The Guanshan Saber

Name: The Guanshan Saber
Author: Yearning for Yaoshan

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by Yearning for Yaoshan (尧山眷恋)

Status: Completed
Length: 86k Words
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: War & Espionage
Updated: 1mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God ascended to Heaven. Yan Feilong's father did not come home. Three days later, his mother was found dead in the village temple, a wound in her stomach. The twelve-year-old boy slipped a chipped knife into his clothes and walked into the salt flats, looking for a man: tall and thin, with a mole on his chin. He found him. Three strikes. One for his father, one for his mother, and the last so he could go on living. His revenge was done. The world had not changed. Women crouched by the walls in the salt flats, waiting for customers, while their men never came home. An old man's tofu stall was smashed up, and even after he paid the rent, the owner denied receiving it. The land deed was transferred to someone else's name, and there was nowhere to appeal. Yan Feilong stood up for them. With one man and one knife, he carved out a place for himself in northern Wei. Wang Shizi took him in. The knife fighters of the Eastern Route accepted him. Yang Hucheng and Li Huchen became sworn brothers with him, and the Thirteen Guardians swore their brotherhood in blood. The people of Chaoyi said Yan Feilong had earned his name with his life. In the tenth month of the Xinhai year, the knife fighters marched out of northern Wei, carrying the banner of the Qinlong Army for the Restoration of Han Rule. They marched east to Tongguan, crossed the river and captured Yuncheng, taking thirteen cities in half a month. The name Yan Feilong rang out from northern Wei to southern Shanxi. In the second month of the first year of the Republic, the Gansu Army surrounded Liquan. Yan Feilong climbed the southern city wall at night, twin sabers in hand. He was shot in the head. He was twenty-eight. Eight months later, Xi'an had been under siege for eight months. Yang Hucheng stood atop the city wall, looking east toward Chaoyi. He said nothing. Beside him, Li Huchen said, “If only Feilong were still here.” A tale of the knife fighters of Guanzhong in the late Qing and early Republican eras. He took up a knife at twelve and died in battle at twenty-eight.

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