Mr. Suijing is a strange person, and as a teacher, he is always testing the abilities of his students. Last night, Ma Hong and Xu Shu talked all night, and Ma Hong was still a little tired when he got up in the morning, so he ate some breakfast casually, and received a stone from Mr. Shui Jing. There is a word carved into the stone: wood. Ma Hong didn't know what it meant, but the little girl who gave him the stone explained that whenever Mr. Shui Jing wanted to give a lecture, he would carve words on the stone so that the students could understand the meaning and find the place where the lesson would be held within a stick of incense. After listening to the little girl's words, Ma Hong looked at the words on the stone again, and understood where Mr. Shuijing's teaching place was, in fact, it was not difficult, Pang Tong and he had just entered Shuijing Villa, this Shuijing Villa was not very big, but there were also dozens of families living in it, and Ma Hong and Pang Tong were not familiar with it, so Mr. Shuijing naturally would not find a place that neither of them knew for the two to guess. Then according to the word "wood" carved on the stone, Ma Hong quickly guessed the place where Mr. Shui Jing taught, that is, the stone forest array that Ma Hong and Pang Tong passed through.

Ma Hong met Xu Shu and Pang Tong on the way to the stone forest, and when the three of them arrived outside the stone forest, there were two people standing at the entrance of the stone forest, one of whom Ma Hong knew, it was Ma Hong's cousin Xi Jiao, and the other was Pang Tong's friend Shi Tao.

Ma Hong saw Xi Frame and saluted him: "Cousin, morning." ”

Xi Frame bowed his head and said, "Morning." ”

It stands to reason that when the peers meet, if one party salutes, the other party also has to return the corresponding number of courtesies, although Xi Frame is Ma Hong's cousin, seven years older than Ma Hong, but it is impolite for him to bow his head slightly. Ma Hong smiled slightly, and didn't care, Xi Jian was his cousin, but the relationship between the two was not good, which was ultimately the grievance of the previous generation. Although this Xi frame is the son of the Xi family, but it is a concubine, his mother was originally just a singer, Ma Hong's mother had a bad relationship with Xi frame's mother before she got married, which also directly affected the next generation. Ma Hong has a very good relationship with Xi Wei's younger brother Xi Wei, Xi Wei is the sister-in-law of the Xi family, and the relationship between Xi Wei and Xi Wei is not very good on weekdays, which naturally affects the relationship between the two. Ma Hong and Xi Frame met and simply said hello, and the two stopped talking. However, Ma Hong felt that there was an unfriendly aura coming from Pang Tong's body, Ma Hong didn't have to guess to know that it was Pang Tong's anger, if the relationship between Ma Hong and Xi Frame was just not very harmonious, then the relationship between Pang Tong and him could only be described in two words, that is, "bad".

Pang Tong raised his head slightly, his eyes squinted at Xi Frame, and said, "It's been three years!" Don't give up yet? ”

Xi Jian has been coming to Shuijing Villa for three years, but he has not yet become Mr. Shuijing's apprentice, and Pang Tong laughed at him like this when he met, which made him even more uncomfortable. Originally, it had made him very unhappy to hear yesterday that Ma Hong and Pang Tong had become disciples of Mr. Shuijing when they first arrived at Shuijing Villa, but now Pang Tong openly provoked him, which made Xi Jian very angry in his heart. But Xi Frame still endured the unhappiness in his heart and said: "There are still three months to complete." ”

Students who come to Shui Jing Villa will have to leave on their own if they do not get Mr. Shui Jing's approval within three years.

Pang Tong is not a person who holds grudges, but Xi Frame did something too much, Pang Tong originally fell in love with Xi Wei's sister, so he intended to marry her, and Xi Wei also secretly helped Pang Tong, but Xi Frame was opposed to this family affair, and secretly said something to make Pang Tong's family affair blow up.

