Under a tree in a village by the Huaihe River, Chang Yu was sweating profusely and frowning, and Jiang Fa led him to the river to drink water and ask for directions.
Several children were walking from the village carrying baskets and passed Chang Yu: "Children, is there any watermelon here?"
The child shook his head and pointed to the south: "There is a market over there. You can go and have a look." After that, he cut the grass on the roadside. Chang Yu was curious: "Should the grass be cut to feed the cows or the pigs?"
"Feed cows and pigs too." The child didn't even raise his head.
"Good guy, I have pigs and cows at home, that's a big family." Chang Yu said casually, and a girl wiped the sweat from her forehead: "In the village, only the rich man Zhang's family has cows and pigs."
Chang Yu said oh, and when he saw the girl wearing a braid, he couldn't help but joked: "You can't call me Xiaofang, right?"
The girl shook her head: "My name is Kidney Bean."
"Sister, don't tell him your name, he doesn't look like a good person," a boy suddenly said, looking at Chang Yu with hostile eyes.
"Am I still a bad guy? Do I look like a bad guy?" Chang Yu couldn't help laughing, and the boy snorted: "My dad said, those who lead guys are either thieves or soldiers. Neither thieves nor soldiers are good people."
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It turned out that he saw the knife placed next to Chang Yu.
"Since I'm not a good person, then you're not afraid of me?" Chang Yu asked curiously. The children didn't feel scared at first, but they became scared after hearing what he said. They quickly picked up the basket and walked away: "We are children and
I don’t have any money for you to rob.”
Chang Yu laughed: "Not only did I not rob the children of money, but I also gave them money." He took out more than ten words of money and said, "Here, here it is."
The eyes of several children were shining, but they did not believe that such a good thing could happen. They looked at each other and no one dared to take it. The boy suddenly said: "You are a kidnapper, right?"
Chang Yu couldn't help but laugh: "That's something only a lowly person can do. I'm a martial arts hero." He raised his hand and threw the money over, and several children scrambled for it.
"Are you really a hero?" Several children picked up the money and looked at the young man in front of them. He didn't look like a bad guy anymore. Chang Yu nodded: "People in the world call him black and white..." Suddenly he felt that his name didn't sound like a righteous hero.
Xia: "I am the little white dragon with jade face that people in the world call me."
"Are you highly skilled in martial arts?"
A child asked curiously: "Can it fly?"
Chang Yu shook his head: "I can't fly, but I am really good at martial arts."
Moreover, several children did not believe it: "If you are really good at martial arts, go to the mountains and kill the robbers for us to see."
Chang Yu raised his eyebrows: "There are robbers here, where are they?"
Well, several children pointed behind him.
Not far behind Chang Yu is the Huaihe River, and across the river are mountains.
"I heard that there are robbers there," said the girl named Kidney. "A while ago, there was an aunt in the village who went to the market, and she was robbed by them..."
While he was talking, Jiang Fa came over with his horse: "Master, I just found the way for the fishermen in the river. There is a market to the south, and there is a ferry over there, and then you can cross the Jinniu Mountain on the other side and you will reach Xinyang."
Runing Prefecture, Xinyang Prefecture.
Chang Yu sighed: "After passing Xinyang, there are high mountains and ridges. We have been going through a lot of troubles along the way. We will inevitably get blisters on the soles of our feet... Hey, by the way, those kids just said that there are robbers in the mountains on the other side."
Then he turned to look at the children, and saw that they were surrounding the two horses curiously, reaching out to touch them from time to time. They had never seen such horses in their world.
"Yes, the robbers are in that mountain," the child said absently.
Jiang Fa smiled: "I did hear the fisherman say that it's not very peaceful in the mountains, but it doesn't matter if there are so many people on the road during the day."
Chang Yu hummed and said nothing.
He drank water under the shade of a tree and watched the horses grazing. Several children were cutting grass on the edge of the fields. They played and came over to ask him questions. Jiang Fa stared at the river in the distance in a daze.
No one would have thought that the world-famous and powerful eunuch of Dongchang would be blowing the wind and playing with a group of children in the fields, and no one would believe him.
Except Jiang Fa.
Looking at the eunuch next to him, he was filled with emotion.
The contrast is too great!
On the battlefield, he is a bloodthirsty demon who kills many people. In the court, he is a powerful prisoner who makes many civil and military officials tighten their fists when he coughs. In life, he is an approachable boss. Now, he is just a child.
Half an hour later, Chang Yu and Jiang Fa left. Several children were reluctant to leave him, standing on the roadside with straw baskets and watching him go away.
"Kidney Bean, is he really a hero?" A boy asked the braided girl.
"That's right. He said he could rescue the third aunt." Kidney kicked the gravel under her feet and looked at the disappearing figure: "He really looks like a hero."
