Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Blind Man
On September 4, the fifth year of Daye, the weather was sunny and the wind was beautiful.
Located at the foot of Huashan Mountain, Yangjiazhuang has a total population of 23 households, all of which are formed by the Yang clan. In addition to hundreds of acres of thin fields, it is also necessary to go into the mountains to hunt or pick some mountain goods to sell, in order to afford the annual taxes of the imperial court.
At this time, the Central Plains Shenzhou was still peaceful, and after the promulgation of the "Law of Great Cause" the year before last, bandits and thieves were not very rampant under the suppression of the imperial court.
Moreover, from the first year of the Great Cause, the imperial court went to the east and west to purge the surrounding foreign races. Tuyuhun, which is closest to Guanzhong, has just been exterminated by the imperial court.
Therefore, although the life is hard, the faces of the people of Li still have a faint satisfaction.
Yang Jun, a native of Yangjiazhuang, an orphan, and a military family. His father, Yang Hui, and his eldest brother, Yang Wu, both died in the battle against Tuyuhun last year.
Although the two died in battle, the military merits they obtained allowed Yang Jun to inherit the title of military marquis, not only can he receive a salary every month, but also 100 acres of tax-free Yongye land can be received.
In addition to these normal rewards, Yang Jun also got a chance to enter the Martial Hall and practice martial arts.
It's a pity that the mother Yang Li, after hearing the news of the death of her husband and eldest son, washed her face with tears all day long, and her body became thinner and thinner.
Therefore, after the expiration of the three-month period of filial piety, Yang Jun took his identity and household registration and the military registration left by his father and brother, and went to the county government of Huayin County at the foot of Huashan Mountain to receive the bequest of his father and brother.
At this time, the political and people's livelihood, after decades of governance by Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, was still politically clear, the law was moderate, and the bequest left by Yang Zhan and Yang Wu was left by Yang Jun, and after Yang Jun showed his identity and household registration, the yamen directly completed all kinds of formalities, and handed over the title deed of 100 acres of Yongye Field to Yang Jun.
The 100 acres of Yongye land were not directly distributed to Yang Jun, but let him choose the ownerless fields in Huayin by himself.
After Yang Jun knew, he directly chose a mountain valley at the foot of Huashan Mountain, about thirty miles away from Yangjiazhuang.
In that place, there is no human population at this time, the mouth of the valley is only about ten zhang wide, but the interior is very flat, there are more than 300 acres, and there is a mountain stream flowing through, and forming a waterhole in the depths of the mountain valley.
The only downside is that the valley is deep in the mountains, so it's inconvenient to go out.
But for Yang Jun, the quiet and peaceful atmosphere there can make him feel a little at ease.
Therefore, when the county magistrate asked him to choose the location of Yongye Field, Yang Jun thought about it for a long time, and then chose that mountain valley as the place where he lived in seclusion and practiced martial arts.
Yes, in the entire family, after Yang Jun was the only one left, he had the intention of retreating to the world.
At this time, with the help of the legacy left by his father and brother, as well as the Yongye field, Yang Jun planned to build a Taoist temple by himself, escape the world, and avoid future military service.
This is the idea of an authentic small farmer, who just wants to live comfortably and has no great ambition.
After all, if there is a person who travels through the story of Yang Jun and the thoughts that flash in his heart, Yang Jun's situation must be the protagonist template told in the novel, and it is the protagonist of the counterattack flow.
It's a pity that reality is not a fictional biography, and Yang Jun, who doesn't have much knowledge and insight, doesn't want a counterattack and slap in the face, admired by thousands of people, but just wants to find a place where he can settle down.
Therefore, he who is not very literate, when choosing the secret book of martial arts, he also asked the deacon of the martial palace, and then chose a military combat technique commonly used by the Great Sui military and the matching blood killing scripture of the internal family exercises.
Then, after digging out ten taels of silver, he entered the Martial Palace Dharma Transmission Pavilion, and after passing the teachings inside, it took three days to truly master the tricks and the cultivation tips of the inner exercises.
After that, under the protection of the teaching, Yang Jun began to practice the Ten Styles of Blood Killing and the Breathing and Breathing Method of the Blood Killing Sutra, striving to get the two started as soon as possible.
