beg for chivalry

Outside Qianjiazhuang, there is a winding water, full of green lotus, dense with green cypresses.There are some small houses with blue tiles and gray stone brick walls on both sides of the bank, but they are gradually falling into disrepair.Occasional voices came from under the eaves, all of them were skinny, hungry and consumptive, with moaning mouths under their dull eyes, and from time to time they made a sound like a wheel sinking into the mud.

The scenery in the village was different: it was almost dawn time, but the sky was getting dark, so the owner of the village, Yin Yuanbao, ordered the servants to light up lanterns, hang them on both sides of the walkway, and tie some colored paper to build a wooden platform. Ambilight from afar.The crowd gathered under the wooden platform in whispers, stretching their necks and looking forward to the banquet of the "Heroes Meeting".

And in a place where no one was looking, on the blue, slightly curved butterfly tiles on the roof of Qianjiazhuang, there were two white figures sitting cross-legged against the night wind.

One of them was carrying a long sword, a snow scarf on his head, and a white silk Taoist gown. His bright face was full of sorrow, his red lips were tightly pursed, showing a look of reluctance to speak.It is surprising to say that this person dressed as a Taoist priest is the current master of the largest Tianshan Gate in Northwest China——Yu Jiachen.

The other person was not so eye-catching, that person was wearing a plain white collared jacket, but unfortunately it was already dirty by the mud and dust on the wall.He often has a silly smile on his face, but sometimes his two luminous stone-like eyes flash with agility.This person is Wang Xiaoyuan, a servant who has worked in the Jin Mansion for many years.

Yu Jiachen was speechless. "Wang...Brother Wang, this doesn't seem very good."

"Why?"

"Come over the wall from the neighbor's courtyard, isn't this the act of a thief?" Yu Jiachen couldn't sit still.

"Master Yumen didn't climb the wall?" Wang Xiaoyuan asked.

"Didn't I say that!" The young Taoist's Wanxiu face, which was more like a woman, turned red. "My... I mean, this matter is out of the question. My senior brother once said, 'A gentleman walks through the door, while a villain walks through the beam'. Why can't you enter through the main entrance?"

Wang Xiaoyuan asked seriously. "We are stepping on roof tiles now, why are we walking on beams?"

"This..." Yu Jiachen blushed and wanted to argue, but after thinking about it carefully, he found it reasonable, so he nodded and said, "It makes sense, then the two of you are indeed not villains."

Wang Xiaoyuan stretched out his finger to point to the wooden platform, that platform has two floors, the bottom floor is five feet high, and there is another one on top of it, which is covered with "Tiangang piles" of different heights.The pile body is very thin, and the lights are flickering and shadowy, and it looks like stars flickering from a height.

"There are a lot of family members at the main gate. If you try to break in, it's easy to scare the snake. You only need to wait here for the Yubai swordsman to show up. According to others, the Yubai swordsman will walk on the wooden high platform as if walking through the air. At that time, Master Lao Yu will pay attention." Wang Xiaoyuan said.

Hearing his words, Yu Jiachen wondered. "What about you, Brother Wang?"

"I can't see clearly."

"Can't see clearly?"

Wang Xiaoyuan nodded vigorously. "I have an eye disease, and it seems to have fallen in the snow field."

"Having eyesight...how can I receive my sword so accurately?" Yu Jiachen was shocked.

"It's called... hitting the wrong target?"

Wang Xiaoyuan smiled shyly, his smile seemed silly, but it taught Yu Jiachen that he couldn't see clearly the city.This young servant looks plain and ordinary, but his whole body seems to be shrouded in fog, which is quite unreasonable.

"Correctly hitting right, crookedly hitting right... this must be Brother Wang's unique skill." Yu Jiachen nodded solemnly, "I have written it down."

"No, you don't have to worry about memorizing..."

"Since it's Brother Wang's strange trick, I should remember it carefully, so as not to mess up the next time I meet." Unexpectedly, Yu Jiachen insisted, saying those four words several times in his mouth, thinking hard about the mystery. .

Wang Xiaoyuan finally understood that even if he said something casually, he would be over-understood by the foolish sect master, so he simply shut his mouth obediently and sat cross-legged on the blue tile, staring at the bright lights in a daze.After a while, the young Taoist spoke again.

"Brother Wang, how did you come up with the idea of ​​overturning, overturning the wall and the house?" Perhaps he had never done such a wicked thing before, Yu Jiachen stammered.

"When I was confronting my young master earlier, I seemed to notice that someone was peeping at me from the eaves, so I thought in my heart that there must be a shortcut to get up to the eaves." Wang Xiaoyuan pointed to a depression not far away, "The door Lord, please look at that place, the tiles are messed up, and there is some fresh mud from the pond on it, which means that people have come up to the eaves to peek at the inside of Qianjiazhuang."

"Is that man a thief?"

"Not necessarily." The young servant shook his head.He glanced aside: he saw that the pear tree in the courtyard had taken out new branches, and a cluster of delicate flowers came up to the eaves, so he said with a smile. "Maybe it's a little girl who likes to pick flowers."

After he said these words, he suddenly found that the young Taoist priest was looking at him carefully, and he was startled, afraid to speak. "Master, why are you staring at me?"

