As the eldest son of Master Zhu, Zhu Baoshan is a big eye lamp that looks exactly like his father. However, his temperament is very different from his father's. Not only did he not inherit the ability to mess around with flowers, but he was also very down-to-earth.
Because he was born by a concubine from outside, and the concubine was not only unloved, but also a crazy woman who could not enjoy happiness.
Zhu Baoshan's biggest regret in his life is that he can't crawl back to regenerate once - if there is such a chance, he will have to look for his stomach when he is smashing pots and selling iron.
The eldest young master Zhu has been conscientious and conscientious to be the son of Mrs. Zhu since she was a child. I wish I could forget that there are still people in the world who are mothers. However, Mrs. Zhu eats fast and recites Buddha. She is a famous female bodhisattva. The female bodhisattva naturally refuses to let him do it. Abandoning his mother's asshole, he would have to remind him to greet his mother every three or five years.
Therefore, Zhu Baoshan had to endure the humiliation and burden to visit his mad mother on the first day of every month, otherwise he would be "ungrateful" or "unfilial".
This month is the first day of the new year, and three days in advance, Mrs. Zhu sent someone to remind him to greet his mother. Zhu Baoshan sometimes doesn't know what Mrs. thinks. Since he is thinking about that lunatic, why does he come down every day? People send a pile of cold leftovers to that courtyard, and she never turns a blind eye
Maybe the female bodhisattva is afraid that the madman will not know his hunger and fullness, and eat too much food
He pinched his nose and came to the small courtyard with a bad look on his face, and suddenly felt a little strange—in the past, on the first day of the first year, because she knew that he was coming, the old servants always opened the courtyard door to meet him, and Zhu Baoshan generally did not go in. , just routinely shouting "please be safe to mother" at the door.
But on this day, the courtyard door was closed.
Zhu Baoshan hesitated for a moment at the door, thinking to himself: "It's strange, is it because the Buddha appeared, that crazy woman finally kicked her legs and braided her hair?"
This place has been in disrepair for a long time, the house is often leaking rain, the door has long been gnawed by insects, and the bolts are not tight, so Zhu Baoshan is full of expectations, gently pushes the wooden door open a small crack, and peeps inside.
He didn't see where the mad woman was. He only saw that the messy cloth in the courtyard had been cleaned up, the door of one room was half open, and there were a few young girls' laughter from inside... Very soft, and a little shy, It can't be that crazy woman.
This courtyard is deserted all the year round, mice are rare, where is the strange girl? It can't be a tree knot, can it
Zhu Baoshan was in shock, and was just about to take a closer look, but he happened to catch up with the clumsy old servant girl who came out with a copper basin. When she saw him, the copper basin in her hand fell to the ground. The already light laughter came to an abrupt end, and Zhu Baoshan suddenly became witty at that time. He ran away, ran away, his back was wet with cold sweat, and before he had time to catch his breath, his eyes suddenly darkened, what? I don't know.
The old servant-woman hurriedly stepped forward to check, Zhu Baoshan had already run away, and sighed: "It's the eldest young master, alas, I'm so confused, I forgot that the first day of the new year, the eldest young master is here to greet him, how good is this..."
Wu Chuchu didn't pay attention, and hurriedly looked at Zhou Fei, only to see Zhou Fei frowning slightly, staring at the old book of "Funny Animal Talking Book" as if madly, completely ignoring the collapse of the sky outside.
At this time, two figures suddenly appeared in the courtyard, and Duan Jiuniang, who had seen the dragon in sight for several days, unknowingly fell under the tree, holding a fainted teenager in her hand.
The old servant girl hurriedly stepped forward.
Duan Jiuniang let go, put the person on the ground, tilted her head and looked at him for a moment, then suddenly said to the old servant woman, "Is this Baoshan?"
When the old servant girl heard this, she almost cried. This lady didn't know what was going on. She used to be in a bad mood for a while, but recently she didn't know what happened. Why doesn't Madam even recognize him?"
