The Beacon of Kyushu

Chapter 3 The Witch Makes a Row in Mingfang Pavilion

Murong Yunyao's movement was very fast, but the little beggar was very familiar with the terrain, so he turned into a bustling street after making several turns.He grew up in the market since he was a child, and he was like a fish in water when he was on the street. He disappeared after running around twice.

Murong Yunyao and the others refused to run wildly on the street because of their face, and were soon left far behind by the little beggar.When Murong Yunyao saw that the little beggar had disappeared, and there was another crossroad in front of her, she felt anxious and annoyed, and her pace slowed down a bit.

She yelled to several stall owners who were selling on the side of the road: "Hey, did you see a little beggar running past here? Which street did he go to?"

Several stall owners looked at me and I looked at you, all confused.One of the butchers who sells meat said: "Little girl, it is the Song Dynasty and not the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. How can there be so many beggars? Even if there are, most of them belong to the beggar gang. You can't afford to mess with a little girl!"

Murong Yunyao gave the butcher a blank look, and shouted: "Who says there are no beggars? This girl saw one just now. If he didn't run too fast, I would have caught him long ago! Besides, there are so many beggars, isn't it just a group of beggars?" Well, even the gang leader is just an old beggar, how can he be compared with my father!"

The butcher curled his lips and showed a disdainful smile, "Haha, this girl is very loud, who dare to ask who is your father? Since you said it was so great, why can't you even catch a little beggar?" ah?"

Murong Yunyao gave the stall owner a hard look, and said angrily: "My father is Murong Yanzhao, the founding father of the Song Dynasty, and my grandfather is Murong Zhang, who was famous all over the world! You rural people are also worthy of mocking this girl." ?” She overturned the meat table in front of her as soon as she spoke, and the butcher knife on the chopping board and half of the sliced ​​pork fell to the ground.

Seeing this, the butcher was furious, bent down to pick up the butcher knife, and wanted to chop Murong Yunyao.Seeing this, Murong Yunyao was not to be outdone, the long sword in her hand suddenly came out of the sheath, and stabbed straight at the butcher's throat.A few people behind her rushed forward to dissuade her, and said in a low voice: "Little lady, it is important for us to catch the little beggars, don't waste any more time here. Besides, although your father is the founding father of the country, he has no real power after drinking and releasing his military power, and he lost his life." This is no joke!"

Murong Yunyao nodded, reluctantly put away the long sword, and said angrily to the butcher: "Smelly butcher, dead meat seller, you are lucky today, this girl has something important to do, so I don't know as much as you !” She said, turning around, beckoning to the man in black behind her, and they left quickly.

As soon as the little girl left, a loud laugh came from under the table of the butcher's stall, "Haha, don't look at this little girl's slickness, she doesn't have a bright mind!" Head poked out from the table case.He cupped his hands at the butcher who sold the butcher, and said with a smile: "I just thanked this old man, and when I become prosperous in the future, I will buy you a drink!"

When the butcher saw the little beggar, his eyes were bigger than a copper bell, and he said in disbelief, "Hey, you... When did you get in and how did you get in!"

The little beggar smiled and shook his head, "Haha, this young hero has been in the market since he was a child. If he didn't even have this ability, he would have been beaten to death many times! If you want to learn, just pray that this young hero will be able to fight again in his lifetime." Back to Xiangyang, when the time comes, you invite me to drink a jar of fine wine, and I will teach you this skill!"

The butcher was already dumbstruck, and just kept nodding his head, unable to say anything.Seeing this, the little beggar smiled triumphantly, and was about to continue teasing, when Murong Yunyao's voice came from far and near, "Little beggar, do you think this girl is so easy to play? Take your life!"

The little beggar stuck out his tongue and said helplessly: "Little witch, she is simply a little witch! If I had known that Murong's family had such a difficult little witch, I should not have picked up this gold wishful, let alone exchanged it for wine. Drink!" He said, picking up a stone on the ground, throwing it vigorously towards the other street, and then ran away in a hurry.

Soon, the little beggar ran into a dead end. There was a high wall not far in front of him. Murong Yunyao's voice behind him was getting closer and closer. It's not too late, if not, this girl not only wants Jin Ruyi, but also your head!"

The little beggar looked at the high wall in front of him and thought, "This wall is too high. It is almost reaching the city wall. It is impossible to climb over it with my light kung fu. But this difficult little witch is behind her. Apart from overcoming the wall, what other way is there now!"

When he was at a loss, the door of a nearby house suddenly opened, and a father and son walked out slowly and got into a delicate carriage.Immediately, the coachman waved his whip and drove the horses pulling the cart forward at a gallop.Seeing the carriage, the little beggar's eyes suddenly lit up, and he rushed towards the carriage.

