When Lu Ya returned to Xiuyuan, it was dark, he cleaned up the room briefly, and then removed the bloody clothes and stuffed them under the bed. At this moment, he calmed down, only felt that the wound was painful, his whole body was tired, he fell on the bed, all kinds of thoughts came one after another, and I don't know how long it took before Lu Ya fell asleep. This time, I didn't have any more nightmares and slept until the afternoon.

As if half-asleep and half-awake when he heard a loud bang in the courtyard, Lu Ya sat up and pushed open the window, only to see Marco Polo busy with something in the courtyard.

Lu Ya was attacked by a wolf last night, but fortunately it was only a skin injury, he was young and strong and rested for a night, and he felt that there was no big problem, but his calf still had a faint pain.

He put on his clothes and got up and went to the courtyard, and saw a pile of bamboo pipes on the ground, and Marco Polo had gunpowder, saltpeter, iron bullets and other items in front of him. Lu Ya asked, "Brother Ma, when did you come?"

Marco Polo was squatting on the ground and concentrating on studying something, holding a bamboo pipe in his right hand and looking at it carefully, holding a hammer in his left hand, comparing it to the bottom of the bamboo tube, listening to Lu Ya ask him, he didn't stop the work in his hand, and replied casually: "I came a long time ago, and I didn't bother you when I saw you asleep." He stood up and said, "I have moved my family here to give the Great Khan a gift during the jousting tournament." This Xiuyuan is good, and it is just right to use it for experiments. ”

Lu Yaqi said: "Do an experiment, what gift do you want to give to please the Great Khan?"

Marco Polo held the bamboo tube in his hand in front of Lu Ya: "That's it." ”

Lu Ya took it, put the other end of the bamboo tube to his eyes, looked inside, it was so dark that he couldn't see anything clearly, Marco Polo hurriedly grabbed it, "Don't face yourself, it's dangerous." ”

As he spoke, he turned the bamboo tube around, aimed at a big tree not far away, and then struck hard at the bottom of the bamboo tube with a hammer, and heard a loud bang, and an iron bullet flew out and hit the tree, only to see sawdust flying, and a large piece of the big tree was knocked off.

Lu Ya thought to himself, this hit on the person will naturally die, and he can't help but clap his hands. It turned out that the sound I just heard was made by this thing. Lu Ya couldn't help but ask, "What is this, it seems to be very powerful." ”

The bamboo tube has been cracked, Marco Polo threw it away, "There is no name yet, and it is still experimenting, in the future, it will be replaced with a metal tube, and then the range will be increased, it will definitely be much stronger than the bow and arrow, but the speed of hitting the iron bullet is too slow, not as good as the bow and arrow commonly used now, I want to invent a weapon that can fire iron sand in a few days, and then its power will really be shown." ”

Lu Ya said: "Launch iron sand? Isn't that a dozen big pieces? How did you come up with the idea of inventing this thing." ”

Marco Polo said: "This was actually invented by you Chinese first, and it was already available in the Song Dynasty, but it is not very commonly used." Later, I saw the return cannon used by Kublai Khan in battle, which was extremely powerful, so I thought that it would be wonderful to reduce the return cannon and carry it with me, so I made this thing. ”

Lu Ya nodded, but he really hadn't seen it when the Great Song Dynasty was fighting. How did he know that there was already this kind of weapon as early as the first year of Song Lizong (1259 AD), which was called the assault rifle at that time, and was the ancestor of modern thermal weapons, but the gunpowder performance was not good at that time, the firing range was less than 100 meters, and the accuracy was poor, so it was not widely used on the battlefield. The future invention of Marco Polo was later widely used in the army by the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and later generations called the fire gun, which was improved by Marco Polo according to the assault rifle, which is only known to the readers of "A Thousand Miles of Yellow Clouds".

But sir, have you ever thought that the weapons used by foreign powers to invade and occupy China's territory hundreds of years later were precisely the great inventions of China? This is a digression, so I won't mention it for the time being.

