At the gate of Yingzhou City, there were rows of travelers and businessmen in different costumes, and the officers and soldiers with wanted warrants meticulously and closely checked the pedestrians entering and leaving, as if some wanted criminal had absconded.

Xiao naturally led the horse to mingle quietly, followed by a pair of mother and son carrying the cargo frame, the boy stared directly at the big board tied with cloth strips on Xiao's back, looked at it curiously for a long time, and finally couldn't help but stand on tiptoe and stretch out his hand and touch it.

Although the shock was so subtle, it still did not escape Xiao's notice, he turned his head slightly and glanced lightly, and saw that it was a child who was less than ten years old, and smiled lightly, nothing more.

Instead, the child's mother slapped the back of the child's hand in disgust, and frowned: "You can't do this!

"Mother, mother, I want such a big bench too!" the child pursed his mouth aggrievedly and said coquettishly.

"This child is really," the woman rubbed her son's brain, "and you bumped and broke it yesterday while carrying the board at home, and you were spanked by your father, don't you have a long memory?"

"It's all because the slabs at home aren't strong enough!" the boy said aggrievedly, "If my mother buys me a slab like Xiao Shaoxia, it will definitely not be broken!"

After that, the boy just put it in place and said "hum haha", as if he was planning to do it, which caused a lot of laughter before and after.

Xiao in front of him trembled slightly, but he still didn't say a word.

"Hey, you, what are you doing?"

The officers and soldiers defending the city stopped a man who was dressed up rather downwards and asked sharply.

"Back to the official's words, people...... Man is a trickster, and he hasn't had a good time lately, so he can't make any money, so he looks like this...... "The man opened the box with him, and it was full of bits and pieces, strange things.

The officers and soldiers frowned and rummaged casually, but they still shook their heads and said: "This is an extraordinary period, all the states and counties are under martial law, and guys like you are not allowed to enter and leave the city gate at will without the permission of the commissioner! Hurry up and leave ......quickly."

When the man heard this, he had to close the box aggrievedly and leave dejectedly.

Seeing this situation, Xiao couldn't help but "chuckle" in his heart, he looked at his dusty clothes, and the stinking nest was also stinking, and it seemed that whether he could go into the city and take a good rest was also a big question.

Finally, under Xiao's anxious waiting, the people in front of him passed one after another, and it was finally his turn.

"Oh my god, where did you crawl out?"

The officers and soldiers who were interrogating pinched their noses and glared at the former with disgust on their faces.

"I ...... Xiao scratched the back ......of his head, and didn't know what to do for a while.

"Sloppy and sloppy, at first glance, he is not a good person!" The officers and men shook their hands in disgust, "Hurry up and go! Don't stain our noses here!"

"Alas...... Okay......"

Xiao shrugged his shoulders helplessly, it seemed that it was not practical to go into the city to change his clothes, but he didn't know if the coachmen would be willing to let him sit in their carriage if he was dirty like this.

However, just as he turned to leave, a voice suddenly came from behind him: "Hey, wait a minute!"

"What's wrong?" Xiao turned around suspiciously, only to find two officers and soldiers walking over, looking at the Vajra behind him with great interest: "Brother, what are you doing? Where did you come from and where are you going?"

Hearing this, Xiao hurriedly said: "The person is a wanderer who went to visit a friend outside the Saiwai before, and then ...... Later, he got lost in the wilderness, so he ended up with such a look, which made several officials smile......"

"Uh-huh...... The two of them kept their eyes on the Vajra behind Xiao, and they nodded casually after hearing this, first discussed something in a low voice, then looked at each other and smiled, waved at him, and said with a smile: "Let's go into the city!"

"Me?" Xiao pointed to his nose in some surprise when he heard this, "Is that okay?"

"Since he is imitating Xiao Shaoxia with a stick on his back, he must not be a traitor, but there must be rules-" The officer and soldier pointed to a camp tent under the city gate, "Go inside and find a painter to draw a portrait, draw a charge, and then go in!"

Xiao, too, was a little dizzy from the surprise - and this special treatment! But he nodded busily, hugged his fists, and walked quickly to the tent—

Yingzhou City is located in the north of the Central Plains, located in the middle of nowhere, not as prosperous and lively as Yangzhou and Xuanzhou, but it is also full of all kinds of organs, eating, drinking and having fun

Xiao walked down the street with great interest in the thin horse of the Hall of Life in his hand and the silver coin of the bandit's filial piety in his arms, but there were still too many lingering images in his mind, which had not been dispersed for a long time.

Recalling all the adventures encountered today, this once cowardly and inferior child still has a trace of worry and doubt in his heart-

Are you really that famous?

This Qian... Is it all true?

Xiao walked on the street worriedly, and unconsciously, he heard a child's frolicking sound in front of him, he subconsciously raised his head to avoid it, but when he saw the "toys" in their hands and heard the laughing words in their mouths, he was completely stunned in the curtain field-

"I'm Xiao, young man, where is the red-faced old devil running!"

"Wow, I'm a big centipede, I'll bite you to death!"

"Woo woo, why don't you let me be Xiao......?

Several children of six or seven years old, holding branches and willows in their hands, were playing with each other while running, but the most eye-catching thing was a child in a mask, clumsily holding a bench in his arms, and doing exaggerated moves:

"Big centipede!

"I don't care, I don't care, it's my turn to be Xiao?

"A little longer......"

When the children passed by Xiao in the wind, he was still standing in a daze, not reacting.

After a long time, he raised his head in a daze, and walked forward in a daze as if he had lost his soul.

"Candy Man Mask! Sugar Man Mask...... Don't rob don't rob ......"

