Chapter 42: The Seven Star Sect
After another three days, Qiu Feng's master, Master Yunxiang of Puji Temple, also came to Longteng to help Muyang divide the rudder.
As soon as Yun Xiang came, he looked at Qiu Feng's injury, and then also looked at Lan Lan's injury. And when he saw that Wan Mizhai, who treated the two of them, was so young, he bluntly said that Wan Mizhai's future medical attainments could reach the first in the world.
"Master, don't praise him, his father told us not to praise him." Hearing this, Qiu Yinxue spoke.
"Miss Qiu, you said that I would rush to save people with you, not to mention that the consultation fee was not collected, and I forgot that there was a patient in the back hall when I was sitting in the clinic." Seeing that Qiu Yinxue had moved out the basket, Wan Mizhai was not happy, "You and Su Jiulin's kid only remember what my father said, right?" ”
"By the way, what about your father-in-law Su Jiulin?" Saying that, Wan Mizhai looked around again, "I patronized the medicine for three patients to drink in the past few days, and I forgot to ask." ”
Yun Xiang was taken aback, looked at Qiu Yinxue and asked, "Xue'er, are you married?" Why didn't you notify me? ”
"Master, don't listen to his nonsense, just pretended to be a brother and sister when he fled, and then he pretended to be a brother and sister." Qiu Yinxue instantly blushed, "You better heal your eldest brother first." ”
Subsequently, Yun Xiang didn't talk about this topic anymore, and used "Great Brahma Sound Gong" to heal Lan Lan and Qiu Feng's injuries. The effect of this skill on Lan Lan is very good, and Lan Lan, who has already recovered her speed, has become more ruddy. But for Qiu Feng, the effect was average, Yun Xiangsi decided to take Qiu Feng back to Putuo Mountain and let him recuperate in Fanyin Cave.
Hearing that Yun Xiang said that he was going to take Qiu Feng to Putuo Mountain, Qiu Yinxue's expression changed. If Qiu Feng went to Putuo Mountain, then she wouldn't know how to find Su Jiulin. Ke Yun also said that because of Qiu Feng's own exercises, if he returns to the Fanyin Cave of Putuo Mountain to recuperate, he will be able to recover in more than a month, and if he is outside, it will take four months. Of course, Qiu Yinxue hopes that Qiu Feng can get better soon.
Qiu Yinxue's expression changed and Qiu Feng saw it. Qiu Feng first found Long Beiqi and asked him to send some helpers to Enping City, Guangdong. Then, Qiu Feng walked in front of Yan Xiu again.
"Brother Yan, can you please escort my little sister to Enping City to find Su Jiulin."
"Huh?" Yan Xiu was a little surprised, and glanced at Qiu Yinxue, "When?" ”
"Wait until Lan Lan recovers from her injuries."
Without waiting for Lan Lan to speak, Qiu Feng turned his head to Lan Lan and said, "Lan Lan, you go too, I'll come to you when I'm injured." ”
"Wait, what do you mean? Don't you feel at ease with me? At this time, Yan Xiu stopped doing it and twisted his head to the side, "I'm not happy to go yet." ”
"Brother Yan, I don't mean anything else, I just think it's easier for two girls to be together. You can rest assured. All expenses along the way will be paid by us, and you will also be paid a certain amount. ”
"Now, that's what you said." Hearing that not only did he not have to pay, but also had money to take, Yan Xiu still compromised.
Then Yan Xiu turned his head to look at Qiu Yinxue again, and said, "Miss Qiu, you need to bring more silver, a bodyguard of my status can't be invited if you don't give it." ”
"Hmm." Seeing that Yan Xiu promised to take her to Su Jiulin, Qiu Yinxue was now full of smiles.
"That's not right!" At this time, Yan Xiu suddenly remembered the masked man, "Will there be a masked man to kill us?" I can say it first, if I can protect me, I will protect, but if I can't protect me, I will go first. ”
Hearing this, Long Beiqi on the side spoke: "I just received a letter from the door master, and that group of masked people should not appear again." ”
Regarding the matter of going to Helan Sect, Qiu Gongquan had already mentioned it in his letter to Long Beiqi, but Long Beiqi did not explain it to Qiu Feng and the others.
