Chapter 706: Getting Ahead and Martial Second Master
"You don't look at what you look like, one is fat into a ball, the other is ugly into an animal, this is given to you first, doesn't it make the dignified court yamen shameful?"
"Boy, it's boring, isn't it?"
"Boy, dare to speak out?"
"Wu Song of Qinghe County, I learned the art of the Imperial Boxing Gym, not a reckless man like you." As he spoke, Wu Song stroked the two locks of hair that were deliberately pulled down on his forehead, and said angrily: "The yamen of the capital, strength is important, but image is more important, and I, Wu Song, am eight feet tall, with red lips and white teeth, and I am not ......comparable to other crooked melons and cracked dates."
"Wu Song, why are you here?"
Wu Song was armed with his own strength, and he was showing off his strength to pull hatred, when suddenly someone shouted behind his back, which ruined his Yaxing. I was already unhappy in my heart, and I suddenly turned around, but found that it was Ruan Xiaoer beside Li Kui. He immediately put on a flattering face, bowed and groveled, "Little Fifth Brother, I have come to seek refuge with my uncle." β
"You?" Ruan Xiaowu glanced at Wu Song and said with disgust: "Don't talk nonsense, my young master is not your uncle." β
Wu Song smiled and slapped himself in the face a few times, and asked Ruan Xiaowu mysteriously: "Little Fifth Brother, I heard that this time I am recruiting for the rank of captain, but is there such a thing?" β
"Captain of the seventh grade, why do you want to come?" When Ruan Xiaowu heard this, he looked at Wu Song. In order to learn from his teacher, this guy is like a kowtow worm who makes friends when he sees people in the Royal Boxing Gym, which is very annoying. If it weren't for Master Aicai, Wu Song wouldn't have had a chance to eat and drink in the Imperial Boxing Gym. If you really come to the Military Command Bureau, I don't know if it's good or bad.
"Little Fifth Brother, I really want to work for my uncle!" Wu Song said shyly, don't guess, this guy must be pretending. Wu Song is an old Jianghu, and he likes to talk full. As for whether you can do it, anyway, after you say it, you have to do it. Wu Erlang is a man of his word.
This Wu Song is also his own person, Ruan Xiaowu reluctantly asked: "Forget it, the young master happens to be in the official office, you go with me." Immediately, Ruan Xiaowu said to Zhu Fu behind him: "Zhu Fu, you keep an eye here, today is the last day of registration." Those who are willing to live in the residence of the Military Command Bureau will be arranged to enter the courtyard of our Military Command Bureau. If they have other places to live, ask them to leave their names and addresses of their place of origin. β
"Fifth master, don't worry, there is me!" Zhu Fu hurriedly agreed, this is Li Kui's cronies.
Wu Song breathed a sigh of relief, and finally did not come in vain.
Then he followed Ruan Xiaowu towards the yamen of the Military Command Bureau.
And Luan Tingyu and Jiao Ting looked at each other, both of them had already planned, and after the registration was over, they stopped Wu Song to teach this unobtrusive kid a good lesson. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a related household, and he openly walked through the back door in front of them, and suddenly felt a kind of nausea like eating a fly.
"Spit, shameless thing!"
"Phew, thieves are hateful!"
Wu Song was born as a civilian, his parents died, and he was a bitter child.
With such a humble identity, he dared to call Uncle Li Kui with a shy face, and Ruan Xiaowu was already very face-saving if he didn't turn his face.
Of course, there is also a reason why Wu Song called Uncle Li Kui, he followed Zhou Dong to learn footwork and leg skills. This is still Wu Song's death begging for Zhou Tong for a long time, plus Zhou Tong cherished his talents, so he taught him steps and legs, otherwise Wu Song and Li Kui would have nothing to do with each other.
As for Ruan Xiaowu saying that Li Kui is not Wu Song's uncle, there is also a reason.
Zhou Dong accepted apprentices on behalf of the teacher, mainly because of Li Kui's literati status, although he didn't look like it, but at that time Li Kui was indeed a scholar who participated in the Beijing examination. Zhou Tong is a martial artist, but he doesn't dare to accept a reading seed like Li Kui as an apprentice. Besides, Li Kui will not apprentice to Zhou Tong. With such an identity, worshipping Zhou Dong as a teacher is definitely unrealistic, not only will he not give Zhou Dong a faΓ§ade, but after he wins the Jinshi, he will even make Zhou Dong in trouble. Although the head of the head coach of the Imperial Boxing Gym is also an official position, it is only a martial arts position of the fifth rank at best, and he is even responsible for teaching the children of low-level generals who have not been admitted to the army. How dare Zhou Tong accept Jinshi as an apprentice?
