"What's the name?"

"Shen Yigong."

"How old?"

"Nineteen."

"Tell the truth, don't tell lies."

“…… Seventeen. ”

"What did you do before?"

"Pull the rickshaw."

Huo Zuo put down the tea. The mourning voice of the woman in front of her came through the long hallway. He sat upright on the sandalwood Taishi chair, which was the position that Huo Congyi could only sit on weekdays. Now that Huo Congyi is lying in the coffin, this seat can only be Huo Zuo's.

Huo Zuo knelt in front of Shen Yigong, cleaned up and took a shower, and finally went to the smell of beggars on his body. Mother Xu found a set of smaller clothes for the young man to wear, and it barely fitted.

Huo Zuo said: "I don't know kung fu, I only have the technique of killing people in my hands." If you want to learn kung fu, you can't learn it from me. ”

Shen Yigong raised his head, his expression was resolute and determined: "It doesn't matter, I saw you doing it, I want to learn, I want to learn this life if I give it to you." ”

Huo Zuo looked at him: "Have you ever killed someone?" ”

"Nope."

"You haven't killed anyone, you don't know how hard human flesh is. No matter how good the steel is, there will be a time when the blade will crumble. If you kill people for a long time, there will always be a day when you will be killed, so you have to learn too? ”

"People always have to die, and if you are killed, you will die. I'm not afraid of death, I want to learn. ”

"There are a total of 22 martial arts halls in Shanghai, including Tianjin, Guangdong, and Beijing. If you want to learn, you can go to them. ”

"I don't want to learn boxing. I want to kill. ”

"Why? Avenge? ”

Shen Yigong nodded. Huo Zuo suddenly smiled, snorted coldly, and the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, as if he had found something interesting: "Interesting." ”

Cheng Changyu stood beside him, and when he heard him say this, he raised his eyes and slanted down at the person. The next person sent the tea to Shen Yigong. Cheng Changyu pinched his throat and shouted: "So, serve tea, boy." ”

Shen Yigong raised his head coldly, holding the tea in his hand and looking like he hadn't reacted yet, Cheng Changyu said in disgust: "What are you still doing in a daze, didn't you hear your master's words?" ”

"You...... You promised to take me as an apprentice? As soon as Shen Yigong raised his face, his face was full of injuries, and Huo Zuo nodded lightly. The young man knelt over with tea in a reckless manner, and shouted in a loud voice: "Disciple Shen Yigong, meet Master!" ”

Then there was a knock.

Huo Zuo took the tea in his hand and put it aside, with a wave of his hand, Cheng Changyu came over and pulled the young man up: "Okay, I have worshiped the master, wear linen and wear filial piety, and hurry up to cry for the ancestor." ”

Shen Yigong entered the Huo family in this way. When he cried for Huo Congyi, the crying was louder than others, Cheng Changyu stood behind Huo and looked at it from a distance, took a puff of cigarette and sighed: "Why is this kid crying like his own father is dead?" ”

Huo Zuo looked at it coldly, and said to Cheng Changyu for a while: "Find out, where did he come from." ”

"Don't worry, I'm very neat. You'll find out at lunchtime. ”

Shen Yigong knelt on the cold tile and held the black and white statue in his hand as a filial grandson, and his unshed tears were vented in the mourning hall. The shouting in his mouth was: "Master, you have walked all the way, and when you go over there, you still remember you, how will you live without you in the future, Master!" ”

I thought in my heart: "Mother! My son will definitely avenge you! ”

Shen Yigong's matter, Cheng Changyu found out in less than two hours. After Huo Zuo heard what he said, he walked to the front of the hall to look at the new apprentice who was burning paper money and kneeling and crying for him by the coffin, turned his head sideways and said to Cheng Changyu: "This kid can be used." ”

"Oh?"

You see that he didn't mention his own mother for half a word, but he cried a lot in front of the old man. At the age of seventeen, you can hide your thoughts, and you said what it would be like in two years. ”

Cheng Changyu asked rhetorically: "Do you really want to find an apprentice?" ”

"This big Shanghai is full of wolves, dogs, beasts everywhere, but no one. But some people are forced, and some people are willing. Huo Zuo tilted his head lightly and looked at Shen Yigong from a distance, "Look at him like that, I just want to find such an apprentice who doesn't want to be a man." ”

Cheng Changyu turned around and reclined on the rocking chair and fiddled with the white porcelain doll on the table: "I don't understand what you say." ”

Huo Zuo didn't ask Cheng Changyu to understand, but just called: "Mother Xu." ”

Mother Xu came over in response: "What's the matter, young master." ”

"From today onwards, my apprentice's meals will be made separately, with egg yolks and lean meat for meals, fish for two days, and beef for three days."

