Twilight.

The imperial palaces of the Empire are resplendent reflected in the rose-colored sunset.

And what can complement this palace, except for the buildings that seem to be inferior in scale, is a private residence in Dongcheng, which is the private residence of Zhang Zhongjin, the first eunuch of the empire.

In the garden of the backyard, Grandpa Zhang sat leisurely on a stone table in the pavilion, his thick and white fingers gently picked up the teacup carved from jasper, meditated thoughtfully for a moment, scraped the floating tea leaves with the lid of the cup, and took a slight sip of fragrant tea, leisurely but not elegant.

At this time, a servant came to the outside of the pavilion through the corridor and flowers and trees, and he waited for Grandpa Zhang to finish the tea he had just tasted slowly, and then dared to say softly, "Master, are you looking for me?"

The voice was soft and tactful, not like it came from the mouth of a big man, but more like a woman who had been hungry for a month, as if she was afraid of scaring Gonggong Zhang in the pavilion.

Hearing the servant's soft voice, Grandpa Zhang slowly put down the teacup in his hand, squinted at the servant outside the pavilion, and said sharply, "You come in and talk." ”

"Minions don't dare!"

The servant replied warily.

You must know that the father-in-law Zhang in front of him seems to be weak, but his heart is extremely spicy, and he has a strong possessive desire for everything.

Some time ago, a new servant, because he did not follow the rules here, entered Zhang's study without permission, and as a result, his legs were broken and thrown into the downtown area, and he was finally starved to death.

As a lesson from the past, the servant who was accustomed to being here once sounded the alarm for himself.

"Huh!"

Grandpa Zhang smiled charmingly, as if being afraid of others was a great compliment to himself, he raised his orchid finger, beckoned: "Come in, Ah Fu, you have been here for more than ten years, naturally you don't have to care about those rules, rules, aren't they for those who don't understand the rules?"

Hearing what Father-in-law Zhang said, Ah Fu bent down and slowly walked into the pavilion, he didn't believe Father-in-law's words as true, but he had to obey the other party's orders, otherwise, the result would not be much better.

The pavilion was not too big, and Ah Fu came to Grandpa Zhang's side in a few steps, bent over, and waited for Grandpa Zhang's lecture.

I saw Gonggong Zhang touch it from his arms for a long time, and finally found a page, he gently unfolded it and pushed it in front of Ah Fu, and said softly: "Ah Fu! You go to the Maple Leaf General Store tomorrow, let them check this person, remember to tell them, don't let go of any details." ”

Ah Fu looked at it through the afterglow of the setting sun, and only two words were written on the thin page of paper - Xu Chen.

"Huh?"

Ah Fu's face changed, and his whole body trembled and said: "Master, I'm really sorry, the shopkeeper of the maple leaf pawnshop came yesterday and handed me a secret letter, let me pass it on to you, but you went to bed early last night, and left in a hurry today, so I didn't come to you urgently, the shopkeeper of the maple leaf pawnshop said that this letter was sent from Yongan Town, Danyang City, and I heard him say that it seems to be about a person named Xu Chen." ”

"Oh?"

Father-in-law Zhang's face changed, and he seemed to be about to get angry immediately, but after thinking for a while, he finally suppressed his anger, although his temper of being angry and about to kill people was extremely easy to commit, but he also knew that if he killed all the people around him, there would be no one to help him.

The killing intent receded, and Father-in-law Zhang's face gradually calmed down a lot, and he said a little calmly: "It's not in the way, it's a matter of one day or two, where is the letter?"

"It's still with me, I'm going to get it?"

Ah Fu asked tremblingly.

Father-in-law Zhang nodded, and Ah Fu hurriedly left with small steps, as if he was afraid that he would be too late.

After a while, Ah Fu ran back with a sweaty face and handed over a secret letter to Father-in-law Zhang, and the seal of the secret letter was a wax seal in the shape of a maple leaf, indicating that no one had opened the letter yet.

Father-in-law Zhang couldn't wait to open the letter, looked at it casually and was shocked, and muttered to himself: "The Bai family's hermitage hall?"

"I thought that I was just checking what this kid was coming from, and I could let the prince do his best to help him, but I didn't expect his [back] scene to be so complicated. Even the Bai family has been investigating this matter, it really can't be underestimated!"

Gonggong Zhang looked at the sunset on the horizon, thought carefully for a long time, turned his head to look at Ah Fu and ordered: "Tomorrow you still have to go to the maple leaf pawnshop, but not to check Xu Chen, this kid, but to let them continue to stare at the Bai family's actions, and this letter said that one of the Bai family's swordsmen is called Ghost Five, and he has come to the capital, tell them to check it out, and without my consent, this person called Ghost Five cannot leave the scope of the capital, if he dares to resist, then ......"

As he spoke, he stretched out his palm and swiped it in front of him, his face full of fierceness.

"Yes!"

Ah Fu hurriedly said yes, and after a salute, he turned around and left.

