Chapter 3 The second round of friendship and friendship in adversity

Everyone was about to talk when Liu Fangliang's dark face suddenly jumped out from the back seat and stood at the door.Everyone was surprised, not knowing what happened, they all stood up.The black-faced boy pointed at the two middle-aged men in the crowd and shouted: "You are Eunuch Cao's subordinates, what are you doing here?" As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked. They all knew that after Emperor Chongzhen punished Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka clan, although the rebels in the palace were wiped out, the emperor was suspicious by nature and followed the habits since Taizu and Chengzu. The ministers were suspicious, and they still appointed the eunuchs brought from Thaksin's palace, and the most favored one was Cao Huachun.This person commanded the emperor's imperial detectives and guards, the so-called "factory guards", who spied on the privacy of the ministers of the court and generals from all over the country. The ministers of civil and military affairs often ordered the emperor to be killed for no reason, or were arrested arbitrarily and put in prison. The so-called "going to prison" is all due to Cao Huachun's secret report.When the name of Eunuch Cao was mentioned at that time, it can be said that everyone's expressions changed.

One of the two had a yellow beard and was about forty years old, while the other had a white face and was short and fat.The short fat man's complexion changed suddenly, then he calmed down, and said with a smile: "Are you talking about me? Are you kidding?" When Shan Zong came, he said that he had reported to Eunuch Cao and wanted to send troops to catch them all, and I heard all these words!" The man with the yellow beard drew out his steel saber, and made a gesture that he was going to fight with each other.The white-faced fat man laughed, and said, "Li Chuang wants to take in the friends of the Shanzong, and his intentions are sinister. Who doesn't know? You want to spread rumors and stir up trouble, that's not possible." His voice was thin and soft Sharp, like an eunuch's voice, but these few words have also taken effect.Many people in Yuan's party looked sideways and became suspicious of Li Zicheng's emissary.

Although Liu Fangliang was born in a farming family, he has been tempered for a long time in battles. Seeing the expressions of everyone in the Yuan Party, he knew that his words had moved everyone's hearts, so he shouted: "Who is your Excellency? Are you a friend of the Shanzong?" The question hit the point, the man was at a loss for words and just sneered. Sun Zhongshou shouted: "Is my friend Yuan Dushi's old department? How come I haven't seen it? Which commander-in-chief are you?" The white-faced man knew it was a failure, he winked at the yellow-bearded man, the two jumped up abruptly, and both landed at the door.The yellow-bearded man swung his knife and slashed at the black-faced boy.The white-faced man looked half male and half female, but he moved very quickly. With a flip of his wrists, he pulled out the judge's pens and tapped on the black-faced boy's chest.

The black-faced boy came up the mountain without a weapon because he came to pay respects and avoid the other party's suspicion.When everyone saw that his hands were empty and he was suddenly flanked, seven or eight people rushed to rescue him.Unexpectedly, that young man's kungfu is very good, his left hand is like the wind, and he used grappling techniques, he grabbed Huang Xuke's wrist, at the same time, he raised his two middle fingers with his right hand, and pointed at the white-faced man's eyes first.These two moves came late, and immediately forced the two enemies to retreat two steps.

Everyone in Yuan Dang saw that he turned from defense to attack in just one move, applauded secretly, and all of them stopped.Seeing that they couldn't go out, the two people knew that they were in a tiger's den, and the situation was extremely dangerous, they just retreated two steps, and rushed forward again.The black-faced boy opened his palms, shuttled back and forth between the single knife and the double pen, attacking more and defending less.Those two rushed to the door several times, but he forced them back. The white-faced man was restless, so he changed his brushwork, with both pens horizontally and vertically pointing to the opponent's key points.Huang Xuke performed Shanxi Wushengmen sword technique, lowered his body, and slashed at the lower part of the black-faced boy.Seeing the crisis, everyone wanted to reach out to help, but at a glance, seeing Liu Fangliang's calm expression, he sat down to watch the battle instead, thinking that if he himself is not in a hurry, he must be confident, let's wait and see what happens.

The three of them moved back and forth in the hall, and when the fight got to the point where the yellow-bearded man suddenly screamed, he let go of his sword and flew towards the crowd.Zhu Anguo jumped up and stretched out his hand to copy it, and took it in his hand.At this moment, the black-faced boy took a step forward, raised his left leg, and kicked the yellow-bearded man down.Before he retracted his left leg, his right leg took advantage of the momentum to rise again, the white-faced man was taken aback, he just wanted to force the enemy away, snatched the door and fled down the mountain, at that moment he mustered all his strength, and pointed his pens against the enemy's chest one after the other.The black-faced boy stretched out his right hand, grabbed the tip of the left pen, twisted it hard, and snatched a judge's pen.At this time, the other party followed suit with the right pen, and he smashed the tip of the pen over.The two pens intersected, and with a bang, sparks burst out, the white-faced man's jaws burst open, and the right pen was released from his hand.

The black-faced boy let out a long laugh, grabbed his chest with his right hand, lifted it up, grabbed his trouser waist with his left hand, and separated his hands, only to hear a sneer, a pair of pants of the white-faced man had been ripped off, exposing his lower body.Everyone was stunned, the black-faced boy smiled and said: "Are you an eunuch, let's see!" Everyone focused their eyes on the white-faced man's lower body, and it turned out that he was clean.Amidst the roar of laughter, the crowd gathered around, seeing this black-faced boy's extremely quick moves and superb martial arts, they all admired him very much.

At this time, people had rushed up and held down the white-faced man and the yellow-bearded man.Sun Zhongshou asked, "Why did eunuch Cao send you here? How many other party members do you have? How did you get in?" The two remained silent.As soon as Sun Zhongshou winked, Luo Shenjiang raised a single saber, whistling twice cut off the heads of the two men and placed them on the altar in front of the statue. Sun Zhongshou cupped his hands and said to Liu Fangliang: "If the three of you hadn't discovered the traitor, we wouldn't have known about the imminent disaster." Liu Fangliang said: "That's also a coincidence. We met these two guys on the road, and saw that they looked strange and were very agile. In the evening, I went to the inn to investigate, and luckily discovered their details."

Sun Zhongshou said to Liu Fangliang's two servants: "Please tell me your surnames and surnames." The two reported their names, the fair-skinned one was named Tian Jianxiu, and the black-faced boy was named Cui Qiushan.Zhu Anguo took Cui Qiushan's hand in the past and said many words of admiration. Liu Fangliang, Sun Zhongshou and several leaders of the Yuan Party went to the back hall for a secret talk.Liu Fangliang said that General Li hopes that everyone will join hands to rebel and form an alliance.Everyone in Yuan Dang felt hesitant.Although everyone hated Emperor Chongzhen and decided to assassinate him secretly, and had done a lot of killing officials and punishing traitors, everyone was originally an official of the Ming Dynasty, and they were unwilling to ask them to rebel. Clan Mingjun.What's more, Li Zicheng was always a "rogue bandit". Although he had a great reputation, he robbed houses, ran around and plundered.After Yuan's party left the army, in order to make a living, sometimes they would inevitably do a few cheap transactions, but they never openly called themselves thieves.The identities of the two parties are different, and the discussion has been difficult for a long time.

