beg for chivalry

The cold comes and the summer goes, the sun and the moon flow like a stream, and a year has passed before you know it.

It was a crisp autumn day, and the blue sky was like washing.The yellow grass flutters on the hillside outside the city, and the lush forest is deep.Several white horses galloped among them. The leader was an old man in a narrow-sleeved red coat, hale and hearty, with a long beard fluttering. Behind him was a heroic man, dressed in Lusu silk and carrying a longbow of Zhe wood.

After the two steeds, several servants in gold tea and brown clothes followed closely behind with quiver bags.The fine dog ran out, and the falcon spread its wings to drive out the hares and pheasants in the forest.

A small tent has been set up not far away, except for a few servants in green shirts who come in and out, there are two children sitting on the horses in the tent.One of them was wearing bright gold satin clothes, her hair was slightly curled up, and her eyes were raised. She looked like a barbarian, while the other one had a handsome appearance and a fair face, just like a girl.

At this time, it was the hunting season, and the turmoil among the Qiang people had calmed down a little bit. The two generals who ruled the country had time to spare, so they went out to hunt in the suburbs after a long absence, and brought along the golden crow along the way.

Jin Wu was not yet old enough to ride and shoot, but he was also dragged by Jin Zhen to learn how to mount a horse and use a bow.He sat idle in the tent, so he turned his head and asked Wang Xiaoyuan:

"Hey, Wang Xiaoyuan, it's so boring here, what else is there to do?"

One year passed, Wang Xiaoyuan grew a little taller, but he was still like a thin bamboo pole, and he was clumsy when practicing knives and swords with Jinwu.Hearing Jinwu's words, he lowered his head and thought slightly, and said: "Master and the others are hunting in the forest, we'd better not go there, lest the feathered arrows hurt people..."

"That's true." Jin Wu thought for a while, then jumped up suddenly, "That's right, there is an earth temple nearby, let's go there. There are many people here, and it's boring." He grabbed Wang Xiaoyuan's hand involuntarily, Drag it out the door.Wang Xiaoyuan had no choice but to run out with him.

Apan was carrying a bundle of hemp rope into the tent, and bumped into them both.Seeing the two rushing out in a hurry, he couldn't help shouting repeatedly: "Master, Xiao Yuan, where are you going?"

"Let's hunt a big mountain boar too!" Jin Wu shouted, and ran away quickly.

To the south of the forest, there really is a dilapidated earth temple.The moss marks on the two big stones for the walls are green, and the firewood gate is crumbling, like two loose front teeth.The two of them pushed open the door, and dust rushed in. The front of the Buddha statue was covered with incense ash, and there were a few futons covered with weeds on the ground.

The two walked in and walked to the statue.Jin Wu bowed respectfully to the statue first, and said, "Grandfather the Kitchen God protects you, may all of us in Jiading be safe and auspicious."

Wang Xiaoyuan reminded him from behind: "Master, we didn't bring incense to offer, how could Grandpa the Kitchen God listen to us?"

Jin Wu thumped his shoulder vigorously, "Sincerity leads to spirit. If you don't have incense, just kowtow a hundred times."

"Who's coming?" Wang Xiaoyuan looked at him blankly.

"Of course it's you. What do you think I brought you here for?" Jin Wu smiled sinisterly.

Reluctantly pressed by him, Wang Xiaoyuan turned his head for a few times, suddenly remembered something, turned his head and said, "Yes, young master, I thought there would be a vulgar talk here, but I didn't expect there was no monk. You still Do you remember the story in "The Legend of Chivalry" that Wei Nong and Long Bao met in the Town God's Temple, and they bowed down to be sworn brothers?"

Jin Wu nodded, he would never forget anything he had heard once.Wang Xiaoyuan patted the futon beside him, and said excitedly: "How about we also imitate them and worship? We should not only be good friends, but also good brothers. When I get rich in the future, I will also spread your name and ask others to kowtow to you."

