"Tell me, boy, how did you see that I have two knives in my baggage? Both of my knives are tightly wrapped in my clothes, and no matter how good your eyesight is, you can't see them! Wang Langzhong's eyes were full of mysterious curiosity at this time. He has been walking the rivers and lakes for so many years, and he has been a grandmaster for ten years, but when has he ever seen such a person who can see the universe in a square inch? What's more, this is still a doll less than nine years old!

"Mr. Wang, this one is easier." Lan Wang smiled, "Your knife is wrapped in clothes, and it is very properly wrapped, there is nothing wrong with that." However, if you let a bunch of soft things wrap a hard object, and you can't let the hard object show its outline on the outside of the package, the knot of the package will not be easy to tie. You don't have a lot of clothes here, if you force the slipknot used for general packaging, as soon as it is tightened, the cloth of the clothing will be compressed, and the blade of the knife wrapped in it will inevitably protrude, and it will be difficult not to show it. You're tying a four-corner knot, but you're actually using an extra rope to loosely tie the corners of the furoshiki. This method of packing is only used when people in the army want to hide sharp weapons, if you are really a fortune teller or simply a man, why bother to clean up your own home? ”

"Hey, boy, you're so well-informed!"

Since they have started to blow each other commercially, it is natural that the acting must be a full set. Lan Wang replied casually: "Mr. Wang exalted me, but when I was recuperating, I saw my father wrap it a few times, so I wrote it down." ”

"I see."

Lan Wang took the two short knives out of his baggage. These two knives are actually not "short", the length is about between the dagger and the short sword used by the boy just now, and the brass gauntlet, although it looks not very powerful and not very gorgeous, but there is a faint murderous aura; The scabbard was pulled slightly, and the incomparably sharp blade was revealed, glittering in the morning sun.

Lan Wang took the two knives and respectfully handed them back to Lang Zhong with both hands.

The play is over, it's time to get down to business.

"Having said that, the kid sat down straight without a word of notice just now, and moved your bags without permission, and offended Mr. by saying insults, and I hope Mr. forgives me! The kid is by no means a character who can't trust Mr., but his father teaches him, and he doesn't dare to forget it! In addition, I do have something to ask Mr. this time, and I can't help but be speechless in my eagerness, if it takes some time, the kid will definitely make amends to you alone! "After the verbal confrontation just now, the attitude of asking for people must still be put forward, Lan Wang thought to himself.

Wang Langzhong was not angry, and laughed again: "Hehe, what you did was right, I think about it carefully, you didn't really speak disrespectfully just now, and I also guarded against it in order to follow Ling Zun's teachings, but our master and apprentice heard your question but turned a deaf ear, and lost your manners, what are you guilty of?" And why bother to plead guilty? ”

Lan Wang's expression in Wang Langzhong didn't seem to be fake, but the more he heard what he said just now, the more he felt that his words were sarcastic, and he had a gun and a stick. This seems to be blaming yourself, right?

Before he could think about it, Lang Zhong's next sentence answered his question, and he only listened to his words: "However, you have violated the rules of the rivers and lakes by wrapping people and snatching weapons when you come up, although you are not leaky when you speak, but you are aggressive, but you definitely don't have a demanding attitude..."

"Boy offended, please forgive me!" At this point, soft words must be spoken, and you have to hold on to your head.

"Hahaha, look at what scares you!" Lang Zhong laughed again, but this time he didn't have that sense of gloom, "I don't blame you, it's okay to be a little sharp like you kid, otherwise there are too many wicked people in this world, and you can't even protect yourself if you're so small." You must have come for the rest of that meditation method, right? ”

Seeing that the other party's words broke his intention, Lan Wang didn't say more: "Yes, it's true." "The mental method taught to him by Wang Langzhong yesterday is obviously incomplete, the mantras have been split and reassembled, and the cultivation method is also very rough and simple. It was in order to further recover his strength that Lan Wang came here to find Lang Zhong to complete his mental method.

"Why do you want to meditate completely?"

