Chapter 1: Forgetting the Mist (2)
The next day, before dawn, a horse had already broken through the dawn and walked out of the valley, about to walk out of the valley, Gu Qingxian took a deep look at the place where he had lived for 16 years, turned around and no longer stayed, and rode away.
Gu Qingxian had followed his father out of the valley three times, and knew that there were two roads to go out of the valley, and the one way ahead went straight, and he had to travel more than 100 miles before he reached the official road. A path to the left, through the mountains, is nearly halfway there.
Gu Qingxian's young mind was thinking that there was a hundred and ten miles missing, so he copied the trail instead. After walking for almost an hour, the road was too peaceful. Gu Qingxian stopped by a tree to rest for a while.
Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves was heard, and forty or fifty men and horses burst out in the distance, rushing straight to this direction. Gu Qingxian said in his heart: "I think the people from the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate have arrived, and I will wait and see what happens." ”
The group of people rushed closer, and the leader shouted: "Cross my Iron Horse Mountain, and leave the money to buy the road!"
Gu Qingxian was taken aback: "When did the robbers be stationed here, why haven't you seen it when you came with your father in the past?" stepped forward and arched his hand: "The kid has just arrived, and he has not had time to go up the mountain to pay a visit, and he still looks at the master of the village, Haihan." ”
The man laughed: "Hang a! Little ones, grab it for me!"
A group of people surrounded him, Gu Qingxian was not in a hurry, and made the family pass on kung fu, with a punch on the left and a palm on the right, without the slightest fear.
When the leader saw this, he scolded: "What are you doing standing, give me up, go up!"
Gu Qingxian saw that there were many enemies, and if he was entangled with them, he would suffer a loss after all. At the moment, shuttling around in the crowd, I saw the leader proudly waving a horsewhip to make a "crackling, crackling" sound, and remembered the saying in Du Gongbu's "Former Exit": "Shoot people first and shoot horses, and capture thieves and capture kings first." ”
Immediately became angry, knocked down two people with a sweeping leg, and forced a person next to him with another move, peeked at the flaw, broke out of the encirclement, and ran towards the leader.
Seeing that Gu Qingxian was violent, the man didn't dare to fight, turned around and slapped his horse and left, shouting: ",!" As soon as the minions saw that the leader was gone, they all dispersed in a hurry.
Gu Qingxian couldn't help but laugh secretly in his heart when he saw the group of thieves leaving in the wilderness: these people dared to come out to rob with such a small ability, and they were afraid that they would return with a feather every time.
I didn't think much about it at the moment, packed my package, and moved on.
Who knew that he couldn't travel ten miles, and he encountered three gangs of thieves one after another, all of whom were low-level in martial arts, and they walked away after a little fighting. It's not like a robbery, but like a person looking for news. What's even more strange is that they obviously claim to be copycats, but every time they are defeated, they never go up the mountain, but leave from the path.
Seeing that it was noon, Gu Qingxian's lips were so tired that his lips were dry, although he did not meet strong martial artists on the way, but after all, two fists were difficult to defeat four hands, and there were many bandits, so it was not easy to clean up.
Gu Qingxian originally planned to rush to Chengdu Mansion within a day, but he didn't bring much dry food, and he knocked over the water bag during the fight just now.
Gu Qingxian found a forest to live in, ate some dry food, rested against the big tree, and suddenly heard the sound of fighting in the distance ahead, Gu Qingxian walked over slowly, hiding behind the big tree, and saw a group of merchants in the center of the forest fighting with the robbers.
There were twelve people in this caravan, and they brought three boxes of goods, of which only five were skilled in martial arts, and they were fighting with a tall and thin man, and the rest of them were already as earth-colored, shrinking in the corner of the car and not daring to move, and the two bold ones peeked at the thieves around them from time to time, and secretly worried in their hearts. The bodyguard, who thought it was a bodyguard, was blocked by robbers and was unwilling to give up his belongings, so he took action.
There were more than thirty robbers, and they surrounded the caravan in the middle, but they did not come forward to rob it, but only watched intently as the tall and thin man fought with the five dart masters.
The thin and tall one uses a cooked copper stick, left and right block, down and up, so that it is a single stick method, and the dart masters only have the ability to parry, and there is no power to fight back.
After fighting for a while, the thin and tall cooked copper stick slashed straight down, and the long sword in the hand of a yellow-clothed dart master was broken in two, and the dart master's hands cracked, and he took two steps back.