Because of ten taels of silver, he could only stay in the Dharma Pavilion for a month. During this period, all kinds of auxiliary medicines and three meals a day required for the practice were taken care of by the Dharma Transmission Pavilion. And there is another time, the opportunity for true qi to go to the acupoint.
Therefore, for Yang Jun, who is very unfamiliar with martial arts practice, it is very necessary to spend ten taels of silver to enter the Dharma Transmission Pavilion, learn those martial arts common sense, practice taboos, and get started with the exercises he has practiced.
Time, day by day, Yang Jun was like a sponge, absorbing all the knowledge related to martial arts practice. This knowledge allowed him to learn martial arts from a beginner and slowly entered the palace of martial arts practice.
There are a total of ten moves in the Ten Blood Killing Styles, each of which has nine variations, which seems to be cumbersome, but it contains every basic movement of sword cultivation.
Therefore, Yang Jun, who entered the Dharma Transmission Pavilion, began to study all kinds of knowledge without his life, and comprehended the Blood Killing Sutra and the Ten Blood Killing Styles.
Twelve hours a day, in addition to two hours a day for sleeping, and half an hour in the morning, noon and evening for practicing internal strength, is to learn all kinds of martial arts knowledge, practice basic sword techniques, and learn the ten moves and routines of blood killing.
Such days lasted until the twenty-third day, when Yang Jun's cultivation of the Blood Killing Sutra finally entered and sensed the internal qi in the dantian.
Then, Yang Jun applied for the only time that True Qi Walk. With the help of the true qi of the teachings, he finally completed the nine weekly transports of the Blood Killing Sutra, and deeply remembered the route of the exercises.
Then, Yang Jun began to try to make the complete move routine of the Ten Bleeding Killing Styles, feeling the difference between it and the basic sword technique.
Every time I practice the routine, I will find the accumulated doubts to find the solution to the library, and I will have a little more understanding of the Ten Styles of Blood Killing.
However, until the Moon Transmission Pavilion was full, Yang Jun had only practiced the decomposition moves of the Ten Blood Killing Styles, and he still couldn't quickly use the entire set of sword techniques.
However, Yang Jun did not intend to continue to spend time in the Dharma Transmission Pavilion. After the explanation of the teaching, Yang Jun has understood that his main problem now is that his foundation is too shallow, and his body muscles and bones have not been tempered in place, so he cannot complete those movements with too high skills.
Therefore, after spending five taels of silver and learning a body forging skill from the teacher, Yang Jun left the Dharma Pavilion and returned to Yangjiazhuang.
Yang Jun, who returned to Yangjiazhuang, did not rush to the mountain valley and reclaimed the wasteland there to become a Yongye field that belonged to the Yang family for generations.
Instead, he first found the clan elder and transferred his family's few acres of thin land in Yangjiazhuang to other clansmen for cultivation, and then came to the horse market in Huayin County again, spent 100 yuan and 5 baht, bought two cattle for a male and a female, and took them back to Yangjiazhuang after filing them in the yamen.
In the Great Sui Dynasty, although the buying and selling of ploughing cattle was not prohibited, slaughtering without reason was prohibited, and it had to be reported to the yamen before they could be traded. Otherwise, if the cattle slaughterer is discovered, he will be sentenced to confiscation into the army, and the cattle cultivators will be traded privately, and after they are discovered, the cattle will be confiscated and returned to the imperial court.
And because of the immature technology and the substandard cooking, the pork always has a foul smell that is difficult to remove and difficult to swallow.
Therefore, the main meat in the Great Sui, the landlords and nobles, is still mainly mutton. And those Li people who have some difficulty in wrapping their stomachs, except for the holidays, they will cut some mutton to taste, and usually do not eat much meat at all.
As a result, nine out of ten ordinary people have night blindness. It also leads to the fact that every night, everyone goes home early and goes to bed.
Originally, Yang Jun also had night blindness, but since he stayed in the Dharma Pavilion for a month, after the abundant food there and the reason for practicing the internal family exercises, he returned to the village to find that he could see the nearby scenery clearly at night.
