Chapter 21: A Beautiful Life
Xuan Si and I walked down the waterfall, and after walking for a short time, we reached a path. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Walking along the path, I saw a large group of cavalry passing through the official road from a distance. Xuansi and I were shocked, and we couldn't help slowing down, but when we saw that the cavalry didn't come forward to check, we were relieved.
After the cavalry was over, Xuan Si and I walked onto the official road and headed south.
After walking for a short time, I crossed a pass, but there was a small town in front of me. Xuansi and I didn't dare to enter the town immediately, but turned into the woods outside the town and waited for it to get dark.
After dark, according to the agreement, Xuan Si went into the town alone to check. When Xuan Si came back, he was wearing a black hat on his head, and the scarves in front of him were folded and hung on the brim on both sides. There were some hot foods wrapped in oily paper, and there were even some disguised medicines. I couldn't help but be overjoyed.
After simply eating hot food, Xuan Si had already reconciled the medicine and applied it evenly to my face with his fingers. After painting, Xuansi just covered his mouth and snickered, without a bronze mirror, I couldn't see my face, so I had to let her go.
Xuan Si and I quietly entered the town, and it was already the middle of the night. The innkeeper lit the lamp and opened the door, but he couldn't see it under the dim light. Xuan Si and I asked for an upper room in the name of husband and wife, and after the shopkeeper received the deposit, the palm lamp sent the two of us to the second floor.
After entering the room, I picked up the bronze mirror and looked at it, but it turned out that it was not very real in the dark night, the disfiguring medicine on the face was not evenly smeared, and the face was black and white, and the whole was a two-skin face, no wonder Xuan Si laughed. It was night, and after the two of us hurriedly washed, we rested early and didn't say anything all night.
Early the next morning, Xuan Si readjusted the disfiguring medicine and carefully applied it to my face and neck, even my hands were covered with the medicine. I looked at the complexion on my hands, which had turned from white to black, and if I put on the clothes of a farmer going to the field, I would be a farmer.
This inn also provides three meals a day, I asked Xiao Er to send it to the room, simply ate two buns and a bowl of hot porridge and checked out of town. When I passed by the notice board in the town, I saw that the sea fishing documents of Xuan Si and I were still pasted on it, but there were no officers and soldiers patrolling the streets. Xuan Si and I looked at each other and smiled, and walked south along the official road.
On this day, I arrived in Yangzhou City. People come and go at the city gate, and they can enter and exit freely, but there is no longer a card check.
Xuan Si and I walked into the city with the flow of people, it was almost noon, and when we saw a restaurant at the corner of the street in front of us, we walked up, and Xiao Er hurriedly greeted us. At this time, it was already a food spot, and the first floor was already filled with seven or eight percent of guests. I took a quick look, but I saw that many of the diners were armed with blades, and they were clearly from the rivers and lakes.
I turned around and asked if there was a private room in the shop, but the second child said that the private room was full, but the guest by the window on the second floor had just left, and there was a vacant seat. I didn't say anything more, and was led up to the second floor by Xiao Er and sat down.
The diners on the second floor were not surprised to see that the two of us were carrying long swords, but just squinted their eyes. I secretly observed that there were only seven or eight tables on the second floor, and five of them were swords.
At the opposite window, there was only a long-haired Taoist priest sitting alone, and on the table was a long sword with a yellow sword spike, but he just bowed his head and drank to himself, but he didn't care; at the table at the top of the staircase, there were three young men with Sichuan accents, dressed in the same attire, all with knives, and they were eating and whispering, thinking that they belonged to the same sect; at the table on the left were two women, also wearing hats, but they couldn't see their faces clearly, one with a sword, and the other did not know what blade to use; on the right was an old man and a young man, and the old one had a bearded knife beside him, but the few were making a swarthy iron spear, which looked like it weighed fifty or sixty poundsγ
At the middle table, there are four rough men sitting around, talking about themselves, boasting about how many poor people have been saved by the Taihang Four Heroes in Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei, and Henan, and how many bandits and bandits have been killed. After listening to a few words, I realized that the so-called Taihang Four Heroes were the four brothers.
The man had thick palms and calluses in one hand, thinking that he had practiced kung fu such as iron sand palms, but he was the third of the four heroes of Taihang: "That day in Taihang Mountain, I broke the neck of the guy with one palm, and the dozen or so thieves fled in a hurry, so unhappy." β
Hao Laosi, who made two short axes, high-five, and said: "Hao Si admires the third brother the most, the third brother's iron sand palm is fierce and invulnerable." A few little thieves, how can they deserve the third brother's palm, isn't that a cold third brother? Next time, the third brother doesn't want to do it himself, as long as he summons Hao Si out of the horse, he will definitely kill the thief without leaving a piece of armor. β
Qi Laosan hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't dare! Don't dare! The eldest brother and the second brother are here, and I, Qi Laosan, am a fart." No, it's not a fart. is also assigned to the eldest brother and the second brother to fight and kill the two thieves to open the way for the eldest brother and the second brother. β
The boss Cao who made a single knife and the second boss Xie who made an iron chain were happy, but they just grinned.
