You Jianghu people really know how to play

In the autumn of the 20th year of Jinghe, frost came.

After nightfall, it began to rain heavily, with strong wind and heavy rain, which made people feel chilly.The wind was very fierce, carrying heavy rain, and the doors and windows were banging.

There were more than a dozen travelers sheltering from the rain living in the ruined temple. Seeing that the doors and windows were shaking violently, a beggar got up and looked for wooden bars in the temple to support them.

"There is no door, no tiles, no jingle, there are bowls and shoes to go around the world..." the beggar was very young, and he sang while looking for it.There are old and young people in the temple, but no one pays attention to him, and all of them have their eyes closed.The beggar walked around the fire, but found nothing. When he looked up, he saw that Guanyin, who was missing half of his head, was looking at him.

He groped around the altar for a while, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a person sitting in the shadow beside the Guanyin statue.

Beggar was so frightened that his hands and feet trembled, and he sat on the ground with a thud.

He had searched the ruined temple when he came in, but there was no one there.After he lit the fire, passers-by came in one after another to shelter from the rain and spend the night.There are actually people on the Bodhisattva's side, which he never thought about.

The young man leaning against the wall remained motionless, and only opened his eyes to look at him when he heard the movement.

Qi'er thought he looked familiar, but couldn't remember where he had seen him.It's just that the man looked extraordinary and didn't look like a bad guy, so he got up and stepped back carefully.

The next morning, he left early.He was planning to go back to his hometown to have a look, so he begged all the way, taking advantage of the dawn of the day, he could just go into the city.

After walking for a short distance, the beggar suddenly heard footsteps behind him.

Although he doesn't know much about martial arts, he has also practiced internal skills for a few days under the guidance of the Seventh Uncle of the Beggar Gang, and he still has hearing power.Hearing the steady footsteps behind him, he quickly turned his head to look.

A young man was following behind.

He squinted his eyes for a while, and found that it was the person who was resting next to the Bodhisattva last night.

Now that it was a little darker, the face of that person was clearly revealed.

He was dressed in a neat crow-blue shirt, tightly tied with a gray-brown belt, and a pair of jet-black boots, with a silver animal head pattern on the upper, showing his teeth and claws.But the beggar set his eyes on the saber at the young man's waist.

There are two big characters in seal script on the silver bright scabbard: Qiushuang.

Beggar's whole body shivered: he recognized these two characters.When Seventh Uncle asked them to find Wu Muyuan, a master swordsmith in the rivers and lakes, he showed them the pattern.Uncle Qi said that this is a gift for a young hero who is good at martial arts and has a good heart.In the fire of the Shaoyi League, his scabbard was split, so Uncle Qi deliberately found someone to build another one for him.

"Tang Shaoxia." The beggar quickly stepped out of the way and bowed.

That young man is Tang Ou.

He only knew that he slept with the beggar in the ruined temple last night, but he didn't know that he also participated in the battle of the Shaoyi League, so he quickly returned the gift politely.

Beggar walked with him, seeing Tang Ou was very silent, so he talked about some scenery and legends here.

"Passing Lingyong City, and going forward for more than 20 miles, is the nearest pass. Going out of that pass and going forward is the territory of the Di people." He said enthusiastically, "It is said that the Di people drink blood like hair. It’s vicious. But it has been peaceful with us for decades, and we often have business contacts.”

Tang Ou heard the words and said: "Brother is Bowen."

"I am from Lingyong City. A strange incident happened in Lingyong City more than ten years ago, and many people died. Does Tang Shaoxia know?" Beggar said, "Except for me, everyone in the family was there at that time. I died. I had no choice but to leave Lingyong City, wandering around, and finally became a beggar."

Seeing that Tang Ou was not interested, Qi'er still talked about the old things in Lingyong City more than ten years ago.

"At that time, the beginning of winter was over, and it was about to snow heavily. It was very cold and snowed all day long. The snow had accumulated more than a foot. When we got up in the morning, everyone was sweeping the snow." He gestured and said, "Sweeping and sweeping." , Several dead people were swept out from under the snow. They were all frozen, squatting in the snow, it was scary."

