The old man threw a bombshell straight out, Chen Qiuniang was stunned for a moment, and then her face was hot, and she couldn't help but look down at the rice porridge in the white porcelain bowl.

"Yo, will Su Qingyuan's disciples also be shy?" The old man quipped.

Chen Qiuniang glanced at him and said, "The Taoist chief is even more disagreeable. My master just looks down on the false name in this world, and as for the etiquette, my master knows better than anyone else. Moreover, Su Ying is also a woman in the boudoir, and the Taoist chief came to such a sentence horizontally——"

She stopped at this, for the chief was sitting by and looking at her, with an interested look and an inexplicable smile on his face.

"Su Yatou continued, why didn't you say it?" The old man saw that she had stopped, but instead urged her.

Chen Qiuniang pouted and said, "Don't say it, the Taoist chief is a bully at all." ”

"Why did I bully you? You girl, I'll just ask you a word, you got me so many tirades, and you didn't answer me half a word. Not an authentic girl. The old man also pursed his lips, pointed at Chen Qiuniang with his index finger, and drank a glass of rice wine on the table.

"That's because you can't answer that question, Dao Chief." Chen Qiuniang said.

The old man put down the wine glass and said with a sigh: "You young people, if you like it, you like it, you don't like it, you don't like it, and you talk so much nonsense." I said that you are a closed disciple of Su Qingyuan, you must have learned your master's informality, but I didn't expect it to be so pedantic. ”

"Say whatever you want." Chen Qiuniang muttered, then lowered her head and drank porridge and ignored the old man.

The old man laughed and said, "Girl Su, why can't I answer this question?" Let me ask you again, do you like Zhang Ci? ”

"Dao Chief, the second son is the dragon and phoenix among the people, and a woman will admire him, you have asked a lot of questions." Chen Qiuniang saw that the old man was still biting this question, so she used a kind of Tai Chi words to prevaricate the past.

The old man sneered twice and said, "The girl has the courage to ask him who helped him solve the poison, but she doesn't have the courage to admit that she likes him." The old man said and glanced at Zhang Ci.

Zhang Ci stood aside and shouted with a sad face: "Master, I just invited Miss Su to come to help this time, don't make trouble." ”

"I'm messing around?" The old man squinted at him and said unhappily, "If you want to make me worry, I won't even show up, what else am I messing with?" ”

"Master, I have my own measure for this kind of thing." Zhang Ci's tone was very deferential and restrained.

But the old man shook his head and said, "If you are measured, what shall I do?" Originally, that year, the five of us old men were already dead people, if you hadn't stolen the beams and changed the pillars in advance, and planned to act later. According to the rules of the family, the five of us would have been a pile of dry bones for a long time. Over the years, I have survived the world thanks to your strategy at that time, and I have lived so many years of leisure. Your other masters also wanted you to have that kind of mind when you were eight years old, and they always stopped worrying us after that. Who knows you, alas! ”

When the old man said this, he kept shaking his head with an expression of "hating iron does not become steel". While drinking porridge, Chen Qiuniang pondered the old man's words, which seemed to mean that the master of the patriarch of the nine major families would be executed after the patriarch inherited the position of patriarch. But Zhang Ci had already made arrangements, and his five teachers survived, and they have all lived very freely all these years. And this old man ventured to see Zhang Ci this time because Zhang Ci did something that worried his masters.

"Second Master, I'm really measured." Zhang Ci was still in a respectful tone.

"You have a sense of proportion, you will be entangled with that girl, and you can't even calculate the old guys of the Elders? Are you measured, what have you been doing for almost three years? The old man frowned, a look of disappointment.

Zhang Ci's face was still calm, and he said, "Let the masters bother." Youqi is very sorry, and please don't worry, masters, and trust your disciples. ”

"Child, I am here today on behalf of your other four masters, and of course I want to come myself. You listen to Master's advice, it has been almost three years, the Minjiang River is turbulent, and you can't find it back at that time, that is, you went, why do you have to wait. The old man let out another long sigh.

Chen Qiuniang finally understood at this time that the old man was talking about her jumping into the river three years ago, and they must have felt that Zhang Ci was too deeply affected by this incident and should not be so.

"She said she would be by my side, and she told me to wait for her." Zhang Ci said.

"Youqi, do you believe her words?" The old man frowned, straightened his beard and asked.

"I believe it." Zhang Ci replied very firmly.