The shouting and shouting of a hawker surrounded by children on the side of the street attracted Xiao's attention, and he felt a bitter and sour mouth, and he couldn't help but decide to buy a string of candy people to eat.

He waited until the children ran away, and then slowly walked into the front of the stall, and looked at it, the straw sticks were full of candy figures of different shapes, and the shelves were also full of all kinds of masks.

"What do you want here, this guest officer?" said the peddler to Xiao with a fist.

Xiao's eyes swept slightly in the candy man pile, and then he chose a cute pig doll and bought it, he couldn't wait to taste it, it was still a familiar taste, sweet, and delicious.

Xiao was about to turn around and leave, but his eyes casually glanced around, but on the shelf on the side, he found a different mask, which was worn by the nephew before:

The figure has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his face is full of heroism, but his cheeks and forehead are covered with stripes of red ink, which at first glance looks terrifying and funny.

Most of the masks on display next to him could be recognized, but this one, he couldn't guess who was painted on it for a long time.

"Do you want to buy one? bring it to the family to play, he will be very happy!"

The peddler smiled and said.

"Who is this mask painted on? How come I've never seen one?" asked Shaw, pointing curiously at the thing.

"Don't you know this? Then you have to listen well-" After hearing this, he quickly shook his spirits and said: "This mask is the most popular at the moment, Xiao Shaoxia's face!"

"What?" Xiao was startled when he heard this, and then stared at the mask in amazement, and then said for a long time, "My face ...... How did I not know that there were so many rules and regulations on the face of the young man?"

"Don't you know, that Xiao Shaoxia, his face is full of scars, and we beautified it when we did it—but this is not an ordinary scar! This is the divine seal given by the Nine King Kong Arhats!

"This ...... Such a powerful ......" Xiao smiled awkwardly, his face already flushed, but fortunately his tousled hair covered his cheeks tightly.

"If you're interested, it's just right—" The seller stretched out his hand and pointed behind Xiao, "The teahouse opposite is reading books, most of them are telling the story of Xiao Shaoxia at this time, you can listen to it when you have time!"

“...... Book ......"

Xiao only felt that his cheeks were hot for a while, and his entire vision began to blur, and before he knew it, he had already walked to the door of the teahouse. In the teahouse, a white-haired old man was sitting precariously, the boy was watching tea on the side, and the audience was already full of people eating tea and listening to books.

"Grandpa, what are we doing today!" The boy's coquettish voice was like a hollow valley bell, tactful and meandering, not very real

Suddenly, there was a startling sound, which made Xiao come back to his senses, and after a closer look, the old man on the stage had already raised his eyebrows and began to tell mysteriously:

"Today, we will continue the last time, continue the story of the young man in Songshan, this time compared to the last time, it is more dangerous, more amazing!

The spectators in the audience immediately burst into applause, and the boy waited for the applause to pass, and urged coquettishly: "Hurry up, what's so amazing?"

The white-haired old man pretended to smile mysteriously: "Hmph, you don't know, that red-faced old devil carries a monster with him, which is a thousand-year-old centipede essence, a hundred feet long, with the ability to call the wind and rain, and what is even more terrifying is that the monster is covered in copper skin and iron bones, which is invulnerable, invulnerable, and invulnerable to water and fire!"

"Is it so powerful?" the boy covered his mouth in surprise.

"Yes, yes, that big centipede, it already has the cultivation of turning over the river and the sea, opening its mouth to suck, it swallows a hundred hectares of houses, and when it spits out its huge mouth, it is a violent storm, and there is the red-faced old devil riding on it, controlling it to do evil, even if the 'Yama Sword' Ke Yan and the abbot masters are present to try their best to stop it, and the sword is tossed down, but it still can't hurt it for half a point!

"What should I do?" asked the boy anxiously.

The white-haired old man took a sip of tea and sneered: "Hmph, just when the old devil was doing evil with the big centipede spirit, I only heard a loud shout in the clear sky: 'Well, the Buddha Gate is heavy, how can you be a place where demons and wickeds like you can come? As soon as the words fell, I saw dark clouds covering the sun in the sky, and the ground was miserable, and there was nothing to see within a radius of 100 miles! Just as everyone was making a mess, a burst of thunder in the air suddenly pierced the clouds, blowing up a big pit in the square of the Shaolin Temple! In the flickering light, a figure had already appeared in the pit!

The boy hid his face and exclaimed, "Who is that man?"

"Hmph, don't be in a hurry, and listen to me slowly...... In an instant, there was a loud thunder in the sky above the Shaolin Temple, illuminating the pitch-black earth as if it were day! Everyone looked at it intently, and saw that the man was more than eight feet tall, his appearance was cold and harsh, and he was carrying a three-foot bench in his hand, and more importantly, his face was full of golden light, majestic, like a god descending to earth!"

"The red-faced old devil was startled, and hurriedly asked, 'Who is coming?', but saw that the man sneered, and his voice was like thunder: 'My surname is Xiao's, although I am an unknown ranger, but I am also your nemesis......!"

The story told by the white-haired old man is no less than any previous biography and historical biography, it has to be concentrated, presentable, the boy sings and harmonizes on the side, and is sought after again and again, while the audience is with the ups and downs of the plot, startled, sometimes happy and angry, from time to time with the climax of the exciting story, bursts of cheers and applause.

I didn't notice at all that there was a young man with a stiff back outside the door, already with tears on his face, squatting on the ground, covering his eyes, crying like a child.

I've finally become a ......

What do you want to be......

That man......

In an instant, in the depths of the young man's heart, the figure of the cowardly and inferior child shattered and turned into stars, while another confident and brave shadow inadvertently appeared.

When Xiao looked up, the room was empty, as if no one had ever appeared.

Banzha Zhen Wulin