Yu Jiachen looked at it for a while, and then smiled delicately. "I don't think Brother Wang is a smart person, but he always says something smart."

Wang Xiaoyuan became more and more puzzled.He was always scolded by Young Master Jin for being stupid before, and even Sanniang felt that his little head was not working. He wondered if he had a stupid look, which made him always be called an idiot?

Although he thought so in his heart, he asked: "The door master is not angry with me anymore?"

"I'm not angry anymore." Yu Jiachen replied.

"Is this true?"

"Senior brother has taught me not to act on my will many times, and just now I spoke rudely to Brother Wang... I was in a hurry." Yu Jiachen hesitated when he said this, seeming shy and unwilling.

Wang Xiaoyuan said with a puffy face. "Speaking of the sentence just now, the master of the Yumen is the one who... looks like a smart person, but the result is really surprising."

"A-Are you talking about my stupidity?"

At this time, Zhuang Zhonghua's lamp blared, and the light swayed on the two of them through the thin red paper.Yu Jiachen's face also looked redder than usual, like a shrimp bow scalded with boiling soup.

"No. It's just that there are too many things that the sect master doesn't know. I'm still inexperienced in the world, but the sect master seems to be a level behind me." Wang Xiaoyuan picked up the mud in his hand, wrapped some sand and gravel, and flicked it lightly among the leaves. "This is definitely not to say that the sect master is dull. If we want to talk about intelligence, the people in the Tianshan sect must be among the best in the world. It's just that they have been isolated from the world all year round and are not used to it for a while."

"Not knowing can be regarded as a kind of stupidity." Yu Jiachen said sternly, "Brother Wang taught you well, if it wasn't for looking for senior brother, I have no chance to go out of Tianshan Gate in this life, so naturally I wouldn't know these worldly truths. "

He bowed to Wang Xiaoyuan, turned his face and became depressed again. "Oh, that's not right, that's not right. Brother Wang might be the thief who stole the unique knowledge of Tianshan Gate, how can we show respect to him? But the senior brother also said that all elders are worthy of learning, alas, this makes me What should I do?"

This man can't leave his senior brother in three words.

Wang Xiaoyuan asked after thinking. "How do you see your senior brother?"

"It goes without saying that he is naturally the most powerful person in the world!" Yu Jiachen insisted, "In terms of martial arts, I am definitely not as good as my senior brother; in terms of virtue, my senior brother has a lot of virtue, benevolence and righteousness." When talking about Yubai Swordsman, the young Taoist couldn't help but move his eyelashes, as if honey would flow from his eyes with joy.He glanced at Wang Xiaoyuan again, and suddenly said in surprise. "Brother Wang, why is your face so red?"

"I'm ashamed to hear you boasting too much."

Yu Jiachen was puzzled. "I'm praising my senior brother, why are you blushing?"

"I..." Wang Xiaoyuan himself was also surprised, his eyes rolled around, and said. "Blushing for your senior brother."

Yu Jiachen only thought that he was suffering from some strange fever, and continued to say with an expression of admiration and hope. "Oh, brother Wang has never met my senior brother, so naturally I don't know how good he is. Whenever the sect worships only fasting, I often suffer from hunger and fatigue, and always sit on the altar in the cave and pass out. Senior brother So I shared my meals with this humble servant, and quietly completed the precept ceremony for my humble servant."

Wang Xiaoyuan touched his stomach and said. "Your senior brother must have been starving at that time."

"At that time, I was also very worried because of this, so I asked him: Senior Brother, what should you do then? Senior Brother shook his head and said, "Your senior brother has his own way. But seeing him leave the sacrificial cave, he came back with a few sparrows in a short while." .”

"I was startled, and said: 'Now it's the fasting ceremony, how can senior brother do such a killing thing?' He said: 'This is not killing, but these little sparrows have thrown themselves into the trap. I put the bamboo hat upside down In the snow field, sprinkle some medicinal leaves on it, and read: Xia Yuqiuxia is starving to death, if God has eyes, can I send you some wild game to taste? I don’t want to open my eyes innocently and fall from the sky A few stiff birds are coming."

Yu Jiachen said sincerely. "In this way, it will not be regarded as breaking the precept of killing. Senior brother is really a person whom even the heavens place great love on."

Seeing the bright eyes of the young Taoist priest, his spirits lifted, Wang Xiaoyuan smiled awkwardly. "I think your senior brother is probably coaxing you. It's true that you used a tree branch to set up a bamboo hat to catch birds."

"Huh, nonsense, you are not a senior brother, how do you know he would do this?" Hearing the words of belittling Yubai swordsman, Yu Jiachen's eyes and ears turned red immediately, and tremblingly said. "Furthermore, senior brother has always been compassionate and will never do such a despicable thing."

"Your brother is just very hungry." Wang Xiaoyuan didn't deny him, just smiled.

"Hey, how can you understand the kindness of senior brother? Another day, the white bird of prey tamed by Elder Nanchi of the Zongmen stole and flew away. I chased all the way to the edge of the cliff and slipped down accidentally. If it hadn't been for grabbing the ivy, the whole People have to fall to pieces."

Wang Xiaoyuan stared at the flickering lights in Qianjiazhuang, and asked a little casually. "Then, did your senior brother save you?"