Wandering around the rivers and lakes, hunters and prey, traps and traps, deceiving and being deceived, often only in the blink of an eye.
Under the moonlight orchid dew, the children chatted for a long time.
Seeing that Xu Fengcheng was a little tempted, I pretended to be confident, slapped my chest, and said boldly, "Oh, since you and I are traveling together, if I hurt you, I will hurt myself. So, are you still worried that I can hurt you?" Come here quickly!"
We whispered, then looked at each other and laughed!
"A master is a master! He's really brilliant!" After praising him, Xu Fengcheng boasted to me, "I'll get you six taels of gold."
Seeing Xu Fengcheng's innocent and confident face, I felt reassured and the six gods returned to their places.
The Northern Xinjiang group is safe.
The next day, I borrowed a chicken to lay eggs, took the gold stolen by Xu Fengcheng, and returned to Baihu Villa. I met Xu Cheng, the owner of the village, and after some bargaining, I exchanged six taels of gold for a Xia Dian. Two warriors from the horse-falling realm and the tree-shaking realm are guarding the two of us. This can make a lot of money.
I took three guards with me and headed north for ten miles from Baihu Villa. Xu Fengcheng, wearing straw sandals and tattered clothes, wearing a mask and wrapping his head, was waiting for me by the roadside with Rhubarb and Erhuang in his hand. At this time, he didn't look like a kid from a wealthy family at all.
Faced with the doubts of the three warriors, I briefly explained Xu Fengcheng as 'a young friend I met by chance who went north to seek medical treatment.' Anyway, taking one with me is a guide, and taking two with me is a guide, so the three escorts did not do it anymore. Calculate.
I was very satisfied with the formation that Xu Cheng sent for me. I turned around and asked the bodyguard who was in the Duoma Realm, "Master, our Baihu Villa is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, with masters like clouds!"
The three bodyguards looked at each other and laughed, "Little monk, the wealth of Baihu Villa is only so rich! Do you really think that masters are like willow branches on the roadside, which can be seen everywhere?"
I lowered my head and said nothing, as if I understood something, but also seemed to not understand something.
Xu Feng naturally couldn't speak to prevent his secrets from being revealed. I walked with the three escorts and chatted all the way, and got to know the Baihu Villa better.
Xu Cheng, the owner of Hushan Villa, also known as Bokai, entered the Broken City realm at the age of thirty, and entered the Heavenly Movement realm at the age of fifty. The oil from the 21-style Tiger Master Boxing passed down from his family could not be spilled. At the age of thirty-five, he lost six immortals in a row. A master of the realm, he became famous in one fell swoop and intimidated the entire Northern Xinjiang. Xu Cheng, Sun Xiucheng, the current head of the Sun family in Sunjiang County, and Zhou Yi, the head of the Fengzhou family in Huxiao County, were called the "Three Heroes of Northern Xinjiang", which shows that he was extremely talented.
Liu Huan, the wife of the village owner Xu Cheng, was originally the daughter of the late Muzhou Mu and Liu Qinghai, the lord of Jiangcheng City. The two were originally in love, and they were a couple with a son and a daughter. However, due to the marriage of their daughter Xu Yuanshu, He was very unhappy with Xu Cheng, and the two ended up falling in love and killing each other. They had been quarreling for many years.
Xu Cheng's eldest daughter, Xu Yuanshu, also known as Mingyan, is a real martial artist in the Zhiwu Realm. The eldest daughter of the village owner Xu Cheng, her disguise skills are unparalleled in the world. Her Tiger Master Fist is fierce and hard, and she is very good at using charm to get close to the enemy and kill her with one blow. , and what is even more amazing is that Xu Yuanshu is actually the founder of the Butterfly Chrysalis Gang, the second largest assassin organization in the world after the Huhu Gang. I have to admire the successors of the Xu family.
Unfortunately, Liu Huan had hindered Xu Yuanshu's marriage in every possible way. After the lovers parted ways, Xu Yuanshu went south in anger and never returned to Baihu Villa.