In the end Sun Zhongshou said: "Eunuch Cao has known about our matter, if we don't form an alliance with General Li to make a big deal, not only will it be difficult to assassinate Chongzhen to avenge Governor Yuan, I'm afraid that eunuch Cao will send people to intercept and kill him everywhere. We are alone and weak, so it is inevitable that we will be murdered one by one. Brother Liu, can we make it happen? Our Shanzong helped General Li fight officers and soldiers. Explain first, in the future, General Li will be the emperor, but our Shanzong friends do not agree, and the descendants of Emperor Taizu's surname must be Zhu."

Liu Fangliang said: "General Li rebelled only because he couldn't be forced by the government. He was determined not to be emperor. Brothers slapped their chests on this matter. People call us rogues, but in fact we are just peasants who just want to have a living. Eat, the head on the head is secure, that's all. We have no choice but to flee here and there. With our material, we can't be the emperor's official. As for the fight against the Jianzhou Tartars, General Li's My heart is exactly the same as that of everyone, usually speaking, General Li really hates the Tartars to the bone." Sun Zhongshou said: "That would be the best." No one in Yuan's party had any objections, so the discussion of forming an alliance was a foregone conclusion.
Inside they were discussing the alliance plan, Zhu Anguo and Ni Hao took Cui Qiushan's hand and walked to a secluded corner. Zhu Anguo said: "Brother Cui, although we met for the first time, we hit it off right away, don't treat us as outsiders." Cui Qiushan said: "The two elder brothers used to fight Tartars and protect the country. Brothers have always admired them. Today we can Brother is very happy to see so many heroes and friends of Shanzong." Ni Hao said: "I would venture to ask, which senior hero is brother Cui's apprentice?" Cui Qiushan said: "Brother's mentor is Shanxi Datong. There is a sound from the government, Mr. Bai Yebai. He has been dead for many years." Zhu Anguo and Ni Hao looked at each other, both feeling puzzled.Ni Hao said: "We have admired Senior Lei Bai's name for a long time. But there is a saying, Brother Cui, please don't be offended. Although Senior Bai's martial arts are high, it seems that he is not as good as Brother Cui." Cui Qiushan remained silent.Zhu Anguo said: "Although young people come out of blue, it is common for apprentices to be better than masters, but just now I saw Brother Cui's movement skills to defeat the two spies, it seems that there is another truth." Cui Qiushan hesitated for a moment, and said: "You two are good friends, I dare not hide it. After my master passed away, I met an expert by chance. He taught me some martial arts and asked me to swear not to do so. Said his name, so I ask the two big brothers to forgive me." Seeing that he was speaking sincerely, Ni and Zhu hurriedly said: "Brother Cui, don't say that. We have something to ask, so we boldly asked." Cui Qiushan said: "If you have any questions, please speak up. Everyone You are one of your own, so why be polite?" Zhu Anguo said, "Brother Cui, please wait a moment, let's discuss with two friends." Zhu and Ni pulled those surnamed Ying and Luo aside.Zhu Anguo said: "Brother Cui is very skilled in martial arts, and none of us here can match him. Listening to him speak, his personality is very bold." Ni Hao said: "It means that when it comes to the succession of masters, he is a bit hesitant." So he repeated Cui Qiushan's words again. The surname Ying was Ying Song, and he was a counselor under Yuan Chonghuan's tenure. He used a lot of strength to build the city in Ningyuan.Daqian, surnamed Luo, was a famous gunner. During the Battle of Ningyuan, he ignited the Hongyi cannon and killed countless Qing soldiers. He was promoted to a general because of his meritorious service. Ying Song said: "Let's ask him directly and see what he says?" Zhu Anguo said: "You should ask Mr. Sun about this first." Ying Song said: "That's right." Turning to the back hall, I saw that Sun Zhongshou and Liu Fangliang were talking very speculatively, so I invited Sun Zhongshou out to discuss.What these generals are good at is marching and fighting, charging into battle, when it comes to spears and crossbows, ten swings and ten decisive battles, they are brave, but in martial arts, they are not as good as Cui Qiushan. Sun Zhongshou said: "Master Ying, this matter is related to the life of the young master. You should find out the tone of the surname Cui first." Ying Song nodded and agreed, and went to see Cui Qiushan with Zhu Anguo, Ni Hao and Luo Daqian. Ying Song said: "We have one thing, and only Brother Cui can help with it, so..." Seeing that they hesitated to speak, Cui Qiushan said with a look of embarrassment, "Brothers are vulgar people. If you have any orders, as long as brothers can do it, you will obey them." Ying Song said: "Brother Cui is very straightforward, so let's talk straight. After Governor Yuan was murdered, he left behind a son who was only seven years old. We fought three times with Jin Yiwei, who was sent by the faint king to arrest the family member of the governor. , Seven brothers died to save Yuan Dushi's flesh and blood." Cui Qiushan hummed.Ying Song said: "This young master's name is Yuan Chengzhi, and the four of us taught him to read and practice martial arts. He is very smart, and he can master it as soon as he is taught. In the past few years, we have taught him almost all of our skills. Although he is old I'm young, my kung fu is not yet mastered, but if I continue to practice with us, I'm sure it won't be a big deal." Cui Qiushan already understood what they meant, and said: "You want him to learn martial arts from me?" Zhu Anguo said: "Just now I saw brother Cui killing a thief, his martial arts are ten times better than ours, if brother Cui is willing to accept this apprentice and train him to become a man , Governor Yuan is in the spirit of heaven, and I will be very grateful." After saying that, the four of them bowed down. Cui Qiushan hastily returned the gift, and said in a deep voice: "I appreciate you all, brother shouldn't refuse, but brother is now in General Li's army, he will come and go, and sometimes he will take over the army, and he doesn't know how long he will live. Mr. Yuan and I are in the team, because I'm afraid I won't have time to teach him, and because it's too dangerous." Ying Song and the others thought that this was indeed the case, and felt very disappointed. Cui Qiushan suddenly said: "There is a person who is better than me by many times. If he is willing to accept Mr. Yuan, it is really Mr. Yuan's good fortune." Suddenly he shook his head again and again, and said to himself: "No, no." Zhu Anguo hurriedly asked: "Who is that?" Cui Qiushan said: "It is the strange man I mentioned earlier. This senior's kung fu is really unfathomable. He taught me for more than two months, and my brother only learned a little bit." Fur." Zhu Anguo was overjoyed and asked, "Who is this strange man?" Cui Qiushan said, "He has a very strange temper. Although he taught me martial arts, he refused to let me call him Master, and he didn't allow me to ask him." Someone leaked his name. I beg him to accept Mr. Yuan as his apprentice, I'm afraid it won't be possible." Ni Hao asked: "Where does this strange man live?" Cui Qiushan said: "His whereabouts are uncertain, and he never goes anywhere. Tell me." Ying Song and the other four saw that this matter was hopeless, so they had to give up. Ying Song called Yuan Chengzhi over and met Cui Qiushan.Cui Qiushan liked him very much when he saw that he was lively and lively, with a dark complexion, without any signs of being pampered by a rich and noble son.Asked about the martial arts he had learned, Yuan Chengzhi answered, and asked: "Uncle Cui, what kind of kung fu did you catch those two spies just now?" Cui Qiushan said: "That's called Fuhu Palm." Yuan Chengzhi said: "It's so fast, I can't even see clearly." Cui Qiushan said with a smile: "Do you want to learn?" Yuan Chengzhi hurriedly said after hearing this: "Uncle Cui, please teach me." Cui Qiushan said to Ying Song with a smile: "I told General Liu, if you stay here for a few days, pass on this palm technique to him!" Yuan Chengzhi and Ying Zhu Ni were all very happy and thanked them repeatedly.
