Chivalrous Road

When it comes to Liu Dongshan, people around Kyoto know that he is a good catcher of thieves and robbers.

Liu Dongshan was born and raised in Jiaohe County, Hebei Province. He grew up with an interest in knives, guns, sticks, and other things, and liked to gather a group of village boys to steal chickens and dogs and fight in groups. Seeing that he was not a student, his parents gave him a chance to learn how to ride a horse and shoot an arrow from a distant relative who had been a war general.

After eight years of learning from this distant relative, Dongshan not only learned a good archery skill but also became a disciplined person. When he returned home, his father first felt that he was polite, no longer rude and rambunctious as before, and the two old men exclaimed in unison: "This boy has grown up after a few years out.

After that, all the folks came to see Dongshan and asked him what progress he had made in his martial arts. Knowing what everyone was thinking, Dongshan bowed his hands and pretended to be modest, saying, "It's nothing, it's nothing, it's just a small skill, it's not worth showing off in front of the villagers."

Everyone refused to comply, clamoring for Dongshan to show his hands on the spot. Only then did Dongshan take out his bow and arrows and led the crowd to the clearing at the west end of the forest, where he bent his bow and set his arrows, ready to shoot the hundred-year-old acacia not far away.

At that moment a young man spoke up: "Oh, my brother Dongshan, you'd better not shoot that old acacia tree. The old acacia tree is thick and tall, even if you hit it, and how can you show your skills?"

Dongshan smiled and said, "Brother, don't be in a hurry, my arrow is still on the string. How about this, you hang a string of copper coins on the branch, I want to use my 'arrow with pearls' to shoot it down."

The villagers heard for the first time the "arrow with pearls", and all want to see what. When the young man hung the money, everyone looked, only to see a string of things under the branches in the sun shining, it is impossible to see the shape of the money. The naked eye can not see, Liu Dongshan can use arrows to shoot them down.

Just when everyone was wondering, Liu Dongshan shot the first arrow, followed by the second, the third, a series of eight arrows. As for how he took the arrows, strung, pulled the bow, and even completed a series of archery actions in a very short time, the crowd simply did not have time to look closely, only felt his hands moving, dazzling.

Early on, some eager teenagers went under the acacia tree and retrieved seven coins. The coins that fell to the ground are not counted, more amazing is the center of each coin is inserted with an arrow, a total of seven, and the coins are still connected to the hemp rope. In the original, the eighth arrow just broke the rope tied to the money.

Do not know, a look at a shock. Liu Dongshan this hand "a series of arrows" can be described as a high trick, the villagers to shocked. Soon, his great name spread dozens of miles around.

Soon, someone from the Hefei province asked Liu Dongshan to go see the governor, saying that the government was ready to use him. Dongshan was very happy, thinking that he had worked hard to learn the art for several years, and it is time to have a place to use it. Besides, his age is not young, should be able to eat, and can no longer rely on his parents to support him. So, he painfully followed the man went.

In this way, at the age of twenty, Liu Dongshan became a constable in the Hefei Province. At that time, it was the Ming Emperor's reign, the wind of corruption in the court is growing, the locals is also very unstable, and large and small robbers, and thieves in the Kyoto area, frequent activities, caused public discontent. The government had to send people around to catch the thieves.

Liu Dongshan was a small constable at the beginning, but with his skillful bow and horse, young and competitive, he made several great achievements in a row, and smoothly became the head of the constable, and became famous around Kyoto. Those thieves, all by Liu Dongshan's "pearl arrows" scared out of their wits, easily dare not come out of activities.

Being a constable is not an easy and fun thing. Long years of running, day and night action, exhaustion is not to be said, the head tied to the waist of the pants, ready to meet with the thieves, that is what people can not rest assured. Although Liu Dongshan is not afraid of suffering and death, this kind of life for a long time, he can not help but get tired of it.

In his thirties, Liu Dongshan finally said goodbye to his career as a constable and used his years of savings as capital to start a business selling livestock in the county town of Jiaohe. And in the same year, he also became a family, living a nourishing life.