Chapter 17: The Ranger of the Capital

Some people are happy and some are worried about the change of power in the Yang Mansion, but it has nothing to do with Yuanqing, their family still only has five hangs of money a month, and the money is not enough, so they rely on Shen Qiuniang to copy books to earn money to subsidize the family.

Early the next morning, Yuan Qing got up as usual in the third watch, and after practicing the knife, he went to the kitchen and picked up a small bag containing three steamed buns, and touched a small bottle of wine on the stove, took a pill, and started a long run.

Zhang Xutuo's way of building the foundation is different, he pays the most attention to long-distance running and underwater training, needless to say, long-distance running is to exercise people's endurance and lung capacity, and underwater training can maximize people's potential, at least Yuan Qing understands it.

Zhang Xutuo assigned him the homework to run twenty miles a day, thirteen miles from Yangfu to Qujiangchi, and twenty-six miles back and forth.

It was now the fourth watch, the door had not yet opened, he needed to go out over the wall, and then avoid the Wuhou Wei soldiers patrolling the street, and before the fifth watch, Yuan Qing ran to a small river north of Qujiang Pond, which was the place where he was thrown into the ice hole for the first time.

Today is the fourth day of the first lunar month, the weather is cold, Yuan Qing used a knife to cut an ice hole with a diameter of one zhang on the surface of the river, and then jumped into the river naked, and sank to the bottom of the river, and began to practice the underwater splitting knife every day.......

After more than half an hour, he faintly heard a mixed sound of horses' hooves under the water, and many horsemen passed by the small river, he hid under the water, and the horsemen could not see him, but Yuanqing was a little strange, this is a tributary of Qujiang Pond, and few people pass by, let alone a large group of horseback riders passing by.

At this time, a thousand knives were also just finished, 'Wow! With a sound, Yuan Qing came out of the water softly, and the sky was already bright.

He was cold and hungry, so he walked quickly to the big tree where his clothes and bags were kept, and reached into the hollow of the tree, but he felt empty.

Yuan Qing was stunned, he had been practicing martial arts for three years, and this kind of thing had never happened, and the clothes and bags in the tree hole were actually gone.

He turned his head suddenly, looked at the group of horseback riders in the distance, and saw that a hundred paces away, one of the men on horseback was holding a bamboo pole, and the bamboo pole was carrying his clothes.

Yuan Qing was anxious in his heart, and chased after him, but as soon as he ran a few steps, he picked up the cloth bag containing breakfast from the ground, which had been with him for three years, and was sewn by his aunt under the lamp with his old clothes.

There were also three steamed buns that were also thrown on the ground and trampled by the horses' hooves, which was the breakfast specially prepared for him by the aunt last night, and the aunt's hard work was trampled by this group of bastards.

A wave of anger ignited in Yuan Qing's heart, he clenched the hilt of the knife, but instinctively hesitated when he pulled out his foot, the other party was more than thirty people, all of them were tall horses and long swords, he was just an eight-year-old boy, he went to fight like this, but he was afraid that if the clothes did not come back, he would be humiliated.

At this moment, he suddenly felt something, turned his head, fifty steps away in the depths of the woods, his master Zhang Xutuo didn't know when he arrived? was looking at him coldly, his two gazes were as cold as ice arrows, piercing Yuan Qing's heart, making him extremely ashamed, and also inspiring the courage in his heart.

The big husband is cowardly in battle, how can he be a general? He gritted his teeth and chased after him.

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What Yuan Qing met today was a group of famous Beijing rangers, who were also ruffians and hooligans in later generations, and this was a group of people with special identities.

The leader is the son of Liu Chang of Shangzhu State, Liu Chang is the old friend of Emperor Yang Jian, very favored, he is not strict with his family education, and raised a high-flying son.

His son's name is Liu Jushi, who is notorious in the capital, bullying men and women, needless to say, one of his favorite things to do is to hunt those tall and sturdy officials and eunuchs into his own house on the street, put a wheel around each other's necks, and then beat them with sticks, and those who are about to be killed but still do not give in and beg for mercy, he will call them strong men, make friends with him, and become his henchmen.

He now has nearly 300 followers, almost all of whom are the sons of ministers and ministers.

Today is the fourth day of the first lunar month, and many young men and women will come to Qujiang Pond to enjoy the winter lake scenery during the New Year.

Of course, Liu Jushi and his more than 30 brothers are not here to enjoy the scenery, they are here to hunt, at this time there will not be many tourists on the side of Qujiang Pond, and some young men and women in love like to hide in sparsely populated places.

Liu Jushi likes to do this kind of thing the most, catch these lovers, and call it a beautiful name: catch rapists, strip them naked, tie them up and insult and play with them.

He had just passed through the secluded place where Yuanqing was practicing, just to look for a man and woman in love, but he didn't find the prey, but one of his subordinates found clothes in the hollow of the tree.