Let's say that after listening to Marco Polo talk about the power of this weapon, Lu Ya was full of praise, "If it is really as you said, you can shoot iron sand, it is really powerful, even if the enemy wants to dodge, he can't dodge." ”

Marco Polo laughed: "That's natural," after a pause, he said, "I'm sorry you to give it a name first, and I'll pay my respects to the Great Khan then." ”

Lu Ya thought to himself, if you give Kublai Khan a salute for this thing, then our righteous army will be unlucky, but it is not good to stop it, so I thought that it would be better to ask him for a weapon of this kind, and in the future, I would go back to Zhongyi Island to find someone to make it, so as not to have a Tartar We don't have, so he said: "I can't think of a name, but this weapon is the best for self-defense, I don't know if Brother Lu Daoma has finished making it, can I give it to my younger brother?"

Marco Polo smiled: "This is no problem, I will give it to you as soon as possible." ”

Lu Ya smiled happily: "So thank you first, Brother Xie Ma." ”

While talking, Chen Yihua and Xie San'an came in from outside the courtyard carrying a door panel. As soon as he entered the door, Chen Yihua shouted: "Today...... Today I ...... I've done a good job. ”

Xie San'an also said: "Senior brother, we can bring you the people you want." ”

Saying that, he threw the door panel to the ground, and when Lu Ya saw it, there was a sloppy old man lying on the door panel, with ragged clothes, beard and eyebrows glued together, wrinkles on his face, not tall, thin and weak, and his appearance was also very obscene, cross-eyed, pointed chin, and two rabbit teeth outside his lips.

As soon as the door panel hit the ground, the old Dao whined, struggling desperately, it turned out that he was tied, and a stinky sock was stuffed in his mouth, Lu Ya was puzzled, and asked: "Could it be that he is Jia Daochang? Why are you so rude?"

Chen Yihua said: "Don't tie him up...... If he refuses to come, he ...... It's the person the master is looking for, and he can't ...... That's right, I asked him ...... Is it a fake old way, he ...... He confessed it all. ”

Lu Ya said angrily: "In this case, he is a friend of the master, why don't you loosen the tie quickly?"

Chen Yihua stretched out his hand, pulled the rope off, and took the socks out of his mouth, the old man coughed for a while, and then said slowly: "Spare me, I have already admitted that it is a fake old way, but you brought me here again, what do you want to do?"

When Lu Ya heard this, he felt that this matter was strange, so he asked Xie San'an, "What's the matter?" I don't think he looks like the person the master is looking for." ”

Xie San'an said: "I got up this morning, Mr. Marco Polo came, and I saw that the door panel was broken......

"It was smashed by the rhubarb last night, what's wrong?" Lu Ya asked.

Xie San'an continued: "The door panel was broken, so he asked us to go to the market to find a carpenter to make a new piece, and when we finished buying, just around noon, we found a restaurant to eat, it happened that we went to that restaurant ten years ago to eat, and I didn't think that the shopkeeper still recognized us." ”

Lu Ya said: "At that time, you went to grab food and beat people, plus the two of you have special appearances, they naturally remember, did they not give money this time?"

Chen Yihua said: "We ...... I can give money this time, but that's ...... The shopkeeper said nothing...... Received, gave twenty steamed buns, called ...... Tell us to go quickly. ”

Lu Ya listened impatiently, and hurried up: "What happened later, let's talk about the key points." ”

Xie San'an continued: "As soon as we were about to leave, we heard someone in the restaurant say that the Chenghuang Temple in the south of the city was haunted, so we carried the door panel to see the excitement. Who knows that this fake old Taoist ...... of Lu Dao" said and pointed to the chief, "This fake old Taoist is pretending to be doing it there, saying that there is a man-eating fox spirit in the temple, and he was sent by the emperor to catch demons." We squeezed in and saw that the ground was covered with blood, and the offering table was full of dead people's bones, and there was a dead man's head on the offering table. ”

Lu Ya thought to himself, isn't that the same as what he saw last night? The temple door was not closed last night, and it seemed that someone had found the body early in the morning. Then he asked: "The City God Temple is so deserted, who found the body, and did anyone report it to the official?"

Xie San'an continued: "No one reported to the official, this old Taoist said that he was the first to get there, and the news came out from him, saying that it was useless to report to the official, and he had to do it excessively, so there were many people who watched the excitement, but no one went to inform the government." ”

Marco Polo was amused by this and asked, "Is there really a vixen?"

Chen Yihua smiled: "Stupid...... Fool, where is the world...... How can there be a vixen, I look at the score...... It was clearly bitten by some wild beast. ”

Marco Polo said, "You read that right?"

