N-A-A Chapter 152
Chapter 152
My name is Qiu Zhixing, I am 98 years old, and I have spent more than 90 spring and autumn years in the place where I live at home.
But I still remember it vividly.
That year, Master, my adoptive father, took our six senior brothers down the mountain to fight ghosts, and then one day Master asked me to come back, saying that the martial arts hall needed someone to take care of it.
Before leaving, I pulled the corner of Master’s clothes and asked, “Master, when will you come back?”
The master said, “Come back when the devil is beaten away.” ”
But I waited for 8-90 years, but Master and Senior Brother never stepped into the martial arts hall again.
I remember Master told me that when I was an infant, Master once went down the mountain and accidentally picked up me who was abandoned by my parents on the side of the road, and it was a drought, and many people could starve to death, let alone raise children.
And my birth parents probably just like that, abandoned me.
Master kindly picked it up, and although I was young at that time, I vaguely remembered that Master touched his head and said.
“In the future, you will call me Master.”
Then Master took me back to the mountain.
My master is a master of a martial arts hall, because he was the head of the imperial court when he was young, and he knew some martial arts, but now that the imperial court is gone, the master relied on a little savings in his early years to settle down here and open a martial arts hall, although the life is a little harder, but not starvation to death.
In addition to my master, there are six senior brothers who are older than me, all of them have a dishful face, but their bodies are strong.
When I was five or six years old.
The master brother proudly told me: “This martial arts hall was built one after another in five years under the leadership of the master, and the main hall is also dedicated to the master’s ancestor martial master.
“One side hall master lives in it, and there are some ancient books and a room full of herbs, and the other side hall is the residence of several senior brothers and me.”
Although life is difficult, there is always a place to shelter from the wind and rain, we practice martial arts and writing every day, and Master occasionally teaches us to recognize some medical herbs.
Several senior brothers were beaten almost every day, but I could see that the master did not use any force at all, but when I couldn’t memorize the book even for a few days, he raised the whip several times and gently fell, sighed helplessly and turned away.
A few senior brothers took good care of me, seeing that I was thin and still growing my body, so I secretly took advantage of the martial arts training time to go to the forest to catch birds and roast them, and later I was discovered by Master, and we were scolded and punished for copying books.
But the mush he ate that night began to have more meat stars, and we knew that it was put by Master, but his own bowl was still full of clear soup and water.
Passing by his bedroom by chance, I heard him muttering:
“Alas, what is the use of having a martial artist in this world, and even his own children cannot be raised.”
Like me, several senior brothers were picked up by the master from outside, and when I was 5 years old, the senior brother was already 17 years old.
The master brother is very good, except for some careful eyes, everything else is very good, whenever the master is not there, he picks up the whip and forces us to practice martial arts and write.
Every time he ate, he would save half a cake and put it in the clay pot in the ancestral hall, and secretly take a bite when he was hungry.
Later, I bumped into the second senior brother and the third senior brother, and we took advantage of his toilet to eat all of them one by one.
Then at noon, we all heard Senior Brother crying sadly in the ancestral hall.
Master asked him what was wrong, but he lied and said,
“I was hit by an incense burner just now.”
Later, when I didn’t want to go, my second and third senior brothers and I sneaked to the orchard below the mountain and stole a few green and small fruits to put in the clay pot.
But the next day he was discovered by the master.
Master asked us,
“Who put it?”
Senior brother was the first to stand up and admit.
Master wanted to punish him, and the three of us silently stood up and admitted that the fruit was stolen by the three of us.
That was the first time Master lost his temper.
I still remember Master’s angry face at that time, yelling at us:
“To be honest, how can you steal from others?” Didn’t I teach you? People are not short of ambition, and no matter how poor they are, they cannot steal. ”
It was the first time I was beaten, for nothing else, because I stole something, but we all endured it without making a single sound, nor did we pout as usual.
The next day Master went down the mountain very early and returned in the evening, carrying half a bag of fruit for us to eat.
We were happy, but it was also after that time that we never saw the most cherished sword in Master’s room.
What I admire the most is the fourth senior brother, because he is the only person besides Master who can read those ancient books, and he often tells us the stories in the books.
Master said that the four senior brothers are the most talented, if they were born before, they might not be able to win the top!
We asked curiously
, “What’s a champion, is it delicious?”
As soon as the master was about to answer, the third senior brother hurriedly asked,
“Is it better than braised pork?”
I still remember Master’s speechless and helpless expression.
It is said that on the day he met the master, when the master went to the nursing home and came back, there were two silver dollars in his pocket, and when he saw the thin monkey-like third senior brother, he invited him to eat a meal of braised pork.
Later, the third senior brother and the master returned to the martial arts hall, and in his heart, braised pork was the best thing, and there was no one.
But he hasn’t eaten it since, but as the only one of the senior brothers who has eaten braised pork, he has been proud for many years and has not bragged to us.
Senior Brother Six and Senior Brother Fifth are twins, and like me, they were abandoned shortly after birth, and the only good thing was that their parents abandoned them in front of the martial arts hall.
Although the two senior brothers are twins, their hobbies and personalities are different.
The sixth senior brother liked all kinds of things from foreigners, such as cameras, foreign guns, etc., and he drew a bunch of messy pictures in the house, claiming to make a car with four wheels.
The fifth senior brother likes sword skills, and he looks forward to becoming a hero like Master in the future, and he pulls out the sword to help when the road is uneven, so he practices martial arts the hardest.
The second senior brother is six years older than me, and his biggest dream is to be like the immortals in the story, to be able to fly to the sky, break mountains and rivers with a sword, and ask the master how to become a cultivator.
The master was annoyed by the entanglement and replied:
“If I knew how to become an immortal, would I still be here?”
