Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven: Punishment by God, But It's an Old Enemy

After a long time, Ouyang Leiyun finally calmed down, he took a deep breath and said lightly: "Leihuo, there is one more thing I want to ask you!" "Well, brother, you can ask!" Ouyang Leihuo couldn't figure out what else he wanted to know. "The young man who came in with us just now claimed to be a gentleman of the wood family of the Pan family, is this true?" Ouyang Leiyun's words made Leihuo a little confused, but he still nodded and said: "Well, it is true, he His name is Pan Jun, he became a well-known doctor in the capital at the age of eight, and became a gentleman of the wood family after his father passed away!"

"But his steps..." Ouyang Leiyun said thoughtfully, "His steps are a bit weird!" "Oh?" Ouyang Leihuo looked at Ouyang Leiyun suspiciously.I saw Ouyang Leiyun nodded and said: "His steps have the steadiness of the Mu family's Pan family, but there are still some shadows of that person!" "That person..." Ouyang Leihuo observed Lei Yun's expression suspiciously.Lei Yun shook his head slightly and said, "Maybe I was thinking too much!" After speaking, Ouyang Leiyun sighed, as if he hadn't recovered from the shock just now.He tried to stand up with his hands on the ground, but Ouyang Leihuo quickly walked to him and helped him up.Ouyang Leiyun hesitated for a moment, stood up and said: "I'm afraid there is not much time left now. This 'Kun' hexagram secret room is coordinated with the 'Qian' hexagram secret room. In Fuxi gossip, Qian represents heaven, yang, movement, while Kun represents earth, yin, and stillness. Therefore, the secret room of the hexagram 'Kun' pays attention to braking with static, and responding to changes with the same."

"Respond to all changes with the same?" Ouyang Leihuo pondered Lei Yun's words. "Well, the people of the Jin family follow the characteristics of the 'kun' hexagram to be quiet, so they didn't install those traps that would kill people instantly in this secret room, but they designed an extremely large circular maze, and the labyrinth followed every day. In one hour, there are seventy-two changes in total according to the hexagram of 'Kun'. These seventy-two changes include all the secret passages leading from here to the surroundings. The secret passages you walk into are completely different at different times. But all the secret paths lead to the same goal, and finally let you go back to the starting point!" Ouyang Leiyun said so, busy calculating something with his fingers.

"Brother, I didn't understand just now. You said that this secret room is a circular structure designed by people from the Jin family, but just now I felt that I was walking straight forward. This road has always been straight without any bends, but in the end Still came back here!" Ouyang Leihuo said rather strangely. "Hehe, this is the brilliance of the gold-type insect repellent!" Ouyang Leiyun said, pointing to the pile of wooden sticks piled up on the side, "It was extremely cold when we first entered the secret room, but it was very cold on the side of the secret room. There is a pile of extremely flammable wooden sticks. If you look carefully, the wooden sticks are all soaked in oil and sealed with a layer of wax. Anyone who enters the secret passage will involuntarily use these things to keep warm. In addition, use these things to make torches for lighting!"

Speaking of this, Ouyang Leihuo was indeed a little strange, but at the time he was eager to rescue the two children and didn't think much about it. After Lei Yun said this, he suddenly became suspicious.After the gold-type insect repellent carefully designed the secret passage, why did he put those wooden sticks here? "Although these wooden sticks are flammable, the light they burn can't shine too far, and the light reaches only two or three meters. And the gold-type insect repellents took advantage of this, and they designed that At the time of the seventy-two secret paths, the curved part of the secret path was designed to be extremely gentle, far beyond the range that the torches can illuminate, so you think you are walking in one direction all the time, but you don’t know that you are already walking in the same direction. I fell into the trap of a gold-type insect repellent master!" Ouyang Leiyun said eloquently.

After listening to Ouyang Leiyun's words, Ouyang Leihuo immediately admired the short and ugly dwarves of the Jin family. These people can subtly use the tiny details of the twigs into this huge secret passage, People fall into the trap but don't realize it, it's almost hanging.But since all the seventy-two secret paths lead back here, how can we go out? Ouyang Leiyun seemed to have seen through Ouyang Leihuo's mind, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Hehe, the only secret path that can leave this secret room is hidden among the seventy-two secret paths. I just told you These seventy-two secret ways are constantly changing with the twelve hours and the six lines of the 'Kun' hexagram, and the secret way is hidden in this change!"

