The little beggar worked hard in the kitchen, practiced martial arts hard, and practiced the moves taught by Yu Shen'er every day when she was free, and pondered repeatedly when she encountered something she didn't understand, or waited for Yu Shen'er to answer.

Yu Shen'er has a senior sister's personal inheritance, so she naturally knows more, but children teach children to practice martial arts, and they can't learn any key points, and the little beggar always falls with a blue nose and swollen face, Yu Shen'er also secretly said in her heart: "The little junior sister will make slow progress because of her leg disease!" ”

On this day, the little beggar fell again, and Yu Shen'er was about to pull her up, when there was a burst of laughter behind her.

"Hahaha...... Senior Sister Yu has been running to the back kitchen lately, so she came here to play wrestling with this handyman!"

The little beggar looked back and saw that it was a little girl about the same age as herself, and Yu Shen'er said to her, "It turned out to be you!" Why are you here? Didn't you pester the senior sister to teach you martial arts? What are you doing here? ”

The girl said, "I see you sneaky, so come and see!" ”

The little beggar rubbed her ass and stood up, embarrassed, but the girl was still grinning. Yu Shen'er leaned close to the little beggar's ear and said softly, "Her name is Xiang Minrou." ”

Xiang Min said softly: "Where am I worse than you?" I want to learn martial arts with my senior sister, but she is only willing to teach you. You have a senior sister as a backer, but you don't know how to cherish it, and you came here to be lazy with this handyman, hey! ”

Xiang Minrou's parents died early, and by chance they worshiped the door of Yunshui Palace, and they were inspired to learn a skill and get ahead, but the new disciples were taught by senior sisters with more seniority, and only after learning did they have the opportunity to get the guidance of the palace master Shui Qishan. Although she is smart and clever, she is mediocre in martial arts, and she wants to be taught by her senior sister, but she can't do it.

Yu Shen'er said: "Senior sister has to serve the master, and I don't have so much time to take care of you, don't you also have Senior Sister Sun Xiu to teach you martial arts?" Pulling the little beggar and continued: "She is our little junior sister, and she has also worshipped the master as a teacher, you can't call her a handyman!" ”

Xiang Minrou squinted, the little beggar was gray-headed, plain and plain, and said, "Where do you think she looks like a disciple of Yunshui Palace?" Saying that, he grabbed Yu Shen'er's arm, forcibly separated her from the little beggar, and said, "Senior Sister Yu, don't play with people like her, I'll accompany you to practice martial arts!" ”

Yu Shen'er shook off her hand and said, "Go by yourself, I want to teach my little sister to practice martial arts!" Xiang Minrou snorted and said with a smile: "A cripple can also practice martial arts?" I can't stand still! ”

The little beggar stiffened, his cheeks were crimson, and said secretly: "She may be right, my progress is so slow, it probably has something to do with this leg." Suddenly, the senior sister in charge of the back kitchen hurriedly shouted, "Little junior sister, what are you doing?" Come over here and add firewood! The little beggar immediately went into the kitchen.

Seeing that the senior sister looked flustered, Yu Shen'er asked, "Senior sister, what happened?" The senior sister replied, "The master is injured in practice, so we have to decoct the medicine for her quickly." ”

Yu Shen'er was worried about her master, and anxiously ran towards the Shuiqishan dormitory, but was stopped by the two senior sisters who were guarding outside the master's dormitory. Yu Shen'er said: "Two senior sisters, how is the master!" ”

One of the senior sisters said: "Master, she is fine, but she has some internal injuries, and there is a senior sister to take care of her, don't worry!" Shen'er poked into the house, but couldn't see anything, and said, "Can I go in and have a look?" ”

The senior sister replied, "Master needs to rest now, you can't go in." ”

Yu Shen'er was very frustrated, thinking that with the senior sister by her master's side, nothing would happen. Xindao: "Although the master always makes people think that she is cold, she is very good to me, and she also asked the senior sister to teach me martial arts." I can't stay by her side at the moment, it's better to practice martial arts diligently now, don't bother her! ”