In addition to Long Beiqi, King Ning of the capital also learned that Qiu Gongquan had killed the sect master of Helan Sect, and he was already laughing when he looked at the secret letter. However, this secret letter was not written by Qiu Gongquan to King Ning, but by Gao Lu secretly to King Ning.
"Haha...... Interesting! ”
"You find a time to call Gao Lu out. Then let Qiu Ju go and deal with him. After speaking, King Ning also handed the secret letter to Zhu Houlie.
"Grandpa, this ......" Zhu Houlie looked at the secret letter, but he was puzzled in his heart, Gao Lu was a pawn that King Ning had placed next to Qiu Gongquan a long time ago, and it took him a few years to get into the main position, but now King Ning was going to kill him.
"Gao Lu has been exposed." King Ning said lightly.
"To be credible, Gao Lu didn't say that he was exposed." Zhu Houlie was already even more puzzled, and looked at the secret letter carefully, convinced that Gao Lu only said that Qiu Gongquan went to Helan Sect from beginning to end.
"Gao Lu can't see it, can't you see it either?"
As he spoke, King Ning picked up the teacup, lightly buttoned the cup with the lid of the tea, and continued: "Qiu Gongquan wants to kill Han Di, obviously he can go alone, but he called Gao Lu too, he actually just wanted Gao Lu to convey to me that he killed Han Di." At the same time, he was also showing me that he knew that I was spying on him, but that he was sincere to me and did not mind being watched. ”
"Grandpa, do you mean that Qiu Gongquan not only knows that it was Helan Sect who attacked Qiu Feng, but even Helan Sect is our person, he also knows?" Zhu Houlie was already a little surprised, Helan Sect had been hiding it well, and he didn't think that Qiu Gongquan would actually know.
King Ning nodded, then took two sips of tea, covered the tea and put it back on the table.
"Then since he doesn't mind being watched by us, why does he still want to make a move against Sect Master Han?" Zhu Houlie was really puzzled.
King Ning replied slowly: "What he means is that I secretly support Helan Sect, he can turn a blind eye, but he can't move his family." ”
"Qiu Gongquan is also quite scheming, not only does he know that Gao Lu is our person, but he also knows that it was Helan Sect who assassinated Qiu Feng. Even, Helan Sect is supporting him, and he knows! At this time, Zhu Houlie's opinion of Qiu Gongquan also changed a little, and he no longer thought that he was just a martial artist, "But how did he find out?" ”
"Helan Sect is active in the Central Plains Martial Arts, even if it is secretive, it will still show some horses and feet, and he knows that it will be a matter of time before I use other Jianghu forces to balance him." King Ning said and took another sip of tea, "However, there is nothing he can do if he knows him, but let us act." It's just that this time Helan Sect injured Qiu Feng too badly, so that he couldn't sit idly by anymore. ”
"I knew that this would happen, we might as well let Dongchang deal with Qiu Feng, at least he shouldn't dare to attack Dongchang." Four years ago, King Ning surrendered Han Di and gave him a lot of silver taels to expand the sect and establish a branch altar, and Zhu Houlie has been in charge of it in secret. Over the years, there have been more or less Zhu Houlie's hard work in it, but I didn't expect that even the sect master has been killed now, and the more Zhu Houlie thinks about it, the more distressed he becomes.
"Nope." King Ning waved his hand directly, "Let Dongchang do it, which is equivalent to directly telling Qiu Gongquan that I am going to suppress him." Directly telling Qiu Gongquan and Qiu Gongquan know are two different things. There is room for one, and there is no room for the other. And Tianyuanmen, it still has a role, and it is not the time to turn against him. ”
"Don't feel distressed." As he spoke, King Ning stood up and patted Zhu Houlie on the shoulder, "I didn't plan to be able to silently cultivate a Jianghu force that could compete with Tianyuanmen. In other words, if someone quietly cultivates a Jianghu force that can compete with the Tianyuan Sect that we have cultivated for so many years, then we are also in danger. ”
"Then will we let Tianyuanmen develop? Now Tianyuanmen has 130,000 gangs across the country, and now it has swallowed up the power that Helan Sect has developed in the northwest in recent years. ”
"What can he do with those barren lands in the northwest? Tianyuanmen is just a rabble, and I can come up with at least five ways to deal with it at any time. King Ning's eyebrows showed disdain, "However, if he turns against me first, it will be different, these 130,000 Tianyuan Sect Gang members also have at least 100,000 combat power." This is also another reason why Helan Sect is allowed to do it, just like now, there is still room for maneuver. ”
After speaking, King Ning saw that Zhu Houlie was still unconvinced, so he called him to the desk.
