After finishing his guess about Wen Liang, Qian Chao took out something, held it in his hand, and said:
"Come on, Girl Tang, let's see what this is?"
Tang Ping reached out and took it. It was a jade pendant decorated with cloud patterns. The jade quality was delicate and the color was warm. It was truly a piece of beautiful jade. In the middle of the jade pendant, there was an ancient Chinese character "Zhuang" with a silk ribbon on it. Judging from its color, it should be something worn by men.
When she saw this jade pendant, Tang Ping's heart moved, the word "Zhuang", Mr. Zhuang?
"This is a jade pendant. Does it belong to Mr. Zhuang? What's wrong?"
Qian Chao suddenly smiled, looked at Tang Ping, and said:
"Girl Tang, I always felt that you were hiding something from me. Well, I guessed these things slowly, but you must have known it for a long time, right? This jade pendant was indeed given to me by Mr. Zhuang. This time in Ruixuan Town, Mr. Zhuang took the exam for me for the last time. It was very difficult, but after I passed it, I got this jade pendant. It can be regarded as a certificate that I became Mr. Zhuang’s disciple. Mr. Zhuang told me that in his life I have never accepted a disciple, and I don’t plan to do so now, but my studies must be inherited by someone. Fortunately, I can still catch his eye. Although we will not have the status of master and apprentice in the future, we will continue to be chess friends and have been friends for many years. We can't get along with each other, but he will tell me everything he has learned as long as I ask. Well, and also, in the future, even if he is not in the tea shop in Ruixuan Town, I can enter his room with this jade pendant, every time As long as I can walk to a big box in his room, I will take out one of the good things in it. That’s it for now, Girl Tang, is it time for you to tell me what you know? ?”
"ah!"
Tang Ping didn't expect that Qian Chao would suddenly ask this question. Just yesterday, she told Tang Bonian that Qian Chao might have seen through something. She didn't expect that Qian Chao would say it directly to his face today.
However, Tang Ping still planned to ask again. She believed that she had always concealed herself well, and she didn't know where she had a flaw for this kid to see.
"How did you find out?" Tang Ping did not deny it, but still asked Qian Chao unconvinced.
"Haha, Girl Tang, you are a very curious person. You will definitely pester interesting people and fun things. Only in the case of Mr. Zhuang, you showed both curiosity and restraint. This is your biggest flaw, but you concealed it so well that I didn’t notice it at first, but as time went by, I would eventually discover your weirdness.”
So that was the case, but Tang Ping still wanted to know how Qian Chao guessed this matter, so he asked again:
"Then...how do you guess about this matter?"
"Well, this has to start with the first time we helped Yan Shuang fight against those casual cultivators who had sneaked in. After that time, the five of us became somewhat famous, especially to me. This is a once-in-a-lifetime good thing for a qi-refining disciple without a master. With my reputation, I can get into the eyes of many Jiuxuan seniors. Maybe I can use this to make a senior take a fancy to me and accept me as a disciple. . But in fact, it has always been quiet, and there have never been any rumors that a certain senior wants to accept me as a disciple. When Yan Shuang became a disciple of Mu Xiufeng’s senior Lu Suyang, the two senior sisters Luo Ying and Wenyuan also They came to me very strangely and asked me, they wanted to know if I was also going to become a disciple. I was curious at the time, but later I figured it out. It must be the two senior sisters who asked Senior Luo and Senior Wen to put me in the door, but they didn't. I was rejected, so I had such a question. Later, Ma Hu also persuaded me once. Senior Brother Ma tried his best to make me worship his master, Senior Tian Zhi'an. Tang Yatou, Ma Hu must have also begged Tian Zhi'an. Seniors, right? But these three seniors have never approached me, and they seem to be very dissatisfied with me. For a while, I really thought that I was just not appreciated and accepted by those seniors. This feels very unfair.”
"But later, I met Mr. Zhuang in Ruixuan Town. Now that I think about it, I found out about Yiming Restaurant myself and the shopkeeper when we were having tea at the White Crane Tower in Ruixuan Town. , then I didn’t plan to go directly to Yiming Pavilion, but you and Sister Yan went to buy skirts. I was bored waiting and happened to see Yiming Pavilion again, so I walked in. From then on, I became friends with Mr. Zhuang. Fate. Girl Tang, all of this seems to be a series of accidents, but if you think about it carefully, it started from when all the seniors in Jiuxuan ignored me, and ended when I accidentally discovered that there was a mysterious teahouse owner in Yiming House. , but all this seems to be bound to happen. Well, haha, especially you, when I went to Yiming Hall to meet Mr. Zhuang, you acted hard to get, and from time to time you would make insinuations to find out what I was saying, haha …”
"Seriously!" Tang Ping said angrily.
"Okay, okay, in the sect, the one who can make Jiuxuan and so many Danjie seniors not accept me as their disciple must be a great person. And Tang Yatou, I think your Sixth Grandpa, Senior Tang Bo, He must know something, and then you will know. But, as I said before, it seems that my meeting Mr. Zhuang was a series of accidents, or that I met Mr. Zhuang naturally. In order to make this For everything to happen naturally, it must be that Senior Tang did not allow you to reveal this matter in front of me. Well, no, Brother Li, Brother Lu and Sister Yan should not know about this matter. So, my guess is …”
Qian Chao pointed with one finger in the direction of Yuhu Mountain outside the window and continued:
"There must be someone up there who is leading all of this, am I right?"
Hearing this, Tang Ping sighed and said helplessly:
"As expected, I can't hide it from you. How long have you been thinking this way?"
"I started to have suspicions from the first time I met Mr. Zhuang."
