It is said that this Wang Shi was in a hurry for a few days because of greed, and he felt the heat of the summer. Dying in the inn, the shopkeeper called a few men, carried Wang Shi and the burden out of the room, put it on the ox cart, and pulled it to the pine forest behind the store, at this time it was the third watch on the night of the sixteenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the sky was cloudy, a round of bright moonlight was covered by dark clouds, and the distant sky was slightly white.

The wind is high and the moon is dark, and it is the time to kill people and set fires. The shopkeeper held a torch in his hand and commanded a few men to throw the sack containing Wang Shi into the earthen pit. The shopkeeper and the three cooks and fireworkers threw the soil into the pit, and came to bury the king stone, and when the thousand people were in trouble, a bright light flashed in the sky, and then a thunderclap resounded through the sky, shocking. I was taken aback by this thunder, just a god, the heavy rain poured down, so that people couldn't open their eyes, the torch in the hand of the shopkeeper was instantly extinguished, and the eyes of the people had a light and shade adaptation process, at the beginning, the four people relied on the light of the torch, after the heavy rain poured out the torch, although the moonlight shone down through the clouds, it can still be seen, but the torch has just been extinguished, and the eyes have not yet adapted to the process from light to dark, and the eyes are black. The heavy rain poured Wang Shi to his senses. He went to his sleeve with his right hand and took out a short knife to cut open the sack, turned over and climbed up from the dirt pit, raised and fell with the knife in his hand, brushed, and brushed the cook and the shopkeeper with three knives, and looked at the person in the heart with only one knife, and all of them died.

At this time, the shopkeeper raised his right hand to cover his forehead, and the torch was extinguished, and he blinked vigorously. Wang Shi walked behind him, raised his leg and kicked down the dirt pit. "Oops!" fell and fell into a. Haven't figured out what's going on yet. Wang Shi picked up the corpses of the three men and threw them into the pit, at this time, the shopkeeper did not understand who the person on the pit was, while wiping the rain on his face with his hand, he saw a person standing on the pit, and then the shopkeeper and the cook and the fireman were thrown into the pit, and he was also pushed down. I thought it was just someone passing by, and the road was uneven. Then he shouted: "Heroes spare their lives, heroes spare their lives." ”

Wang Shi shouted: "Shameless thing, when I begged you to spare my life just now, why didn't you spare it, but now you are begging for mercy, but you can't spare you." A lightning bolt pierced the sky and shone like a white sun, and at such a flash, the shopkeeper took a closer look through the light and recognized that the person on the pit was Wang Shi. It was Wang Shi, who was put into their pockets, thrown into the dirt pit, and was about to be buried alive, who broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly bent down to touch the pocket, which was already empty. The shopkeeper trembled and said, "You, you, you, how did you get out?" Aren't you going to die?"

Wang Shi stood on the edge of the pit and laughed!,"I was about to die in the past few days, but you got it out and let this heavy rain douse the evil fire in my body." Now the heat is gone, and the body is very up. Hahaha! God won't destroy me! Such a timely rain saved my life. ”

The shopkeeper stood in the pit in despair, and grinned cheekily: "In this way, if we hadn't dragged you out to get drenched in the rain, you wouldn't have been cured." You see, we saved your life by mistake. It's all providence, you adults don't care about the villain, the prime minister can support the boat in his belly, and let the villain go magnanimously, the villain's family has an eighty-year-old mother to raise, and there is a baby who has just reached the age of three dynasties, if you kill me, the old mother at home will lose her beloved son, and the toddler who is waiting to be fed has no loving father. Just spare me this time, and I won't dare to do it again. ”

Wang Shidu stood in the rain, letting the cold raindrops hit his head, face, and body. The surroundings were full of the noise of raindrops falling in the woods, and he pondered for a long time: "Although the reasons you just said are very sufficient, if I let you go, heaven will not tolerate it! If a ruthless person like you is allowed to go back again, there will be sick people living in your shop in the future, and everyone will be as hard as me." Since you said that there are old mothers, wives and children at home, and I will take care of them, you don't have to worry about it. Go with peace of mind. After saying that, he shoveled the shovel and shoveled the earth, and the shopkeeper shouted in the pit: "Wait, listen to me!"

