Chapter 7 Wooden Knife
After lying in bed for three or four days in a row, Jiang Lili opened his eyes, only to feel dizzy, weak limbs, and he didn't feel hungry at all after he hadn't eaten for so long!
After sitting on the bed for a while, he staggered to open the window, and smelled the cool breeze blowing in, and then he felt that the whole person was much more energetic, and felt that the new leaves on the locust tree outside seemed to be a little thicker than the previous few days.
The sky was slightly dark, and in the evening, I stood against the window for a long time, and then I ignored the noise outside, and watched the flying swallows returning from the sky to the sunset.
The door creaked open, and it was Su Su who stood in the doorway.
Su Su was holding a bowl of steaming medicinal soup in her hand, and the smell was roughly bitter. Su Su was a little surprised, "Are you awake?" Rubbing his eyes, he didn't feel like a hallucination, Su Su shouted out the door again, "Lao Zhang, Jiang Gou is awake!"
It didn't take long for Zhang Jiuling to walk in with his hands behind his back, looking at Jiang Lili standing barefoot at the window, and heyed, "It's quite energetic, Nacheng, I'll continue practicing tomorrow!"
Jiang Lili licked her lips, and only then did she feel that the side of her mouth was burning as if she was about to smoke, and reached out to take the medicinal soup handed over by Su Su, and actually said thank you.
Su Su's eyes were even more stunned at this time, and he turned his head to look at Zhang Jiuling, "I heard me right, right?"
Zhang Jiuling also looked incredulous, and muttered, "Has this kid changed his sex, or has he gone crazy practicing his sword?" stretched out his hand and waved at Jiang Lili, "Hey, Jiang boy, do you remember me?"
Jiang Lili drank the whole bowl of medicinal soup in one gulp, suddenly frowned, his face was as pale as an eggplant after frost, and he jumped to his feet and scolded: "You grandfather and grandson are really picky! I have never seen you pick such a person in my life! Will you die if you put some sugar in the soup? I think I will be a broken master in the future!"
Zhang Jiuling plucked his ears, "Yes, this kid is awake, let's go!"
Su Su snorted, turned around and felt a little puzzled, and turned her head again to make a grimace at Jiang Lili before running out of the room.
I took a cold shower with the well water picked out of an ancient well in the courtyard, and suddenly felt that the whole person was much refreshed. He exhaled, walked into the courtyard and said to Su Su, who was playing chess, "Don't you know how to wipe my body?
Su Su was annoyed when she heard this, "Which one will wipe your body? It's really not ashamed to say this! Besides, your body stinks so much that even the master who runs the bathhouse is not willing to give you a bath!"
Jiang Lili snorted, "Then you have a fragrant body, why don't you say that your bath water is fragrant?"
Su Su's eyes widened, "It's still fragrant, what's wrong?"
Jiang Lili laughed and didn't speak, just sat on the stone bench and looked around, and suddenly said, "Let's change the ground?"
"What are you still saying!" Su Su became even more annoyed when she heard this, "If you hadn't split the entire courtyard that day, we would have been kicked out by the master?
"!" Jiang Lili muttered, looking at Zhang Jiuling who came out of the room with food, his stomach was hungry.
Hu Tianhai ate four large bowls of rice, and even licked the plate cleanly, Jiang Lili hugged his belly and said comfortable.
Su Su wanted to cry without tears.
Catching a glimpse of a wooden knife standing in the corner of the wall, Jiang Lili's expression moved slightly, and he walked over to handle the brand-new wooden knife, and waved it casually, only to feel an indescribable aura flowing around him. He swung his sword against the old locust tree in the yard, and only brought a gust of wind to blow off two or three new leaves, and he never saw any other vision.
Su Su sneered on the side: "Your practice of the knife is useless, and it is not as many as the leaves I knocked down from the tree with a stick." ”
Jiang Lili pursed her lips, fiddling with the wooden knife casually, and suddenly smiled at Su Su.
Somewhat proud.
Zhang Jiuling was just washing the dishes, raised his head and saw this scene, and couldn't help but reach out and touch his beard, and then found that his hands were covered with oil stains, and his face was bitter.
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Early the next morning, Zhang Jiuling called Su Su, who was still sleeping, Su Su was a little annoyed, and when he was about to scold, he saw Zhang Jiuling carrying a bag on his back, "Old Zhang, where are you going?"
Zhang Jiuling smiled, "It's not a thing to stay where you are after all, you have to take you two dolls to see and see outside, don't say anything else, you have to take a walk and take a look!"
