If it was said that the few times he met with Qin's seniors earlier, he had a deep psychology of teasing others, but at this moment he looked so serious. Maybe because of the beard, I couldn't detect his emotions except above the nose. And at this moment, judging from his eyes, although he is not angry, he is not so happy.

Maybe it's because my initial snatching of white disrupted his rhythm, and I'm a little unhappy at the moment. So I reached out and took the red piece of paper from his hand, but I didn't turn to leave, but opened the note in front of the old Qin senior.

The address written on it is only the name of the road and the house number, which means that Master has been renting a house during this time. So I asked Senior Qin, this place shouldn't be far from your location, right? He didn't answer, just silently put the long sword back into its scabbard. I continued to ask, since you know my master's address, it means that you have dealt with him for a while, before I went to him, can you tell me if he has encountered any difficulties these days, so that he has not contacted me for two years?

This was actually the biggest doubt in my mind before I came to Hubei. Master is a strong person on the surface, but very sensitive on the inside. Maybe it's the relationship of the current situation, a lifetime of ups and downs, but I have never been in the craft. These years have not been very peaceful, and the master has no skills, but it always gives me a feeling that there is no successor to my own skills. Even the few times we met before, he said that he had talked about the "playing talismans" of his own craft, and he also had an ambiguous attitude, saying that the strong should make a difference in the world, but I think that the master is a strong man, and like the old Qin seniors in front of him, he can be regarded as a master, but in the master's life, at least the years I have learned, either to avoid the war, or to avoid those who see the wind and rudder, he is very depressed, I know.

That's why after I went to the shelter with him that time, I encountered a little frustration, and Master couldn't bear it anymore, so he went out to play in the mountains and rivers. In fact, as the old saying goes, if you walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet? On this issue, I think I can see more than my master.

That's why I asked Senior Qin like this, because Master didn't contact me for two reasons, either the matter was not finished, but it was not that one thing had been done for two years. Either he felt that after contacting me, he couldn't say anything when I asked about all these years. Considering the weirdness and strength of this old Qin senior in front of him, when the master dealt with him at the beginning, he should have been like me, and he was full of unhappiness.

When Senior Qin heard me ask, he snorted contemptuously, and then said to me, "Won't you ask these words after you find him yourself?" He is your master, not my master, how do I know about him. Even if you know, where did you get your faith, I will tell you?

A good greeting, and I touched my nose again. So I was stupid, wondering whether to continue asking or just turn around and walk away. At this time, Senior Qin suddenly spoke, he said, the last time he saw my master, it was more than a month ago, and he only saw him two or three times a year, and other than that, there was no friendship. Listening to the meaning of Qin's seniors, it seems that he has not been in trouble with my master, otherwise with his personality, he will definitely hide and disappear, and he will not get along with each other for old age. Although I don't know if he and my master are friends, as soon as these words came out, I knew that at least they were not enemies.

So I bowed, and then said to Senior Qin that I had taken my leave. I even avoided the kind words of goodbye, for I really didn't want to see this strange bearded old man again unless I had to.

After leaving, I walked to the mouth of the alley, the first time to find the pedestrians on the side of the road began to ask for directions, soon someone told me that the address on the top, not far from where I am at the moment, and even a bus can sit, just two or three stops away, but the bus interval is relatively long, if the spirit is good, walk over may be faster than waiting for the bus.

Of course, I have a good energy, and it has been almost a week before and after I arrived in Wuchang, in order to find the master, I naturally can't waste time waiting for the car at this moment, so after thanking the passer-by who showed me the way, I immediately went back to the guest house to pack my luggage, and after checking out, I looked for the address.

Different from the bungalow by an alley where Qin's predecessors lived, the address is where the master lives, and it is a three-story red brick house with a courtyard. It looks like a dormitory for a certain company, because you can see everyone's clothes drying in the corridors on each floor. There was a big tree in the yard, and it was surrounded by a flower platform, and a few children were squatting on the ground and playing with nails on the mud like darts.

According to the house number on the address, it is a room in the far corner of the ground floor, and the door is open to the public toilet. Just by getting closer, you can smell a very smoky smell of feces and urine. I thought to myself, Master is not out of money, it is not good to rent a place, why do you want to rent such a corner house. As soon as I walked to the door and looked at it, I immediately judged that this was where Master lived.

