Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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After a while, amidst the cheers of the teenagers, all the packages Qiao Yun brought were unwrapped and laid out on the ground, and there were ten or twenty long swords on the fur skin.

Brother Qiao Yun picked up these long swords and handed them one by one into the hands of the young people, causing them to cheer again and again.

Among this group of youngsters, except for Yue Fei, Yue Fan and Yao Zheng, who are local big families, the others are all from ordinary farm families. How can their families have the money to buy weapons for them who like to practice martial arts.Even among Yue Fei, Yue Fan and Yao Zheng, only Yue Fei and Yao Zheng bought swords for them because they were loved by Yao Daweng. Yue Fan didn't get his own sword because he was younger.

On weekdays, these teenagers in the village practice martial arts with wooden sticks and swords. When learning archery, they also share the bows and arrows of Yue Fei and Yao Zhengjia.Now that Wang Gui and Zhang Xian have their own swords, why not let them be happy?

After the young men thanked Brother Qiao Yun, they couldn't wait to draw out their swords, admiring the bright blade in their hands under the afternoon sun.

After Brother Qiao Yun presented each boy with a sword, he said to them: "My dear brothers, when I left last time, I decided to bring you this gift when I returned to Yuejiazhuang. But although the gift My brother Yun bought it, but the money was paid by a senior official. Brothers, if you want to thank, thank my senior official!"

After hearing this, Yue Fei and other teenagers saluted Ximen Qing with their swords in their hands.Ximen Qing was overjoyed, and praised Brother Qiao Yun for being able to do things, knowing what these teenagers like most.Ximen Qing decided to strike while the iron was hot, and said to the young men: "You guys don't need to thank me! Brother Yun is my good brother. Since you are friends with him, you are also my good brother Ximen Qing. I heard that you all like to learn martial arts. , I bought these swords at Brother Yun's suggestion, and gave them to you little brothers as a token of my heart. If you little brothers learn martial arts in the future, if you need any handy weapons, just tell me and Brother Yun, I Purchasing and building for you little brothers!"

After hearing this, all the teenagers applauded in unison, and got closer to Ximen Qing a lot.

Ximen Qing waited for the crowd's cheers to subside, and asked Qiao Yun: "Brother Yun, why isn't your archery master Zhou Tong Daxia Zhou teaching the little brothers archery here? I came to visit him specially! "

Brother Qiao Yun replied: "Your Majesty, I just asked. I heard that Master Zhou Tong occasionally caught a cold and was resting in bed at home, so he was unable to come to teach everyone. For details, you can ask Yue Fei."

When Ximen Qing heard that Zhou Tong was ill, he was surprised, he couldn't help being startled, and then turned his worried eyes to Yue Fei.

In the folklore, Zhou Tong is a martial artist with great martial arts skills. He is omnipotent with guns, sticks, fists, and feet. He is known as the "iron arm" Zhou Daxia!Ximen Qing really never thought that Zhou Tong, the mighty and strong hero in his mind, would still be sick.

Chapter 276 Visiting Zhou Tong

Seeing Ximen Qing looking at him, Yue Fei told Ximen Qing about Zhou Tong's illness and how he and Zhang Xian went to visit him today.

After hearing this, Ximen Qing couldn't wait to say to Qiao Yun: "Brother Yun, let's go! Let's visit your Master Zhou Tong first."

Brother Qiao Yun nodded in agreement, greeted all the young people, got on his horse, and was about to take Ximen Qing to the village where Zhou Tong was.

Yue Fei grabbed Brother Qiao Yun's horse and said to him: "Brother Qiao, I will go with you! Please wait a moment, I will go back to the village to get the horse."

After hearing this, Ximen Qing asked Yue Fei: "Young brother of the Yue family, can you ride a horse?"

Yue Fei replied: "I have learned riding and archery from master Zhou Tong since I was a child, so I have already learned how to ride a horse. My father also bought good horses for me."

Ximen Qing smiled and said, "That's great! Brother Yue, I have a horse here, you can choose one, and you don't have to go back to the village to get the horse."

After finishing speaking, Ximen Qing asked his attendants to bring a few horses forward for Yue Fei to choose.

Yue Fei chose a tall and strong horse and rode on it.

When Wang Gui, Zhang Xian and others saw it, they also yelled, "Mr. Ximen, I can ride a horse too. Let me go with you!"

Ximen Qing listened, and then looked at the expressions of the young people, he knew that these peasants did not have many opportunities to ride horses on weekdays, and they must have learned how to ride horses with Brother Yue Fei's horses. Let the horse gallop.

Ximen Qing laughed loudly, and said to the young men that anyone who could ride a horse could choose a horse and go to visit Zhou Tong with him.Therefore, Ximen Qing's attendants gave up the horses and let these young men choose.

Yue Fan wanted to lead the horse, but was stopped by Yue Fei.Yue Fei told him that the officials from Ximen came to visit from afar, how can Yuejiazhuang not welcome them warmly.Now that the subordinates of the high officials have given up all the horses to me, we can't let these remaining guests sit outside the village and wait for me to return.Yue Fei asked Yue Fan to go home quickly to report to his father, and to settle the guests from other places first.

Yue Fan listened, nodded, and ran to the village.

All the teenagers got on their horses happily and rode them around in circles excitedly.Ximenqing asked Yue Fei, and learned that the young men were not unfamiliar with their riding skills, so they didn't have to worry about falling off their horses, so he asked Yue Fei and Brother Qiao Yun to lead the way, and they rode their horses towards the village where Zhou Tong was.

