Chapter 5: The Prosperous Ranger
The Western Han Dynasty has not invented the high bridge saddle in the sixth year, in addition to the reins and horse chews, ordinary harness is made of leather, there is no stirrup only the horse foot buckle, when riding a horse, the two feet need to clamp the horse's belly and both hands grasp the reins to maintain body balance, riding a horse for a long time will lead to serious fatigue, not to mention that the two people who steal the horse are riding on a horse without a saddle, and the safety factor is greatly reduced, so it is definitely not a comfortable thing for me to gallop fast on horseback.
Although he showed up in time to save my life, I was not grateful to him at all, because not only did he steal my horse and almost turn me into a hedgehog, but what was even more intolerable was that I didn't know what big case he had done, and let me carry the black pot with him.
Although the officers and soldiers did not see my appearance, the flying catch thrown on the locust tree will undoubtedly become a clue, and what I hate the most is that I cannot enter Chang'an City as originally planned, and basically lose the opportunity to find Hetian Yuhuan in the shortest possible time.
So after arriving safely in a wilderness, the anger in my heart reached its peak, and without saying a word, I immediately fisted and kicked each other, his kung fu was really good, but my Chinese kung fu plus Jeet Kune Do plus taekwondo plus karate plus I don't know what the Tao is, more powerful than him, ten minutes later, he only had the ability to parry and did not have the power to fight back, while exclaiming "Huh", while flashing and moving like a monkey. I accidentally punched me in the abdomen and then kicked out with a side kick, snorted and fell backwards, and refused to get up for a long time.
I crossed my hands on my hips and shouted angrily, "Get up, don't lie there and pretend to be a grandson." "In anger, I will also use foul language.
He got up and said with a wry smile: "Even if there is a mistake in the bottom, I finally have the conscience to come back and save my life. "This man spoke in a very eloquent manner, which was very depressing.
Seven-foot ...... Look at his height, phew! Even if the five-foot man is good, the dignified five-foot man is so soft with me, I can't bully him anymore, glared at him fiercely, went over and led the horse and left, thinking about what else could I do to find Hetian Yu.
At this time, the sky is getting brighter, riding a horse from the mountain village to Chang'an City, just now after a wild run on the horse, my butt is really a little painful, anyway, it is still too early to leave the city gate, and I can't sneak into Chang'an illegally, it is better to think about it, maybe I can come up with something better.
I lowered my head and walked silently along the way for a while, and found that the man was following behind me unhurriedly, and the sparks rose in my eyes again, this guy really dared to find it uncomfortable, turned around and glared at him viciously, and yelled angrily: "What are you still following me for?"
He was stunned for a moment, "hehe" smiled and said, "I happen to take that road too." Although the tone is gentle, who can't hear the latter sentence: This road is not built by your family, but you can walk it?
I was choked by him and had nothing to say, so I turned my head in anger and continued on my way. Seeing that I did not speak ill of me, he stepped forward to walk side by side with me inch by inch, and at the same time took off the veil and said, "Your Excellency's technique is breathtaking, and if you do not give up, you are willing to make friends with Your Excellency." ”
I gave him a cold look, but ...... Hanoi Guo Jie, why is this name so familiar? Suddenly I remembered, isn't he a very famous ranger in the Han Wu era?
This is not trivial, I actually saw a historical figure with my own eyes, although I am not impressed by this person, but after all, he is a celebrity of this era.
My heart moved, I stopped and looked at him, this person, who looked like he was thirty or forty years old, thin and capable, not amazing, similar to what was recorded in the history books.
It is said that when Mr. Guo was young, he had a sinister and ruthless temperament, and was vicious and vicious. He often kills people for just one sentence or a trivial matter, and in addition, he hides outlaws to commit illegal robberies, mint coins privately, and digs graves, and his illegal activities are innumerable, but for some reason he is so lucky, and every time the crime is discovered, he can get away with his whole body.
