Chapter 19: Breaking Through

"Copper muscles and iron bones, I can't imagine that Xiao Song, your martial arts cultivation has been refined to such an extent!"

After getting rid of the pursuers, looking at Song Xing's young face next to him, Hu Tiantuo couldn't help but exclaim.

In the battle just now, he also heard Ai Shifei's words before he died, he has a complete inheritance, and he has also seen the records of copper muscles and iron bones in the classics, so he naturally knows what a terrifying talent Song Xing revealed.

The land of China, with a population of hundreds of millions, can only have more than a dozen talents in a hundred years, and it is said that there is no one in a million talents, which is to say that it is too small.

"It's Uncle Hu, you gave me the knife score, which helped me a lot." Song Xing still had a calm expression as always.

Hu Tiantou shook his head: "It's your own talent and hard work, don't put gold on your Uncle Hu's face." ”

He knew very well that although the Hu family's sword spectrum was exquisite and could make people's martial arts improve in a short period of time, it would definitely not be able to improve to the point of copper and iron bones, otherwise he would not have practiced for many years, and his martial arts cultivation would be mediocre.

I thought that Chu Luozhao said that Song Xing's kung fu was not weak, and he was humble back then, but now it seems that this is still less to say.

Hu Tiandou didn't know, in fact, when Song Xing was in Cangwu, although his boxing skills were successful, he had not yet reached the current level.

was able to cultivate copper tendons and iron bones, completely because after he obtained the Hu family's sword spectrum, he further improved his martial arts principles, and the twelve potentials of Yi Jin, which had not broken through, finally cultivated to the point of perfection.

At this point, the Twelve Potentials of Yi Jin, who had been practicing hard for a long time, were cultivated by Song Xing to the point of Dacheng after the ape attack technique.

The 12 potentials of Yijin are originally created in order to transform the body, and when the 12 potentials are penetrated, the changes brought to the body are several times as many as before.

Almost every day, Song Xing could feel a new power emerging from his body, slowly transforming the muscles, bones, flesh, and marrow of this body, making his physique stronger and stronger.

The copper tendons and iron bones that only a very few people can reach in the legend are also naturally cultivated.

While chatting, the two carefully avoided the Qing soldiers patrolling the streets, a city that can accommodate more than two million people, it is still very simple to find a few uninhabited empty houses, and the two easily found a remote and desolate empty house and hid for the time being.

On July 15, Song Xing stabbed Cangwu County, met Hu Tiandou on the 16th, and escorted Hu Tiandou to Guangzhou Mansion on the 18th, which is now the 21st.

Hu Tiandou must rush to Hong Kong before 24 July.

"Uncle Hu, can your connector in Guangzhou Mansion let you leave Guangzhou on time?"

Hu Tiantou nodded: "They are doing things very safely, but after all, they didn't connect the head, and I'm not sure." ”

Song Xing looked outside and said, "Uncle Hu, you have shown your face, it is not appropriate to go out again, you tell me the address of the joint, and I will run for you." ”

In the entire Guangzhou Mansion, except for Wang Yigu, no one had seen Song Xing, so he was much safer than Hu Tiandou when he was outside.

Hu Tianpu thought about the notices posted everywhere outside the city gate, and admitted that Song Xing's words were reasonable, so he told him the location and code words of the joint.

Song Xing instructed Hu Tiandou to hide, carefully checked the outside of the door, and quickly dodged away.

From Cangwu to Guangzhou, all the way Song Xing saw was a dilapidated scene, the whole society was very withered, there was no vitality, the life of ordinary people was very difficult, and the imperial court collected many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

Only in a big city like Guangzhou can you see a trace of prosperity.

Walking on the street, Song Xing saw itinerant vendors setting up stalls and shelves among the gorgeous shops, putting their own vegetables, fruits, fish and meat or some very inconspicuous things, and the officers and soldiers who maintained law and order shuttled among them.

Pressing down the brim of his hat, careful to avoid the pedestrians carrying the burden on the road, he made a detour into a narrow alley paved with blue bricks.

The alley should be dedicated to the literati business, and most of the shops on both sides are selling paper, ink, pen and inkstone supplies.

Walking into the bookstore, Song Xing was a little surprised that the scale of this bookstore was not small, the shops next to it were opened up, connected together, seven or eight columns of bookshelves in the store, which were full of books, and on the wall behind the bookshelves, there was a line of words written, and the ancient inkstone was sold by the subset of the scriptures.

As soon as you enter the door, there is a square table full of all kinds of books, and on the right hand side of the door, there is a counter, the boss in a long robe, sitting in the middle room, a Confucian scholar also wearing a long robe, is holding two books there to settle the bill.

