Chapter 77: Where the Knife is Hidden
Hong Chen put away the knife, the ruined temple returned to darkness, there was silence, and several people found a place to sit down, closed their eyes and waited to fall asleep. After a while, the little baby suddenly woke up and said, "Hungry, eat meat." The young woman hurriedly took out the leftover jerky, chewed it soft, and fed it to him. The young woman told the story of a stupid roe deer who was scared away by a farmer who was scared away by a farmer's throat and ran back after a while.
The little baby giggled: "Silly roe deer is so stupid." Even Hongchen and Ji Cha were amused by this story. The little baby listened to the story of the silly roe deer and refused to sleep, so she had to listen to the next one. Ji Cha didn't wait for the young woman to speak, and said, "I'll tell you a story." Once upon a time, there was a child who didn't listen to stories at night and didn't sleep, and one day a big horse monkey came and took him and ate him! β
The little baby was so frightened that she cried, Ji Cha laughed, and the young woman patted the little baby and said, "Don't be afraid, if the big horse monkey comes, my mother and my father will beat the big horse monkey to death!" The little baby immediately burst into tears and laughed: "Daddy punches a big horse monkey, and then punches a bad guy who scares me." β
Hong Chen couldn't stop laughing when he heard this, Ji Cha twisted his arm: "What are you laughing at? I'm a bad person, you and I are also a bad person, when this little baby's father comes, I will run faster than you and slip away, leaving you to be punched and your head blooms." Hong Chen stopped laughing and said, "By the way, other temples are dedicated to one side of the gods, how can there be a general in this temple." β
Ji Cha said: "This is not simple? because this is a general's temple. You've only been to a few places and seen a few temples. Some temples are dedicated to the God of Wealth, some temples are dedicated to the father-in-law of the land, some are dedicated to the fairy mother, some are dedicated to the dragon king of the river, and there are general temples, heroic temples, girl temples, and even goats and monkeys can build a temple for them. β
Hong Chen said: "After that, I went back to Taoyuan to build a bamboo rat temple, and the people in Taoyuan ate the most meat, except for the fish in the river, which is my domestic bamboo rat." Burn incense every day to see if you can let the female bamboo rat have a few more cubs. β
Su Liangjing, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly spoke: "Although the general in the White Horse Temple is called 'General White Horse', this temple is really not a general temple, in fact, it is a temple built by General White Horse for White Horse. β
Hong Chen asked, "Then why did he build a temple for the white horse?"
Su Liangjing said: "General Baima's original surname was Gongsun, and he was the founder of Dayu. At that time, the world was in dispute, and General Gongsun opened up the territory for Emperor Gaozu to expand his territory, and fought thousands of battles, one horse was a thousand, silver spears and white horses, unparalleled in the world. Once, General Gongsun fell into a trick to lure the enemy, was surrounded alone, and after a period of fighting, he broke through the bridge when he arrived. However, half of the bridge had been demolished by the enemy, and there was a distance of three zhang in the middle, and the white horse, which had been hit by more than a dozen arrows, jumped and flew over the broken bridge in the air, saving the life of General Gongsun. General Gongsun thanked him for saving his life, and after laying down Tianjing, he built a temple in Yanshan to summon his spirit, and instructed his children and grandchildren that as long as the White Horse Temple enjoyed a hundred years of incense offerings, the white horse could be reincarnated as a dragon in the past. β
"Did that work?"
Hong Chen thought that horses can become dragons, although Taoyuan has few people and sparse incense, it is also excellent that bamboo rats can grow into fat pigs in the future.
Su Liangjing said: "I'm afraid it won't work." After the death of General Gongsun, his descendants also built a statue of him in the White Horse Temple, hoping that he could bless his descendants with the soul of the loyal horse. But within a few decades, the Gongsun family fell into the party struggle of the emperor's heir, and after the new son of heaven ascended the throne, he destroyed his family for the crime of colluding with Xiliang. β
Hong Chen was gloomy, thinking that since building a temple did not work, there was no need to build a temple for bamboo rats.
Ji Cha suddenly got up and patted Hong Chen's body: "Get up and borrow a light." Hong Chen pulled out the broken breeze, and injected internal force to illuminate the temple. Ji Cha walked to the side of the white horse statue and the general statue, circled, and suddenly slapped his palm on the back of the white horse statue, only to hear a "bang", and the white horse statue was beaten out of a hole.