Cheng Changyu jumped up from the rocking chair as soon as he heard this: "Such a good treatment!" Master Huo still doesn't accept apprentices. ”

"What qualifications do you have, and you are embarrassed to worship me as a teacher?"

"Don't eat eggs with lean meat, and eat fish and beef at two ends for three days, you're too good to that little deflated three!"

"Then since you said that, you also want to learn to kill?"

Huo Zuo asked Cheng Changyu back in the rocking chair with a smile: "Casually, I'm a cultural person, I'm back from Kyoto University, are you embarrassed to let me take a knife?" It's just a matter of helping to scare and scare people, this kind of rough work is not for me. ”

Huo Zuo sneered: "It's good that you know." ”

After the two of them finished talking, they went back to the mourning hall. It was already dawn, and the night watchmen were all tired, and Mother Xu was distributing hot ginger soup to everyone with her servants. Huo Zuo was hesitating to go up and rest for a while, when someone came to report that Qin Ye was here. Hearing this, Huo Zuo hurriedly asked Shen Yigong to stand behind, hugged Huo Congyi's photo frame and knelt in front of the mourning hall.

A black Buick car stopped outside the Huo family's house, and the servant opened the door and respectfully welcomed the distinguished guests in the car in.

There were a total of three people coming down from the car, and the middle-aged man in the black robe was Qin Shengzhu, the Qin Ye in everyone's mouth. Although he is over 60 years old, he is still in good spirits and does not show his old age. It is said that he came to Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty and expanded the territory of the Blue Dragon Society to every corner of Shanghai forty years later.

The woman Qin Shengzhu was holding in his left hand was his wife, who came with him from his hometown in the Northeast in his early years, although her appearance was not beautiful, but her temperament was quite bold and neat, and she was respected by her brothers. The beautiful girl who followed was his only daughter, Qin Mingzhu.

Qin Ye entered the mourning hall and didn't wait for Huo Zuo to step forward, he first hid his face and cried bitterly: "Old Huo, I want to know that there will be such a group of little deflated people who don't have long eyes to attack you, and I shouldn't let you go!" ”

Huo Zuo stepped forward and handed over the handkerchief at the right time: "Uncle Qin, don't worry, I have already cooked those little deflated threes." ”

Qin Shengzhu glanced at him, wiped his face with a handkerchief: "Xiao Zuo, although your father is gone, you still have my uncle." As long as I am here, no one in Shanghai will dare to touch a finger of you. ”

The old man's face became fast, and he cried and incense, and turned his head to whisper to Huo Zuo while no one was there: "You look for your third uncle for a while, he usually talks business with Lao Huo, but now that your father is gone, the business can't be put down." It's up to you to do it. ”

Huo Zuo looked obedient and well-behaved: "Don't worry, Uncle Qin." My father had specially instructed me before he died, and I knew all these things and would handle them well. ”

"You are a sensible child, and I am relieved to hand it over to you. Recently, it's a cotton factory, you have more snacks, and when necessary, you can simply deal with it, understand? ”

"I understand."

Huo Congyi was one of Qin Shengzhu's old departments in his early years, and many dirty things were solved by the Huo family for his surname Qin, if the other people in the Qinglong Society were a dog raised by Qin Shengzhu, then Huo Congyi was a snake raised by him.

After the admonition, Qin Ye took Huo Zuo back to the front of the mourning hall, he said that he wanted to say a few words to Lao Huo alone, Huo Zuo sent all the people in the mourning hall to retreat first, and he also walked out alone and came to the courtyard to smoke. As soon as he stood still, he lit a copper lighter with a copper lighter in his hand, when he heard a little girl call him crisply: "Brother Zuo! ”

Huo Zuo restrained the impatience on his face before throwing the cigarette on the ground, turned around, and smiled at Qin Mingyue: "Miss Qin." ”

Qin Mingyue approached him and swayed in front of him: "Didn't I tell you a long time ago, don't call me Miss Qin, since I call you Brother Zuo, do you call Sister Mingyue." ”

Huo Zuo said helplessly: "Okay, Sister Mingyue." ”

Qin Mingyue took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to him, with a look of praise: "I know that Uncle Huo has left recently, you must be sad, I have nothing else to help you, so after thinking about it, I sewed a new handkerchief for you." ”

After Huo Zuo took it, he politely thanked her: "Qin ...... Sister Mingyue has a heart. Actually, you don't have to think about it so much. ”

"No, it's what I want to do! I...... That ......"

