Tai Hao heard the old man's voice, looked outside the temple gate, and found a woman in red helping an old man in black into the temple. The woman in red had a handsome face and a graceful figure, and smiled at Taihao, which made Taihao's heart pound.

The attendant, who had raised his knife and was about to cut the homeless man, heard the old man shout, "Stop!" He stopped his weapon and did not cut it off at the homeless man's head. But the two warrior monks still hugged the homeless man tightly, and the homeless man was still struggling desperately, as if he did not hear the voice of the old man outside the door. The old man walked up to the homeless man, and when the homeless man saw him, he immediately stopped struggling. The old man said, "Can the two mages give the old man a face and let him go?" ”

The two warrior monks looked at the abbot, who nodded to them before they let the homeless man go. The homeless man looked at the old man, and suddenly whimpered and cried, and the old man said: "Where have you been running away in the past few years, the teacher has been looking for you, but you have not been heard from?" The homeless man was not sure what he was saying to the old man, but the old man nodded, as if he understood.

Taihao thought to himself: "This old man calls himself 'a teacher' to that homeless man, is it possible that the two of them have a master-apprentice relationship?" But the homeless man's 'uh-huh-hmm' speech just now should be the voice of the so-called cat god apparition heard by the people in Fengling City. ”

The city lord of Qu Quan asked the old man, "Dare to ask how this old man should be called, and this ...... Brother, what is the relationship? ”

The old man trembled and said, "The old man is just here to look for apprentices, do you think that the people killed in this Fengling City were all killed by him?" ”

Qu Quancheng said: "Every time the people in the city hear this cat god statue talking, and then within three days, there will be people killed in the city. ”

The old man said in his hoarse voice again: "A few years ago, my apprentice followed me and got lost in a fight with thieves in the rivers and lakes, I have been looking for him for many years, but there is no news, and I recently heard that he is in Fengling City, so I came here. I had no food or clothing, so I could only live in the cat temple, but I was still driven away, and he had no choice, so he made a tunnel under the statue and secretly hid inside. My apprentice has been deaf and dumb since he was a child, and when he speaks, he will only make a gesture of 'mmmmmmmmmm ”

Tai Hao listened carefully to every word he said, and asked, "Who killed the people in the city?" ”

The old man glanced at the woman in red beside him, and when the woman in red arrived outside the temple gate, she pulled in with a man who was tied, and the man who was tied up, Tai Hao also knew, he was Wanhua, the general of Fengling City.

Qu Quan hurriedly asked, "What does this mean, why did you tie up General Wanhua?" ”

The old man said: "The old man has found out that he is the murderer of the people in the city." ”

Qu Quancheng Lord said: "How is this possible? General Wanhua is our general who defends the city, and he will not kill the innocent people in the city. ”

The old man said to Wan Hua, who was being bound: "Say it yourself!" ”

Wanhua immediately cried bitterly and said, "Ququan City Lord, I am threatened...... These are all the innocent people that the 'four little ghosts' asked me to kill, and my children's lives are in the hands of the 'four little ghosts', and I have no choice but to kill those innocent people......"

Qu Quandao: "So, the innocent people killed in the city were really killed by you, General Wanhua, who are the 'four little ghosts' you are talking about?" Why can't they get along with the people of our Fengling City! ”

Tai Hao heard Wanhua talk about the "Four Little Ghosts", and remembered what Canggu said to him in the wine shop, these "Four Little Ghosts" are the subordinates of the "Four Great Ghosts" on Kunwu Mountain, You Li, Weitian, Gongyi, and Poor, but why did these "Four Little Ghosts" come to Fengling City, and why did they threaten General Wanhua to kill the innocent people in the city?

Wan Hua continued: "Just half a month ago, the 'four little ghosts' came to my house and grabbed my child, and threatened me to let me help them find a dumb man in the city. If I can't find it, I'll kill my child, but where can I find it, and then the 'four little ghosts' told me that as long as innocent people in the city are killed, the dumb good will appear, and I only have ...... In order not to arouse suspicion, it happened that at this time, some people in the city heard the voice of the cat god appearing and speaking, so I took advantage of this to make every innocent people in the city be killed, thinking that it was the cat god's manifestation of revenge......"

Tai Hao said: "In this case, the first time you killed one, the second time you also killed one, why did you kill eight the third time?" ”

Wan Hua said: "The third time, I wanted to only kill Mr. Bookkeeper of Fengxi Inn, but who would have thought that Mr. Bookkeeper who had just killed Mr. Bookkeeper was discovered by their shopkeeper; I could only kill the shopkeeper again, but the cook found out again. I'll just kill them all...... I can't help it, I want to save my child! ”

The old man said, "Did the 'four little ghosts' tell you how they knew that Dumb Shan was in Fengling City?" ”

Wan Hua said: "You didn't tell me...... I didn't dare to ask......"

Qu Quancheng called two entourages and said sharply: "Take Wanhua to the prison in the city and detain him!" ”

Wanhua was immediately escorted away by two entourage, and he still muttered: "I was forced, I want to save my child......"