"That's how it is, so if a person doesn't understand the principle of change, even if he tries all the seventy-two secret ways, he might not be able to get out!" Ouyang Leihuo suddenly realized. "It's not that I'm afraid, it's that I won't be able to get out!" Ouyang Leiyun said with certainty, "Just now I asked you if you heard rustling noises in your ears when you passed through those secret passages!" "Well, the voice is very small and hard to distinguish. I'm afraid I wouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't reminded me!" Ouyang Leihuo recalled.

Ouyang Leiyun said: "Well, the secret chamber of the 'Kun' hexagram is driven by quicksand, and every time there is a change, the quicksand will fall through the narrow gap between the secret passages, so you can hear those sounds !" As soon as Ouyang Leiyun finished speaking, he heard a rustling sound in his ears, and said with a joyful expression on his face, "It's now!" As soon as the words fell, he pulled Ouyang Leihuo into the darkness in front of him. After the rustling sound disappeared, Ouyang Leiyun suddenly stopped. Ouyang Leihuo was puzzled, but he thought that Ouyang Leiyun must have a way , but said nothing.After a while, the rustling sound reappeared, and Ouyang Leiyun hurriedly pulled Ouyang Leihuo to continue walking straight forward in the darkness.According to this method, whenever the sound sounds, they will walk forward for a while, and Ouyang Leiyun will stop when the sound ends. After the sound rises and falls a dozen times, Ouyang Leiyun suddenly stops.

"Leihuo, I'm afraid it's time for us to say goodbye!" Ouyang Leiyun's voice was very heavy.And Ouyang Leihuo vaguely heard something from his words. "What's wrong?" "Give me the torch!" Ouyang Leiyun avoided answering. Ouyang Leihuo lit the wooden stick that had been carried behind him all the time and handed it to Ouyang Leiyun.I saw him take the torch and touch it around, then put the torch on the front wall, a tongue of flame burned along the wall, and then the whole room was illuminated, it turned out that the wall had already been chiseled There are many grooves, and the grooves are filled with lamp oil.

The space here is not too big, only about one or two feet wide. At the end of the secret room is a thick stone door, with a few words written on it: "The terrain is Kun, a gentleman carries things with virtue."In the center of the secret room is a yin-yang fish, and there is a stone pier in the center of the yin-yang fish.Ouyang Leihuo was ecstatic when he saw the Shimen, and ran over in three steps at the same time, looking up and down the Shimen. The Shimen was supported by a huge granite, which was half the size of a room, and its surroundings were closely integrated with the wall. One piece, almost seamless.Ouyang Leihuo pushed the stone door with all his strength, but it didn't move at all. The hope that had just been ignited was shattered in an instant.Just now I heard from Ouyang Leiyun that he has successfully walked out of the labyrinth of the "Kun" hexagram secret room, but here is blocked by this stone door, and it is impossible to push this stone door open by manpower.

He desperately searched for other possible exits in the secret room, but apart from the stone door, the secret room was like half of a stone, without a single gap.He turned his head to look at Ouyang Leiyun dejectedly, only to see Ouyang Leiyun standing there with his head down, sadly staring at the words engraved on the stone gate in a daze. Ouyang Leiyun recited sonorously and forcefully silently: "Geo-kun, a gentleman carries things with virtue!" When these words were spoken from Ouyang Leiyun's mouth, it was like a thousand-year-old curse, and the voice sounded in the secret passage behind him. reverberate. "Brother, what's the matter with you?" Ouyang Leihuo had already walked beside Ouyang Leiyun at this moment, and asked softly. Ouyang Leiyun lowered his head and let out a sigh of relief: "Lei Huo, members of our fire family have always had a violent temper. Thirty years ago, I was even more youthful and energetic. I couldn't resist the temptation of others and almost made a big mistake. I think Now is the time for me to make amends!" "Brother, what do you mean?" Ouyang Leihuo frowned and looked at Ouyang Leiyun.I saw Ouyang Leiyun suddenly smiled relievedly, patted Ouyang Leihuo on the shoulder and said: "Leihuo, I think my father did not choose the wrong person back then. If the Ouyang family of the fire department really fell into my hands, I am afraid that it would have already declined. In vain I have studied this Fuxi gossip all my life, but I have turned a blind eye to the truth in it, and I am determined to go my own way!" "A gentleman carries things with virtue!" Ouyang Leiyun said with a long breath, "Leihuo, there are two parts to the secret room of the 'Kun' hexagram. The secret path in the first part requires your wisdom to leave, but