Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 437: A Hesitant Choice
Zhao Xin is not the only one trying to sort out his thoughts from the mess to determine his future position.

In the detention center in Fuerdan City, after being interrogated and trained by Chen Jishan and the people from the Public Security Police Department for several days, the three heroes from Henan were suddenly disturbed by a booklet brought by Chen Jishan.

A few days ago, after being tied up and brought back to the security police station in Fuldan City.The three brothers kept their word, and when they entered the interrogation room, they poured beans out of the bamboo tube, and told how the three of their brothers were found by the people sent by He Shen, what the other party told him, and how they came to Beihai Town. .

The reason why he was able to confess so happily was that he was defeated by Chen Jishan's hands. Afterwards, Chen Jishan sent a message for Zhao Xin, promising not to kill them was the key.However, Chai Rugui didn't confess about Wu Zhong's father and daughter, Kang Dali, Liu Sanshan, and Li Zhang's boxers, but concealed them tacitly.They only said that the government had invited many people, but they didn't know who they were.

Chai Rugui and the others felt that the yamen hall in Beihai Town was really strange, it was not the kind of yamen hall in the customs.Not to mention that the interrogation place is not very big, and he didn't come up to beat the board, and the other party even gave him a chair to sit and answer.

All these unexpected actions made us feel extremely confused, thinking that we can also ask questions like this?

In fact, the three of them didn't know that if Chen Jishan hadn't stopped them, the security police would have asked the three brothers to "drink some water".People in the martial arts world can be killed but not humiliated. If they really have to resort to tricks to make them confess, they must be killed afterwards, otherwise the hatred will grow.

Out of curiosity about martial arts people, Zhao Xin was quite concerned about this matter at first.When he heard that the Qing government had recruited a group of martial arts masters to Beihai Town to seek misconduct, the man immediately put on the inner stab-proof clothing, and quickly notified Chen Qingsong and others.So those who are interested have discovered that the upper body of a group of bigwigs in Beihai Town is obviously "fat" these days.

This person, the greater the power and the more money, the more afraid of death.

Zhao Xin, who was wearing a high-priced stab-proof suit, was still not at ease. Thinking of the acupressure technique often mentioned in martial arts novels, he asked Chen Jishan about acupressure.

Unexpectedly, Chen Jishan thought for a while, and then explained: "My lord, these are the words of charlatans. Boxers are quick as lightning when they make moves. They wish they could decide the winner in an instant. At most, it is just a matter of a few moves." How can I have time to find acupuncture points? My master said back then that it is better to know one thing than to know everything well, and to know a thousand tricks is worse than to be perfect. Besides, it is the age of guns, and boxing skills can only be used to strengthen the body and self-defense."

Zhao Xin thought about it too, and then he laughed and ignored it.

When Li Qingwen first entered the detention center, he didn't think much of the thumb-thick iron bars in the cell.Of course, with the abilities of the three brothers, breaking one would not be a problem.

The problem was that he was waiting for the guards to leave, and when he was about to try his luck with his back legs, a guard's voice came from above his head: "Back back! Sit down!"

This time, the three brothers were really taken aback.Li Qingwen leaned on the railing and looked out, no one?

Finally, Li Qingwen discovered that on the wall of the corridor outside the railing, there was something covered with a black shell, with a red dot twinkling on it.And on the roof of the corridor, there is still a small black box hanging.So when Li Qingwen tried to compete with the iron railing again, the voice really came from the position of the black box.

Evil door!This Yamen in Beihai Town is really evil!Obviously there was no guard present, but the other party actually knew what he was doing.So he didn't dare to act rashly anymore, and he returned to the wooden bed and sat down obediently.

In fact, the security police in Fuldan City are also very troublesome. The director Yonejiro specially arranged manpower, divided into six shifts a day, and specially sat in front of the monitor to watch the every move of the three, for fear of causing trouble.The six security guards watched for several days, but all of them stared red-eyed like rabbits, sore and swollen.I said in my heart that if there were more of them, I might lose my eyesight.

This afternoon, Chen Jishan came again, called Chai Rugui out and chatted alone for more than half an hour, showing a solicitation in his words.From Chen Jishan's point of view, the three of Chai Rugui have good character, and their martial arts style is very suitable for the army.