After Song Xing waited for the Confucian to leave, he came to the counter, and the boss, who looked to be forty years old, asked with a smile, "What do the guests need?" ”

Song Xing asked, "Boss, do you have the Yangzhou Painting Boat Catalogue printed by Jiangnan Bookstore here?" ”

The boss raised his head and glanced at Song Xing, and replied quietly: "Guest, unfortunately, the Yangzhou painting boat record was sold out a few days ago, and it hasn't had time to buy it yet, but the small shop has a Yangzhou scenery album printed by Chongming Bookstore, do you want to take a look?" ”

Song Xing shook his head and said, "There is already a collection of Yangzhou scenery books at home, so bring me a copy of Chunxi Liyun." ”

The boss got up and walked out of the counter and said, "The shop just received a copy a few days ago, please come with me." ”

The two came to a bookshelf in the middle of the room, and the boss took out a copy of Chunxi Liyun from the corner, handed it to Song Xing, and at the same time secretly stuffed the two tickets into Song Xing's hands, and said in a low voice: "Tomorrow night and the day after tomorrow, the ferry tickets will leave Yongqing Gate and leave Guangzhou on a foreigner's freighter, and the Qing court will not dare to search it." ”

Song Xing nodded slightly, and then said, "Great, I've been looking for this version to be printed for a long time." ”

The boss smiled and said, "If the guests like it, it's fine." ”

Song Xing took out a piece of broken silver from his arms, settled the book fee, and left the bookstore without looking back.

Putting the book in his arms, Song Xing was not in a hurry to go back, but began to sway on the street, as if he had just entered the city, everything was very fresh, and he swayed until dusk, and then bought some food in a restaurant on the way, and returned to the dilapidated house at night.

Hu Tiandou, who was hiding in the shadows, saw Song Xing appear, got out of the shadows, and asked, "How is it, are you connected?" ”

Song Xing nodded, put down the food in his hand, took out the Chunxi Liyun from his arms, and handed the two tickets sandwiched inside to Hu Tiandou, "Tomorrow night and the day after tomorrow, Yongqingmen, take a foreigner's freighter to Hong Kong." ”

"I have already found out the location of the freighter, but I will have a long night and a lot of dreams, Uncle Hu, you will leave by boat tomorrow night."

During the day, when inquiring about the situation, Song Xing had already encountered several groups of Qing soldiers searching from house to house, but fortunately, Song Xing did not show his face and avoided it without danger.

The several gates leading to the port in Guangzhou were all heavily guarded, and the port was inspected by Qing soldiers around the clock.

"It seems that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is determined that we will leave by boat, so we simply hold the port and wait for the rabbit."

A trace of worry flashed in Hu Tiandou's eyes, although he successfully broke into Guangzhou Mansion and got a ticket, but at the last level, how to get on the ship was a difficult problem.

In order not to let himself leave, Wei Enming will inevitably send heavy troops to guard it, and it is difficult to climb to the sky if he wants to quietly get on the ship without alarming them.

Song Xing was confident, took out a bought map of Guangzhou Prefecture, spread it out in front of Hu Tianpu by moonlight, pointed to the map and said: "The distance from the east, west and north gates to the port is too far, and the risk of exposure is too great, so we can only go from the south, Anlan Gate, Yongqing Gate, Jinghai Gate, and Wuxian Gate are the closest city gates to the port." ”

"They are probably worried about attracting the dissatisfaction of the foreigners, so the troops sent in Yongqingmen are the least, tomorrow night when the foreigners' freighters depart, at the moment before departure, I will escort Uncle Hu you through the customs, as long as you get on the ship, everything will be fine."

Hu Tianpu stared at the map for a moment, shook his head and said: "It's not proper, as long as Yongqingmen fights, the reinforcements from the other gates will arrive in a moment, even if I get on the boat at that time, what will you do?" ”

In the original plan, only Hu Tiandou went to Hong Kong, and Song Xing did not go to Hong Kong, but now according to Song Xing's plan, after Hu Tiandou boarded the ship, the danger was left to Song Xing under the ship, which was unacceptable to Hu Tiandou.

Song Xing raised his hand and stopped Hu Tiandou's speech, and the smile in the dark was extraordinarily bright: "Uncle Hu, didn't you say that I would escort you out of Guangzhou safely, don't forget the burden behind you, the sacrifices made by so many people, now, there is no room for you to retreat." ”

Over the past 100 years, the magnitude of the suffering and sacrifice of our nation is rare in the world.

We have gone through too much suffering, and millions of people have worked hard for their ideals, just to find a ray of light in that desperate darkness.

Song Xing said with a smile: "Uncle Hu, when you gave me the Hu family's knife pedigree that day, I didn't shirk it, I didn't shirk it, I will be a child and I will guard the Yongqing Gate for Uncle Hu tomorrow until you leave safely." ”

Seeing that Hu Tiantou was still frowning, Song Xing could only comfort: "When the ship leaves, with my skills, if I want to leave, they can't stop me." ”

Song Xing's martial arts cultivation made Hu Tiandou feel a glimmer of hope in his heart, although it was a task to stop all the masters of the Internal Affairs Office, but at this moment, Hu Tiantuo could only silently bear Song Xing's kindness.