Chapter 23 (15)
The middle-aged man said: "You don't remember, but the brothers haven't forgotten." I'll give you a reminder, you personally promised the owner of the old village, will uphold his will, carry forward the Qingtianzhai, and when the time is ripe, he will take everyone to attack the capital and drive the Tartars out of the Central Plains, so that we can also catch an emperor and a prince. The words are still in your ears, the words are still in your ears! You swear at this time, God can't fix you, but people will eventually die, what face do you have to meet the old village master under the nine springs?"
Lu Qian said: "I have my own hardships, and you won't understand." ”
Another young man drew his knife out of its sheath and sneered: "Do you have a problem? What kind of problem do you have!" Turning the tip of the knife and pointing to the dark night, he said: "It's because of this person, isn't it? You listen to what he says, is he your son or your own grandfather? Each of us here comes forward with a knife, which is enough to break his body into ten thousand pieces! Qingtianzhai rules, there must not be a deserter on the battlefield, even if he dies in battle, he will never surrender, and he will never take a step back! Anyway, as long as you kill him, there will not be so many bits and pieces, everyone is side by side!"
Dark Night said lightly: "Lord Lu Dazhai, your group of subordinates are a little stubborn, you should do their work as soon as possible." Lu Qian smiled and said, "Yes, the villain will do the work." He turned around and said, "Brothers......"
Cheng Jiahua sneered: "Why is it so troublesome?" The long sword came out of its sheath and danced around its palm with a cloud of light and shadow. Several bandits didn't have time to deal with it, and they didn't think that the owner of the second village would kill him, they all sealed their throats with a sword, blood splashed everywhere, and their weapons were thrown to the ground, or they fell back or down, and fell back and forth. Lu Qian exclaimed: "You...... You ......" Cheng Jiahua handed out the tip of his sword, pointed at the corpse circle, and said coldly: "Show me all clearly, who dares to offend the king again, refuse to recruit an army with a word, and shake the hearts of the people, here are a few examples!"
Dark Night said: "Boy, there is a future. Cheng Jiahua bowed and said, "Thank you for the compliment." ”
An old man in purple turned out of the crowd, glared angrily, slammed the cane in his hand on the ground, and shouted: "Cheng Jiahua!" The old man's name is Ji Shang, who is the sworn brother of the old village owner, and is highly respected in the gang. Cheng Jiahua glanced at him, and said with a flirtatious expression: "It turned out that Old Man Ji spoke, I don't know what to say?"
Ji Shang snorted a lot of air in his nostrils, raised his cane, pointed to a vacant space in front of him, and said angrily: "Do you remember that when you knelt here, knocked your head, and begged the lord of the village to accept you into the gang, it was I who strongly opposed it! I have always been very accurate in my opinion, and the tone of your voice is just a reckless man who is brave for a while. Through the depths of your eyes, dodging, sneaky, naturally cunning embryos, when nothing happens, they are fine, and when the disaster comes, you are the first to fly. Later, you abandoned your master, was accepted as a disciple by the master of Lu Dazhai, and made you the second master, but I still dissuaded you! As the saying goes, one day as a teacher, a lifetime as a father, that Kongtong sect Taoist taught you martial arts, no different from your second father, you in order to seek benefits, even he can be easily betrayed, as a disciple does not respect the teacher, for the son of a man is not filial piety, small things look at the big, let me be more sure of the previous judgment, you are definitely not a good thing. It's a pity that the owner of Dazhai can't see clearly, doesn't listen to my advice, and insists on going his own way, and I can only sigh. But to be fair, the cottage can have its current situation, it is indeed indispensable to your credit, I am a little relieved, I hope I am worried. Who would have thought that what was destined to happen would be unavoidable after all, and you would want to cling to the high branches? The old village owner single-handedly founded Qingtianzhai and exhausted his life's efforts! It was ruined in the hands of you two little beasts! Forget it, we are only to blame for being too stupid, becoming Mr. Dongguo once, and feeding two immature wolves!"