Duan Jiuniang was stunned for a while, and asked blankly, "Baoshan is over ten?"
The old servant-wife said, "I'm already nineteen years old, and I'm about to marry a daughter-in-law. I'm sure Master Zhu is giving her a favor."
Duan Jiuniang said "Oh", and after a while, she raised her hand and touched her face. Over the years, she has been living in a mess, hungry and full, and neglected to maintain. Her cheeks have been weathered for a long time, and they feel similar to the old tree bark. Ten years have passed quietly, youth is like a cup of hot water in the snow, the heat is gone, and the youth is gone.
She seemed to have just woken up from a big dream, and people were still stunned, regardless of the person who fainted, and went back and forth around the tree in despair.
Seeing that she was pulling up and grinding for no reason, the old maid had no choice but to drag the young man up and put it into the small warehouse where Zhou Fei and the others hid at the beginning, and then carried a small couch to comfort him. He tied it comfortably, put a pillow on it, and finally locked the doors and windows. He came out and said to Wu Chuchu, "Girl, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time."
Wu Chuchu people are neither dumbfounded nor blind, they naturally know, but now Zhou Fei is inconvenient, how can she go
Zhou Fei was enlightened by something, and suddenly became very interested in the old book. There was such a big noise outside, and she didn't even raise her head once. Wu Chuchu was about to go in and talk to her when a book suddenly came across in front of her. hand.
When Wu Chuchu looked up and saw Duan Jiuniang, she immediately became cautiously alert, lest she would create something new.
"Shh—" Duan Jiuniang closed the door, shut Wu Chuchu out, and said to her, "Don't disturb her."
Wu Chuchu: "... ah?"
Duan Jiuniang said softly to herself: "It was the same with Big Brother Li back then. He could close his eyes and enter meditation in any wilderness. I asked him what he was doing, and he said that there is a mental method in the internal power, and there is actually a 'mind method' in the sword work." The knife doesn't leave his hand', if you don't exercise it for a day, it will become dull, so he is practicing the knife. I don't believe it, I clamor to try it, but every time I sit there, I either involuntarily use my inner strength, or I start to think wildly. Just fell asleep."
Wu Chuchu stood on tiptoe and glanced at the window. She saw that Zhou Fei's long hair, which had not been carefully managed for a few days, was casually tied into a bundle, hanging down from her thin shoulders, her scarred fingers resting between the old book pages , remained motionless for a long time, neither the pale profile nor the slightly weak sitting posture showed anything profound.
A faint smile appeared on Duan Jiuniang's dazed face, and she whispered, "The Li family doesn't care about anything, but they're all martial idiots, and they don't know where they are, haha."
Wu Chuchu didn't want to "haha", and she didn't want to discuss with her the question of whether she was crazy or not. She glanced anxiously at the small warehouse next to the closed doors and windows, and said, "But we have to leave, since everyone knows Mr. Zhu I've come to Madam's place, and when they can't find anyone, they will inevitably become suspicious, and it's not the way to always hold Young Master Zhu, we've already caused a lot of trouble for the seniors here..."
Duan Jiuniang said coldly, "What's the trouble?"
Wu Chuchu also said that she forgot something again, so she sighed and explained, "Of course it's from Beidou..."
Duan Jiuniang asked, "Have those seven Beidou dogs arrived?"
Wu Chuchu: "That's not true."
"Then just stay here," Duan Jiuniang said with a toss of her sleeves, "I'm not afraid of trouble, I'm just trouble, who wants to come? I, Duan Jiuniang, are waiting for you at any time."
Wu Chuchu: "..."
After Duan Jiuniang finished speaking, she left, sitting under the tree, humming a song, and combing her hair with her five fingers close together.
Wu Chuchu was stunned for a while at the door, sitting on the dirty and old threshold, thinking that these Jianghu people, whether they are good or evil, are really more self-willed than each other, and each one can stab people, close their eyes and drink, Killing people with their eyes open, each and everyone is lawless. "Using force to break the ban" is not bad at all. They are really a bunch of troublesome guys.
