Gongsun Shengqiu pinched the time and walked to the door of Gongsun Guangxiao, first stopped and held his breath, carefully stretched his ears and listened for a while, there was only a harmonious voice in the room, there was not much movement, and there was no stormy scolding that he expected.

"Let's go ahead and see what happens. Gongsun Shengqiu thought to himself, and then reached out and knocked on the door.

"Who?" asked Gongsun Guangxiao loudly in the room.

"Second grandfather, it's me, Shengqiu. He calmed himself down and replied as calmly as he could.

"What's the matter?" Gongsun Guangxiao didn't seem to want him in.

"Second grandfather, I have something to tell you. "There is no arrow to turn back when he draws the bow, and it seems that Gongsun Shengqiu will not stop if he does not go in.

After a moment of silence in the house, Gongsun Guangxiao still beckoned him in.

"I have something to say with Katsuiwa, you listen first. "Gongsun Guangxiao is such a person, he has always been a bowl of water, and he never gives anyone the feeling of favoring anyone. Gongsun Shengqiu got this right, and then he dared to come in.

Sure enough, as he expected, the two of them were talking about the fact that the silk village was set on fire by thieves again in the early hours of this morning. This is the second time, and the last time it was inexplicably on fire, there will be no fire in the silk village, even if it is cold in the cold winter, everyone inside is wearing a big cotton jacket, and resolutely does not bake the fire. There will be no one smoking in it, and many of the people who buy silk are young and beautiful women, and if the silk is stained with the smell of smoke, it will not be sold even if it is killed. So they thought about it, they must have been set on fire, but they didn't know what the purpose was. The Gongsun family has been in business for many years, on the one hand, they are kind and charitable, and on the other hand, they also have a good relationship with the official family. But the matter of the first silk village has not been figured out, and then it was burned down, which is really a bit puzzling.

"What do you think?" After the two of them talked for a while, Gongsun Guangxiao turned around and asked Gongsun Shengqiu.

"There must be a thief secretly doing evil, I don't know why, but it's ......," Gongsun Shengqiu said.

"But what?"

"But...... However, I was at my grandfather's birthday banquet today, and when I was about to end, I drank a little too much and felt dizzy, so I got up and wanted to go back to the house to find some tea to sober up. On the way, I heard a few people whispering about the price of silk in the backyard, and one of them also said to the other that the Gongsun family has a big business, and it doesn't look like it's bad money, and the tone sounds very unkind. Gongsun Shengqiu began to shake out the made up nonsense.

"Is there such a thing, do you see who it is?" Gongsun Guangxiao's eyes widened.

"They were behind the rockery, and all I could see was a man's sleeve, and the accent sounded like it was local. ”

"What else did you say?"

"I'm not too embarrassed to listen to it, in case it is discovered, they are not unhappy, doesn't it seem that our lord's family is too ungenerous. "Gongsun Shengqiu's lies have been scrutinized many times by himself, and they are almost unassailable.

There is some truth to that. Gongsun Guangxiao nodded, "What are you looking for me?"

"Oh...... I heard someone say that a blind Taoist priest came to the door today to make trouble, saying that there was a great evil omen in our yard. ”

"Fart!" Gongsun Guangxiao was furious after hearing this, and slapped the table heavily with his palm, and the beard on his chin was about to stand up in anger, "Do you believe this?" After he finished speaking, he pointed at Gongsun Shengqiu, as if he wanted to burn the nephew in front of him to ashes with anger.

"Second grandfather, don't be angry, of course I don't believe it, our Gongsun family doesn't believe this, so this Taoist priest can't get in at all," Gongsun Shengqiu pretended to dissipate his anger for his second grandfather, "But do you think, these two things are put together, isn't it a bit unusual?"

"Brother Shengqiu, I didn't understand what you meant. Gongsun Shengyan couldn't help but ask on the side.

"What kind of dumb riddle are you playing in front of me?" Gongsun Guangxiao was still angry.

"He set fire to the shop, it must not be for money, otherwise why wouldn't he steal it. Find a blind Taoist priest who pretends to be a ghost to scare people, but most of them are for money, thinking that the main family will break the wealth and avoid disasters, so I think that this is at least two groups of people, that is," Gongsun Shengqiu looked at his younger brother, "You are likely to offend more than one person." ”

The shop was really burned, and the blind man did come, and he was seen by Gongsun Shengyan with his own eyes, so he really couldn't come up with any rebuttal for a while, so he had to be silent.

Gongsun Guangxiao looked at the two nephews, did not speak, reached out to take the teapot and filled the teacup, and when he picked it up again, he found that the water was already cold, so he put the teacup back on the table again, and the tea in the cup splashed his hand.

"You came here just to tell me about the blind Taoist priest?" asked Gongsun Guangxiao angrily.

"Not really. Gongsun Shengqiu suddenly changed his face with a hippie smile, looked at his second grandfather and winked twice.

"Say, I'm going to rest too. Gongsun Guangxiao saw his nephew's expression, and his mood was slightly better.

