Chapter 9 Arrival in Qingzhou
Qingzhou, since ancient times, has been competing for hegemony, wars and turmoil, but it has also repeatedly regained prosperity from the rubble. Because there was no major war in the territory for more than 70 years, it was the largest city in the world at that time, with a population of one million, and was the first city in Qin with a population of more than one million. The development of the economy was accompanied by the prosperity of culture, so the poetry, calligraphy and painting of Qingzhou at that time were all in the style of a generation.
Qingzhou, as the economic and cultural hub of Qin, so the emperor of Qin at that time sent his younger brother, King Jin, to guard this place.
King Jin was also a generation of talents when he was young, and he was good at lyrics and poetry, as well as the way of using soldiers, so under his management, Qingzhou's economic and cultural prosperity reached a new peak. Of course, the degree of prosperity in Qingzhou is uneven, among them, the degree of prosperity is the most Fengling County.
Fengling County has the largest ferry port in Chu at that time on the Fengling River - Fengling Ferry. As the old saying goes: at the confluence of the two rivers, the city of Bixing; Where the ferry port is, it is prosperous by birth. Therefore, countless literati and wealthy businessmen will be here. Therefore, the markets on both sides of the Fengling River are prosperous, and merchants gather.
And behind the prosperity, there will always be a problem that it is difficult to hide: the polarization of the rich and the poor. To the north of Fengling County, there is a large slum, where most of the people are old, weak, sick and disabled, begging for a living, and some people can only eat a meal for a few days. But one day, a man appeared and broke the silence. He brought them food, clothes and other household items, taught the children to write and paint, and helped them build some simple houses..... They don't know what he looks like, they just know that he is Feng Lingxia, a thief who robs the rich and helps the poor. So in the hearts of countless people there, there is a dream, that is, to become a great thief like Feng Lingxia. And Wind Hero, in their hearts, is a hero, even though he is a thief.
Feng Ling Xia, in the entire Feng Ling County, and even in the whole Qingzhou, he is a legend. People only know that he is a thief who suddenly emerged three years ago, and in just one year, he became the top three on the Qingzhou wanted list. No one knows what he looks like, only that he likes to rob the rich and help the poor, and he has patronized the homes of corrupt officials and wealthy merchants, no matter how tightly defended and cautious. Therefore, there are many stories about Wind Ling Man circulating in Wind Ling County.
Tan Youruo with the dragon fish that has transformed into a spiritual pet, just entered the gate of Qingzhou City, and was shocked by the prosperity of Qingzhou City: on both sides of the smooth street paved by bluestone, there are rows of tea houses, restaurants, and pawnshops······ There are all kinds of people on the streets: there are those who sell rouge gouache, those who set up stalls to tell fortunes, those who sell tea and pastries, and those who form groups to sell their arts; There are those who sit in sedan chairs, those who ride horses, those who carry flat burdens, and those who laugh and scold; In the bustling flow of people and the cries of various vendors, Tan Youruo, who had never seen so many people, stood alone in the wind. Who am I, where am I, and what am I supposed to do······ A series of questions appeared in Tan Youruo's mind.
"Shouldn't we find a place to eat and stay first?" Arowana asked with his divine sense. Arowana's words woke up Tan Youruo in shock.
"Don't I know, remind me."
When Arowana heard Tan Youruo's words, when she saw her look of owing with your mouth, she really wanted to go up and give her two blows. But people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads!
At this time, in a thatched hut in the south of Fengling County, a man gently took off the cloth covering his face, picked up the teapot on the table, and drank the tea with a clatter. But then, a slight crash broke the silence of the night.
"Who?" The man quickly covered himself with a black cloth and looked at the source of the sound.
"Stinky boy, after so many years, how can your awareness of things not grow at all! I've been here for so long, and you haven't even noticed. In the dark corner, a man came out lazily and reproached.
"Stinky old man, don't you know that people are scary, scared to death? Do you want to scare me to death! The man shouted angrily.
"Don't worry, you won't be scared to death so easily, won't you, Feng Lingxia?" The old man asked in a slightly teasing tone.
