The Record of Swordsmen in the Late Sui and Early Tang Dynasties

Chapter 135 Chapter 120
About an hour later, Taoist Master Liao Chen shouted loudly: "You two little benefactors, the meal is ready, come out and eat."

After hearing this, Duan Wuji and Tie Niu jumped down from the kang immediately, and they went out of the room to have a look.

Ho!Today's meals are really rich. There are seven or eight vegetarian dishes and two meat dishes. One is braised pork and the other is stewed beef.

Liao Chen brought out a jar of wine from the house, looked at Priest Yin with a smile and said, "Junior brother, you are really blessed, you see you will have meat to eat as soon as you come back. Come, come, sit down, let's Four, let's drink a few bowls of him tonight."

Liao Chen filled up the wine, and the four of them sat around the small table. Everyone chatted while eating. Duan Wuji looked at Taoist Priest Yin and asked, "Master Liao Yin, where are you from? Do you have any weird anecdote to tell us?"

Daoist Liaoyin took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "Pindao is from Dazhou, Sichuan. Our place has many mountains and rivers, beautiful scenery, and evergreen vegetation. It is a very good place to live. ah!

As for the interesting thing about going home to visit relatives this time, well, I really don't want to mention it. "

Tie Niu heard it and said loudly: "Old Immortal, what do you mean? Since it's interesting, then tell us about it. We only regard it as the after-dinner conversation during this long night. What's the point?" Huh? Are you still afraid that if you tell a story, you will be taxed?"

Liaochen also smiled after hearing this: "That's right, if you have any interesting things, just tell them and listen to them, junior brother, you and I are both old and almost buried, why do you still want to talk about these interesting things?" Is it okay to take it to the coffin? Tell me quickly and listen."

Liao Yin put down his wine bowl and said with a wry smile, "The story I'm telling is about a snake."

Duan Wuji laughed when he heard this.

"Old fairy, what is there to say about a snake, isn't it just a long worm? I killed one when I was seven years old. I played with it in the yard, and my father saw it. He taught me a good meal, and later, he asked my mother to peel off the skin of the snake and make a pot of snake broth, which is really delicious!"

Daoist Liaoyin laughed and said: "Little benefactor, the snake you killed can only be used as a pot of snake meat soup, but the big snake I'm talking about can't."

"Oh? What's going on? Tell me quickly and listen."

"The thing is like this. When I was five or six years old, I heard from my parents that there was a big snake in the high mountains to the west of our hometown. This snake was as thick as the mouth of a bowl. It often ran around our village to steal Villager chicken and goose.

At that time, I saw it once, and it was only about ten feet long, and it looked terrible. I never heard about it when I was older. At that time, I and all the villagers thought that it might be dead, or run away. gone somewhere else.

This time I went back to my hometown to visit relatives, and the villagers all said that the big snake back then had returned.

And after decades of growth, it has grown bigger and bigger. I was lucky enough to witness its appearance again this time when I went back, but it is still the same, but it is too big to imagine.

Donors, guess how thick and long this snake is? "

Tie Niu laughed and said, "Old Immortal, is this snake three or four feet long?"

Daoist Liaoyin took a sip of his wine and shook his head with a smile.

"Benefactor, your guess is too small. If it is three or four feet long, is it still called a big snake?"

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Could it be more than ten feet long? Is the water tank so thick and thin? If it is really that big, it would be too scary."

The Taoist priest laughed when he heard this.

"The benefactor, it's even bigger than what you said, how can I say it's an ancient anecdote? This time when I went home, I caught up with it chasing a few domestic animals. I hid in the house and saw it clearly.

This guy is at least fifteen or sixty feet long, and his body is thicker than that water tank. It's not at 01:30. In that afternoon, it swallowed five pigs and two little donkeys. You say this guy Scary isn't it? "

After hearing this, Tieniu quickly asked: "Old Taoist priest, does such a big guy eat people? Then why don't the people in your village think of a way to get rid of it?"

"It doesn't care whether it's a human or a domestic animal? No matter what it is, it will devour it and get rid of it? Do you think it's that easy? The skin of this thing is very thick, and it's not afraid of ordinary swords at all.

What's more, this thing moves very fast. When it gets really fast, it is like a gust of wind. Only when it is full, it moves a little bit slower. Who dare to provoke it?

After I went back this year, I heard that it ate another five or six people. The villagers in the nearby villages were so frightened that everyone was in danger, and those who could afford it wanted to move their families.