The old man shook his head and said, "I don't believe it." Ever since I knew that you used private soldiers and firearms to attack Zhuxi Mountain for a woman, I and your other masters have been vaguely aware that you, this child, can't control yourself. Sure enough, not long after, this girl fell into the Minjiang River, and you changed. It became so that we old guys were awakened by nightmares in this sleep. ”

"Master, don't talk about it. I can't tell you all about it yet, but everything I do is not impulsive, it is also deliberate, and I ask Master to go back, in the end, Shuzhong is dangerous. Those people have been in business for many years, and the hundred-legged insects are dead but not stiff, and they will have some means in the end. Zhang Ci immediately interrupted the old man's words.

The old man waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I know your temperament, once you decide, no one can change it." I don't want to do useless work, I come here today just to say everything that needs to be said, and as for what happens in the end, it all depends on your creation. In this world, everyone has a catastrophe that everyone can't see. ”

The old man's words are reasonable and irrefutable. Zhang Ci also had no reason to object, so he knelt down on the futon in front of the old man very respectfully and said, "Youqi listens to Master's teachings. ”

"Child, I'm going to rely on the old and sell the old today." The old man also sat upright.

Chen Qiuniang looked at the old and the young sitting opposite each other, looking serious, as if the old pedant was teaching children the rules. The old man cleared his throat, straightened his robe and covered his crossed legs, and then said in a small voice: "I haven't been in Shuzhong for a day or two, but when I first came, I went around to inquire about the girl. That girl is indeed talented and beautiful, and she is very smart, and she can really protect you with her life. If there is anyone in this world who is worthy of you, she is the most worthy of you. When the old man said this, he sighed softly, and continued, "But what is the use, child? She's gone, but you're still alive. ”

"Master, she told me to wait for her, and she said that as long as I live well, she will come back." Zhang Ci leaned over slightly and replied in a low voice.

The old man's eyebrows furrowed, like a thick caterpillar, he shook his head slightly and sighed, and said: "Her exquisite mind, on that bridge, must have seen your situation clearly, and also knew that you had a deep affection for her, and I was afraid that she would have three longs and two shorts, so you went with her." She must have said that to you so that you could survive. How could you not understand? ”

When Chen Qiuniang heard this old man say this, she was shocked, and secretly thought: Ah, this old man turned out to be my bosom friend, but it's a pity that she cited a lot of evidence, which was enough to make Zhang Ci believe her words.

When Zhang Ci heard the old man say that, he suddenly turned to look at Chen Qiuniang. Chen Qiuniang was caught off guard, holding the bowl for a moment, and asked, "What's wrong?" Do you need me to recuse myself? ”

"No, you keep eating." Zhang Ci turned his face away again and continued to kneel respectfully in front of the old man.

The old man didn't know why Zhang Ci wanted to look at the girl next to him at this moment, so he also glanced at Chen Qiuniang, and then seemed to have a look of sudden realization, and said, "Girl, it's good for you to avoid it." ”

"Don't. The second son said that there was no need to avoid it. I'm hungry and I want to eat. Chen Qiuniang immediately refused. Just kidding, she's going to listen to first-hand gossip here.

"I don't know the rules, I'm doing this for your good. You hurry up and dodge. The old man urged.

"No, I know what you think." Chen Qiuniang blinked. She had probably guessed what the old man meant. This old man probably felt that his apprentice had never had a good face for any woman after Jiang Danfeng jumped into the Minjiang River, let alone say a few more words, but now he suddenly had a good face for her, and he was still discussing in the tent for so long, he must be very interested in this girl. So, why not use this girl as a breakthrough and let him be with this girl, and gradually forget about that person.

"You know what I'm thinking?" The old man looked surprised, then smiled again, and said, "You trick me." ”

"What do I tell you to do? I really know. Chen Qiuniang pulled the silk scarf and wiped her mouth, then washed her hands in the basin next to her, and answered the old man while sorting out her package.

"Tell me, what do I think?" The old man became interested in Chen Qiuniang, so he put aside the reprimand of Zhang Ci for the time being.

"Isn't it like 'the best way to forget a person is to be with another person'?" Chen Qiuniang said with a grin.

The old man glanced at her and said with a smile: "Ghost goblin, you girl, you are really likeable." ”

"Dao Chief, don't be crooked, you continue to train apprentices. I was on the sidelines, making sure not to speak. Chen Qiuniang sat down in the guest seat very obediently at this time.

"Hey, girl, do you want to be my apprentice's wife?" The old man did not relent, and came with such a frightening sentence as soon as he opened his mouth.

Chen Qiuniang looked at Zhang Ci, sighed, and said, "Dao Chief, don't take me to the pit." You can't fool me for the happiness of your apprentice. ”

"How do you talk, girl? What did I do to you? The old man said dissatisfied.

Chen Qiuniang clasped her hands together, and Amitabha Buddha said: "The second son is a dragon and a phoenix, you want money and wealth, you want to be talented, you want to have a posture, and you want martial arts." In a word, it is simply the ideal husband of every woman. But the key is that the second son has a wife. ”

"That girl is blessed, isn't there only one tablet now?" The old man said immediately.

