As soon as the words came out, a group of big men raised their fists and shouted, "Fight." There was just a loud sound, and the unsheathed Gentleman's Sword blocked a group of gangsters who were shouting to kill, and Jack who was about to make a move. Only then did I realize that there were already many people standing around watching the fun.
The two parties were stunned for a moment when they saw a beautiful woman with delicate eyebrows, cherry lips and slender waist, wearing emerald sleeves and green silk, with a beaded jade phoenix hairpin in her hair, standing with a sword across her head. Everyone had only one thought: So big...oh! No, big is not bad, the most important thing is that she is tall. In Jack's eyes, the beautiful and plump figure is close to the most perfect golden ratio. But because she is too tall, two heads taller than her, her perfect proportions give her the feeling of being one size larger.
"You stupid boy, what are you doing to stop your master? You are looking for death! If you want to fight, if you have the guts, go to bed with me and fight for three hundred rounds. But look at your virtue -" The big man who spoke looked up and down carefully. Take a look. "──We may have to have three or four people to serve you." A group of people chuckled lewdly.
Her pretty face was slightly red but she remained silent. With a twist of the gentleman's sword, six or seven sword flowers danced out, flying in and out among the rough men like colorful butterflies. Within a moment, the lewd laughter turned into moans, and everyone fell to the ground with stains on their bodies. Only this "big" beauty pointed her sword at the ground and glanced at the fallen men beside her.
"Damn it... Damn it!" The group of people who were not seriously injured used their hands and feet to get up in a hurry. Losing all face, they looked angrily at Jack, who had an indifferent expression, and while holding on to his injured leg to leave, they said harsh words: "This account is recorded on the wall, and I will get it back from you!"
"Wait a minute!" The man who suddenly woke up looked at the embarrassed group of people and shouted loudly: "Hey~ Every injustice has its own debtor, and this debt should not be charged to me." He pointed to the side and sheathed his sword. Sheathed woman. "If you want to settle accounts, just go to her~ Hey~"
Unfortunately, not many people heard Jack's complaints clearly, and the thugs who had been taught a lesson fled away one by one. Jack was left standing there with an innocent look on his face, looking at this strange beauty who came to him, his eyes shooting high at the round face that was already red and drooping. Hmm~ It's quite cute, but... "You are too idle, miss." The sword master taunted nonchalantly, and his cute round face only got lower.
Sighing softly, leaning on his shoulder with the fishing rod and holding the fishing basket in his hand, Jack asked the crowd around him about the wine shop in the town. The woman hurriedly picked up the baggage she had dropped on the ground and followed Jack silently. Our sword master is heading towards the town leisurely.
Seeing a wine flag sticking out of the door, Jack opened the curtain without thinking. As soon as he entered the shop, a waiter came forward and said hello: "Good morning, sir. Can you two please come inside?" He cleared a table and stood waiting with a smile on his face.
Jack glanced back with a strange expression, and saw the "big" girl who had been in the way standing behind him with her head lowered and her pretty face red. Without saying yes or no, Jack just walked to the stand where the waiter was greeting and sat down. The woman in green clothes walked cautiously to the stage. Seeing no objection or consent, she quietly took her seat.
The waiter who was not surprised just smiled and said, "Uncle, what do you need?"
"First boil two cents of wine," Jack thought for a moment after putting down the fishing rod and fishing basket. "Is there anything delicious?"
"Yes, the vegetables and fatty fish that are in season are fresh and cheap."
"Just play a few games." Jack dismissed the waiter and caught a glimpse of the woman who had been following him looking at him secretly. He turned his head suddenly, stared at her, and his face turned red like a crabapple.
"Hey, tea." A tentative command tone. The woman was seen hurriedly picking up the teacups on the table and placing one in front of the two of them. The sound was sonorous, and Jack frowned. "Don't break it, but you'll have to pay for it."
After struggling for a long time, I finally picked up the teapot and poured it seventy percent full. Following the complaint just now, the woman gently put the teapot back on the table. He quickly picked up his tea cup and drank while avoiding the gaze that came his way. I can't wait to bury my whole face in the teacup.
