Chapter 42 A Chance Encounter in the Hutong Zuo Zhengxiong
Lin Xu, who went out, was actually a little helpless. I didn't expect to change the bank to do things, and I would encounter a bank robbery.
The advantage of a remote bank is that it is less crowded, it is faster, there is no need to queue, and it is quiet, but the disadvantage is that it is too remote and easy to be targeted by robbers and become the target of attack.
Some people say that robbery is the most untechnical, but that also scores what to rob, like robbing a bank in these years, that is a very technical thing. How to plan in advance, how to escape afterwards, how to not recruit the police, how to successfully complete the work, how long to evacuate, and what to do in case of emergencies? All these need to be carefully laid out and arranged, and all need to be taken into account, otherwise as long as there is a problem in one link, the final plan will definitely fail.
The three robbers' plan to rob the bank can be considered very successful, they chose an easy bank to get started, and it went smoothly at first. If it weren't for Lin Xu, they would probably succeed, but unfortunately, they ran into Lin Xu.
Although he subdued the three robbers, Lin Xu still felt a little unlucky, because the matter was almost not done. Fortunately, the three robbers cut off the bank's telephone line and alarm line before they started, otherwise someone would have called the police quickly, and it would have been a bit troublesome, and he might not have been able to handle the matter of transferring the 1.5 million checks today. Fortunately, the end result is that it is finally done, which is not bad.
After getting out of the bank, it was almost noon, and after Lin Xu arrived at the intersection, he waved to stop a taxi, and then asked the driver to recommend the special food of the capital and go directly to lunch.
After lunch, he didn't choose to take a taxi and walked straight back to the hotel. One is to consume food by the way, and the other is to slow down and enjoy the cityscape of Xiayan Road. Otherwise, it is a bit of a rash ride to always take a taxi to and fro.
He was unfamiliar with the capital, so he simply wandered aimlessly, wherever he went. Walking around, I came to an old town, surrounded by old buildings such as courtyard houses. The alleys were also quite deep and narrow, not as wide as the roads are now, and the ground was paved with ancient green bricks, not the current asphalt or cement.
At a glance, he immediately thought that this should be a famous alley in the capital. Hutong culture and tourism are also a major feature of the capital. Some people on the Internet say that if you want to better appreciate the customs and customs of the capital, you can basically experience it by visiting the hutongs. Thinking of this, I walked in with great interest.
The dwellings in the alleys are quite old, and some are even the buildings left over from the Ming and Qing dynasties, which are basically low courtyard houses, zigzag, and deep alleys.
Lin Xu watched while walking, and he was very interested in shopping alone. Sometimes, when I come across a special snack sold on the street, I buy a few and eat it while walking.
Here alleys are connected to alleys, alleys to alleys, and after walking for a long time, he himself doesn't know which alley he has reached, and even his sense of direction is slightly lost. But he didn't care, anyway, he was just wandering around by himself, and he was wandering around. Even if you get lost, it's okay, some alleys can still come in for taxis, and if you want to go out when the time comes, you can just wave for a taxi. If you can't find a taxi, it's easy to ask someone.
When he was about halfway through this unknown alley, suddenly a small vermilion gate in the courtyard seven or eight paces ahead of him opened, and from inside came a woman with a beautiful life. He looked fixedly, but when he saw that it was Su Zi, he couldn't help but be surprised.
"Why are you here?"
After Su Zi strode out of the door, although she hadn't turned her head to look at Lin Xu, people who practiced martial arts often watched the six ways and listened to the eight directions, so although she hadn't turned around and looked at it, she had already seen Lin Xu in the corner of her eye. After recognizing that it was Lin Xu, she couldn't help but be very surprised and immediately turned her head to Lin Xu and asked.
Lin Xu smiled when he heard this, and said, "I was just about to ask you this!"
"Who is it?" Suddenly, behind Su Zi, an old but still energetic voice sounded and asked. As the words fell, an old man with gray hair and about sixty or seventy years old walked out from behind Su Zi. When he came out, he saw Lin Xu and turned his head to look.
Seeing this, Lin Xu also looked at the old man, but when he saw that the old man looked gray-haired and sixty or seventy years old, his face was ruddy, and he looked old and strong. The old man was wearing a loose white practice uniform with buttons, and he was holding two iron galls in his left hand.
After glancing at Lin Xu, the old man asked Su Zi with a smile, "Miss Su, who is this little friend?"
When Su Zi heard this, she introduced: "It's a friend of mine, called ......" She paused here and continued: "Xu Lin." ”
When Lin Xu heard this, he couldn't help but glance at her with a little gratitude when he saw that she kept her real name as promised in front of outsiders.
"Oh, Xu Lin!" The old man looked at Lin Xu and nodded, and smiled at Su Zi again: "Since you can make friends with Miss Su, I don't know which sect is Gaozu?"
Lin Xu didn't wait for Su Zi to answer, took the words and said to the old man: "No way, no send." ”
"Oh!" the old man nodded again, but a little coldly.
"Xu Lin, let me introduce you. At this time, Su Zi pointed to the old man and said to Lin Xu: "This is Zuo Zhengxiong, the old man of Zuo, who is the head of Zuojiaquan in the capital." ”
When Lin Xu heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised again, thinking that this old man was the Zuo Zhengxiong who recognized Huang Zongwen's identity a few days ago. No wonder Su Zi came here, it turned out that he came to visit and asked this Zuo Zhengxiong about the situation when he met Chu Huanghe that day. And this Zuo Zhengxiong is a native of the capital, and it seems that he lives in the courtyard behind him, which should be his home.