But at this time, she wished that she was a poor homeless child who was picked up by a sect, sharpened a sword for ten years in the deep mountains, and then entered the world with the frost blade and the unparalleled stunt. , If the world is not good, you will kill a bloody road, drop a sentence "I will wait for you to come", and escape the world... How cool and happy should it be
The moment Zhou Fei landed on the old servant girl's copper basin, she suddenly remembered what the familiar fourth page was—that was the day in the valley, when the old Taoist priest pointed out her mayfly array footwork to Xiao Zi!
The dots and short verticals on the book represent forward and backward respectively. Some strokes are as sharp as an unsheathed sword, while others are as round as swirling snow, containing thousands of changes.
Zhou Fei was deeply impressed by that battle, how she was surrounded, how she broke out of the encirclement, how she walked around the rocks, with one enemy having many enemies, it flashed through her mind in an instant.
She couldn't care to find out what kind of pots and pans the old servant girl smashed, so she couldn't wait to turn back, because with the foundation she had practiced herself, the formations at the back were very easy to understand. Deep in it, he automatically compared his opponents in the valley that day, and rehearsed in his mind.
In this way, even if her internal strength is sealed, she will never forget her swordsmanship. As long as her internal injuries are healed and her actions can continue as usual, she will not be too passive if she encounters any kind of siege.
The Mayfly Formation has eight pages in total, which correspond to the Tai Chi gossip, and the handwriting after the eighth page is almost unreadable, except for the dots and verticals, and even the long, short and horizontal jumps up and down.
The mayfly array has only eight sections, and the latter half is obviously not the case.
Is it the knife method? Swordsmanship? Or fist
The Mayfly Formation is just a set of formations. Although there are many variations, the person who uses the Snowbreaker and the person who uses the Kurong Hand, even if they use the same set of "Mayfly Formation", will definitely have different effects and methods. There are thousands of changes. It is not necessary to write it all down on paper, it is up to the practitioner to comprehend that it is enough to outline the outline one by one and draw a single picture.
But the formation method can be freehand, and the moves can be difficult to explain clearly with a few crossroads.
So... Could it be some kind of internal strength
If it is internal energy, the length, horizontal and vertical are likely to represent the direction of the meridians, and then the dots represent... acupuncture points
The acupoints and other acupoints around the body of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, etc., are all familiar to me at the beginning. Zhou Fei's thoughts flashed, and she already recognized that the first picture was like "Fengfu", "Lingtai" and "Lingtai" entering the "Fate Pass" The first line, what about the back, when she looked at it, she found that a piece was missing, I wonder if it was eaten by insects.
Zhou Fei was stunned for a moment, and immediately got out of the state she had just been in, and then she broke out in a cold sweat—she had been trapped in the mayfly formation, and she was too absorbed. Delusional anger.
But I don't know if Duan Jiuniang's restraint on her was loosened, Zhou Fei actually felt a little inner breath, but it was very strange that this real qi flowed through without end, but it didn't hurt, but instead It seems to have a little soothing effect on her internal injuries.
If there is still a reliable elder here, Zhou Fei will definitely stop here and ask for advice before clarifying... Unfortunately, the most reliable one here is herself.
She let out a breath slowly, thought about it for a long time, couldn't think of any reason, and secretly reminded herself: "Be careful, it's not for fun if you make a mistake, don't be impulsive, don't... I'm just a kid. What can I do with a little try? Anyway, if it goes on like this, it’s not that I’m trapped in Huarong, or that the crazy old woman has abolished martial arts in order to survive, it can’t be more serious.”
Zhou Fei only used a few words to persuade herself to fail.
She grew up in a clump of swaying machines, and in her bones, she has the potential for trouble-making spirits of "knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, but preferring to walk in the mountains", but in most cases, she can barely weigh the overall situation with reason, so as not to cause harm to others.
Right now, the big picture and the small picture have become dead ends, so she simply broke the jar. The mysterious old book in her hand became more and more like a carrot hanging on a donkey. Zhou Fei was bold enough to be brave.
