Chapter 725: The Wind Raises the Clouds and Gathers the World Zezhou (4)
"I came here this afternoon, and I have been thinking about what happened to the assassin I saw at noon. The army escorting the golden dog was Han, but when the assassin attacked, the Han actually used his body to block the arrow for the golden dog. I have heard people say in the past
, How come the Han army is so weak in battle, and those who have paid gold are even more greedy for life and afraid of death. I really can’t figure out why..."
After leaving Liang'an Inn, the road outside was an alley with not many pedestrians. You Hongzhuo was talking in a low voice as he walked. After saying this, Mr. Zhao turned his head and looked at him. He probably didn't expect that he was actually worried about this matter, but then he
He opened his mouth with a wry smile and lowered his voice slightly, but the truth was too simple.
"This...isn't it surprising? Now Daqi is supported by the Jurchens, and they are truly superior people. In the past few years, there has not been much open resistance, and there have always been secret assassinations. But
The matter involves the Jurchens, and the punishment is the most severe. Once something happens to these Jurchen family members, the soldiers will be arrested, and their families will be implicated. Look at the people on the road today. If the Jurchens track down them and kill them all, it is not a big deal... In the past
This has happened for several years."
When Mr. Zhao said this, his tone was just a statement, a matter of course reality. For a moment, You Hongzhuo didn't know what to say.
"That man blocked the Jurchen noble's arrow and saved everyone's lives. Otherwise, one Jurchen would die and at least a hundred Han people would lose their lives. What do you think they can do?" Mr. Zhao looked at him with a gentle look, "Also.
, this may not be the most important thing.”
The lights in front of them gradually became brighter, and the two of them had walked out of the alley and onto the street where there were pedestrians.
"Whether it's a war or a time of peace, look here, people have to live and live their lives. It has only been a few years since the Wu Dynasty left the Central Plains, and everyone is still thinking about resisting, but in fact, there is only one way to go up
There is no way out. Soldiers want to be generals. Even if they can't, they still want to make more money to supplement their families. Businessmen want to be rich. Farmers want to be landlords..."
Mr. Zhao said while pointing at the passers-by in groups on the street: "I know what you think, little brother You. Even if you can't change it, at least you should not do evil. Even if you have to do evil, facing these Jurchens, at least you can't do it."
If you have truly surrendered to them, even if you surrender to them and see them dying, you should stand by and watch as much as possible... But, three to five years, five to ten years, is a long time for a person, and it is a long time for a family.
It's even more difficult for people. You don't have a conscience every day, and you live a tight life, waiting for the Wu Dynasty people to come back? The women in your family need to eat, and the children need to drink, how long can you watch helplessly? To be honest, even if the Wu Dynasty can really
After fighting back, ten or twenty years later, many people will spend half their lives here, and half their lives may determine the whole lives of two generations. The Jurchens are the best way to rise to the top, so they go to the battlefield to be greedy and fearful.
It is not surprising that the dead soldiers sacrificed their lives to protect the Jurchens."
The two walked forward. When Mr. Zhao finished speaking simply and plainly, You Hongzhuo opened his mouth. Although he could think of the first half of the punishment mentioned by the other party, he was somewhat confused about the second half. He was still
As a young man, he naturally cannot understand the importance of survival, nor the benefits and importance of attaching himself to the Jurchens.
He was confused for a long time: "Then... senior means that they are not bad people anymore..."
Mr. Zhao patted him on the shoulder: "You asked me why this happened, so I will tell you the reason. If you ask me why the Jin people wanted to fight down, I can also tell you the reason. But the reason has nothing to do with good or bad. Yes.
As far as we are concerned, they are out-and-out bad guys, and that’s true.”
"Then what are we going to do..."