"Our game with the king is to compare whose strength is greater. It's like the dice compare the dots. ”
Then King Ning took out a pen and paper and began to write on it.
"Dongchang, Jiubian, the Twelfth Regiment Battalion, the Military Department, Tianyuan Gate, and the left, right, middle, and former four army governors' mansions in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, etc., are all points on my face. Every point of mine that requires careful consideration of the dedication to the king. ”
"But at the end of the day, I'll let King Xian know that I know that he hid a dice, and I also know the value of the dice he hid. And he didn't know that I still had dice, and he didn't know what time my one was. As he spoke, King Ning had already drawn a circle on the paper, and a question mark was written in it.
"But, Grandpa, aren't you worried that the points of the Tianyuan Gate dice will change?" Zhu Houlie questioned again, this time Qiu Gongquan knew that Helan Sect was King Ning's person, and he dared to move, Zhu Houlie was very suspicious that Qiu Gongquan might turn around at some point.
"It's all this time now, you should still be twenty years ago, do Qiu Gongquan have any other ways to go? He has had so much blood on his hands over the years, even if he defects to the king and wins me, there is no way to protect him. He dared to touch Helan Sect only because others didn't know that Helan Sect was our person, and he didn't expect that I would turn against him because of this. Therefore, unless he not only wants to die himself, but also wants his three children to be buried together, he will dare to oppose me. ”
"Moreover, even if the Tianyuan Gate is reversed, I am not afraid." As he spoke, King Ning picked up the pen again and drew a circle next to the three words "Tianyuanmen" on the paper, and wrote "three" and "zero" in it, "Xianwang plays against me, and I must always count the 'three' points of Tianyuanmen, and I have already regarded him as a 'zero' point." This is the role of Tianyuanmen, at the beginning of the game, I have already won the 'three' points of the king. ”
"Then since Tianyuan Sect is still useful, and Qiu Gongquan can only follow us one way, then why do we still want to cultivate Helan Sect?" According to King Ning, Zhu Houlie already knew the role of Tianyuan Gate, but he didn't understand why King Ning wanted to cultivate Helan Sect separately.
King Ning turned his head to look at Zhu Houlie again, his eyes were very sharp, and said, "Lie'er, remember, never pin your hopes on one thing. That way, if you lose, you're going to lose badly. Especially for us, losing is tantamount to death. ”
"Yes!" Zhu Houlie bowed his head and answered.
"Tianyuanmen can make Xianwang think about it, and he can usually help us deal with some things that are inconvenient for us to do, and his role is not small. Although he has no reason to oppose us, he is not afraid of 10,000 just in case. ”
"Do you think I'll give Qiu Gongquan a chance to break the net with me?" As he spoke, King Ning sat back in his chair, "Twenty years ago, I didn't have the time or energy to train two Jianghu forces at the same time to help us act, but now it's different. ”
"Grandpa, do you mean that we still want to use the forces of the rivers and lakes to contain and deal with Tianyuanmen?"
"Hmm." King Ning nodded.
"But the sect master of the Helan Sect, Han Di, is now dead, and there are only three of the top ten protectors left, plus their old sect master has no intention of expanding east and south. Helan Sect can be said to be useless. Seeing King Ning nodding, Zhu Houlie became depressed, "If we choose another Jianghu force to support, will we have more dreams at night?" After all, it took us more than three years just to cultivate the Helan Sect, and it only disintegrated in an instant. ”
Hearing this, King Ning smiled.
"Lie'er, I told you that you have to learn to strategize when you do things, if Helan Sect is down and interrupts my deployment, then how can it be called strategizing?"