"To have power." This time, the Lan family didn't dare to lie anymore.

"Strength? What power? I've been practicing this method for 50 years, and I only know that it can calm my mind and calm my mind, but I've never heard of it having the effect of improving martial arts cultivation! ”

"But it does make me stronger."

"How do you get stronger? Don't tell me it cures your legs! I don't want to fool you, I really can't help your legs, maybe there will be a way to cure it in the future, but not now. ”

"No, sir, I don't mean my legs, I mean my hands." Lan Wang's face was very serious, and Wang Langzhong didn't feel like he was lying, "After cultivating your mental method, my hands are more powerful than before, and I can pinch and bend iron tweezers with just two fingers. ”

Honesty is sincerity, once it really involves the matter of crossing, Lan Wang's speech must also be half-truthful. You can't tell people that I was a super master in my last life, and after cultivating your mental method, I picked up all the tricks I used in my previous life, right? If that's the case, anyone who comes will take care of it will put his hand on Lan Wang's forehead to see if he has a fever and is confused.

Wang Langzhong's eyes narrowed. After chatting for so long, it was the first time that Lan Wang could read some obvious suspicions from those bottomless eyes.

"Prove it to me." He pulled out a wooden stick from the barrel containing the bamboo sticks. This stick is as long as chopsticks, but it is the thickness of an adult's little finger.

Lan Wang didn't say much, took the wooden stick, and pinched the wooden stick like he had pinched the tweezers before, and made a light effort. There was a "click", and the wooden stick broke in the middle.

Lang Zhong and Tong Zi were expressionless.

But in an instant, Wang Langzhong once again showed his signature smile: "Not bad, yes, what you said is true!" I don't know if this meditation is directly related to your strength, but the fact that an eight-year-old boy can pinch this solid teak stick so easily shows that you are truly extraordinary! Very good, very good! ”

"Excuse me, sir, in your opinion, does the kid be eligible for the rest of the Complete Mental Method?" Lan Wang asked tentatively.

"Actually, what you should care about is not whether you are eligible to get it, but you should think about what chips you have to exchange with me. The rules of the rivers and lakes also have the saying of paying money with one hand and delivering goods with one hand, don't you want to empty gloves white wolf? Ha ha! ”

Lan Wang bowed slightly: "Who and what does Mr. want, but please make it clear, the kid will definitely help Mr. do it!" ”

Wang Daoren grinned: "You are a yellow-mouthed child, who can you find and what can you do?" You might as well say it straight -- it's your dad who can help me do something, not you who can help me do something! Well, I know that your Lan family has a big business, just like the princes of Jiangbei and the head snake of Yangguan Town, if you offend anyone, you can't offend you, so how can I casually trouble you to do things for me to eliminate disasters? My conditions are simple to say. As long as you can agree, not only can the remaining part of the mind be given to you, but what if you pass on a few more martial arts skills? ”

The eyes of the boy next to him widened again: "Master! You haven't passed on a single trick to your disciple so far, how many tricks do you have to teach him this time?! ”

Wang Langzhong turned his head and scolded with a smile: "What does the stinky boy know!" I'm laying a solid foundation for you, without a foundation, no matter how powerful the moves are, they are all showy! ”

The boy named Haizi pouted again and stopped talking.

Lan Wang looked at the pair of masters and apprentices like this, his face tensed, and he tried his best to hold back a smile. The tense atmosphere that had been built up in the conversation just now was rushed by the master and apprentice, and it immediately disappeared.

"I don't know what Mr. wants, just say it!"

Wang Langzhong restrained his smile and looked at Lan Wang's eyes fixedly: "As long as you promise to worship me as a teacher and be my apprentice, the mental method will be given to you!" ”

There was a short, about five-second dead silence.

Haizi turned his head to look at his master in disbelief, his eyes widening wider than before, his lips trembling, but he couldn't say a word.

Wang Langzhong and Lan Wang continued to look at each other in silence.

