Riding a tiger and chasing a deer to the northeast

At noon the next day, Ximen Chong returned to Jiufeng Village with Yintao, and the dead bodies were still everywhere. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The two walked into a small wooden house, and Simon Pinghui lay peacefully on the wooden coffin. Simon Chong knelt on the ground and leaned over to cry bitterly. Yintao thought that although it was a complete plan to worship Ximen Pinghui as a teacher at that time, it was now an established fact and irretrievable, so he also knelt down and kowtowed.

After crying, the two removed Ximen Pinghui from cremation, Ximen Chong found a porcelain altar filled with ashes and Yintao bowed a few times, and said: "Auntie, I know that you don't hate your uncle, you have been thinking about him, I will take you to your uncle, you will never be separated again." He stood up and said to Yintao: "My aunt has never accepted apprentices in her life, you are lucky, she loves to accept her as a successor, although she did not teach you kung fu, but the name of master and apprentice has become a fact, you must remember your body in the future." Let me take you to my uncle when my aunt goes, and I'll go with me!"

Yintao said: "Saving Ke'er and finding my junior brother Yintao are all important things at present, and we should go to see my master after we have done it." ”

Simon said angrily: "If you want to go, you will go, such a long-winded thing." He lifted him up and ran down the mountain.

The two rode all the way to the north, out of the border of the Great Song Dynasty, changed into Hu people's clothes, and turned to the east. Although the horses were constantly changed along the way, many horses still died along the way. Yintao's internal strength was lost, just like ordinary people, he couldn't bear to drive the horse for a few days, and he almost fainted on the road, and his heart was miserable.

Walking to the shore of the Bohai Sea, the population is much denser than when he first entered Liaodi, and Yintao's mood is also much more comfortable. He has been away from the South China Sea for a long time, although he has seen a lot of famous mountains and rivers, but he still remembers the sea of his hometown, although the Bohai Sea is not as vast and deep as the South China Sea, but there is another kind of comfortable and quiet beauty, which is enough to ** the soul.

It is not far from the border of the Great Song Dynasty, but there are many Han people who do business here. Ximen Chong traded with people all the way, changed horses, bought food and clothing, and soon arrived at the mouth of a large river, the weather had turned cold, and the clothes on his body were getting thicker. Crossing the river, there is a vast plain area, densely forested, muddy roads, difficult for horses, and often swamps in low-lying places, which are even more difficult to walk. Ximen Chong's heart was so angry that he couldn't stop whipping the horses, and the two horses finally couldn't stand it anymore and died on the way. Ximen was so angry that he scolded, kicked the dead horse a few times, pulled Yintao and continued to hurry.

The trees ahead are thicker but no longer muddy, and the thick branches and rotting leaves cover the ground, making it soft and comfortable to step on. That night, Ximen rushed to the birds and beasts to barbecue and eat, and slept near the fire.

The sky is about to dawn, and there is a sudden rumbling sound in the forest, as if dozens of fast horses are coming. The two jumped up, but when they saw dozens of red deer, Ximen Chong shouted "wonderful" with great joy, jumped out to block the way, dozens of deer were slightly startled but ran closer, Ximen rushed forward with a bang, his hands danced and pointed to the west, and when the deer herd passed, four or five fell to the ground, and seven or eight stood on the ground as if they had been immobilized, and their eyes kept turning, all frightened.

Ximen Chong laughed, and suddenly a thunderous roar drowned out his laughter, and when he fixed his eyes, a nine-foot-long tiger with yellow stripes was staring at him angrily with his mouth open, his mouth whirring, and a king character on his forehead was eye-catching and unusual, very powerful. Yintao had never seen a tiger before, and he was terrified when he saw such a situation, and he couldn't help but take a few steps back.

Ximen Chong smiled and said, "Your name as the king of the mountain is roared, but it depends on whose voice is louder." "Take a breath and roar at the tiger, the sound is louder than thunder. The tiger seemed to be afraid, shrunk his neck and took a step back, and suddenly kicked his hind legs, stretched out his neck and roared, and his front legs jumped into the air and pounced.