Early the next morning, Sun Zhongshou bid farewell to Zhang Chaotang, Yang Pengju and the other three, and said: "We met once again, and we are destined to meet at last. You only need to reveal half a word about what happened here, and you don't need to say anything about the consequences."Sun Zhongshou gave fifty taels of silver as a dish fee each, and sent two brothers to send them down the mountain. Zhang Chaotang and Yang Pengju went to Guangzhou without any reason.Yang Pengju suffered from this setback and became discouraged. He knew that there were mountains above and beyond the rivers and lakes, and there were people in the world. With this little effort, he was able to make it to this day. , has become a useless person without eyes, thinking about it secretly frightened, immediately resigned from the escort agency, and wanted to go home to work in farming.Zhang Chaotang was grateful for his life-saving grace, and seeing that he was in a depressed mood, he invited him to visit the country of Luni to relax.Yang Pengju saw that there was nothing left and right, and he was homeless, so he agreed immediately. The three hired a ship in Guangzhou and headed for Luni.Yang Pengju lived there for more than a month, seeing that the place was so peaceful and happy, like a paradise, he didn't want to go back, so he took a small job in the Nadu's mansion of Zhang Xin, the father of Zhang Chaotang.I work for one or two hours a day, and the rest is spent drinking and gambling, and I am very happy.
Liu Fangliang, Sun Zhongshou and others agreed to form an alliance, and everyone made a solemn oath in front of Yuan Chonghuan's statue that they would never bear each other.Liu Fangliang was about to make love with Yuan Dang, and was very happy to hear that Cui Qiushan was going to teach Yuan Chengzhi martial arts, so Hetian Jianxiu went down the mountain first. Some heroes from all walks of life in the Yuan Party voted for Li Zicheng; some returned to their hometowns and prepared to make trouble;People have their own ambitions, and others are not reluctant. Sun Zhongshou, Zhu Anguo, Ni Hao, Ying Song and others stayed on the mountain to discuss Yuan Chengzhi's future provenance in detail. Yuan Chengzhi was so happy that he didn't sleep well all night after Cui Qiushan agreed to teach him how to crouch the tiger.The next day everyone was too busy forming alliances to pay attention to this matter.In the afternoon, everyone went down the mountain one after another. Before leaving, everyone said goodbye to the young master, and they were busy for a long time. In the evening, Sun Zhongshou and Ying Song ordered people to light red candles and set up high chairs. They asked Cui Qiushan to sit on it, and asked Yuan Chengzhi to perform the ceremony of apprenticeship.Cui Qiushan said: "I fell in love with the little brother of the Yuan family as soon as I saw him. He loves my set of crouching tiger palms. I spent a few days to teach the general idea. But can he learn it in a few days? Whether he can use it in the future depends on his comprehension and future practice. This is just a discussion between friends, and the status of master and apprentice cannot be discussed anyway." Ying Song said: "As long as you can teach one trick and two tricks The way is to be a teacher for life. Why should brother Cui be too modest?" Cui Qiushan must not agree, and everyone has no choice but to do so. Everyone knows the rules in the martial arts, and it is inconvenient for others to watch when passing on the skills, so after saying goodbye, they leave. Cui Qiushan and the others went out, and said seriously: "Chengzhi, this set of crouching tiger palms was passed down to me by a senior expert. I can't fully understand the essence of it, and the kung fu is really far behind, but in the Jianghu It is enough to deal with ordinary enemies. When the old man taught this set of palms, he made me swear that after learning it, I will never use it to oppress good people and hurt innocent people." When Yuan Chengzhi heard it, he understood what he meant, and immediately knelt down and said: "Disciple Yuan Chengzhi, after learning the Fuhu palm technique, he will never dare to bully the good and harm the innocent, otherwise, otherwise..." He didn't know the rules of the oath , Said: "Otherwise, Uncle Cui will beat him to death." Cui Qiushan smiled and said: "Very good." Suddenly he swayed and the person was gone.When Yuan Chengzhi turned around in a hurry, Cui Qiushan had already circled behind him, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "You catch me." After being instructed by three masters Zhu Anguo, Ni Hao, and Luo Daqian, Yuan Chengzhi had already established a little foundation in martial arts. He immediately shortened his body, swayed his left hand, and turned his right hand in circles. Grab it on your leg. Cui Qiushan said happily: "This is a good move!" After finishing speaking, he lightly patted his shoulder with his palm, and the figure disappeared again.Yuan Chengzhi calmed down, stretched out a pair of small palms, and even protected the vital points of his body. Seeing that Cui Qiushan was so fast, he could no longer catch him, so he stopped playing hide-and-seek with