The coachman exclaimed, and was about to stop the car, only to find that the little beggar had disappeared.A father and son in the carriage poked their heads out and asked suspiciously, "Wang Er, what happened?"

Wang Er hurriedly stopped the car, and replied in panic: "Master, a little beggar rushed towards the carriage just now!"

The child asked curiously: "What, a little beggar rushed towards the carriage? Then where is he now? Why didn't I see him?"

Wang Er shook his head and said in confusion: "So to speak, I saw him rushing towards the carriage, but he suddenly disappeared!"

The child laughed and said, "Fox fairy, it must be a fox fairy! I heard that there are gods in Kunlun Mountain, but I didn't expect that I would go to Kunlun to learn art. The fox fairy came to pick me up as soon as I set off. It's a good omen!"

As they were talking, Murong Yunyao came up and asked the three of them: "Three, did you see a little beggar running past here?"

The child smiled and said, "Miss, I didn't see the little beggar, but Wang Er said he did." He said and looked at the coachman, "Wang Er, did you really see it just now?"

The coachman nodded, "That's right, I clearly saw a little beggar rushing towards our carriage, but then he disappeared out of thin air. Maybe he is the fox fairy of Kunlun Mountain, as the young master said."

Murong Yunyao snorted coldly, and said unhappily: "Hmph, where is a fox fairy in broad daylight! Besides, even if there really is a fox fairy, they should be as beautiful as this girl, and how can they be as sloppy as that bastard?" Dirty!"

The coachman hesitated and said, "But...but I really...really saw it just now!"

Murong Yunyao nodded, checked around the carriage with a sword in her hand, then opened the curtain to look at it, and finally gave the driver a hard look, "You old man is so unreasonable! You must be looking at this girl With a kind heart and a soft face, you just made up such nonsense to fool me, trying to get a reward from me. If I didn't see that you are getting old, I would have to teach you a lesson!"

As she said that, she turned around and was about to leave, but the middle-aged man in the carriage stopped her, "Girl, stay here." He said as he bent down and got out of the car.

Murong Yunyao turned around and sized up the middle-aged man with her eyes.I saw that this man was neither tall nor short, with a well-proportioned figure and five long beards that fluttered in the wind. Although he was not handsome and handsome, he was by no means an ordinary man.Murong Yunyao said unhappily: "Hey, why are you calling me my girl? If there is nothing wrong, I will leave now and have no time to chat with you!"

The corners of the middle-aged man's mouth raised slightly, and he said with a half-smile: "Little girl, I think you are only sixteen or seventeen years old, how can you act so arrogantly? You insulted my coachman, I am very angry now, you must apologize to me !"

Murong Yunyao snorted coldly, and said disdainfully: "This girl is Murong Yanzhao's daughter. What are you? What qualifications do you have for me to apologize to you? If you dare to force this girl to stay for a while, be careful of the long hair in my palm." The sword is ruthless!"

The middle-aged man shook his head and sighed, "Oh, back then, Murong Yanzhao relied on his father's prestige to run rampant in the arena, and he was extremely arrogant. I didn't expect his daughter to be the same now. It is often said in the world that 'a father must There is a daughter', it seems that the saying is not wrong at all!"

Murong Yunyao drew out her long sword impatiently, and shouted: "I don't need you to teach me how to do things. I am in a hurry to catch up with the little beggar. I don't have time to chat with you. Let's go first!" She said and turned around. He turned around and led a few men in black out of the alley.

Seeing the little girl walking away, the middle-aged man whispered under the carriage: "The little brother under the carriage is really good at it! They are gone, you don't have to hide it, come out quickly."

The little beggar was holding on to the hub of the car with both hands, and his body was tightly pressed against the floor of the car, so he couldn't find it unless he looked carefully.At this moment, when he heard the middle-aged man call him out, he was startled, subconsciously let go, and fell heavily to the ground.

Seeing that the little beggar fell hard, the middle-aged man hurried over to meet him and pulled him up.Seeing this, the little boy and the driver were stunned. They not only admired the little beggar's kung fu, but also admired the middle-aged man's eyesight.

The little beggar saw the middle-aged man stretching out his hand to him, but he didn't go to hold the man's hand, but smiled and dusted himself off, and stood up by himself.He smiled at the man, "Haha, I can get up by myself, thank you, thank you!"

The middle-aged man shook his head and said: "It's nothing, I, Tan Songzhu, have been good at martial arts all my life, and I appreciate people with high martial arts the most. I just heard what the coachman said, and I knew that I must have met a master today. It seems that the group of people who came here were not good. , I'm afraid it will be bad for the young hero, so I put a little cover on it."

