As a direct descendant of the Bai family in Qingzhou, Bai Xiang has not done anything to show his face for more than 20 years, and there are not many embarrassing things. He lives a pretty ordinary life.
His grandfather is Bai Rong, the current head of the Bai family in Qingzhou. He lost the battle with the Hua family in Yangdu a few years ago and retreated to Qingzhou, to the corner of Guangdu, where he lived a very miserable life.
A hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Bai family had a prime minister, and they were very prosperous at their peak, but then they went downhill. I don't know whether it was due to lack of IQ or bad luck. Among the people in the clan who became officials in the court, the largest ones could only be lower than the fifth rank.
When it comes to Bai Xiang's generation, there are more than fifty direct and collateral descendants in total, and none of them are good at studying. They are very good at fighting cocks and birds. Although Bai Xiang has the reputation of being the number one dude in Guangdu, he is still relatively progressive compared to his brothers. He can go to the private school for seven days for one month, and he has been living in confusion for ten years, and he is actually a prostitute. , coupled with the aura of the Qingzhou Bai family, it barely meets the recommended standards for imperial examinations.
On the day when he was sent to Dongdu to participate in the examination, his grandfather held his hand and burst into tears. Bai Xiang had never seen his grandfather look like this in his whole life, and he was so moved that he burst into tears.
"Grandpa, don't worry. When I go to Dongdu, I will definitely be able to reach high school in one fell swoop and bring honor to my Bai family."
When the old man heard this, he cried even harder, "Ah! I don't know what your virtues are. If you can pass the exam based on your true talent and study, you will be damned."
"..."
"I have already inquired about it. This time, Hanashiro from Yangduhua Clan is also going. That boy is ignorant and has never been to a private school for a day. He is worse than you."
"..."
"There are rumors among the aristocratic families that the purpose of this election is to select a concubine for the saint. Therefore, the most handsome Hanashiro was chosen."
Bai Xiang was shocked, "It turns out that I am so beautiful in Grandpa's heart——"
"Beautiful legs!" Grandpa slapped Bai Xiang on the head, "I want you to find a reason to give Hua Yitang a good beating. It's best to make him look disfigured. In this way, Hua Yihuan My plan of becoming a relative of the emperor has come to nothing, hahahahaha——"
"..."
Bai Xiang admitted that since his defeat to Hua Yihuan, Grandpa's character has indeed become a bit paranoid - commonly known as being out of his mind.
Sure enough, a series of subsequent facts proved that the so-called rumors of choosing a concubine were completely false.
After learning that Su Yiyun had been dismissed from his career due to Ying Tianlou's misconduct, Bai Xiang was thankful for the first time. Fortunately, he had a bad mind and was not good at studying. Fortunately, he was not good-looking and did not have the ability to charm a saint.
There is an old saying that goes, "It is virtue for a man to be without talent." He should just go home and walk the birds and play with the dogs, and be a well-behaved dude.
After all, now that Huashiro, the number one dandy in Yangdu, has become a Jinshi, he can only create the title of number one dandy in the Tang Dynasty in the future.
Bai Xiang embarked on a journey back home, and it was a pleasant journey.
When I saw Qingzhou, it was getting late. I wanted to go to a hotel for the night, but I met a woodcutter who told me that there was a hot spring five miles north of the hotel. It was in a hidden location and had great scenery. He also said that young girls from nearby villages often visited the hotel. Go swimming together at night.
Somehow, Bai Xiang was persuaded, left the official road, took the mountain road, and drove away five miles slowly. He didn't see the hot spring, nor did the girl. He met the woodcutter again, and led him. A group of vicious bandits came to kill him.
The six escorts who accompanied him were hired by Bai Xiang in Dongdu. They were no match for the bandits. They abandoned him and ran away. Bai Xiang jumped out of the car to escape. In a panic, he fell over and fainted. When he woke up, We were in the wilderness, the carriage was gone, the horse was gone, we were penniless, our clothes were in tatters and hanging on our bodies, and there was a big green bump on the left side of our forehead, like a horn.
