Chapter 216 Cat and Mouse, Spring (8200+)(1/2)
This man who went from the north and was in a panic all day long was Wei Shiwu.
Xu Jie's guess made sense. He dared not go to the border town, and did not dare to face the countless iron armors on the border. He even knew that the Golden Palace Guard would definitely chase north as soon as possible, for fear that he would leave the Great Wall and go to a foreign land.
Wei Shiwu knew that going south was the way to life. There were not only Guangdong and Guangxi, but also Jiaozhi, but also from Fujian to Ryukyu, Luzon and other places, and perhaps he could live a free and easy life.
A dog with a family has the mentality of a dog with a family. This mentality is no longer as dignified as before or as confident as before. He even thinks he is enduring humiliation, but he still has some intelligence, and probably has a lucky mentality.
Wei Shiwu dared not kill people on this dock in Hangzhou, or he was unwilling to reveal his whereabouts here. If Wei Shiwu, who was born in the Golden Palace Guard, knew the ability of this Jiangnan Blood Sword Hall, did not think that he could be more powerful than the blood-handed Wang Wei of the past, nor did he think that he could really escape. There were fast horses in the Blood Sword Hall, and the Blood Sword Hall was the one who was the old border town and the Ye Busu, who was the best at tracking and chasing, was the one who was the best at chasing.
Those who are truly experienced in the border town may not be able to stop at night and do the hunting matters, perhaps they are better at than the Golden Palace Guard. Perhaps the Wei people in the Grassland Room will have a sense of identity.
Wei Shiwu nodded and was about to go to Hangzhou City. So what about people from the north? So what about using a knife? Who can recognize his true face in this Jiangnan land?
According to what Mr. Li said, if you find the wrong person, Jiangnan Blood Knife Hall might give you some compensation, which proves that the people in Jiangnan Blood Knife Hall talk about the morality of the world, and do not kill innocent people indiscriminately, which is enough.
Perhaps it is a good thing to enter this trip to Hangzhou City and this trip to Jiangnan Blood Knife Hall. After getting confused, Wei Shiwu's unavoidable itinerary will definitely be smooth and unpredictable. There is no need to be so anxious all day long, and he can have a good sleep.
Seeing that the man from the north was still obedient, Mr. Li smiled while walking, "That's right, brother, I tell you that we people from Jiangnan and Jianghu are not so unreasonable. It's really too important. Mr. Xu Ba is not so unreasonable. It may be beneficial to take a trip. Maybe you can earn your travel expenses back."
Mr. Li was not so sensitive, and he never even thought that he would really find the real owner. Mr. Li found a northerner with a figure, face shape, and weapons that he used were suitable for the target person. Mr. Li was also happy. He took it to the Blood Knife Hall and Mr. Xu Ba should record this favor.
The Qingjiao Gang also has a competitor in Hangzhou, which is the Hangzhou Gang. This wharf is a piece of fat. How can the Hangzhou Gang not stare at this piece of fat? There is no fighting every day, because there is a Blood Knife Hall in the city, and the Blood Knife Hall is the person involved.
With this favor being remembered by Mr. Xu Ba, the territory of the Qingjiao Gang naturally became more and more stable.
Three hundred and sixty professions are not easy, and life is like this. From a high-ranking official to a martial arts master, everyone has their own difficulties. If you want to live hard, everyone has to work hard.
Mr. Li was in a very good mood and even bought a bowl of tea on the side of the road to quench Wei Shiwu's thirst. In his arms, he had a packet of osmanthus cake stuffed by his concubine before going out. Mr. Li was not stingy and ate some with Wei Shiwu.
It is not the first time Wei Shiwudang has come to Hangzhou. Jiangnan is graceful, and even the gardens in Jiangnan also have a kind of beauty like a woman. Even on the street, you can often see the branches of trees in the courtyards coming out of the walls, and the faint smell of flowers and plants in spring.
The streams and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River are twitching with the hawking sounds of merchants in the city, and the corridors on both sides of the flowing water, the arch bridges above the flowing water...
Jiangnan and Jiangnan are truly the pinnacle of the whole world's cultural and trade. Being able to be born in Jiangnan is a blessing. There is no war and severe cold in the north, and there is no wind, sand and barrenness in the west. Some have a prosperous literary style, some have developed commerce, some have abundant materials, and some have pleasant climate.
