Chapter 24: The Eve of the Battle of Tian Ming and Liu Xu
When Tian Ming and his father returned to the house, the food was still steaming on the table, apparently because Tian's mother had just warmed up. The family sat around the table, the meal was over five flavors, and the dishes were almost at the bottom. It's not that Tian's mother does less, but Tian's father says in a beautiful name: I want to make up for it. After eating, Tian Mu washed the dishes. Father Tian called Tian Ming into the house and handed him a dagger called Blood Killing Blade. It was the weapon that Tian Ming's father used back then. The dagger was seven inches long, its whole body was jet black, and the cold light flickered under the light, and the dagger handle was more than five inches long enough to hold with one hand.
After Tian Ming accepted his father's dagger, he chatted for a while and then went back to his room to rest.
In the courtyard of Liu's house in Liujia Town, the room of the head of the Liu family. Liu Biao and his wife, Liu Xu and the housekeeper talked about something in the house. After a while, Liu Biao took out a knife from the inner hall and handed it to Liu Xu's hand. Looking at the weapon of his dreams, Liu Xu gently stroked the blade of the knife with his hand, only to feel that it was extremely smooth, and there was a faint residual temperature on the blade that passed into Liu Xu's hand. The blade is one meter long and the handle is ten inches. The blade is extremely sharp, Xiao Tie is like mud, and it is broken when it is blown. Liu Xu held the handle of the knife, waved it a few times in the air, and shouted "good knife". Because when he swung his sword, the resistance of the wind was very small, and the sound of breaking through the air was so small that it was almost difficult for a person who was not too smart to hear it. When Liu Xu went to his room with a knife, he went to bed to rest, and fell asleep with a knife;
The next day, just after dawn, Tian Ming got up early, took the dagger given to him by his father and came to the side courtyard; he jumped on the wooden stake, running back and forth on it, sometimes left and right, back and forth. Sometimes the body floats down, sometimes it lies sideways, and sometimes it flips back and forth. I did it back and forth until I was satisfied. When he was practicing the body method, he also found a suspicious point, that is, there were fewer wooden stakes under his feet than yesterday, and in the middle of the distance between the wooden stakes and the wooden stakes, one person could pass normally. Tian Ming thought about it for a while, Zhilu Dao must have been done by his father last night and last night.
Tian Ming took out a dagger and shuttled back and forth between the wooden stakes. Left hand backstab, right hand backstab. The left hand stabs straight, the right hand backstabs the left, and the left hand backstabs the right. As time went by, Tian Ming became more and more comfortable using this dagger.
Then he practiced the speed of pulling out the dagger; on a horizontal log, hanging a fast pig iron, the pig iron swayed back and forth; Tian Ming tied the dagger to his leg, and when the pig iron shook in front of him, he immediately reached out and pulled out the dagger, and quickly stabbed at the iron; one failure, two failures, ten failures. Tian Ming is not in a hurry, so many years of forbearance have made his heart very calm. After failing to do it many times, Tian Ming pulled out his dagger and hit the target with a "ding". With the success of the first time, it didn't take long for "Ding" to succeed again. As Tian Ming's success rate in pulling out the dagger became higher and higher, the speed at which he pulled out the dagger became faster and faster.
And Liu Xu, who got up in the morning, didn't bother to wash, and immediately asked his father to find a few good hands with knives to fight him. Start with a one-on-one fight, and slowly one-on-two, one-on-three. Every time the knife is cut off, pick it up and hit it again. Drop and pick it up, and repeat it again and again. Until you defeat your opponents.
Tian Ming repeated yesterday's movements every day, from walking to body style, to the speed of drawing his sword.
Liu Xu still plays against people, one-on-one, one-on-double, one-on-two.
Although there were a little tears and a little bitterness, the two of them didn't say anything when they slept. They are all preparing for the battle in three days.
Tian Ming didn't talk about it to his parents, because he was afraid that they would not let him go, but they knew Tian Ming's thoughts; at the age of being young and frivolous, especially among his peers, he had always been dissatisfied with anyone. What's more, Liu Xu is one year older than himself. The gap between this age allowed Tian Ming to see the passion, the passion of the challenge of overage. Although he has always tolerated bullying from others, it is because he has not met anyone worthy of doing it himself. Until he met Liu Xu, although he wanted to fight Liu Xu when he first saw him, he finally endured it. Although he endured it, it didn't mean that he didn't want it, so he often appeared in front of Liu Xu intentionally or unintentionally, in order to attract Liu Xu's attention. deliberately let Liu Xu pester himself again and again, and he deliberately dodged;First, to see what kind of person Liu Xu is, if it is a villain, Tian Ming will not fight him;Fortunately, Liu Xu did not disappoint him after all, although he set a trap in the end, he can be regarded as a bright and upright person, because Liu Xu did not use poison or other means.
And Liu Xu has always had a high opinion of himself, and almost no one in his age group is his opponent, so as soon as he sees a master of his peers, he can't help but want to have two moves with him to see who is strong and who is weak. And Tian Ming's appearance, in Liu Xu's eyes, is a very mysterious guy, I don't know what Lu Dao is for, he always meets him unexpectedly, every time he goes to look for him, he always runs away quickly. Liu Xu didn't believe in evil at first, thinking that he could catch him, but after a few times, he understood that this was a master; he had always disdained to use three indiscriminate methods, and in order to stand with Tian Ming, he set a trap for the first time in his life, and he used it on Tian Ming.
Time flies, and two days have passed in the blink of an eye. Tomorrow is the date of the battle between the two, Tian Ming had dinner the night before, chatted casually with his parents, and claimed that he was a little tired again, so he went back to the room. Tian Ming never expected that tonight would be the last time he had dinner with his parents.
And Liu Xu is the same, and he didn't tell his parents about his fight with Tian Ming. And the housekeeper Uncle Liu forgot to tell Liu Biao, Liu Xu and Tian Ming, because he was a little busy recently.
When Liu Xu was retiring, Liu Biao and his wife thought that Liu Xu was sick, because he would go to bed very late every day; Later, he found a doctor to check his pulse, saying that he was too tired and needed to rest; Liu Biao and his wife let Liu Xu go back to the room.
After Tian Ming and Liu Xu returned to their rooms, they each touched their own weapons, and both of them fell asleep early while lying on the bed, recuperating their spirits and preparing for tomorrow's battle.