Confucianism and Taoism Volume I. Masters and Money
1. Masters and money
Blue sky, white clouds, green grass, green forests, a beautiful scenery, but people walking on the avenue do not have the heart to pay attention to these. They pay attention to those places that ordinary people don't care about, because their situation is very special, and they are the target of several forces.
The main reason for this is that there is a killer among them, a gentleman killer who does not spare an inch.
The gentleman killer was highly poisoned after assassinating the two negotiating heads ☯ of Tangmen and Miaomen, and when he was surrounded by the two factions, he let the Eight Heroes save him. Although the people of the two factions retreated for the time being, in fact, everyone was sure that they would not stop there, and would definitely find an opportunity to assassinate ☯ them. These two factions are both masters of poison, so everyone can only be secretly vigilant against their assassination ☯, but they cannot take the initiative to attack.
Of course, these two factions are afraid of the prestige of the Eight Heroes, and they don't dare to really be enemies with them, just hoping that they can really find out the mastermind ☯ behind the hired murderer ☯ ☯ from the mouth ☯ of the gentleman killer.
Of course, Bai Xiaosheng had already thought of this, but they were still cautious, because what they had to deal with was an organization ☯ that was more terrifying than the Tang Sect and the Miao Sect combined-not an inch of grass was left.
On the surface, the gentleman killer was rescued by them, but in fact it can also be said to be captured by them. In this case, the killer must commit suicide to prevent the secret from being revealed ☯. But if these killers are unwilling to commit suicide because they are afraid of death, then they will have to organize ☯ and take ☯ care of it.
It is precisely because of this that everyone can go in time and wait for their own territory before they can have the initiative.
Everyone stayed overnight and came to the foot of Emei Mountain in a few days.
At noon that day, everyone was a little tired from walking, so they rested in a tea shed next to the official road. In addition to them, there was also a man who had finished drinking tea, taking a nap, and his yellow horse was also gnawing on the grass beside the road. Such a person naturally arouses the vigilance of everyone.
At this moment, the sound of horses taping Luan's bells was heard in the distance, and it was obvious that a large group of people were coming this way.
In a short time, a young ☯ girl rode a horse in front of her, followed by a magnificent carriage, and on either side of the carriage were a large number of escorts.
The crowd didn't pay much attention to these people, they were in a hurry now, and there was no need to pay attention to them.
The small tea shed is set up at a three-car intersection to allow passers-by to rest. After passing through the three forks, the group went in the opposite direction to everyone else, presumably to go up the mountain to pray for blessings and burn incense. Due to the excessive number of people and horses, a lot of dust was raised, and some of them fell into the cup of the young man in white. The boy has been wandering around with Xiaoxiu since he was a child, and he has suffered a lot of white eyes, and he doesn't like those rich people the most. When encountering such a situation, he was even more furious. It's just that Xiao Xiu is poisoned and has to hurry as soon as possible, otherwise he would have scolded the other party.
Now he can only pour out the tea and scold behind the sycophants ☯: "What's the big deal, making such a big show, you must have done something bad on weekdays, and now go to the temple to ask the Buddha to bless you." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the horse team in front of him stopped. I saw the woman on horseback at the head turn her horse's head and walk towards her, and it was evident that she had heard the words from this side.
I saw her come to the teahouse, get off the horse, and shouted and scolded: "Who said I did something bad just now?"
When the young man saw that the other party was ☯ angry, he felt very relieved, so he added fuel to the fire and said, "What I said, how about it." ”
The woman grabbed the placket of his shirt: "You dare to say that I have done something wrong." ”
"Whoever did it knows it, otherwise why are you so angry. In the face of the menacing, the boy did not show weakness.
At this time, Chen Ping stepped forward to relieve the siege and said: "Little ☯ Sister Liu, why do you have to be like a child. ”
The one who was called Liu Xiaojie ☯ by Chen Ping was Liu Ruyu of the Emei faction.
Wu Yuetian is now a famous Jianghu, since he married Liu Ruyan, the head of the family, Feng Lei Shitai, often invited him to live on the mountain for a few days. Liu Ruyu accompanied her sister and brother-in-law back to the mountain to visit Mrs. Fenglei this time.
Originally, Wu Yuetian planned to go with the three of them, but Liu Ruyu thought that they were all famous figures in the rivers and lakes, and they must talk about pomp and circumstance when they go out. She's not a bad person, but she's a little worse-tempered. Her premature fame also made her get carried away and become a little contemptuous. In addition, she always thought that the Eight Heroes of Heaven and Earth were going to be unfavorable to Li Tianxing, because she was not polite to Chen Ping.
