The heavens start with letting the bullets fly

Chapter 1238

It turned out that this person was a newcomer to Shifu's class, his surname was Chen Minghua, and he was nicknamed "Living Immortal".One day, Shi Heng and several old friends who participated in the change of seizing the door were drinking at the mansion of Cao Shaoqin, the nephew of Cao Jixiang, the governor of the East Factory and chief eunuch of the Rites. During the dinner, they talked about the art of immortality. Cao Shaoqin said with a smile:
"Usually we practice alchemy to nourish Qi, one is to be loyal to the Long Live God, but to live a long life, but now I know, this road is wrong. 'If you want to know the things in the mountains, you need to ask the woodcutter', you know To live a hundred years, the art of immortality, you have to ask the immortal."

Shi Heng said: "Where is there anyone who can live forever!"

Cao Shaoqin said: "What Duke Zhong said is very true. I am afraid that there are no people who live forever, but there are still people who live long. I usually only know that people live for only a hundred years. I don't think there are people who are nearly 17 years old. We have a new one." The old man recommended here was born in the 180th year of the Yuan Dynasty, and he is already [-] years old this year."

Shi Heng stared at him: "Is there such a thing?"

Cao Shaoqin said: "I didn't see it personally, and I don't believe it. Although the old man has white beard and eyebrows, he looks only four to fifty years old. He is Zhang Sanfeng's younger brother. He often talks about the grand events of the previous kings and my dynasty. I witnessed it with my own eyes, and it was very touching when I told it. The most amazing thing is that this man has boundless magic power. ... There are so many things that I can't say enough for a while, but he is really a first-class fairy."

Shi Heng asked: "Is this person in the mansion now?"

Cao Shaoqin said with a smile: "This Mr. Chen is a drunken fairy, the most greedy thing is the thing in the cup. He said that he was beaten by Zhang Sanfeng back then, and he didn't deserve it. He didn't want to leave when he came to me, because of my wine. Well done. The ones at the banquet today are all centuries-old wines, and he smells the smell of wine, so he probably won't want to wander the streets again."

Shi Heng also smiled: "Why don't you invite him over for a meal? I just want to get to know each other."

Cao Shaoqin laughed: "What's so difficult about the Duke speaking?" After saying that, he ordered his left and right: "Go and invite Mr. Chen!"

soon. "Living Immortal" Chen Hua waddled in from the outside.During the banquet, more than a dozen guests stopped to look at their cups and cups carefully. The old man who came in was wearing a black soft satin robe, with a small antique sword hanging on the silk belt around his waist, and a pair of cloud shoes on his feet, revealing Snow-white cloth socks, dressed as a monk or a monk, look at his face closely, you can see his thin skin and tender flesh, white and red, with silver hair, two long silver eyebrows, and a strand of snow-white His goatee is really a "living fairy".

Cao Shaoqin smiled and said to the old man: "Today I invited some guests to have a drink. Knowing that Mr. Chen is very fond of this way, I specially invited Mr. Chen to the table."

The servants placed the seats and a pair of cups and chopsticks. Chen Hua glanced at Unbalance, and said with a smile, "Grandpa Neng is here today, but the little old man dare not sit down."

Cao Shaoqin frowned, and squinted at Chen Hua's family.

It turned out that when Shi Heng came to him, he never talked to his unrelated family members. After all, there may not be spies from any family, so the doormen naturally don't know.

At this moment, he couldn't help but suspect that his family members were talking too much.

The family gave him a look, were terrified, knelt down and said:

"The villain only said 'Your Excellency invites Mr. Chen', but never..."

The living god laughed and said: "My lord, don't blame him. The bearing of the commander of the Beijing camp, the Duke of Zhongguo, and the Taiwei of the current court is not owned by everyone, but it is wearing ordinary clothes. Can it be changed too?"