Twenty-eight cardamom girl, a little bit of her thoughts are written on her face. She was so shy, but Huo Zuo was a little embarrassed. In the face of the girl's feelings, he couldn't simply and straightforwardly refuse it, no matter what, she was Qin Shengzhu's pearl.

Seeing that Huo Zuo hadn't answered, Qin Mingyue cautiously asked, "Don't you like it?" ”

Huo Zuo put away the handkerchief: "You are careful, and the handkerchief is also delicate and chic, of course I like it." I'm tired of you. ”

"Don't bother, if you like me, you can do more!"

Huo Zuo skillfully avoided the distance from Qin Mingyue, neither appearing overstepping nor rusty.

When Shen Yigong obeyed Xu's mother and moved in a pot full of gold and jade, he saw the master and a young woman alone from a distance, and stood still for a while, not knowing whether to advance or retreat. Huo Zuo looked up and saw him, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, his face did not move, but he beckoned to Shen Yibow, and asked him to bring the pot of gold and jade over.

"Who sent it?"

Listening to Huo Zuo's question, Shen Yigong replied: "Mother Xu said that Master Qin brought it, so I moved over, Master." ”

There is a third person here, which is good to alleviate this embarrassing situation. Huo Zuo knew that Qin Mingyue was secretly angry with Shen Yigong's bad things, but he still deliberately left him here, and introduced him: "By the way, I forgot to tell you, this is my newly accepted apprentice, called Shen Yigong." ”

He said to the young man again: "I've seen Miss Qin." ”

Shen Yigong hurriedly bowed respectfully: "Hello Miss Qin." ”

Qin Mingyue saw that Huo Zuo had no intention of being alone with her, and she was so angry that she could only smile on her face: "Brother Azuo, are you accepting apprentices at such a young age?" Alas, he has a lot of wounds on his face. ”

"yes, this kid is also to blame." As he spoke, Huo Zuo pretended to have no intention of taking out the handkerchief that Qin Mingyue had just given him from his arms to wipe the scars on his face for Shen Yigong. Qin Mingyue is the eldest lady's temperament, and when she saw this, she simply couldn't bear it anymore, frowned and said, "Okay, I won't bother you too much, if you don't go in again, my mother will be in a hurry to find me." ”

"Okay, then go this way, my wife will rest in the West Wing."

Qin Mingyue turned around and left the courtyard in three steps. Seeing him leave, Huo Zuo breathed a sigh of relief. As soon as he turned his head slightly, he saw that Shen Yigong was still pinching the handkerchief, and his eyes followed Qin Mingyue's back directly. Reacting, the master was staring at him, Shen Yigong was a little timid, holding the handkerchief and Huo Zuo and said, "Master, this handkerchief is so fragrant." ”

Huo Zuo said lightly: "Of course, the veil on the girl's body is fragrant." ”

This kid reacted more than he imagined, and when he heard that it was a girl's handkerchief, the roots of his ears were red, and he couldn't speak: "Auntie, girl's?" Was that the eldest lady Qin just now? This...... How could the veil be in ...... Oh! It seems that she ...... to you, Master."

"Don't talk nonsense, I'm ten years older than her, and that Miss Qin and I are just brother and sister. You're about the same age as Mingyue. ”

"Huh?"

Seeing this young man's reckless appearance, Huo Zuo stopped thinking about Qin Mingyue. Coming out of the courtyard, Huo Zuo saw that Mother Xu was collecting the gifts sent by Master Qin one by one, including a few other pots of flowers and plants. Huo Zuo glanced at Shen Yigong beside him, probably knowing that the old lady understood that she had seen Qin Mingyue's hard work and deliberately let this kid in to interrupt.

smiled with her, took the cigarette and asked Shen Yigong to light it for himself. Turning around, he looked at Qin Shengzhu who was staying alone in the mourning hall from a distance, and his eyes became more and more cold.