Under the jurisdiction of Datang, there is a small county town called Soft-shelled Turtle County in the south, and when there are only three days left at the end of the year, it ushered in the first snow of the year.

The snow fell very heavily and rapidly, covering the ground with a thick layer of snow from the afternoon to the evening, just over an hour.

In the south of the soft-shelled turtle county, there is a mansion that is extremely luxuriously decorated.

In front of the mansion is hung a gold-lacquered wooden plaque, on which are written the two big characters 'Yin Mansion'.

On the left side of the Yin Mansion, there is a very ordinary house, at this time, a middle-aged woman is sitting at the gate of the house, holding a thin long needle to sew clothes.

When the middle-aged woman was sewing clothes, the door of the Yin Mansion opened with a 'squeak~', and then, a richly dressed middle-aged man walked out of the mansion with his hands behind his back, and behind him, there was a young man less than twenty who was dressed as a domestic servant.

The young man held a thick quilt and followed the middle-aged man directly to the middle-aged woman's door.

"It's a cold day, why are you still sewing clothes, spring paintings and spring bells are married, sister, don't work so hard. ”

The middle-aged man stood at the door of the woman's house and said a word, then turned his head to look at the servant who followed him, and said, "Sister, it's snowing heavily today, and I don't think you have a thick quilt to bring you a bed." ”

"This can't be helped, Brother Yin, you've helped you enough over the years, I can't take this quilt. ”

The middle-aged woman made a gesture to stop the servant, but in the end she was stopped by the richly dressed middle-aged man.

"Don't be polite to me, sister, back then, Master asked Master Cao Tian to send you here, just hoping that I could take care of you by the way, if I ignore you now, Master will know in the future, how should I explain to him." ”

The middle-aged man is none other than Yin Mao, and the middle-aged woman in front of him is the mother and son who Zhou Qing saved at the foot of the barren mountain in the war.

Time flies, ten years have passed, Yin Mao has entered the age of no confusion, the woman is also gray, and her two daughters are now married.

In the past ten years, Yin Mao relied on some of the techniques taught to him by Zhou Qing back then, and he became a big fan in this soft-shelled turtle county.

His name is known to everyone in this small county, no one knows it, no one is disrespectful, and everyone in the county town calls him Yin Tianshi.

Although his ability is not big, it is more than enough to deal with some evil monsters, and in the past ten years, there has been no great evil in the soft-shelled turtle county, so after the accumulation of piles and piles, this Yin Mao's reputation is naturally very loud.

In addition to his ability, Yin Mao also has one thing to rely on, that is, the most powerful rebel army in the north is on par with the current power of the Tang Kingdom.

Therefore, the rebel army became a country of its own and was ordered in the name of Jin, among them, there was a famous national teacher surnamed Cao in the Jin country.

The national teacher surnamed Cao will come to Soft-shelled Turtle County to find Yin Mao once a year, so with this relationship, Yin Mao's name is even more in this county.

After sending the tonal, Yin Mao chatted with the woman for a few words, and then went home.

Stepping on the thick snow into the house, he sighed in his yard and then moved into the living room.

"Sir, you drink tea. ”

After seeing Yin Mao return to the living room, a maid carried a cup of hot tea and placed it on a wooden table beside him.

Ignoring the maid, Yin Mao walked into an incense hall behind the hall with his hands behind his back, and then knelt directly in front of a wooden god platform in the incense hall.

In front of this wooden shrine is not dedicated to the gods of this world, but a painting hangs from it, and on it is a man in a bright red robe.

That man was none other than Yin Mao's master, Zhou Qing.

"Master, I thought of you when I went to send a quilt to the sister next door today, it's been ten years, if you hadn't taught me some Taoism back then, I would have been as rich and glorious as I am today, how are you doing in the past ten years......?

Kneeling alone in front of the altar, Yin Mao was talking to himself while lighting a pillar of incense and inserting it on an incense burner on the altar.

Yin Mao is not the kind of ungrateful person, in the past ten years, after he settled down in Turtle County, he enshrined Zhou Qing on the altar.

Although it is not a daily incense burning, but every three days, he will definitely come here to kneel and worship Zhou Qing once.

At the same time, for the three war-torn ladies arranged by Zhou Qing to come here, he has also taken great care of them over the years, not for anything else, just because everything he has now was given to him by Zhou Qing.

Looking at Zhou Qing's portrait alone in front of the shrine platform, recalling the events on Wolf Howling Mountain back then, before he knew it, the sky outside the house darkened.

"Master, dinner is ready, you can go and eat. ”

The servant outside the incense hall shouted softly, Yin Mao lingered in the incense hall for a while, and the melody moved out of the incense hall.

In the past ten years, although Yin Mao has made a home in soft-shelled turtle county, he has not married a wife.

Because he is quite obsessed with the matter of cultivating, and after several years of banditry career, he has already seen through some mundane things in this world.

There are five subordinates in the Yin Mansion, three male servants and two maids.

When night fell, the five servants of Yin's mansion sat with Yin Mao at a round table in the dining room for dinner.

None of the five servants were too old, almost all in their twenties, and they were all lonely.

Perhaps he wanted to make up for the evil things he had done as a bandit in those years, so he picked up the five servants on the side of the street.

On weekdays, he didn't treat these five people as people, just like now, these people ate at the same table with him, as if they were his relatives.

"Master, the radish in this winter is particularly sweet, I stewed a bowl of soup with pork bones and radish today, you can taste it. ”

A maid took a bowl of soup and eagerly handed it to Yin Mao.

He took the spoon in the bowl and tasted the soup, then took a piece of radish with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, and nodded in satisfaction.

"Don't watch me eat, you should eat it too, this soup won't taste good when it's cold." ”

When Yin Mao was drinking soup, he saw that the five servants sitting around the table were all looking at him, and immediately smiled and said, and then the six of them ate dinner happily.

While eating, one of the servants asked, "Master, can I not go to Mr. Wang's to learn calligraphy?" ”

"Nine catties, my cultivation is actually just half a bucket of water, I can't pay anything at all, you still have to concentrate on studying, if you can take the test in the future, my lord, I will pay you for a big daughter-in-law who will give birth to a son for nothing. ”

The servants in the family had said things like this many times, but each time, Yin Mao did not agree to their request.