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Chapter 12: The Cage (2)

"It turns out that you are Ah Xiao's friend 721 who went to Jingzhou six years ago. At that time, he mentioned it to me after returning to Tangjiabao. Originally, he almost didn't talk to me, but after he came back that time, he actually took the initiative to tell me about his experience outside. Well, I guess he couldn't find anyone to talk to but me. And when he said that you were in the Jingzhou Tianhuo Sect together, he was very happy. Practicing martial arts in Tangjiabao all year round, a trip to Jingzhou may be the most fun experience in his life. ”

"It was a lot of fun. When he first met me, I was dipping in a manure pit. ”

"Hahahaha, he also told me that he heard that you have a very interesting master, but unfortunately he didn't see it. ”

"Even I haven't seen him in years. But the weirdest thing is that he always seems to be able to find me when I need it. ”

The soldiers who were patrolling and standing guard around them also disappeared at some point, as if Master Li had completely forgotten them. But the two of them didn't care at all, they had food and drink, and they could chat happily like this, plus this wooden cage actually couldn't trap people at all, and they could go out at any time if they wanted, it looked like a place for the two of them to rest.

This chat, time passed unconsciously quickly, both of them are people who have traveled south and north, have seen a wide range of people, and there are naturally countless topics, from the stories of the rivers and lakes in various places, customs, food specialties to martial arts and spells, Xiao Xia also asked Tang Cheng for some martial arts things by the way. His fist and foot kung fu was originally a move to learn from the East and learn from the West, although he has rich experience in fighting in battle formations, but in the end it is not systematic, and the opponent who is a little more refined in martial arts is full of flaws. And Tang Chengcheng is not only a martial arts sword technique honed by himself, but also has the profound heritage of the family, coupled with his own extremely high talent, and the realm of martial arts is also very high. Even Tang Chengcheng picked some Tang Sect loose hand moves that were suitable for Xiao Xia to teach him.

"Is there something wrong with this fourth brother's move, if you Tang Sect people know that you will teach the Tang Sect mastery to outsiders."

"But some small tricks, what's the point? If someone from the Tang Sect asks, you will say that I passed you on, and they don't dare to do anything to you. And those uncles who have cultivated to a high level may not really care about such a trivial matter and embarrass you. Tang Chengcheng shook his head casually, unimpressed. After a pause, he continued with disdain: "The way of martial arts is vast and boundless, but in fact, it is interconnected, and thousands of streams return to the sect. It is precisely through mutual exchange and confirmation that we can carry forward and bring forth the new. Even the most profound of my Tang Sect are all based on the five volumes of Heavenly Demons and the Daomen classics. What is the difference between those self-righteous and self-cherishing views of the portal, and those peasant merchants who always want to use the money they earn to pass on their families?

Xiao Xia touched her head and smiled bitterly. According to this statement, ninety percent of the sects and martial arts students in the world are worthless. However, he couldn't help but admire in his heart, such a one-in-a-million open-mindedness is the inevitable condition for achieving a one-in-a-ten great master.

No wonder even if he doesn't even know how to use a secret weapon, the old lady of the Tang family still accepts him as an inner disciple. Xiao Xia felt that she understood a little.

"But speaking of which, Brother Xia, you are smart and clever, and your understanding is higher, whether it is learning martial arts or cultivating talisman spells, you can be regarded as a very talented person. Martial arts have missed the hard training of childhood, and the muscles and bones have already been formed, there is no way, but you have been immersed in the Dao Fu for many years since you were a child, even if you don't have another apprenticeship, you can find a way to learn from the strengths of all families, calm down and spend some time specializing in spells, I believe that you can also have some good achievements, why travel around early?"

Xiao Xia shook his head, still smiling bitterly: "The fourth brother said that 721 was laughing." This door spell is not as good as martial arts cultivation, a qiē to ask for oneself, but it is necessary to carry alchemy, meditate, 'wealth', 'couple', 'law' and 'earth' are all necessary, I am a wandering Taoist priest with no door and no sect, even if I want to calm down and cultivate. Even the Five Elements Sect, which doesn't care about the world and cultivates on its own, doesn't it also set up subordinate gangs everywhere to collect materials and spiritual objects for all kinds of alchemy runes, teach spells, and sell spiritual runes in exchange for gold and silver?"

