22. Psychological trauma

The new master's sudden interest in knife techniques made Cheng Guan very disdainful, but no matter how impatient he was, he didn't dare to show a little bit on his face.

was practicing, and suddenly there was a familiar scream from the backyard, Liu Qi only felt that his heart was like being struck by lightning, and he immediately picked up his knife and ran into the backyard quickly.

The owner of the fisherman's house was holding the neck of a black dog with his limbs tied in one hand, and a sharp knife in the other, about to plunge the dog's heart and bleed.

"Stop!" Liu Qi roared angrily, rushed up and pushed the person to the ground. The middle-aged fisherman somehow offended the military master who was very kind before, lying on the ground staring at the snowy long knife in his hand in horror, trembling and shouting: "The military master spares his life!" The military master spares his life! ……”

Cheng Guan also followed up in the backyard at this time, and he was also puzzled when he saw this scene, I don't know how the honest fisherman provoked the good-tempered Liu Qi.

The black dog hanging on the bamboo pole screamed louder when he saw this, twisted his body and struggled, Liu Qi saw that its bright eyes were full of pleading eyes, and the eyes were exactly the same as when his dog "Flying Knife" was rescued by his grandfather from the hands of the villagers, thinking of the missing dog, his nose was sore, and tears immediately blurred his eyes.

Untying the straw rope, the black dog got into Liu Qi's feet with his tail between his feet and whined and whispered, staring at Liu Qi pitifully with black eyes.

"What are you going to do?!" Liu Qi asked sharply, his eyes were red and he stared at the fisherman, and the hand holding the knife could hardly restrain himself from pulling out the knife and splitting the person in front of him in half.

Seeing that he was going to die, Cheng Guan was anxious, so he had to hold Liu Qi tightly and persuade: "The master's family killed the dog to entertain us, where did you offend Mr.?" Then he yelled at the frightened fisherman: "You dare to be rude in front of my husband? Don't hurry up and apologize to Mr. ”

Liu Qi suddenly came to his senses, looking back and forth at Cheng Guan and the fisherman, he couldn't believe that the fierce person just now was actually himself.

After coming to the Han Dynasty for more than two months, although Liu Qi gradually accepted the reality and slowly adapted to this strange world, such a horrific and bizarre incident was still too cruel for him at the age of only twenty-one, especially the two terrible experiences of being caught by Zhang Jiao and killing people with his own hands, which had left serious psychological trauma in his heart.

In just a few seconds, Liu Qi, who missed his relatives all the time in his heart, saw a similar scene to the previous rescue dog, and his thinking was briefly confused, mistaking the black dog to be slaughtered as his own dog, and the connivance of the use of violence in this era made the violent tendency in his heart swell sharply, and the more he suppressed it, the more violent it broke out.

Fortunately, Liu Qi's situation was not very serious, and Cheng Guan stopped him in time.

waved his hand to signal that Cheng Guan was fine, pinched his eyebrows hard to calm himself down, and hurriedly stepped forward to help the frightened fisherman, but he didn't know how to explain, so he had to give a deep salute and said: "I have offended a lot, please forgive me." The fisherman subconsciously waved his still trembling hands, and he didn't even dare to say it.

Liu Qi asked, "Is it okay to sell this dog to me?" ”

"This dog was meant to be dedicated to all the military masters, just take it away." The fisherman couldn't wait to send this fierce god away, and at this time, even if Liu Qi ordered his hut, he would also agree.

"Give him more money to compensate." Liu Qi turned his head and said to Cheng Guan, picked up the black dog and walked out of the yard.

Cheng Guan hurriedly took out a string of copper coins from his arms and stuffed it to the fisherman who was at a loss, turned around and followed.

Holding the black dog Liu Qi walked aimlessly by the river, the wet breeze drove away the melancholy in his heart, and sat down on a big rock, Liu Qi looked at the black dog carefully, judging from the teeth, it was about a year old, and it could still be trained, and the face and bones were still quite beautiful dogs, and there were even some wolf shadows.

"I'll call you a throwing knife in the future!"

The black dog seemed to understand his words, and stretched out his tongue to lick Liu Qi's face.

Washing off the dirt on his body, the flying knife regained his spirits and happily ran around his new master.

Cheng Guan stared at Liu Qi nervously not far away, and saw that he had returned to normal and breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be the sentimental fault of the literati, isn't it just a dog, I have never seen him have the consciousness of a gentleman and a gentleman when he hunted deer and rabbits and skinned and roasted meat before, and the mind of a scholar is really complicated.

Cheng Guan scratched his head, he didn't want to think about it if he couldn't figure it out, although this new master was sometimes weird, but he was always polite when talking to rough people like himself, and the feeling of being respected was much better than when he was under Gao Hong.

The thought that suddenly popped up in his mind startled him, and Cheng Guan looked around with a weak heart, for fear that Gao Hong would suddenly appear behind him, so he hurriedly stepped forward to invite Liu Qi back to the house for dinner.