Wang Shi stopped his hand and asked, "What else do you have to say?" ”

"I have money, all hidden in the store, as long as you let me go, I will tell you where the money is hidden, and the inn, all for you. Don't bury me, please, don't bury me!"

"Hahahaha, you think I'm going to be as greedy for money as you are, but you're wrong, I don't want your money. You dug the pit, it's a pity not to bury you. Wang Shi no longer paid attention to the shouts of the shopkeeper, kept shoveling soil into the pit, only a quarter of an hour, filled a big soil pit almost flattened, the soil in the pit, with the rain did not reach the shopkeeper's chin, the body was completely unable to move, only the mouth was still crying, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, the woods were louder, louder, louder, the ditch on the mountain made a deafening sound of running water, Wang Shi took advantage of the slight white light in the sky, and finally glanced at the face of the shopkeeper, and made a poem and chanted:

"I'm sick of you digging a pit, how ruthless your heart is.

self-inflicted and self-suffering, and burying flesh and bones.

This meat is not my meat, whoever digs it will suffer from it.

The reason of heaven is not bad, and it makes me empty.

I will bury you now, and I will not take your riches.

You go with peace of mind, die early and be reincarnated.

Be a good person in the next life, and be sincere and do not harm others.

The shovel filled all the remaining soil into the pit, braved the heavy rain to drive the ox cart back to the store, at this time it was more than five drums, in the burden in the room, found a dry clothes to change, when taking off the wet clothes, the bag of sweat medicine in the arms has been soaked in water, so that the stomach is full of white powder, go to the kitchen to get some water, find a clean cloth, put the body clean. I changed my clothes and found some cold meat to eat. Drank a bowl of porridge. As soon as he came out of the kitchen, a few guests came down, "Oh, it's raining so hard outside, it looks like I can't leave today." A fat guest in a beige shirt scratched his hair with his hand. While walking down the stairs. A man wearing a green cloth robe next to him said: "This rain has been raining since last night, the third watch, don't you know? The sound is like pouring water down. ”

"I slept and didn't hear it!"

"Hey, you're heavy enough, and the big thunder didn't wake you up. It scared the hell out of me. My heart almost didn't break. ”

Wang Shi stood in the hall and watched the rain outside the door, and it was getting heavier and heavier. The two guests walked to the kitchen and asked, "What about the shopkeeper, why is there no one in the kitchen?" ”

The fat man in the beige shirt shouted loudly: "Shopkeeper!, Shopkeeper! Where is the death, and he will not give anyone food." When is this all about? There is no such hospitality as you. After scolding for a while, I saw that no one responded. ”

Wang Shi got up and bowed and clenched his fists: "This is brother, don't be impatient, I'll cook for you, wait a while." The fat man returned the salute with his fists in surprise, but did not speak. watched Wang Shi go into the kitchen. After half a pillar of incense, Wang Shi brought a large pot of porridge to the hall and brought out a pot of steamed buns. A plate of greens, a plate of beef. will be on the table. The guest in green shirt asked while eating: "Why are the shopkeepers and Xiao Er missing, but they want you to cook." ”

"Haha, I don't know where these people are, I just saw the two of you looking for something to eat here, anyway, the store is not there, so I have to do it for me, and help each other when I go out. ”

The rain fell for two days in a row, and on the afternoon of the third day, the smoky wind rose in all directions, blowing away the thick clouds, and at the time of Shenpai, the sun hung high, and continued to scorch the earth. Although I haven't seen him for two days, the temperature has become unbearable again. Wang Shi took a nap, opened the window and looked out, the surroundings were bright and shining, golden, and the sun shone so that the distant stones near the mountains that had just rained were shining, and looked at the sunny weather, and thought: The shopkeeper once said that there was an old mother and wife at home, who needed to be fed, and a young child to be raised. Or if there is anyone who knows his address, it is not known.

Walking out of the inn, looking at the side of the street left and right, there is a leather store on the wall, the door is hung with sheepskin, cowhide, into the store, the wall and the ground are full of leather jackets, leather shoes, leather belts, newly collected cow and sheepskin piled up on the ground, the house is full of choking fishy smell. Every now and then a few flies buzz around. "Yo, officer, what do you need, sheepskins, cowskins, fine camel skins, fox skins, and wolf skins. Freshly harvested mink, sable's! ”

As soon as Wang Shi entered the store, the second brother immediately came forward and chattered endlessly. "I don't buy skins!" Wang Shi explained

"Then you want to buy leather shoes, belts, and leather jackets?"