"Oh, this is my negligence, but if Brother Xia is willing, I also have a place in Tangjia Fort that specializes in cultivating Fu Dao Method, you can do it."

Xiao Xia waved his hand, smiled indifferently, and said, "Ah Xiao also said this." But I'm still used to being alone. Moreover, my master said that even if these thousands of spells are cultivated to the extreme, and the mountains and seas are burned to change the heavens and the earth, they are just a trivial part of the avenue, and being overly immersed in them is like a person who learns martial arts blindly has more strength than anyone else. However, they still have to go to great lengths to establish a sect and collect their wealth, and it is inevitable that the next thing will be the struggle for power and profit, and other dirty and mundane things, which is undoubtedly the end of the way of cultivation. Where is the Tao? In the heavens, on the earth, in the hearts of the people, in the defecation, in all things in the world, in yourself, why do you only keep some magic talismans? ”

To be honest, even Xiao Xia himself is not very convinced by these words. Whenever I see those big sect disciples raise their hands, they throw out a few hundreds of thousands of taels of talismans, and there are countless talisman materials to practice at every turn, and there are also classics and cheats left in the sect for reference, he is also greedy and excited, but the so-called beggar does not want to be the emperor for three years, and he has been wandering unrestrained with his master for twenty years since he was a child.

But the master's words, at least from a logical point of view, are as invulcable as his other high theories, and they are unbearable from high places. It is the only choice for being a master and putting on a façade when you can't eat grapes.

Sure enough, Tang Chengcheng also frowned and thought about it when he heard it, and then his face was full of solemnity, nodded his hand, and said angrily: "Ling Shiguo is a master." Before, I looked down on those who were shackled by the view of the door and short-sighted martial arts students, but how did I know that I was actually the same, and my eyes only fell on the competitiveness of the martial artists and the strength and weakness of the tall and short, and I didn't know the true meaning of this cultivation, which was really ridiculous. ”

"Where, where, Fourth Brother Tang is really polite. "Xiao Xia is still a little embarrassed now. I heard that there is only a thin line between a genius and a madman, and when the master said this, I am afraid that two hundred people will jump out and scoff at him, that is, this talented Fourth Brother Tang is still fooled.

"Sure enough, only a master like Ling Shi can teach a person as free and easy as Brother Xia. Even when I was Brother Xia's age, I didn't dare to join the Liuzi camp just to repay the grace of saving my life. Ah Xiao is really blessed to know a friend like you, and I hope he can learn more transcendent things from you, so that he won't be trapped by those secret weapons of the Tang Sect again."

Xiao Xia was really embarrassed, and even her face couldn't help but redden, but fortunately, she couldn't see it at night. In the days of the Liuzi Camp, he didn't regret it, and he didn't think about running away halfway. I had to cough and laugh and said, "It's a pity that Brother Ah Xiao doesn't seem to think so,

I remember when I first met him, he was very ambitious and said that his goal was to become one of the most powerful secret weapons in the Tang Sect. ”

"He's young. Treat others to him as if they really understand," Tang Cheng sighed, and then said with some joy. "Fortunately, he left Tangjiabao. At that time, I was ordered by the old lady to go to other places, but I didn't expect him to leave without saying a word. I've been worried about him for the past six years, but when I see him today, I know that his heart has been settled, and I feel at ease. ”

"Settled, how settled?" Xiao Xia was a little strange.

"Isn't it a foregone conclusion that I can be a dart master for a girl in a small dart game for six years?" Tang Chengcheng smiled, although he couldn't see his expression clearly, Xiao Xia could also feel that he was really happy. "Although being trapped by love is not the work of a big husband, it always comes from his own heart, which is much better than those peerless secret weapons, immortal deeds and other inexplicable things. ”

It's a pity that the truth may not be what he thinks. At least Xiao Xia can see that it is not. He thought for a moment and asked, "So where is he now, and is he still waiting for you in the town with the people in the dart game?"

