Episode 1 Chapter 2 Life and death go hand in hand(1/2)
The cold road is dark and there are few pedestrians. The dirty robes on the high ground are tightened, and the feeling of powerlessness is spreading all over the body. How long is it before Qinhuai? You can't just turn back like this, you won't be laughed to death.
I had only been away from home for two days, and Gao Cu felt a little regretful. I was used to being flirted with the rich clothes and food, so I couldn't adapt to this lonely and desolate wandering for a while. I had to wear clothes by myself, find ways to eat by myself, and walk with my feet on the road. These are not the most difficult things. The most difficult thing is that he, who is so smart and unparalleled, actually forgot to bring money when he goes out.
When I left the house, I was really too hasty and didn’t make any preparations. I usually regard money as dirt, but only when things were about to come, I realized how popular dirt was at a certain time.
Gaodu was quite depressed. After a few days of running around, he was so hungry that he was touching his back. He thought that if he had broken up like this, it would be so cold.
Just as I was in sorrow, I suddenly felt a donkey hooves coming from the road. Then there was a hoarse singing like a broken gong:
“The sky is as dark as crows, and the ground is full of ants;
Ruthless may not be a real hero. I am a bad person who I am afraid of."
Although the singing was unpleasant, it inexplicably showed a bit of majestic and free spirit. Looking up from a high place, I saw an energetic old man riding a shiny black donkey towards me. The old man was thin and dry, with yellow face, and his two triangular eyes were dripping around, revealing a bit of a strange atmosphere. When he saw the donkey running, he had to avoid the roadside.
Unexpectedly, the old man stopped when he passed by, looked at him with compassion, and suddenly came up to touch his face with a dirty hand.
Gao Cu was accidentally touched by him and was immediately disgraced. The little prince of the Taiping Prince's Mansion was actually teased by an old man. It was reported that he saw people when he was exposed.
Just as he was about to have an attack, the old man spoke first: "Boy, you see your bones are bifurcated, your veins are disordered, your face is gray, your body is weak, you are really a fool who is rare in a thousand years to practice martial arts. But meeting me is your blessing. If you are willing to worship me as your teacher, the old man can save you from the water and fire, save you from the abyss of fools, and turn you into a genius. How about it, be moved, come and become a disciple."
He was hungry in his stomach. When he saw his old man, he was talking nonsense again with his head, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it, so he walked forward. The old man was content to wait for him to give the ceremony of apprenticeship, but saw him ignore him and dodge himself, blocking the road.
"Hey, boy, I'm talking to you, why don't you respond at all? I'm very rude?"
Gao Cu felt disgusted, so he simply stopped talking and stared at him, hoping that he could use a disgusting look to kill him with one blow.
The old man exclaimed, "Can you be dumb?"
He nodded weakly from a high place.
The old man made a sudden enlightenment expression: "That's all, it's not very meaningful to teach a mute to come out." After saying that, he turned the donkey's head and left. After walking two steps, he came back to his senses and cursed: "You, an ignorant child, dares to play with grandpa. He has always been deaf and dumb. How did you hear me??"
Gao Du felt more hungry in his belly, and his anger also came: "Old man, what are you doing?"
"Boy, it was your accumulated virtue in your previous life. Today I met me. Come and take me as your teacher and make you a hero." The old man said arrogantly.
"You... too!" Gao Duo spat hard, turned his head and left.
The old man touched a nail and couldn't hold his face anymore. Suddenly, he accidentally floated down from the donkey's back, and poked out a pair of dark claws and grabbed the shoulders of the high place, as fast as lightning. He could hear the sound of wind at the height, and even sneer was saved. With a slight swaying, the person who was about to attack was gone. His old man blushed and his face turned out to be gone. His old man turned red, he roared, and his body rushed in like a ghost. He grabbed the ghost claws with wind and thunder again, and attacked the back of the high place, which was many times faster than before.
Gao Gu sighed, without avoiding or hiding, stabilized his body, and followed the old man's moves. He heard two crisp sounds, and then he chuckled, and the old man clawed his claws and blew away, his eyes flashing with surprise: "Boy, have you actually practiced an iron step shirt?"