Ximen Chong's body shook, and he punched out the tiger in the head. The tiger fell from the sky, got up and shook itself under his feet, and suddenly turned around to flee, and Simon said, "Hey, good fellow, you won't die with one punch." Just as he was about to catch up, the wind roared, and a thick tiger-tailed iron rod swept towards him. Ximen Chong lifted his feet, one foot off the ground, and fell suddenly, and the tiger's tail stepped on the soles of his feet and entered the ground seven inches. The tiger never looked back, grabbed the ground with four claws and tried desperately to escape, but unfortunately its tail was trampled on, so that it used too much force and pounced on the ground. When he got up, his four paws were even more lifeless to dig the ground, and for a while, the pine branches and leaves flew backwards. Ximen Chongyi frowned, lowered his body and slashed out with his right hand, the tiger's tail was cut like a knife, snapping open, the tiger was rushing forward with all his strength, unable to retract the momentum, and fell down and rolled out of two zhang away.

Ximen Chong said with a smile: "Old Master Kong said: 'The sergeant beats the tiger and catches its head, the sergeant beats the tiger and catches its waist, and the corporal beats the tiger and catches its tail'. Seeing the tiger get up, he rushed forward and grabbed the tiger's waist and pressed it down, the tiger's four legs supported the waist and became a bow, and the force of Ximen rushed down and loosened suddenly, and became lifted, and the tiger suddenly turned backwards, with four claws facing the sky, and opened his mouth to bite the top of his head.

The moment it changed, Yintao was shocked and wanted to move forward, but when he saw Ximen Chong's right hand raised on the ground and lifted the tiger above his head, the bite was too high, and Ximen Chong's forehead rubbed against the tiger's head and he was shocked into a cold sweat. This tiger is huge, the novel also weighs four or five hundred pounds, Ximen Chong lifted it with one hand is already rare, how can it be long, the left hand is slapped on the tiger's buttocks, the tiger body flips over, the right elbow hits out, knocks the tiger body a foot away, and the left hand has grabbed the tiger's head and pressed the ground.

The tiger's head was pressed to the ground and uncomfortably, and all four paws were digging into the earth. Ximen Chong hit the tiger on the head with seventeen or eighteen punches, his left hand was jerked up, his right foot flew up, the tiger's body turned over again, and his four claws fell to the ground towards the scale, but he didn't get up when he turned over, and the corners of his mouth couldn't stop bleeding, and he lay on the ground and panted.

Yintao stepped forward with his sword and said, "It can't move, let's kill it for breakfast." ”

Simon Chong said: "Don't worry, I haven't peeled it yet, you stand aside first." ”

Yintao didn't understand his intentions and stepped aside.

After a while, the tiger crawled up again, his eyes were both frightened and angry. Ximen Chong pulled out a dagger from his waist and chased the tiger, the tiger roared and pounced, but the speed was not as good as before, Ximen Chong cut down the dagger in his hand on the side of his body, but the tiger fell to the ground but nothing happened, reflexively pounced again, Ximen Chong calmly avoided it at his feet. After four or five pounces, Yintao didn't quite understand at first, but at this time he could see clearly that the tiger was dripping blood everywhere and had been injured in many places, but it did not fall, obviously not being seriously injured.

The tiger gasped for a long time and roared with all his might, as if to make the final blow, Ximen Chong jumped up, grabbed the tiger's head with both hands and pulled back, the porphyry sounded, when the tiger fell, it was red from beginning to end, and the black striped fur on a yellow background was lifted in Ximen Chong's hands, except for four claws, there was no fur on the body. The skinless naked tiger was dripping with blood, its internal organs were spilled all over the ground, and it took a few steps and fell to the ground and did not move. A dagger was inserted in front of his chest, and blood was gushing out of the wound, apparently in the heart.

Yin Tao had never seen such a tragic and bloody scene, and his heart was cold, and he turned his head and couldn't bear to look at it again. Ximen Chong spread the tiger skin on the ground, pulled out his dagger and said to Yintao: "Hurry up and make a fire to roast tiger meat, don't miss our trip." "Walk into the woods.

Yintao looked at the deer, and then at the dead tiger, and really didn't understand why Ximen Chong was so ruthless. But even if the tiger was not skinned before death, it always had to be skinned and eaten after death, but it didn't have to care too much, so he made a fire and cut off two tiger legs and grilled them on the fire.

When the meat was cooked, Simon Chong came out of the woods, carrying a large bundle of ropes woven from tree bark and throwing it on the ground, and Yintao understood his intentions. The two of them ate one tiger leg and were full, and Yintao wrapped the other one and took it with him.