"We want to kill their people, force their wives to death, and throw their children to death." Mr. Zhao's tone was gentle. You Hongzhuo turned his head to look at him, but only saw a casual and natural expression, "Because one thing is for sure
Yes, if there are more people like this, no matter what the reason is, the Jurchens will rule the Central Plains faster. At that time, the Han people will have no choice but to be like dogs, risking their lives to please others. So, no matter what reason they have
, it won’t be wrong to kill them.”
"Yes." You Hongzhuo said.
During this three-day journey, Mr. Zhao and You Hongzhuo chatted a lot. Whenever he had doubts, Mr. Zhao's explanation would most likely make him understand. As for the Han soldiers he saw on the way who sacrificed their lives for the Jin people,
, You Hongzhuo's young mind naturally felt that killing was the most enjoyable, but at this time, the gentle but evil words Mr. Zhao said made him feel a little confused in his heart for some unknown reason.
After that, the two of them walked along the streets of Zezhou City and found a teahouse in the busiest market. After ordering refreshments in front of the window on the second floor facing the street, Mr. Zhao said: "I have something to do, please wait for me here."
A moment." Then he left. The prosperity of Zezhou City was not comparable to that of the big cities in the Central Plains and Jiangnan, but the sweet pastries in the teahouse and the melodious singing of the singers were a rare treat for You Hongzhuo. He ate two pieces of pastries,
Looking at the blur of lights around him, his mind couldn't help but return to the things that confused him.
By the time I reacted like this, Mr. Zhao had already come back, sat across from me, and was drinking tea: "I saw you thinking about things, and you have problems in your heart. This is a good thing."
"Senior Zhao..."
Mr. Zhao held the tea cup and looked out the window, but his expression became serious - he had never had a serious expression when he talked about killing the whole family before, but this time it was different: "There are several types of people in the world, who follow others.
Those who live their lives drifting with the tide are like gangsters in the green forest with no future. Those who only care about the steel knife in their hands along the way, go straight and grudges happily, may one day become a generation of heroes. They also have to consider everything, and are faced with the dilemma of right or wrong.
A coward may become a rich man with descendants. Most of those who practice martial arts follow these three paths."
He took a sip of tea and paused: "But only those who take the fourth path can become true grand masters."
You Hongzhuo stood up: "Senior Zhao, I..." As soon as he cupped his hands, he was about to kneel down. This was a great gift to become a disciple, but the other side stretched out his hand, supported him, and pushed him back to the chair: "I have
If you want to hear a story, tell me something else after hearing it."
You Hongzhuo nodded quickly. Then Mr. Zhao smiled: "This is something that not many people know about in the green forest. The strongest martial artist of the previous generation, Iron Arm Zhou Tong, had two fights with the inner demon Ning Yi.
Zhou Tong had an upright personality, while the inner demon Ning Yi was ruthless. The two encounters were not pleasant... It is said that the first time was after the destruction of Shuibo Liangshan, when Iron Arm came forward to save his disciple Lin Chong, and at the same time received
I have obeyed the order of the Taiwei Mansion and wanted to kill the inner demon..."
Pedestrians were coming and going on the street, the lights were swaying above the teahouse, amidst the singing of singers and the sound of the erhu played by the old man, You Hongzhuo listened to the senior in front of him telling anecdotes about the martial arts many years ago, the story between Zhou Tong and the inner demon in Shandong
They met, and then later, when the floods were raging, the old man ran around during the food disaster, and the inner demons tried to turn the tide in the capital, and then in the confrontation between the Jianghu people and the inner demons, Zhou Tong ran thousands of miles to defend his inner demons, and then again
They broke up unhappy due to the vicious methods of the inner demon...
The legendary two people in the green forest, one good and the other evil, never met each other again after this gathering. The old man who was over eighty years old died in the Xinzhou killing array in order to assassinate the Jurchen Marshal Nianhan. A few years later,
The inner demon Ning Yi launched a heroic battle and fought head-on in the northwest for three years before dying in that battle. The two men, with very different means, eventually embarked on a similar path...
Just hearing these things, You Hongzhuo felt his heart burning.
