Chapter 3 All beings (IV)

Guo Yunming stood behind the side of the ship, and his body slowly turned with the rotation of the ship. His eyes were always staring at the dark wilderness on the shore, as if a beast would be thrown out in the wilderness and pounced on his throat at any time.

The enemy was still on the shore and was staring at everyone leaving! No matter how sarcastic the Wagang crowd was, no matter how sweet Han Chongyun spoke, he, Guo Yunming, still firmly believed in his previous judgment.

This is the intuition he developed after he had been rushing countless times in the sea of ​​corpses and blood. As long as he was in danger, the position between his eyebrows and the end of his nose would be numb. This intuition saved their lives many times at critical moments. Therefore, Guo Yunming never believed it, but this time, his intuition actually had a problem!

That's absolutely impossible!

Even though Han Chongyun did not lie, he really took the initiative to contact Yu Siwen and other Wagang thieves and planned the entire action plan with his own hands. It still cannot be proved that the opponent behind the night scene does not exist.

The reason why this person has not taken action for a long time is that he has not found the right time.

Once the opportunity approaches, this person will definitely suddenly emerge from the ink-like darkness and expose sharp fangs to everyone's throats!

The numbness at the end of the bridge of the nose was so violent that Guo Yunming did not dare to relax at all. However, what made him extremely disappointed was that until the big ship crossed the middle of the river and completely abandoned the south bank behind him, the enemy hidden in the dark still did not appear.

This man, Wanruo's dew that fell on the sand, disappeared slowly and clearly in front of his eyes. He disappeared completely, leaving no trace of excess.

"Chief, go back to the cabin. The wind is strong on the river!" Li Wenfeng, the head of the capital, walked forward with Wu Qing's eyes and whispered.

Influenced by Guo Yunming, he also stood on the deck with full alert for half an hour. Now, both mentally and physically, he is extremely exhausted.

"You go down first, I'll patrol around again." Guo Yunming smiled friendly, and the blood on his face kept beating with the swaying lights.

"Yes!" Li Wenfeng crossed his hands to take the order, but he didn't dare to actually run into the cabin to rest. The commander of the army was still patrolling the night, so how could he, the little man, have the courage to hide and be lazy?

"You don't have to be polite, I'm telling the truth! You hurry up and take a nap. As you are now, it is estimated that the boat will be able to reach the north shore in at most half an hour. When we get on the shore, we will rotate with each other!" When he doesn't try to harm others, Guo Yunming will become very generous and considerate. Seeing that Li Wenfeng refused to move his steps for a long time, he smiled and continued to add.

"Subordinate to obey the order!" This time, Li Wenfeng, the head of the capital, did not continue to worry about the position gap between the two parties. He saluted again and ran into the cabin quickly.

Guo Yunming smiled friendly at his back, slowly moved his footsteps, and walked to the stern of the boat. His eyes turned to the south bank of the Yellow River that normal people could not see clearly, and he stood up again as a sculpture.

The numbness at the end of the nose bridge is still there, which means that the opponent has not left yet. This group of people is very patient, but Guo Yunming believes that in the world, few people can have better patience than their own.

Because, in this world, no one can reach his position and experience more hardships than he has.

Although he now regarded himself as a descendant of the famous Tang general Guo Ziyi and became a clan relative with Guo Jin, the governor of Fuzhou. However, he clearly remembered that he was originally an orphan, and since he could remember, he had no idea who his parents were. The surname Guo originally came from an old beggar.

The old beggar adopted more than a dozen orphans like him, but it was not out of kindness, but needed to use the orphans' youth to win the sympathy of the people in order to beg for more dry food and money for him.

At least half a liter of rice or three copper plates a day. If you can’t complete the task after dark, what is waiting for the little beggars are willow branches, boards, and even iron sticks.

Guo Yunming once saw with his own eyes that the old beggar broke a girl who had not completed the task for five consecutive days with an iron stick. Then, for fifty cents, he sold her to another beggar leader with a rotten nose, who disguised himself as father and daughter to beg in the next city.

A disabled child can always win more sympathy. Within the next three months or even half a year, the girl was the money tree for the beggar with a rotten nose. As for whether the daughter would suffer from a lifelong disability, no one would consider it again. Usually, the little beggar with a broken leg would not live for at most half a year. At that time, he had earned dozens of times the cost of a rotten nose, and could take the money to buy a "daughter" in another city, break her legs or arms, and continue his plan to make money!

Guo Yunming couldn't imagine what he looked like after he broke his legs, so he tried his best every day when begging. If it was almost dark and there was no complete task, he would no longer hold the pedestrian's thigh and ask for advice, but instead find a way to steal and cheat! Even if he was beaten to death again and again because of theft and fraud, at least those people would not break his legs alive because of the loss of a few copper coins.

Even though he gained a lot of money on the day, he didn't dare to sleep too early. He always kept his eyes half open until the old beggar surnamed Guo started to snore and dared to relax his vigilance a little.

Because he looks more beautiful than any beggar around him, and being handsome is a punishment from God for orphans who have no power to protect themselves. When those beggars are very vicious, they do not care whether their little beggars are male or female. Sometimes, spoiling a boy who struggles to resist will often make their blood more exciting than spoiling an orphan.

However, he was still a child at that time. No matter how patient he was, he could not compare to an adult.

So, one night, when he was awakened by the sudden pain, the whole world changed color.

Since then, he has never lost with others' patience.