Han Feizi said: "Chivalry is forbidden by martial arts." "This guy is a standard self-centered, murderous outlaw who overrides the law with his own likes and dislikes, but the people who follow him flock to him, making him extremely powerful among the people, and even the famous Wei Qing has said good things for him in front of the emperor.
Such a well-known person, I can meet today, I don't know if it is fortunate or unfortunate. But to be honest, I really don't like him, a "ranger" who kills people without blinking an eye and does all the bad things, which really violates the way of "the great man of chivalry, for the country and the people". (Speak out of the Golden Hero)
Another Guo Jing Guo Daxia surnamed Guo was born in the troubled times of the Southern Song Dynasty, and his behavior for the country and the people was okay, and he was kind and always acted in a measured manner. Guo Xie was born in a prosperous era, and there is no reason to ignore the national law but act arbitrarily according to his own temperament, called a chivalrous warrior, but in fact a bully.
Of course, I'm a thief myself who hasn't done anything good, but what he does is more vicious and shitty. (50 steps and 100 steps of laughter)
The reason why I am tempted, naturally is for Hetian Yu, if I befriend this person today, with his power in the people, he will be able to help me find Yuhuan as soon as possible, and he knows that he has committed a crime, but he still shows me his true face and identity, it seems that there is indeed a sincerity in making friends, I might as well make a mistake and use him to help me find Hetian Yu.
In any case, before the Mid-Autumn Festival in August this year, I must find Hetian Yu and realize my dream of returning.
So I took off my Flying Tiger hat, pretended to be overjoyed, and enthusiastically hugged my fists and learned from him to drag the text and say: "Oh, it turned out to be Mr. Guo of Hanoi, under Liu Dan, Mr. Jiuyang's name, it is really fortunate to have the fate to meet today." I didn't know it was Mr. just now, and my words and deeds were offensive, so please don't blame Mr. ”
Guo Xie saw that I was condescending and respectful, thinking that it was really his prestige that played a role, so he smiled proudly and said: "Don't blame those who don't know, not to mention that Mr. Liu's martial arts are indeed superior to the bottom, and he was defeated by Mr. ”
I smiled and said nothing, and he asked tentatively: "I don't know what happened to Mr., instead of entering through the city gate, you have to climb over the city wall of Chang'an in the dark?"
Waiting for his question, I immediately made a sad face, but in fact, I was really sad in my heart. Lamented: "This matter is a long story, in the next is the Han family, my mother accidentally married a person from the Western Regions when she remarried, so she lived in the Xiongnu desert with her mother since she was a child, and then her mother unfortunately passed away, and finally instructed me to let me return to the Han Dynasty no matter what, and leave me the heirloom Hetian Yuhuan, and let me die."
Later, when he returned to his homeland according to his mother's order, he stayed in the mountain village on the way, and accidentally let the thief steal the jade ring. In the next way to chase, it was concluded that the thief must have entered Chang'an City, but the city gate was closed for a moment in the next night, only because he was worried that the thief would buy the jade ring, so he had to make this decision. Originally, a small jade ring, no matter how valuable it was, was just something outside the body, but because it was an ancestral treasure, my mother repeatedly instructed me to pass it on from generation to generation. Unexpectedly, because I was careless, my mother Jiuquan was not at ease, so I had to find the jade ring to comfort my mother's soul. Unexpectedly, I offended Mr. Guo by mistake, and I am really ashamed. ”
The so-called once lived in the desert, in fact, I was worried that if he asked me where I was from, I would not be able to answer, the names of counties and counties in the Han Dynasty were very different from the current place names, where did I know what this county and that county meant, and simply made up an identity thousands of miles away, so that he could not know or check.
This lie is remarkable, and Guo Xie believes it not for ten or eight points, and then sighs and says: "Now that I have lost the opportunity, I want to get it back, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to reach the sky." ”
Guo Xie laughed loudly and said: "Mr. Liu doesn't have to be discouraged, if it's a big thing, you might as well leave such ordinary and small things to you, even if you look all over the country, you will definitely find Mr. Hetian Yudai to show friendship." ”
The situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and it is effortless to catch a laborer, and it is a very powerful laborer, it seems that it will be a few days or more than a month, and Hetian Yu will come back.