"Here, go in." Mr. Li said, tidying up his clothes and taking off the weapons again. Then he held his head and chest up, showing a different demeanor from usual, making himself look like a hero with extraordinary style.
Wei Shiwu looked up and saw the three big words "Shidao Pavilion" written on the plaque in the door. He was confused, but he was more nervous. He was still calming down his mood and kept telling himself that no one in Jiangnan knew Wei Shiwu, let alone Yan Hai.
Mr. Li waited for a while before entering the main hall. There were two rows of men standing on the left and right of the main hall, and seven or eight middle-aged men sat on both sides of the middle.
But Mr. Li was a little surprised. On the seat in the middle of the hall, there was a strong man with only one leg. Mr. Xu Ba was actually standing next to this person with a smile and talking and laughing.
"Li Jiang, come to see my elder brother!" Master Xu Ba raised his hand and waved, obviously very familiar with Master Li.
Mr. Li was eighty-four or five years old. Although he had many doubts in his heart, he wondered why Master Xu had a big brother, but he didn't ask much. He just raised his hand and smiled and said, "I've seen Master Eighth! I've seen Master."
Xu Laoba and Xu Zhong also bowed their favor, but Xu Laoba did not say anything. Xu Zhong said: "Bring someone in and have a look."
Mr. Li turned around and waved his hand to the door. Several men from the Qingjiao Gang walked in with Wei Shiwu.
Wei Shiwu's steps were empty and obviously pretended. He just bowed his hands and didn't speak.
Xu Zhong looked at it for a moment, stood up, and Xu Laoba handed over an iron crutch.
Xu Zhong walked to Wei Shiwu with his crutches and asked, "Where are we from?"
"A person in Daming Mansion in Hebei." Wei Shiwu said again with the lie he had just said.
However, unexpectedly, Xu Zhong suddenly took action and quickly hit Guard Fifteen's chest with a punch, which was obviously a test.
Wei Shiwu was really extraordinary. He subconsciously prepared to draw his sword to resist, but he stopped his movements and was in vain. This was not so easy for a innate master with a very keen sense of combat smell.
With a dull sound, Wei Shiwu fell directly from the center of the hall to the door, got up and scolded: "Jiangnan Blood Knife Hall, but that's it! He bullies others with his power, and is not afraid of jokes from the people in the martial arts world! If you have the will, kill me!"
Wei Shiwu took advance as a retreat, and his scheming was really good. Wei Shiwu could endure it until now and endure it until the house of the Blood Knife Hall, which was extremely wise. Instead of worrying every day, it would be better to take risks, or it was not really how to take risks. No one in the Jiangnan area knew his identity. If he passed this level, Wei Shiwu would be able to escape to the south with ease.
Xu Zhong did not react at all when he heard this, but walked forward again, walked to the gate, and asked again: "Where are you from Daming Mansion?"
Wei Shiwu's face was full of pain and looked righteous and righteous, without hesitation: "I am from Wei County, Daming Prefecture. If you want to kill, kill it. It is useless to say more. I just blame me for not coming to Jiangnan. There is morality in the world, so naturally someone has taken over you guys who bully others by their power."
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhong turned around and looked at Xu Laoba. Xu Laoba also slowly walked forward, holding two knives in his hand.
Xu Zhong turned around and looked at Wei Shiwu again, and spoke slowly: "I heard your accent, but it looks like Kaifeng Prefecture, not Daming Prefecture."
Kaifeng Prefecture is Bianjing. Daming Prefecture is north of Bianjing, and the two places are four hundred miles apart. For ordinary southerners, the accents of the two places are difficult to distinguish, and they only sound similar. Most southerners cannot even distinguish the difference between Hebei and Shandong dialects.
If you want to distinguish the difference between northern accents, you will never know some people from all over the north and have really talked with these people.
A person's accent is a person's imprint in this era. No one will practice speaking in another place without any time. There is no need or need.
When the government arrests fugitives, the accent is often one of the most important basis. In addition, there is another way to arrest fugitives. In general, villages and towns, as long as there are people from other places, the people will pay great attention to it. When they go to foreign lands, they will be questioned countless times. From interrogation by ordinary people to interrogation by officials, they are indispensable.