Gao Du glanced at him with contempt: "What is an iron sling? I don't know. It's enough to tie a piece of iron plate on his body." When the old man heard this, he realized that he was deceived and was unwilling to accept it. He rushed up again, thinking that he had been practicing martial arts for forty years, but today he couldn't erase his ignorant boy.
He swayed left and right at the height, jumping and jumping, and avoided the old man's moves one by one as he wished but just right. He saw claws all over the sky, with the sound of the wind, two of them retreated and went in, chased and ran away, and swayed for a long time. The old man had never even touched the corner of his clothes on the height.
Gao Duo has been hungry for two days and felt a little dizzy. He avoided a move and immediately stopped: "Hey, old man, I'm done, I'm still going to beat him even though I know I can't beat him. As a human being, you have to worry about shame or not."
The old man blushed: "Although I can't beat you, I can still teach you the principles of being a human being. Besides, my poor martial arts skills are because I have poor qualifications, and our master's skills are unparalleled in the world."
Gao Du glanced at him contemptuously: "No need, I have a complete set of the latest hardcover martial arts secrets here. Do you want to buy it? Ten taels of silver per book, and you can buy it for more and get it."
The old man was so excited when he heard this: "Good boy, let me go? Humph, if you don't take me as your teacher, I will never stop and follow you to the ends of the world." He actually twisted it.
I am used to rogues on high ground, but today I realize how annoying rogues are. He waved his hand and stopped the old man from rushing to the other side and said, "It's not impossible to ask me to become a disciple. I will ask you a few questions first. If you answered it to fulfill my wish, I will bow. If you can't, you will give up and stop getting entangled. How about it?" The old man blinked his eyes and thought, "You can ask first?"
Gao Di sat on the ground and asked solemnly: "Do you have a beautiful little daughter in your house?" The old man said inexplicably: "No."
"Then do you have a slightly more beautiful female apprentice?"
“No, either.”
Gao Dun looked relaxed: "Since that's the case, then I won't blame me anymore. I gave you a chance and you didn't catch it. Now there is no discussion. Don't bother me anymore. I've been hungry for two days and I don't have the energy to play with you again."
When the old man heard him, his eyes suddenly lit up. He ran quickly to the donkey and took out a greasy roast chicken from the cloth bag. "I have this, are you willing?"
The fragrance drifted into his nose with the wind, and he felt a whisper in his stomach. "Well, that, I have always respected the elderly and loved the young," he pursed his lips: "What about you, who is so respectful and immortal, and the elder?"
The old man was happy, "So, are you willing?" He pulled the roast chicken back and said seriously: "I didn't force you."
Gao Duo grinned, with a disdain on his face: "You didn't force it, you were trying to force it?"
"Stop talking nonsense. If you worship the master, this roast chicken will be yours. It depends on your weak look. You will be about to starve to death." The old man shook the roast chicken and looked at the high place leisurely, with aura in his eyes.
Director Gao sighed, thinking that the end of heroes was just like this, so it would be better to pretend to be perfunctory. Anyway, he never knew what kind of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and faith were. He would say it when he wanted to go back on his word. Thinking of this, he reluctantly stepped forward and gave the honor to the master. "Address, I pay my respects to the old man."
The old man raised the roast chicken high and said proudly: "Advisor, listen, I am the ancient poem of Wolongsou, who ranks 341st in the world, ranked 300th in the Heavenly List."
"Ancient Corpse?" Gao Duo shivered all over. He looked at his thin and dry appearance and hugged his fist: "I have been looking at it for a long time, and it turns out that he is as his name."
The old man did not hear the mystery, but instead felt complacent: "Actually, the streets with qualifications like you are everywhere. It's really a disgrace to accept you as an apprentice. You are still so ignorant!"
Gao Ku was already angry, and then gritted his teeth and said, "If you insult me again, I will cut myself off in front of you."
Gu Shi laughed: "Oh, if you have this idea, you are a hero. I am a kind person. I can't ignore you when you commit suicide. This way, you always have fate. I will teach you a few ways to die that are not too painful. I have a rope here, so I will lend you some first?"
