A person, whether you are good or not, will always encounter some temptations and some choices, and in the face of such temptations and choices, it is difficult for people in the present to confirm whether their choices are correct, but they can see the benefits of new choices.

But in the light of decades or even hundreds of years, this choice may not really bring many benefits.

What Master Ji said made Lou Jinchen very excited.

Many people can hold on in the face of fear, and they can refresh their minds in sorrow, but in joy, there are many heroes who will indulge in it and cannot extricate themselves.

Lou Jinchen has lived for so many years, and his life has always been dull, step by step, going to school and reading like most people, at most he has one more hobby of practicing swords than others.

He never felt that he was so wise that he could overcome the temptations of the world.

But at this time, he remembered a sentence he had read in an unknown book: "When you don't know how to choose, then see if the choice is moral!" ”

Ji Fuzi looked at Lou Jinchen's face with joy, and then saw the color of struggle.

He didn't speak, just watched, waiting for Lou Jinchen to decide.

"Master, the disciple heard that Confucianism regards the gentleman as the beauty, the gentleman attaches great importance to the courtesy, and restricts the heart with etiquette, I don't know why the master tempted the disciple to fall as soon as he came? This is against etiquette! ”

Lou Jinchen didn't know much about the Confucianism of this world, but he thought that it should be about the same, so he said it with his own understanding.

After listening to Lou Jinchen's words, Ji Fuzi's eyes flashed with surprise, and said: "I can't imagine that you actually know that the Confucian Six Arts are the first heavy gift, and you say that the old man seduces you and is rude, but the old man sees the good material and beautiful jade but falls into the mud, and can't bear to be polluted. ”

When he said this, it made Lou Jinchen feel bad for a while, if he was really sincere, then how could he blame him.

Immediately, he sighed: "Disciple, when the family is flooded, the family is gone, and the begging is here, and the Lord of the Meditation is taking in and teaching the Dharma, when this Fire Spirit View is in danger, how can you abandon it!" The master's good intentions, the disciples dare not accept it. ”

Ji Fuzi looked at the young man who spoke, and he clearly felt that the young man had finished speaking, and the trace of confusion and joy in his eyes had dissipated, and he became clear and firm.

He understood that this young man's heart had just been moved, but he restrained his impulsive heart through that passage, which was not only for himself, but also for his own 'heart'.

"What a good boy." Ji Fuzi thought in his heart, more and more appreciation, if Lou Jinchen agreed just now, he would be happy, but he would have a little more regret, but now he is more appreciative.

"What's your name?" Ji Fuzi asked.

"Disciple Lou Jinchen!" Lou Jinchen replied.

"It's a good name to climb the stairs and get close to the stars." Ji Fuzi sighed: "Fire Spirit Dao people, blessed people. What did you mean when you said that the Fire Spirit View was dangerous? ”

So Lou Jinchen told the Lord of Heaven about what happened in Dujiazhuang and Matoupo, and believed in the Lord.

Ji Fuzi frowned slightly after hearing this, looked at the letter of the master again, and said: "The old man is not familiar with your master, and the introduction of Granny Du to her is only because of her identity as the Five Zhuang Divine Sect, and the five visceral divine religions are uneven, and the old man does not want to have more friends with him, but this time it is not the fault of your family master, fortunately, you have not formed a blood feud with Du Jiazhuang, and there is still room for relaxation." ”

"Granny Du was a disciple of Qingluo Valley, and the elder Hua Xiaoxiao of Qingluo Valley was a classmate, the two of them met a strong enemy when they traveled when they were young, and Granny Du injured the foundation in order to save Hua Xiaoxiao, and then left Qingluo Valley and returned to Dujiazhuang. Granny Du has a stubborn temperament, if she insists on inviting Hua Xiaoxiao, Hua Xiaoxiao will have to come forward. ”

"I don't know what kind of method this Qingluo Valley is cultivating?"

In Lou Jinchen's heart, if you can't avoid having to do one, then you have to know more about each other.

"You guys who first came to Swimming Water City, it is indeed possible that you don't know this, Qingluo Valley is the inheritance of the Secret Food Sect, do you know what the Secret Food Sect is." Ji Fuzi asked.

Lou Jinchen shook his head, although he had seen a lot of cultivators of all kinds, he didn't know what kind of cultivation sect they were.

"Qingluo Valley belongs to the secret food sect, looking for the demonic creatures between heaven and earth, refining them into secret medicines, and eating them to obtain the law." Ji Fuzi said: "The Secret Food Sect was originally a miscellaneous stream, but later because someone found a way to see God, it became one of the Fa-rectifications in the world. However, most of the Secret Food Sects did not obtain that God-Seeing Inheritance, and all those who explored their own cultivation eventually turned into demons. ”

"Qingluo Valley has not obtained the inheritance of seeing gods, but after generations of exploration and improvement, it already has a relatively stable secret food path."