Cheng Jiahua said coldly: "Be careful when you speak." I think that you are the elder of the village, and you are old and frail, so I treat you politely, but it does not mean that you can rely on the old and sell the old, and you can be different from the others! I am not destroying Qingtianzhai, but saving you. As the saying goes, if the people do not fight with the officials, the uprising will not be successful, and it will be a matter of losing their heads. ”
Ji Shang said angrily: "I don't need you to warn the old man! I should make a decision myself, and all the brothers have heard it clearly, after I die, I will cremate my body and scatter the ashes on the top of Taihang Mountain, so that I can see with my own eyes the fate of you two faint dogs! I'd rather die than you dirty hands to touch my body! It's a pity...... The old man founded Qingtianzhai with the owner of the old village, and watched it go from humble to top, and from prosperity to decline, which is enough, enough......" The voice was overwhelmed, his body shook a few times, and he collapsed backwards.
Several minions who were closer shouted, "Elder Ji!" grabbed Xiang Fu, and saw that he had a short sword inserted in his heart, which did not reach the handle, and he tried to snort, and he was already angry. Ji Shang had a great reputation in the village, and suddenly the mountain was full of sorrow. Lu Qian remembered that since he succeeded to the throne, he was mostly assisted by Ji Shang, not surprised by his young knowledge, and tirelessly taught patiently, but now he is dying with hatred, but he is still misunderstanding that he is a villain who sells his friends and seeks glory, and he is afraid that he and Cheng Jiahua will be put in the same category.
Cheng Jiahua said loudly: "Ji Shang committed suicide in fear of crime, do you think this is a backbone method that is worth emulating? Wrong! It is better to die than to live, he died and turned into a handful of ashes, and he still can't change the facts in front of him." Whoever wants to follow his old path, just please!" The bandits gritted their teeth, and they all hated the three people in front of them, only Lu Qian humbly avoided the hateful gaze.
Dark Night Death waved a folding fan and said: "It's not easy to find death? But I advise you to find the best group of short-sighted deaths, otherwise tens of thousands of people will run in front of me and commit suicide one by one, and I don't know how long I will die." Lu Qian's heart was wrenched, and he said in a lamented voice: "King Death, even if you are a villain, the brothers in my cottage are all homeless poor people, please be merciful and allow them to stay here and multiply." It's a big deal, let them make a heavy oath that they will not seek revenge against the royal family for the rest of their lives!"
Dark Night snorted coldly: "Your face is bigger than the sky." A minion took a sip and scolded: "You don't need to be a good person! If you want to kill, you can kill, he has the ability to kill us all, and if he misses a single one, he will not be able to sleep well every night in the future!"
Cheng Jiahua snorted coldly: "Master Lu Dazhai, people don't accept your affection, you still have to ask for their lives?" Lu Qian said angrily: "There is no place for you to speak here!" Cheng Jiahua pursed his lips and spread his palm.
Dark Night said angrily: "I say what I say, you are not allowed to bargain with me! These stupid people are really like maggots with bones, think I dare not kill them?"
Cheng Jiahua smiled mysteriously and said, "Kill the king, the villain has a way." He took out the fire from his bosom and lit it, threw it at the corner of the temple with a flick of his hand, and then scattered the other one on the ground, and in an instant burst into flames more than half a person high, and burned fiercely. Cheng Jiahua said: "First destroy the place where they settled, cut off the back road, and then whether to go down the mountain, or stay to live and die with Qingtianzhai, it is their freedom." Lu Qian said angrily: "Cheng Jiahua, you ...... Are you crazy? I haven't treated you badly, you really want to destroy Qingtianzhai and be willing?"
In the dark night, he looked at half of the sky red by the firelight, and a sad look appeared on his face, remembering the situation when Jiang Yanchen burned down the Shadowless Villa. The real and virtual scenes were already blurred, and he muttered, "It's ruthless enough...... Can you really do it?" Thinking that Shen Shiyun said that Jiang Yanchen couldn't ask for it, he hated from love to hate, and deliberately framed Chu Menglin, he had been thinking about it repeatedly for six years, although he had already let go of Xuan Shuang, but he still had half a doubt in his heart.
Cheng Jiahua said: "If you want to achieve great things, you should not be bound by any emotion. What kind of family affection, friendship, and love are all roadblocks, and in the face of rights and interests, they all have to give way!"