"Give me the roast chicken." Gao Ke ignored his teasing and reached out to the delicious food.
Seeing that the ancient poem was indeed hungry, he no longer felt embarrassed.
I took the roast chicken with a handful of hand, but I couldn't care about that much. I ate it with my teeth and felt happy, as if it was not the roast chicken, but the most noble delicacy in the world. The barbaric eating made Gu Shi stunned. I thought to myself that if I didn't give it to him, he might be able to swallow me alive.
After eating, Gao Cuo sighed to the sky with satisfaction: "Life is enough to be full of chicken!"
Gu Shi laughed at the side, "Good apprentice, your eating posture is so bold, it is indeed different. The master must not treat you badly. When we arrive in the city, we will have a good tooth sacrifice."
When Gaodu heard this, he turned over and jumped onto the donkey's back: "Master, what are you waiting for? Let's go quickly."
Gu Shi was stunned: "You ride a donkey, what am I riding?" Before he finished speaking, the dust raised from the donkey's hooves had already filled the loess road.
"Hey, ride slowly, be careful to fall to death."
"Master, don't worry, I was already proficient in riding when I was eight years old, so I can't kill me if I fell."
"Who is worried about you? I'm afraid of falling to death my donkey..."
The master and apprentice each had their own ulterior motives, and the donkey ran away. This day, we arrived at a prosperous place, but it was Yangzhou.
In Yangzhou City, there are traffic, crowds of people, and it is very lively. The high places are circling around the city and habitually enter the most luxurious restaurant. It is no wonder that people are born with wealth and never have experienced the sufferings of the world.
What happened to the ancient poem behind him was so shocked. He looked at the signboard of the "First Floor" and gritted his teeth and went in.
The clever waiter saw the luxuriously dressed young master, and had already trotted up: "Master, what do you want to eat."
High places looked at the cups, plates, dishes, chickens, ducks, fish and meat around me. I felt my stomach rumble and started to scream. I waved my hand and ordered: "It's delicious, even if it's delicious, I'm so hungry that I can even swallow a table."
When the waiter heard this, he hurriedly said with a smile: "You are so tasteful. You dare not say anything else in the shop. There are more than a dozen tables. Which one do you like? I'll go and chop them first."
Gao Chu had never seen such a bold waiter, and glared at him angrily: "I'll chop you up first."
The waiter pretended to be panicked: "Just kidding, I'll just make you happy, don't be serious about me. The food will come soon." After that, he ran away as if he ran away.
The fat shopkeeper behind the curtain reached out to stop him and asked in a low voice: "Look carefully, is it the little prince?"
The waiter in the shop felt a little sweat: "Fortunately I ran fast. Hasn't this little prince always easy-going? Why are you so popular today?
The fat shopkeeper slapped his head hard: "What kind of thing are you? You dare to joke with the little prince. I'll stop me. I'll put the pigeons to communicate with the emperor. You can bring the meal you specially prepared first. Remember, close your mouth, and then talk nonsense. I cut your tongue and put wine." The waiter pursed his mouth and went into the kitchen to shout.
Here, sitting on a wide bench, staring at the delicacies on other people's tables, drooling endlessly. Gu Shi stared at him with great satisfaction, looking at his beautiful bones and beautiful beauty, and secretly rejoiced. The two were sitting, and suddenly a person ran up the stairs, and the man dressed in a cloth dress, but his face looked resolute and extraordinary. He walked to Gu Shi and called "Uncle Master", and his eyes seemed red.
"Why are you panicking?" Gu Shi was shocked. The man's name was Qin Yong, who was at the gate of Wolong Mountain. Qin Yong held back his excitement and took out a letter from his arms and handed it over. Gu Shi opened it and looked at him suddenly changed his expression.
He wrinkled his nose at the height and sniffed the aroma of the meal while asking, "What's wrong? Master, your old bark face will look even more ugly when it droops."
Gu Shi sighed, with a little worried expression: "Disciple, your fate is over today, and we will break up today. In the future, we will not be allowed to say that it is my disciple of Wolongshan in front of outsiders."