Because Master has a habit of putting up three bricks at the entrance of the door, and a small pattern like a plum blossom will be carved on the brick. Master said that this is a tradition that our sect has had hundreds of years ago, and this symbol seems to outsiders to be an ordinary thing, but for people in the industry, when they see this symbol, they know that it is our sect that lives in this house. It's a set of black rules on the rivers and lakes.

I looked at my hands, I didn't take anything but my luggage, I hadn't seen Master for a long time, and this time I rushed to find it, and I didn't even buy a single fruit. I was a little excited, and I wondered if Master would be surprised when he saw me and would suddenly appear in this city. So I walked up and started knocking on the door.

I knocked on the door seven or eight times in a row, but no one came to open it. When I was wondering if Master would go out to run errands, I calculated the time, and now there were about two hours left before dinner time, and I was wondering if I should wait for Master outside the door. But I didn't give up, so I put my head in front of the window, and the curtains were drawn inside, so I covered my eyes with my hands to block the light from the outside, and then pressed my eyes to the glass, intending to see if there was anyone in the room.

Just then, a voice came from beside me. Just like when I went to look for Old Master Qin a few days ago, an old lady who lived next door to Master was washing vegetables with a basin, leaning out half of her body, and asked me a little puzzled, Who are you looking for? Why are you pouting so high?

I realized that when I was looking at the window, I couldn't help but tilt my ass high. So I was a little flustered and a little embarrassed. So I hurriedly smiled with my aunt and said, Hello Auntie, I'm here to find someone, and here live my relatives, tenants, surnamed Lin.

My aunt put down the basin in her hand, reached out and wiped the water on her apron, and then walked up to me and said, Mr. Lin is your relative? You seem to have a big difference in age, when you are a son, you are a little younger, and when you are a grandson, you are a little older. I hastened to explain that he was my teacher and was the one who taught me... Well... Learn calligraphy.

I didn't lie, although the master is not highly educated, his handwriting is really beautiful. But because I had just said that it was a relative, and I immediately said that it was a teacher, the old aunt seemed a little more suspicious, so I added in a panic that it was a family heirloom, and we were related.

After saying that, in order to hide my panic, I grinned stupidly, trying to impress the old lady in front of me with my harmless and innocent smile. The old aunt relaxed her vigilance a little, so she said to me, since you are a relative, how can you not know that Mr. Lin has been in poor health recently and is being hospitalized?

I was shocked, what does this mean, my master belongs to the kind of person who swears not to go to the hospital, at most drinking some Chinese medicine can be regarded as the kind of face. How could you suddenly be hospitalized? So I hurriedly asked the old lady what was going on? I didn't know about it, I just came from my hometown, and I didn't get these notices.

My tone became a little anxious, because if a person with such physical fitness as Master is hospitalized, it means that he is really sick. The old aunt said that Mr. Lin is a very good person, he has lived here for more than a year, and often helps the people in the yard, so after he suddenly fell to the ground this time, the neighbors helped send him to the hospital, and these days, they are taking turns to take care of it. As soon as I heard that Master had "suddenly fallen to the ground," it made me even more anxious. So I asked why he suddenly fell to the ground and what was wrong with him. The old aunt said, this person is like this when he reaches his age, there are no children and no daughters around, no one to take care of, fortunately, a neighbor came to play chess with your master that day, only to see him fall on his bedside, sent to the hospital for an examination, said that he had a cerebral hemorrhage, and he wanted to have surgery.

Then the old aunt began to criticize me and said, we all thought that Mr. Lin was an old bachelor, the kind that no relatives around him took care of, who knew that he still had a big nephew like you, you children, you still have to care about the elders on weekdays, you will have that day sooner or later, Mr. Lin has always been not in good health, don't you know when you are juniors?

Frankly, I was a little freaked out. Master's body has always been very healthy, and even if he doesn't deliberately show off, he will never give anyone the impression that he is in bad health. The words of the old aunt tell me that Master moved here more than a year ago, which means that since that time, he has been in poor health.

I was so confused that for a moment, I ran out of ideas.