The smiling swordsman held his head with one hand and picked up the tea cup with the other. He looked at the woman in front of him with interest, not hiding his eyes that were almost out of tune. I was thinking where did this fool come from? Have you seen her yourself?
"Uncle, it's time to serve." The waiter brought three or five plates to the table at once. The hot fried vegetables and crispy fried fish really made Jack's index finger tickle. After a while, the hot wine was also placed on the table.
I drank a bowl of wine to drive away the chill caused by boating on the river. Jack felt completely refreshed, and warm steam seemed to be emitting from the eight hundred pores in his body. He picked up a pair of chopsticks, holding the dishes, drinking wine, and looking at the red-faced grown woman.
"Who dares to provoke my people!" A scholar in white with a bronze medal around his waist entered the wine shop surrounded by a group of rough guys at the dock. Although he looks like a scholar in white clothes, he has no Confucianism at all. With a sinister face and a fierce expression, he looks like a monkey wearing clothes, which is very inappropriate and ridiculous.
"Grandpa, it's that bastard." The person who pointed at Jack was the gangster who had been taught the most miserable lesson at the dock. There were several dog skin plasters on his body and many yellowing strips of cloth wrapped around him, making him look miserable.
His heart was startled, and Jack couldn't help but curse in his stomach: When did it have anything to do with him again! A look of resentment was put on his face without reservation, and he glared sideways at the woman sitting beside him. Seeing her looking away shyly, picking up the rice bowl to cover her face, and picking up the rice, Jack couldn't help but laugh in his heart.
A group of villains were about to step forward to look for trouble, but someone on the side heard a sound of contempt. "Oh~ Ranking seventy-eight, who is your Excellency?"
When someone asked for his name, the minions who came in immediately formed a battle formation, surrounding the scholar in white like stars over the moon. "Everyone knows about our grandpa. He can punch a tiger in the Nanshan Mountains and step on a dragon in the North Sea with his fists to determine the country. Feng Sihai is the master of the world." Listening to the compliments of the crowd, Feng Sihai pretended to be elegant and shook off the The folding fan swayed gently.
"Hey, no one knows, no one knows. How come my brothers don't know." The two brothers who were sitting in the corner of the wine shop were mocking coldly. The two look similar, but each has a civil and military temperament. They were dressed in blue cloth, but it also accentuated their extraordinary figures. After taking a clear look at each other, the man with a bit of martial spirit stood up. "You're here to compete for ranking. Do you have the guts to compete?"
"Ha!" Feng Sihai closed his folding fan with a look of explicit contempt. "No one has dared to challenge my ranking for many years. Look at how dare you, younger generation, be so arrogant. Report your ranking."
"My two brothers came down from the mountain just because they wanted to win your ranking and make fun of them." Feng Sihai was furious when he saw the other party's arrogance. "It seems that if you don't use your own methods, the tiger will be bullied by the dog." He put on a stance and went forward to fight.
Another man with a bit of civility stood up and said coldly. "Hmph! Competing for ranking is no longer disturbing the public, let's go out and compete!" After saying that, he walked out of the wine shop in a carefree manner. None of the local gangsters dared to stop this unstoppable man. But his brother seemed to have nothing to do, just sitting at his table, eating vegetables and drinking tea. Feng Sihai glanced at him, crossed his legs, and then walked out of the wine shop.
As soon as the two of them stood on the street, some nefarious people surrounded them. The minions in Feng Sihai were even more encouraging and noisy, but they barely came out with gongs and cymbals. But Jack was still sitting at his desk, watching the development of things inexplicably. But for him, these are a good side dish to pair with wine.
After stopping the noise of the onlookers, Feng Sihai put his hands behind his back, tilted his head and sneered: "I, Feng Sihai, won't hit unknown people with both fists. Please tell me your name!"
"The thirty-ninth generation grandson of the Jie family, the eldest son, and his only name is Liang!" This statement shocked the onlookers. Even Feng Sihai took half a step back in panic, chanting in a panic: "Jie Family Baguazhang!"
