It's been half a year, and the disappearance of the master has been noisy, and there are various versions of the story. Some said: The master and his peers had an accident digging a mound;

Some said: After the master robbed the tomb, he was assassinated because of the uneven distribution of the spoils;

Others said: The master has stolen a priceless treasure and has absconded abroad;

Some people even said: I saw that the master raised a little wife in Hainan and lived a free life, saying that he would never come back in the future.

Now rumors are spreading, and all the uncles and uncles are also looking at this pawnshop.

The pawnshop is nominally managed by the senior brother, but in fact it has always been the senior brother who is taking care of the affairs, and the senior brother is not at all easy to be in charge, and some uncles always come to find trouble with the senior brother, and always force the senior brother to hand over the pawnshop's account books. The uncles and uncles had already had the idea of splitting up, and they all hoped to take something out of the pawnshop, but only the second uncle, an old guy, did not intend to split the family.

There are also a lot of apprentices of the second master, and a few of them are also some famous in the Tao, and his apprentices always hope that he can become a member of the Faqiu family, and everyone on the road knows the second master of the Dao, he has three hobbies: drinking, greedy for money, and lustful. It is said that after the second master accepted the first apprentice, he never went to the tomb, he relied on the apprentice to rob the tomb to support him, he is already in his 60s, and he also raised a fox spirit less than 30 years old at home, I don't know why this old guy's adrenal glands are so vigorous.

The first one to come to the door was the second uncle, who brought his apprentices and men to the pawnshop, saying that he must see the master today and ask for an explanation, otherwise the pawnshop will be managed by him.

Not to be outdone, the senior brother called his apprentices, and some pawnshop guys were also there. Seeing that the two gangs were facing each other, it was like a fight, but fortunately, the last one was the master who came to control the situation.

The second master said: "The master did not manage the pawnshop at all, and he didn't ask the pawnshop for a long time, and he didn't take care of the pawnshop, which is a great disrespect to the master, so he came to take over the pawnshop and asked the master to hand over the management of the pawnshop." ”

Shi Niang told the second uncle: "The pawnshop has always been managed by the master, but the master went out to do a big deal and couldn't come back for a while, so I asked the master to take care of the pawnshop." And the master is going to do a big deal, at this time the pawnshop can't have problems, and you have to wait for the master to make a big deal, and after coming back, the pawnshop will make dividends. ”

Shi Niang knew that the second master was a greedy person, so she secretly gave the second master a promise: as long as the second master did not take the lead in making trouble, he could give the second master more dividends in the pawnshop every year.

This old guy is an old money fan, as soon as he heard that he could get more money without doing anything, he immediately stopped pestering, and said: "It's time to exercise and exercise newcomers, and you should let go of the senior brother to take care of the pawnshop." ”

But the old guy was not stupid at all, and he asked the master to agree to arrange his apprentice in a pawnshop. Only in this way can he help us persuade all the uncles and uncles, and the master has no choice but to agree.

The old guy was quite honest, and after receiving the benefits, he really helped the master to persuade a few uncles to quit and dispelled their idea of sharing the pawnshop. But this old guy has become more demanding, for the sake of temporary peace, the master has to agree to his request first, and then find a way to deal with him later.

Time flies, time flies, and 8 years are fleeting. In 8 years, everything has changed. The elder brother is already a legitimate pawnshop owner, and the pawnshop is no longer called the previous name, and the pawnshop was registered as a pawn company by the elder brother, and the business has expanded several times compared to 8 years ago, and there are branches in many places. All this also has a lot to do with Tianxiang.

A few years ago, the senior brother and Tianxiang cooperated, made several big deals, and gradually strengthened their respective strengths. And I am no longer the weak boy, now I am a craftsman who can rob the tomb alone, I dare not say that I am a master of robbing the tomb for thousands of miles, but I can also rob the giant tomb alone.