The rest of the dart masters came over to support them, and one of them said, "Big brother, what should we do now?" The yellow-clothed dart master's face was like ashes, his two hands were shaking constantly, and he said to the tall and thin man: "Your Excellency has won." ”
The tall and thin man said proudly: "Lao Tzu is also looking at your chief dart leader Wang Zhaoqing, give the five of you a chance, since you are self-aware, don't you hurry up and let me go!" With a wave of his hand, all the robbers swarmed up and snatched the three boxes of goods.
The dart masters wanted to stop again, but they didn't dare to step forward. When the group of merchants who didn't know martial arts saw everyone coming, they couldn't care about any money anymore, so they hurriedly found a place to hide.
Gu Qingxian saw that the robbers were arrogant, and he planned to help, but he remembered that his father had repeatedly told him when he was about to leave the valley that there should be no more right and wrong on the road, so he hesitated and didn't know what to do.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of "Ah!", and suddenly a person fell out of the crowd, lying on the ground with his chest clutched, and then he kept hearing the sound of "Ah!" and "Oops!", only to see a young man out of nowhere, rushing into the crowd, or shooting or grabbing, and throwing the robbers out one by one.
In a matter of moments, more than a dozen people were knocked to the ground by him. The thieves shouted, and they all gathered to the west, and the tall and thin man said, "I don't know which friend on the road is, what does this mean?"
The man said, "When the road is uneven, draw a sword to help, this is within my generation." ”
Gu Qingxian heard this, and remembered that Shicai himself hesitated to help this person, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed.
When the thin and tall man looked at it intently, he saw that the person who came was just a hairy boy, and he was angry, and said: "Okay, you have to draw a knife to help, and win the stick in my hand first!"
The man took the wooden stick handed by the dart masters, put up the cooked brass stick, and said, "If you lose, you must leave on your own." ”
The tall and thin man laughed angrily: "Arrogant boy!" The two arms violently forced, and the wooden stick "clicked" and broke into two, the man did not panic, each hand held a broken stick, and jumped back slightly, avoiding the cooked copper stick that was smashed, and did not change weapons, immediately danced two broken sticks, and went up, splitting, sweeping, pestle, and stabbing, so that it was the "Desperate Sixteen Sticks" short stick stick method.
The two were fighting fiercely, and suddenly a whistle came from the west, the thin and tall brows couldn't help frowning slightly, the cooked copper stick swept, blocked the short stick, and looked back behind him, and then another whistle came, more eager than the first one, and the thin and tall man scolded: "Damn, something happened at this time." He turned around and raised the cooked brass stick and slammed it down, and the stick was broken again, but the tall and thin man did not pursue, but quickly restrained the men and horses.
"The kid has some doorways, and he has the guts to wait here, and I'll come back to you to fight after I deal with the matter. After speaking, he quickly retreated to the west with all the minions.
Everyone saw that he was still fierce and vicious at the last moment, but who knew that he suddenly led the crowd away at this time, and he really didn't know what his intentions were, but he was driven away by the man who helped him.
The merchant who was hiding settled down and came over to thank him, and the man shook his hand: "Don't worry about it, if you enter the city, you will only go twenty miles to the east." The crowd thanked them again and went east.
Gu Qingxian couldn't help but secretly admire this person when he saw that this person was neat, his body was smart, and he had a chivalrous heart.
The man turned and said, "Friend in the woods, would you like to show up?"
Gu Qingxian didn't want to come forward, but he didn't expect to be broken by him this time, so he had to walk out of the forest and arch his hand: "When my little brother first arrived here, he was not familiar with the road, so he didn't intend to snoop, I hope I will forgive me." ”
The man said, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." If you know that all the worlds are brothers, where to meet non-deceased, in Xia Li Zibo, Huguang Hanyang Mansion Zhenhua Dart Bureau, I don't know your name, can you tell me?"
Gu Qingxian didn't want to reveal his name easily, so he went to his surname, changed his real name, and said to Li Zibo: "Junior brother Qin Xian." ”
The two talked about their age, but Li Zibo was four years older, Gu Qingxian said: "I just heard my brother say that you can enter the city twenty miles east from now on, I don't know what Chengdu Mansion can refer to?"
Li Zibo said: "Exactly, this is the south gate of Chengdu Mansion, why, Brother Qin is also going to Chengdu?"