this part is only You can only leave with virtue, I am afraid this is the meaning of the saying on the stone gate that a gentleman carries his virtues!" After speaking, Ouyang Leiyun slowly took steps, walked towards the stone pier in the center of the secret room, and stood on the stone pier. Ouyang Leiyun in front stopped.He turned his head and said to Ouyang Leihuo: "Leihuo, when you entered the secret room, you should have found that there are only layers of yellow sand in the secret room of the hexagram 'Kun', not even a single stone!" "En!" Ouyang Leihuo had already discovered this, but he didn't think too much about the reason. At this moment, Ouyang Leiyun couldn't tell the reason when he asked himself. Ouyang Leiyun smiled, and then slowly sat on the stone pier behind him. The stone pier sank down when Ouyang Leiyun sat like this, and then the secret room began to vibrate, and the sand on the roof They fell one after another, and the sound of "rumbling" sounded in the ears at the same time.As the noise and vibration became more and more intense, the stone gate in front began to shake slightly, a small gap appeared at the connection between the stone gate and the ground, and the gap gradually became bigger and bigger, and the huge stone gate was crushed. Pull it up, and a tunnel appears in front of you. Seeing this situation, Ouyang Leihuo was overjoyed. It turned out that the stone door, which was almost impossible to open, was opened so easily. However, his joy only lasted for a moment. When Ouyang Leiyun stood up, the stone pier quickly rebounded .The stone door that was pulled up with difficulty instantly fell down, making a "boom".This opening and closing made Ouyang Leihuo suddenly realize that the way to open the stone gate is to push down the stone pier.There is not a single stone in the secret room, and if one wants to push down the stone pier, a person must sit on it.Once the person sitting on the stone pier leaves the stone door, it will be closed immediately, so fast that the person on the stone pier has no time to escape from the secret room. "A gentleman carries his virtues!" Ouyang Leihuo finally understood the meaning of these words.From the beginning of the design of this secret room, someone must be willing to stay in it, and the person who is willing to stay must be a person of great virtue. Ouyang Leiyun stood up and walked slowly to Leihuo and said: "Leihuo, after you leave here, you will be able to enter the connecting secret passage in the secret room, and then you will enter the next secret room. Only the two of you will belong to the yin and attribute Open all the eight secret chambers in Yang, and the secret passage leading to the center will appear, and the next three secret chambers are all heavily traps, and if you are not careful, you will die!" Ouyang Leiyun took out the secret passage from his arms. A picture was handed to Ouyang Leihuo and said, "This is the result of my thirty-five years of painstaking research in prison. You just need to follow the above instructions with it, and I think you should be able to leave here smoothly!" "No, no, there must be another way!" Ouyang Leihuo refused to accept the picture for a long time, "Didn't you enter the secret room alone thirty-five years ago and then leave safely? How did you leave back then? of?" "Hehe!" Ouyang Leiyun said with a wry smile, "Actually, I was not the only one who entered this secret path back then!" "Who else?" Ouyang Leihuo asked. "Don't ask any more, if you continue to waste time here, I'm afraid the lives of those two children will be in danger!" Ouyang Leiyun stuffed the blueprint into Ouyang Leihuo's hands, pushed him to the front of the stone gate, and then looked at himself Sitting on the stone pier, there was another roar, and the stone door slowly opened. Ouyang Leihuo stood at the door, staring blankly at Ouyang Leiyun.Ouyang Leiyun said angrily: "Leave quickly, save those two children!" Ouyang Leihuo nodded, knelt on the ground with two lines of tears streaming from the corners of his eyes, kowtowed three times, and put the blueprint in his arms , lit the torch in his hand and jumped out of the stone gate into the secret passage.As soon as he entered the secret passage, Ouyang Leiyun stood up, and the stone door suddenly fell down without leaving a single gap. Ouyang Leiyun finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Ouyang Leihuo leave. He looked around the secret room and finally his eyes fell on the northeast corner of the secret room.He walked slowly towards that direction. On the stone wall in the corner, there was a line of small and fine characters carved with a knife: "My fate is up to me... Ouyang Leiyun!" He couldn't help but see this line of words Laughed out loud with self-deprecation, the laughter was full of desolation, thirty-five years, thirty-five years, if that person hadn't appeared back then, I'm afraid I would have been