Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 269 Joining the Army
This powerful beggar is named Wu Xiang.

He was originally a commoner near Jinling City. His parents died early and he had no wife or children. He made money by working for others on weekdays. However, because of his large appetite and good eating skills, few employers would invite him to work. Over time, he could only be reduced to a beggar, living in a ruined temple outside Jinling City, relying on begging and working for a living on weekdays, and occasionally eating sacrifices from nearby temples and graves to satisfy his hunger.

His life experience is very poor, but he is not alone in poor people like Wu Xiang.

There are many people like him in the world.

If it weren't for Wu Xiang's amazing strength, maybe he would be like other poor people, living day by day.

"Young master, this man is too good to eat. He has already eaten a sheep just now. If he eats like this, he might kill ten more sheep." Aunt Wang said with some distress.

For the people of Xiahe Village, a sheep is precious, and they are not willing to eat it on weekdays. This person really doesn't feel pain when eating, and he can't wait to eat all the sheep prepared for the banquet.

Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "Aunt Wang was joking, even if you can eat, how can you eat ten sheep? You go to work first, and someone will send another sheep later. Not enough to eat."

"OK then."

Aunt Wang still said in pain.

It was as if Wu Xiang was eating his own mutton when he ate it.

It's no wonder she thought so.

But Aunt Wang felt that after the banquet, the young master would have a lot of leftover meat and leftovers, which would be distributed to the people in the village at that time, but there is such a foodie today, I am afraid that there will not be much meat and vegetables after the banquet up.

"Wu Xiang, you know all about it. It's not an option to go back to Jinling City to be a beggar. Why don't you vote for my Li family. My Li family hires you as a guard and will follow me from now on. I'll let Xing Shan and Wu Fei teach you some bows and arrows. The means of the sword, with your strength, you will definitely be a fierce warrior who will be the only one who will be the only one who will be the only one who will be the one who will be the only one who will be the only one who will not be separated from the others. In the future, if you are born, it will not be a problem to earn a few wives and concubines, what do you think?" Li Xiuyuan sat on a stone bench next to him and said with a smile .

Seeing this, Du Chunhua who was next to him hurriedly wanted to wipe the stone bench, but he waved his hand to stop it.

After Wu Xiang swallowed the meat in his mouth, he said, "I know you value me, which makes me very grateful, but I have heard people say before, don't forget each other if you are rich, and some of my friends are still in the ruined temple Starving, I promised them that if I make money, I will take them to the best restaurant in the city to eat for a day, now that I have earned your ten taels of silver, I have to take them to dinner."

Li Xiuyuan nodded and said: "It is correct to abide by the faith, but after you finish this matter, you can still come to my Li family to work."

Wu Xiang scratched his head in embarrassment again and said: "This, this is not okay. I promised to join the army alone before, so I want to try it in the army first. Maybe I can show my strength."

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "If you promise others to go for a good future, maybe I shouldn't stop you, but if you go to the army, I hope you can think about it more. If you join the army, I'm afraid it will be bad luck."

"Why?" Wu Xiang opened his eyes wide.

"Your strength is both a blessing and a curse to you. When you join the army as a newcomer, it will be smooth sailing if someone supports you, but if you are suppressed, your strength will become a disaster. The army will not tolerate you as an alternative Yes." Li Xiuyuan sighed.

He could tell that once Wu Xiang had practiced martial arts and put on heavy armor, he would be a peerless general. How could the people in the army not see it?

For such a person, either he is accepted as a confidant by a certain general, or he is suspected by others and killed, there is absolutely no other way to go.

Because Wu Xiang is too special.

But right now the imperial court is fatuous and corrupt, and the army is mostly corrupt. If Wu Xiang joins the army, it will be more disaster than blessing.

"What you said makes sense, but I promised others, I have to go and see, otherwise it would be a breach of trust." Wu Xiang thought for a while, then grinned again.

Li Xiuyuan said: "That's true. I can't break your faith just because of my selfishness. How about it? Since you are going to join the army, you can't do without weapons and armor. Don't expect the army to give you weapons and armor. Those are old warehouses, and it is useless to come. I will send you a pair of heavy armor and a weapon to help you join the army. Although you are strong, a good armor and weapon can make others unable to Underestimating you is another kind of protection."

"How can this be, you have treated me well enough." Wu Xiang said in surprise.

Li Xiuyuan smiled and said, "Take it as a gift, please don't refuse."

"Thank you, Mr. Li. I will never forget your kindness. If I fail to join the army in the future, I will definitely come to join Mr. Li. I have repaid today's kindness for Mr. Li." Wu Xiang put down the wine and meat in his hand, and knelt down. He wanted to kowtow to Li Xiuyuan.

"No, this is what you deserve. You have helped me a lot. Without you carrying the statue, I am still eating mud underground. How can I get away from holding a banquet here, drinking and eating?" Meat." Li Xiuyuan said with a smile, and helped him up at the same time.