him, step by step. He retreated to the wall, turned around suddenly, leaned against the wall, and said with a smile, "Uncle Cui, I see you!" Cui Qiushan couldn't go around behind him anymore, stopped in his tracks, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, you are very smart, you must be able to learn Fuhu Zhang." So he taught him every move from the beginning. There are a total of one hundred and eight movements in this way of palming, and each movement has three variations.Yuan Chengzhi memorized silently, learned it several times, and remembered the moves roughly correctly.Cui Qiushan said repeatedly, and then taught the usage of each move and change in detail.Yuan Chengzhi has a solid foundation in martial arts and has a strong understanding. Cui Qiushan can understand it when he talks about it.One taught hard, the other studied hard until late at night. Early the next morning, Cui Qiushan was walking on the side of the mountain, and saw Yuan Chengzhi was practicing boxing, performing the changes of Fuhuzhang's one hundred and eight moves, and the eight key points of hooking, curling, pressing, splitting, tearing, hitting, collapsing, and spit out , I can actually understand its main purpose and know its essence.Cui Qiushan liked it very much. When he was in a trance, he suddenly jumped forward, raised his leg and kicked his vest. Yuan Chengzhi suddenly heard the sound of the wind behind him, avoided it sideways, and pulled the enemy's right leg back. He caught a glimpse of Cui Qiushan, and hurriedly withdrew his hand, screaming: "Uncle Cui!" Cui Qiushan smiled and said: "Don't stop, hit. "A slap across the face. Yuan Chengzhi knew that he was fighting with himself, so he took a step forward, and hit Cui Qiushan's waist and crotch with his small fists.Cui Qiushan praised: "That's right, that's it." Pointing in his mouth, his subordinates kept fighting with him, and when they saw Yuan Chengzhi made a mistake, he immediately corrected it.The two of them exchanged fists and feet, dismantling Fuhu Palm's one hundred and eight forms and three hundred and twenty-four changes over and over again.Yuan Chengzhi saw that this set of palms has changed a lot, and Cui Qiushan became more and more amazing when he used it. He was very happy and memorized it with his heart.After dismantling for a long time, Cui Qiushan saw that he was sweating on his head and knew he was tired, so he stopped his hands and asked him to sit down and rest, while explaining with gestures.After talking for more than an hour, he was told to stand up and fight. From early morning until late at night, apart from eating, the two kept dismantling and practicing palm techniques.After practicing like this for seven days, on the night of the eighth day, Cui Qiushan said: "I have passed on everything I know to you. Whether you will be successful in the future depends on your own practice. When facing the enemy, the situation is ever-changing. Seven points Relying on kung fu, three-pointers relying on cleverness, blindly fighting hard, it will be difficult to win." Yuan Chengzhi nodded and was taught. Cui Qiushan said: "Tomorrow I will go back to General Li, and I hope you will work hard in the future. The expert who taught me the martial arts once said that the key to the level of martial arts lies in the brain and not in the hands and feet. So thinking more is more important than practicing more. It's a pity that my brain is really not very bright, and it's hard to make progress. I hope you can surpass me in practice in the future." Although Yuan Chengzhi and Cui Qiushan have only been together for eight or nine days, he taught Fuhuzhang all the way, and the diligence in teaching shows the depth of love. Hearing that he will break up tomorrow, his eyes are red, and he is about to shed tears .Seeing that he was very attached to him, Cui Qiushan couldn't help but be moved, stroked his head lightly, and said, "It's rare in martial arts to be as intelligent and talented as you. It's a pity that we don't have the chance to meet for a long time." Yuan Chengzhi said: "Uncle Cui, I'll follow you to General Li." Cui Qiushan said with a smile: "You are so young, how can you do it? We follow General Li, working hard all the time, full and hungry, today we don't know what will happen tomorrow." While he was talking, he suddenly heard a strange cry from a wild beast outside the house. Yuan Chengzhi said in surprise: "What is that? It's not a tiger or a wolf." Cui Qiushan said: "It's a leopard." With an idea, he said: "Let's go and get it I have a use for the leopard." Yuan Chengzhi was very excited, and hurriedly asked: "What is the use?" Cui Qiushan smiled without answering, and hurried out.Yuan Chengzhi hurriedly followed him out, and seeing that he was not carrying a weapon, he asked again: "Uncle Cui, what weapon did you use to beat the leopard?" Cui Qiushan didn't go out from the main door, but walked inside Sun Zhongshou's room, and called out, "Are Brothers Zhu and Ni here?" Zhu Anguo and others were talking in the room.Cui Qiushan said with a smile: "Please help me to force that leopard outside into the house. I am useful." Ni Hao is an expert in killing tigers, and he said: "Okay, okay." He