Who can provoke such a powerful thing? "

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "I am very interested in this giant snake because of it, can we go back and get rid of it in a few days? This will also remove a scourge for the villagers."

Tie Niu touched Duan Wuji's forehead.

"Brother, you didn't drink too much today, did you? Let's get rid of that snake? Don't go, we'll turn into snake dung!

Brother, I haven't even married a married woman yet, if this is going to be snake dung, don't you think it's wrong! "

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Brother Tieniu, why are you so timid now? Isn't it just a long worm? Is it so scary?

Besides, are we buddies vegetarian?It has a big mouth to swallow the sky, don't we have sharp swords?Afraid of what it will do? "

"Okay, okay, okay! Brother, I will listen to you. Today I will go all out. Since you are not afraid, then I will give up my life to accompany the gentleman. Let's play a big game in a few days and see how exciting it is. .”

Taoist Priest Liaoyin listened and said with a smile: "Okay, two benefactors, since you are willing to go, of course I am willing to lead the way.

Two benefactors, when do you think we will leave? "

Duan Wuji thought for a while and said: "Master, you have walked this way, it must be very hard now, how about we go in two days? I think we will leave the day after tomorrow.

We still have some things to deal with tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, how about this? "

Master Liao Yin slapped his thigh.

"Okay! Let's just talk about it."

Daoist Liaoyin looked at Daoist Chen with a smile and said: "Brother, if this giant snake can really be killed this time, I will ask the villagers from several nearby villages to build a Taoist temple for me locally, so that I can return to the Taoist temple." It’s my hometown, and I don’t have to wander outside anymore in this life.”

Liao Chen smiled slightly.

"Well, that's pretty good, Junior Brother, Brother Yu first congratulates you."

Liao Chen looked at Duan Wuji and Tieniu and said: "You two benefactors, let's do it tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow afternoon I will watch you go for a run by the river, and I will see how your running speed is.

Brother Yin, you should go too. "

Liaoyin smiled.

"Yes, younger brother, I would like to obey my senior brother's orders."

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Okay, let's make a deal, you two elders, let's chat, we went into the house to rest."

After finishing speaking, Duan Wuji and Tieniu went back to their own room.

The next morning, the two of them ate something and went to climb Huashan Mountain. At noon, the two of them came down from Huashan Mountain.

Duan Wuji took Tieniu's hand and said: "Brother Tieniu, let's go, let's go buy something for Taoist Master Chen, this old man has been asking for us since we came here.

We'll be leaving the next morning. If we don't buy something, it's okay. Let's go, let's go buy something for him.

The old man is getting old, and it is not easy to ask for alms again, so let's form a good relationship with him again. "

Tie Niu laughed when he heard this.

"Brother, you can do whatever you want. Anyway, I only have 100 taels of silver left this time, so you can do what you see."

The two walked into the grain and oil store, and Duan Wugao shouted loudly: "Boss, bring me two hundred catties of good rice, five hundred catties of white flour, fifty catties of peanuts, twenty catties of mung beans, and thirty catties of vegetable oil."

The owner of the grain and oil store glanced at the two of them and said with a smile, "You two brothers, why do you look so familiar to me? It seems like I've seen them somewhere before."

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Boss, you are such a noble person who forgets things too much. Didn't we buy things from you several times this spring?"

The owner of the grain and oil store slapped his head.

"Oh, I remembered, you are the guests of Tongtian Temple, why, should these things still be sent to Tongtian Temple?"

Duan Wuji listened and nodded.

"Boss, you have a good memory, don't you? You can send the things to Tongtian Temple later. How much are these things? You can do the math."

The boss calculated with the abacus, and said with a smile: "Guest officer, these things are worth 13 taels in total. You are also a big customer, so I will charge you 13 taels."

Duan Wuji paid the silver taels, and immediately walked out of the shop with Tieniu, and the two returned to Tongtianguan, only to see that Liaochen had already cooked the meal.

The four of them ate some food, Duan Wuji and Tie Niu immediately went back to the room to rest, and after an hour, the two of them came out of the room.

At this time the sun was just westward, Duan Wuji and Tie Niu went to the courtyard and shouted loudly towards the opposite room: "Master Liaochen, Master Liaoyin, are you awake?"

Daoist Liaochen and Daoist Liaoyin walked out of the house, Duan Wuji met and said: "Master Liaochen, we bought you some rice noodles, have these things been delivered?"

