Chapter 7 The body is like a dragon and a spear like a python
Xu Wujiang wanted to imitate Deng Gui and avoid Wang Zhen's master and servant. Of course Xu Huai also hid in the yard in the afternoon, thinking about things in his mind.
Compared with the assassination of Wang Zhen, what really shocked his heart was the fact that a small piece of text that suddenly flashed into his mind, similar to a historical record, was actually verified today in front of Yingzizui Cliff.
After regaining his consciousness, he would definitely not want to remain in Huaiyuan Town as a fool in the eyes of Xu Xin'an and others, waiting to die. But in this world, where could he go and what could he do?
"Squeak!"
Xu Huai was squatting on the porch of the front yard, "being stupid". Hearing a sound, the door of the courtyard was pushed open from the outside. When he looked up, he saw Wang Zhen, with frosty white temples and a thin face, and his granddaughter Wang Xuan, who was a bit uneasy.
Look in.
Xu Huai was stunned, unable to figure out what Wang Zhen meant when he suddenly came over.
"Is Xu Jiejie at home?" Wang Zhen asked.
"Uncle Seventeen has gone to the school grounds. What does Mr. Wang have to do with Uncle Seventeen?" Xu Huai stared at Wang Zhen's ancestors and grandchildren in confusion, but the "cartman" was nowhere to be seen.
"Is Mrs. Xu here?" Wang Zhen asked.
"Ah?" Xu Huai looked at Wang Chen in surprise, thinking that the protection between men and women in this world was not very strict, but it doesn't seem appropriate for an old man like you to suddenly come to the door to look for Su Di, right?
"Xu Huai, who is looking for me?"
Di Niang came from the backyard. She had never seen Wang Zhen before. She hesitated and glanced at Wang Zhen's grandparents and asked,
"Who is this old man?"
"Old Wang Zhen has met Mrs. Xu," Wang Zhen slightly cupped his hands and said to the girl behind him, "Xuan'er, tell Mrs. Xu yourself."
"Ah, it's Mr. Wang!" Su Di bowed and asked, "I wonder if the young lady has anything to tell Di Niang?"
Wang Xuanmeiyu walked in with a small face as if she was drunk. When she passed by Xu Huai, she wanted to bury her head in her chest. Xu Huai was even more confused.
Wang Xuan walked to the corridor and whispered something to Su Di in a low voice, as soft as a mosquito. Xu Huai vaguely heard "blood", was startled, and asked quickly: "Miss Wang is injured?"
"You idiot, you have such sharp ears, why don't you become a thief?" Su Di glared at him and said, "Guanggun, if you don't have anything to do, just sit in the front yard with Mr. Wang!"
After Su Di said this, she took the girl Wang Xuan to the backyard.
"Xuan'er is still less than thirteen years old, but she has grown up. The old man was caught off guard, and there were no female relatives in the post, so he had no choice but to come to rescue Mrs. Xu..." Wang Zhen stood in the courtyard and explained to Xu Hua slightly.
Only then did Xu Huai forget what was going on, and could only laugh innocently to resolve the embarrassment.
Wang Zhen didn't want to implicate too many innocent people, but as long as there was some hope, he couldn't sit still and wait for death.
At this time, he even wanted to know who the "eldest brother" that the young man Xu Huai mentioned at Yingzizui Yatou was. He stared at Xu Huai and asked: "Xu Jiejie didn't seem to know in advance that he would encounter an assassin on his way to the old age?"
After Wang Zhen was over sixty years old, his body couldn't help but feel a little rickety. In recent years, he had become thinner and thinner, which made Xu Huai look more muscular.
At this time, it was cold and everyone was still wearing thick jackets and shirts. Xu Huai's arms felt bulging with muscles, but his face was fair and handsome.
Even without the encounter in front of Yingzizui Cliff, when Wang Zhen saw Xu Huai at this time, it would be difficult to believe that he would be a "fool" in the eyes of Xu Wujiang, Xu Xin'an and others!
Of course, he didn't think it was necessary for Xu Wujiang, Xu Xin'an and others to deceive them.
What exactly is going on?
"Uncle Seventeen didn't know," Xu Huai saw the doubts in Wang Zhen's eyes, and just said in a low voice, "I was also entrusted by others to stay at Yingzizui to give Mr. Wang a warning these days.
