Chapter 18: The Red Dust Swordsman and Ji Xiaoyue
The second time Jiang Xiaoman met the girl was at 10 p.m. on the third day after the horse stealing incident.
The young man led the horse, flicked his sleeves, hummed a little song, and walked out of the gate of Fancheng with the gun magazine on his back, all the way to the north, stepping on the sunset before walking out of less than ten miles.
When I raised my head, I saw a young girl, who was holding her head and covering her eyes, squatting on the official road paved with bluestone slabs not far away.
is still dressed in white, his hair is yellow and a little scattered, his hair is swaying in the wind, and his purse is tied around his waist, but there is a group of five big and three thick people around him, and he is not a good stubble red dust knife man at first glance......
The young man looked funny, just moistened his throat, and wanted to shout "Broad daylight" from those chivalrous novels, the heroic trumpet of the heroes who walked the world with a sword saw the unusual, and then came to a hero to save the beauty.
But I didn't want to, the girl who was originally happily squatting on the ground with her head and her eyes closed, but she happened to look at it when she opened her eyes secretly.
"It's him! He forced me to steal those tokens in your purse, and I gave them to him later, and I don't know anything!"
The girl stood up happily, and under the puzzled eyes of a group of Hongchen swordsmen, she pointed to the direction of Jiang Xiaoman, who was holding the horse with a somewhat confused face.
decisively "splashed dirty water" to this stupid one, a little cute, and seemed to be a little fool dreaming of heroes.
"I'm here today to meet him, and it's unlucky to be blocked by you first, but the so-called unjust debtor is the main culprit, and now it has appeared, why are you still pestering me?
The girl took two steps back slightly, and said indignantly as if she was indignant.
Taking advantage of the stunned kung fu of the red dust and the swordsmen, the girl chuckled, and then tapped her toes lightly, and her beautiful posture was like a butterfly fluttering with wings, and she jumped back for a few breaths.
"I ......"
Jiang Xiaoman is a young man who has just entered this river and lake, and he has also figured out his current situation.
There is no doubt that the little female thief who doesn't learn well and doesn't repent has somehow dug a big hole for herself to jump.
Right now, surrounded by a group of Hongchen swordsmen who are obviously not easy to get along with, Jiang Xiaoman has a hard time arguing, who wants to be a hero!
Among the chivalrous romances that I have seen in the past, which of the heroes is not heroic, and how can they be heroes who would rather call the world bear me than let me bear the world?
What's more, at the moment, she is nothing more than being pitted by a little female thief who has gone astray, but doesn't feel particularly bad.
Jiang Xiaoman has always had inexplicable confidence in his way of knowing people, otherwise how would he know that his mother, father, father and Mo Li'er in the Vermilion Bird City family have no malice towards him?
"A cloud drifted from the northwest, and the crow landed in the phoenix forest. You are all heroes, I don't know who is the head and who is from?"
Jiang Xiaoman learned the technical terms that seemed to be specially exchanged between the brothers on the "Dao" in the previous book, and smiled softly at the group of red dust swordsmen with fists in a loud voice.
Looking at the faces, you know that there are not many swordsmen who read books, and they look at each other, and they are a little awkward to the young man's mouth, which cannot be called poetry, but there are words that seem to have a lot of connotation, but they are definitely not nonsensical sentences in the black language of "on the road".
But at least one thing can be known, it looks like this young man who has just entered the rivers and lakes, and it is obviously impossible for him to command the female snitch who is famous in Fancheng and is better than a monkey.
"Third Brother Wei, I heard that this kid meant to talk to the person in charge of our business. ”
Fortunately, one of the swordsmen would go to the city tavern from time to time to listen to two commentaries, and he had the same love for those stories of three heroes and five righteousness as Jiang Xiaoman.
The stubborn words of the boy's mouth are quite familiar, and they are the witty sentences that come out of the mouths of the storytellers in the tavern from time to time.
The Hongchen swordsman who was called Third Brother Wei by the man nodded, pushed everyone away and stepped forward and said: "Wei is not talented, it is these brothers who are in charge, and they have no intention of offending Shaoxia." Look at the female thief who stole our brother's purse, it seems that she is an old acquaintance with the young man.