took the tiger hunting fork and took the lead. go out.Cui Qiushan shouted: "Brother Ni, don't hurt that bastard." Ni Haoyao agreed, and after a while, shouts started.Cui Qiushan, Zhu Anguo and Luo Daqian also went out.Yuan Chengzhi took a short iron gun and wanted to follow out.Sun Zhongshou said: "Chengzhi, don't go out, let's watch here." Yuan Chengzhi had no choice but to wait and see at the window with Sun Zhongshou and Ying Song. I saw three people holding torches and standing in the east, west and north.Ni Hao used the hunting tiger fork, and was fighting with a huge leopard on the side of the mountain.He covered his whole body with a fork, preventing the leopard from pounced, but he did not stab with the fork.Seeing the flames, the leopard was frightened and wanted to escape, but was blocked by Zhu, Cui and Luo.Seeing that Cui Qiushan had no weapon in his hand, the leopard roared and rushed towards him.Cui Qiushan dodged to avoid the sharp claws, and hit the leopard's forehead with his right palm. The leopard immediately turned somersault and turned to the south.The door to the south room was wide open, and the leopard refused to enter the room, and ran around, but was cornered by the crowd and had no way out.Cui Qiushan jumped up and kicked the leopard hard on the rear.The leopard was in pain, roared, and rushed into the house. At that time, Ying Song had closed all the doors, leaving only the door of the west side hall.Seeing the two men chasing them with torches in their hands, the leopard scrambled here and there, roaring and rushing into the west hall.Luo Daqian then closed the door, and a big leopard was locked inside the hall. Everyone was very happy, looking at Cui Qiushan, wondering what he wanted.Cui Qiushan said with a smile: "Chengzhi, you go in and hunt the leopard!" Everyone was surprised when he said this.Sun Zhongshou said: "I'm afraid it's not appropriate?" Cui Qiushan said: "I'll watch from the side, this beast can't hurt him." Yuan Chengzhi said: "Okay!" With a short gun, he went to open the door.Cui Qiushan said: "Put down the gun and go in empty-handed!" Yuan Chengzhi was startled, and then realized that he wanted him to hit the leopard with the crouching tiger palm he had just learned, and he couldn't help being timid.Cui Qiushan said: "Are you scared?" Yuan Chengzhi didn't hesitate, unplugged the plug on the palace door, pushed the door in, and only heard a loud roar of "Hu", and a group of black shadows rushed towards him.With a setback of his right leg, he got out of the way, and hit the leopard's ear with his backhand, which is exactly the "Luhan Chuanjing" in the Fuhu palm technique.Although the palm hit, but the hand was small and weak, the leopard didn't care, turned around and bit.Yuan Chengzhi rushed behind the leopard, grabbed the leopard's tail and pulled it. At this time, Cui Qiushan was already standing aside to protect him, lest the leopard would be vicious and Yuan Chengzhi couldn't restrain it, but he had become quite proficient in crouching the tiger's palm all the way. Hitting him with a palm and a kick, I was secretly happy. Sun Zhongshou and others saw Yuan Chengzhi fighting leopards with his bare hands. Although Cui Qiushan was taking care of him, he cared after all. Everyone took torches and stood in the corner of the hall to watch.Zhu Anguo and Ni Hao held hidden weapons in order to shoot the leopard to save people in an emergency.Yuan Chengzhi moved up and down in the fire, and his body was flexible. At first, he fled from east to west, not daring to get close to the leopard. Later, he saw that the palm technique he learned had a lot of magical effects. He dodged attacks and was handy. Seeing that hitting the leopard's body with his palm was useless, he suddenly changed his stance from hitting to pulling, every time he hit with his palm, he would tear off a handful of fur when he returned.The leopard suffered from pain and roared again and again, and became afraid of his small palm. When he saw his palm stretched out, he couldn't help roaring and backing away, baring his teeth to resist.But Yuan Chengzhi's technique was extremely fast, and the leopard was always unable to dodge in time. For a while, the leopard's fur was flying around in the palace, and a good leopard was torn off a lot of golden hair by him.Everyone laughed. Although the leopard's fur was caught, he couldn't control it with his bare hands. In the middle of the fight, he suddenly made a move of "Bodhisattva lowering his eyebrows", and rushed towards the leopard with his short body.The leopard was frightened, took a step back, and then flew towards him. In an instant, Yuan Chengzhi was already under the leopard's belly. Ni Hao was shocked, and the double darts flew out.The leopard stretched out its right foot and knocked down the double darts.At this time, Yuan Chengzhi was gone.When everyone stared at him, they saw him hiding under the leopard's belly, with his legs hooked around the leopard's back, and his head pressed against the leopard's chin, making it impossible for it to bite or catch.The leopard jumped and ran, rolling on the ground, Yuan Chengzhi never let go.He knew that after a long time, his own strength would be