Iron Age

Early the next morning, the train that Second Miss took was escorted home by a troop of iron guard cavalry.In case some people were not reconciled to yesterday's failure, even the carriage was full of crossbowmen.

All the way back to the Iron Works safely, the new iron guard Liu Ziguang was taken to the headquarters of the Iron Guards. After taking an oath of allegiance, he was assigned a brand new uniform: black tight-sleeved arrow jacket, thin-soled fast boots, and black military uniform on his head. A scarf, a sheepskin jacket, a black armor, an iron helmet in the shape of a bowl, a waist knife, and a shield-shaped iron waist plate, with two big characters "Iron Guard" carved on it and a five-pointed star at the bottom. Two small characters "inner house" and the newly smashed serial number.It is still 9527. The inner house means that he belongs to the personal guards who specialize in guarding the inner house. He is different from other factory defense, patrol, traffic and other troops in terms of responsibilities. 9527 is the lifelong number that Liu Ziguang branded on his body when he entered the factory as a slave. , Even if you become an iron guard, you won't change it.

Wearing a new outfit, Liu Ziguang walked in the inner house in a splendid manner, and went to meet Hu Xianjue, the captain of the inner house's personal guards. Along the way, many maids and servants cast coquettish glances at him, and he never refused to come. Passed by, a look of spring breeze.

Captain Hu Xianjue's two temples were sunken, his eyes were sharp, and he exuded a domineering aura that only a master could have. This made the young man feel a strong pressure. team leader."

Hu Xianjue walked around him a few times, nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Well, the character recommended by the second lady is really good, and it is a good skill for practicing kung fu. You can act as the second lady's guard for now."

At the same time, in the study of the inner house, the special giant mahogany office desk was piled up like a hill with documents, ledgers, and a few abacus. A delicate hardwood pen dipped in the ink from the inkstone to write something on the paper. There were more cast iron radiators in the room than in other rooms. The girl only wore a light yellow satin jacket, her hair was soft and moist. Under the long hair is a pair of bright eyes like morning stars, with delicate features, eight points similar to the second young lady, but less mischievous, less charming, more calm, and more magnanimous.

The girl looked at the second lady who was wandering around in the room and said: "Xiaowei, this time you took advantage of your father's retreat to go to Xuzhou Mansion to make trouble. If it weren't for the shopkeeper Han Da and Niu Ginseng to help you, I'm afraid you wouldn't Well, let’s end it well. The magistrate Huang was born as a wealthy salt merchant in Haizhou, and he also has the capital Mr. Huang as his backer. I’m afraid it’s not easy to get along with him. If you bullied his nephew, you must not be kind. It’s almost the end of the year, so you still don’t want to It’s good to go out, just stay in the factory honestly. There is also the 10 taels of money from the 10 Lianfeng branches in the south of the Yangtze River. How dare you use it to fight for wealth? I don’t know why the Ministry of War has been delaying the payment of millions of taels of weapons. Now even the coal payment of the Pang family in Xuzhou Prefecture is difficult to pay. With the coal stopped, iron ore alone cannot produce iron. Fortunately, there is this [-] taels, first clear the accounts for the bosses of the rice noodle shop, otherwise the outside world will know that our iron factory has no money, and they will not flock to collect debts. If the coal is cut off, then we will really be unable to turn around, and we will not be able to maintain the relationship. The iron guard and the workers can't afford the wages, and I am afraid that there will be troubles. Fortunately, there are many uncles who are suppressing. Otherwise, I will be alone. How can a weak woman bear it?"

The second lady's mouth was so pouty that she could hang an oil bottle, she jumped over and took the girl in yellow by the arm and shook it: "Sister~~~, didn't you bring all the 10 taels, I'm already very good, please let me treat you My servant, yesterday I promoted two slave labor fighters to be iron guards. You asked me to save money. I rewarded those iron guards and imperial guards yesterday, and each person gave a tael of silver! How embarrassing! By the way, Sister, if the family’s turnover is difficult, I will take out the 3 taels from my private house to make up for it, and at worst, you can pay me back later.”

