Chapter 17 Grinding an iron pestle into an embroidery needle
I thought it was not good and blew out the lights. "The "Essential Handbook for Walking in the River and Lakes" mentioned that when encountering enemies in the room at night, the enemy is the most taboo to be dark and bright, especially when encountering opponents who are good at hidden weapons, the lights should be turned off as soon as possible so as not to expose our position to the enemy's field of vision.
There was a moaning sound outside.
Xu Kaishan Road, I don’t know which friend on the road? I heard Yang Yicheng scolding outside the door, you are so unreasonable, I’m afraid that it will be cold tonight, so I will ask my friend to send some charcoal fires. You can use such a method?
I sighed in my heart, and it seemed that Xu Kaishan was a little nervous and the plants were all in war. So I lit a candle and came to the door. I saw Yang Yicheng standing outside the door, with a guy lying on the ground and a charcoal furnace lying on the ground.
I stepped forward and helped the mate up and said sorry. Yang Yicheng said that he was so kind to treat it as a donkey, let him go, leave, and ignore them. As he said that, he took the mate away angrily. When he returned to the room, he saw Xu Kaishan closing his eyes and pretending to fall asleep.
I said stop pretending, I just tried it, and that guy didn't have any martial arts skills. Xu Kaishan didn't speak, and snored like thunder.
I lay on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. I thought that if the meridians in my body were really as Xu Kaishan said, ordinary internal strength and mental methods were of no use to me. It seemed that I could only explore myself. When I tried to guide the seven constellations of the South Heaven again, I could not sense it. But I was not discouraged, at least it proved that I could practice internal strength and mental methods.
The next morning, I got up very early and practiced the Golden Snake Skill in the yard. This has become a habit. Whether in the capital or outside, I will practice the gun, spear, and lying in the gun a thousand times every day. In Lao Sun's words, practice makes perfect, and conscious gun technique becomes an unconscious reaction.
As for weapons, Lao Sun gave me a white wood before leaving, saying that I would practice first and wait for the opportunity to find a gun to install it. At that time, I asked him for the two guns, but Lao Sun scolded me.
After an hour, he finished his work and returned to the room. Xu Kaishan looked at me coldly and asked, "What is your relationship with Sun Miaomiao?"
I said in surprise, who is Sun Miaomiao?
Xu Kaishan said, if you don’t know him, how could he have the Golden Snake Skill?
I suddenly realized that Lao Sun's name was Sun Miaomiao, and it turned out to be such a domineering name. No wonder he asked me to call him Lao Sun or the leader. Every time I asked him for his name, he refused to tell me.
Do you know Lao Suntou?
Xu Kaishan said coldly, I owe him something.
I kept saying, So that's it. Why not give it to me if you have the opportunity to bring it to him.
Xu Kaishan said, fifteen years ago, he secretly attacked me and stabbed me with a shot. Thanks to him, I stayed in the Six Gate Heavenly Prison for fifteen years. If I count the interest on this gun, I will return it ten times.
I said that it will increase ten times in fifteen years, and the monthly interest rate is 6 cents this year, which is more than four times the benchmark interest rate stipulated by the court. Is this considered usury?
Xu Kaishan turned against him, do you want to help him?
I shook my head and said, Actually, I am not very familiar with him. He is at most half of my leader. He teaches me the Golden Snake spear technique to work for him. That old guy is disrespectful to the old man, has a rude temperament, and is annoying in the six doors. But he said in his heart that he is sorry Lao Sun, I don’t want this big devil to come to him because of you.
Xu Kaishan snorted, don’t worry, there is a source of injustice and debt, I will not settle his account on you, but I have to settle your account with you. I said I don’t owe you anything, why are you going to settle accounts with me?
Xu Kaishan pointed to the wine glass and said, "Do you want to settle the debt with you every day, do you think I want to settle it with you?"
I was speechless and after a long time, I thought I should forget it. Besides, I was also ordered to act. You are an old senior in the world. Xu Kaishan, the famous Tiandao in the world fifteen years ago, will not care about us younger generations. At worst, I will put less medicine when feeding you to the future.
