The horse ran unhurriedly on the path, Ma Hong who was riding on the horse was very unhappy, although it had been three days since he was teased by Huang Yueying, but Ma Hong still couldn't let go, at this moment he was secretly mocking himself: Hey, I really don't have the aura of the protagonist? I thought Huang Yueying would be obsessed with me? It seems that I think too much, if I meet beautiful women in the future, can I capture their hearts?

Pang Tong looked at Ma Hong frowning and thinking about his thoughts, and coughed dryly: "What's going on with you these days?" Could it be that you were seduced by the little girl of the Huang family, your taste is really not ordinary! ”

Ma Hong rolled Pang Tong's eyes and said: "Can your donkey spit out something clean in its mouth, I'm thinking about what problem Mr. Shui Jing will give us?" ”

Pang Tong smiled and said indifferently: "No matter what problems he gives us, with your brother and me, all problems will be solved." ”

Ma Hong rolled Pang Tong's eyes and said secretly: Pang Tong's personality is indeed arrogant, could it be that I have always been mixed with him all these years, and I am also arrogant? It's not a good thing. In the years since I came to this world, I have the memories of my elders, I was called a prodigy at the age of ten, but what is my talent? In terms of observing the sky, even Huang Yueying is inferior, which is really an irony.

The horse carried the two of them up the hill slowly, and as the hill became steeper and steeper, Ma Hong and Pang Tong both led the horse uphill. Mr. Shui Jing lives in the valley, and if they want to see Mr. Shui Jing, they must first climb the hill and then go down the mountain into the Shui Jing Villa, and today is the last day agreed with Mr. Shui Jing. When the two of them led the horses up the hill, a cow on the top of the slope lowered its head and ate the grass in a muffled voice, and the shepherd boy cut the grass with a sickle. The shepherd boy saw the two of them and said with a smile: "Are the two of them Ma Hong and Pang Tong?" ”

Ma Hong and Pang Tong nodded yes, and the shepherd boy put down the sickle and walked to the two of them, took the reins from the two of them, and said: "You two can hand over the mount to me, this horse is tired all the way, let them eat some grass here, you two will go down the mountain to see my master!" ”

Ma Hong smiled: "What does Mr. Shuijing have to explain?" ”

The shepherd boy smiled and said: "The master said that the two of you must be very confident if you don't come for a long time, so the master will set up a formation in this mountain forest, and if the two can reach the Zhuangzi smoothly before sunset, they will be considered to have passed." ”

Ma Hong frowned, didn't speak, and looked at Pang Tong standing beside him, Pang Tong smiled and prepared to walk down the mountain. After Mr. Shui Jing accepted the apprentice, every three years, he would lay out the formation on the road out of the mountain, if the apprentice could successfully crack the formation and get out of the villa, then it would be considered a teacher. Ma Hong's fellow villager Xiang Lang studied under Mr. Shui Jing in his early years, and he studied in the villa for nine years before he cracked the formation laid by Mr. Shui Jing and walked out. Ma Hong once heard Xiang Lang say that there are twelve changes in the formation laid by Mr. Shui Jing, which changes with the hour, and every hour changes a formation, which means that in each hour, the road to the outside world is different. In the past, Mr. Shui Jing only laid out the formation to test the ability of the students after they completed their studies, but today he laid out the formation when he accepted the apprentices, it seems that Mr. Shui Jing wanted to test whether the talents of Ma Hong and Pang Tong were exaggerated.

Ma Hong followed behind Pang Tong and said, "It seems that Mr. Shuijing attaches great importance to us!" How about entering the bank together? ”

Pang Tong turned around and smiled and said, "What? Are you afraid of getting lost in the ecstasy array planted by Mr. Water Mirror? ”

Ma Hong and Pang Tong are used to bickering, but now is not the time for them to quarrel, it is the right thing to work together to accept the test of Mr. Shui Jing, so he persuaded: "We had better cooperate, if the time is missed, it will be a bad thing." ”

Pang Tong smiled: "I'm very confident in me, could it be that you don't have confidence?" ”

After Pang Tong finished speaking, he walked towards the woods without looking back, Ma Hong was about to follow Pang Tong's footsteps into the maze, when he suddenly heard a scalper sneeze, Ma Hong turned his head to look at the scalper, the scalper also looked at Ma Hong, and then lowered his head to eat grass, it seems that the scalper is very hungry. Ma Hong smiled slightly, walked to the shepherd boy's side and said, "Little brother, when did you come to herd cattle?" ”

The shepherd boy blinked his eyes and smiled: "I just pulled Lao Huang out of the village, about half an hour." ”

After listening to the shepherd boy's words, Ma Hong raised his head and looked at the sun, and said secretly in his heart: It is Shen Shizhong (about four o'clock), looking at the belly of this ox and the ruthlessness of grazing, it seems that they have just arrived.

