Xu Fengnian took a poor boy as his apprentice.
Before he could see the East China Sea but before entering Wudi City, he met a small group of thieves fleeing across the border and rescued a family of orphans, widows and old people. Among them was a young man who had no connection with him. The horse thief picked him to death with a spear, Xu Fengnian rescued people and then continued to drive towards Wudi City. The young man's temper was erratic, and the ghosts and spirits were all about Xu Fengnian. He probably thought that this was a hero who walked the world, brown sugar He seemed to be running behind the carriage for a few days. During the run, he was reluctant to wear his boots so he simply took them off and tied them to his belt. The young man's feet were not bad, and Xu Fengnian's carriage was not in a hurry, he stopped and stopped. Even if you leave it far away for a short time, the boy can always catch up. Xu Fengnian lit a bonfire at the seaside overnight. The exhausted boy did not dare to approach, curled up in the distance and fell asleep. When the boy woke up the next morning, he found himself lying in the carriage. He carefully raised the curtain and sat cross-legged against the wall of the car. Shi Shi didn't know how to address that young master, and hesitated whether to call him a chivalrous man or a gentleman. It was the son who took the initiative to speak. After asking two questions, the young man shook his head desperately. The third question made the young monk Zhang Er even more confused. He asked whether he wanted to be his apprentice. Blushing, he said that he couldn't afford the gift money for apprenticeship, but the man said it was fine. Inexplicably along the way, the two became mentors and apprentices. They didn’t speak much. The young man’s name was Wang Sheng. Since he was a child, he has far surpassed his peers in strength. Except for begging, mourning for people, and carrying illegal salt, he has done almost any work that can earn copper coins, and he has not starved to death.
After all, the young Wang Sheng was just old enough not to know what the city was, and when he learned that this "cheap" master who seemed to have fallen from the world was going to Wudi City, he was so happy that he couldn't help his tongue chattering. The young man is simple in nature and has the heart of a child. He can't recognize the depth of people compared to the old Jianghu, but he has to be accurate when he recognizes people. fear. But it makes the young man a little regretful, this young master, who seems to be more beautiful than a woman, doesn't like chatting very much. After the anecdote, I can only talk about the old sayings I heard from the elders and neighbors. Fortunately, the master who has lost his purity doesn't care about him, and taught him a set of obscure formulas and soft boxing techniques. I can't remember the formulas well. Holding it down gave him a headache, and the boxing technique is limp and weak, but the young man is contented and happy, and he is satisfied if he can really practice martial arts. I just left my hometown the year before last. At a stall in Jianzhou, I saw an old man selling secret books. He handed over all the little money he had saved with great difficulty. The old man was easy to talk, so he opened the bamboo basket and let him choose. Literacy, but listening to the title of the book reported by the old man, it is very similar to a peerless martial arts. It makes people feel that even if you can practice one or two moves in the book, you can become famous in the world. Wang Sheng finally chose this sword manual , the fledgling young man is ignorant of the world, but he is not a fool after all. He soon knew that the secret book was fake, but he was not annoyed. He kept that stupid sword manual in his arms all the time, so he regarded it as knowing a hundred words.
It is only one day's journey away from the Emperor Wu's city, and the sea breeze blows the tides, which easily dissipates the heat of early summer. The young Wang Sheng grew up by the sea, so he doesn't feel the sea breeze is slightly fishy, but feels familiar and ironic. It must have been a few years away from home, and Wang Sheng fell silent when he remembered his relatives who were not alive.
The reason why Xu Fengnian didn't talk to this apprentice was not because he regretted accepting his first apprentice in his life and disliked his mediocre qualifications, but because he was a little dumbfounded in his heart. After getting in touch with him, he realized that this sturdy young man was actually a daughter. Her pulse condition is not at all like a woman's circulation trajectory. There are more ups and downs and bottlenecks in women's martial arts than men. In Buddhism, a woman's body cannot become a Buddha, and there are very few real women in Taoism. They are all particular and reasonable. Going forward for another three hundred years, there is only one woman. Regardless of the sword, there are still only a handful of women among first-rank masters. Fengdu Lvpao, one of the four great masters, is now more sinister than before. For one thing, there are Luoyang, Xuanyuan Qingfeng, and Lin Ya, Wang Xianzhi's apprentice who has never been masked. Women and men, the reason is similar to that of southerners and northerners. The aptitude of the apprentice Wang Sheng is actually not bad, but before and after Xu Fengnian practiced martial arts, he saw a lot of scenery at the top of the rivers and lakes, and his aptitude is outstanding. Often when he is young, he may not be good. It is about practicing martial arts. , the stamina is very important, the stamina is sufficient, and there are many opportunities, the two are indispensable, so that you can be a late bloomer.
