A few miles outside Beijing, in a small town, Li Dingguo and other five boy cadets walked in a line, their faces showing the joy and joy of young people.

The newly established martial arts school was not placed with the Academy of Sciences because it was too noisy to train all day, but was placed outside the city, probably in the area of Haidian District in later generations. There was originally a royal garden here, called Haoshan Garden, which was ordered by Zhu Youzhen to be rebuilt into a martial arts college. After Li Dingguo and other hundreds of boy students from northern Shaanxi came to Beijing with the emperor, they entered the martial arts school of Haoshan Garden.

The birth of the prince, the whole world celebrates, and martial arts is also a rare three-day holiday, Li Dingguo and others meet to go shopping in the street market and buy some things by the way.

Although it is only a remote village outside the city, it is still relatively prosperous outside the city of Beijing after all, and there are a lot of all kinds of fun and delicious food in the market. Although they are child students, they still have a monthly salary, but not much, but the martial arts are in charge of food and housing, and they can't spend money at all on weekdays.

Li Dingguo has no interest in eating, but he has a fancy for a short knife, which is not expensive, as long as five dollars of silver, he will pay for it.

"There are all kinds of weapons in martial arts, and this kind of knife made in the countryside can only be used to kill chickens, and it can be used to buy it." Liu Wenxiu said puzzled.

Li Dingguo took the short knife and gestured twice, and said: "The blade of martial arts is not allowed to be taken out, although this knife is short but quite sharp, it is suitable for personal carrying, maybe it will be used when it will be used." ”

After paying the money, he was about to continue walking, when suddenly there was a sound of scolding and fighting.

Several men dressed as slaves kicked the door and rushed into a courtyard next to them, and were smashing things all over the yard, and the owner of the yard, a man, came out to stop him, but was knocked to the ground, and the two slaves beat him violently.

"Cheng Lao Er, the Zhou family can only talk to you if you are good, you dare to speak disrespectfully, this beating is to make you increase your memory." A man dressed as a steward stopped the slaves and said coldly to the man who was beaten with blood on his face.

"Sell your family's land to the Zhou family, I won't lose you, two taels of silver per acre, this matter will be considered over, otherwise don't talk about you, even if you are full of children, don't think about it."

"Phew!" That Cheng Lao Er stiffened his neck, and his face was unconvinced, "Outside the Jingshi City, one acre of land is worth eight or nine taels of silver, and you only give two taels, why don't you grab it?" The land was given to my family by His Majesty, and my eldest brother is a Praetorian Guard, and he is His Majesty's own army. ”

The steward looked around and laughed: "Your Majesty is pro-army? Boss Cheng is just a big soldier, is he really a dish? ”

The slaves in the courtyard also laughed wildly.

Cheng Lao Er stared at him fiercely, his face full of rebelliousness. Seeing Cheng Lao Er's appearance, the steward frowned.

"It seems that if I don't subdue you today, Jiading Bofu will not have any face. Beat me hard, and if you refuse to beg for mercy, you will be beaten to death!" ”

Several hao slaves surrounded and beat up again, and Cheng Lao Er held his head and held on silently. A woman rushed with a few children crying, but was stopped by the slaves.

"Stop!" Li Dingguo couldn't stand it anymore and came out of the crowd. Liu Wenxiu and the other four boy students followed closely and walked into the courtyard.

"Who should I be, it turned out to be a few hairy babies!" The steward was going to be angry, "At a young age, do you want to be uneven, let's go home and breastfeed." ”

Li Dingguo said with a serious face: "The master here is a soldier of the Praetorian Guard, who is fighting on the battlefield for the country, and their land is given by His Majesty, what qualifications do you have to take it away?" ”

The steward smiled: "Whoever said we want to take it is a fair deal." Besides, the affairs of Jiading Bofu, can you be a hairy child? Get out of here. ”

With his words, a hao slave came over and pushed Li Dingguo with his hand.

Li Dingguo took a deep breath and suddenly raised his foot and kicked out, and the slave screamed and rolled on the ground with his crotch.

The steward was furious, and said with a hideous face: "Take down these hairy children, dare to resist and beat them to death!" ”

Although Li Dingguo was wearing martial arts student costumes, in the eyes of the steward, a few boy students were nothing at all. Most of the martial arts students recruited are ordinary children, a large part of them come from the poor countryside in northern Shaanxi, and there are no powerful children who are willing to go.

"Array!" Li Dingguo shouted, and the five boy students quickly gathered and formed a small formation to fight with the slaves.

Don't look at their small people, but their hands and feet are neat and their hands are fast, and several people cooperate with each other, and they don't fall behind at all.

Especially Li Dingguo, although he was young, his strength was not much worse than that of adults, and he shot fiercely, turning to the lower yin, Adam's apple, armpits and other vital parts to shoot, and after a while, seven or eight strong men were beaten down by more than half of the five teenagers, and the remaining two or three did not dare to go up again, blocking in front of the steward.

The steward was so angry that the three corpse gods burst out: "You waste, you can't beat a few children, what are you doing with your abbot!" ”

A strong man was so embarrassed and angry that he suddenly picked up a wooden stick with a thick bowl mouth from the ground and smashed it on Li Dingguo's head.

"Ahh The onlookers screamed. If such a thick stick is smashed on the child's head, how can he live? Many people couldn't bear to look at it and closed their eyes one after another.

However, the next moment, the scream suddenly sounded, but it was the scream of an adult, and everyone hurriedly opened their eyes to look, and saw that the young man was standing unharmed, but the strong man who beat him shook as if he was drunk, and then fell to the ground. In his abdomen, a short knife was inserted.

At such a young age, he dared to kill someone! Everyone was shocked.

"Hello, you're good!" The steward pointed at Li Dingguo, but he didn't dare to say anything cruel, but turned around and left.

When he walked to the door and stopped, he pointed at Li Dingguo and scolded: "Little cub, you dare to kill the family of the national master, even martial arts can't get you, wait to raid the house and destroy the door." ”

Li Dingguo stayed for a moment, but he was stimulated by his ferocity, pulled out a short knife, and let the blood spray his face:

"It's you magnates who bully the people and take them by force, so that the people of the world have no way to live, and I will die and kill you all!"

Saying that, Li Dingguo was about to chase after the steward, and he was so frightened that the steward and the bunch of slaves ran away.

"Calm down, settle down, calm down!"

Afraid that Li Dingguo would continue to kill, Liu Wenxiu hugged Li Dingguo's waist, and several other boys hurriedly snatched the short knife in his hand.

Li Dingguo struggled for a moment, and finally calmed down.

"Dingguo, you killed someone, I'm afraid that Wuxue won't be able to tolerate you anymore, so run away while you're not discovered."

After thinking about it for a moment, Liu Wenxiu said resolutely. Although he knew that he had made a mistake like this, Liu Wenxiu couldn't bear to let his friend be caught and punished.

After all, he killed someone, and it was Jia Dingbo, who is the family of today's Guozhang, if Li Dingguo is caught, the fate can be imagined.

"Yes, Dingguo, let's go." Several other boys also spoke.