Chapter 3 The Rich Man and the Sparrow Catcher
Wanshangang hurried up and hurried overnight, and returned to Longhu Mountain in the early morning of the next day. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
All the way, regardless of his unkempt appearance, he went to his master's residence, and waited outside the door for his master to get up. Those who practice martial arts get up early, and his master has no habit of sleeping lazy, so before he waits, his master pushes the door and comes out.
Originally, the outer disciples of the Dragon and Tiger Sect did not have a master, and only those who performed well and were selected to enter the inner gate would apprentice. It's just that Wan Shangang is a big disciple of the outer gate, responsible for presiding over the affairs of the outer gate, although he has a good talent and is accepted as a disciple by the second elder of the door, but he has been staying in the outer gate.
The second elder Zhuge Qiu pushed the door and saw Wanshangang waiting at the bottom of the steps, he was a little surprised, and saw that he was covered with snow, so he beckoned and said: "Come to me and knock on the door, even if you have to wait, you should wait under the eaves, is the teacher such a pedantic person? Come in and talk." ”
Zhuge Qiu entered the house and sat down, and asked, "Why did you come back after only two days of leaving, something is wrong?"
Wan Shangang was a little weak, "Disciple, the disciple seems to have beaten Zhang Muye to death." ”
Zhuge Qiu was stunned for a moment and said, "Zhang Muye, but Zhang Tianbai's only son?"
"Yes. Wan Shangang reported truthfully, and told the situation at that time.
Zhuge Qiu groaned: "When you see him fall to the ground, do you know that he is really dead?"
Wan Shangang was stunned for a moment, the other party was defenseless and was struck by his own full force, is there still a reason for immortality? But when he heard the master ask this, he could only snort: "The disciple saw him vomiting blood and falling to the ground, thinking that he would die, so he didn't go up to investigate." ”
"Confused!" Zhuge Qiu was rarely angry, pointed to Wanshangang, and said angrily: "You, you, you are sent to the teacher because you are older and more meticulous and steady, I didn't expect you to be so sloppy, it was too disappointing for the teacher." ”
Wan Shangang panicked, knelt on the ground with a bend of his knees, and shouted: "The disciple is at fault, please punish the master." ”
Zhuge Qiu sighed, he is usually not a strict person, the matter has come to this point and can only find a way to solve it, it is useless to blame Wanshangang, so he said: "How to punish you in the future, now you immediately take someone to Jiangyin and inquire whether Zhang Muye is dead or alive." ”
Wan Shangang breathed a sigh of relief and answered "yes". I heard Zhuge Qiu say again: "Remember, you must be quiet." He waved his hand.
Wan Shangang understood and slowly retreated.
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It has been two days since Zhang Muye woke up, and he has a general understanding of his situation by pretending to have amnesia.
The housekeeper Zhang Dali is not usually at home, and I heard that the alliance leader's mansion has business outside that he needs to deal with. This time Zhang Muye was seriously injured, his condition is unknown, and the alliance leader's mansion urgently needs someone to go out and calm the field first.
As for Zhang Xiaofang, he never left Zhang Muye's side, and the information about his predecessor was also learned through Zhang Xiaofang.
The winter in Jiangyin is not very cold, but the wind and snow are relatively heavy a few days ago, giving people the illusion that it is particularly cold. As soon as the snow stopped today, the sun came out, and Zhang Muye happened to bring a chair to bask in the sun in the yard.
The sun was warm, and after two days of medicated baths, my body was not as sore as it was at the beginning, except for some fatigue, there was no major problem. Holding the teapot and humming a little song while sipping tea, it seems that the days after the crossing are not bad.
It would be nice if there were some more melon seeds and peanuts, this Xiaolian Xiaolan and the two girls have not shown up since they were scared by themselves the day before yesterday, and it seems that the rules of the alliance lord's mansion are going to start from themselves. At the critical moment, there was no one serving tea and water.
"Xiao Fang, do we have any melons, fruits, peanuts and the like in our family, drink water, young master, I'm about to become a bucket." "Therefore, it is not false at all to say that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, this is not only two days after being a young master and then entering the role, from a good communist successor to a supporter of the feudal system. Supporting people, the image of a landlord and old wealth.
Xiao Fang also got a chair next to him, and followed Zhang Muye's example with a kettle, and when he heard this, he immediately admitted: "What the young master said is very true, but in this winter, where did you get melons and fruits, but peanuts, and Mother Liu fried some two days ago." ”
However, Zhang Muye was a little disappointed after hearing this, his eyes rolled, and he said in a chattering voice: "Young master, Sister Xiaolan must have some candied fruit there, I see Xiaolian eating it every day, as if she can't finish it." Young master, you said that Xiaolian is a girl, let's go to the house to be a person, of course, we must behave in a proper manner and abide by our duties, she is good, she doesn't treat herself as a maid, but feels like a young lady. ”
"You kid," Zhang Muye stretched out his hand and knocked on Xiao Fang's head, "Xiaolian doesn't treat herself as a maid, you treat yourself as a bodyguard? ”
Zhang Xiaofang didn't understand the meaning of the word "bodyguard", but it didn't affect his understanding of the young master's words, and ran to Xiaolan to ask for candied fruit with a smile.
