Chapter 128 Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger Bronze Drum City
Chapter 128 Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger Bronze Drum City
The next morning, Tonggu County, a small town in northwest Jiangxi, was more lively than yesterday. The three streets and bridges and ferries were surrounded by villagers rushing to the east of the city. Occasionally, groups of villagers beating gongs and drums, wearing red and colorful clothes, appeared in the festive sound of gongs and drums.
He raised the flag of his village and marched towards Shuaijiaba in the east of the city with great pride, which aroused heated discussion and speculation among countless villagers.
Many villagers in the crowd who had watched yesterday afternoon's performance were so excited that they described the grand scene with saliva: more than a dozen generals and lieutenants came on stage to salute the villagers, and a general named Jiang then announced the cancellation of all excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes in Tonggu County.
, the National Government will soon send county officials to Tonggu to lead the people to develop production. Several knowledgeable old masters in the city are saying that this general named Jiang is probably the commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army with hundreds of thousands of troops.
Brother, it is enough to see that the National Government attaches great importance to our bronze drums; also, two old opera troupes who have not appeared in the theater for many years have come up with the most popular repertoire.
Each township has to organize its own theater troupe to participate...
In the middle of the performance, more than a hundred officers and soldiers from the "Model Camp" of the Revolutionary Army rushed to the river beach shouting slogans to conduct drills... What is the Model Camp? My dear, you don't know? It just took one or two roads east of the city in half a morning.
That unit was well built and solid! I heard that the three words "Model Battalion" were personally designated by Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek of the Revolutionary Army. They were famous for their repeated military exploits during the Northern Expedition... They were all in step, and their coats were
The guys were all black and shiny, and the majestic drill of more than a hundred people was eye-opening. As soon as they left, another thirty or so officers and soldiers rushed out and pointed their guns at the thirty or so clay pots at the foot of the mountain on the other side of the river.
A round of gunfire rang out, and all the clay pots a hundred meters away were smashed. The heroes of all walks of life were suppressed on the spot. All the green woods who originally wanted to go on stage to compete for the five hundred ocean bonus lost their courage; and then there was another drama.
The troupe sang a big show. Before the performance ended, a tall officer with an injured arm and a white belt came on stage and announced loudly that starting tomorrow morning, the revolutionary army would show off their unique skills one by one. Thousands of people immediately cheered and applauded, and the people on Dawei Mountain behind them
All the birds flew away in fright. The voice of this very good-looking officer was surprisingly loud, as majestic as a god. You could hear clearly what he was saying from half a mile away...
At the ferry in the city, among the bustling crowd there were a few strong men with calm faces and wandering eyes. A group of people squatted on the stone slabs on the river bank and smoked cigarettes. They were no different from the surrounding villagers. They seemed to want to take a rest before rushing to Shuaijiaba.
lively.
After a while, a sturdy young man wearing a short jacket and bare feet squeezed into the group of people. He took a few puffs from the pipe handed to him by a brother, and turned to the twenty-three-year-old man next to him with a square face, thick eyebrows and a wide mouth.
The four-year-old man whispered.
The man with thick eyebrows had shining eyes and looked quite arrogant: "Xiaodouzi, can you see clearly?"
"Look clearly, the leaders of Qiping, Gaoqiao, Xianglukeng, Xianren Cave, Huangzhi Temple, Daxian Temple, Hejiawan and other cottages are all dispatched. I heard from the fourth man from Mengziling that Lai Lao from Yifeng Territory
Sanye has also surfaced in our Tonggu County."
The clever young man known as Xiaodouzi thought for a while and asked: "Second brother, the revolutionary army has set up sentry posts outside the city, but they don't even search us and let us in easily. What will happen here?"
Is there no fraud?"
The thick-browed man snorted and ordered the brothers to disperse to Shuaijiaba and contact each brother to see which boss planned to compete on stage this afternoon. When more than ten brothers dispersed, he tightened his short coat
With a wide cowhide belt around his waist, he stood up, took Xiaodouzi with him, turned to the street, lowered his head and walked eastward.
The two stopped in front of a butcher's shop, walked into the butcher's case and chatted in a low voice, like a normal greeting between old acquaintances.
