Cowherd
In the past, there was a Cowherd in a small village somewhere. He was fourteen years old. His parents died when he was seven years old, and he was fostered with his uncle. His aunt was not kind to him. From the time he started herding cattle when he was nine years old, until now, he had neither enough food nor clothing to keep him warm, and he was often scolded.
The cowherd didn't feel too miserable. He wandered with the cows in the mountains and forests all day long, never thinking about the future. His biggest wish is to eat a bunch of candied haws . Except for eating it a few times before he was seven years old, he has never tasted it until now. Every time the candied haws seller passed by on the street, the thin rock candy reflected the sunlight and shone brightly, making the Cowherd feel itchy.
One day, when he came back early from herding cattle, a hawker selling candied haws passed by the house and shouted loudly. Seeing the salivating look of the cowherd, he stopped and shouted louder. The cowherd entered the house. His uncle and aunt had not returned from working in the fields. He took a look at the box containing the copper coins and saw that the key was hanging on it. He stood still for a moment and turned his head. The sound of hawking reached his ears again. He looked at the money box again, walked over to it like a ghost, opened the lock and took out a copper coin.
Just as he walked to the door, his aunt came back. The aunt saw his right hand and then looked at the money box with the key. She suddenly thought of something and immediately shouted and asked him to open his hand. The cowherd lowered his head and said nothing, holding his right hand tightly without moving. The aunt came over with a broom and asked him to let go and check again. The cowherd pushed the door smoothly and rushed out. The aunt fell to the ground, and by the time she got up yelling and yelling, the cowherd had already run far away.
He ran towards the mountain aimlessly, holding the copper coin tightly in his hand as if holding a treasure. When he could no longer run, he sat down on a mountain col and looked at the copper coins in his hand in a daze. After looking at it for a long time, suddenly a tear fell on the copper coin, and he burst into tears. The copper coin completely lost its luster, as if it had turned into a monster, which frightened him. Finally, the cowherd buried the copper coins under the fallen leaves, walked to the road, and walked in the opposite direction from home.
He begged all the way, and after dozens of days, he walked out of the state and settled in a ruined temple. The temple has been abandoned for many years, with overgrown grass at the entrance and broken bricks and tiles in the courtyard. He picked up some hay and rags and spread them in the corner of the temple. He stayed there at night and went out to beg during the day. There are many scorpions in the courtyard of the ruined temple, and they come out to fight every moonlit night. Among them is a big scorpion, as shiny as paint, which often fights one against three. The cowherd looked amused and picked up two branches with forked branches to imitate the gestures. He also imitated the scorpion's tail needle by curling its tail and kicking forward.
Iron Scorpion
A few years later, a lone thief appeared in the world. He wielded two small iron forks and had iron-wrapped heels. He was good at using his heels to roll back and injure the enemy. He was known as the Iron Scorpion. There is an action in the dance called the reverse kick of the Purple Gold Crown. The performer straightens his body, tilts his head back, lifts his right foot upward, and puts the back of his head on his calf, dancing lightly. When the Iron Scorpion kicks someone, he bends down and lowers his head, and sweeps his right foot from above his head to attack the enemy in front of him. This posture is awkward, but it has an unexpected and miraculous effect. He has injured many bodyguards.
Iron Scorpion is elusive, lonely and scary. In his free time, he often recalls the time of herding cattle. Although he was hungry and scolded, he was very nostalgic. Now I am like a lost lamb, with no sense of belonging at all. Sometimes I throw the valuables I grabbed by the roadside just because they are too heavy, as if they were robbing just for the sake of robbing.
One day, as he was walking aimlessly on the road, a carriage slowly passed behind him, followed closely by four well-dressed teenagers. The car curtains are high, and a woman in white looks out of the car. The woman is about thirty years old, with willowy eyebrows and starry eyes, and a sense of heroism in her charm. Iron Scorpion looked a little dazed. As the car passed by, he couldn't help but walk in that direction.
At dusk, he came to a large house. There was no one around, the door was closed, and the carriage was parked in front of the door. Iron Scorpion hesitated for a moment and jumped in from the wall. He didn't want to rob her, nor did he have any other ulterior motives. He just subconsciously wanted to see the beautiful woman again.
The courtyard was quiet, with a ray of light coming from a room to the west.Iron Scorpion approached quietly, and just as he was about to lick the broken window paper and peek inside, a voice came from behind: "You little thief, how dare you come here to die!" Iron Scorpion was startled, jumped two steps, and then turned around. I saw a middle-aged man standing behind him, with short beard and white face, thin and tall.
