2. Jade Face Spring (2)
Zhu Xiangru arrived in Zunyi, Guizhou, arrived at a town on this day, only to see a group of Qing soldiers in the town to rob and plunder, the people have to hide, at this time only heard a burst of crying, it turned out to be a pair of mother and daughter passing by the street, several Qing soldiers saw that the young girl looked a little color, stepped forward to hug and dragged into the alley, trying to be rude, the girl cried and screamed, grabbed and pulled, helpless delicate body, how to get rid of the hands of the tiger and wolf, several Qing soldiers laughed, forcibly dragged.
When the girl's mother saw her daughter being humiliated, she jumped up and hugged the thigh of a Qing soldier, and begged bitterly: "Master soldier, please let my daughter go, she has already promised someone." I beg you, accumulate more yin virtue, and do good deeds!" The Qing soldier scolded with a smile: "You dead old woman, I don't care if you allow others or not, uncle, I want to be happy and happy." As he spoke, he kicked the girl's mother away. Holding the girl, he walked to a secluded place.
The girl's mother refused to give up, got up from the ground again, threw herself forward, grabbed the calf of a Qing soldier with both hands, opened her mouth and bit down, and this time the Qing soldier screamed, and said angrily: "You dead old woman, you are tired of her mother's life." And he drew his sword, and slashed at her, and struck the woman to death.
Zhu Xiangru saw this scene from a distance, but it was more than ten zhang apart, he didn't expect the Qing soldiers to be so inhumane, killing people without blinking their eyes, wanting to save them, the woman had already died. When the girl saw her mother's tragic death, she fainted with fright. Several Qing soldiers didn't care about her, and walked deeper into the alley with her in their arms.
Zhu Xiangru was furious, a little on tiptoe, jumped up, swished, and ran behind the Qing soldiers, shouting: "Put this girl down!" Several Qing soldiers turned around when they heard this, and saw a young man with raised eyebrows and scolding. The Qing soldier who killed the man was stunned and asked, "Who are you kid, dare to take care of the uncle's business, get out!" said he stretched out his hand and pushed Zhu Xiangru on the chest, trying to push him out.
On the side of Zhu Xiangru's body, the Qing soldier's palm slid away and fell forward, Li Xiangru waved the palm of his right hand, and slapped it on the back of his head, only to hear a snap, this palm actually cracked the back of his skull, and the Qing soldier snorted and fell to the ground and died.
Zhu Xiangru didn't want to kill him, but he didn't expect that he would have such power with a palm in his hand, so he couldn't help but take a look at his palm. He didn't know that he had been in Wudang for more than ten years, and he had already practiced the supreme magic skills, and this palm was slapped out, which naturally contained the internal force of "Wuwei Mental Law", even if the stones had to be smashed, how could the Qing soldiers withstand it?
Seeing that their companions were killed in an instant, the remaining three Qing soldiers shouted, threw down the girl they were holding, pulled out their blades and slashed at Zhu Xiangru, wanting to avenge his accomplices. Zhu Xiangru raised his hand and waved the sleeves of his robe, and a strong wind shook it, and the three Qing soldiers fell out, one hit the wall, one hit the stone pier on the side of the street, and the other flew down to the open ground, all of them fainted. Zhu Xiangru didn't want their lives, so he only used three points of strength, but it was already extraordinary.
He leaned over and pinched the girl's upper lip, and the girl woke up slowly, thinking of her mother being killed, struggled up, crawled to her body, and cried aloud. Li Xiangru walked up to several faint Qing soldiers, took out the silver taels on their bodies, about forty or fifty taels, and gave them to the girl, saying: "Girl, the world is not peaceful, go quickly, you take these silver taels, and ask someone to bury your mother." The girl kowtowed and thanked her, took the silver taels, and reluctantly picked up her mother and hurried away.
Li Xiangru watched her go away, secretly sighing about the disaster brought by the war to the people, and suddenly heard a sharp sound of horses' hooves, and several people had already rushed towards him. The first was a man in his thirties, with a large waist and round arms, and a sturdy body, carrying a machete in his hand, which was close to the sword, followed by two men, one with a spear and the other with a spear.
