Tracing the Origins of the Past Chapter 52.5, Branch Section 11
In the north of the Great Song Dynasty, in the hinterland of Guanzhong, and in the south of the Yellow River, there is a towering majestic mountain, called "Song Mountain". This mountain is located in the center of the five mountains, the potential is steep, the name is worthy of the legend, "the length of the five mountains belongs to Mount Tai, the head of the five mountains is Songshan" reputation is a long time. Under this mountain, the greenery is continuous, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, which can be said to be: the green mountains are infinite, and the scenery in the painting is actually presented.
Mountains and mountains are stacked on top of each other, and canyon trails are criss-crossed. The boundless emerald color is thriving, and the green leaves are faintly shining. The breeze blows like silk threads, and the blue sky and white clouds dance wildly. Can't help but indulge in it, and forget about it, and it is really difficult to extricate yourself from the aftertaste of this splendid mountain forest.
At this time, the sunlight is just right, a little more is too bright, and a less line is too soft! Inadvertently, in the wide place in the valley not far away, you can still see: blocking the eyes repeatedly horizontal rows of trees, and the red tile houses are lined up by the mountains.
After passing through the forest in front, there is a gorgeous and unassuming mountain villa, which is quiet and elegant, the buildings are scattered, and the cultural scenery is no less than the pleasantness outside the valley. I saw the door of Zhuangzi open, and the two janitors bowed to a young man, and the boy walked out of the door, holding a large wooden barrel in both hands, looking a little cute!
After walking for half an hour, the prince arrived in the town, oh, no, this is a big city, and the prosperity is not under the Bianliang of the capital, this is Luoyang City. The boy came to an oil shop and said to the guy who sold oil, "Brother Ding, give me a few catties of oil." The second brother immediately stopped what he was doing and walked over, smiled and said: "The second son is here to fetch oil again, hehe, why do so many servants in your family still want the son to come to fetch oil in person, the owner of the village is really willing to let his son suffer!" The second son scratched his head, looked left and right, and said: "Eh, maybe my father is him, he, he doesn't like to let people do things, hehe, I don't know!" Brother Ding shook his head helplessly and said, "Hey, it's hard enough for you." By the way, how many catties do you have to beat?" the second prince said: "Then fill it up, just a few catties, I won't be here again in a long time." Brother Ding said, "Hehe, that's right!" So, the very thick wooden barrel was filled to the brim, and the oil level was flush with the eaves. The second son "just once", suddenly picked up the bucket, the oil surface was calm, and not a drop was spilled. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he saw Brother Ding rushing up and asked: "Second son, isn't such a full barrel of oil very heavy, or I will ask someone to transport it back for you, just add some travel expenses, save effort!" The second son said: "Oh, no need, my father said that you should save everywhere, not to mention that I am here, what else do you need to consign, hehe!" Brother Ding asked again: "Then you are not tired of carrying such a heavy thing?" The second son said: "I don't think it is heavy, but this barrel is very thick, and it is not very convenient to hold, and nothing else." After saying that, he hurried home step by step.
As I walked, I suddenly came to the front of a large courtyard, and countless passers-by were standing at the door watching, many of them were still jumping hard beyond their reach, not knowing what they were looking at. The second son walked to the gate of the courtyard, it was really crowded to death, and soon there were people in front and back, left and right, there was really no way. As soon as this one hit and that one touched, the oil that the second son held on his chest with both hands still didn't splash out. The second prince asked a middle-aged man next to him who seemed to be loyal, and said, "May I ask this uncle, what is going on inside, why are so many people crowded here?" The middle-aged man stared at this person with a very surprised gaze and said, "Oh, you are from out of town, right? You don't even recognize the courtyard of Master Gui, our first martial artist in Luoyang! The triennial martial arts conference is going on inside! Look, there are two disciples guarding in front of this gate, and we can't squeeze in!" The second prince leaned in his arms of the oil drum, tilted his head, and then put his feet a little, and finally saw two people guarding the tall and wide gate, and the buttocks of those two people were actually sitting on the tip of the knife! The two blades stood in front of the gate with their blades facing up and their handles facing down, and the two disciples each sat one upright there, and their hands were still resisting the many onlookers from entering the door, and their bodies did not tremble. The second son couldn't help but sigh: "The apprentices are so powerful, so what about their master...... Master Gui, isn't it too powerful!" The middle-aged man replied, "Isn't it!"