Chang Daxia rode his horse slowly, and after a while he saw a market near the river bank in the distance. It was a ferry to be precise. Although it was not an official road, people from all over the country who wanted to go to the other side had to take this ferry, so people
It's not that small, but of course it's nothing compared to those big ferries.
Chang Yu felt very unhappy because he didn't buy the watermelon he wanted to eat.
In the summer, it’s okay if there’s no iced Coke or ice cream. Even fruit is scarce these days.
So unhappy!
Unhappy and angry, Jiang Fa wanted to cross the river early and go with other travelers to cross Jinniu Mountain before dark, but Chang Yu said that it was too hot and it would be cooler to walk at night.
Jiang Fa smiled bitterly and sighed, he really wanted to be a hero.
"Wuzhong once bragged to me, saying that when he was in the world, he once broke into a den of thieves at night, killed nearly a hundred people at once, and massacred the village." Chang Yu sat in the tea shed at the ferry and looked at the Jinniu Mountain on the other side.
He chuckled and said: "Even if we join forces, we can't kill a hundred, let's kill fifty of them. We won't all have the same martial arts skills as the Broken Knife Man."
"That's not bragging in Wuzhong." Jiang Fa smiled: "But although the bandits are not very skilled in martial arts, they are very difficult to deal with in large numbers." He stood up and walked out of the tea shed: "The young master is resting here, and the younger one is going out for a walk.
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Jiang Fa was stunned for a while. He returned to the tea shed and drank a large bowl of herbal tea and wiped his mouth: "This Jinniu Mountain is a treasure land of Feng Shui."
"No," a smile appeared at the corner of Chang Yu's lips: "There are mountains and rivers, you can advance and retreat, and you are far away from the city. Even I want to make a fortune here."
"There used to be a lot of people who made a fortune in this treasure land. It is said that there were several groups. As the young master said, this place is far away from the city and beyond the reach of the officers and soldiers. However, they themselves started fighting among themselves and were eaten by one family in the past few years. It is said that there was a six
Seventy people." Jiang Fa looked at the Jinniu Mountain on the other side and said calmly. He just walked around the ferry and inquired about a lot of information.
"Sixty or seventy people are not too small, they are enough to cause harm to one party." Chang Yu sneered, and Jiang Fa continued: "But it is said that these thieves are quite good at stealing. They usually ask for money from business travelers in the mountains, which is extremely
He seldom goes down the mountain to rob and disturb the people, but he is quite patronizing to ordinary people. He mainly keeps an eye on some big landowners and either sets rules to make them pay confessions on time, or he comes to threaten or even kidnap them."
"So they have a good reputation among ordinary people, and they even praise them for robbing the rich and giving to the poor." Chang Yu sneered: "What's the matter, the rich people's money is blown by the wind. If you have money, you deserve to be robbed and blackmailed, and those few The doll’s words are also false.”
Jiang Fa licked his lips: "Those kids are not lying. I did hear that they robbed women and went up the mountain."
"Men's stuff, hehe." Chang Yu sneered: "It's just drinking, gambling with money, and playing with women. If any girl from a good family is willing to go up the mountain, they can only rob her!"
"Robbery, extortion, kidnapping, any one of them is a capital crime." Chang Yu touched the green bird on his waist: "I have been fighting and fighting many times along the way, but they are not enough to make me Be famous in the world."
Jiang Fa smiled: "Whatever the young master wants to do, the younger one will follow. It's just that we are not familiar with the terrain here. They have a large number of people just in case. Do you want to..."
"No," Chang Yu interrupted Jiang Fa, "What's the difference between that and dispatching a large army to suppress it? Either we two do it together, or I do it by myself."
Jiang Fa said quickly: "How can I let the young master go into danger alone? The villain risked his life to accompany me in the mountains of swords and seas of fire."
Chang Yu smiled and nodded, but Jiang Fa knew that although the young man in front of him was smiling, he was still holding fire in his heart. In addition to the reason for the death of the two assassins, there was also a sense of dissatisfaction!
In terms of boxing and kicking skills, Chang Yu cannot say that he is the best in the world today, but he is still at the top level. It is impossible to defeat all the invincible opponents in the world, but he can barely do it in the world.
It's just that in this era of cold weapons, whether traveling in the world or fighting on the battlefield, weapons are the mainstay.
No matter how advanced your kung fu skills are, you are still afraid of kitchen knives. If you fight with bare hands against someone who doesn't know kung fu, you can easily knock him down. But if the opponent is also skilled in martial arts, you can only run away.
Although Chang Yu is not the best at weapons, he still has a certain degree of confidence in his sword skills. After all, his sword skills are honed by going to the battlefield to fight in actual combat. Even he is usually at the level of a master like Sword Saint Wuzhong. Hey Zhao, he won't be afraid of anyone.
However, the Broken Knife Man beat him so hard that he was almost helpless and in a very embarrassed state.
I felt quite dissatisfied.
So he needs to vent.
And the best way for him to vent his anger is to kill someone!