think that the right time, place and people have come to you?" Do you think that this old man and his son-in-law Inspector Ma also have to join forces with you? Do you feel that the few factories that Qin Ye fancies should also be yours? Do you feel that no one in my Huo family can eat this game? ”
At this time, the other party glanced at the person coming from the door again, his face turned pale for a moment, but he still held on to his face: "Inspector Ma has instructed me to ......"
"What do you entrust you? You think clearly, who entrusted it? ”
"It's Inspector Ma's lover...... Wait, you surnamed Huo are calculating Lao Tzu! The other party finally reacted that he was already in Huo Zuobu's trap, and in a fit of anger he wanted to reach out and walk down, Huo Zuo raised his leg with a long swing, and the play at the front desk sang to the climax, babbling for a while.
The hem of his clothes fell, Huo Zuo dusted off the gray eyes on his body and looked at him: "I thought that you wouldn't fall on your heels in this little thing of leaning against the big tree." Who would have thought that it was just someone who borrowed a knife to kill people. If this is also called calculation, then throwing a bone at the dog and recruiting it into the house can also be called calculation? ”
"You—" The man called for help to his feet, and the gauze around his neck oozed scarlet again.
Huo Zuo turned around and looked at the person who walked in from the door: "I'm sorry, Inspector Ma." I'm sorry for the trouble. ”
"Trouble?" Hearing a hearty laugh, "With my Inspector Ma here, what trouble can there be!" ”
Huo Zuo politely smiled with the visitor: "Yes." In addition, you can also take these people back to fight. ”