Chapter 2 Descending the Mountain
Winter goes to spring, and the four years in the mountains pass in a flash.
Chen Xiuyuan has been changing with each passing day in the past four years, and his entry has been rapid. On the day of his twentieth birthday, he gave his teacher a chance to play the Wooden Man Alley and the Eighteen Arhat Formation. But he didn't go down the mountain and kowtow to his teacher to say goodbye, but Zen Master Langhua didn't see each other, and only taught a little novice to take out an earthy yellow baggage. Chen Xiuyuan opened the yellow cloth wrapped in the outer skin and saw that there were several thin scriptures in the baggage, as well as a letter from his father, a key to the old house and a few pieces of loose silver. The letter said: "Recently, there has been a rampant war in the coastal areas of southern Fujian, and my father has taken my mother and my mother to the north to temporarily take refuge in my sister's house in Fuzhou. He was also told to go to Fuzhou to meet quickly, and his father and mother looked forward to ......it day and night, "Chen Xiuyuan thought: This letter from the family teacher has only been taken out now, and it must be because his parents and teachers are afraid that they will worry about themselves and affect them to break through and go down the mountain. At the moment, he didn't say much, knelt down and kowtowed three times, and said loudly: "Take care, the teacher will definitely do what he is told!" After that, he stood up, took the burden on his back, turned around and walked out of the mountain gate and left in tears. I could only hear the Buddha name of "Amitabha Buddha" faintly behind me......
When he walked to the foot of the mountain, he suddenly thought to him: why don't you go home after ten years away from home...... Then he went to his old house.
Chen Xiuyuan came to the door of the old house at home, and couldn't help but want to shout: "Mother, I'll come back and pull!" remembered that when he was young at home, he would call out every time he went home to the door...... I opened the door and entered the house to see everything in the house, and saw the pipa, chrysanthemums and other things planted by my mother in the garden, I couldn't help but think of how happy my mother would be if she saw me grow up and come home.
When he was out of his mind, he suddenly felt that the eaves of the west head were vaguely moving, as if a yellow back flashed. I suddenly remembered something in my heart, and this back that I faintly felt seemed to be extremely familiar for a while, but I couldn't remember it. Chen Xiuyuan locked the door of his home after standing for a long time, thinking that he still had no clue about the important things explained by his teacher who went down the mountain this time, but fortunately, as soon as he entered the rivers and lakes, he could also try to visit along the way to reunite with his parents. So I went to the bazaar, bought a horse, asked for the road, and headed for Fuzhou.
On this day, I came to the territory of Xinghua, the mountains and forests on both sides of the road were dense, and the loess road was dusty. Chen Xiuyuan saw a wine banner on the side of the road in the distance, and thought that after rushing for half a day, there was an inn, so he might as well eat a bowl of somen noodles and then hurry. It is said that the inn is actually just two or three thatched houses, and there are a few square tables and benches in the open space in front of the house. Chen Xiuyuan had just gotten off the horse, and there was already a shopkeeper who came over to greet him, took the reins of the horse, and led him to the side under the big tree not far away to tie it up, Chen Xiuyuan sat down at an empty table and ordered, "A bowl of noodles." The shopkeeper agreed and went into the store.
Chen Xiu saw that there was a very tall and burly middle-aged man sitting alone on the first seat in the west, although he was sitting, he still seemed to have extremely long hands and feet, almost as tall and short as ordinary people. The big man was dusty and weathered, but he still looked energetic, and although he was covered with dust, his expression was calm! Chen Xiuyuan couldn't help but think of a sentence when he saw it: Yan Zhao Gu was called a man who sighed with great emotion and sorrow! In his heart, he couldn't help but glance at the big man's table, only to see a large plate of cooked beef, a large wine jar, and a large bowl on the table, and a thick-backed single knife leaning at the foot of the table, which seemed to be quite heavy. Chen Xiuyuan couldn't help but be secretly surprised: "Look at the bag that is randomly placed next to the single knife, a swollen, wet and hastily wrapped in brocade, but I don't know what it is?"