Chang Naizhou once said when he was alive: "Those who have acquired my art can be regarded as a hundred, and a hundred can be regarded as a thousand. The husband knows the extraordinary art between heaven and earth. It has its time to come out, and it has its own person to teach it. It is impossible to be wise. Taking profit and temptation, wanting to covet what you can get."

Chang Naizhou is also very strict in accepting apprentices, and the recommender must know the basics of him.Otherwise, people have to be sent to visit his hometown to investigate and make sure that his family background is clean and his character is clean before he can be accepted as a disciple.Even after being accepted as a disciple, it will not be taught immediately, and it will have to be reviewed for many years to make sure that there is no problem with the character.

However, Chai Rugui declined the other party's kindness on the grounds that his family was in his hometown in Henan.

In fact, the real reason for Chai Rugui's refusal was that Chang Shizhou, the elder brother of his master Chang Naizhou, was a Jinshi in the seventh year of Qianlong's reign.If I really follow Beihai Town, once the Qing court finds out, I'm afraid it will implicate the Chang family.

Although what they saw and heard these days made Chai Rugui and the others understand that Beihai Town was not what the Qing court described, but they still felt that only the southern court was orthodox.

Without him, the high-handed rule of the four emperors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than 150 years, even the southern Han people regard it as orthodox, let alone the northerners.

Before leaving, Chen Jishan handed Chai Rugui a small booklet and asked him to go back and read it carefully.When Chai Rugui saw that there were no words on the cover, he felt rather strange.

Regardless of the fact that Chai Rugui and the three of them all practiced martial arts, they all attended private schools for a few years when they were young, and Gao Liugeng even donated the status of a supervisor!
When he returned to the cell, he asked Gao Liugeng and Li Qingwen to watch and read together, but after reading only a few pages, the faces of the three became more and more ugly.

"In the first year of Hongguang, on the eighth day of the fifth lunar month, the Qing soldiers stationed in Guazhou, lined up the river bank, and watched the crossing along the river."

"Yiyou, send an order to go down to Jiangyin. The county magistrate will arrive in June of Yiyou, and the next day will issue an order. On the first day of June, all the students Xu Yong said in Minglun hall: 'The head can be broken, but the hair can't be cut!'."

"From August 500th to noon, the city boiled and went down. There were [-] young people who said to each other: 'Always die! Zhang, the pile of corpses is as high as the bridge. After killing until night, the troops will be withdrawn; corpses are full of roads, and there is no empty well in the house. It will only last for three days."

Chai Rugui and the three brothers looked more and more frightened, and finally realized that this booklet contained the history of bloody suppression for more than 150 years when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs.

"Brother, is this all true?" Faced with Li Qingwen's question, Gao Liugeng was also lost in thought and could not answer.

The time, place, and name of each incident in the booklet are vivid, and there are notes at the end of each description, which book it came from, and who wrote it.There is even an excerpt from the account of a Western missionary in the second half.

On this day, the three of them didn't have dinner, and after dark, they went to bed with their own concerns, without saying a word.

Chai Rugui was lying on the lower bunk of the wooden bed, looking at a little spider crawling around on the upper bunk with wandering eyes by the dim light in the corridor.The little gray-brown spiders were shaking their tentacles, as if they were not very familiar with this new world, crawling around aimlessly, as if they were looking for food.

"Master said before that the best way out for us martial arts practitioners is to learn martial arts and become a king's family. But the court!" Chai Rugui instinctively refused to believe the contents of the brochure, but the old events inside were like Thousands of steel needles pierced his heart.

Chai Rugui pulled out his numb hands and laid his head flat on the bed. For some reason, Zhang Huangyan's song "Manjianghong" in the booklet popped out from the bottom of his heart.Chai Rugui didn't have much literary talent, so he managed to memorize a few sentences.

"Who seeks the thieves? Yan Qingxi. Who resists the captives? Su Wu Festival. Xitai weeps, tears turn into blood!"

The little spider that disappeared into the darkness at the other end slowly crawled back under the mottled light and shadow, and finally stopped on top of Chai Rugui's head, as if deciding whether to place its nest here
"Liu Geng's breathing sounds a little messy, it seems that he is not asleep." Chai Rugui listened to the sound, and then put one hand back under his head for a pillow.

"If, if the things written in that book are true, then the Han people have a bloody feud with the court! Then the three of my brothers help the court, wouldn't it be like a thief as a father!"