Hao Laosi said: "What the third brother said is that the eldest brother's Yanling knife technique is recognized as the first in Taihang Mountain, and it is invincible in the world when it comes out of Taihang Mountain." The second brother's soul chain is also invincible, and it is only a little bit worse than the eldest brother. As he spoke, he stretched out his little finger and gestured with his thumb to the tip of his little finger. He picked up the wine glass in front of him and said, "I Hao Si said the wrong thing just now, punish yourself with a glass, punish yourself with a glass!"
The other three all laughed and said in unison: "The fourth child is refreshing!"
Hao Sisi was happy, filled the wine glasses in front of the three elder brothers, filled them up again, raised the wine glasses and said: "Hao Si toasts the three elder brothers again, I wish the three elder brothers a victory, and the world is invincible!" Everyone stood up suddenly, and they had another cup of belly.
After drinking this cup, Na Xie Lao Er put down the wine glass and said: "This time, our Taihang Four Heroes are out of the horse, and when Xuan Si and Xuan Qi hear the prestige of the eldest brother and my Taihang Four Heroes, they will inevitably fall to the wind, tremble, and obediently give the treasure map of the treasure that protects the country to the eldest brother." β
Hearing Xie Lao Er mention me and Xuan Si, the two of us couldn't help but be stunned, and glanced at each other, but I didn't expect this treasure map to be related to the treasure of protecting the country. But I don't know how the four heroes of Taihang knew about the treasure map, thinking that the court invited the four heroes of Taihang to come out. It seems that these Taihang Four Heroes are really not to be underestimated, and they must be strong in martial arts. I didn't say anything at the moment, and continued to listen as if nothing happened.
The boss Cao slapped the table with his right hand, and said angrily: "How can these Xuan Si and Xuan Qi be so cunning? β
Xie Lao and the three also shouted, "Damn it! Damn it!"
Xuan Si and I looked at each other in amazement, staring at each other and speechless.
Boss Cao took a mouthful of food with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, and said while chewing: "This treasure to protect the country is nothing, I am too far to walk the rivers and lakes, help the poor, but I don't care about the treasure of these little money." β
Xie Lao Er and the three shouted, "What the eldest brother said is true!"
Boss Cao waved his hand, and continued: "It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that this treasure of protecting the country contains the legendary 'Tianshan Six Yang Gong'. Legend has it that the person who obtains this 'Tianshan Six Yang Gong', once practiced, will be invincible in the world. β
Hearing this, Xuan Si and I were stunned again, and somehow pulled out a "Tianshan Six Yang Gong".
"I am too good for the four heroes, martial arts are the first in the world, how can I be afraid of this Laoshizi 'Tianshan Liuyang Gong', our four brothers are just here to take a walk, by the way, take the 'Tianshan Liuyang Gong' to see. No, I didn't look at it when I brought it, so I burned it with a fire, so as not to let the heroes in the rivers and lakes laugh at me Taihang Four Heroes for coveting other people's martial arts cheats. Isn't this a loss of face for our Taihang Four?"
When Xie Lao Er and the three of them heard this, they were immediately passionate, and they all shouted: "It's burned well, it's burned well, the eldest brother is wise." β
Hao Laosi picked up the wine glass again and said impassionedly: "Big brother said it well! Hao Si respects big brother with a glass! I wish big brother wisdom and martial arts, invincible!"
Xie Lao Er and Qi Lao San also hurriedly stood up, raised the wine glass in their hands and said, "I wish the eldest brother to be wise and invincible!"
Boss Cao laughed, raised his wine glass, and said, "Respect me for the four heroes of Taihang, wise and martial, invincible!"
Xie Lao Er and the three of them also responded loudly: "Respect me for the four heroes of Taixing, wise and martial, invincible!"
The four of them took one bite again, laughed, and just said some heroic deeds of the Taihang Four Heroes who acted chivalrous and righteous, hoeed and helped the weak.
When Xuan Si and I saw that the four of them no longer mentioned the treasure map, we didn't delay any longer, called Xiao Er, and went downstairs to settle the bill. Before going out, I asked the shopkeeper if there was a place to sell horses in the city, and the second boy knew about it and told me and Xuansi in detail.
Xuan Si and I were not in a hurry, just wandering around the street and slowly walking towards the horse market. I had to pick two fast horses, and the sun was already setting in the west, and it was already evening.
That night, Xuansi and I found an inn to stay in Yangzhou City. The two of us were surprised by the information they heard in the restaurant, but they couldn't answer it for a while, so they went to bed early and stopped worrying about themselves.