The little beggar smiled and said, "You just argued with that little witch for a long time, and I thought you were going to teach her a lesson for me!"

Tan Songzhu said: "Although I have been good at martial arts since I was a child, many martial arts masters are my close friends, but unfortunately I was born weak and could not learn martial arts. I argued with her just now, just to make her feel disgusted with me, so that Prevent her from making noise after she understands."

The little beggar nodded, raised his thumb and said, "High! Really high!"

Tan Songzhu only smiled slightly and didn't say much.But his son ran up to the little beggar and said with great interest, "Little brother, how did you hide under the carriage just now? This trick is really powerful! Can you teach it to me?"

The little beggar glanced at the little boy, and shook his head helplessly, "Oh, this trick is my housekeeping skill, and it can't be learned in a day or two. I still want to escape the little witch's pursuit, I'm afraid there is no Time will teach you." He said while looking at Tan Songzhu, as if he was waiting for Tan Songzhu's words to persuade him to stay.

Seeing this, the little boy begged his father: "Father, look at how pitiful this little brother is. He is not much older than me, but he has to beg for a living all day and is hunted down by bad guys. Why don't we take him away?" Let's go to Kunlun Mountain together."

Tan Songzhu looked the little beggar up and down, and then there was surprise in his eyes, and he asked tentatively: "You...your eyebrows look a bit like an old friend I know, do you know Wan Mengsheng? ?”

The little beggar nodded, and said proudly: "Are you talking about the owner of Yinfeng Mountain Villa who is 'Jiujianshuangjue'? He is my father, and I am his only son, named Wan Jianfeng!"

Tan Songzhu couldn't bear it in his eyes, he sighed a long time, and murmured to himself: "Wan Meng was so famous in Jianghu in the past, who would have expected his son to be reduced to such a state, it's really pitiful..."

The little beggar asked curiously: "Do you know my father? Do you have any news about him? Do you know where he is now? Before my mother died, she repeatedly told me to go to my father, but I begged all the way and asked everywhere. , the lips are worn out, but I didn't even find a ghost."

Tan Songzhu twisted his long beard with his hands, hesitated to speak, and said after a long while: "I met your father once in Xianshuiyan, and I admire his heroic demeanor of 'beautiful after drinking'. Later, I heard It is said that he followed Murong Yanyun and rebelled against the Song Dynasty, and later I heard that he and Murong Yanyun cut off their robes. The rivers and lakes are so big and the sea of ​​people is vast, and there has been no news since then. I don’t know where he is now, but I I believe you will find him sooner or later."

Seeing that his father had gone elsewhere, the little boy hurriedly said, "Father, you can take your little brother to Kunlun Mountain together. If you have anything to say, it's not too late to talk on the way!"

Tan Songzhu nodded slightly, walked slowly to the side of the carriage, and lifted the curtain, "Little brother, if you have nowhere to go, and you don't think Kunlun is remote, come with us to Longtan Temple."

The little beggar hesitated for a moment, and nodded reluctantly: "Forget it, you treat me sincerely, and my little brother wants to learn my housekeeping skills, so I will go to Kunlun Xu with you. When you go to a market, you have to treat me to a drink, I'm afraid I won't be able to teach your young master if I don't have wine!"

Tan Songzhu laughed loudly and said: "Don't worry about this, I am also a person who loves wine. How can there be no wine on the road of a person who loves wine?" The little beggar laughed happily when he heard this, tapped his toes lightly, and jumped on his body the roof of the car.

Seeing this, the little boy was puzzled and said: "Little brother, why are you so high up, don't fall, come down quickly!"

The little beggar patted the dirty clothes on his body, laughed and said, "Hahaha, it's cool here and the scenery is good, so I won't suffer in the carriage. It's a pity that there is no wine, otherwise it would be a fairy day!" He said Lying lazily on the carriage, with one hand supporting his head, he looked at the little boy expectantly.

The little boy smiled, casually took out a wine gourd from the carriage, and threw it at the little beggar.When the little beggar saw the wine, his eyes burst into laughter. He grabbed the wine gourd in his hands, opened the wine gourd and poured a few mouthfuls into his mouth. He said excitedly, "Good wine! Good wine!"

The little boy looked at the little beggar and giggled, "Little brother, drink slowly, be careful not to drink too much and fall off the top!"

The little beggar shook the wine gourd in his hand, "Don't talk about this little wine, even if I drink three or four gourds again, I won't get drunk!" He made a face at the little boy, and burped contentedly, Then he lay on his back on the roof of the carriage, looked at the sun high in the sky, and squinted his eyes.

(End of this chapter)