Ji Fuzi's words made Lou Jinchen think of the 'demon' that he was ordered by the Lord to go to the mountain temple to kill, and he heard the Lord say that it was the demon that the monk of the Secret Food Sect had transformed into.

"Every few years, Hua Xiaoxiao will come to the school to read the Confucian holy scriptures with the old man to bind his heart, and the old man writes a letter to her, thinking that she should give the old man a little thin noodles, and the boundary of the water city is still more stable."

After Ji Fuzi finished speaking, he wrote a letter in front of Lou Jinchen, and just when Lou Jinchen thought that he was going to be a messenger again, Ji Fuzi actually folded it into a paper crane.

Lou Jinchen instantly thought of a spell.

Origami into a crane.

I saw Ji Fuzi pinching one of the wings of the paper crane, throwing it into the air casually, and said: "Go to Qingluo Valley to find Hua Xiaoxiao!" ”

And when the paper crane was still pinching the wings of the paper crane in his hand, the paper crane had already gushed white light, and the white light flew like smoke and dust, and a white crane flapped its wings to break free from Ji Fuzi's hand, and flew out of the pavilion in the voice of Ji Fuzi's instructions, breaking through the breeze and flying into the sky.

"This, the paper crane has become a real white crane? Can it understand the Master's words? Lou Jinchen couldn't help but ask when he saw this.

"It's just a piece of paper, how can it become a real crane?" Ji Fuzi said with a smile.

"Why did the Master say that?" Lou Jinchen asked.

"Naturally, it's for myself." As soon as Ji Fuzi's words fell, Lou Jinchen was even more confused, but he also knew that this was the key to this spell, if no one broke it, he didn't know when he would be able to figure it out, just like the two spells of the Guan Lord, as long as he understood it, he would soon be able to cultivate the spell.

"Want to study the Fa?" Ji Fuzi asked.

Lou Jinchen was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly bowed his head and said, "Disciple, please give the master the Fa!" ”

"Although this is just a one-sentence thing, it is also the law of Confucianism, and it is not passed on to the outer door!"

Ji Fuzi's words made Lou Jinchen stunned for a moment, and then he heard Ji Fuzi say again: "The Qi refining method you cultivate, you should consolidate the foundation, focus on Qi refining, and don't ask for the Fa too much, but on the fifteenth day of every month, the old man will teach the Fa here, you can come and listen." ”

Speaking of this, Lou Jinchen knew that it was time for him to leave.

Although I didn't get the teachings, I was allowed to come here on the fifteenth day of every month to listen to the Dharma, which was naturally a happy thing.

After leaving the Ji Academy, seeing that it was getting dark, he decided to go to Shang Gui'an and the Deng family's house, and by the way, see if he could have a meal.

Ji Fuzi is really good, he wants to be accepted as an apprentice, and he wants to marry his granddaughter, but after he refused, he didn't even keep a meal.

Shang Gui'an's home is in the east of the city, and he still needs to inquire about which location it is, but fortunately, he knows which street it is, and after asking a passerby, he has already found that street with a stick of incense.

It is a wide and clean street, and you can see from the houses on this street that the people who live here are either rich or expensive.

If you follow the past, it is easy to find the Shang Mansion.

However, he did not meet Shang Gui'an's father.

And he didn't even get in, after he reported his identity as a disciple of the Fire Spirit Temple, he was not invited into the mansion to wait, but waited on the street, and after that, a housekeeper-like person told him that Master Shang went out of the house and went to other counties to deal with things.

Not to mention that I want to mix a meal and eat, I don't even have a sip of tea.

Looking at the departing Lou Jinchen, the housekeeper took a sip and said to the young man beside him: "The rivers and lakes are begging, and people like Huo Lingguan can also accept it, and they really can't get on the stage." ”

Lou Jinchen was a little thirsty, his stomach was also a little growling, and then he looked for the Deng family, thinking to himself, if he went to the Deng family's mansion and hadn't gotten a mouthful of water, then he would ...... But you can do it...... That's it.

When I went out of this street, I saw a white cloth hanging on the door of one of the large houses, which meant that someone in the family had died.

He continued to walk forward, turned a street, and found the Deng Mansion, which was close to the county government in the city, and although the whole door was not as large and new as the merchants, it also had a solemn atmosphere.

After knocking on the door, the same porter asked him where he came from, after he reported his identity as a disciple of the Fire Spirit Temple, the other party immediately introduced him into the guest room, after the butler appeared, the porter retreated, and the housekeeper asked him to report to Mrs., and he immediately asked people to make tea and accompany him.