"But I'm already famous enough." Jin Wu squinted at him and said, "Maybe you don't know, but there are a lot of people in this world who know my name."

Having said that, both of them had the naughty nature of children, so they immediately knelt on the cattail mat and bowed exaggeratedly.

Wang Xiaoyuan waved his hands in front of him, pretending that there were three sacrifices and fine wine in front of him.He thoughtfully said: "Master, when is your birthday? I remember it was the winter solstice last year. What year were you born?"

"I was born in the year of Bingchen."

"It seems to be about the same as me, um, I seem to be a little later." Wang Xiaoyuan said.

Jin Wu said: "Hey, you don't even know when you were born."

"Yeah, I don't know. But my father said, since my name is 'Wang Xiaoyuan', my birthday will be on the first day." Wang Xiaoyuan pointed to them, and said, "Then you will be the elder brother, and I will be the younger brother."

Seeing his humiliating dogleg appearance, Jin Wu was very pleased and asked proudly, "Then tell me, how do we worship?"

Wang Xiaoyuan said: "Let's kneel first."

The two knelt down on the futon.Wang Xiaoyuan said again: "You have to kneel and offer incense."

There was a celadon-glazed incense burner in the temple, but it was a pity that there was a lot of dust, and it was all hazy.The two of them had no incense sticks in their hands, so they pulled out two sticks from the burnt incense sticks, and pretended to insert them back into the incense burner.

"Then, kowtow three times to the statue."

Both Jin Wu and Wang Xiaoyuan bowed their heads solemnly, until they were ashamed.

"what's next?"

"You have to worship the spiritual energy of heaven and earth first." After hearing this, the two of them fell down.

"One more obeisance to our ancestors." Jin Wu did as well.This is not a ancestral hall, and there are no ancestral tablets, but the God of Ford is probably of the same origin and root as them, so they have the right to worship like this.

After two prostrations, Jin Wu suddenly felt something was wrong.

Wang Xiaoyuan continued: "Then we will pay our respects."

Jin Wu glared at Wang Xiaoyuan, with a fierce look in his eyes, "...what do you say to me?"

"Goodbye... um..." Wang Xiaoyuan faltered, "Husband and wife... um...goodbye."

The young master suddenly jumped up and punched him. "Wow! Look at what you are praying to! Didn't you say you were just sworn?"

This master was merciless, Wang Xiaoyuan was beaten up with a bruised nose and a swollen face, and he yelled aggrievedly: "But...but I only know this kind of thing! I used to sneak into other people's wedding banquets to pick up leftovers, and I saw them all worship like this!"

Jinwu still didn't give up.It seemed that he just wanted to find an opportunity to beat Wang Xiaoyuan up.When he was done tidying up, he said:

"Listen well, in general, just ask for help, just say 'Share the blessings, share the troubles' and that's it."

Wang Xiaoyuan touched the swollen bag: "I heard from my father that there seems to be some people who swear 'not to be born in the same year, the same month and the same day, but to die in the same year, the same month, the same day'."

"It's true that we were not born on the same day, but why did we have to die on the same day in the same year?" Jin Wu snorted, lowered his head and said, "If that's true, then you won't live for a few days."

There seemed to be a slight worry on his brows, was he thinking of the short life of the passers-by in Hatz, or was he worried about his uncertain future?It was difficult for Wang Xiaoyuan to guess the chaotic mood of this master, he was just an idiot, and he couldn't guess such a complicated thing.

"Since you don't ask for life or death, what do you ask for?" Wang Xiaoyuan asked blankly.

Jin Wu clasped his palms together and closed his eyes.In the twilight of the sky, fine floating dust fluttered like shimmering scales of light, spreading out.

"Just ask us to live a safe life, be auspicious and healthy."

When the two walked out of the temple, the sun had already set to the west.Looking into the distance, I can only see the green smoke curling up, and the wind howling in the deep forest.

A group of people and horses gathered in front of the tent, as if Marquis Ning Yuan and Jin Zhen had returned from hunting.

