Hong Chen didn't know much about the martial arts of the rivers and lakes, so he listened to the general meaning in a daze, and nodded silently. I began to think back to when I learned the internal skills and when I had the internal strength. I thought about it, but I couldn't find any clues. Finally asked: "Internal strength, must be the cultivation of internal strength, and the sword method, must someone teach it, can it be mastered?"

Ji Cha didn't answer immediately, but asked back: "You don't know how you know how to have internal strength, how do you have sword skills?"

Hong Chen nodded. Ji Cha frowned slightly, and said after a while: "Under normal circumstances, someone has to teach and teach in order to cultivate internal strength and learn knife skills." But it is not excluded that there are some special circumstances that will give birth to some strange things. ”

"What's going on?"

Hong Chen hurriedly asked.

Ji Cha said: "Internal strength, maybe after a peerless master to carry out the initiation with great skill, or eat any rare and rare treasures of heaven and earth, it may be born." ”

Hong Chen thought for a while and said, "I don't seem to have received any enlightenment, and I have always eaten ordinary vegetables, fruits, fish, and meat, and I have never seen the treasures of heaven and earth. ”

Ji Cha continued: "As for swordsmanship, sword skills, etc., there have been precedents for people who don't know martial arts to practice.

"For example, there are pig killers who cut thousands of pigs, and when they are cooked, they are so clever that they are very skillful, and they are easy to enter with no thickness, and they are easy to navigate, and they have killed dozens of bandits and embarked on the road of chivalry;

"There have also been surgeons who have encountered relatives and friends of deceased patients who come to the door to beg for their lives, and when they are full of doors, and when they wield knives in grief and anger, they find that they have unconsciously practiced the flying knife stunt, and they are familiar with the weaknesses of the acupuncture points throughout the human body, and the knife kills people, and since then he has become an impermanent strange doctor who saves and kills people;

"The most wonderful thing is that there was a great poet in the previous dynasty, the poetry and writing into the sword, the penmanship into the sword moves, the sword world when the war was in chaos, 'ten steps to kill a person, thousands of miles without leaving a line', to create a 'poetry sword' first-class sent. Looking at these strange people, they all have a skill, and they have peerless martial arts. ”

Hong Chen pondered it for a while and said, "Maybe I'm also a knife technique like this?"

Ji Cha asked rhetorically: "Didn't you raise bamboo rats with people in Taoyuan? Oh, you practiced a set of bamboo rat killing knife techniques in the same way that the pig killer practiced the knife method of killing pigs?"

"Bamboo rats are usually slaughtered by the master himself, but I have never killed them. Hong Chen shook his head and said, "But the bamboo that feeds the bamboo rats has always been cut by me." and other people to exchange fish, rice, oil and salt, usually with the bamboo I cut. It's been about ten years, and I can't count how much bamboo I've cut. ”

"Then your knife technique is the bamboo cutting knife method. ”

Ji Cha said on his lips, but he was quite unimpressed in his heart. It's just a way to cut bamboo, and the mountain people are very good at it, so there is no technical content. What's more, whether it is a pig killer or an impermanent doctor, the level is at best between Zha Yu and Guizhong, and he does not have the ability to fight with Luo Qinghan for hundreds of rounds.

Ji Cha thought to himself: "He is full of martial arts, unless he is taught, it is impossible to be so high." But he doesn't lie, maybe he really doesn't know where his martial arts come from. I heard that there are some secret techniques that can hypnotize people and tamper with memories. Maybe that's the case?" "The more I thought about it, the more certain I became, but I didn't say it.

The sun went down completely, and the earth returned to darkness. The two of them buried the remains of the blades at the bottom of the pit, and then went outside to find a cave and go in to rest. Ji Cha took out a piece of cold cake stolen during the day from the baggage and tore it in half, took some water out of the water bladder, ate and drank briefly with Hong Chen, and then leaned against the wall and fell asleep.

As soon as it was dawn, Ji Cha took Hongchen down the mountain and walked in the direction of Purple Cloud City in the north. At noon, when he walked to a lively market, Ji Cha took out ten taels of silver and hired a car to continue his journey.

In the evening, the carriage stopped at the official road station, and when the two and the coachman were resting and drinking tea at the tea stall outside, a group of officers and soldiers came over and pasted portraits on the wall of the post station after dismounting. Hong Chen looked at it curiously, and when he came back, he leaned into Ji Cha's ear and whispered, "The people on the painting seem to be the two of us." ”

Ji Cha put down the teacup when he heard this, and also leaned over to take a look. I saw two portraits painted in black ink on the yellow paper, and the appearance was indeed seven or eight points similar to the previous Hong Chen and himself.