"He said to escort the dart cargo to White Rock City first, and let me rescue you and then go. ”

Xiao Xia sighed, and after being silent for a while, he couldn't help but say: "Although I don't know the details, there must be something strange about that dart, Ah Xiao has been waiting for six years, maybe not for that girl, but for this dart." ”

"What?" Tang Chengcheng's voice was not loud, but Xiao Xia felt a dullness in his head and almost fell headlong.

After being silent for a long time, Tang Chengcheng spoke again, his voice seemed to be very flat, but with an indescribable sense of solemnity: "If no one comes before dawn, we will have to leave by ourselves tomorrow." ”

was really said by Tang Chengcheng, and someone really came in the middle of the night.

Xiao Xia was groggy and half-asleep, and Tang Chengcheng, who was sitting quietly, suddenly opened his eyes and whispered: "Since you are coming, why don't you come directly generously?"

"If it weren't for the sneaky ones, they wouldn't dare to come. With a deliberately muffled voice, a figure silently appeared in front of the wooden cage of the two.

"General Linghu?" With the faint firelight in the distance, Xiao Xia could faintly see the appearance of this person, and it was Linghu Xiaojin.

"What is the reason why General Linghu is here?" Tang Chengcheng frowned and looked at the White Tiger Army commander.

Linghu Xiaojin looked at the two people in the wooden cage and sighed, then sat down cross-legged, looking at his spirit, as if he was the one who was locked in the wooden cage. He thought for a moment before asking, "Brother Tang, where did you offend Master Li before?"

Tang Chengcheng shook his head: "I just saw Master Li for the first time today, how can I offend him?"

"Then why did Master Li secretly order me to cut off the food and drink of the two of you, and then ambush you around with heavy troops, as long as the two of you can't bear to escape, immediately stop the two of you and take the opportunity to cut off the limbs of the two of you?"

Xiao Xia and Tang Chengcheng's faces both changed 721. It turns out that there is such a danger behind the food that has not been delivered.

"Is General Linghu serious?"

"Naturally, it's true, otherwise I'll sneak here in the middle of the night to do what?"

"How can this be reasonable, why is this old man so vicious" The anger in Tang Chengcheng's eyes burned in this dark night.

"Tang Tianhao's name, have you heard of Brother Tang?" Ling Hu Xiaojin asked suddenly.

"It's my father's name. ”

"That's the grudge of the previous generation. Linghu Xiaojin sighed. "I vaguely heard Master Li whispering hating the name. ”

Tang Chengcheng frowned, the light in his eyes flashed a few times, and then nodded slowly: "I see, I understand a little." However, since it is the order of the state pastor, why did General Linghu disobey the yang and the yin and specially come to inform us?"

Linghu Xiaojin didn't answer, but sighed again imperceptibly.

Xiao Xia seemed to understand something, and suddenly said next to him: "General Linghu remembered the love of fighting side by side that day, and actually disobeyed the order to come to warn, I have written down this kindness brother." ”

"Forget it. Brother Xia, don't look for me to go down the stairs. I just don't want to offend the Tang family. Linghu Xiaojin waved his hand and smiled bitterly. At this time, the moonlight shone through the cracks in the clouds, and his face was pale, and his head and face seemed to have many wrinkles, as if he was twenty or thirty years older than he looked in the daytime tent. "Although Lord Li is a state pastor, this behavior is purely out of personal grudges, so why should I get involved. He doesn't care about the prestige of Tangjiabao, but I can't help but care. If the fourth young master of the Tang family is abolished for no reason, I will not be able to sleep for the rest of my life, I am afraid that I will not be able to wake up if I fall asleep, and I am afraid that my intestines will rot when I drink saliva. ”

"It turns out that Tangjiabao's name is not really useless. Xiao Xia shook her head and smiled bitterly. In fact, he noticed it from the very beginning when Linghu Xiaojin opened his mouth, but the commander of Yijie called Tang Chengcheng in a Jianghu tone, and the meaning was self-evident. Looking at Linghu Xiaojin with a sad and depressed face, he could no longer find the smell of the iron-blooded man on the mountain who bit off half of the head of the Sidi Shaman. I don't know what it is, in just three years, it can corrode people beyond recognition.