The butcher glanced around vigilantly, put down his meat cleaver, which was more than a foot long, and whispered: "This group of revolutionary troops is easy to talk to. They are different from the old army who carried guys to snatch my pork. Yesterday morning, two thirty
The officers on the left and right came to me with their short guys on their backs to buy two slices of pork. After weighing, they paid me a penny in cash. The officer named Han among them also gave me a good cigarette made by a foreigner and told me that I would come again today.
To buy meat, let me kill three more pigs.
His brother kept my family busy with just one sentence. He finally bought three heads from Tangjiacao in the west of the city and brought them home. He was busy until the gastrodia was dark. He couldn't watch the singing opera and the drill of the Revolutionary Army Model Camp yesterday afternoon.
My mother-in-law scolded me all night for this. After killing four pigs before dawn, my mother-in-law refused to work. She led my mother, children, nephews and a group of people, grabbed a few bites of breakfast and ran to Shuaijiaba to see the revolutionary army.
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I was planning to wait for the revolutionary army to carry away a few pigs and go take a look. I heard that the model camp performed a unique skill today. The five hundred brothers from Yangjiazhai have been wandering here for more than ten years and have never seen it before.
The troops outside have shown their true abilities. Unlike you, the second leader, you have followed Master Zhou since you were a child. You have had the opportunity to travel to three mountains and five mountains to make friends with martial arts. You have played all over the colorful world outside. Brother, I really don’t know how good this road construction is.
What new things are there in the model camp? It would be a shame not to see them!"
The young brother Gu smiled slightly: "Every army is like a goddamn person. They eat, drink, go whoring, and gamble. I can't stand the behavior of those ruthless troops. Otherwise, they would kill six officers and soldiers on the ground in western Hunan and get burned. In the end,
Forced to go back to my hometown and go to the mountains to die? Lao He, don’t take this bullshit army too seriously. I won’t be afraid of anyone who is serious about it. It doesn’t matter what his model is. If I mess with him, I’ll still beat him up.
Damn, haha!”
The three of them laughed, but at this moment, Old Hantou from the model camp arrived with more than a dozen brothers from the logistics class. The two brothers at the back led two large variegated packhorses with racks, obviously coming to buy pork as promised.
Gu Laoer and his assistant Dou Fang calmly took two steps back and stood between the butcher shop and the aisle. Butcher He quickly stepped forward to greet them with joy.
Old Hantou asked his two soldiers to help carry the scale. Together with Butcher He, he carefully weighed the eight slices of pork. After calculating the account, he immediately took out Da Yang to settle the account. Sure enough, he paid the full amount every penny. After that, he ordered his brothers to weigh the pork.
He moved onto the horseback, took out a pack of foreign cigarettes like yesterday, took out three cigarettes and distributed them to Butcher He and the unknown Gu Laoer. He politely told Butcher He that he would come back to buy tomorrow, and he had better kill eight pigs, otherwise
There are too many brothers and not enough food.
Butcher He, who usually only kills one pig in three days, was very excited when he saw this big deal. Seeing that Old Hantou was so honest and easy to talk to, he felt grateful and ran back to the house to bring back a basket, and put half the basket of pork belly, liver, and
All seven inches of large intestine were given to Lao Hantou.
Old Hantou was very happy to see such good pork belly and sausage. He kept saying that his battalion commander had not eaten Sichuan-style sausage for a long time. He thanked him profusely and took out a pack of foreign cigarettes and stuffed it into Butcher He's greasy trouser pocket.
There, he ordered his brothers to get on their horses and was about to leave, when he was suddenly stopped by a loud voice on the road.
"Old Han, what good things did you buy today?"
An Yi, who was hanging his left arm with a dirty white belt, was riding on the back of a tall little black horse, while Huzi was riding an equally tall bay-red horse and stood quietly to the side.
Old Hantou quickly stepped forward and saluted: "Report to the battalion commander, Deputy Hu Ying, there are good things today. I will definitely let the officers eat some of my subordinates' Sichuan style braised pork tonight."
An Yi laughed: "Okay, I'll toast you tonight, haha!"
Beard's cold eyes seemed to be unable to see anything else at all, but coldly covered Gu Laoer under the meat stall and looked at him carefully.