Tang Ou listened halfway, and asked casually: "Squatting?"

"Squat." The beggar made a posture, "just squat like this. From that day until the day of heavy snowfall, dead people can be swept out of the snow every morning."

Tang Ou frowned: "Your family..."

There was not much sadness on the beggar's face.Because it has been a long time, he only lowered his voice slightly: "My parents, brother and sister-in-law are gone. I got up from the bed on the day of heavy snow, and found that my father and elder brother who were sleeping with me were gone. Lots of snow. They're right under the snow."

As the two talked, they saw the walls of Lingyong City in front of them.

Tang Ou just listened to a strange story and didn't care.The beggar bid farewell to him, and asked him casually: "Did Shaoxia Tang run so far, did he come to do something for the Shaoyi League?"

"Come to find someone." Tang Ou frowned and said without interest.

When the time came, the north and south gates of Lingyong City opened at the same time.

There are several turns of iron chains twisted on the wooden gate, and soldiers are standing on the top of the city wall, and everyone who passes by will be strictly checked.

Tang Ou showed the token of the Shaoyi League and passed away quickly.He walked into Lingyong City, looked at the crowd in front of him, and was at a loss for a moment.After staying for a while, he raised his legs and walked towards the busiest street in the city, where there was an old acquaintance of Master Tang.After finding that uncle, Tang Ou can easily find the person he is looking for again.

He came to look for Shen Guangming.

The fire in the Shaoyi League hit the Shaoyi League hard, and at the same time, it also made the Xinjiabao devastated.The Shaoyi League lost many people, but Xin Muyun never showed up.It's just that his goal has been achieved: Lin Shaoyi's position as the leader of the martial arts is in jeopardy.

Tang Ou searched all over the Shaoyi League but couldn't find Shen Guangming.After he met Shen Qing who was fighting the fire, Shen Qing told him where Shen Guangming was hiding. The two opened the secret passage, but found that there was no one inside.At the end of the secret passage was a private pier by the Yulan River, and the cloth strips Shen Guangming used to bandage his wounds fell on the rocky beach.

Finally, the boatman on the private dock couldn't stand Shaoyimeng's tricks, and finally spoke out about Xinjiabao's human trafficking.They didn't know where Shen Guangming went west with the boat.

The Shaoyi League was seriously injured and needed to be reorganized. Tang Ou bid farewell to Lin Shaoyi and went west alone to find Shen Guangming.

On a shoal in the upper reaches of the Yulan River, he found a corpse decomposing in the sun. The sack wrapped in the corpse was exactly the style of the boatman's confession.Enduring the stench and fear, he opened the sacks one by one, but Shen Guangming was not found.When Tang Ou finally asked where the Di people who bought and sold slaves were going, the mountains on both sides of the Yulan River had gradually turned from green to yellow.

He stood on the top of the hill, looking to the north.Two solitary migratory birds flew out from the forest alone, gradually drifting away in the boundless world.

Tang Ou suddenly remembered Bai Lu ten years ago.That day Zhang Ziyun led him down the mountain, looked at the flock of birds in the distance and asked him if he could see clearly.

He could see now, clearly.

The autumn wind stirred the branches and leaves on the trees, rustling.Tang Ou leaned against a big tree, pursed his lips tightly, and saw the two solitary birds until they disappeared.

When people poured into Lingyong City from the south gate, the caravan was leaving Lingyong City through the north gate, and went to the Di people's land to do business.

On the second day, a man on horseback left the caravan, crossed the border of Dongyuan King Mule's territory, stopped outside Dongyuan King's tent, and knelt down to beg to see him.

When the young knight entered Dongyuan King's tent, he passed a man who came out carrying a bucket and a rag.

"Shen Guangming!"

Shen Guangming, who had just walked out of Dongyuan Wang's tent, raised his head and looked at the visitor very tiredly.

The young Di Ren who had bought him the other day was striding over with a bow on his shoulder.