Too much money leads to trouble, and too many dogs make it difficult to fight for food.
There are many scandals in wealthy families, and mother and daughter will eventually become enemies.
Perhaps, this is the reason why Xu Cheng hopes that his son will become a dragon. ..
In the eyes of these escorts, Xu Fengcheng, who was leisurely beside me, was an out-and-out playboy. He did almost nothing except business.
Of course, in the eyes of everyone at Baihu Villa, this young master is also a kind and lovely person. If anyone has a big or small incident, he will immediately put down what he is doing and go to visit and help. This gives Xu Fengcheng a good reputation. A mixed bag.
Overall, the good outweighs the bad.
Xu Fengcheng was happy to accept this evaluation. In his opinion, there were so many collateral branches of the Xu family. When the time came, he would just choose a smart and pleasant person to adopt him as his adoptive father, and let this guy inherit the family business. Why did it have to be Xu Fengcheng? ?
During the trip, I once asked him in confusion, "Are you going to ignore your family for your own selfish desires?"
"If you spend your whole life doing something you don't like, you will never be happy." Xu Fengcheng answered me very seriously, "Life is only a few decades, so why spend your whole life depressed?"
When I think about it, I actually think it makes some sense.
At that moment, I really felt that this guy saw the world more clearly than I did.
Children from ordinary families always want to stand out, while children from rich families always want to live in leisurely travels. This is what is called everyone's ambition!
...
Between Huxiao County and the Great Qin Empire in the north, there is nothing but the Great Wall and fortresses, cavalry and swords.
Huxiao County is the largest grain-producing county among the nine counties in Bozhou. For the grassland people, food is gold and combat power. Therefore, Huxiao County is often visited by the Qin cavalry.
Usually, there is only looting and being looted, fighting and being killed, and the smell of blood goes straight to the sky.
This is the border between the two countries. There is no big country style, no courtesy, and no feelings.
After all, one "harmony city" like Sunjiang County that can accommodate the two countries' tolerance is enough.
After the war broke out, the Great Qin Empire, which was composed of grassland tribes, greatly changed its customs and made the country peaceful and peaceful, but it never stopped intruding on northern Xinjiang. Cattle and sheep from Muzhou, rice and millet from Bozhou, and melons and fruits from Fengzhou , and the women of big men, they can grab whatever they can.
Although the Great Wall and the Sege River that stretched across the northern border of the Han Dynasty delayed the Qin's large-scale attacks, small attacks were common. Men on the grassland came and went like the wind, and the defense line that stretched for thousands of miles was full of opportunities for them to invade. The Han family's frontier troops were in dire straits due to frequent attacks. If one person was not careful, he would suffer heavy losses.
As I walked and watched, combined with what I saw and heard, I felt that the most important reason for the Qin Dynasty's southern attack was that the Langjuxu Mountain, the ancestral land of the Qin Dynasty, now belongs to the territory of the Han Dynasty. The place where people's ancestors rested for generations is now occupied by others. Seize it, no one would agree to it, including me naturally.
Putting myself in my shoes, if White Horse Temple was occupied by others, I would probably be angry and hit them with pebbles.
In recent years, the Emperor Liu Yan of the Han family has been busy cutting off his family members and has no time to care about himself. Regarding Da Qin's policies, he often tolerates small troubles, talks about them, and makes big troubles... Great Qin has never made a big fuss.
Of course, times are also changing, and the Qin Dynasty has risen very strongly in recent years. According to the cohesion of the Han Dynasty at this time, if the two sides fight a big battle, it is really impossible to predict who will lose and who will win!
It is really possible for Da Qin to regain lost territory.
Closer to home, while traveling, we came to a small village called Zhili Village.
If Bozhou is the first state in the Northern Territory of the Han Dynasty, then Zhili Village is the first village in the Northern Territory of the Han Dynasty.
There are more than 400 people in this small village. Less than a hundred feet to the north of the village is the Zhili River. After crossing the river, you can walk another three hundred feet to the Great Wall. Although the small Zhili Village is located in the northernmost part of Han Dynasty, it has The two checkpoints, one river and one city, naturally avoided many intrusions from the Qin Dynasty. It can be said to have found tranquility in the chaos.