"I don't know what Grandpa and Dad will hunt back today." Jin Wu wiped the ashes from his forehead and said happily, "Maybe there are yellow rabbits, foxes, pheasants... we can also eat roasted venison at night. "

Wang Xiaoyuan listened silently, with saliva dripping from his mouth.

"When I'm a few years older, I want to ride horses like Grandpa and Dad! How majestic!" Jinwu stomped his feet, and said with the corners of his mouth raised, "Aniang said that our tribe is the best at riding and shooting, and the sword skills are second .When she gets better, I will also ask her for advice!"

They were walking back slowly.When he was passing through a piece of long grass, Wang Xiaoyuan paused suddenly and stayed where he was.

He seemed to have stepped on something soft under his feet. He looked down and saw a woman's white and slender hand protruding from the grass.

"What's wrong?" Jin Wu asked back.

"I... I seem to have stepped on something..." Wang Xiaoyuan suddenly broke out in sweat.

There seemed to be a person lying down on the ground, his body covered by chest-length autumn grass.Wang Xiaoyuan saw that the man was covered with jet-black silk clothes, like shiny crow feathers.He lowered his head and looked, only to see a bone knife wound on the man, bloody and bloody, extremely terrifying.

Fear swept over and surged like a sea tide, Wang Xiaoyuan's hands and feet felt cold, and his heart pounded unknowingly.Why is there a dead man here?Could it be that Jin Zhen and Ning Yuan Hou Yu were not paying attention when hunting, and the arrow that missed fell on the woodcutter who came to collect firewood?But he saw that the man lying in the grass had expensive clothes, and he was wearing fine silk clothes, so he seemed to be a high-class person.

He suddenly covered the eyes of the golden crow who turned his head, and shouted:

"Don't look, master!"

But Jin Wu forcibly turned away his hand: "What's there?" After seeing the figure in the bushes clearly, his complexion suddenly turned pale.

The two walked around to the man, and carefully turned the man's face with the wooden branch.Unexpectedly, it was a gorgeous woman, her facial features were as beautiful as those carefully crafted, her face was porcelain white, but it was covered with scratches.Neither of them had seen the woman.

After a long time, Jinwu tremblingly said: "She is not... from Jiading."

Wang Xiaoyuan hurriedly pushed his shoulder: "Master, let's go! This matter will be handed over to the government. If someone uses this corpse to slander our innocence, we can't argue with each other!"

Jin Wu shook his head with a pale face: "No, no. This person is still breathing, she is still alive. We can't just ignore death." The woman's chest was still rising and falling slightly, and the wings of her nose were also moving almost imperceptibly .Jin Wu quickly turned his head, and shouted to Wang Xiaoyuan, "Go and tell Grandpa and my father to tell them to find some people and wound medicine, go quickly!"

Even if he doesn't want it in every way, he still wants to listen to what the master says.Wang Xiaoyuan frowned, turned and ran.

After Wang Xiaoyuan ran away, Jin Wu squatted down and looked at the injured woman carefully for a long time.His heart was tense, as if dozens of buckets were bumping up and down.He stretched out his hand tremblingly, as if he wanted to touch this ghostly woman.

The moment he stretched out his hand, suddenly, a pale hand stretched out like lightning, and grabbed Jin Wu's wrist fiercely.

Jin Wu was scared out of his wits.He opened his eyes wide, only to see the woman in black raised her face in a violent twitch, her face was bloodless and pale like a ghost.

The two of them stared at each other for a long time, the woman stared deeply at Jin Wu, her eyes lingering on his face like sharp knives.After a long time, there seemed to be a faint light in her chaotic pupils, and there seemed to be an uncontrollable whimper pouring out of her throat, and immediately, bright tears fell from her eyes.

Jin Wu was stunned.He felt her cold hands tremble violently, the woman in black looked at him with tears in her eyes, and called out hoarsely, calling another person's name:

"...Easy...qing?"