"Hey, Dao Chief, don't underestimate the power of a tablet. It is always good not to get it, and what is gone is always to be remembered. If the woman is white, over time it will be the bright moonlight in front of the bed of the second son; If the woman is a touch of red, then it is already a cinnabar mole on the second son's heart at this time. You say, you want me to marry someone who will never love me, or someone who will never have me in my heart, aren't you deceiving me? Right? Chen Qiuniang said crisply, her tone was subdued.

The old man thought about it carefully and felt that what Chen Qiuniang said was really reasonable, so he nodded and said, "What you said is very reasonable, I am speechless." But—"

"Dao Chief, you're speechless, don't do any more unnecessary struggles, okay?" Chen Qiuniang interrupted the old man's words.

The old man said unhappily, "It's rude, interrupt me." ”

"You're not informal." Chen Qiuniang muttered quietly.

"Su girl, time will solve a qiē. It's still young, you don't understand. The old man sighed, and then said, "If you really like my apprentice, you have to be bold, I am very optimistic about you." ”

"You take a fancy to me. Therefore, people who are dozens of years old still use such indiscriminate means to assassinate me and your apprentices. Chen Qiuniang said directly. She deduced the cause and effect of this from the beginning: it must be that this old man thinks that Su Ying's girl is not bad, if the raw rice is cooked and the rice is cooked, and Su Ying and Zhang Ci are together, then Zhang Ci will miss Chen Qiuniang less and less. Then, the old man must have known Zhang Ci's weakness, so he poisoned his weakness. It's a pity that Zhang Ci is Zhang Ci after all, and he was poisoned all of a sudden, and he immediately knew who might have done it. About last night, the old man was pulled out and detoxified.

Seeing that Chen Qiuniang said it so directly, the old man coughed twice embarrassedly and said, "What do young people understand." The result is good, and the process is not to be taken into account. ”

"Tsk, you are also a qualified old man, how can you say such unlimited words in front of your beloved disciple." Chen Qiuniang pouted.

"What is no lower limit? Is it your native language? Zhang Ci, who had been watching Chen Qiuniang and the old man arguing, suddenly interjected and asked.

Chen Qiuniang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly nodded and said, "It's my hometown language." The lower limit is the minimum standard of morality. No lower limit means that there is no moral bottom line at all. ”

"A sharp-toothed girl, she has the same virtue as your master, and it's really not a family that doesn't enter the door." The old man snorted.

Chen Qiuniang said: "My master has a lot of them, so I won't care about you, you better train your beloved apprentice quickly." ”

"If you want to take care of it, you get out quickly." The old man lost his temper and pointed to the door of the tent to ask Chen Qiuniang to go out.

Chen Qiuniang covered her mouth with her hand, and said pitifully: "Okay, okay, Dao Chief, I was wrong, I won't speak." ”

The old man didn't really want Chen Qiuniang to go out, but just let her have a soft attitude. Chen Qiuniang has been a human spirit since she was a child, what does it mean to be an adult, she is a master of observing words and feelings, and she is clear about the intentions of adults, and one of the actions of this old man naturally can't escape her thoughts.

The old man saw that Chen Qiuniang was soft and pitiful, so he said: "Then be obedient to the side, since you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer a loss in the future, don't say that I didn't help you." ”

"I know that the Taoist is good for me, but how can this kind of thing be forced. However, I promised the Taoist that I would work hard. Chen Qiuniang's tone was very well-behaved at this time, and then she whispered, "I hope the second son won't be impatient to drive me away before he sees Su Ying's goodness." ”

Zhang Ci had a smile on his face, and he really couldn't say a word. The old man was impatient, so he urged: "Youqi, Su Yatou is not bad, you keep her by your side and get along." ”

"Master, this kind of thing depends on the wishes of Miss Su herself." Zhang Ci looked at Chen Qiuniang, and his dark eyes were full of inexplicable smiles.

"Su girl is willing, right?" The old man was in a hurry, and immediately asked Chen Qiuniang.

"Dao Chief, don't worry. Let me ask you one thing: Your apprentice can plan for you at the age of eight and let you get out of the way. Isn't he as good as he was then? Chen Qiuniang blinked at the old man with a pair of bright eyes.