Gao Duo opened his mouth wide and was a little stupid: "Master, you have discovered your conscience, but something else happened. I will sweep me out so quickly."
"Don't ask so much. As a teacher, I have a few words to give to you before leaving."
I felt the atmosphere was abnormal at a high place, so I calmed down and looked at Gu Shi's face.
Ancient poems are abnormal and said very seriously: "I have learned the art of Yidi and divination, and I know that you are a person with deep blessings. In addition, you are gifted and will surely achieve great success in the future. But one thing must be remembered, no matter how great you achieve in the future, you must not be arrogant. You must know that the world is very big, and people are just a drop in the ocean in the world, and humble ones are not worth mentioning. Moreover, 'The trees are beautiful in the forest and the wind will destroy them'. People's hearts are sinister, so be careful. You should be careful. After saying this, you should do it yourself." After saying that, tears flowed.
Gao Duo was stunned: "It's not that I won't see you in the future. Why are you crying like a child?"
Gu Shi cried for a while and felt better. He took out a dilapidated booklet from his arms: "There is a bad sword technique here. I will definitely benefit you."
Gao Duo took the ragged booklet and curled his lips: "Why is such a strange name? Unlucky swordsmanship, will you be unlucky if you practice it? What else can you do?"
"If you practice well, you will be unlucky. If you practice poorly, you will be unlucky." The ancient poem said quietly: "Don't underestimate this book. Although I have never understood the profound meaning and can't even make a move, this book is a entrusted by a strange hero at the end of his life, and it must have its extraordinary features. Be careful to think about it, and there may be a strange fate in the future."
"Oh, I'll give me a favor to the books you can't understand, so where can I have great wisdom?" Gao Chu felt a little confused.
Gu Shi didn't answer him either, so he picked up his bag, turned his head and left in a hurry with the sender.
Gao Gu looked at his hunched back with his eyes a little wet. He lowered his head and wiped his tears. Suddenly he remembered something and couldn't help but scream: "Master, you haven't paid for the meal yet."
The food was served one by one, with delicacies and seas, and all the colors, fragrance and taste. But at this time, I lost my mood.
Although he had been together for a few days, he had an inexplicable closeness with ancient poems. He valued himself so much, which made him feel a little more grateful. It seems that something went wrong with Wolong Mountain, but even if he knew it, he would be powerless. In addition to his outstanding light skills in the royal palace over the years, he has only learned some passive superficial skills. The so-called invulnerable swords and guns, and the invincible poisons are all called the indestructible body of Vajra. If he was not nice, he would be a monster who could not be torn apart, or beaten or broken.
Every time I study from my father, the Taiping King will give me a stern face to teach you a lesson: "You are not good at benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. How can I teach you martial arts with confidence? It is hard to guarantee that you will not bully the weak and go through evil ways in the future. What if you do something that makes people think about money, will you lose all the face of my Taiping King?"
Gao Duo is very depressed when he thinks of these things. He is so sad that he is exhausted by others.
The master just said that he was "behind him", and he was even more depressed when he was behind him. Since he was behind him, he could enjoy it only after he died. But it was good that at least he would no longer be a painful thing for him.
A tall place was sighing. A thin and pale little girl walked into the restaurant with a hug with a little timidity. She opened her eyes wide and looked around. When she saw a luxuriously dressed person, she walked over and asked, "Master, do you want to listen to music? I can sing so many songs."
Those rich and noble businessmen and tyrannical children saw a lot of rouge and powder. Seeing that the little girl was thin, rustic and not very beautiful, she could not get any interest, and waved her away impatiently. The girl's eyes gradually contained tears, and she became more and more weak and pitiful. She reluctantly swept the customers of the restaurant again, walked straight to the heights, with a ray of light flashing in her eyes.
"Does the young master want to listen to music? The little girl can sing anything."
Gao Cuo looked at her and felt quite pitiful. He thought that he almost starved to death on the road of running around, so he couldn't help but feel pity.
"If you want to sing, just sing, but I don't have any money for you. You can bring some wine and food back." Gao Zu pointed to the exquisite food on the table: "The only thing I can give you."
To be continued...