Gu Laoer, who originally wanted to leave, suddenly felt a chill in his heart. He knew that he had met a powerful enemy. This spine-chilling feeling had only occurred several times in his life. The first time was when he was about to marry a squire when he was seventeen years old.
My daughter's affair was discovered by the master, and I felt it from the furious master. The other time was from the battalion commander when he killed the local garrison battalion commander in Shishou, Xiangxi a year and a half ago, but this time the inner reflection was absolutely different.
It was the same, colder, stronger, and weirder. The increasingly heavy pressure made Gu Laoer, who was young and possessed of special skills, dare not take a step. He retracted his raised left foot and slowly put it down, turning sideways and slowly.
He slowly raised his head, and through the long hair that covered his eyes with his shining eyes, he first glanced at the scabbard and handle of the dark green seven-star sword hanging on the side of the maroon horse, and finally looked at the bearded man without timidity.
Seeing this scene, An Yi immediately remembered Hu Hu's introduction in the past. In surprise, a pair of bright eyes instantly locked onto the pale-faced Butcher He and the motionless Xiaodouzi standing behind, and finally turned his gaze to Gu Lao Er's eyes.
face.
After taking a closer look, An Yi felt that this young man of the same age as himself and with a medium build was majestic and unyielding. He had a slightly aquiline high nose and a pair of slender pink eyes that were cold and sharp. His two broad palms were naturally hanging down.
The calluses on the thumbs and index fingers of both hands made An Yi secretly frightened. He immediately realized that this young man who could still be neither humble nor arrogant under the gaze of a beard was not only a martial arts master, but also good at using two guns and was by no means an ordinary person.
When An Yi and the four police platoon brothers behind Huzi saw this scene, they secretly clenched their machine guns and were alert and ready to take action at any time. Unexpectedly, Huzi lifted his legs and dismounted in a blink of an eye, walking two steps in front of Gu Laoer.
Yao: "Brother, what do you do?"
"Butcher."
Gu Laoer felt that the pressure on his body was greatly reduced, and he replied coldly to Hu Hu.
Huzi nodded and walked to Lao Hantou. He raised his hand and easily lifted a piece of pork on the horse's back, and threw it to the meat table three meters away with a "bang" sound: "Since you are a meat seller, please put it on the meat table."
Remove the ribs from this meat."
Gu Laoer saw that Hu Hu could so easily throw half of the hundred-jin pig onto the meat bank. The middle of the half of the pig stopped just in front of the tip of Butcher He's knife inserted on the case. He secretly admired him but did not show any weakness.
He walked to the meat table in two steps and pulled out a wide meat cleaver. He lifted the pork spine with his right hand and flipped it suddenly. Before the half of the pork stopped swinging, he swung the knife with his left hand and evenly cut a complete pork rib into pieces in two or two strokes.
Separated, An Yi, Lao Hantou and the other brothers around him cheered in unison and were greatly impressed.
Huzi was secretly surprised, smiled slightly, and said politely to Gu Laoer with his hands clasped in his hands: "Hu is very lucky to be able to witness the unique skills of the Five Tiger Soul-Destroying Swords of the Zhou family in Huaibei in the mountain city in the south of the Yangtze River! It shows that the thousand-year-old bronze drum has hidden dragons and crouching tigers. This brother
If you are interested, please come to the Shuaijiaba Model Camp in the east of the city to meet you. Hu Jialin, an unscrupulous disciple of the Cangzhou Bagua Sect, will definitely prepare a small amount of wine and sweep the couch to welcome you!"
Gu Laoer was surprised to see Huzi turn around, mount his horse, and ride away with the cheerful An Yi. He was speechless for a moment.
Xiaodouzi, who was extremely shocked, stepped forward and asked in a low voice: "Second brother, how could that thin-faced bearded man know that our martial arts is the Five Tiger Soul-Severing Sword? And he immediately named our sect from Huaibei Master Zhou?"
Gu Laoer sighed: "Xiaodouzi, we have met an expert... I never expected that there are such experts in this revolutionary army. Brother, I underestimate the world's heroes. The words of my mentor before his death last year are correct!"
"Then shall we go to Shuaijiaba?" Dou Fang asked anxiously.
Gu Laoer nodded resolutely: "Go! Why not go? I want to see what is so special about this model camp."