Criminal investigation in ancient times

"Hush!" Qi Ming stretched out his hand to grab him, and suddenly ran away.

Feng Xuan was taken aback and said in surprise: "What's wrong?"

Qi Ming: "Someone is following you! Don't talk and leave with me!" The two turned left and right into a small alley, Qi Ming pulled him into a straw shed to protect him in his arms, with a straw curtain behind him.

Two footsteps came over, looked around in place, but did not find anyone and left towards the distance, Feng Xuan's frightened hands tightly grasped Qi Ming's arm.

Qi Ming bared his teeth in pain and said in his heart: This kid is working so hard, it seems that nothing is wrong.Feng Xuan was about to make a sound when he heard the footsteps walking away, Qi Ming wanted to cover his mouth with his hands, but he was holding both arms tightly, so he closed his eyes and kissed his mouth.

Feng Xuan was stunned, staring for a long time without reacting.Sure enough, those two footsteps went back and forth, Feng Xuan stopped struggling in fright, Qi Ming moved away from his mouth, and turned his face to look elsewhere.

The people outside said: "No, that kid ran away."

Another person: "It's not far, let's go over there and have a look." After speaking, he really left this time.

Qi Ming said in a hoarse voice: "Let go."

Feng Xuan hastily let go of both hands, lowered his head and his face was covered with tears.

Seeing him like this, Qi Ming couldn't say anything, so he could only pat him on the shoulder and said, "You... I've heard about Fengluan Villa, sorry. Is there any place you want to go? Why don't I see you off, so I don't worry about it?" You got caught by them."

Feng Xuan shook his head and sobbed, "I don't know where I'm going. I don't know any of my father's friends before he was alive. I want to learn martial arts... to avenge my father!"

Qi Ming sighed and said, "You...forget it, this kung fu can only be learned well at a young age. You have already grown all sixteen bones, and learning martial arts is not easy to learn."

Feng Xuan grabbed Qi Ming's sleeve and said: "I can endure hardships, no matter how hard it is, just call me martial arts!"

Qi Ming rubbed his nose and said, "Hey, it's not that I don't want to teach you, but that I really don't know where to start. How about this? Let me introduce you. This person is worse than me in martial arts. He mentioned it to me a while ago. But I want to accept a closed disciple. It’s just that he has a weird temper, I guess you can’t stand it.”

"I can! Please take me there!" He knelt on the ground with a plop.

Qi Ming hurriedly helped him up and said: "What are you doing, since you have made up your mind, I will take you there. If he doesn't accept me, there is nothing I can do."

Feng Xuan nodded hastily and said, "Thank you, Big Brother Qi."

Qi Ming said enthusiastically, "My uncle was old enough back then, and I'm still a big brother."He wiped his face with his hand and said: "The old man is not sure what to say. If you don't like to listen, just ignore him."

Feng Xuan said: "It's okay, since I want to learn Kung Fu, it doesn't matter if I suffer or be scolded, as long as I can avenge my father!"

Qi Ming shook his head and sighed, patted him on the shoulder and led him away from here.

***

The person who Qi Ming brought Feng Xuan to apprentice as a teacher may not be known to many people in Jianghu, but when it comes to his apprentices, everyone knows everyone.The old man's surname is Xu, everyone calls him Uncle Xu, he is very strange.There are three ways to accept apprentices, women are not accepted, ugly are not accepted, and the elderly are not accepted.

Fengxuan's first two items are considered qualified, but the last one, the elderly...however long is considered long.

The two came to the place where Uncle Xu lived, which was a small village. The old farmer driving the ox cart saw the two and greeted Qi Ming. The road was lined with green trees, and a few dogs raised by someone's family were chasing the two. people barking.

Feng Xuan was so frightened that he grabbed Qi Ming's cuff, not daring to take half a step away.

Walking into a farmyard, Qi Ming coughed lightly and shouted, "Uncle Xu? Is Uncle Xu there?"

"Bang" the door of the house was pushed open, and a short old man five feet tall walked out. I saw this old man with a straw hat on his head, holding a hatchet in one hand, and a basket in one hand, and said: "Qi My kid is here, why did you think of me for a stroll."