My heart blossomed, and I pretended to be moved and said, "Thank you so much for your help." ”
Guo Xie said: "Since Mr. has returned from the Western Regions, I don't know where I want to settle down?"
I blinked and said, "I'm currently living in a mountain village." ”
He said: "The mountain village is located in the middle of nowhere, and it is extremely inconvenient to enter and exit, and there is an apartment in Chang'an, if you don't give up, it is better to send it to Mr. to live temporarily, and how about Mr. find a satisfactory place and then move out?"
I was stunned, this guy is generous, but it is not in my plan to live in Chang'an, after all, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, something accidentally went wrong and caused trouble in vain.
But then again, although Guo Quan should help me, I can't rely on him completely, since Chang'an is a clue, it's better to find it myself, maybe I can do it myself without his help.
made a decision at the moment and said, "In this way, thank you Mr. Guo." ”
Guo Xie is a cheerful person, and after asking the thief in detail, he said: "Three days later, at noon, at the Yongfu Restaurant in Chang'an City, Guo Xie is waiting for Mr. to drive." ”
In fact, I really want to hand over those fifty portraits to Guo Jie, but I think that those snow-white papers are not products of this era after all, if they really appear, I have to make a shocking scene, I am afraid that the incident will not be settled and there will be another incident, and after thinking about it, it is better not to disturb the history of others. Later, when I arrived in Chang'an, I painted the portrait of this person on the cloth and handed it to Guo Jie.
I broke up with Guo Jie, thinking that since it was impossible to post notices all over the street, and something like that happened last night, I was afraid that the city would be more vigilant, so I didn't plan to enter Chang'an City again, so I rushed back to the mountain village directly.
When I returned to my home in the mountain village, it was already eight o'clock in the morning, Xiujiao stood at the door and seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and greeted me with a happy face: "Brother Dan, you are finally back." ”
I borrowed a horse to go out last night, and she and Uncle Zhao both knew that they were worried about me all night.
I gave her a reassuring look and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine." There was some sorrow in my heart, and I didn't know how to tell her about leaving. Pushing open the door, she saw a hot breakfast in the kitchen, turned her head to look at Xiujiao, she lowered her head shyly and said, "I was worried that you would be hungry, so I made it and sent it." ”
I raised my hand and patted her on the shoulder, feeling a warmth flow through my heart.
I was an orphan, I was sent to participate in special training and study when I was older, and the only warmth I tasted in my life was the days I spent with Xiao Jian in the orphanage before I was eight years old. After leaving Xiao Jian, he tasted the hardships of the world and the warmth and coldness of people. No one cares about me, except for Xiao Jian, I don't know how to care about others.
But during this time when I came to the mountain village, I got unprecedented simple and sincere care from different people around me, I really like that feeling, even my body is hot, the reason why I haven't told Xiujiao the truth for a long time, maybe half of the reason is that I covet this warmth, and I'm afraid of losing it once I confess.
But today, I have to tell her.
I ate all the breakfast that Xiujiao had brought, and then pulled her to sit on the edge of the bed, she looked at me with warm and expectant eyes, almost destroying the courage I had so hard to build.
"Xiujiao, I know what you want. "I didn't dare to look her eyes, I felt that I owed a lot. "But, I'm sorry, I'm leaving. ”
Xiujiao's body shook and looked at me in surprise: "Brother Dan?"
I took her hand and pressed it gently, gently on my chest, and her face "brushed" snow-white.
Again, I apologize very sincerely, although this apology does not help at all: "I'm sorry I didn't tell you and I misunderstood. ”
Next, I don't know what to say.
After a long time, Xiujiao pulled her hand out of my palm, and I waited for her to scold me or slap me and run out crying, but after a long time, she didn't do anything, just sat quietly in a daze.
"Xiujiao?" I tentatively called her name, wondering if she had been stupefied by the unexpected blow.