As soon as Yu Shen'er left, a shout came from the dormitory of Shuiqi Mountain: "Master, how are you?" ”

Shui Qishan lay on the stone bed, delirious, his chest boiled, he spat out a mouthful of blood, and fainted again. Shi Kezhen hurriedly shouted to the two junior sisters outside the door: "Quick, quick, is the medicine coming?" ”

The two disciples outside the door saw Shui Qishan fainting, and hurriedly ran to the back kitchen, hurriedly helping to boil the water, picking up herbs, and making the back kitchen a miasma, and the little beggar only heard them shouting, "Hurry, hurry." "I don't know what to do sooner!

After decocting the medicine, the two senior sisters rushed to send the medicine to the dormitory in Shuiqi Mountain, and one of the senior sisters was still shouting, "Hurry, hurry." The little beggar thought that the senior sister was talking about herself, so she followed.

The little beggar followed the two senior sisters into the dormitory of Shuiqi Mountain, this was the first time she came to the master's room, and she couldn't help but take a few more looks: the interior of the house was simply furnished, and there were only a few paintings hanging on the wall.

The little beggar couldn't tell whether the paintings were good or bad, but felt that the paintings were vivid and interesting, so he looked at them one by one, and the paintings were all about a man teaching a woman to practice martial arts and swords.

"Well, this painting ......," she said, pointing thoughtfully to one of the paintings on the wall, as if she had seen it somewhere. The man and woman in the painting are soaring side by side in the air, so uncomfortable!

The little beggar suddenly remembered the day when the master had detoxified herself, and she had seen a painting exactly like this one in the hall, next to the master's throne, and wondered, "Why does the master paint two paintings that are exactly the same?" It's weird! ”

She looked at the painting more carefully, and the woman in the painting was full of peach blossoms, although she was not as cold as the master, but her face was the same as the master, and she secretly said in her heart: "This should be the previous master." The master still laughed, it looked better! ”

Then he looked at the man in the painting, who was handsome and handsome, but he was very familiar between his eyebrows and eyes, and the little beggar exclaimed, "I seem to have seen this man!" ”

That face loomed in the little beggar's head, and he couldn't remember who it was for a while. Suddenly, she heard a "bang" behind her, and something was broken, which made her instinctively tremble. A woman asked, surprised and delighted, "Have you seen it?" Where have you seen it? ”

The little beggar was thinking about the face of the man in the painting, when he suddenly woke up, and when he turned around, he saw a broken medicine bowl on the ground. The master Shui Qishan, the senior sister Shi Kezhen, and the two senior sisters who went to the back kitchen to help were all staring at themselves intently, very nervous.

Shui Qishan said: "Answer me quickly." Do you know the man in the painting? Where have you seen it? The little beggar stammered, "I, I seem to have seen it!" Shui Qishan hurriedly said: "Where is it?" ”

The little beggar was frightened, and the face that loomed in his mind had completely disappeared, and he could not speak. Shi Kezhen said softly: "Little junior sister, you go and take a closer look!" Have you really seen the man in the painting? ”

The little beggar approached the painting, and the face of the man in the painting reminded her of a person, who was both strict and gentle to her, and secretly shouted in her heart: "Isn't this my grandfather?" ”

Lu Buping usually dresses up with messy hair and doesn't like trimming, but his true face, the little beggar has seen it, and the face of the man in the painting is his grandfather.

She took a closer look at the man in the painting, and felt that something was wrong, and said to herself: "Grandpa, like me, has a lame leg, but that man has intact legs and black hair, maybe he is a person who looks very similar to grandpa!" He replied, "I recognized the wrong person!" ”

Shui Qishan sighed in his heart, showing a hint of disappointment on his face, Shi Kezhen confirmed to the little beggar: "Little junior sister, you really haven't seen it?" The little beggar nodded.