On the way, all the teenagers laughed and laughed.Ximen Qing saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart.

Although Yue He from Yuejiazhuang's family is well-off, he is not such a wealthy person as himself.Moreover, Yue He is a modest person and has no intention of cultivating military power in private, so he did not buy more armor, equipment and horses in the village.

Most of Yue Fei's friends are peasants. Although they can learn riding and archery from Zhou Tong with Yue Fei's blessing, they have few weapons and horses.So today they were all very happy after receiving the long sword presented by Brother Qiao Yun, and now they were riding fast horses, talking and laughing loudly, whistling up to the sky from time to time, their bodies brimming with excitement.

Ximen Qing secretly thought, boys, do you need horses and weapons?Come join me, Mr. Ximen Qing!The high officials are rich and powerful, and they have everything from weapons and armor to horses, bows and arrows. You can get whatever weapons you want.Follow the high officials and me, it's much more promising than going to be a Hebei warrior!

The rich and powerful Ximen Qing official looked at this group of farmers, as if they had already been taken under his command, and he was leading them to fight on the battlefield.Ximen Qing was overwhelmed with pride, and rushed out immediately.

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The east of Tangyin County is a plain, from Yuejiazhuang to Hedong Village of Zhou Tongjia is a flat plain, which is suitable for horseback riding.Ximen Qing, Jiao Ting, Qiao Yun and Yue Fei's group of teenagers rode horses and galloped wildly, and they arrived outside Hedong Village in a short time.

"Isn't that Yuejia Erlang from Yuejiazhuang? He came to our village to visit his master just before noon, why did he come again?"

"Heh! These young gentlemen of Yuejiazhuang are all riding tall horses, and they are so majestic!"

"Why is there no such talent as Erlang of the Yue family in our village? No wonder old man Zhou likes him so much."

"Yuejiazhuang Yue and the son of Yuezhuang Zhuang, the grandson of the old lady Yao in Yaojiazhuang, how bad can it be? We don't have such a young man in Hedong Village now!"

"Hey~ I think in our village back then, Old Man Zhou's son was not bad, but unfortunately he died at a young age on the battlefield of Xixia, and he didn't leave a single heir. Now only Old Man Zhou is left alone."

"Isn't that right? I heard that Mr. Zhou saw that Erlang of the Yue family had a heroic spirit similar to that of the Dalang of the Zhou family, so he adopted Erlang of the Yue family as his adopted son. I don't know if it's true or not?"

"Poor old man Zhou, who is a hero for the first time. When he gets old, he doesn't even have a person to die. He can only rely on these newly recruited disciples."

"Why are you chewing your tongue! Old man Zhou in our village has a strong body. Last year, he led the villagers to drive away a group of bandits at the foot of the Taihang Mountain. I think you burned your bones as firewood, and old man Zhou will still Live well."

"Bah, bah, bah~ Only the bones of you, an old bastard, will be used as firewood!"

Outside the village, the villagers who were doing farm work such as drying grain, threshing wheat and grinding noodles, etc. saw Yue Fei and others riding majesticly charging over, they all stood beside the road and pointed, talking enviously.

"Yue Family Erlang, you just came today, why are you here again?" A villager at the entrance of the village asked Yue Fei.

Yue Fei got off his horse and replied with a smile: "My master is famous far and wide, today a distinguished guest came from Shandong to visit his old man. I am leading the way for the distinguished guest!"

While speaking, everyone in Ximen Qing got off their horses, tied them to a big tree outside the village entrance, left an attendant to watch over the horses, and entered Hedong Village with a gift for Zhou Tong.

"Master, we're here to see you, old man!" Wang Gui, Zhang Xian and the others ran ahead holding gifts, and rushed out of Tong Zhou's yard in a blah blah blah.

Although Zhou Tong said that he was just recovering from illness and was resting in bed at home, he was actually not immobile.At this time, he was reclining on a bamboo chair under a camphor tree in the yard drinking tea alone.Hearing the young people Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, and Xu Qing playing at the entrance of the village, he put down the teapot, got up and walked to the gate of the yard, and opened the gate that was half hidden, just as he saw Wang Gui and the others crawling into him. forward.

"Wang Gui, why don't you practice archery at home, but you all come to me?" Zhou Tong asked Wang Gui who was running in the front.

"Master! Your old man is well!"

"Master, we came with Brother Yue Fei."

"Master, there is a guest who wants to visit your old man."

Wang Gui, Zhang Xian and the others yelled at one another.

Seeing that these little bastards couldn't speak clearly, Zhou Tong shook his head helplessly, and turned his gaze to the alley behind them.I saw my favorite disciple Yue Fei and the newly recruited Brother Qiao Yun walking in side by side, and behind them, there was a young man with an extraordinary appearance.

Chapter 277 Memories of the Iron Arm Bow

When Zhou Tong opened the courtyard door, Ximen Qing finally saw this legendary figure. He saw Zhou Tong with silver hair and a burly figure.Zhou Tong was more than eight feet long, with a tiger head and swallow chin, sword eyebrows and big eyes, and a thick white beard on the corners of his lips and cheeks that was a foot long and hung down to his chest. He really looked like a hero.

Seeing Zhou Tong appearing, Brother Qiao Yun hurried up, cupped his fists and bent down to give Zhou Tong a big gift, calling him Master.

Zhou Tong helped Brother Qiao Yun up, and asked him, "Brother Yun, is the person behind you the benefactor Ximen you mentioned?"