And Wu Song is just a registered disciple of Zhou Dong. The Royal Boxing Gym is a Royal Boxing Gym, and most of the professor's disciples will serve as Forbidden Military School Captains, not from the Jiangmen, and it is impossible to enter the Royal Boxing Gym to obtain the status of an official disciple. Wu Song, a low-level martial artist, let alone that.
He wasn't even a full disciple.
On the contrary, Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu and others beside Li Kui all worshiped under Zhou Dong's door. Kung Fu is advancing by leaps and bounds, and unlike a registered disciple like Wu Song, the official disciple Zhou Tong will definitely be much more attentive. Counting it up, Ruan Xiaowu turned out to be Wu Song's senior brother. Ruan Xiaoer is now a Wupin camp general, and Ruan Xiaowu can also say with a shy face that he is a disciple of the general.
This is also the reason why Wu Song is familiar with himself, and there is no pressure at all to call Ruan Xiaowu, who is younger than him, 'Little Fifth Brother'.
After all, Ruan Xiaowu is nominally Wu Song's senior brother.
At the same time, Wu Song's kung fu is very miscellaneous, he belongs to the low-level martial artists who have been wandering the rivers and lakes since he was a teenager, studying everywhere, and can do anything. He is not very old, but he has a lot of experience. Sticks, double knives, simple knives, and even guns can be played, and even learned kung fu, and even went into a monastery to be a monk. Wu Song's most powerful thing is to use a knife, before he met Zhou Dong, Wu Song's kung fu was only second-rate, his knife skills were passable, and it was not bad to do more.
The knife goes with the step, there is no first-class footwork, and there is no first-class knifeman. And the first-class footwork is the skill of the bottom of the box of the famous master of the rivers and lakes, and a martial artist like Wu Song who travels the rivers and lakes to study, even if he looks pleasing, don't want to learn it. Unless he meets a first-class master, the master has a daughter, and he will be fascinated by the master's daughter, he will not marry......
Otherwise, Wu Song didn't expect to be able to learn first-class footwork at all.
But Zhou Tong is different, he knows too many stunts, and he is the head of the Imperial Boxing Gym, so he doesn't care about multiple disciples learning one or two stunts.
But even so, Zhou Tong did not accept Wu Song as a disciple.
Unless Wu Song is a disciple of Jiangmen, at least when Zhou Tong is in the position of the head coach of the Royal Boxing Gym, he will definitely not make an exception.
It can be seen that in the Great Song Dynasty, origin is very important.
There is only one kind of person in the Great Song Dynasty who does not look at his background, that is, a scholar.
But before the scholar did not have a scholar, he was nothing.
Only when you win the Jinshi is the carp jumping over the dragon gate and going straight to the clouds.
"Wu Song of Qinghe County, meet Uncle Shi!"
In the official residence of the Military Command Bureau, Wu Song knelt on one knee and performed a martial salute.
"Wu Song?"
Li Kui stared at Wu Song a little unclear, so this guy should have an elder brother named Wu Dalang and a sister-in-law surnamed Pan...... But is this the same person?
Ruan Xiaowu reminded: "Young Master, this person is my master's registered disciple, and the teacher taught him the jade ring leg and the mandarin duck step. He stayed in the Royal Boxing Gym all day long, eating and drinking, and the teacher would have a headache. β
Why is Wu Song in the Royal Boxing Gym?
It's not that you don't have any money, and you don't have to pay for the Yuquan Gym to eat and eat? Of course, in addition, Wu Song is not without ideas, he also wants to get ahead, but with his status, almost all the ways to be an official have been blocked.
It is too difficult for a martial artist to get ahead, and a man like Wu Song doesn't even have a chance to enter the officialdom. It's not that there isn't, if he goes to the frontier and enters the army to serve, he may be able to become a low-level military general when he has the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. If you're lucky, you might even become a general. Di Qing also rose like this back then.
