Chapter Eighty-Four: Cutting the Flag and Repelling the Sword
Han Fang sat in front of the bookcase, stroking a golden knife with a cloisonnΓ© diamond handle, which was a decorative knife with little practicality, and was thinking about when to pawn it for some silver money, so as to relieve the urgent need of the shriveled village with a money bag, put down the gold wire knife, and there was a piece of ivory micro-carved diamond scripture paperweight on the table, Han Fang's fingers touched the dense mosquito and fly small characters engraved on the paperweight, and sighed heavily, a penny starved to death of a hero.
Han Fang lives upstairs in the Zhongyi Hall, and when he opens the window, he can see the apricot yellow banner set up on the bluestone square, he is not like many men in the village who fall into the grass and just want to be happy, he has always been clean and self-righteous all these years, and he has not taken women up the mountain to do the tool of venting-desire, in the past, he went down the mountain to kill the rich and help the poor in Da Zhuangzi, or he blocked the road and cut the path, and the delicate little lady and pretty woman he met were distributed to his brothers, Song Kui and Fang Dayi, these brothers who sat in the first few chairs, were not greedy for money, but they liked to fight on women, and they fought hard, and every time he and Zhang Xiucheng had to persuade to calm things down, like this time Song Kui was cut off his head on the court, He left a few wives and concubines in the stockade, no accident tonight became the plaything on the bed of the rest of the brothers, this is also the reason why Han Fang is reluctant to marry a wife and take a concubine, to be a thief and a bandit, rarely enjoy his old age, to live to half a hundred years old is God's mercy and reward, the prosperity of the village, except for the drag of the family, there must be more than 200 brothers who can ride horses and kill people, come and go into the wind, there is no military town near Liuzhi Mountain for hundreds of miles, the government is not effective in suppressing bandits, and the village is not effective, and if you don't go to the official office, you will burn high incense if you cut off the heads of the officials and gentlemen in rowsγ
It's just that now the general trend of the village has gone, and there are only a dozen knives and horses under the powerful men, many of the brothers and brothers who were blood alliances back then, the dead are dead, and most of the living have gone to the rest of the villages on the mountain, and those who remain are dragged down by injuries and illnesses, raised in the village, and the temper is not small, either disgusted with no fresh women, or complaining about the lack of wine and meat, Han Fang also knows that he is burdened by fame, many words are not easy to say, and he can't even put on the slightest face, and now he can tell the truth, only Zhang Xiucheng, who has a considerable family background, is not terrible, and the tree is not terrible, and the people pushing the tree are cold, and some of the nearby villages that sent him to beg for food under the fence back thenWith sparing no effort to lure gold and silver and delicate women, gather a large number of people, from time to time to take brothers to the bottom of the mountain to kill a happy happy, several originally had a secret contact with Liuzhi Mountain, the township fort Zhuangzi, have been bulldozed without remembering the old feelings, those who are in charge of doing things unscrupulously, never pay attention to it, some even with the government military academy and catch fast have eyebrows, a lot of silver smashed into these people's pockets, but also helped to do a lot of blood-stained dirty work that should have been solved by the public errand door, not long ago with the silver bottle village of a good friend, spent five hundred taels of silver to privately hire the village gangsters, Go to a foreign knife and pen official in the yamen in the countryside village up and down the whole family of more than a dozen people, all to the blood slaughter, even a few young children did not let go, it is said that they were hung on the spear, and some other villages licked their faces to give Shenmen thatched cottage a few stewards willing to be dogs, recognized the uncle godfather, and even a forty-something village owner, recognized a young woman in the cottage as a godmother, just because she is a fierce concubine in the cottage, these things without the slightest moral shame, especially the collusion of officials and bandits, Han Fang has always been disdainful, and it is no wonder that a huge loyal village is declining, it is funny to say, the village can be scattered without falling, but also thanks to the green bamboo lady at the foot of the mountain, if it weren't for the fact that she had a dew marriage with the devil of the grass hall for half a year, the rest of the big villages must not look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, and they would have rushed to annex it with real knives and guns.
There were two knocks on the door, Zhang Xiucheng didn't need to wait for the promise, he pushed the door in, he and Han Fang were like-minded, and he was a military advisor in charge of the internal affairs of the village, so there was no need to be hypocritical in the details. Han Fang saw this confidant who had known each other for many years, and her mood improved, she shouted Zhang Xiucheng's words, and said with a smile: "Fu Ling, can't sleep?"
Zhang Xiucheng said with a gloomy face: "Fang Dayi and Hong Qian fought again, and threatened to set up a life and death situation, saying that they would not share the sky, and asked me to write a complaint, but I ignored anyone in a fit of anger, saving me trouble." β
Han Fang smiled: "For Song Kui's concubine who bought two hundred taels of silver from Qinglou?"
