Chapter Twenty-Four: The Style of the Central Capital, Recruiting Relatives by Competition

Ding Yu was secretly happy in his heart, but his face was silent, and he turned around and asked, "What's the matter with the two nobles?"

One of the golden people said with a smile: "Don't dare to be called a nobleman, the villain is out, this Ji Ping, we are all servants of the Zhao Wangfu of the Great Jin Kingdom." Our prince loves to make friends with heroes and heroes, his old man has heard the name of the Zen master in the middle, and specially ordered me to come to Tubo to visit the Zen master, only blame the two of us for not knowing the true Buddha, and now I recognize it, please forgive me. ”

Ding Yu laughed secretly in his heart, I have been hiding in the Kunlun Mountains for the past two years and have never come out, where did Wanyan Honglie hear about my name? It is obvious that these two guys saw that I had won the Lingzhi, and they temporarily decided to recruit me for Wanyan Honglie, and they were afraid that I would think they were not sincere, so they made up this set of rhetoric. But it is exactly what I want, if I don't grasp this line, how do I know when Guo Jing and Huang Rong will enter the Central Capital? and how can I get acquainted with him?

At that moment, he made a happy appearance and chatted with the two. The next day, the two brought a heavy gift to Ding Yu's residence to pay a visit, invited him to go to Zhongdu together, and promised a lot of benefits. Ding Yu pretended to excuse himself, and finally the two of them pleaded again and again, and then agreed. Later, he pretended to ask the Master of Wisdom casually, and was relieved to learn that he would also go with him: "In vain, I will not kill him in the end, and I will pretend to be a tie with him." After all, if Lingzhi dies or doesn't go, the plot may change a lot in the future.

Three days later, Ding Yu, the Venerable Master Lingzhi and the two Jin men set off for the west, took a boat from the Huangshui River, went ashore at the Bapan Gorge, transferred to a carriage and horse, arrived at Chang'an along the official road, and headed eastward again, arriving at Fenglingdu in a few days. Here and abandon the car to take a boat, along the Luoshui eastward north, into the territory of Qilu, there is a canal directly to the capital, along the way a total of more than two months.

When passing through Heluo, Ding Yu knew that this was the location of the Shaolin Temple after being introduced by the boatman. He suddenly understood why there were not many Shaolin scenes in "Shooting the Condor" and "The Condor", it turned out that it was because Shaolin at this time was already in the territory of the Jin Kingdom.

For most of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin State was the greatest threat. Therefore, in the Central Plains martial arts, which emphasizes "the great man of chivalry, for the country and the people", anti-gold is the first important righteousness. The reason why the Quanzhen Sect can rule the world's martial arts is precisely because Wang Chongyang has devoted most of his life to the cause of resisting gold. Since the Heluo area has become the land of the Jin Kingdom, unless the monks of Shaolin Temple can give up their hundreds of years of foundation and move to the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, they will always be under the jurisdiction of the Jin people, let alone resist Jin. In this way, even if the Shaolin monks have unique skills and can walk the world at will, they are embarrassed to show up in the Central Plains martial arts. Otherwise, in the tavern restaurant, the martial arts colleagues are fortunate to meet, and the first sentence of the meeting is: "Is there any resistance to gold today?" Everyone said: "How many gold thieves have I killed and injured on a certain day in a certain year." When it was the turn of the Shaolin monk, he muttered: "On a certain day in a certain year, the general of the Jin State came to my temple to offer incense, and I once spit in his fasting meal. It wasn't until Yuan Meng swallowed Jin and destroyed the Song Dynasty that everyone was under the iron hooves of Yuan Meng, and they were able to play happily together.

On the way, except for the occasional scenery, Ding Yu spent most of the rest of his time in the cabin of the carriage, either practicing the Dragon Elephant Prajna Gong, or forging his body with the magic power of Vajra. At first, the two golden men saw that he was skilled in martial arts, and felt that he would be reused by the prince in the future, so they often curried favor, but later saw that he was arrogant and indifferent, and did not understand the way of human relations and upper and lower handovers, so they turned back to curry favor with the Lingzhi Master. The Master of Lingzhi was very jealous of Ding Yu, lest he steal his limelight in front of King Zhao, so he was naturally happy to have a good relationship with the royal family, so that they could suppress Ding Yu in front of King Zhao, so in the second half of the journey, the two Jin and Lingzhi fought hotly, and Ding Yu seemed to be invisible, and no one cared about him.

When they arrived at the palace of King Zhao in the central capital, the two Jin men introduced Ding Yu and the Lingzhi Master to Wanyan Honglie, and really praised the Lingzhi Master's martial arts, but only slightly mentioned Ding Yu. Wanyan Honglie followed Meng Weijun and divided the doormen into three classes: upper, middle and lower. After listening to the introduction of his cronies, he treated the Venerable Master Lingzhi as a guest, and when he went out, he followed the chariots and horses, and when he entered the high hall, he had a small banquet on three days and a big banquet on five days, and he spent as much as he wanted on weekdays. Ding Yu was not annoyed or arguing, and dealt with it indifferently. Bu Chu and Ji Ping were proud in their hearts: No matter how high your martial arts are, you don't understand human feelings, and you can't compete with our two mouths in the palace.