There is also the influence of the household registration system. If the times go further and the Qin and Han dynasties, there will be even fewer people from other places everywhere. Apart from the people from the government and scholars from aristocratic families, there will be no one who goes out. If you don’t wear a set of public uniforms or a set of brocade clothes, as long as you appear in another place, you will inevitably be questioned by the government. If you are not a thief, you are also half a thief.
Even in the city, if a person from another place has been left for a long time, he will be questioned repeatedly. Even locals still have the tradition of bullying and xenophobia. There are also many idle people coming to bully, and those idle scoundrels think about the rewards in the government, so it is normal for the officials to report to the officials to arrest outsiders in prison and ask questions.
Therefore, it was not that crime was really difficult to be caught. In ancient times, the most effective way to escape sanctions was the mountains, forests and wilderness. If you want to truly survive, there was only one way, which was to find a mountain village in the gang in the gang of the gang in the green forest and become a bandit.
Wei Shiwu heard Xu Zhong's words and his expression changed slightly, but he turned around and said, "Why are I not from Daming Mansion? The accents of several counties in Daming Mansion vary. You are a southerner, but you insist on saying that I am not from Daming Mansion. What is the reason?"
Xu Zhong didn't say much, but poked Tieguai forward!
Wei Shiwu was very angry, but he pretended to dodge, and then was poked by the iron kidnapping and fell into the yard.
Xu Zhong also limped and followed him out and said slowly: "In the past, I was in the border town. Among the brothers in Paoze, there were Daming Mansions, Kaifeng Mansions, Hejian Mansions, Zhending Mansions, and Taiyuan Mansions..."
Wei Shiwu's expression had changed drastically, and he had made many mistakes, but he seemed to have a trick.
Xu Laoba followed in front of him, gave Xu Zhong the knife, and suddenly shouted, "Fifteen?"
Wei Shiwu was shocked when he heard this. It was already here, so he could only draw his sword and jump straight to the courtyard gate. Xu Zhong had already hit him twice, but he tried to test him and did not really hurt him. At this time, Wei Shiwu was about to escape, his figure was as fast as lightning.
Xu Laoba was already chasing him with a knife, and there were still more than a dozen men behind him with a knife and galloping over the courtyard wall with him following Xu Laoba.
Instead, Xu Zhong smiled and murmured: "Jie'er is really meticulous!"
Suddenly, the whole yard was shouting, but it was not messy at all. After a while, dozens of horses gathered at the door.
Xu Zhong had already turned over and some people came to help Xu Zhong tie his waist, abdomen and legs.
After being tied up, Xu Zhong waved his hand gently and dozens of cavalry ran around the city of Hangzhou. There were countless shouting, shouting for pedestrians on the road to avoid them.
Xu Zhong smiled confidently and said, "It's just a little slower, it's not good to bump into someone. This guy must have to leave the city. He will show his horsepower after he leaves the city. This guy can't escape!"
Mr. Li was still standing under the plaque "Shidao Pavilion" at the gate of the courtyard, staring at the man jumping on the roof in the distance, and at the horse's hooves running on the street, stunned.
Then he heard someone beside Mr. Li ask, "Second leader, we are..."
Master Li was overjoyed when he heard this: "Niang Xipi, he is really a plague chicken. This time he is getting rich..."
Niang Xipi is a swear word, and the plague chicken is also a common swear word in Hangzhou. Mr. Li is so happy. Today he has gone luck and has really found people casually.
"Second leader, should we go with you, or?"
Mr. Li pulled the knife around his waist and waved forward repeatedly: "Follow up, follow up, this favor will be great. Strike while the iron is hot, and tell the Eighth Master to know how powerful we are. Ermao, go and report to my elder brother, take as many people as you have and go out of the city south."
Mr. Li had already stood up and chased after him. His martial arts were also extraordinary, and he could jump continuously on the roof.
Wei Shiwu, who had already seen the city wall, looked back and saw countless pursuers behind him, and even cursed in his heart, but it was not the Blood Knife Hall, but the one who scolded himself, why was he so arrogant because he was lucky.
If you know that you will escape like this, why don’t you kill someone near the dock early? Why do you have to make such a scene?
A few feet from the city wall, Wei Shiwu still jumped up easily and jumped down again. He looked up and saw that there was a mountain in the southwest. Wei Shiwu headed straight for the forest. Entering the mountain was the only way to escape the pursuit.