Tai Hao asked the old man, "Senior, who is this dumb good, do you know him?" ”

The old man glanced at Taihao up and down, patted the homeless man on the shoulder, and said, "My disciple is dumb and good. ”

Suddenly, there was another eerie laugh outside the temple gate, which seemed to come from all directions, and then four men in black ghost robes who came from nowhere fell side by side outside the door. One of them laughed and said, "Primordial Hero, we have finally found you!" ”

The woman in red beside the old man whispered, "Four little ghosts! ”

Tai Hao saw that the four men looked fierce and vicious, which made him look creepy, and heard the woman in red say "Four Little Ghosts" again, it seems that they are the ghost leaves, ghost stems, ghost flocculents and ghost roots of the "Four Great Demons" in the rivers and lakes mentioned in Canggu's mouth.

The "four little ghosts" ran directly towards the old man, and the people next to him hurriedly dodged, only the old man, the old man's apprentice and the woman in red fought with the "four little ghosts", but the old man seemed to have been injured in his body, covered his stomach with one hand, and fought with the "four little ghosts" with only one hand. Looking at that dumb good again, he could easily defeat those officers and soldiers, retinues, and warrior monks just now, but at this time, he was defeated and retreated again and again by the "four little ghosts". Although the woman in red was young, she was excellent in fighting. The "four little ghosts" are indeed as elusive as ghosts, and no one can see the martial arts routines they use.

Taihao thought to himself: "These three against four fights, the old man doesn't take advantage of it, the woman in red is so handsome, what should I do if I am injured, I have pity for the jade." Tai Hao hurriedly ordered Zhu Yu to help the old man fight the "four little ghosts", but although it was four against four, the old man seemed to be injured and still couldn't gain the upper hand, so Tai Hao asked the six officers and soldiers to go up together to help the old man and them. He went to the abbot's side again and said to the abbot, "Master, let the warrior monk of the Cat Temple help the old man fight." The abbot said, "Why do you want to help the old man and not the other team?" Tai Hao said: "Those four 'four little ghosts' are evil people at first glance, and they also instructed General Wanhua to kill those innocent people in Fengling City. And the old man here, at first glance, is the righteous camp, let's fight. For a time, all the officers and soldiers, warrior monks, and entourages in the temple followed the old man, dumb and the woman in red to fight with the "four little ghosts", about forty rounds of battle, and the "four little ghosts" saw that the situation was unfavorable, and one of them said: "Yuan Shi, let you go today, and next time you will wait for death!" The ghosts flashed and vanished.

As soon as the "four little ghosts" fled, the old man sat on the ground directly due to physical exhaustion. He called the woman in red to his side again, whispered a few words to her, and continued to sit there with his eyes closed. The woman in red bowed her hand to the knights who helped fight just now, and the first one to thank was Juyu, who said: "You don't have to thank me, if you want to thank you, thank Master Taihao." Immediately, the woman in red came to Taihao's side and said, "Taihao...... My lord, thank you for letting them help us fight the 'four little ghosts'. ”

Tai Hao said: "Little lady is not polite, I want to ask why the 'four little ghosts' want to fight with the old man?" ”

The woman in red said without concealment: "Because I want to get Master's peerless martial arts secrets......"

Tai Hao said: "I see, that old man is your master?" I don't know what the little lady is called? ”

The woman in red said, "Just tell me to read the rain." ”

Tai Hao, who has always dreamed of breaking into the rivers and lakes, the martial arts scene just now was the first time he saw it, he felt how powerful it was to have martial arts, and he imagined how good it would be if the old man could accept him as an apprentice. can learn martial arts again, and can accompany this handsome little lady, he can't help but smile in his heart.

Tai Hao asked Nian Yu again: "I heard that there are 'Nine Great Sects' in the rivers and lakes that are the most famous, may I ask which sect you belong to?" ”

Nian Yu said: "I don't know this, anyway, since I can remember, I have followed Master everywhere in the north and south." ”

Taihao smiled: "Or...... I called you Shengnian Rain girl, how about you teach me kung fu? ”

Nian Yu smiled slightly and said, "Let me teach you kung fu, why don't you call me master and call me sister instead?" ”

Tai Hao smiled again: "Sister Nianyu is better, right, how is it, Sister Nianyu?" ”

Nian Yu blushed and said, "My master is still injured, so I'm not kidding you." Then he ran away.

Ju Yu on the side listened and said to Tai Hao: "Lord Tai Hao, do you want to learn martial arts?" ”

Tai Hao said: "Ju Yu, you fought quite well just now, who did you learn your swordsmanship from?" ”

As soon as she was about to answer, she heard a "plop" sound.

Taihao turned around and saw that the old man suddenly fainted when he closed his eyes, Nian Yu and Dumb Shan hurriedly stepped forward and sat up. Seeing this, Taihao hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter?" Nian Yu said: "Maybe the physical exertion is too great, so I fainted." Taihao said: "Then what should I do now?" Nian Yu said: "You must lay the master down, and then prick the master's people with a silver needle, and the master will wake up within three hours." ”

Tai Hao said: "It is definitely not safe to lie in this cat temple, otherwise, send the old-timers to the inn where we live, and I will send officers and soldiers to guard by the side, so that he can lie on the bed well, and he will not be afraid that the 'four little ghosts' will come to find trouble again." ”

Nian Yu felt that Tai Hao's words were reasonable, and at that moment, he asked Dumb Shan to carry the master on his back and followed Tai Hao back to the Lingxi Inn.