I want to seal the knife

Chapter 57 - Cultivating confidantes

Chapter 57－Cultivating confidantes
"I believe the young master, if something unexpected happens, he can only be blamed for his fate." Sommerha said firmly.Xiao Po said: "Okay, then I will take him with me, you can call him over tomorrow and let me have a look."

After deciding on this matter, Sommerha felt that his heart had been settled, and he resigned from Xiao Po and left on his own.

There was nothing to say all night, Xiao Po got up early after dawn, and was busy with other things for the past few days, and he didn't go to fetch his father's soul-breaking knife.After a hasty breakfast, he took a brazing iron and started to act alone.

Before the master passed away, he only said that he buried the soul-breaking knife under the big tree in the back mountain, but he didn't specify where it was. Xiao Po searched everywhere and spent a whole morning before digging out the thing.A cloth bag was wrapped twice with oiled paper, before opening it, Xiao Po could feel that the things under the cloth bag were extraordinary.

Finally opening the cloth bag, seeing the familiar soul-breaking knife and his father's handwriting, Xiao Po's thoughts were pulled away.Scenes from childhood flashed through my mind.Thinking of the last scene of his father's death in the desert, Xiao Po couldn't help but burst into tears. It's been ten years, his father has passed away for ten years, and his mother has also left for ten years.

Looking at the Central Plains in the south, I don't know how my mother is doing. "When the turmoil in Tubo stabilizes this time, I must return to the Central Plains and rescue my mother." Xiao Po made a secret decision in his heart.There are many things waiting for him to solve, sometimes it is very hard and tiring, but Xiao Po never gives up.

Holding the Soul Breaking Knife in his hand, recalling the training martial skill "Fire Burning Knife" that Xie Yuncheng taught him, Xiao Po was lucky to use the "North Pole Celestial Magnetic Kungfu" to let out all the boredom in his heart.

The fire around his body was surging, Xiao Po flipped his palms over, and controlled the Soul Breaking Knife with the internal force of the North Pole celestial magnetism. After a while, it became smoother and smoother. At last, the Soul Breaking Knife was as far as three feet away from him, even killing Feng Lingling.

Sweat flowed for two or three bursts, Xiao Po sucked in his right hand, and the soul-breaking knife returned to his hand. At this time, when he looked carefully, he saw a faint red glow on the knife, as if a force was about to break out of the knife.

Before his father passed away, the soul-breaking knife seemed to suck the inner energy of his father. Could this power be the inner energy that was sucked away by his father?Xiao Po was puzzled, so he opened the book that recorded the Xiao family's saber techniques, and flipped through it. Most of them were pictures of moves, and there were some explanatory notes from his father. .

It seems that these can only be studied slowly, Xiao Po went back to the mansion, and then went to the master's study.He also came to this study with the master before.The bookshelves in the study room are full of Buddhist scriptures. Danzhen Hongmu has been a monk in Datianwang Temple since he was a child. He has devoted his whole life to martial arts and Buddhism. He is a great master in martial arts and has made great achievements in Buddhism.

Xiao Po also learned many Buddhist scriptures from his master when he was young, but he was not in harmony with the Buddha by nature, so he only regarded it as a homework and did not study it carefully.Looking across the bookshelf, looking at the names of those books, the memory of the master telling him about Buddhism and reading scriptures came back to his mind.

Suppressing his ups and downs, Xiao Po went straight to the innermost bookshelf. His master had brought him there before, and he remembered the hidden compartment at the foot of the bookshelf.

Open the secret compartment, and there are more than a dozen books neatly placed inside.

Xiao Po looked through it roughly, and found that there are two secret books on internal strength, "Yoga Qijin" and "Circulation Exercise".The other ones are all martial arts cheats, "Phantom Storm" is the secrets of marksmanship that Xiao Po has practiced since he was a child, and there are several other cheats on boxing, palm, leg, body and so on.

The expedition was imminent, and Xiao Po didn't have time to read all of them carefully. He only took the three books "Reincarnation", "Heavenly Buddha's Palm" and "Void Movement" and left the study. "Tianfo Palm" is a martial skill for bare-handed fighting, and "Void Movement" is a martial skill for melee combat. These two are what Xiao Po is currently lacking in. He thinks that he can spend time studying and practicing in his free time.

Leaving the study and going to the main hall, when passing the garden, the three of them were having fun in the garden.

Seeing Xiao Po, A Qiuling ran over and called out: "Where did brother go early in the morning, I can't find you."

Xiao Po said: "Some things have gone out. Are you used to living here?"

A Muyun said: "Everything is good, even if you have nothing to do when you are free." A Qiuling also said: "Yeah, it's so boring, brother, take us out to play!"

Xiao Po smiled helplessly, A Qiuxiu seemed to see his difficulties, and said: "Brother Xiao Po has a lot of things to do, let's play by ourselves!"

A Qiuling's face was full of displeasure, Xiao Po said: "It seems that I am wrong, I need to arrange some things for you to do." A Qiuling blinked and asked: "What are you doing?"

Xiao Po said: "The time I went to Wolongtan to kill the big snake, I got two pairs of snake teeth. I heard that the snake teeth are sharp and can be made into weapons. I will ask someone to make two pairs of daggers and share them with you two, and then call someone to come. Teach you some martial arts for self-defense, and teach you how to read and have fun."

A Qiuling was the first to applaud, these are all new things.A Qiuxiu thought to herself, she must study hard, otherwise she was afraid that she would not be good enough for brother Xiao Po.

Xiao Po turned to his godmother again and said: "I will go to Yangan the day after tomorrow, and I may not be in the mansion for a while. If the godmother gets bored and panicked, I can ask Qiu Lingxiu'er to take you out for a walk, or go to Uncle Alun's. Talk to acquaintances in the shop."