This Wu Xiang's strength is indeed great, and he can be regarded as a person with extraordinary martial arts, but it took all his strength to lift him up.

This is because of his obedience. If he resists, he will not be able to help him at all.

"Grace is kindness, and I will never forget it. Your kindness is greater than anyone I have met in my life, and it is worth my life to repay it." Wu Xiang said gratefully.

"Let's not talk about this, you can continue to drink and eat meat. If it is not enough, I will ask someone to come and add wine and meat for you. I still need to do other things." Li Xiuyuan said.

Wu Xiang nodded, and continued to bury his head in eating and drinking.

"Eldest young master, you personally recruited this person, but he refused. I don't think he has the heart to rely on him. In the future, he will definitely take advantage of others for nothing. Rather than that, I think it's better to force him to stay. If he doesn't, Killing him with a knife will save trouble." At this time, a big bald man came in drunk with a bottle of wine, he stroked his bald head and showed a ferocious smile.

The people in the nearby Xiahe Village felt chills in their hearts, and they all subconsciously walked away from this person.

"Wu Fei, his name is Wu Xiang, and his surname is Wu. You may have been one family 500 years ago. Why do you need to be so ruthless? I told you to go back to Chuanshan. Why are you still staying in Guobei County? I'm afraid others will not know. What did you commit?" Li Xiuyuan scolded.

This Wu Fei was really very courageous. He was still in the county seat after killing County Magistrate Liu, and asked him to visit Chuanshan, but he went back a few days later, just in time for the banquet this time.

"Hey, Eldest Young Master, isn't it very boring in the mountains? I just want to go around with Eldest Young Master." Wu Fei touched his bald head and smiled.

"Go, drink while drinking, don't say some raunchy words." Li Xiuyuan waved his hand.

Wu Fei hiccupped and was about to leave, but suddenly remembered something, and said, "By the way, Eldest Young Master, when I was looking back at Chuanshan a few days ago, a strange thing happened in the mountain."

"What strange thing?" Li Xiuyuan said.

"The last time the young master went to Wangchuan Mountain, didn't he go to a fairy mountain and caught a Polygonum multiflorum essence?" Wu Fei said.

"Yes, what do you want to say?"

Wu Fei suppressed his voice and said, "The people in the village said that the old man who practiced alchemy on the mountainside on the fairy mountain died. It was windy and rainy a while ago, he caught wind and cold, and died of illness in the wooden house."

"Dead?" Li Xiuyuan froze for a moment.

The old man was deceived by Polygonum multiflorum, and practiced pills for decades, but he knew that what was practiced in the copper furnace was not pills, but stones.

Unexpectedly, once the Polygonum multiflorum essence was gone, without its medicinal Qi conditioning, the old man would die of illness so quickly.

Wu Fei nodded and said: "It's dead. People in the village went up to look at it. The corpses were all rotten and the stench was suffocating. But the strange thing is that the old man's alchemy stove was always on fire, and it didn't go out. Just a while ago , someone in the village saw the old man chopping firewood in the forest with an axe, and carrying dry firewood up the mountain, young master, I think the old man might turn into a mountain ghost after death."

"It's not impossible to become a mountain ghost with such obsession." Li Xiuyuan said with emotion.

The old man had to practice for a full year to refine the elixir, but now he died of illness, his obsession persisted, and it was normal for him to turn into a ghost.

Then Li Xiuyuan looked at Wu Fei's dodging eyes, and couldn't help asking, "You left the mountain village and came here because you were afraid of the mountain ghost so you hid here."

"Brother, the young master was joking, the little one was a murderer, why, how could he be afraid of that mountain ghost, it's just that the little one thinks that the mountain ghost is wandering around in the mountains with a hatchet all day long, so panicked, I'm afraid that one night he will sneak into the room and chop off my head." Wu Fei said with a weak tone and a mocking smile.

Li Xiuyuan smiled and said, "Are you also afraid that others will cut off your head?"

Wu Fei said again: "I don't know what Eldest Young Master said. When I was an executioner, I was once told by my teacher that no more than 100 people can be beheaded in this execution ground. If there are more than 100 people, they will definitely be beheaded in the future." Cut off the head, the master calls it retribution."

"He who cut off the head will be beheaded. There is some truth in that, but the old master is right. How many prisoners' heads have you beheaded?"

"Kill that magistrate, exactly one hundred." Wu Fei said with a guilty conscience.

"Then you have to guard your head, and be careful not to be cut off one day." Li Xiuyuan laughed.

Wu Fei is actually taboo about feelings.

I don't know what method the old master who taught him the art of beheading used to make this murderous robber Wu Fei so convinced.

But it's okay to be a little taboo, because Wu Fei wants to chop off other people's heads all day long.

It is always a good thing to restrain the killing intent and make less killings.

Although no matter what the reason, killing too many people will always attract some retribution, after all, not everyone deserves to die.

While talking, the banquet was almost over, so Li Xiuyuan took Du Chunhua to the banquet.

(End of this chapter)