cloudless sky

The piercing sound rang twice and then stopped, and the sound of the water churning became more intense, as if there was some other movement.

Chu Wu took a look at Zhong Chongtang and Chu Liu who were sleeping soundly, sneaked out of the cabin lightly, clutching the firecracker Shen Weifu gave him tightly, and went to the side of the boat to look into a piece of deep black water. A man is under the fishing boat.Just as he was in a hurry to start a firecracker, a splash of water gurgled up, and a man jumped out from the bottom of the water, with a wet arm resting on the side of the boat.

Chu Wu was so frightened that he sat back, but saw Su Shui threw a big bag onto the boat with his other arm, wiped his face, and said to him with a rare smile: "Chu, Chu Wu, I think, I think of a way! You, wait, wait for the wind and rain, be sure to wake up and wait for me!"

"Brother Xiao Su! What can I do?" Chu Wu was delighted to hear that, and got up and looked at him.

"You, you don't care, when the time comes, I will come to you." Su Shuichao snorted twice, and said, "He, their Zhong family is in the mountains after all, and the water quality is not good. Yes, if you come here while the wind and waves are coming, I returned, still can’t hear it, I’m not good at water, and I still wanted to dig a boat, so I drove them back. Then, I hurt them, and they didn’t dare to say it.”

"Did you fight them just now under the boat?"

"Relax, don't worry, all, escaped back."

"Brother Xiao Su, I also want to have such great abilities as you, so I don't have to be bullied by them."

"In the future, I will teach you."

"Ok!"

"Also, and this is also for you," Su Shuichao took a tightly wrapped oilcloth bag, and handed it to Chuwu with a precious hand. Holding it in both hands, Su Shuichao then said: "Mou, Miracle doctor Mou said, to use this, this golden elixir is for Hero Zhong to protect his heart and veins. If it is less, it will take one pill every [-] days, if it is more, it will take one pill every month. , more or less worth a period of time."

"Thank you brother Xiaosu, thank you everyone on the boat." Chu Wu held the oilcloth bag between his hands, put his hands together and bowed, and bowed to Zhong's big boat from a distance.

"Boss, everyone respects Hero Zhong very much. Although, although we can't just take him away, I also want to do something..." Su Shuichao was a little impatient as he spoke, and he frowned and said, "Wait , always, there is always a way to convince my father and Lord Hou!"

Su Shuichao told him a few more words about the things in the baggage, to see if he had stayed there for a long time, even though the Zhong family had just been beaten back by him to make trouble, they couldn't give up the truth after all, so they said goodbye to Chu Wu, dived into the water and went back to Hou's mansion big ship.On the fifth day of the lunar new year, I carried a large bag of food and went into the cabin. I always felt that there was a chance for a turnaround, and my heart was a little more stable.

Maybe it really is a blessing and a misfortune, and life should not die.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, I guard Zhongchongtang, on the sixth day of the new year, and after a while at dawn, I am woken up early by the sixth day of the day.On the fifth day of the lunar new year, he took him to heat up a pot of porridge and fed him.He took the hot porridge and went to see Zhong Chongtang in the cabin. He was still asleep, and fell asleep for a whole day and night. He suddenly woke up at dusk. On the fifth day of the lunar new year, he heated up some food and brought it to him.

Zhong Chongtang smacked his tongue while eating, "My mouth is full of medicine, what did Lao Mou feed me? It's smelly and astringent."

Then I looked up and saw the cautious eyes of Chu Wu, and stopped complaining. After thinking about it, I asked: "Chu Wu, how many formulas have you memorized that grandpa taught you? Recite them all to me."

Chu Wu said nothing and shook his head.

"What? Forgot all of them? Can your brain forget?" Zhong Chongtang wondered.

"I want to forget them all, I don't want to remember Zhong's Kungfu at all." Chu Wu said.

"Hey, hey," Zhong Chongtang shook his head slightly, and said with a smile, "Didn't I tell you not to be angry, what you have learned was taught by Zhong Lubai. Being so angry, I obeyed their wishes and obeyed their rules. I am the most disobedient in my life, so you shouldn’t either. One day, if you defeat the Zhong family with the skills of the Zhong family, that would be called anger.”

Chu Wu tilted his head and thought about it, and felt that it made sense, so he puffed up and said angrily: "Okay! I will recite it! I will learn them all!"

Zhong Chongtang ate and listened. On the fifth day of the new year, he recited the formulas of inner strength and heart that he had learned from Zhong Lubai one by one. Zhong Chongtang corrected them casually; Zhong Chongtang also explained to him some difficult and difficult things that he only knew in words, and even if he couldn't understand them for a while, he had to memorize them abruptly.

The fifth day knew that he was enduring the pain all over his body to teach himself, and he was studying very seriously, but the sixth day would circle around him from time to time and would not play with him, and waved him away.

Chu Liu yanked and scratched him a few times to no avail, so he imitated him and sat cross-legged. His legs were short and crossed badly, so he fell crookedly with a plop.After crying twice, Zhong Chongtang and Chu Wu looked so focused and had no time to care about him, they got up and sat up by themselves without forcing their legs crossed.

Zhong Chongtang also asked Chu Wu to stand up and play the moves he had learned, correcting them one by one, and demonstrating them with both hands.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, thinking that his legs could not move, he couldn't help being a little sad, so he studied harder.

Chu Liu climbed up to the bulkhead and sat down, watching him with relish watching him open his posture and wave his knife empty-handed, and applaud him with his two little hands babbling.

One taught, one learned, and the other watched. Gradually, it was night again. Zhong Chongtang struggled a lot and couldn't hold it any longer.Although he was sweating profusely on the fifth day of the lunar new year, he practiced more and more vigorously. After a while, he realized that something was wrong with Zhong Chongtang, so he hurriedly stopped and approached him to help him lie down and rest.

