came and went, and even the teacher who took care of him the most and pitied him thought that he was stupid and stupid, and he would die as a talent in the future, and it would be a fantasy to be admitted to other fame.

But even so, Aunt Hu Shen was still worried that he would one day threaten her son's status, so she spent money to find a few famous land masters in Jinxi and lobbied Hu Shen and his father, saying that the child's life was very variable, and if he didn't leave home, he was afraid that it would harm his family.

Because of the long-haired thieves at that time, that is, the relationship between the Taiping Army, Hu Shen's father didn't care about studying these things at all, and originally wanted to wait for the matter to stabilize before discussing it, who knew that the Taiping Army made a detour to Shanxi for the Northern Expedition and directly captured Yuanqu in western Jin.

The Qing army lost the battle of Yuanqu, the government and the opposition were shaken, and the Qing court knew that if the war was lost again, Linfen would fall into the hands of the Taiping army, and then Pingyang and Taiyuan would follow......

Hu Shen's father had to hastily agree to send Hu Shen to the Earth Division Association for the sake of the war, and at this point, Hu Shen never returned to the mansion where he was born.

"When I went to the Earth Master Association, my mother gave the leading master a lot of silver, and also gave a lot of benefits to others, otherwise, I would have been swept out of the house a long time ago, because I was so stupid." Hu Shen smiled bitterly, "In the end, they were hindered by the relationship of receiving so much silver from my mother, and arranged me in the Wanyan Pavilion, although it is not hard to boil water and make tea every day, but the days are really boring, when I am bored, I take books as a companion, I didn't expect that those books changed my life, that's why, when I accept you as an apprentice, I set the rules that must be read every day." ”

Tang Anshu nodded and said, "Master, if my guess is correct, this key is the one you found in the Ten Thousand Words Pavilion?" ”

Hu Shen moved his body, Tang Anshu quickly put down the box, stepped forward to help him adjust his sitting posture, and moved the recliner slightly.

After Hu Shen felt a little more comfortable, he said: "To be precise, this key was not found by me, but by the fat master who guarded the Wanyan Pavilion. ”

Tang Anshu asked, "Fat master?" ”

"Yes, Fat Master. From the first day I entered the Earth Master Association, I called him Fat Master, and he liked everyone to call him that, but no one knew what his name was, only that he would leave the Earth Master Society once a month to go to the world to have fun. Hu Shen fell into the memory, his eyes staring straight at the hazy moon in the sky, "It was granted by the meeting, as for why, I didn't know at the time." ”

Late one winter night, Hu Shen felt that he was being picked up in his sleep, and when he woke up in a daze, he found himself in the utility room on the top floor of Wanyan Pavilion, and sitting in front of him was the fat master who was usually kind and kind.

However, at this time, the fat master was panting like a cow, and his abdomen was injured, and he could clearly see the blood oozing from the bandage.

When Hu Shen saw the blood, he immediately sobered up, got up and said, "Fat master, are you injured?" I'll go get you medicine. ”

When Hu Shen was about to leave, he was grabbed by the fat master's wrist: "You can't go, it will wake up other people, I don't have much time, the next words, you have to remember clearly, you can't forget a word, can you do it?" ”

Hu Shen thought about it, and said with a sad face: "Fat master, I don't understand. ”

The fat master covered his abdomen: "You don't have to understand, it's because you don't understand that I will choose you among the twenty disciples of Wanyan Pavilion, although you are indeed stupid, but you know your shortcomings, and you will make up for them, which is the precious thing." ”

Hu Shen nodded as if he didn't understand: "Then you can say it." ”

The fat master glanced back at the blocked door and said in a low voice, "Do you remember the Wanyan Stone on the gate of the Wanyan Pavilion?" ”

Hu Shen nodded, and the fat master said again: "On the top of the Wanyan Stone, there is a loose stone, in the crack of the stone, I hid a key, that key is the key to finding "Jinling Jian", you repeat what I just said." ”

Hu Shen recalled, frowned, and repeated the fat master's words word for word.

After hearing this, the fat master touched Hu Shen's head, and actually shed tears: "Child, maybe from today onwards, the Earth Master Association will no longer exist." ”

Hu Shen looked at the fat master's tearful eyes in confusion, and he didn't understand what was about to happen.

Hu Shen, who recalled this, sighed: "The fat master left after speaking, I later fell asleep in the attic because I was too sleepy, and when I woke up, I found myself hidden behind a pile of debris, I heard the sound of fighting, and hurried downstairs, but saw that the brothers and sisters who were originally in love began to kill each other. ”

Tang Anshu immediately asked: "Is it because of "Jinling Jane"?" ”

"Yes." Hu Shen closed his eyes, as if he had returned to the scene of the massacre of the Earth Master Association decades ago, "I didn't dare to go out, I hid in a corner, watching them divide into two factions and kill each other, one faction insisted that it was the fat master who took the clues of "Jinling Jane", and framed the rest of the people for being in the same stream as the fat master, and the rest of the people couldn't explain it clearly, so they had to meet each other in the end." ”

However, what Hu Shen didn't expect was that behind this incident, there were other higher-level disciples of the Earth Master Association, who were also very famous earth masters of the Jinxi generation, and these people were divided into more than a dozen factions, and they began to spy on each other for the matter of "Jinling Jane", and killed them.