It should be noted that Baguazhang is an extremely common martial art in the world. However, the Jie family only knew Baguazhang and practiced Baguazhang, so an ordinary set of martial arts under their hands was extraordinary. No one knows the reason, except that Jie Jia, the leader of the four famous martial arts masters, never easily sets foot in the world. Every time a member of the family comes out to explore the world, he will definitely make some achievements and leave a great name. Of course, whether it is famous or infamous.
He heard a loud shout: "Feng Sihai, watch your moves!" Jie Liang stepped on the acquired Bagua steps and attacked Feng Sihai like a fish. One side is young, strong, and full of momentum; the other side has long been frightened by the name of the Jie family and has become timid and put away its fists. One fades and the other takes a long time, and the winner or loser is determined in a moment.
Stepping over the stupid scholar who fell to the ground, Jie Liang took off the bronze medal from Feng Sihai's waist, weighed it in his hand, and looked at it carefully. Sitting in the wine shop, another member of the family seemed to have already known the outcome of the competition and was eating the food and wine on the table with ease. A group of ruffians were driving away the onlookers and carrying their boss who had lost his ranking away from the scene.
"Hey! Ah Qi, this is the warrior order that has caused endless battles in the world for the past ten years." Jie Liang played with the bronze medal in his hand and walked back to his brother.
Jack, who was watching with wide eyes, saw the Warrior Order clearly and couldn't help but laugh. In addition to the material being made of copper and the Chinese characters seventy-eight engraved underneath, the pattern, shape, and the word "武" on it were all similar to the iron plate in his arms.
"Good boy! Why are you laughing! I don't know if your grandpa and I have helped you all this time, but I haven't set up a table with wine to thank the world. I just smile stupidly. Let's see if you can meet noble people like us next time. !"
Realizing that it was the brother at the table who was issuing the warning, Jack hugged the back of his head and laughed: "I was seen. Sorry! Sorry! It's nothing. I just found it funny when I saw that the bronze medal looked a bit like my iron medal." That's all."
"Iron brand?" Jie Liang also laughed. "Even though we have just come down from the mountain, we have a certain understanding of this way. The first nine numbers in the Nine-Nine Warriors List are made of gold; the numbers that enter the seven, seven and forty-nine are made of silver; the rest are made of silver. The numbers are all made of copper plates. Where can there be iron plates?"
Oh ~ there are these ghost things. Jack sighed in his heart that it had been too long since he had been to Southeast. But he didn't take it seriously and took out the iron plate from his arms to dampen the family's prestige. After all, he won't ignore anyone he messes with. You said there is no such thing but I want to prove it exists. You said it is impossible but I want to prove it.
As soon as the iron sign came out, everyone in the wine shop was stunned and speechless for a long time. Jack put it away with a smile again.
"Okay! You also have the warrior order, let us two compete for the ranking! Don't say that my eldest brother has it and I don't. It will lose the face of the Jie family."
Faced with the provocation, Jack just tilted his head. "don't want!"
"What a careless white monkey!" He slapped the table and yelled with his halberd finger: "No coward! Even a three-year-old child knows that no one on the list can delay the request of those below to compete for ranking. What you said No, it means that you are not qualified to occupy the ranking at all. Please hand over the warrior order on your body quickly, otherwise I will beat you to death."
"Leave it to you?" Jack sneered and snorted. "I'm afraid you're not qualified to take it!"
"You..." He was about to rush forward, but was stopped by his brother, Jie Liang. "Aqi, wait a minute. There is no numerical ranking on the iron plate he just took out. As far as I'm concerned, it's useless for you to argue."
"What!" Hearing what his elder brother said clearly made him even more angry. "Could it be that you just use a piece of Xibei to pretend to be a warrior and eat and drink? Wouldn't this be an insult to the real people on the Nine-Nine Warriors List? Let's see if I can teach you a lesson!"