Cao Shaoqin chuckled. When he looked at Shi Heng, he saw him smiling and nodding with his long beard. He waved to his family and said to Chen Hua, "Mr. is indeed not an ordinary person." '

Chen Hua didn't answer, but just untied the sword from his waist, handed it to Cao Shaoqin's attendant, and said to Shi Heng, "I never leave this sword, and I'm used to it. I've always been negligent. Offend in front of you!"

Shi Heng said: "It's okay, the old man just takes it with him."

Chen Hua was also polite, took the sword and hung it on his body, sat down on his seat, and his family poured wine.

Shi Heng asked: "Mister Gui Geng?"

Chen Hua said: "The little old man is a little bit crazy about how old he is. It's very disrespectful to say it, and he doesn't know it, and he doesn't know it." It seems to be polite, but it sounds a bit tricky.

Shi Heng nodded, and didn't ask any more questions, just said: "Mr. drank this cup." '

"Living Immortal" picked up the cup and drank it down.

Shi Heng smiled: "Sir is indeed a happy person, let's pour wine with him."

So the family poured the wine, aged it and drank it, just like this, one cup after another, and drank three cups in a row.

Seeing him smacking his lips and peeking at the jug, Shi Heng knew it wasn't enough, and said with a smile, "Change the bowl with the old man."

Chen Hua drank three more bowls.

When he was drinking, he didn't eat the newly served dishes, but just put his chopsticks into the big box containing mandarin fish. The box of mandarin fish had already been touched, so he kept stretching out his chopsticks again and again. After a while, only the fish head and the mandarin fish remained. Fish bones, Cao Shaoqin turned his head and ordered:

"Come and make two mandarin fish with Mr. Chen!"

The family said: "Although there are mandarin fishes, they are dead."

Chen Hua intends to show off, so how could he easily let this opportunity pass?Interjected from the side: "The fish is still alive and well, you go and bring me a basin of clean water!"

Seeing Cao Shaoqin nod his head, the family members turned around and went out, and came back with a basin of clean water after a while.

Everyone didn't know what Chen Hua meant, they looked at him together.He drew out his dagger, picked up a fish head and bone in a large basin with the tip of the sword, threw it into the clear water, and then stirred it with the sword, and saw the fish bone swirling with the stirred water, aging Then he drew back the sword.

The surface of the water not only kept spinning, but also turned faster and faster, and then splashed out.When everyone looked closely, the fish bones in the water had already turned into a live mandarin fish weighing two or three catties, shaking its head and tail, struggling to get out. Chen Hua picked up the mandarin fish and threw it on the ground, only to see the fish jumping around alive and well, it was really beautiful .

After seeing Chen Hua's performance, everyone applauded together!Shi Heng also couldn't help but praised: "Mr. Chen is a good means."

Chen Hua processed another piece of fish bone according to the law and turned it into a live mandarin fish. He said to the family: "Go to the kitchen and burn it. Please try something new."

Chen Hua was already three points drunk, seeing that everyone respected him, even Duke Zhong also showed appreciation, he couldn't help being a little elated.He saw a family member bring up a large plate of steamed lotus leaf balls, and then resorted to tricks. He pointed lightly with a sword, and dozens of lotus leaf balls on the plate turned into frogs, jumped from the plate to the table, and hopped around. There was an uproar in the audience.

Those empty plates that the frogs jumped to in front of the guests stopped moving. When everyone looked at them, they turned back to lotus leaf balls. Each plate had four of them, and they were placed neatly.The crowd cheered again and again.

"Sure enough; living fairy", well-deserved reputation.

Shi Heng thought to himself: "This Cao Shaoqin invited me over for a drink, and he also took the initiative to invite living gods to help. It seems that he wants to give this person to me in exchange for him impeaching the Minister of the Ministry of War Yang Yuxuan. Well! If my family hosts a banquet for guests At that time, with this old man present, the banquet can add a bit of elegance! Hmph! Then Yang Yuxuan doesn't know how to flatter, so he will die if he dies! It's best to clean up Huai'an that week! I wish it!"

