"Brother!" Xiao Teng was a little anxious.

"Well, I won't say it. Second brother, the weather is getting hotter, let's go back. ”

"Big brother, I'll carry you!" Xiao Teng begged.

"No, I can still walk this way. What's more, the weather is not particularly hot. ”

So the two brothers walked home together.

This Xiao Mansion is one of the largest households in Hangzhou. Xiao Wanlin, the head of the household, has been in business all year round and has accumulated a large number of industries. Many of the shops in Hangzhou are Xiaomen industries. This old Mr. Xiao is nearly sixty years old in his fifties, and he is in charge of all affairs at home and in business. But after all, he is old and no longer goes out to do business, so he sends people to do these things.

Xiao Fei, the eldest son of Mr. Xiao Wanlin, is weak and sickly, extremely heat-phobic, and stays in the summer villa in Qixialing outside the city for about half a year from Qingming to Mid-Autumn Festival. He was gifted and brilliantly written.

The second son, Xiao Teng, was born with martial arts, and Mr. Xiao also invited many martial artists to teach him martial arts. The second son has a straightforward temperament, but also a little obedient, and often has stubbornness with his father, but he admires his eldest brother very much, and he is obedient to Xiao Fei. The second prince doesn't like to do business yet, and most of the business matters are handled by the eldest prince and the housekeeper Xiao He, and the old gentleman is just the prime minister.

Let's say that when the Xiao brothers walked into the gate of the Xiao Mansion, a family member had already shouted to the door: "The two sons are back!"

Before the two walked through the courtyard, they were greeted by Xiao Wanlin and his wife.

"The child has seen his father and mother, please say hello to the two adults!" Xiao Fei saluted. Xiao Teng also knelt down and saluted.

The old woman Xiao grabbed Xiao Fei's hands, "Fei'er, it's good to come back! I want to die as a mother! Let me see! Oops, I've lost weight!"

"Mother, Xiao Teng took over the conversation, "My brother is not thin, but he has never gained weight at all!"

"Nonsense!" Old Lady Xiao glanced at her youngest son, and said to Xiao Fei again, "Originally, during the Dragon Boat Festival, I bought a lot of supplements and wanted to go to Qixia Mountain to see you, but your dead ghost Daddy Leng won't let me go, won't let me go, won't let the second child go, let alone let us send people, and let people bother you with these business things all day long! Look at it, you've lost weight like this!"

At this time, Mr. Xiao just looked at the two sons in front of him with a smile.

"It's okay, mother, isn't it okay for me?"

"Fei'er, how are you doing for half a year?" asked Mr. Xiao softly.

"Daddy, don't worry, the child is all right. ”

"Well," Xiao Wanlin nodded, "I've asked Fu Bo to prepare ice water, you can go take a bath first." In the afternoon, you will help your Uncle Hu sort out the accounts, and then accompany your mother well, and in the evening we will have dinner together to enjoy the moon. ”

"Yes, Dad. Fathers, mothers, and children retire first. "After saluting, I want to go to my attic.

After the dinner, Xiao Wanlin summoned Xiao Fei to the study and asked, "Fei'er, you seem to have something to say to me during the banquet." ”

"The child was thinking about whether he should tell you about it, but since you asked, the child said directly: This morning, my second brother and I met a person who threatened to find a person surnamed Xiao. ”

"Looking for whom?"

"Xiao Hai. ”

"Xiao Hai?" Xiao Wanlin said with a deep groan, "What is the identity of the person looking for him?"

"The former martial arts alliance leader Situ Chao's family general --- Yang Lian. ”

"What does this have to do with being a father?"

"With all due respect, when the child was learning art in the master's school, he heard that the master had married three heroes with different surnames, and the three were surnamed Situ, Xiao, and Qin. Now, Situ sent someone to find Xiao's, Situ Chao and his father are both heroes in the world, so the child boldly guessed: his father is the renamed 'Xiao Hai'.

Xiao Wanlin was silent for a while and said, "You come with me." "Let's talk about the stone inkstone on the case.

I saw that the bookshelf on the east wall slowly moved southward, and there was no sound, revealing a swarthy hole that only allowed one person to pass through.

Xiao Fei followed Xiao Wanlin into the entrance of the cave.

It turned out that the inside of the door was not straight but downward, Xiao Wanlin reached out and pushed to the left after walking down the nine steps, and a soft light suddenly appeared in front of him. And Xiao Fei found that the steps under his feet had not come to an end at this time, and were still extending into the darkness in the distance, and with the opening of the small door on the wall, the bookshelf behind him was slowly closed.

Xiao Wanlin stepped into the secret room, Xiao Fei hurriedly followed, and covered the light wooden door behind him.

Xiao Fei looked around and found that it was a five-zhang square stone room, and the light in the room was provided by the huge night pearls hanging in the four corners. There are more than a dozen swords on the wooden shelves in the room, and they must be extraordinary at a glance, presumably Xiao Wanlin's collection. There are also two large wooden boxes, as well as a table and several pear chairs.

Finally, Xiao Fei set his sights on a painting enshrined on the front. The tributes painted are: gold-made pigs, cows, sheep, and jade carved fresh fruits of the four seasons. This shows the importance of this painting to the owner. It depicts a tiger lying prone in the grass. Most of the tiger's body is covered by grass, but it can be seen from its strong backbone that this tiger must be tall and powerful. The tiger's head stood up and looked to the left vigilantly. There are also two lines on the left side of the diagram:

Qingwen saw thousands of clouds like a tide on the top of Bagong Mountain, and thousands of forests like the sea. Suddenly feel the majesty of heaven and earth, and make it with feeling, and give it to the younger brothers. June 8.

