"Don't worry, I won't weaken your reputation as your master, and besides, are you just watching your friend die?"

The three of them gathered together and discussed for a while, and then looked at Xu Yun who was lying on the ground.

In the end, the three of them showed resoluteness, knelt down and kowtowed to Zhou Xian, and said: "I, Xu Shouyi, Xu Qiang, and Xu Xiaosong, are willing to apprentice, and I hope that the master will give me more advice in the future." ”

Zhou Xian nodded with satisfaction and said, "My good apprentices, please hurry up, the teacher has not prepared a meeting gift for you, so I will give it to you when I get to the house." ”

The three of them stood up as soon as they agreed, and as for the meeting ceremony that Zhou Xian said, the three of them didn't have much expectations, and they were still depressed that they worshipped a person younger than themselves as a teacher.

Zhou Xian didn't care about them, so he took out one thousand one hundred taels of silver tickets from his arms and handed them to Xu Shouyi and said, "Go to the pharmacy to buy medicine, and after buying the medicine, go back to the house with me first." ”

Xu Shouyi excitedly took the silver ticket, bowed to Zhou Xian and said, "Yes, Master." ”

After speaking, he walked into the pharmacy with the silver ticket.

At this time, the crowd watching the excitement next to him let out a burst of applause.

Soon Xu Shouyi bought the medicine back, and Zhou Xian asked Zhang Dabiao to carry Xu Yun on his back and walked to the newly bought mansion.

When they came to the mansion, Xu Shouyi and the three of them saw the soldiers in the mansion, and they had the feeling of seeing the officers and soldiers.

Although these soldiers were wearing ordinary businessmen's clothes, the temperament of that kind of soldier could not be concealed, so Xu Shouyi and the three of them saw some clues.

The three of them didn't say anything, and followed Zhou Xian directly to a room.

After Zhang Dabiao put Xu Yun down, he went out, and Zhou Xian said to Xu Shouyi and the others: "The two rooms here will be for you to live in the future, you go to boil medicine to cure Xu Yun's typhoid fever first, and then talk about it, come to me in that room on the east side if there is anything." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhou Xian left here.

The three of them hurriedly sent them out, and when they saw Zhou Xian walking away, they returned to the room.

Xu Qiang said: "Our master is not a simple person, you see that the subordinates here are all full of spirit, there is a kind of murderous atmosphere, you can know at a glance that they are not ordinary subordinates." ”

Xu Xiaosong also nodded and said: "That's right, after I entered this mansion, I felt a kind of murderous aura, these subordinates are not simple, it seems that our master has a great background." ”

Xu Shouyi said: "Okay, what the identity of the master is has nothing to do with us, the most important thing for us now is to save Brother Xu Yun, I will go and boil the medicine, and you two will take care of Brother Xu Yun." ”

After speaking, they didn't wait for the two of them to say anything, they picked up the medicine and walked outside, and Xu Qiang and the others went to take care of Xu Yun without speaking.

An hour later, Xu Shouyi came to the room with the decoction of the medicine, and after feeding the medicine to Xu Yun to drink, the three of them sat on the table and discussed.

Xu Qiang spoke first and said: "We worshipped the teacher in order to save Brother Xu Yun this time, and I don't know if it is a blessing or a curse. ”

Xu Xiaosong said: "I don't think Master is an ordinary person, and he will definitely be able to do great things after following Master." ”

Xu Shouyi said, "Whether it's a blessing or a curse, since I have already apprenticed to the master, I will follow behind the master no matter what happens." ”

Hearing Xu Shouyi's words, Xu Qiang's hearts were also firm, in the Ming Dynasty, there was still the concept of being a teacher for one day and a father for life, so the relationship between master and apprentice was very stable.

After accepting three apprentices, Zhou Xian was happy in his heart, with these three people as disciples, he would directly hand over any tiring work to them in the future.

As for them going to participate in the scientific expedition, Zhou Xian would not agree.