"Have you finished your work? Go hunting with me." He smiled and patted Shen Guangming on the back, "Look at how thin you are, the Han people can't eat enough."

"Yes, yes... my son, I will put these things away first." Shen Guangming smiled obediently.After getting the approval, he immediately walked back with the bucket.

Walking is inescapable.Shen Guangming put away the bucket and rag, and wiped his face carelessly.

That Di Ren, who was so handsome that he couldn't care less about his fear and anger, was the son of Mu Le, king of Dongyuan. His Di Ren name was a mouthful, but Shen Guangming only remembered that his Han name was Shu Lang.Shu Lang said that he spent [-] Wen to buy Shen Guangming for the purpose of finding an interesting person to chat with his mother.But after seeing the concubine a few times, Shu Lang saw that Shen Guangming was a clever man, so he took him to his side.

Shen Guangming thought with all his heart that the son of King Dongyuan should be a hero who fights and kills, and he could at least learn more about the world by following him. Who knew that Shu Lang would either drag him to hunt or let him herd sheep.While Shen Guangming was busy for Shu Lang, he was called to do chores by the people from Dongyuan King from time to time.

But he is a slave, no wages and no holidays.If the concubine hadn't seen him pitiful, and would occasionally give him some rest time and money, Shen Guangming would have taken the blame a long time ago.

... Uncover the pole and escape.

But the prerequisite for escaping is that he must have a horse.Di Ren's territory is too large, and Shen Guangming believed that he would not be able to run a few miles without a horse.

So now he is trying his best to please Shu Lang, and he wants Shu Lang to give him a mount.

Shu Lang waited on the horse for a while, and finally saw Shen Guangming running over panting.

"Let's go!" Shu Lang lightly kicked the horse's belly with both feet, and the horse raised its hooves happily and ran forward.

Shen Guangming: "..."

He followed Shu Lang to hunt for many days, just like this behind Shu Lang - how many days did he run after the horse.

With a humble and flattering smile on Shen Guangming's face, he scolded Shu Lang, Shu Lang's father, Shu Lang's grandfather, and great-grandfather in his heart.Of course, Princess Dongyuan is not included.

Shen Guangming had no idea how big Dongyuan King's territory was.He has no idea what Dongyuan King is.In such a large place, he only walked through dozens of tents, and the only ones who could talk to him in these dozens of tents were Shu Lang and his mother.

The rest of the Di people don't understand Chinese and have no interest in Shen Guangming.He is not as strong and tall as the other Di people, and he looks cowardly and timid. Naturally, no one cares about him, and sometimes he even invites all kinds of ridicule.

After running enough, Shu Lang gave a long laugh and turned to look for Shen Guangming.

Shen Guangming was running slowly towards him through the withered grass.

"Shen Guangming! Are you a woman!" Shu Lang said loudly, "Could it be that all the men in the Central Plains are like you, like a rabbit?"

"Yes—ah—" Shen Guangming answered loudly, "Master Shu Lang gave a horse for the young lady to ride!"

Shu Lang laughed loudly, turned his horse's head, and continued to run forward.

Shen Guangming reviewed in his mind the family tree of Shu Lang's family that he had just sorted out a few days ago.

After finally reaching the other side of the hunting ground, Shu Lang had already set up his big bow.Shen Guangming's purpose was to help him watch the horses and collect the prey he shot by the way.The horse is very strong, and it only obeys Shu Lang. Shen Guangming has been kicked by him several times, so he stands far away.

Shu Lang shot two rabbits, ran back and threw them to Shen Guangming.

"Rabbit, just like you." Shu Lang said.

Shen Guangming smiled: "The son is right, everything the son says is right."

Shu Lang looked at his dog-legged appearance, frowned and reprimanded: "You have no backbone, no woman will fall in love with you."

Shen Guangming was still smiling, and his tone was extremely sincere: "As long as the prince takes a fancy to me, I will do my best for him....Does the prince know what it means to be mad?"

He thought, this is one of the few idioms he knows, and he doesn't know if it can be used here.

