Chapter 1 The Little Things in Suzhou
In the city of Suzhou, the willow embankment. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
A young man leaned against a boulder and stared intently at the scroll in his hand.
Under a hundred-year-old weeping willow behind the boulder, two children were playing, the eldest was about seven or eight years old, round, with snot on the cheeks, and the younger was four years old, innocent and lovely, with a cupola braid.
"Woo...... Elder brother...... Woo......"
First the two children quarreled, and then the little girl cried.
The boy hurriedly threw away his book and ran over, and saw the fat girl pushing her sister into a nearby puddle. Without saying a word, the boy pushed the fat girl to the ground and yelled "get out".
The young man's name is Lin Yu, thirteen years old, is an "outsider", three years ago the Lin family came to Suzhou to avoid the enemy, and his father spent all his savings to open a family dart bureau in a rich area, and the business was tepid. His father is away all the year round, his mother is busy in the vegetable garden, and he usually takes care of his four-year-old sister.
Usually at this time, Lin Yu will take his sister to the lake for a walk, because there is a fence to protect, he will let his sister play under the willow tree, and he will read a book not far away. Today, I don't know when the fat girl ran over and pushed her sister into the water.
The fat girl is the daughter of Li Yuanwai's cousin, because of her ugly appearance and sloppy savagery, she has almost no playmates of the same age, so she sticks to Lin Yu's sister with a dead face. Lin Yu hated this, and often drove away and bullied fat girls, not because of the other party's appearance, but because this person often harmed his sister, the last time he played a prank on his sister, he was in the room, and the key was lost, the Lin family was so anxious to find half of Suzhou City, and finally found the child who had been trapped for a day with a hoarse cry.
In the past, the fat girl avoided Lin Yu far away, because Lin Yu had practiced martial arts since he was a child, and even her brother was not an opponent, but this time she somehow stared at Lin Yu resentfully, and she didn't move a step.
"You're just getting out?" yelled.
This sentence angered Lin Yu even more, and he picked up a few stones and threw them at the fat girl.
Originally, Lin Yu just intimidated the fat girl to leave, and the stone was deliberately smashed into the air, but who knew that the fat girl also showed a gloating appearance, and then looked at the yellow mud on her sister's body, Lin Yu really started in a fit of anger.
The stone slashed through the fat girl's arm, wearing out the skin, and suddenly the fat girl cried louder than her sister, crying and running: "My mother will definitely not let you go!"
Soon Lin Yu knew what it meant not to let go, and a thin lady led the fat girl to Lin Yu.
In the next two quarters of an hour, it was the woman's insults, and all the street scolding words Lin Yu had heard were less than one-twelfth of the women's mouths, among which "mongrel" and "scum" became the most gentle words.
Lin Yu's face was red when he heard this, but he lowered his head and didn't say a word, so that his sister would not be bullied, he didn't care.
The younger sister who was protected by Lin Yu was frightened and cried by Mrs. Fierce's fierce appearance, and the cry attracted many passers-by to watch, but Mrs. had no intention of stopping. In the end, Mother Lin heard the crying and came over, figured out the ins and outs, glared at the thin woman fiercely, and pulled the brother and sister away.
Back at home, Mother Lin folded a bunch of wicker and let Lin Yu kneel in the compound.
"Why did you take your sister to the river?"
"Why did you run to read a book by yourself?"
"Why did you beat the fat girl, did you beat the people of the Li family?"
"Can you fight and don't cause trouble at home?"
Mother Lin's eyes were red, the wicker was pumped on her son's body, and her hands were trembling.
The younger sister pulled the corner of her mother's clothes aggrievedly, and said with a crying voice: "It was the fat sister who bullied me, and my brother beat him!"
From beginning to end, Lin Yu didn't say a word, lowered his head, and didn't explain a word.
Mother returned to the room, and Lin Yu knelt silently in the courtyard, during which the younger sister tried to pull her brother up many times, but to no avail.
In the evening, his mother called: "Come in and eat!", the color was much milder, and Lin Yu got up.
No one mentioned the previous incident, but my sister looked cautious. In the evening, I made a table of dishes, all of which were loved by the brother and sister, Lin Yu was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Mother, is my father back?"
The mother nodded, also showing some joy. My father's darts are usually not far from Suzhou, but they usually go back and forth for at least seven or eight days, but now it has only been three days, which is rare.
In the middle of the night, Father Lin, who had changed his clothes, came to the dining table, his face could not hide the tiredness in it, and today's robe was wider than in the past.
Somehow, Lin Yu felt that his father was much older than usual, and even the gray hair on his sideburns was getting more and more, he knew that his father was tired, so he quickly got up to serve food for his father.
"Not busy. Father Lin motioned for Lin Yu to sit down, stared at Lin Yu with tiger eyes and asked, "Let me ask you, what is the result of your martial arts test?"
"First class, one first class!" Lin Yu was a little lacking in confidence.