"Smile!" Jack turned around and crossed his legs. He picked up the fishing rod placed aside and pointed it at the angry person and said: "For a guy of your level, I can just fart and it will be solved. Is it your turn to teach me a lesson?"
"What did you say!"
The woman sitting at the same table with Jack behind him also pulled her sleeves and shook her head desperately to signal not to make the other person angry.
"Pa!" Before he knew it, he was lying flat on the ground like a turtle with five claws. And on his back was as heavy as Mount Tai.
"Let me just say, a fart can make you lose your sense of normalcy. To say that this fart can knock you down is not an exaggeration at all." Jack sat on someone else, hooked the wine bottle on the table with a fishing rod, and grunted They drank a few gulps of wine.
"Damn you..." "Pah! Pah!"
Two slaps silenced the person. Jack, on the other hand, said thoughtfully: "Young man~" He shook the empty pot in his hand and smiled at Jie Liang, who was standing aside but did not dare to make any move. "The wine is gone, can you have some more?"
Like a frog being stared at by a snake, Jie Liang didn't dare to do anything out of line. "Is this considered a robbery by force?" Jie Liang looked at his brother who was sitting under someone else's buttocks and smiled helplessly. Jack tilted his head and thought for a moment. "I guess... forget it."
"Brother," Jie Liang said to the waiter who was looking after the store: "It's mine to prepare another table of good wine and good food."
Jack, who was sitting on someone else, stood up with a smile and returned to his table. He greeted the waiter: "Another three kilograms of wine and a wine pool will be counted as theirs."
The man standing there looked at the Jie brothers with a puzzled expression. When he saw Jie Liang smiling and nodding, he put on his usual smile and went inside to give instructions in the kitchen.
Jack, who was sitting down, saw the woman who had been following him, her round face staring blankly with her big eyes. He just smiled and drank his wine.
At this time, the two brothers of the Jie family had arranged their clothes, stood next to Jack, and bowed their hands. "I don't know if there is an expert here. If the Jie family boy has offended me, please forgive me."
Standing on the left side, Jie Liang, who had a slightly elegant look on his face, bowed. "The thirty-ninth generation grandson of the Jie family, the direct eldest son, and his single name is Liang."
The man on the right, with a more heroic spirit, was also the man who had just been taught a lesson by Jack and bowed in the same way. "Thirty-ninth generation grandson of Tongjie family, second in line, single name and Kaizi."
Jack, who was holding the dish and biting his chopsticks, just nodded hesitantly and responded slightly. After finally swallowing what was in his mouth, he smiled and mocked. "Why did your tone and attitude change so quickly?"
Jie Liang took a step forward and bowed to answer: "My father told me when he went out that a loss is a loss and a win is a win. Everyone knows it. If you treat a loss as a win, you are just a fool. My brothers admire your skills."
"Hey, uncle, here's some good wine and good food." The waiter brought several hot plates of roasted fish and roasted chicken to the table. Jack took a bite and tasted it, then saw the two people standing behind him. Jie Qi looked greedy, and no one else needed any explanation to know what he was thinking. "Let's sit down and eat together. You are the one paying the bill anyway." The two of them sat happily and ate the sumptuous food on the table.
After eating for a while, Jie Liang raised his glass. "Do you know the name of this hero?"
"Don't come to me." Jack waved his hand. "Jack? K? Roberts. Just call him Jack."
"It turns out to be Mr. Jack, I have admired you for a long time." Jie Liang saluted with his fist. "My two brothers have achieved some success. With my father's permission, we want to explore the world and gain experience. But I don't know where you want to go. Can you allow two boys to accompany you?" On the side, Jie Qi was still struggling with the food. Jie Liang hit him with an elbow, causing Jie Qi to bite the chicken leg and salute with his fist.
Facing Jie Liang's request, Jack just showed a puzzled look and replied: "A bunch of freaks." When his eyes slowly moved to the woman next to him, he saw that the other woman blushed and looked away. . smiled. "It's up to you. Anyway, it's none of my business where you go with your feet. Also, just call me Jack. I hate the word "first born, second born".
Judging from this answer, it must be a promise.
