In the main hall of Longfu Temple, the golden body of the Buddha is solemn, and next to the Buddha statue are two Bodhisattva statues. Several high incense sticks were burned in the incense burner on the temple, and several monks of Yongfuji Temple sat on the futon, knocked on the wooden fish with their eyes closed, and recited scriptures in their mouths. The frightened Yin Yueheng knelt in front of the Buddha statue and kowtowed reverently, Luo Tianhao knelt behind Yin Yueheng, hanging his head and saying nothing. In the morning, Yin Yueheng brought out more than 70 people, and now only the two of them are left, how embarrassed is this? Yin Yueheng suddenly felt a little in awe of the Buddha, believing in retribution, he was really afraid of death.

Outside the main hall, Zheng Zhaozong and Zhu Tianba, who came later, were chatting in a low voice on the steps, Yin Yueheng didn't hear it, but silently prayed in his heart for the Buddha to bless their mother and son with safety. Yin Yueheng finally knew that he was afraid, in the past seventeen years, he had been in Yuzhou City, he wanted rain and wind, he had to go sideways, and everyone had to give him face, because his father was the king of Pingxi, and now, someone killed him, and he finally understood that no matter how powerful he was, how rich and wealthy he was, he always had only one life.

Yin Yueheng decided to go back and persuade his father not to be rigid with Tang Jiu anymore, but to recruit troops and wait for the final decisive battle. This kind of mutual killing in the early stage can only be a defeat for both sides, delay the great cause of raising troops, and the gains outweigh the losses. Your Yin Quan father and son can kill the people under Tang Jiusheng, and Tang Jiusheng can also kill them back, who will be afraid of whom? Killing each other will only affect development.

Fifty miles outside the west gate of Yuzhou City, there is a Yi Songzhuang, there is a big pine tree on the head of the village, the pavilion is like a cover, it is said that there were immortals playing in this game in those years, so it is named Yi Songzhuang. There are about two or three thousand residents in Yisong Village, which is a village that is not big or small. There is a nameless river at the west end of the Zhuangzi, about a foot wide, bypassing half of the Zhuangzi and going further west, it is said to join a larger river, but the villagers rarely leave the village, and they do not know how big the river finally joins.

In the westernmost part of Yisong Village, there are three broken tile houses, and there is a blacksmith who has been in this village for ten years, and his craftsmanship is not bad. There are no other blacksmiths in the nearby villages, so there are always people who come to him to make iron, and the business is okay, at least it is no problem to support the family.

It is said that this blacksmith will also have a little kung fu, but not very outstanding, a few years ago, the head of the Pingxi palace heard that he knew kung fu, and came to visit, I wanted to invite him to the palace to be a famous guard, but after testing the blacksmith's martial arts, I found that his martial arts were mediocre, not even four products, and I gave up. Since then, no one from the Pingxi Royal Mansion has come to look for him.

The blacksmith's surname is Chen, his name is Chen Er, he is almost forty years old this year, he is still single and has not married a wife, with his conditions, it is not difficult to marry a wife, but he is a craftsman, isn't it? After a long time, everyone knows that the blacksmith has no intention of marrying a wife, and no one will introduce him to the object anymore, until now, the blacksmith is still single, but the blacksmith accepted a teenage apprentice last year, and lived with him, not as lonely as before, and someone else had something to say in his spare time.

In the evening of this day, Chen Er, a blacksmith who was not burly but very sturdy, was still pulling the bellows and calcining the iron, while the little apprentice was holding a small hammer on the side, clanging and hammering an iron bar, and sparks flew everywhere. Whenever the iron was struck, the master and apprentice were mostly silent. In the courtyard where there was no other sound except for the sound of iron, there were suddenly two more people silently, and the little apprentice who was striking iron suddenly looked up and saw these two people who suddenly appeared in the courtyard, and almost cried in fright.

I saw two people in black robes with calm faces, one was an old man, full of silver hair, a wrinkled old face, with a tiger head cane in his hand, and the other was an old lady, her face was very dark and gloomy, her appearance was not good, her eyes were cruel and vicious, and she was not easy to provoke at first glance. The old lady had her hair in a bun on her head and a tiger-headed cane in her hand, and both of them were fierce and vicious. The two men stood in the courtyard and looked at the blacksmith Chen Er together.

Some hunchbacked blacksmith Chen Er raised his head and looked at the two uninvited guests, but he was not as flustered as the apprentice, and asked very calmly: "Coming?" No one answered, the two people in black robes walked towards Chen Er together, and the old lady was still limping when she walked. Seeing the black-robed old lady lame, Chen Er subconsciously frowned, and asked softly, "Did you fight with someone?"

The black-robed old lady finally spoke: "Yes, I was lame with a palm." The old lady's voice was a little hoarse.

Chen Er's face, which had always been calm, finally had some surprise, "One palm, who is it?"

The black-robed old man said with an indignant face: "Who else can hurt her with one palm, Zheng Zhaozong!"

Chen Er nodded silently, took out a big black pill from his arms, the size of a fist, and threw it to the old lady in the black robe, the old lady was extremely fast, she caught the big pill in one hand, broke it, and threw it into her mouth to chew. Chen Er said softly: "This is the last pill, and I can't do anything if someone gets slapped." By the way, how could you offend him? Who wants to mess with him?"