Gu Qingxian said: "The younger brother was ordered by his father to visit some relatives in Wuchang Mansion, Huguang, and he was greedy for the proximity of the road. ”
Li Zibo said: "Since it is to Wuchang Mansion, I know a shortcut road in the down, from here through Jiuling and Eighteen Peaks, a avenue, go straight to Hu Guang, save three hundred miles, my bodyguard this time also happened to go to that side, it is better for the two of us to go together, and there is a good response on the road." ”
Gu Qingxian met him for the first time, after all, he didn't know the details, and resigned: "The little brother was in a hurry when he came out, and he didn't bring dry food, so he should go to Chengdu Mansion to do something." ”
Li Zibo said: "This doesn't matter, the dry food I brought is enough for two people to eat for half a month, I am familiar with the terrain here, and I can reach Huguang in less than five days." ”
Gu Qingxian couldn't help but be moved when he heard this, and seeing that he had no malicious intent, he agreed immediately. Li Zibo led his horse, and the two of them took a short rest and then hit the road. Talking about some trivial matters and rules on the road along the way, Gu Qingxian also greatly increased his knowledge. The two traveled 200 miles a day, and they gradually became acquainted with each other.
On this day, after passing through Huangmeiling, Li Zibo said: "Brother Qin, most of the eighteen peaks of Jiuling have passed, we rested earlier today, and the main peak of Qingmin is ahead, we will copy the path tomorrow morning, the master of Qingmin Village, Chu Tianhuang, has strong martial arts, and there are many people under him, so we will avoid it." ”
Gu Qingxian said: "It's up to my brother." The two of them found a nearby cave to shelter in, and lit a fire at the entrance of the cave to ward off the cold.
The sky was getting dark, Gu Qingxian was lying next to the torch, looking at the sky quietly, a bright moon had been quietly hung, and the stars around him were dotted with starry sky. Li Zibo also came over and lay down: "Homesick again?"
Gu Qingxian nodded, after all, it was the first time for him to go out alone, and he remembered that in the past, he was reunited with his family at this time, but now he was the only one looking at the moon.
Li Zibo patted Gu Qingxian on the shoulder and said with a smile: "A good man is determined in all directions, this road always has to be walked by himself, if you are famous in the future, don't forget the foolish brother." ”
Gu Qingxian said gratefully: "Thanks to my brother's care all this way, otherwise I really don't know how many detours I have to take when I am new to the rivers and lakes." Brother Li, do you know Fengyunmen?"
The corners of Li Zibo's eyes twitched: "What, Brother Xian is going to cast Fengyunmen?"
Gu Qingxian said: "Don't hide it from my brother, I came out this time, it will take two years to go back, my father asked me to go to Fengyunmen, but I don't know much about it, I don't know if my brother understands?"
Li Zibo said: "Fengyunmen is one of the eight gates of the Yun'an Gang, and it is very famous in Huguang, how can I not know." ”
"Yun'an Gang?" Gu Qingxian heard this name for the first time.
"The Yun'an Gang is a big gang, it has been built for hundreds of years, its strength is strong, the masters in the gang are like clouds, and the gangs are all over the world, almost as famous as the beggar gang. The Yun'an Gang is divided into four halls and eight gates, which are the four halls of Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu and Ziyun, Fengyun, Jiyun, Qianyun, Kunyun, Water Cloud, Fire Cloud, and Phantom Cloud, and Huguang is the boundary where Qingyunmen is located. ”
"It's just that I don't know the specific details, if you want to make a name for yourself in the rivers and lakes, it is also a good place to go, alas, the world is unpredictable, the rivers and lakes are unpredictable, and when you arrive in Wuchang, you will know the situation, rest today, and copy the road tomorrow morning, there will only be one day left." ”
The two of them put out the torches, brought a few large stones to block the entrance to the cave, and each went back to the cave and slept against the wall.
About half an hour later, Li Zibo suddenly moved, slowly stood up, quietly moved, paced to the entrance of the cave, and turned around to see Gu Qingxian sleeping deeply. called softly: "Brother Qin-Brother Qin-" Seeing that Gu Qingxian did not react, he was relieved, slowly lifted the stone at the door and put it aside, and waited quietly for a while, seeing that Gu Qingxian did not move, he quietly jumped out of the hole.
As soon as Li Zibo stepped out of the hole, Gu Qingxian's eyes suddenly opened, glanced at the hole that had been removed, and closed his eyes silently.