Simon said, "These deer can run fast, but unfortunately they are too thin to ride. We tie them together with ropes and they're ready to go. ”

Yintao asked, "Mr. Simon, why are these deer completely unmoving, are they also like people who have been pointed by you?"

Simon said, "Yes, they were pointed out by me." ”

Yin Taoqi said: "The deer can also be fixed by the point?"

Simon said, "It's okay to tell you about the fuss." My master and uncle had been in the mountains for a long time, and when they were bored, they studied animals, and finally figured out the veins of several animals. Not only deer, but also tigers and bears, but it is a little more difficult. ”

Yin Tao said: "Then it wouldn't be inconvenient to use a little acupuncture to deal with the tiger just now, and you don't have to fight with it for a long time." ”

Simon said angrily: "What do you know? Hmph! If I don't vent all the resentment I've suffered for the past half a month, won't I have to suffocate to death? ”

Yintao only realized that Ximen Chong's fight against the tiger was just a vent for his grievances, so he didn't dare to ask again.

The two men divided the eight deer into two groups of four, and put two of them together with ropes, leaving some room for manoeuvre, and formed a net between the four deer to sit in them, and let them run through the forest. If the deer runs to the east, then use the branch to whip the deer body in the west, and whip the east side to the west, the deer is very dexterous, and you will know its meaning when you drive it away, and run with its hooves, but it is not inferior to the horse, the body of Yintao is volleyed in the air, and it is quite interesting.

After running like this for a day, the deer's power has weakened, and the night rests in the forest. On the second day, Yintao came up with an idea to put a deer in front and three deer on his back, so that it would be more convenient to drive away and the speed would not slow down. But the deer was not good at running, and by noon it could no longer walk. Ximen Chong fell to the ground in a rage, and killed a deer to the ground with a palm of his hand, and the rest of the deer bleated in horror, and Ximen Chong was still about to be killed, Yintao said: "Mr. Simon don't want it! These deer have done a lot for us, and they have worked hard enough." Now that they're exhausted, how can we bear to kill them?"

Simon Chong glared and said, "Are you blaming me for being cruel? Hmph! I'm so cruel, if it weren't for my aunt's face, I would have slashed you to death with one palm, how could I be so verbose in front of me." ”

Yintao said: "At the beginning of people, the nature is good, and the cruel character is the resentment that we have gathered from the misfortune of the day after tomorrow, in fact, there is naturally the original good root in our hearts, but we don't want to mention it, don't dig it out." ”

Simon said, "I prefer to do evil and not to do good, but what?"

Yintao said: "Do you really not like kindness, then do you like Ke'er? Ke'er has not been contaminated with the bad habits of the outside world since she was a child, and has always maintained her kind nature, which is what makes her really cute." Don't you like K'er's personality and like a child who does a lot of evil?"

Ximen Chong's heart moved, and he remembered Xiao Ke's innocent smile, but he didn't want to bow his head in front of a descendant, and said: "Ke'er is my baby daughter, no matter what she does, I will like her." With that, he turned around and walked away, which was a tacit acquiescence to let the deer go. Yintao cut the rope with his sword, and several deer bleated at him a few times, as if in thanks, and then turned and spread their hooves and ran into the forest.

Simon said, "Boy, your blessing has come to an end, and it is time for your feet to suffer." Yin Tao followed without saying a word.

The two of them only walked a few steps, and Ximen Chong suddenly waved his hand and said, "There is something running ahead." "He has a deep inner strength, and his hearing is very handy and far-reaching.

Yintao said: "Good deeds are rewarded, we just released a few deer, and immediately another deer came to walk for us." ”

Simon said: "It's not a deer, it's a horse, in the northwest." "Lift Yintao and put his feet and run to the northwest. Yintao said in his heart, how can there be horses in such a remote place? I'm afraid that you are referring to the deer as a horse to confuse black and white, right? After running out of a mile, he could hear the sound of hooves, and it was indeed a horse, and Yintao couldn't help but feel ashamed.

Ximen Chong was overjoyed and said: "God help me, there are exactly two horses, and they are both very handsome." Hey, there's still something ahead. As soon as he finished speaking, a big black thing rushed to this side.

