Chapter 9 Raising the knife into the game
Zhang Wenwen sat cross-legged on the bow of the boat, seeing the shadow of the willow tree constantly slanting eastward, and the idea of "rushing back to Mingyue Tower first and asking those guards" came up many times. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info but when the words were ready to be put to his mouth, Zhang Wenwen swallowed it hard, because every time he looked at that thin and handsome face, all his thoughts were blocked by doubts in his heart.
In the torment, when a woman's shout finally came from afar, Zhang Wenwen hurriedly stood up, and Sikong Gu and Yang Shuo, who were resting on the willows on the shore, also jumped into the boat almost at the same time.
At the moment when the dinghy went offshore, Zhang Wenwen had no joy in his heart, but his suspicion of Sikong Gu came to his heart:
"It turns out that Young Master Sikong can also do light work, seeing that this skill is not inferior to Yang Shuo, his internal strength must not be far from Yang Shuo, but why does he deliberately cover up his internal breath?"
Zhang Wenwen saw that Sikong Gu's footsteps were steady, and his posture was swift and agile, so he confirmed that there were countless secrets on this chivalrous man who were still hiding from him. After all, he has been disconnected from the Sikong family for ten years, and if he is suspicious of himself, Zhang Wenwen is by no means incomprehensible.
What really made Zhang Wenwen unable to understand was why Sikong Gu wanted to take himself who was not trusted by him with him, Zhang Wenwen faintly felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn't figure out what the problem was.
The young man in front of him was smiling all the time, and that smile kept changing meanings in Zhang Wenwen's eyes, but it was the same smile. In Zhang Wenwen's eyes, Sikong Gu does not look like a twenty-year-old young man at all, but like a good hand disguised as a teenager. Yesterday's Sikong Gu seemed to be in his heart, but today until the beginning of the Cao Gang Helm, he gradually showed his edge in front of him, from the son of the old master who was ashamed of his heart to a stunning talent, as Sikong Gu changed faster and faster, Zhang Wenwen was not why, and his trust in Sikong Gu was gradually declining.
"Even if he is a genius, there is no such genius, how can he still hide the strength and weakness of his internal breath when he performs light skills? This is not a person who determines internal strength, can Wu Qingshan teach such a disciple?"
Zhang Wenwen glanced at Yang Shuo, even if Sikong Gu's talent was ten times better than Yang Shuo's, I am afraid that it would be impossible to reach this level in ten years, the "Yang Twin Heroes" ten years ago were just the best among the younger generation, and they could not be compared with the top masters who had been famous for a long time like Li Fu and Yang Feiqiu.
"If there is any internal strength and mental method that can make a child with only basic skills become a superb master in the martial arts within ten years, then this river and lake has long been unified, where is the current situation of the confrontation between the north and the south of the rivers and lakes? Left-handed sword', but I know Sikong Gu's meridian talent very well, and I can only barely call it mediocre qualifications, don't say it's Yang Shuo, even Master Sikong can't compare, and Master Sikong often sighs for this. Could it be that Mr. Wu has failed to change the meridians? It can't be caused by the golden elixir in the storyteller's mouth, right?"
Thinking of this, Zhang Wenwen looked at Sikong Gu's knife-like face again, this young man still had a gentle smile on his mouth, but for some reason, this smile made Zhang Wenwen feel a chill.
"Ah Yuan doesn't look like a Jianghu person, but has a bit of a talent taste, which is completely different from Master Sikong's back then, is it more like a lady?"
The two boats got closer and closer, slowing down when they were less than half a mile apart, and in a few breaths the two boats had already turned their heads. On the boat that came to find Sikong Gu and others, it was Xiao Yanagi, the maid who came to look for Sikong Gu at noon, Xiao Liu frowned deeply, and he did not feel relieved after seeing Sikong Gu.
Sikong asked lonely and straightforwardly, "Xiao Liu, what's wrong? Could it be that Liu Langjun had an accident?"
Xiao Liu shook his head, took a deep breath, and after slightly relieving the discomfort caused by Fang Cai's boat going too fast, he said with a slight blush: "No, that Liu Langjun has found it." ”
Hearing this, Zhang Wenwen was puzzled in his heart, and was thrown out of the clouds for a moment, clapped his hands and said, "Xiao Langjun is fine, right?"
