The road to Jianghu started from the martial arts hall

Chapter 17 Wei Lin's Journey
The man in the silk shirt said a few more words and then left, leaving Wei Lin alone standing at the door looking at the other man's back.

After a while, the disciple's voice suddenly came to my ears.

"Master, are you going on a long journey?"

Wei Lin withdrew his gaze and turned around, and saw that his apprentice had come to his side at some point.

Shaking his head, Wei Lin scolded him, "You are such an ignorant kid. Why did you hide in the distance just now and didn't come forward to say a word?"

After saying this, he put his hands behind his back and walked straight into the mansion.

Seeing that the master seemed really angry, Fang Xun hurried to catch up.

"Master, calm down, I don't like this kind of socializing, do I?"

"Humph!

I have told you so many times that the world is not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships. More friends mean more help. If you fight alone, there will always be times when you are unable to do what you want."

After being scolded by Wei Lin, Fang Xun could only smile and nod in agreement.

After a while, he saw that his master had calmed down a little, so he asked cautiously, "Master, who is he?"

Wei Lin glanced at him and said, "It's my old friend Yue Shan from the Tianluo Sect."

"Tianluo Sect?"

Hearing this name, Fang Xun recalled in his mind and remembered that it was a sect in Jinling Prefecture, with a great reputation in the whole Jiangzhou.

At this time, the master and the disciple had already walked into the hall, but as soon as Wei Lin sat down, he heard Fang Xun speak seriously.

"Master, you retired from the underworld 20 years ago. If he really considered you a friend, he wouldn't have come all the way to invite you out."

Wei Lin was stunned for a moment, but immediately smiled bitterly and said, "How can I refuse the favor I owe you in the past?"

Fang Xun also sighed. He hated these kinds of social conventions the most and wished that these conventions would turn into accidents!
"Master, what does Yue Shan want from you?"

Wei Lin calmed down and said, "He invited me to help him and go to Menghu Mountain."

"Tiger Mountain?"

Fang Xun frowned. This was a small hill thousands of miles away from Sanshui County.

A year ago, three hundred bandits occupied the mountain and established the Tiger Hall. Among them, the leader, Ba Hongming, had cultivated to the innate level.

Wei Lin then told him the whole story in detail.

Yue Shan had an old grudge against Ba Hongming, the leader of the Menghu Hall, and had been trying to track down the other's whereabouts. It was not until recently that he learned that Ba Hongming had become a bandit in Menghu Mountain.

He felt that he was not strong enough to climb the mountain alone, so he invited Wei Lin to go up the mountain together to kill Ba Hongming.

Seeing his disciple frowning, Wei Lin smiled and comforted him, “Don’t worry, Naba Hongming is just a congenital meridian opener, I think it will be easy to kill him.

It will take at least ten days, or at most half a month. Without me watching over you, if you really run into that man in green, you must be extremely careful."

Fang Xun nodded and said nothing more. Instead, he helped Wei Lin pack his luggage.

Wei Lin was very confident in his own strength. He was just Ba Hongming and a group of rabble. It would be enough for him to take some silver and spare clothes with him when he went out.

Fang Xun thought about it, went into his room, and took out a small porcelain bottle and three fist-sized paper bags.

"Master, these are the detoxification pills and the drug that I specially prepared. The drug is so potent that even ordinary Xiantian Tongmai cannot escape the effects."

These were all invented after he killed Ping Yizhi in the martial arts hall and obtained his medical skills.

The effect is definitely far superior to the common products on the market. It is a must-have product for home use, travel, and murder and arson.

Facing the porcelain bottle and paper bag in front of him, Wei Lin's face looked strange.

He looked at his apprentice for a long time, and finally did not refuse the other party's kindness, and put the antidote pills and the sleeping pills in his pocket.

After packing for a while, Wei Lin put on a bag and prepared to leave. When he was about to step out of the door, he suddenly remembered something and told Fang Xun something.

"By the way, this morning a group of people from the Li family brought two boxes of medicinal herbs over, saying they were thanking us for our help yesterday. I've put them in the pharmacy, so you can take them if you need them."

This was also the apology that Mr. Li agreed to. Two boxes of medicinal materials cost about seven or eight hundred taels of silver, which was considered a loss of money.

And at most ten days later, the Li family will have to pay a second price to pay the balance for inviting Fang Xun to stay at their house.

"Master, walk slowly!"

After saying goodbye, Wei Lin's figure walked farther and farther away, until finally disappearing from his sight.

Fang Xun withdrew his gaze and sighed inwardly.

Now that my master has gone out, I am left alone, but I still have to live my life.

Then he found a random restaurant outside to satisfy his stomach, and returned home after eating and drinking his fill.

With his mind immersed in the martial arts hall, Fang Xun went directly to find Mei Niansheng to exchange ideas.

In reality, he was sitting cross-legged in the front yard without moving, while in the martial arts hall Fang Xun and Mei Niansheng were fighting on and off, constantly exchanging their insights on martial arts.

Mei Niansheng was indeed an upright hero. He taught Fang Xun without reservation and taught him everything he had learned.

In addition to his profound internal strength and superb swordsmanship, he is also very proficient in grappling and acupoint pressing.

In the original book, there is not much mention about his grappling and acupoint pressing kung fu "Powerful Eagle Claw".

But after communicating with him, Fang Xun learned that Mei Niansheng had also visited various grappling masters in the world when he was young, and he was familiar with all the grappling skills in the world of "The Untold Story".

As the two of them fought and paused, Fang Xun frantically absorbed nutrients and integrated the various grappling skills taught by Mei Niansheng into his own Four Forms of Free Hands.

While communicating and learning with Mei Niansheng, Fang Xun could clearly feel his own progress bit by bit, which made him very happy.

After an unknown amount of time, the sun in the sky gradually set in the west. Fang Xun, who was immersed in studying, was suddenly awakened by a knock on the door.

"Brother Xun, are you there?"

Fang Xun, who was sitting cross-legged in the front yard, opened his eyes and immediately stood up and walked to the door to open it. He saw Yan Ming and six constables standing outside the door.

After taking a look at the casual clothes the seven people were wearing, Fang Xun casually asked, "Are you off work?"

"Yes, Brother Xun, we came as soon as we got off work."

"wait a second."

Fang Xun nodded when he heard this, and after saying something, he went back into the house, changed into a short-sleeved suit, and carried an iron rod at his back.

Then he packed up some personal belongings suitable for home travel, such as flintlock rifles, quicklime, and powerful sleeping pills, and set off with Yan Ming and the other seven people. They headed straight for Li's Mansion without stopping.

On the way, Fang Xun specifically gave instructions to Yan Ming and the other seven people.

"Remember, your monthly salary is less than one tael of silver, so there is no need to risk your life.

If Ma Yu really comes, we can just use the Tian Gang Bei Dou formation to block a few attacks and then retreat."

Yan Ming and others immediately nodded like chicks pecking at rice. Each of them, the constables who agreed to follow Fang Xun to the Li family, received thirty taels of silver as a reward from the Li family.

In the past, many of them would have risked their lives for thirty taels of silver.

But after following Fang Xun for three years, not to mention other things, just yesterday when Feiyutang's house was raided, everyone earned about twenty taels of silver.

Now, the thirty taels of silver in front of them are no longer enough to motivate them to fight to the death.

The eight people walked on the street and soon arrived at the street where Li's mansion was located.

The messy streets of yesterday have been cleaned up today, and the festive red cloth on the gate of Li's mansion has now been replaced with white cloth.

(End of this chapter)