Thinking of this, Shi Heng glanced at Cao Shaoqin, and said to Chen Hua: "Mr. Chen has such a good sword, of course his martial arts are also good!"

At this time, Chen Hua was seventy percent drunk, and after listening to Shi Heng's words, he shook his head and replied: "Although my martial arts are mediocre, I have never encountered an enemy in the world with this ancient sword. The martial arts are unrivaled, the world is invincible, there are so many masters in the house, but how can he personally deal with Xiao Xiao's generation, it is not a bragging of the little old man, but if someone comes to Cao's house to make trouble, even if he has wings, he will never get out of this house alive."

What he said made Shi Heng feel relieved, secretly thinking that Cao Shaoqin really knew people.

In fact, when it comes to martial arts, he is also conceited that there are few opponents in the world, but as this old man said, a dignified and loyal Duke and a prince of the court cannot end up fighting an assassin, right?You don't have to lose your identity.

But there are not many masters in his house, so he finally recruited Wu Xi, a first-class master in the world, but he couldn't even catch a female assassin.

He launched the change of seizing the door, killed Yu Qian, and promoted his own dog legs to high positions. He knew in his heart that there were so many potential enemies.

Besides, it's just a trivial matter to add elegance to the banquet. Enjoying life in peace and stability is much more important than this.So he smiled and said to Chen Hua: "My family's wine is probably better than Cao Gonggong's. In your free time, you can go to my house to eat a few bowls. What do you think?"

Cao Shaoqin knew in his heart that he knew that the agreement he had reached with Shi Heng had come into effect. He could command Dongchang to impeach Yang Yuxuan, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and take advantage of the opportunity to lure Zhou Huaian and kill him. People can sit back and relax.

So he smiled and said to Shi Heng: "This Mr. Chen has a really amazing drinking capacity. He has eaten most of the good wine in the cellar in just a few days. Our family doesn't have much good wine for him. Don't mind it, let him go to the Duke's mansion to be a wine fairy from now on!"

Shi Heng laughed and said: "Thank you, Eunuch Cao, for your kindness! It's just that a gentleman doesn't take away people's love. I just let Mr. Chen stay in my house for a few days, and I will definitely send Mr. Chen back to the mansion in the future."

The two looked at each other and laughed together.

The officials next to him kept their eyes on their noses, their noses on their hearts, and dared not say more.

In fact, everyone understands that on the surface it seems that they just transferred a doorman, but in fact the two are afraid that they have reached some agreement.

Then Chen Hua took refuge in Cao Shaoqin originally for the purpose of climbing the dragon and becoming the phoenix, but now that he has gone to the Duke's mansion, why is he not happy?

After all, the Duke of Wei in Jinling, the Duke of England in Beijing, etc. are hereditary first-class masters. Shi Heng Shi Guogong is deeply trusted by the emperor, and maybe he can be passed down as a prince, and he can enjoy fine wine for many years.

So after the banquet was over, he happily went with Shi Heng.From this day on, he became Shi Heng's disciple.

However, Chen Hua saw that Wu Xi was in a panic and rushed across the courtyard with Shi Xiao, and secretly laughed in his heart: "This kid must have encountered some unlucky things, otherwise, why did the air with his nostrils upturned disappear all of a sudden?" ?” Then I changed my mind: I just want to see his jokes, and I’m afraid that the relationship will be messed up, so I might as well follow him secretly to have a look.In case he has any urgent matters, I will help him with a little trick, and I will be able to gain a foothold in the Duke's Mansion in the future...

When Chen Hua came to Shifu, Shi Heng treated him like a guest, Wu Xi naturally felt awkward when he saw him, so he was critical of Chen Hua in every possible way, and he even dismissed him when he claimed to be 180 years old.