After a while, Lan Wang bowed his hand and hesitated to speak: "The children of the Lan family are apprentices, they must know the elders, I need to go back and discuss with my father..."

"Is it your apprenticeship or your father's apprenticeship? Since you have come here to ask for advice, it is better to give a happy word: Would you like to? Wang Langzhong made a blank face.

What's this called?! Others are overflowing with the spirit of a king, and the little brother bows his head, and he doesn't expect such good luck, but he won't be recruited by others as a little brother at the beginning, right? Where is this traverser's face resting? Lan Wang sneered.

His temper really came up, but his tone was unusually calm: "The kid dares to ask sir, if I apprentice, what can Mr. teach me?" ”

"Martial arts and medical Taoism are all right!"

"Sir's medical skills, the boy has already been taught. But I don't know what kind of realm Mr.'s martial arts cultivation has reached? Since you want the kid to apprentice, you have to let the kid know the master's ability, right? ”

"You are presumptuous!" Haizi shouted, "Your leg is really incurable, and you want to question my master's medical skills based on this case alone?" Also, what are you? The master has great magical powers, and he enjoys all the courtesies wherever he goes, what a noble person, and his cultivation has already been reached..."

A large, powerful hand covered the child's mouth. Wang Langzhong covered his disciple's mouth with one hand, brushed the placket of his clothes with the other, and said uncharacteristically with a pleasant face: "Okay, Haizi, don't say it again!" ”

He turned to Lan Wang and grinned again: "Okay, good! It's kind of interesting! This seat has been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, and this is the first time I have met someone who has the courage and courage to tell me the conditions! It's such a small child! The afterlife is terrible, the afterlife is terrible! ”

Lan Wang noticed that he had changed his name to himself.

He let go of the hand covering Haizi's mouth: "If I'm not mistaken, your father doesn't know about you coming here to meet me, and almost no one in your family knows. Further, Ling Zun probably didn't know that a serious illness had changed his son's temperament! I don't know if I'm right? ”

And so it was! This old man is spying on himself and the Lan family, and he has been staring at him for a long time!

Shocked in his heart, Lan Wang's face remained unchanged: "It is indeed as Mr. said." Dare to ask sir, what does this have to do with Mr.'s martial arts skills and cultivation? ”

Wang Langzhong stroked his chin and smiled slightly: "Well, it's good, that's right." Of course, this has something to do with my martial arts cultivation, and because your father didn't know that you were here, you will have the opportunity to see my skills with your own eyes after a while. Boy, wait and see! ”

"It's... What do you mean, sir? Lan Wang didn't keep up with this mysterious man's brain circuit for a while.

"Don't worry, boy, and listen to me tell you slowly. Don't you boast of being a fiery eye? Then this seat will test you again. If you look at the people and things around this square, do you find anything unusual? ”

Lan Wang sighed slightly: "There is nothing wrong with the houses and restaurants around here, it is this person... Something is wrong. ”

"What's wrong?" Wang Langzhong leaned forward slightly and asked.

"Look at the beggars by the wall. Although he is ragged and dirty, have you ever seen a flower child who walks barefoot all year round and begs around the streets, and the soles of his feet are so delicate and there are no calluses at all? On the contrary, there are thick cocoons on the tiger's mouth, fingertips and palm edges on his hands, and at first glance he is a person who has been practicing martial arts with a sword for a long time; Xiao Er of the tea shed on the street is also a fool, and the third pot of water on the right hand side of the stall has been boiled four times, but he just doesn't use the pot of water, only uses a few other pots. If he was really a perennial errand runner, he would never make such a low-level mistake; The merchant on the corner also had a problem, he had just come out early in the morning to do business, but his cart was empty, and nothing was loaded! By the way, there is also the Qinglou over there: you have been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, have you ever seen a brothel bustard that is younger, pretty, and more showy than your sister? Which bustard would get up earlier than her sister and come out early in the morning to remove her makeup? This is clearly counterintuitive. ”

Haizi was dumbfounded, and Wang Langzhong laughed: "This kid is not very old, but he understands a lot!" Have you been in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion? That's right, that's good! ”

"Sir, I've already told me all the flaws I saw at a glance, but I don't know what these have to do with Sir's skills?"