"Liu Langjun is unconscious now, but the doctor said that he should be fine, but ......"
Xiao Liu glanced at Yang Shuo, who was standing behind Sikong Lonely, with a happy face, and said in Yang Shuo's anxiety: "That Uncle Nangong was arrested by them. ”
Yang Shuo was shocked: "What? Brother Nangong was arrested?
"No...... But—"
"Senior brother, don't panic, let her come over and talk about it carefully. After grabbing Yang Shuo, who wanted to jump onto Xiaoliu's boat, he said to him.
"Young master, I ......"
"Come on, come here and talk about it, Uncle Sun. Sikong Gu gave Sun Weixue a look, Sun Weixue understood, nodded, and immediately adjusted the angle of the boat so that Xiaoliu could come over.
Xiao Yanagi stuck out his tongue, looked at the gap less than half a foot between the two boats, and said to Sikong Gu with a slight red face: "I can't get by......"
Sikong Gu frowned, jumped to Xiao Liu's side with a light jump, stretched out his hand to wrap Xiao Liu, and then returned to the boat, moving between the two boats, Zhang Wenwen felt that the boat was almost immobile, and sighed in his heart that Sikong Gu was extremely light, and the hidden worry in his heart rose again.
Yang Shuo frowned and reprimanded: "Men and women don't kiss, junior brother, you are a violation of etiquette." ”
After Sikong Gu gently put down Xiao Liu, who was blushing, he explained with a wry smile: "Senior brother, your brothers have been arrested, and you are still in the mood to take care of your little brother? ”
He also instructed Sun Weixue to drive to Mingyue Tower.
The boat that Sikong Gu was riding was not big, and the three men sitting in the cabin were already a little crowded, and now a delicate little girl was squeezed in, there was bound to be skin-to-skin contact, even through the clothes, but Yang Shuo was extremely unhappy in his heart. So, Yang Shuo drilled through the cabin and sat at the stern of the boat, and the people in the cabin could only see his crossed legs. Sikong Gu knew what he meant, and he didn't persuade him, so he invited Zhang Wenwen and Xiaoliu to enter the warehouse, Xiaoliu sat on the side, and he sat with Zhang Wenwen on the side.
After the three of them got into the cabin, Sikong Gucai asked Xiao Yanagi with a solemn face, "You tell me carefully, what happened." ”
Xiao Liu still hung her head, maybe the man in the cabin was too heavy, which made her even more shy, and there was a hint of shame in Ben Ruohuangli's voice: "They found it at the rudder of the Cao Gang in Xicheng, no, it should be said that they saw Liu Langjun." At that time, I didn't know what happened to be an accident, that Uncle Nangong happened to meet a group of officers and soldiers who claimed to have seen the bandits absconding inside, Uncle Nangong seemed to let them come in to search, and found the unconscious Liu Langjun, the group of officers and soldiers seemed to say that they abducted pedestrians and murderers in broad daylight, and more than 20 people from the Cao Gang there were taken away with Uncle Nangong. ”
Yang Shuo, who was outside the cabin, clenched his fists and said angrily: "Maybe our people have found Liu Langjun?
Sikong Gu found the inexhaustible meaning of Xiaoliu's words, and confirmed: "Wait, Xiaoyanagi, you said that you committed murder?"
"Yes...... Hearing that Liu Langjun's portable scholar, he ......" Xiao Liu paused, looked at Zhang Wenwen again, and saw that the bearded man's eyebrows gradually pulled down, and his eyebrows became tighter and tighter, so he only lowered his head and said, "He was killed, and I heard that he ...... I heard that the storage room of the Cao Gang rudder was full of his blood. ”
Xiao Liu made it clear that the shopkeeper Huang was going to convey some of the news she was going to convey: the rudder of the Cao Gang in the west of the city was sealed, the people who rushed there returned to the helm of the Cao Gang under the restraint of Li Yan, Nangong Jun was escorted away by the officers and soldiers and the arrester, Li Yan did not stop him, etc., but Sikong Gu and the others listened to her quietly, and no one asked any questions again.