Su Su was still a little stunned, and was suddenly startled, "Jiang Lili won't split the yard again!"
"I don't have that much ability," Zhang Jiuling replied, "That day, Boy Jiang split the courtyard with a knife was just an accident, and the mad demon might not be able to say it." Now that I'm alive, where can I have that kind of ability again? I can't forget it, and there are still losses! I'm going to take you out for a walk today, it's really just a walk out, and there's no other meaning!"
Su Su nodded knowingly, turned around and went back to the room to pack her luggage, but as soon as she entered the room, she didn't see anyone coming out. Zhang Jiuling walked in to take a look and saw that Su Su was sleeping and returning to sleep.
Zhang Jiuling was dumbfounded.
It was not until early in the morning that the sun dried their buttocks before they finally walked out of the courtyard, looking at the prosperity outside, Jiang Lili was a little in a trance.
Su Su bit a fritter and raised her head to look at Zhang Jiuling, "Old Zhang, where are we going?"
"Feel free to walk, feel free to walk. After a pause, Zhang Jiuling said again: "Along the way, I went to find some fighting places for Jiang Xiaozi to practice, don't provoke Jiang Xiaozi who has practiced knives for so long, but when he sees a real knife and a real gun, he is scared and his legs are weak, this is not good!"
Su Su giggled, "Just find that kind of big man to train Jiang Lili and beat him to death!"
Jiang Lili turned his head to look at Su Su, "If you laugh again, I'll sell you to the Red Mansion!"
Su Su didn't care, "Okay, if you dare to sell me to the Red Mansion, then I'll wait for you to kill you with a knife when you visit the Red Mansion one day!" After saying this, Su Su was suddenly stunned, and asked again: "Jiang Lili, didn't Pei Changfeng tell you to go to the flower boat to see the Oiran that day?"
Before Jiang Lili could say the in her throat, Zhang Jiuling turned around, "Yo, there are such good things, why don't I know?
Su Su finally finished eating the fritters in his hand, and licked his fingers one by one, "You weren't there that day, Pei Changfeng said that he had something to do at home and had to go back, and said that if we encounter any trouble, we will go to Xichu to find him!
Zhang Jiuling nodded, it should be like this!
I didn't hear Jiang Lili say a few words along the way, Zhang Jiuling was a little puzzled, "Aren't you usually the most out-of-the-box? Why don't you speak today?"
Jiang Lili sneered, "I miss him, it's good that he's dead!"
Su Su was a little angry, "Although Pei Changfeng is not a good thing, at least it is good to treat you as a bad guy, how can you say such a thing?"
Jiang Lili glanced at Su Su, "What do I want to do with you? If you feel annoyed, you can go and warm his bed! Didn't you listen to him that day, his bed is very soft! I see that you are also moved, why did he say that you didn't recommend a pillow when he was leaving?"
Su Su screamed, snapping her fingers and thinking that she would not be able to give Jiang Lili a good face in the next few days!
At noon, a few people came to a small restaurant and rested here.
ordered a few vegetarian dishes and a small pot of wine, and Zhang Jiuling was happy with this glass of wine.
Restaurants are often the noisiest places, whether it is the high-minded talk of literati and scholars or the fight and scolding of people in the rivers and lakes, there is always something interesting.
At this time, a few men next to him were discussing the matter of fighting in the ring, roughly talking about a rich and noble family's son-in-law, who was putting in the ring under the foot of the attic to recruit relatives.
If it is an ordinary martial arts competition, others will not care so much, and the most important thing is the word son-in-law. Accepting a son-in-law is no better than recruiting a son-in-law, the difference between the two is one word, and the literal meaning is not much different, but the doorway is really different.
Recruiting a son-in-law is nothing more than choosing a son-in-law for his daughter, and there is nothing else to do. But Na Na son-in-law, it means to find an inverted door.
Ordinary people in the rivers and lakes were full of anger when they heard these three words, and said, "Look up to the sky and laugh and go out, how can my generation be a penny person!" After that, they only felt high-spirited and heroic. The old rivers and lakes are different, after the baptism of the big dye vat of the rivers and lakes, they have to have more thoughts and a doorway than others.
This inverted door is nothing more than two situations, one is that this rich and noble family has only one daughter in the family, and they are looking for an inverted door to inherit their family business. The second is that this woman is the most favored by her parents at home, and she doesn't even want her to marry out and stay by her side for the rest of her life.
