"The Unlighted Knight" by. Ye Liang

1.

What is the standard for a good knight?

The lesser the hero, stand up for justice? The more hero, serve the country and the people?

None of them.

If you have carefully reviewed for the sake of the career exam, you will know that a good knight has a clear definition, just as clear as 11=2.

The answer is in the third paragraph on page 4 of "Sixteen Examinations of Guo Mingyi Xing Examination Questions", and the entire paragraph is required to be recited.

Guo Mingyi is known as "the urgent public is good at righteousness". He is from the Kongtong Sect. Although his martial arts are just like that, he has nothing to say about his understanding of the spirit of a knight.

I also have one of his "Sixteen Lectures" and it is almost broken.

Our Tianshan School attaches importance to basic education. In addition to "Sixteen Lectures", there are also Red Books, Lan Bao Books, and "The Basic Principles of the Heroes and Righteousness". We purchased them uniformly back then, and each one had a set. I learned every book thoroughly, and only my junior brother, who took a look at it and threw them under the bedding to keep his brain.

He said that the spirit of chivalrous and righteousness should be a simple spirit from the heart. Everyone has it innately and should explore it inwardly. Learning this spirit from books is like spitting out something that others have chewed out, and you continue to chew it with your mouth, which is quite boring.

I thought he was disgusting and didn't talk to him for half a month. Half a month later, the Grand Master came out of seclusion and inspected the 108 four-generation disciples on the mountain. Only the junior brother was very beautiful and said that the secrets of the school "Nei Tiangang Sword" and "Tianshan Three-Part Sword" were the only one who could learn it.

I was not convinced and said to him at night: "You haven't reviewed your books yet, and I'm afraid you won't be able to take the exam at the end of the year."

He put his hands behind his head, and he looked innocent and innocent, saying, "The test is the heart of a chivalrous man. I already have a chivalrous mind. When I answer according to my original intention, I will definitely pass the exam."

Facts have proved that his understanding of chivalrous spirit is still a little superficial, at least not as profound as Guo Mingyi. He was eliminated twice in the industry exam. He was eliminated twice. If he couldn't get a license, he could not be a chivalrous person. He could only fall to sweeping the floor on the mountain. After I finished studying and went down the mountain, I never saw him again in ten years.

2.

The junior brother did not review, so he didn’t know the significance of the career examination.

The full name of the Zhengzhou Examination is "The Qualification and License Examination for the Chivalrous and Righteousness". If you want to be a Chivalrous and righteous person, you must have a license. If you don't have a license, you are a hero without a license. It is a crime. The punishment ranges from detention to death, depending on the degree of damage you cause.

To put it simply, anyone who practices martial arts must have a license. If you don’t have a license, you can’t hang a knife or a sword. If you learn fist and foot skills such as Arhat boxing and Baguazhang, you have to tie your hands to go out, otherwise it is considered to be like taking the street with a weapon.

This is pretty good. Those who practice chasing their wind legs are even worse. They either use crutches or take a wheelchair when going out.

When we were on the mountain, we had four people in the same dormitory. I was the oldest, majoring in Drunken Eight Immortal Swords and practicing the Twenty-Four Tips of Heavenly Chang. The second family of the old practiced the cool fan and put on the snow without traces. The third and poor children worked hardest and focused on practicing Guixu. The fourth brother is the junior brother. He doesn’t know his origin and practices everything.

The four of us can be said that each of us has a reason to take the license for a heroic and righteousness. The second son is the second son, so he has to use a license to support his store, otherwise he will have no status at home; the third son is a poor child, either taking the imperial examination or becoming a knight, and there is no other way out. Therefore, even if you have no way out of your future, if you fail to get the license, you have to abandon your dantian before you can go down the mountain.

Compared to the two of them, I am neither too poor nor too rich, but I have a dream of a knight, and I entered the mountain gate with my dream.

The reason why the swordsman is the most widely used in employment. He has a sense of elegant appearance than a machete or a spear or a short dagger. In the future, whether it is a big deal or a popular street, he will have a higher image than other weapons.

The internal skills of the six divisions of Tianshan, the Twenty-Four Art of Heavenly Chang, is the most difficult to practice. The reason for practicing it is because before entering the mountain gate, I found a rule after reading all the heroes of the world: none of the hidden masters with transcendent status is under the age of 70.