Yin Tao was shocked and shouted: "It's a big black bear, it's really a big black bear, it's really strong." ”

I saw that the black bear was running very panicked, and there were two feathered arrows stuck in its wide back, followed by two hunters on horseback with big bows in their hands, and the sound of swishing broke through the air, and the momentum was extremely strong, but it always missed a few points. Immediately, when the hunter saw the two of them, he screamed.

Yin Taoqi said, "What are they talking about?"

Ximen Chong smiled fiercely and said, "Let's get out of the way." Hmph, what's so scary about the little black bear?"

After saying that, he strode forward towards the black bear, Yin Tao knew that he was strong and not worried. The black bear was being chased in a hurry, and suddenly there was another person in front of him to stop him, and the man stood up in shock and anger. Yintao couldn't help but praise: "Good guy, you really stand up to the sky and the earth, and you are full of majesty." I saw that this black bear was five feet wide at the shoulders, nearly a foot tall, with broad shoulders and a round waist, and extremely powerful. Seeing that the person stood up, Simon rushed forward with an arrow step, swung his fists rapidly, and hit the black bear with a series of fourteen or fifteen punches, and dodged backwards. The black bear's paws were about to pounce but he couldn't, his eyes were still turning but he couldn't move.

Yintao clapped his hands and shouted: "Good kung fu, good kung fu." ”

The two hunters stepped forward and watched the black bear remain motionless, stunned for a moment.

Yintao stepped forward and said, "How about exchanging this black bear for your horses?"

The two looked at each other and chattered.

Ximen Chong smiled strangely: "Idiot, they are Jurchen barbarians, you speak Chinese to them, how can you understand?"

Yintao said: "I see, this is simple. "One finger on the black bear with his left finger and two horses with his right finger in an interchangeable gesture. One of them pointed at the black bear and said again.

Ximen Chong sneered: "It's really two slippery heads, knowing that we can't take this bear with our bare hands, so they come to bargain, saying that they will suffer a loss, and they can't bring it back without a horse and bear, so they can only exchange a horse." ”

Yintao said: "That's right!"

Simon Chong said: "What do you know? Fighting bears in this dense forest, they dare to chase them, and they have at least ten accomplices nearby." ”

Yin Tao just woke up, and said in his heart, everyone said that Hu Ren had a straightforward and cheerful temperament, but these two people were so treacherous. I don't know how Ximen Chong understands.

The two talked again and gestured, meaning that they had been looking for a long time to find this bear, and if Ximen Chong didn't make a move, they would be able to hit it.

Ximen stared at him, and he also said in a babbling voice, he actually knew the Jurchen language. The two Jurchens began to bargain again, and Ximen Chong frowned, his eyes showing murderous intent. Yintao knew that he was going to take it by force, and was about to stop it, when the sound of horses' hooves sounded again, and more than ten horsemen rushed closer, and immediately everyone was wearing animal skins, and the form was fierce and rough. The two Jurchens hurriedly stepped forward and approached to ride first. The man reined in his horse, and the two Jurchens immediately began to talk. The man waved his hand and stepped forward, pointing at the black bear as if asking for a reason. Ximen Chong said the reason, the man didn't seem to believe it, Ximen Chong slapped a palm and hit the bear's belly, the huge body of the black bear flew off the ground, and it fell down with a bang and still didn't move, and everyone shouted loudly. The man gave a thumbs up, as if to praise, and then turned back to the two Jurchens and shouted peace, obviously accusatory, and the two Jurchens bowed their heads in shame. The man personally led two good horses and handed them to Ximen Chong, who arched his hand and pointed at the black bear and turned over the horse with a smile, and Yintao also thanked himself. Everyone waved and shouted, as if to bid farewell to the hero.

Ximen Chong drove his horse to gallop, ran for more than ten miles in one go, and then laughed loudly. Yintao asked him what he was laughing at, and Ximen rushed and said, "Those Jurchens were chasing the black bear not long ago, and now they are afraid that they are being chased by the black bear and fleeing in all directions." ”

Yintao "sighs" and understood. Simon rushed to the bear's acupoint, but did not kill it, at this time the black bear may have resumed action and injured people, and he regretted it in his heart.

Simon Chong said: "The joy of life lies in this, you are still too naïve now, you will understand later." "Let's go on the horse.

Yintao knew that it was too late to go back to rescue him, so he was sad and depressed all the way.

