Pang Tong broke seven formations in a row, and when he walked out of the woods, he happened to see Ma Hong walking slowly behind the scalper's ass. Pang Tong is a smart man, and he immediately knew the method used by Ma Hong.

Pang Tong immediately ran to Ma Hong's side and patted Ma Hong on the shoulder and said, "Good boy, you are opportunistic." ”

Ma Hong looked at the oily Pang Tong and smiled: "It seems that there is not only one road leading here in this wood, but the next road should be the most difficult, it stands to reason that there is only one." ”

Pang Tong nodded, at this moment, Ma Hong and Pang Tong were in front of a stone forest, a stone forest made of stones, this stone forest was transformed according to Sun Bin's ecstasy array, Mr. Shui Jing put a lot of effort into it, this stone array is much more complicated than Sun Bin's ecstasy array.

Pang Tong sighed, dragged Ma Hong's sleeve and wiped the sweat on his face and said: "The formation of breaking this forest is really brain-consuming, this Mr. Shuijing is really as my uncle said, it is not simple." ”

Ma Hong let this Pang Tong drag his sleeve to wipe his sweat, and after Pang Tong finished wiping, Ma Hong smiled: "What? Now think of working with me? ”

Pang Tong touched his nose and smiled: "It's better to cooperate, you and I are adding this cow in IQ, it's easier to break this stone henge, isn't it?" ”

Ma Hong no longer quarreled with Pang Tong, stretched out his hand and slapped the scalper's buttocks, and the scalper walked into the stone henge unhurriedly. Ma Hong and Pang Tong are both smart people, and they follow the scalper without looking at the surrounding stones or the road under their feet, but just staring at the scalper's buttocks, because the surrounding stones and roads are things used to confuse their eyes.

The two of them followed the scalper, turned left and right, and soon came to the exit. Both of them were happy in their hearts, and they were about to go out, when suddenly the old cow cocked his tail, and a bunch of cow dung was pulled out, maybe the cow had eaten bad stomach in the past two days, and the cow dung pulled out was very thin, or maybe the old cow held back for a long time, this stream of cow dung squirted out, and the two of them were full of cow dung, and the two did not stop for a while, and both stepped on the cow dung.

Ma Hong led the scalper out of the stone formation with a black face, and Pang Tong also followed behind him with a black face. There was a big mulberry tree at the mouth of the stone henge, and under the mulberry tree sat an old man, who had half-white hair, and was about fifty to sixty years old, wearing coarse linen clothes, and sat on the mulberry tree and watched the two of them. Ma Hong looked at those eyes, which shone with wisdom, and they were sharp and detailed. From the moment Ma Hong and Pang Tong met the old man's eyes, they knew who the old man was, because the old man's eyes had already spoken.

Ma Hong hurriedly tied the scalper aside, and Pang Tong walked in front of Mr. Shuijing, the two of them knelt on the ground, pressed their left hand on their right hand, bowed to the ground, and bowed to Mr. Shuijing. Mr. Shui Jing stood up and helped the two of them up, not caring about the cow dung on their bodies. Ma Hong stood up and looked at Mr. Shuijing's face up close, Mr. Shuijing's forehead was slightly larger, not symmetrical with his face, there were no obvious wrinkles on his face, his hair was combed very seriously, there was no trace of messiness, and although his clothes were coarse linen, they were very clean.

Ma Hong opened his mouth and said: "Sir, we are late, please ask Mr. to punish us." ”

Mr. Shui Jing smiled: "I have already done the apprenticeship ceremony, so let's change my name to the teacher!" ”

Pang Tong looked at Mr. Shui Jing with some surprise, and said secretly: Before the apprenticeship, did Mr. Shui Jing recognize us so quickly?

Mr. Shui Jing saw Pang Tong's question, and said with a slight smile: "At my age, you will understand, simple is good, the etiquette you did just now is the etiquette of the teacher, and this is enough." ”

Pang Tong was slightly stunned for a moment, and was about to speak, but Ma Hong preemptively said: "Just now we performed the first ceremony because we have regarded Mr. as a teacher in our hearts, but the ceremony of apprenticeship must be carried out." ”

Mr. Shui Jing looked at Ma Hong, and saw that Ma Hong's attitude was extremely firm, and said with a smile: "Well, it's not too early, let's go back first!" ”

Ma Hong was about to speak, when he suddenly heard a young voice: "Teacher, is this stone going to be moved back?" ”

Ma Hong followed the voice and saw a young man standing not far from Mr. Shui Jing, the young man didn't know when he came, maybe he was there all along, but Ma Hong didn't notice it. The young man was seven feet five inches long, and his appearance was extremely ordinary, and he was standing next to a stone, and Ma Hong had not even noticed his presence.