Zhang Xiucheng snorted coldly, "I keep saying that I am sticking a knife in my brother's ribs, but in the end, I am not pulling a knife for a woman and a brother." β
Han Fang said guiltily: "I also know that the woman in Lu Dao has actually hooked up with Hong Qian for an adultery, and she should have entered his house, but Fang Dayi was greedy and insisted on getting in the way, and it was really unreasonable to ruin this good thing." You are embarrassed, in fact, I am to blame, Hong Qian went to private school for a few years in his early years, and he has learned a lot of medical divination and astronomy with you over the years, and he also has a lot of ambitions, this kid is only twenty-four or five years old, and he wants to win a wife and a son with a knife and a gun, so that he can glorify his ancestors, if it were not for your cultivation, with his ability, he would have turned around and cast the door, changed a village that had a relationship with the government, secretly changed his household registration, and he had a good relationship with me, and the whole village knew that the righteousness of the Daoist side had a good relationship with me, and he also regarded himself as a child of the Han family, so it was my Han Fang's fault to make it difficult for you to be a person inside and outγ β
Zhang Xiucheng's face was slightly pale, and he waved his hand and said, "The words of the big boss are serious." Fu Ling is just a pity for this family business. β
Han Fang sighed lightly: "It's going to rain, and the mother is going to get married, it's all a helpless bad thing." β
Han Fang stood up, came to the window with the chief strategist, the breeze was blowing, and then the bright moonlight looked at the night view of the mountains, his mood was a little calmer, and he suddenly smiled: "The mother-in-law in the countryside is like the village, no matter how beautiful the fox is, it is also a local taste." β
Zhang Xiucheng smiled knowingly: "Hong Qianfang Dayi is just a village man, he has never tasted the delicacies of the mountains and seas, so he naturally has enough strength to compete for the size and bloodshed." You see, isn't this an invitation to come to the square to compete. β
Han Fang pressed his hands on the window railing, "Don't worry, Fang Dayi looks rough, his mind is actually a little more delicate than that of a Huaichun woman, he has the most calculations, he just took the opportunity to find trouble with Hong Qian, now that the village is withering and the third chair is vacant, he wants to sit under his ass first, Hong Qian's roots are not bad, his martial arts are steadily promoted, Fang Dayi can only rely on brute force to fight as soon as possible, and in another year and a half, there will be no need to compete with Hong Qian." This black cow is too smart, where do you know that Hongqian is not here at all, in fact, now make more friends with incense, and in the future, maybe you will have to rely on Hongqian to support the apricot yellow flag. Fu Ling, I will teach Fang Dayi a lesson when I go back, let him keep to himself, and you can also say a few words to Hong Qian, who is half an apprentice, let's really be a father and a mother, hard. β
Zhang Xiucheng said with a smile: "It's good, compared to those village owners who are grandsons, we can at least be regarded as elders for others." β
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Zhang Xiucheng frowned and asked, "Big boss, what should you do with that Gusai Prefecture scholar named Xu Lang?"
Han Fang shook his head and said: "Don't care, this time is different from the past, whether he is a scholar who travels to study, or a spy sent by the government, we can't afford to provoke it, the former is okay, treat each other politely, if it is the latter, even if he can't be provoked, he can always afford to hide." β
Zhang Xiucheng narrowed his apricot eyes, and his murderous aura was awe-inspiring: "It's okay, the government really dares to lead troops to kill us, leaving no way out, just let me take ten elite brothers to lurk in the city, and kill not a single chicken and dog in the backyard of these officials." β
Han Fang smiled: "You, the Heavenly Monarch of the Thunder Department, are not like a real person outside the square. β
Zhang Xiucheng's eyes were gloomy, and he muttered: "What kind of real person, he is a bandit in a Taoist robe, who will only subdue demons and catch ghosts in the pile of paper,"
Han Fang said with a regretful face: "It's a small village temple, and it can't tolerate Brother Fu Ling's talent and fists, if he can be a little bigger and grow to three hundred brothers, he will have the weight to ask for a price and an official, and he will be recruited by the imperial court, and he will have six or seven real power officials in the stream, and thirty or forty loose officials outside the ranks, not to mention Brother Fu Ling's longitude and latitude strategy, just in terms of the identity of the outer disciples of the Daode Sect, how can he deal with those firewood, rice, oil and salt in the village." β
Zhang Xiucheng stretched out his fingers and twisted his beard, and said with an open-minded smile: "Life and death are fate, wealth is in the sky, and ordinary people like me can't ask for it." β
Han Fang's eyes widened, and at the same time, the Taoist blurted out: "It's not right, how did this demon show up!"
Out of the corner of his eye, Han Fang glanced at the Taoist priest beside him.