I just woke up, but I didn’t expect that the assassin would come quickly..."
There was a faint impulse deep in his heart, asking him not to stay out of the matter, but his reason told him that there would be no benefit in getting involved in this kind of thing. At this time, Xu Huai stood in front of Wang Zhen, and he could only speak vaguely.
Wang Chen saw that Xu Huai's eyes were very clear, and he was sure that everything today was not an illusion, and whispered:
"I originally planned to take the road from Cai Ying and go to Tangzhou via Fangchengkou. Lu Xiong was worried about something and temporarily changed to Tongbai Mountain Road. Otherwise, we might not be able to reach Yingzhou and would be intercepted by the assassins.
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What Wang Zhen said was that he guessed that the assassin should have set out from Bianjing to catch up. If the assassin had not been pursued in the wrong direction, it would not have been possible to drag him to Huaiyuan Town.
Xu Huai didn't know what to do next, so he said: "If there is any new news, I will go to Mr. Wang."
"Mr. Wang, do you have something to see Xu?"
When someone in Xu Wujiang reported that Wang Zhen had come to his door, he hurried back from the school grounds and saw Wang Zhen and Xu Huai standing in the front yard. He asked Xu Huai,
"Why do you ask Mr. Wang to stand there in the yard?"
"Don't bother me, Brother Xu - Xuan'er has grown up. I was caught off guard and had no choice but to come to Madam for help." Wang Xun said with cupped hands.
"Congratulations to Mr. Wang," Xu Wujiang saluted Wang Zhen when a girl grew up.
Xu Wujiang guessed that meeting a bandit was not an easy matter, and he would not bother himself to get to the bottom of it, so he stood in the front yard and exchanged greetings with Wang Zhen. After a while, Di Niang walked out of the room holding the blushing Wang Xuan.
Wang Xuan was still holding a small brocade handkerchief in her hand, but she didn't know what women's supplies it contained. She didn't even have the courage to look up at Xu Huai and Xu Wujiang. She grabbed her grandfather Wang Zhen's sleeve and ran away.
Drive away.
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Xu Xin'an rushed back from Hedong Market just before dark and found out that there were several horse teams that would bring goods to Biyang County tomorrow. He had already agreed to go with one of them.
Xu Huai followed Xu Wujiang and Xu Xin'an back to the house. Di Niang brought out a pottery urn and said to him: "I just stewed some chicken soup. You can give it to Miss Wang!"
"I'll come and see you off." Xu Xin'an was eager to take on this errand.
Xu Wujiang slapped him on the back of the head and scolded him: "You are a stupid donkey called Chun, and you don't even take a pee to take a look at yourself. Let Xu Huai deliver it to you, and you just stay here!" He then said to Di Niang,
"You should worry about finding a wife for these two boys. If they follow Xu Sihu's example and run to Yuehong Mansion, I will break their dog legs, or I will break their dog legs!"
The pottery urn contained boiling chicken soup. The bottom of the urn was already blackened. He tied it into a bag with straw rope. Xu Huaiti held it in his hand and walked to the post house.
There are inns in the Hedong market, and the posthouse is quite deserted as there are usually no officials passing through.
At this time, it was not known where the postmaster Cheng Yi and several postmen had gone. No one could be seen in the public house in the front yard, so Xu Huai went straight to find Wang Zhen.
The outermost wall of the post house is quite tall, and the partition walls between the inner courtyards are all chest-high rammed earth walls. Xu Huai walked around the public house of the post house, and from a distance he saw the "cartman" Lu Xiong playing tricks in his hands.
A long gun.
When he was at Yingzizui, Xu Huai saw Lu Xiong holding a straight-ridged long knife across his knees, but he didn't expect that he also carried a long gun with him. He guessed that the situation was urgent and he had no time to take out the long gun hidden in the carriage.
After looking at it for a while, Xu Huai realized that the spear used by Lu Xiong was exactly the python spear commonly used by the Xu clan.
He heard Xu Wujiang say that the python spear, the sword skills, fists and kicks practiced by the tribesmen along the way were all brought back to Tongbai Mountain by his father Xu Wuxuan and others from the army in the early years and spread.
Seeing Lu Xiong also using this gun, Xu Huai thought to himself that he had been in the army?
