Chapter 8

When Shen Qiao woke up, there was an old beam above his head, which had decayed over the years and seemed to be in danger of falling down at any time.

Someone was shaking his shoulder.

He hadn't figured out where he was for a while, and he subconsciously murmured, "Junior brother, don't make trouble."

"Who is your junior brother?" Chen Gong was annoyed, "You have slept for two days and two nights! It's not enough for me to put all the money on me. I took yours first, but I can only cover the rent for three days. If we can't pay tomorrow, we will be driven back to live in a ruined temple!"

Shen Qiao snorted and stared at the beam of the roof for a long time, his eyes were blank, and he didn't know what he was looking at.

Seeing him like this, Chen Gong got angry, as if everything had nothing to do with him, he couldn't help but pushed him on the shoulder again: "You're talking, don't look at it, it's in the inn now! I I was afraid that we would be found revenge, so I moved you out of the ruined temple, and even hired a doctor for you. The doctor said that you were angry, stasis, and cold in your body. Anyway, it was very difficult. Many medicines were prescribed, and money was spent. Empty!"

Shen Qiao came back to his senses: "Tell him to stop prescribing medicine, it's useless to take it, I know my body, and I won't be in a hurry for a while."

Chen Gong: "What's the use of what you said now, the medicine has been caught, can it be returned?!"

Shen Qiao: "Oh, then forget it."

Chen Gong half-squatted down and looked at him: "Hey, since you are so good at it, if we go to the street to perform, or simply join the Liuhe Gang, there is a branch of the Liuhe Gang in this county. With your skills, you will definitely be able to. Find a good position, and then bring me with you..."

Shen Qiao: "What is the Liuhe Gang?"

Facing his blank and innocent eyes, Chen Gong had to explain patiently: "It's a gang that eats both land and water. The main business on the land is dart transportation. I heard that they also help people find information or something, anyway... In short. , it's a great big gang! I also heard people say it by chance, and then I knew, how about it, let's go to the Liuhe Gang! If you can find a good job, you don't have to go to fortune-telling every day, and I will also No need for anti-rice bags!"

At the end, the tone of voice was already excited.

Shen Qiao shook his head: "I told you, I can't remember a lot of things, that move was just a flash of inspiration last night, and besides, my eyes are not good, I can get some errands when I go, it's better for An An Shengsheng to continue earning money here. ."

These words were like a basin of cold water pouring on Chen Gong's head, and his smile disappeared.

Even if he couldn't see it, Shen Qiao could feel the depression of the teenager: "You are young, don't always think about it overnight, we are not from the Jianghu gang, and we rush to join the Jianghu gang, and we don't understand the rules, you don't feel out of place. Is it?"

Boss Chen Gong was unhappy: "I don't know what it means to be out of place, I only know that the money I earn by carrying rice bags every day is not enough for us to pay the rent. You need money for medicine and money for meals. You are very arrogant. But is money falling from the sky? I don't steal or rob, so don't make me want to think about money and hit myself on the head when I have nothing to do all day long... Hey, what's wrong with you, don't scare me, Didn't I just say something to you!"

Shen Qiao held his head and waited for the pain to pass before slowly saying, "I'm not going to Liuhe Gang, I'm going to Xuandu Mountain."

Chen Gongqi said, "Xuandu Mountain? What is that place?"

He grew up in Funing County since he was a child. He has never read a book, and his knowledge is limited. He has heard of the Liuhe Gang, which is because the Liuhe Gang also has a branch in the county. As for the others, he has heard a little.

The world is too far away for him.

Shen Qiao shook his head and didn't speak, and began to be stunned again.

Chen Gong said in a vicious voice: "Hey, you're talking! I'll use my own money to see a doctor and prescribe medicine for you, don't you want to pay it back?"

Shen Qiao: "I will still go to the stall for fortune-telling in the next few days, and I will pay you back soon."

Seeing that he had no interest in joining the Liuhe Gang at all, Chen Gong couldn't help feeling frustrated. If Shen Qiao didn't go, who could see it with just his strength to carry the rice bag?

"Where is Xuandu Mountain?"

Shen Qiao: "A mountain."

Chen Gong: "..."

He was about to die of anger: "Nonsense, of course I know it's a mountain! I'm asking what you are going to do there!"

Shen Qiao: "I don't know either. Some people say that I came from there. I want to go back and have a look."

Chen Gong: "Where is that mountain?"

Shen Qiao: "Near the borders of Qi, Zhou, and Chen."

Chen Gong was taken aback: "So far? Then how did you get here from there?"

Shen Qiao was helpless: "Didn't I tell you, I forgot a lot of things, and I can't remember them all now. If I knew, why should I go back and check?"

Chen Gong thought for a while: "Otherwise, I'll go with you, and I won't have to pay you back, you just need to teach me a trick and a half, so that I can beat six or seven people on the ground like you. On the ground, wait until Chen Chao, I will go to the Liuhe Gang, you will go to your Xuandu Mountain, how about it?"

Shen Qiao: "Funing County is your hometown. This place is peaceful and less troubled by soldiers, which is completely different from the outside world. If I leave here, I will go all the way to the west. Why do you have to take this dangerous road?"

Chen Gong wooden face: "My father and mother are dead, and the house is also occupied by my stepmother's younger brothers and sisters. Instead of staying in Funing County to carry rice bags, it is better to go outside and find a way of life. You are not saying that I am suitable for joining the army. Well, then I have to go to places where wars are frequent and soldiers are urgently needed, I don’t want to be so useless in my life, even a few beggars can bully me and look down on me!”

Shen Qiao was silent for a moment: "Well then..."

The words had just begun, when Chen Gong plopped down on his knees in front of his bed: "Master is here, please accept the disciples!"

