The incident at Gaowentai has come to an end, and the Full Moon Inn has returned to its former tranquility. After some days, no news came back from either Daming Mansion or Hangzhou.
The Man with Thousand Faces has yet to come. This made Zhang Ren quite angry and he had a lot of bubbles in his mouth. But what else can he do now?
There is only a matter of waiting. ...That night, Li Xue was restless and couldn't fall asleep despite tossing and turning.
This has never happened before. Tongyi stood up and rubbed his eyes, and asked sleepily: "Sister, why are you tossing and turning and still not asleep?
Li Xue shook his head gently and said: "Maybe these days have been too leisurely and I have lost my sleep. Sister, please go to bed first and don't worry about me."
"Tong Yi didn't know whether he heard it or not. He took a breath and fell asleep. I don't know how long it took before Li Xue slowly fell asleep.
...There is Kaiping Guard to the north of Shuntian Mansion, which is at the forefront of the confrontation between the Ming Dynasty and the Beiyuan Dynasty. Together with the Great Wall defense line, it protects the safety of the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
The reason why Kaiping Guard is called Kaiping Guard is because there is a village at the foot of the Great Wall called Kaiping Village.
Kaiping Village is not big to begin with, and due to the baptism of the Northern War, there are only about 60 households left in the village.
Most of the people in the village are diligent farmers. Even though the harvest here is not as good as in the south, as long as they have food to eat, the people in the village feel happy and satisfied.
It's a pity that Kaiping Village is too close to Beiyuan. When the tribes in Beiyuan are unable to eat, they will organize adult men to go south to "graze the grass valley", and Kaiping Village is always the first to bear the brunt.
So most years, the villagers here don't have enough to eat. That year, Beiyuan invaded the border again, and thousands of cavalry went south.
Fortunately, Jinyiwei had already received the information, and Mao Xiang, who was the commander of Jinyiwei at that time, even requested an order to go to the border in person to command the fight against Beiyuan.
The battle spread to Kaiping Village, where a boy named Zeng Qingda saw Mao Xiang dressed in black through the crack in the door.
Whenever the Xiuchun sword is swung, it will always splash the blood of the Beiyuan cavalry. For a boy, a knife stained with the enemy's blood is the most romantic thing.
Zeng Qingda was deeply fascinated by this. In that battle, the Ming Dynasty won a complete victory and wiped out all the Beiyuan cavalry. Zeng Qingda also opened the door immediately, ran to Mao Xiang, and asked: "You are so powerful. I saw that all the bad guys were defeated by you. Who are you?"
" Mao Xiang smiled and stroked Zeng Qingda's head. At that time, Jinyiwei had a bad reputation, so Mao Xiang did not reveal his identity, but just made it up casually: "I am a knight in the world, and I encountered injustice on the road. There is always a need to draw a sword to help.
"The conversation between the two was extremely brief. Because there were still military affairs to deal with, Mao Xiang did not stay long, and he had no idea what kind of impact his casual words would have on a boy.
In short, from that moment on, Zeng Qingda had Jianghu in his heart. In the past, during busy farming seasons, Zeng Qingda would always go to work in the fields with his parents. Because his parents were farmers with their backs to the sun and their faces to the land, he should also become a farmer in the future.
But after seeing the splendor of Xiuchundao, how could he be willing to be a farmer in the future? Even though he is still young, Zeng Qingda is already very ambitious and inspired to become a knight in the future and make his name resounding throughout the world.
From that time on, Zeng Qingda no longer worked in the fields with his parents. When he saw straight wooden sticks on the roadside, he would regard them as treasures and play with them all day long.
Even though his father said that he was not doing his job properly, broke his stick, and beat him severely, his original intention remained unchanged.
Later, when he got older, he even made a homemade wooden knife, which he kept on his waist all day long, and sometimes he would play wildly with it against the sunset.
This move made Zeng Qingda look extremely special, as if he was out of tune with the entire village. The elders in the village would point fingers at him, and the children in the village would laugh at him for being a lunatic.
Of course, there are always exceptions to everything. There was a girl named Li Xue in the village who always liked to stay by Zeng Qingda's side. The girl didn't like to talk, but she happened to be Zeng Qingda's best confidant.
Although he had never set foot in the Jianghu, it did not affect Zeng Qingda's imagination at all. He told Li Xue every bit of the Jianghu in his imagination. He did not miss any of the majestic waves and bloody storms inside.
Whenever he told these stories, there was always light in his eyes. Li Xue would sit quietly and listen, admiring the light in Zeng Qingda's eyes.
At a throbbing age, Li Xue gradually fell in love with this unique and very handsome Zeng Qingda.
Although Li Xue never expressed it, Zeng Qingda also understood Li Xue's heart. He actually liked Li Xue, but in comparison, what he longed for more was the Jianghu that he longed for.
In Jianghu stories, Zeng Qingda can transform himself into the protagonist, eliminate evil and promote good, and his martial arts skills are outstanding.
But in real life, he is just a child from a farmer's family, and the world is still too far away for him. As time goes by, he finally can't stand the pointing fingers of the villagers, and plans to leave the village to see the real world. of Jianghu.
That day, he was standing at the entrance of the village wearing a tattered bamboo hat and a wooden knife on his waist.
Li Xue knew in her heart that it was time for the two of them to separate, so she stepped forward and gently tugged at the corner of his clothes, and asked timidly: "Brother A Zeng, can you not leave?"
"The breeze blew Li Xue's hair, making his face look more refined. It's a pity that Zeng Qingda didn't look at Li Xue. The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, he looked at the mountains in the distance, then at the clouds in the distance, and said, "If you don't get out of here, how can you get to the broader sky?
You know me, I always want to see that river and lake. "Although there was reluctance in his eyes, Li Xue also knew that his status in Zeng Qingda's heart was far inferior to that of Jianghu.
Her hand slipped from Zeng Qingda's clothes and she lowered her head and said nothing. Zeng Qingda turned around and rubbed her head and said, "Don't worry, I will come back to you when I make a name for myself in the world. If I can't survive in the world, I will come back and marry you.
"After hearing these words, Li Xue blushed. At this moment, her heart was extremely satisfied, because no matter how well Zeng Qingda did, he would come back to pick her up.
Young men and women waved goodbye at the entrance of the village, one with great ambitions, the other with expectations. The future in their eyes must be bright and happy.
It's a pity that since then, Li Xue has no news about Zeng Qingda. Every day, with the expectations in her heart, she would always look up at the entrance of the village, but the figure she longed for never appeared.
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