Episode 9: Cold-faced Knife Maker
Cunyi said goodbye to everyone, bought a boat and went up the river, and after a few days, came to the boundary of Suzhou. He had never experienced the world, and after getting off the boat, he walked around the place, only to see the cars and horses shuttling on the road and the people in the market. One moment he was playing knife tricks, and the next he was going to the candy seller. Everywhere he went, in the eyes of Cunyi, it was so fresh.
After wandering around for a long time, Cunyi felt a little hungry in his stomach, and he asked the people nearby, which hotel has the most distinctive dishes?
Someone pointed to the front and said to him: "From here, out of the market, and then to the east, there is a house" Cyclamen Building, which is the premier restaurant. ”
Following the guidance of passers-by, Cunyi came to this restaurant. He looked up, the restaurant is tall and majestic, majestic and magnificent, and on the plaque, there is a large letter "Cyclamen Building" in gilded letters.
People come and go in the restaurant, and business is not booming. Cunyi walked forward quickly, and Xiao Er had already greeted him in front of him and said to him: "Master Ke, please inside." ”
Cunyi entered the door of the store, chose a place at the head of the door and sat down, and a junior came up to him with a smile and said to him, "Master, what do you want?"
Cunyi replied: "Good food just come up." ”
Xiao Er answered, and then asked him again, "What kind of wine?"
Cunyi said, "Just the good comes." ”
Xiao Er went down to prepare the dishes, and after a while, the fat chicken, beef, steamed sea bass, and a pot of aged daughter red were all on the table.
Xiao Er said: "Master Ke, you use it slowly." He turned and left.
Cunyi pulled a chicken leg, savored the mellow fragrance of his daughter's red, and admired the noisy market outside, his heart was extremely comfortable.
He was pouring himself a drink when a beggar with a black and gray face and tattered clothes barged in from outside. The man grabbed the fat chicken from the table and rushed out. As soon as I arrived at the door, I was stopped by the guys outside.
"Boy, dare to come up here to rob the guest master's things, if you are allowed to come nonsense, where will the face of our restaurant go? Call me. ”
The guys rushed up, you punched, I kicked, and knocked the beggar to the ground.
Cunyi came out of it and shouted to the guys, "He's a poor man, let him go." ”
The guys didn't care about the guest officer, they didn't care about it, they didn't bother to do it, and let the beggar take the fat chicken and eat it on the side.
Cunyi summoned Xiao Er and asked him to let the beggar in, and Xiao Er looked embarrassed. Cunyi told him that he could pay more silver taels. When Xiao Er heard this, he ran out like a dog and invited the beggar to Cunyi.
Cunyi ordered Xiao Er to prepare dishes and chopsticks for the beggar, and personally poured wine for the beggar and drank with him. The people in the restaurant were all shocked when they saw this scene, thinking about where the wronged boss came from, and actually made friends with the beggar.
The beggar saluted Cunyi with a fist, and then drank the wine. Cunyi saw that this person was bold, and he liked him very much, and talked with him very happily. This man speaks elegantly, mentions the history of various places, and knows everything. The shopkeeper, the bartender, and the guests were so shocked that they stuck out their tongues, this flower child was actually a man full of wealth, and he was really unseemly.
Cunyi was deeply impressed by this man's knowledge through the conversation, and when he asked about this man's experience, the beggar was silent, and two lines of tears flowed from the corners of his eyes, forming two tear stains on his dirty face.
The beggar secretly confided to Cunyi that he was originally the commander of the capital, but because he supported the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian by Yang Lian, he was retaliated by the eunuchs, dismissed from office, and his family was thrown into prison, and he was able to escape by pretending to be a crazy person.
Cunyi said: "I heard that the Wei thief's dictatorship brought disaster to the country and cracked down on dissidents, but now I will know the truth by listening to my brother's words." ”
The beggar shook his head again and again, and his mouth lamented.
Cunyi wanted to know more about the past, paid for the wine, and walked out of the city with the beggar.