Lu Qian was overjoyed in his heart, and secretly thought: "The stinky boy is eager to invite merit, and the horse's fart is slapped on the horse's feet, I see how you end up?" Chu Menglin fell in love in the dark night, and she couldn't even want her life for her, and she suffered from love, what is it that you say to him now?"
Cheng Jiahua was flexible-minded and said: "The villain means that he is the most amazing king." Others are forced by the situation and have to make trade-offs, but you can do it with both hands, and the beauties of the country are embraced. Dark Night felt bitter in his heart and said, "Forget it." You're very good, and your style is ruthless enough, like me. Let's go. "Walk around the bandits and move forward quickly. Cheng Jiahua hurriedly caught up, supported him beside him, and said happily: "According to the will of the king, did you agree to accept the villain as an apprentice?"
Dark Night said coldly: "Even if it comes from what I said in person, if others want to paraphrase it, it must be done word for word." But what I haven't said, I'm not allowed to make it up without permission. Cheng Jiahua said: "Yes, the villain obeys orders." ”
"I've told you the truth, I don't care about anyone who grovels in front of me and bends to meet me. If you first position yourself as a slave, be cautious, and act according to the face of your master, who can still look down on you? There is no distinction between high and low, and the difference between them is caused by your willingness! The current situation is that the law of the jungle eats the strong, and if you want to win respect, you should first make yourself strong, so as a weak person, there is no need to beg for fairness at all. ”
Cheng Jiahua habitually just wanted to respond, but finally held back in time, changed the chicken's rice-pecking jaw to a heavy nod, and said, "Well, reasonable, I understand!"
Lu Qian looked at the flames and climbed to the eaves, bursts of heat rushed to his face, and it was too late to put out the fire, so he stomped his feet hard, flashed out of the surrounding fire circle, and shouted: "Brothers, you swear to be loyal to Qingtianzhai, although you are not loyal to me, but I, Lu Qian, am here, and I still want to thank you." I only said a few words, Cheng Jiahua is a traitor in the village, but he is right about one thing, a good man died on the battlefield, and the horse leather shrouded body was indeed a well-deserved death. But what good is it to give up your life in this place? If you can save Qingtianzhai by begging for death, needless to say, I will also wipe your neck with a knife! If you commit suicide in public like Elder Ji, I admit that he died a heroic death, and you must also admit that his death was not worth it. What is the most precious thing in this world? Not your own life? When you die, everything is empty, what kind of guardianship concept do you talk about? You can say that I am greedy for life and afraid of death, yes, I want to live, and only by living can I have hope and dreams! Although I am now spurned, I still advise you to do it yourself, and after you die, you will be a hundred gone, but you don't want to think about your parents, wives and children, and how miserable it must be for your parents, wives and children, and white-haired people to send black-haired people? Isn't our uprising just for the sake of relatives and friends, and even for the whole world to live a good life? Is it just for ourselves?"
As he was talking, a cluster of flames burned his trouser legs, Lu Qian raised his legs and dragged them on the ground in embarrassment, and said, "That's all there is to say, let's think about it for ourselves! It's too late to leave now." Saying that, he quickly chased Cheng Jiahua and died in the night. The bandits were in a state of great emotion before, and at this time in the face of the fire, not everyone had the courage to face death directly, and they followed down the mountain without much thought.
Halfway up the mountain, Lu Qian couldn't help but turn around, and saw that the entire temple was almost burned into a big fireball, and the fire had spread to the beams of the house, coiling on the black lacquer plaque engraved with the words "Qingtianzhai", beating a few times, sweeping up, engulfing the last word "Qing", and the fire in the open space on the top of the mountain slowly blocked the view. It is expected that in a few years, if there are descendants who come to Taihang Mountain, maybe even the ashes of the house will not be visible.
He had been here for six years as the owner of the village, calling for wind and rain, out of the limelight, and now turned into ashes in one day, the career of the owner of the village is over, the future is uncertain after entering the palace, quite a lot of thought. I deeply feel that life is impermanent, and the day is precarious. He has always been ruthless and unrighteous, and his eyes can't help but moisten at this time.