Faced with this unbelievable scene, Xue Song's nose twitched a few times, and his arrogant head finally lowered, listless.

The boy hid his sword and sat up again on top of the statue of Zhanggao.

After a while, Xue Song suddenly remembered something, and regardless of his wet boots soaked in water, he took a few steps in the water and looked up and asked, "Little brother is that 'god beggar'?"

It turned out that when Xue Song was passing by the town, he heard a fat monk complaining that the incense money in the main hall was swept away by a beggar. Xue Song was still strange at the time, how could he easily escape in front of everyone's eyes.

The fat monk cried: "The golden basin containing the incense and fire money is covered under an iron cage with a lock. The iron cage went one foot deep into the ground and was embedded in a hundred-pound stone underground. We only send one person to watch every day, and Twilight will open the lock and withdraw the money. At noon that day, when there were many pilgrims, a little beggar came straight to the iron cage and asked the guard, 'Is there a lot of money here?' Seeing that everyone should not, the little beggar walked to the iron cage by himself, stretched out his hand and grabbed the iron cage. Hearing the rumbling sound, everyone was amazed, the beggar actually dragged out the boulder from the ground, and then stepped on it, and pulled the iron cage off the boulder, and swept away the incense money in the basin. Who would dare to stop this posture?"

Xue Song was only surprised, and couldn't help nodding and saying, "It's a stranger." ”

The fat monk wiped his tears and continued: "I heard that the beggar bought a drawer of steamed buns on the street, one bite at a time. People call him 'God Beggar,' and I don't know if this man will come again, but he will kill us!"

The young man didn't roll his eyelids, and snorted, "What is a 'god beggar'?

Xue Song arched his hand and said: "When the country is employing people, the little brother is very capable, why don't you go and take a martial arts test?"

The young man looked back at the rain in the crack in the door, turned his face, and said with tears streaming down his face: "Can I take a martial arts exam to clear up the injustice?

Seeing that he was in a miserable situation, Xue Song asked two questions in a row, knowing that he must have been greatly wronged, so he said: "I have a cousin who is a Beijing official, what is there to hide from the little brother, or can I help?"

The young man will be an auditor, surnamed Cheng, because he was born on the first day of the first month, so he was named Yiyi, and his father was Cheng Wanli, who was known as the "Taihu South Sword". Cheng Wanli practiced swords for decades, practiced swords excessively, and at the age of forty, his cultivation increased dramatically overnight, and he defeated ten six-section swordsmen in Jiangnan within a month, and died violently on the thirty-first day.

He and his mother depended on each other, guarding a few thin fields and three thatched houses, practicing swords every day, studying the "Wu Chu Great Sword Sutra" left by his father, and wanted to participate in the martial arts examination to gain a fame, but unexpectedly, he would be too shou to repair the forest garden, and even circled twenty acres of land, and circled the three grass houses and a few thin fields of his Cheng family's ancestors.

This is too conservative to give a price according to the quality of the land, and an acre of thin land is only worth a hundred copper coins. After a full calculation, the Cheng family's house and field only lost one or two pieces of silver, and the little official who came to forcibly demolish it had to take away some bits and pieces.

His mother Cheng Li died suddenly that night, and the next day she went out to mourn, Cheng Yi rolled her with a straw mat and hurriedly buried her. At first, his parents had warned him not to use the sword easily, and that day since his mother's death, no one restrained him anymore, so he entered the Taishou Mansion that day and beheaded more than ten people, including the Taishou. So Starry Night fled and came here.

Xue Song sighed after hearing this and said, "Brother Cheng, according to what you say, I really can't stand up for you again." ”

The young man stopped his tears and said, "You say I killed innocents indiscriminately?"

Xue Song shook his head, "If it were me, I would only kill more people than you." ”

"And what do you mean?"

Xue Song sighed and said: "I wanted to be fair and strict, and use the law of the court to punish those dog officials who protect each other, but since you take revenge with a private sword, I can't do anything more." ”

The boy didn't say anything, just sat and listened to the rain. The sound of the rain is mournful and sad, and the grief is abnormal.

After a long time, Xue Song said: "I'm not an official fan, I don't expect to be an official to make a fortune, just because I have an ambition, I want to help the world, clarify the universe, so that the people of our Great Song Kingdom can live a good life, and no longer be bullied by vicious dogs inside and out." After he said this, he sighed again, and suddenly felt that he didn't believe these nonsense, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Cheng Yiyi: "It's difficult, in this world, there is no room for good people." ”

Xue Song waded through the water in the hall, paced back and forth, and said slowly: "That's not necessarily the case. Many of the people in the same exam as me are like-minded brothers, which shows that there are honest people in the world. When our group of people takes power, it will be the time when the world is clear and clear. Little brother, would you like to join me?"

