Endless martial arts

Chapter 15 Drinking Tea (Third Watch for Support)

It was almost noon when Pang Xi came back from flying the kite, and Pang Xi was still chattering about planning the next event. The housekeeper, Uncle Fang, found him and handed him an invitation letter.

"Invitation letter? Who will it be?" Pang Shiyuan wondered, who else in Guquan Town would invite him so formally?

Glancing at the invitation letter, it turned out that Liu Shanzhi, the spokesperson of Hongxingtang in Guquan Town, invited him to have afternoon tea.

"Why did he invite me? Did he know about my conversation with Ge Pingyu?" Apart from this reason, Pang Shiyuan couldn't think of any other reason.

"But how did he know about my conversation with Ge Pingyu? At that time, there were only Ge Pingyu and me. No, someone else saw me, and that was Ge Pingtang." After thinking about it, Pang Shiyuan thought of the only person who might do something wrong.

At this moment, Pang Shiyuan really wanted to kill Ge Pingtang.But he also knew that it was pointless to do so now.Now what he has to consider is whether he will go to Liu Shanzhi's invitation, and how to deal with it.

Pang Shiyuan finally decided to go. He didn't think he would be in any danger. This was his confidence in his own martial arts, and also his confidence in Hong Xing Tang not to offend Dai Zong.

At the same time, he was also a little thankful: "Fortunately, Ge Pingyu has already left first."

At noon, he had lunch with his family as usual, and after two o'clock in the afternoon, he found an excuse and walked out of the house.

More than three feet tall, the ornately decorated Dengxian Tower is not worth mentioning in the big city, but in the small Guquan Town, it is the best teahouse, and this is the place where Liu Shanzhi invited him to drink tea.

As soon as he entered the teahouse, a tea waiter greeted him: "Is this the second young master of the Pang family?"

"Exactly."

"Officer Liu is already waiting for the second young master in the private room on the second floor, this way please."

The tea buddy led Pang Shiyuan all the way up to the second floor, then knocked on the door and opened the door of the private room on the second floor.Liu Shanzhi, who was dressed outside the staff, had stood up from his seat to greet Pang Shiyuan.

While the two were looking at each other, the tea buddy had quietly closed the door.

Liu Shanzhi praised Pang Shiyuan as soon as he opened his mouth: "Master Pang Er is handsome and handsome, he really is a young hero."

Pang Shiyuan naturally wouldn't take it seriously: "You are just a fledgling, how can you deserve the praise of Senior Liu."

"You deserve it, you deserve it, why can't you deserve it!" Liu Shanzhi said, extending his hand to invite Pang Shiyuan to sit down, and Pang Shiyuan followed the example of kindness.

The two sat down, and Liu Shanzhi made tea for them with his own hands.Although Pang Shiyuan wanted to do it himself, he was firmly rejected by Liu Shanzhi.

Liu Shanzhi was very devoted when making tea, it can be seen that he has been immersed in this way for a long time.The tea-making action is like flowing clouds and flowing water, showing a unique leisurely charm of ancient tea ceremony.

Pang Shiyuan believes that it is difficult for the leisurely and impetuous modern people to understand.

After the tea was divided, Liu Shanzhi signaled that Pang Shiyuan could have tea.

Picking up the cup and saucer holding the tea cup, Pang Shiyuan did not drink it directly, but took a deep breath of the tea aroma, and said: "The green tea from Mingxiang Mountain is a rare product, and there are not many of them. I'm afraid this is not a tea from Dengxian Tower. The tea leaves are from Senior Liu’s own collection, right?”

Hearing that Pang Shiyuan was able to taste the source of green tea, Liu Shanzhi's eyes lit up immediately, as if he was delighted to have found a fellow.

Pang Shiyuan had seen this kind of look in his master Zhan Xianrong before, and said quickly: "My master likes this kind of tea very much, but unfortunately he always said that I am a cow chewing peony, and he hardly gave me to drink it."

As expected, Liu Shanzhi's eager eyes dimmed again, and he returned to normal: "How is Senior Zhan? When I debuted, Senior Zhan still walked around the rivers and lakes. At that time, he swept away the evil Tianfeng Castle with one sword. They are all very admirable.”

It seems that before Liu Shanzhi came here, he really worked hard to investigate Pang Shiyuan clearly.

Pang Shiyuan said: "Master is in good health. Please take care of me, Senior."

"Pang Shaoxia is a student of Senior Zhan. I don't know how much he has learned from Senior Zhan?" Liu Shanzhi asked about Pang Shiyuan's martial arts, which meant that the topic had to get to the point.And this is what Pang Shiyuan welcomes. He is really not used to talking around.

