Chapter 62 Swallow Gate
As he was talking, suddenly the door of the east wing opened, Sophie came out with a candlestick and said, "I can do surgery to help with treatment."
Under the candlelight, there was a white European face. Xia Feixiong was shocked: "No, foreigner!" The female thief also became alert, his arm trembled, and he must have locked another hidden weapon in his palm.
Liu Yanzhi quickly advised him: "Don't be afraid, Sophie is our friend, and foreigners also have good people. She saved lives and helped the wounded in Jiangdong and was praised as a foreign Bodhisattva."
He opened his mouth and said, but the female thief didn't buy it. He sneered: "A nest of snakes and rats, dare to hide foreigners. Whose origin is the Lord?"
Liu Yan said straight: "You two must have been in Beijing for a while. I want to ask you, are the Boxer Rebellion good people?"
"Help the Qing Dynasty and destroy the foreign countries, of course hesitate." The female flying thief hesitated a little, "but... some bad sheep are taking advantage of the situation to rob."
"That's it. The forest is big, there are all kinds of birds. There are thousands of foreigners. There are always a few good people. Sophie is a good person. She is also a mother with children. She has a pure character and has never done bad things to us Chinese. I dare to guarantee her life."
With Liu Yanzhi's endorsement, the female thief was still skeptical. Xia Feixiong was a bright man and said, "The government issued a price limit. The number of foreigners is fifty taels per person, the number of foreign women is forty taels per person, and the number of foreign children is thirty taels per person. A hero should not take away the white 70 taels of silver. He must be a foreign woman who should not kill him."
Xia Feixiong's logic was rigorous, and the female thief finally believed that she was willing to let Sophie help her treat her. Xia Feixiong helped her to the east wing, and the rest of the people fed hot water, prepared clean bandages and golden sore medicine, and served them at the door.
"Brother Xia, the opportunity is rare. Don't you go in and help?" Liu Yan quipped.
Xia Feixiong looked serious: "Men and women will not be able to get along with each other."
Liu Yan smiled: "A real man still cares about this, Brother Xia is afraid of it."
Xia Feixiong's face turned red: "Actually, it's not married yet."
"Then let's go out together to travel around the world. Does the female hero's family know?" Liu Yanzhi said casually, but saw Xia Feixiong's face sinking, full of worry. Maybe the couple had eloped out, so he hurriedly told something else: "I heard that your accent is not from the capital, but from Zhili, right?"
Xia Feixiong said: "Shengnan and I are both from Cangzhou. I heard that the capital gathered in all kinds of heroes, so I wanted to come and see the world. If you can meet one or two outliers, it would be even better to learn peerless martial arts. Of course, it is also the responsibility of each of us martial arts people to support the Qing Dynasty and destroy the foreign countries."
Liu Yanzhi asked: "Then how many foreigners have you killed?"
"Shame, it has not opened yet." Xia Feixiong's voice was low, "I just want to kill foreigners, but I don't want to kill Ermaozi. Real Ermaozi has long been hiding in Beitang and Dongjiaomin Lane. The Ermaozi killed outside are all real ordinary people. Those senior brothers dare not attack foreigners, they only dare to kill people and set fire outside, and they dare to kill old, weak, women and children. It is not done by heroes. I am ashamed to be with them."
"Brother Xia is indeed a real hero. I guess he killed a few innocent villains who killed innocent people, right?"
"I dare not." Xia Feixiong smiled bitterly, "I treat you as such people, and this is why there is a misunderstanding."
"It's so boring to chat, it would be great if I had some wine." Liu Yan said straight.
"A hero wait a moment, I'll go." Xia Feixiong pulled the onions on dry land and went up to the roof, stepping on the tiles.
Lei Meng walked over: "Where is this sacred place?"
Liu Yan looked at Xia Feixiong's back and said, "This is the legendary knight."
