"Thank you, Master!" Xun Mou sat down politely and pretended to be calm while greeting, "Master, what book are you reading?"
Zhou Zhongwang put down the tea cup in his hand and coughed lightly, "It's nothing. This is an article written by the Holy Master in previous years. Come and take a look! What? You haven't come to see me for a long time. Isn't it just to talk about this when you come here today? ?”
Xun Mou's eyes were red at this time. He stood up and walked to the center of the hall. He shook his sleeves and bowed his head. With tears streaming down his face, he said, "Master, please save my disciple! Please save me!"
Zhou Zhongwang said sternly: "What's the matter?"
"Master, if you don't save me, I'm afraid my disciple will live up to your great reputation, and all his years of hard work will be in vain!" Xun Mou burst into tears and couldn't help crying.
Zhou Zhongwang took a deep breath, closed his eyes slightly, and said after a long time: "Okay, why are you crying!"
Only then did Xun Mou stop sobbing, choked up, and said, "Master, you don't know something..."
"Okay, stop talking!" Zhou Zhongwang opened his eyes and glanced at Xun Mou impatiently, "I know what you mean! I can't help you with this matter."
"This..." Xun Mou was stunned for a moment, "How could it be possible? The emperor will only listen to you if you come forward in this matter!"
"Hey..." Zhou Zhongwang sighed, "If the emperor wanted to choose me as a teacher, he would have put me in command long ago. How could it be today! I am already half buried to my waist in loess. Now what the emperor wants to do is to train new people. Well, you asked me to ask the emperor for a royal tassel now. If I am rejected again, where can I put my old face?" Zhou Zhongwang couldn't help but frowned at the end, and he regretted his previous initiative to ask for a royal tassel. Think about it. Now that I am getting older, I still want to enjoy my old age at home.
Xun Mou looked at his master in confusion, and was speechless for a long time. After thinking for a long time, he finally said, "But master, if this is the case, this disciple will never be able to turn around!"
"I brought you up as a teacher, and now you can take charge of your own business. It's up to you to make decisions on many things! It's time for you to withdraw from the court!" Zhou Zhongwang said with emotion, and his eye circles turned red, " Now I feel a little regretful as a teacher. Shouldn't I have retired from the world like you, Master Xu? Hey..."
Seeing his master downcast, Xun Mou knew that the emperor did not entrust him with important tasks last time, and he was still worried about it. His master was a face-saving person, and this incident probably had a great impact on his emotions, "Master, you don't know something. , do you remember Lu Zuo?"
"Lu Zuo?" Zhou Zhongwang thought for a moment and continued, "Of course you remember, he is your uncle's apprentice, isn't he? He even competed with you in Kuji Temple last time! What? Isn't he already dead?"
Xun Mou said anxiously: "Master, how do you know that he is not dead but is still alive after living in seclusion for months? He even went to the palace to meet the Holy One today!"
"What?" Zhou Zhongwang was really frightened. He stood up and asked, "Why did the Holy Spirit summon him?"
Xun Mou stood up, walked to his master, asked him to sit back first, and then whispered a few words in his master's ear. Zhou Zhongwang's face changed drastically and he asked in surprise: "Seriously!"
"Absolutely true!"
After Zhou Zhongwang heard this, he took a breath. Lu Zuo reappeared and was received by the emperor. This was not a good thing, at least not a good thing for his apprentice. Whoever Lu Zuo was an enemy of came back, he himself You can ignore it, but you can never turn a blind eye to your beloved disciple, who you regard as your own. Zhou Zhongwang continued to ask: "Is Lu Zuo's appearance again this time just for Shanzhou?"
"Yes, my disciple has a hunch that he is coming for me!"
"My teacher is also puzzled! His sudden appearance last time made me feel confused. From the beginning to the end, my teacher felt that his appearance always had a sense of mystery, and every time it made people feel like he was It doesn't seem that simple?" Zhou Zhongwang fell into endless contemplation and thought about everything about Lu Zuo again, "Mou'er, do you feel..."
Zhou Zhongwang hesitated to speak, as he seemed to be unable to describe the feeling. Seeing that his master was silent, Xun Mou asked curiously, "What do you think?"
"I can't even say that as a teacher..." Zhou Zhongwang suddenly remembered, relying on his decades of experience, "Do you think that every time Lu Zuo appears, it makes people feel uneasy!"
Xun Mou's feeling seemed to be explained by his master. He nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, that's right. This is the feeling. This time Lu Zuo came back from the dead and reappeared, making the disciple even more uneasy! He It appeared so suddenly this time, it was so unexpected!"
"Oh? How is this possible?" Zhou Zhongwang looked at Xun Mou in surprise, "Didn't you realize it at all?"
"My disciple, what are you wondering about?"
When Zhou Zhongwang heard this, he became suspicious and couldn't help asking again, "Are you sure it's him?"
"This is absolutely unmistakable, it must be him!"
"It seems that Lu Zuo really came here with bad intentions this time!"
"That's right!" Xun Mou also suddenly realized, "And Lu Zuo must have expert help, otherwise how could a man who was barely alive in prison return to his former self? When he was in prison, his disciples had already taken him away His hand tendons and hamstrings were severed, how could a normal person survive?"
"What?" After hearing this, Zhou Zhongwang started to slap the case again, "How can you break someone's hand tendons and hamstrings?"
When Xun Mou saw his master so angry, he knelt down again with a pop and said, "Master, please calm down. This is just to get rid of future troubles, isn't it?"
Zhou Zhongwang shook his head with some disdain, "You, you! Lu Zuo is your senior uncle's close disciple and your fellow senior. If you really kill him like this, how can you be worthy of your senior uncle and your master?" ? Since he is already in jail, he will naturally be judged by the Holy Spirit, so why do you need to get involved."
"The matter has come to an end. It's useless to say more. I'm just afraid..."
"What are you afraid of! Why didn't you tell me about this matter in advance!" Zhou Zhongwang said sternly.
"This..." Xun Mou was about to burst into tears, "How dare I tell my master this! What's important now is not this. What's important is that Lu Zuo is involved in the court. According to my disciple, his purpose is terrible. It’s not as simple as we thought!”
This made Zhou Zhongwang even more uneasy, and he nodded in agreement, "That's polite!"
