Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Mystery in the Painting
However, when he used the Phantom Sword Technique to transform into six figures and appeared in front of all the juniors and disciples, his master Qing Songzi didn't know when, and suddenly appeared on the top of the pavilion.
I saw that he was wearing a green robe, looking to be in his fifties, with an ordinary ivory hairpin on top of his black hair, a black beard on his chin, a pair of black eyes that were bright, and a deep gaze mixed with warmth and love, looking at all the apprentices in front of him.
At this time, he opened his mouth and said, "Xiaotian, you are back! Why don't you ask Master when you come back, and only think about learning martial arts with your junior disciples!"
After hearing Master's words, Long Xiaotian hurriedly raised his head and looked up in the direction of the pavilion, and sure enough, he saw that Master was standing on a high place and watching him.
When he thought that he had taught his junior disciples some martial arts of other sects on a whim just now, he lowered his head and remained silent like a child who had done something wrong, looking a little embarrassed.
"Why don't you speak?"
Hearing Master's question, Long Xiaotian arched his arms and replied, "Back to Master, the disciple secretly learned a few sets of martial arts from other sects outside, and then passed them on to the junior disciple privately, begging the master to punish him." ”
"Hahaha. ”
Qing Songzi looked up to the sky and smiled, then jumped into a big somersault and landed smoothly to the ground and appeared in front of Long Xiaotian.
I saw him looking at Long Xiaotian with a loving smile, and he didn't want to blame him at all, but said to him very open-mindedly and kindly: "The martial arts in the world are all used for people to learn, and it is normal for sects to teach and exchange martial arts with each other, which is originally the rules of martial arts, and it is normal! If we who practice martial arts want to improve our own martial arts, we have to contact the martial arts of other sects, and learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses so that we can make progress, how can we blame you as a teacher!"
Long Xiaotian saw that Master didn't mean to blame himself, and the big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, and hurriedly said gratefully: "Thank you Master for your open-mindedness and understanding, the disciple has fulfilled his mission and has sent out all the hero posts one by one, and all the major sects have also agreed to participate in the hero conference of my Huashan faction." ”
After listening to Long Xiaotian's work report, Qing Songzi nodded slightly, and felt very satisfied in his heart, so he said: "Well done, well done, you have been away from Huashan for so long, and after you came back, you didn't expect people to become thinner, presumably you must have suffered a lot outside, encountered a lot of things, Master has a lot to say to you, let's talk about it together!"
At this time, Long Xiaotian also had a lot to say to his master, so he said, "The disciple also has a lot to say to you. ”
"Okay, let's go to the backyard and talk. ”
After a while, the master and apprentice came to the backyard, and Long Xiaotian told his master Qing Songzi in detail all the things that happened on the way to send the hero's post, and Qing Songzi talked about the incident between his apprentice Long Xiaotian and Wu Min after listening to Long Xiaotian's account.
"That Miss Wu has a deep affection for you, and you are the only one in your heart, since the two of you are in love, it is more suitable for you to be with her. As for the Kunlun faction's Mei Ruolan girl and the current gang leader Zhou Yidai, although both of them are infatuated with you, but you don't love them in your heart, it is better to break it off as soon as possible than to entangle with the two of them, but you have a marriage contract with Mei Ruolan of the Kunlun faction, and now there are rumors in the rivers and lakes, which is a bit difficult. ”
At this time, Long Xiaotian arched his arm and pleaded with Master Qing Songzi: "So the disciple implores the master to come forward to negotiate with the Kunlun faction and help the disciple withdraw from this marriage." ”
"But since you don't like Miss Mei, why do you agree to this marriage!"
Because Miss Mei had just died of her mother and was infatuated with the apprentice, the apprentice couldn't bear to refuse her at this time, so she thought of asking the master to come forward to help the apprentice withdraw from the marriage. ”
"Xiaotian! As a teacher, I know that you have always been loyal and soft-hearted. Okay! Then Master will talk to Master Mei of the Kunlun Sect in person about this matter during the martial arts conference next month! But what are you going to do with Miss Zhou of the Beggar Gang?"
"Miss Zhou has always been in love with me, and my heart has already been given to Min'er, but Min'er left me without saying goodbye, and didn't tell me where she was, and it was not good to propose to her when the time came, and I really didn't know what to do. ”
"You just said that this girl named Wu Min is from Xiangyang, you can go to Xiangyang to find her after the martial arts conference, and then immediately marry her to make Miss Zhou die, but Xiangyang is so big, even if you go, you may not be able to find her. Why did the girl named Wu Min say that she would let you go to Xiangyang to propose, but she didn't tell you where she was in Xiangyang and who she was, did she deliberately not want you to find her and deliberately play with your feelings?"
Long Xiaotian didn't think she was that kind of person, so he hurriedly explained to the master for Wu Min: "No, it won't. She's definitely not that kind of person, she must have forgotten to tell me when she was in a hurry. ”
Hearing Long Xiaotian say this, Qing Songzi knew in his heart how deep his apprentice's love for Wu Min was.
"You defend her like this, defend her, it seems that you love her very much! In that case, it is better to wait for her to come to you, I think she loves you so much, and she will definitely not just walk away. ”
After saying this, Qing Songzi got up from his seat and took out the painting of Huashan that Long Xiaotian handed over to him, looked at it carefully for a while and said, "You said that this is a painting about Wu Mu's Testament that Li Wuji, the gold and silver double knife back then, gave you?"
"Yes, this painting was found by him from a leader of Jiangyang thieves named Yang Fucheng, because after the Jiangyang thief named Yang Fucheng was bought by the imperial court, he was under the secret edict of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty to find the whereabouts of the "Wu Mu Testament", and wanted to use the suicide note on the art of war to deal with the rebels of the White Lotus Sect, and later he got this painting after he was killed by Dugu's predecessors. Because this painting is painted on our Huashan, the disciple guessed that the whereabouts of the "Wu Mu Testament" must be related to our Huashan faction, so the disciple decided to give this painting to the master, hoping that the master can see the mystery in this painting. ”
Qing Songzi then looked at the painting carefully and found that there was nothing special in this painting except for Huashan, but what was painted in this painting was indeed Huashan.
"What is depicted in this painting is indeed our Huashan, but there is nothing else in this painting except Huashan, what is the mystery?"
When he said this, he thought of a solution, so he threw the painting into a water tank.
However, when the painting was soaked in water, he didn't find anything different, so Qing Songzi frowned and said to himself: "After this painting is placed in the water, it is still the same, and no text is displayed.
And Long Xiaotian, who was standing on the side, had already thought of an idea at this time.
"If the water doesn't work, why don't you try the tea?"
Long Xiaotian's idea made Qing Songzi at this moment deeply inspired, so he said: "Yes! Why didn't I think of using tea!"
After that, he poured the strong Pu'er tea that had been brewed for a while on the painting, but the result was still the same, there was still nothing on the painting. This can't help but make the master and apprentice feel a little strange in their hearts.
"Strange, how can this be? If the painter did not write the clue to the book on the painting, where would it be?"
"Yes, soak it in water, dip it in tea, and there is still nothing on it, could it be that this painting of Dugu's predecessor has been dropped by someone? The real painting has been stolen. ”
Qing Songzi shook his head, rejecting Long Xiaotian's speculation.
"No, I don't think so, since you said that this painting was found from Yang Fucheng's corpse, he should have brought this painting with him inseparably, I think he couldn't know the secret of the painting at that time, so he kept it on his body, so it's better to let the teacher keep this painting for you, and then tell you after the teacher knows the secret in the painting." ”