Ma Hong saw that Pang Tong still wanted to say something, so he interrupted Pang Tong with a dry cough, he looked at Xi Frame, then looked at Pang Tong, picked up the stone in his hand and said: "It seems that you have all received this stone, and the teacher is not waiting for us outside the stone forest." ”

Shi Tao said: "Sir's rule is to find him, I came to this stone forest and understood, this is not as simple as I thought, Mr. must not be waiting for us outside the stone forest, but in the stone forest." [Because Shi Tao and Xi Frame are not disciples of Mr. Shui Jing, they can only be called Mr.]

Xu Shu said: "Indeed, every time we go to class, the teacher waits for us, not us waiting for the teacher, the teacher must be in the stone forest." ”

Xi Frame interjected: "The stone forest is so big, where will Mr. wait for us?" ”

Pang Tong said lukewarmly: "The teacher let us guess, not let us discuss." ”

Pang Tong mocked Xi Frame again, and walked straight into the stone forest.

Xu Shu said to Shi Tao: "Guangyuan, let's go in too!" ”

Shi Tao smiled bitterly: "I won't go in, even if I go in, I can't find the teacher in the stone formation, I was sleepy in it all day ago, and in the end you took me out." ”

Xu Shu no longer persuaded himself to enter the formation, Shi Tao saw Xu Shu enter the formation, so he said hello to Ma Hong and Xi Frame, and left. Ma Hong waited for Shi Tao to leave, and said softly: "The wooden characters are deliberately engraved in the center of the stone. ”

After Ma Hong finished speaking to Xi Frame, he also entered the stone forest, the wooden characters were engraved in the center of the stone, which means that Mr. Shui Jing was waiting for everyone in the center of the stone forest, Ma Hong was relying on the ox to break the stone henge yesterday, if he broke the stone henge today, it would take a long time, but just to walk to the center of the stone henge, it was not difficult for him.

Ma Hong walked towards the stone forest, he didn't walk too fast, he had a smile on his face, he deliberately waited for Xi Frame, he wanted to see what Xi Frame's reaction was. Xi Frame took a step and took it back, took another step, and took it back, repeating it several times in a row, Xi Frame turned around ruthlessly and no longer looked at Ma Hong, his face trembled violently after he turned around, and the soreness and coldness from the depths of his heart made him uncomfortable, if he followed Ma Hong into the stone forest, he would definitely be able to see Mr. Shuijing, but if he followed Ma Hong in, not to mention whether Pang Tong would laugh at him, it was a question whether he could get out of the stone forest at that time. This stone forest is a circle formation, and those who enter can walk to the center of the circle casually, but once people who don't understand this formation enter the stone formation, they can only linger in the center of the stone formation, and Xi Frame has verified this conclusion with dozens of actions, even if he enters dozens of times, he is still not sure of it, because this stone formation will be modified by Mr. Shui Jing every few days, and the formation will also change.

When Ma Hong arrived at the center of the stone henge, the others also arrived, and Mr. Shui Jing was sitting on the stone in the middle of the stone henge, holding a bamboo flute in his hand and smiling at everyone. At this time, Ma Hong saw the young man sitting on the stone on the side, the young man was about twenty years old, wearing a dark green Confucian dress, neatly dressed, his hair was very neatly combed, his eyebrows were clear, his nose was straight and his lips were thick, and his high nose tip had a black mole. Ma Hong looked at the young man, with an indescribable sense of comfort in his heart, he looked like a quiet gentleman's orchid, with an excellent temperament. When the young man saw Ma Hong looking at him, he smiled slightly at Ma Hong, stretched out his finger and pointed to a stone beside him, motioning for Ma Hong to come and sit down.

There were four stones in front of Mr. Shui Jing, and Xu Shu, Pang Tong, Ma Hong, and the young man were each sitting together. After Ma Hong sat on the stone, he still looked at the young man around him from time to time, secretly guessing his identity, Ma Hong inquired about Zhuge Liang's whereabouts in Jingzhou, but Zhuge Liang had not yet come to Jingzhou, who this young man was, Ma Hong couldn't guess for a while.