But there needs to be a condition, when he meets a general who appreciates him, an ordinary general is not enough, but a senior general. At the same time, if you are lucky, don't die before you make meritorious service. Only then is it possible not to be greedy after making meritorious contributions, and to catch nothing. But then again, the high-ranking generals are all handsome, why would they see a new pawn in the camp? This doesn't make sense.
But even this is the way to fight for your life. It also takes a lot of filial piety to be able to blend in with the forbidden army. Wu Song can eat and drink, a big-bellied man is enough to give ordinary people in the Great Song Dynasty a headache, if this big-bellied man is still an alcoholic, he can't afford to raise it. Over the years, he has traveled north and south, he has no livelihood, and second, he has no family support, how can he have money to give gifts?
Wu Song didn't want to be a nurse for others, so he naturally didn't have the money to go to the door.
Besides, even if he entered the forbidden army, a warrior like him had almost no chance of getting ahead. He wants to be an official, and it is almost impossible in this life.
But it was impossible, but there was a turnaround. He heard that the Military Command Bureau under the Metropolitan Hall recruited school captains and returned them to official positions.
If he doesn't grasp this opportunity, he will spend his life in regret.
If there is an official to do, who wants to go to the rivers and lakes!
And with an official position, wouldn't the head of Zhou Tong be able to accept him as an official disciple?
As for shamelessness, what do warriors do in front of civilian officials? Even if you want face, people won't give it!
Count him lucky, Li Kui has confirmed that this Wu Song is the tiger hero who was robbed of the limelight by him, and he is righteous and angry, and he has a tendon, which is exactly the follower he dreams of.
Although he already wanted to keep people in his heart, Li Kui still asked one more question: "Is there a letter from my senior brother?" β
Wu Song woke up like a dream, took out Zhou Dong's letter from his arms, and handed it to Li Kui.
The letter was very short, and Zhou Tong couldn't grind Wu Song, so he could only write a note and ask Li Kui to take Wu Song in. But Zhou Tong mentioned that Wu Song was quite faithful. That's enough, Li Kui nodded and said, "Since Senior Brother has spoken, you can stay!" After speaking, he took out a bronze medal from the box of the bookcase, threw it in front of Wu Song, and said: "This is the tooth card of my Military Command Bureau, you are ranked fourth, but I can't do it here if I want real power in the martial arts, so I can only give you a loose official who is a lieutenant of Yilu." It's all the same, but if you don't have an official, are you willing? β
"The villain is willing!" easily got the official position of lieutenant, what else could Wu Song not want, and immediately gave Li Kui loyalty and said: "My life Wu Song has been sold to my uncle since today, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, if Wu Song frowns, he is not a person!" β
"Okay, Xiao Wu will take him to get something, this guy will ...... in the future I'll follow you first. β
Li Kui also had a headache, he thought that a bold and sassy man like Wu Erlang should not be a sycophant. But Wu Song in front of him...... He was a little overwhelmed.
This is Li Kui's mistake to blame Wu Song.
With Wu Song's identity, he can't stand up in the face of officials. What's more, it's still a four-grade member like Li Kui. In fact, Wu Song has lived in the capital for a long time, and he has not found a way to work at all, so he can't go on. He's been eating and drinking at the gym, and he's been a little embarrassed lately.
finally got a cheap uncle, and he couldn't miss anything.
As for kneeling for Li Kui, don't be funny, if Li Kui goes to the army, the general will have to kneel him on one knee. Wu Song is white, and he wants to come to Li Kui to greet his old man on weekdays, but he has no chance, which is his honor.
"Hahaha, I, Wu Song, have finally become an official! Little Fifth Brother, let me wake up quickly, I'm afraid it's a dream, and it will be a fake when I wake up. Wu Song walked out of the official residence and laughed like a fool under the corridor.
Ruan Xiaowu jumped up angrily, knocked his fingers on Wu Song's head hard, Wu Song covered his head painfully and squatted down, looked up and said to Ruan Xiaowu aggrievedly: "Senior brother, you are too ruthless." β
"Not ruthless, can you have a long memory? What kind of place is this, the official mansion, it is the important place of the Great Song Dynasty military aircraft. Who made you laugh so unbridled in the cloisters? If you are in the Imperial City, the people of the front division of the palace can take you down on the spot! Ruan Xiaowu was angry, and he felt that Wu Song was a trouble.