insufficient, if he let go of his arms and legs, he would inevitably be hurt by the leopard's claws, so he hurriedly called: "Uncle Cui, come quickly!" Cui Qiushan said: "Take its eyes!" With a word of reminder, Yuan Chengzhi pierced his right arm, and inserted two fingers into the leopard's right eye. The leopard screamed in pain and jumped even more violently.Cui Qiushan took a step forward, and fluffed two palms in a row, beating the leopard dizzily and knocked him to the ground. Then he hugged Yuan Chengzhi and said with a smile: "Not bad, not bad, it's really hard for you." Sun Zhongshou and the others were already sweating profusely from shock, thinking: "Although Cui Qiushan is a good man, under Li Chuang's command, he spends his whole day doing desperate lives and acting boldly. He doesn't know that Mr. Yuan's life is worth it." How honorable." He thought again: "Mr. Yuan has been taught by him for eight days, and his martial arts have really improved." Cui Qiushan opened the door of the palace, kicked the leopard on the rear, and said with a smile: "Let you go!" The leopard rushed out, and suddenly someone outside screamed. Everyone only thought that the leopard ran outside and hurt someone, and when they went out to have a look, the surprise was no small matter.I saw that the whole mountain was full of fires, and the knives and guns were shining brightly under the light of the fires. It turned out that the officers and soldiers gathered to besiege the holy peak.Judging by the momentum, it is not easy to escape.The party members who were watching at the foot of the mountain were all killed, so there was no warning beforehand, and the enemy soldiers came suddenly. Sun Zhongshou and the others were all experienced in many battles. Although they were frightened, they didn't panic. They all thought: "It's a pity that the brothers on the mountain have dispersed. Otherwise, in the battle in Ningyuan, hundreds of thousands of Tartar elite soldiers would have been defeated by us." If you run away, how can you be afraid of you Guangdong officers and soldiers?" At that time, the Liaodong soldiers were elite and the best in the world, and Yuan Chonghuan's old troops never paid attention to the southern officers and soldiers. Sun Zhongshou immediately issued an order: "General Luo, you lead all the brothers who cook, clean, and guard the temple to the east mountain and set fire to shouting, as suspicious soldiers." Luo Daqian responded to the order.Sun Zhongshou said again: "General Zhu and General Ni, you two go to the front mountain and shoot ten arrows each. The instructors and soldiers don't dare to approach too closely, and come back immediately after shooting." Sun Zhongshou said: "Brother Cui, I have an important task to entrust to you." Cui Qiushan said: "You want me to protect Chengzhi?" Sun Zhongshou said: "That's right."Cui Qiushan was taken aback, and hastily returned the gift, saying: "What orders do you two have, you should obey them, and leave quickly." There was only loud shouting and the faint sound of the golden drum. The sound came from the mountain. It turned out that Luo Daqian had already lifted out the big drum and bell in the temple and beat them violently to disturb the enemy soldiers.Sun Zhongshou said: "Master Yuan only has this bone and blood, brother Cui please escort him out of danger." Cui Qiushan said: "I will do my best." At this time Zhu Anguo and Ni Hao had finished shooting arrows and came back.Sun Zhongshou said: "General Zhu and I rushed down from the east after meeting General Qi Luo. Mr. Ying and General Ni rushed down from the west. Let's charge first to attract the main force of the enemy. Brother Cui and Cheng Zhi then go down from the west." Let's rush down the back mountain, and everyone will meet up with General Li Chuang in the future." Everyone agreed in unison. Yuan Chengzhi had been educated by Ying Song and others for several years. At this time, he parted and felt sad. He knelt down and worshiped a few times, and said: "Uncle Sun, Uncle Ying, Uncle Zhu, Uncle Ni, I, I..." His throat choked I can't go on.Sun Zhongshou said: "You follow Uncle Cui and listen to him carefully." Yuan Chengzhi nodded in agreement. Only the officers and soldiers on the mountainside were shouting, rushing up the mountain, Ying Song said: "Let's go. Brother Cui, please wait for a while before leaving." Everyone raised their weapons and rushed down.Seeing that Cui Qiushan was unarmed, Ni Hao threw the tiger fork at him and said, "Brother Cui, catch it." Cui Qiushan said: "Brother Ne should use it himself!" He caught Hucha and wanted to throw it back to him.Ni Hao had already gone far, so he held a fork in his right hand and pulled Yuan Chengzhi with his left to walk behind the mountain.I saw that the hillside of the back mountain was also full of torches, and there were many officers and soldiers densely packed.Arrows from the mountain were like locusts, and they shot up randomly. Cui Qiushan then retreated to the temple, ran to the kitchen, and took off two pot covers, one big and one small. He took the big one by himself, handed the small pot cover to Yuan Chengzhi, and said: "This is a shield, let's go!" The two started to