It doesn't matter what the money is in the purse, if you lose it, you lose it, but the bronze token is extremely important to our brother, and this is the only life.
If Shaoxia knows where the cunning fox-like female thief has landed, and hopes that Shaoxia will lead our brother to find it, Wei San only wants to recover the token, and he will never do anything to that girl!"
The third brother Wei in the mouth of this swordsman is not tall, and he is only half a head taller than Jiang Xiaoman, who is still growing.
He was the only one in the group who carried a sword around his waist, his hair was a little curly, his eyes were slightly squinted, and he was quite friendly when he looked at the young man in front of him, and he was the least like the one in this group who ate with a sword in his hand.
Jiang Xiaoman came back to his senses, feeling a little proud in his heart.
It seems that what is written in those books is not all the same as what my father said, and they are all used to coax children who have not really entered the big pond of rivers and lakes to amuse.
No, I just learned from the book that the brothers "on the road" met for the first time, and I let these swordsmen who look at it have a fierce aura to call themselves young heroes!
Shaoxia, these two words are extremely useful to Jiang Xiaoman, and they are much more pleasant to hear than the little generals in the mouths of those armor soldiers in Vermilion Bird City and the little princes in the mouths of the people in the Overseer's Mansion.
"Recognition is recognition. ”
Jiang Xiaoman nodded, paused, and then said slowly to this third brother Wei, who was the only scholar with a surplus of the aura of rivers and lakes in the crowd of red dust swordsmen: "It's just that I also had a relationship with this female snitch, and when I met it yesterday, I saw that this little female thief seemed to be burning some purses and then filling in the pit and burying it, as if she wanted to destroy the evidence, and there were some things that were buried in the pit that looked like tokens, and now I think it should be all heroes." ”
"Please also ask Shaoxia to lead Wei and his brother to the place where the hateful girl burned our purse!" The man known as Third Brother Wei looked excited, and the token in his mouth came from an extraordinary background.
For these Hongchen swordsmen who are like duckweed in the rivers and lakes and have no sect to rely on, if they can hold the tokens that have gone through thousands of hardships and take refuge in the small rivers and lakes of Fancheng Baili like a river dragon a few months ago, it will stir up the wind and clouds, and the original owner of the token is undoubtedly a good opportunity for a carp to jump into the dragon gate.
As the leader of the swordsmen, Wei San was able to lead a group of brothers, and it was not easy to walk in the rivers and lakes with knives over the years, so as not to starve and be looked down upon.
It's just that the brothers have been wandering for many years, and they are gradually getting older, but they have not yet started a family.
Now, it's time to find a big tree worth leaning on, so that the brothers who have long been tired of the wandering life can enjoy the shade.
It just so happened that at this time, there was a little boy in Fancheng who was just carrying an old servant, that is, a few hundred miles of the sect family that could be counted within a radius of hundreds of miles.
This Xuan Gongzi is really amazing, but it is rumored that the old servant who followed him seems to be even more powerful.
Those who are deeply rooted in Fancheng and can be counted in the borderlands of the Southern Regions, for Wei San, the little fish and shrimp who are struggling to jump up at the bottom of the rivers and lakes, it seems that it is not an exaggeration to be called the helmsman of the wealthy sect.
In these days, who has not been beaten by the old servant who has been by Xuan Zhiqiu's side, he is embarrassed to call himself a first-class sect in Fancheng.
This Xuan Gongzi seems to have no purpose in beating people with an old servant, purely for fun.
only hurts people but does not kill people, and after pushing the entire Fancheng rivers and lakes, it seems that he intends to stay in this city and not leave.
The master and servant, not only spent a lot of money, but also bought Fancheng, which was enough to rank among the top three, and was once the private mansion of a famous businessman on the wealth list of the border land.
He even visited hundreds of merchants in Fancheng, and privately was given the title of "Fortune Evil Star" by Fancheng Jianghu, and spent money to fight with him all over the Fancheng sect.
has no purpose, but from time to time it throws a lot of money to make a sensation in the city.
According to the business owners who were fortunate enough to be visited by Xiao Gongzi, this Xuan Xiao Gongzi bought things completely out of whim.