"Who should I be, it turned out to be the flying sword Chen Ping, Chen Baye. In this case, for the sake of Chen Baye's face, I won't say anything more. However, I want to remind the eighth master, such a subordinate still needs to discipline ☯ and discipline ☯ more, otherwise he will fall into the name of the eighth master in the future. After saying that, he didn't look back, so he went to lead the horse.
Unexpectedly, the gentleman killer Xiao Xiu behind her couldn't ☯ ☯ stand ☯ it, so she slapped the table and stood up, saying: "The girl said such things in front of others, I'm afraid she didn't have any tutoring." ”
These words angered Liu Ruyu again, and she took out her blade, pointed at Xiao Xiu and said, "What are you, dare to say that I have no tutor." ”
Xiao Xiu hadn't answered yet, and the tea guest who was taking a lunch break woke up, only to see him stretch his waist and yawn, and then said weakly: "This Liu Ruyu of the Emei faction is really uneducated, and when he sees others taking a lunch break, he still screams so loudly." ”
The phrase "you ......" undoubtedly added fuel to the fire, but I was afraid that everyone present apologized to her, and she couldn't spare those two.
Liu Ruyu only glanced at the man and recognized him. It was the man who had put the gold into the table in the tavern that he met when he was sending off his relatives that day.
"Okay, people say that it's not that the enemies don't get together, and the account of the day has not been settled with you, but today ☯ you sent it to ☯ the door. It's okay for everyone here today to offend me, but you, I can't let it go. ”
When the man heard Liu Ruyu's words, instead of being nervous, he laughed loudly and said, "If you don't let me go, do you have that ability? Even the guy from Sword Venerable Li Tianxing can't beat me in two hundred moves." If you do fight, you can save your life by calling your brother-in-law out of the car. ”
His words shocked ☯ everyone present, Jian Zun's strength is not trivial, he can fight with him for two hundred moves without winning or losing, what kind of strength is that. And what he said couldn't help but make people not believe it, knowing that although there were not many people who called Li Tianxing Jianzun, there were also a lot, and a small part of them were here, which couldn't help but surprise them.
Especially Liu Ruyu, since Li Tian walked, she has tried every possible way to inquire about his whereabouts, but there is always no news. Today, when I heard that someone knew him, of course, I couldn't let go of this opportunity.
So she came to the man in three steps and two steps, and regardless of whether the person agreed or not, she took out a silver ticket from her bosom, put it on the table, and said, "As long as you tell Li Tianxing's whereabouts, the money will be yours." ”
The man's eyes were straight when he looked at the money, and if there was no eye socket to block it, he was afraid that his eyeballs would fall off. Not to mention how annoying that ugly state is, the young man looked at him, he really hated to come forward and beat him up, how could he be so undefeated against Li Tianxing for two hundred moves? Although this is the case, in Liu Ruyu's opinion, this is exactly the result she wants.
Xiaoxiu is a cold-blooded killer, she always does things at the lowest cost to collect the greatest return, and she doesn't even think about unnecessary things. But now she's going to do an idle job.
I saw her slowly come to the man's table, take out a stack of silver tickets from her body, put it on the table, and said, "As long as you don't tell her Li Tianxing's whereabouts, then I and the money will be yours." ”
The current Liu Ruyu is a bit like a shrew ☯ in the eyes of others, but when this shrew ☯ meets a shrew ☯ who is even more shameless ☯ ☯ than her, then she can only do two things. The first is to get angry, stomp your feet and scold the street. The second thing is to scuffle with the other party. So her soft sword was once again removed from the scabbard at her waist. At this time, the man had completely stopped paying attention to the danger of swords facing each other, and all he had in his hands and eyes was money.
"Money, women, and power ☯, these three are the greatest tests for men. A killer deserves to be a killer and finds out the weaknesses of human nature at once. I took the money, and I won't tell her the news. As for the girl, I can't bear it, I don't want to have a hole in my neck when I fall asleep. What's more, the girl is now heavily poisoned, and she is fine now, maybe the next moment will be a puddle of water. ”
Hearing this, Han Yike became energetic. Although he and Xiaoxiu know each other, she is a killer who does not leave an inch of grass after all, and when it falls into their hands, the other party is either here to save people or is ready to kill ☯ people ☯. If those people know about this situation, the chance of extinguishing ☯ the mouth will be greatly increased, so they keep the matter of Xiaoxiu's poisoning secret. But this person can see at a glance that she is poisoned, and there must be a way to detoxify, even if he can't detoxify, maybe he can show a way.