Bai Xiang had never been so miserable in his life. He sat on the ground and howled, crying from dusk to dawn. It was probably because his cries were so shrill that the wolves in the wild couldn't bear to get close to him, but the whole night was uneventful.
After crying for two hours, Bai Xiang's mouth was dry. He rubbed his swollen eyelids, got up, identified the direction according to the sunrise, found a branch to lean on, and walked south. He didn't have a map and didn't know the way, but he knew that Guangdu was to the south of Tang State, so as long as he walked south, he would be able to find his way home.
Adhering to this firm belief, Bai Xiang walked firmly. When the branch of the crutch broke, he persisted, and his feet broke out into blisters. He persisted, but the blisters burst again and blood oozed out. He continued to persist, and his stomach Grumbling with hunger, he persisted - he couldn't hold on any longer!
Others say that fat people are the best at resisting hunger, but when he is hungry, he becomes dizzy, his eyesight goes dark and he lies on the ground, his soft belly buried in the weeds, like a deflated ball.
Grandpa, I'm sorry.
You are disappointed.
Hanagashiro is taller than me and has longer legs than me. I couldn't beat him and got kicked by him.
Next to Hanashiro is a little lady who is good at martial arts. She can kill gods and Buddhas when she encounters them. She is comparable to the evil ghosts in hell——
Bai Xiang thought sadly, and fell asleep in a daze. Suddenly, he seemed to hear something.
"Master, I have to say that we are really lucky. When we went out to collect firewood, we actually found someone."
"Hmm... this guy looks quite fat."
"I think it's more durable than firewood."
"What my disciple said is very reasonable."
Bai Xiang's eyes suddenly opened. He was getting further and further away from the ground - someone grabbed his belt from behind, tightening his belly - he flew up, no, he was like a piece of bacon being lifted up.
Bai Xiang saw a face, that of the terrifying Lin Sui'an, smiling like a weasel who had stolen a chicken, "Oh, it looks familiar. I remember it was called - white cake? White rice? Cabbage?" ?”
Bai Xiang's stomach growled, "...It's...Bai Xiang..."
It is indeed a "white elephant".
This amount of food can actually equal Hua Yitang!
Lin Sui'an leaned on the table, with his right leg crossed, his left leg bent, his elbow resting on his knee, and he took a piece of broken sheep bone and smashed it to taste. There was also a plate of broken lamb bones, all smashed into the size of a fingertip. Mu Xia chose the part with the bone marrow, roasted it over a low fire until browned, sprinkled with pepper, salt and cumin, and when you slurped it, it tasted very fragrant.
After picking it up, Bai Xiang's mouth was full of oil and he wished he could bury his whole face in the meat porridge pot. Jin Ruo snatched the food from the tiger's mouth and grabbed a plate of mutton, not to be outdone, he ate it.
Fang Ke was full and took a nap with Eta. The carriage brought out from Huazhai stopped twenty steps away. The horse pulling the carriage was chewing grass blades leisurely. There were three carriages, one with people in it, and the other two carriages were filled with travel supplies prepared by Mu Xia. Lin Sui'an felt embarrassed. Compared to Doraemon’s treasure bag, you can take out everything.
For example, the awning above the head is covered with three layers of gauze and silk, which not only protects from the sun, but also creates a hazy and dreamy beauty; the Persian pomegranate pattern camel hair carpet on the floor, the double-ear silver pot for cooking meat porridge, and the fruitwood rack for roasting lamb. , all kinds of spices and seasonings, and even small brushes for brushing seasonings, five or six large and small.
Hua Yitang crossed her knees, her gorgeous clothes spread out like petals on the carpet, leaning sideways, holding a small fan against her forehead, her face wrinkled, and asked Mu Xia, "How much did Bai Xiang eat?"
Mu Xia brought tea soup to relieve tiredness, "It's at least five hundred yuan."
Hua Yitang's face wrinkled even more, "Bai Xiang, that's it. Taking advantage is not just a trick. Aren't you afraid of dying?"