After taking a closer look, I found that there were still a few strings of words written: "The remnants of the Demon Sect, the martial arts are amazing." Provide clues and reward 100 taels of silver. Under his portrait, he marked: "The thief and the tea picker, reluctantly, captured a thousand taels of silver, and took off the head of five hundred taels." "The eyebrows are slightly furrowed, and the reward is too small, where is it worthy of the name of a tea picker?

He turned his head to look at the portrait of Hong Chen again, and saw that it was written below: "The bandits cut down the bamboo guests, the knife technique is vicious, the reward for life is 10,000 taels of silver, and the head is 8,000 taels." Deng Shi was furious, and reached out to tear up the two wanted notices, but he held back halfway - he tore these two, and I don't know how many of them were posted elsewhere.

Sitting back in a huff, Ji Cha said to the coachman, "Don't rest tonight, go to Ziyun City overnight." ”

The coachman said, "Miss, I've been on the road for half a day, and running at night is too hurtful for the horse." If you are in a hurry, you can find other coachmen at this post station to see if there are any. ”

Ji Cha was too lazy to find someone else, so he smashed a gold ingot on the table, and didn't even say a word, and the coachman smiled: "Ouch, miss, my horse is amazing, it's no problem to run for three days and three nights, let's go, let's go!"

"There's no hurry. Ji Cha sat down steadily, "Wait until I drink this bowl of tea first." ”

After eating bread and drinking tea, Ji Cha Hongchen got into the carriage. It was already dark, so the coachman picked a lantern with a wooden stick and held it in front of him to illuminate it. After running for an hour, the carriage entered a forest road, which was narrow and potholed, and the coachman had to let the horse run slower. Suddenly, a rapid and strong sound of horses' hooves sounded from behind, Ji Cha lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked back, and saw a group of horseback riders holding torches and approaching the carriage quickly.

"Boom!"

The group of riders quickly caught up with the carriage, and as they passed by, they suddenly drew a steel knife and flashed brightly under the torches.

The coachman screamed and was cut down, and the two horses pulling the carriage were also tripped by ropes, and when the whole carriage turned to the side, Ji Chayi pulled Hongchen out from under the curtain and landed steadily.

"Herod!"

The riders stopped their horses, about a dozen people, surrounded Ji Cha and Hong Chen, and rode on the horses one by one, holding steel knives, smiling fiercely.

Hong Chen saw that the coachman had fallen in a pool of blood, and looked up and asked the riders, "Do you have a grudge against this big brother?"

One of them, a bald and shirtless man, who seemed to be their leader, smiled and said, "Brother, don't pretend to be stupid with us, aren't you the bodyguard of this chick? If you don't go against your brothers, your brothers won't embarrass you." ”

Hong Chen asked again, "Then what do you want to do?"

Another skinny rider shouted, "You don't understand the situation, we're horse thieves! Either you leave the chick here and get out on her own, or you come and be our brother, or you die!"

Ji Cha is clear, it was when he was digging for ingots at the post station, he was remembered, and now people come to seek money and kill him, maybe they will rob him! Another burst of anger: The government looks down on me as a tea picker, and even a group of horse thieves are bullied to the head.

He was so angry that he had some tricky thoughts in his heart, pretending to be afraid, shrinking behind Hong Chen, and shouting in a low voice: "Brother Horse Thief, how much do you want? I'll give it to you, let me go!"

"Money alone can't satisfy the brothers!" the bald and shirtless man stretched out his fingers and shook them, saying, "Don't look at your ordinary clothes, but I can see that you are a young lady from a big family." The face is thin and tender, the body is fragrant and soft, and it is comfortable to sleep in the arms at night. First be the wife of the village for two months, and I will send you home, and by the way, let the father-in-law make up the dowry for our sons-in-law. Then he looked up and laughed.

The other horse thieves laughed too. One of the horse thieves laughed and laughed and suddenly fell off his horse, and the rest of the horse thieves laughed and scolded: "You kid have never seen a woman?

The bald horse thief saw that something was wrong and shouted, "Be careful!" The rest of the horse thieves also reacted, and one by one they dismounted and hid behind their horses, raising their knives and staring at the surroundings with a vigilant expression. The bald horse thief shouted outside, "Where's my friend? If you hit the rabbits on your turf, you'll be happy to leave!"

But no one responded, and in the dark night, only Ji Cha's hidden face sobbed sounded. It's just that the face behind the green sleeves is clearly grinning again.