Pang Shiyuan was not as humble as the ancients, but said confidently: "I think it should be enough to be Xiaoxiao in the Jianghu."

"Really? Young people, excessive self-confidence is not a good thing." Liu Shanzhi said kindly.

Pang Shiyuan confronted him tit for tat: "What do Senior Liu think?"

Liu Shanzhi's answer was irrelevant to the question: "If you don't do your own thing, hang it high."

However, this unanswered answer was enough for Pang Shiyuan to know exactly what he was referring to, which was his uninvited participation in the fight between Hongxingtang and Ge Pingyu.

Once things are done, there is no room for regret.What's more, Pang Shiyuan didn't think the matter itself was wrong, what he was wrong was just underestimating the despicableness of human nature.

He took a sip of green tea lightly, as if he had tasted the tea, but he was actually thinking about how to answer: "Who made this my hometown! I hope my hometown is peaceful and peaceful, and my family is happy and healthy. And Hongxing What Tang brought was obviously not what I hoped for.”

"Will the White Lotus Society be able to give you what you want?" Liu Shanzhi asked.

Pang Shiyuan put down the cup and saucer in his hand, and said solemnly: "I can only choose the lesser of two evils, at least Bailian will take the initiative to burn the flames of war here."

Liu Shanzhi seemed to accept Pang Shiyuan's reason, and said with some regret: "Ge Pingyu is also a talent, he escaped our pursuit. I think at most three days, someone from the Bailian Society will come to Guquan Town. At that time, there will be people in the small Guquan Town Pang Shaoxia, there is the Bailianhui, and our Hongxingtang. I think this is really too crowded. So, our Hongxingtang will leave tomorrow. However, I hope Pang Shaoxia remembers that it is not because we are afraid of the Bailianhui, But we feel that there is no need to offend Dai Zong for this at the same time. Moreover, as far as I am concerned, I actually admire Pang Shaoxia. I wonder if we can still be friends after this incident?"

Pang Shiyuan stretched out his hand to pick up the purple sand pot, refilled the half-drinked teacup in front of Liu Shanzhi, and said, "Aren't we talking between friends?"

Liu Shanzhi was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Pang Shaoxia is such a wonderful person, I really know today. Well, Pang Shaoxia is my friend."

Here, Liu Shanzhi's elegant, amiable elder demeanor is completely different from him in front of Ge Pingtang.

"Since we are friends, I would like to take the liberty to ask. If Senior Liu thinks it is inappropriate, you don't need to answer." Pang Shiyuan said seriously.

Liu Shanzhi also said seriously: "Please tell me."

"Hongxingtang has expanded so much in the past year, which has aroused the vigilance of the entire Yuanzhou Jianghu. Now, it is still deployed in a remote place like Guquan Town. Is it really going to be an enemy of the entire Yuanzhou martial arts?"

Liu Shanzhi shook his head and said: "Since we are friends, I will not hide it from you. In fact, the expansion of Hongxing Hall has stopped. My actions in Guquan Town are just my personal actions, not Hongxing's. The layout of the hall. Actually, I just want to retire here.”

"Personal behavior, pension?" Pang Shiyuan never expected such an answer.

Then, he immediately realized that there was something mysterious about it: "What happened to Hongxing Hall?"

Liu Shanzhi once again looked at Pang Shiyuan squarely: "Pang Shaoxia reacted very quickly. I haven't said anything yet, and you can see the problem. But this is not a secret, and soon everyone in the world will know that Hongxingtang is indeed a Some old people, including me, are very dissatisfied with the current situation of Hongxing Hall, thinking that the hall master made a mistake in implementing the plan of the previous hall master. They started too quickly, so that there should have been more The layout of great results has only achieved small results so far. Now many people in Hongxingtang have chosen to leave like me."

Pang Shiyuan never thought that there would be such an answer. The fact that Hongxingtang acquired the territory of small and medium-sized forces in just one year was the result of a mistake in their plan.Then if their plan is completely successful, wouldn't they become a medium-sized force in one fell swoop?
But Pang Shiyuan also knew that he had already asked enough questions, and if he asked again, he would be suspected of prying into Hongxingtang's secrets.So he said to Liu Shanzhi with a little regret: "Then didn't I destroy Senior Liu's pension plan?"

"It's okay. With me and my group of people, we can't find a place to settle down. Moreover, your actions have also reminded me that we will never be able to use the name Hongxingtang in the future. far away!"

(End of this chapter)