Mentioning Shimen, Master Dongsun felt a burst of self-pity: "It's all thanks to the old man, I shouldn't have rushed him down the mountain."
Wu Sheng said: "Master, please stop blaming yourself. It's useless. We, the surviving people, must raise our heads and look forward, and live a good life for Boss Shi and Tao Hua."
Master Dongsun sighed and murmured: "Actually, Boss Shi and Peach Blossom are quite good." In the past, Master Dongsun and the four friends of Lanqiao were just acquaintances, not friends, but after two days of escaping together, the old man But he got rid of feelings.
He suddenly asked: "Can this revenge be avenged?"
Wu Sheng could not answer this question. Just like Mu Taoren's master and apprentice, how should we avenge the death of Shimen, Taohua Niang and Hohe's father-in-law? Wu Sheng couldn't answer. It's hard to say whether it can even be called "hatred".
Regardless of personal grudges, who should I seek revenge from?
Revenge against the two black-clothed disciples from Jixia Academy whom I met on the main peak of Leigong Mountain? Revenge against Yu Xingxing at the foot of Longxing Mountain and Yi Gan Xingxing, including Luo Xingxing? Or take revenge on their retainer guards?
Then do you want to take revenge on the general of the Chu army who led the army? Do you want to take revenge on the king of Chu? Do you want to take revenge on all the real people, heavenly masters, practitioners, practitioners and even the guards of Jixia Academy?
If you really want to take revenge, it is to avenge the public. The way to take revenge is to destroy the Chu State and overthrow the Jixia Academy. In this regard, Wu Sheng only felt helpless and helpless.
Wu Sheng couldn't answer this question, so he thought for a while and said: "When the Hufang Kingdom was destroyed, people gathered in Leigong Mountain to plot its recovery. The leader was Mu Taoist. Have you heard of it?"
Master Dongsun nodded: "Taoist Mu is a quiet man. I didn't know about him before. Later, when the news came, I learned that there was such a master of returning to the void in Leigong Mountain. I heard that it was for this reason that Zuo Shenyin was greatly shocked, so he approached the Academy and sought to serve the Academy."
"Can you also hear about this kind of thing?"
"I like to think. Isn't it good to think too much?"
"Then you can just say it's your own guess. You have to do a 'hearing'."
"You don't understand. When I was young, I traveled around the country. When those lobbyists meet the king, they always start with 'I heard'. Otherwise, can their speculations be called facts? The king does not believe it and is unconvincing!"
Wu Sheng surrendered: "Okay, okay, you're right. Let me continue. This is not a hearsay, but a fact. Mu Taoist had a disciple who was a good friend of mine. When Mu Taoist passed away, he cried bitterly and muttered He wants to avenge his master. Do you know what he is doing now? Marrying a wife and having children, hunting and farming."
Master Dongzhan was silent for a moment, then sighed: "Revenge, easier said than done?"
Wu Sheng said: "Although he has never mentioned revenge again, I know that he has definitely not put down his grudge. Everything he is doing now is just preparing for revenge and waiting for the opportunity. Maybe he can wait for the opportunity, maybe he will spend his whole life I can never wait.”
Master Dongsun nodded and laughed at himself with a wry smile: "That's right, let's just find a way to survive."
Wu Sheng nodded: "That's right. If you have a grudge, of course you must take revenge, but don't let hatred become an obsession and blind your eyes... Hurry up, we have been delayed in the mountains for a few days, I'm worried it's too late..."
After marching all night in the barren mountains, it was already afternoon when we arrived in Xiangcheng. After observing the city gate for a long time, Wu Sheng prepared to enter the city. Master Dongzhan ran over next to him, holding two straw hats in his hands: "Businessman, would you like to put on your straw hat to cover yourself?"
Wu Sheng put on his straw hat and headed towards the city gate.
There were more than a dozen notices made of wooden plaques hanging under the city gate, most of which were wanted criminals. From time to time, people stopped to look at the portrait.
Seeing Zhang Xuan's notice about sea fishing, Master Dongzhan immediately trembled and dwarfed, looking around wildly with a guilty conscience.
Wu Sheng reminded him: "Keep your head up, chest out, and look forward." He didn't see too many things like Haidu documents, and the portraits on them were really of no use.
So Master Dongsun held his head high, his chest straight, his waist straight, followed Wu Sheng, and walked into the city gate with a swagger.
Wu Sheng in front of him suddenly dwarfed, lowered his head, and looked around wildly. Seeing that Master Dongsun was still raising his head and chest, he quickly put his arm around him and forced his neck down.
Master Dongsun didn't know why, so he squinted at the notice board hanging at the city gate. The portraits of Wu Sheng and himself were clearly listed on it, and he couldn't help but tremble.
Fortunately, the entry into the city went smoothly. Wu Sheng walked quickly into a cold alley, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and murmured: "It's strange, the painting looks very similar."
In the reward notice at the city gate, the portraits of the two of them were lifelike, and they were even sixty or seventy percent similar. The level of the portraits was far higher than before, and it was unknown whose handwriting it was. It was really beyond Wu Sheng's expectation. Fortunately, they were still dressed as they were in Langshan, which was very different from their current appearance, so they were not noticed by the guards at the city gate.
Master Dongsun is doing better, because the injury on his forehead has just healed, and he has had a high fever for several days. His face shape has changed slightly, so it is not easy to identify him. But Wu Sheng is more troublesome. If he looks face to face a few more times, he may be able to identify him on the spot. .
"Layholder, what should we do now? Are we still going to Fangshi?" Master Dongsun was very uneasy.
"Find a place to stay first." Accommodation is the top priority. If he still wanders on the street at night, it will cause a lot of trouble. Wu Sheng doesn't want to go through the haystacks anymore.
The two of them lowered their straw hats by another three points and started shopping along the walls of the alley. There are no such thing as inns these days. If you want to stay in the city, you have to find an abandoned house to hide.
After wandering around for an hour, Wu Sheng took Master Dong Bamboo into a wine shop and asked for drinks and food. There was a wine flag in front of the wine shop with the words "Taoyuan Notes" written on it.
After eating and drinking in the wine shop, we continued shopping, but we just wandered around a few streets around the wine shop. As we strolled around in the evening, Master Dongsun asked, "Layholder, how are you doing?"
Wu Sheng frowned and said, "There are no abandoned houses in these two nearby streets. What can I do?"
Master Dongsun asked again: "Is there anything you like about it?"
Wu Sheng pointed to a house and said, "This is the best place, but there seems to be someone there."
Master Dongsun asked: "Does the layman have any money?"
Wu Sheng nodded: "Yes."
Master Dongzhan walked up to the door and knocked on the door without saying a word. After the door opened, the master came out. Master Dongsun chatted with him for a while, then turned back with a frown and said, "Businessman, this house is too dark. It charges one hundred knives and can only stay for one night. Let's look for it again." Nowhere else.”
Knife coins are common coins in the countries north of the Yangtze River such as Chen, Cai, Song, Xu, Tang and Cheng. Two knife coins can be exchanged for about three ant nose coins. One hundred knife coins is one hundred and fifty ant nose coins. It's really too dark to stay overnight. But Wu Sheng didn't care, and his eyes lit up: "Is this okay?"
Master Dongzhan was puzzled: "Why not?"
Wu Sheng was very upset. If he had known this, he would have spent money directly when he was in Pengcheng that day. Why did he fight with others to hide in a haystack, and then compete with an inexplicable female snitch? But then I thought, even if I could pay to borrow it, I couldn't live there because my whereabouts would be exposed.
Immediately he made the decision: “This is it!”