The reason why Xu Fengnian accepted him as an apprentice was, in the final analysis, very simple.
Wang Sheng carried a wooden sword on his waist.
For the first question, Xu Fengnian asked Wang Sheng if he would trade the wooden sword for food. Wang Sheng refused. Xu Fengnian asked again if he would exchange the wooden sword for silver, but Wang Sheng still refused.
In the middle of the night, only thirty or forty miles away from Wudi City, Xu Fengnian did not continue to drive forward, but instead ordered Wang Sheng to pick up dead branches and light a large bonfire by the sea. The blazing flames reflected the two faces of the master and the apprentice. Xu Fengnian gave Wang Sheng half a piece of dried beef the size of a child's palm. The night sky was bright and starry. Wang Sheng lowered his head and chewed the beef. , quietly licked his oily fingers, then pointed to the starry sky, smiled and said: "Grandpa said, there is a big lantern. On the ground, when people die and the lamp goes out, it will go to the sky to light up."
Xu Fengnian said calmly: "There is also such a saying in my hometown."
Wang Sheng waited for a long time, and when he saw that the master had gone silent again, he said to himself, "Master, apart from you, I admire the martial arts leader in Huishan the most."
Wang Sheng smiled and asked, "Master, guess who is next?"
Xu Fengnian shook his head.
Wang Sheng chuckled, "It's the boxing master of Emperor Wu City, Lin Ya!"
Xu Fengnian smiled and said: "She is the best student of Wang Xianzhi, the number one person in the world, and she is also a beautiful woman in Rouge's evaluation. You are far behind her in both."
Wang Sheng wished he could dig a hole in the ground and asked timidly, "Master, do you know?"
Xu Fengnian nodded.
Seeing that the master didn't look angry, Wang Sheng bowed his head and said, "My father and mother have always wanted to have a younger brother, but they failed. Later, they didn't want to. They raised me as a boy. And the family can't save the dowry, so I don't want to give birth to a younger brother." I don’t want to marry. Besides, who is willing to live with a woman who looks like a man? It’s depressing to think about it. Whoever marries me must be a flower picker who has done too many bad things in his previous life. God will punish him for marrying a man in this life. .”
Speaking of this, Wang Sheng, who is happy with his life, made himself amused.
Xu Fengnian tore off a piece of beef and put it in his mouth, and said softly: "When you grow eyebrows and eyes, you will always look like a woman."
Wang Sheng couldn't help but said suddenly, "If I look half as good-looking as Master, I can live half my life less."
Xu Fengnian said flatly: "Go and punch for an hour."
Knowing that he said something wrong, Wang Sheng took off the wooden sword around his waist, and went to the beach to practice boxing with a bitter face. He practiced boxing six times honestly. There were many loopholes in it, and he often forgot the routine. He was extremely stupid and didn't pay much attention, and he didn't show any strange expression.
Wang Sheng practiced boxing for an extra half an hour before he sat down opposite his master, picked up the wooden sword and placed it across his lap.
Xu Fengnian asked: "Wouldn't it be embarrassing for you to walk around the world with a wooden sword?"
Wang Sheng was a little puzzled, and asked back, "What's so embarrassing?"
Xu Fengnian did not speak.
Wang Shengle said with a smile, "It's a wooden sword made for me by my grandfather. Even if Master wanted it, I wouldn't give it to me."
Xu Fengnian, who never claimed to be a "teacher", said angrily: "A broken wooden sword, I don't care?"
Wang Sheng chuckled.
Xu Fengnian joked: "In the future, if anyone looks at you blindly, you might as well take this wooden sword as a token of love, and it will be your dowry."
Wang Sheng made a bitter face and said nothing.