However, just as Ah Fu had just walked outside the pavilion, Gonggong Zhang suddenly took a breath and said sharply: "Ah Fu, tell them that they are investigating the true reason why Bai Qiantian left the Dushan Sect back then, and report it to me immediately if they find any clues." Don't delay for a moment this time, you know!"

"Yes! The slave must have told Shopkeeper Zhao word for word!"

Ah Fu trembled his legs and replied firmly.

Grandpa Zhang waved his hand with satisfaction, "Go!"

After Ah Fu left, Gonggong Zhang no longer had any intention of tasting tea, but said to himself: "Ximen Wang, Aximen Wang, you are going to rebel! You even secretly bribed the cultivators, and even hijacked the county lord of Lanqing? Why? Do you still think that your power is not big enough? Do you feel wronged by my subordinates? You are really insatiable. If you let me know that you are also involved with some bullshit Bai family, I think your general will also come to an end!"

After speaking, Gonggong Zhang slammed the secret letter in his hand on the stone table, and at the end of the dense handwriting, there were several places written with red pens.

is written about how Xu Chen saved An Qing at the Wilderness Inn that night.

......

At the same time, Xu Chen had already bid farewell to Chu Yang and returned to the Dushan Sect, fortunately, each of the disciples of the Duishan Sect had his own room, so that Xu Chen didn't have to have any deliberate greetings with those boring disciples, and he could also let him be clean and do what he had to do.

Now for him, the most important thing is the Bai family's swordsman, and of course, the mysterious voice that suddenly appeared during the test.

However, no matter how much he thought, he couldn't guess the secret of any of them.

"Alas!"

Xu Chen sighed, quite helpless, he didn't know if God was deliberately teasing himself, so he would give him such a "colorful" life experience and experience.

"Ah, old man, are you there?"

Xu Chen suddenly shouted softly into the air to see if the mysterious voice during the day would appear again.

However, after shouting seven or eight times in a row, no sound sounded in the ears, except, of course, the chirping of insects outside the window.

There was nothing to do all night, except for thinking about how to explore the secrets of the Dushan Sect, that is, how to cultivate in the future, neither of these two could be missing, otherwise he would have wasted the meaning of coming to the Dushan Sect.

The next day.

Although Xu Chen can still go out at will, buy his own daily necessities, and make some preparations for his future life in the Dushan Sect.

However, for Xu Chen, who has never had too many requirements in terms of quality of life, everything that the Dushan Sect has prepared for his disciples is enough.

The silver that the empire allocates to the Dushan Sect every year is not covered, at least it is more than enough to support these thousand or so people.

Just as Xu Chen was thinking about how to go shopping in the room today and learn about the whole picture of the Dushan Sect, a slightly old voice suddenly sounded outside the room.

"Xu Chen, are you there?"

This voice Xu Chen is very familiar with, it is the Wan Xuan who was a little disdainful of him before. On the way to pick him up and come to the Mountain Sect, this old guy didn't say a word, and the expression of helplessness and disgust on his face was vivid.

"What? It's not going to be another place to find fault, is it?"

Xu Chen thought in his heart, while walking to the door, gently the Jiangmen opened, and the white-haired old man was standing with his hands in his hands, looking directly at himself.

Xu Chen looked at the other party's gaze, which was not disgusted at this time, and then bowed and said, "Master Wanxu, are you looking for me?"

"Hmm!"

Wan Xuan nodded, but his eyes kept looking at the young man in front of him, and he sighed slightly in his heart: "I really didn't expect that such a seemingly mediocre young man would really be a rare genius in a hundred years as my senior brother said?" I didn't expect that!"

Looking at Xu Chen's puzzled eyes, Wan Xuan suddenly realized that he was a little distracted, so he pretended to cough twice, and said in a deep voice: "I'm here today, um...... I just want to take you for a walk around the mountain, and first, I want you to understand our mountain sect and the rules of the sect. Second, I'd love to get to know you. ”

Speaking of this, Wan Xuan seemed to be a little twisted, coughed again and said, "Of course, this should have been what you did after entering the Dushan Sect and Tianming. Still, huh...... I happen to have nothing to do today, so ...... How?"

For some reason, a sentence instantly appeared in Xu Chen's mind, "Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief." ”

However, Xu Chen knew that he was going to live in the Dushan Sect in the future, and the old man in front of him was in charge of himself, so how could he dare to refuse in person at this time.

Besides, he was going to walk around the mountain today, and with such a person who knew everything about the Dushan Sect as a tour guide, wouldn't he be able to understand it more thoroughly?

Thinking of this, Xu Chen bowed again and said, "Of course the disciple is willing!"

"Okay, then you go back to the house and clean up. We'll leave right away when we're done!"

Wan Xuan showed a rare smile.

Unexpectedly, Xu Chen shook his head and said, "Oh, Master, no need, there is nothing to clean up in the house, I have brought something here." You can go now. ”

"Good!"

Wan Xuan smiled with satisfaction, because he himself had no requirements for life, so when he heard Xu Chen say this, his heart was filled with a little love.

"Senior brother, could it be that what you said is really right? Okay, then I will do my best to cultivate him well, and at the same time let him stand on the side of our Shan Sect. ”