After Koyanagi explained everything that should be said, the cabin could only hear the sound of the oars hitting the water, and Koyanagi only felt uncomfortable listening to this sound. After a long time, Xiao Liu slowly raised his head, Sikong Gu, who was less than a foot away from her, raised his head and frowned, and Zhang Wenwen, who was sitting next to him, locked his eyebrows and pondered, and the whole cabin fell into a strange calm. And Yang Shuo's crossed legs outside the cabin didn't know when he lost his trace.
"Xin'er, you're fooling around!"
In the lobby of Yangdaomen, Jin Youde had a dark face and shouted angrily at the kneeling young man in the hall.
The boy knelt in front of him, the word "unconvinced" written on his face, he raised his head to argue, but felt his mother's harsh gaze, and in this burning feeling, he gritted his teeth and skimmed his immature face.
This young man's name is Jin Zhixin, who is the younger brother of Jin Zhicheng, who was seriously injured by Nangong Jun, the "Thunderbolt Fire" of the Cao Gang yesterday and is still bedridden.
After a short silence in the lobby, Jin Zhixin saw his father's beard trembling with anger, and his mother, who had always loved and tolerated him, stood behind his father, and also raised willow eyebrows to stare at him, and the young man felt a little remorse in his heart, but he still refused to admit his mistake: "The child is also for the sake of raising the knife door." ”
"What do you mean by 'for the sake of raising the knife gate'? Is this what your father and mother taught you on weekdays? Do you know that our Yang Daomen is in a critical situation now?
Jin Youde was even more angry, the goatee was straight and seemed to jump up, and Mrs. Jin frowned, and motioned with her eyes to the child not to say anything. Although Jin Zhixin noticed his mother's dissuasion, but suddenly thought of his brother who was still bedridden, this young man who had always been doted on suddenly became unafraid, raised his head and looked directly at Jin Youde and said:
"Isn't that Li Zhou of the Cao Gang dead? What are we afraid of? Brother was so badly injured by that Nangong, the child is just asking for justice today, this is not a 'disaster', this is a great opportunity!"
Mrs. Jin hurriedly pressed her husband, who wanted to stand up, and scolded her favorite child on weekdays: "Xin'er!
Jin Zhixin lowered his head, snorted lightly, and lowered his head to the side, with tears shining in his big eyes, facing the backbone brothers of the Yangdaomen outside the hall.
Mrs. Jin saw Jin Youde's muscles bursting out, so she had to persuade softly: "Master, he is still a child." ”
Jin Youde glanced at him, as if to say, "It's not what you're used to?" Mrs. Jin pursed her lips and moved her gaze to her favorite young son again.
Jin Zhixin is only fourteen years old this year, he has been very clever since he was a child, and his martial arts talent is far better than that of his father and brother, so Mrs. Jin usually dotes on him the most, and she also defends him everywhere in some small things. But now, although the Cao Gang is in danger, the internal injuries on her husband's body that day have not healed, and this child has run to the Cao Gang's territory without authorization today......
Mrs. Jin looked at the guys outside the hall who were looking in, and then looked at Jin Youde who was sitting on the chair, and finally managed to stabilize her mind, and after thinking for a while, she said to Jin Youde: "The only way to do this now is to defeat the Cao Gang as soon as possible according to what Xin'er said." ”
Jin Youde chuckled, buried his head, and his voice became extremely low: "To put it lightly, my internal injuries have not healed, Lu Song went to Luoyang again, and there is no one in the Yangdao Gate who can compete with that Yang Shuo......"
At this point, Jin Youde had a flash of inspiration in his mind, raised his head, and looked at his wife.
Madam Jin smiled and said, "Although the concubine's martial arts are not as good as the master, with the assistance of your brothers, it may not be impossible to restrain that cripple." ”
Jin Youde's eyes widened, and he asked the pillow man who had been next to him for many years, "Ni Yu, are you going out of the mountain?"
Hearing her husband call this name that she hadn't heard for many years, Mrs. Jin nodded, and the smile on her face was even bigger, without the slightest hint of pretending.