Xu Fengnian said: "Now you feel that wooden swords are valuable, but you have never seen a real good sword. I'm going to Wudi City to get some things. I can give you one, but you can only keep one sword. How to choose. You decide for yourself. The ugly words are up front. I will not take a poor apprentice with only a wooden sword in the rivers and lakes. I can’t afford to lose face. What’s more, I can’t practice any good swordsmanship with a wooden sword. Wang Sheng, are you If you want this broken wooden sword, you will be alone in the rivers and lakes, with your head broken and bloody, and you will never be famous for the rest of your life. Or accept a famous sword that may be coveted by everyone in the world, and learn advanced martial arts from me. You are making great progress in martial arts. Don't rush to answer me, and tell me what's on your mind tomorrow morning."
After Xu Fengnian finished speaking, he walked back to the carriage to rest, leaving behind an apprentice who was struck by lightning.
On the second day, it was foggy at dawn.
The majestic Wudi City in the distance fell in the clouds, appearing or hiding, like a dangerous situation on the sea.
Xu Fengnian walked to the seaside and saw Wang Sheng with his eyes closed, pointing to the sea with his wooden sword. He probably had been holding the sword together for a long time, and there was a drop of mist on the tip of the sword.
Before that, Wang Sheng was all focused on practicing swordsmanship, but Xu Fengnian didn't pay much attention to it, and just taught her the ordinary sword posture.
She regarded it as a peerless martial art and practiced it tirelessly.
Others will look at it as funny, but it's not funny either.
Wang Sheng finally realized that the master appeared by his side, he did not put away the wooden sword, turned his head to look at the expressionless master, suddenly tears rolled out of his eyes, and he said with a choked voice, "Master."
When a child encounters a threshold that cannot pass, he always naturally thinks of pleading with his elders.
Xu Fengnian said coldly: "Let go of the sword."
Wang Sheng's face was desolate, "Master, I really want to practice swordsmanship, and I want to use wooden swords to achieve great results. Because my grandfather said that there are people in the world who use wooden swords to become famous. I will definitely practice martial arts with Master in the future..."
Xu Fengnian sneered and said: "Where is the best of both worlds in the world, you can't even throw away a broken wooden sword, how can you pick up those good things that everyone desires, gold ten thousand taels, reputation in the world, ranking in martial arts reviews, opening a sect Lipai, which one is not more precious than your wooden sword? So what if the wooden sword is a relic of your grandfather? There are many newcomers in the Jianghu for a secret book and a martial art. The master dares to kill, and even his daughter-in-law can be offered with both hands. You are so rigid that you don't know how to turn around, and you still want to practice swords?!"
Speaking later, Wang Sheng had already clearly felt the harshness of the master. Although he had not been with the master for a short time, he also knew that the master had always been a gentle and respectful person who could make her feel close.
For some reason, she also knew that she had missed this master in her life, so she no longer had to think about fighting swords.
Her arms were trembling, she turned her head away from looking at the master, and sobbed softly as if angry, "Master, I won't practice martial arts anymore!"
Wang Sheng put away the wooden sword and put it on his waist, knelt down, and kowtowed three times to the master who had only been around for a few days.
When she folded her sword and knelt down, Xu Fengnian stretched out a finger and stopped the drop of mist falling from the tip of the sword on the fingertip.
Xu Fengnian looked at the condensed mist and said softly: "I also practice swords, but I always feel that I can't compare with many senior swordsmen, such as Li Chungang's swordsmanship, Deng Tai's swordsmanship, and Wang Xiaoping's talisman sword."
Xu Fengnian smiled, "But the ones I feel the most sorry for are not them, but the one named Lao Huang and the one nicknamed Unbearable."
Xu Fengnian continued: "I have always felt that too many people who are too smart and too calculating, no matter how talented they are, no matter how good their sword skills are, and no matter how expensive their swords are, they are not considered true swordsmen."
Wang Sheng stood up, at a loss, and couldn't understand what this man, who was probably no longer his master, was talking about.
Xu Fengnian snapped his fingers slightly, then stretched out his hand to press Wang Sheng's head, rubbed it, and smiled warmly, "These people are master's seniors and old acquaintances, they have given up many things, especially the last one who is like you The ranger of the wooden sword happens to have things you want and things you don't want."
Xu Fengnian took a step back, and said in a deep voice: "I, Xu Fengnian, from Northern Liang, today accepted Osmanthus County Wang Sheng as my apprentice."
Wang Sheng was dumbfounded.
Xu Fengnian said indifferently: "You accept what Wen Hua gave up back then."