Suzhou City has a martial arts test every year, divided into three categories: Ma Ke, Foot Archery and Skill Yong, each of which is divided into four scores: A, B, C, and D, and the best is naturally three A-class, and although Lin Yu's total score is A-class, only one Mako is A-, and the other two are B-class.
"Alas!"
Mother Lin said unhappily: "I know that I sigh, as soon as I come back, I sigh until now, what the hell do you say, what do you mean by letting us be in a hurry?"
"Alas. Father Lin wanted to speak and stopped, and said for a long time: "I received news that Zhang Xu's son Zhang Yang was accepted as an inner disciple by the Xiuzhen Sect, so the dart was handed over to the second uncle and they rushed back." ”
The family fell silent. Three years ago, the Lin family didn't know what the Xiuzhen sect meant, but since they lived in Suzhou City for three years, they could only be in awe of these four words.
Lin's father's name is Lin He, and he and Zhang Xu are the right-hand men of Prince Jiu of the Great Zhou, but during a mission, Lin He was framed by Zhang Xu and convicted of rebellion, and the nine clans were punished, only Lin Xu fled to Suzhou City with his wife and children, and the rest of the clan relatives were not spared.
Although Suzhou is located in the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it is actually controlled by the Jianxi faction in the north of Suzhou. The Jianxi faction is a sect of cultivation that has been inherited for thousands of years, far exceeding the history of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and its status is transcendent. As long as you become a citizen of Suzhou, you can get the protection of Jianxi, and the laws of the Great Zhou are invalid in Suzhou City.
Lin Yu didn't know what price his father had paid to enter Suzhou, and he didn't know much about the original grievances, he only knew that his father's hatred for Zhang Xu was extreme, and he almost wanted to tear his eyes just by hearing the name, and he couldn't wait to eat his flesh and bones.
More than two years ago, Lin He was attacked by Zhang Xu on his first dart, and since then, Lin He has been unable to hold the knife in his right hand, and it is from that day that Lin Yu has become his father's only hope for revenge.
With this expectation, Lin Yu practiced martial arts almost day and night, but he never made a dart.
Lin He fantasized all the time that he would one day be able to return to the palace and take down Zhang Xu's head, but now Zhang Xu's son was actually favored by a Xiuzhen sect that was not weaker than the Jianxi faction, which was undoubtedly a catastrophe for the Lin family.
The cultivators kill mortals just by turning over their hands, and when the time comes, there is no need for the Lin family to go out, the Zhang family will kill themselves, how can this not make Lin He despair.
"It's not impossible now. Lin He continued: "If Xiao Yu's martial arts test score is three first-class, and it also meets the standards of the outer disciples of the Jianxi Sect, this one first-class, it will be difficult!"
"It's a child who doesn't fight!" Lin Yu thought of his father's expectations of him, and couldn't help but fall to his knees with a thud.
"Well, let's go to the Jianxi faction at our own expense. ”
"Child, father, where do we have so much money!" Lin Mu said sadly.
"I borrowed three hundred taels from my second uncle, and we should be able to make up all the savings in the past three years, so I really can't borrow some from neighbors. "Lin He has made up his mind.
In fact, the standard for recruiting disciples of the Jianxi faction is that the total score is first-class, but this is applicable to the Xiuzhen family in the territory, and ordinary people like Lin Yu can only do it with at least three first-class, otherwise they can only "self-pay", and the so-called self-payment is to pay a tuition fee of one thousand taels.
Lin Yu knew that one thousand taels was almost all of the Lin family, and it was also all the hope of the Lin family. Three years ago, my father made a desperate bet to open this dart game in a wealthy area, and after learning that his right hand was abolished, hope fell on Lin Yu. For Lin Yu, it is no longer just revenge, but how to keep his family alive.
Thinking that his father didn't dare to slack off for the sake of the family, his mother worked hard, and there was a four-year-old sister at home, Lin Yu could only carry a heavy burden, and he made up his mind that he would not disappoint his father.
On the second day, Lin Yu simply packed his luggage and went out with the 1,000 taels of silver that his father had scraped together.
Before leaving, my father told me that the family was poor, and I would only rely on you alone in the future, you must remember the great enmity with the Zhang family, and don't be lazy in practice, Lin Yu kept it in mind. The mother said that it was okay not to do bad things, but the father glared at her.
Lin Yu didn't dare to rest for a moment, and only arrived at the Jianxi Sect at noon.
At this time, Lin Yu's eyes were countless mountain peaks that pierced the sky like sharp swords, each of which was shrouded in mountain mist, and the peak could not be seen, such a majestic miracle was only breathtaking, this is the legendary Heavy Nine Sword Domain, which directly belongs to the first Xiuzhen sect of the Great Zhou Dynasty - the Jianxi faction.
Due to the fact that there were too many people today, the high-flying Sword Creek Sect was a little mortal, and soon Lin Yu followed the crowd to find the Spirit Sword Peak that had signed up.