Out of the official residence, Wu Song cautiously asked Ruan Xiaowu: "Little Fifth Brother, I don't think Uncle Shi is very happy!" β
"It's not, it's mainly for you people, the young master promised the yamen to pay one million yuan to the household department every year. Although this is the money in the yamen, it is all real money. Ruan Xiaowu said with a smile.
Wu Song exclaimed: "A million? Can you still laugh? β
"It always has to be given, our Military Command Bureau is not short of money, and there are more people with hot eyes. If you really don't pull out a dime, won't you give people the truth? But you kid is also lucky, just in time to make the trip, otherwise, at most, he would be an official, but now he is an official. Ruan Xiaowu was definitely not envious, but mocked Wu Song for taking shit luck.
Wu Song smirked, and suddenly remembered that his uncle had told him just now that he was the fourth-ranked lieutenant, and there were three other people in front of him, who arrived before him.
If you have the ability, forget it, if you don't have the ability, you have to let them know how powerful his second master is.
"Brother Xiaowu, do you know who the three people in front of me are?"
"The first and second places are Zhu Gui and Zhu Fu, they are the young master's fellow villagers. Young Master Yun's playmate. By the way, the previous Zhu Fu was the person next to me, a fellow villager of the young master. β
"Understood, Township Party." Wu Song said smartly.
"The third place is the young master's brother-in-law, Hua Rong. He is a general, and he doesn't know what to think, so he wants to follow the young master, and he doesn't care about his good future. Ruan Xiaowu said strangely.
"True righteous man!" couldn't help but praise him, Wu Song immediately asked, "How are their kung fu?" β
Ruan Xiaowu turned his head and glared at Wu Song, and scolded: "Don't make trouble for me, I think about fighting and competing all day long, this is not a royal boxing gym, and if you are beaten, you can only swallow your grievances in your stomach." This is the Yamen, a military powerhouse, but not a place for you to act recklessly. I used to be lazy outside, change it for me, don't disobey in front of me, let me know......"
"Little Fifth Brother, but you are my senior brother, why would I not listen to you?" Wu Song shouted.
Ruan Xiaowu originally wanted to say that he had to teach Wu Song a lesson in the name of his senior brother.
But their martial arts are half a catty and eight taels, Ruan Xiaowu also wondered, Wu Song, this guy ran around, learned a little bit of three-legged cat kung fu, where did he go to the master to learn a set of footwork, and he could be on a par with him?
Ruan Xiaowu felt that he was no longer Zhou Dong's own disciple, but this Wu Song had become Zhou Dong's own disciple.
"Little Fifth Brother, where is this going?"
"Little Fifth Brother, do you think I look good in an official uniform?"
"Little Fifth Brother, you said that if I go to the Imperial Boxing Gym in an official uniform, what will others think of me?"
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"Shut up!" Ruan Xiaowu turned his head and stared at Wu Song, until Wu Song was stared at all over his body, and then he spoke: "In the yamen, don't talk." I don't know how to listen. β
"Don't you understand?" Wu Song said aggrievedly.
"If you don't understand and dare to speak, who will give you your face?" Ruan Xiaowu said ridiculously.
Wu Song didn't dare to say it, it seemed to be quite serious.
But Ruan Xiaowu, as a senior brother, has to say: "Wu Song, your personality is not suitable for being an official, if you don't want to be an official that day, tell me, don't run away as soon as you pout your ass......"
Wu Song hurriedly stopped Ruan Xiaowu and said nervously: "Little Fifth Brother, you are my senior brother, when did I say that I am not an official." You can't hurt me! As I said, death will be in the Military Command Bureau. β
Ruan Xiaowu smiled at this time: "Okay, I didn't expect you kid to still be an official fan." In this case, I won't say much else, go get the house, anyway, you don't have any family, and you will follow me on an errand tomorrow. β
Wu Song secretly pulled Ruan Xiaowu's clothes, and said weakly: "Little fifth brother, I am not an orphan, I still have a brother in my hometown Qinghe County." β
Ruan Xiaowu was curious: "Why have I never heard you mention it?" β
Regarding his hometown and family, Wu Song really never mentioned it to anyone. That was before, but now it's different, he is an official, he has an identity, and he still avoids that the roof of his house has been eaten by him, and even his brother can only be sold into slavery?
Wu Song immediately raised his head and said: "On the day that I, Wu Erlang, left my hometown, I made an oath to the villagers at the entrance of the village. If you are not rich, you will not return to your hometown! β