Not only are there swords and weapons that men like, but there are also rouge gouaches that have always been bought by women.
And it's all about picking the most expensive ones to buy, and it seems that spending money is completely regarded as a hobby.
These days, the little boy surnamed Xuan seems to be tired of the hobby of spending money, so he has come up with a new trick as a daily pastime.
A month ago, the old servant who had cultivated a high level by Xuangongzi's side was a little scary, but he didn't have the strength to hit the snakes all over Fancheng when he looked at it.
In this river and lake, it is said that his little son has worked hard for two nights without sleeping, and carved out a total of 300 tokens made of wood, copper and iron respectively.
It would have been nothing to throw out these tokens.
But the old servant threatened to collect all the wooden tokens, but he could come to his own little son to exchange for a copy of the three-grade exercise cheats.
Those who collect bronze tokens can exchange for a four-grade cheatbook.
If you can collect all the Black Iron Tokens, in addition to being able to exchange for a copy of the Five Rank Secret Book, you can also worship the sect where Xuan Xiaogongzi is located and become a peripheral follower.
Although the cheats of the first and second grades of the exercises, although they are also precious and belong to the inheritance of each sect and clan, they are also commonly seen.
Larger cities are also sold from time to time in merchants with deep backgrounds, which are affordable and the most common things for ordinary martial artists.
But from the three grades, whether it is in the southern region or in other domains, the entire rivers and lakes and the entire sect realm have begun to become precious, and none of the people who can create the three grades of cheats can be called grandmasters by ordinary martial artists.
There will also be big forces in the big cities to sell, but it is not a price that ordinary warriors can afford.
The three-grade cheats are worth a thousand gold, and they are not just casually talked.
Of course, it won't really be exaggerated to that much as a thousand gold.
After all, there is a thousand gold, for ordinary people, three generations of grandparents can live in the kind of single-family mansion, every day the delicacies of the mountains and seas are eaten in turn, and there are many concubines in the main room and a lot of girls in the warm house.
The fourth and fifth grades are the treasures of the town school for some sects that are not far away and have a small scale.
Except for the head and the elders and the core disciples, there are few that can be contacted.
Naturally, the price is not measured by money.
In this land, the practice cheats are divided into nine products in turn, and eight products and nine products are the most.
In the Southern Regions, except for a few who have been inherited for so long that they are almost on par with the royal family of the Great Xia Dynasty, it is said that there are giants in the gate who have already cultivated the body of immortals and are unwilling to ascend to the throne of their ancestors.
Those who can have five grades and go up are all sects that have at least one giant in the sect, and they have led a city or even several cities.
Of course, what you can dominate will only be the rivers and lakes, no matter what kind of background your sect has, in the end, you have to bow to the Great Xia Dynasty, which is the largest "sect" in the Southern Regions.
There are still higher-grade ancient book cheats above the nine grades, which are called "Tiangong".
The entire land of Kyushu can master a kind of inheritance of heavenly power, and on the bright side, there are only the lords of a domain such as the Great Xia Jiang clan and the Great Qin Win, such a long inheritance is so appalling that the strength of the first generation of ancestors wants to be higher than that of the heavenly test, and the power of slaughtering immortals and killing gods is like slaughtering pigs and dogs.
Wei Sanben is just an ordinary secular martial artist, although there are a group of Hongchen swordsmen who are like brothers and sisters under his hands.
But among them, Wei San, who has the highest cultivation, was able to cultivate Gang Qi in his body in his early years because of some opportunities that belonged to him, and he entered the realm of acquired products.
What he did was licking blood on the tip of the knife, wandering around the rivers and lakes within a radius of hundreds of miles in Fancheng all year round.
Although he is in the lowest reaches of this river, it is not easy to lead the brothers to survive and gradually grow.
The hurdles in this are only clear to Wei San himself.
Now that there is an opportunity for the carp to jump over the dragon gate, Wei San and his brothers are going to fight no matter how slim they are.
I don't know if it's really shit luck, or if it's God's true favor.
On the rivers and lakes of Fancheng, which is only a radius of hundreds of miles, the interest in the token deliberately exuded by the little boy surnamed Xuan is not too high.