The girl in yellow is obviously the current acting owner of the Liguo Iron Works: Missy.She rubbed her temples, tore through the account book and flipped through it randomly, muttering to herself: "Now my study here is temporarily used as an accountant, and the accounts are chaotic, and a pile of bad accounts made by several accountants makes me dizzy. I can't figure it out, and I always vaguely feel that there is something wrong, and it seems that I need to ask a few auditors from the Anhui Merchants Union to help check it out."

Hearing the loyalty shown by the second lady, she looked up at the second lady with a smile and said: "3 taels, Xiao Wei is so generous, you can send someone to send it over later, my sister is too busy here to get dizzy, you go to play elsewhere first. "

In the guard room of the inner house, Liu Ziguang stood awkwardly, at a loss, there was no place for him, everyone was busy with their own affairs, no one paid attention to this newcomer who had just arrived, where several guards gathered together, from time to time there were harsh glances over , "Thieves slave labor, hit the dog shit luck" words like unscrupulous sounded.

Liu Ziguang couldn't hold back, but the guards didn't know what was going on. A tall and thin guard came over with disdain in his eyes: "I heard that you are a newcomer, you are good at fists, feet, swords and swords, what kind of general do you have?" Under the nickname of Gaozhi, I want to ask for advice, I wonder if the general will appreciate you?"

A few people around started making noise, wanting to watch the competition, Liu Ziguang was annoyed when he heard Lu Gaozhi's sarcasm, thinking that if it was a martial arts competition, then it's no wonder that I made a lot of shots, so he bowed his hands immediately: "Please enlighten me."

A group of people came to the open space under the hall, cleared the snow and covered the green bricks on the ground, it was very clean.Lu Gaozhi said: "Swords have no eyes, let's try our boxing skills first." Liu Ziguang said: "It's up to you."

Before he finished speaking, Liu Ziguang was dazzled by the sight of Lu Gaozhi's legs flying, so he had to protect his head and face like a boxer, and was kicked several times in an instant, so he couldn't help but take a few steps back.

Lu Gaozhi jumped up suddenly, turned around and kicked with a beautiful volley, the thin-soled quick boots kicked Liu Ziguang's face with such force, Liu Ziguang was kicked to the ground, his mouth was salty, it was obviously blood, Liu Ziguang swallowed it Drenched in blood, quickly got up, and wanted to fight again.Surrounded by all the guards, Lu Gaofeng had already put on a sheepskin jacket and was drinking tea with a teacup offered by others.There was applause all around.

"Sure enough, he is a descendant of the Lu family with magical legs. He didn't even move his hands, and he solved the problem with a few feet."

"That's natural. Brother Lu's skill is not something that a triangular cat can compete with."

"Lao Lu only used [-]% of his strength today, otherwise the head of that general would not have been kicked off."

Lu Gaozhi listened to the praise very much, and lightly cupped his hands and said to Liu Ziguang: "I have accepted, your fists and kicks are indeed from professors who are prisoners of war from various countries, haha, they are very fierce."

A guard with a long knife saw Lu Gaozhi's majesty, and also came to make fun of him: "I, Yang Meng, also came to ask the general about the cultivation of weapons, I don't know how long I can go in the hands of the general, haha. "

There was laughter all around, and the crowd formed a circle again. Liu Ziguang took the knife and stood facing Yang Meng. posture, hooking fingers to Liu Ziguang.

Liu Ziguang swung his saber and rushed forward, slashing at Yang Meng heavily and quickly in a row without any pretense, at first Yang Meng could resist a few moves, but gradually he couldn't cope with the faster and faster attacks, suddenly Liu Ziguang A knife was slashed on YangMeng's shoulder, YangMeng was so frightened that he immediately hit the ground, he was stunned for a moment before he realized that it was the back of the knife, Liu Ziguang also cupped his hands: "I've accepted it." YangMeng held the knife and stood aside bitterly. .

