Chapter 7 Pondering and Grinding

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Chang Sihao took Gu Weixin, Mo Ruzhi and a few Qin family warriors all the way to the west to a village and town, so he asked the two to buy horses Gu Weixin saw that he was unable to move and said that riding a horse was bumpy It is better to change to a waterway It is relatively stable and convenient Chang Sihao also felt reasonable, so he left a personal letter Since he and everyone diverted to the river to take a boat Tracing the river for five or six days Qin Juexiang's big boat followed behind The boat and passed Chang Sihao boarded and went down to the cabin to inquire about the situation of the East Factory Qin Juexiang asked him to sit down and briefly described the situation and said: "Fang Zhunuo is very good at handling things Roughly summed up well This trip to the south On the whole, the results can be described as impressive, and the military expenditure is also small, except for the loss of some prisoners in Taihu Lake, other places can almost be said to be wiped out, and Juhao Pavilion is completely finished."

Chang Sihao said: "Isn't there anything else going on over there in the East Factory?"

Qin Juexiang knew that he was worried about Fang Zhennuo, so he said: "It's okay, Zeng Shiquan can't look down on him, and Kang Huaibao Besides, this surnamed Fang's brain is so good that Zeng Shiquan may not be able to fiddle with it I have already informed Cheng Lian'an Let him leave a snack on Fang Zhunuo Appropriately help and support it In the future, there will be a big change of blood in the factory We have to have a few people under our hands who can do things."

Chang Sihao looked at him with a strange look: "Why do you really think of yourself as the master of the East Factory?"

Qin Juexiang smiled bitterly: "Big brother, martial arts is a place to be faced, and now there is no place for me on the rivers and lakes What do I take if I don't take this road Xiao Anzi's side is already in the iron There is Jin Wu in the palace There is Gonggong Feng Plus your umbrella Let's be connected Together We will definitely be able to make a big difference" I followed forward and made up "I haven't been in the officialdom for a long time, but I have already seen through these people If you don't reform well, how can there be hope in this country Uncle Zheng's strategies You are very familiar with them How do you know if it works if you don't try it In my opinion, when we return to Beijing after this trip, let's start to implement this." When the time comes, which stone stumbles in the court, you squeak, and as soon as the East Factory and the North and South Towns are embraced, they will be bulldozed for you."

Chang Sihao's eyes flashed and said: "Teach you to say this, we seem to be worse than Yan Song" But there are some expectations in my heart: Although Xu Jie was overthrown before, but the strategy of the Jian family to govern the country has not been pushed away Officialdom is full of eating, drinking, and having fun, and not doing anything serious Anyway, the inspector is the responsibility of Dongchang, and it is okay to use it to remove those dissidents and leave loyal people who serve the country generously Everyone is united in One Mind The grand wish of the Jian family cannot be realized

Qin Juexiang said angrily: "Alas, the East Factory is actually a tool, how to use it, isn't it a matter of looking at people At the beginning, the little brother's impulse made a big mistake I think about it from time to time, my back is cold, and I have the heart to die, but if I really die, wouldn't I be even more of a sinner if I close the coffin, I just want to help you fulfill the grand wish of the Sword Family in the future, and it can be regarded as atonement."

Chang Sihao hugged his back and said: "Jue Bang, you have this idea, I don't know how happy I am for you, once some sins are cast, they are a lifetime thing, and they can't be changed, but as long as you sincerely repent, every step in the future can be upright, step out of the footprints, and everything you do in the future is worthy of your conscience and beneficial to others, and the gods and Buddhas can forgive you."

Qin Juexiang said: "Yes, yes, big brother, the more things I experience, the more I feel that your words are right, sincere, and true, but I always make you angry."

Chang Sihao waved his hand and said: "Speaking of which, I don't know much about politics What can I do in the future I really don't have confidence How can people have good ideas and have no ability to realize it is the saddest I see that you are better than me in this regard I hope Fang Zhennuo can also take a hand Alas, it's a pity that Zheng Meng's master ......" Qin Juexiang saw that his eyes were wandering and pondering, and hurriedly said: "Yes, ah, by the way, big brother, as soon as I went back that day, I asked Cheng Lian'an to send someone out to find Xiaoqing, but when I set off, there was no news Maybe she was afraid that the people of Taishan Huashan would retaliate against her and fly away." Alas, she's a girl floating into the rivers and lakes, it's really worrying."

"It's rare that you can think of her"

Chang Sihao sighed, was quiet for a while, and said, "Isn't there anything else to do in the East Factory?"

"What else could be done?"

Qin Juexiang blinked: "Big brother, you have something on your mind, what are you worried about" suddenly realized and said in a low voice: "I'm thinking about Guo Shu Ronghua" After asking this sentence, I waited for a while and saw that he didn't say anything, and I knew that I guessed correctly, and said indifferently: "I've jumped into the river and died, and I'm still wondering what he's doing."