Except for a group of small fish and shrimp wandering at the bottom of the rivers and lakes like Wei San.
In the entire Fancheng rivers and lakes, there are occasionally one or two sects that have just crossed the bottom of the lake and earned one or two, and the small scale but the stylish sect has come out of the water to compete.
What's more, he will not allow his own disciples to fight for the opportunity to swim at the bottom of the rivers and lakes like Wei San, which seems to be like a dragon gate, and deliberately suppresses those disciples with roughly the same threshold.
Among them, most of them are those sects and clans that are enough to be called big valves in Fancheng and in the border areas, but some time ago, they were beaten by the old servants who wore a bamboo and wood fishing rod behind them even if it was not raining.
This also gave a chance to Red Dust Swordsmen like Wei San who were like rootless poria.
Relying on the cultivation of being praised by the Jianghu martial artists as the first threshold of martial arts, Wei San and the other brothers really collected the bronze order that was said to be able to exchange a good future from the hands of the little prince surnamed Xuan through several fights that hurt their muscles but did not move their bones.
It's just that sometimes the ancients said that happiness is not alarmist.
Finally collected the bronze order, and it was time to exchange for the secret book of the Five Rank Exercises that made the martial artists drool dry and a big tree that was enough for Wei San to shelter the brothers from the wind and rain for the rest of their lives.
But I didn't want to, and I was hit on the way to the mansion where the two big characters of Xuanfu are now hung.
When I met a little girl who claimed to have come to Fancheng for the first time and came with her family to visit relatives who were said to have done a lot of business in Fancheng, but she was separated from her family when she entered the city, but she was not small.
Maybe it's the great future that I never dreamed of is coming.
Maybe it's the innate chivalrous heart of the swordsmen.
Or maybe there are some swordsmen who are not very good-minded, and they have some other thoughts when they see that although the little girl is thin and small, she is not bad.
also encouraged Ben to be unwilling to do much, and went to the Xuan family first in exchange for brocade clothes, and the future was more important than anything else, and the leading leader Wei San "took a righteous shot" to save him.
took the girl who claimed to be Ji Xiaoyue, and went to find the businessman relatives who are now imaginary.
It's just that "righteousness" accounts for a fraction of this.
The rest is the unspeakable thoughts, which are unknown to the swordsmen who are fighting for the red dust at the bottom of this river and lake.
The swordsmen who are used to licking blood on the tip of the knife obviously still have the bottom line in their hearts when they first entered this river and lake.
Otherwise, it would not be the leader of Wei Sanzuo, who has the realm of a small grandmaster the day after tomorrow, but he is still so bleak.
I can't do it, only the mountain bandits and horse bandits in the mountains and forests and wilderness will do the kidnapping.
But it doesn't prevent you from waiting for the little girl's family to knock out some silver taels.
Except for the saints and immortals that only come in the mouth of the storyteller, this world can't do good things but do them in vain, right?
Besides, even if you are a fairy saint, you still need the world to provide some incense money from time to time, right?
Not to mention these Hongchen swordsmen who are at the bottom of the rivers and lakes and are used to fighting snakes and sticks.
But I didn't expect that these people were just thinking about it, and they didn't put it into practice.
The little girl who grinned at any time, showing two cute little tiger teeth and smiling, was actually an old Jianghu who pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger.
didn't go far, but was blackened by a little girl who looked harmless to humans and animals.
I don't know what kind of means the little girl used, even Wei San, who has stepped into the realm of a small grandmaster who has acquired a grade and has five senses far beyond that of a mortal in the world, is on the way.
The purse that pretended to be second only to his net worth and could be exchanged for a dream in the future and wakes up with a good future, was touched.
I don't know if it's the bad luck of the little girl who is as cunning as a fox, or the luck of Wei San.
Guarding the official road today, I was planning to try my luck to see if I could catch the female snitch who made Wei San unable to sleep and eat these days, but I didn't think that I would really make them wait.
It's just that he just surrounded him, and before he could speak, he lost his efforts again in a moment.
I have to say that there is a reason why Wei San can become the leader of a group of swordsmen.