The second son squeezed, but still couldn't see what was going on inside the door, so he simply retreated from the crowd and walked to the back of the line, which was already on the road. Then suddenly his knees were bent, and all the while, the whole person flew in from the heads of the onlookers with the oil drum, just jumping over the two gatekeepers who were sitting on the knife, and the oil still did not spill a drop. When the two gatekeepers saw this, they looked at each other with a confused gaze, and then one of them hurried to report to the master. After the second son entered, he saw a lot of people in the rivers and lakes fighting one-on-one, and the scene was indeed very lively. The bearded middle-aged man sitting on the top chairman is the master Gui mentioned by the uncle just now, looking at his majestic appearance, he is very stylish, how many celebrities in the rivers and lakes are invited by him to participate in the martial arts conference, this person seems to be even more unusual.
In fact, the leaders of the martial arts alliance elected at the martial arts conference held every three years were accidentally assassinated not long after they were elected, and none of them were in office for one year. This Master Gui has a little financial resources, and he has a little prestige in the rivers and lakes, and the most important thing is that Master Gui himself thinks that his martial arts are already extremely high, so he dares to do this feat!
After a while, the disciple who was guarding the door to report the situation ran to Master Gui's side and said, "Master, just now when I was guarding the door, I saw a young man flying in with light skills and flying over my head. Master Gui listened and said: "There will be a lot of light work on the rivers and lakes, he has the ability to come in, let him in, you have to use these small things as big as sesame seeds to annoy Master, don't you, don't you see Master watching the battle?" The disciple who guarded the door added: "I also know, but, but that person is still holding such a thick big wooden barrel, which is full of oil, and after he jumped in and landed, not a drop was spilled." As he spoke, he made a gesture of holding the bucket with his hands. After hearing this, Master Gui's eyes immediately opened wide, his head gradually turned to the apprentice's face at a very slow speed, and he stammered: "You, you, you, tell me, talk about it! There will be such a powerful person! This is impossible! You go and find him for me, go quickly." The disciple who kept the report walked around the crowd twice, and at a glance he found the obvious person holding the bucket, and walked over and said, "Hey, the one who holds the bucket, my master is looking for you, you go up from that side." The second son looked at this man very blankly and said, "Find, find, look for me, what is he looking for me, I don't know him." The disciple of the gate was too lazy to talk more, and pushed the second son to walk up from the side, and walked in front of Master Gui, Master Gui asked: "Well, the kung fu is good! Which master taught you?" The second son said: "I, I, I don't have a master!" Master Gui immediately scolded: "Fart! Without a master, you are young, and martial arts fell from the sky?" The second son said, "Oh, no, no, no, I learned it from my father." Master Gui asked again: "Who is your father?" The second son said, "My father, oh, my family lives in the Decryption Villa." Master Gui listened to this person's words as if he was being devastated and tortured, and he looked very impatient, and said to the disciple beside him, "Go get me a pen and paper!" The apprentice quickly brought the pen and paper, Master Gui quickly wrote a few lines, and then folded a few times and said to this son: "I won't ask if there are too many, and you can also say it." This is a letter I wrote to your father, and I will give it to your father when I go back. The second son, who had been holding the bucket for so long, said obediently, "Oh!" and then went home with the letter in his mouth.