Their Yuanqing's clothes were used as flags, and they laughed on bamboo poles.

"Big brother, how does this Huang Luo umbrella cover feel?"

Liu Jushi is burly and strong, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with a sideways face and a fierce appearance, he glanced back at Yuan Qing's clothes, and smiled, "I said Xiao Liuzi, you have the ability to get me a real Huangluo umbrella cover, don't fucking take the clothes called Huazi to damage me,"

"Big brother, didn't the prince say last time that he would reward you with a Huangluo umbrella cover? I'm afraid you won't dare to fight. ”

"I'm afraid of a fart, can't Lao Tzu be the emperor?"

Liu Jushi raised his head and laughed, and suddenly, his laughter stopped abruptly, and he looked ahead in surprise, only to see a half-sized man standing ten steps ahead, naked, carrying a knife in his hand, staring at him fiercely.

He was a little interested in this wild boy, and immediately smiled and asked, "Boy, do you want to worship grandpa and me as a teacher?" ”

He glanced back at the group and laughed.

"Give me back your clothes!" Yuan Qing pointed to the clothes on the bamboo pole and said coldly.

"Oh! It turns out that this monkey suit is yours, I really don't know, I thought it was taken from some wild monkey and stuffed into a tree hole. ”

Liu Jushi suddenly made an expression of sudden realization, he pointed at Yuan Qing and shouted, "I understand, it turns out that you are a wild monkey spirit!" ”

The crowd burst into laughter again.

"Give me back your clothes!" Yuan Qing still said coldly.

Liu Jushi was amazed in his heart, this young man was not affected by him at all, if other children had jumped up and shouted, 'I am not a wild monkey', this young man turned a deaf ear to his ridicule, but it was a bit famous, his eyes narrowed, and he turned back and asked, "Which of you wants to play monkey?" ”

"I'll go! I'll go! ”

Everyone scrambled to raise their hands, and Liu Jushi pointed to the man who was picking the bamboo pole, "Little Liuzi, you found the wild monkey clothes, so it's up to you to go!" Give grandpa a good look, and there will be a reward. ”

The man named Xiao Liuzi turned over and dismounted, drew his sword from the horse, shook his shoulder blades, he was about twenty years old, thin and tall, like a bamboo pole, walked forward and looked Yuan Qing up and down, looked back and asked with a smile: "Big brother, do you want to see the monkey stand upside down, or watch the monkey learn to climb the dog?" ”

Liu Jushi touched his nose and stared at Yuan Qing's homemade underwear, he had never seen this kind of short pants before, so he smiled, "I want to turn him into a female monkey." ”

"It's easy, big brother look at me!"

The tall and thin man danced a sword flower, the sword was sharp, and it slashed towards Yuan Qing's lower body, the goal was very clear, but Yuan Qing did not fight back, and was a little clumsy and panicked and took a few steps back, as if he was lucky, he happened to dodge a sword.

He had already seen that this little sixth son was vain when he dismounted, and although he was fast with his sword, he was full of flaws up and down, left and right, and although the leader was poisonous, his momentum on horseback was obviously different from others, and he was a person with good martial arts.

The reason why this person let his subordinates make a move was actually to see his own details, Yuan Qing was a little closer to him, so he had to take a few steps back, just to let this little sixth son block this person's sight.

Sure enough, everyone laughed loudly when they saw Yuan Qing's clumsy movements, but Liu Jushi frowned and shouted, "Little Liuzi, be careful!" ”

Although he didn't take Yuanqing's half-sized son to heart, but his subordinates stabbed out with such a sharp sword just now, and he was actually dodged by this kid, although he dodged it clumsily, but it still made him a little suspicious.

But Xiao Liuzi didn't take Yuan Qing to heart at all, Yuan Qing's clumsiness and panic covered everything, he laughed, "Big brother take a good look, my sword will rip off his words!" ”

He swooped and slashed away with another sword, fast and ruthless, but his angle just blocked everyone's sight, and everyone couldn't see how Yuan Qing could resist this sword.

Yuan Qing's face showed a grim smile, his body twisted, and he stabbed with his backhand, as fast as electricity, only to hear a terrible scream, the blood arrow flew up, and a short piece of flesh and blood blurred fell to the ground, everyone thought it was a child's small words that were cut off, but the scream was wrong, it was actually Xiao Liuzi.

When the long sword fell to the ground, Xiao Liuzi knelt on the ground with his hands in his hands, blood gushed from his hands, he trembled all over, and fell headlong on the soil.

Only then did everyone realize that the short piece of flesh on the ground was not the words of a child, but the thumb of Xiao Liuzi's right hand.

Everyone was shocked and froze for a moment.

"Good boy, you dare to pretend to be stupid in front of your grandfather!"

Liu Jushi jumped off the horse, pulled out his knife, and forced Yuan Qing step by step, his thumb was cut off, which means that he could not use a sword for life, this kid was too vicious, but he forgot that if Yuan Qing's words were cut, he would have to enter the palace.