Qi Ming smiled and said: "Uncle Xu, didn't you want to accept a closed apprentice a while ago, so I didn't find you here."

Uncle Xu glanced at Fengxuan, paused his steps and said, "No way, no way, I'm too old, what can this teach me?"

Seeing this, Fengxuan hurriedly knelt down and said: "I beg Uncle Xu to accept me as an apprentice, I will practice hard!"

Uncle Xu sneered and said, "Practice diligently? Look at you, a child of a wealthy family, with delicate skin and tender flesh. Why do you come to me to learn Kung Fu? Revenge? Parents were killed?"

Feng Xuan clenched his hands tightly and bowed his head in silence.

"Hehe, there are a lot of people who ask me to learn martial arts from a teacher. I have seen many people like you. At the beginning, I was very eager to learn, but I slacked off after three or five years. In the end, I didn't achieve anything. You should do it as soon as possible. Well go. If you have the guts, fight to the death with the person who killed your whole family, if you don’t have the guts, find a peaceful place and just live.” After speaking, he threw the hatchet into the basket and stood up to go out.

Qi Ming's eyelids twitched and he thought: This old man's mouth is still so black, I'm afraid Little Phoenix can't stand it anymore.

Unexpectedly, Feng Xuan bit his lip and forced himself to kowtow to the old man, saying: "I beg Uncle Xu to accept me as an apprentice, I, Feng Xuan, swear to the sky, I will study hard and not embarrass Uncle Xu!"

Uncle Xu stopped, looked down at him and said, "Your surname is Feng?" Feng Xuan nodded.

"What is the relationship between Fengluan Villa and you?"

Fengxuan said: "I was originally the young master of Fengluan Villa, my father was murdered by villains, that's why I came to learn martial arts from my teacher, and begged Uncle Xu to help me."

Uncle Xu stroked his beard and said: "Forget it, I have some karma with your Feng family, and I owe your grandfather a favor. Now that you ask me for something, I will take you as my apprentice. But you must remember that since you have joined My disciples must listen to my words, otherwise I will be expelled from the sect with just one word."

When Feng Xuan nodded happily, he hastily kowtowed three times to the old man and said: "Feng Xuan pays homage to Master!"

Uncle Xu snorted, turned around and pointed at Qi Ming and said, "You, you actually found me something to do, you all go into the house."

Qi Ming smiled and stepped forward to help Fengxuan and said, "You...study hard. Xu Bohui has many kinds of martial arts. You can see which one you want to learn." The two walked into the room, and saw that there was only one table and two kungfu in the room. stool.Next to it was a wooden bed.

The old man and no one sat together and said, "Boy of the Feng family, come and offer incense." Feng Xuan nodded, took the incense from Uncle Xu and put it in the incense burner.

Uncle Xu: "This is the ancestor of our sect. Although I have forgotten what they are called, let's call them Shizu. There are many kinds of martial arts that have been handed down, such as swords, guns, sticks, axes and forks. What do you want to learn?" kind?"

Feng Xuan said: "Learn the one that is most suitable for killing people!"

Uncle Xu said with a smile: "Then you should learn body skills first, as long as you learn body skills well, no matter what weapon you use, you can take people's lives invisibly. Speaking of body skills, the most common ones are lightness kung fu and brisk walking, both of which are both It’s not easy to learn, you have no foundation and you learned it late. It may be difficult to learn well.”

Feng Xuan hurriedly said: "I'm not afraid of difficulties!"

Uncle Xu nodded: "In this case, you can learn with me from tomorrow on."

At noon, Qi Ming went to the kitchen to stew the old hen in Uncle Xu's house. The distressed Xu Uncle grinned and wished he could slap him to death. He ate more than anyone else.

Feng Xuan's heart was choked up and he couldn't get through it. This would be considered as tasteless, so he put down the bowl and chopsticks after a few mouthfuls, and sat on the steps outside.

Seeing him coming out, Qi Ming followed him, untied the flagon from his waist and handed it to him, "Drink, it's good to get drunk for a while, but we can't do this anymore after today." He sat beside him as he spoke. beside.