"Grandpa, what do you mean......" Zhu Houlie said not very sure, "In addition to Helan Sect, you also supported other Jianghu forces that I don't know?" ”
"Not bad." King Ning's smile was even stronger, "Before, the reason why I didn't attack Cui Qing, the governor of the rear army of the king, but chose Bai Bailou, the governor of his right army, was not a random move. ”
"It's just because Liu Jin and his senior brother Cao En's Seven Star Sect are in Yunnan. I started deploying it 10 years ago. Today, its congregation has spread all over Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Sichuan. Its power has slowly penetrated from Guangxi to Guangdong, where Tianyuanmen has been unable to gain a foothold. According to Liu Jin's last report, there are now more than 70,000 members of the Seven Star Sect. ”
"So many people? Doesn't anyone notice? Zhu Houlie was already surprised when he heard this, but he also had doubts, "Moreover, Tianyuanmen has only developed two or three rudders in Jiangnan over the years, how did the Seven Star Sect do it?" ”
"Actually, it's not that difficult to have a place in Jiangnan martial arts, it's just that everyone in the world knows that Tianyuanmen has the ambition to dominate the martial arts, and they are very wary of Tianyuanmen."
Saying that, King Ning took a sip of tea from his teacup, and then continued: "And the Seven Star Sect is different, no one has ever shown anyone in the name of the Seven Star Sect, and the branch altars of the Seven Star Sect are all pretending to be some small sects on the rivers and lakes, and they usually act low-key and cautious enough, and they recognize each other with the Seven Star marks on their arms, so naturally no one notices. I'm afraid that there are more than 80,000 members of the Seven Star Sect today. ”
"Grandpa, what do you mean?"
After having children, Qiu Gongquan is no longer as sharp as before, especially in recent years, he often asks the soft-hearted Qiu Feng to do things. Let him pretend to resist the Japanese, and he really resisted the Japanese. It seems that he is trying to find a way back for himself, and I have to help him break his thoughts! ”
"Lie'er," said King Ning and looked at Zhu Houlie again, "That Qiu Feng, when he was still young, I left him in the mansion to be taught by me with you, and half a year later, Qiu Gongquan picked him up on the grounds that Qiu Feng's mother was not in good health. Later, I invited him to study in the country, and Qiu Gongquan sent Qiu Feng to another place with the ambition of a martial artist. In addition, every year at the New Year banquet of our Ning Wangfu, Qiu Gongquan father and son usually come. A few years ago, you watched the Tianyuanmen anti-Japanese war in Weihaiwei, and you stayed at the helm of Tianyuanmen for a month. ”
"Counting, you are also very familiar with Qiu Feng, what do you think of Qiu Feng?"
"Wisdom and courage." Zhu Houlie's eyes showed a hint of unwillingness, "Qiu Feng, although he has never entered the country to study, he has written and written, and his literary accomplishment is not inferior to me at all, and even some of them are higher than me." His martial arts attainments have also been praised by Gonggong Liu, and he must be even better than before. Moreover, his prestige in Tianyuanmen is also very high, and he is also at ease in taking charge of help. He is a rare talent. ”
"Yes, I don't know who taught him, he is so capable of writing and martial arts. However, such a good person is not under my control, do you think I can tolerate him? ”
"Moreover, now that I think about it, when Qiu Gongquan's youngest daughter was attacked, Qiu Gongquan should have known that we instructed Helan Sect to do it, otherwise he wouldn't have asked Gao Lu to write to me and asked me to send someone to find it." Saying that, King Ning snorted coldly, "It turns out that Qiu Gong is all reminding me not to touch his family. I didn't expect that in addition to offering the king, someone would dare to remind me like this! ”
"Qiu Gongquan, Qiu Gongquan, why are you getting older and more confused!" As he spoke, King Ning lay on the chair and rubbed his eyes, "Lie'er, tell Liu Jin to let his senior brother finish what Helan Sect has not done." In addition, you go and arrange to send two thousand taels of silver to Qiu Gongquan. This time, I won't say that it was a reward from the imperial court, but directly in my name, so that he can relax his vigilance. ”
"Yes!"