son-in-law

Chapter 472 The literati's ruler and the warrior's sword

Chapter 472 The literati's ruler and the warrior's sword

The night wind blew, and the stars in the sky were gloomy.In the courtyard of the county town, which had become silent, with a few clicks, the door was closed, and only a few traces of light ooze out from the gap.Although Zhou Tong's kick was powerful, the direction was accurate. Lin Chong's back just hit between the two door panels, only breaking the door latch. Fu Lu found a wooden stick instead and fastened the door.

When he turned around, the old man who had been angry before was sitting on the stone bench in the courtyard, holding a teacup and waiting for the tea cooked on the stove next to it to boil.Fu Lu went to pick the fire: "Actually... Junior Brother Lin is really living a hard life..."

The old man, who was angry before, shook his head at this time, but it didn't mean denial, but seemed to be somewhat disillusioned.Holding the small teacup, he closed his eyes and thought about it.The courtyard was quiet for a while before Zhou Tong spoke.

"In that year, among the few disciples I accepted, Lin Chong was the most talented. He was the best in stage dance, and he was the one who won the most in the competition between fellow apprentices and brothers." The old man raised his head slightly, speaking at a slow pace. He recalled, "He has a good relationship with everyone, and has contacts with you. But among those disciples, I don't like him. Lin Chong doesn't know about this, but you asked me... Do you remember?"

Fu Lu thought about it for a while, then nodded: "Remember, at that time, Master, you just admitted this matter, but did not say the reason. I always thought that Junior Brother Lin had some misdeeds in private to let Master know, and he alienated him for a while. , I often observe in secret, and later found that Junior Brother Lin's character is not bad, I just thought it was the master, you misunderstood something."

"You are the senior brother of all of them, and I have been with me the longest, so you can naturally see my likes and dislikes, but you guessed wrong about this matter. It's just that I couldn't tell at the time, but can you see it now?"

"It's Junior Brother Lin's temper...too cowardly?"

"To be able to kill so many people all the way, you can't say it's cowardly." Zhou Tong shook his head and opened his eyes, "There is a knife missing in his heart."

Hearing this, Fu Lu hesitated for a moment: "I remember at that time, you kept saying that martial arts practitioners should hide their knives..."

"Yeah, those who practice martial arts should hide their knives." Zhou Tong sighed, the tea was already boiling, he took down the kettle and started pouring tea, in the courtyard late at night, the smell of boiling tea permeated, "Back then I taught Xi Yu The boxing gym, among the disciples, are full of fierce and vicious people. If you use force to fight and kill at every turn, what will I teach you? So although Shi Wengong is highly skilled in martial arts, I really don't like him. Well, Shi Wengong, his name has Shi, Wen, and Gong, I thought he was a modest person at first. Although Lin Chong's name has the word "Chong", it is actually the other way around."

The teapot was put down: "It was also because I didn't want the martial arts practitioners to mess around. I told my disciples to hide their knives, and even told them to give three points when they couldn't bear it, because they always felt that they couldn't bear it when they could bear it. But Lin Chong grew up in a wealthy place. Although his understanding is high, it also made him know how powerful the rules are. Therefore, he has a high talent for martial arts, and I can only say that he is good. , I said hiding a sword, but if you don't have a sword in your heart, what kind of person is a martial artist? Lin Chong is too disciplined, so I don't like it, but at the time, I was not very good at saying this."

The old man's words stopped in the wind.Fu Lu thought for a while and sighed: "Actually, Junior Brother Lin was also very loyal and heroic at the time, so everyone liked him..."

Zhou Tong shook his head: "Loyalty is heroic, it's not a knife, it's just a person's temperament. Master Tan once told me that in a good world, literati have a ruler in their heart. In the heart of a warrior, there must be a knife. This knife is too sharp, but not without it. When those rules are old and inappropriate, and the world has gone astray, the warrior must cut it off with a knife, and then there are new rules. come out."