After a while, Xiao Fang came back and brought Xiaolian and Xiaolan with him. The three of them each held two plates of candied fruit in their hands, several kinds of red and yellow, obediently, this little party is very powerful.
The three of them walked up, Xiaolan put the candied fruit on the table first, and said, "The young master wants to eat candied fruit, he should call Xiao Fang to come over earlier, and I will make some almond crisp." It's too late to do it now, and all I bring are the osmanthus cakes and walnut cakes that Xiaolian and I usually eat, young master, you will just take a look. ”
Among the two, Xiaolan is older, but she is only eighteen or nineteen years old, and as for Xiaolian, she is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and she is a little Lori. Xiaolan spoke softly, her voice was as crisp as a yellow warbler, as soon as she heard her speak, Zhang Muye felt surrounded by his spring breeze, and the pores of his whole body were relaxed.
But before the spring breeze was blowing, the storm came.
"Young master, you don't usually eat preserves, and even if you do, you only eat almond crisp, why do you come to grab my osmanthus cake and walnut cake. "Xiaolian is a storm, and as soon as she opens her mouth, she chatters non-stop," These candied fruits were specially made for me by Sister Xiaolan before noon, and I ate all the previous ones. I'm going to finish eating this, what am I going to eat? ”
Zhang Muye had a headache, waved his hand and said, "Okay, I'll only eat one, and I'll give you the rest, okay." After speaking, he glanced at Zhang Xiaofang looking at him fiercely, and added: "Give Xiaofang one too." ”
"Hmph. Although Xiaolian jumped out, she didn't dare to get angry with Zhang Muye, so she could only embarrass Zhang Xiaofang, "You bastard also want to eat candied fruit, at most I will give you one, hey, give you a piece of walnut crisp." ”
Taking the walnut cake in Xiaolian's hand, Zhang Xiaofang said, "I still want to eat osmanthus cake." ”
"Eat as much as you want, don't listen to her. Xiaolan took another piece of osmanthus cake to Xiao Fang.
"It's better to be Sister Xiaolan," he grimaced at Xiaolian again, "Ulala." ”
Zhang Muye took a bite of the osmanthus cake, which tasted good and had a faint aroma. asked Xiao Fang to move two chairs out, and let Xiaolian and Xiaolan join the army of basking in the sun.
It's a pity that there are no playing cards, otherwise the four people are just fighting the landlord, but maybe there will be mahjong. It's just that Zhang Muye didn't dare to ask, if not, how to explain to them what mahjong is.
"Xiao Fang, you - do we usually have any small games to play, it's too boring to bask in the sun. "There is no playing card mahjong, so we can only hope for local games.
Xiaolan, Xiaolian, and the whole house already knew about Zhang Muye's "amnesia", so they were not surprised to hear him ask.
Xiao Fang tilted his head and thought for a long time that he didn't come up with any games that he could play when he was basking in the sun, and said blankly: "I usually practice martial arts by the young master's side, and the young master usually practices martial arts, and if I want to play, I will ride a horse and shoot arrows, and learn martial arts." ”
It's really boring, Zhang Muye turned his head to look at Xiaolan and Xiaolian, Xiaolan knowingly said: "The slave doesn't usually like to move, and she doesn't know how to play some games, but Xiaolian jumps around every day, and before she came, she said that she wanted to catch sparrows." ”
"Yes, yes, the sun has just come out of the snow, and the sparrows are best caught. Xiaolian also stuffed an osmanthus cake in her mouth, and when she heard that she was catching sparrows, she danced again.
Zhang Muye also played when he was a child, and in the winter he got a bamboo sieve and used a wooden stick to prop it up, put some rice at the bottom, and tied a rope to one end of the wooden stick, and the person grabbed the rope and pulled it far away, and when the sparrow got into it to eat the rice, he pulled the rope, and the sparrow could not run.
I don't know if this is also the case here, Zhang Muye asked, "How do you catch sparrows?"
Before he finished asking, he saw a blue figure flying up, and when he looked again, Xiaolian had already flown to the roof.
Zhang Muye's heart was full of 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping by, this little Lori could fly, and she flew quite high.
It was just a time to be distracted, Xiaolian flew back again, grabbed a little sparrow in her hand, and showed it to Zhang Muye as if offering a treasure: "Young master, look, this sparrow is so stupid, just grab it." ”
The sparrow was not big, it looked dull, and it was not fluttering at all when it was caught by Xiaolian.