A quarter of an hour later, Xia Feixiong came back and brought a jar of Erguotou, a piece of donkey meat wrapped in lotus leaves, and a few cucumbers. Sophie's surgery was also done. The female thief had excellent physical fitness. She was not seriously injured after being bandaged. She could barely walk. Then both parties formally greeted and introduced themselves.
"My younger brother is Xia Feixiong in Cangzhou, this is... Yan Shengnan."
"Xia Daxia, Yan female hero." Liu Yanzhi bowed with his fists, "My name is Liu Yanzhi, a Jiangdong person, fortunately I met."
Lei Meng and others also reported themselves to their families, but Xia Feixiong and his younger couple only recognized Liu Yanzhi. They didn't miss it. Liu Yanzhi had the highest martial arts skills, but he could not tell at all that he was a master.
Xia Feixiong knocked open the mud seal of the wine jar, filled the wine bowl on the table, cut the donkey meat into the sauce, washed one cucumber for each person, and while the night was just right, the heroes talked about the wine, and even Liang Dingbang, whose leg injury had not healed, was hooked up by the aroma of the wine, and he insisted on asking for a bowl of wine with a shy face.
After three rounds of drinking, Xia Feixiong couldn't help asking: "I dare to ask Brother Liu, which boxing technique is he learning?"
Liu Yan said straight: "The random learning of some random tricks made Brother Xia laugh. My master is here, Brother Lei Menglei."
Xia Feixiong was puzzled. Although this bearded guest named Lei Meng was burly, he was not a few years older than Liu Yanzhi and his skills were not necessarily very good. How could he become a master?
Lei Meng explained: "I am not his master, at most I am a coach, and I used to be a senior non-commissioned officer in the Marine Corps."
"Marine Corps?" Xia Feixiong couldn't understand the word at all.
Liu Yanzhi explained: "Brother Lei was the instructor of the Beiyang Navy Bu Yong Team. In the Sino-Japanese War, we were defeated by Japan. Brother Lei no longer ate food and joined the army and worked together with his brothers to do big business."
After saying this, Xia Feixiong understood and said solemnly: "Brother Lei, you are a hero who has fought with little Japanese with real swords and guns. Please accept my greeting."
As he said that, he was about to kneel down and kowtow, but no one could hold on. Lei Meng blushed a little, but fortunately his skin was dark and he couldn't tell.
Back to the topic and continuing to discuss martial arts, Liu Yan said directly: "Brother Xia is both brilliant in light skills and hidden weapons, and his skills in fist and foot are also excellent. Cangzhou is the hometown of martial arts. I don't know where his master is?"
Xia Feixiong said: "I don't have a master, I've learned secretly everywhere, I've learned some superficial things. I'm still doing well when I meet ordinary people, but when I encounter a true god, I reveal my true appearance."
Liu Yan said straight: "Brother Xia is still powerful. I think with your ability, you can set up a clan."
Xia Feixiong said modestly: "I am a junior, and I dare not do this."
Yan Shengnan's eyes lit up and said, "Why don't you dare? I think it's okay. Let's set up a sect, just call Yanzi Sect. What do you think?"
Naturally, everyone raised their thumbs up and praised them all, and said one by one, a hero and a female hero, coaxing two young people who had just entered the world into the world into a state of ecstasy. Yan Shengnan forgot the revenge he was shot and insisted on teaching Liu Yanzhi two moves.
"I think you have a good foundation, but you are not very solid in the lower plate. What a pity, just go into my Swallow Sect Sect. I'll pass on your light-powered hidden weapon."
Everyone laughed, and Xia Feixiong hurriedly said, "Better than men, don't talk nonsense."
Yan Shengnan obviously took it seriously: "I'm not talking nonsense. I'm the head of Yanzi Sect. If I say I'll accept disciples, I'll accept disciples."
Xia Feixiong said: "Your family's kung fu is originally about passing through men but not women, and from inside but not outside."