After settling down, Ding Yu went out alone to wander around and browse the scenery of today's Zhongdu. I saw that the carved gallery was painted in the four places, and the red pavilion of the Zhu Lou was certainly inferior to the skyscrapers of later generations, but if it was carefully carved, the stone was clean and the wood was fragrant, but it was far better. There are no steel-shelled rubber wheels on the road, only the neighing of people and horses, and the furnishings in the shops on both sides, Ding Yu has only seen a small part of them on the TV and computer, and most of what he sees are novelties.

Turning an intersection, there was a dense sound of metal knocking in front of me, and when I got closer, it turned out to be a blacksmith workshop, and there were eighteen kinds of weapons standing on the two rows of weapon racks outside the door, which were for people to admire and play. Ding Yu took out a pure steel gun as thick as a goose egg and looked closely, only to see that the body of the gun was densely engraved with a circle of fine lines, which was not easy to slip and not to be awkward. He remembered hearing that long weapons such as spears and spears, because of the great force infused into them, often touched the armor and bones of the opponent's body, and if the spearhead was polished too sharp, it would often break the tip after killing one or two people, so a clever craftsman would polish an obtuse angle at the tip of the spear, which would ensure durability and penetration.

Ding Yu exerted force in his hand, and the steel gun pierced a "test stone" next to him, and the head of the gun was all in the stone. When I pulled it back, I saw that the tip of the gun was slightly undamaged. His heart moved, knowing that there must be a master craftsman in this blacksmith's workshop, so he inserted the steel gun back into the rack and walked into the shop.

The shopkeeper saw the scene of Ding Yu testing the gun in his eyes, and he saw for the first time the person who could pierce the entire gun head into the test stone, guessing that this person was either a military general in the army, or a martial arts master, and these two kinds of people are usually very generous when buying weapons.

Ding Yu asked, "Do you have a vajra here?"

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, "The only common weapons we have in our store are swords, guns, swords, and halberds, but if there are patterns, we can also build them." ”

Ding Yu drew a figure on the spot and marked the size: the vajra used as a weapon was like a large dumbbell, but the two ends were not round balls but three sharp claws. The shopkeeper looked at it and said, "It's not difficult, I don't know how heavy the guest officer has to fight?"

Ding Yu said: "The heavier, the better, you have the ability to build a hundred catties, and I can make it move, but it must be hard enough." ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "With the size of this weapon, even if it is made of pure gold, it will not reach fifty catties (one catty in the Southern Song Dynasty is about 625 grams), but pure gold is too soft to make a weapon." In this way, I made it with a mixture of purple gold, bright silver, lead, red copper, and iron, which is guaranteed to be indestructible, and weighs about 30 catties, but in this way, the price is very expensive. ”

Ding Yu thought about it, a pair of sixty catties could also be used, so he agreed. In the end, it was settled and a total of two hundred and eighty taels of silver. He paid a deposit of one hundred taels, the remaining three days later when he picked up his weapons. Fortunately, he fought against the pursuers on the way to escape before, and got a lot of silver tickets, but he spent a lot of money over the years, and after paying the balance, he only had one hundred and two days left.

That night, Ouyang Ke also arrived at Zhao Wang's Mansion, which meant that all the masters recruited by Wanyan Honglie had arrived. He had a feast in the Xiangxue Hall to catch the wind and wash the dust for everyone.

In the middle of the hall sat eight people: one of them was about forty years old, with a small beard under his chin, dressed in a yellow robe inlaid with gold silk, with a graceful demeanor, and he was the perfect face; the first on the left hand was the Master of Spiritual Wisdom; the first on the right hand was all white, with a red face, and a collar robeBelow, a person with five short figures, eyes like electricity, and two short beards on his lips, is a bandit in the Shanxi region of Shandong -- a thousand-handed man Tu Peng Lianhu; Peng Lianhu sits on the left side of a bald man, his eyes are full of bloodshots; the person next to the bald man is even more eccentric, with a long blue face, and three sarcomas on his forehead, these two are Sha Tongtian, the dragon king of the Ghost Gate, and the three-headed Jiaohou Tonghai; and finally Wan Yankang sat down to accompany the prime minister, and I saw that he was wearing a brocade robe, and his appearance was handsome, and he was a little more rich than Zhu Ouyang Ke.

Ding Yu was arranged to sit at the end of the seat with the disciples and entourage of those first-class masters, and he watched these familiar villains gather together from afar, and suddenly had the illusion that he was watching a costume drama in front of the TV.