She raised her head, looked at the surprisingly beautiful eyes of mine, sighed and showed a smile of unknown meaning, and said: "No wonder, no wonder everyone says behind your back that your beautiful appearance is not something that ordinary men can have, it turns out that you are really not a man, but a beautiful woman." But why, why do you really feel like a man to everyone?"
I saw that her expression and tone were still normal, so I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and tried to make a joke and said, "Maybe it's because I'm a little unman and I'm not a woman, I'm really sorry." ”
I smeared myself like this, hoping to alleviate the resentment in her heart.
Xiujiao looked at me deeply, stood up and smiled: "You don't have to apologize to me, in fact, you don't have to pay attention to me, you don't have to tell me the truth, I know that you must have a last resort in disguised as a man, but in order not to hurt me too much, you still told me the truth." I should thank you for thinking about me. ”
I looked at her in amazement, this girl from a mountain village had such a mind, such a slender and profound thought, and for a moment, I doubted her identity, was she really from the Han Dynasty? Could it be that she was also a passer-by who accidentally traveled through time and space like me?
She met my surprised eyes, showed a big smile and said slyly, "Why, do you think I'm going to cry and make trouble? In any case, I am also the most beautiful woman within a hundred miles, of course, there must be a lot of them. ”
I laughed with her, and my heart felt as comfortable as if I had unloaded a boulder.
"Brother Dan, where are you going?" she still couldn't change her habitual name.
I said, "Chang'an, I have something important to go there for a while, but maybe I'll be back soon, I like the mountain village, and I like to have ...... You sister. ”
"Okay, if I have time, I will definitely go to Chang'an to play with you. "After all, I am still a child, and I think of playing in a blink of an eye, and I have been troubled for so long.
Since it was a move, all the things naturally had to be brought over, and there were fifty paintings, except for Xiao Jian, no one could penetrate into my heart as deeply as the stinky thief in the painting, which made me remember it so deeply. (gnashing teeth)
For this reason, I found a carpenter in the village, made a few boxes, and then put all the bottomless ones into the boxes and locked them. When the people of the village learned that I was leaving, they all came to give each other a big gift, but when they left three days later, they loaded a whole ox cart.
After bidding farewell to the mountain village, Uncle Zhao drove me to Chang'an City with an ox cart. The old man only thought that I had another future, and kept telling me along the way to do a good job and be kind to others, hoping that the future would be like a bright future. It seems that Xiujiao's girl is very tight-lipped, and even her father is tight-lipped about my true identity. I really underestimated her at the beginning.
The ox cart walked slowly, and it was not until nearly noon that it shook in front of the Chang'an City Gate, and when he jumped out of the car and looked at the majestic city gate that had not been able to enter the house twice in a row, he couldn't tell what it was like.
When they arrived at the city gate, a middle-aged man in a cloth shirt walked over and asked, "May I ask if you are Mr. Liu Dan Liu?"
yes, it's strange, there are people in this place who know me?
I looked at him in surprise, and suddenly said, "Are you Mr. Guo's person?"
The middle-aged man smiled slightly, with a shrewd look, and said, "My master ordered me to come down to greet Mr. and guide him to the apartment. ”
I was stunned, that Guo Xie didn't look like a person who changed the date place casually, could it be that there was fraud in it?
The middle-aged man saw my doubts and explained with a smile: "Originally, my master wanted to set up a banquet in Yongfu Building to wash the dust for Mr., but several friends of the owner heard that Mr. was skilled and skilled, and they all wanted to see Mr. style. ”
I snorted lightly, what a glimpse of the style, must have heard that Guo Xie was defeated and was dissatisfied with my subordinates, and wanted to take this opportunity to trouble me. This Guo Xie seems to be really a bit of a Taoist, most of the people who lose face are even covered with a belt, he is good, I wish no one knew, just rush to this, this guy is qualified to become famous.
My understanding of Guo Xie came from books, so I had a bad feeling for him from the beginning, but I can't blame me, if you want to blame Sima Qian and Ban Gu, the two old gentlemen.