He looked down at the tea in the teacup: "It's like this, because people who practice martial arts have the most sensitive mind, and every man splatters blood for ten steps in anger. The sword in a person's heart is the blood of conscience, right or wrong. The literati have set the rules, but they only tinker, and they have a bunch of reasons for doing something wrong. But conscience is the most direct, and if something goes wrong, there must be a problem, and he should break his better rules! So heroic is not a knife , the knife is right or wrong, it is great wisdom and bravery, it is the rule of killing!"

"People in the world are forced to be helpless and go up to the mountains to become bandits? Because everyone does this, so it's not a knife! Going with the crowd is not a knife, doing things that others can't do and dare not do is a knife! I keep morals in my heart, but say it every day. It's not the sword that he is forced to helplessly. Although there are thousands of people, the place of righteousness is the sword! Lin Chong has no sword in his heart. Bandits are the rules. When you go up to the mountains, you want to kill innocent people indiscriminately. That’s the rules. If there are rules, he just follows the rules. No matter how good his martial arts are, what's the use of him... a waste!"

The old man drank the tea and put down the cup, with obvious anger in his half-white hair.Fu Lu nodded silently, but he also sighed in his heart.Although the old man said that he disliked Lin Chong the most, in fact, after learning about Lin Chong, what he had done for Junior Brother Lin had far exceeded that of other senior brothers, including talking to Ning Liheng to let him go. This disciple has a way of life, and Fu Lu can also see that the old man doesn't really like that Ning Liheng very much. With the strict and clear personality of the old man's love and hate, this opening is a kind of human feeling.

Just like when he learned about Shi Wengong's death, the old man just snorted lightly and ignored him.In retrospect, although Junior Brother Lin's character was weak, he grew up smoothly as a teenager, married a beautiful family, and became a coach in the forbidden army. If there were no later events, he should have lived a happy life.At this time, the old man was not only angry with him, but he was also angry at the evil of the world.

The night was dark, the old man sat in the courtyard for a while, and suddenly a bird came flying.Fu Lu reached out to catch the bird, nodded to Zhou Tong and said something, then turned off the lights and fire, and the two master and servant left the yard and went all the way to the woods outside the county town.Not long after, four more figures came over. The one in front was a middle-aged woman, and the three behind him were dressed as Marquis Yu, followed by two attendants.When the four of them came over, Zhou Tong and Fu Lu were standing by the small pond in the woods, and the middle-aged woman came over and called out, "Master." Zhou Tong nodded, and Yu Hou, who was behind him with a broken knife, hurried over to pay his respects.

"Lu Qian has met Grandmaster Zhou, it's already so late, and he has called me to wait..."

"Forget the gossip." Zhou Tong's figure turned his back to this side and waved his hand, "The things that Captain Gao explained have been done."

"Ah, Ning and Lu have really..."

"The old man has another matter. I want to ask Lu Yuhou to tell the captain. Come here and I will tell you to listen."

"Yes."

Zhou Tong is No. 1 in the world, with an arrogant personality, and he has a bad attitude towards people like himself since they met.Lu Qian was interrupted by him several times, but he didn't think it was strange, he cupped his hands and walked over, stopping behind Zhou Tong's side.With his hands behind his back, Zhou Tong stared at the silence in the night for a moment, and finally said: "In Bianliang City, the son of Gaoqiu called himself Huahua Taisui, and the woman he fell in love with was taken away by you, right?"

Lu Qian was slightly taken aback.

"Lin Chong and you are good friends, but Hua Hua Tai Sui took a fancy to his wife, and you designed it for him, right?"

Seeing Zhou Tong turn around, Lu Qian looked at him like a tiger, folded his hands, and subconsciously wanted to take a step back: "Next..."

"Shameless man!"

Zhou Tong slapped it with his palm. At that moment, Lu Qian wanted to move his feet and raised his arm to block the first block, but everything failed to become a reality. In the eyes of everyone, Zhou Tong raised his palm to Lu Qian's. With a light pat on the top of his head, Lu Qian's body trembled.

"...how can I keep you."