When the man heard the old man's questioning tone, he had a strong sense of foreboding, so he immediately changed his tone and asked respectfully, "Master, what instructions do you have?" ”
The old man smiled and said, "I don't have any instructions, it's just to see what you have gained tonight." ”
"Master, you always know that your apprentices have always robbed the rich and helped the poor, and you will never indirectly steal things from those poor people." The man asked with a smile.
"Of course I won't, but let the government know that the legendary Feng Ling Xia can't do anything except for his supernatural light skills, what do you think they will do?" The old man asked with a smile.
"One hundred taels, is it enough?" The man asked
"It's okay as much as you want, but the master wants to see what you have gained tonight." The old man smirked.
Listening to the old man's treacherous laughter, the man could only silently take out a bunch of gold, silver and jewelry, in fact, he didn't want to take it out, but who let the old man know his weakness.
"None?" The old man asked.
"Nope." The man replied.
"Really?" The old man asked.
"Not really," the man replied helplessly.
"Really?" The old man asked in a raised tone.
Faced with the old man's questioning, the man had no choice but to take out an egg-sized night pearl from his arms, and said helplessly, "This time there is really no more." ”
"Really?" The old man asked again.
The man replied frantically: "It's really gone, I don't believe you can search it yourself." ”
"Okay, the master believes you." The old man said with a wicked smile.
Looking at the old man's treacherous smile, the man quickly reached out to grab the night pearl, but he was still one step slower than the old man.
The old man looked at the man and said, "This night pearl is definitely the focus of the government's search, so you definitely can't pawn it out, so you can hand him over to me." Although I am a little older, I still have some friends in the rivers and lakes, and I can definitely sell it. When I sell it, I'll give you all the money. The old man said with a smile.
When the man heard him, he was really mad, and even had the urge to go up and beat him up, because every time he came back from stealing something, the old man always showed up on time, as if the old man followed him every day. What's even more infuriating is that the old man always takes the most valuable thing he has stolen, and each time he says that he will sell it and give him the money. However, he never received a penny. In his heart, the old man is an iron rooster, no, to be exact, a stainless steel rooster, the iron rooster can still scrape off a little rust, and he, not even a little rust.
Looking at the crazy man, the old man smiled and said, "I'll go first, and I'll come to see you when I have time later." Then he hummed a little song and walked away.
The man looked at the old man and shook his head helplessly. At this time, he saw a note on the table, he picked it up and looked at it, only to see that the note read: Apprentice, the master doesn't know why he took an extra two hundred taels, maybe the master didn't check it! Also, the master saw that the golden bead hairpin was very good, so he took it away and kept it for your future master, and the master must tell him that you gave it to him. The man could only smile helplessly, and then lay on the bed, wanting to sleep well. However, he suddenly remembered his past again.
For as long as I can remember, I have been by my master's side, but I have never seen him look like him. Because he was always unkempt: his hair was like a bird's nest, his beard was tangled with each other, he was dressed in a handsome beggar's suit, and a pair of broken straw sandals where you could already see his black toes, and you could hardly imagine that he was a middle-aged man in his 50s, because he looked like an old man in his seventies and eighties. So from then on, I started calling him the stinky old man
One day, he said to me, "Ride the wind, you have grown up, and it is time to learn some skills." ”
"Master, I'm just twelve years old, even if I'm grown up." I asked, confused.
"I said that when you grow up, you grow up! Stinky boy, do you feel that your wings are stiff and you don't listen to your master's words. ”
"Master, don't dare." In the face of the old man's toughness, I had to bow my head and accept it.
At this time, the old man suddenly picked me up, put me on his lap, and said to me: "Feng'er, if you don't learn your skills, you will be bullied when you grow up, and you won't be able to support yourself, understand?" So, under the old man's blindness, I learned light skills with him. But when I asked him why he studied light exercises, he told me that he could only do light exercises, and I was speechless. But when I thought about it carefully, it was better to learn than not to learn, so I happily learned at that time.
One day, I asked on a whim, "Master, you said that I would only do light work, but what should I do when others beat me?" ”
"You can run!"
"What if you can't run?"
The old man thought for a while, and said meaningfully: "If that's the case, you have two ways: first, if you practice light skills perfectly, no one can catch up with you; Second, train your body to be stronger. When I asked him why, he said, "Then you can fight a little bit!" Really, I was speechless by his answer.