"I don't buy anything, I'll look for your shopkeeper. Are you there?"

The shopkeeper heard that Wang Shi said that he would not buy anything, pulled down his face, and shouted at the inner room: "Shopkeeper, there is a son looking for you outside." So he took a feather duster and went to chase the flies.

After a while, Wang Shizheng looked in, and a middle-aged man came out of the inner room, wearing a green cloth scarf, wearing a white cloth shirt, and his fists and bones, and stepped out. Turning his head sideways, he asked Xiao Er, "Who is looking for me?"

"The boy at the door!"

Wang Shi took two steps forward, bowed down and clasped his fists in salute

The two saluted each other, and the middle-aged man beckoned Wang Shi into the inner room and sat down. asked: "I haven't asked Gongzi Gao's name yet!"

"Xiaosheng's surname is Wang, and his single name is a stone character. Dare to ask Brother Xian!"

"The surname of the contemptible person is Lu Mingyuan, and the word is Zhongqiu. I don't know what the prince is looking for?"

"Boss Lu! That's the case, I want to ask you where the owner of this homecoming inn is in the wall?"

Boss Lu smiled: "What is Wang Gongzi asking him for?"

"I'm just curious, just ask!"

"If you ask me about others, maybe I don't know the details, but the owner of the inn lives next door to my house. From then on, I went east out of the town, and there was a Lujia village twenty miles away, and there was a well in the village, and his house was next to the well, and next to it was my house. ”

"So, the owner and brother of this homecoming inn are both surnamed Lu?"

"No! He is not surnamed Lu, his surname is Ni Shuang's name Haoren, everyone gives him a nickname and calls him a good person, and the entire Lujia Village is a foreign surname for his family,"

Wang Shi heard this, and secretly said in his heart: "He can't deserve the word "good person!"

Wang Shi asked again: "Where are the guys in his shop, and are they also from Lujia Village?"

"It's not clear, it seems to be outsiders, usually busy with business, and they don't interact with them much. ”

The two exchanged a few words, Wang Shi said goodbye to the leather store, turned back to the stable to lead the horse, put the burden in order, and rode the horse to the east for more than 20 miles. A short distance along, a few old pines, a village, a few wisps of green smoke rising from the rooftop. can't help but be reminiscent of Wang Wei's poems:

The bicycle wants to ask the side, and the subject country lives extends.

Zheng Peng out of Hanse, return to the wild goose into Hu Tian.

The desert is lonely, and the sun sets over the long river.

Xiao Guan waited to ride, and he was all protected by Yan Ran.

Especially for this sentence of desert loneliness, I feel it in my heart. Riding into the village, not far away, sure enough, I saw a well, and several peasant women were drawing water from the well. Wang Shixia immediately bowed forward and saluted: "Dare to ask the eldest sister, which one here is Ni Haoren's house?"

The village woman replied with a smile: "What's the matter with his family, I am his family." ”

"It turned out to be my sister-in-law, what a coincidence, I am Brother Ni's righteous brother, and I just came back from other places to see each other at home. ”

This woman is Ni Haoren's Hunjia Bian Cuihua, who just came to the well to fetch water and met Wang Shi, and heard that it was her husband's righteous brother, so she hurriedly introduced the old lady at home, went to the kitchen to pack up a few wine and food, and put it in the living room to entertain Wang Shi.

Wang Shi looked around his house, the mud wall and tile house, although shabby, but also neat. After dinner, stayed overnight, took out all the gold and treasure jade in the baggage, the elders in Yang Village, bought dozens of acres of land, and built a village courtyard in Nuoda, gave the remaining assets to Bian's family, and told her to be filial to the old lady, to nurture the children with heart, and not to think about it. Tell me to go out and get on the horse.

Bian asked, "Why didn't my man come with you?" How to give away all these treasures!"