The butler was a man in his forties, wearing a black hat, a shirt with a black background, and a black beard.

He looked at Lou Jinchen in front of him, and was surprised that this disciple of the Fire Spirit Temple was dressed so badly.

He heard the old man tell his wife yesterday that the disciples of the Fire Spirit Temple went to Matoupo to clear the strange things there, and among the so many people who went together, only the disciples of the Fire Spirit Temple came out alive.

The tragedy of Matoupo village was a sensation in the city of water, and it has been quiet for more than ten years after being suppressed, but it has made trouble again during this time, and even the Lu family who built a temple family in the city has lost their hands, and Mr. Lu Da and Mr. Lu Er are not among them, which can be seen that this is an extremely dangerous place, causing many people in the city to hang white pigment.

The housekeeper later inquired, but he didn't inquire about more details, only knowing that the disciples of the Fire Spirit Temple were ordered to save Du Desheng Dart Master, but everyone who went in together died, and he was the only one who came out with Du De Sheng's body.

Lou Jinchen didn't care about other people's scrutiny, he picked up the teacup and drank it, it was a little hot, but he could bear it, he quickly finished a cup, and the maid who was standing aside to serve immediately added it, and after drinking three cups in a row, Lou Jinchen stopped, smiled, and said: "Let the elder see the smile, since the morning when he went out the water and rice did not enter, he just went to the Shang Mansion, but he couldn't even drink a sip of water." ”

The housekeeper didn't expect Lou Jinchen to speak so bluntly, and told the reasons and experiences of his thirst and hunger.

"Xiaohe, go and bring some pastries, let the corridor chief cushion his stomach!" The butler immediately instructed the maid standing next to him.

After a while, a maid brought a plate of pastries, and Lou Jinchen did not delay it, and immediately ate it.

This is the first time that Lou Jinchen has eaten this kind of exquisite food in an upper-class family in this world, he doesn't know what it is made of, but it is really delicious, and he can't help but think of Deng Ding, his life in the family is so good, and he is not sent away like Shang Gui'an's family, but he wants to go to the Fire Spirit Temple to learn art and live that kind of hard life.

At this time, a gust of incense blew in, and two women walked into the back hall, walking in front of them was a woman, with a noble air, hair like dark clouds, beaded flowers, face like a full moon, and a thin pearl necklace around her neck.

As soon as she entered, Lou Jinchen could guess who she was, and he heard the butler and the maid shouting 'Madam' in his ears.

Lou Jinchen stood up, bowed to his wife, and said, "The younger generation has seen the lady. ”

"No need to be polite, you are Ding'er's fellow brother, come here, treat it as your home." After Mrs. Deng finished speaking, she said to the housekeeper, "Have you gone to invite the master back?" ”

"I have already asked Jin Dou to go to the yamen to report to the master." The butler replied.

"Hmm." After Mrs. Deng nodded, she looked at Lou Jinchen again, she also heard the news of the Fire Spirit Temple from her husband yesterday.

When Deng Ding went to the Fire Spirit Temple to be a boy, it was not simply to find a Taoist apprentice.

The Deng family ushered in and sent away several county monarchs in this swimming city, and the Deng family's head-catching position has not been moved, inherited from father to son, and in the entire swimming city, the Deng family is a real snake.

Deng Ding is the eldest son of this generation, and he has many choices.

The reason why he chose to go to the Fire Spirit Temple was because Deng Zhutou met the Fire Spirit View Lord once in the county government by chance, which was the first time the Fire Spirit View Lord came, and he held the approval document issued by the Fucheng City to allow the construction of the Temple, and the Fire Spirit Temple was mainly established outside the water city, how could the county monarch disagree.

As a parent, there can be one more person with magic in the local area, and it can also make this territory more peaceful.

After Deng Zhutou said this at home, his son Deng Ding heard it, and said that he wanted to worship this Fire Spirit Master as a teacher, Deng Zhutou thought about it, and finally decided to gamble and get the approval from the city, when there is something extraordinary, even if he is just a mediocre person in the end, he can find a master for his son.

Mrs. Deng chatted with Lou Jinchen as an elder, asked him his name, his origin, he told him that his family had fled from the disaster and was taken in by the master, and Mrs. Deng even let him have more leisure to come to the Deng Mansion to sit, and asked Deng Ding about his life there.

Lou Jinchen didn't hide anything, he said everything he had to eat there, and the work he had to do every day, and after speaking, he looked at Mrs. Deng and found that although she looked distressed, she didn't say that she wanted to recruit Deng Ding back, but said: "The man should temper his muscles and bones early in the future, and he will be able to become a tool in the future." ”

At this time, just when Deng Zhutou came back, Mrs. Deng got up and went back to the back house, and she didn't ask Lou Jinchen if there was anything wrong with coming here.