Shu Lang said he didn't know, Shen Guangming immediately said: "It means being very loyal."

Shu Lang weighed the arrow in his hand, stared at Shen Guangming and asked, "Shen Guangming, I don't understand why women from the Central Plains like a man with a soft spine like you?"

Shen Guangming wondered, "How do you say that?"

Shu Lang smiled: "I can see that, you secretly hid a board in your bag. Is that the spirit card that you Central Plains people say? Lin Che is your wife?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Guangming's expression changed.

"You turned over my baggage?!" Shen Guangming was furious, "What did you mess with!"

Shu Lang had never seen him so furious, and was shocked: "I haven't moved... I know it's something that can't be moved."

Shen Guangming stared at him for a moment, took a deep breath, turned and left.

Shu Lang: "...where are you going?"

Shen Guangming: "Go back to sleep."

Shu Lang had never seen him so furious, and for a moment he forgot that Shen Guangming was a slave he had bought, and stood there blankly watching Shen Guangming walk away.

Shen Guangming did have a piece of Lin Che's spirit card in his luggage.

He found blocks of wood in the camp and made it himself.He didn't know how to write the word "Che", so he found an excuse to ask the princess.The princess wrote it to him, and he copied it on a wooden board and carved it with a knife.

He has stayed here for so long, and he still remembers clearly what happened that night in Shaoyi League.

Unable to sleep at night, he curled up on the mat in a daze after practicing Da Lu Gong.Lin Che's spirit card was placed in the bundle next to his pillow, and it was almost the source of all his courage.

He only wanted to be Lin Che's.As for Shen Qing, Fang Dazao, Liu Shushu, and others, he didn't believe that anything would happen to them.

After reviewing the Shaoyi League, I began to think about Tang Ou.From the moment he ate minced meat soup with foreign persimmons at the gate of the Tang Mansion, he thought of Zi Yunfeng, the night of sitting across from each other in the boat, and in Xinjiabao, when Tang Ou came out from the shadows and sternly asked Xin Muyun to let him go.

Later, he thought about Tang Ou for more and more time, and only when he thought about Tang Ou could he fall asleep slowly.

There will be no dark secret passages and blazing bookstores in the dream.There is only one river in the dream, and there is a boat on the river, and there is a lamp in the boat.He sat beside the lamp, and Tang Ou sat beside him.

After walking briskly for a while, the irritability and anger in Shen Guangming's heart gradually subsided.

He slowed down, stepped over the dry grass and the dry stream, and strode toward the camp.Shu Lang made him unhappy, and he was in no mood to please him anymore.Just as he was thinking, he suddenly saw a person riding a horse running fast in the distance.

"Little slave!" The man shouted at Shen Guangming, "Where is the son? Find him quickly!"

Shen Guangming's eyes lit up: This man knows how to speak Chinese!He took a closer look, and it turned out to be a Han attendant next to Princess Dongyuan.

Princess Dongyuan has been bedridden since the day the weather turned cold, and Shen Guangming knows it.He immediately realized that something might have happened to Shu Lang's mother.

"What's the matter? I'll go find him." Shen Guangming looked anxious, and stepped forward to grab the rein of the horse, "It's hard to find the place where he stays, so give me the horse first. Is there something wrong with the princess? "

Without any suspicion, the man dismounted quickly and gave the horse to Shen Guangming.

Shen Guangming restrained his excitement and quickly got on the horse.

"The doctor who treated the concubine last year has returned. The prince asked the son to pay back the account immediately, and accompany the concubine to find him."

Shen Guangming's heart moved, and he asked him quickly: "Where is the doctor? If it is too far away, the place is too cold, the princess can't bear it."

"Not far away, the doctor is Han, and he is in Lingyong City."

Shen Guangming's palms suddenly broke out in warm sweat.He held the rein tightly and said, "Okay, I'll go find the prince right away!"

The horse neighed and galloped out.

Shen Guangming doesn't want to run away now.He wants to follow Shu Lang to Lingyong City.Once he entered Lingyong City, he would have a chance to escape smoothly.