Chapter 23 Difficulty parting
After dinner was ready, it was already dark. Wang Zhong also came back from the market and made two packages, three water hyacinths, an iron spear and a steel knife. Wang Pengyu helped take the things and put them into the room.
Hu Xiulan rarely asked the cookie aunt to leave, so she stayed to have dinner together. Before leaving, Hu Xiulan personally sent the aunt out of the house.
Hu Xiulan returned to her room and was about to ask questions, but Wang Zhong bowed and said, "I will get up early tomorrow. The mountain road is difficult to walk. The young lady should rest early. I have some things to do. Please let the old lady take a break."
Hu Xiulan knew that Wang Zhong wanted to leave something for the villagers in Haibang, so she stopped asking and asked him to leave.
Wang Zhong left the room, returned to his house, stood at the table, spread out a piece of paper, grindled ink, picked up a pen, wrote a few lines, pressed it on the table, and took out a book to put it on the table, but it was a set of knife techniques "Wang Family Knife Principle" compiled by Wang Zhong himself during this period.
After Wang Zhong finished all this, he glanced at the things on the table again and sighed, "The people here are simple and simple, but it's a good place to spend their time in the old age. Unfortunately, people are in the world and cannot help themselves." After saying that, a helpless look appeared on his face.
The next day, it was a little brighter. When Wang Zhong went out, he found that Hu Xiulan had gotten up, packed up, and stood in the yard waiting for him.
Wang Zhong saw the li, woke up Wang Pengyu, carried the steel knife behind Wang Pengyu and said, "Young Master, this weapon is for you to use for the time being."
As he said that, he picked up the smaller package and a gourd, and helped Wang Pengyu carry it on his back, "The gourd is filled with water. I drink it when I am thirsty on the road. There are some scattered silver in the bag, not much. The young master should not be tired of carrying it on his back."
Wang Pengyu carried a steel knife and jumped and said, "Grandpa Wang, this package is not heavy, Yuer can carry some more things."
Wang Zhong picked up the straw hat and helped Wang Pengyu put it on and said, "It's hot on the road, so put on this to cover the sun." After Wang Zhong said that, he also carried a package, hung a knife, picked up a spear, looked at Wang Pengyu with a smile, and said, "There is no light burden on the road, and when you walk on your back, you feel heavy."
Waiting for Hu Xiulan to carry a gourd and wear a straw hat, Wang Zhong handed the crutch prepared yesterday to Hu Xiulan and said, "Mrs. Young Master, we can set off."
Wang Pengyu nodded and bent down, patted Da Hei Wolf's head and said, "Da Hei, we are leaving, the journey is long. If you don't want to follow us, you can go back to the mountain."
The big black wolf seemed to feel that the breakup was about to be broken up, so he looked up and let out a "whimper" howl at Wang Pengyu, but no longer had the "www" sound of a dog.
After saying that, Wang Pengyu reached out and took out the parchment paper and handed it to Wang Zhong, "Grandpa Wang, the technique recorded on it is really useful. I have the skills I have today, and its function cannot be ignored. Yuer has already recorded all the mantras and meridians and paths inside, so I will leave it to my grandfather for safekeeping."
Wang Zhong took it and said, "No wonder the young master's kung fu has improved so quickly. It's good that the young masters gather and our family will practice together."
After saying that, Wang Zhong said with a sharp spear, "There is no banquet in the world that will last forever. Let's go so as not to be sad if the villagers see it."
Hu Xiulan agreed, held Wang Pengyu's hand, followed Wang Zhong out of the yard, looked back at the old house where he had lived for three years, and then the master and servant turned around and headed west.
The big black wolf followed Wang Pengyu and kept "whining" all the way. When he reached the foot of the mountain, he turned around and entered the mountain area and disappeared.
Wang Pengyu sighed helplessly and said, "Da Hei is still leaving."
Indeed, after living together for three years, once we parted, our hearts were filled with reluctance. This is how people were and beasts were like this. What left was the beauty of the past, and what was left was the unforgettable sorrow of thoughts.
The big black wolf did not really go far. He stood alone on Gaogang, looking at the footsteps of Wang Pengyu and the other two traveling west, but did not move for a long time.
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The sun also left the sea and rose higher and higher. The aunt who cooked the rice arrived at Wang's house as usual, but found that the courtyard gate was wide open and the doors of each room were not closed. She thought that the head of the family went out to practice martial arts or took a walk, but she didn't care. She prepared the meal and waited for the master and servant of the Wang family to return.
However, when it was lunch time, I still didn't see the head of the family. The aunt felt that it was extraordinary and hurried to go to the village to find the old man to help me check what was going on.
The old man read the letter left by Wang Zhong, sighed and said, "Our Haibang is still too small to keep them." As he said that, he picked up the knife score on the table, and turned around and left.
The cooked aunt was left to look at the food she cooked with her own hands, and then muttered to herself for a long time: "It turns out that what the head of the family said yesterday was all about parting." After saying that, a tear flowed out of her eyes.
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Wang Pengyu walked westward and kept looking back at the big black wolf on the hills. The big black wolf gradually turned into a black dot. By the sunset, the figure of the big black wolf could no longer be seen in the west.
Wang Zhong looked at the slope down the mountain and smiled and said, "Young Master, the monster belongs to the mountains and fields. It is a good thing to release it back to nature. Don't be sad. We should be happy for it."
Wang Pengyu nodded and said, "Grandpa is right, but Xiaoyu"... but the following words can no longer be said.
Hu Xiulan reached out and patted Wang Pengyu on the shoulder and said, "When we meet with your father, we will persuade your father to come to Nanbang to live in seclusion and stay away from the disputes in the officialdom in the capital, and we will see Dahe again."
The three of them had a short rest and got up and went down the mountain. They gradually disappeared. It became dark. The wolf king wandered alone in the mountains, constantly making wolf howls, which scared passers-by and they couldn't help but speed up.
The wolf king roared for a while, then entered the mountains and returned to his former wolf den. Unfortunately, the wolf den had already lost wild wolves, and thatched moss grew everywhere.
The wolf king wandered for a long time, and then he howled again at the full moon in the air, but then turned into a "woof" barking.
After shouting, he turned around, looked in the direction where Wang Pengyu left, jumped away from the wolf's nest, and chased after him.
Wang Pengyu and his family settled in Shanjian Inn. Wang Pengyu was a little irritable in the room, so he sat cross-legged on the bed, made seals with one hand and beads with the other hand on his legs, closed his eyes and sat up, and soon he calmed down and entered into a state of meditation.
At midnight, he was woken up by the yelling of several domestic dogs in the inn. Hearing the noisy yelling and scolding from the inn, Wang Pengyu was surprised and opened the door to see what was going on.
He looked at the direction of the dog barking wildly under the moonlight and felt a sense of joy. He hurriedly got off the building and ran to the inn courtyard gate. He was about to open the gate, but was stopped by a guard and said, "Young guest officer, there is a wolf outside, so it's dangerous to go out."
When the big black wolf saw Wang Pengyu, he barked a few times, then jumped over the inn courtyard wall, and rushed towards Wang Pengyu.
The inn guard was shocked and hurriedly pulled out the steel knife and slashed at the wolf king who was rushing towards him.
Chapter completed!