Zhong Chongtang stopped him with one hand, and said: "Practice again, and perform the Ye family's sword technique you learned earlier. Your family's sword technique is very sharp. Your father was born with a bent leg, so you can't practice it well. I only hope that you can inherit it, and you have to study this more carefully than the Zhong Family Kung Fu. Although I taught you Kung Fu, I have been confiscating you as a disciple, and it is also because of this."

"Mr. Chongtang, I will practice hard. I'm not in a hurry." Chu Wu said.

"Practicing is really not in a hurry. It takes years and years to practice. There is no shortcut. It's just that I don't have much time. Don't shake your head. You and I know it well. I only hope that I can apply what I have learned while my brain is still useful. I will teach you everything I know, you should not learn it at the moment, as long as you write it all down, practice your kung fu steadily, and one day you will be able to master it and use it for you." Zhong Chongtang said.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, he still shook his head. Hearing what he said, he was even more reluctant to learn.

Zhong Chongtang touched his head with his hand, unsheathed his knife from his waist with the other hand, held it up in front of him, and showed it to Chu Wu, Chu Liu also crawled over and blinked to see the scabbard shining of jade.

"This knife was given to me by your father." Zhong Chongtang turned his wrist and pulled out a piece of the knife. The blade of the knife was faintly bright in the dim light of the oil lamp. He looked at the blade and said, "The name of the knife is in Yuanyuan ', I said that this name is not good, it is better to change it to 'Yu Lu', and your father also agrees very much. Qianlong is in the abyss, so it is like a fish in Lu, even if you finally forget each other in the rivers and lakes, it is good."

"I don't understand." Chu Wu also looked at the knife and said softly.

"You have a chivalrous heart, so you already understand." Zhong Chongtang picked the dent on the scabbard where the jade was missing, and said with a smile: "When I accepted this knife, I wanted to keep it for myself. You will return it to the Ye family when you grow up, but now that you have not grown up, I can't keep it anymore, so I have to hand it over to you early. The scabbard is damaged, I'm sorry."

"No."

"Are you blaming me for breaking the scabbard?"

"No! Mr. Chongtang, don't be unreasonable."

"Regardless of emotion and reason, you should accept it. If you don't accept it, you are deliberately trying to anger me." Zhong Chongtang said pretending to be majestic.

Chu Wu jumped up and took it over, drew the knife in his hand, performed a fierce knife move on the left and right, and said angrily: "Okay! I've got it! You can rest assured and sleep! If you are tired It’s broken, let alone teach me!”

"Okay, practice more yourself, think about what I taught you in the past, and tomorrow I will..." Zhong Chongtang fell on his side as he spoke, and fell into a deep sleep.

Chu Liu crawled to Chu Wu's legs and tugged at him, wanting him to sit down.Chu Wu put away the knife and sat down, hugged him into his arms, and he found a comfortable position to nestle and fell asleep.On the first day of the fifth day, I recalled the formulas, sometimes raised my hand to gesture moves, and sometimes thought of the predicament before me and couldn't figure it out. I was so tired after I had to keep watch at night, and I fell asleep unconsciously.

The night passed peacefully, nothing happened.

When I got up in the morning, on the fifth day of the lunar new year, I rushed to the bow and stern to see the movement on the big boats on both sides, but there was no movement.Looking at the river again, Mou Jianchun's boat was still not seen coming.There is still one more day to count, so I have to wait patiently.

The day passed without wind or waves, with a light rain, which did not turn into a heavy rain after all.On the fifth day of the fifth day, he took care of one, one, and one child. When he was free, he learned martial arts from Zhong Chongtang. On the sixth day, he also made random gestures with him.

One day later, Mou Jianchun had been away for three days.

On the fifth day of the fifth day of the lunar new year, I waited from morning to night, but failed to wait for his boat. Remembering that he said that it might take some time to find the medicine, I had to comfort myself and wait for another two days.

On the fifth day, Mou Jianchun still couldn't come, but at dusk, there was a fishing boat leaning on the other side of Jiangxin Island familiarly.A woman dressed in sackcloth and filial piety got off the boat, she was the fisherman's wife, carrying a basket of paper money, incense sticks, candles, and a few plates of offerings, she knelt down on Jiangxin Island with a package on her back.

Finally there was some movement on the big boat, and two people got off and stood in front of the fisherman's wife. The fisherman's wife kowtowed to them, crying and saying that the first seven souls came back, and she wanted to go to the boat to summon the soul of her husband, so that he would not find his way home.The two parties made her cry uncontrollably, each checked the basket and the bundle, only some food and clothing, according to her, it was her husband's favorite food, and the two children's things, which were used for soul-calling, so they let her go the boat.

The fisherman's wife climbed onto the boat with difficulty, spread out the sacrificial objects at the stern, rummaged through a clay pot for burning paper, and cried while burning. No fun, stand farther away.

The fifth day took the sixth day out and wanted to kowtow together.

Just a few steps forward, the fisherman's wife slightly raised her head to look at the two of them. Chu Liu suddenly hugged Chu Wu's legs tightly, dragging him to refuse to go forward, and then burst into tears.

The fisherman's wife chuckled, and Chu Wu almost suspected that she had heard it wrong. Immediately afterwards, she heard her speak, which was completely different from the previous bursts of crying, soft and charming, clear and melodious, like a voice passing through the willow treetops. A ray of breeze, also like the gurgling of an ice-breaking stream, made people's heart tremble.

"You child, why are you crying? I'm not here to kill you, I'm here to meet the man who killed your father."