An Sanxi returned to the room and lay on the kang, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. She always felt a little uneasy. The life of licking blood with a knife all the time had honed her extraordinary intuition.
If it weren't for his alertness, he would have died countless times over the years.
He is different from these gangsters from the south. He is from Datong, Shanxi, and his ancestors were military households. When he was a boy, he was kidnapped to the grasslands and lived for more than ten years. Finally, he took advantage of the Mongolian invasion of Datong and found an opportunity to escape.
After returning, he continued to be a military householder and replaced his father as a soldier.
He endured countless hardships and inhuman torture on the grassland. The environment of the jungle and the strong also forced him to develop his own skills.
He returned to his homeland full of hope, but life in the Ming Dynasty was more difficult than on the grassland.
There is never enough work to be done at the officer's house. After dark, he has to go back to his own field to work in the dark. To avoid wearing out his clothes, he always works naked.
When I had a short break, I would chop down trees, burn charcoal and sell it to support my family. In winter, I would go to the river to break ice to catch fish, and I would sell it in the market for salt.
He, who was already numb to this world, was like a walking zombie, living his life in a muddle.
When he was twenty-eight years old, he married the daughter of old man Wang who made tofu. On their wedding night, he looked at the beautiful girl in his arms. At that moment, he burst into tears, as if he had come to life again.
It turns out that there are still worthwhile things in life.
From that day on, he has regained his confidence in life. Although life is very hard, he no longer complains or feels tired. Looking at his wife and his newly born daughter, he feels warm in his heart and feels It's all worth it.
But misfortune still struck. His beautiful wife was coveted by Master Qianhu's son, and they secretly transferred her to another place on a business trip. When he returned home, what he saw was his daughter who had been thrown to death on the threshold and hung from the beam. Wife in rags.
It was a night of heavy rain, with lightning and thunder, and the sky seemed to be roaring. He swept up the bodies of his wife and daughter with the grass on the kang, dragged them to the foot of Nanshan and buried them. Regardless of the pleading of his elderly parents, he carried the already rusted corpses. The sword of war entered the house of Lord Qianhu. He took the heads of his enemies and placed them on the graves of his wife and daughter one by one, crying silently.
When he returned home at dawn, he realized that his elderly parents had thrown themselves into a well in order to force him to escape and cut off his burden.
At that moment, he almost went crazy. He didn't understand. He just wanted to live in humiliation. Why was he living in such a humble way? The world didn't give him a way to survive.
He fled all the way south, relying on the archery skills he had practiced on the grassland, and relying on a tiger-powered bow snatched from Qianhu's house, he went into the mountains and forests, crossed the wilderness, shuttled through the green gauze tents, and kept shooting at the guards who were chasing him. officers and soldiers.
After he escaped from Shanxi Town, everything was cleared up and no one was chasing him anymore.
He disguised himself as a beggar and headed south, hoping to get as far away from his sad place as possible. Along the way, he watched with cold eyes. It was the same everywhere in the Ming Dynasty. There were gentry feasts everywhere.
Those in charge of the money valley steal the money valley, and those in charge of the punishment name go in and out of the punishment name.
The common people are increasingly embarrassed and bankrupt, and they have nowhere to redress their grievances when they are bullied. Even living is extremely difficult.
This Ming Dynasty is clearly a big prison for 20 million people.
Wailing in pain, suffering from sorrow, suffering physically and mentally, with no way to escape.
Along the way, I saw all the warmth and coldness of the world, as well as the world and people's hearts.
Boating across the south of the Yangtze River, the flowers on the river are redder than fire at sunrise, and the river is as green as blue in spring.
In the southeast, there are three autumn osmanthus trees and ten miles of lotus flowers.
In Lingyin Temple, a blind fortune teller drew a fortune teller.
When he was a child, he was herding cattle and eavesdropping outside his private school. His kind-hearted husband did not chase him away, but he learned some words.
I saw the signature saying:
"My body is cold and my bones are cold, I am lonely, and my life is full of disasters."
He smiled silently, hadn't he been like this for half his life?
"On the day when the flowers bloom at the age of twenty-eight, the flowers bloom and are exposed to wind and rain."
An Sanxi closed her eyes in pain, and a teardrop fell silently.
He dropped a copper coin and turned to leave, but was suddenly pulled back by the blind man.
The old blind man said: "Although destiny is determined by heaven, it is also planned by man. I feel that you have a strange kind of luck. I can't explain it, but I can feel its existence. Can I feel your bones? .”
An Sanxi didn't say anything. He was doing whatever he wanted. You can touch him if you like.
The old blind man squeezed his hand bones and said nothing for a long time. Finally he sighed and said: "Your luck is in Ji Town. Although Jiangnan is good, it is not a place where you can live for a long time. You are lucky, how could you have it if you didn't leave? transport."
How dare you go back to the north and commit such a big case? Are you looking for death?
Seeing that he didn't believe it, the old blind man packed up the stall and left, only to hear the blind man chant.
"If you have to be generous and open-minded, there is no point in keeping your eyebrows furrowed."
"If you don't want to be a guest of the Golden Python in the imperial court, you will be designated as the First Supervisor of the Army."
It seemed that God had his own destiny, and after meeting this old blind man, his luck really improved.
Just in time, a member of the Qian family's side was recruiting a servant, and he was successfully selected due to his martial arts skills.
And because he was from the north and was good at raising horses, he also became Mr. Qian's groom.
This time Mr. Qian went north and there were many horses, so he took him to take care of the horses.
He had a habit brought from the grasslands. He always took his own hollow cowhide pillow with him to sleep, and he never abandoned it even on the way to escape.
This time he not only felt nervous and uneasy, but soon there was a rumbling sound coming from the hollow pillow. He jumped up, put the pillow on the ground, and listened carefully. Once a horse team approached the camp on the grassland, this kind of pillow would You can hear the sound of horse hooves vibrating the earth.
"About five hundred people and more than thirty horses, less than a mile away." He murmured.
The sound was a little different, a little strange. He thought for a moment and understood that these people's footsteps were raised and lowered at the same time, and they were uniform to produce this special sound that vibrated the earth.
This is a well-trained army.
After all, he had been a soldier and had seen war on the grasslands.
I have long thought that these rabble-rousers came to the capital to cause trouble and were looking for death, so I have always been vigilant. The three thousand people are bandits and gangsters. Without unified command, these five hundred people would never be able to defeat them. Who knows how many more people are coming.
He must leave immediately. He just wants to have a safe meal by joining the Qian family. He is not selling his life to his family. Moreover, the Qian family is not good to him. They just see that he has some skills and spend two small coins to use him. .
An Sanxi got up silently, put on his clothes, took his luggage, put his tiger bow on his back, picked up his simple knife, secretly opened the door, and walked out.
The sky outside had begun to get brighter. He secretly climbed over several walls and came to the outermost high wall. As long as you climb over this wall, walk out, and mingle among the people in this bustling town, the troubles here will be nothing to do with you.
He had just jumped off the wall and before he could stand up, he suddenly felt a stiffness in his back, and a firecracker was pressed against his back. A dozen people holding firecrackers suddenly appeared around him.
The fire seals in their hands glowed red, and a man with a Liaodong accent said: "Tie them up, gag them, and take them back to the master."
