Nong Qingyun was restless and restless all day. He had always been conscientious about the affairs of the palace, and today he was in a daze in front of the pile of papers, and in the evening, he began to shuttle through the morning glory corridor.

How is he going to keep Nong Qingshan? How was he going to pry out the whereabouts of Shennong Whip from Nong Qingshan's mouth? Nong Qingshan has been in Shennong Palace for more than two months, he is like a hard walnut, a seamless egg, without leaking a single breath or revealing a flaw. What should he do? The soft one he has tried, he can't always come to the hard one. Torture had no effect on Nong Qingshan, and there was no basis for the threat. Nong Qingshan is alone, not seeking fame or profit, what can he use to threaten him? Once he tore his face with Nong Qingshan, it would be impossible to get the whereabouts of Shennong's whip out of his mouth. He knew that he had only one way - Nong Qingshan's daughter, but this road was also full of difficulties and obstacles.

In the past two months, the disciples outside Shennong Palace and the beggar disciples who are familiar with Nong Tieshu have tried their best to investigate, but there has been no news. How easy is it to find someone twenty years ago? First of all, her appearance has long since changed drastically. Moreover, over the years, she may have been displaced, and even if she finds a little clue, I am afraid that it has passed by time. It is also possible that she is long gone.

Nong Qingshan has been waiting for twenty years, he doesn't care about continuing to wait, he is different. He couldn't stand the gossip of those palace masters who ridiculed him behind his back for not being justifiable, and he couldn't stand the arrogant people who didn't treat him and Shennong Palace with courtesy. He had to get the Shennong Whip.

As he walked through the corridor of the guest room on the west side, Nong Qingyun's eyes lit up and he knocked on the door of Shi Shazhu's room a few times.

"Come in!" Shisha Bamboo Road. Nong Qingyun pushed the door in.

"Ouch, it's the master of the peasant palace, I really didn't expect you to deign to come to this guest room?" Shi Shazhu was polite, but he didn't get up to greet Nong Qingyun. He has always looked weird, and Nong Qingyun has no heart to worry about him.

"Brother Shi Xian, I still came to disturb at such a late hour, and I was a little embarrassed."

"Where's the word? All the land in this Shennong Palace is yours, why bother or not? What's the matter with the farmer's palace master? ”

"About my brother......

"Knowing the cause? What happened to him? Don't see you again? ”

"No, but ...... He had something to do to go back to Haihui Temple. Nong Qingyun's inquiring eyes didn't see the progress of things from Shi Shazhu's face, so he had to further explain his intentions.

"If you want to go back, go back, he is the abbot there, and he is not the palace master of your Shennong Palace, you can't let him guard this Shennong Palace like you, right?"

"It's not...... Brother Xian didn't know. More than 20 years ago, there was a Shennong whip in Shennong Palace that was taken over by the palace masters of previous dynasties and was stolen by my senior brother, but he refused to return it to me. I...... Don't know what to do? The virtuous brother and my senior brother are inseparable friends, can you persuade him? ”

Shi Shazhu blinked, his shoulders twitched, as if he had taken the hot potato thrown by someone else, and he was almost burned. He looked at the ceiling, then at the ground, and finally his eyes finally fell on Nong Qingyun's slightly embarrassed face.

"Did the palace master help Zhiyin find his daughter?"

"No, wouldn't it be easier if I found it?"

"Then why did he give you the Shennong whip? That's fair! ”

"Brother Xian is right, but my brother's daughter has been missing for twenty years, and I'm afraid I won't be able to find a trace for a while."

"Then the palace master will look for it slowly, and when you find it, Zhiyin will naturally give you what you want and what he has. As far as I know, he can have nothing in this world but his daughter. ”

"Brother Xian, I will naturally do my best to find my senior brother's daughter, but this Shennong whip is not trivial for Shennong Palace. Shennong Whip is not in the palace for a day, and Shennong Palace is on the verge of danger. I have been slandered and threatened by others over the years I have been in charge of Shennong Palace, please help me persuade my senior brother! Nong Qingyun spoke earnestly, clasping his hands into fists.

Shi Shazhu's nonchalant smile gradually disappeared, he was not moved by Nong Qingyun's sincerity, but carefully tightened a fishing net.

