Outside Nanhe City, the Li family manor.
There is a dark quiet room here, which is empty except for a mat spread on the light blue wooden floor.
A middle-aged man wearing a loose green robe, with a high forehead and an ancient face sits cross-legged on it, with his hands on his knees, palms facing up, his thumb and middle finger lightly clasped together, his eyes half-open and half-closed, breathing if there is any If not.
There is a piece of incense in the quiet room that is as thick as a thumb and is completely green. However, the strange thing is that the incense is not inserted on the ground, but inserted upside down on the beam above the head and fixed with calipers.
The incense has been lit.
The white smoke does not rise, but falls like a line, falling straight on the forehead of the middle-aged man sitting cross-legged on the mat. Along the face of the middle-aged man in green robe, it flows down like a waterfall, making this middle-aged man There seemed to be a veil covering his face, undulating gently with his faint breathing.
About an hour later, the middle-aged man was suddenly shaken. His whole body seemed to have been electrocuted. He bounced up half a foot, spit out a mouthful of blood, and then fell down heavily.
"Here comes -" the middle-aged man shouted, regardless of the blood spilling from his mouth.
"Master, the disciple is here!" Two men rushed in from the quiet room.
"Where is Xiaoshan? Who is following him?" the middle-aged man asked.
This man's name is Lu Zuo, also known as Mancang. He looks middle-aged, but is actually over sixty years old. He is one of the elders of the Wangwu Sect.
Wangwu Sect is located in Wangwu Mountain on the edge of Lanshui River. It is one of the rare Taoist sects that advocates joining the world. Its disciples are highly respected by the nobles of Chu State. Although they have little fighting power, they have some financial status.
Xuanmen cannot prohibit marriage.
However, Taoism pays attention to the ascending and descending of pure and turbid, with the goal of cultivating a pure and spiritual body. It is extremely difficult to get started, but as long as you get started, you must expel the old and adopt the new, expel the turbid air and absorb the pure air. The body will be filled with pure air, and the weight will gradually decrease.
The highest level of Taoism is called Taoist priests, whose characteristic is that their bodies are as light as flying feathers.
However, since it involves subtle efforts in the evolution and transformation of the human body, it doesn't matter if the Taoist people have not obtained the true transmission. If they obtain the true transmission and practice successfully, it will be extremely difficult to have children. Therefore, some people say that magicians have five disadvantages and three shortcomings. Although this is not the case for true Taoist people, it is true that it is difficult to have children.
Lu Zuo had a son at an old age, and he really cherished him. Although the youngest son was not very successful, he still kept him by his side at all times, for fear of being bullied.
"Junior brother went to Chengnan Town to have a drink. An Jun brought three guards to follow him." The two disciples saw that the master's expression was wrong and did not dare to hide it, so they replied.
"Why is he going to Chengnan Town?" Lu Zuo asked in a deep voice.
"This - Chengnan Town Wang Long celebrated his fiftieth birthday. He held a banquet and invited his junior brother to the banquet." The disciple replied without daring to raise his head.
"Who is Wang Long?" Lu Zuo asked.
"He is the leader of a small gang called the Black Snake Society." The disciple replied.
"How can Xiaoshan know this kind of thing? And go to celebrate his birthday?"
How could his son associate with such people?
"————" The two disciples lowered their heads and remained silent.
"what happened!"
"————" The two disciples still bowed their heads and remained silent.
"Xiaoshan is my only son, and he is connected to my destiny. Now that his destiny has been severed, he must be dead - why don't you tell me the truth!" No matter how well-educated Lu Zuo is, he can't help but be angry at this moment. road.
"ah?"
The two disciples were so shocked that they did not dare to hide anything and explained the whole story one by one.
During this period of time, because of Lu Zuo, Lu Xiaoshan often traveled with the nobles' children here. When the Black Snake Club Wang Long saw him, he deliberately fawned over him.
He designed a trap to have his concubine hook up with Lu Xiaoshan, and then pretended to break it, but simply sent his concubine to Lu Xiaoshan to curry favor with him.
Lu Xiaoshan first came with a feeling of regret, and secondly he came to eat the marrow to know the taste. Once he came and went again, it was convenient for Wang Long to form a friendship that he had never forgotten.
This time Wang Long invited Lu Xiaoshan to attend his fiftieth birthday, and also said that he had a new concubine. The subtext was naturally that this beauty was prepared for him - why wasn't Lu Xiaoshan moved?
(A concubine is different from a wife. A concubine can be regarded as a half-master or a high-level slave. If necessary, she can still be bought or sold as a gift. Although it is shameful to use a concubine to serve others, it is not a rare thing in this era.)
"Idiot! Idiot! If my son only wants beauty, what kind of woman doesn't have it, and he hangs out with such despicable people!" Lu Zuo was heartbroken and slapped the mat under the seat, furious. said.
The two disciples did not dare to speak.
Lu Zuo, a man of low birth, had an astonishing spiritual talent since he was a child. His parents considered it an ominous sign, so he abandoned him in the mountains and was taken under the tutelage of Lu Yuancheng, the elder sent by Wangwu.
He practiced extremely hard, and finally mastered the technique at the age of thirty-five and became a true disciple of the Wangwu Sect.
Later, he couldn't make any progress in the art. When he was walking in the world, he fell in love with an orphan girl and gave birth to a son. Lu Zuo was overjoyed at that time.
It's a pity that Lu Zuo lacks the experience of educating children of rich families for many generations. He only thinks that if he is rich and powerful, and can study and practice martial arts, he should cultivate them vigorously.
As a result, although the only son Lu Xiaoshan was as honest as a rabbit in front of him, once he was released, he couldn't withstand the temptation of beauty and fell into this low-level trap.
However, a wife is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is not as good as a thief. The temptation of this kind of affair is actually very amazing. Even if she is not a raw melon egg like Lu Xiaoshan, she may not be able to withstand it in another old world.
"Prepare the carriage, no, prepare the horse, I want to see who has cut off my incense!"
The art of Xuanmen is mysterious and unpredictable, and there are real opportunities for unforeseen events caused by ghosts and gods.
Even if there are no clues at all, he still has a secret technique that can calculate one or two based on this luck connection. However, the more clues there are, the smaller the backlash of the secret technique will be.
Performing personal calculations at the murder scene is the method with the highest success rate and the least backlash.
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In the night, six horses were carrying six knights. A woman was sitting on the carriage. There was no need to drive the carriage. The two horses pulling the carriage walked quietly on their own.
This is Lu Wu and his party who have returned home with a full load.
Even though Wang Long's Black Snake Guild is just a small gang in the town, relying on the ferry, there are many merchants coming and going. Even the little bits and pieces of oil and water in the city collection are enough for the Black Snake Guild to eat a lot.
What's more, the Black Snake Club has a hand in casinos, brothels, restaurants and pawn shops, as well as loan sharking, human trafficking and other hugely profitable businesses. Over the past few decades, it has accumulated a lot of wealth, with more than 500 taels of gold and silver. More than 20,000 taels, other arty calligraphy and paintings, pearls, gems and jewelry are all in the box.
Fortunately, Lu Wu and others brought the carriage, otherwise it would be really difficult to get it.
Ye Ying sat in front of the carriage.
"Do you know the multiplication table? What books have you read?" Qiutong asked as he rode beside the carriage.
"The slave has read books such as "Zhou Bi Suan Jing", "Zhu Shu", "Yue Jing", "Spring and Autumn" and other books, and knows the multiplication formula."
Ye Ying replied obediently.