"I'm going to go to Saiwai with Brother Ni now, his life and death are unpredictable, and my brother doesn't want to leave his sister-in-law, but he is afraid that his children will be in love and it will be difficult to do it. I told my little brother to do what he did, but he met me on the way ahead. Say goodbye. Wang Shi leaned over on his horse and hugged his fists to salute, and rode away with a whip.

So delayed in Lujia Village for a month, postponed to the beginning of July, Wang Shifu turned over and returned to Luyang Town, still rested in the Rugui Inn for a day, at this time the store has been in tatters, no one takes care of it, Wang Shi cooked some leftover rice and ate some porridge, calculated that there are more than 200 taels of silver on the body, and the estimated road plate fee is enough, the next day continue to go north, learn the lesson of the last time, not in a hurry at noon, rest every day near noon, travel forty or fifty miles a day. After arriving in Liangzhou in the first month of the road, he went into the city to find an inn to live in, and asked the shopkeeper: "May I ask my husband, how to go to the north leg gate of Majiabao in Liangzhou?" As soon as these words came out, several big men sitting and eating at a table by the door in the hall looked at each other together. The shopkeeper didn't speak, just glanced over his eyes. He turned back and went into the back room.

Wang Shi saw that the shopkeeper didn't speak, but he gestured with his eyes, so when he looked back, there were four big men sitting around the door, holding their fists and sleeves, leaning the knife against the door, looking at themselves with a brush, and the two sides looked at each other. One of the men wearing white hexagrams, the zitang-colored man got up and hugged his fists: "The horizontal spear reins the horse and drinks the broken bridge!"

Wang Shi returned the salute with his fists and got up and smiled. Seeing that Wang Shi didn't speak, they glanced at each other, thinking that Wang Shi didn't hear clearly just now, and the zitang-faced man said again: "Horizontal spear and horse drink broken bridge!" Seeing that Wang Shi was still at a loss, he said three more times. It turns out that this is the incision of the North Leg Gate, and the next sentence is: Seven into the siege of the young master!. The last sentence is about Zhang Yide's bridge, and he immediately retreated from Cao Bing, and the next sentence is right, Zhao Zilong fought Changbanpo, and seven entered the siege to save Adou. When he said it, he was murderous and cold, and he was sad and cold.

But all the disciples in the sect know this codeword. The four of them were eating first, and they heard Wang Shi inquiring about the way to the North Leg Gate, so the zitang-skinned man shouted several incisions in a row, and saw that Wang Shi couldn't answer. He asked, "What are you looking for the North Leg Gate?"

"Dare to ask how many brothers are from the North Leg Gate?" Wang Shi hugged his fists and grinned.

A black-faced man said, "Exactly, what's the matter with you!"

"I'm here for a good friend. ”

"Oh, who is it?" asked the black-faced man

"It's nicknamed Kick Cloud Tiger, and the surname is Cao Jianren. ”

The four of them said in unison: "You are looking for our senior brother?"

Wang Shi smiled and said, "Exactly!"

Zitang's cheeky man said: "Since you are here to find our senior brother, why don't you know the secret words in the door?"

When Wang Shi heard him say this, he remembered the sentence he had asked several times just now, it turned out to be a code word, and hurriedly explained: "Why are you here to seek revenge, last year in Jinling, I got acquainted with your senior brother, and he invited me to come to Liangzhou to play, and he didn't say anything about the code at that time." If you don't believe me, take me to see your senior brother, and everything will be clear. ”

The black-faced man stood up and said, "Then in that case, I'll take you there, and it just so happens that we are going back to Majiabao." ”

Wang Shi followed the four of them to Majiabao, and when they arrived at the door, the man with Zitang's face turned around and said, "Gongzi will wait outside the door first, and I'll go inside to see the senior brother." ”

This Majiabao is built according to the mountain, the surrounding fixtures are made of bluestone to form more than two zhang high walls, facing two gates in the south, there are two big stone lions standing on the left and right, the man in Tsing Yi at the door wraps a soft towel on his head, holds a fast knife, and stands left and right.

The four men didn't know how to go in, and Cao Jianren came out of the door wearing a white cloth short coat, laughing and said: "Brother Wang, I haven't seen much wind blowing this for a long time! Hahaha!"