The Qing general with a machete in his hand had to report that someone had killed his subordinates, so angry that he shouted, got on the horse and carried the knife, and brought two deputies to take Zhu Xiangru's life.
Zhu Xiangru sneered, tilted his head slightly, let go of the blade, grabbed his knife shaft, and shouted: "you!" As soon as he exerted his strength, Na Qing's huge body flew out like a cloud, and fell heavily on the wooden fence on the side of the street, crushing the fence to pieces, and Na Qing was injured in many places and lay on the ground dying.
Seeing this, the two lieutenant generals who followed him both raised their spears and stabbed at Zhu Xiangru. Zhu Xiangru's body shook, interspersed between the gaps of the spear and spear, his left hand soared, grabbed the gun shaft, his right hand grabbed the spear shaft, both hands shook vigorously, the two lieutenants were lifted by Zhu Xiangru on the body of the gun and the spear, hanging high in the air, the two were so frightened that they grabbed the branch of the weapon, danced in the middle of the air, shouted, Zhu Xiangru laughed, and said: "Let you oppress the people, and today you will taste the taste of being humiliated!"
The two arms shook up, the body was like the wind body rotated, after five or six times in a row, the two hands were loosened, and the two generals flew out with weapons, this time they flew far away, only to see two people east and west, a black shadow over the houses on both sides of the street, and flew away without a trace in an instant, thinking that it was also more auspicious.
When many people on the street saw this scene, they all hated these Qing soldiers and generals, and Li Xiangru punished them severely, and they were all very happy, and everyone applauded.
Li Xiangru first set foot in the rivers and lakes, he did two chivalrous things that were very happy, his heart was very comfortable, he clapped his palms, cleaned the filth, and saw a fat and strong black horse ridden by the previous Qing general, flew and jumped on the horse's back, clamped his legs, shook the reins, and the horse galloped out of the town and galloped south.
The black horse was extremely strong, with four hooves like flying, and ran for more than twenty miles in one breath before slowing down. Zhu Xiangru inadvertently got this good horse, thinking that with this horse, he would save a lot of things when he returned to Yunnan, and he could avoid a lot of pain from running around under his feet.
Coming all the way south, I saw that the people's livelihood was really difficult, and the war was endless, Zhu Xiangru saw it in his eyes and was worried. On the way, he encountered several injustices, all of which he easily dismissed. After walking for more than 20 days, entering the territory of Yunnan, seeing the grass and trees becoming more and more green, the climate has become warm and humid, and there is a sense of long-lost scenery and things, Zhu Xiangru's heart is becoming more and more heavy and sad.
He inquired along the road, Kunming is the provincial capital of Yunnan, of course, there are many people who know, and soon arrived in Kunming, according to the memory of childhood, all the way to find it, and finally came to the former residence at the foot of the West Mountain.
He got off the horse and came to the familiar place of residence in the past, the scenes of the past really appeared in front of him, the several elegant grass houses, the father wore a white robe in the yard in front of the house to read, the mother with a smile and a pregnant belly in the chicken pen to feed the chickens, but he suddenly went down to the Dianchi Lake to catch fish, and suddenly went to the grass behind the house to dig earthworms, whenever he found a few long and big earthworms that could be used as bait, he shouted happily, provoked the kind soft reprimand of his parents, everything was so happy and warm, but all this, in a blink of an eye, was gone, like a nightmare。
Zhu Xiangru looked at the ruins of his old residence, after it was burned more than ten years ago, after a long time, there was no trace of burning, and the waist-deep barren grass was overgrown all around, and the sword and blood shadow of many years ago had long been gone, as if nothing had happened.
Zhu Xiangru recalled the tragic scene of that year, his parents were captured, his house was burned, and the despair, sadness and helplessness at that moment couldn't help but shed tears. He came to the grave of his grandfather Wu Wenru, no one worshiped for many years, the grave was overgrown with weeds, it looked unusually lonely and desolate, he took out the sacrifices prepared in advance, knelt in front of the grave and burned some paper money, offered fruit sacrifices, and prayed in front of the grave: "Grandpa, the unfilial nephew is fortunate to return alive, I am a descendant of the Zhu family, I hope you have knowledge under the spring, bless me to gather strength, drive out the Tartars, and restore my Han people!"