"..." Shen Qiao twitched the corners of his mouth, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "You get up, I don't accept apprentices, and I can't accept apprentices. Now, I may not be able to remember all the moves, at most I can only teach you some of what I remember. I don't know whether it works or not, so you don't need to be a teacher."

Hearing this, Chen Gongli got up and said cheerfully: "Okay, but you are older than me, and I will call you brother from now on. If someone bullies me again, you have to help me get ahead!"

Shen Qiao smiled, did not speak, and began to be in a daze again.

Chen Gong silently looked at the other party for a moment, and seeing that he had no intention of returning to his senses, he had to turn around and leave first.

...

Shen Qiao fell off the cliff and was seriously injured, with all his bones shattered. It was very dangerous at the time, but these injuries were almost healed in the three months of Bie Zhuang.

What really hurt the root is the internal organs, and his martial arts, all of which were almost gone in that change of hometown, and now only the incomplete memory and half-crippled body are left, and it is easier to recover.

Putting it on others, this is almost a blow to the top of the five thunders, but when Shen Qiao and Chen Gong are together, it is Chen Gong who is most angry.

The two did not go back to the broken temple, but negotiated a cheap price with the innkeeper and rented it directly for a month. During this month, Shen Qiao continued to go to Jianggong Temple to feel the bones and fortune-telling, while Chen Gong continued to carry it. Rice Bag works as a part-time job, and when he comes back at night, he learns kung fu with Shen Qiao. If you meet a real trainer, it will be no use.

A month later, Shen Qiao and Chen Gong left Funing County and set off for the west.

Since leaving Bie Zhuang, Shen Qiao has never seen Yu Shengyan and others. Although Funing County is very close to Bie Zhuang where he lived before, he goes to Jianggong Temple to set up a fortune-telling stall every day. No ordinary common people, no more vivid market life.

The rivers and lakes seemed to be very far away from him, so far away that Shen Qiao sometimes felt that he did not need to go to Xuandu Mountain at all, and it was actually a good choice to live in Funing County for the rest of his life.

However, the chest still feels dull occasionally, the broken bones that have been broken soon after will be aching like needles on rainy days, the past events flashing in his mind, and the infuriating spirit flowing from time to time in the limbs, all these are reminding him : The current Shen Qiao is still not the complete Shen Qiao.

To the west of Funing County is Huaizhou, which is a large state, and because it is close to the Zhou Dynasty, it is closely guarded. The prefects here are usually assigned by the emperor himself, and the censors of the school often come to inspect, and martial law is imposed every now and then.

Although the world has been divided for a long time, countries can’t help but trade in border trade. Only Shishen, the governor of Huaizhou, is not easy to act weird. Since he took office, he has ordered the border trade between the two countries to be closed. Businessmen caught participating in the mutual trade will be severely punished and reported again. The emperor said that the mutual market could easily be mixed into the Zhou Dynasty's meticulous work, leaking the country's border defenses, etc., and suggested that other parts of Qi also close the mutual market. Although Emperor Qi Gao Wei did not accept Shen Buyi's suggestion, he greatly appreciated his loyalty and decreed to commend him.

Shen Buyi exerted too much force in political affairs, and he was also very flattering to the dignitaries and nobles of Qi. Therefore, the emperor's close ministers often spoke well for him, and he was able to rise from a small county captain to the current emperor of a prefecture.

Considering the high expenses after entering the city, Shen Qiao and Chen Gong planned to spend the night in a temple outside the city, and then go directly to the city to supply supplies the next day, and they could leave the city again in the afternoon.

The name of the temple is Izumo Temple. It is said to be a temple. In fact, it is not much better than the ruined temple they lived in Funing County before. There are only three monks in the temple, an old abbot, and two young monks who were adopted by the old monk.

The temple is rudimentary, with only two wing rooms, one for the old abbot and one for two young monks.

Chen Gong is a person who is used to living a hard life. In the ruined temple in Funing County, there is no bed and quilt, let alone a bed and a quilt. Now such conditions are considered very good for him. Of course there is no opinion.

When they entered the wing, they found that there were still a group of people who had arrived earlier than them, a total of four, all of them young men, and there were two large boxes in the wing.

Chen Gong holds a kind of hostility and vigilance towards strangers, and does not easily talk to others. Shen Qiao's eyes are not good, and if he wants to say hello, he can't see what his parents are like. The other four also have no intention of getting closer. Trace looked at Chen Gong and Shen Qiao, and saw that their footsteps were vain and their clothes were shabby, so they stopped paying attention.

Not long after, two little monks came over with a bed and a blanket.

The already small Tongpu and two people make it even more crowded.

Chen Gong was full of reluctance and couldn't help muttering: "Six people are enough, why are there two more!"

The little monk heard it and whispered to him: "Donor, there is a young lady among the donors over there. It is not convenient for us to live in the same room, so the little monk and others gave up the wing room, which is convenient for others and convenient for themselves."

Since she was a female family, she would definitely live alone. Chen Gong felt unhappy and couldn't say anything else. When he saw that the four of them were carrying swords with them, he didn't dare to open his mouth. It was just a glance from the corner of his eye that he suddenly seemed to have noticed something. , Excited, taking the opportunity to go to dinner, he pulled Shen Qiao and whispered: "Did you see, those people are from the Liuhe Gang! I saw the Liuhe Gang marks on their clothes and boxes, and Funing County It's the same!"

Shen Qiao smiled: "I have bad eyes, how can I see?"

Chen Gong didn't reduce his excitement: "You said that if I found a chance to talk to them, they would be happy, would they agree to let me join the Liuhe Gang?"

Shen Qiao knew that Chen Gong yearned for the Liuhe Gang wholeheartedly, and even though he had gone so far, he had not changed his original intention.

He said slowly, "I think you'd better not open this mouth."