Because he has no choice but to lose!

According to common sense, beggars like him who are without parents rarely have the chance to grow up. But fortunately, one day, Guo Yunming stole a dagger while stealing.

The dagger came from a drunk young man. It was very short but extremely sharp. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was peeling iron like mud.

That night, before returning to the ruined temple, Guo Yunming hid the dagger under the stone, so that he was not searched by the old beggar like a copper coin.

In the middle of the night, when the old beggar came to him drunk again as usual and tried to relive the "master-disciple friendship", he cut the man's throat with the dagger.

There have been wars for years, and there are many beggars and refugees from all over the country.

There are hundreds of beggars who are frozen to death every winter, and the government never cares about them.

But a beggar leader who regularly paid taps to the officers was killed, but the local government immediately cheered up.

The case is solved without any effort, and Guo Yunming, the criminal, was also arrested for conclusive evidence.

At this moment, the lucky star shone on him for the first time.

The former owner of the dagger knew about him when the yamen runners took the "lost property" and used a letter to turn him from a murderer to a young righteous man.

Of course, the young righteous man could not be a beggar anymore, so Guo Yunming had a new identity, changed his surname to Fan, and followed behind the original owner of the dagger to be a book boy.

However, he, a book boy, was not only responsible for the study of the original owner of the dagger. The latter was the eldest son of Fan Huirou, the commander of the Hedong commander, who had great ambitions since childhood. Under his command, he raised at least hundreds of orphans like Guo Yunming who were fatherless and motherless and lawless. He trained rigorously every day to prepare for future needs.

Unfortunately, the ability of this eldest son Fan is far inferior to his ambition. Before he could bring the stored dead soldiers to use, the mansion of the Hedong Commander was surrounded by heavy troops. Fan Huirou's family was executed, and all the slaves in his property were confiscated. On the surface, Fan Yunming, as a book boy, was also one of the confiscated items.

Then, the lucky star shone on him again.

As confiscated items, he was awarded to the Zhuzhou Jiedushi Liu Zhiyuan, the current King of Han.

Liu Zhiyuan was a descendant of the Shatuo people and liked to ride horses and hunt. He just helped track the target, and he raised more than a dozen falcons at home, each of which cost more than a thousand gold.

When a slave is old and weak, the cost of severance will never exceed two slaughter.

The exception is the slave who serves the falcon. Even if he is old and weak, he can still get a share of it in the mansion.

The old Eagle Slave needs to constantly train disciples for the Jiedu Mansion so that after his death, the falcon will not be taken care of.

So, an eagle slave named Guo Er suddenly became kind and took Fan Yunming, who had a pretty face as his apprentice.

From that day on, his surname was Guo again. He was loved by his master.

Every night, both master and apprentice sleep with their feet.

A year later, Guo Yunming learned all the skills of the eagle slave Guo Er.

A year and a half later, the eagle slave Guo Er fell to the side of the road while drunk and fell into a coma while going out. He was covered by heavy snow and frozen to death!

Guo Yunming inherited his master's vacancies and became the youngest and most outstanding eagle slave in the Jieduan Mansion.

The falcon he taught () was the best in the entire Jiedu Mansion and even the entire Hedong. It could not help but attract the attention of Jiedu Liu Zhiyuan.

Then, he went from raising eagles and hunting slaves to becoming a military governor, a personal servant, and a two-man in charge of the inner government. He gradually climbed to the position of a famous clerk, cleared his identity step by step, and changed from a slave to a good family. After a famous family, he gradually became Guo Changshi, who is now both civil and military.

The hard work and price paid during this period are not enough for outsiders to explain in detail.

However, Guo Yunming knew clearly that having all this right now was related to his unmatched endurance.

He used to be patient with the falcons raised in the Jiedu Mansion. He did not eat or move for several days or nights, but just stared at each other's eyes. Until the falcon could not hold on, he took the lead in hanging down his proud head and went to drink water and eat obediently.

He once tied a rooster with blood on his legs to the tree and squatted on it for days and nights. Until a red fox that he had been targeted by him for a long time lost his vigilance, he came out of the cave to kill the rooster, and then he grabbed it with a net and captured it alive. Finally, it became Liu Zhiyuan's favorite leather collar.

Patience and alertness have created him and given him his current identity and status.

He wanted to use his patience and vigilance to dig out the true appearance of the opponent in the dark night on the south bank.

Staring, staring, without blinking, he never moved like a real wood sculpture.

The blood flowed all over his body almost stopped, and his pale face was almost numb by the night wind. I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly, a few ignitions lit up on the south bank of the Yellow River.

It was very weak, like a ghost fire in a mid-summer night, it quickly rolled onto the river beach, and then quickly left.

At the same time, behind the rolling waves, a few faint crane sounds came faintly, just like the autumn wind passing by the leaves of the reeds, slender and long.

It was a bronze hula, Guo Yunming, who had commanded the falcon for Liu Zhiyuan, was very familiar with this. Even if it was weak, he could tell it clearly.

The copper hulu was the most commonly used contact item when Shatuo people went to war.

Today, there are only two teams under the command of the heroes of the world who still maintain many Shatuo habits.

One is Liu Zhiyuan, a Shatuo native who once served under the command of Emperor Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty, and now the King of Han.

The other is Li Yanqing, the fourth son of Li Cunshen, the adopted son of Li Keyong, the ancestor of the Later Tang Dynasty.
Chapter completed!