At this time, the shopkeeper had already brought it up, and there were three Chinese characters on the table near him, drinking tea and chatting with himself, and a young man said: "Recently, there has been a great deal of trouble among the Japanese pirates in various coastal areas! I heard that they often abandon ships and land in the interior to burn, kill, and plunder!" Another man dressed as a scribe said: "Not only that, but last year, a group of only a few dozen Japanese robbers ransacked Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces, and raided more than 20 prefectures and counties in Hangzhou, Yan, Hui, Ning, and Taiping...... Approaching the city of Nanjing, the capital of Liu. This group of Japanese robbers traveled thousands of miles, killing and wounding four or five thousand officers and soldiers, and it took more than 80 days to be surrounded and annihilated by an overwhelming number of officers and soldiers...... "Another old man with a gray beard said: "I heard that there are only a few dozen Japanese robbers but they are besieging the ......city in Nanjing, the capital of Liudu," the scribe said: "Yes, the city of Liudu is thick, and the number of troops defending the city is not less than 10,000, but the secretary of the military department ordered the city gate to be closed. There were only a few dozen thieves, and the two armies under the city faced each other, killing the second commander-in-chief and the sergeants, and eight or nine hundred people died! Only then did this small group of pirates leave without breaking a single person...... Although the thieves in the capital retreated, they did not dare to relieve the strictness...... "The white-bearded man said: "Fortunately, in the end, all the Japanese are annihilated!" The scribe said: "Although this is the case, it is always a great shame, and the court also feels that it is impossible to hang on the face, but it is said that it is to lure the enemy to go deeper, encircle and annihilate him...... How can it be reasonable to lure the enemy to lure the world under the capital? In fact, I am just afraid of the Japanese like a tiger! Alas, I think that I am a great country and a glorious China, and there was a naval battle in the past in the cliffs and mountains, but now even the small country of Yuer has bullied the door to show off its might! Alas, I only hate that there are no heroes when the Japanese are rampant...... but the white-bearded man said: "But I can't say the same, although Qi Jiguang and General Yu Dayou didn't have time to return to save Liudu, but in the past, the bloody battle with the Japanese was still very powerful!"
Although Chen Xiuyuan didn't say anything on the side, he also sighed secretly, and when he heard the last words of the bearded old man, he also admired and respected Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou, the two generals! Suddenly, the big man on the west seat poured two large bowls of wine into his mouth, slapped the table with his hand, and paused: "Good hero! Good man!" After a while, the big man drank a few more bowls of wine, and then picked up a single knife next to the table, beat the beat on the bulging, wet package, and began to sing!
The people at the adjacent table thought that they had never seen such a tall, burly man in their lives at the beginning, and when they saw him drinking, they were very arrogant and the amount of wine was even rarer. The shopkeeper is indeed very well-behaved on weekdays, and when he sees such a big man, he is afraid that if he goes crazy and makes trouble, he is afraid that it will not be good! I want to come forward to persuade him, but I see that although the big man is at ease and has a sense of prestige between his expectations, when he is hesitating, he suddenly sees that the big man's package actually seems to be a human head! The Great Khan suddenly said loudly: "Everyone, panic, this is the ear of the Japanese thief!"
Everyone was about to run away, but when they twisted their necks and looked back boldly, they saw that the head was indeed shaved into a half-moon shape, and it was indeed a widow! Although Deng Shi breathed a sigh of relief, he still couldn't help but have a heart pounding, and no one wanted to look at the hideous and terrifying human head again. Even the shopkeeper sneaked to the door and glanced at it a few times. As soon as the hero drank, Yu Wei was still there! Everyone was inconvenient to leave immediately, but they did not dare to come forward to talk. Chen Xiuyuan saw this big man slash the head of the wolf, singing loudly to the beat, pulling the brocade and stopping the drink to calm everyone in an instant, thinking that this person has a lot of ancient style, if it weren't for the mountain, such a character could not be seen in the Shaolin Temple!