Cheng Yi yawned one by one, which was quite similar to the doctrine of "eradicating injustice with a sword" that he usually believed, and asked, "Can you give me an official?"

Xue Song said with a smile: "You are a criminal, you have already been recorded, and you can't be an official." I went to Siming to train the troops, and I have to bring a small piece of soldiers from Wu Yue of the two Zhejiang Road and sea and land armies, if you don't dislike it, you can give me a secretary. Have you read a book?"

Cheng Yiyi: "Those who are preparing for the martial arts exam, who don't know the "Seven Books of the Martial Arts", who can't read, you look down on people!"

Xue Songyu smiled and said: "Okay, okay, that's the case, little brother, you don't have to flow anymore, just go with me." If my brother eats something, you have a bite. I love to make friends with cool warriors in my life, especially people like Your Excellency who have advanced cultivation. ”

Cheng Yiyi: "But it's disrespectful, it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate." is willing to follow the brother to the north and south, and act chivalrous. He said this, but in his heart, he thought that if Brother Xue couldn't do it here, he would leave by himself, and he wouldn't be able to stop him anyway.

At the moment, the two were chatting happily, and Cheng Yiyi didn't know that staying by Xue Song's side for ten years.

In the first two years of going to the army, Cheng Yiyi relied on his relationship with Xue Song and had a profound kendo cultivation, flying and domineering, every time he fought with soldiers and gambled on swords, everyone in the army knew it, both admired and afraid.

There is also a local in the army who is born with divine powers, named Jiangnan Tiger, lonely and clear, never flattering Cheng Yiyi, Cheng Yiyi has long seen him unpleasantly, and wants to repair him, but he didn't find a chance.

On this day, someone instigated him and finally provoked him to compete with Cheng Yi one by one. The two stood on the sword fighting platform and competed with swords, and as soon as they intersected, Cheng Yiyi realized that this person has a lot of energy, but he has no practice, just an ordinary martial artist. Then he put away the sword and said with a smile: "It's all my fault, this army is full of soldiers and martial artists, how can there be cultivators, I use kendo to bully you, and it is also a victory." ”

was about to step down, but he didn't expect to anger Jiangnan Tiger, he sneaked up behind his back and slashed with a sword. Everyone screamed, Cheng Yiyi snatched the sword sideways, but he didn't think that Jiangnan Tiger used too much force, and the sword was disconnected by Chengying. The broken sword slashed back, and actually cut off Jiangnan Tiger's left arm, and Jiangnan Tiger was dying and recuperating in the camp tent.

This matter reached Jiang Nanhu's house within a day, and his old father and mother hurriedly came, crying and shouting to see the military leader. Xue Song knew that he was at a loss, so he personally welcomed the old couple into the army, and wanted to take them to the camp tent to discuss compensation. The old couple ignored each other, and when they entered the army, they shouted to the heavens and the earth: "My son, we are just one son, I wanted to be sent to the battlefield, even if I die, it doesn't matter, I was cut off by your domineering military master, how can our family live!"

They even cried and jumped, touching the soldiers around them, who doesn't have an old parent?

Xue Song saw that he couldn't be persuaded to do so, so he took off his iron armor and exposed his backbone, knelt in front of the two of them and cried: "It's all my fault that I can't govern the army, and the sword fighting in the camp is a common practice." It's really accidental that your son was injured in the sword fight, don't cry, old man, only blame me. ”

As he spoke, he commanded him to beat himself with sticks on his left and right. Don't dare to move left and right, Xue Song said: "Those who do not obey military orders will be killed!"

The two military sticks on the left and right whirred and hit Xue Song's backbone, and when he was a cup of tea, his back turned purple and red, and when he hit a hundred sticks, Xue Song spit out a mouthful of blood from his mouth.

Seeing this, the soldiers all knelt down and cried, "Stop fighting!"

The old couple was also frightened by this situation, and stood trembling in place.

Cheng Yiyi has the courage to fight fiercely, but when he saw kindness and pitiful things, he couldn't bear it for a long time, and he didn't have the courage anymore. He hid in the army and cried, the sound shook the world, and scared the old couple and pitied.

The old couple took a hundred taels of silver, and Xue Song sent someone to send Jiang Nanhu and them back.

This incident has been remembered one by one for a lifetime, and since then, he no longer dares to do things impulsively, his temperament has changed greatly, and he has become much calmer. And Xue Song has also seen a lot, and many things have just been seen through but never said.