Chapter 52: Planning for the Future
Azule only felt as if he was grasping a life-saving straw, and solemnly saluted Master Xiao again, quietly waiting for Master Xiao to give him an answer. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Azul, good boy, you are only fifteen years old, but you have to bear a weight far beyond your age. Are you afraid?" asked Uncle Xiao kindly, patting Azul on the shoulder, his palm soft but powerful.
With the encouragement of Uncle Xiao, where could the young man of Azule suppress the pride in his heart, so he said without thinking but firmly and abnormally: "Azule is not afraid of the earth, not afraid of hardship, not afraid of suffering, not afraid of bloodshed, only afraid that there are relatives who cannot be found, and there is revenge that cannot be avenged." Please teach me. ”
If you don't have ambition, even if you have the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, it is useless. I have opened a window for you today, and my purpose is not to show you the fog and the endless mountains, but to hope that you will be able to strengthen your ambition from now on and prepare from little by little. Xiao Shibo said.
"Your enemy is indeed very strong, so strong that he may be bright or dark, strong and weak, friend or foe, so that we cannot find out and be unable to prevent it. Therefore, you have to be fully prepared, from the moment you get out of that little tribe on the steppe, you are doomed to not be able to turn back, and your only choice is to keep going. So the question is, whether you choose to go forward alone or choose to lead a group of people forward, which is very important for both the process and the result. Uncle Xiao was silent for a while and continued.
"You have to pay attention to your opponent, but you don't have to be afraid of your opponent. That's why I'm going to preach for you. You may not know that I know you more than you know yourself and what we want you to know, but in a situation like this, it doesn't benefit you to know more, and frankly, you don't have the ability to handle it all. And there is a history that hides secrets related to your origins, and even hides a conspiracy to win the war and lose it, which we have not been able to find out so far. So, one day, when the time comes, we'll let you know everything you should know. Uncle Xiao said paradoxically as if he had played a dumb riddle.
Azule understood the implicit content of this passage spoken by Uncle Xiao, and it turned out that his fate had already been sealed, and he had to undertake some missions. So far, the only thing to be thankful for is that I have not been completely kept in the dark, and I always know more or less about my background.
"Uncle Xiao, thank you for thinking so much about Azule, Azule will definitely not and must not disappoint you, and I believe that there may be many people like you who are helping me, and I will not let you down. Azule said in a firm, unusual tone.
"Very well, Azul, let's get down to business. There is not much time left for us, the jade pendant and the sword have already appeared in the rivers and lakes, and it will definitely set off a new round of bloody storm, and you happen to be closely related to these two items. The faster you climb and the higher you climb, the greater our hope of success. Can you understand?" said Uncle Xiao and Azul for a long time, and finally about to say the key point, his tone calmed down.
"I understand, and I'm going to try. Azul replied solemnly.
"Your martial arts are from Qingqiu, which is actually what we expected, and what we expected. Qingqiu may become our help in the future, or it may become our resistance, we don't want to and can't use you as a chess piece, but tens of millions of people are already in it, not to mention you, and you are the key to this. When it comes to the sophistication and profundity of martial arts, there is indeed a difference between the inheritance of our battlefield horsemen and Qingqiu, so you should continue to practice Qingqiu's internal and external exercises, and keep in touch with them if you have the opportunity. The ancients said' In addition to martial arts, in terms of literary talent, there are a lot of things you have to learn, there are three main categories: one is insight and courage, this is innate more, you are not necessarily lacking, just to sharpen and show; the second is talent and strategy, do not necessarily need you to strategize, in fact, you can't learn anything in a short period of time, this requires time to accumulate and experience, but you have to understand, can not be kept in the dark; the third is to know people and use people, this is the most critical, the ancient people who have become great things, will definitely know people, Selecting and employing people, when you ascend to the heights, they can be willing to use them for you. Xiao Shibo continued.
Azule actually didn't seem to understand it, after all, Xiao Shibo's words were still mostly dogmatic, not practical and practical, but he still tried to remember Xiao Shibo's statement of "both civil and military".
"What I just said is very dogmatic, and it doesn't necessarily require you to understand everything, but you have to understand something. As for the next arrangement, it is divided into long-term and short-term, let's do a few things in the short term. In the short term, you want to improve your martial arts, there are two ways, one is that there will be someone to teach you the battle battle killing moves, and the other is to arrange for you to participate in some assassination missions and receive training from the dark guard camp; Would you like to?" said Xiao Shibo.
When Azule heard that he had been assigned a lot of tasks, he felt inexplicable excitement and anticipation in his heart. Usually I have nothing to do, so I can only practice martial arts and sword refining with Liyuan, and I don't improve much when I come and go, so I save myself a lot of thoughts. I also heard that Uncle Xiao wanted to worship him as a teacher, but I couldn't ask for it, and I thought that my two masters happened to be one and one martial arts, complementing each other.
Azule hurriedly knelt down, called "master", and gave Xiao Shibo a "three bows and nine knocks" apprenticeship ceremony, just as the "one bow and one knock" was completed, he found that Xiao Shibo's right hand sleeve was lightly flicked, and an unusually soft and abundant force held himself up steadily, and he was a four-rank martial artist who had no power to fight back. This also verifies what Qing Zhuo said, it turns out that this master is also a person who is both civil and military.
"These false gifts will be exempted, for the teacher will accept you as an apprentice, reverence and learning, as long as you always keep it in your heart, it is enough for the teacher. When Xiao Shi accepted this apprentice, he was also comforted, smiled, shook his head and said, like an old master.
"What the teacher told you just now was a short-term task, and now I'll tell you about a long-term plan. In the long run, we must expand our strength, which is not only our own strength, but also the overall strength of the comprehensive, in layman's terms, it is 'grabbing money, grabbing people and grabbing land'. It sounds like the behavior of a green forest bandit, but in fact, it is to sing the 'martial arts', pay attention to any possibility of making money, win over any available person, and cultivate any available force. Xiao Shiyan said.
Azul didn't nod his head lightly this time, let alone say yes or no, and after listening to his master's words, he fell into deep contemplation.