Mr. Zhao knocked on the table with his tea cup: "...Zhou Tong is a great master. Speaking of it, he probably didn't like Ning Liheng, but he still traveled thousands of miles for Ning Yi. After his death, his head was handed over to his disciple Fu
Lu took him out, and the burial place was later told to Ning Liheng by Fulu. Now no one may know about it. Ning Yi, the demon in his heart, didn't like Zhou Tong either, but after Zhou Tong died, he did it for Zhou Tong.
He still spares no effort to publicize his feats. After all, Zhou Tong is not a timid person, he is not the kind of person who is happy and angry, and is happy to take revenge, and of course he is definitely not a coward..."
"He knows what Ning Liheng is doing, and he also knows that when it comes to disaster relief, if he attacks copycats one by one, the effect he can achieve may not be as good as Ning Yi's skills, but he still does it
Everything he could do. In Xinzhou, he didn't know that the narrow escape from assassination might be completely useless, but he didn't look forward and backward, and he tried his best. What kind of person is he?"
You Hongzhuo frowned and thought carefully, and Mr. Zhao laughed: "First of all, he is a person who can use his brain. Just like you now, thinking is a good thing, being entangled is a good thing, conflict is a good thing, and not being able to figure it out is also a good thing.
.Think about that old man. He always moves forward in everything he encounters. Most people say that he has a square personality. Is this squareness a rigid square? No, he can accept even the extreme methods of the inner demon Ning Yi.
This shows that he has seen everything and understands everything, but even so, if he encounters bad things, even if he cannot change them, even if he will die because of them, he will always move forward..."
"Ordinary people will soon find it difficult and contradictory when they start to think about things - mediocre people always like to say, I am just an ordinary person, I can't care about this, I can't care about that, I have tried my best, and I am just like this.
What can be changed like this? It’s a headache to think that we can have both in the world…but the world is inherently difficult, and only when people walk in the cracks can they be called heroes.”
"You think at noon today that the Han dog who blocked the Jin man's arrow deserves to die. At night you may think that he has his reasons. However, if he has reasons, why don't you kill him? If you kill him, do you want to kill him?
Family? If you don’t kill him and someone else wants to kill him, and I want to force his wife to death and throw his child to death, will you stop me? How will you stop me? When you kill him, are you thinking about this land?
Do all those who suffer deserve to die? If you can figure out these things, the sword you wield will be of great power."
Mr. Zhao poured himself a cup of tea: "We meet each other, and we are walking together on this journey. But to be honest, my wife, she is willing to give you some advice because she takes a fancy to your understanding of sword skills.
What I like is your ability to draw inferences from one instance. Since you were young, you have only practiced swordsmanship in a dull way. A moment of enlightenment between life and death can penetrate into your swordsmanship. This is a good thing, but it is also not good. The swordsmanship will inevitably penetrate into you.
It will be a pity in the future life. If you want to break the rules and move forward, you must first understand all the rules clearly. Those who feel that all the rules in the world are false at a young age are hopeless garbage and mediocrity.
.You have to be careful not to become such a person."
You Hongzhuo thought for a moment: "Senior, I don't know what to do..."
"Look, think, and think slowly. What I'm saying here is that you have to be cautious when walking and resolute when wielding a sword. Senior Zhou is a very cautious person when he goes forward without hesitation. He sees a lot, thinks a lot, and only after he has investigated can he truly
Keep moving forward. If you can achieve something in your thirties or forties, it will be very good."
Mr. Zhao smiled: "I have been a teacher in the past few years and have taught many students, so I can't help but nag. There may be some fate between you and me, but there is no need to worship, as long as we understand each other. What I can tell you is that the best thing I can tell you is
The best thing may be this story... My husband and I have some things to do in Zezhou in the next few days, and you also have yours. Half a street over here is the branch of the Great Light Sect. If you are interested,
You can go and have a look."
You Hongzhuo looked over there.
