Before dawn the next day, Hong Chen woke up Lei Feifeng, let him carry his luggage, and then settled the account with the innkeeper, and then went to the backyard to lead Xue Lifei and set out on the road to the outside of Tamu City.

Lei Feifeng rode on the horse, rubbed his sleepy eyes, yawned a long time, and asked Hong Chen, who was leading the horse, "Teacher, where are we going?"

"Back to Qiangzhou. ”

Hong Chen said.

Lei Feifeng said again: "I don't even remember when you came back last night." Have you seen the two wolf gods?"

Hong Chen nodded.

Lei Feifeng asked, "He is a white lone wolf?"

Hong Chen nodded again.

"Ah, I've found it. Lei Feifeng remembered that more than eight months had passed since he left Tianjing, and in more than three months, it would be the annual full moon and mid-autumn festival again, so he said, "I miss Bagan Dad and Wu Gan Ma a little, can we see them on August 15?"

Hong Chen lowered his head and counted the days, and said, "Definitely can." In spring and summer, the grassland climate is not as bad as autumn and winter, and the road is smooth, we just need to go to the Silver Eagle tribe first, find Ma Yiha, and then go straight to the White Fang tribe, and then we can meet the eldest brother and sister-in-law. ”

"But don't be too happy. Hong Chen continued, "When the time comes, the two of them ask me what I have taught you for most of the past half a year, and I will say that I have taught you one of the ten major sects in Kyushu, the two great masters of the Kunlun Sect in Beihai. They will be happy to hear you, and they will see you rehearse, and they can even call out to the Khan and tell the whole tribe to come and see you perform. When you play, you can only practice some indiscriminate tricks to see if they laugh at you. ”

Lei Feifeng muttered: "I'm still young, I'm still young, and it's normal that I can't practice." ”

"Third child, you must not use young age as an excuse. Hong Chen said, "I read the experience summary of those predecessors, and said that the younger a person is, the more he should practice hard and study hard." At the next age, you are the best time for a person to practice in his life, relying on his youth and energy, being able to work bravely for several years, and lay a firm foundation. In the future, it can naturally accumulate thick and thin, and the internal strength is deep with the years, and the knife technique is exquisite after time. If the foundation is unstable and there is no accumulation, when you are a little older, the talent in your body will become more and more insufficient, not only will it be difficult to make progress, but as long as you are a little tired, your martial arts will have to regress. ”

"Understood, understood. ”

Lei Feifeng was a little impatient when he heard it, but he felt that the teacher was not old next year, but he always liked to urge people like an old pedant, and he was indescribably awkward. I remembered that I had heard the teacher say that there was no one of his peers in the Taoyuan where he used to live, all of them were old guys who were dozens of years old, and the youngest one who sold fish was now thirty or forty, so I didn't think it was surprising, and thought: The teacher is always mixed with the old guy, so he is so old-fashioned, I must not be contaminated with his stinky disease, I should eat, I should play. As for practicing, anyway, my talent is not very good, and it is not too bad, so I just don't waste it.

Out of Tamu City, Hong Chen rode on the snow, rode his horse and whipped up, and galloped in the spring-filled Dizhou. The broad and majestic horse's hooves in the snow trampled over the low shrubs, stepped over the dry riverbed, stepped over the hills, stepped over the Gobi, stepped over the mountains and rivers, and finally arrived at the vast grassland.

The Xiliang Iron Cavalry and the grassland tribes have been fighting fiercely for several months, and after arriving in Qiangzhou, the master and apprentice saw the remnants of the battlefield several times along the way. The banner fell to the ground, the flag on it was broken and dirty, and next to the broken weapon were equally broken corpses, some of which were of people, some of which belonged to horses, and it was impossible to distinguish who the original owner was, and the surrounding air was filled with the smell of death.

When he saw this kind of scene for the first time, Lei Feifeng was shocked and urged Hongchen to leave quickly. Although Hong Chen didn't want to see more, he also laughed at Lei Feifeng: "You always say that you want to be the king of the mountain, kill a river of blood, and float ten miles, only to see this dead person, and you are scared like this?"

Lei Feifeng said: "When we were on our way, we received a lot of help from people from various tribes. When I think of these dead people, there may be men who used to entertain us to drink mare's milk wine, and I feel quite bad in my heart. ”

"yes. Hong Chen urged the horse to leave, and after walking out for a while, he looked back at the remnants and said with emotion, "The tribes on this grassland are living well, why does the Xiliang Imperial Court have to fight with them? ”

Lei Feifeng shook his head disappreciatively: "Teacher, if the eldest brother is here, I will have to laugh at you again." This kind of truth doesn't need my eldest brother and second brother to come out, I can explain it to you myself. This is the same as a few hooligans on the streets of shantytowns who collect protection money from others, so many people pay honestly, and there is such a family that does not give them life or death, even if they don't come, they can't run out of food, but they have to take guns and stick sticks, and teach people a hard lesson. Why? Because one family and two families don't pay, but it's fine, and the others are not convinced, and they don't pay it, and if you don't pay it, I won't pay it, but no one will pay it, and no one will be in charge? ”

After listening to this, Hong Chen said: "What you said makes sense. But there's another question, why do you pay protection money to a few hooligans? Do they really do anything to protect them?"

"The head of the hooligans does not do nothing, if there are officers and soldiers who come to clear people and drive people out, and they are not allowed to do business, and they are not allowed to do this or that, he will personally go out and hand them a glass of wine, take a box of snacks, and say a good word. The officers and soldiers are familiar with him, so they don't have to embarrass others much, at most they let you withdraw the stall on the spot, and they won't smash your things. Lei Feifeng said, "But in the final analysis, why should his grandmother's officers and soldiers take care of us? Those who set up stalls to sell big cakes and steamed buns, and the money they get also pay regular taxes on a monthly basis, and they have to find some excuses, saying that they have not paid taxes to the yamen that we have never heard of, and they will be fined some silver money lightly, and they will be arrested and imprisoned if they are heavy. The neighbor next to our shed, who was a flatbread seller, couldn't pay the fine, and was locked up in prison from winter to summer, and then he died somehow, and his bones were thrown into the moat and floated away, and his wife had nowhere to find it. ”

Hong Chen was silent, only feeling that this kind of thing not only happened in Tianjing, but also estimated that the land of Kyushu was like this, and he didn't know how to change it. After traveling thousands of miles on the grassland, the "Eagle Wolf Order" obtained in the past came in handy again, and any part of the land was unimpeded. On the way, he heard that the Silver Eagle tribe had migrated eastward, so he changed the direction of travel and rushed eastward.

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