Along the way, Jiang Xiaoman felt that there was a breath hidden in this man who was not tall and equipped with a sword.
This aura can only be possessed by people in the military who are really in the blood and water on the battlefield.
It is said that the literati have the spirit of books, the craftsmen who have been tempered and cast hundreds of soldiers by the fire have the spirit of craftsmanship, and the knights who walk the rivers and lakes with swords and swords have the spirit of pride.
The aura hidden in Wei San's body is an aura that can only be condensed after experiencing battlefield battles, and it should be called murderous aura.
Killing, people with murderous aura must have really been contaminated with blood on their hands.
In the thirty-six lines, there is also a butcher who slaughters dogs and pigs.
It's just that it's different from the real military background, and being able to rely on momentum alone makes people unconsciously feel frightened.
This breath is strong and weak.
Jiang Xiaoman came out of one of the two major overseer mansions around him, and this aura was the most familiar.
His father Jiang Yao has it, his eleventh uncle Jiang Che also has it, and his third uncle Jiang Ye has the richest body.
If you have to divide it, this kind of battlefield aura on this man who claims to be Wei San can be regarded as a stream, slow but continuous is much better than ordinary swordsmen.
On weekdays, he could often see the flaming iron knights under his father's command in the mansion, and this aura on his body was one level higher than Wei Sanlai's, roughly equivalent to the gentle river water.
The breath on Jiang Yao and Jiang Che's bodies was well hidden, and Jiang Xiaoman only vaguely felt that a few appointments could be regarded as a majestic river flowing into the sea.
As for Jiang Ye, his third uncle is now the lord of the border land in the Southern Regions.
Jiang Xiaoman has met very few times, but every time, no matter how restrained Jiang Ye is, it will inevitably make the young man a little uncomfortable.
Even, for a long time, I didn't dare to look at this third uncle.
Come to think of it, even if it's not the sea, it's not that far off.
The young man led the horse, and led a group of red dust and swordsmen to the stream where they met yesterday.
From Wei San's mouth, he finally asked the girl's name, which I don't know if it was true or false.
According to Wei San, the girl's surname was Ji and she claimed to be Ji Xiaoyue.
Ji Xiaoyue, the young man nodded, but there were some waves in his heart.
This surname is rare in the border land, and even in the entire southern region, but it has a special meaning in the Qin Dynasty in the northern region.
Different from the supreme position of the Southern Regions, the Jiang era has been replaced for thousands of years and is close to 10,000 years.
Before the Qin Dynasty, the Northern Regions had fought for the five hegemons in the Spring and Autumn Period, and then the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.
A total of 3,200 years.
Only now that the Qin Dynasty is enough to be called the first emperor of the ages, the first ancestor of the male was born, swallowing mountains and rivers for thousands of miles, thus unifying the northern regions, creating a situation where he is known in the world with the other four domains of this land.
The surname Ji is the surname of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, and the surnames of seventeen male lords in succession in two great eras.
The last clan leader of the Ji clan was a man in millions of armor at the end of the Warring States Period and the Qin Dynasty, known as the Emperor of the Ages, who was surnamed Ying, competed for the supreme position in the Northern Regions.
If it weren't for the fact that the millions of armorers of the Ji family would later sink into the sand and fight to the death with the Qin Dynasty.
During the Warring States period in the Northern Regions, the other five heroes, I don't know how many years earlier, were the Qin Dynasty's iron horsemen who broke through the country and overthrew a clan.
Now, in the Beihai Kingdom established by the remnants of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the north of the Qin Dynasty, the surname Ji has a much higher status than the other five major surnames.
Retracting his thoughts, Jiang Xiaoman shook his head, and couldn't help but want to laugh at his distraction.
In the past, when I practiced in Vermilion Bird City, this was the case, and there would always be times when I was practicing and my heart drifted away thousands of miles away.
It's really like his cheap master, Eleventh Uncle Jiang Che's evaluation, this kid is not attentive in his practice, but he is ruthless when he reads wild history miscellaneous books.
Ji Xiaoyue, the little moon of the Ji family.
The corners of Jiang Xiaoman's mouth curled upward, this name is quite good.