Every time he heard this, the third senior brother would settle down for a few days, and then continue to ask the same words, and he would continue to enjoy it again and again.
The second senior brother, the third senior brother and I walked closely, they were very naughty and often punished by the master, but every time as long as I was there, they could get away with it.
In their words:
“This stinky boy may be Master’s son!”
But that’s what I said in private.
I have always spent my days in the martial arts hall like this, and then we will grow old together.
Until later.
I was sixteen.
Fighting began under the mountain, and many wounded were sent to the martial arts hall, and the already small martial arts hall could no longer be lived, so the hillside in the courtyard was full of wounded in various miserable conditions.
Master was constantly busy collecting medicine to save people, and a few senior brothers and I boiled medicine for them every day.
We took out a small ration and boiled a bowl of porridge that could be seen and sent to them.
Later, many people still died, and they were buried in the mountains and forests behind the martial arts hall.
It was also from then that I never saw Master smile again.
One night many days later, Master did not come back very late, and all of us senior brothers gathered together and did not dare to sleep.
It wasn’t until the second half of the night that Master returned, and we saw him walking in blood, stumbling.
We quickly ran over and asked Master what was wrong?
The master sat on the chair for a long time before he spoke:
“Caijia Town, not far below the mountain, was slaughtered by the devil, and by the time I arrived, it was too late, there were corpses with severed hands and feet everywhere, these damn beasts, even the newborn child was not spared.”
The master chased and killed a few ghost soldiers along the way before returning here.
The blood on his body turned out not to be his, it was from those devils.
For the next three days, Master locked himself in the house without eating or drinking, and we were very worried about his health.
And in the morning three days later.
Master opened the door and woke us up and asked us to assemble in the main hall.
Master took us to pour incense on Grandmaster, chanting loudly in his mouth:
“Grandmaster is on top, disciple Qiu Qingshan sued the ancestors of all generations, the devil has no way to invade my Daxia, encroach on my land, slaughter my people, and the people and gods are angry!”
“Although the disciple is just a martial artist, the heart of martyrdom can serve the country and not be extinguished, today I decided to lead the apprentice down the mountain to fight the war, the devil will never return to the mountain if he does not quit the Great Xia, if he does not succeed, he will become a benevolent.”
“I also hope that the ancestors will not be surprised, and when they return, the disciples will carry forward the martial arts hall.”
Subsequently.
Master took us to the War of Resistance.
During the two-year war of resistance, I fought from the age of sixteen to eighteen, and the five senior brothers who loved to practice martial arts the most had one hand broken, the senior brother was blinded by one, and everyone had more or less wounds on their bodies.
The only good thing is that although we are injured, at least we are still alive and can still frolic and joke with each other.
And when I was eighteen.
Once with the army, it is necessary to raid the base camp of the devil.
Master said to me:
“Zhixing, you are the youngest, Master wants you to go back to the martial arts hall first, you have been gone for two years, someone should also go back and reopen the martial arts hall, clean up the ashes for the ancestor, it’s okay, wait for us to come back!”
No matter how stupid I am, I know how dangerous this raid is, how can I go back alone.
I cried and knelt down and begged Master to take me with me, although I am young, but I have also killed many devils, I am not afraid of death!
Master stroked my head and said
, “Silly child, I know that you are not afraid of death, but what if you don’t go back to the martial arts hall, whoever goes to guard the martial arts hall, I promise that the grandmaster will go back and rebuild the martial arts hall.”
He patted me on the shoulder:
“Don’t worry! When the devils are gone, we will come back, and I will teach you to practice martial arts and writing.” ”
Several senior brothers also hugged me and reluctantly shed tears, comforting me that they would come back soon, and they would bring me a lot of delicious food, such as braised pork, and make me new clothes.
I returned to the martial arts hall alone.
Before leaving.
I once pleaded with God:
“God, I don’t believe in ghosts or gods, and I never believe in you, but this time I beg you, please be sure to keep Master and the six senior brothers safe this time.”
“As long as you can keep my master and six senior brothers safe, I am willing to exchange my life for it, please, God, open your eyes, I really don’t want mine… Fathers and brothers are dead. ”
I clean the martial arts hall every day to practice martial arts writing, and every day I sit on the big stone in front of the door and wait for them to come back….
But that’s more than 80 years! Master and the six senior brothers never returned here.
I remember when I was thirty-one.
A few soldiers that Master had saved came here and told me that it was said that Master had become a general, and they had won me a sum of money and brought me a large piece of meat, saying that it was agreed to bring me braised pork to eat.
I used that money to repair the martial arts hall, but I didn’t dare to change it indiscriminately, and I still kept it as it was, because I was afraid that Master would not like it if it changed.
I took out the rest of the money and handed it over to the elementary school under the mountain, hoping that more children could read and write, add pillars to Daxia, and prevent hunger in Daxia.
Finally I’m old.
But I have never left the martial arts hall, 80 years, even if I married a wife and had children, I have never left home.
Because I’m afraid.
I was afraid that if I just left the house and Master and they came back, then they would not find me.
……
At this time.
As Old Master Qiu spoke, Zhang Wei sat there quietly and listened.
Old man Qiu looked up at the white clouds in the sky and lost his mind, as if he had returned to the sky of the past.
He muttered, ”
I remember Senior Brother Six asked my master why he practiced martial arts.”
“Master said, in order to strengthen the body.”
“Sixth Senior Brother also asked, then the practice of martial arts can only strengthen the body, then it is useless.”
“Master said, useful, must be useful when necessary, just like now, practice martial arts… Can protect the country. ”
In words.
Old man Qiu didn’t know what he thought, and his eyes were red:
“Master, Senior Brother has been around for almost 90 years, when will you come back to protect your family and defend the country, I miss you so much.”
……