But Jin Youde understands that his wife is still very disgusted with the life of the rivers and lakes, and a few days ago she was still persuading herself to let go and leave, and stay away from the rivers and lakes from now on. But over the years, she has taught her husband and children, and she has personally taught several sets of martial arts to some highly valued disciples, although she rarely participates in the affairs of the gang on the surface, but she doesn't know how much heart **** has in private. Not to mention anything else, the two little rabbit cubs in the family got into trouble outside, and in the end she went to help the two teenage children wipe their butts.
But perhaps it is this silent gesture of giving that makes her have a very high status in the hearts of the disciples in the gang, and Jin Youde sometimes even suspects that in the eyes of the disciples, his wife's status in the gang may be higher than that of himself.
I only heard my wife say firmly: "Don't forget, master, I am Lu Canghai's daughter, and I was not much worse than you bearded eyebrows back then, although I have not entered the rivers and lakes over the years, my martial arts may not be much lower than that of my lord." The master just has to recuperate well these days and take care of the two children, this knife door, Ni Yu can still hold on. ”
Looking at his wife's raised eyebrows, Jin Youde seemed to have returned to twenty years ago, the expression that belonged to that girl, and now it is back to this beautiful woman's face.
It was a kind of self-confidence and recklessness, and she didn't know how many heroes she had fallen under her pomegranate skirt - they were all knocked down by her own hands, so that Lord Yue's heart broke for her. also lost himself to stalking, and I don't know how many injuries I have suffered before I can hold the beauty......
The anger and slight panic on Kim Youde's face at this time because of Jin's letter had disappeared without a trace. After reminiscing about the past, the responsibility on his body once again dragged him back to reality, and the warmth on his face was covered by exhaustion and fatigue.
After exhaling slowly, Jin Youde grabbed his wife's hand that had not held a sword for many years, and whispered to her: "Presumably Mrs. has already made a decision, so what is there not to do for a husband?"
She smiled and gently shook the hand that was grabbed by her husband, but immediately pulled it out. After taking a deep look at the still kneeling child, he strode out of the hall.
Lu Niyu appeared in front of the disciples of the Yang Dao Sect in the martial arts arena, and at this time she had left that wisp of gentleness behind, leaving only majesty and tenacity, this expression that the disciples had often seen on Jin Youde's face. In the eyes of the disciples who were either surprised or happy, Lu Niyu raised his voice and asked:
"The Yangzhou Cao Gang does a lot of injustice on weekdays, and kills countless people on this river. Today, we dare to kidnap pedestrians in Yangzhou City, what should we do?"
A disciple responded, "We should do the right thing for heaven!"
As soon as these words came out, the disciples of Yangdaomen standing outside the door became angry, some said that they wanted to kill the Cao Gang and wipe them out, and some said that they wanted to recruit the indignant gangs in the Cao Gang, and the martial arts arena suddenly became noisy.
After the disciples argued for a while, Lu Niyu waved his hand, and the martial arts arena gradually calmed down again.
"Although we are all people in the martial arts, today's Cao Gang incident is not involved in the martial arts, so we can't use the means of the rivers and lakes to deal with this matter. Lu Niyu paused and continued: "This matter is to be sued by the official. ”
Hearing Shi Niang say the word "sue the official", a disciple hesitated: "Shi Niang, this involves the government, I'm afraid...... I'm afraid it doesn't conform to the rules of the rivers and lakes, right?"
Lu Niyu glared at the disciple with beautiful eyes, and said, "Who said that we raised the sword gate to sue?"
Seeing that many disciples were confused, Lu Niyu explained: "This Cao gang kidnapped pedestrians and plundered pedestrians, which happened next to the rich mansion in the west of the city, and we happened to be close to a few wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou, this Yangzhou is not stable, they have to seek justice to the government, right?"
Those disciples were even more confused, and someone asked, "Those merchants sued the official, what does it have to do with me raising the sword?"
"Almost all of the Cao gang are outlaws who kill people and do evil, and those rich businessmen who have a lot of money and are as timid as a mouse, how can they have the courage to sue a group of thieves who can threaten their lives at any time?
At this point, all the disciples understood that Lu Niyu was going to "borrow a knife to kill people", although this sound very winding, and there was a hint of self-deception. Perhaps this method is extremely despicable and shameless for Shaolin, Kunlun, and those who call themselves "chivalrous", but everyone in Yangdaomen called it a good strategy.