Mr. Zhao drank tea: "He Shuo Tian Dao Tan Zheng is good at martial arts. You are not a match yet. If you watch more and think more, you may not be able to kill him in three to five years. As for your fourth brother, if you can find it, you might as well kill him."
Ask more about the matter, and decide whether to kill or run away, as long as you feel comfortable with it."
You Hongzhuo's heart was still in confusion. What the other party told him was too big after all. When he went back that day, You Hongzhuo thought of some doubts again and asked. Mr. Zhao answered them in detail and stopped saying anything that made him confused.
After practicing martial arts in the evening, he sat in the inn room, his heart was ups and downs, mostly because of listening to Grandmaster Zhou's story - even if the seventeen-year-old boy remembered the other person's words, he would still learn more.
I fantasize about what the future will look like, and long for becoming a hero like Grandmaster Zhou.
In this way, something suddenly happened in his heart, making him slightly absent-minded.
He remembered the night he left the village, when he killed many monks from the Great Light Sect with a knife, and then killed several women. Finally, when he used a knife to kill the girl who was originally his fiancée, the other girl begged for mercy. She said: "
Gouzi, please don’t kill me. We will grow up together and I will be your mother-in-law..."
Although he and the girl were engaged in a baby engagement, their relationship was not very unforgettable. The **** slashed all the way to the end, he hesitated slightly, but then he cut it off with a single blow. There was certainly a reason in his heart.
, but more because it was simpler and more enjoyable, and there was no need to think more. But at this moment, he suddenly thought that although the girl was sent to the monk's temple, she might not be willing to do so. Moreover, at that time, the girl
The family was poor, and her own family had long been unable to provide support. If her family were not like this, how many ways of living could she find. After all, it would be a desperate situation, and it was different from the desperate situation of the Han soldier today.
At that time, I might have been able to slow down the blow.
He was young, his parents had both passed away, and he had experienced too many killings, was in fear, and was about to starve to death. For several months, he had looked at the only road in front of him, covering everything up with his high spirits. At this time, he turned around
Thinking about it, when he opened the window of the inn and saw the dull light of the stars and the moon in the sky, his heart ached for a moment. In his young heart, he truly felt the unspeakable complexity of life.
He didn't know that at this time, in the room upstairs in the inn, Mr. Zhao and his wife were complaining about "children are so troublesome" and packed their luggage to leave.
The next day when You Hongzhuo woke up from bed, he saw dry food and silver left on the table, as well as a thin book on sword skills. When he went upstairs, the room of the Zhao couple had already been occupied - the other party
There were also important things, and this was the farewell. He gathered his thoughts, went down to practice martial arts twice, and had breakfast before silently going out and heading towards the direction of the Great Light Sect's helm.
You have to look carefully, think slowly, and then you can move forward bravely when wielding the knife - he just kept this matter in his heart.
It was still early in the morning, and before he had even reached yesterday's teahouse, he saw a commotion on the street ahead. Tiger King's soldiers were lining up in front, announcing something loudly. You Hongzhuo rushed forward, but saw soldiers escorting him.
A dozen injured Green Foresters were walking towards the Caishikou Square in front of them. From their announcements, it could be known that these people were the gangsters who tried to rob the prison yesterday. Of course, they might also be the remnants of the Black Flag. Today we are going to
He was detained in the square and kept in public for several days.
It was still in the dog days at this time, and in such a hot weather, during the public display, it was necessary to burn these people to death alive, and I am afraid that they were also used as bait by the other party's party members. You Hongzhuo followed for a while, and heard those Green Forest people yelling and cursing all the way.
, Some said: "If you have the guts to challenge Grandpa..." Some said: "Eighteen years later there will be another hero——" "Tian Hu, Sun Qi, **** your grandma——"
On the way, some people picked up stones and threw them at them, and some squeezed and spat on them - they had finally managed to live a more stable life in this chaotic Central Plains for a few days than in other places. To these green forest people or the remnants of the Black Flag,