Volume 1 Jiangdong Fengyun Chapter 33: Number One in the World
The armor that appeared on Lu Bu's arm was different from the mecha that Bai Tu saw when he first met him. It was smaller in comparison.
Now only the mecha appears on Lu Bu's arms, and the proportions do not appear weird.
Then, two folded bow arms popped out from the forearm armor. After stretching, they looked like a real longbow. Then, Lu Bu used his right hand, which was not covered by the mecha, to directly draw the bowstring. Along with the sound of the bowstring being pulled, a vermilion laser arrow appeared...
Gan Ning and Taishi Ci were confronting each other on the river. Even the Jinfan bandits were no longer calm, and some even wanted to persuade the boss to calm down and let it go.
However, at this moment, a red light, like a rainbow piercing the sun, rushed towards the two people on the river!
When the two men discovered this, they each wanted to retreat, but the weapons tied together restrained each other for a moment, and neither of them had time to let go.
Then Gan Ning and Taishi Ci felt a huge force hitting their weapons, and they managed to hold on to them tightly without losing their hands.
And then, accompanied by a crisp sound, the two men found that their weapons had become lighter, and they saw that the iron chain had been shattered by the arrow that had just been shot!
Following the direction of the arrow, I saw a man with only one arm covered with armor, a sharp look between his brows and an arrogant and heroic spirit that seemed to rise into the sky. He was slowly retracting his arm bow.
Even though it was a blank map, I was stunned when I saw it - then I remembered that in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Lu Bu's most glorious achievements were not only the battle with three heroes in front of Hulao Pass, but also the shooting of the halberd at the gate!
Bai Tu even suspected that the arrow his adoptive father had just used was not the strongest bow, and could not be considered a full-strength arrow...
Seeing that there was such a master on the caravan's main ship, Taishi Ci and Gan Ning had no intention of taking action again.
"Who are you?" Gan Ning, who had always behaved unruly, asked solemnly at this time, and Taishi Ci looked at him with the same serious expression.
"Jiuyuan Lu Bu."
Gan Ning and Taishi Ci were shocked when they heard this - of course they had heard of this name!
He fought one against three at Hulao Pass, and he looked like the best general in the world.
It's just that the two had never met Lu Bu before, and they were not very convinced, and they didn't necessarily think Lu Bu was that great.
It was just like that year in front of Hulao Pass, Wu Anguo, Fang Yue, Mu Shun... were all full of confidence when they went into battle.
Taishi Ci had been in the north for a long time, and had fought against Guan Hai, a brave general of the Yellow Turban Army, so he had some experience fighting with masters. Gan Ning... was a pirate on the Yangtze River, so what kind of masters could he encounter? This was the first time for Gan Ning to meet someone like Taishi Ci!
Only when I saw Lü Bu, Taishi Ci and Gan Ning did I realize the difference between the two sides - how did they achieve half-covered armor? How could an armor that only used one arm have such strong power and such amazing accuracy?
Although Lu Bu was proud, he did not look complacent.
Since the battle of Chang'an, Lu Bu has not met an opponent who can make him take him seriously in terms of personal strength!
When Bai Tu heard Lu Bu introducing himself, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the format of "place name + person's name" does sound very imposing, but if it is replaced with a place name from later generations, sometimes the effect will be much worse, for example... Jiuyuan Lu Bu will become "Baotou Lu Bu".
"Puchi." Bai Tu was thinking and couldn't help laughing out loud.
Lu Bu: ???
Lu Bu tried hard to maintain his composure and did not turn his head to look at the white map. He thought to himself: Could it be that my son is a fool?
"What are you laughing at?" Gan Ning glared at Bai Tu angrily.
Gan Ning was frightened by Lü Bu, and at the same time he was shocked and ashamed, but now he found a young man next to him laughing at him? How could he bear this... Do you think you are also Lü Bu?
Bai Tu's mind raced immediately. Although Lu Bu was standing by and wanted to stand up for him, Bai Tu didn't want to be regarded as the landlord's stupid son!