"That ......" Gongsun Shengqiu looked at Gongsun Shengyan on the side and didn't speak.

"Can't say it to your face?"

"Yes, yes, but I'm a little embarrassed, I'm sorry to wronged you. Gongsun Shengqiu continued to say to his younger brother with a hippie smile.

After only the two of them were left in the room, Gongsun Shengqiu said, "Second grandfather, you see that at my age, it's time to talk about marriage, right?"

"Huh?" Gongsun Guangxiao almost choked on his own saliva unexpectedly, coughed several times, quickly picked up the cup and poured the tea that had already been cold in front of him into his mouth, and only after a long time did he slow down and ask, "Do you have a crush on someone's girl?" But it doesn't matter, it's a good thing, the best thing. ”

"Zhou Xue, I want to marry Zhou Xue. ”

"Huh?" Gongsun Guangxiao almost didn't squirt out all the water he just poured in, "The marriage between our Gongsun family and the Zhou family has always been decided by the Zhou family, and you also know that your grandfather married him because of your grandmother's fancy." Are you sure Zhou Xue is willing to marry you?"

"Yes, she definitely won't go all over the world to say who she wants to marry. Second grandpa, just try to mention it. ”

"Try to mention it?" Gongsun Guangxiao couldn't help laughing, "I look at you, hehehe, it's really nonsense, how can you try to mention it." I took the opportunity to ask Mr. Zhou on the side, not to propose, but to ask on the side, I was not sure. Gongsun Guangxiao showed a kind side at this time.

"Thank you, second grandfather, thank you, second grandfather. Gongsun Shengqiu knelt down and kowtowed, seemingly happily leaving.

Looking at the back of his nephew closing the door and leaving, Gongsun Guangxiao shook his head with a smile, and said to himself: "Hey, this day ......" and then got up and shouted outside the door, "Red Mom, Red Mom, please call me for the foot washing water." ”

The next day, most of the people in this world were still asleep, but a cave in the deep mountain was illuminated by torches. This cave is a natural gourd shape, the gourd mouth is the entrance, after walking in, there is a huge cave dressed as a council hall, followed by a narrow path, can only accommodate two people side by side, and then enter more than eighty zhang but is a cave several times larger than the cave just now, it can be seen that it has been repaired, and there seem to be a lot of cave-like rooms and passages that do not know where to go around. At this moment, in the big belly of the gourd cave, there are more than 100 torches, and more people are standing densely and respectfully, as if waiting for some grand event to start. They were all dressed in wide, grayish-brown robes that hung almost down to their feet, with two blue belts as thick as palms around their waists, and each of them had a black-shelled scorpion tattooed on the back of their left hand. None of them looked like they were well-trained.

A leader-looking man walked out of one of the caves, unlike the others, he was wearing a silver mask on his face, which made people look unreal, and the corners of the mask's two mouths were grinning upward, as if there was something happy and couldn't get back the smile, but with this scene, it looked like it was so frightened that ordinary people could pee directly.

"Welcome the sect leader out of the customs!" the leader shouted in a high voice, and the people below echoed neatly in a low voice: "Welcome the sect leader out of the customs, welcome the sect leader out of the customs, welcome the sect leader out of the customs." "The echo in the gourd cave buzzed.

It didn't take long for two men wearing masks of the same shape but of a golden color to step out of the cave first, both wearing wide gray-brown robes, the difference being that their belts were golden. When the two men came out, they lined up on the left and right of the cave, and without saying a word, they turned to each other and stood facing each other, and then bowed down respectfully.

Seeing the two golden masked men bending down, everyone in the gourd cave began to bend down and bow their heads. At this moment, a man wearing a fiery red robe, a white belt, and a black mask slowly paced out of the cave. Except for the golden masked man who raised his head and followed the sect leader, including the silver masked man who had just spoken, all of them maintained the posture they had just now, and waited until the sect leader walked from the big gourd cave to the narrow passage, and then took a break.

The sect leader and his party walked to a luxuriously decorated side cave in the small gourd cave, the sect leader sat down slowly, and the two golden strange masked people stood respectfully. The three of them were silent for a while, and one of the golden-masked men spoke to the sect leader: "Congratulations to the sect leader for obtaining the Knocking Xuan Sutra, this retreat and cultivation will definitely increase his skills greatly, and all of us are sincerely happy for the sect leader." ”

The sect leader didn't speak, but nodded to the two of them to show that he heard it, and then waved his hand again, signaling the two to go out. After making sure that the two were leaving, the sect leader took off his mask, a mouthful of blood spurted out directly, and then his whole body went limp, and he slipped into the comfortable seat padded with fur. After resting for half a pillar of incense, the sect leader seemed to regain a little energy, fumbled and took out a book nailed with deerskin from his flaming red robe, slowly placed it on his lap, and looked at it with a dull look.

"Knock on the Xuan Sutra," the sect leader whispered to himself, "a fragment, a book from heaven." I don't understand how to read, what is wrong!" Thinking of this, his throat was salty again, and he forcibly lowered his qi and blood pressure.