Wang Sheng was still at a loss, but he finally knew that the master was still the master, and that was enough.
As for the names that were so loud or that she had never heard of in the master's mouth, she didn't think about it, and only thought that the master was bragging.
The master and apprentice went to Wudi City.
"Master, are you not angry with me?"
"Um."
"Master, I have heard of the Peach Blossom Sword God, and Wudang sword idiots also know that they are all super masters like sword immortals, but who are the others?"
"You will know in the future."
"Master, I don't know if I should say something or not?"
"Then don't talk."
"Uh, Master, I still can't hold it back. Don't be angry when you say it. Although you must be a master, is the cowhide exaggerating? Do you really know those two immortals? Could it be that you are far away?" Have you seen it once?"
"..."
"Master, it doesn't matter, I think you are the most powerful master in the world."
"Master, I heard that you have many masters in Beiliang, General Yuan with a knife, General Xu with a gun, and the new king of Shu who has left Beiliang. Have you seen it from afar? Oh yes, and that young The king of Beiliang is even more amazing, alas, but he is a vassal king, so Master has never seen him before."
"Master, I see that you don't even wear a saber or sword. Are you going to Wudi City this time to buy a handy weapon so you can travel in the rivers and lakes?"
The master and the apprentice are mostly the apprentice Wang Sheng who is there to talk to himself.
The horseshoes were slow, the carriage moved slowly, and finally arrived outside the city of Emperor Wu.
The fog inside and outside the city changed from thick to light, but most of the hundreds of famous weapons on the wall were covered with fog droplets, and then each dripped on the corners of the wall, making the water stains under the wall deep.
The carriage stopped outside the city, Xu Fengnian finally spoke, and said to the apprentice beside him who was sitting cross-legged outside the carriage: "Pull up the curtain, remember to keep your body out of the carriage door."
Wang Sheng didn't know why, but he still did it honestly, holding the curtain feet and squatting on the side with his knees bent.
Xu Fengnian sat cross-legged, looking at Emperor Wu City with its gates wide open.
Wang Sheng's eyes widened suddenly, only to see Master's sleeves shaking without wind.
The fog in Wudi City melted away in an instant.
In the city, the wall that used to symbolize who is the number one person in the world began to tremble imperceptibly, and then the amplitude became larger and larger.
First, a touch of purple swept out of the city gate and crashed into Xu Fengnian's arms.
Then the famous sword Huanglu, which was inserted on the high wall, broke away from the wall and crashed into the red sandalwood sword box.
There were also eight swords of different lengths, which crashed in one after another.
Xu Fengnian sat holding the box.
The apprentice Wang Sheng who was still carrying the curtain stared wide-eyed, what's going on
On the wall in the city, hundreds of unowned famous utensils were trembling at the same time, as if they were struggling to resist.
Xu Fengnian raised his arms and said softly, "Come."
Silverfish rapier sword, thrush sword, Jue Jun, Nanhai Guanyin Sect's half-shoulder tip, Wu Family Sword Tomb is reassuring and serious, and the son of the sword fairy Chen Qingming two hundred years ago is silent, countless.
Sword after sword flew out of the city.
The Dantian Knife, the Jiashu Knife, Gu Jiantang's peeling peck, the Dashuang Long Knife that whoever got it four hundred years ago was invincible, and so on, and so on.
Out of the city with a sword in his mouth.
The top 18 weapons in the world all left the wall and left the city one after another, and the wall was completely gone.
They circled around Xu Fengnian, slid out of a delicate arc, and slid into the carriage. No matter how thunderous the flying momentum was, they stopped suddenly after passing the curtain and fell gently.
The carriage was full of weapons, and after it stopped, the latecomers were nailed into the ground around the carriage.
After half a stick of incense, the 418 weapons on the wall of Emperor Wu's city became the owner's property after leaving the city.
Wang Sheng was sluggish on the spot, unable to turn his mind completely.
Her master is really a master who knows many masters
Xu Fengnian is like a river and lake in his hands at this time.
The new Emperor Wu of Jianghu, the new invincible.
At this moment, Emperor Wucheng, who had only recently received the shocking news of the death of the city lord Beiliang, believed that the young feudal lord had indeed defeated Wang Xianzhi.
After that, the whole world had no choice but to admit that the son of Rentu was the new number one person in the world.