The night in the era of no electricity is really difficult for Liu Qi, a person from the 21st century, who is accustomed to the colorful nightlife, how can he fall asleep at eight o'clock every day? The huge hair difference always gave him a headache. It's the same tonight, although he sleeps in a room alone and doesn't have to endure the thunderous snoring of Cheng Guan and others, no matter how many sheep he counts, his biological clock refuses to turn to sleep mode.

After tossing and turning on the table for nearly half an hour, still no sleep, Liu Qi got up and went to the courtyard to look at the moon and sighed, recalling the momentary gaffe during the day and couldn't help but shiver, now only bury that miss deep into the bottom layer of my heart, think more about how to find Qi Taiping Yaoshu and Dunjia Tianshu, otherwise not only will I not be able to return home, but I will also lose my life, and even I will be tortured and crazy by myself before I die.

Sitting cross-legged in the moonlight, Liu Qi took a deep breath, perhaps it was the coolness of the night breeze that calmed down his troubled thoughts, and a long-lost clear stream went downstream from the top of his head, guiding it to return to the dantian after walking all over his limbs, Liu Qi slowly opened his eyes and stood up energetically.

Since breaking up with Yu Ji and losing supervision, he has made the same old mistake again, and the time spent practicing the righteous qi technique in the past half a month has not added up to an hour, Liu Qi secretly made up his mind that he would not be lazy from now on, took out the knife prepared for him by Cheng Guan, and practiced the knife technique in the courtyard.

When Liu Qi got up, the flying knife also got up, and it was also very puzzled that the master ran into the yard in the middle of the night without sleeping and slashed at his shadow, so he had to lie on the steps and watch curiously.

He was sweating all over his body, and suddenly a cool breeze blew, Liu Qi suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, as if someone was peeping at him, which made him very uncomfortable, and then the flying knife suddenly stood up, pricked up his ears, and shouted vigilantly at the room next to him.

Cheng Guan and the others had actually woken up a long time ago, and their senses were naturally sharp when they practiced martial arts all year round, and they were wondering which neuropathy didn't sleep in the middle of the night and made noise outside the house They couldn't sleep, but when they got up and saw that it was Liu Qi, they didn't dare to say anything and quietly looked at the door, but they didn't expect to be discovered by the dog, Gao Teng had to push the door and go out to salute: "I'll wait for the night, disturb Mr. Yaxing, forgive your sins." Then they all ran back and lay down.

Liu Qi knew that although he tried his best not to make a loud noise, it still affected people's sleep, so he had to put away the knife and go back to the house, and the moment he entered the door, the chill behind his neck surged again, but when he looked back, there was only a piece of moonlight and darkness in the distance in the courtyard, and he smiled self-deprecatingly, the river breeze was really cool enough.

Having a flying knife by his side brought Liu Qi a familiar sense of security, and this night's sleep was particularly sweet.

When Cheng Guan and the others woke up the next morning, they found that Liu Qi had already been practicing knives in the courtyard for a long time, looking at his focused look, they all secretly said that it seemed that this young man was not a whim, and the most despised for those of them who practiced martial arts was the unresolute gentleman and the literati who could only talk about it.

Gao Teng led people to feed the horses and prepare for the trip, while Cheng Guan pointed out beside Liu Qi, this time he was very attentive, and explained every detail in detail, Liu Qi benefited a lot and learned more energetically.

After preparing to stop, they had an early meal, and everyone got on the boat again and set off.

The big boat carrying horses and sailing against the current, the speed is very slow, only fifty or sixty miles a day, and the waterway is crooked, the boat has just left Guling and traveled to the territory of Yongning County for three days.

There was always a small boat following closely behind him, although the boat would change every day, but the people who were following him were not clever at concealing it, or they didn't want to hide their intentions at all, Cheng Guan couldn't sit still, shouting that he was going to throw the thief into the river to feed the fish, and everyone was nervous and suspicious by this small boat.

After landing on this day, after a hurried meal, Liu Qi divided the master and discussed with Cheng Guan and the five of them for one night, and decided that the next day, Gao Teng and Gao Tai would take the master's fishing boat behind, and after confirming the stalker, they would catch up and arrest him and interrogate him clearly.

It's a pity that the final success fell short, the next day just set off Gao Teng recognized the tracking boat, but the tracker was very cunning, as soon as the two of them boarded the boat, they didn't even see the appearance of the person and dived away, and the angry Gao Teng, who had always been calm, couldn't hold back and stabbed a dozen holes in the boat with a knife before leaving.

When the two and Liu Qi converged, they found another boat taking over the sunken boat after two hours. Even Cheng Guan smelled the smell of danger, and the six of them had to get together again to discuss countermeasures, but they didn't even know where the stalker was. The first thing that came to everyone's mind was to dock and wait for the night to quietly change boats to get rid of the tracking, but it was immediately denied, because it was impossible to increase the speed without horses, and a little experienced person could quickly catch up with them and lock them through the draught of the boat.

Cheng Guan said angrily: "It must be done by the water thieves, I heard the boatman say that if you go further and the waterway is gradually narrowing, the thieves must have set up an ambush in front, just waiting for you and me to throw themselves into the net, it is better to abandon the boat and go ashore by land as soon as possible." ”