As for telling the truth? By then, it will not be a matter of "Baotou Lu Bu", but a matter of Bai Tu getting beaten up.
"I... laugh at you, Gan Ning. You have a lot of skills, but you just work as a pirate on the Yangtze River. You think you are free and easy, and you can take revenge happily. But in fact, you are just deceiving yourself. You left the small cage of Shu County and came to the big cage of the Yangtze River!" Bai Tu said.
"You! You are just an ordinary person, so you naturally don't understand..." Gan Ning was very annoyed, but Lu Bu beside Bai Tu was able to calm him down.
"I'm still laughing at you, Taishi Ziyi. You think you are unparalleled in righteousness, but you can only do the things of an ordinary man. You are not letting down the common people, and you are not letting down yourself!" Bai Tu turned around and talked to Taishi Ci again.
Compared to Gan Ning, who was still just a pirate, Taishi Ci was much more famous. One of his famous things was that when he was a minor official in Donglai, the governor of Qingzhou impeached the governor of Donglai. Both sides insisted on their own opinions and the dispute eventually reached the court in Luoyang. In order to ensure that the governor's documents arrived first, Taishi Ci rushed to Luoyang first and destroyed the documents of the governor's envoy...
Because of this incident, Taishi Ci had no choice but to flee to Liaodong.
Later, when the Yellow Turban army was besieging Beihai, Taishi Ci single-handedly broke into the siege because Kong Rong had taken care of his mother. He entered the city to meet Kong Rong, and then broke out again with a letter to ask Liu Bei for help for Kong Rong!
Looking at everything Taishi Ci did, including standing up to Gan Ning when he was robbing on the road, everything he did was out of the word "righteousness".
It’s just that Taishi Ci’s “righteousness” is more inclined towards “chivalry” than “loyalty” .
Even the time when he destroyed the documents for the prefect, he could not be considered loyal. After all, officials in the county could not be said to be "loyal" to their superiors. If they had to be loyal, they were loyal to the court. From the fact that Taishi Ci always "brushed off his clothes and left after the task was completed", it can be seen that he did not have the mentality of "being loyal to his duties".
Instead, he is more like the pre-Qin knights in the Biographies of Assassins. As long as someone treats him with kindness, he is willing to repay it with his life. For the knights, "loyalty" means far less than "righteousness".
On the positive side, this is indeed a chivalrous spirit, but on the negative side, it is also a kind of "irresponsibility". One can die for a small cause, but does not have the perseverance and confidence to live for a greater cause.
Cao Cao also went through this stage. When holding the Seven-Star Knife, Cao Cao probably had no thoughts about what was happening behind him and only wanted to assassinate Dong Zhuo out of loyalty. But Cao Cao was lucky... the assassination failed, but he saved his life, and at the same time, his true heroic side was awakened!
It is easy to disregard your life and stab with a knife, which is a matter of gritting teeth and stomping feet; but preserving your life and being determined to overcome the troubled times is the real difficulty.
Taishi Ci was also a little confused by Bai Tu's scolding - how could there be such an "unrighteous person"? Have you forgotten that I just saved you?
However, Bai Tu did not give him a chance to interrupt and continued, "You know what? You were just this close to dying on the spot! If you die on this river, in a few years, no one will remember your names!
Why are you glaring at me? Do you feel brave? You have the courage to save our caravan, but why don't you have the courage to save the people of the world? Isn't that ridiculous?"
"Who are you? You mention the people of the world as your own? How shameless of you to say that..." Gan Ning asked coldly.
“That’s right. You always talk about the common people, but what have you done for them?” Taishi Ci was also a little angry.
"Me? I am Yangzhou Mu Baitu. You should have heard of me. I... have indeed only made a small contribution to the common people, but I believe that if you are willing to help me, you will definitely make a contribution to the common people of the world!"
Gan Ning, Taishi Ci: ...