trapped and died here thirty-five years ago, I can't think of the time Thirty-five years had passed, but he was still trapped here to death after all.He breathed a sigh of relief and sat in the corner of the wall, gently stroking with one hand the heroic words he carved on the wall of the secret room thirty-five years ago, but at this moment his state of mind was completely different, he was relieved, everything was like is a dream.At this moment, he has completely let go. If there is anything worth worrying about, it is about the wood-type gentleman. His body shape and footwork are too similar to that person... There was the sound of quicksand passing through the gap again in his ears, and he was the only one left in the secret room of "Kun" waiting alone, or what he was waiting for was the final end.In the past thirty-five years, although he was imprisoned in a dark room, he never felt a trace of fear and loneliness. He knew that he would leave there one day sooner or later.But at this moment, he felt colder than ever before. He began to miss the bright sunshine outside, the vast desert, the vast starry sky, and the chattering katydids under the starry sky... The autumn night breeze brought a slight coolness, and the katydids on the sycamore trees in the yard seemed to have realized that time was running out, and they all tried their best to sing, call for friends, and perform the final carnival.This is an inconspicuous courtyard house in Dongjiaomin Lane. Guan Xiu was pacing back and forth under the plane tree with a cigarette in his hand, and the ground was covered with extinguished cigarette butts.After parting with Takeda in the restaurant, Guan Xiu's heart was full of turmoil along the way. Takeda's words convinced him that there must be one of the insect repellent masters who secretly had an affair with the Japanese, which was consistent with Geng Nian's guess.If this is the case, I am afraid that the insect repellent master who had an affair with the Japanese is the person hiding in the Paoju Prison. When he saw that figure from the back in the secret passage, he vaguely felt that the figure seemed familiar. But I can't remember where I saw it.However, when he was talking with Takeda, he suddenly thought of a person. As soon as this person's back appeared in his mind, he couldn't help shaking suddenly, as if his body was soaked in cold water instantly. The insect repellent who cheated on the Japanese was really him... Guan Xiu couldn't imagine what the consequences would be! The person he suspected was his master Pan Changyuan, the old man who had been seriously injured and unconscious since leaving Beiping to cover Pan Jun and others.From then on, Guan Xiu hid it in a very secret courtyard in Dongjiaomin Lane, and sent someone to look after it day and night, but for some reason he never woke up.It is actually very simple to prove whether Pan Changyuan is the insect repellent who had the affair with the Japanese. If he has been staying in the courtyard, he is certainly not. If he has been just pretending to be unconscious, then he must have left during this time.Thinking of Guan Xiu rushing back to this courtyard house in Dongjiaomin Lane without stopping, and gently opening the door to enter the courtyard, Guan Xiu hesitated for a moment.Pan Changyuan is his master and has no children. He has always regarded himself as his own, and taught him the art of repelling insects.If it was really Pan Changyuan, would he be able to make a ruthless move against him? He hesitated, as if there was a monster struggling in his heart. Guan Xiu had always been a person who was calm and undisturbed, but at this moment his mind was in a state of confusion.On the one hand, Geng Nian who died under the gun to protect his identity, Long Qing who committed suicide in order to find out the secrets of Paoju Prison, and Pan Jun who went to Xinjiang to find a grass teacher; on the other hand, he treated himself like his own son. Master, where should we go?Guan Xiu snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand, touched his body again, only to find that the cigarette case was empty at this time, he let out a long breath and looked up at the Milky Way in the sky, his chaotic mood gradually calmed down a lot.He made up his mind and walked inside.As soon as he entered the door, the servant who had been watching over Pan Changyuan immediately greeted him and said, "Why do you have time to come here today?" "En!" Guan Xiu nodded speciously.He was about to walk towards Pan Changyuan's room, but he stopped and turned to the servant and said, "Is... is he awake?" The servant shook his head helplessly and said, "You told me that if the old man wakes up, he must notify you as soon as possible, but he has been sleeping and shows no sign of waking up!" Hearing this sentence, Guan Xiu showed a relieved smile on his face, which made the servant feel a little puzzled.However, Guan Xiu didn't