The death of the Heavenly Master Zhang Heng made the Han Empire in an uproar from top to bottom, and the emperor Liu Hong personally wrote a letter to send an envoy to the Heavenly Master's Mansion in Heming Mountain, and posthumously presented Zhang Heng as the heir of the Taiqing Acting Sect Zhenjun, and the special son Zhang Lu Shouxiao for three years.

Since Emperor Wu, the Han Empire has deposed hundreds of schools of thought and respected Confucianism. Although it has developed for hundreds of years, it is no longer exclusive to Confucianism, but the influence of Confucianism on the Han Empire is deep-rooted. The three principles and five constants of Confucianism, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, gentleness, courtesy, frugality, loyalty, filial piety, bravery, and honesty are the basic ideas of Confucianism.

These ideas had a profound impact on the national politics of the Han Empire, especially the word loyalty and filial piety, which ran through the entire Han Empire.

When his parents died, he was the heir of his parents and kept filial piety for three years next to his parents' tombs. Although Taoists don't pay attention to this, since the emperor gave an order, Zhang Lu still didn't dare to disobey it. It is said that cultivators are at ease, but in the universe and in the world, how many people can be truly free?

How many new burials of old people, there is a feng shui treasure in the depths of Heming Mountain in the Heavenly Master's Mansion, which is a feng shui treasure land personally selected by Zhang Heng when he was alive. There is a red bird in front of this place, leaning on Xuanwu in the back, the green dragon and white tiger stand left and right, showing seven stars, and lying in the dragon pool. Zhang Heng once said that if this place buries people, it can protect future generations for thousands of years, no worse than the fairy world. Therefore, this place is called the Immortal Residence, and Zhang Lu buried Zhang Heng here, and set up a grass house to guard filial piety here.

On this day, outside the grass house, many people came, the elders of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, and twenty-four sacrificial wines.

Zhang Lu pushed open the door of the grass house, and saw these people standing quietly outside the grass house, first bowed, and then asked, "Who are you?" ”

Zhang Xiu came out and knelt on the ground, "Little Heavenly Master Rong Qi, since the death of the heir, he has been weakened during the day, and the loss of believers is serious. The little Heavenly Master is filial piety and cannot manage the affairs of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, resulting in the Heavenly Master's Mansion being leaderless.

Zhang Lu was a little confused by Zhang Xiu's call, and he asked, "What does Zhang Xijiu want to say?" ”

Zhang Xiuyan said, "Please abdicate the little heavenly master and set up a new heavenly master!" ”

Zhang Lu was stunned, he looked around, his eyes swept over the elders and sacrificial wine of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, he looked at these people at the moment, and a strange feeling suddenly rose in his heart, "This is what you mean?" ”

Zhang Lu had no sadness or joy on his face, and his tone was flat.

Sure enough, the tree fell and scattered, the wall fell and everyone pushed it, and as soon as my father left, these people couldn't wait to come to the palace, "You know the position of the Heavenly Master of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, only my Zhang family's bloodline can do it, otherwise heaven and man will be killed!" ”

Zhang Xiu stepped forward on his knees and said, "Little Heavenly Master, if not, I will really finish it together?" One of us is only acting as a Heavenly Master, and when your filial piety period expires, we will return the position of Heavenly Master to you. Zhang Xiu's tone was sincere, "When there is something extraordinary at an extraordinary time, Little Heavenly Master, I will wait for a sentence" Zhang Xiu said and kowtowed to Zhang Lu Dong a few times, and the other sacrificial wine elders also knelt down together, "Please think twice, Little Heavenly Master!" ”

Zhang Lu showed a wry smile on his face, "It's okay, but no matter who is doing the position of this Heavenly Master, I have to find out who killed my father and my third uncle."

"I'm going to do my best!"

The elder sacrificial wine shouted at the same time, and a cold glint flashed in Zhang Xiu's eyes.

Zhang Lu turned around and entered the grass house, "Let's go"

The elders of the Heavenly Master's Mansion and the sacrificial wines all left, and Zhang Xiu was the last to stand up, looked at the door of the grass house with gloomy eyes, clenched his fists, and left.