Wanyan Honglie was very careful, and until this time he refused to say the purpose of his snaring of a group of good players, but from time to time boasted a few words about the strength of the Jin Kingdom, made fun of how the Song Dynasty was mediocre and incompetent, etc., in order to observe the reactions of the masters. Most of the people he invited were foreign masters from Changbai Mountain, the Western Regions, Tubo and other places, and Sha Tongtian and Peng Lianhu were underworld giants in the Jin Kingdom, and they didn't have much good impression of the Song Dynasty, so they all echoed it without reluctance or embarrassment. Wanyan Honglie was overjoyed and more interested, and ordered his men to go to the wine cellar to take out the "amber incense" that he had treasured for many years.

In the next few days, Ding Yu practiced martial arts for half a day, wandered the streets for half a day, and went to the back garden to try his luck at night. He remembered that Mei Chaofeng was doing a very promising job in Zhao Wangfu at this time - sweeping the floor, and later because of the strong practice of the Nine Yin True Scripture, he went mad and lost half of his body;

On the fourth day, Ding Yu got a custom-made vajra in the blacksmith's workshop, the shape and size were as he said, the grip in the middle was also depicted with anti-slip fine lines, and the hook claws at both ends were also not very sharp, which was required by Ding Yu, with his strength, no matter how sharp the claw blade was, it would not increase much lethality, but it was better to be heavier to increase durability and firmness.

He held the vajra and chiseled twice on the test stone, the first time the luck was strong, the four forces burst at the same time, the stone broke a hole the size of the sea bowl, and the stone chips flew away like powder; the second time the strength was soft, and the four forces advanced layer by layer, and the stone was pierced through a small hole three fingers wide, but it was much deeper than the first one, and cracks extended around the hole. Ding Yu was slightly dissatisfied, which showed that his strength control was not good enough, if the hole was smooth and round, then his strength control had reached its peak. However, this has nothing to do with weapons, this pair of vajra materials are impeccable, and with the double pestle in hand, the attack power immediately increases greatly.

The shopkeeper was stunned on the side, so he had the heart to make friends, and entered the inner hall to take a well-made rhino leather belt and gave it to Ding Yu, and there were several live buckles behind the belt, which could pin the two vajra pestles horizontally, without affecting running and jumping. Ding Yu was happy in his heart, and when he paid the money, he gave an extra twenty taels of silver, but the shopkeeper refused to do so, but Ding Yu did not want to accept favors in vain, so he stuffed the silver ticket to him.

Out of the blacksmith's workshop, Ding Yu was going to the restaurant to eat, but when he heard a commotion from the street corner in the distance, he moved his mind, retracted his steps, and walked towards the noisy place.

Turning the intersection, I saw a circle of people around the boss in front of me, vacating an open space in the middle, and erecting a pennant in the middle of the open space, with four big characters on the book "Recruiting Relatives by Competition". Ding Yu was excited and hurriedly squeezed into the crowd to watch. I saw the rise of a man and a woman fighting in the middle of the venue, and the man was none other than Wan Yankang. In this way, there is no doubt that the girl must be Mu Nianci, I saw that she was dressed in red, with beautiful eyebrows and elegant posture, which should be the free boxing method passed on by Hong Qigong. And there is a middle-aged man standing outside the venue, with vicissitudes of appearance, pale sideburns, and an uncertain complexion, I am afraid it is Yang Tiexin, Wan Yankang's biological father and Mu Nianci's father-in-law. Ding Yu looked at it carefully and felt that his father and son were really similar to each other. Wan Yankang's entourage was not far away, and among them stood Lingzhi, Peng Lianhu and Liang Ziweng; he looked into the crowd again, and sure enough, he saw a young man wearing a fur coat, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, watching the two of them fight intently. Ding Yu was overjoyed in his heart, and he couldn't wait to step forward and shake hands with tears, and said, "Guo Daxia, you can make it easy for me to find it!"

At this time, a burst of laughter suddenly broke out in the crowd, and it turned out that Wan Yankang had just caught Mu Nianci's kick to the head and face, took off her embroidered shoes, and put them under her nose to make a gesture. Mu Nianci was ashamed and happy, and his heart secretly promised. After that, Yang Tiexin asked the parents of both sides to meet, and Wan Yankang threw down a sentence: "Ye is just playing!" but refused to return the embroidered shoes. Yang Tiexin was furious and moved, but he was not an opponent, and in the end, Guo Daxia roared when he saw the injustice, jumped into the middle and did it with Wan Yankang.

Ding Yu looked at the side and shook his head, he really didn't understand, why did the little prince of Wanyankang develop this kind of heavy taste fetish at a young age, although Mu Nianci is a sporty sunny beauty, but the more athletic the beauty sweats, the more sweat comes out, think about the shoe is soaked with foot sweat inside, covered with dust outside, and maybe he has stepped on the feces of mules and horses, he actually willingly took it into his arms, ready to go home and play with it - who dares to say that this is not true love!