pay attention to these things, and walked towards Pan Changyuan's room at a leisurely pace, pushing away the electric light in the room, Pan Changyuan was covered with a white quilt and covered his head.Sitting at the head of Pan Changyuan's bed, Guan Xiu's hanging heart finally fell to the ground. He gently pulled off the quilt covering Pan Changyuan's head, and he was stunned for an instant.There were only a few pillows under the quilt, Guan Xiu suddenly felt his blood congealed, his mind went blank, he stood up suddenly and shouted to the outside: "Come here!" The servant heard Guan Xiu's shout and ran all the way to the room.Seeing that Guan Xiu was furious at this moment, he pointed to the empty bed and said, "Where is the person?" The servant was dumbfounded when he saw the situation on the bed, rubbing the corners of his clothes with his hands and said aggrievedly: "At noon... when the lunch was delivered at noon, it was obviously still there. exist……" "Have you entered this room after lunch delivery?" Guan Xiu tried to calm down his mind and asked. "No...no..." the servant said nonchalantly, "You...you told me not to disturb the old man if there is no special matter, so we usually only come in when delivering meals!" Guan Xiu clenched his fist tightly and slammed it heavily on the table beside him, making a "bang" sound, and the teacup on the table was shaken to the ground.The servant's body trembled suddenly, and he stood at the door with his head lowered in bewilderment.Guan Xiu paused for a moment, sighed and said calmly, "I don't blame you, you can go out!" The servant bowed as if he had been pardoned, closed the door and left the room.Guan Xiu was sitting weakly on the chair beside the bed at this time, like a deflated rubber ball, the thing that worried him most happened.But he still refuses to believe that the exterminator who had adultery with the Japanese would be his master.After thinking for a while, his thoughts gradually became clear. The most urgent thing is to find the other person Geng Nian said before he died. Thinking of this, Guan Xiu got up and left Dongjiaomin Lane in a hurry. A rickshaw hurried to the direction of the Guandi Temple in the west of the city. Guan Xiu sat in the car but his heart was still restless. He was recalling and looking for clues to convince himself.The exorcist who had liaised with the Japanese knew everything about the Pan family must be a member of the Pan family, and there were only three people in the Pan family who could tell Takeda about that period of history, and one was Pan, who passed away many years ago. Jun's father Pan Yingxuan, one is his master Pan Changyuan, and the other is Pan Jun who is far away in Xinjiang.Although Guan Xiu tried to convince himself repeatedly and excused his master, all the evidence points to him alone, which is simply an indisputable fact.Thinking of this, Guan Xiu's heart seemed to be soaked in a cold cellar. He only hoped that this time he could find the person Geng Nian mentioned, and discuss some countermeasures as soon as possible. After about an hour, the rickshaw stopped in front of the dilapidated Guandi Temple. After Guan Xiu got off the car and paid the fare, he walked into the Guandi Temple alone.The same as when he came before, the Guandi Temple was still deserted. After entering the gate, the yard was overgrown with wild grass. Occasionally, a few grasshoppers in the grass were startled by his footsteps. The Guandi Temple was not big. I went outside and looked around, but there was not even a ghost.Guan Xiu took out the Ming Gui he was wearing, and tapped the Ming Gui lightly a few times according to the formula Geng Nian said, and the Ming Gui immediately "lived" as if it had been infused with life.It squeaked and ran around in the grass, Guan Xiu stared at the bright ghost, as usual, once the bright ghost arrived at Guandi Temple, it would spin around in front of Master Guan's statue, Guan Xiu touched his body and took out an empty cigarette case from his pocket.He threw the cigarette case on the ground with some disappointment, but at this moment his eyes were attracted by a shiny object under the statue of Master Guan.It was a very small hole that had been polished and smooth, and the smooth wall of the hole shone with a gleam of light.Guan Xiu bowed his body and observed the small hole, which was just the right size for Ming Gui.He grabbed the Ming ghost on the ground and carefully put it into the hole. There was no gap between the Ming ghost and the hole, and it went straight in. There was a "click" sound from inside, and then the statue of Master Guan rotated to the side to reveal an entrance behind.He hesitated for a moment, and got in through the hole. Entering the narrow entrance of the cave, the inside gradually widened. Guan Xiu took out the lighter he carried with him and lit it, and walked forward fumblingly. Walking out four or five meters along the