On the school martial arts field paved with bluestone, I don't know when a group of people appeared, all of them are rare brocade clothes on the mountain, and even if the grass in the village wears silk costumes, it is inevitable that there is a suspicion of a monkey and a crown, these dozen handsome men and beauties are very temperamental, as if the immortals of the heavenly court descended to the earth, making people red and jealous, the middle-aged man led by him wore a wide-sleeved white robe, came barefoot, his face was like a crown of jade, he did not wear a sword, but there were several sword-holding swords and white teeth around him. There is such a magnificent scene, needless to say, it is also the noble people of the Shenmen Grass House of Changle Peak of Liuzhi Mountain. When Han Fang saw Hong Qian withdraw from the field, not to fight with Fang Dayi, and walked towards the graceful man who seemed to be a prince in the world, he made a respectful gesture, Han Fang's heart suddenly sank to the bottom, and sure enough, Hong Qian had secretly changed the courtyard and voted for the thatched cottage, Han Fang sneered at the corner of his mouth, and the Taoist Zhang Xiucheng was furious, angrily reprimanded a "evil obstacle", and his body swept out of the window and fell into the square, Fang Dayi and more than a dozen brothers in the village who watched the excitement were also like great enemies.
Zhang Xiucheng took out the pine-patterned peach wood sword behind his back, pointed at Hong Qian, and said sadly: "Hong Qian, the stockade treats you well, you killed officers and soldiers without permission at the beginning, and you were cornered, it was the master who took pity on you and contained you, why did you do such a disobedient thing?!"
Hong Qian's shallow words made Zhang Xiucheng, who was half a master, speechless: "People go to high places." β
Hong Qian continued to say expressionlessly: "Yes, it was me who told Zhongli Immortal Master, there is a strange man trying to get close to Qingzhu Niang, since Qingzhu Niang has entered the Caotang Immortal Mansion, she should have been born as a person in the Caotang, and died as a ghost in the Caotang, she has an inappropriate style, I will go and say a word to the Immortal Master, what's wrong with this? Master, the Immortal Master has promised me that as long as you are willing to leave the village, the Immortal Master will be extrajudicial and gracious, and the Caotang will have a place for you. The apprentice kindly set up a green cloud ladder for you, what is wrong? Zhongli Immortal Master came by the way on this trip, and he had no intention of worrying with the village, but just went to take the lives of the pair of dog men and women. β
The noble man who stepped on the ground barefoot finally spoke, squinted his eyes and said: "I heard that the two masters in Zhongyi Village are very skilled, otherwise they would have been fake sons for this immortal with Hong Qian, but they would have changed their original surname and given the surname Zhongli." But before this, Ben Xian has to see if it is in the eyes of my law, to see how your Han Fang stick method is to fight all over the border of the thirteen towns, to see if you Zhang Xiucheng can really lead the thunder, if this immortal is disappointed, this village will be flattened tonight, erase the name, this apricot yellow flag has long made the grass hall masters unpleasant, for the heavens, it is actually crooked, ridiculous. β
The man looked up, surprised.
At the top of the banner stood a young man with a sword in his hand.
He laughed angrily: "The little baby doesn't know the height of the sky, and dares to shake the little skills of carving insects in front of the immortals, and Hong Qian went to cut the flagpole." β
If it is to cut the flag, it is equivalent to a blood feud with the village, Hong Qian knows the importance of it, but he still gritted his teeth and ran forward, cutting off the flagpole with a knife.
Zhang Xiucheng, who didn't dare to stop Hong Qian in front of the demon in the grass hall, had a face like ashes.
Zhongyi Village is completely finished.
The flagpole fell with a bang and collapsed into the center of the square, but the wandering scholar, who only dared to make firewood with a widow at the foot of the mountain, did not stumble and fell to the ground, and his body was always as straight as a spear.
The flagpole was made into a sword, and it shot at the demon of the grass hall in a relaxed manner.
During the flood migration, he shouted angrily and slashed a knife, never thinking that the sharp blade would cut in, but instead of cutting off the flagpole, a huge force rebounded into the knife, and he could hardly hold the knife. The churning sea of qi staggered back a few steps, his eyes were horrified, and there was no trace of the weak scholar.
The grass hall demon surnamed Zhongli sneered, stepped out, stretched out a palm and pressed it on one end of the flagpole, breaking inch by inch.
The master's demeanor was undoubtedly displayed, and everyone only saw the picture of the momentum, but they didn't see his footsteps slipping back a few inches, and the demon raised his breath several times, but he couldn't stop the signs of retreating, and his eyes were already frightened.
When he saw the young swordsman disappear in a flash, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and said in a deep voice, "The sword is coming!"
The sword boy hurriedly threw out a simple ancient sword covered with ice crack muscle lines.
In the next scene, the young man stood in front of the famous middle-aged demon of Liuzhi Mountain, one hand Yue Yu Dai Ku caught the ancient sword for his master, and the other hand grabbed the devil's neck and lifted it up.
The adversary shattered a banner, and the young man twisted and shattered the ancient sword in his hand.
Xu Fengnian stared at this hideous red face, and asked coldly: "You also deserve to use a sword?" and the word 'sword'?" My QT room has been opened!