055 The Arrogance of the Bandits
When Lu Junyi and the others came to the capital, they saw that the atmosphere in Kaifeng was different from that in Daming Mansion, and it was more lively. Standing on the bridge, I saw cargo ships slowly approaching in the Wuzhang River. The draft was extremely deep. A dozen men were paddling shirtless, and their chants were loud. A dozen cables were thrown from the dock on the shore. , struggling to pull to the shore.
The stalls on both sides of the strait were set up all the way to the bridge, and urchins were running around. A kind-hearted middle-aged woman was holding a bunch of candied haws and tempting a little girl: "Mommy has candy in her hand, go back with her..." "
The little girl shook her head like a rattle, and the woman continued to follow her lead. Yan Qing next to him saw that the woman looked wrong, and she didn't look like a good person. She looked like a trafficker who specializes in kidnapping children. She was secretly angry. She dismounted her horse and stepped forward, saying in surprise: "Qing Sister, why are you here? Your parents have been looking for you for a long time. Go home with your brother!"
"I don't know you." The little girl was not afraid of strangers at all. She looked up at him curiously and praised, "You are such a good-looking official. Your arms are hundreds of pounds strong. You are a man."
The woman also raised her head to look at Yan Qing and sneered: "I met my colleague. You look like a good guy, but I didn't expect you are also from the Shi Yao Sect. Whose disciple is it? Tell me your name, maybe I can still help you." Meet your master!"
Lu Junyi and Yan Qing were furious after hearing this. This woman was so shameless, she kidnapped a young girl on the street, and she was so confident. They were about to take her down for questioning when suddenly Shi Qian came out and said happily: "Aunt Xi, it's really you!" "Hold the woman's thigh and don't let go - no choice, he is too short, so he can only hold her thigh.
The woman was Shi Xi's wife. She caught Shi Qian and looked at it several times. She quickly held her in her arms and cried with joy: "My son has been missing for so many days. I want to kiss my mother!" Lu Junyi He and Yan Qing were extremely stunned.
Shi Qian finally struggled out of her arms and introduced the two of them: "This is my aunt. When I was born, they kidnapped me because I was ugly and had a big bump on my back." Flea was not sold, so my old mother adopted me as her son, and the other five became aunts.”
Lu Junyi and Yan Qing looked at each other, and both felt that Shi Qian's experience was extremely absurd. He was obviously abducted, and he was still ugly, but those female swindlers still treated him like a treasure and their own son.
Mrs. Shi Xi smiled and said: "Nonsense! Our six sisters are all your mother. If I couldn't defeat the eldest sister, I would have snatched you away long ago. How is the eldest sister?"
Shi Qian said sadly: "Auntie is dead, and I am living alone. I just can't find you, and I don't want to kidnap and sell children. So far, I have made a living by some small means. I heard that my aunt is prosperous in Beijing, so I ran over to see if there was anyone there. What a living."
Mrs. Shi Xi slapped him hard and said with a smile: "Follow me. I am now a fourth-level warlock and a celebrity in front of the Master of the Martial Pavilion. Isn't it easy for you to make a living?" Xiang Lu Junyi said: "These two Is this official your colleague?"
Lu Junyi and Yan Qing said in unison: "We don't know him!" Before he finished speaking, Shi Qian jumped on his horse and said with a smile: "Aren't we traveling together? They are all heroes who came to seek refuge with Master Wu. We talked and had a heart-to-heart relationship on the road! "
The two of them rolled their eyes after hearing this. Madam Shi Xi picked up the little girl and said with a smile: "This is Chen Liqing. She loves to play nonsense the most. Our Pavilion Master has a very precious baby. I just heard you say that. I thought I would be like this when I met a colleague from the Shi Yao Sect." Here’s the little princess who lied to us!”
Chen Liqing smiled sweetly at Yan Qing and said, "You are so good-looking, and you are even prettier than sister Yanran."
Yan Qing said in a muffled voice: "I am a man."