This Chen Hua is also an old Jianghu. Seeing Wu Xi's expression, he knew that he was not taken seriously.So despite Wu Xi's cynicism, he had no choice but to pretend he didn't hear it. After all, he was a newcomer, so he could only flatter him, try to change his opinion, and gain his favor in order to gain a firm foothold here.

Therefore, Chen Hua followed Wu Xi and Shi Xiao secretly, all the way to the alley outside Huashi Street, and saw a young man stopped Wu Xi, drew two semicircles on the ground, and trapped Wu Xi.This Wu Xi mistook him for a poor kid and made fun of him, but Chen Hua, who was hiding in the corner, was secretly surprised: This is clearly the fairy art of "painting the ground into a prison"!This young man doesn't even need a sword, but can perform this technique with just a dead branch picked up from the ground, that's too powerful!

Chen Hua looked at Wu Xi, sure enough he was in circles, no matter what, he couldn't go out again.

For a while, the boy and Shi Xiao disappeared, and Chen Hua staggered out from the alley, took out his sword, drew twice on the line drawn by Chen Zhao with the tip of the sword, and pulled Wu Xi out!

Inside, Wu Xi feels completely different!He first heard a bang, and saw half of the surrounding high walls collapse, and then he saw the new charlatan in the mansion, Chen Hua, swinging his sword vigorously, splitting the half of the wall still surrounding him with one stroke. Open, stretched out a hand to pull him out.

Wu Xi was grateful in his heart, bowed his hands to Chen Hua, bowed and said, "Thank you, Mr. Chen, for your rescue."

Chen Hua laughed and said, "It's a trivial matter, nothing to worry about."

Said, put the sword into the sheath.

Wu Xi had something on his mind, and he didn't have time to elaborate, so he cupped his hands to Chen Hua and said, "I still have some urgent matters, I'll talk to the old man when I get back to the mansion!" After finishing speaking, she turned around and left.

Wu Xi arrived at Huashi Street, and saw a crowd of people from afar. He approached, separated the crowd and went in, and saw his elder brother shouting at the top of his lungs:

"...my shopkeeper Wu is surnamed Wu and my name is Ye, and I am called 'Iron Abacus'. In the past, I saw that the business of my neighbor 'Ruixiang' was doing well, and I was angry. I have a younger brother named Wu Xi, who was an official in Wuqinghou's mansion. One day When he came to me, he heard me say that the Ruixiang was good in geomantic omen, so he said, "What's the problem! The Ruixiang, my shopkeeper, went to my brother's hands smoothly..."

When Wu Xi heard this, his head buzzed, he rushed forward and shouted to his brother, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Tie Abacus didn't seem to see her, and continued to shout: "He came up with an idea, let me steal a pair of fake gold bracelets in the workshop, stamped the mark of the Ruixiang, and forged a ticket for the Ruixiang. , Wu Xi asked Fang Da, the steward of the Marquis of Wuqing, to put on luxurious clothes and come to the Ruixiang..."

Wu Xi went up to pull him, and Tie Suan shook him with his hand. I don't know when his monkey-like elder brother learned martial arts, but now he still has a strong internal force, almost knocking Wu Xi down.

Seeing his brother opened his mouth to speak again, Wu Xi covered his mouth with his right hand and hugged him with his left hand, trying to force him into it.Unexpectedly, Tie Suan shook his whole body, and directly shook Wu Xi away, and retreated a few steps without congealing his blood.

At this time, Iron Abacus Wu Ye still didn't stop, and shouted: "As soon as I heard that Wu Xi's idea was good, I said..."

Wu Xi was in a hurry, and was about to use force, at this moment, someone slapped him on the back, and when he looked back, it was Chen Hua.

"Get out of the way, look at me!"

Before he finished speaking, the sword came out of its sheath with a "shua".

Wu Xi was startled, and immediately thought, "If that's the case, let's kill him!"

But Chen Hua slowly placed the sword on top of Tie Abacus, flattened it, and tapped it lightly.