"Since the master of the peasant palace is open and honest, I will also tell you the truth. I really hope that Chiin will find his daughter. Over the years, I was the only one who saw him cut off his daughter's liver. Although I don't have a daughter myself, I do have relatives, and I understand the pain of losing loved ones......" Shi Shazhu's eyes welled up with tears. He subconsciously picked up the scissors on the table and cut off a section of the wick, as if this way he could cut off his worries together.

When the candlelight was bright again, Shi Shazhu's sad face was swept away, and he returned to his arrogant and uninhibited appearance: "I have a plan." ”

"Oh, what's the plan?" Nong Qingyun remained silent, only showing a shallow smile.

"I know the cause of the grievance, but I believe that this is better for him......" Shi Shazhu hunched his back, as if bent over by the weight of his helpless choice.

"Brother Xian, you come and listen, I will never let my senior brother suffer!" Nong Qingyun swore that the ecstasy in his heart that he had tried to restrain did not escape Shi Shazhu's unusual keen gaze.

"I heard that the eldest brother's daughter is an adopted daughter, not a biological daughter."

"Yes, she was abandoned outside the gate of Shennong Palace when she was two years old, and I felt very sorry for her, so I adopted her."

"Zhiyin seems to have a good impression of your daughter, and every time he looks at your daughter, the look in his eyes is very loving and focused, I have never seen him like this." Shi Shazhu's eyes revealed tenderness, and he was moved by the innocent emotions that are not mixed with evil thoughts in the world.

"Maybe it's because the senior brother thinks about his daughter, and Tie Shu has been helping him find his daughter, so the senior brother is grateful."

"It's not just gratitude."

"What do you think of ......?" Nong Qingyun's heart was pounding, his keen insight had already explored everything, although he had never touched Nong Tieshu's thoughts before, but at this moment, someone presented this idea to him, and he felt that he was about to disarm and surrender in the face of temptation.

"I think it's okay for your daughter to pretend to be the daughter who is missing." Shi Shazhu was calm, and there was a trace of melancholy hidden behind his resoluteness.

Nong Qingyun pretended to be shocked, as a lord of a palace with high morals and prestige, he couldn't show urgency and joy in using his relatives to cheat and deceive. He bowed his head in deep thought and remained silent.

"Zhiyin got the 'daughter' he had been thinking about for a long time, and you will also get the Shennong whip. Although he didn't find his biological daughter, he didn't have to suffer anymore. Shi Shazhu continued, but his tone was not like trying to facilitate or persuade, but he was relieved to find a compromise and happy to see his friend's happiness.

"This," Nong Qingyun frowned, in a dilemma, "Thank you brother Xian for thinking about me, it's just ......"

"Big brother, kill two birds with one stone, isn't this a good thing?"

"Even if I do this, Senior Brother may not tell me the whereabouts of Shennong's whip."

"Even if he doesn't tell you the whereabouts of Shennong's whip, won't he tell his daughter?"

"Would the senior brother believe that Tie Shu is her missing daughter?"

Shi Shazhu smiled secretly: "Of course it's not Tie Shu now, I will use the disguise technique to change her appearance a little." ”

"Transfiguration? Is the virtuous brother really proficient in disguise? ”

"I can't talk about being proficient, but I can't make it impossible to see the flaws in Zhiyin."

"Thank you, brother! I'll think about it again! Nong Qingyun replied tactfully, without smiling, and the passion tumbling in his heart jumped in the dim candlelight, overflowing the small room.

"Well, I think Tie Shu will understand. Shennong's whip is not about personal honor and safety, but about the rise and fall of the entire Shennong Palace, and she is also obliged to make sacrifices. Moreover, Zhiyin will be very good to Tieshu, probably better than you. When the time comes, maybe...... Ha ha! ”

Shi Shazhu's laughter corresponded to Nong Qingyun's heart, but there was one person who was shocked and numb all over his body.

In the bleak moonlight, Shi stood outside the window and shivered, and after hearing the conversation between Shi Shazhu and Nong Qingyun, the two majestic images instantly turned into hideous devils in his mind.

Half an hour ago, he was alone in his room practicing the trick of swallowing clouds and breathing fire. After practicing twice, a problem that he had been struggling to overcome still remained unsolved. Swallowing clouds was perfect, but the fire-breathing caused him endless troubles, and the hairs on his lips were always miserable, but fortunately he didn't have a beard, but those tiny hairs smelled of burnt because of the presence of Mars, and he felt like roasted chicken. He immediately took the opportunity to seek the master's help, and at the corner of the morning glory corridor, Nong Qingyun's tall figure knocked on the master's door. Curiosity, he leaned by the window and knew everything that was going on in the house.