Below is a seal engraved with "Shangguan Fengxue". Qingwen is the name of Xiao Fei's master Shangguan Fengxue.

"It turns out that my father is really Xiao Hai, the sworn brother of my teacher!"

"Yes, the father is the third Xiao Hai. ”

"It seems that Situ Chao must be the second uncle Situ Qianyun!"

"Oh?"

"Father, please see, my father used the sentence 'Wanlin is like the sea', and Xiao Haiyi is Xiao Wanlin, and Situ Qianyun must be the homonym of Situ Chao ---- Chao is Chao with 'Thousand Clouds Like Tide'. ”

"I've been paying attention to Situ Chao for a long time, and my father has thought of this, but I haven't dared to confirm it, after all, I haven't seen him for more than 30 years. Besides, Situ Chao seems to have disappeared in recent years, and I have no time to explore because I want to control your brothers. Today he sent someone to look for me, and it seems that he is the second brother. ”

"Then, what about Fourth Uncle Qin?"

"The fourth brother, Qin Potian, is the leader of the martial arts alliance today. ”

"In this way, the child has one thing that is not clear: why did you and the second uncle change their names and live in seclusion, and the fourth uncle used his real name to appear in the world?"

"Actually, when the four of us met, the fourth brother used a pseudonym, and he didn't say his real name until he bowed. My eldest brother, that is, your master Shangguan Fengxue, is good at divination, and said that all three of us have bad luck and need to change names to alleviate bad luck, but the three of us are different: the fourth brother can resume his real name after he is sad, and the second brother and I must continue to use pseudonyms until we meet the eldest brother's successor, and then we can return to our names. ”

Xiao Fei realized: "In this way, all three of you have experienced great hardships?"

"Yes, when your second uncle Situ was the leader of the martial arts alliance in the eighth year, his three-year-old son was killed by the enemy, and he has lived incognito since then, of course, these are all things I have heard. ”

These Xiao Fei believe that with the Xiao family's information network, almost all the wind and grass in the world cannot hide from Xiao Wanlin's eyes.

Xiao Wanlin continued: "When my father was twenty-one years old, his hometown Chaozhou was hit by a plague, and my father and four brothers were not spared, and I was the only one who survived. After that, I changed my name and left my hometown, and I wandered here. The fourth brother Potian and his wife were hunted down and killed by the enemy twenty years ago, and they were forced to leave one of their children behind on the way, and they have not been recovered. Later, the two of them hid in the rivers and lakes for seven years, and when they reappeared in the rivers and lakes, they practiced peerless martial arts, and two years later, they ascended to the throne of the long-standing martial arts alliance, and when he came back, he also restored his real name. ”

"Then didn't you and the second uncle go to the fourth uncle?"

"It's not that there isn't, it's that it can't. At that time, the three of us were like-minded with the eldest brother, and we insisted on swearing to the eldest brother at first sight. The eldest brother first flatly refused, and then he couldn't stand our hard work, so he agreed. However, he stated in advance: he is a lone star in the sky, and he will bring us disaster. At that time, no one cared about this. The last time we met was at Pagong Mountain, the day this painting was made. The eldest brother said that it was the last time we got together. He also drew four pictures of male tigers, and gave three of them to the three of them, saying that they could suppress the calamity to a certain extent. He also warned us again and again: Don't meet people from the cold world, don't get together!"

"In this way, the second uncle has already met a person from the Tianhan Sect?"

"It should be. ”

"The child once remembered that there was a 'tiger looking for a picture' hanging in the teacher's room, and his father was a 'tiger lying picture', are these four pictures different?"

"That's right," Xiao Wanlin said, "The eldest brother and I are 'Tiger Seeking Map' and 'Tiger Lying Map' respectively, the second brother is 'Tiger Litu', and the fourth brother is 'Tiger Pounce'." ”

"It seems that the master did have a deep meaning in making these pictures back then. ”

"Really?" Xiao Wanlin didn't expect Xiao Fei to say.

The master once admitted to his uncle that he had four great pleasures in his life: one was fortunate to devote himself to the Tianhan Gate, sharing worries for the martial arts and the world, the second was fortunate to meet a confidante and marry him, the third was fortunate to know three heroes of the world and became brothers, and the fourth was fortunate to save six peerless talents and accepted them as disciples. ”

"So what?"

From this point of view, the master has only found a few agreeable people in this life; and the father lives here, as far as the child knows, with his father's Wen Tao martial arts strategy, the mind to repay the negative, ranking as a child should be like a child's play; Situ Erbo retired to the rivers and lakes, but there is a family that will walk around the rivers and lakes, presumably also observing the dynamics of the rivers and lakes, and is in the shadows, gathering momentum, it cannot but be said that he is far-sighted; Qin Sishu is the leader of the martial arts alliance, and it is said that he has sacrificed his life and death to punish evil and seek well-being for his fellow martial arts colleagues. It can be seen that the master is 'seeking', the second uncle is 'standing', the father is 'lying', and the fourth uncle is 'fluttering', which is really appropriate. ”

"Well, that makes sense. ”

"It seems that it is time for the child to say goodbye to his father. Xiao Fei pondered for a while.

"Why is this?" asked Xiao Wanlin in surprise.