"Hmph, silly boy, you only know one thing and you don't know the other!" Wang Langzhong changed his expression of hatred for iron but not steel this time, "The entire Yangguan Town Jiangbei area is all your Lan family's territory, without your permission, who can temporarily install eyes and ears among the shopkeepers, courtesans, Hanako and merchants?" If you can be so pervasive in your Lan clan's realm, who else can you be if it's not your Lan family's own people?! Could it be that the hands of the other two families in Yangguan Town are stretched out so long that the Lan family can't even manage the streets of Jiangbei? ”

Lan Wang was silent for a moment. He had already noticed these "plainclothes agents" when he arrived at the square under the big locust tree just now, and he had been vigilant, but he hadn't noticed anything unusual about them for the time being, so he didn't act rashly. However, he really didn't have time to think carefully of a possibility - these "spies" were the Lan family's own people, and they were probably sent by the cheap father.

"So, I said you're still a little tender. If your father doesn't know anything about you coming to me, then these disguised warriors are definitely not here to protect you, but to make trouble for others. Wang Langzhong's eyes narrowed slightly, "I have been practicing martial arts for decades, how can I not see from the footwork and stance of these people - they are coming for me and my apprentices?" ”

When Haizi, who was already angry next to him, heard this, he immediately became angry again: "Shaft! If you don't have the mental method, don't you want to rob it?! ”

Before Lan Wang could argue for himself, Lang Zhong waved his hand and signaled: "Haizi, don't make a mistake!" As I said just now, Young Master Lan's father didn't know that Young Master Lan was here. Since this is the case, it is naturally impossible for Young Master Lan to know that there is an ambush here in advance! ”

The young master of the Lan family smiled bitterly in his heart: This master and apprentice are really a singer with a red face and a white face!

"May I ask why you think so, sir? The kid was puzzled, I don't know what motive my Lan family has to find out Mr.'s bad luck? Lan Wang continued.

"Boy, you still have a lot to learn." Lang Zhong continued to rely on the old and sell the old, although he was actually not old, "I went to the Lan family yesterday to diagnose a patient, and if nothing else, everyone in the Lan family only regarded me as a charlatan." Although half of the consultation fee was given for the sake of face, the Jiangbei Lan family is so strong, where is their advantage so easy to take advantage of! I gave it to you on the surface, but I won't ask for it back secretly? What's more, it's still their territory! These warriors, I'm afraid, are coming back to ask for the fifty taels of silver! It's not just me, but the other Jianghu doctors who entered the Lan Mansion before me yesterday won't be able to escape. ”

He sighed: "Hey, I'm afraid there will be a few more lame and poor people on the side of the shack on the riverbank, and there will be a few more floating corpses on the water!" ”

Rao is Lan Wang has always been calm and calm, and he was a little panicked this time. He was not afraid of ordinary dangers, but this time was different. Impartially, when he comes to ask for someone, his family has to do something to the person he asks to do! If you put on this kind of thing, you will be overwhelmed by anyone.

Wang Langzhong stared at Lan Wang for a while, and noticed that although his expression remained the same, his face became more and more pale, so he mocked again: "Hehehe, you kid will be scared too?" Isn't the benefit of the tongue with this seat just now still not afraid of heaven and earth? ”

After laughing again, Lang Zhong said: "Look at what scares you kid!" I dare to share these things with you here, but I am not afraid of them. As long as they dare to come, you kid will be able to see the martial arts kung fu of this seat with your own eyes! Speaking of which, I have to thank your father, if he hadn't been kept in the dark and sent these men to collect the money from me, I wouldn't have had a chance to show my hand! This time, I know why I asked you if Ling Zunzhi didn't know, right? ”

Lan Wang was silent. Now that this is the case, what else is there to say?

"Sir, boy, admire." He bowed.