In order to verify his idea, Ma Hong asked the shepherd boy if he had been to other places when he led the ox out of the village, and the shepherd boy said that he pulled the ox up the mountain as soon as he got out of the village, because there were all kinds of valuable trees planted by Mr. Shuijing in the woods, and he was afraid that the cattle would damage Mr. Shuijing's tree, so he did not stop in the woods. Ma Hong was secretly happy when he heard the shepherd boy speak, he already had a way to enter the villa, and he asked the shepherd boy again how long it would take to get from the top of the slope to the valley, and the shepherd boy said that if he took the right path, it would be a quarter of an hour (fifteen minutes).

Ma Hong smiled, took out a snack from his luggage and handed it to the shepherd boy, and said with a smile: "Little brother, is it delicious?" ”

The shepherd boy was only eight years old, and he had rarely eaten such a delicious snack in the mountains and forests for a long time, and soon ate all the snacks handed to him by Ma Hong, and stretched out his hand to ask Ma Hong for a snack. Ma Hong smiled: "Little brother, my brother will give you all the snacks, will you let your brother use the scalper for a while?" ”

The shepherd boy nodded again and again, "Okay, okay, give me some snacks." ”

The shepherd boy is very familiar with the road to the village, and he has a map given by Mr. Shuijing, so he will not get lost in the woods.

The shepherd boy took the snack, very happy, and handed over the cow rope to Ma Hong. Ma Hong pointed to the net cover on the shepherd boy's back and said, "Give me this net cover too." ”

The shepherd boy took the net cover and handed it to Ma Hong, and then sat on the ground and ate the snack in a big gulp. The old scalper has been eating grass with his head down, Ma Hong pulled it twice, and the scalper was reluctant to raise his head, he only put the net sleeve woven with bamboo silk on the old cattle's mouth, the old scalper could not eat grass, and mooed at Ma Hong dissatisfied. Ma Hong stepped forward very experienced, patted the old scalper's neck and said, "Old Huang, go home and come back to eat later." ”

In his previous life, Ma Hong also let go of cattle when he was a child, he knew that the cow remembered the road, and had the experience of taming the cow, so he simply communicated with the cow and pulled the cow into the woods. According to what the shepherd boy said, the shepherd boy should have entered the forest at the beginning of Shen Shi, so the formation of the forest has not changed at this time, as long as the ox remembers the way he came, he will definitely be able to bring Ma Hong back, in some ways, animals are stronger than humans.

As soon as Ma Hong entered the woods, he relaxed the rope in his hand and stood behind the ox, patting the buttocks of the ox with his hand, not too heavy, if it is heavy, the ox will be frightened, and the random running will lead the wrong way, and it cannot be too light, the ox is a sluggish animal, if it is too light, it will stand still. This is an old ox, the older the ox is, the smarter, it already knows that it can't eat grass now, or go home to graze, so as Ma Hong patted it very frequently, and it walked towards the woods.

Besides, Pang Tong wanted to take the opportunity to mock Ma Hong, and then break Mr. Shuijing's formation with Ma Hong, he thought that if he went into the forest first, Ma Hong would follow him in, but he didn't expect Ma Hong to follow. Pang Tong himself wanted to save face, and it was not good to call Ma Hong again, so he went into the forest alone. When Pang Tong got into the forest, he found that this maze was far more difficult than he imagined, and there was only one way to enter the forest, but after he walked a while, he looked back and found that there were three more roads behind him, and when he turned around, he found that there were two more roads in front of him. Every road is an eye, if you choose the wrong one, you will fall into a continuous cycle, so Pang Tong is very serious and careful when choosing, for fear of choosing the wrong one.