In the face of corruption, officials and people are not able to make a living
The two of them cleaned up the blood stains on the ground again, and after they were done, they closed the mountain gate and returned to Su Yu's room together. I saw that the man took out a bag of minced meat from his arms, put it on the desk, beckoned Su Yu to eat together, leaned on the kang head and took off the gourd on his waist, pulled out the stopper, and drank it to his mouth.
The two ate and drank for a while, chatting casually. It turned out that the man's surname was Li, his name was Crane, he practiced a light body kung fu that wore through the house and tiles, and he loved to drink the most, and he was nicknamed Taibai Crane. He went to Dadu to inquire about something, and was targeted by the dragon guards, he avoided everywhere, but he couldn't get rid of them, and wanted to hide in the mountains, but they followed him, and he couldn't do anything.
When Tai Baihe said this, he smiled at Su Yu and said: "This time, if it weren't for you, my life would not be guaranteed, you kid, at a young age, actually saved me twice, but what about my great benefactor!"
Su Yu just scratched his head when he heard this, and said with a smile: "That's just a coincidence, it's nothing!"
Taibai He also smiled: "The grievances of the people in the rivers and lakes are clear, count, naturally count!"
After that, he turned to ask: "Su Yu, who is the purple-clothed woman who helped us later?" I chased after the fleeing dragon guard, and when I arrived at the river, I happened to see their mother and daughter working together to kill the bronze guard, so you can have a good life! Do you know them?"
Su Yu said: "That woman is my aunt, she lives in the back mountain here, and that girl is her daughter named Yu Luo!"
Taibai Crane nodded slightly, and didn't ask any more. Taibai Crane expected that Boyan would lose two dragon guards, so naturally he would not give up, and he would definitely disturb the peace everywhere. In order to avoid the edge temporarily, Taibai Crane did not go out, but only stayed in the temple with Su Yu every day, and after getting along for a long time, Su Yu pestered him to teach himself kung fu.
Taibai Crane said a little strangely: "Su Yu, because you are pure and talented, and you are also repaying you for saving me, it is nothing for me to teach you some kung fu, it's just that your aunt's martial arts are so good that she can kill a guard of the Dragon Guard in an instant, and when she fights with the bronze guard, she has always had the upper hand, she has taken care of you for many years, and her feelings for you can be imagined, but why don't she hand over her martial arts to you, just guide you to practice basic skills!"
Su Yu couldn't tell the reason, only that her aunt had said that their martial arts could only be passed down from generation to generation on the island, not from outside. Taibai He listened, and only thought it was the established rule of the gang, so he promised Su Yu to teach him kung fu, but he couldn't have the status of master and apprentice, Su Yu only felt that they were all weird, although he didn't understand, he didn't ask in detail.
Since then, every day, Su Yu has practiced martial arts under the careful guidance of Taibai Crane, Su Yu has tempered basic skills since childhood, has a solid foundation, and is obsessed with learning, and naturally makes rapid progress, in a blink of an eye, half a year has passed, and the rumors outside have gradually passed, and Taibai Crane began to think about his own affairs again.
The sky is slightly bright, the fog in the mountains has not yet receded, and in the shadow of the water heavy trees in Yiyun Temple, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy has already begun a day's drill. I only heard a "squeak", and the meditation room next to it opened, and a thin figure came out in clothes. The young man quickly stopped and came over to greet him, "Master, are you awake?"
The man nodded and said, "Su Yu, how many times have I told you, don't call me Master in the future!"
Su Yu couldn't help scratching his head, smirking and saying, "I know, Master!"
Taibai He was helpless when he heard this, so he had to smile bitterly: "Child, I don't let you call me Master, it's for your own good, alas! If you really can't change your words, you can only shout behind your back, that's it, when there are people, you must not call me like that!"
Seeing that Su Yu nodded in agreement, he didn't say anything anymore, handed the wine gourd in his hand to Su Yu and said: "The wine in the wine gourd is gone, you go to Qingzhou City, the old Song family's wine shop, buy wine for me."
After that, he took out some more silver from his arms, handed it to Su Yu and said, "By the way, buy more meat from the donkey meat restaurant next door to him, don't delay, go back quickly!"
Su Yu agreed, took the wine gourd and silver, opened the temple door, and went to Qingzhou in the wet mist. Until the sun turned west, there was still no trace of Su Yu, Taibai He was addicted to alcohol for a while, and he couldn't help but worry about Su Yu, so he was so anxious that he was restless, and he didn't know how many times he opened and closed the mountain gate.
When he was restless, he heard the sound of footsteps outside, and came slowly. Taibai Crane immediately went out of the courtyard and opened the temple gate, only to see Su Yu just sweating profusely at the door. Tai Baihe grabbed him and said anxiously: "You kid, didn't I tell you to go and return quickly? Why did it take me half a day to come back?