The other two disciples said: "Senior sister, the little junior sister used to beg for a living, and she was not from the rivers and lakes, how could she know the person in the painting?" I'm afraid I really recognized the wrong person. Shi Ke really felt reasonable, so he said: "You all go out, the master is going to rest!" ”

The two senior sisters said, "Yes." As he spoke, he took the little beggar and withdrew from the dormitory of Shuiqi Mountain together, and stayed a little farther, and the senior sister who grew up reprimanded: "The master's dormitory, the disciples are not allowed to enter and leave at will, fortunately, the master did not punish you today, you have to remember!" ”

The little beggar replied, "Yes." She was very curious about the man who looked like her grandfather in the painting, and said, "Senior sister, who is the man in the painting?" ”

Another senior sister said: "It's okay to tell you, you will also go out of the palace to find him in the future." He is the benefactor of the master, and those portraits were painted by the master himself, and he also hung one in the hall, so that the disciples of Yunshui Palace could remember his appearance! ”

The little beggar said, "I'm going to go out of the palace to find him in the future?" What does that mean? ”

The senior sister said: "Although the master has retired to the rivers and lakes, she is worried about this benefactor in her heart, so she will send her disciples out of the palace every year to find the whereabouts of the benefactor!" We've been looking for years, but we still haven't found the man. You are young now, so naturally we will not let you leave the palace, but if in a few years, we still haven't found the whereabouts of the benefactor, don't you also have the opportunity to go out of the palace to find it? ”

The little beggar said: "It turns out that he is the benefactor of the master, I don't know what kind of kindness he has for the master?" ”

The older senior sister was a little impatient and said, "You don't usually talk much, but you have a lot of curiosity!" As long as you are a disciple, you just need to know that he is the benefactor of the master, and as for what kind of kindness you have to the master, we don't dare to ask, you have to remember it! ”

The little beggar said, "Yes! ”

…… ……

Shui Qishan's face was pale, his head was supported by his palms, and he was lying on his side on the stone bed. His eyes were staring at the paintings on the wall, one by one, as if he was thinking about something, and he gradually became distracted.

Shi Kezhen stood aside and said: "The master is injured, if you want to recuperate, the disciples will definitely find a way to find the person in the painting!" ”

Shui Qishan sighed lightly and said, "Hey, I've been looking for more than ten years, but I still haven't found anything." Zhen'er, you said he ...... Is he no longer alive? ”

Shi Ke really thought about it in his heart, but the master she was obsessed with the person in the painting, how could she disappoint the master, if the master really thought that the person in the painting was no longer alive, how could he persist for so many years, still looking for his whereabouts?

Then he said: "Engong may have settled in a place we don't know, or he was injured, or he was incognito, as long as we don't find his body, we will always have a glimmer of hope!" ”

Shui Qishan lowered his head and said melancholy: "We have worked so hard to find him, if he is alive, why didn't he come to us?" After so many years, he's afraid he's forgotten about me......" Speaking of this, his eyes were full of tears and he was very sad.

Shi Kezhen comforted: "No, the master treats the master sincerely, and the same is true for the master, and he will not forget the master!" Shui Qishan closed his eyes and muttered, "I hope so." ”

Before long, Shi Kezhen saw that the master's breathing was slow, as if he had fallen asleep, so he picked up the broken medicine bowl residue on the ground into a handkerchief, held it and was about to leave quietly, when he suddenly heard the master call weakly: "Zhen'er." She replied carefully, "Yes, master." But he didn't see the master open his eyes.

Shui Qishan asked: "Can Shen'er practice martial arts seriously?" Shi Kezhen said: "Senior Sister Yu is sensible, and she practices martial arts very hard. Shui Qishan was silent for a moment and then said: "Let the new junior sister stop in the back kitchen, and practice martial arts with Shen'er!" ”

Shi Kezhen replied, "Yes." Then he withdrew from the master's bedroom.