In the Heavenly Master's Mansion, after unanimous election, Zhang Xiu was promoted to the position of the Heavenly Master of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, and Zhang Xiu issued several Heavenly Master orders in a row during the month, the most important of which is that all those who join the religion need to pay five buckets of rice to join the religion, and the Zhengyi is renamed the Five Bucket Rice Road.

Some of Zhang Xiu's enumerations angered many of the elders of the Heavenly Master's Mansion, but under Zhang Xiu's iron fist, these elders who disagreed with each other died.

And Zhang Lu, who was guarding filial piety, was completely ignorant of what had happened.

The wind and clouds rose, the imperial capital of Luoyang City, Tang Zhou read the secret report in his hand, and slapped the table excitedly, "This Zhang Xiu really has two brushes, and with the alliance of Zhengyi, we can do a big thing!" ”

Ma Yuanyi looked at Tang Zhou, who was excited, and asked, "What happened?" ”

Tang Zhou told what happened together, and after listening to it, Ma Yuanyi frowned and said, "What kind of poison did this Zhang Heng have?" ”

Tang Zhou was stunned, this Ma Yuanyi's focus is really strange, Tang Zhou smiled and patted Ma Yuanyi's shoulder and said, "Senior brother, you don't care how he died, anyway, this matter is definitely a good thing for our Taiping Dao!" ”

Ma Yuanyi looked at Tang Zhou's hand on his shoulder with anger in his eyes, and said in a low voice, "If you have this, I don't mind chopping your hand!" ”

Tang Zhou hurriedly withdrew his hand, this Ma Yuanyi has a problem and doesn't like others to pat him on the shoulder, Tang Zhou smiled awkwardly at Ma Yuanyi.

"By the way, it's time for us to go, too"

"Hmm"

The next day, Tang Zhou and Ma Yuanyi left Luoyang City.

The trip to Luoyang was only to plot against the seal, and now that the task is complete, the two are ready to contact the others who plotted against it.

On the way, the two did not have any conversation, the destination they were going to was called Montenegro, which was located at the junction of Jizhou and Jizhou, and belonged to a place that no one wanted to manage, and there was a bandit on top of this Montenegro, killing people and setting fires, calling themselves the Montenegrin Army. The leader of the big boss is called Zhang Niujiao, his real name is not called Zhang Niujiao, there are two hard sarcomas on the head of this horn, so he is called Zhang Niujiao on the rivers and lakes, so that his real name has been forgotten, Zhang Niujiao's weapon is a fork, and his foreign kung fu is very powerful. And the second leader of the Black Mountain Army is called Zhang Yan, who makes the two short knives light and kung fu first-class, and he is called Zhang Feiyan on the rivers and lakes, and his body is as light as a swallow. These two people are also famous murderers in the rivers and lakes.

Tang Zhou was opposed to the method of winning over the Black Mountain Army, but Zhang Jiao told him that although the Han was tired, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and Taiping Dao wanted to win over all the gang forces that could be co-opted, even if it was a murderous bandit on the other side. In Zhang Jiao's words, these collaborations are only temporary, and no one is born a thief, and not all of them are forced.

On this day, the two finally arrived at the junction of Jiji, and Montenegro was in front of them.

The reason why Montenegro is called Montenegro is because the rocks in this place are very peculiar, all of them are dark black stones. The Black Mountain is overgrown with trees, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The Han Empire also sent troops to encircle and suppress it several times, but they all returned in vain, these Black Mountain Army, after robbing the house, went to this deep mountain and old forest, and the Han army was not familiar with geography and suffered several defeats, and then no one cared about them.

Tang Zhou and Ma Yuanyi came to the periphery of Montenegro, and the minions who had already been guarding saw them, and this group of minions whistled and surrounded Tang Erren in the middle, Ma Yuanyi's eyes skimmed over this group of minions and said disdainfully, "A group of rabble"

Tang Zhou stepped forward to report the name of Taiping Dao, and a small leader in the minions looked them up and down, and finally sent someone to the cottage to inform the big leader.

It wasn't long before a group of people roared in, the leader of whom looked very strange, with two misshapen sarcomas on his head like two horns of a cow.

Tang Zhou didn't need to think about it to know that this person was Zhang Niujiao, the big boss of the Black Mountain Army.

"What are you not long-eyed people doing around the envoy?"