"Hey, uncle, here are three kilograms of good quality baigan." The guy came out again and interrupted. This time he brought a jar of good wine. The aroma was strong and intoxicating, and Jack smiled happily when he smelled it. He also brought up a basket of fresh fruits, which was quite puzzling. "Uncle, the owner of the shop has told us to be responsible for this basket of fresh fruits and this meal. We also asked you to teach the strongman in the town a lesson. Without the warrior order, we cannot allow him to continue to dominate. This is a sign of power. The heart of a small shop."
With a haha, Jack lifted the hemp rope on the wine jar and stood up. The other three people also stood up quickly, and Jie Liang even took out a few coins to argue with the waiter. Jie Qi hurriedly cleared away the remaining plates and swallowed them. Looking at the woman following Jack, he followed his elder brother's tone and bowed and asked, "Don't you know the name of this heroine?"
After just taking a sip of yellow soup, Jack sealed the mouth of the jar tightly and replied smoothly: "I don't know." Then he threw the wine jar over his shoulder and walked out of the wine shop. I just heard Jie Qi salute with his fist and say: "It turns out that I don't know the heroine. I have admired her for a long time."
In an instant, the entire wine shop was filled with laughter, except for Jie Qi, who stood there alone with his hands folded, not knowing what was going on. Even the older girl, who always looked shy, half-covered her mouth and chuckled. But he still carried the baggage and followed closely behind Jack. The man who was halfway out of the door just chuckled. "Rookie!"
"Brother, they are laughing at me." Jie Qi looked at his brother with an innocent look on his face.
Unable to bargain with the wine shop clerk, Jie Liang dragged his little brother out of the door. "I say, just say a few words less. It will make the Jie family feel embarrassed if you don't."
Back at the pier, the two Jie family brothers were already standing on their own boat, coming to Jack's boat and waiting for them to unmoor and sail. Not to mention that the southeastern part of the mainland relies on the Fengzi River and its tributaries, which cut off the entire land in countless ways. In addition, the canals have always been used as roads and boats as horses. Humanity means walking every five steps, and a boat every ten steps. It's not an understatement to say that boating is more convenient than driving. Therefore, the knights who traveled in the Jianghu in the southeast in ancient times all had their own boats. Of course there are many exceptions.
Looking at the Cuishan woman who was still standing on the dock, Jack just sat in the boat and looked at her. Seeing that she was hesitant to speak and unable to say anything, Jack probably understood that she was just embarrassed to get on his boat without any reason.
"Can you paddle?"
Nod.
"Can you swim in water?"
Nod.
"Do you know where Meilong Town is?"
He nodded vigorously again.
"Okay, come on up. Just walk slowly towards Meilong Town, and the boat will be left to you."
The woman excitedly threw the bundle into the boat, got on the boat gently and neatly, and sat down next to Jack. As soon as the cable was untied, he was pushed away from the dock. The two of them took a boat together and traveled on the Xianzi River.
Putting the bamboo hat on his head, he picked up the fishing basket and found the bait inside. The bait was wrapped around the hook and swung toward the river. Jack just held the fishing rod lightly and let the hook and bait float towards him.
Sitting on the other end of the boat, the woman just looked at Jack's back quietly. Holding the oar in one hand, he only slightly adjusted the direction of the boat and then followed the current. Jack's blond hair under his bamboo hat reflected the afternoon sun and looked very dazzling. All these reminded her of that only one meeting...
"Hey! What's your name?" Jack's deep voice seemed to be asking just for the sake of asking.
"Well~I─" her voice was as thin as a gnat, but it couldn't cover up her graceful voice. But she was still shy and embarrassed to answer. "──It's called..."
"Hulu~"
The man who was shaking his head was already asleep. It seemed that even saying his name was unnecessary. The Jie brothers' boat was just beside it. One of them was manning the oar and following the boat; the other was meditating and adjusting his breath carefully. Birds flew across the river, and geese and ducks crossed the sky. Natural music fills the water. The Cuishan woman was holding the oar and just looking at Jack's back.