He thought of the first article in the "Seven Tests" of Changjiaquan disciples, and asked about right and wrong to observe his ambition.Where should one's "aspiration" point to when there are big right and wrong?
At dawn, Chai Rugui, who had been on his mind all night, took advantage of the opportunity when the guards came to deliver meals, and asked to see Chen Jishan.Gao Liugeng and Li Qingwen were surprised, but Chai Rugui didn't explain.

An hour later, Chen Jishan arrived happily.Seeing Chai Rugui's appearance, he said in a deep voice, "Brother, did you not sleep well?"

Through the iron railing, Chai Rugui stared at Chen Jishan with two dark circles under his eyes and asked, "Is everything in that book true?"

"If there is even half a sentence of falsehood, tell me that Chen Jishan's ten thousand arrows will pierce his heart, and the sky will strike five thunderbolts."

"Ye also said that Lord Zhao restored the Han family's mountains and rivers, so that everyone in the world can have food, clothes, and read books?"

"Senior brother, King Zhao has been outside the pass for so many years, isn't that what he led us to do!"

Chai Rugui fell silent again, and Chen Jishan didn't ask any further questions, he knew that the other party was at a critical juncture in the battle between heaven and man.

"That's fine. I'll stay and let Liugeng and Qingwen go back. Liugeng's family is a big family, and I'm afraid it will be troublesome if I don't go back; Qingwen's family has an old lady who wants to be filial. I'm alone, so I have nothing to worry about."

Chen Jishan was overjoyed, but before he could answer, Li Qingwen who was behind Chai Rugui called out: "Senior brother, you want to follow them?!"

Chai Rugui turned around and nodded slowly, "I've made it clear, I'll change my name instead of my real name."

Li Qingwen gritted his teeth, took a step forward and said to Chen Jishan: "Senior Brother Chen, if you can take over my mother and younger siblings safely, I will follow you too! As the old saying goes, Brother Dahu, brother is here alone. worried!"

Gao Liugeng's face turned dark, and he thought that the two of you are really dishonest!Let me go back alone.But his words reached his throat, and he swallowed them back.Unlike Chai Rugui and Li Qingwen, the Gao family is a landlord, and there are dozens of people in the village, and his cousin is still a son.

Chen Jishan nodded and said, "I'll report to my lord right away. If there's nothing wrong with him, the three senior brothers will be able to come out today. I'll arrange a place for you to pick up and pick up, rest for a few days and then arrange the next things."

Li Qingwen said: "Don't! Mr. Wu has to say something quickly, your fast guns are so powerful, it will really hurt your friendship, and it will be difficult in the future."

"What!" Chen Jishan was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "Old boxer Wu is here too?!"

Three hours later, in Xingkai Lake Six Village, [-] miles northeast of Fuldan City, security police armed with long and short guns surrounded a small courtyard at the east end of the village.

In the yard surrounded by the fence wall, Wu Rong, who heard the sound, raised her brows, picked up a big white pole at the door, and said without looking back: "Father, there is nothing to be afraid of! It's only about twenty A yamen servant, I can clean it up by myself."

Wu Zhong walked out of the house with his hands behind his back, looked around, and then said in a deep voice: "Don't move around! Didn't you see that they are all holding muskets? The yamen servants here are different from those in the pass."

Wu Rong sneered and said, "What are you afraid of? Father, I will protect you and go first!"

A public security policeman with a short revolver outside the courtyard shouted: "Girl, what Daddy said is right! This gun has no eyes, and there are two holes in it. No matter how fast you go, it is not as fast as the bullet. I advise you to put down your weapon and surrender. It's the only way out for you two!"

"Bah! A group of rebels are worthy of negotiating terms with this girl?!"

At this time, slight footsteps came from outside the courtyard, and they stopped abruptly when they reached the gate of the courtyard. Only one person coughed lightly, and then said loudly: "The ones inside are Mr. Wu and Miss Wu? Can I come in and talk?"

"It's your aunt."

"Hey!" Wu Zhong sternly interrupted, "Since your Excellency is here, come in and talk."

As soon as the courtyard door opened, Chen Jishan came in wearing the uniform of the Northern Navy.He walked into the courtyard, gave a deep salute to Wu Zhong, cupped his hands and said, "Old Man Wu, I have known you for a long time! I am under Chen Jishan, and now I am the company commander of the Northern Navy Garrison Regiment."