In either case, there's a lot of weight. If it is the first case, you will send it, and when the woman's parents die, this huge family business will not fall into your pocket? If it is the second case, it is not bad, after all, the woman who is most favored by the parents in the family is either knowledgeable and reasonable, or she is more beautiful than a fairy, or she has both! Not to mention that with the degree of favor of the second elder in the family for the woman, it will naturally not let the woman suffer after marriage, and the money and real estate that she should have will not be bad!
It's just that from the conversation of the people at the table next to them, I can hear that these people are a little resentful of the word inverted door, only one of them, a middle-aged man who looks slightly more honest, said a word, but the appearance of the lady of the Lu family is really good!
As soon as these words came out, they attracted the sneers of the people at the table, "If you want to make an inverted door, you can go! No one will stop you! Just don't greet us when you see your brothers in the future, you will be panicked!"
The others laughed, laughing so much that the middle-aged man who had just said that moving sentence blushed a little.
Zhang Jiuling raised his eyebrows when he heard the laughter of these people, leaned over and asked, "A few strong men, what kind of martial arts competition did you just talk about, can you tell me where the place is?"
A man with a white face was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "You old man is so old, is it possible that you want to do that inverted door?"
"Then where can it be?" Zhang Jiuling laughed, "It's just that I have lived most of my life, old man, and I am about to step into the coffin with both feet, but I can't help but feel a little sorry if I haven't seen the real master's demeanor." I just heard a few strong men say that this martial arts competition recruits relatives, so I want to see the real martial arts skills, and by the way, I also take the two children around me to see the world, so as not to be bullied by others when I am not there in the future. “
Hearing Zhang Jiuling's explanation, the man nodded, "You old man also has some style, so I won't hide it." The ring is at the foot of Tingfeng Tower, not far away, from this restaurant to the right, about three minutes away. It's just that if you really want to see it, you have to go out quickly, the ring has been set up for nearly an hour, and if it takes a little longer, I'm afraid that you have already recruited a son-in-law!"
Zhang Jiuling nodded, thanked him and returned to his position, squeezing his eyes at Jiang Lili, "Do you know what to do later?"
Jiang Lili just nodded, Su Su was a little happy, "Lao Zhang, I will find the strongest person to beat Jiang Lili later, see if you beat him to death!"
Zhang Jiuling laughed and didn't speak.
After eating the food and drinks, the few people went on the road, and when they took out the Tingfeng Pavilion, they saw a dense crowd in front of them, and saw a handsome young man standing on top of a small ring.
The man was dressed in a blue robe, and his blue hair was raised in a low bun and allowed to fall over his shoulders. With a wine gourd on his waist, he held an unsheathed long sword on his chest, and his face was indifferent, which made people admire a dissolute and uninhibited man!
Zhang Jiuling looked at the man carefully and nodded, a little satisfied. Su Su was a little unhappy, "Lao Zhang, you see that although this person has an extraordinary bearing, his body is too weak! Why don't you wait for a strong man to win him and then ask Jiang Lili to go up?"
Zhang Jiuling said what do you know, and when he was about to explain, he saw that Su Su didn't have the heart to listen, so he didn't bother to explain, turned his head and said to Jiang Lili: "Let's say okay, don't care about anything after you go up, just make three swords first, if that person falls, you win, if that person doesn't fall, even if you lose, do you hear?"
Jiang Lili was very impatient, "I know, how many times have you said it? Can you keep your mouth shut, you old immortal?"
Zhang Jiuling snorted, "Yes, don't worry about it yet! Don't ask me to collect your body when you are beaten to death!"
Before he could squeeze into the crowd, he heard a man who looked like a steward standing in the ring shouting, "Isn't there anyone who will challenge this young man? If you wait until this pillar of incense burns out, this young man will be able to return with a beautiful woman!"
Zhang Jiuling took a look at it with his feet, and suddenly saw that the pillar of incense was about to burn out, and he was a little anxious, and hurriedly shouted: "Yes, yes, I haven't challenged yet!"
The others turned their heads to look at the old man with white hair and beard, and the contempt in his eyes was self-evident.
Zhang Jiuling sneered, pointed at Jiang Lili and said, "No, no, no, it's not me, it's this!"
Others were even more annoyed when they looked at this half-grown child, Zhang Jiuling coughed, "Don't look at the youth of this life, in fact, it is already thirty out of twenty, but born young, born young!"
Who believes!
It's just that most of the people here came to see the excitement, and they also wanted to see what means this half-grown child had, so they consciously got out of the way.