In the past two years, I have been taking care of the Hebei branch in Shijiazhuang, and when I encounter an interesting tomb, I will go out to fight with them. Usually I rarely see my senior brother, although Shijiazhuang and Chengde are not far away, but no one is willing to leave their nest. After all, living a comfortable life now makes people a little lazy.

Until yesterday, the senior brother called and said that he was coming to Shijiazhuang tomorrow, saying that he was bringing someone over for me. I thought it was a matter of men and women again, after all, in the past two years, the master and the elder brother have found a lot of big girls for me, but I still want to be chic for a few years, and I may break at any time in our business, I think I am still a good man, so we don't want to delay the life of other girls. It's not that I think I'm high, because to be honest, even I don't know if I can climb out of the next pit.

"Bang !!" There was a hurried knock on the door, I was already familiar with such a voice, who else could it be besides the senior brother? I immediately answered, jumped out of bed and hurried to open the door. I guess if I don't get up again, the door will be smashed. When I opened the door, it was He Tianxiang who appeared in front of me! And he also brought with him a man who was covered as tightly as a mummy.

I looked at Tianxiang in surprise and asked, "Why are you here?" ”

He asked rhetorically: "Hasn't Xuehong arrived yet?" ”

This guy is still the same dead morality, looking high and domineering. When people saw that they really wanted to go up and beat him, they had a face that was not beaten, but we really didn't dare to beat him.

"How do you know that Senior Brother Lu Dao is coming? How could he have you so early! "I thought to myself, could it be that this guy Tianxiang has opened his eyes?

Tianxiang nodded slightly and said, "Do you have anything to eat?" We're all starving, get us something to eat! ”

I went to the fridge and found a few sausages for them, and these two of them hadn't eaten for days.

"Slow down, hurry to reincarnate!" I looked at the two of them eating, couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and continued: "What's wrong? You're not going to be down, are you? ”

Tianxiang said without raising his head: "You Y is just down, hurry up and call your senior brother and ask him where he is." ”

When I heard this, I should have been in a hurry, and I didn't know what they were doing, so I called the senior brother as he said. The senior brother also asked if Tianxiang had arrived, and I told the senior brother about the situation.

About 30 minutes later, the senior brother brought a few people with him, one of them was his apprentice named An Tong, and the rest were all guys from the company. The senior brother asked them to wait in the outside room, and the senior brother and I came to the back room, and Tianxiang and the man sat and waited in the back room.

When the senior brother entered the house, he asked Tianxiang: "Did anyone bring it?" ”

Tianxiang replied, "That's him." ”

At this time, this person was still tightly covered, and he didn't want to look up.

The elder brother said to the man, "Take off your cloak and let me see it." ”

Tianxiang comforted the man and said, "It's okay, don't be afraid, it won't hurt you." ”

It was only as he slowly undressed that I could see his face clearly. My head instantly became numb, and the person in front of me was the owner of the 702 salvage ship that went to sea that year. We have been looking for the person in front of us for 8 years, and when he appeared in front of my eyes in such a way, my heart was blank except for blank.

The elder brother looked at me and said, "Don't get excited, this is who I let you see." ”

I nodded and said nothing. Tianxiang told us about the process of finding him, it turned out that there was still a group of fellow Taoists looking for him, he was originally hiding well in Guangxi, but I don't know what Lu Dao was found by those people, constantly arresting him, and it was a killer, and the other party threatened to condemn him whether he lived or died. Even he didn't know who the other party was, and why he had to hunt him down.

The senior brother asked Tianxiang: "Have you found out who the other party is?" Tianxiang shook his head.

The elder brother motioned to the owner of the ship to tell us what had been left behind back then.

It turned out that when we went down, he himself was also very afraid, after all, the first wave of people who went down did not come up, and the people who went down in the first wave must not be able to do it, and the oxygen could not last that long. And we went down, and he was left alone in the boat, and he waited for hours, and when no one came up, he went back.