This is easy to understand. Living long is a rare ability. When your peers die, you are the only one left. Looking at you, you are all your juniors in the world. This is called your uncle and the uncle. It is difficult for you to be respectful without virtue.

That's why I chose the Twenty-Four Tips of Heavenly Growth. The Twenty-Four Tips of Heavenly Growth prolong life. As long as I fight less, it's not difficult for me to live beyond the average level.

My dream is to become a hidden master with a transcendent status. My eyes always see me after I was 70 years old. When I was 20 years old and 30 years old, I may be the most popular hero whom I admire when I am 70 years old.

3.

One night, four of us sneaked into the back mountain to drink. With the bright moonlight, we talked about our future life.

The third brother said I had no other thoughts, just want to get the hero license and go to the Fuwei Escort Agency to find a job as an escort officer to make money to subsidize the family income. My parents have been working hard for more than 20 years, and my hands are already full of calluses.

The second brother said, I have nothing else to think about, I just want to get a license and rely on big players.

I was speechless after hearing their thoughts. I said to the third child: "Although your family is poor, you are a disciple of the Tianshan Sect. You go out to be a escort leader. If you don't feel embarrassed if you say it, I still feel embarrassed."

The third brother looked gloomy: "Brother, you don't know that I have a humble status and a wealthy family cannot get online. Guixu is also an internal skill and cannot do anything to do. With my martial arts, I want to rely on beating thieves and disciples to live a reward. Although it is not nice to say it, the monthly money is paid every month and the commission is quite good. As long as I eat it on the road, the danger is much smaller than doing anything else. Can this money be firmly in my hands? Isn't it better than anything else?"

The second child covered half of his face with a tin bone fan: "Third child, I wouldn't be happy if you say that a big family can't get online. In terms of big companies, is there anyone who is bigger than my family?"

The third brother glanced at him: "How can your family look down on my martial arts qualifications?"

"What is this? Why don't you look down on me? As long as you are my brother, you have to look down on me!"

I interrupted my second son and said, "You have you, didn't you say you just now that you want to rely on a big family?"

"What I mean by relying on big families is by my own family."

The third brother looked at the bright moon and said to the sky: "I don't want brocade hats, sable furs, fresh clothes and angry horses in this life. I just want to earn some money every month, buy a few acres of thin land, marry and have children, support the family, support the elderly, and repay their parents' grace with filial piety."

The second brother smiled and said "interesting", and also imitated him standing under the moonlight and said loudly: "I don't want to sit on the mountain of gold and wait for death. I just want to be free and carefree in the world, indulge in the mountains and rivers, see all the worlds, and experience all the fireworks on earth, and this life will be enough."

They looked at me, and I smiled slightly and said to Yueguang: "I am just a plain person, seeking fame and fortune, and seeking to be clear about my thoughts. Although I don't know whether I will become a great worshiper or a local hero in the future, I will definitely become a hero who everyone praises, live forever and be proud of my life."

After saying that, we realized that we had forgotten someone, so we turned to ask the fourth brother behind us: "Where are you?"

The fourth brother said slowly: "In the future, I want to be a hero."

After saying that, there was no further text. We waited for a while, looked at each other, and then I asked, "What's the matter?"

"Just be chivalrous," said the fourth brother, "Isn't it just to be a chivalrous and righteous?"

The second brother, the third brother and I looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

This is indeed his style. He is always different from ordinary people. We regard chivalrous justice as a means, and he regards chivalrous justice as an end.

The third brother looked at him and shook his head, sighed, "Fourth brother, you don't know that the world is hard, and things in the world are not as simple as you think."

The fourth brother said, "You might as well be a businessman and open a store, which is much better than fighting for life with a knife in your hand."

After saying that, he turned to look at the second brother and said, "If you want to indulge in mountains and rivers, you don't need to be a knight, right? And my elder brother, I think my elder brother is suitable for taking the imperial examination. Even if he is a county magistrate, he is more prestigious than a hero."

"I want to be a hero because I want to be a hero."

We are speechless.

Although there are hundreds of reasons to refute him and tell him that the world in his cognition is a superficial, simple, paradise-like place. The real world is not that simple, and the real life is not that easy.

But I didn't speak in the end. Even though I had thousands of reasons and said it in front of him, I was still too ambitious and always felt ashamed of myself.

4.

Ten years later.

When I got up from the lacquered mahogany bed customized by Carpenter Hu's house, my wife was no longer with me.

