Chapter 4 Fallen Assassins A great chapter for @cloudy14
Generally speaking, of course I would say that I heard it from Mr. Yu, but now, how could I say it? Mr. Yu himself didn't know, so he asked me to ask Mr. Li. If I slapped myself, don't go out of this door.
In desperation, I could only say: "It was told by a historian. His name is Li..."
Before the word "Yubo" was expressed, Mr. Li suddenly said in surprise: "Is it Li Luoyan? Where did you see him?"
Li Luoyan? I suddenly woke up and said, "Does this Li Luoyan have a son named 'Li Yubo'?"
"Did you hear Li Yubo say it?"
"Yes." I replied with a sincere expression.
"Oh," Mr. Yu, the Li family, finally changed into a slightly convinced expression and said, "Li Luoyan and his father have not heard from each other for a long time. What's going on?"
I can't tell him that Li Yubo has defected to a very unreliable organization, and Li Luoyan has nowhere to fall. So I can only say, "I don't know either... I haven't seen Li Yubo for a long time. By the way, I remember Li Yubo said that his father met a successor of a family who had lived in Kangcheng for a long time, and he should refer to Mr. Yu? It seems that Mr. Li Luoyan's understanding of the history of Kangcheng was obtained from Mr. Yu, but... Why is Mr. Yu not as much about Bajiao people as you and Mr. Li Luoyan?"
Mr. Yu, the old man from Li family, asked me without answering, "You... said what your name was just now?"
"Lin You. Shuangmulin, blessed You."
"Oh, oh, I remember it, no wonder I think your name sounds familiar. I met Lao Yu a few days ago, and he mentioned you," Mr. Li smiled kindly, put his glasses aside, and said, "Since I am not an outsider, it's okay to tell you at all. Lao Yu learned about the history of the Yu Family Genealogy that he read when he was a child. Professor Li is not only a historian, but also a paleoanthropologist. After he learned about the history of Kangcheng from Lao Yu, he came to this conclusion after several research. Because I also have some research on paleoanthropology, he once discussed it with me during the verification process."
I nodded and said, "The conclusion is: During the Eastern Expedition, Zhuanxue defeated the indigenous chief named Zuoya and the local tribe, and the person who fled without surrendering and fled to Southeast Asia and became the Bajiao people today?"
"Yes," said Mr. Li, "You should know what the wife of Chief Tsukaya is named?"
I stayed for a while. If I remember correctly, the first time I met Li Yubo, I heard him tell the history of Kangcheng and was attacked by gunmen was on June 5. It was already a whole month since now. How could I remember the name he mentioned by the way? But in order not to disturb Mr. Li's Talk, I still tried my best to recall it and said, "Oh, I remembered that it was Ji Luya's mother! I remember Yubo said that when Zhuanxue led his army to attack the tribe of Zhongya, she attacked and killed hundreds of people in Zhuanxue's army at the instigation of a small chief named Dick."
Mr. Li nodded and said, "Yes. According to Professor Li Luoyan's research, it is said that Ji Luya's mother has ancestral witchcraft and can create an undead army. She used this witchcraft to defeat Zhuanxue's army. Zhuanxue suffered a defeat and retreated to Damang Lake. Fortunately, she met her son Zhuanyin and led 800 warriors to Gushui Pass. So the father and son joined forces and advanced east along the lake, defeating the Zhongya armed forces who were celebrating the merits. Seeing that the situation was lost, Zhongya led the remnants of the army and fled to the south to the sun of Baimaoshan and lived in Tiantai Fort. Then, they prepared some rafts and crossed the sea to the sea.
The fleeing southeast. All the natives who had not had time to escape turned against each other and surrendered. Ji Luya's mother, women, children and more than 500 followers also apologized to Zhuanxue and begged for surrender. Zhuanxue ignored the blame and forgived them. Ji Luya's mother respected Zhuanxue as the eldest father. At this time, the autumn tide was just over, and the settlements of the natives were surrounded by water and depressions. Zhuanxue immediately mobilized soldiers to help the natives build canals and divert traffic, and soon introduced the water in the depression into Wolong River, winning the favor of the natives. That winter, Zhuanxue had Ji Luya's mother as her wife and concubine."
"Ah?" I felt sweating profusely. Zhuanxue married Ji Luya's mother? If Zhongya was full of hatred for Zhuanxue, this... this is normal! After all, Zhuanxue defeated himself and married his wife! Thinking of this, he said to Mr. Li: "So, Zhongya and Dick led the remnants to escape, and they actually crossed the ocean and went to Southeast Asia. From then on, they settled on the sea and stopped interacting with people on the land, and became the current Bajiao people?
"Not necessarily," said Mr. Li, "According to our research, the ancestors of the Bajiao people did have some people brought by Zhongya and Dick, but there were also local natives in Southeast Asia. The descendants of Zhongya, who later returned to Middle-earth."