Chang Sihao's face was calm, he stood up, paced in the cabin, and said as if talking to himself: "Others can at least understand one or two Only this person I always feel that I can't figure him out Even if the Qin family's affairs are planted by the ghost faction for him Then the three factions of Baita Temple withdrew from the alliance With Cao Xiangfei's participation, it is inseparable from him This trip to the five-party talks in the Haoge Pavilion is also his plan He counted everything He obviously has the chance to win But why did he leave it all behind

The officialdom has always been two roads The Hundred Swords Alliance continues to extend its tentacles Dongchang is afraid of splitting and weakening This time he went to Jiangnan Why did he recruit a group of chivalrous swordsmen by his side and didn't use it I think it has nothing to do with Juhao Pavilion It seems that he is preparing to deal with you The Hundred Swords League and the Qin family are in your hands Juhao Pavilion collapses The rivers and lakes are big by you Isn't this a threat In the officialdom, he has the final say Put you in ruins in the rivers and lakes In the future, you will have to completely rely on the official family His next trip to Jiangnan is equivalent to leveling the three major forces in the rivers and lakes Isn't this Dongchang world stable and secure I even think that the ghost faction and Chen Xing are all a false shot from him, they are all deceptive, all of this is a big plan of his, he is not a suicide person, he must still be alive, and now the plan has been completed, he should have appeared, but he is still nowhere to be seen, it is not really dead, and maybe now he is already on his way back to Beijing."

Qin Juexiang was stunned for a long time and said, "Big brother, are you thinking too much, he is not so terrible?"

Chang Sihao shook his head: "You still have little contact with him"

The corners of Qin Juexiang's mouth hooked down, but he couldn't hide the ambiguous smile in his expression, as if admitting, "Yes, yes, your relationship is much closer than mine" cleared his throat and said, "Ahem...... In my opinion, many things in the world are inseparable from a love word, he ...... You won't be out of the way."

Chang Sihao glanced at him and turned around: "In his position, will I be trapped by love, besides, I'm not a little white face."

Qin Juexiang smiled at his back, leaned back with his hands on his head, and lifted Erlang's legs: "That's hard to say...... Big brother, I'll just say it bluntly, in fact, most of your hearts are clear, but you don't want to admit and accept it, to be honest, when I saw him on the edge of Xiaotangshan Hot Spring, I had a different feeling in my heart, I felt that there was an indescribable taste and indescribable elegance in this person, you know, I don't like this, but there are a few moments I think if it were him, I could have tried it......"

Chang Sihao frowned slightly, and his neck hooked back: "Absolutely loud ......"

Qin Juexiang smiled and said: "Don't worry, that's what I said, I mean: People are this thing It's hard to talk Maybe he really wanted to use us at the beginning Slowly there may be changes Pour Xu At that moment, you and he pulled Xu Wei and the officials to chant poems and appreciate the paintings For a while, I looked at it sourly and panicked, and I was very jealous of you for a while, it seems that it should be me who is around him, and I feel that my eldest brother let him be robbed of it It's really hard to say emotional things Just like me and Sister Xin I have said everything I can say and do everything I can do, but after all, I am still very powerless I also realize it now No matter how capable a person is, no matter how talented he is, how many things are difficult for him, it is not necessarily perfect, there may be something in the end, something that is not a matter in the eyes of others, will make him despair."

Chang Sihao stared for a while, he didn't want to return to the city before, but he had concerns about this, and he was really afraid that after entering the city, he saw that he had reappeared, and he sat peacefully in the lobby Thinking about this, he let out a long sigh and said, "It's better not to be like this, otherwise, I really don't know how to deal with him."

Himenopaira carried the red gun and ran for four days without eating or drinking, and finally broke free and fell on a barren forest and meadow, fainted, woke up again, and felt the humidity around him, as if it was raining lightly, he straightened his eyes and recalled what had happened in the past month, and his heart was mixed, thinking and thinking, and his stomach was rumbling, and he hurriedly turned over and sat up, untied his trouser belt, and squatted

Half a quarter of an hour later, he threw away the straw stick, staggered up and fastened his trousers, felt extremely hungry, looked back at the desolation and depression around him, there were no berries, and there were no animals, and he searched for a long time, but found a road, and thought that as long as he went to the southwest, he could reach Gutian sooner or later, and after identifying the direction, he boarded and walked until the twilight, and his eyes became more and more blue with hunger, and suddenly he heard the sound of small fire stewed porridge in the twilight of the road ahead

He said in his heart: "My conscience is lost," and he turned around and rolled into the grass ditch on the side of the road, and lay down with his gun in his hand

Himeno flat's eyes widened and he waited quietly above the grass ditch The sky was shining like blood

The barrel of the gun was attached to his face, and it was cool and cool, which reminded him of the picture of Yan Lingyun passing the gun in the snow back then

I remember that winter was unusually cold, and the entire Jun Mountain was covered with heavy snow, and I was only ten years old at the time, and I was about to clear the snow on the martial arts training ground with a bamboo broom twice as tall as myself, but was stopped by Yan Lao

Throw down the broom and stand straight in the snow Listen to Yan Lao say: "When the enemy comes on the snow, do you still want to sweep the floor?"

