Chapter 23: Memories of the Jaw
The old master did not answer his question immediately. He slowly stood up, coughed a few times, and then walked to the wall and took down the landscape painting that had been torn into strips of cloth by invisible fingers.
"It's so old, I almost coughed and lost my life when I tore a painting. β
He looked at the rags in his hand with cherishing in his eyes, and said to Yi Tianxing: "Don't ask me if I'm a person who has been in the past three days, because I don't know if I am not." β
Yi Tianxing was puzzled.
"Because I haven't met anyone in this world who has the same abilities as me. The old master put the rags in a drawer and continued, "And you are the first. β
Only then did Yi Tianxing understand why the old man in front of him could stand tall in the wind and rain of the rivers and lakes for many years, and he could even lay down a large area of the country as a foreigner in the provincial capital. Thinking that he has such a ability to exert dark energy in the air, it is too easy to get rid of any tricky opponents on the road.
The old master's voice became a little desolate.
"The last three days are just legends, I spent forty years inquiring about them, and I firmly believe that this legend is real, but I can't find any evidence. I invite you here today to see if you are the same person as me. Don't blame the old man for being too wordy, after all, I know that there is a person who is similar to myself living in a small county town, and I am excited, I hope you can understand Luo Yi after I met you. β
Yi Tianxing naturally knew the loneliness of people with this ability when they survived in the world, he looked at the old man in front of him with some sympathy, and suddenly thought of a rumor, and blurted out: "Old man, legend has it that you had an adventure after you arrived in the provincial capital, and you became famous in the rivers and lakes. The so-called adventure is the ability you have now?"
The old master smiled and nodded, and the wrinkles on his face also stretched a little.
"What kind of adventure? Since it is an adventure, then of course this ability in your body is acquired, so it should be taught? Since someone has taught, then you should ......."
"No one passed me on kung fu. The old master sighed and shook his head: "But I believe that the last three days are real, but maybe my kung fu is too shallow, so you don't want to lead me to practice." β
"And how did you get this ability?"
The old master raised his eyes slightly, at this moment he was not at all like the underworld leader who had dominated the rivers and lakes for many years, but instead became like an old man basking in the sun at the entrance of the village, and the whole person seemed to be immersed in a slightly detached emotion.
"That year, I went to the provincial city with the bustard in the building to pick up girls, and I stayed in the Qinglou for a long time, and I didn't have any special feelings for the tragic appearance of those women. But...... That time was different. I can't remember clearly, but there was a big flood, and we went out from Gaoyang and walked along the river road to the provincial capital, and all the way there were houses soaked in yellow mud soup, and there were drowned dead people everywhere. Do you know why the bustard is going at this time?"
The ancient master looked at Yi Tianxing with a hint of indifference, and continued: "Because every time there is a flood, a lot of people will die, there will be many orphan girls, and of course, there will be many families who can't survive, so they will sell girls." The people who opened the jΓ¬ courtyard were all unconscionable guys, so they would naturally take advantage of the fact that there were many girls to sell and the price was cheap. β
Yi Tianxing lowered his head slightly and listened quietly.
"The provincial town is so big, and there are so many people selling children, where can I see it all in one day? I was a small teapot at that time, and I wore a short-sleeved horse coat all day long, following the old bustard who had been coated with three catties of powder...... Every day, I follow the mother-in-law's big ass and pick girls everywhere. When the old master said this, he suddenly smiled and took a mouthful of phlegm into the corner.
A malicious smile appeared at the corner of Yi Tianxing's lips, and a scene appeared in his mind, thinking that the ancient grandfather, who was still a descendant, was pressed under him by a young woman with a fat body and a thick powder, and he couldn't help laughing softly.
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In 131, the Yangtze River experienced one of the largest floods of the 20th century, and the turbid waves swept away a large area of plains in the belly of the country. The provincial town narrowly escaped and was immediately occupied by refugees who had been lucky enough to find their lives in the flood, and the area from Wansong Garden to the Water Intake Building was full of unkempt and thin-skinned fleeing peasants.
At that time, the old lady was still a young man with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, and he followed a bloated young woman walking back and forth in front of these refugees, the young woman held a handkerchief in her hand, and the pari was wrapped in a few silver dollars. With these silver dollars, she could pick and choose the hungry and blue-faced women of the east family and the mud-stained children of the west family.
Gu Yong is not a good person, and naturally he will not share his kindness with these hundreds of thousands of refugees, even if he has this idea, he doesn't have the ability, right? Not to mention buying a little girl, although he wants to sell her into the fire pit, there is always a way to live, and it is better than rotting to die in this provincial city, isn't it?
So he followed the big ass with his usual low eyebrows, still squeezing the little girls' chins as rudely as usual, and telling them to open their mouths and look at their teeth like animals, to see if the tongue coating was green or white or yellow or something......
He did this kind of unconscionable but life-saving work, until his slender fingers touched a woman's jaw, and the delicate touch like jade made him stunned for a moment, so he stood up straight and took a closer look, only to find that the girl in front of him was so beautiful, even if the dust was covered with face, he couldn't hide his picturesque eyebrows, and his face, which looked pale because of hunger, was even more elegant.
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When Yi Tianxing heard this, he smiled.
"Zhengqing chΕ«n Shaoai, how can you not be good at cherishing chΕ«n? The young man on the ridge touches the slave house in the dust, this story has begun, right?" he thought to himself, and looked at the old man of the underworld who was intoxicated with the past with a wicked smile.
"Don't get intoxicated first, go on, and get to the point. He kindly reminded the old master, "Next, it must be your big fart bustard who saw this girl, and then you wanted to save this girl, so you stuffed her with silver in the middle of the night and let her escape." Then you were driven out of the house by the bustard, lived on the streets, offended some evil force, and then by chance, you were rescued by someone, and then you got a kung fu in a daze?"
Yi Tianxing touched his nose and arranged the storyline of the year by himself.
The old master's wrinkled face turned red, and he shouted, "How do you know?"
Yi Tianxing was shot by him, and the pain in his chest and abdomen was unbearable, and later he learned that it was just this old guy who tried it purely for a while, although it was inconvenient to twist the neck of the smiling old fox, but he still hated his chest, and at this time he asked embarrassedly, so he replied with a very contemptuous glance and said: "It's all like this in the play, can you play other plays with your IQ?"
The old master put his somewhat thin palm on his knee and stroked it gently, as if trying to remember something: "What you said is basically right. It's just that I didn't let the girl run away. β
"Oh?" Yi Tianxing was a little surprised.
"I didn't let her run. The old lady looked at his eyes, and there was a hint of cunning in those two eyes, "I took all the silver dollars in the tent that night while the bustard and the thug were asleep, and then ran away with the girl!"
Yi Tianxing was stunned for a long time, and then he stretched out his thumb and praised: "Handsome, so handsome that it alarmed the Jade Emperor, no wonder God wants to help you." β
This is the appreciation of the little man for the old man.
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I'm going to the hospital at night, and I don't know if I'll be able to come back to write it by then, so I'll take a leave of absence in advance, and the next chapter scheduled to be sent in the evening may be a little later.