Yan Shengnan said, "No, my kung fu was not taught by my father. I learned it secretly. Why can't I teach others?"
Liu Yanzhi immediately bowed: "Master is here, I'll be bowed by my disciple." His actions shocked Yan Shengnan. Yan Shengnan had the intention to tease him, but he didn't expect that Liu Yanzhi was so shameless and really wanted to be a teacher of an unknown Cangzhou girl.
"This is this..." Although Yan Shengnan is a carefree child of the world, he couldn't help but become confused and turned back with red face.
Xia Feixiong hurriedly helped him: "Brother Liu, I can't do it. Shengnan is joking with you."
But Liu Yanzhi also praised Xia Feixiong with respect: "Master, you are also begged by me."
"Brother Liu, what are you doing?" Xia Feixiong was so amused and cried. He wanted Lei Meng and the others to persuade him, but the few of them were just watching jokes.
Liu Yanzhi didn't care. Xia Feixiong and Yan Shengnan were from more than a hundred years ago. When his great-grandfather was rich, it would be no shame to bow to him. He knew that Chinese martial arts were profound and many peerless kung fu had been lost. The performance routines of later generations could not represent martial arts at all. If you want to learn real kung fu, you have to learn from such a rookie in the world.
He said seriously: "I have only learned some fighting skills from the teacher. I know nothing about hidden weapons and light skills. I rely on my flexible body skills and strong explosive power. Compared with the two, it is different from the country. It is in danger and every man is responsible. I want to learn a skill to serve the country. I hope the two masters will agree."
Seeing that he was so sincere, the two young martial arts people stopped being pretentious and took the first disciple of the Swallow Sect with ease. Liu Yanzhi was not vague and pulled Lei aside to ask for instructions: "Give some funds as a gift."
Lei Meng said: "What are you trying to do if you don't know? The box is there, you can get it yourself."
There were a lot of silver dollars and silver ingots in the box. This thing was quite valuable in ancient times. In modern times, silver had become an industrial product, so Lei Meng didn't care. It was just that the two heads of the Swallow Sect were born as thieves, so they were afraid they looked down on these yellow and white things. However, those artificially raised big pearls are quite rare.
Sure enough, when Liu Yanzhi took a large string of pearls, Yan Shengnan's eyes were straightened. Even a tomboy loved these precious jewelry. Pearls of such specifications were probably rare in the royal palace.
"This is a gift to the master." Liu Yan respectfully presented the pearl necklace.
"Then... I'll take it." Yan Shengnan happily took the pearls, and after one hand grinded in his arms for a long time, he took out a money dart: "Disciple, this is our Yanzi Gate's unique hidden weapon, I'll give you a thought."
When Kangxi Tongbao was in ten-month, the edges were extremely sharp and meaningful, but they were not of high value. However, Liu Yanzhi still felt like he had a treasure and carefully put it away.
Yan Shengnan said: "I am not able to do my legs and feet for my master. Feixiong, please give me some tips on his light skills. I see that he is clumsy and overturning the wall and getting over the spine."
Xia Feixiong immediately called Liu Yanzhi to the yard and taught light skills by example. The so-called light skills are not about flying clouds and fog, but something similar to contemporary extreme sports parkour. However, the experience accumulated by martial arts predecessors over the past thousand years is priceless. Liu Yanzhi has excellent bounce power and explosive power. With a little point of view, he made great progress.
"This wall is too short, find a place to practice." Liu Yanzhi learned a move and was unbearable.
Xia Feixiong was also not vague: "Okay, go climb the city wall."
Liu Yan said straight: "The city wall is boring. It's too high, it's no difficulty."
Xia Feixiong said: "I have a genital! I want to have a robbery emperor, and I want to have a magistrate every day. Even if it is the Forbidden City, I will accompany you."
Liu Yanzhi was overjoyed: "Let's go to the Forbidden City and see what Empress Dowager Cixi looks like."
Chapter completed!