"Okay, you guessed it right. It's almost exactly what you just said. I did ask my sixth grandfather about it. I'm also curious about why the Danjie seniors in Jiuxuan are all blind and indifferent to you. What? That time, my sixth grandfather told me about this matter. It was indeed as you thought. There was a patriarch on Yuhu Mountain. Well, it was still the first time we helped Yan Shuang. You once I used talismans to set up a formation, trapped the huge blood mud puppet, and then destroyed it. According to my sixth grandfather, all this was seen in the eyes of an ancestor named Mo who happened to be passing by. He was very fond of you. I appreciate it, but due to the rules of the sect, it is impossible to accept you as a disciple. At the same time, I feel that if your Jiuxuan Danjie seniors accept you as a disciple, it will be a delay for you. For this reason, I specially summoned my sixth grandfather. I went up to Yuhu Mountain and inquired about your situation. Next, Patriarch Mo summoned the seniors of Jiuxuan and ordered them not to accept you as a disciple. Although the seniors were puzzled, they could only obey. . Next, you met Mr. Zhuang in Ruixuan Town. My sixth grandfather said that Mr. Zhuang should be a good friend of Mo Zu. He has a very weird temper. He is definitely not a monk of our Five Spirits, and There are no disciples, so Mo Zu designed all this to make you appear in front of Mr. Zhuang seemingly by chance, so that Mr. Zhuang would be moved and accept you as his disciple. All this must be natural and cannot be seen by Mr. Zhuang. Here comes the flaw. For this reason, my sixth grandfather made me swear before telling me this. I can’t tell you this. There are also Sister Yan, Brother Li and Brother Lu. If Mr. Zhuang sees through it, it will be a delay. Mr. Zhuang, but in my opinion, if this matter really fails, it will also delay you. That Mo Zu is said to be the leading rune master in our sect, and his good friend, Mr. Zhuang, must also be a The opportunity for Master Nascent Soul, who is a scholar of heaven and earth, is too rare, so I have always kept it a secret."
After hearing this, Qian Chao finally understood the whole story. Naturally, Qian Chao didn't care about Tang Ping's concealment of her own affairs. He knew that she was trying to perfect him, but... there was one more thing he wanted to know.
"Also, Girl Tang," Qian Chao's face turned serious as he spoke, "Is that Mr. Zhuang..."
Tang Ping sighed and said:
"Well, Zu Mo and my sixth grandfather didn't say it clearly, but my sixth grandfather guessed... Mr. Zhuang is probably not going to die soon. He probably has no hope of becoming an immortal and his life is about to expire. Zu Mo and Mr. Zhuang have been good friends since they came here. Secondly, he couldn’t bear to have all his life’s learning go to waste, so he designed all this.”
Qian Chao nodded dimly and said:
"It's exactly what I expected..."
"Then what are you going to do next?"
"Well, although Mr. Zhuang and I don't have the status of master and apprentice, he is actually my master, and in my opinion, Mr. Zhuang has long been aware of the arrangement of that Mo Zu, but it's just that he is my master. Just don’t tell me. In this case, there is no need to hide this matter from Brother Li, Sister Yan and Brother Lu. In the future, we will still go to Ruixuan Town, and I will go to Mr. Zhuang’s place. My relationship with Mr. Zhuang They must be informed of the matter.”
After saying this, Qian Chao changed the topic:
"The next step is for us. We saved Zuo You from Yan Jing this time, and got those letters from Zuo You. Yan Jing escaped, so Wen Liang must know that we intervened. I estimate that Yan Jing will definitely take action, but we don’t know anything about it. But... there is an opportunity. Do you remember what I said before? "
"Is it the person we met outside who led us and Luo Ying and others to block us in the ruins? You said you wanted to bribe him." Tang Ping said.
"Yes, that's him. I asked Senior Brother Ma Hu about it. That person's name is Chu Yuan. He must be a member of the Ten Years Association. Apart from being a bit radical in plotting against Senior Sister Luo Ying, this person has no For other notoriety, he should be a member of the Ten Years Association, and the Ten Years Association is inextricably linked to Hanchichi. There is a man named Xing Rang who has been hiding in Hanchichi, and he is now cooperating with Wen Liang. , if we can make this Chu Yuan work for us, then we will no longer be blind and deaf when it comes to dealing with Wen Liang."
In order to bribe Chu Yuan, naturally there is only one thing that can be done, and that is the mosaic jade lamp. The five Qian Chao people currently only have one in their hands, but the five Qian Chao people are not like Chu Yuan who will not build the foundation within a few years. They are in an urgent situation that they will die. Moreover, with Qian Chao's methods, the five of them will definitely open the ruins outside the sect, and there will be a chance to get this thing again. Therefore, if they can use the Mozun Jade Fat Lamp to impress Chu Yuan If so, it would be a good deal.
Tang Ping was not opposed to this, but she thought more about it. She said:
"Your idea is indeed worth a try, but there is one thing. When we talk about this matter with him, it is necessary to have people like Luo Ying here to witness it. This will be a deterrent, and secondly, it will make him believe more. you."
"Well, you're right, but we have to discuss this matter formally with Sister Yan, Brother Li and Brother Lu. How about we talk about this matter when everyone comes to practice tomorrow?"
"Okay, oh, by the way, I almost forgot. Hey, this is what my sixth grandfather asked me to give to you. He also studied the study of spiritual veins in his early years, but later gave up halfway, but he collected some of our five The distribution map of the spiritual veins in the Lingzong area, and let me tell you, these things can be regarded as the secrets of the Five Spirits Sect, and you are not allowed to spread them out."
"Oh!" Qian Chao's eyes lit up. This was the second time Tang Bonian gave him a map. "This is a good thing. Why didn't you take it out earlier?"