It took five days for Yang Jun, who had finished dealing with the affairs of Yangjiazhuang, to spend money to hire Yang Erbo, who was specially built in the village, and more than a dozen young people in the clan to take the materials he had prepared and walked to the mountain valley where his Yongye Field was located.
Because there are too many materials and the road is difficult to navigate. And the people who had set out in the morning came to the time when they took out the mountain valley, and after noon.
When everyone was ready to eat, Yang Jun entered the mountain valley alone and seriously explored the terrain in the mountain valley for the first time.
There are not many tall trees in the whole mountain valley, and in addition to bushes and wild grasses, five wild persimmon trees and three wild peach trees have been found.
At this time, due to the season, there are only a few hairy peaches left on these trees. But on the five persimmon trees, a baby fist is the size, and red persimmons are hanging all over the branches.
Continuing to move forward, when Yang Jun was about to walk to the waterhole at the source of the valley stream, he found that in the barren grass in front of him, there was a boy who looked a year or two younger than himself.
Yang Jun first observed the surroundings and found that there was no danger before slowly walking up to the young man.
He didn't stretch out his hand in a hurry, but carefully observed the young man for a while according to the knowledge imparted by the teaching.
It's a pity that Yang Jun, who is not proficient in learning and art, didn't see anything, but based on the unknown cloth on the young man's body, and the traces of the wild grass on the opposite hillside, as well as the blood stains on the other party's body, he guessed that the other party might encounter some danger when climbing the mountain and fall to this mountain valley.
Therefore, the kind-hearted Yang Jun stretched out his hand to help the young man up, carried him on his back, and did not continue to explore the valley, returning to the valley of the clansmen.
That young man is actually Lin Dao who was swallowed up by the world.
After entering the world, the place where he appeared from the space-time vortex was halfway up the west peak of Huashan Mountain.
It's a pity that at that time, his consciousness had long been silent, and as soon as he came out, he rolled down the hillside until he rolled down into this mountain valley.
Then, unconscious, he had been lying in this mountain valley for seven days.
Fortunately, there is an innate treasure to protect the body from dusting, and there is no wind and frost left on Lin Dao's body. This is also the fundamental reason why Yang Jun mistakenly believed that Lin Dao climbed the mountain and fell off the cliff.
After Yang Jun carried Lin Dao back, after being checked by a clansman who knew a little about traditional Chinese medicine, and after giving a verdict that he was injured and unconscious, Yang Jun directly put Lin Dao in a thatched hut they had just built, and began to clean up the wild grass and bushes in the mountain valley with his clansmen.
It wasn't until after the third day had passed, when Yang Jun came back to get a hoe, that he found Lin Dao, who had come to his senses and was sitting on the edge of the bed, his eyes blank.
"Little boy, wake up. Yang Jun, who did not have the slightest defense, walked directly in front of Lin Dao, and while asking, he stretched out his hand and shook it in front of the other party's eyes.
"Hmm. Lin Dao, who had just woken up and had a dry and uncomfortable throat, first nodded in response, and then said a little hoarsely: "Yes... Is there water?"
"Yes. There is water. I'll get it for you. After Yang Jun heard this, he immediately walked outside, scooped out half a scoop of water from the water tank with a scoop, brought it in, and handed it to Lin Dao.
After seeing Lin Dao finish drinking water, Yang Jun opened his mouth and asked, "Little boy, ...... your eyes?"
"The eyes are out of sight. Lin Dao smiled indifferently and admitted directly.
"Where's your home, I'll send you a letter, so you can take it back." Yang Jun saw Lin Dao's expression, let go of the worries in his heart, and spoke.
"I... , no more family. Lin Dao's godless eyes looked at the sky and said in an indifferent tone.
"Ah......" Yang Jun was stunned for a moment, and then said apologetically: "What do you think, you are an orphan like me." If you have somewhere to go, then stay with me first. ”
"Thank you very much. After Lin Dao heard this, he opened his mouth to thank him, and the hut fell silent again.
After Yang Jun saw it, he said: "Then you recuperate first, and I will go to the wasteland to weed." ”
After speaking, Yang Jun patted Lin Dao on the shoulder and walked out of the hut directly.
After Lin Dao heard this, he said, "Then you go and get busy." Leave me alone. ”