Mr. Shui Jing nodded and said, "You and your two junior disciples will move the stone back together, don't break it." ”

The young man nodded yes, and Mr. Shui Jing turned to leave. After Mr. Shui Jing left, the young man walked over. Pang Tong and the young man met, and under Pang Tong's introduction, Ma Hong knew that the young man was Xu Shu.

Xu Shu, Ma Hong and Pang Tong saluted each other, exchanged a few words, and then said: "This apprenticeship must be done, and it must not be hastily formed." ”

Pang Tong asked a little puzzled, "Why is this?" Didn't the teacher say that everything should be simple? ”

Xu Shu smiled: "At this point, I think you have to ask Ma Hong." ”

Ma Hong smiled slightly and did not respond, although Pang Tong was smart, he was not deeply involved, and he was young, so he didn't understand Mr. Shuijing's intentions, and Xu Shu was a few years older than them, so he knew the meaning. A teacher is a person who preaches and teaches and solves doubts, and if you don't give your heart to someone who imparts knowledge to you, how can you be taught by him.

According to Xu Shu, Mr. Shui Jing has a hobby, which is to collect stones, and sometimes he will take the collected stones out and put them for a few days before moving them back home. The stone next to Xu Shu was one of the pieces collected by Mr. Shui Jing, and this stone didn't look special to Ma Hong, just an ordinary granite.

After Ma Hong and the three of them moved the stone back to Mr. Shuijing's residence, Xu Shu arranged a room for the two, and after the two bathed and changed their clothes, they prepared all the things used for apprenticeship under Xu Shu's arrangement, and then invited Mr. Shuijing to perform the apprenticeship ceremony. After Ma Hong and Pang Tong bowed to Mr. Shui Jing and served tea, Mr. Shui Jing held two brushes in one hand, dipped them in cinnabar, and dotted cinnabar on the eyebrows of Ma Hong and Pang Tong, and then gave the two brushes to the two of them, which was considered the end of the ceremony.

Mr. Shuijing has many students, but when he enters Shuijing Villa, there are very few who become his apprentices. Xu Shu and his friend Shi Tao came to Jingzhou for refuge, Xu Shu only worshipped Mr. Shuijing as a teacher a year after entering Shuijing Villa, and Shi Tao has not yet become Mr. Shuijing's apprentice.

That night, Xu Shu arranged a room for Ma Hong and Pang Tong, and said to the two: "Two junior brothers, senior brothers have not been able to crack the formation so far, and the two of them can enter Shuijing Villa at will when they first come, I really admire." ”

Ma Hong smiled: "Senior brother praised it, we are just a little luckier." Xu Shu smiled: "Senior brother is too modest." I went to Xiangyang a few days ago, but I heard a nursery rhyme about you on the street! ”

Speaking of which, this nursery rhyme was made up by Ma Hong himself, and asked Ma Liang to spread it, Ma Hong once gave porridge in Yicheng, won the hearts of the people of Yicheng, and this nursery rhyme soon spread all over Yicheng. In order to sell himself to the celebrities in Jingzhou, Ma Hong also asked Pang Tong to spread this nursery rhyme to Xiangyang and other places. Now that Xu Shu had no intention of talking about it, Ma Hong's face was a little red.

Pang Tong was very familiar with this matter, and now he was afraid that Ma Hong would be embarrassed, and he was more familiar with Xu Shu, so he opened the topic and said: "Yuan Zhi, I heard my uncle say that there is still a person in this Shuijing Villa who is also a disciple of the teacher, and it is said that he was accepted as a disciple by Mr. Shuijing as soon as he entered the village, who is that?" ”

Xu Shu stood up with a slight smile, opened the window, pointed to the house opposite and smiled: "It's in that room, do you want to go and have a look." ”