"What? Are they back for revenge?"
Mr. Li is a scholarly demeanor. He doesn't like to speak very much, but as soon as he starts to talk, he will talk about everything. He only heard him say, "Haha, you guy is a little interesting. No wonder you met Lao Yu a few days ago. He said he met a very spiritual young man. As for whether Zhongya is here to seek revenge, this is not very clear. But that is a thousand years later. They have completely adapted to marine life, have extremely strong physical strength and agility. This ability has been infused into their blood genes. When they returned to Middle Earth, it was probably the end of the Zhou Dynasty. The place where they landed was the Yue Kingdom at that time."
I said "um" and said, "If they want to return to their roots, returning to Vietnam is the most reasonable choice. And from the direction of the sea monsoon and ocean currents, returning here from Southeast Asia will be considered smooth sailing. However, if they are so skilled and are in the war period of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, they should easily become famous and become a brave general!"
After hearing what I said, Mr. Li smiled and said, "You said it well."
"But why didn't I know that there was such a brave general?"
"That's because they are too incredible and cannot record history. They can only find their shadow in unofficial history novels!" Mr. Li smiled, "Young man, you must have read Mr. Jin Yong's book, right?"
I nodded and said, "Of course I have read. Mr. Jin Yong's martial arts novel, 'Flying snow shoots white deer in the sky, and laughing at the god of the gods leaning on the green mandarin oranges', I'm afraid that as long as there are Chinese characters, everyone knows it, everyone knows it."
"So do you know that in addition to a martial arts novel writer, Mr. Jin Yong is also a famous historian?" Mr. Li looked at me and said.
"I know. The novels written by Mr. Jin Yong, especially the "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", are perfectly combined with martial arts and history, and are a model. Without a profound historical foundation, you cannot write them."
"Then, the couplet you just mentioned contains Mr. Jin Yong's fourteen martial arts masterpieces. But there is also the fifteenth one, do you know?"
"Of course! I've seen it," although Mr. Li's topic revolved around Mr. Jin Yong, and I didn't know what he wanted to say, he immediately replied, ""The Sword of the Yue Girl"!"
As soon as I finished speaking, words such as "Yue Guo", "high martial arts skills", "against one against a hundred", "fast and incompetent body speed" flashed through my mind. Suddenly, I realized what Mr. Li wanted to say, and hurriedly said: "Maybe you mean..."
Seeing that I seemed to understand, Mr. Li smiled and said, "Why is "The Sword of Yue Girl" not included in the fourteen novels in that couplet? Is it just for the neat parallelism of that couplet?"
I stared at Mr. Li and said, "Is it because "The Sword of Yue Girl" is not a novel at all?"
Mr. Li stroked his beard and said, "The son can teach you. The story about the Yue Girl's Sword is scattered in official history and Ye edited. The earliest and most detailed record is Zhao Ye's "Wu Yue Chunqiu" by Zhao Ye of the Eastern Han Dynasty. This is a serious and very rigorous historical book. In the later "A Gathering of Arts and Literature" and "Biographies of Swordsman", similar stories are also recorded."
After hearing Mr. Li's words, my brain hard drive couldn't help but spin at high speed.
In "The Sword of Yue Girl", Mr. Jin Yong described a woman named "A Qing", with outstanding swordsmanship and no one can beat. In the end, in order to pursue the Fan Li she loved, she did not let Fan Li follow Xi Shi, and even entered the Guanwa Palace alone, with one stick, smashing a thousand armored soldiers and a thousand swordsmen. Finally, she rushed to Xi Shi and wanted to kill her under the stick, but was shocked by Xi Shi's beauty. She finally changed her mind and fulfilled Fan Li, Xi Shi and the other two, and A Qing herself also drifted away.
"The Sword of Yue Girl" was originally a short story for the thirty-three "swordsmen" that Mr. Jin Yong decided to write a short story for the thirty-three "swordsmen" that were passed down since ancient times. However, he only completed the first "The Sword of Yue Girl", and for some reason, he did not continue to write it. Not only that, this book, "The Sword of Yue Girl", which was created in 1970, with only ten thousand words, is actually Mr. Jin Yong's last martial arts novel. After writing "The Sword of Yue Girl", Mr. Jin Yong insisted on writing "The Sword of the Deer and the Cauldron", which began serializing in 1969, and immediately announced his closing and no longer writing martial arts novels. Why, it is this "The Sword of Yue Girl" that became Mr. Jin Yong's shortest and last martial arts novel?
The strange thing did not end here. Careful people will find that Mr. Jin Yong made a logical mistake at the end of "The Sword of Yue", that is: The story says that Ah Qing finally hit Xi Shi with a stick. Although it did not pierce Xi Shi's heart, the energy on the stick hurts her, causing "Xizi to stick the heart" to become the most beautiful image in the world. However, we all know that Xi Shi had a heart disease since childhood, so he frowned. And the ugly Dong Shi learned her appearance, which led to the saying "Dong Shi imitated her".