The elder brother asked him again, "Then where did you drive the ship?" ”

He replied: "At that time, when I came out of Fujian, how many people went to sea on the ship were registered, and when I went back, I was left alone for fear that I would not be able to speak clearly and would be arrested." So he drove the boat to Hainan and ran from Hainan to Guangxi. ”

Just when I thought everything he said made sense, the elder brother suddenly stood up and pulled out his dagger. Grabbing the shipowner's clothes with one hand, he put the dagger on his neck with the other and said, "I will only give you one chance to tell the truth, if you dare to lie to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will kill you." ”

The ship's owner pleaded, "What I said is true, you killed me, and that's all I know." ”

The elder brother's face suddenly became very hideous, and he reached out to stab the shipowner with his knife. Seeing this, I immediately grabbed the hand of the senior brother with the dagger with both hands, after all, it was very unwise to do so without understanding the situation, and there was no need to kill people.

I persuaded the senior brother and said, "Even if you kill him, the master will not be able to come back now!" ”

"I've given him a chance to live, but he prefers to die." The elder brother's cold eyes exuded a breathtaking killing light, shooting straight at the shipowner's body.

"Maybe he really knows so much?" I said.

"Do you know what Lu said, I have arranged for someone to check before, and there is no salvage ship called 702 in Fujian at all. In other words: there is no salvage ship 702 at all, and he never tells us the truth. Senior Brother immediately interrupted me and said angrily.

As soon as the owner of the ship heard what the senior brother said, he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy from the senior brother: as long as the senior brother was willing to let him go, he was willing to tell everything he knew about the Tao.

The senior brother looked at him viciously and said, "If you want to live, say it quickly." ”

Tianxiang was more polite, and helped the owner of the boat up, and let him sit and talk slowly.

According to the shipowner, he couldn't do anything at the time, and if he didn't do that, he and his family would die. Just as Tian Tian Lux came to let him go to sea and go to that ghost sea, many people were eyeing him.

He didn't want to go to that ghost sea, but the boat money given by Tian Tian Lux was very high, and it could even be said that he could buy his own boat, and the world always couldn't resist the temptation, and the high reward prompted him to agree to go to sea.

The day after he promised to go to sea, a group of mysterious men came to his house, seized his wife and son, and took his father under control, threatening him to do as they did. The mystery man didn't tell him what needed to be done at first.

It wasn't until the night before he went out to sea that the mysterious man said that after he brought Tian Tianli to the ghost sea, as long as they all went to sea, let him return to the sea immediately, and leave these people alone, only according to what they did, his family could be safe.

The owner of the ship told me a rough story about what had happened, and it was really incredible, and I hoped that what he had just said was false. Because there's no way to understand it. If this is true, then who is going to kill everyone on board? The master usually treats people well, and he has never heard of anyone he has formed a relationship with.

I looked at Senior Brother and Tianxiang, and the two of them were also full of doubts. The senior brother asked An Tong to come in and take the shipowner out of the city, and instructed An Tong to greet him, the purpose of which was to let An Tong keep an eye on him.

I, Senior Brother and Tianxiang sat in the room and began to analyze: If there is such a group of mysterious people, then why do they have to take the lives of the predecessors of the master and Tian Tianlishi?

"Interests must be related to interests." Tianxiang stood up abruptly and said with a wave of his hand.

"What kind of benefit is that, so that they can kill the killers?" I asked.

The senior brother didn't speak, and was thinking quietly with a deep frown on his face. Tianxiang and I are here to ask each other one by one, but the problem is getting more and more complicated by the two of us.

The senior brother, who had been silent for a long time, stood up at this time and said: "Let's think about it carefully, that trip to sea was convened by Tian Tian Lux and everyone had an accident, who would be the biggest beneficiary?" ”

As soon as these words came out, my senior brother and I both looked at Tianxiang.

"What do you two mean? You can't be suspicious of me. Tianxiang suddenly replied with an angry face.