lighten their bodies and rushed into the darkness. After a while, the officers and soldiers had found the traces of the two of them, they chased after them with shouts, and dozens of arrows shot at them at the same time. Cui Qiushan stood behind Yuan Chengzhi, waved the pot cover, and blocked the arrows one by one, only to hear the sound of Deng Deng Deng, and many arrows shot on the pot cover.The two rushed straight down the mountain.All the officers and soldiers came up to stop them, Cui Qiushan used the hunting tiger fork, and hit with the fork and stab, injuring more than a dozen officers and soldiers in an instant. Although Yuan Chengzhi's short iron spear was difficult to hurt, it could protect himself.When the officers and soldiers saw that it was a young child, they didn't pay much attention to him.In a moment, the two of them had reached the mountainside. As soon as he took a breath, he suddenly shouted loudly, and a group of officers and soldiers rushed forward diagonally, and a thousand households came first with a big knife in their hands, and slashed viciously.Cui Qiushan raised his fork, felt that he was quite strong, and stabbed straight at him with the fork "the poisonous dragon came out of the hole".The thousand households raised their swords to cut them open, and shouted: "Come on, brothers!" Cui Qiushan didn't want to fight, so he raised the lid of the pot and shook it in front of the thousand households.The thousand households dodged to the right, Cui Qiushan yelled, raised his fork and dropped it, and inserted it from under his side. After pulling out the fork, he turned his head and disappeared Yuan Chengzhi. He was shocked and saw a group of people on the left surrounding him shouting. He strode forward, stabbing with his fork, the officers and soldiers dodged one after another, and rushed to the vicinity, only to see Yuan Chengzhi surrounded by Gaixin, the short iron spear in his hand had been knocked down, and he was fighting the enemy with three officers and soldiers using the Fuhu palm technique. After all, he was young and weak, and he was still a beginner in palm techniques, so he was at a loss, and the situation was critical.Cui Qiushan didn't even talk, swiped two forks, stabbed two officers and soldiers, pulled Yuan Chengzhi with his left hand, and left.The officers and soldiers chased after them shouting, Cui Qiushan suddenly turned around, swiped two forks, and stabbed down the two officers and soldiers who were chasing closest. superior.The soldier screamed and fell to his death immediately. Seeing how brave he was, all the officers and soldiers were frightened and stopped chasing him.Cui Qiushan held Yuan Chengzhi under his shoulders, unfolded his lightness kung fu, and rushed straight to the dark place where no one was around. After a while, he was far away from the officers and soldiers. Cui Qiushan put down Yuan Chengzhi and asked, "Aren't you injured?" There were bloodstains on his hands and clothes, and he said: "Uncle Cui, blood... blood..." Cui Qiushan said: "It doesn't matter, it's the blood of the enemy. Is there any pain in your body?" Yuan Chengzhi said: "No " Cui Qiushan said: "Okay, let's go!" The two of them dwarfed and walked down among the bushes. After walking for less than half an hour, the bushes were almost gone. Cui Qiushan looked out and saw that the torches below the mountain were bright and hundreds of officers and soldiers were guarding them. The two turned around and walked several hundred steps. They saw a cave with a row of dwarf trees growing in front of the cave, so they went into the cave. After all, Yuan Chengzhi was young. Although he was in a dangerous place, he was tired and fell asleep soon after lying down.Cui Qiushan gently picked him up, leaned in his arms, and listened quietly.I only heard the sound of shouting continuously, and after a while, I saw black smoke rising from the top of the mountain, and the red light shot into the sky. I thought Yuan Chonghuan's ancestral hall had been burned by officers and soldiers.After more than half an hour, I heard a horn blowing on the mountain. Cui Qiushan had fought dozens of battles with officers and soldiers, and he knew it was the order to retreat down the mountain.不一会，大队人马声经身旁过去，络绎不绝，原来这山洞就在官兵下山道路之旁。 再过一会，忽听外面树丛中有人坐了下来，崔秋山右手提起钢叉，左手放在袁承志嘴边，防他在梦中发出声响，凝神静听。只听一人喝道：“那姓袁的逆贼留下一个儿子，到哪里去了？”这句话声音很响，登时把袁承志吵醒。崔秋山左手轻轻按住他嘴。 听得那人喝道：“你说不说？不说我先砍断你一条腿。”一个声音骂道：“你砍就砍！我们在边庭上一刀一枪打鞑子，岂来怕你？”听口音正是应松的声音。袁承志悄声道：“应叔叔！”那人又骂：“你真的不说？”应松呸的一声，似乎一口唾沫吐向他的脸上，接着一声惨叫，似乎已被他一刀砍伤。 袁承志再也忍耐不住，用力一挣，挣脱了崔秋山拉住他的手，大叫一声：“应叔叔！”直窜出去。火光中见一人正提刀向摔跌在地的应松砍落，他和身纵上，施展伏虎掌中的“左击右擒”之法，一拳正中那人右眼。那人只觉眼中金星直冒，手腕一痛，一柄刀已被夺去。袁承志顺手一刀，砍在他肩头，虽然力弱，没把一条肩膀卸下，也已痛得他怪声大叫。 众官兵出其不意，都吃了一惊，登时逃散，待得看清楚只是一个幼童，当即回转身来，刀枪齐下，眼见就要把他砍成碎块。 突然火光中一柄钢叉飞出，各官兵只觉虎口剧震，兵刃纷纷离手。崔秋山一把抓住袁承志后心，直纵出去。众官兵放箭时，两人早已直奔下山。 崔秋山这一露形，奉太监曹化淳之命前来搜捕的东厂番子之中，便有四名好手跟踪下来。但见他胁下挟着一个幼童，但仍是纵跳如飞，迅捷异常，一名番子取出一支甩手箭，使足手劲，掷了出去。 崔秋山听得脑后生风，立即矮身，那支箭从头顶飞过去，就这么停得一停，另一人已扣住三支钢镖，连珠发出。崔秋山把袁承志往地下一放，左手一抄，接住两支钢镖，避开了第三支，正待发回，敌人的袖箭、飞蝗石已纷纷打来。崔秋山手接叉拨，闪避暗器，拉着袁承志向山下逃去。 这时他们离官兵大队已远，可是四名番子始终紧追不舍。其中一人大叫道：“识相的，你撇下兵器，乖乖的跟老子回去，就让你少吃些苦头。”崔秋山暗暗把钢镖交到右手，待他追近，突然两镖一上一下，疾如闪电般射了出去。那人“啊哟”一声，腿上一镖早着，登时栽倒。其余三人略一停顿，又分头掩来。 崔秋山见敌人追近，对袁承志说：“我去夺那人的刀来给你。”把虎叉往地下一插，反奔迎敌。那使双刀的一招“云龙三现”，刷刷刷连环三招，崔秋山竟抢不入去，另一个使铁鞭的却已欺近袁承志身旁。 