That night at the dinner table, we were discussing the lame man. Everyone was impressed by my observation skills, but still felt a little strange about the liar's behavior. The key point was the lameness issue. I explained it this way:
Because he had been supporting his body with one foot for a long time, the shoe on his left foot was almost worn out, but the shoe on his right foot was still as good as new. He wanted to change the shoe on his other foot to wear it out, that is, to lame his other foot. But he was afraid that people in Xiangyang would find out, so he ran to Changsha to lame his left foot so that he could wear out the shoe on his right foot.
I find that I am becoming more and more wordy now, but with two siblings like this at home, you have to explain things very clearly. If you are very good at talking, then he will understand as soon as you talk to him. When talking to the elder sister, she will understand everything after you say 50% of it. But when explaining a problem to these two, you usually have to explain the cause and effect in detail, and even use body movements to demonstrate. In the end, they probably only understand 70% of it.
However, I am still very happy with them, because they are really cute and honest, and have a straightforward temper. However, Zhou Yu has become bad. She always complains about me to her sister, so I have to be very careful when I see her, so as not to provoke her. Therefore, in order to fundamentally solve this problem, I either harm her so that she dare not complain behind my back, or please her so that she can't hurt me. After thinking it over, I decided that it is better to please her, because although she is now in a bad mood, it is still too meaningless to deceive her, because the possibility that she will not be fooled is too small, and it is not worth deceiving her. Moreover, she patrols the streets and alleys of Changsha with all her heart and soul every day. Changsha has such a good public security now, and I am still grateful to her.
How to please her became my concern. I hoped that I could pretend to do something good for her secretly and let her find out by accident. I found it very difficult. It would be great if Zhou Yu was a thoughtful person who could see the whole situation from a single glance. But in that case, I might choose to hurt her a little, which would be more interesting. Now this matter is really troublesome.
While I was trying every way to please people, I still discovered the gap between me and Zisheng Zishe. Although I understood it before, this time I felt it more deeply. I have quick wits, but I don't have the ability to come up with good ideas anytime and anywhere. It seems that unless a knife is put to my neck, I just don't have any good ideas. In this respect, I am not as good as my sister. I feel discouraged when I think of this.
After a month in Changsha, the weather started to get very cold. One morning, I just sneezed a few times, and my sister made a fuss about me and wrapped me up like a dumpling. I was too lazy to argue because I didn't have to go to the government office early like every day, and my sister would handle everything. Other officials in Changsha also knew that they couldn't find me, and the same would be true for my sister. In fact, I was happy not to argue. However, I still told my sister to distribute winter clothes to the Changsha garrison as soon as possible; because there was a disaster last year, I also asked Zhou Yu Zhou Cang to learn a little about the situation of the people inside and outside the city to see if we should open the warehouse to provide relief. My sister smiled and nodded my head. "Silly boy, why are you waiting for me? People in Changsha have died of starvation and cold. I have already told them." "Who is the governor of Changsha?" "You are not sick and confused, of course it is you." "I was thinking too, it seems to be me, but how come I don't know anything about this?" "... You fell asleep in the government office the morning before yesterday, right?... I sent someone to report to you the morning before yesterday." "Sister, I feel dizzy, let's talk about this later?" Knowing that my laziness was exposed, I quickly pretended to be sick, pulled up the quilt, and pretended to sleep. My sister must have thought that I was really sick, so she seemed to be angry and pulled me up to scold me, but in the end she left helplessly.
As soon as she left, I got up. The early rising in the past month has made me wake up before dawn every day. As long as it is daybreak, I will not think of falling asleep in bed, but I can still fall asleep while sitting.
Today is a special day. I decided to go out and stroll around to see how the people in Changsha are doing. It is late autumn. There are not many people on the street early in the morning. Like Xiangyang, there is no trace of the Yellow Turban Rebellion here. Thinking of this, I can't help but start to miss the Yellow Turban Army. The news in the official newspaper shows that after Zhang Jue's death, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao still led hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban Army to fight against the government army, and they won and lost. The government army couldn't eat him for a while, but Zhang Liang's troops must have become more and more difficult, because each battle was farther and farther away from Luoyang. General Zhu Jun was not able to go north to help Huangfu Song deal with Zhang Liang, because after Bao died, someone took the remaining Yellow Turban Army to continue fighting. This day brought news that the head of that Yellow Turban Army died in battle again, and a new bandit leader emerged in a few days. This information is not a good news for me, but it has a very tragic meaning. This winter, I am afraid that the Yellow Turban Army will not be able to support it. Thinking of it, I sighed.