The old man was thoughtful, then shook his head and said, "Impossible." ”

Chen Qiuniang also stopped talking, the old man pondered for a moment, still shook his head, and said, "This time, that time." Love is a demonic obstacle, and once you fall into it, this wisdom will be reduced. ”

"Speak as if you're very experienced." Chen Qiuniang muttered, who knew that the old man was straight and said: "Girl, I was also young." Now that I have escaped into the empty door, I have also seen through the catastrophe. ”

After the old man finished speaking, he looked confused. Chen Qiuniang secretly thought that this old man was afraid that he remembered something sad, so she immediately said aloud: "Okay, okay, Dao Chief, you have to hurry now." In this wilderness, dangers lurk, and the danger of the second son is much more. ”

The old man nodded, and then said directly to Zhang Ci: "You take back your power and get rid of the constraints, we old guys are proud of you and happy for you." It's just that we don't understand why you, who have always been calm, have other ideas like those young people in your family. ”

It turned out that the purpose of this old man's trip was this. Zhang Ci has always been against rebellion, but now he is actively excluding dissidents, and he is under the control of the Zhao group, and even the surrounding small countries are also under the control of the nine major families. It can be said that just waiting for a reasonable time, he can sweep everywhere and directly change the sun and the moon.

Rebellion, changing the sun and the moon, this has always been forbidden by the nine major families. There is not only the knowledge of family management, but also the prophecy of Zhang Ye's ancestor. Therefore, even the old guys who were condemned as victims in the family and should have died when Zhang Ci ascended to the position of the patriarch of the Nine Great Families, had to come out of the mountain to take care of this idle matter.

"Master, I don't want to be so aggrieved." Zhang Ci replied very officially. His answer is the common thinking of the new generation of young people in the Nine Families.

The old man frowned, and shouted in a deep voice: "You are also doing this to me now, and you don't tell the truth?" ”

"Master, the apprentice is telling the truth." Zhang Ci's tone was calm.

"Honestly? Ever since you met that girl, your style has changed. It was just a woman, and now she's gone. The old man reproached.

Zhang Ci knelt on the ground and said calmly: "Master, for Youqi, she is the meaning of my life. When I met her, I felt that life was meaningful; When I met her, I wanted to cherish my life even more; When I met her, I thought about protecting her. ”

"So, you want to reign over the world?" The old man asked sternly.

"Yes. She gave me the heart to reign over the world. Zhang Ci's tone was still so calm, and his eyes converged well. Chen Qiuniang only felt that those words were beating on her heart one by one, making her feel that if she could be treated like this, she would die, and this life would be considered complete.

"Ridiculous. Do you think you can keep her by dominating the world? That position is the loneliest position in the world, and you are in that position, more lonely, more unfree, and even more unable to protect her when the time comes. Besides, once they reach that position, the Nine Great Families will be exposed to people, and rats that have never shown their faces in the sun are blind, you know? Once the blind rat reaches the daylight, it is difficult to move an inch. There will be a direct collapse within the family, or the nine families will end here at this time. The old man said this, gritting his teeth and hating.

"What the master said is very true, so Zhang Ci has his own opinions." Zhang Ci still answered without leaking, not letting the other party see any of his thoughts.

The old man sighed and shook his head, stretched out his hand to stroke Zhang Ci's shoulder, and said, "Youqi, you are still young, what a huge family the Nine Great Families are. Your rash actions may kill many people; Moreover, that girl is gone, what are you doing now? Do you really believe that she will come back? ”

Zhang Ci didn't answer, but said very calmly: "Master, you are too worried. I am a member of the Nine Great Families, and I am the patriarch, and I understand my burden. I also understand that the nine great families still bear the hope of the world. I have never forgotten my responsibilities because of my children's affection. Please trust your disciple who is always looking for a true balance. He never did anything to harm his own people. ”

When Zhang Ci said something, the old man moved his lips, but he couldn't find anything to say, so he straightened out his robe, stood up, and said three "good" words excitedly.

Zhang Ci also hurriedly stood up and stood aside respectfully. The old man said to himself: "Then I can rest assured, you can do it yourself, and leave for the teacher." ”

"Apprentice, send off Master." Zhang Ci bowed slightly and said loudly.

The old man opened the tent and left, and Chen Qiuniang and Zhang Ci were left in the tent again. Zhang Ci looked at Chen Qiuniang at this time, and moved his lips as if he wanted to say something.

Chen Qiuniang waved her hand and said, "Don't say it, I trust my vision." ”

"I-" Zhang Ci said three words, and Chen Qiuniang immediately interrupted, "Your master is right, that position is very lonely and even less free, and it may cause the Nine Great Families to collapse directly." ”

"But I don't want to be so poor. The Zhao family is too rampant. He said.

"Then let them stop being so rampant. If you haven't seen a high mountain, you don't know how to look up. Chen Qiuniang said.

"Do you really trust me?" Zhang Ci asked eagerly, and his expression and tone seemed to be very scared.

Chen Qiuniang smiled and nodded, "Yes." ”R1152