Having said this, Amuyun was very worried. Going out for an expedition is not like going out for hunting. It is dangerous, but Xiao Po's responsibility lies, and she can't say much, just said: "Po'er, you must take good care of yourself when you go out." Xiao Po Po nodded, and said again: "It's almost time for dinner, you guys go to have dinner, I have to meet someone."

Xiao Po left the garden, wondering if Sommerha brought his son Suo Duo.

Before entering the hall, a voice was heard from a distance saying: "Father, he hasn't come yet! I have been waiting for a long time." Sommerha reprimanded: "I said that I want to call you Young Master Xiao, why can't you be obedient? !"

Suo Eduo said: "Okay, I listen to you, and I will call you Young Master Xiao."

When Xiao Po walked in, Sommerha hurriedly pulled his son to salute.Xiao Po asked the two to sit down, and then carefully looked at the young man. His sharp-edged cheeks looked a bit like Sommerha, his body was strong and fat, his eyes were long and narrow, and the eyeballs rolled around from time to time, and he was also looking at Xiao Po. break.

Xiao Po said: "Suo Eduo, have you ever learned martial arts?"

"My father taught me some boxing techniques." Suo Eduo looked at his father before speaking.He looked at Xiao Po at first, only felt that this young master Xiao had sharp eyes, he didn't look like those street thugs who were beaten down by him every day, and he was much more timid in his heart.

Sommerha added: "They are all Tianlongquan taught by the national teacher, and I taught him some." Tianlongquan is the most widely spread martial art among the national teacher's disciples.Danzhen Hongmu has his own way of passing on skills. Generally, disciples only teach simple martial arts and simple internal skills, and they don't teach the whole set.

Xiao Po didn't know how much he had learned, so he asked him to call to have a look.Suo Edo went to the hall and fought for a while, although he was able to hunt well, but it was really incomplete.

Xiao Po shook his head: "The practice is quite serious, but many of the moves are not in place. You should practice hard in the future, and ask me if you don't understand." Then he turned to Sommerha and said, "Uncle Suo, I have a celestial Buddha here. Take the secret book in your palm, take it home and copy a copy for your son, and bring it with you to practice in the future. After copying, send it to me tomorrow morning."

Sommerha was overjoyed when he heard the words, and hurriedly brought his son over to thank him. He had learned some of the Heavenly Buddha Palm from Danzhen Hongmu, which was also the reason why he had accompanied the national teacher for many years.Otherwise, such a powerful palm technique, the national teacher will generally not pass it on to his disciples.Although Xiao Po is now the young master of the National Teacher's Mansion, he is weak alone, so it is necessary to win over his confidants, otherwise the people of the National Teacher's School will not accept him, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to manage in the future.

After talking about this, Xiao Po arranged for Sommerha to find a craftsman to make a snake-tooth dagger, and asked him to help arrange for A Qiuling and A Qiuxiu to invite a teacher.

After dinner, Xiao Po went to visit Yeluchu again.When he was young learning art, Xiao Po had a close relationship with his literary teacher Yeluchu. He should have called on him a long time ago, but he only found time now.

Yeluchu's affection for Xiao Po is more because of Xie Yu'er, Xie Yu'er is his most proud student, Xiao Po was the only one who took care of Xie Yu'er when he was young.Because of this relationship, among all the male students, only Xiao Po is the most favored by Yeluchu.

Yeluchu set up a tea table in the gazebo in the garden, and the two drank tea and had a conversation. First they told some interesting stories about Xiao Po's art learning when he was young, and then they talked about poetry and music.However, Xiao Po was away for five years, and he was unable to write articles on arithmetic, piano, painting, chess and music. Yelu Chu expressed regret and advised Xiao Po not to give up.

The two played a few games of chess, and Xiao Po was defeated again and again. When he was about to go back home, he only heard someone report that it was Yeluchu's friend who came to visit.Xiao Po was waiting for an excuse to leave, Yelu Chu said: "This is a close friend of mine in recent years, you must meet, maybe it will be beneficial for you to go to Italy this time."

After a while the servant ushered them in.In the first place was an old man in his sixties with a thin beard in long robes, followed by a handsome young man in Tsing Yi, about twenty years old.

Yeluchu told the names of the three of them, and after arranging them to sit down, he pointed to the old man and said, "Xiao Po, my best friend is a great talent in the Central Plains, capable of medical divination, astrology, and deployment of troops."

The old man's name is Guan Ning, and Yeluchu doesn't know his origin. Three years ago, Guan Ning opened a calculation in the city and set up a calculation problem at the gate. No one in the city could solve it. Yeluchu was curious to see it, but he couldn't solve it. Although he did not calculate the problem, he forged a deep friendship with the old man.Afterwards, the old man made a living doing the calculations for others in the city, and he always calculated without omission, so he got the nickname Guan Shen Shan.

That young man was Guan Ning's apprentice, his name was Xu Song, and he brought him from the Central Plains.Guan Ning has a good relationship with Yeluchu, and often brings his apprentices to play chess and drink tea with Yeluchu.

Xiao Po bowed his fists and said some words of admiration.Guan Ning simply replied a few words of humility, saw the chessboard that had not been taken away, turned his mind to it, picked up the sunspots and said: "Brother Yelu, let's start playing chess!"

Yeluchu responded and said, "Today we don't want to play chess empty-handed, how about we gamble for a lottery."

"A lottery? That's fine." Guan Ning took a sip of water, not caring about it, and said lightly, "What kind of lottery is it first?"

Yelu Chu said: "You and I both have apprentices here today. If you don't want to win two out of three rounds, you will win two out of three rounds. If you lose, your apprentice will do three things for me. If I lose, my apprentice will help you." Do three things."

(End of this chapter)