The hoarse voice of the black-robed old lady sounded again, "Two months ago, we followed King Wei with the eldest lady, and the Falling Rain Pavilion is no longer there, he is now our enemy, and he was killed halfway, I was not convinced, and kicked him, so that's it." Now it seems that his bloody hands are more powerful than before, and even if the three of us join forces, I am afraid that we will not be able to last more than a dozen rounds under his hands. ”

The torch in the furnace Chen Er's face was flushed, and Chen Er said coldly while pulling the bellows lever: "Fighting is your business, I have been washing my hands for many years, and the affairs of the rivers and lakes, if you don't do my business, it has nothing to do with me." If you don't look at it for the sake of you being my senior brother and sister, I don't want to care. ”

The little apprentice He Dameng listened to it on the side, and said secretly in his heart, oh, it turns out that these two people are the master's senior brother and sister, and they must also be the predecessors of iron-striking, well, I must ask them for advice on iron-striking skills when I have time. Of course, Chen Er's newly accepted little apprentice He Dameng would not know that these two black-robed people were the second elders of the Luoyu Pavilion who moved the rivers and lakes, and this Chen Er was their junior brother, and he was also a powerful figure in the rivers and lakes back then, and finally because of his junior sister, he was expelled from the school, and since then he has settled in this Zhuangzi and become a blacksmith.

Ying Honglie asked: "Senior brother, you are the only one who has the recipe for preparing the antidote, why don't you prepare a few more antidotes?

Chen Er looked at the bellows, didn't look back, and said lightly: "I don't go into the rivers and lakes, I don't participate in those vendettas, what's the use of the antidote? I don't mess with him, he doesn't know that I'm here, of course he won't run to this Zhuangzi to kill me, I'm here to strike iron, and my life is very nourishing, free, not much better than on the rivers and lakes? If there are heavenly brothers and sisters who are tired of life on the rivers and lakes, you can consider coming here to be a neighbor with me, even if you don't strike iron, you can also weave baskets, mats, and straw shoes, and life can be passable." ”

An Changxiu smiled angrily: "If you weren't so promising, how could the little junior sister run away with others?"

Chen Er said melancholy: "No matter whether I have a chance or not, she will also go with others, I am the first in the world, and she will not put it in her eyes! You're right, none of the disciples of Luofeng Palace are as unproductive as me, so I have no interest in working as a blacksmith here, isn't it good?

Ying Honglie smiled and said: "You like the feeling of being needed, right? Now that the whole world needs you, don't you go out of the mountain? Your medicine and the weapons you fight can save countless people, shouldn't you go out of the mountain? With your ability, what is it to benefit ten miles and eight villages, and how good it is to benefit the world! Me and your senior sister, we two are such selfish people, we are willing to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, you are a kind-hearted person, you should do more good deeds!"

Chen Er snorted expressionlessly, and said angrily: "If I strike iron here, the local people will thank me, if I strike iron for the world, who knows me, and who will be grateful to me? I am good to others, and I am good to others, and people still regard them as donkey liver and lungs, and I can't do it! The world doesn't care about me, I don't care about the world, and I forget each other in the rivers and lakes, isn't it beautiful?"

An Changxiu's ugly old face flashed a smile, "It's still the same stubborn temper back then!" Oh, senior brother and sister are here, don't you invite us to dinner, don't you even invite us to drink a bowl of water? This is too inconsistent with your Chen Qingfeng's hospitality, right?" Chen Er's little apprentice He Dameng secretly said in his heart, it turns out that my master has a name, called Chen Qingfeng, not only Chen Er, well, this name is really good!

Chen Er turned around and said, "Da Meng, come and pull the bellows, and the iron bars will be placed there!" He Dameng agreed, put down the hammer, came to the master's side, took the lever, and pulled up the bellows with his head bored. Chen Er raised his head with a slight smile on his face, "Senior brother, senior sister, please!"

Three dilapidated houses, two bright and one dark, Chen Er, who is known as Chen Qingfeng, let his senior brother Ying Honglie and senior sister An Changxiu into the house, Chen Er lit two red candles, put the candlestick on the dilapidated table, and invited the senior brother and sister to sit. Ying Honglie looked around at this dilapidated room that was barely a living room, and there was a pair of upright couplets hanging on the wall, "Gold is refined in the furnace, and jasper is born in the hammer." Ying Honglie snorted and laughed, "Senior brother, you haven't changed at all, you are still as hypocritical as back then!"

An Changxiu smiled and said: "You come with us, go to King Wei, you can not only help the world, but also show your ambitions! King Wei, there are many good-looking women, all of them are hundreds of times stronger than her who you dream of, you, it was because your vision was too shallow back then, so you spent so much thought on a woman!"

Chen Er poured two bowls of water for Ying Honglie and An Changxiu, and said expressionlessly: "I'm sorry, I don't have tea here, only water, you will drink it! I'll go to King Wei? Give a reason first! She is her, even if there is a good woman who is hundreds of times stronger than her, it is not her." And the one in my eyes is actually dead and buried in my heart. ”

Ying Honglie and An Changxiu glanced at each other and shook their heads together, this dead-eyed guy.