Zhang Muye hadn't recovered from "Xiaolian Can Fly", so he could only nod again and again: "It's so stupid, it's so stupid." ”
Zhang Xiaofang was very disdainful next to him, twisting the small clod of soil he had just picked up from the ground, and said, "It's troublesome for you to catch a sparrow, young master, look at me." ”
With that, I saw that with a flick of his wrist, the small clod of earth turned into a flying shadow and shot towards the roof, and a sparrow was hit in the head, and planted headlong, and landed right at the feet of several people.
The sparrow fell down and didn't die, and fluttered a few times in a daze, I don't know if Zhang Xiaofang's strength was cleverly controlled, or if the force stopped there.
"Hmph, the little finches have been injured by you, are you going to throw a few stones, what kind of garlic to pretend. Xiaolian caught sparrows purely for entertainment, and when she saw Zhang Xiaofang knocking down the sparrows, she was a little distressed, and there was no fun in catching sparrows at all.
Zhang Muye snorted beside him and said with a smile: "Xiaolian, don't be sad, although the sparrow is injured, the taste will not change if it is plucked and roasted." ”
As soon as Xiaolian heard this, her eyes immediately turned red, "There is a lot of pork and beef in the house, why do you want to eat Xiaoque, besides...... Besides, this little finch meat is so small, it's not enough for you to eat, young master, let them go. ”
Zhang Muye wanted to scare her again, but he heard Xiaolan sneer and said, "Silly Xiaolian, the young master lied to you, he won't eat roasted sparrows." ”
"Really, doesn't the young master really know how to eat the little finch?" Xiaolian looked at Zhang Muye with red eyes.
Seeing her like this, Zhang Muye couldn't tease her anymore, and comforted: "Well, don't eat, don't worry, you're right, this sparrow doesn't have half a tael of meat on its body, it's not enough for the young master to stuff my teeth, I'm really hungry, young master, I'll be the first to roast you first." ”
"Poof," Xiaolian burst into tears and laughed, "Young Master, if you are bad, you will amuse others." ”
After the episode of catching sparrows, the four of them sat down again, and the topic of conversation increased. Xiaolian and Xiaolanduo are talking about some interesting stories about the characters in the house, and Xiaofang is telling more absurd stories in the market, only Zhang Muye has nothing to say, occasionally interjecting, and listening to them with a smile and groaning at other times.
After chatting for a while, Xiaolian seemed to have forgotten about the roasting sparrows just now, and regained her lively temperament. Seeing that Zhang Muye had been smiling and groaning all the time, he became bolder, and asked Zhang Muye: "But, young master, are you really amnesia? How do you feel that you don't feel like amnesia, but like a different person." Although you used to be good to everyone, you didn't smile like you do now, and you didn't feel like a young master anymore, but more like ...... More like ordinary people, huh...... It's not right, it's more like a young master than an ordinary person, but it's more like an ordinary person than a young master, like, like a ......"
"It's like your own brother, Xiaolian is right, the young master is more kind than before now. Seeing that Xiaolian couldn't speak, Xiaolan picked it up on the side.
"Yes, young master, I didn't often see you laughing before. Xiao Fang also echoed on the side.
Zhang Muye touched his nose, a little ashamed, his Xibei goods have become the big brother next door. Presumably, in the past, Zhang Muye was a practitioner maniac who was obsessed with martial arts, and he wanted to practice peerless martial arts, but he didn't smile when he saw anyone, so of course he didn't get close.
Zhang Muye smiled indifferently: "I don't know what happened in the past, but now, the young master thinks that the most important thing in being a man is, of course, to be happy." Of course, the latter classic line is said in non-standard Cantonese.
Looking at the blank expressions of the three people in front of him, Zhang Muye laughed and didn't explain to them more.
The four of them chatted about the sun until one of them had sipped three pots of water and went to the hut several times, and then they returned to their rooms in the sunset.
At this time, no one noticed that in an alley not far from the alliance leader's mansion, four people in different costumes gathered together, one of them was tall and thin, wearing a hat on his head, and at this time he joined his companions, revealing a straight face, it was actually Wanshangang who almost killed Zhang Muye with a palm before.
Hearing the information reported by the other three, Wan Shangang was puzzled and relieved at the same time.
It is suspected that Zhang Muye is lucky that he will not die after eating his own move, but he didn't expect that he would be able to act freely in only two or three days. I thought of going back and giving an explanation to my master, so I was naturally relieved.
It's just that Wan Shangang couldn't have imagined that Zhang Muye had "lost his memory", and now he has no martial arts, which is equivalent to a wasted person, otherwise he would be even happier.