When the words fell, Lu Qian's body knelt down, and then slammed down.Not far away, Lu Qian's two followers watched their teeth fight: "You, you...you killed..."

"Wenying and Fulu, kill them and deal with them." Zhou Tong adjusted his sleeves, turned to leave with his hands on his back, Fulu didn't move, the middle-aged woman named Wenying flicked her hand, and two darts flew away. Inserted on the foreheads of the two of them, Zhou Tong stopped, turned his head, and the figure had fallen: "Oh, this matter of Lu Qian's death, try not to let anyone know or publicize it."

Fu Lu cupped his hands and said, "Yes." After explaining this, Zhou Tong left floating.The woman named Wenying tilted her head: "The people who killed the Taiwei's mansion naturally cannot be known, so why should the master give special orders?" Her name is Zuo Wenying, and Fu Lu originally belonged to Zhou Dong Servant, and the two were later married.Fu Lu said: "Fangcai Junior Brother Lin came and asked Master to beat him away. Master has already seen this Lu Yuhou, so naturally he can't let him go back to harm other people, just let Junior Brother Lin know that the big revenge has not been avenged, and there may be some power."

Zuo Wenying shook his head: "You said that Junior Brother Lin is right, but I despise him, his family is ruined, and I only know that he is a bandit in the mountains! How can you say that he is a man with such a temper!"

Fu Lu sighed, "Master said the same thing." The corpse was packed in sacks in the woods, mixed with stones and sank to the bottom of the lake. While doing it, he told his wife how Lin Chong met Zhou Tong.Can not help but a little sigh.

"Sigh, Junior Brother Lin has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he is good at martial arts. In fact, he is a person who doesn't have much desire for it. He just rebelled against the outside world and suddenly suffered bad luck. Although the master said it well, seeing Junior Brother Lin's temperament, he also has the intention of sharpening it. It's just that ordinary people may not be able to bear this hardship. He must be disheartened when he leaves, and it is difficult to say whether he can live. If he can tell him clearly what Master said later, he may still be to live a little..."

"He's been pushed to such a level that he still can't understand himself. If he just talks, he can help him wherever he goes. Even if he understands something, it's not his own! I see, your temperament is like that of a mother-in-law." Zuo Wen Ying pursed her lips and shook her head, "If you look at me, you've been thinking wrong. Most importantly, you've never thought about it."

"Huh?" Fulu frowned, looking at his wife.

"Because he is Zhou Tong's disciple!" Zuo Wenying kicked a sack into the lake, raised her chin, stared contemptuously, and resolutely said, "He is the No. Go coax and persuade! He is the master's disciple, he has learned the master's martial arts! When encountering these things, how can he shrink back and be weak, so what a pity for him to die! Who hasn't encountered difficult things, haven't you and me? Back then, my family members were also dead! He was Zhou Tong’s disciple, so he should know that he can do whatever he wants in this situation, he can hide, but he shouldn’t be a bandit! He is Zhou Tong’s disciple, big right and wrong, Why can't I ask for more! I think about right and wrong all day long, and I don't forget morality, and I think about being forced to do evil things all day long! I just talk about it and think about it in my heart. If you want to die, you will die! Hmph! "

Fu Lu looked at his arrogant wife, smiled gradually, and nodded: "Sure enough...you know Master's personality best, I really think wrong. No wonder everyone says you are a woman and don't let your men, my temperament But it's a little soft, as the master said, without a knife in my heart, it's not good..."

He was doing this review to his wife and listening to him compliment him. Although they had been husband and wife for many years, the woman's face was slightly red, but fortunately, she couldn't see clearly in the dark.

"If you have a knife in your heart, I will know about it." After a while, he added, "Master knows that too."

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The night passed quietly, and the next morning, more people came one after another. Ning Yi was dealing with the plan of how to sweep the Zhuxi and Anping areas, and occasionally went to see Hongti.At noon on this day, Zhou Tong's master and servant left from Yiyuan County, but before leaving, he seemed to have said something to Hongti, which made Hongti a little unhappy...

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