Senior brother and I didn't speak, but we actually believed in Tianxiang very much, and if it wasn't for Tianxiang, maybe we wouldn't be able to come back.

Tianxiang continued: "The biggest beneficiary, it's not me, and you Li Xuehong, don't you also inherit your master's shop?" ”

The elder brother was not looking at him, and turned his head to look at the guys outside the window.

I said to Tianxiang, "I know what you want to say?" But my brother and I never doubted you. ”

Tianxiang's anger decreased slightly, and he roared dissatisfiedly: "Then you two are staring at me!" ”

The senior brother turned around and said to himself: "It's not a benefit, it can only be a secret?" ”

Tianxiang and I both felt very puzzled when we heard it, secret? Why secrets?

The senior brother asked us all to sit down, and then analyzed us: "You think, those who went to the sea back then were the most famous on the road in those years, and everyone dug the giant mound. And they have never cooperated, so why should they go to sea together? If it's because of interests. The senior brother pointed to Tianxiang and continued: "Your boss will not invite my master over. ”

Tianxiang nodded: "Yes, he was also puzzled back then, usually Tian Tianli only brought two guys to the ground at most, but that time he gathered so many masters." There must be something in that sea? Otherwise, it won't attract them to the past. But we still have to ask the owner of the ship. ”

Senior Brother asked An Tong to bring the owner of the ship over again, he was no longer as afraid of Senior Brother as he was just now, and his mood was much calmer.

Tianxiang asked him to sit down, and took An Tong out of the gang again.

Tianxiang asked the owner of the ship: "Can you tell me why my boss had to find you this boat back then?" ”

The shipowner's face immediately changed color when he heard this, and I could see that there must be something wrong here. He asked Tianxiang for a cigarette, took a few puffs to calm his emotions, and then told me about it.

It turned out that the time he went with us was the third time he had gone somewhere, the first time was many years ago, when he was still a working helmsman, and their ship was also a salvage ship, specializing in searching for the remains of shipwrecks on the Maritime Silk Road. Until one night their boat happened to pass by the green sea, which they called the ghost sea, and they were surprised to find that the green sea could move, but none of them went down, because there was a rule at that time that they were not allowed to go to sea late at night. When it was daytime, the green sea disappeared again, and they didn't pay much attention to it, thinking it was a sight of the sea.

When he returned to the land, everyone spread the word about this landscape, and when the Tufuzi in Hunan heard about it, they found him and said that as long as he was willing to lead the way, they would give him a sum of money. The money he paid for his first boat was the money given by Tufuzi at that time. He led the earthmen, and when they got there, there were 4 people who went down to the sea, but the equipment was limited at that time, so they didn't dare to stay in the water for too long, and soon 2 people came up, and the people who came up said that they didn't see anything, and they waited for another three days, and the two people didn't come up, so they decided to sail back.

The last time I went was the one I went with us, and he was found by Tian Lux and offered a sky-high price to ask him to sail to the ghost sea. Later, I heard that some people went to look there according to the direction and latitude and longitude of the said, but no one had ever seen the green sea of ghosts, only the three times he took them, they all saw the sea of ghosts.

The senior brother looked at him intently, and he didn't dare to look at the senior brother.

"So where is your family now?" The elder brother asked the shipowner.

The owner of the ship immediately raised his head and said, "Even if you kill me, I will not tell you." ”

The senior brother smiled and said, "Please rest assured, I just want to make sure that your family is safe?" ”

"It's safe, no one will find them." The owner of the ship was extremely vigilant, and it could be seen that the owner of the ship was very concerned about the safety of his family.

The senior brother smiled and said, "That's good, let's do business." ”

"What business?"

"You take us to the Ghost Sea again, I guarantee your safety, and afterwards, I will also give you a sum of money to reunite you with your family."

The owner of the ship asked the elder brother if he had any other choice now? Senior Brother shook his head.

"When are you going?"

"It will be soon, just these two days, you can go and rest now" said the senior brother without hesitation.