Wu Zhong and his daughter looked at each other, thinking what kind of officer is the company commander?But judging by his attire, he should be an officer in the army.So he nodded and said: "Your Excellency brought so many officials here, and even surrounded my yard, dare to ask my father and daughter, did they violate the royal law here?"

Chen Jishan smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Wu, you and I both know what your father and daughter are going to do in Beihai Town, so let's stop making detours. Go with the junior and explain the matter clearly. The junior will give you and Miss Wu a present." Board the ship and return home."

"Bah!" Wu Rong stared, and shook the big gun with one hand, and the body of the gun shook with a buzz. "It looks like you've practiced your steps too, I'll talk about it if you have the ability to win!"

Chen Jishan shook his head and said: "Mr. Wu's big gun is famous all over the world, the juniors don't dare to use an axe."

When Wu Rong heard that the other party only said that her father did not mention herself, she was completely contemptuous, so she immediately became angry.She shook her arms, turned the big pole in her hand, and with a slight pick, she picked up another big white pole under the eaves, and flew towards Chen Jishan.Chen Jishan didn't even hide, he raised his hand to copy, and he held the big pole firmly in his hand.

These two white wax rods were found by Wu Zhong in the woods a few days ago. He wanted to keep his fists in his hands, and he always had to practice twice a day to maintain his state.However, if you punch, you will always be noticed; but with a big pole and continuous strength, it is difficult for outsiders to see Mingtang.

Wu Rong took a few steps forward, only three or four meters away from Chen Jishan, retracted and stretched the big pole, held the quarter of the tail with both hands, and shouted: "Come on!"

Chen Jishan looked at Wu Zhong, and seeing that the other party didn't speak, he had no choice but to punch Wu Zhong and Wu Rong respectively, with his left toe sticking out, and raised the big pole.

In ancient times, most of the actual martial arts were weapons, and the folks generally did not use guns in practice, but used big poles instead.The big spear is also known as the "king of a hundred soldiers", so no matter which school's marksmanship, as long as it is serious about actual combat, it cannot do without the basic marksmanship of the eight mothers.That is, the upper, middle and lower three-way, circle inside and outside, plus leather guns and poking guns.

Wu Rong had obtained her father's true biography these years, and she saw the big stick shaking in her hand, and the tip of the stick shook one by one, and stabbed towards Chen Jishan.Chen Jishan stepped on his left foot firmly, his right heel on his back, his waist was round and his steps were steady, his waist was twisted and his arms were twisted. Suddenly, he exerted strength, shook the big pole in his hand, and stabbed it with a move of "green dragon out of water".In the blink of an eye, the club heads of the two collided with each other three or four times.

Chen Jishan's foundation is Chen family boxing, and the Chen family's Thirteen Spears must have a solid foundation in boxing.If you don't practice well in boxing, you are not proficient in bodywork, technique, and footwork, you can't use a gun at all.

The security police watching outside couldn't understand what the two were doing, they just booed and applauded Chen Jishan loudly.

Wu Zhong, who was standing at the door of the house, watched for a while, and saw that every time Chen Jishan fired a shot, he exerted force through the combination of his crotch, waist, and arms, and the force was extremely strong.His expression became more and more solemn, and when his daughter and Chen Jishan were separated, he said loudly: "Wait a minute! You are the Chen family's thirteen guns! You are from Chenjiagou in Wen County!"

"The boy is not good at learning, so Mr. Wu made a joke."

Although Wu Rong looked displeased, she was a woman after all. After touching Chen Jishan more than a dozen times, her forehead was already sweating, and she couldn't stand it any longer.

"Who is the respected teacher?" Wu Zhong sighed secretly, knowing that even if he beat Chen Jishan to the ground today, his father and daughter would not be able to escape very far.Instead of this, it's better to come and go.

He has almost understood these days that he is an ordinary person, let alone met Zhao Xin, he can't even enter Beihai Town.

Before Chen Jishan came, he had already thought about telling the truth, Wu Zhong and Chai Rugui were not the same, so he said: "The family teacher's surname is Chen, and he has Xia Fu, I wonder if Mr. Wu knew him?"

Hey?Wu Zhong stomped his feet when he heard this, and hurriedly said to his daughter: "Rong'er, stop beating me! I still don't want to meet you Brother Chen, he is your Master Uncle Guo's apprentice!"

(End of this chapter)