When I arrived at the gate of the mountain villa in the Song Valley, I saw another young man walking out, and the boy looked at the boy holding the bucket and said, "Brother Yin, why have you come back, after such a long delay, all the people in the Zhuangzi are waiting for the kitchen to start the fire! I was about to go to look for you and come back, and you yourself have arrived again." The hidden brother immediately lowered his head, and the letter in his mouth fell into the collar of his coat, and fell into the fleshy clothes, so that he could speak. He looked at this son, lowered his head again, and said very obediently: "Brother, I was wrong!" The "brother" he shouted was Wang Gui, the young owner of this villa, and he was mainly in charge of the affairs in the village. And this second son of the oil is called Wang Yin, except for being very obedient and not causing trouble, it is all a shortcoming.
Wang Yin then carried the bucket into Zhuangzi, and Wang Gui looked at this strange-looking brother with helpless eyes. said that Wang Yin looked weird, mainly referring to his strange movements and peculiar behavior, and ordinary people would inevitably laugh when they saw him, but Wang Yin's appearance was not below his brother, but he was even more handsome and extraordinary, with a white and tender complexion. The age difference between the two brothers is only a few hours, and now they are both twenty years old, the elder brother is sensible, but the younger brother is a little naïve.
After both of them entered the villa, Wang Gui was busy taking care of other village affairs. And Wang Yin went to the big kitchen to deliver oil first, and saw from a distance that the chief chef Ade sitting on the threshold of the kitchen door was wiping the sweat on his face, looking at the sky and sighing: "Second son, why haven't you come back, do you want me to wait until the evening to have lunch!" Wang Yin approached unhurriedly, looked at him and said, "Ade, what relatives in your family have died, and I heard you crying from afar!" Ade, who was in his forties, saw the second son, and was almost about to cry, and said: "Oh, hey, you are back, I saw you go out early in the morning, and now I have come back, it doesn't matter if you starve me to death, the owner and his wife are also hungry! Without oil, I can't fry vegetables! Oh, you scolded me for crying and mourning as soon as you came back!" Wang Yin said in surprise: "I heard ......." He was too lazy to say half of it. Wang Yin put down the oil, said, "Cook and stir-fry, poor Uncle Ade, hey!" and walked quickly to the owner's house.
Today's temperature is not ordinarily high, and Wang Yin, who has been busy for a long time, is already hot and sweaty. When he came to the owner's house, he said to the owner, "Dad, I'm back." I saw a short-bearded middle-aged man in his forties and fifties dozing off on a chair in front of a Go board, his hands supporting his forehead. Wang Yin had something important to tell his father, so he had to step forward and touch his hand, and said while touching: "Hey, hey, get up, Dad, hey, Dad!" finally woke up his father, raised his head, but his eyes were still unwilling to open, and the first thing he said when he woke up was: "Housekeeper, has Yin'er come back?" Wang Yin replied very softly: "Dad, I've come back." "The speed of speech is very slow, as if every word weighs a thousand pounds. The owner finally opened his eyes and said, "Oh, Yin'er is back! Why have you been going for so long, I waited impatiently to call the housekeeper to come and play chess with me, hey, what about the housekeeper, what about the others?" Wang Yin said: "Dad, let's not talk about anything else, there is a person today, oh, what is the name of Master Gui, he left a letter for the child, saying that he wanted to show you." Then he took out the letter from his stomach, and the owner took it and opened it, and the words had been blurred by sweat, and it was black, and he couldn't see anything clearly. The owner of the village tilted his head, looked at his son from the corner of his eyes, and said: "What are you doing, such an adult, and you are still not growing, how do you look at this, this?" The owner of the village immediately asked Wang Yin to think about the walls of this room for two hours, and then asked him to eat after he and everyone had eaten. So, Wang Yinzhen stood there with his face facing the wall like a piece of wood.