Wang Shi hurriedly stepped forward and bowed and clasped his fists to salute: "It's been a long time! The little brother wandered around thinking about coming here to see his brother." ”

Cao Jianren introduced Wang Shi into the living room and met with the head of the North Leg Gate, the iron leg rolling autumn wind, and Ma Yuanshan. After introducing them to several brothers one by one, and after a few words of cold and warmth, Cao Jianren invited Wang Shi to his room for tea. The two sat down. "Brother Wang is a southerner, the first time he came to me, there is nothing to entertain you, camel meat, you must not have eaten it, tomorrow I will kill a camel for you to taste, this hump, but it is a good thing, hahaha." ”

"Thank you brother for your kindness, you can eat at home, you can fill your hunger, why do you need to kill living beings for me, wouldn't it make my little brother bear the karma. ”

"You nerd, hahaha, what's it like to eat a few camels. Regardless of whether he is guilty of karma or not, we are running on the rivers and lakes, and we are living a life of adding blood to the head of the knife. After killing so many people, the karma has long been unclear, and I don't care about these two more. Hahaha!"

Wang Shi said with a smile: "The elder brother can see it, the younger brother didn't believe in these before, the day before yesterday I suffered some heat on the way here, and fell ill in the Rugui Inn in Luyang Town, and was almost buried alive by the Ni shopkeeper and a few guys, just threw me into the big dirt pit dug up, and I thought I would die this time." Unexpectedly, it rained heavily, and cold water poured it, and the brain was sobered, and the body suddenly improved, and he took out the short knife in his sleeve and cut open the sack, and stabbed all the birdmen to death and buried them in the big pit they dug themselves. Do you say that this is retribution, if it had not rained in time at that time, I would still be dizzy and unable to move, wouldn't I have buried these wicked people alive? ”

"Brother, you will not die in this great disaster, there will be blessings in the future, and it is also the retribution of heavenly justice, so this rain came to save your life. Cao Jianren ordered the guests to put on the dishes, and the two drank to the depths and went back to the house to rest.

The next morning, Wang Shi got up and walked around in the courtyard, and Cao Jianren came out of the back room: "Hahaha! Let's get used to it. ”

"It's fine!"

Cao Jianren ordered people to eat breakfast, pulled Wang Shi out of the village, went to a stable in the west, picked two horses and jumped on the back of the horse, rode the horse and whipped the gallop, and the people stood upside down on the horse, fell sideways, and shot arrows. Wang Shi watched and applauded.

Cao Jianren put away the silk reins, stopped the horse, and walked to Wang Shi: "You get on the horse, I will teach you how to ride." Wang Shi was a little timid, and Cao Jianren couldn't help but say, got it on the back of the horse, sat in the back, and poured out the riding skills he had learned in his life. Wang Shi lived in Majiabao for more than two months. Horseback riding and archery daily. Equestrian training is proficient. On this day, Cao Jianren called Wang Shi to the living room, ordered someone to set up a banquet, and persuaded four or five glasses of wine, Cao Jianren said: "Brother! It's not that my brother drove you away, but it's true, because my brother will set off tomorrow to go south to sell a batch of leather goods." It will take half a year to turn around. After I leave, the people of this village will inevitably treat you slowly. At that time, it ruined the brotherhood between you and me. So even if this is a practice for my brother, whether you go south with me, or go somewhere else, if you go back to the south with me, you happen to be accompanied all the way. ”

Wang Shidao: "In this way, I will set off with my brother tomorrow, but I don't want to go to Jinling, so I am going to go southwest and enter Sichuan through Qizhou." I haven't returned home for a few years, and although I have relatives at home, I still want to go back to see it. ”

"That's fine!"

Early in the morning of the second day, Cao Jianren gave one hundred taels of silver to Wang Shi, and Wang Shi also gave one of the two jujube red horses he rode to Cao Jianren, "Brother take care all the way!

Coming out of Majiabao, it was already late autumn in August at this time, and I walked on the road for more than ten days, but I saw a big mountain in front of me, and I lived across the road, and the red and bright mountain maple leaves were all over the mountain, and it was very good-looking. I can't help but feel nostalgic in my chest, and improvise a poem saying: The golden wind destroys the mountains all over the red,

Spring flowers in February, maple leaves.

The road in front of the mountain of the cocoon,

Whip the rider to find a place to return.

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