Wandering on the street soon turned into aimless wandering. However, when I passed a remote alley, I heard someone calling for help. It seemed that someone was robbing. I was the governor of Changsha. Someone was actually messing around on my land. Where would I put my face? I hurriedly ran over to the sound. Afterwards, Zhou Yu kept laughing at me for running over because a beautiful girl called for help. In fact, it was not like that at all. With my body, who would I be afraid of? And I couldn't just stand by and watch. The course of events could definitely be written into history books, provided that if I were a historian, three big men surrounded a girl. Every time Zhou Yu heard me come here, as long as she was present, she would definitely add a sentence "a beautiful girl." In short, it didn't seem to rob her, but kidnapped her. The girl was soon knocked unconscious and put into a bag. "It feels like you have no feelings at all, treating her as fodder." "You are so annoying, let me do it, don't talk nonsense." Where was I? Yes, the girl was knocked unconscious and put into a bag. Next, I started fighting with them. Although I had never had a real fight, I had plenty of strength. Therefore, when I saw three strong men standing in front of me, I didn’t feel scared. However, things were not quite as I imagined, because my main job was to get beaten, and I could never hit them. After finally hitting them with a punch, they decided to use knives, because "this big guy is really thick-skinned and really strong. Kill him, quickly, or else it will be bad for the next person." I thought I was dead, and the story would end here, everything was over, but if that was the case, it would not have been written into history. Because, I felt a flash of lightning passing by me, and a big man who was rushing towards me fell to the ground, and a carved feather arrow hit his chest straight. The other two people's eyes changed, and they threw their knives behind me, then turned and ran. Almost at the same time, two more lightnings knocked down two flying knives in the air, and the momentum of their flight did not weaken and they flew straight towards the two men. The two fell down in response. I was stunned at the time. I had never thought that there were such magical skills. I hurriedly turned around and saw a middle-aged man as tall as a pine tree slowly put away the longbow in his hand. The long beard hanging down from his well-defined face was blown by the wind. I lowered my head and blinked carefully, then looked up, wondering if I had seen it wrong. There was such a hero in Changsha, but I had never seen him before. He looked at me, it seems that I am not dreaming, he looked at me for a while, "I heard that three burly men followed the girl's car, I was afraid that they might be lost, so I came out to look for them, just now I heard the cry for help, and hurriedly chased here, brother, have you seen the girl?" I couldn't say a word, I seemed to have been unable to open my mouth, I pointed to the big bag by the wall, nodded, the archer hurried over, untied the bag, supported the girl, and patted the girl's cheek, "Yun'er, Yun'er, wake up, it's daddy!" I was standing behind him, in fact, I had a very disgusting idea at that time, I didn't know if I should, I wanted to find cold water to splash her, I couldn't find it for a while, I suddenly wanted to take a niào. However, she woke up before my idea became a reality, and when she saw her father, she cried and buried herself in her father's arms. The middle-aged man looked at his daughter in his arms kindly, and I suddenly felt that being a father was still very happy, at least there was something to rely on in life, and there was someone who needed to rely on himself waiting for his protection.
The middle-aged man whispered a few words in his daughter's ear, and the girl stopped crying. She stood up and thanked me. I suddenly felt that I had been watching them from behind, which seemed inappropriate, so I apologized quickly. However, the archer didn't care. He smiled and waved his hand, and invited me to his house. I thought it was okay, and I also wanted to see where he lived. I thought I could visit him more often in the future, and then find a time to ask him for advice, or even become his apprentice. Teacher Wei taught us everything except martial arts, and I think it's time for me to learn martial arts. When I was dreaming of becoming his apprentice, Zhou Yu and his friends hurried over. At this time, Zhou Yu, in front of so many people, respectfully saluted me with others, "Sir, the governor." Usually, it would be more respectful for this fake kid to throw himself on your shoulder and shout "Thank you, brother." I immediately gave the order to take these robbers away. Zhou Yu, they looked like they were dead. I would drag away the dead ones, and lock up the alive ones first, find someone to treat them and wait for their fate, and then find three horses.
When the horses were brought, I turned around and led the two horses to the father and daughter. Only then did I notice their abnormality. The daughter had an incredible feeling in her eyes and a surprised expression on her face, while the father looked me up and down, without any surprised expression. He just nodded, helped his daughter onto the horse, and then got on the horse himself. I said I would escort them back to the house, and let Zhou Yu and the others go back first. In fact, it was almost the same as asking him to protect me, but the middle-aged man didn't change his expression, just quietly drove the horse slowly, without showing contempt for my big talk.
At the foot of Changsha's east city wall, I followed them into an alley. When we reached a black door at the end of the alley, he turned around and said two words to me, "We're here." He asked the maid to take me into the house to rest, and then led me into the living room. I thought to myself that this place was really remote. He then bowed and talked to me: "Thank you for saving me this time. If they had hurt you, I really don't know what I would do..." "Sir, you are serious. In fact, I should be blamed for this. In broad daylight, someone in Changsha City actually robbed a commoner's woman. It is really my fault. I hope you will forgive me for my negligence in my duty." "Sir, you look young, but you have such a heart that values the people... It's rare." I thought he wanted to say something, but suddenly stopped and said it was rare. I guess he already knew that I was a person who didn't know any martial arts. What he meant was that I dared to stand out without martial arts. Of course, he didn't say this, but he meant this in an unpleasant way. I think this is the time for me to make a request. "I don't know if it's too abrupt to make this request, because I have a teacher, and I don't plan to change teachers... But I have strength but I don't know any martial arts, and I will inevitably have to fight in the future. I saw your skills today, and I would like to ask you to teach me martial arts. I, Xie Zhi, will be very grateful." "It's okay, the prefect is noble, I will do my best, but you only saw me shooting arrows, why do you think I am good at martial arts?"
Oh, it seems like he is testing me, but I have already thought about this: "Three strong men with such skills followed Ling Qianjin's carriage and waited until they reached a secluded place before they attacked her. Moreover, they only knocked her out, and it seems that they wanted to kidnap Ling Qianjin. So their purpose is to deal with you, but they seem to be very afraid of you. How could it be possible if you are not an expert? If you are only skilled in archery, then they can lie in ambush at the door of your house and rush up when you go out."
"I often hear people say that Changsha's new governor, who is not even twenty years old, has the appearance of an extraordinary person, and is definitely not an ordinary person. Today, after seeing him, it is true. As a teacher and friend, I will take care of your martial arts training. You have a very high level of comprehension, and your physical strength is far beyond that of ordinary people. Your body is also quite flexible, but your whole body lacks coordination. ... Come with me."
I was excited. I didn't expect it to start today. This person... "I forgot to ask your name, sir."
"I, yes, I only know your name is Xie Zhi, I haven't told you my name yet, my name is Huang Zhong, and my cursive name is Han Sheng."