It's late spring again. On the shore of Dianchi Lake, the water waves are turquoise, reflecting the blue sky, the foothills of the West Mountain, the mountain flowers are splendid, the mountains are all over the wilderness, they are in full swing, they are like clouds, they make people intoxicated, and they are flawless.

At the foot of the West Mountain, a 212-year-old boy is standing on the edge of Dianchi Lake, silently looking at the boundless Dianchi Lake. He was long and jade, with handsome eyebrows and a long sword hanging from his waist, but his face looked preoccupied. I only heard him muttering to himself: "Occasionally, I went to the new car market, and the old people drank wine and sang sad songs; He added: "After more than ten years, I finally came back, but things are different and everything has changed." ”

In the meadow not far from him, a black steed was intently nibbling on the fat grass, perhaps because of the delicious aquatic plants, and the horse ate very sweetly, and from time to time let out a low neighing sound.

This young man is none other than Lee Xiangru. No, he now knows his life experience, he was originally a descendant of the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty, and he should be called Zhu Xiangru.

Previously, after Zhu Xiangru left Wudang, he hurried all the way to the south. The farther south we went, we saw that the flames of war were raging everywhere, and the people were displaced and suffering deeply. When Zhu Xiangru heard the words "Wu Sangui", the hatred of the country and the family came to his heart, and he snorted coldly, thinking that one day, I will cut off the shrunken head of your old turtle to sacrifice the spirit of my father and mother and the righteous men killed by you.

On this day, Zhu Xiangru went to Lipu in Hunan and saw a group of Qing soldiers fighting with another team wearing the costumes of the former Ming Dynasty. When he heard that the person dressed in the clothes of the former Ming Dynasty was the Wu army organized by Wu Sangui to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, Li Xiangru's heart moved, and he watched the battle from aside. Although he hated Wu Sangui, the Qing soldiers were the enemies of all Han people, and he hoped that the Wu army would win.

The two sides fought for a long time, only to see that the Wu army was gradually defeated, more than half of the dead and wounded, and retreated, in the fierce battle, not long after, dozens of people were killed and wounded, and began to disperse, only to see that an officer in the Qing army was still brave, waving the big knife in his hand to kill several people in a row, and every time a knife was made, someone would be killed and wounded.

The soldiers who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty saw him so vicious, they did not dare to confront him head-on, their leader took the lead in retreating, the Qing soldiers took advantage of the situation to pursue, the righteous army suffered many casualties, and after a while, there were only twenty or thirty people left, the leader of the Qing army saw the leader of the Wu army, raised his knife and chased directly, his body jumped, jumped five or six feet high, his body pounced down, and slashed at the leader of the Wu army viciously with his knife. The leader of the Wu army made a nine-section steel whip, saw the leader of the Qing army swooping high, in a hurry, raised the steel whip with his right hand to block, but the officer was infinitely powerful, the knife and whip intersected, only to hear a loud sound, the leader of the Wu army was in pain, and the steel whip in his hand was cut out of a deep mark, and he flew away.

The leader of the Wu army was shocked, and rolled on the spot, where was the leader of the Qing army, as soon as he fell to the ground, he swung his knife and slashed at the leader of the Wu army on the ground, the leader of the Wu army avoided half a beat slowly, and the blade slashed on the thigh, screaming in pain and blood flowing.

The leader of the Qing army took advantage of the victory to pursue, the big knife slashed, and wanted to cut the leader of the Wu army in half with a knife, seeing that the leader of the Wu army was not spared, at this time, only to hear a crisp sound of "dang", a round stone flew in, and hit the knife of the leader of the Qing army, the power of this blow was so great that it was unimaginable that the leader of the Qing army was cut in two from it, the first half of the sword flew out of the zhangyu, and the second half was still in the hands of the leader of the Qing army.

The leader of the Qing army cracked his mouth, blood flowed, his martial arts were not weak, he didn't expect to be broken with a stone to break the knife, his heart was shocked, and when he looked back, he saw a young man with a burden on his shoulders three zhang away, leaning against a peach tree with his back to his chest, holding his hands in front of his chest, and looking at himself with a sneer.

The leader of the Qing army shouted: "Who are you kid?" Zhu Xiangru said coldly: "Han people." The leader of the Qing army scolded: "You are so impatient to live a numb life, you dare to spoil the good deeds of the military master." As he spoke, he flipped over the broken knife in his hand, and went straight to Zhu Xiangru.

He stayed about two feet away from Li Xiangru, slashed at Zhu Xiangru's waist with a horizontal knife. Zhu Xiangru sneered slightly, his body did not move, and when the knife was about to be only two inches away from his body, suddenly his right hand lightning stretched out, and as soon as he took his thumb and index finger, he pinched the knife face of the broken knife.