Are they going to join forces to deceive the cause? Oh, that poor old monk! Who would want their loved ones to be impersonated? If he himself one day finds that his father and mother are not his biological parents, he will definitely be thundered, and life is better than death. That feeling of being deceived should be the most unbearable feeling in the world, how could Nong Qingyun and Master come up with such a vicious idea? Could it be that both of them are vicious people, and I have been deceived by them before? Stones, stones, how can you judge people by their appearance? Even if you don't like to read anymore, you know the saying that you don't know your heart, right? Nong Qingyun must be such a thief, in order to get some Shennong whip, he actually let his daughter pretend to be someone else's daughter. There is also Shi Shazhu, he came up with this idea, I followed him for two months, but I didn't know that he was so femme fatale. Damn, I actually called him Master for two months, I will never change the trick in the future, the dirty things taught by such filthy people will stain my hands!

The stone rubbed his hands vigorously against his body as he walked. There was ice on one side and fire on the other. The ice is piercing, and the fire is burning. It was as if he were in eighteen layers of hell, and the Yaksha and the demons put him on a chopping board to shave his bones and chop his flesh. He, a simple, kind, and scheming boy, saw the despicability and viciousness of human nature in the snap of his fingers.

What am I going to do? Know the cause! I have to inform him to leave Shennong Palace as soon as possible, and don't fall for that bullshit palace master Nong Qingyun.

The stone asked where Zhiyin lived, and hurried away. The lights were on in the room, and the stone knocked on the door urgently: "Is Zen Master Zhiyin there?" The door opened, and Zhiyin sat down at the table, looking at him suspiciously.

"Zen Master, I have something very important to inform you!" Stone panted, "Someone, someone is going to pretend to be your daughter......" He slapped him on the shoulder in the middle of his words.

"What are you doing here?" A familiar voice came from behind. The stone turned his head and saw the little beggar, and turned his surprise into joy, as if he had found a rescuer.

"Great, you're here too! I found a ......"

"Don't be surprised here, you're sick again, aren't you? Don't look at where this is, can the Zen master stand you like this? To play, let's go out and play! The little beggar took the stone and pushed him out of the door.

"I, I'm ......" Stone was anxious, and he had never been so alarmed when he was punished by his father.

The little beggar winked at him and motioned for him to listen to him.

"Say it outside!" The little beggar's voice was as low as a mosquito, and then he turned his head and smiled at Zhiyin as brightly as a flower: "It's okay, uncle." I told him that you were looking for your daughter, and maybe he saw a woman who thought it was your daughter. Uncle, don't believe him, he's a crazy blind man. As long as it was a woman with long hair, he felt that they all looked the same. ”

"I'm not that blind!" The stone sticks its head into the doorframe.

"Crazy people say they're not crazy! Let's go, it's late, don't affect the rest of the teacher! The little beggar closed the door.

"What are you doing? Let me go! The stone was pressed by the little beggar's arm and shoulder, and was carried forward like a prisoner.

"Don't make a noise, come to my room!"

"You let me go first!"

"Do you promise not to make noise, not to make noise, not to run?"

"Good!" Stone rolled his eyes and replied reluctantly. The little beggar let go of the stone's arm.

"You're smaller than me, so why are you so strong than me?" Stone glanced at the little beggar.

"Hmph, you are a young master who stretches out his hands for clothes and opens his mouth for food, I have to rely on my own skills to have something to eat!"

"Little beggar, what are you doing in the house of Zhiyin?"

"It's not his daughter's business, our beggar gang has been looking for so long, and we haven't even heard any news. I went to comfort him, afraid that he would lose his patience. ”

"Hmph, you don't have to worry about this in the future!" The stone walked briskly to his room.

"What? What do you mean? The little beggar followed after him, pushed the stone into the house without saying a word, and closed the door.

"Don't push me all the time!" Stone glared at the little beggar angrily, looking for clues in his strange mannerism.

"Tell me, what did you mean just now? What do you mean I don't have to worry about this in the future? "The little beggar is pressing closer.

"Zhiyin's daughter has been found!"