The weight of the gun was heavy, and it was flat in the middle of his shoulder and chest, and his double-bent forearm was hooked, but his center of gravity was deflected by its elasticity, and his body fell straight back, and a cross was printed on the snow, which was extremely long horizontally and very short vertically

At that time, I was too small, and the end of this gun was uneven, and others proposed to change a small gun for me to practice first, but Yan Lao did not allow it

He said: "Heroes don't change their original intentions"

What is the ultimate goal, just work towards that goal, and don't try to get there through some kind of curve, and then often people don't come back on a fork in the road

The sound of stewed porridge gradually became clear, turning into hoof sounds

Himenodaira suddenly thought: "I am a hero, my conscience should not be lost here."

As soon as he turned over and got up, he saw the horse on the road, with a big red kick on his chest and a golden bell on his chest, and a blue rim on his band, which was an official horse

"Heaven is not ending me"

He jumped on the sand, changed his hands, and the big gun followed the horse's momentum, leaned down into the stab, and plunged straight into the legs of the two galloping horses, and shouted: "Go," and his waist was lifted upward

The horse snorted and screamed, and its four hooves flew into the air, and it flew into the sky, and it went straight out of the top of Himenohira's head, and Kuqiu folded to the ground with a bang

Himenodaira hurriedly ran over to collect dry food, and immediately the official had already fallen unconscious, and there was a big pocket bulging around his waist, and he ripped it off, pulled the rope head, and fell to the ground, and a human head rolled out of the bone

Himenodaira was stunned for a moment, squatted down, lifted his hair, lifted the head, turned around to look, and his eyes were on the same face as the person's head and face, and he let out an "ah" and sat on the ground

This head is none other than Hu Yaoting, who went to Gutian to ask for help

"Tiger Master"

Himenopira hugged his head and cried

As soon as he cried twice, he suddenly turned around, picked up the official, slapped him in the mouth more than 20 times, woke him up, and asked, "Where did this head come from?"

The official was stunned for a while, as if his consciousness was still stuck in the moment when someone broke in front of the horse, and finally came back to his senses and scolded: "Are you looking for death?"

Ji Yeping didn't say a word, grabbed his little arm in his hand, and knocked it on his knee The card bar sounded and folded into two The official snorted in pain It's not a human movement Ji Yeping didn't care about it and grabbed his other arm again, and the card bar pouted, stretched out his big foot and broke his two calves to see if there was anything to do Pulled his left hand again Kaba card folded his fingers and folded four and couldn't hear him cry out in pain When I looked at his face, the official turned his two eyes like a fish belly The person had already fainted

Himenopira scolded Grabbing the left forearm of this official errand twisting it and tearing it down, he held it in his mouth and gnawed it on the other end and continued to slap him in the mouth After a long while, the official finally woke up again and saw a big man squatting on the opposite side The sauce on his mouth was hula Ka I didn't know what to chew on This incense Suddenly I understood: he was biting on a hand and was so frightened that he pulled the into his trouser pocket

Himenodaira had half an arm at the bottom, and his stomach was a little more stable, and he continued to ask, "Don't talk about it, don't talk about eating that."

This official is already hurting the wood, and he hasn't understood what it means to "eat that" Follow his eyes Subconsciously raised his right arm I saw that this arm was split from the middle of the elbow socket The hand and forearm were dripping and wandering Nothing was connected to a piece of skin in the middle A few tendons were half-wrapped with white bone sticks The ridges were in the red flesh stubble at the fracture Steaming blood smelled quite the fragrance of raw fish slices in the morning He was stunned for a moment and hurriedly turned his head Only then did he find that his left forearm had "finished serving" When he boarded up, he made a "mom" and twitched

Himenodaira slapped him in the face and said, "Don't scream, tell me how this head came from."

"I said, I said," the official hurriedly said: "Some time ago, one early in the morning, as soon as the gate of our county opened, we found two people tied and kneeling at the door, and these two people were seriously injured, and one of them had this human head hanging around their necks, and after interrogation, the two said that they were from Juhao Pavilion, and the human head was Hu Yaoting, one of the leaders of the Juhao bandits, and Wei Yinbao sent them.