崔秋山见一时夺不下敌刃，而那边袁承志却已危急，蓦地回身，滴溜溜一个旋身，已欺到那使铁鞭的人背后，一招“金龙探爪”，五指向他后心抓去。那人铁鞭正向袁承志后心扫去，忽觉身后来了敌人，单鞭一立，转过身来。崔秋山以快打慢，出手迅捷异常，那人招架不住，只得连连倒退。袁承志忽地踏步上前，飞起一腿，踢中了他后臀。那人怒吼一声，横鞭反击，突觉掌心一震，鞭梢已被崔秋山抓住。就在这时，那使双刀的与使鬼头刀的三件兵刃同时向崔秋山背后打来，这时腿上中镖那人也已爬起，挺枪向袁承志左胁刺去。 此时危机四伏，好个崔秋山，在这间不容发的紧急关头，竟然于轻重缓急料得丝毫无误，吭声吐气，嘿的一声，右掌一招“降龙伏虎”，正打在那使铁鞭的人胸口。这一招是伏虎掌中三大绝招之一，那人如何抵挡得住，全身腾空，向那腿上中镖的人枪尖上仰跌下去。幸得那人急忙缩枪，这才腾的一声，跌在地下，没给枪尖穿个透明窟窿。崔秋山单鞭夺到，反抡过来，当的一声，将三把刀同时架开，纵过去拉了袁承志向山下窜去。 四名番子见崔秋山霎时之间夺鞭使掌，同时拆开了四人的进袭，武功精强，不敢再追，站定身子，纷纷发出暗器。 崔秋山黑暗之中听得嗖嗖之声不绝，忙把袁承志拉在胸前，窜高跃低的闪避，但毕竟手中抱了人，纵跳不便，避开了右边打来的三枚菩提子，只觉左腿一痛，已中了暗器。伤处刚刚痛过，立即发痒，心中大惊，知道箭上有毒，不敢停留，急向山下奔逃，但这一来，毒发更快，再跑得几步，左腿一阵麻痹，一个踉跄，跌倒在地。袁承志大惊，急叫：“崔叔叔。”四名番子见他跌倒，高呼大叫，随后赶来。 崔秋山道：“承志，快走，快走，我挡住他们。”袁承志双掌一错，跃到崔秋山身后，预备迎敌。崔秋山心想：“凭你这点功夫，居然想保护我。”但心中也自感动。 转眼之间，敌人已经追到，两个使刀的奔在最前。使鬼头刀的人想生擒活捉，翻转刀背，向袁承志足踝上击来。袁承志一跃避过。 崔秋山撑起右腿，半跪在地，手中铁鞭笔直的向使双刀的掷去。那人待要避让，已然不及，铁鞭从他额头上插了进去。使鬼头刀的人一呆，崔秋山和身扑上，十指紧紧钳住他喉咙，那人探刀向崔秋山臂上砍来，崔秋山手上加劲，那人这一刀虽然砍中，却已无力，片刻间便即气绝而死。其余两人本已受伤，又见敌人如此凶悍，吓得魂飞魄散，哪里还敢来追，连忙逃回。崔秋山臂上流血，幸好伤势不重，但左腿已全无知觉。 他咬紧牙关，拾起刀撑在地下，左手握住，站了起来。这时敌人虽已逃走，但不久定然召援再来，当地决计不能多留，只得左腿虚悬，向山下走去。袁承志站在他右边，让他右手搭在自己肩上，一跷一拐的向前赶路。 走了一阵，崔秋山左腿毒性向上延伸，牵动左手也渐渐无力，只得以右手支撑。袁承志只觉肩头越来越重，但他一声不哼，奋力扶持着崔秋山前行。 又走一阵，两人实已筋疲力尽。袁承志忽见山边有间农舍，说道：“崔叔叔，前面有人家，咱们进去躲一躲。你再熬一下吧！”崔秋山点点头，勉力拖着半边身子向前挨去，到得门边，全身脱力，摔倒在地。
袁承志大惊，俯身连叫：“崔叔叔！”那农舍的门呀的一声开了，出来一个中年妇人。袁承志道：“大娘，我们遇到官兵。我叔叔受了伤，求求你让我们借宿一晚。” 那农妇叫出一个十六七岁的少年来，命他帮着把崔秋山扶进去，拼起三条长凳，让他躺下。崔秋山中毒甚深，亏得武功精湛，心智倒没昏乱，叫袁承志把油灯移近左腿处察看。两人都吓了一跳，原来那左腿已肿大了几乎一半，紫中带黑，十分怕人。 崔秋山请那农家少年裹好他臂上伤口，再用布条在他左腿腿根处用力缠紧，以防毒气攻心，然后抓住箭羽，拔了出来，跟着流出来的都是黑血。崔秋山俯身要去吮吸毒血，但腿子肿大，嘴巴够不到。袁承志俯下身去，把伤口中的黑血一口口的吸了出来，吐在地下，吸了三四十口之后，血色才渐渐变红。崔秋山叹了一口气道：“这毒药总算还不是最厉害的那种。你快漱口。”那农妇在旁瞧着，不住念佛。 次日午后，那少年报说官兵已经退尽。崔秋山腿肿渐消，但全身发烧，胡言乱语起来。袁承志没了主意，只是急得要哭。 那农妇道：“这位小官，我瞧你叔叔的毒气还没去尽，总得到镇上请大夫瞧瞧才好。”袁承志道：“是，是，可是怎么去？”那农妇心肠甚好，借了一辆牛车，命少年送了他们到镇上。 那少年把他们送入客店之后，径自去了。崔袁两人出来时身上都没带钱，袁承志不知如何是好，望着床上昏迷不醒的崔秋山发愁。店伙来问吃甚么东西，袁承志答不上来，只好推说不饿，一个人坐着想哭。 过了良久，崔秋山终于醒来，袁承志忙问他怎么办。崔秋山道：“你身上带着甚么值钱的东西没有？”袁承志道：“这项圈成吗？”说着从衣内贴肉处除了下来。崔秋山一看，见项圈是金的，镶着八颗小珍珠，项圈锁片上刻着“富贵恒昌”四个大字，还有两行小字，一行是“袁公子承志周岁之庆”，一行是“小将赵率教敬赠”，才知道是袁承志做周岁时，他父亲部下大将赵率教所赠。 赵率教和祖大寿、何可纲、满桂三人是袁崇焕部下的四大名将。当年宁锦大捷，赵率教部杀伤清兵甚众，官封左都督、平辽将军。崇祯二年十月，清兵绕过山海关，由大安口入寇京师，袁崇焕率四将千里回援，反为崇祯见疑而下狱。赵率教和满桂出战，先后阵亡。祖大寿与何可纲愤而率部自行离去，后来袁崇焕在狱中写信去劝，祖何二将才再归朝。 赵率教是袁崇焕部下名将，天下知闻，但这时崔秋山迷迷糊糊，未能细想，便道：“叫店伙陪你到当舗去，把项圈当了吧，将来咱们再来赎回。”袁承志说：“好，我就去。”于是请店伙同去镇上的当舗。 当舗朝奉拿到项圈，一看之下，吃了一惊，问道：“小朋友，这项圈你从哪里来的？”袁承志道：“是我自己的。”那朝奉脸色登时变了，向袁承志上上下下打量良久，说道：“你等一下。”拿了项圈到里面去，半天不出来。袁承志和那店伙等的着急，又过了好一会，那朝奉才出来，说道：“当二十两。”袁承志也不懂规矩，还是那店伙代他多争了二两银子。袁承志拿了银子和当票，顺道要店伙陪去请了大夫，这才回店，哪知身后已暗暗跟了两名公差。 袁承志回到店房，见崔秋山已沉沉睡熟，额上仍然火烫，大夫还没到来。他心中焦急，走到店门外面张望，忽见七八名公差手持铁链铁尺，抢进店来。一人说道：“就是这孩子！”为首的公差喝道：“喂，孩子，你姓袁吗？” 袁承志吓了一跳，道：“我不是。”那公差哈哈一笑，从怀中掏出那个金项圈来，说道：“这项圈你从哪里偷来的？”袁承志急道：“不是偷来的，是我自己的。”那公差笑道：“袁崇焕是你甚么人？” 袁承志不敢回答，奔进店房，猛力去推崔秋山，只听得外面公差喊了起来：“圣峰嶂的奸党躲在这里，莫让逃了。”崔秋山霍地坐起，要待挣下地来，却哪里能够？脚刚着地，便即跌倒。 这时众公差已涌到店房门口，袁承志不及去扶崔秋山，纵出门来，双掌一错，挡在门口，当时心中只有一个念头：“决不能让他们捉了崔叔叔去。” 门外是个大院子，客店中伙计客人听说捉拿犯人，都拥到院子里来瞧热闹，见七八名公差对着一个十岁左右的孩子发威，均觉奇怪。 只见一名公差抖动铁链，往袁承志头上套去。袁承志退后一步，仍是拦在门外，不让公差进门。那公差抖铁链套人，本是吃了十多年衙门饭的拿手本事，岂知一个小小孩子居然身手敏捷，这一下竟没套住，老羞成怒，伸右手来揪他头上的小辫子。 袁承志见这许多公差气势汹汹，本已吓得要哭，但见对方伸手抓到，头一偏，使出伏虎掌法中的“横拖单鞭”，在他手腕上一拉。那公差一个踉跄，险些跌倒，怒火更炽，飞腿猛踢，骂道：“小杂种，老子今日要你好看。” 袁承志蹲下身来，双手在他大腿和臀部一托，借力乘势，向外推送，那公差肥肥一个身躯登时凌空飞了出去，砰的一声，结结实实的跌在地下。袁承志本来也没这么大气力，全是乘着那公差一踢之势，斜引旁转，把他狠狠摔了一交。这一招仍是伏虎掌法。 旁观众人齐齐轰然叫好。他们本来愤恨大人欺侮小孩，何况官府公差横行霸道，素为众百姓所侧目切齿，这时眼见公差反而落败，而且败得如此狼狈，不由得大声喝采。 其余的公差也都一愣，暗想这孩子倒有点邪门，互使眼色，手举单刀铁尺，一涌而上。旁观众人见他们动了家伙，俱都害怕，纷纷退避。袁承志虽学了数年武艺，究竟年幼，又敌不过对方人多，无可奈何之中，只有奋力抵挡。不久肩头便吃铁尺重重打中了一下，忍不住便要哭出声来。 正在危急之际，忽然左边厢房中奔出一条大汉，飞身纵起，落在袁承志面前，伸出双手乱抓乱拿，也不知他用了甚么手法，顷刻之间，已把众公差的兵刃全部夺下。几名公差退得稍迟，被他几拳打得眼青口肿。这大汉啊啊大叫，声音古怪。 一名公差喝道：“我们捉拿要犯，你是甚么人？快快滚开。”那大汉全不理会，身子一晃，已欺到他身前，右手抓住他胸口，往外掷出。那公差犹如断线鸢子一般，悠悠晃晃的飞出墙外，砰蓬一声，摔得半死。其余的公差再也不敢停留，一哄出外。 那大汉走到袁承志跟前，双手比划，口中哑哑作声，原来是个哑巴，似在问他来历。袁承志不知如何告诉他才好，甚是焦急。 那大汉忽然左掌向上，右掌向地，从伏虎掌的起手式开始，练了起来，打到第十招“避扑击虚”就收了手。袁承志会意，从第十一招“横踹虎腰”起始，接下去练了四招。那哑巴一笑，点点头，伸臂将他抱起，神态甚是亲热。 袁承志指指店房，示意里面有人。那哑巴抱着他进房，只见崔秋山坐在地下，脸色犹如死灰，吃了一惊，放下袁承志，走上前去。崔秋山却认得他，做做手势，指指自己的腿。 那哑巴点点头，左手牵着袁承志，右手抱起了崔秋山，大踏步走出客店。崔秋山是一百几十斤重的一条大汉，但哑巴如抱小孩，毫不费力，步履如飞的出去。 两名公差躲在一旁，见那哑巴向西走去，远远跟在后面，想是要知道他落脚之所，再邀人大举拿捕。 这时崔秋山又昏了过去，人事不知。哑巴听不到身后声息，袁承志拉拉哑巴的手，嘴巴向后一努。哑巴回过头来，瞧见了公差，却似视而不见，继续前行。 走出两三里路，四下荒僻无人，哑巴忽地把崔秋山往地上一放，纵身跃到那两名公差面前。两公差转身想逃，哪里来得及，早被他一手一个，揪住后心，直向山谷中摔了下去，两声惨叫，都跌得脑浆迸裂而死。 哑巴摔死公差，抱起崔秋山，健步如飞的向前疾走。这一来袁承志可跟不上了，他虽勉力对付，两条小腿拚命搬动，但只跑了里许，已气喘连连。哑巴一笑，俯身把他抱在手中，他双手分抱两人，反而跑得更快，跑了一会，折而向左，朝山上奔去。
翻过两个山头，只见山腰中有三间茅屋，哑巴径向茅屋跑去。快要到时，屋前一人迎了过来，走到临近，原来是个二十多岁的少妇。她向哑巴点了点头，见到崔袁两人，似感讶异，和哑巴打了几个手势，领着他们进屋。 那少妇叫道：“小慧，快拿茶壶茶碗来。”一个女孩的声音在隔房应了一声，提了一把粗茶壶和几只碗过来，怔怔的望着崔袁两人，一对圆圆的眼珠骨溜溜的转动，甚是灵活。 袁承志见那少妇粗衣布裙，但皮色白润，面目姣好，那女孩也生得甚是灵秀。 那少妇向袁承志道：“这孩子，你叫甚么名字？怎么遇上他的？”袁承志知她是哑巴的朋友，于是毫不隐瞒的简略说了。 那少妇听得崔秋山中毒受伤，忙拿出药箱，从瓶中倒出些白色和红色的药粉，混在一起，调了水给崔秋山喝了，又取出一把小刀，将他腿上腐肉刮去，敷上些黄色的药末，过了一阵，用清水洗去，再敷药末。这般敷洗了三次，崔秋山哼出声来。那少妇向袁承志一笑，说道：“不妨事了。”打手势叫哑巴把崔秋山抱入内堂休息。 那少妇收拾药箱，对袁承志道：“我姓安，你叫我安婶婶好啦。这是我女儿，她叫小慧，你就耽在我这里。”袁承志点点头。安大娘随即下厨做面。袁承志吃过后，疲累了一天一夜，再也支持不住，便伏在桌上睡着了。 次晨醒来时发觉已睡在床上。小慧带他去洗脸。袁承志道：“我去瞧瞧崔叔叔，他伤势好些么？”小慧道：“哑巴伯伯早背了他去啦！”袁承志惊道：“当真？”小慧点点头。袁承志奔到内室，果然不见崔秋山和哑巴的踪影。他茫然无主，哇的一声哭了出来。小慧忙道：“别哭，别哭！”袁承志哪里肯听？小慧叫道：“妈妈，妈妈，你快来！”安大娘闻声赶来。小慧道：“他见崔叔叔他们走了，哭起来啦！” 安大娘柔声说道：“好孩子，你崔叔叔受了伤，很厉害，是不是？”袁承志点点头。安大娘又道：“我只能暂行救他，让他伤口的毒气不行开来。不过时候隔得太久啦，只怕他腿要残废，因此哑巴伯伯背他去请另外一个人医治。等他医好之后，就会来瞧你的。”袁承志慢慢止了哭泣。安大娘道：“他就会好的。快洗脸，洗了脸咱们吃饭。” 吃过早饭后，安大娘要他把过去的事再详详细细说一遍，听得不住叹息。就这样，袁承志便在安大娘家中住了下来。
安大娘叫他把所学武功练了一遍，看后点点头说：“也真难为你了。”此后安大娘每日叫他自行练武，练得好不好，却从不加指点，在他练的时候也极少在旁观看。小慧本来常和他在一起，在他练武之时，却总被妈妈叫了开去。 袁承志从小没了父母，应松、朱安国等人虽然对他照顾周到，但这些叱咤风云的大将，照料孩子总不如何在