So he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, and said: "This son is really powerful, and he can see at a glance that she is poisoned, I wonder if the son has a way to cure her poison?"
"I did see that she was poisoned, and I had read a lot of antidote books, but I never tried it. What's more, I don't know what kind of poison she was poisoned and how to solve it. It takes a lot of time just to identify these poisons, and I'm being chased by someone, and I can't stay anywhere for long. ”
As he spoke, he took the stack of silver tickets on the table into his bosom, and turned to lead the horse.
At this time, Liu Ruyu stopped in front of him and said angrily: "As long as you tell his whereabouts, I can give you ten times more money." ”
The man was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Do you have so much money? Although your brother-in-law said that he has a big family and doesn't care about the money, as soon as your upper lip touches your lower lip like this, a number will be given away." He took it out and did nothing, don't you deserve to use it?"
Liu Ruyu has been humiliated like this since he was a child, except for being naughty when he was a child and being scolded by his master.
Seeing that the soft sword in her hand rolled towards the opponent's neck.
Halfway through, Wu Yuetian had already held her hand, and then saw Liu Ruyan slap her in the face.
I only heard Liu Ruyan reproach angrily: "It's all because my senior ☯ sister and I usually dot on you too much, so you have developed your bad temper that you are now fighting each other at ☯ every turn." When I go back to Emei Mountain this time, I will definitely let my senior ☯ sister discipline ☯ you well. ”
Liu Ruyu was aggrieved and said: "Sister, you don't know, he humiliated me first." ”
"I don't know your temper yet, if you treat others politely, then what do others do to humiliate you?"
Seeing that the two were about to fall out, Wu Yuetian hurriedly stepped forward to stop his wife, and then bowed to the man and said: "It is Wu Yuetian below, this is the wife's sister below, if she has anything to apologize to Your Excellency, I would like to take her to apologize to you." ”
The man looked at Wu Yuetian carefully and said, "You are the world's number one swordsman ☯ who defeated Li Tianxing-Wu Yuetian?" ”
Wu Yuetian smiled and said: "Brother Tai praised it, it was because of Brother Li's concession, and I was lucky enough to beat him by the slightest." ”
When the man heard this, he laughed: "I want to let it! That's why you have the ability to let you." If he changed the ten swords of the year, even if he gave ten moves each, he would only kill them in one hundred and one swords. ”
"Sword Zun" killed "Ten Swords", this is a well-known ☯ thing in the ☯ ☯ rivers and lakes, and there is still a lot of trouble in the rivers and lakes for this reason. But how he killed the Ten Swords, the Eight Heroes don't know, Wu Yuetian doesn't know, and even the sword idiots of this generation don't know. But now this man has broken the ground. Each person let ten swords, and the one hundred and first sword killed them all, does this mean that Li Tianxing only used one sword when he killed these ten people. Or that he stabbed a sword on everyone, and the speed of ten consecutive stabs made those ten people not even have time to make a sword.
This person's words finally let everyone present know Li Tianxing's strength and know their gaps.
Although Xiaoxiu did not stay in the grass for a long time, he knew a lot of things.
The failure rate of the assassination mission is extremely low, not to mention far from it, let's just say that there have only been two unsuccessful missions in the past hundred years.
One was the assassination of the Ten Swords, and that was the heaviest loss of their organization ☯. Determine whether an action is successful or not, and see whether its actual expenditure exceeds the estimated finances. If the planned finances are exceeded, then even if the assassination is successful, the operation is considered a failure. If the expected financial situation is not killed, the leader will give the order to terminate the operation. The order to terminate the operation has been carried out only five times in the entire history of failure. And the failure of the operation in the past hundred years has ended with the termination of the operation.
If the reason for the failure of the first operation was the heavy losses, then the failure of the second operation was the most inadequate operation since its establishment.
The killers who do not leave an inch of grass are divided into four levels: Heaven and Earth, Xuanhuang. The Xuan-level is responsible for tracking ☯, tracking, and collecting intelligence, etc., and these information are transmitted by the Yellow level, and then executed by the prefecture-level killers. Like the gentleman killer, etc., all belong to the prefecture-level killers. But the target of this assassination was Li Tianxing, and in view of his strength, the prefecture-level killer came to find out the information, and then the Tianji killer completed it.
However, after more than a year, Li Tianxing's whereabouts could not be found.
The gentleman killer now finally knows that she lost unjustly in that operation.