At this time, Lu Niyu was also extremely helpless in her heart, she had always been above board, and asked her to implement this plan, but after all, there was some resistance in her heart. But now that he is limited by the current situation, his husband's new injury has not healed, and it is never in the interests of Yangdaomen to fight hard with the Cao Gang, so he can only "do the black hand". It was seen that the disciples in the martial arts arena were almost cheering, but Lu Niyu had an indescribable feeling in his heart.
Use the rich businessmen to sue the Cao Gang, instead of raising the knife door to sue, and the Yang Daomen is just to "protect" those rich businessmen from being "threatened" by the Cao Gang.
Among the disciples of the Yangdaomen, those who were forcibly required to read by Shi Niang, said in the center of the crowd: "Is what Shi Niang used can be regarded as a conspiracy? No, this Cao Gang deceives people too much on weekdays, occupies the business road, does not let our ship pass, and steals our business openly and secretly, even if it is a conspiracy, we are dealing with despicable villains." ”
Thinking of this, the joy on the faces of those disciples gradually faded, and in the midst of the cheers and cheers, their expressionless faces always looked a little out of place.
Lu Niyu saw all this in his eyes, and his heart was full of mixed flavors. Raising his eyes to look at the sunset on the horizon, he remembered the internal battle of the Divine Gate more than ten years ago, when his father was also killed by conspiracy. Now he has to use conspiracies to deal with others, isn't this a cycle of heavenly principles?
"No, my father died in the internal fighting of the Divine Gate, under the knife of his good brother. We are dealing with the enemy, and no matter what method is used to deal with the enemy, it cannot be called despicable. ”
Although Lu Niyu has been looking for various reasons to comfort herself, her inner struggle is difficult to settle. At this time, there were footsteps behind him, and Lu Niyu hurriedly turned his face, only to find that it was Jin Youde, but his nose couldn't help but be slightly sour.
"It's okay, he's still there, isn't he?"
Jin Youde knew that his wife could not speak against his heart in a righteous manner, so he walked to the door and made a generous statement to the disciples in the martial arts arena.
After successfully mobilizing the morale of the Yangdaomen, Jin Youde handed over to his wife to assign various tasks, and he stood silently aside. Lu Niyu knew that Jin Youde was injured and couldn't and didn't dare to say more, so he took the "order arrow" and began to give orders.
There were originally one hundred and eighty people in the martial arts arena outside the lobby of Yangdaomen, but until a few torches were lit, there were only five or six people left, and the martial arts arena at this time was finally calm.
Jin Youde had already returned to the house to recuperate, and Lu Niyu had completed the assignment of the last task, only to remember that Jin Zhixin was still kneeling on the ground, so he hurriedly returned to the hall, and saw that the child was still kneeling there with his head held high, so he tried to help him up.
However, Jin Zhixin shook off his mother's help, but Lu Niyu was powerless to scold him anymore, just left a sentence of "whatever you want" and left the lobby.
When Jin Zhixin secretly glanced at the side, he found that Lu Niyu had really left the lobby, and there was no one in the lobby, and there was no fire in the martial arts arena. Jin Zhixin snorted, closed his eyes and continued to kneel in the hall.
However, at this time, Lu Niyu was still hiding outside the small door at the back of the hall, peeking into the hall from time to time, and finally sighed, and walked to the bedroom.
Thinking about the future of Yangdaomen, Lu Niyu is full of confidence, the Cao Gang is in trouble today, and Yangdaomen will of course take advantage of the victory to pursue. Thinking of this, I don't care about the hidden worries in my heart. But after sleepiness and exhaustion welled up in her heart, Lu Niyu's head began to become groggy, and after entering the bedroom, she took off the hairpin, removed her outer clothes, and lay down on the place that her husband had made for herself, but she tossed and turned, unable to sleep.
The dark clouds over Yangzhou City this night are innumerable, and almost all the Jianghu people in Yangzhou City know that tomorrow is the time of thunder and lightning.
But almost no one could guess that this first muffled thunder appeared in the lobby of Yangdaomen.