The middle-aged man signed up to be called Guo Chu, and he was Guo Jie's housekeeper. Follow him all the way into Chang'an, only to see the bluestone streets, quaint buildings, lively crowds, there is nothing to see, think about how prosperous Chang'an was 2,000 years ago, it is impossible to be more beautiful than the current Xi'an, there is nothing to see at all.
I followed Guo to bend left and right, came to a courtyard, and as soon as I got out of the car, I saw Guo Xie striding out of it, and said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Liu is good all the way? ”
As he came out, there were several sturdy men of height, shortness, fat and thinness, all looking at me with different expressions.
I bowed my hand, exchanged a few words with him, and walked into the courtyard and into the lobby.
When I entered the lobby, I saw that it was a room full of people, and there was a big battle. Today is definitely no good wine, no good feast.
Guo Xie sat down, I accompanied him, he formally introduced me to everyone, the Han Dynasty from the nobles to the rich have the habit of raising customers, these so-called friends, it turned out to be Guo Jie's doormen.
During the banquet, I learned that a few years ago, the imperial court issued an order to place Maoling Yi near Chang'an, so that the county and the state wealth of three million Haoqiang moved to Maoling to live, (according to the "Historical Records" records that the migration of the county was in the Yuanguang Yuanshuo period, and the "New Biography of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty" is used here) In that migration, Guo Xie moved from Hanoi to Maoling, Maoling is not far from Chang'an, Guo Xie simply settled in Chang'an, and lived in Chang'an for half of the year, and this apartment is one of the properties under his name.
Guo Xie commanded, and the banquet was set up, nothing more than delicacies from the mountains and seas, birds and beasts, if you talk about cooking work, it can't compare to modern times.
Hey, I really miss the days when I sat in a luxurious and bright hotel and ate exquisite Chinese and Western food.
When the wine was slightly drunk, the man who found fault walked out, a lean man, looking at me with burning eyes, and said in a rough voice: "I heard what Weng Bo said, Mr. is good at technical attacks, and he is very good. )
I had been waiting here for a long time, and immediately stood up and said with a smile: "Since Your Excellency said so, it is better to obey your orders than to be respectful." ”
Since I walked into this door, I have been contemptuous and rude to everyone, since I have asked Guo Xie to be, of course I can't let his customers look down on me, it is better to use this to establish my authority, so as to save them from annoying me later.
The man (sorry, there were so many doormen, I can't remember their names) stood still, only to see him crack with a beautiful fist and embroidered legs, which won a round of applause.
It's not that I have any prejudice against ancient Chinese martial arts, Chinese martial arts deserve the words broad and profound, but the false routines and flashy movements do make it reduce its combat effectiveness and become a more ornamental martial arts dance, which is beautiful but not practical.
Personally, I admire Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, his pioneering boxing theory of "taking the impossible as the law, and the infinite as the limited", completely rejecting the rigid offensive and defensive mode in traditional martial arts.
Senior Li studied the different martial arts that were popular in various countries at that time, such as taekwondo, karate, Western boxing, Thai boxing and judo jiu-jitsu, etc., and sorted out the traditional Chinese martial arts, removing the false and retaining the essence, creating a flexible attack and defense, and did not fix a separate form of Jeet Kune Do, and as a result, he himself truly became the "king of kung fu".
To this day, (I mean the twenty-first century) Jeet Kune Do remains the most practical, offensive and defensive form of boxing.
Now the guy who is "dancing" in front of me, it is no other way to deal with him, watching him "perform" after he finishes his "performance", a punch slammed at me, I ignore his fist, fly up and kick him in the lower abdomen, sure enough, he hurriedly replied, I took advantage of a roundabout kick, in the exclamation of everyone, his body flew out sideways.
This is one of the essences of Jeet Kune Do: once the direction is determined, never look back, ignore life and death and outcome.
It seems that this fall is not light, and I can't get up for half a day, and my feet are still straight and in a side-kicking position, and the momentum is strong.
I am a man with a strong heart, and if I want to win, I will win Lisuo and win beautifully.
After a while, Guo Xie was the first to applaud and cheer!!
In the first round, Liu Dan won!