"Hanashiro, you are too stingy. What's wrong with eating a few pieces of your meat?" Bai Xiang grabbed the mutton and snatched the dipping sauce from Jin Ruo's plate, "When you go to Guangdu, I'll treat you to a seven-day flowing feast."
"No need. The Yangdu Hua clan has no friendship with the Qingzhou Bai clan." Hua Yitang rolled his eyes, "Get out of here after eating."
Bai Xiang scooped up another bowl of meat porridge and slurped on the edge of the bowl, "Huashiro, don't say I didn't warn you, this road is not safe. Your carriage is so ostentatious, it will definitely cause trouble."
"Hua doesn't want to go to any hot springs or watch some young lady playing in the water, so how could she meet bandits?" Hua Yitang said with a smile.
Bai Xiang gritted his teeth, "You will definitely be punished for being so arrogant!"
Just as he was talking, Jin Ruo suddenly put down the plate in his hand, lay down on the ground, listened with his ears to the ground, glared at Bai Xiang, and clicked his tongue.
Bai Xiang was stared at and frightened, "What, what's wrong?"
Lin Sui'an smiled, "Good apprentice, the head is delivered to the door."
Boss Jin Ruo was unhappy, wiped the oil on his hands, lifted the horizontal knife at his side, relaxed his shoulders, shook his neck, and held the knife in his arms.
The horizontal knife in Jin Ruo's hand was specially customized by several elders of Jingmen before leaving Dongdu. It was made of fine iron specially provided by Hua's family. It was two feet long and three feet long. It has a finger width, a silk handle, a silver scabbard, and a sharp blade. Judging from its appearance, it is much more beautiful than Qian Jing, but its weight is only one-fifth of Qian Jing's.
Lin Sui'an gave this sword a popular name, "Ruo Jing". The original meaning was "Jin Ruo's Qian Jing", but Jin Ruo did not expect that Jin Ruo actually understood it to mean "the shape is like Qian Jing, and the spirit is like Qian Jing". , extremely moved.
Lin Sui'an had to sigh that in terms of literary quality, this apprentice was a hundred times better than her.
After training for more than a month, Jin Ruo's strength and speed have been greatly improved, but compared with Lin Sui'an's natural supernatural power, it is still far behind. This is talent, and there is no way to make up for it for the time being, so Lin Sui'an adjusted the teaching plan and planned to Starting from the knife style of Shijingji, we may be able to make a breakthrough.
There's just a problem.
The description of the sword skills in the fragments of the Shi Jing Ji that Lin Sui'an held was too funny. The master and apprentice, plus Qixing, tried their best to understand it, but they still couldn't understand it. What Lin Sui'an learned mainly relied on muscle memory. With body reflexes, you can roughly understand what moves are used during a fight, but if you really want to know what the moves look like, how to move your feet, how to turn the sword, and how to change your techniques, you will be completely blind.
To sum it up in one sentence, invincible in actual combat, but a novice in theory, he can only fight but cannot teach.
After struggling for a few days, Lin Sui'an made a decisive decision and adjusted the syllabus again, asking Jin Ruo to start with actual combat and leave him alone and fight first.
Jin Ruo once raised objections to this. At that time, Lin Sui'an put his hands behind his back, looked up at the moon, and said quietly:
"In actual combat, the situation changes rapidly. Only when you have no moves in your mind and have moves in your hands can you achieve the state of winning without moves and having moves at your disposal."
At that moment, Jin Ruo was deceived and fell to the ground - that was strange.
"Master, is the method you said really feasible?" Jin Ruo asked, squinting at Lin Sui'an.
Lin Sui'an chewed the sheep bones, "Can you try it and you will know?"
Bai Xiang was horrified, "What on earth are you talking about?"
Hua Yitang sighed, "Bai Xiang, you are such a c—crow—mouth—"
Before he finished speaking, there was a series of shouts of "唔唔唔唔", and a dozen thugs with bare chests and bellies rushed out of the woods, waving their knives and swinging their swords, and surrounded the crowd. The leader of the gangster He had a bear face, and his chest hair was tangled, as if he was wearing a thick vest, which kept him warm. His eyes turned to the most fancy Hua Yitang, and he laughed and said, "Brothers, let's go today. Great luck, another fat sheep!”
