Before dawn the next day, Hong Chen woke up Lei Feifeng and asked him to carry his luggage. Then he settled the bill with the hotel owner, then went to the backyard to take Xue Lifei and set foot on the road leading outside Tamu City.
Lei Feifeng rode on the horse, rubbed his sleepy eyes, "Ha--" yawned a long time, and asked Hong Chen, who was leading the horse: "Teacher, where are we going?"
"Go back to Qiangzhou."
Hong Chen said.
Lei Feifeng said again: "I don't even remember when you came back last night. Did you see the two wolf gods?"
Hong Chen nodded.
Lei Feifeng asked: "Is he the White Lone Wolf?"
Hong Chen nodded again.
"Ah, I found it." Lei Feifeng said as she remembered that more than eight months had passed since she left Tianjing. In more than three months, it will be the annual full moon Mid-Autumn Festival again.
, "I miss Baganda and Wuganma a little. Can we see them on August 15th?"
Hong Chen lowered his head and counted the days, and said, "It's definitely possible. In spring and summer, the grassland climate is not as bad as in autumn and winter. The journey is smooth. We only need to go to the Silver Eagle Tribe first, find Ma Yiha, and then go straight to Bai Ya.
tribe, you can meet your elder brothers and sisters-in-law."
"But don't be too happy." Hong Chen continued, "When the two of them ask me what I have taught you in the past six months, I will say that I taught one of the ten major sects in Kyushu, Beihai Kunlun Sect.
Taught him both of his secret skills
You. They must be happy to hear it and want to watch you perform. They may even call the khan and tell the entire tribe to come and see you perform. You go on stage, but you can only practice some inconsistent moves.
Come and see if they laugh at you."
Lei Feifeng muttered: "I'm still young, I'm still young, it's normal if I can't practice it."
"Third brother, you must not use your young age as an excuse." Hong Chen said, "I read the experience summaries of those seniors and said that the younger a person is, the more he should practice hard and study hard. At your age, you are a
The best time to practice martial arts in a person's life is when he is young and energetic, and can work hard for several years and improve his basic skills.
If you have a solid foundation, you will naturally accumulate more and more skills in the future. Your internal strength will become deeper with the years, and your sword skills will become more refined over time. If your foundation is not stable and you have no accumulation, your talents will become more and more mature as you get older.
If it is not enough, not only will it be difficult to make progress, but if you are even a little tired, your martial arts will regress."
"I understand, I understand."
Lei Feifeng felt a little impatient when he heard this. He felt that the teacher was not very old, but he always liked to supervise people like an old scholar. It was indescribably awkward. He also remembered that he had heard the teacher say that the Taoyuan where he lived before had no
A group of people of the same age, all of whom are decades old, the youngest one is selling fish forcibly
Now that I am in my thirties or forties, I am not surprised. I think to myself: The teacher always hangs out with the old guys, which is why he is so old-fashioned. I must not be infected with his bad habits. I just need to eat and play.
.As for practicing martial arts, anyway, my talent is not very good, nor is it too bad, so I just don’t waste it.
After leaving Tamu City, Hong Chen rode on Xueli Fei, whipped his horse, and galloped through the spring-filled Dizhou. Xue Li Fei's broad and strong horse hooves stepped through low shrubs, dry river beds, and hills.
, stepped through the Gobi, crossed mountains and rivers, and finally arrived at the vast grassland.
The Xiliang cavalry and the grassland tribes had been fighting fiercely for several months. After arriving in Qiangzhou, the master and the apprentice saw the remnants of the battlefield several times. The big flag fell to the ground, and the flag on it was torn and dirty. Next to the broken weapons were the same
Some of the broken corpses were human and some were horse. It was difficult to tell who the original owners were. The air around them was filled with the smell of death.
The first time she saw such a scene, Lei Feifeng was frightened and urged Hong Chen to leave quickly. Although Hong Chen didn't want to see more, he even laughed at Lei Feifeng: "You always said you wanted to be the king of the mountain, kill
A river of blood flowed for ten miles, and you were so frightened when you saw this few dead people?"
Lei Feifeng said: "When we were on our way, we often received help from people from various tribes. When I think that among these dead people, there may be men who used to entertain us to drink kumiss, I feel quite uncomfortable."
"Yes." Hong Chen urged his horse to leave. After walking for a while, he looked back at the ruins and said with emotion, "The tribes on the grassland are living well. Why does the Xiliang court insist on fighting with them? I
Looking at the prosperity of Dizhou, it is not like a few tribes in Qiangzhou who will become poor if they pay less taxes."
Lei Feifeng shook his head disapprovingly: "Teacher, if eldest brother were here, I would laugh at you again. There is no need for my eldest and second brothers to intervene in this kind of truth. I can explain it clearly to you myself. This is just like the shantytown street
The last few gangsters collected protection money just like others. So many people paid it honestly, but there was one family and two families who refused to give it life or death. Even if they didn't come, they would never come.
If you can't get food, you still have to make guns and sticks and teach others a lesson. Why? Because one family and two families refuse to pay, but it's okay. Others are not convinced and follow suit. If you don't pay, I won't pay. Isn't that right?
No one pays, no one in charge? So I have to fight, fight hard, beat my head to pieces, and let others see what will happen if they don’t pay the protection fee, so they don’t dare not pay.”
After hearing this, Hong Chen said: "What you said makes sense. But there is another question. Why should we pay protection fees to a few gangsters? Have they really done anything to protect them?"
"The gangster leader doesn't just do nothing. If there are officers, soldiers and government servants coming to clear out people and stop them from doing business or doing this or that, he will personally go out and offer people a glass of wine or a box of snacks.
Nice words. The officers, soldiers and government officials are familiar with him.
, I won’t embarrass others. At most, I will let you clear the stall on the spot, and I won’t smash your stuff and collect your things.” Lei Feifeng said, “But in the final analysis, his grandma, why should the officers and soldiers care about us? We set up a stall to sell.
A big cake and steamed bun, get it
The money is also paid in monthly taxes. They always have to find some excuse, saying that they did not pay a certain tax to the Yamen that we have never heard of. In the light case, they will be fined a small amount of money, in the case of serious cases, they will be arrested and jailed, and they will be fined dozens of times.
, don’t even think about paying the fine again. I
The neighbor next to our shed used to be a pancake seller. He couldn't pay the fine and was locked up in jail. From winter to summer, he died somehow. His bones were thrown directly into the moat and floated away. His wife
There's nowhere to look for it."
Hong Chen was silent. He only felt that this kind of thing happened not only in Tianjing, but also in the whole land of Kyushu. He didn't know how to change it. After walking thousands of miles on the grassland, the "Eagle Wolf Order" he had received before was sent to
It was put to good use, and they could pass through any tribal territory without any obstruction. On the way, they found out that the Silver Eagle tribe had migrated eastward, so they changed their direction and headed east.