Chapter 22: Five Years Later
Time flies like an arrow, time flies like quicksand between fingers, and five years have passed.
In recent years, among the rivers and lakes that the people cannot touch, such two sentences have been circulated.
"Wine Taoist, meat monk, Diancang scholar, steppe wolf. ”
"Desert knife, cold autumn frost, Jiangnan Mudi, peach blossom girl. ”
Wine Taoist, rumored to have been a disciple of Wudang Mountain, was expelled from the school, he is fond of drinking, has few friends, walks the world all the year round, but no one has seen his dignity.
Meat monk, a Shaolin monk who has no meat and no joy, because he does not abide by the rules, can not bear the precepts of Buddhism, so he went to the bottom of the mountain and broke away from Shaolin.
Diancang scholar, a high-achieving student who graduated from Peking University, claims to be the last descendant of the Diancang school in Dali, Yunnan, so he is called Diancang scholar.
Steppe wolves, orphans in the northern grasslands, were raised by many small tribes, and later learned martial arts, guarded the grassland, and protected the peace of the people.
The desert knife, a lone knife from the desert, walks between the deserts all the year round, a rusty knife with bad deeds, can cut through the wind and sand in the sandstorm, and has rescued many travelers lost in the desert.
Cold Autumn Frost, a beautiful woman in the north, a cold and beautiful woman who is nearly forty years old, named Autumn Frost, so she is called Cold Autumn Frost.
Jiangnan Mudi, a gentleman in the smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River, lives in the water town, likes the sound of the flute, has a wealthy family, and is a well-known wealthy businessman in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Peach Blossom Niang, a person from a small coastal town, planted a hundred acres of peach trees, and every time the peach blossoms bloomed, they picked the peach blossoms to make wine. The peach blossom lady is like a peach blossom, smiling like a spring wind, and the peach blossom brew brewed is even better.
These eight people are all martial arts masters, each with their own merits, and they are the most fascinating existence in the rivers and lakes today. Many young people who have just glimpsed martial arts, when they heard about the name of the eight people, rushed to visit and wanted to worship him, but unfortunately, there is a name in the rivers and lakes, but few people can see it.
A road to the south, there is a broken temple, the houses in the temple collapsed, only some broken walls remain, the only place that can shelter from the wind and rain, there is only the precarious Daxiong Treasure Palace, and the treasure hall, is already overgrown with weeds, the Buddha statue of the Buddha Gate is also dilapidated.
A middle-aged man in a Taoist robe, lying drowsy on the beam, with a bottle of bad wine in his hand, is about to bottom out. There was a monk sitting at the bottom of the beam, sitting in front of a bonfire on which dog meat was roasted.
The smell of meat overflowed, wafting throughout the entire treasure hall, and the Taoist priest lying on the beam seemed to smell the fragrance, his nose moved, and then he sat up and looked down.
"Monk, steal dog barbecue meat again. The Taoist priest shouted at the monk.
The monk didn't raise his head and said: "Ox nose, do you like to eat it or not, just a little meat, I myself is not enough." ”
The Taoist priest jumped off the beam, came to the bonfire, reached out and tore off a dog's leg, and stuffed it into his mouth, eating with relish, and did not forget to drink the last sip of wine in the bottle.
"Stinky cow nose, eat mine all day long. Although the monk said it, he did not mean not to let the Taoist priest eat meat.
The Taoist priest patted the wine bottle and said, "You can drink mine, but it's a pity that you don't drink." ”
"Monks, don't drink alcohol. The monk replied seriously.
"Don't drink alcohol, so what's the matter with you eating meat?" the Taoist priest said vaguely, chewing on dog meat in his mouth.
The monk looked at the dog meat flowing on the fire, swallowed his saliva and said, "I can't live without meat, I can't live without meat." ”
"If you can't live, you will go to rebirth in bliss, isn't this the case in Buddhism?"
"Why don't you go and see the Infinite Heavenly Venerable! Don't say I'm a goblin. ”
The monk also tore off a piece of meat and ate it.
The two were silent for a while, and after the Taoist priest finished eating the dog meat, wiped his mouth and said, "Monk, did you say that the child is the descendant of that person?"
The monk was devoted to eating meat, and replied with ignorance: "How do I know, besides, I don't believe in that legend in the first place, what is the lord of 100,000 mountains, and the emperor of the world, I think it's all fake." ”
The Taoist priest said thoughtfully: "Yes, a few years ago in the mountain, there was a strong momentum on the mountain, which was enough to seriously injure me on the spot, but he had no killing intent, he just asked me to leave quickly, not wanting to be disturbed." The strength of that force is really unimaginable, I think it is the legendary big devil who raised the white tiger. No, we have to take the time to inform the major forces in the rivers and lakes in case of accidents. ”
The monk rolled his eyes and said, "If you want to go, I don't bother to pay attention, what age is it, I knew that I didn't go to the temple when I was a child, wouldn't it be better to find someone to do short-term work, read more or less, and find a job that can support myself? ”
After finishing speaking, the monk added: "Learning martial arts has a fart use, and you don't even have a home." ”
The Taoist priest laughed a few times and said with emotion: "Yes, there is a fart for learning martial arts, it is better to be a little Taoist honestly, calculate hexagrams, and solve the sign." ”
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Today's Wu Hou has also grown into a big and small man, taller and stronger, and he is much more mature than in previous years.