Just such a shot, Tie Suan suddenly woke up, looked around, and didn't know when so many people surrounded him: "What are you looking at?"

He looked at Wu Xi again, with a strange look on his face, and said, "Brother, when did you come here?"

When the three of them met in the store, Tie Suan looked puzzled. He still couldn't believe it after hearing what the clerk and Wu Xi said.Finally, a guy recalled that it seemed that after a teenager walked in, the shopkeeper lost his mind.

Now Wu Ye is ashamed, Wu Xi also hates it.

Chen Hua was curious, so he asked Wu Xi how he offended the beggar boy, and Wu Xi didn't dare to talk about other things, so he only said that the female assassin came to Shifu late at night to assassinate Duke Zhong, and he was the one who killed and retreated. Therefore, I hold a grudge, and now I am specifically against him.Brother Wu Ye's enemies also colluded with the female assassin and invited two beggars to make trouble.

At this moment, the clerk in the store suddenly shouted, and everyone rushed over, only to find that all the gold and silver in the storefront and warehouse had been turned into stone.

Tie Abacus suddenly cried out.

Wu Xi said to Chen Hua: "I don't have time to go into details about this matter now. When I get back to the mansion, I will prepare a table to reward Mr. Chen for his kindness in saving me. Then I will talk to the old man in detail. I surrounded him and left. I must go back to find the female assassin and come back to deal with me. The Duke of the State has already ordered Jin Yiwei and Wucheng Bingmasi to search for the female assassin, but they have not been found. Today's chance is not good. It's easy - when they find me and don't see them, they will definitely turn around, I will follow behind them secretly, and then I can find out their whereabouts and report to the Duke!"

Chen Hua was delighted when he heard this: It seems that this confidant of the Duke's Mansion has already taken me with admiration.He hurriedly said:

"I'm afraid it's not safe for Master Wu to go in person. They are looking for Master Wu. Isn't Master Wu going here in their favor? Besides, Brother Zun is here, I'm afraid you also need to take care of them. Check their affairs and leave them to me." Let's do it!"

As soon as Wu Xi heard this, he felt angry again: Hearing this tone, I have become a fool!How did I secretly follow them and become "in their arms"?Why don't you just say that I'm going to be meat buns beating dogs, and there will be no return!If you really want to help, why don't you go back to the alley with me and ambush them, and when they arrive, catch them all in one go?Either your sorcery is no match for others, or you never thought of helping me!My brother here, how do I "cook"?People turn gold into waste, you really have the same ability, won't you turn it back?Isn't your old boy called "Living Immortal"?

Wu Xi thought so in his heart, but said in his mouth: "Thank you Mr. Chen for your enthusiastic help. Respect is worse than obedience. Please take care of this matter! That female thief is the main criminal who assassinated the Duke of the country. Mr. Chen can play by ear. I am in my brother's shop." With a little arrangement here, you can rush back to Shifu and wait for the good news."

In fact, Wu Xi was apprehensive and didn't intend to "stalk secretly" by himself at all. At first, he planned to say a few nice words to Chen Hua, pour some muddy soup, and then tell him how important that female thief is, so that Chen Hua can tell the truth by himself. He went together and cast spells to capture several people.However, Chen Hua didn't mean that, he just said to follow these people for him and find out where they lived, so Wu Xi had no choice but to let Chen Hua "play by ear", or hinted that "you'd better cast a spell to get them away." Catch up a few", which is the meaning of "Waiting for good news" at the back.

Chen Hua stopped, and said with a smile: "You don't need to say 'thank you' from Master Wu. I am also a member of the Duke's Mansion, and it is my duty to protect the Duke. But please don't worry, Master Wu. Where can I find out clearly."

Wu Xi cursed secretly: You old trickster!Looking at Chen Hua again, he has already swayed and walked out of the store.

As soon as Chen Hua went out, Tie Suan grabbed his brother and started crying.

