Chapter 42: Mountain Hunting
This person is Kong Heizi.
He is a fugitive, that is, a person who escapes taxes and labor, goes into exile in other places without a household registration.
But Wang Hua is very suspicious of his identity. If ordinary villagers would agree with this statement, there are many villagers like him in the village. First, this is a mountain village, and the government manages it loosely. Second, there are many porcelain kilns in this area, which can be absorbed and labor resources are needed, and there are kiln owners on it to serve as protective umbrellas for them. But what is Wang Hua's vision?
Because Kong Heizi was so skillful. At first, he came to the village. The four brothers of the Gou family had a conflict with him. He piled them down to the ground in less than a minute and could not move. The villagers just said that he had the ability, but Wang Hua saw that he had a routine when fighting with the Gou brothers.
Also, every time he went to the mountains to hunt, he harvested the most in the village. Therefore, he did not have to worry about food and clothing. Seeing this situation, the widow of the Liu family in the village took the initiative to marry him. It could be considered as forming a small family.
Wang Hua was worried. So he followed him and accompanied him to hunt on the mountain. Kong Heizi scared him a few times, but it didn't work. Wang Hua was still a child, so he couldn't lift Wang Hua up and beat him up. He had no choice but to let the sticky candy follow behind.
But Wang Hua is very spiritual and gradually won his favor. Sometimes Kong Heizi took the initiative to teach him some predation skills. This pair of taciturn Kong Heizi is rare.
However, Wang Hua was young and had not gained enough strength, so he didn't gain much. But Wang Hua didn't care. He mainly wanted to learn some ability from Kong Heizi. For example, when he captured the rope covers that Lu Ergou and four of them, he learned from Kong Heizi. He also had the observation and utilization of the terrain against the three assassins, which was also the experience he learned in hunting in the mountains in recent years.
But what Wang Hua wanted to learn the most was Kong Heizi's archery skills. It was a hit, but Wang Hua had been polished for a long time, but Kong Heizi refused to teach. Every time, he refused because he was weak and could not pull the bow.
Seeing Kong Heizi arrive, even Wang Yi was a little afraid. He fought with the four brothers of the Gou family and became famous in the village.
Kong Heizi didn't say much, he looked at Wang Hua and said, "Are you back?"
"Uncle Kong, I'm back."
Kong Heizi's eyes were a little happy. He touched Wang Hua's head, measured his height, and said, "Then let's hunt mountains with me, and teach you some archery skills."
Hunting the mountain means hunting on the mountain, but Wang Hua was attracted by the words he said. Kong Heizi finally became kind-hearted? That's great.
Wang Hua and Kong Heizi went up the mountain, and the oily pine and cypress all over the mountain were covered with plain skirts.
When he arrived at the top of the mountain and looked at the vast white mountains below, Kong Heizi asked, "Waiter, why do you want to learn archery? Could it be that you want to go to the battlefield to be a soldier?"
In addition to the imperial examinations, there was also a road in the Tang Dynasty, because the Tang Dynasty continued to fight abroad, and joining the army was also a road. The Tang Dynasty was not as weak as the Song Dynasty. Most of the later separatist Jiedushi were from military generals. Therefore, Kong Heizi asked this question.
But in fact, since the late Tang Dynasty, due to the reduction in land grants and the phenomenon of defeat in wars began to occur many times, the army was no longer so popular. In particular, Wu Zetian prevented Xu Jingye from rebelling again, killing meritorious generals and installing close friends. The soldiers of the palace became the private soldiers of the Wu family, and even more criticized by the people.
However, considering Wang Hua's age, Kong Heizi never thought that Wang Hua would understand the inside story.
Wang Hua shook his head and said, "No, Uncle Kong, I just want to protect myself."
"Self-protection?" Kong Heizi laughed. Self-protection requires learning archery. This technique is most used in combat, and is only used in civil use by hunting. However, it is rarely used in combat, except assassination.
"Yes, I'm just trying to protect myself." Wang Hua remembered the sword light in Mengzi Lane again. If he hadn't started practicing his body since childhood and hunting on the mountain, he would have only been corpses on the streets now.
"What happened when you arrived in Luoyang this time? When I saw you back at home, I seemed to have a lot of thoughts."
Wang Hua did not answer, and he asked back: "Uncle Kong, if I was not wrong, you are not an ordinary escapee, but a deserter, right? And you are the kind of veteran who is very good at fighting on the battlefield."
"What did you say! Little bastard!" Kong Heizi grabbed Wang Hua's collar and said sternly.
The Tang Dynasty was very strict in arresting people, guarding people, and arresting people. This recruiting people was to recruit troops, guarding people was to guard soldiers. At this time, it was mostly composed of soldiers from the government. The escaped people were fleeing households. However, the consequences of arresting the first two and the capture of the former two were much more severe than the latter. If discovered, they would be killed at any time.
"Uncle Kong, let me down, can I listen to me?"
"Okay. I'll ask you, who did you hear that I'm a deserter?"
"Uncle Kong, before I answer your question, I also have a secret to tell you, in exchange, is it OK?"
"you say."
"Uncle Kong, this is a dynasty of Yangwu."
Kong Heizi was puzzled, what was the martial arts? Of course, he didn't know that in the next two hundred years, the military general would not be as popular as it is now, and even had to bow down when he saw a civil servant.
"So, I have to practice martial arts to protect myself. Also, this time when I arrived in Luoyang, a lot of things happened. I said I did a lot of exciting things in Luoyang, do you believe it?"
"Believe." Although Kong Heizi was still worried and didn't know where Wang Hua heard that he was a deserter, he still laughed. It was so exciting. Maybe he might beat the little kid from the official's house.
Wang Hua also knew that even Di Renjie recommended him to Wu Zetian for him, but he would not believe him. He didn't know that Wu Zetian was comparing him to Jiang Ziya in the court at this time. Although this was Wu Zetian's ulterior motive, what would the impact of this sentence being passed on?
He had to say a long story short: "Uncle Kong, I made some exquisite lacquerware and sold it at a high price on the western market of Luoyang."
"What price?" Although he said little, Kong Heizi still asked by the way.
Wang Hua was silent for a while before saying, "The highest lacquerware is priced at 1.2 million yuan."
Kong Heizi touched his forehead and murmured, "Child, what's wrong with you today? Are you experiencing an evil spirit? Go home and have a sleep, and you'll be fine if you wake up tomorrow morning."
As he said that, he was going to hold him in his hands and pull him down the mountain.
Chapter completed!