my steam dam

Chapter 1 Friends, times have changed

"To rob a house is to be a bandit."

"To eradicate the strong and help the weak is to be a hero."

"Do you understand?"

In a small village on the outskirts of Xihang City, a young man with starry eyes and sword eyebrows, dressed in white clothes, about [-] years old, was leading more than a dozen attendants, pointing his sword at a middle-aged man who was captured and kneeling on the ground.

"Hu Wu, 31 years old, is from Guyuan Village in Xihang. He claims to be the Peerless Swordsman of Xihang, a hero of the rivers and lakes."

"But does one of the things you do qualify as a hero?"

"In the 25th year of Hongwu, one man and one sword, forcibly broke into the mansion of Chen Daguan in Xihang, took 200 taels of silver, and killed three servants."

"In the 26th year of Hongwu, the oiran had a night of spring dinner in Cuihualou in Xicheng, but the next day he didn't give him any money. Instead, he robbed the oiran of three silver hairpins and left after four taels of gold."

"In the 27th year of Hongwu, in the Dongge restaurant, he killed three people just because of his excessive words and anger. Afterwards, to prevent future troubles, he actually wiped out his whole family."

"You count, do these things you do have anything to do with the word Xia?"

"According to the laws of Ming Dynasty, you have five heads that are not enough to lose, so it is not too much for me to sentence you to death immediately?"

Hu Wu, who was forced to kneel on the ground, was bleeding from his mouth. Although he had never heard of the phrase "execute the death penalty immediately", he still understood the meaning, beheading.

Raising his head ferociously, Hu Wu looked directly at the young man in front of him who was accusing him of crimes one after another.

"who are you?"

The young man smiled slightly, revealing eight dazzlingly white teeth in this age.

"Penke, I think you should know me."

Hu Wu's pupils shrank sharply, and his grim expression changed instantly, and he said in a panic, "Why is your lord in Xihang?"

"Jin Yiwei is doing business, do I need to report to you?" Peng Ke sneered, waved his hand, and the two attendants who had been holding down Hu Wu let him go.

But even if no one restrained him anymore, Hu Wu still didn't dare to move around, just kowtowed and begged for mercy: "My lord, I don't dare anymore, please let the villain live."

"The villain was blinded by the lard. If he missed it for a while, the villain will never dare again in the future. He will definitely change his mind!"

"呵" Peng Ke laughed even louder, shook his head, and said contemptuously to a young man dressed as a servant beside him: "This is the rivers and lakes you are thinking about, and this is the hero you yearn for. "

The expression on the boy's face changed for a while, the three views seemed to have been violently impacted, and the dream of a hero in his heart seemed to be shattered along with Hu Wu who was kneeling on the ground.

With a half-smile, Peng Ke pulled out a sword from the attendant's waist, threw it in front of Hu Wu, and said with some disgust: "If you still have any blood, then pick up the sword."

"I'll give you a chance to not die. Fight me. If you can survive within three moves, then I will spare your life."

"This..." Hu Wu showed a look of hesitation. The man in front of him was as tall as the sky to him. Fighting with him, no matter whether he wins or loses, it seems to be a death sentence.

Seeing his hesitation, Pen Ke shrugged: "If you don't want to, then I won't force you, Hu, let him go."

A guard immediately pulled out his waist knife, and made a gesture to strike Hu Wu's head.

At this moment of life and death, Hu Wu didn't have time to worry too much about the consequences, and hissed with a broken voice: "Wait a minute! My lord, I am willing to give it a go!"

The attendant retracted the knife at the right time and looked at Penke.

"Take up your sword and stand up."

Peng Ke drove away the attendants with a wave of his hand, walked to a position ten steps away from Hu Wu, stood there with his hands behind his back, and looked at him with a smile.

Hu Wu gritted his teeth, spit out a mouthful of saliva mixed with blood clots, all the panic in his eyes was withdrawn, leaving only the coldness like a poisonous snake.

No matter what, he was also a villain with blood on his hands, and when he really wanted to fight for his life, he still had a bit of aura.

But Peng Ke didn't care at all, and even the smile on his face deepened, and he said mockingly: "Come on, grind and chirp."

Picking up the sword and getting up from the ground, Hu Wu clenched the one-handed sword tightly. After a loud shout, he rushed straight towards Peng Ke, and the distance between the two quickly shortened.

Ten steps, nine steps, eight steps, seven steps, five steps...

Seeing Hu Wu who was rushing towards him with all his strength, Peng Ke didn't move at all, still standing straight on the spot.

Just when the distance between the two was only five steps away, and Hu Wu was about to make a gesture of swinging his sword, Peng Ke finally moved.

With the hand that had been behind his back all the time, he pulled it out suddenly, and he held a handgun with a black barrel, a wooden gun body covered with exquisite patterns, and exquisite gilt patterns, and pointed directly at Hu Wu.

"boom!"

The trigger is pressed.

A round lead bullet, under the action of the gunpowder at the tail, directly sank into Hu Wu's chest at a speed of several hundred meters per second.

Hu Wu, who was about to swing his sword at Peng Ke, his eyes widened, his whole body froze, and then he lowered his hand weakly, and the one-handed sword fell to the ground.

Before "this" left a last word, Hu Wu stared at a pair of eyes full of resentment, and swallowed his breath.

"Huh~" He blew lightly on the still smoking muzzle, and looked at Hu Wu who fell in front of him, Peng Ke smiled and shook his head: "The times have changed, my friend."

"You are neither those barbarians in the north who believe in longevity and have all kinds of shaman witchcraft, nor are you a qi refiner who has practiced for tens of years in a Taoist temple in the mountains. Pistol?"

"Even shamans and Qi refiners have to kneel under the righteous five-inch cannon?"

At this time, after Hu Wu fell to the ground, the boy who came back to his senses quickly walked up to Peng Ke, and asked with some pain: "My lord, according to your statement, he is not a hero, but a gangster." That's all."

"Then if he is a real hero, will you kill him, son?"

Peng Ke turned his head and glanced at the boy who was fascinated by the novelist's picture book and the storyteller's oral writing, and said angrily: "There is no hero who doesn't kill innocents indiscriminately, that will only appear In the picture book of the novel."

"The real so-called heroes do have a righteous side, but their justice is not for the world, and their justice is not fair."

"Ever heard a word?"

"Heroes use martial arts to break the ban!"

"In my Ming Dynasty, all illegal things are dealt with by the law of the Ming Dynasty. When will it be the turn of these so-called heroes to uphold justice?"

"Even if the government doesn't care about it, colludes with the powerful in private, and eats a vegetarian meal in the corpse, then it's not the turn of these knights who rely on their own strength to trample on the rules casually."

"If you want to uphold justice, then take the entrance exam of our Jinyiwei. With the power to enforce the law, you can uphold justice however you want!"

"Otherwise, they will all be treated as rioters!"

As soon as the sonorous and forceful words fell, Peng Ke turned over and got on his horse, regardless of whether his servants listened to him or not, and rode away with a dozen of his attendants.

The boy who reacted a little too late came back to his senses. Looking at the figure of his elder son going away, he hurriedly chased after him. While chasing, he kept shouting;

"My son! Lord Hou asked me to look for you. He said that something happened at home, and he told you to return to Beijing immediately after finishing the matter at hand!"

"It's urgent, my son!"

(End of this chapter)