In fact, he yelled at the door and told about his murder of Wang's shop. Although Tie Suan knew it was a dirty trick, he didn't care about it in his heart, and he wasn't afraid that others would find out—because it couldn't be hidden from anyone.

But the gold all over the store turned into stone all of a sudden, which will kill the old abacus!
He pulled Wu Xi and shouted desperately, letting his brother decide for him.Wu Xi was restless, how could he have the heart to deal with him?After all, getting rid of enemies is more important.So he patiently said a few words, helped his elder brother to lie down in the room, and left by himself, how could Iron Abacus lie down?Seeing his brother leave, he sighed, and went back to the shop, weeping at his "gold, silver and jewels".

Wu Xi strode after him, saw Chen Hua swaying into the alley, hurried to the entrance of the alley, peeked around, and saw Chen Hua walking to the place where Wu Xi was trapped just now, pulling out his sword and trying to hit the wall on the side of the road. He gestured, and then disappeared into the wall.

Not much effort, he saw three figures of two men and one woman approaching from a distance, they were the three enemies he met in Fuyuan Lane last time!
The three people suddenly stood still in a daze, it must be because they couldn't find him suddenly, they lost their mind for a while, and saw them discussing something, because they were too far away, they couldn't hear clearly.Seeing that there was no movement in the place where Chen Huayin was hiding, Wu Xi felt annoyed: This old white-haired mouse crawled into the wall, but it was very honest.If you have the ability, you also come out and draw a big circle to surround the three of them!Why!If so, why did I suffer so much!

Not to mention that Chen Hua still didn't understand the situation that he had encountered "resulting in enmity, fighting against enmity", and Wu Xi was just thinking about how he should act when he suddenly saw the heroic young man who had just drawn a circle around him turned around and faced him Come here.Startled, Wu Xi hurriedly withdrew her head, walked a few steps, and blended into the crowd.But the boy didn't seem to be looking for him, he went directly to Huashi Street, turned around, and ran towards Wu Ye's shop.

Wu Xi was worried, so he hurriedly hid far away in the crowd and followed behind until he passed his brother's shop, and then a stone fell to the ground.And a new thought came to me:

"As the saying goes, the cunning rabbit has three dens, this kid is so cunning, he may have multiple lairs in the city... I want to find out!"

Wu Xi walked for a while, followed the heroic boy into the alley, saw that it was Ruyi Alley, and felt a little discouraged.

Wu Xi heard from Fang Chilong that Wang Hu lived here, so it seems that this little beggar must have lost Wang Hu's family.He has known this "cave" for a long time, so he naturally finds it boring.But now that he has been followed, he is not willing to leave empty-handed.

Seeing the kid enter the gate, Wu Xi stopped outside the gate, approaching the gate, and heard Wang Hu greet "Mr. Chen", Wu Xi nodded: at least I found out what his surname is recently!Listening further down, the voice becomes low, and nothing can be heard clearly.

Wu Xi wanted to be above, but when the sky was bright and the sun was shining, it was too conspicuous.Secondly, the opponent is really intimidating, so I dare not make too many mistakes.

After waiting quietly for a while, he turned around to leave, when he heard the door knocking in the courtyard, obviously someone was about to come out.Wu Xi jumped a few steps and slipped into the narrow alley, only to hear Mr. Chen say:

"When the incident happened in the store, that old boy Wu Xi will definitely come to you to find a gap. I am afraid that you will be alone, so I will find my brother and sleep with you tonight. They don't know where Miss Xu is. She is the only one left tonight. It's okay..."

After hearing this, Wu Xi secretly rejoiced: I really came to the right place this time!Tonight, officers and soldiers will be sent to encircle this place. How many people will you be able to injure and circle based on your ability to fly stones and draw circles?

Later, I will take a stroll with you, find out where that "Miss Xu" is hiding, divide up my troops and surround you, and wipe out all of you!
(End of this chapter)