Looking further, Xu Huai could see that the python gun in Lu Xiong's hand was still different from Uncle Seventeen and others.
I saw that Lu Xiong's sight was high when he used the spear, but he always focused on the moving tip of the spear. Every move of the spear was slashing, stabbing, and firing. Unlike Uncle Seventeen and others, they were very sloppy when they used their spears. Has a specific rhythm.
Look at Lu Xiong's feet carefully walking on the ground. The steps are slow and small. There are spikes stuck in the ground, as if they will poke into the soles of his feet if he is not careful.
However, as the path of the gun changed, Lu Xiong's slightly stooped figure began to expand and contract like a tidal wave.
In the past, Xu Huai's martial arts training mainly focused on strength training and toughening his muscles and bones. It did not involve complicated fists, kicks, swords and guns, and his riding and shooting skills were also very average. However, after he recovered his consciousness, his eyesight was completely different from before.
He could see that Lu Xiong's accomplishments in the python gun were actually more advanced than those of Seventeenth Uncle and the others. Lu Xiong's seemingly sluggish figure actually contained unimaginable power, and once it broke out, he would inevitably be There was a landslide and a tsunami that would crush the enemy's defense in front of them and take away their lives.
Xu Huai thought of the feeling he had when he saw Lu Xiong for the first time in Yingzi's mouth. This moment was even more vivid. The spear in Lu Xiong's hand was like a poisonous python hidden deep in the grass, but there was no strong enemy standing there. In front of him, he looked dull.
Is this the real python gun?
Lu Xiong had noticed Xu Huai a long time ago, but he didn't stop until he finished using the set of python spears.
At this time, Xu Huai walked over with a pottery urn in his hand. Lu Xiong said through the low wall: "I used the python spear all the way. I pay attention to the body like a dragon and the spear like a python. This is the spear style commonly used in the army. Brother Xu has also practiced it." Bar?"
"Uncle Seventeen and the others often use this gun, but I am clumsy and can't use it well." Xu Huai said truthfully.
Except that Wang Zhen and Xu Huai met again in the afternoon, Lu Xiong also didn't believe that Xu Huai was a fool, but Xu Huai's figure was a bit stiff, as if he had gone astray in his martial arts practice.
Lu Xiong couldn't figure out what was going on, but it didn't stop him from saying a few more words:
"The Fu Python Spear has been launched, but there is nothing too subtle about it. As a military formation spear, it is ferocious and mainly focuses on 'containment'——"
"Hide?"
In the past month or so, Xu Huai has also become aware that martial arts practice in the past was too superficial and the path was somewhat divergent. However, the principles of martial arts are not something that he can figure out by himself.
Lu Xiong said in a simple and profound way: "When you face hundreds of enemies on the battlefield, you have no room to display particularly complex spears. You don't know how to hide them. Even if you have the power of a true dragon, how long can you last? So, in a limited world, In the maneuvering space, killing the enemy soldiers as efficiently as possible is the essence of the Fu Python Spear. The Fu Python Spear focuses on the word "Fu", which is separated into the word "人" and "人". The original meaning of "dog" is that a person should lie on the ground like a dog and wait for opportunities to act. It is basically "hiding" and "hiding", not "submitting". The python knife, the python gun and the python gun All fists come from the same origin, and the principles are also similar - I see you standing on the edge of Yingzizui cliff holding a hatchet, you must have learned Fumandao, right?"
"..."
From this discussion, Xu Huai knew that Lu Xiong was more accomplished in the python gun than Seventeenth Uncle Xu Wujiang and the others. He didn't hesitate and asked directly, "I dare to ask Mr. Lu, what is the method of concealment?"
How can I start practicing?"
Lu Xiong also had many questions in his mind and said: "The hiding method of the Python Spear is included in the basic boxing skills. You should have practiced it, but I see that your body is stiff, and it seems that you have practiced incorrectly -
"It's getting late now. If you can come here at night, I'll tell you more carefully..."
"Okay," Xu Huai thought to himself that he was involved in such a dispute today, so he wanted to get some benefits to avoid being unjust. He decided to come over in the dead of night to listen to Lu Xiong's explanation of the Python Standing Kung Fu, and handed the pottery urn across the low wall and said, "
This is the chicken soup that Aunt Seventeen cooked for Miss Wang Xuan..."