Today's Zhili Village is a little different. Men, women, old and young gathered at the entrance of the village to look around. In the middle of the Zhili River, bald heads and colorful clothes were swimming towards this side as if they were risking their lives.
The monks were all scrambling, fearing that bad luck would befall them if they swam slowly.
On the Great Wall not far away, more than a hundred Han soldiers stationed at the beacon tower can be vaguely seen. Each of them is on guard. Under the command of the centurion, they stand upright with shields and swords, forming a defensive posture on the city wall. The beacon fire is full of smoke. It has been aroused. It seems that the Qin soldiers are coming to fight against the autumn wind again, and a war is about to break out.
For this small, peaceful Zhili Village, this is already a big deal.
"Village Chief, what happened here?"
Xu Fengcheng and I happened to be here together. Seeing this, we hurried forward and asked. Xu Fengcheng, a half-bald young man, naturally came next to us.
"Hey, you became a monk at such a young age, that's incredible!"
The young village chief was calm in front of the matter, and he did not forget to tease me, and then said, "Young monk, you have come all the way and you don't know anything. Since the emperor of Qin Dynasty believed in Taoism, the Qin people and the Han people The dispute between Buddhism and Taoism became a bit more acute. The ascetics went north one after another, and the Zen practitioners went south. For a time, the momentum of north to south Buddhism was formed. You see, the group of monks in the river who desperately traveled south escaped from Daqin and went south. I’m a big man trying to survive!”
A man who looked like a troubadour next to the village chief was a little disdainful. He pointed at the river and said sarcastically, "Bah, what about the North Road and the South Buddha? These guys are a bunch of spineless people who come and go looking for fame. Li, as long as there is a bit of integrity and pride, how can you leave your homeland to betray the country and collaborate with the enemy? Idiots, a group of idiots."
At the end of the day, the troubadour did not forget to curse loudly, "They deserve to die!"
The young village chief seemed to be used to this look, so he ignored it and asked with a smile, "Then where is the chief from and where is he going?"
The troubadour was speechless for a moment. If he could come here, he would naturally go north to join the Qin Dynasty.
The young village chief narrowed his eyes and exhaled, "Taoist priest, you came to Zhili Village three days ago and stayed at the home of Mr. Wang in the east of the village. You once said you wanted to go to Beitou Jingyue Celestial Palace to earn a few cents." Name, has this junior ever lied?"
"snort!"
Knowing that it was difficult to defend himself, the Taoist Troubadour rolled up his sleeves and walked away in frustration, earning a burst of ridicule from the people of Zhili Village.
I continued to ask, "Village chief, you just said that these monks crossed from the south of Great Qin?"
"Well! Yes. But these monks are too brainless to choose the boundary of my Zhili Village as the escape route south. You see, there is not only the Great Wall here, but also the Zhili River blocking it. This is not for yourself Are you looking for trouble?" The young village chief smiled helplessly, his eyes never leaving the Great Wall.
I looked at the Daqin monks who were fighting for the crossing and asked, "Village chief, I look at the posture and see that a battle is imminent. Don't we need to make some plans in advance?"
"Haha! The little monk is kind-hearted and cares about my safety. But this is his plan! It's not necessary."
The young village chief was confident and explained with a smile, "Regarding these stowaways, the border armies of Da Qin and our Han Dynasty seem to have reached a tacit agreement. The Han army will only pursue Da Qin's fortress, and Da Qin will only pursue Da Han's Great Wall. As long as they pass these two places, they immediately turn their horses back to the army, and the ordinary people who stow away can be considered alive!"
"Amitabha! The bells in the morning and the drums in the evening have awakened many wealthy and famous people in mountains and rivers. The sound of the Buddha's call has brought back those who dreamed of the boundless sea of suffering. The sea of suffering is boundless, and there is a shore when we turn back!"
I sighed and lowered my head to chant.