With red eyes, Feng Xuan took the jug from his hand and drank a few mouthfuls, he coughed out the spicy wine choking.

Seeing this, Qi Ming sighed and patted him on the back for fear: "Nine out of ten people who are unsatisfactory in life, and you are just one of them, don't dwell on the past, work hard in the future, and strive to get out of the teacher as soon as possible to avenge your father's blood."

Feng Xuan nodded heavily, returned the wine jug and said, "I understand, I will be easy to learn."

Qi Ming took a sip of the "hissing" warm wine and let it flow down his throat, sighing: "It's rare to get drunk a few times in one's life, and getting drunk eliminates worries."

"Brother Qi, when are you leaving?" Feng Xuan tilted his head and looked at Qi Ming.

Qi Ming said: "Let's leave tomorrow."

"Oh." Feng Xuan lowered his head, a little bit of reluctance rose in his heart, but thinking about Qi Ming has nothing to do with him, and now it is the best of humanity to send him to study art, how can he force him to stay.

Qi Ming seemed to see through his thoughts, stretched out his hand and rubbed his head and said with a smile: "If I have time, I will come to see you and check how you are doing in martial arts."

Feng Xuan nodded hastily and said: "Okay! It is agreed that I will come to see me when I have time, and I will definitely learn martial arts well and compete with you!"

Qi Ming laughed loudly, looked at the child and said in his heart: This little Phoenix will suffer a lot.

***

The days that followed were hard and boring, daily driving pilings and stabbing horses, being forced to run back and forth by the old man, stretching the muscles and stretching the bones, crying and howling the ghosts tortured by Feng Xuan, drying off the tears and continuing to practice.

The old man also admired his temperament. Although he was a bit coquettish, he was persistent.Even if he was as tired as a dead dog, Xu Bo opened his mouth to curse, and immediately got up with his heavy body and continued to run.

After practicing so hard day after day, the delicate and fair little phoenix turned into a pitch-black little pheasant.

Jumping up and down either set a trap for the old man, or made a sneak attack at night, disturbing Uncle Xu's peace.Uncle Xu later recalled: "I looked like a very quiet child at first, why did it become like this? Could it be that there is something wrong with my education method?"

This day, Feng Xuan strode for two hours as usual, and then sat on the ground to practice Qi and concentrate.Suddenly something flew over, Feng Xuan moved his head, stretched out his hand to clamp it with two fingers, opened his eyes and saw that there was an inexplicably extra copper coin in his hand.

Looking up, Qi Ming leaned against the doorway with a smile and said: "Not bad, I have learned something in half a year."

Feng Xuan hurriedly got up from the ground and ran over: "Brother Qi, you are here!"

Qi Ming stretched out his hand to touch Feng Xuan's head, only to find that the child had grown half his head, raised his eyebrows and said: "The body is also much stronger than before."

Feng Xuan squinted his eyes and smiled, showing his white teeth, which made his face even darker.

Qi Ming thought to himself: This old man is really willing to practice, to train that good boy into this appearance.

When the two entered the room, Uncle Xu was taking a nap. When the door rang, he opened his eyes and glanced at the two of them. He waved his hand and said, "Go, I'll give you a day off today. You two can go and play wherever you want. Don't bother me." I."

Feng Xuan laughed, dragged Qi Ming out of the door and said, "This is the first time Master let me go out to play, where shall we go?!"

Qi Ming thought for a while and said: "Come, I will take you to an interesting place." As he said that, he took his hand, and the two of them took the lightness kung fu and "swish" and left.Feng Xuan had the idea of ​​competing with him, and with the wind under his feet, he jumped up and ran in front of him.

Qi Ming caught up with him with a smile and said loudly: "Little Phoenix really flies fast."

Feng Xuan turned around and smiled wantonly, Qi Ming was stunned by the look of his eyebrows, and bumped into a crooked tree with a "boom".

"Hahahaha! Brother Qi, what are you thinking? You didn't even see this tree branch."

Qi Ming rubbed his head and smiled wryly in his heart: Could it be that he is really possessed.Standing up in a panic, he patted the dust off his body and said, "Just now I was thinking about other things and didn't pay attention, let's go ahead."