The owner of the village walked out of the room, and saw that the lady was about to go in to find him, and the lady saw the owner of the village and asked, "Brother Qi, has Yin'er come back?" The owner said, "He made a mistake, and I let him think about it on that wall." Mrs. was very angry and punched the owner on the shoulder a few times, and said: "The palms and backs of your hands are full of meat, you have been like this to Yin'er since you were a child, why do you never punish Gui'er, you are really partial." The owner of the village was speechless, and said: "I ......" I saw that the lady immediately went to pull her son out, and said while pulling: "Yin'er, go, let's not think about it, no!" Wang Yin shook his head and said: "No, mother, you go to rest, I was really wrong, I couldn't read such an important letter, and I should be punished." When the lady heard this, she cried and cried to the owner, and said, "You dead ghost, you see how well-behaved your son is, and you have to punish him so cruelly, you dead ghost, you dead ghost...... " The owner of the village stood and let his wife beat him, and said, "Does Madame really not understand my intentions? Yin'er has been brilliant and calm since he was a child, and I am training him so that he will not make such simple mistakes in the future. Gui'er has been able to do things independently since he was a child, although he is more impulsive and has caused some trouble, but after all, I don't have to worry about anything. They are all good children of ours, how can you say that I am partial? Confucius has said that we should teach students according to their aptitude, and I am not exactly ......" Speaking of this, the lady threw herself into the arms of the owner, and the owner immediately pulled her away with both hands and said, "What are you doing, my son is there!"
This mountain villa is called Decipher Mountain Villa, and in addition to being well-known in the vicinity, people in the rivers and lakes may not know that the owner of the village is called "Wang Buqi"! Today's Wang Buqi is a little older than 20 years ago, and the bundle of beard on his chin is even deeper, but in fact, the people in the village are still talking and laughing on weekdays. And that lady, that is, the little nun who fell in her heart back then, now has long hair, although she is a middle-aged woman, she is still beautiful and moving, and the vitality of youth has not changed. In the past 20 years, Wang Buqi has become stronger and stronger by doing silk trading and textile business, and the Wang family has become a relatively wealthy family around Luoyang. Wang Buqi also used this to hide people's eyes, but it is a pity that for many years, no matter how hard the husband and wife meditated, they could not solve the mystery of the "bodyless sword". For the time being, Wang Buqi has not informed his two sons of this top-secret event, so as not to leak the news, and when the time is ripe, he will tell his sons in detail about the blood feud between the Wang family and the old thief.
Three days later, a group of people from the rivers and lakes came to the Decryption Villa, and the leader was called Gui Tiankai, that is, Master Gui. He led his disciples to the gatekeeper and said, "I want to visit your owner." The gatekeeper responded in a panic: "Oh, okay, please wait, I'll report it right away." "Master Gui still abides by the rules of the rivers and lakes and does not break into it.
After a while, the owner of the village came to the door in person and asked, "I don't know what instructions you have come from afar?" Gui Tian smiled and said, "Is the owner of the village forgetful or pretending to be like this, didn't I ask a young man to send you a letter of war three days ago, and I came today to challenge you." Wang Buqi was stunned for a moment, his eyes kept rolling, and he said: "Oh, it turned out to be Your Excellency, hehe, disrespectful and disrespectful, seeing Your Excellency coming violently, it must be a bamboo in your chest, right?" Otherwise, your Excellency will come back in three days, and bring a good coffin by the way, and we will be in the middle of the competition, if I am killed by you, I will order my subordinates to buy your coffin for two dollars, and if you are killed by me, then sleep in the coffin and let your apprentices transport it back. No matter which side dies, both sides no longer care about any grudges, and it is all the will of God. I don't know if Your Excellency has the guts?" Gui Tiankai replied without hesitation: "Okay, this is what you said from the owner, don't regret it, hahaha, go!" When Master Gui's apprentices were leaving, someone whispered: "This owner is really angry, he doesn't know what kind of kung fu our Imperial Sword Gate is practicing, and he dares to make a life and death situation with the master, haha!"
Wang Buqi realized the seriousness of the problem, and thought to himself that Yin'er had never caused trouble outside, and this was the first time, and it seemed that this incident was really not small! If he had seen the contents of the letter the day before yesterday, there might have been a maneuver strategy, but now that it was groundless, if he hadn't dealt with it in time, I really don't know what those people would have done.
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