"At three o'clock, I will withdraw the sergeants who are lying in ambush around me, leaving only some patrols, and you can act when you have the opportunity. Brother Tang's knife, as well as Brother Xia's talisman, are all placed in the armory here facing three hundred zhang to the north, you can go and get it yourself. Linghu Xiaojin waved his hand, stood up and turned around, as if to say with his last strength.

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"He wasn't like that before. Not so much three years ago. ”

Looking at the back of Linghu Xiaojin, who was quietly hidden in the moonlight, Xiao Xia sighed.

"That's because three years ago he was just a general of the left, and he was still a nominal one, not even as good as a general who could lead troops. His skills and abilities are actually outstanding, but no one has appreciated or promoted him, so he dares to fight, dare to break through, and dare to do. And he finally got the opportunity, someone appreciated him, and after becoming the commander of the White Tiger Army, he attached too much importance to these things in his hands. He now has four concubines, fourteen properties in White Rock City, and has 18,000 taels of gold in his private collection. Whoever has these things in three years is bound to change. ”

"No wonder. After a person has these things, he will inevitably be afraid and have concerns. Naturally, it is no longer as free and easy and brave as before. Xiao Xia nodded a little understandingly, a person has too many things and too many cherished things, and naturally he will be trapped by these things unconsciously. "But how do these Fourth Brother Tang know?"

Tang Chengcheng said lightly: "Because his favorite fourth concubine is a member of the Tang family." Although he is not surnamed Tang, he is a disciple of the Tang family. So I guessed that someone would come tonight. ”

"Fourth brother, when you talk like this, you have a bit of the flavor of the Tang family. Xiao Xia said with a smile. The Tang family's yin, ruthlessness, and spicy hands are based on their careful arrangement, the secrecy of their actions, and the longevity of their secret hands. A venomous snake in the sun is not too scrupulous.

"Huh. Although I don't want to, I was sent to this place by the old lady this time, and I still have to do my homework. Tang Cheng said with a wry smile. "In recent years, the war between Xidi and Daqian has gradually died down, and the imperial court has also tried to use ways to control Yongzhou. A few years ago, Li Renshou, a Confucian student, was sent to serve as the governor of Jizhou, with the intention of testing General Hongye. This Li Renshou has also put a lot of effort into the past few years, trying to cultivate strength, and brought in a group of people such as Linghu Xiaojin to be the team, and now he wants to start officially. It just so happened that you used the military card of the Liuzi Battalion to scare those cavalrymen, and he thought it was an opportunity, so he brought you the idea to kill the people of the Liuzi Battalion first to see how the Red Leaf Army reacted. ”

"Looks like I'm lucky. Xiao Xia shook her head and smiled bitterly. "But your Tang Jiabao seems to have already arranged for these, since even Linghu Xiaojin has someone around him, isn't there one by the side of that Li Ren Shouzhou Mu?"

"That Li Renshou was born in a Confucian family, has been an official for generations, and the people he looks down on the most are the people in the rivers and lakes. It's really not good to put people around him," paused, and Tang Chengcheng continued. "But I can guess what happened now. I've always wondered why the news about this Li Renshou is so incomplete, but it turns out that it's because of these things."

At this point, his voice gradually deepened, and a strange expression appeared on his face, as if he was telling himself a joke that was not very similar.

Xiao Xia didn't ask on the side, although he was also very curious, but he also knew that it was best not to get to the bottom of many things, and if he could say it, others would naturally sue you.

"Hmm. It's almost three quarters old. It's time for us to go, too. ”

Silently, I don't know how long it took, Tang Chengcheng stood up and said lightly. With a slight shake of his hand, the iron shackles in his hands all shattered like crisp noodles, and then fell, and he walked straight out, the arm-thick wooden pillars on the wooden cage shattered silently into powder as if they had rotted for a hundred years, and fell behind him.