Xie San'an said: "We grew up in the mountains since we were children, and we are absolutely right. ”

Marco Polo said: "How can there be wild beasts in the capital:"

"It's also possible, wasn't your horse startled by a wolf yesterday?" Lu Ya said.

Marco Polo nodded, "Yes, but those wolves are all in the teaching field, and they may not have escaped by themselves." ”

Xie San'an continued: "I immediately understood that this is a fake old way, it must be there to cheat and eat and drink, didn't the master tell us to go to Dadu to find a Jia old way?"

The old man frowned and said, "Who is your master? Poor Dao doesn't know the Tao at all, so why did he arrest me for no reason?"

Xie San'an ignored him and continued: "When I saw that he was a fake old man, I went to ask him: 'Are you a fake old man?' He said, no, I am the true body of Da Luo, so I said: 'Fuck your mother, call you Da Luo Golden Body.'" And he gave him a slap in the face. ”

Chen Yihua said: "I...... I kicked him too. ”

Lu Ya understood all at this moment, these two people regarded this fake old way as Jia Buping's leader, and they also beat up others. I really felt angry and funny, "People are doing things, what kind of trouble did you make in the past, how can anyone ask like you." ”

The old man also felt aggrieved, "Cold, miserable and miserable." ”

Lu Ya heard that he read out a sentence that seemed to be in a poem, and thought that he must have been too wronged, so he sighed, and then looked at his face, there seemed to be no injury on his face, it was because my two senior brothers showed mercy, otherwise his thin body would have fallen apart long ago, "Dao Chief, I'm really sorry, my two senior brothers recognized the wrong person." ”

The old man said: "This can also admit mistakes, I don't admit that I am fake, they beat me for no reason, and tied me here." ”

Chen Yihua said angrily: "It's still ...... It's not fake? Now it's ...... Instead, I ...... We have wronged you. ”

Xie San'an also said: "The corpse was clearly bitten by a wild beast, so what do you need to do?

The old man was still unconvinced, his eyes rolled wildly, and he said: "It's useless to report to the official, the wolf belongs to the government, and they will only push the matter when reporting to the official, so it's better to do a magic thing for me to deceive...... Make some money. ”

Lu Yaqi said: "How do you know that the beast is a wolf?"

Lao Dao said: "You need to know that people are doing it, the sky is watching, if people don't know what to do unless they do it, there are gods three feet above their heads......" He said a lot of words that were not next to each other, and said: "I am the reincarnation of Da Luo Jinxian......

"He also said that he was Da Luo Jinxian," Xie San'an was angry when he heard this, and gave him a mouth in the past, this slap was not light, and the old way turned around three times.

Lao Dao rubbed his face, cried and said: "If you don't say it, don't say it, why are you beating me?" Since I am not the person you are looking for, I have to go." ”

Lu Ya had already figured out the ins and outs at this moment, so it was difficult to say anything, so he had to apologize again and again: "Daoist is really embarrassed, whether you are a real Taoist priest or a fake, we shouldn't beat anyone." There's a little bit of silver here, and I should compensate you for it. ”

After that, he stretched out his hand and touched a piece of silver of five taels, and handed it to Lao Dao, who was not polite, and took the silver in his hand and turned it upside down, "Okay, you are still sensible." I went to buy some wine and took my leave. ”

After speaking, Lao Dao turned around and walked out of the door, chanting as he walked: "Green ants make new wine, enter the kitchen in three days, Qingshan returns alone, and poetry and wine take advantage of the youth." ”

When Lu Ya heard this, his heart moved, these poems had been read in his childhood, but each sentence was written by a different author, how could this old Taoist actually chant a few lines of poems together? ”

When Lao Dao heard that he was not told to leave, he thought that Lu Ya was going to change his hexagram, so he was so frightened that he ran out without looking back, Xie San'an hit the crook of his leg with a flying stone, and with a plop, Lao Dao fell to the ground, so he was not embarrassed, and turned around and said aggrievedly: "What do you want to do?"

Lu Ya stepped forward to help him up and asked, "Daoist Gao's surname?"

Lao Dao shook off Lu Ya's hand, dusted off his body (in fact, his dirty clothes, dusting or not are almost the same) and said: "The clothes are all dirty, poor Dao Jia Buping, what else do you want?"