The crowd booed, and a young man wearing white satin arrow sleeves jumped out from among the guards, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, and a tall figure. The general has won six battles and six victories in the arena, and he has never lost. He seriously injured a Fusang samurai in the first battle at Tongrenju, Xuzhou Prefecture. He was superb with a single sword. Song Qingfeng, who is going to Wudang, wants to teach you how to use a sword. Don't refuse."

A gust of north wind blew past, and the snowflakes on the ridge of the roof were blown into the air. Liu Ziguang was dressed in a black outfit, and he was swinging a knife with one hand, and his eyes followed Song Qingfeng, a young man in white in front of him.

Song Qingfeng made a sword strike, the three-foot Qingfeng sword was held in his palm gracefully, the hem of the white tufted satin arrow suit fluttered slightly with the north wind, he was indescribably handsome, fortunately there were no maids and servants present, otherwise They must have wished to cheer Song Qingfeng hoarsely.Liu Ziguang was dressed as an ordinary martial artist, while Song Qingfeng was dressed as a young hero in Jianghu.The image of the two is first of all distinguished.

Liu Ziguang stared closely at Song Qingfeng's eyes. This is the method taught to him by the swordsmanship coach. The enemy's eyes will reveal his intentions. Song Qingfeng squinted his eyes with a smile, showing his beautiful white teeth. There are no flaws, and it is a formidable opponent.

There was no delay, the more he procrastinated, the more imposing he lost to his opponent, Liu Ziguang let out a yell, and single-handedly slashed at his opponent like lightning.Although they were all ruthless moves with all their strength, they were all easily dispelled by Song Qingfeng, and Song Qingfeng's moves were obviously from a famous school. They were as chic and elegant as flowing clouds and flowing water, completely different from Liu Ziguang's simple battlefield killing moves.I saw him holding the sword with one hand, blocking Liu Ziguang's fierce attack seemingly casually, with the other hand behind his back, looking leisurely.

The surrounding guards kept applauding, and some people said, "Why did Song Shaoxia fight that thief slave so many tricks? It stands to reason that within three moves, the winner can be seen."

Another person said: "You still don't understand, Song Shaoxia is entertaining that thief slave laborer, if you do a few more tricks, it's all just to tease him, look at Song Shaoxia, he is a disciple of the Wudang sect, he is obviously fighting, It's like a sword dance, this is the level, and it won't work if you don't accept it."

Song Qingfeng had fully figured out Liu Ziguang's strength, so he gave up the idea of ​​teasing the other party, and said softly "offended", the sword in his hand instantly turned into a ball of light and shadow, covering Liu Ziguang like Liu Ziguang.

Liu Ziguang was overwhelmed and was forced to keep backing up, Song Qingfeng kept shouting, "Too slow, you are too slow, you are too slow!" His footwork was subtle, pressing every step of the way, and the sword in his hand was like blowing the wind. Suddenly, there was a long cry, and the steel knife in Liu Ziguang's hand flew out, and it was still trembling when it was stuck on a big tree.Liu Ziguang's feet were already messed up, he was forced to stagger by Song Qingfeng's fast sword attack, and fell to the ground.

Everyone applauded, "Song Shaoxia won! Song Shaoxia won!"

Song Qingfeng pointed his sword at Liu Ziguang's throat, smiled reservedly, and smiled at the flattery of the guards, and said, "This general is very good at swordsmanship. He is really famous. He accidentally ruined the general's new clothes. And please forgive me."

After everyone heard this, they went to look at Liu Ziguang's black arrow clothes, but they saw many marks scratched by the sword's edge on the brand new clothes, it was a word "slave"!Everyone was amazed, "It's really good swordsmanship, it's superb!"

"It's better to carve it on the face than to carve it on the clothes." A thin guard suggested viciously.

Song Qingfeng smiled again showing his dazzling white teeth, and said: "Then I will carve it." Ignoring Liu Ziguang's angry eyes, he raised his sword and slashed at Liu Ziguang's face.