The two had just passed through a green forest, and a person in front of them blocked the way.
I saw that this person was dressed in a golden and black robe, wearing a hat, and wearing an embroidered spring knife around his waist. With his back to the two, he stood in front of him like Mount Tai, standing still.
The beggar said to Cunyi: "Brother, you and I are like each other at first sight, thanks to your banquet and hospitality, and the gift of wine and food, if I don't die, I will repay this kindness." ”
Cunyi said: "Where does my brother speak, walking the rivers and lakes, the righteous word takes the lead, and what pictures and newspapers are talked about." ”
The beggar said: "Brotherly love, I understand it in my heart, the situation is critical today, my brother leave quickly, don't wade into this troubled water." ”
Seeing that the man in black intercepted the way, Cunyi thought that he must have a grudge with the beggar, and learned from the restaurant that the reason why the beggar was facing a predicament was because he helped his father, so he decided to advance and retreat with the beggar.
Then Cunyi shouted to the man in black: "I don't care what grudge you have against him, I want to kill him, unless Xiang kills me." ”
The swordsman didn't answer, and suddenly his left heel slammed back, and a flying stone hit Cunyi's acupoint, and Cunyi couldn't move immediately.
The beggar said eagerly at this time: "The enmity between you and me has nothing to do with others, don't hurt the innocent." ”
The swordsman turned around, and his pale face was lifeless, with only a few locks of flowing long beard under his chin, proving that he was a living man.
The beggar flipped his right hand inward, flashed a three-foot-long dragon stick, and confronted the swordsman in the forest.
When the wind rises, the knife is as fast as lightning, and the big ring knife cuts straight to the beggar's neck, and the beggar hurriedly raises his stick to meet him. The swordsman raised his left foot again and kicked the beggar in the abdomen. The beggar hurriedly dodged away, and the swordsman raised the large ring knife upward, intending to pick the stick in the beggar's hand.
The beggar hurriedly stepped back, made a move to probe the sea, and poked the knife man in the lower abdomen with his stick. The knife man rose into the air and kicked the beggar in the back with a series of legs, and the beggar only felt his internal organs turn inside and the sea, and a stream of blood spurted out of his mouth.
The swordsman pressed the embroidered spring knife against the beggar's neck, and the beggar could be killed in an instant. He was about to swing his sword, but Cunyi shouted next to him: "If you have a little human conscience, you shouldn't kill him." ”
The swordsman slowly put down the knife, turned around and said coldly to Cunyi: "I have three non-killings in my life, if what you say is reasonable, I will let him live." ”
Cunyi asked him, "What are the three non-killings?" The swordsman replied: "Women and children will not be killed, monks and monks will not be killed, and loyal and good people will not be killed." ”
After listening to the words of the swordsman, Cunyi said: "This beggar is Zhongliang, he refuses to collude with Wei Zhongxian, and ruins his family, isn't it Zhongliang?"
When the swordsman heard Cunyi's insulting words against Wei Zhongxian, he put the knife on Cunyi's neck and said, "Little ghost, you dare to speak disrespectfully to the nine thousand years old, I want your life." ”
Cunyi was not afraid, and he said to the swordsman: "Phew, what nine thousand years old, but he is just a rebellious minister and thief who deceives the king and fishes the common people." People all over the world are eager to break the corpses of the eunuchs into pieces. Although I, Yang Cunyi, am young, I also know right and wrong, and I have nothing to fear about death, but I can't avenge my father. ”
The swordsman said, "Who is your father?"
Cunyi said: "My father is Yang Lian, the imperial history of the Zuodu, and he is a mortal enemy of the eunuch thief, since you are an old thief, hurry up." ”
The swordsman withdrew the knife from Cunyi's neck, sheathed it, and disappeared into the dense forest in the face of the attacking autumn wind. After the two flying stones, Cunyi and the beggar moved freely.
The beggar looked at the empty dense forest and sighed: "This time he returned empty-handed, Wei Zhongxian will definitely not let him go." ”