Slowly, after about a year, he told me that he could no longer teach me, and I asked him why, and he told him to teach me everything, because his light skills were only the beginning. My first instinct was that I had been fooled. I really felt the urge to go up and beat him up. But I found that I didn't have that strength. So, I asked him what I would do in the future, and he said that he had martial arts secrets, but he hadn't learned them, so I had to teach myself.
I had no choice but to teach myself, and when I encountered a word I didn't know, I asked him. However, to my indignation, he did not know how to do light work, but he demanded that I have to learn it. Whenever I asked him why, he said it was because he was a master. Well, I can only keep silent.
One day, I sat down next to him and asked him, "Master, there are three kinds of stupid birds in the world, do you know which three they are?" ”
"Oh, I don't know, but what are the three of them." The master said with a smile.
I replied with a smile: "The first stupid bird is a slow learner, but in the end it flies: the second stupid bird is that he doesn't want to fly no matter what." I looked at him and didn't continue.
When the master heard me stop, he asked, "What about the third one?" ”
I snickered and replied, "The third kind of stupid bird is that it can't fly by itself, so it lays a nest of eggs, raises the next generation, and forces the next generation to fly."
The master listened to my words, nodded slightly, and said, "That's right. It's supposed to make you fly, it seems that I still don't have enough to make you hard. "So, I carried 10 kilograms more sand than usual and ran 5 kilometers more. Since then, I have never dared to say anything nonsense.
As time went by, my light skills became more and more powerful. Finally, one day, I found out that the stinky old man couldn't catch up with me, so every time the stinky old man was teased by me, he was mad with anger. However, instead of being proud that I surpassed the stinky old man in my light work, I worked harder, because I wanted to be the pride of the stinky old man.
One day, I asked him why he didn't find me a teacher. He said, "If you were a girl, would you marry me?" "I thought about it, and that's right. So, I asked him why he didn't look for it before, and he said it was because of my oil bottle. I said they might like me. But he said very shyly: "Do you know what it means to love the house and Wu? "Looking at his very arrogant appearance, I really don't know what to say to refute him. So, I can only silently admit that I am a drag oil bottle.
Finally, one day, I told him that I wanted to be a thief, and he said yes, and I saw that he agreed so easily, so I asked, "Why don't you stop me, it's dangerous to be a thief?" But he looked at me and said to me, "Have you listened to me since your wings were stiff?" "I thought about it, and he was right. Then he told me that it was okay to be a thief, but there were three points that must be observed, and when I asked which three points, he said, "First, you can only rob the rich and help the poor; second, it is forbidden to harm people's lives; Third, you are not allowed to enter the Jin Palace, not even half a step. "I don't have any doubts about the first two points, but I have a lot of doubts about the third point. So I asked him why, and he said that the Jin Wangfu was different from other places, and that the Jin Wang, as the ruler of Qingzhou, must have stricter internal defenses and more masters than other places. So just in case, I can't go and steal anything from the Jin Palace. I gladly accepted his answer because I knew he was doing it for my good. Then, he gave me another jade pendant, and he told me that it was worn around my neck when he picked me up, because I was still young at the time, and I was afraid that I would lose it, so I didn't dare to give it to me, and now that I have grown up, he should return it to its original owner. I looked at the jade pendant, and my heart was full of waves, although I had never met my parents, but I didn't hate them, because I thought they must have some reason to leave me behind, otherwise no parent would be willing to abandon their children. So I found a stronger rope and put the jade around my neck, because I had the feeling that one day, I would rely on it to find my parents.
I remember the first time I stole from a corrupt official, I was very nervous and scared because I didn't know if I would succeed. However, I knew in my heart that if I didn't take that step, I would never be a true thief. So I cautiously infiltrated, cautiously searched, cautiously stolen. However, when I stole it, I don't know if it was because of excitement or nervousness, I accidentally broke a vase. The sound of the vase broke the silence of the night. Under the congestion of a group of officers and soldiers, I actually ran out, from beginning to end, I don't know how I ran out, he only knows, when countless arrows fly past him, I wish I could be faster, more perfect, I only hate that I don't have one more leg, so that he can add one leg and two legs, scatter (three) legs and run.
So, from that day on, he worked harder, just to be able to run faster.