According to past experience, she should be busy in the kitchen at this time. After a while, she will serve me steaming dough and meat porridge, and maybe add a braised egg.

I washed my face in the porcelain basin of the official kiln in the house, and then changed my clothes. My wife had prepared the clothes for me, with a cloud crown on her head, an ice silk shirt spun with silk, and a cloud-patterned scholarly shirt on her outside, and a green gauze dress from Sima Fang, Jiangzhou.

As for shoes, my wife prepared tiger leather boots that my friend just sent me today, and when I put them on, I felt like I was stepping on clouds.

Last night, I specifically asked her not to prepare too good for me, because I will travel far away in the next few days to meet some old friends.

I pushed the door open and left the bedroom and walked to the lobby.

This house was handled three years ago. At that time, I worked for Xiaoyaohou. He was very satisfied with me. When he said goodbye to him, he rewarded me with such a house.

Two in and two out, one in and one in the main room, two wing rooms, one in the old mother and one in the maid, keeping the house in an orderly manner.

The maid went to the Great Wilderness once. On the way, she met a farm that was looted by horse bandits, and almost lost the household. Only the lady was left hiding among the dead and escaping.

I avenged the lady, so she promised her. At that time, I had just married my wife and was inconvenient to take a concubine, so I let her be a maid.

My wife met five years ago, and her father was the head of the 12th village in Dajiangshuilu. I won’t know him even if I don’t fight.

Who knew that day she came across the river with a boat wearing a red tassel on her head. The river was full of water. Her beauty caught my heart. A hero who could drink with her became my father-in-law.

Although I am not a huge wealth now, I am very rich.

I got my name in several escort agencies. Every year they gave me money from 100,000 taels, and I could leave casually in Jiangnan. In addition, I also had accounts in several bank houses. Those bank houses borrowed my name and were quite sensible. I always had tens of thousands of taels of silver in my account.

In the past ten years, I only met my fellow disciples of the Tianshan Sect once. After that moonlit night, we agreed to go to Changfeng Inn at the foot of Tianshan Mountain to have a drink every 5 years.

We met once 5 years ago, and in a dozen days, it will be the second 5 years we agreed on.

5.

On the eighth day of the April 1st, I rode the Peach Blossom Horse to the foot of Tianshan Mountain. There were still few guests in Changfeng Inn. The boss was squatting at the door with a toothpick in his arms, with a pile of empty wine jars at his feet.

However, there were two horses tied under the wine rod, one was green in the snow and the other was white in the Dayuan.

I "urged" the horse, and got off the horse with a smile, knowing that the two of them had come one step ahead of me.

"Second! Third!"

I stepped in and entered the door. Two men in blue shirts turned around in front of the table in the inn, and smiled when I saw my face: "Brother."

"I've been doing well recently, and I've changed horses." I patted the two of them on the shoulders and pressed them down.

The third brother said: "The business shop of the escort agency is expensive when it reaches Sichuan, so you have to change the one with more foot strength."

I was stunned; "So that Dayuanbai belongs to you?"

The second child turned his fan away from the side, blocked his mouth and smiled, "We are not suitable for riding Dayuan Bai in this status!"

I smiled: "That's right."

After the second son went down the mountain, he served as a sacrificial sect under his own property for the first seven years, but he accumulated strength and made connections in the past seven years. Two years ago, he became the leader of the Tianshan Sect. Another year later, the Tianshan Sect directly sent him to the Xueshan Sect as the head of the Sword.

Although the Snow Mountain Sect is a side branch of the Tianshan Sect, he is now the leader of the sect, and he has to consider the influence in every move. Although the Dayuan horse has a long foot strength, it is a horse riding by Fengchen Guests. It is not steady enough and is not suitable for him. Xue Liqing is very dignified and is just right for him.

The third brother's experience is more exciting than his. After going down the mountain, he followed the second brother for a while, then returned to the Tianshan Sect to be a teacher for a year, and then exchanged it with the Changle Gang as the incense master. Later, he was between the Changqing Gang, the Changshui Gang, and the Beggars' Gang, and the Beggars' Gang, and finally became the deputy leader of the Beggars' Gang.

Later, he married the daughter of the head of the Fuwei Escort Agency, and after two years he took it away. Now he is the head of the head of the seven provinces of the Fuwei Escort Agency. Oh, no, including Kawaguchi, he is the head of the head of the nine provinces.
To be continued...