The Iron Scorpion ran away quickly without any time to think. The man had a long sword in his right hand, blocking his way. Iron Scorpion took out two small forks from his boots and rushed over. The man waved his long sword lightly and held the iron fork. The iron scorpion held his chest and lowered his head, curling his right foot backwards. However, the man grabbed his ankle with his left hand, spun him half a circle in the air, and threw him two feet away. Iron Scorpion couldn't get up for a while, so he threw the two iron forks aside. The man sneered: "You are the Iron Scorpion who just debuted, I think you are just a lame grasshopper."
Several teenagers jumped out from the corner, put the knife on his neck, and looked up at him young man, waiting for further instructions. Before the man could give the order, the door rang and the woman in white came out. She waved her hand to the man and said, "I think this person can be trained, so why not take him under his tutelage." The man nodded and said to Iron Scorpion, "I heard that. Right? Are you willing to die by the sword, or be my disciple?"
Jinse
In this way, Iron Scorpion became the disciple of this couple. The group of people wandered to a mountain. After walking for several hours, they came to a huge rock. The boulder was flat and smooth, but they walked through the rocks next to it. It seemed that there was a trap set up on the flat place. A young man whistled, and a stone door opened next to the boulder. The stone door was cleverly designed and integrated with the boulder. It was impossible to tell that it was a door unless you looked carefully.
Behind the boulder is a small canyon with dozens of thatched huts built at random. Including those who had just returned, there were a dozen young men in total. Each of them had a young girl as his wife and lived alone in a hut. Every young man possesses special skills. Some can jump across houses and spines as agile as apes, some can shrink their whole bodies and crawl through small holes, some are good at hidden weapons, and some are as strong as an ox... A girl named Jinse Volunteer to marry Iron Scorpion and teach him how to read, box and kick.
Jinse was originally the daughter of an official. When she was nine years old, her father offended a traitor and the whole family was framed and executed. The wet nurse desperately tried to get her out of the wall, and she met the Lady Jade by chance, and she has been adopted ever since. I learned from Jin Se that this couple were big thieves, and no one knew their real names. The disciples called them Yu Gongzi and Yu Niangzi, and they had no names in the world.
They have set up many nests in various states, most of which are covered by shops and hosted by mature and prudent people. They only commit crimes twice a year, stealing from either banks or government treasury. Each time, careful reconnaissance and deployment were carried out for several months. Although there were fights, they never failed.
Every time he commits a crime, Mr. Yu personally leads the team. All weapons are put away and managed by him, and they are distributed urgently when defending against enemies. Most of the time, people who are good at lightness go to the house to lift the tiles, and people who are good at shrinking bones go into the treasury and hang up the gold and silver with ropes.
After several years of this, one day, while the nest was being repaired, Jinse quietly said to Tie Xiezi: "Does this happen day after day? What are your plans?" Tie Scorpion was surprised, he felt like he belonged here. Feeling, I never thought about the future. After thinking for a moment, he said: "Of course I listen to my wife." Jinse said happily: "I knew I would not see the wrong person. No matter how careful he is, robbers never end well. I have always wanted to go to the capital after learning art. Revenge, but Madam Jade was afraid that I would be caught accidentally and implicated them, so she kept trying to find a perfect way to avenge me. Recently I heard that my enemy was executed here and it was meaningless.
Iron Scorpion nodded, suddenly remembered something, and said, "How to get over that boulder?" Jinse said, "Young Master Yu is going out and won't be able to come back for a while. I saved the gatekeeper's life tonight." Go and say hello. If he sees us tomorrow night, he will stay away. Lady Jade is kind and generous and won’t make things too difficult for him.”
The next night, the two of them put on their night clothes and put the gold and silver they usually shared on the table. superior. Jinse knelt down and kowtowed three times in the direction where Madam Yu lived, and murmured blessings: "I wish Madam good luck and good health, and that everything will turn into good luck."Tie Scorpion also kowtowed and prayed. The couple got up in tears and quietly slipped out of the residence. As expected, there was no one guarding the stone gate. Jinse pressed the button and the stone gate opened.
After walking not far across the pile of rocks, a stone appeared on a stone. The figure, fluttering in white, was Lady Jade. Jinse quickly pulled Tie Scorpion to his knees, and when he was begging for mercy, Lady Jade waved her hand and said, "Don't say more, for the sake of your tears and prayers for me, I will spare you." If any information here is leaked, even if you escape to the ends of the earth, you will be cut into pieces! "The two of them kowtowed repeatedly and swore to the sky that they would not dare! Lady Jade sighed and said, "Because of you, the old nest that has been in business for more than ten years has to be abandoned! Let's go quickly, I'm afraid it won't be so easy when Mr. Yu comes back! "
Many years later, a couple opened an inn in a remote small county. They were ordinary, with a son and a daughter. But the pliers used to scrape the fire were a little special, they were two rusty iron forks on the handles.