"I know. You are so beautiful. If you wear a pink skirt with ruffles and embroidery, a hairstyle like a waterfall hanging on the moon, and a hairpin matching a dragon and a phoenix, it would be even better!"
Yan Qing was filled with manly tears after hearing this. The group of people came around the Old Cao Gate and arrived at the Old Song Gate. They saw the Tiqiu dismounting one after another and said: "The Old Song Gate is the territory of Wu Guoshi. Riding horses is prohibited."
Lu Junyi and Yan Qing looked at each other and said to themselves: "This warrior thief is really powerful!" Before they reached Tianji Pavilion, they saw wheelbarrows pushing out from the side door of Tianji Pavilion, filled with scrap metal and garbage.
The two of them were secretly surprised. When they walked into Tianji Pavilion, they saw that it was full of fire. The front door was a huge furnace. There was no firewood or charcoal under the furnace, but there was a rootless fire burning blazingly. There were five or six feet of fire on both sides of the furnace. On a high platform, seven or eight shirtless strongmen were stirring the molten iron in the furnace with large iron ladles three to four feet long.
Surrounding the high platform are eight strange-shaped formations, composed of jade. The jade is unique, called rouge jade, and exudes a faint red light. Lu Junyi and Yan Qing didn't know what the use of this formation was, and they were just astonished.
After taking a few steps forward, I saw four or five more giant furnaces like this. The formations next to them were all different. Some even didn't have a big furnace, and couldn't see the light of the fire. I could only see a huge metal ball floating in the air. Next to it were several strange-looking Taoist priests, who kept adding strange things to the metal ball.
Walking further, there are no more metal balls. There are only a hundred blacksmiths, wielding big hammers, working hard to build something, the sound is loud, and the sweat is like rain. Next to them are batches of giant machine beasts that have not yet been fully assembled. They are huge and ferocious.
Some craftsmen used steel bars to hoist the assembled machine beasts and hung them above the furnace. The fire was burning below, with red, green, white, and black flames of various colors. Not only did the mechanism beast not melt, but it became smaller and smaller.
The further Lu Junyi and Yan Qing walked, the more shocked they were. There were not only mechanical beasts here, but also foot-operated crossbows, siege vehicles, thunder vehicles, and other strange things. They had never seen these things before, let alone heard of them.
The two were shocked by the arrogance of the martial bandits and terrified by the strength of the Tianji Pavilion.
"He borrowed the financial and material resources of the world to satisfy his own selfish desires. He is indeed a martial bandit, the leader of the six treacherous ministers of the Song Dynasty! Compared with him, the actions of Cai Jing, Liang Shicheng and others are simply jumping clowns!"
The two walked to the depths of the Tianji Pavilion and saw a giant furnace, which was much larger than the outside. A huge sword was placed on the top of the furnace, and the whole body was as white as silver. The fire below was more than ten feet high. I saw a skinny Taoist standing under the furnace, who seemed to not care about the heat wave at all. He opened his mouth and spit, and saw a white gas spurting out of his throat and hitting the giant sword.
Madam Shi Xi stepped forward and said, "Deputy Pavilion Master Wang, three more people have come."
Wang Laozhi had no time to entertain them, and hurriedly said, "I am practicing swordsmanship, you take them to the backyard to find Mr. Zhou." He continued to concentrate on forging the sword.
Madam Shi Xi held Chen Liqing and took the three of them to the backyard of Tianji Pavilion. As soon as they stepped into the door, they suddenly felt that the noise and heat waves in their ears were gone. The backyard was quite quiet. Birds could be heard chirping. Looking around, flowers were red and grass was green, willows were drooping, and pretty maids were doing nothing. Some were sitting in the corridor reading novels, some were fishing by the pond, and some were sleeping under the willow trees.
Madam Shi Xi smiled and said, "There is a soundproof barrier in the front yard, so the noise can't get out."
The three of them suddenly realized it, and Madam Shi Xi brought them to Zhou Tong's residence. When Lu Junyi and Yan Qing saw Zhou Tong, they knelt down and said, "Teacher, you were also kidnapped by the bandit?"
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