"Nonsense! How come I never heard of it? ”

"Humph! I just heard about it from Nong Qingyun. ”

"Nong Qingyun? What did he tell you? ”

"How is that possible? How dare he, the old fox, tell others what he has done! I overheard it myself. ”

"Tell me what happened," said the little beggar, with a grim face, and added a crucial sentence: "Don't miss a word!" ”

Stone obediently began to tell word by word what had just happened, perhaps forced by the little beggar's obscenity, or perhaps he was impatient to pour out the secret in his heart to a friend.

"You didn't lie to me?" The little beggar stared blankly at the darkness that peeked through the crack in the window.

"You can't die if you lie to you! Do you think the two of them are heinous enough to come up with such a vicious idea? ”

The little beggar was silent, his godless eyes seemed to be engulfed in the darkness.

"You just went to Zhiyin's room to tell him about it, didn't you?" In the middle of the night, the little beggar turned to the stone, and his eyes regained their sparkle.

"Hmm. I'm not afraid of them! "The stone puffs up his chest and holds his head high, and it is self-evident that he can die for justice.

"You," the little beggar poked a finger into the stone's nose, "you almost broke something, but luckily I arrived to stop you!" ”

"What? You...... I...... How did I get into trouble? Were you bought by Nong Qingyun? The stone was so angry that he almost bit his tongue.

The little beggar glanced at the stone with disgust: "Do you know how much Zhiyin misses his daughter?" ”

"Of course I do."

"Do you know how old Zhiyin is now?"

"Sixty or seventy?"

"Life is rare for seventy years, how many years do he have to live? Can you guarantee that his daughter will appear in the last years, more than ten years of his life? Do you know what it means to be someone we can't even find in our beggars? You know ......."

"What does that mean?" The stone couldn't help but interrupt the little beggar.

"It means that this person does not exist in this world!"

"You mean she's dead?"

"Pretty much."

"This ...... How can a person who is fine, but is missing, die? "The heart of the stone kept sinking, he had never faced such a cruel reality, and there was never a shadow of death in the world he was carefully cared for.

The little beggar shook his head helplessly: "You are a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world, right?" Isn't life and death normal? She may have died of illness, starvation, or death. ”

"However, Zen Master Zhiyin has waited for her for so many years, and she has not found his father......"

"Okay, stop talking stupid, or I'll give you two slaps!" The little beggar could not understand the state of mind of the stone, and in his opinion, parting from life and death was as ordinary as eating and sleeping.

"You understood what I just said, do you want Zhiyin to leave this world with regrets?"

The stone shook his head desperately.

"The Nonggong Master and your master have come up with such a good solution, but in fact, this is also a way that has no choice, why do you want to destroy it?"

"I ......" Shi was almost persuaded by the little beggar, and suddenly his mind flashed with Master's evil laughter and Nong Qingyun's shameless greed,

"You're not right! The Lord of the Nong Palace deceived Zhiyin not for his good, but just to get the Shennong Whip! And Master, hmph, I don't know what his intentions are! ”

"Why can't you make sense?" The little beggar stood up with a pout, "You wait for me, I'll be back soon!" ”

After a while, the little beggar appeared, holding a pot of fragrant wine in his left hand and a golden roast chicken in his right hand.

"Stone, what do you see I've brought?" He brought the spout of the flask to the stone's nose.

The strong aroma of wine penetrated into the nostrils of the stone, like two naughty little bugs tickling his nose. He wasn't usually a good drinker, but at the moment he was aroused. He adapted to the stomach of big fish and meat, and couldn't withstand the blandness of Shennong Palace, and the pain of searching for intestines and hungry for a few days was compensated for in front of the smell of wine and roast chicken.

When he had eaten and drunk, the little beggar said to the stone, "Have a good night's sleep tonight, you rest first, I will go and do some errands, and tomorrow I will bring you something to eat." ”

"What are you going to do? Don't go, let's keep drinking! The stone grabbed the little beggar by the arm, and his half-open and half-closed eyes saw a blurred figure.

"You can't drink anymore!" The little beggar shook off the stone's hand.

"Who said that, I ......" The room began to spin, tables and chairs flew in the air, and the little beggar stood upside down in front of the stone, and the stone body was crooked, plopped, and fell to the ground.

The little beggar pushed the stone with his hand and said with a smile: "Let you be nosy, and sleep well!" Don't blame me, I'm saving you, or your little life will be gone! ”

He took out a piece of twine, which had been prepared, tied the stone's feet and hands firmly, extinguished the candle, and went out of the room into the darkness.