As the fat master said, from that day on, the Earth Master Society began to fall apart, and in less than a month, the Earth Master would go, scatter, and sell, and finally only Hu Shen was left alone in the Wanyan Pavilion.

Hu Shen said: "Why didn't I leave? I was actually scared, I was really scared, but because people thought I was a stupid fool, they didn't take me seriously, in fact, I read so many books, and finally found a chance to practice what I learned in the book, but just once, I found out that I wasn't stupid, I was just timid. ”

Tang Anshu understood that Hu Shen had actually read books for so many years and had gradually opened up, but it was because of his timidity and lack of self-confidence that he did not reveal what he had learned, and he didn't expect that it was because of this that he could survive the catastrophe of the Master Guild.

After everything stabilized, Hu Shen took out the key from the crack in the stone, went down the mountain overnight, and left Shanxi non-stop, heading to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Tang Anshu looked back at the box and asked suspiciously, "But is this just a key?" If you don't know where "Jinling Jane" is, it will be useless. ”

Hu Shen nodded: "Yes, so, I have actually been tracking down the whereabouts of the fat master and the clues of "Jinling Jian", of course, all under extremely secret circumstances. ”

Tang Anshu hurriedly asked, "Fat Master is not dead?" ”

Hu Shen shook his head: "There are no rumors about his death in the rivers and lakes, so I think he should not have died at that time, many years later, that is, in the year I took you as an apprentice, a person who called himself Wei Qiming came to find me, and he accurately said everything that the fat master said to me on the night he left, including the location where the key was hidden, I denied it on the spot, and did not admit that the key was with me." ”

That was the first time Tang Anshu had heard the name Wei Qiming in his life.

If Wei Qiming is still alive, I am afraid that he will be seventy or eighty years old, and he will be old, why would such an old man be locked up in prison?

When Tang Anshu thought of this, the boss brought the bowl of wontons to him: "Sir, eat it while it's hot." ”

Tang Anshu nodded, picked up the chopsticks, but put them down again, and remembered the memories that Master Hu Shen told him about the time he met Wei Qiming.

When Wei Qiming found Hu Shen, Hu Shen denied that the key was there, but the masked man said to himself: "Hu Dixiang, don't be nervous, I'm not here to grab the key." ”

Hu Shen stared at the masked man in front of him who claimed to be Wei Qiming, and did not say a word.

Wei Qiming continued: "You must keep that key. ”

Hu Shen clenched his fists and was ready to fight to the death.

Wei Qiming sensed his murderous aura and looked down at his right fist: "Fat Master is the only one who knows the specific location of "Jinling Jian", he is dead, but before he died, he told his disciple everything he had learned and knew in his life, a person named Tongye. ”

Hu Shen still didn't want to speak, just listened quietly, vigilantly, judged, and guessed.

Wei Qiming raised his hand and pointed at himself at this time: "And the person who knows the whereabouts of Tongye, only me, in order to protect myself, next, I will hide, sooner or later I will find one, everyone knows, but it can't easily take me away, hurt my place, if one day, you want to understand, come to me with the key." ”

After speaking, Wei Qiming turned around and left, disappearing into the thick fog.

Hu Shen stood at the door, and when he came back to his senses, he found that his palms and faces were not only cold, but also full of water, and he didn't know if it was fog or his own cold sweat.

"Wei Qiming is a master, I can feel that he is a master of one in a million." Hu Shen looked at Tang Anshu and said, "A real master, even at the moment of attack, will suppress his murderous aura and desire." ”

Tang Anshu didn't understand Master's words, because he hadn't met such a terrible person yet, he just asked, "And then?" ”

Hu Shen shook his head: "After many years, I have never heard of Wei Qiming again, but the strange thing is that it began to be rumored in the rivers and lakes that if you want to find "Jinling Jane", you must first find Tongye, and to find Tongye, you need to find Wei Qiming first, and I asked you to dig out this box today, because I received news that Wei Qiming appeared in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. ”

Tang Anshu looked down at the box: "Master, what do you mean, let me go and find Wei Qiming?" Or let me find "Jinling Jane"? ”

Hu Shen stared at Tang Anshu: "Anshu, you look at Master, do you think Master is a complete person now?" ”

Tang Anshu nodded: "Yes!" ”

"Nonsense!" Hu Shen said angrily, "I have lost my arms and become a waste, is it still complete?" From this moment on, you must always remember Master's appearance and remind yourself that you must think twice before doing anything, and never be impulsive, understand? ”

Tang Anshu nodded: "Yes!" Then I'm ......"

Tang Anshu obviously still didn't understand why Master asked him to go to Wei Qiming.

Hu Shen looked at the full moon that gradually appeared from the clouds: "Take the key, find Wei Qiming, and give him the key." ”

Tang Anshu finally understood: "I understand, Master." ”

Hu Shen looked at Tang Anshu again: "Anshu, remember, that key is a curse, you must not keep it, and you can't go to Jinling Jian, if you can't suppress your desires, just think about what Master looks like now, maybe you can calm down." ”

Tang Anshu nodded silently, and his eyes fell on Hu Shen's broken arm.