Bai Xiang almost fainted. He was so familiar with this voice. The bandits who robbed him unexpectedly met him again. They rolled and crawled behind Hua Yitang, holding Hua Yitang tightly. He whispered through his sleeves, "Hanashiro, we are all dandies after all. We don't look at the monk's face but the Buddha's face. You must protect me."
Hanashiro was in disbelief, "Hua, you don't know that there is a Buddha among the dandies now?"
"Anyway, in short, I will rely on you today - oh mother -"
Bai Xiang raised his voice to the level of Tianling Gai. With this shout, the boy named Jin Ruo unsheathed his knife and rushed out like the wind. The knife in his hand was glowing with a dazzling white light and he rushed into the group of bandits at a very fast speed. The wind of the sword was extremely fierce. Bai Xiang had never learned martial arts, so he didn't know what moves he used. He felt that the sword technique was like a chef chopping meat and vegetables. When he slashed with the sword, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and when he slashed with the sword, the bones turned out. Three knives and five knives were slashed in a row, and the grass was wet with blood.
Lin Sui'an nodded repeatedly, "Yes, this is the wonderful thing about the first move of the Shijing Collection, the sword cauldron's heart-breaking technique. It is said to break a person's intestines with one move, and break the soul with one move. Don't worry about anything else, just slash at the enemy and make him suffer. There is no way to avoid it, no way to hide, and it will naturally become invincible.”
Jin Ruo became more and more excited as he hacked, "Master, this is really good!"
Of course, after going through hell-like strength training, Jin Ruo's strength is now as strong as three people. "Ruo Jing" is also a rare weapon. It is more than enough to kill these bandits. Lin Sui'an thought in his heart, but said, "My disciple is wise, and I am very lucky to be a teacher."
After Jin Ruo received the award, he became more powerful as a tiger, slashing left, right, up, and down, shouting that he became more and more courageous as he fought.
Bai Xiang huddled up in fear behind Hua Yitang. Hua Yitang held a fan to his cheeks and shouted, "Don't chop them to death, otherwise Brother Fang will cut them all open when he wakes up, and we won't be able to reach Qingzhou next month." "
The dozing Fang closed his eyes and hummed.
Jin Ruo: "Master said, it is better to live than to die. The best among masters is the one who can save lives under the knife!"
Lin Sui'an: "Children can be taught."
Bai Xiang was shaking like a human. He saw the bandits wailing and running away. Jin Ruo screamed and chased after him. The sword flashed and the bandits lay all over the ground. Only one bandit leader was left, his face was pale and his eyes were frightened. As soon as he turned around, he actually came towards Hua Yitang and killed him. Bai Xiang screamed and closed his eyes.
The wind blew, and Bai Xiang smelled the aroma of fruit trees on Hua Yitang's body, as well as the aroma of roasted lamb bones.
Bai Xiang opened his eyes and saw Lin Sui'an's straight back from behind Hua Yitang. The hairband on her head was gently floating with the fragrance of fruit and wood. Her left hand was on her waist and her right hand was holding a mutton leg bone stick. The four bandit leaders He was lying on his back ten steps away, foaming at the mouth, and had fainted. There was a big bump on his head, like a horn.
Bai Xiang couldn't help but touch the "horn" bag on his head.
"After the fight, call it a day." Lin Sui'an turned around, stretched out his hand and said with a smile, "Let's go, it's time to set off."
The sun shone down from behind her, giving the smile a hazy brightness. Bai Xiang was dazzled and unknowingly stretched out his hand. Unexpectedly, at this moment, Hua Yitang suddenly rushed back. An elbow came out and hit his belly button. Bai Xiang's eyes were so painful that he lay on the ground.
Hua Yitang took Lin Sui'an's hand and stood up, swinging his wide sleeves and swaggering away.
Bai Xiang was confused, Mu Xia looked at him with pity and shook her head. :,,