Zhang Niujiao's voice was loud, revealing the unique uninhibition of this reckless man.

The minions collected their weapons and followed behind Zhang Niujiao, Tang Zhou and Ma Yuanyi nodded to Zhang Niujiao

"Taiping Dao Ma Yuanyi, Tang Zhou has seen the big boss".

Zhang Niujiao hugged his fists: "The two are the envoys of the Taiping Dao, Tang Zhou and Ma Yuanyi?" Look up for a long time, look up for a long time! ”

Zhang Niujiao greeted the two of them to the cottage, and several people came to the Juyi Hall to sit down, Tang Zhou looked around and did not see Zhang Yan, the second leader of the Black Mountain Army, so he said, "The second master is not here, I have heard for a long time that the second master is as light as a swallow, and the people in the rivers and lakes call Zhang Feiyan, and I still want to appreciate the light body kung fu of the second master!" ”

Zhang Niujiao took a drink from the wine glass and said with a smile: "Don't be anxious, my second brother heard that the two envoys were coming, so he went to find some snacks for the two." ”

Tang Zhou came and said with interest: "What kind of appetizer can actually bother the second master to go down the mountain in person?" ”

Zhang Niujiao smiled mysteriously and said, "When the second child comes back, you will know what it is." Come! Let's drink first."

Tang Zhou and Ma Yuanyi drank wine with Zhang Niujiao for a while, Tang Zhou was originally a good talker, and Ma Yuanyi and Zhang Niujiao were both born in the green forest, the difference is that one is a mountain bandit and the other is a water bandit, and the two also have a lot of common topics.

At this time, there was a shouting from outside the hall, and one of them said, "Little ones, pull these two-legged sheep into the kitchen and make some good food."

Not long after, a person came in from outside the hall, not tall, and thin. Zhang Niujiao stood up and laughed at the visitor, "Second child, come on, introduce to you"

Zhang Niujiao pointed at Tang Zhou and Ma Yuanyi and said, "This is the envoy of Taiping Dao, Brother Tang Zhou and Brother Ma Yuanyi!" Zhang Niujiao introduced to Tang Erren again: "This is the second Zhang Yan!" ”

"Luckily, fortunately"

Tang Erren got up to salute, and Zhang Yan also returned the salute.

A few people sat down again, and Tang Zhou asked Zhang Yan curiously, "What is the two-legged sheep you said in the big village just now?" ”

Zhang Yan drank a bowl of wine and wiped her mouth, "Don't worry, the two-legged sheep will be ready in a while, and you will definitely be satisfied with it when you taste it!" ”

Tang Zhou was a little confused, what is a two-legged sheep? It's so mysterious.

Halfway through the wine, a few minions came in with a few plates of meat and put them on everyone's table, especially a large steamer on the big table in the middle.

Zhang Niujiao made a gesture of invitation to Tang Zhou and Ma Yuanyi, "Come on, come on, two envoys, come and taste the taste of these two-legged sheep!" ”

Tang Zhou picked up the chopsticks and looked at the meat on the plate, the meat was fried, looking crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, Tang Zhou tore off a piece and chewed it in his mouth, this taste was different from the taste of any meat he had ever eaten, Tang Zhou became more and more curious, Tang Zhou looked at Ma Yuanyi, and saw that Ma Yuanyi's expression was flat, as if he had already eaten this kind of meat, so Tang Zhou leaned over to Ma Yuanyi and asked, "Senior brother, what kind of strange beast is this two-legged sheep, why haven't I heard of it!" ”

Ma Yuanyi didn't raise his head and said, "Two-legged sheep are people!" ”

"What?" After Tang Zhou listened to Ma Yuanyi's words, he stepped back in a panic, and a series of actions overturned the tables and chairs, and the big steamer on the table in the middle was also taken to the ground by Tang Zhou's actions, and the lid of the steamer rolled down, revealing the white and red baby inside. Tang Zhou looked at the people in the hall with frightened eyes, what kind of world is this? How cruel is this, the so-called two-legged sheep turned out to be human?? What's wrong with this world, it has fallen into a world of cannibalism.

Tang Zhou felt extremely panicked and extremely disheartened at this moment, what is the difference between changing and not changing in this world?

The world is like a purgatory, and who can escape.