The strange thing is that, at the end of each page, it is either a piece of insects, or the person who wrote the book made a typo and tick it off with a ball of ink, while the true qi runs and flows in the meridians, which is a cycle, interrupted or crossed. It is very dangerous, but according to the strange exercises in this book, after the interruption, the weak zhenqi is like a stream of water, and it diffuses into the limbs and bones, washing away the bright light on her body again and again. Injury dark injury.
So interruption is also part of this exercise
Zhou Fei's thoughts flashed through her mind, and then she accidentally immersed herself in it. The sea of qi that was sealed by Duan Jiuniang "sucked" the weak zhenqi out, and subtly pinched her body into a ball. The infuriating energy turned into warm water, and the enemy and I inconveniently devoured the whale.
This process was very long. Wu Chuchu almost leaked the window lattice, but Zhou Fei remained motionless in her previous posture. The joints around her body seemed to be rusted. After two visits, I asked the eldest young master if he was gone, but he was sent away by the old servant girl.
Fortunately, it will be very chaotic outside, and I lost a Zhu Baoshan, and it did not cause too much disturbance for a while—
It turned out that after Shen Tianshu left, that Chou Tianji made up his mind and planned to go to house to house to search, all refugees would be detained in one place, and all the people who had contact with outsiders within three months should be registered in the register. Convicted - forcing them to report each other.
Qiu Tianji thought that he would be able to catch turtles in the urn in this way, but before the vigorous "digging three feet" began, some of his subordinates mysteriously disappeared while patrolling the city at night, and their bodies could not be found.
Qiu Tianji didn't believe that the "old fox" of the Forty-eight Villages dared to emerge on the cusp of such a storm. He personally went out to patrol the city at night, and the mysterious figure appeared again. He let out a long whistle and directed the falcon to charge up. , escaped from under his nose, but what kind of vision does Lu Cunxing have? With just a glance, he found that the person was Shen Tianshu who should have left on business.
Qiu Tianji was shocked, and immediately sent someone out of the city to check, and sure enough, he found the eyeliner and dark pile left by the greedy wolf.
Qiu Tianji was so angry that he overturned a table, jumped his feet and cursed: "I know that the scabby surnamed Shen is still alive! I left Huo Jiabao alone before, and came to compete with me for merit, you come and help the fist. , Well, I didn't stop you, you are the boss, half of the meeting is divided into half, I admit that I have suffered a loss! But this old man said a couple of sarcastic words. Charge in the front, he sits in the back and reaps the profit!" His eagles were so frightened that they flew into the courtyard, hiding their heads under their wings and pretending to be quails.
The men in black under his command were all pretending to be dead. He heard Qiu Tianji pull out the eighth generation of Shen Tianshu's ancestor and whipped the corpse. When he had enough scolding, a man in black from Lu Cun stepped forward and asked, "Sir, what should I do? "
Qiu Tianji's expression flickered for a moment, and then he whispered: "The old rat from the Forty-Eight Village is ruthless, and he has not revealed it until now. I am afraid that he is a strong enemy. We can't have a strong enemy outside. There is a fire in the backyard. Come here..."
In the early morning of the second day, Jiachen floated into the yard like a wandering soul, had a face-to-face with Mr. Bai who was "removing makeup", and said at the door of Xie Yun's room, "Has the third son woke up? Lu Cun sent someone out of the city."
Ming Chen pushed open the window and said quickly, "Look carefully? Did he really send someone out of the city to clean up the greedy wolf's eyeliner? It seems that the rumors that Qiu Tianji and Shen Tianshu are not on good terms are true!"
Xie Yun came out of the room. He was neatly dressed and didn't look like he had just woken up. He nodded and said, "Fortunately, the thing I was most worried about didn't happen."
What he was most worried about was that the hidden "friend" would lose his temper when he saw Qiu Tianji searching the city. Unexpectedly, the other party was more certain than he thought.
Xie Yun was a little puzzled and said, "Who is that?"