The two walked forward for another half an hour, and there was a lake at the end. Feng Xuan had been here a few times, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

Qi Ming hooked his hands and said: "Follow me." As he spoke, he walked along the lake for a while, found a towering tree, and pulled out a small boat from behind the tree!

The boat hadn't been used for many years, and there was a ring of fungus on it, Feng Xuan's eyelids twitched and he thought: Is this boat still usable?Will it sink in the water...

Qi Ming dragged the boat to the shore and said, "This boat was built by my father when I was sent to Uncle Xu to practice martial arts with a few senior brothers. It's been a long time!"

Feng Xuan thought to himself: You don't tell me I know it's been a while.

Qi Ming: "It looks pretty good, I'll go down and try first." He pushed the boat into the lake and stepped on it by himself.The boat wobbled three times on the water, but it didn't sink.Qi Ming smiled and waved to him: "Come on!"

Feng Xuan copied the lightness kung fu and jumped onto the boat, the boat swayed for a while but nothing happened.Then he sat down and said, "You asked me to come on this boat?"

Qi Ming waved his hands and said: "No, no, look what this is!" He took out half a roast chicken from his bosom, and untied the flagon from his waist.

Feng Xuan's eyes lit up, he took the roast chicken from his hand and tore off a drumstick and said to him, "Brother Qi, you eat!" He started to eat the rest by himself.

Qi Ming shook his head and smiled, the child has been detained here for half a year, and he might have gotten hungry long ago.He took a bite of the chicken leg and drank the wine, leaning against the edge of the boat.The slightly fishy wind with water vapor blows across the lake, making the lake sparkling.Qi Ming took a deep breath, he had long wanted to go boating on the lake with others, and it was as beautiful as he thought.

Feng Xuan almost chewed half of the bones gnawed by the chicken, drank a jug of wine, and hiccupped: "Brother Qi, you have to come and see me often, hiccup, this roast chicken is so delicious!" It’s from Liuyanglou, hiccup, his roast chicken is delicious.”

"Okay, if I have time to see you." I reached out and rubbed his head.

Feng Xuan leaned against him with drunken eyes, and fell asleep with his head tilted.With the smell of wine and roast chicken sprayed on Qi Ming's neck, he felt his body stiffen.

"Huh..." He let out a breath, looked up at the blue sky and white clouds and said with a smile, "This kid is really a monster." Suddenly feeling a chill in his buttocks, Qi Ming lowered his head and took a look. The boat seeped an inch of water at some point up!

"Get up, the boat is leaking!"

"Huh, huh?" Feng Xuan didn't know what was going on. He opened his eyes and looked around. When he looked down, he suddenly became half sober, grabbed Qi Ming with both hands and said, "Help! I...I don't know water!"

Qi Ming rubbed his head and thought, "It's no wonder Phoenix knows water!" "Hold my waist, and I will swim with you on my back in a while."

Feng Xuan nodded hastily, put his arms around Qi Ming's waist, his heart was beating non-stop.

Qi Ming plunged into the water and came up in a hurry, turned around and said, "Are you all right?"

Feng Xuan: "Well, let's go!" The two finally swam to the shore, Qi Ming collapsed tiredly on the shore and suddenly laughed loudly: "This boat is really leaking!"

Feng Xuan didn't understand why he was laughing, but he couldn't help laughing out loud, lying beside him and looking at the sky, he said: "It would be great if this kind of life could last forever..."

Qi Ming turned over and fell on him, and the two looked at each other silently for a moment, Qi Ming pinched his nose and said, "I'm not interested in children." After speaking, he got up and walked towards Uncle Xu's house, whistling.

Feng Xuan sat on the ground in a daze, thinking of the moment of contact just now, his heart suddenly beat wildly...

Wet back to the master, only to find that Qi Ming had already changed clothes and left, Feng Xuan's eyes were slightly disappointed: "Brother Qi is gone?"

Xu Bo said: "Well, let's go, tomorrow I will make up for what I missed today."

Feng Xuan: ... old man, didn't you say that today is a holiday! ! !This is the cheating!