The leader of the Qing army pumped hard, like a grasshopper shaking a tree, where could he move half a point, even after a few draws, a black face turned purple, but he still couldn't twitch the knife at all, and he was ashamed and ashamed, roared lowly, and hit Zhu Xiangru's face with a fist.

Zhu Xiangru said coldly: "I don't know what is dead or alive!" If he gave up the knife just like that, he might be able to save his life, but now he resisted in vain. Zhu Xiangru was slightly angry in his heart, his two fingers were loosened, and the trend was gently sent to his chest, and the half-cut knife fell off the head of the knife and stabbed to the chest of the leader of the Qing army, as if he was killing himself with a knife.

Zhu Xiangru glanced at his body, turned around and left, just took two steps, and the leader of the Wu army, who was just begged by him, struggled to get up, and shouted: "Young man stay!" Zhu Xiangru turned around, saw him struggling to crawl over, kowtowed: "Xie Shaoxia saves his life, dare to ask the surname Gao?"

Zhu Xiangru said: "I just hate the Qing soldiers and Tartars, and I didn't mean to save you, you don't have to thank me." The man said: "No matter what you say, Shaoxia finally saved my life, please leave your surname and high name, and come to Japan to report!" Li Xiangru thought for a while and said: "My surname is Zhu, and my name is Zhu Thirteen." The man said: "It turned out to be Zhu Shaoxia, in Xia Ye Tianxing, a native of Kunming, Yunnan." Li Xiangru saw that he looked rough and talked boldly, and heard that he was from Kunming, and he had not heard the sound of his hometown for a long time, and when he heard it, he felt a little close to him in his heart, and he also wanted to take the opportunity to listen to the current battle situation, so he stretched out his hand to help him up and said: "Brother Ye, please get up, your leg injury is bleeding, take care of the wound first." ”

The two of them sat under the peach tree, Li Xiangru took out the trauma medicine he carried with him, and poured it on Ye Tianlang's wound, Wudang injury medicine is famous all over the world, as soon as the medicine was poured, Ye Tianlang's wound bleeding immediately stopped. Ye Tianlang tore off his shirt and wrapped the wound around, and thanked Zhu Xiangru without stopping.

Zhu Xiangru said: "Brother Ye is Wu Sangui's subordinate?" Ye Tianlang shook his head and said: "I am not a soldier under Wu Sangui, but I love to practice martial arts since I was a child, and I learned some martial arts from my master. After a pause, he said: "Wu Sangui is powerful and prosperous in Yunnan, arrogant and extravagant, tyrannical and expropriating, unpopular with the people, and especially hated by the people. But this time he held the banner of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, and my Han people were clear-minded, and for the sake of the Han people's country and well-being, of course, it was incumbent on him to join the conquest army, but he did not dare to agree with Wu Sangui's personal actions. ”

Zhu Xiangru was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Brother Ye has clear grievances, which is not a big husband's behavior. I wonder what the overall situation is now?"

Ye Tianlang said: "Since starting from Kunming, it has been two or three years, and it has been quite smooth to attack the state and occupy the capital all the way. The team I joined fought from Guizhou to Hunan, and I heard that other places were also victorious. Once the Yangtze River is crossed, there is a great hope that the capital will be killed and the Tartar Emperor will be driven back to the Guanwai. "There was a lot of excitement in the language.

Zhu Xiangru said again: "Then where is Wu Sangui now?" Ye Tianlang shook his head and said: "I don't know, some say it is in Guizhou, some say it is in Hunan, and some people say it is in Guangxi." Then he said: "Wu Sangui's wolf ambition, the Zhu family has no queen, according to legend, the third prince of Zhu still has an orphan, but life and death are uncertain, it is impossible for his surname Wu to be the emperor after the recovery of the country, I Ye Tianlang will not agree to be the first." ”

Zhu Xiangru knew that the orphan Ye Tianlang said was himself, so it was inconvenient to say it at this moment, and even if he said it, he might not believe it. thought to himself: "Wu Sangui is insidious and cunning, it seems that the people's hearts are bright. For the time being, I will go back to Yunnan and gather my father's old ministry to make plans again. Said to Ye Tianlang: "Brother Ye, Zhu still has important things to do, if there is fate, he will definitely meet one day." At that moment, the two hugged their fists and said goodbye.

When Zhu Xiangru arrived in Guizhou, he saw that the people along the way took refuge one after another, dragging their children and cubs, and the crying was shocking. Both the Qing army and the Wu army were negligent in control, military discipline was abandoned, and they took the opportunity to burn, kill, and loot, and did all kinds of evil. Li Xiangru sighed in his heart: "No matter who this battle is fought for, whether it is righteous or evil, it is the common people who suffer in the end." ”