Himenopira: "How can this be reasonable, how could Wei Yinbao do this, you lie?"

"No, no, absolutely nothing," the official hurriedly explained: "The two people in Juhao Pavilion said that they were surrounded and suppressed by the official army Originally, they came to Gutian Mountain to find Wei Yinbao for help Wei Yinbao listened to the warm reception, but secretly put poison in the diet to restrain them and said that what kind of five-party talks they were engaged in is equivalent to using the Gutian Righteous Army as a capital to swagger and deceive He Wei Yinbao is against the Ming Dynasty, but he will never be in the same stream with the Warat and the Tartars Hu Yaoting explained Wei didn't listen and said that he found Yu Dayou's team gathering around Sanjiang Obviously, he was preparing to outflank Gutian Junshan was broken Why don't you all come over And only send you It is obvious that you surrendered to the government and knew that I Wei Yinbao did not trust the Han people, so I sent a Hui person to earn me Your surname Tiger broke an arm is also a bitter trick Therefore, I can't help but say that I beheaded the man surnamed Hu and hung the head on the entourage and sent it outside the county gate at night with the intention of demonstrating to the government "

This official was in severe pain all over his body, and he convulsed while saying that Ji Yeping was so angry that he threw his hand on the ground and scolded the official who said in a vain voice: "I know everything I have said, a good man......" Ji Yeping flew up and kicked him in the head, picked up the red gun and rushed to the southwest, ran a few steps, and suddenly thought: "Wei Yinbao is certainly wrong, but if I go to kill him, won't I fulfill the wish of the government?"

The footsteps stopped, straightened up, and looked back on the ground, Hu Yaoting's head was lying flat, and his eyes were closed as if he was asleep, and he was unexpectedly peaceful

His heart suddenly calmed down, his nose was sore, and he secretly cursed himself for being a "fly without a head," and then he picked up the head, got off the road, dug a pit deep in the forest, and buried the head

Kowtowed, sat in front of the grave, and thought about it Originally, I thought that I could gather the rebels to take revenge when I went to Gutian, but now I can't gain trust at all, and Gutian can't go If I don't go to Gutian, where will I go Rebuild Juhao Pavilion by myself No money, no one Where to start

After thinking about it for a long time, he had an idea, got up and wanted to go, what was the red gun hanging in his hand, and the branches made a loud noise, he looked at the red gun, and thought to himself, this gun was too long, and it was inevitable that it would be an eyesore wherever he went

He picked up firewood and made a fire, took out the scattered silver taels from the official's body, stripped off his clothes, put the corpse on the fire, then sat down against a tree, tore the official's clothes into strips of cloth and stacked them on the side, took the red gun over, removed the pins, unscrewed the gun head, and then the official's corpse was already sizzling, and the grease was dripping down, and he used the gun head as a cup, and kept pouring oil on the torn cloth, and when the cloth was soaked with oil into an oilcloth, he used this oilcloth to wrap the barrel of the red gun layer by layer, tied it up, and then dug a long ditch behind the grave of Huyao Pavilion, put the gun barrel bag inside, and bulldozed and buried it Sprinkle fallen leaves, observe the surroundings, carve a mark on a nearby tree, come back, stretch out your legs and kick them, and the corpse of the official is scorched and falls into the fire

Turning back and inspecting the horse, the horse fell hard, and the muscles and bones were not bad, and the horse still had a small bag on it, and when it was opened, it was a change of white cloth underwear Himenopairi was overjoyed, but fortunately, there were no pedestrians in the wilderness, so he took off his bloody clothes, put on new clothes, and re-encircled the Qingfeng Hundred Refining Dragon Rope, stretched and measured, and the sleeves were short, and the trouser legs were not long enough, so it was clean

Half an hour later, seeing that the corpse was almost burned, he dug up some earth, filled the fire, tucked the head of the gun into his arms, stepped on the stirrup, and turned over on the horse, which was crushed by his big body, and his legs were bent weakly, and he barely held on, and pulled the reins to see the direction, and knocked the stirrups into the woods

The next day, looking for the ferry, abandoned the horse, took the passenger boat down the river, the passenger ship was very slow, and all places had to anchor, and only after three days did he come to the ground of Jiujiang, he found a place where no one was located, rolled a few mud, grabbed loose hair, draped it over his face, pretended to be a beggar, and found a way into the city, ready to eat something, find a temple altar to endure for the night, and then go to Lushan tomorrow When he was leaving, he saw a low figure sitting on the stone brick floor in the front street, his clothes were in tatters, his hair was scattered, and he was dirty, and he was moving forward with his hands propped up

Himenodaira was in a trance for a moment, feeling that this back was a little familiar, his eyes were empty, and his eyes suddenly became round