Xu Laoba, who was following behind, saw Wei Shiwu's escape direction and smiled. In his mind, it was best to enter the mountain, and entering the mountain was the best thing, and it could also avoid accidental injuries.
In the past, many brothers were stationed on the Great Wall, with the mountains and ridges everywhere. Outside the city wall, there were fine sand covered the ground every night. On the second day, I saw footprints on the fine sand, so I was chasing the scouts of Shiwei who came last night.
Xu Jie in the capital was looking at the book in his hand motionlessly, memorizing or memorizing, and was always afraid that the horse of Mo Yi of the Postscript would be lost. The postscript was filled with blanks, and the Mo Yi was written in a long paragraph, and it also had a little "explanation of nouns". The Four Books and Five Classics added up to a lot of words. The Sutra was asked to read the performance on the spot. This was really a harsh thing about filling in the blanks. There was no shortcut to memorizing by rote.
Fortunately, Xu Jie did not have a bad habit, just shook his head. Xu Jie's classmates looked a bit like the monks chanting scriptures that Xu Jie had seen before, and they were really the same scene, muttering and shaking their heads.
Perhaps these Four Books and Five Classics really have religious meanings, and are somewhat similar to those of monks chanting scriptures. Therefore, there is also the term Confucianism.
The Chinese actually have religious beliefs. Since ancient times, there is no blessing from God or Allah. The Chinese believe in their ancestors and the inheritance of culture. The Chinese will not say God is blessed, but the Chinese will say ancestors are blessed. The Chinese will not say God is revealed, but the Chinese will only say that the ancestral grave is blessed.
Judging from faith, the beliefs of the Chinese are actually more advanced and cohesive, and most importantly, they are more tolerant. Therefore, there is a great empire that has been maintained from ancient times to the present, which can gather people and tolerate people.
God's cohesion is much worse. Under Christ, God and the East can also be divided into different places. A cross or the moon determines that ideology can no longer tolerate, and only exclusivity. Therefore, the cross and the moon will kill each other for more than a thousand years. God and Allah are the same person, but under the God, there are two sects, who are in unison and have never been tolerated by each other.
The spring examination finally began, and Xu Jie walked into the examination room again. The examination room in the capital was really spectacular. There is a term called "天官网", which first came from the examination room of the imperial examination. There was a row of low buildings that stretched continuously and could not see the end at a glance.
One by one, one small room was "detained" by the prides of heaven from all over the world, and there were rows of iron armor and tolerances, patrolling back and forth with weapons in hand.
For some reason, the prison was later called "number room" and the prison was called "squatting", but the two are still somewhat similar.
This is the real carp leaping over the dragon gate, and it can even be called "achieve the Tao and become an immortal" and "achieve the immortal". A family, a clan, and a surname will all bring chickens and dogs to heaven.
The imperial examination also represents the difference between history and culture. The surnames of Western nobles have long been destined to remain unchanged for thousands of years, and almost no new surnames will become true nobles. Nobles will be destined to be nobles and commoners for generations, and the two will remain unchanged for thousands of years. Even changing dynasties cannot change those surnames that are destined to be nobles. The reason is that religion oppresses human nature by religion, because those nobles are crowned by God and certified by God. As God's people, how can they resist God's will?
The ascending path of imperial examinations, the alternation between nobles and civilians, also represents a certain kind of fairness in a specific historical era.
Is there any explanation for kings, princes, generals and ministers? One explanation is to rise up and push down the corrupt emperor and court. Perhaps there is another explanation, which is to let oneself become kings, princes, generals and ministers through hard work.
In the final analysis, the imperial examination is not corrupt. The imperial examination represents the advanced nature of this era. It is the best way that mankind can think of in this era with its own wisdom.
Next to Xu Jie's room, there was another sound of "chanting scriptures". It was obvious that the candidate was in trouble with the question of the posting of the scriptures and was recalling the context in the form of "chanting scriptures" and wanted to complete the fill-in-the-blank question.
Then some people came forward and scolded: "Don't make a sound, let's drive you out if you make a sound."
Naturally, I couldn't speak out in the exam room. Obviously, the man next to Xu Jie was too nervous about this sacred spring exam. He was even more nervous when he heard the police scolding him. He bowed his hands to beg for mercy. When he looked at the fill-in-the-blank questions, his mind was even blank.
After a long time, I saw that the man's expression eased a little. Perhaps I finally remembered what else to fill in this empty space.
To be continued...