In the evening, at the foot of a large mountain, the trees became scarce, and after walking a little further there appeared a large clearing, on which hundreds of cowhide tents were tied. Ximen Chong said: "When did these Jurchen barbarians move here? Hmph, it just saves me from wasting time looking for them." ”

Yin Taoqi said: "What are you looking for them to do?"

Simon said: "It's nothing, it's just a night." ”

When he came to a tent, Simon rushed to say something to his master, who received them with joy and killed a sheep for dinner. There are only three people in this family, except for her parents, who are fifteen or sixteen years old. After the meal, Ximen Chong and the host talked some gossip, and the two went to bed on the north and south sides of the account. After a day of running, Yintao was already exhausted and fell asleep.

At midnight, suddenly the sound of horses' hooves outside the account was loud, and Yintao woke up in shock, the owner had lit the oil lamp, and walked out of the account with a happy face. Soon there was a surge of voices, the curtain was lifted, and several big men walked in carrying a wounded man, and when they saw Ximen Chong and Yintao, their faces immediately changed greatly, and they put down the wounded and pulled out their scimitars together. These men were some of the dozen hunters they met at noon, but they had returned from hunting, and the wounded man must have been wounded by the black bear, otherwise they would not have been so angry at the sight of the two.

Ximen Chong sneered and suddenly snatched the scimitar from the hands of several people, kicked them out of the tent, held Yintao in his left hand, but grabbed the master's daughter with his right hand and rushed out of the tent, put Yintao on his horse and whipped the horse and rushed to the hillside.

When the Jurchen tribesmen saw that they had injured the tribesmen and robbed the girl, they were furious, raised torches, replaced them with strong bows, and chased after them. Behind him the arrows were like a torrential rain, and the sound of sneering was endless. Simon Chong caught a feathered arrow and knocked it down one by one, and when he entered the woods, he could no longer shoot it. Ximen Chong took Yintao to turn left and right, throwing the gang farther and farther, and finally there was no sound.

The two horses were very handsome on the plains, galloping like a fly, but when they went up the hill they were greatly reduced, and they were not much faster than the men who walked, and they were so tired that they were foaming at the mouth. The two tied their horses to the trunk of the tree, and Simon said, "There are many wild beasts in the mountains, and we need to sleep in the trees." "Find a big tree, put Yintao and the Jurchen girl high on the pole, and then run up another big tree to rest.

When the day was about to dawn, the two horses under the tree suddenly neighed and jumped, and it was difficult to suppress it. Yintao asked, "Mr. Simon, what's going on, did the Jurchens chase after them?" Ximen Chong didn't answer, but a happy look appeared on his face. After a while, I saw two black shadows rushing out, and when I fixed my eyes, they were two giant tigers, taller and more majestic than the one I had encountered before.

Yintao shouted: "The tiger wants to eat the horse!"

Simon Chong: "Don't shout, I have my own ideas." ”

The two tigers pounced forward, biting the horse's neck, the two horses jumped slowly, and after a while, they were out of breath, the two tigers whined and roared very much, and opened their mouths to bite and devour the horse's meat, and the scene was miserable.

Ximen Chong saw that the two tigers were half-full, jumped off the tree with a huff, and patted the two tigers on their backs, abdomen, and legs, and the two tigers did not move immediately. Ximen Chong untied the reins of the horse and tied the tiger's mouth, wrapped the tiger's head, and then took Yintao and the Jurchen girl down the tree and said, "Let you taste the fun of riding a tiger today." Yintao was already suspicious, but when he said this, he shook his head again and again, and Ximen said: "It's important to hurry." I can't help but say that I put Yintao and the girl on the back of the tiger and tie them up with a rope so that they don't fall.

Simon rushed to capture this Jurchen girl, at first Yintao thought it was as a hostage, but when he saw that she still wanted to take it, he asked: "What do you want to do with this girl, let her go, her parents are good to us, and it is not convenient to take her on the road." ”

Simon said angrily, "Don't be nosy, or I'll cut your tongue." Then he tied the tiger's head with the reins of another horse, jumped on the other tiger, unlocked the hole, and the two tigers roared and jumped forward. Ximen Chong grabbed his head tightly to control the direction, no matter how it was, he didn't let go, and when he was angry, he gave two punches. The two tigers became more and more obedient under his palm, and finally accepted their fate and became real mounts.