Liao Chen smiled.

"Thank you two benefactors, these things have been sent, isn't this a list of those things?"

After finishing speaking, Liao Chen handed over a list, Duan Wuji glanced at it and said: "Yes, yes, these are the things, you won't be able to eat all of these things next year."

Liao Chen said and laughed.

"Little benefactor, thank you, I am right to make friends with you. Let's go, brother Yin, let's watch the two little benefactors go for a run on the beach by the river, let's see how well they run How soon."

Duan Wuji and Tie Niu untied the horse.

"You two elders, ride your horses, we will follow behind."

Daoist Liaoyin laughed and said, "Can you keep up with us on horseback?"

Tie Niu laughed.

"No problem, if we can't even catch up with these two horses, what's the use of running! All right, let's go."

After speaking, the four people immediately came to the river beach, and when they got to the beach by the river, Liaochen said to the two people, "Are you still wearing those sandbags?"

The two listened and nodded.

"Changdao, this sandbag has been tied to us all the time, what is it for?"

"Don't do anything, take them all off, I can see your current skills just by looking at your running speed."

"Well, that's fine."

The two of them took off their coats, took off the sandbags tied to their bodies, and put on their clothes again.

Daoist Liaochen looked at Duan Wuji and Tieniu and said, "You can run ten miles today, can you run that far?"

Tie Niu laughed and said, "What's the problem with running ten miles? Well, let's run ten miles today."

Daoist Liaochen said to Taoist Priest Yin: "Junior brother Liaoyin, you ride a horse and erect a pole about ten miles away, let them run to the pole and turn around and run back, do you hear clearly?"

Taoist priest Liao Yin nodded.

"Brother, I understand, then I will pass."

After finishing speaking, the Taoist priest rode his horse and ran forward.

Daoist Liaochen looked at the two people and said, "Both benefactors, once you start running, you have to run as hard as you can. Don't stop if you can't stop halfway, do you hear me clearly?"

Tie Niu laughed and said, "Don't worry, we don't need to stop in the middle of the twenty-mile journey."

The two of them waited for a while, and it was estimated that the Taoist priest had almost run away, and the Taoist priest Liaochen said loudly: "You listen to my password, I call one, two, three and you start running, you understand ?
One, two, three, let's go. "

When the two of them heard this, they rushed towards the distance like arrows leaving the string, and they disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The two ran to the pole that Daoist Yin had set up, turned around and ran back, and when they ran back in front of Daoist Chen, both of them had sweat on their faces.

Liaochen walked up to the two people and said, "Both benefactors, are you fast enough? You two benefactors, look, you have left shallow foot sockets on the beach, which shows your kung fu. Not enough.

See for yourself, when your foot sockets are completely gone, you will not be far from the skill of stepping on the snow without a trace.

Wuji, your kung fu is a little bit higher than your brother's. Look, your foot sockets are much shallower than his!

To be honest, I didn't expect your kung fu to progress so quickly. According to this, it will take less than three years for you to practice your kung fu of treading snow and Wuhen.

Two, work hard, I wish you an early success. "

Not much time, that's it, because Taoist priest came back on horseback.

"You two benefactors, how did you run so fast? If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would believe that you would run so fast, it's as fast as a gust of wind!"

Duan Wuji laughed and said: "Master Liao, do you think we run fast? Or is that snake faster?"

Daoist Liaoyin smiled wryly after hearing this and said: "I think there is still a snake that is a little faster than you, but you two benefactors, you must remember that once the snake straightens up and runs fast, it is not easy Turning, once you suddenly take two steps sideways, it will rush past you."

As he said that, Daoist Liaoyin jumped off his horse, ran and rushed to the side to do a test model of diagonal straddling.

Tieniu and Duan Tianji laughed when they saw each other.

"Thank you for the old Taoist priest's guidance. We have recorded this action."

Duan Wuji said to Tieniu: "Brother, it's best to use the Ziyan Slanting Fly that we learned to do this."

As he said that, Duan Wuji made a gesture.

Tie Niu nodded when he saw it.

"Well, brother, this is the action, brother, I will do it too."

Daoist Liaoyin saw it and said with a smile: "It's really an expert who stretches out his hand and knows if there is any. Wuji, good job!"

The two took off their clothes and tied the sandbags on their bodies, and then put on their clothes again, and the four of them went straight to Tongtian Temple.

(End of this chapter)