"It's really weird!" Ji Cha slapped several times in a row, shattering the entire horse's back, reaching into the empty horse's body and scooping it up, and immediately took out a thin knife with a black body and a white blade, "This is to eliminate sorrow!"
Hong Chen and Su Liangjing walked over together. Su Liangjing leaned in front of the knife, stared at the gibberish words on the white blade and the inscription on the black body, and said excitedly: "This knife originally came from the hands of Master Xu, who was famous for a hundred years ago. After that, he wandered and wandered, and was once used by the head of the Yunzhou Yunmo faction. It disappeared from the rivers and lakes as early as 20 years ago, how could it appear in the White Horse Temple!"
Ji Cha was very happy: "It turns out that Mrs. Dai didn't lie to me, and the knife is really next to the general's statue." At first, I thought it was a general's temple, and the horse was added later, so it looked much newer than the general's statue. But since it is a horse temple that has long been unrepaired and maintained, this horse is new and weirdβit is not the same horse statue from before at all! It was specially made for the purpose of hiding the knife!" Then he handed the knife to Hong Chen: "Look, is it the one you are looking for." β
Hong Chen took it with his left hand to dispel his sorrows, and his brows immediately frowned: "No." β
Ji Cha was a little strange: "Every time you used to hold a knife, you always had to hold it and flick it to determine if it was the knife you were looking for." Why do you say no when you get started today? What kind of knife are you looking for?"
Hong Chen only shook his head, remembering in his heart that although the master didn't say what kind of knife he was looking for, he had mentioned a sentence earlier: "A master who uses a knife must have a knife waiting for him." When the knife is in your hands, it is not a knife, but a man's longer arm. Holding the hilt of the knife is like not holding something, and touching the blade of the knife is like touching your own hand. β
The knife I used to get was probably easy to hold in my hand, but when I flicked the blade of the blade, I felt that something was wrong. Picking up the sorrow today, although I know that this is a good knife, but as soon as I start it, I feel that there is a power hidden in the knife that repels me, and it is definitely not the knife I am looking for.
"Look at your face full of dislike, you don't want me. β
Ji Cha recaptured the sorrows.
Next to him, Su Liangjing arched his hand: "Tea picker, can you lend me this knife a look? β
Ji Cha handed over the sorrow and asked, "By the way, what kind of blades are you good at forging as a forger?"
Su Liangjing took it to dispel his sorrows, and said while looking at it: "I can fight with any blade, and I usually have the most swords, followed by guns, halberds, axes, and hooks. But what I like to play the most is the hidden weapon, whether it is a dart, a flying sword, a flying knife, or a meteor hammer, an iron rope claw, a golden rope dart, it is definitely a first-class craft in Tianjing. But these are nothing, my most powerful thing is the crossbow with an arrow in my sleeve. β
"Okay, okay, enough is enough. β
Ji Cha will take back the sorrow again. Su Liangjing smiled and said, "Tea picker, can I watch it for a while?" Just now, I can't taste one-twelfth of the master's skills. β
Ji Cha said slowly: "If you want to see more, it's not impossible." But you also know that every time this good knife is looked at a few more times, it will lose a bit of aura. If you want to look at the knife, in addition to forging a weapon as I said before, you have to give me a secret weapon that satisfies me. β
Su Liangjing knew that the other party was full of nonsense, and the purpose was only to hide the weapon, but he really couldn't put it down to dispel his sorrows, and even threw the matter of seeking death out of the clouds, so he agreed: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." I, Su Liangjing, dare not guarantee anything else, only the secret weapon will definitely create a first-class one for you. β
"Then it's a word. Ji Cha turned around and took out some strips of rotten cloth from his baggage, and carefully wrapped the blade of the knife to dispel sorrow, "Tomorrow morning, we will enter Tianjing from the north of the city, and we will go to you to build weapons first." Don't play with any bad intentions. Who am I? a tea picker with a great reputation and a great reputation. The one next to me is also a character, a bamboo cutter who has defeated several Jianghu people. As long as you see that you have any bad intentions, you will be cut off on the head first. β
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