"Big brother, you want to avenge me!"

Xiao Liuzi fell to the ground and cried, Liu Jushi hated and scolded: "Howl bird, Lao Tzu reminds you to be careful, you yourself are disobedient, get out of the way!" ”

Xiao Liuzi grabbed the thumb on the ground, and crawled to the side, Liu Jushi lifted the knife upside down, his left hand was palm forward, his right arm was pulled away, he was holding the knife upside down, walking lunges under his feet, circling around Yuanqing, looking for the other party's flaws up and down with a pair of evil eyes.

When the people in the back saw that the leader was like a great enemy, the disdain on their faces disappeared, and they looked at them with full attention.

Yuan Qing bit his lip and secretly screamed lucky, he was afraid that this leader would not come down, so he directly beckoned everyone to cut him down on the horse.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, he said, "I defeated the thin man, return the clothes to me first!" ”

"There's no need to rush!"

Liu Jushi squinted his eyes and laughed, "Defeat me, I will compensate you for ten clothes." ”

He has found Yuanqing's weakness, he is six feet tall and uses a ten-pound heavy knife, while the other party is only five feet tall, and the knife is only five or six pounds, and his strength is far stronger than the other party, although he didn't see how Xiao Liuzi's thumb was cut off, but he can speculate that the other party must have relied on his small and flexible body, coupled with Xiao Liuzi's light enemy, that the other party seized the opportunity.

Since height and strength are his strengths, he has to use this to defeat the other party, and then clean him up, if this kid can bear his torture, it doesn't hurt to let him replace Xiao Liuzi.

But Liu Jushi didn't know that Yuanqing's five-jin knife was only used for underwater training, and if he really fought in battle, Yuanqing would use at least a ten-jin knife.

Zhang Xutuo, who was watching the battle in the depths of the woods in the distance, had a trace of worry, and he also recognized the person who fought against Yuanqing, who turned out to be Liu Jushi, the son of Liu Chang, the Duke of Peng, who was notorious, and even the ministers and concubines were afraid to see him, the emperor valued Liu Chang's old feelings, and refused to blame him, if Yuanqing hurt him, I am afraid the consequences would be very serious, if he did not hurt him, he was worried that Yuanqing would have to worry about his life.

Zhang Xutuo turned over on his horse, picked up his bow and arrows, and he was ready to shoot.

But at this moment, Liu Jushi suddenly launched, a knife to Yuan Qing's neck slashed horizontally, the momentum was fierce, Yuan Qing's knife was faster, I saw a flash of knife light, but the back of his knife was just attached to the back of Liu Jushi's knife, and his wrist turned to press down the back of his knife, like a ball of glue to stick the opponent's knife, this is the fourth type of Zhang Xutuo's thirteen knife techniques - ice, is a defensive style, a bit like the unloading force in Taijiquan.

In the distance, Zhang Xutuo's bow and arrows were already full, and he could already see that this Liu Jushi was far from being Yuan Qing's opponent in terms of sword skills, speed, and strength.

He was ready to shoot Yuan Qing's knife away at a critical moment, but he slowly relaxed again, he thought that Yuan Qing would use the first style to 'split the mountain', but he didn't expect him to use the guard style, which made Zhang Xutuo nod secretly, it seems that Yuan Qing is not a reckless person, brave but not losing his senses.

The first battle cut off the opponent's thumb, which is a bloody warning, it is to attack the opponent, and now it is on the defensive, it is obvious that it is a soldier who wants to surrender without a fight.

Yuan Qing saw a purple gold fish bag on Liu Jushi's waist, his grandfather also had one, and his father Yang Xuangan only had a silver fish bag, it is said that the purple gold fish bag is only available to officials above the third grade, this bastard is certainly not a third-grade official, but he must be the son of a powerful person.

Yuan Qing didn't want to cause any trouble for himself, and he didn't want to cause trouble for Zhang Xutuo, but he couldn't lose his dignity.

Liu Jushi's knife was like a knife into the cement, he knew that something was wrong, and he pulled the knife back, and suddenly the empty door in front of him was wide open, at this moment, Yuan Qing seized the opportunity, turned defense into offense, and a knife was as fast as a shadow, slashing at Liu Jushi's chest and abdomen, Zhang Xutuo was taken aback in the distance, and it was too late to pull the bow.

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(In history, Liu Jushi did all kinds of evil, and finally aroused public anger in the seventeenth year of the emperor, some people accused Liu Jushi of befriending the son of the minister, plotting against him, Emperor Wen Yang Jian was furious, and ordered to behead Liu Jushi, and the children of the ministers of the minister were implicated and removed from the list of countless people, and even the prince Yang Yong was also implicated, which became one of the reasons why the prince was later deposed)

Wu Dong Qiankun 81zw