entrance, the cave suddenly turned around, and faintly saw a faint light coming from the opposite side. .Confused, Guan Xiu put out the lighter, then took out the gun that was pinned to his waist, loaded it lightly, and tiptoed forward.As the light became brighter, a small secret room appeared in front of him. A person was sitting in front of a table with his back facing him, seemingly unaware of his presence. At this moment, a cat suddenly jumped out from the corner of the wall and came straight to Guan Xiu. Guan Xiu was caught off guard, and the cat "meowed" on Guan Xiu's face.At this moment, the man suddenly said: "Midnight, come back!" The cat heard the voice of the owner, jumped off Guan Xiu's body and went straight to the man's table, and jumped onto the table with a little effort. table. And Guan Xiu also recognized the voice of that person at this time, he held the gun in his hand and looked at the familiar figure in front of him with frowning and said, "Who are you?" I felt that the man trembled suddenly when he heard his voice, and then said softly: "Guan Xiu? Why is it you? Where is Geng Nian?" Hearing him talking about Guan Xiu in the Geng Nian, he was even more puzzled: "Could it be you who the Geng Nian said could continue to complete that task?" At this time, the man stood up slowly, put his hands in the air, and turned his head.This person is none other than his master. Pan Changyuan, who had been in a coma until now, was looking radiant, calm, and calm. He was sizing up Guan Xiu with almost the same gaze as Guan Xiu. .He took a long breath and said, "Well, the person who made and implemented that plan with Geng Nian is me!" "How could it be?" Guan Xiu was at a loss for a while holding the gun. On the way, he kept fighting in his heart. He wanted to persuade himself to excuse the master, but the final result made him more sure that the one who betrayed the exterminator The family member is Pan Changyuan.It took only a moment for him to discover that the person who made the plan with Geng Nian was actually Pan Changyuan again.The feeling of falling into hell and returning to heaven in an instant made him at a loss what to do. "Why not?" Pan Changyuan saw that Guan Xiu had been holding his gun with suspicion on his face, and said, "But, why are you here, Geng Nian?" "In Geng Nian..." Guan Xiu felt a lump in his throat when he said this, "He... died!" Hearing this, Pan Changyuan had a sad expression on his face, he raised his head and said with a long breath, "When did it happen?" "About half a month ago!" Guan Xiu suddenly said coldly at this point, "How did you convince me that you were the person I was looking for in Geng Nian?" "Guan Xiu, don't you even believe me?" Pan Changyuan didn't know what happened to Guan Xiu, so he was naturally extremely puzzled by Guan Xiu's attitude towards him at this time.Seeing that Guan Xiu was pointing the gun at himself indifferently, he smiled slightly, picked up a letter from the table and handed it to Guan Xiu, "If you don't believe me, just read this!" Holding the gun in his hand, Guan Xiu cautiously approached Pan Changyuan, took out the letter from his hand, and unfolded the letter with one hand. The letter was written by Geng Nian to Pan Changyuan, and it was indeed Geng Nian's handwriting.When he was sure, he put down the gun in his hand, "Plop" knelt on the ground and said regretfully, "Master, I'm sorry, but I have experienced too many things and I don't know who I can trust!" Pan Changyuan quickly helped Guan Xiu up and said softly: "Get up quickly, Geng Nian and I discussed whether to tell you my real identity, but after much deliberation, we decided not to tell you about it for the time being. You know too much Instead, you will be timid when you do things, and it is easier to show your flaws!" "Your real identity?" Guan Xiu looked at the master in amazement, feeling that the person in front of him seemed extremely strange. "Well, my real identity!" Sitting in front of the table, Pan Changyuan stretched out his hand to signal Guan Xiu to sit down, and then said, "Everyone only knows that I am from the Pan family of Mu family, Pan Jun's uncle, but almost no one knows. I have another identity!" "Another layer of identity?" Guan Xiu stared dumbfounded at the familiar but now unfamiliar master. "That's right, everyone in the Pan family thought that I was disqualified from being a gentleman of the wood family because of my hot temper, but in fact it was because of my other identity that I rejected the gentleman of the wood family!" Pan Changyuan said softly He stroked the cat beside him and said. "Then who are you?" Guan Xiu asked curiously. "That's a long story!" Pan Changyuan said quietly, "The family of insect repellents has existed since ancient times. According to legend, the earliest family of insect repellents was in the time of Fuxi, who was called the head of a snake. Divide the insects in the world into five