Xukaishan Road, put more.
I said I was not fooled. Do you think I don’t know your abacus? If you take more poisons and don’t wait until Yingtian Mansion, the amount will be insufficient. When you finish the poison, who can do anything to you?
Xu Kaishan smiled mutely, "You boy sometimes has a dynamic mind, and sometimes his IQ is really worrying." I poured a bowl of white wine, added his white wine companion He Dinghong, pushed it in front of him and took medicine."
When I came to the front yard for breakfast, the owl saw us and said in surprise, "You are not dead?" I looked at Xu Kaishan again, but you didn't escape?"
What did I say?
It's nothing, hurry up and get on the road after eating.
The more I felt strange, could it be that the old fox Lu Zhongyuan and these five old guys had told me before leaving? Xu Kaishan sat there, sneering.
After breakfast, the group continued to set off on the road. The snow was too heavy last night and the road was muddy. Owls, Zuoshan Diao and others rode forward, but it made me, a coachman, suffer several times. The five of them ignored it and stopped aside and joked. It took me a long time to get out the car.
After we came out of Cuan Dixia, we walked around the road south with relevant documents on our side. We stayed at the inn or in the inn along the way. According to the regulations of the court, we escorted prisoners. The inns on the way had to provide convenience for free, but we didn't encounter much.
Five days later, we arrived in Baoding Prefecture. Baoding Prefecture controlled the three passes in the north and reached Jiuzhou in the south. It was connected to four parts and was the highest in Zhongzhou. It has been a thoroughfare for military strategists since ancient times and a must-pass place for going southwest of the capital.
The Owl said that I had a brother who worshipped me in Langya Mountain. Now that I have a successful career, I have written many letters to ask me to be a guest. It is better to be a day than to choose a day. Now that the gatekeeper is approaching, there is no limit on time anyway, so why not stay for a few days first and wait for the New Year to go on a journey.
I said we are in the official business and there are also important criminals in the prison car, so this is not good.
The owl said unhappily: You are young and energetic, you have to consider us elderly people. Besides, the Chinese New Year will be held in two days, and the State Holiday Office also stipulates that it will take seven days for holidays. The other eagles also complained that the road was too difficult to walk, so I couldn't tell them, so everyone went to Langya Mountain.
Langya Mountain belongs to the Taihang Mountains, with strange peaks, rugged and steep, and looks like wolf teeth. If the grass grows in spring and summer, it is also a good place to go. Now in the cold winter, the snowy sky and the road up the mountain is like a sheep's intestine, winding and rugged.
When I arrived at the foot of the mountain, I was about to go up the mountain, Xu Kaishan suddenly sat up, and the horse pulling the prison cart stopped. The owls and others stopped one after another. I was about to speak, but I found that in the middle of the road, which was not wide, there was an old woman sitting in the middle of the road, holding an iron rod in her hand and polishing it on a grinding stone.
The owl asked me to go upstairs and negotiate, but I was secretly alert. Ximen Chulan said that there are three types of people who cannot be provoked by the world. A monk, a white woman and a beautiful woman, must have a plan when blocking the center. This old woman must have something to do. It's not a green forest that blocks the road and robs the house. The first senior brother always tells me about the dangers of the world. The more strange things the world is, the more dangerous it is.
I took a few steps forward and said respectfully, "Old lady, we have important things to do, can we use them?"
The old woman didn't raise her head and said impatiently, "Didn't you see me busy?"
What are you doing?
The old woman said, grind the needle.
Why grind a needle?
kill.
Who to kill?
The person in the car.
I thought to myself that the old woman looked almost eighty, but she even boasted that she wanted to kill Xu Kaishan, the Sky Sword. This man was either a peerless master or was insane.
The only one who uses needles as weapons in the world and has great martial arts skills is the Oriental Master of the Sun and Moon Sect. However, it is said that he was killed on the Black Wood Cliff that year. After thinking about it, he didn't know who was a master who used needles.
But I still said politely, are you trying to say that as long as you work hard to grind a deep iron rod into a needle?
The old woman said, no.
Why is that?
Chapter completed!