Sleeping Arhat

Chapter 10 The Gathering of the Beggar Gang ([-])

Wu Xian and old man Li arrived in Jinan City ten days before the beggar gang meeting despite the wind and rain, and Jinan City was crowded with many beggars.

"Master Li, after so many days of eating and drinking, now we have come to Jinan City after all the hardships and rewards." Wu Xian stood at the gate of the city, looking at this big city, which is simple and vast, with strict barriers. The heartstrings can relax.

Old man Li also drank a big gulp of wine, and said rather melancholy: "I don't know if my old friend is still alive. It has been five years since we last said goodbye."

"Let's go, let's find a place to rest." Old man Li looked back at the ancient city in a blink of an eye, and then left with a wooden stick, feeling a little bleak from his back.Wu Xian thinks about it too, Master Li spent half his life in the rivers and lakes, the status of an ordinary student of the beggar gang does not belong to the management level, but cannon fodder for rushing forward, it is difficult to learn advanced martial arts, and Master Li is not good at making friends, so I want to come to his friend martial arts It should also be unremarkable and ordinary, and wandering in the rivers and lakes is also full of dangers.

The two wandered outside the city for a long time. There were many beggars on the grass outside the city. About a dozen people built a fire, talking and laughing, and it was very lively. There were many tattered sacks, baskets, wooden sticks and broken gongs in a mess on the grass. Broken bowls were thrown everywhere, all kinds of foul language and vile language were loud and loud, there were people playing the flute and snakes in twos and threes, and some urchins were jumping and playing around, in short, the spittle was profuse and the stench was suffocating.

Wu Xian has also slept in a cowpen and pig shed in the past two years, but the smell is no worse than this one. The air is thick with the smell of golden juice and manure, fishy smell, fox sweat, and the smell of rotten fermentation all year round. The musty smell is even more unique. After taking a deep breath, it lingers on the tip of the nose, and it can't go away for a long time. Suddenly, my mind is dizzy, and various bright colors of red, green, and yellow flash across. The rotten and complicated stench seems to be in the lungs As if it had taken root, the savagery grew and spread in the chest.

"Oh, Master Li, I'll go out and sit for a while." Unable to bear the bad smell, Wu Xian said to Old Man Li, then turned and walked to a big tree in the distance.

For the first time, Wu Xian doubted whether it was desirable for him to join the Beggar Gang. When Wu Xian watched The Legend of Condor Heroes in his previous life, when the leader of the Beggar Gang ascended the throne, all the beggars in the audience would spit at the leader. Thinking about it, those beggars are not so particular. , Do not wash your face or brush your teeth, mouth full of bacteria and bad smell.

Wu Xian suddenly had no ambition to make progress, and he thought to himself: If he is an ordinary disciple of the Beggar Clan, he will be free from worries and disturbed by various vulgar rituals. That would be bad.The Beggar Clan's unique skills are very strong, but although the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms are exceptionally powerful and unparalleled in strength, they have lost many of them, only eleven or twelve palms remain.As an ordinary disciple of the Beggars' Clan, he became famous and revived the prestige of the Beggars' Clan, in order to repay the kindness of his ancestors, the disciples of the old master Hong.

In the early hours of the morning, when the atmosphere faded and everyone fell asleep, Wu Xian lay quietly on the wasteland, put down a wooden stick to use as a pillow, and put a cloth sack on the ground, and put another sack on his body just as he was about to fall asleep.

A withered hand touched Wu Xian's arm, Wu Xian turned his head to look, old man Li looked at him with burning eyes, old man Li rarely said sadly: "Why, you are not used to this kind of environment."

Wu Xian hesitated for a while, nodded, and said with a bitter face: "Master Li, this stinks, worse than the latrine of the Tongfu Inn." Old man Li grinned and laughed, "I can see it too, you and us These stinky beggars are not the same people."

"Master Li, don't say that, you are always my grandfather, you are in the Beggars' Gang, and I am in the Beggars' Gang. If I am promising, I will make my name and revive the reputation of the Beggars' Gang, but I don't want to show off , I heard that there is a ritual of being spit on when becoming the leader of the gang. Although I am far away from the position of the leader of the gang, but these habits..." As he spoke, Wu Xian felt a little disgusted, and said: "Master Li, think about those beggars, Spit, and the minced meat and leeks I ate three days ago, it's really disgusting."

"Haha, when you said that, I suddenly remembered that I still had the shredded chicken leg meat I ate yesterday." Old man Li also stretched out his dirty little finger, as if digging between his teeth.

"Master Li, don't disgust me." Wu Xian said with a bitter face, and old man Li said solemnly: "You are born as an arhat, and one day you will be born like a flying dragon and sweep away the heroes like a tiger descending from the mountain. I will not replace you Make up your mind, you have been sensible and sensible since you were young, and matured very early compared to your peers, so you can make up your own mind."

"Well, thank you Master Li." Wu Xian grinned, feeling very happy in his heart. He didn't want to become a new star of the beggar gang, but he was afraid of disappointing old man Li's expectations. Now that old man Li let himself be the master, Wu Xian was happy and moved .

I don't know what happened to the little demon girl. Wu Xian stared blankly at the dark night, feeling a little guilty in his heart. Although he did it to save his life, he also lied to the little girl. It has been more than a month now, and I hope she will forget about it sooner. matter.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, there is a lively and festive beggar gang meeting. This time, the beggar gang meeting is held in Legu Mountain Villa in the suburbs.So some elders suggested that the grand event should be held on the grass, and the elders and VIPs of the sect leader and others would sit in front of the gate of the villa, just to the east of the event, to show their different status but also to be ordinary people. agree.

The leader of the gang, Shi Huolong, practiced the eighteen palms of subduing the dragon. He was forced to practice due to lack of internal strength, and suffered from paralysis of the upper body, unable to move his arms. The leaders deal with it together, and this matter has been kept secret.

Therefore, there are always three elders presiding over the Beggar Clan Assembly. Although the leader of the gang has not yet arrived, there are still standing in the center, and there are three elders sitting next to the leader's seat. , a law-enforcing elder with a piece of broken bamboo on his body; there is also a palm-bowl faucet with knotted clothes and neither thin nor fat;

However, all the elders were all dressed in rags, tall, short, fat and thin, and the scene was once embarrassing and strange.However, some of them have bulging temples, some have bright eyes, some have ruddy complexions, which are quite magical, and some are covered with snakes and insects, like ghosts and ghosts, magical and weird, they are also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Amidst the cheers and applause of thousands of people, the elder Zheng, the elder of the Chuan Gong, leaped onto the stage, showing off his superb lightness kung fu, and then announced that the eight-armed sword Fang Dongbai, the elder of the beggar gang, died of a serious illness in Xuzhou , all the beggars sighed and were extremely sad. Although the Beggars' Gang is known as the largest gang in the world, it is because of the prestige of the predecessors. Now the Beggars' Gang is far less prestigious, and now another elder of the Beggars' Gang has died, and the strength is even worse. Once upon a time.

Wu Xian was in a daze at first, but when he heard about Fang Dongbai's death, his mind changed. It seemed that Fang Dongbai had already defected to the court and became a vicious dog for King Ruyang to deal with the Jianghu.

(End of this chapter)