Wu Hou, who was in the summer vacation this year, had just finished the college entrance examination, and when the school started again, he was going to leave here and go to university in a big city in the south. Wu Hou's grades in recent years have been very good, he and Mai Wenxiang together, willing to study, and their grades have risen steadily, under the introduction of Li Chunxi, the two finally applied for another key university in the city where Li Chunxi was in college.
In the past few years, Wu Hou has not only steadily improved his academic performance, but also participated in many competitions held by Tough Guy Co., Ltd. in cooperation with Mai Weili, and also played in other cities not far away, and won very good rankings, of course, again and again, he has also accumulated a lot of money.
However, since Wu Hou played for the first time, when he went to participate again, he wore a hat that could cover his entire face. The first time he played the game, Wu Hou's family and Mai Wenxiang did not see it, and since then, in order to prevent the TV station from broadcasting, Wu Hou disguised himself for fear of being seen by Guo Sunhua, Mai Wenxiang and other classmates.
He played many games without showing his face, and gradually became famous in the circle, and everyone knew a strong guy who wore a hat to cover his face during the game, and was very good at fighting, but rarely spoke.
The year after the first competition, Wu Hou took the money to buy himself a computer and a mobile phone, Guo Sunflower asked him where the money came from, he lied and said that he helped his classmates work, and the wages given by others, although Wu Hou lied a bit far-fetched, but Guo Sunflower also believed it. During the winter vacation, when Wu Hou went to the mountains again, he brought a mobile phone to his grandparents and Duanmu Shenjiu.
At first, when Duanmu Shenjiu received a call from Wu Hou, he was surprised when Wu Hou learned the art of sound transmission, but later Wu Hou explained it well on the phone, and Duanmu Shenjiu understood that this is a kind of technology. However, Wu Hou sometimes called Duanmu Shenjiu, and he always turned off the phone, and later he thought that there was no electricity in the place where Duanmu Shenjiu lived. Every time the mobile phone is turned off, Duanmu Shenjiu has to find an opportunity to sneak into other people's homes in order to charge the mobile phone, so he has used the mobile phone for several years, and in the past few years, he has also taught a lot of superior martial arts to Wu Hou.
Wu Hou, who had just finished the college entrance examination, went out shopping with Mai Wenxiang twice. Wu Hou, who is becoming more and more mature, looks very stable, but he is a little ruffian, walking on the street with Mai Wenxiang, who has been slim, and is always pointed at. For this reason, Mai Weili also specially said to Wu Hou, saying that he should not fight Mai Wenxiang's idea, he is such a daughter, and he wants to find a big family. Wu Hou was a little helpless about this, and felt that Mai Weili was thinking too much, and he had no love for Mai Wenxiang.
That afternoon, Wu Hou and Mai Wenxiang made an appointment, saying that they would find a place to rub together in the evening to celebrate their upcoming college life.
So after it was almost dark, the two came out of the community, and Wu Hou said that he was going to eat Pizza Hut, but Mai Wenxiang proposed to go to the food stall next to the school to drink and skewer. Wu Hou didn't agree at first, he went to eat food stalls with other classmates, where he smoked and drank, Wu Hou felt that it was not suitable for Mai Wenxiang to go, but he couldn't resist Mai Wenxiang, so he had to take her to the food stall in the end.
Wu Hou remembered that there was an open-air food stall on the outskirts of the city, and he heard others say that the night market there was very big, and it was very lively at night, and many young people gathered there, singing and dancing, Wu Hou had not been there, so he thought that it would be better to take Mai Wenxiang there.
So he called a taxi, explained the location to the driver, and the driver drove the two of them to the food stalls in the suburbs.
As soon as I got off the car, I jumped up, because it was really lively here, although it was night, but it was like daytime, there was a big stage, the light balls on it were shining, some people were singing on it, and everyone in the audience nodded their heads to the rhythm, and the atmosphere was very good.
Not far from the open space under the stage, there are stalls of all sizes, ranging from barbecue to cold dishes.
Wu Hou took Mai Wenxiang with him, found a barbecue that was relatively not crowded, and after ordering some things that Mai Wenxiang liked to eat, he sat down.
The surrounding people are noisy, the singers on the stage are singing the most popular love songs at the moment, and the men and women in the audience are hooking their shoulders and backs, and after the light ball shines, they take advantage of the bad light to kiss each other for a while. It's like an open-air bar, where these young men and women gather.
Mai Wenxiang looked around and saw that there was a barrel of draft beer on each table, she stretched out her head and said to Wu Hou, "Wu Hou, shall we have a bar?"
Wu Hou nodded and asked the boss for a bucket of draft beer.
After eating and drinking for a while, Wu Hou said, "Xiangxiang, I'm going to my grandmother's house tomorrow." ”
"Why do you go to your grandmother's house on vacation?"
Wu Hou smiled and replied, "I miss them." ”
Mai Wenxiang pursed her lips and said, "If only I had a grandparents, but unfortunately not." ”
"It's okay, you can treat my grandparents as your own. ”
"But I haven't seen them. ”
"I'll see you later!"
Mai Wenxiang smiled: "Drink!"
A man and a woman, two young people, pushing the cup and changing the lamp, are extremely happy.
There were a few young people who drank in society, and they noticed Mai Wenxiang from a distance, she was dressed in a refreshing dress, revealing a white and flawless neck, and her gradually bulging breasts were full of the vitality of a little girl.
The drunken young man shouted through a few tables: "Hey, little sister, you don't look bad, how about you come and have a drink with your brother?" ”