Now that the Ming Dynasty is about to fall, what's the use of going to the test for fame, it's better to go back to Monkey Mountain Village with yourself to set up a school and teach them some modern and practical knowledge.

In the future, the talent gap is very large, and now it is necessary to find more educated people to give priority to training, and then this group of people will cultivate more talents after the training of this group of people.

Thinking of this, Zhou Xian walked out of the mansion with Zhang Dabiao again, and he had to go to the store to choose three meeting gifts for the three apprentices.

Then I walked around, and finally came to the capital, of course, I had to look around.

As soon as he arrived at the door of the mansion, he met Sun Wu, who was out, and came back, Sun Wu saw that Zhou Xian was going out, so he stepped forward and said, "My lord, where are you going?" ”

"I have nothing to do to wander around, and when I finally come to the capital, I always have to look around."

"Why don't you bring some people with you, now that the capital is in chaos, I'll arrange a platoon of people to follow to protect your lordship."

"No need, it's too noticeable to bring so many people, what danger can I have, no one knows me here, and we haven't offended anyone."

Sun Wu still insisted: "Then let's take a squad of soldiers, we don't worry if the adults don't bring some people around." ”

Zhou Xian didn't say anything more when he saw Sun Wu's insistence, so he agreed to bring a squad of soldiers to follow.

Hearing that Zhou Xian promised to take a class of people out, Sun Wu was relieved and asked Zhou Xian to wait for a while.

He walked into the mansion and soon came out with a squad of ten men who had hidden flintlock pistols in cloth bags and carried them on their backs, and those who didn't know thought they were carrying a sword.

Seeing that people were coming, Zhou Xian greeted Sun Wu and left.

Zhou Xian still decided to go to Xiangshan first, and soon the group came to the foot of Xiangshan Mountain.

Zhou Xian looked at the undeveloped Xiangshan, and sighed in his heart, it still hasn't been developed, the current Xiangshan is full of trees and flowers, and the road up the mountain is also very lively.

Zhou Xian watched for a while, then took Zhang Dabiao and them to the mountain, climbed for about an hour, and finally reached the top of the mountain.

There is a large open field at the top of the hill and many pavilions.

Zhou Xian came to a pavilion where no one was and sat down, and when he saw Zhang Dabiao and they were still standing outside the pavilion, he shouted to them: "Come in and sit, you don't have to stand outside, there is no danger here." ”

Zhang Dabiao had followed Zhou Xian for so long, and knew that Zhou Xian was a Lixian corporal, so he walked in directly without politeness.

When the rest of the soldiers saw Zhang Dabiao walking in, they all looked at the squad leader, who looked at Zhou Xian in the pavilion and thought for a while and said, "Wang Xiaoer and Sun Dabao, you two continue to stand guard, and everyone else will go in with me." ”

Soon everyone except Wang Xiaoer and Sun Dabao entered the pavilion, and Zhou Xian saw that there were two people who continued to stand guard outside, which had a good impact on this squad leader.

Zhou Xian opened his mouth and said: "Everyone sit down, I don't know what the name of this squad leader is and where he is from." ”

Everyone sat down in response, and the squad leader stood up and saluted Zhou Xian and said, "Report to my lord, my name is Cao Bing, and I am from Caojiazhuang." ”

Zhou Xian nodded and said: "Cao Bing, you are very good, you are very good at leading the class, and your safety awareness is also very high, have you read before?" ”

Cao Bing said: "I didn't study before, but then I studied in the army for a few months. ”

Zhou Xian sighed with emotion: "It's not okay if you don't study, culture will become more and more important in the future, and you have to work hard to learn culture after you go back." ”

Cao Bing said solemnly: "Yes, I will definitely work harder to study in the future and live up to the expectations of adults." ”

Zhou Xian nodded and didn't speak again, just stood up and looked at the scenery below the mountain, no one knew what he was thinking.