At this time, Zuo Zhengxiong listened to Su Zi's introduction, shook his head and said with a smile: "Miss Su, you have a good reputation, what is not in charge, my Zuo family boxer, even a few grandchildren of my own family do not want to learn, and now I will take two apprentices, where is it still a door, I dare not compare with your Tianshan faction." ”
After Lin Xu waited for him to finish, he nodded to this Zuo Zhengxiong and said, "Hello!"
He is not used to any etiquette, and he feels that since he has entered the modern society, he does not have to follow any ancient etiquette. What is the right hand fist, the left palm, the right hand five fingers into a fist, the left hand four fingers straight, both hands one stick, what represents the five lakes and all the four corners of the brother. And he is a natural withdrawn person, and even a little withdrawn, he doesn't like to call people and salute people. So although Su Zi introduced him as a senior, he also nodded and said hello.
This is the normal way of communication he usually uses to meet strangers for the first time, no matter who it is, whether it is a martial arts predecessor or not, and he is not familiar with it when he meets for the first time, that is, he nods and says "hello", and some don't want to intersect at all, he doesn't even bother to say hello. When everyone meets each other, they don't have to know each other. There are a lot of people passing by on the street, and I don't necessarily know everyone.
It's just that when he thinks so, others are not. He felt that this was a very normal way of greeting and communicating, but in Zuo Zhengxiong's opinion, he felt that his greeting was very cold and impolite. Therefore, when I heard this, I was also quite displeased. I thought that the head disciple of the Tianshan faction, one of the seven major factions of Su Zitang, also called him a senior, and had good manners, this kid was a nameless junior who had no door or faction, but he dared to take it with him.
Thinking like this, he didn't show anything on his face, but smiled quite kindly, walked over to Lin Xu and said: "This new era and new society, don't be that old-fashioned, let's also have a handshake." With that, he stretched out his hand to Lin Xu.
Seeing this, Lin Xu agreed with an "oh" again, and politely reached out to shake the old man left.
I didn't want Fang to hold it, but this Zuo Zhengxiong suddenly clenched his strength, and his hand, which was as old as a tree root, was also as tight as an old tree's roots.
Lin Xu didn't expect this old man to come to this trick with him, but he was not afraid, and as soon as his internal strength was lucky, he clenched it back with his backhand, and compared his strength with this old man.
Seeing this, Zuo Zhengxiong couldn't help but be shocked, and then continued to exert strength.
Sensing that the other party's strength had increased, Lin Xu was also uncompromising.
When the old man clenched it, it was a few hundred catties of strength, and as it increased, it went straight up to a thousand catties, and then it was still climbing. It's just that when it reaches about 1,600 catties, it is a little exhausted, and it is difficult to continue the strength. As he tried to exert his strength again, his face was already red and his forehead was sweating.
Seeing that the old man had reached his limit, Lin Xu shook his hand lightly and shook it off.
Judging from the strength of its growth and the way it exerts its strength, this old man is also at the level of an external force realm. It is estimated that when you are young, you can have a ton of strength to reach the peak of external forces, but as you get older, it is inevitable that there will be some regression, and it is difficult to maintain your peak state.
If you don't enter the realm of internal strength, the older you get, the more difficult it is to maintain your skills as your muscles and bones age. Even if you can reach the level of transformation strength in the external force realm, as long as you can't enter the Dan with strength and cultivate into the internal force realm, you will never be able to cross this threshold, and you will not be able to get rid of the absolute natural law of birth, old age, sickness and death.
Only by cultivating to the realm of internal force can we nourish ourselves with internal force, prolong life, dispel illness and maintain health, and even have a certain effect of rejuvenating the appearance and delaying the aging of our body. For every increase in internal force cultivation, it is basically nothing to live an extra five or six lives. The best effect can even extend the life span by ten years. To the twelvefold perfection of internal force, you can basically live for more than 100 years, or even more than 200 years old.
When Huang Zongwen was famous in the name of Chu and the Yellow River, it was decades ago. This Zuo Zhengxiong can know Huang Zongwen, naturally he is here, and it is estimated that he should be a martial arts figure of the same generation. But Huang Zongwen's appearance looks like he is more than half a hundred years old at most, and even more than forty years can be said, and no one believes it. But his real age, Lin Xu believes, is not just as big as it seems, I am afraid that like this old man on the left, there are also sixty or seventy. It's just that his internal cultivation is exquisite, and his appearance is meritorious, so he looks much younger, and he is not comparable to the external force realm of the old man Zuo.
Seeing that the competition was not comparable to Lin Xu, Zuo Zhengxiong couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, but this guy deserves to be an old Jianghu, from Lin Xu's skill and age, as well as the way he exerts his strength, he also judged that Lin Xu, like Su Zi, is also a master who has entered the realm of internal strength. He immediately laughed, concealed his embarrassment, and said: "It turns out that Little Brother Xu is also a young handsome man who has directly entered the realm of internal strength, no wonder he can be friends with Miss Su!
"It's Senior Zuo, don't be surprised, Xu Lin has a straight temperament, and he doesn't know what to do. When Su Zi heard this, he stepped forward to play a round for Lin Xu.
Lin Xu didn't have anything to say, just smiled slightly at Zuo Zhengxiong with the corner of his mouth.