Seeing so many people's eyes staring at him, Jiang Lili was suddenly a little timid, and he didn't move forward for a while. It's just that someone suddenly kicked him from behind his buttocks, and he staggered forward a few steps, which caused a lot of people to laugh.
"Laugh and laugh, do you laugh at you!" Jiang Lili scolded around, and suddenly felt a lot bolder, so he walked forward with a wooden knife.
It's just that this ring is a little high, and there is a half-person-high fence around the ring, Jiang Lili lay on the edge of the ring and didn't climb up for half a sound, and his face suddenly turned red.
The crowd was very dense, and not many people knew that it was just a child who came to challenge. At this moment, I saw a child holding a wooden knife in one hand and holding the other hand in the ring, and he couldn't help but laugh.
"Whose child is not optimistic?
"This kid won't be here to challenge, you have to get it, this Miss Lu Family's reputation is really far away, I heard others say that there is an eighty-year-old man who wants to go to the stage, and now there is another child, I really want to see if this Miss Lu Family is born to be a closed moon shy flower!haha!"
Even the young man in the ring squatted down and looked at Jiang Lili with a smile, "Little boy, go back, you can't climb up!"
Jiang Lili let go of the hand that was propped up in the ring and scolded the man, "It's your business!
The man's face sank, and he laughed again in a blink of an eye, "Then I'll wait for you to climb up!"
With a snort, Jiang Lili scolded the man again, turned his head and scolded a middle-aged man who was reading a joke: "Look at your appearance, I think you are also a master who has no ability!"
The man sighed, thinking that others would laugh too, why only scolded me alone!
Jiang Lili became more and more annoyed, "You still look, look at you! Come here and help! I really don't have any energy in my eyes, I deserve to eat and wait for death for the rest of my life!"
The man realized it later, and hurriedly trotted forward to pick up Jiang Lili and send him to the ring, and hurriedly said that the strong man is careful!
The others laughed.
Su Su rode on Zhang Jiuling's head and saw this scene, suddenly covered his face with his hands, and said in a low voice: "Old Zhang, let's call Jiang Lili down and leave quickly, this is too embarrassing!"
When the man standing by and watching the play heard this, he asked suspiciously, "Do you know that child?"
"I don't know, I don't know, how can we know Jiang Lili?
"I thought you knew you just now, but you didn't know it! Bai was happy!" The man muttered and turned his head to look at the excitement, and after watching it for a while, he felt that it was wrong, and when he looked back, where could he still see the old man's person?
At this moment, the steward held back a smile, walked quickly in front of Jiang Lili and said with a smile: "Small. . . Brother, do you really want to compete? The person in front of you is a master of martial arts, don't take it seriously!"
"Why are you so inkblotted, you grew up eating, aren't you comparable? If you don't compare, will you let your young lady be my daughter-in-law?"
The smile on the steward's face suddenly froze, and he ran back and shouted that the contest had begun.
Hearing the steward's words, the man didn't move, but still looked at Jiang Lili with a smile, "You really have the ability, just use a wooden knife to compare with me?"
Jiang Lili snorted, didn't bother to ink, ran up with a wooden knife and slashed at the top of the man's head, another on the man's chest, and then on the man's shoulder.
After slashing with three knives, Jiang Lili retreated again and again, looking at the man standing motionless, thinking, yes, I lost. didn't wait for the man to draw his sword, he jumped directly from the ring, "It's a waste of my strength to fight a bird like you, find a real hero to fight again in the future!"
The others laughed and were about to help block Jiang Lili, but they didn't expect Jiang Lili to disappear into the crowd!
Let's just say that this turtle grandson is really a cunning master, and that this young man on the stage is really courageous, and he knows that this kid is here to mess around, and he can't even use his sword, so let this kid see the real master's demeanor!
At this time, the steward laughed enough, and trotted all the way to the stage, "It seems that this son is the last strong man, congratulations to this son for holding the beauty!" As he spoke, he beckoned to the man and motioned for him to come to the center of the ring. But at this moment, the man stood motionless, and he didn't even say a word, so he frowned and asked, "Childe?"
At this time, the young man's eyes were full of consternation, it was not that he didn't want to use the sword at all, but that he couldn't use the sword at all!
From the moment that kid took out the knife, a peak sword intent made him close to suffocation, not to mention that he could move anywhere around him! Until now, the residual knife intent still imprisoned him in place!
Otherwise, how could he have made that kid stab him three times?
What if it's not a wooden knife, but a steel knife?