After that, he grabbed the wine gourd from his waist, shook it, looked Su Yu up and down, and said, "Well, where is the wine you bought? Why is it empty?"
Su Yu sat down on the steps and gasped again and again: "Teacher... Master, I've been a little bit old... I arrived at the old Song family in Qingzhou, who knew that his house did not open the door, I waited for a long time, no one opened the door, no one answered the door, no way, I went to other places to buy wine, who knows, I ran all over Qingzhou, all the wine shops did not open the door!"
When Taibai Crane heard this, he couldn't help but be discouraged, and asked again: "Alas! How can this be? In that case, can you buy some meat and come back? Eat some first, make up for it, make up for it! When I have eaten it, I can buy it myself!"
When Su Yu heard this, he was even more deflated and said, "Master, those who sell meat are also closed! I can't buy anything! And ...... The money was taken away!"
When Taibai He heard this, he was even more annoyed, looked at Su Yu and said, "Who took your silver?" Could it be that someone robbed it in broad daylight?"
"Master, because I was tired of running, I was a little holding my urine, so I found a corner to relieve myself, who knows, a few errand officers came over, saying that I had to pay taxes for peeing, but I refused to give it, and they held it down, and all the silver was taken away!
After Su Yu finished speaking, he couldn't help but feel ashamed, and said with tears in his eyes: "It's all useless apprentices, so that the master has no wine to drink, and he will starve!"
Taibai He listened, and was puzzled, I don't know what happened in Qingzhou in the past six months, and there would be such a strange thing, so he secretly made up his mind, and didn't ask anymore, comforted Su Yu a few words, pulled him into the yard, got something to eat casually, and coped with the matter.
On the second day, when the sky was not dawn and the wind was cool and the dew was heavy, I saw a thin figure, quietly coming out of the meditation room, coming to the front yard, and not opening the door, to the courtyard wall, jumped up, tapped the wall with one foot, and the figure fell outside the courtyard. A few of them have disappeared into the dense forest of mist and steaming.
Entered Qingzhou, Taibai Crane turned a few roads, has been in the familiar wine alley, in the past that scattered everywhere the heavy aroma of wine, today but a lot lighter, Taibai Crane with doubts, fast forward, not long, came to a shop, in the past, in order to buy just brewed mellow pot spirits, a few nearby old drunkards, has already been crooked, waiting here, and at this time, but see the half-rotten wooden door of the wine shop closed, that day in the wind of the wine disguise, has also been removed, only a thin bamboo pole is left alone there。
Taibai Crane was not surprised, so he just stepped forward and knocked on the door, shouted a few more times, listened attentively, and there was still no response in the house. Taibai Crane was anxious and greedy, and he couldn't wait, so he retreated two steps and saw that there was no one around, before he went to the room and jumped into the hospital. He was looking around, only to hear someone in the main room in the backyard whispering, "Old man, you must be our old customer today, why don't you secretly open the door and sell some to him?"
An old voice sighed, "I heard it! Now that the government is too vicious, selling his wine, and being discovered by the government, we are going to go bankrupt!"
"But, if this continues, we have no business, how can we live?"
The old man sighed again and said, "Alas! Who knows! Let's take one step at a time!"
Taibai Crane heard it clearly, took a few steps to the door, stretched out his hand to push the door open, and saw an old couple sitting on the edge of the square table, worried. Someone suddenly broke in, the two of them were frightened, and after a closer look, they saw that it was a white crane, and their faces were calmer, and the old man hurriedly got up and greeted: "Yes, yes... Brother Li, what are you... How did you get in?
Tai Baihe was also not polite, took a wooden stool, sat down, and said coldly: "Old Song Tou, I came here today to ask you something!"
"My brother has taken care of my business for many years, if there is anything, you can ask yourself!"
Tai Baihe sneered a few times and said: "Don't say who takes care of whom, I just ask you, why don't you open the door when I call the door for a long time?"
When the old man heard this, he couldn't help waving his hand again and again and said in a panic: "Lao Li! You have taken care of our old couple's business for many years, just like our food and clothing, we are really grateful, how can we not be willing to sell wine to you!
After hearing this, Taibai He couldn't help asking, "Then what is the reason that you are forced to stop doing business?"
The old man wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and stopped talking. The old lady said indignantly: "You are timid, Lao Li is an old customer, tell me what are you afraid of?"
When the old man heard this, he sighed again and told the truth. It turns out that this Qingzhou recently came to a new Daru Huachi, he has no ability, but every day he tries his best to exploit the local people, that is, all kinds of tax items, has been added to a hundred kinds, the war is chaotic, the business is not easy to do, but the government does not care about these, just come to collect taxes every day, as long as the door is opened, you need to pay taxes, in a day, even the principal with interest, is not enough for them, and they still owe a lot, if they can't make up, those servants will take things and beat people.