As a master of history, why did Mr. Jin Yong make such a mistake?
Why, after Mr. Jin Yong finished writing "The Sword of Yue Girl", he did not continue to write about the other thirty-two swordsmen? He even sealed his pen?
I was always curious about these questions. It was not until then that I heard Mr. Li's words that I realized: Could it be that Mr. Jin Yong, as a famous historian, found that after verifying, the "fast" and "agile" A Qing he wrote was not a fantasy story at all, but a real historical figure? She is very likely what Mr. Li called "the descendant of the Tomb Ya" and "the Bajiao tribe who returned to the Middle Earth", that is, the "natural assassin" with extremely high talent. This assassin nation carries too many secrets, so Mr. Jin Yong deliberately made a mistake at the end of "The Sword of Yue Girl", which made everyone think that this is a fantasy story, which misleads all readers? If this is true, then this is exactly the same as the method of Qin Shihuang's "reverse thinking" mentioned earlier, and it is a smart method used by a very smart person.
I really want to shake my head and smile bitterly, and throw this crazy idea behind my head. But this is how I am. At this moment, I can't help but continue thinking: the so-called "swordsman" is actually "assassin". Yes, the so-called "assassin" can kill the head of the army's commander among millions of soldiers; in the deep courtyard of the palace, the wealth and life of the nobles can be taken away by the wealth and nobles. They master the most powerful martial arts and stick to their principles - the happiness of the people in the world. If there is only martial arts and no principles, just like the masked men in black who are raised by nobles in TV series to bully good people and eradicate dissidents, they can only be called "serial murderers" and "the man who buys murderers" and does not deserve to be called "assassin".
As Mr. Jin Yong said in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the so-called "the supreme martial arts world, the sword slays the dragon, and commands the world, no one dares to follow it. If the Heaven of Heaven does not come out, who will compete with each other?" means: the dragon slaying sword contains the "Wu Mu's suicide note", a master of military tactics that can dominate the world. If someone gets it, dominates the world as a king, but does things against the people, then there will be a master of martial arts who will learn the "Nine Yin True Sutra" hidden in the Yitian Sword and travels thousands of miles to seize the head of the foolish monarch. This master of martial arts world is the so-called "assassin".
The assassin who is "far from the world" is a shock to the king of humans who are "high in the temple" and is the conscience of the world. As Li Bai wrote in "The Legend of the Knights": "Zhao Ke is a man with the Hu Ying, Wu Gou is a frosty snow brightly. The silver saddle shines on the white horse, and it is as cool as a meteor. Kill one person in ten steps, without leaving a thousand miles away. After the matter is done, he will leave and hide his own life and reputation." How chivalrous and free and easy this is!
Speaking of the poem "kill one person in ten steps, and no journey is left for a thousand miles", those who are familiar with Zhang Yimou's movies will definitely think of a movie immediately: "Hero". Yes, Feixue and Canjian started assassinating Qin Shihuang in order to avenge their personal revenge. Before Wuming assassinated Qin, he was moved by the word "world" written by Canjian, and also gave up the rare opportunity to assassinate Qin in order to end the suffering of the people's inability to live and work in peace. From this perspective, Wuming and Canjian can be regarded as a hero.
However, after Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he took counter-independence, implemented tyranny, and imposed heavy taxes and heavy duty, and the people were displaced. However, only one Zhang Liang stood up and ambushed him in Bolangsha, but failed. No other assassins were seen. Where did they go?
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt shocked all over. The previous questions seemed to have reasonable explanations: Mr. Jin Yong expressed his respect and yearning for the righteous assassins in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", but after he finished writing "The Sword of the Yue Girl", the high possibility is: he discovered that after Ah Qing, the other "assassins" who returned to the Central Plains of the Bajiao tribe were all degenerate! The "assins" who should have adhered to the highest principle and were not moved by any secular power and temptation, for some reason, surrendered to Qin Shihuang and became the secret organization guarding Qin Shihuang's mausoleum!
Although there is still a lack of evidence to support this conclusion, I cannot help but believe the correctness of this conclusion: only such an organization that masters the highest martial arts can keep Qin Shihuang's tomb and the secrets in it for more than two thousand years, until today.
Yes, if I guess correctly, the witchcraft used by Ji Luya’s mother to defeat Zhuanxue is obviously the original version 1.0 of the secret medicine that turns people into "fake dead zombies". Her original husband, Tomb Ya, who has been overseas since the Dayu era, returned to Middle-earth in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period after two thousand years, and finally surrendered to Qin Shihuang and became a "tomb guardian" that no generation of dynasty dared to underestimate!
Chapter completed!