categories, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. In order to make the world stable, he handed over the secrets of the five insects to the monarchs of all dynasties. There will often be some people with evil intentions among them. Since those who get the insects will win the world, why can they only be used by others as a family of insect repellents? , a mysterious organization that also masters the secret technique of repelling insects came into being, and that organization is Heaven's Punishment!" "Heavenly Punishment?" Guan Xiu heard this word for the first time and looked at Master curiously. "Well, the difference from the exterminator family is that the insect repellent technique mastered by the Sky Punishment Organization is extremely vicious. Their secret insect repellent technique has only one purpose, and that is to eradicate all those who destroy the balance of the exterminator family!" Pan Changyuan said calmly, "The members of Sky Punishment are also composed of two parts, one of which belongs to the five-line insect repellent family. They stir up conflicts and disputes within the insect repellent family to prevent the relationship between the insect repellent families from being too close. .And others are exterminator killers, they are the last resort to eradicate those instigators in the exterminator family!" "Then Master, you also belong to Heaven's Punishment?" Guan Xiu has always been smart, and Pan Changyuan understood what he meant when he said this. "Well, I joined the Heavenly Punishment at the age of twenty!" Pan Changyuan recalled, "Shortly after my identity was discovered by my father, because my father was the instigator of the massacre of the Shi family in the Xiangxi water system more than 70 years ago, so He was extremely afraid of Heavenly Punishment. He threatened me to withdraw from Heavenly Punishment with his wealth and life. From then on, my father was inseparable from me. Until he passed away, he asked me to make a solemn oath not to leave Shuangge for the first step, otherwise I would definitely not be able to leave. It’s so decapitated.” "So that's how it is!" Guan Xiu asked curiously after thinking for a while while listening, "But you still didn't leave the Heavenly Punishment!" "When my father was around, I did cut off contact with Tianxuan. Later, because of an incident, Tianxuan found me again!" Pan Changyuan said lightly. "What's the matter?" Guan Xiu asked, he didn't know anything about Tian Punishment before, and now he was naturally curious when he heard about such a mysterious organization. "It was a summer night twenty-five years ago. People from Tianxuan suddenly came to Shuanggedi in Beiping. I was very curious when I saw them, because at that time I had no contact with Tianxuan for more than ten years. It’s over. When the people from Heaven’s Punishment came, they told me straight to the point that what they were worried about had happened again! Someone was secretly contacting the big families of the insect repellent master, and was secretly looking for the trace of the human grass master. To get the secret of the insect repellent master and subvert the world!" Pan Changyuan said and shook his head, "And that person is none other than my younger brother—Pan Yingxuan, a gentleman of the wood family at that time! A family of insect repellent masters asked him to find the secret room that was said to hide the final secret of the insect repellent master. On the one hand, he persuaded the gentleman of the earth-type insect repellent master to make him the key to destiny that could open the secret chamber! Relying on his status as an imperial physician, he colluded with the royal family and set up a trap secretly, defrauding the Heluo box from the Jin family!" "Pan Yingxuan?" Guan Xiu said uncertainly, "Is it Pan Jun's little uncle's father?" "Yes, the Heavenly Punishment group had no leader at that time. The leader of the Heavenly Punishment had always been a gentleman of the water department. However, after the Shi family of the Xiangxi Water Department was wiped out more than 70 years ago, the Water Department could no longer find a successor. Therefore, they hoped that I could become a new The leader of the Heavenly Punishment, come to deal with this matter! I have considered again and again, one side is the relatives of the flesh and blood, and the other is the righteousness of the world. If I do not become the leader of the Heavenly Punishment, I am afraid that the Heavenly Punishment will start to eradicate it. If I become the leader, it may not be able to delay Let’s take a look at the time of action, and use this opportunity to persuade my brother that there is still a chance. So I agreed to become the leader of the Heavenly Punishment!” Pan Changyuan said flatly, “Sure enough, the Heavenly Punishment organization delayed the eradication operation, so I used this opportunity to attack my brother. Pan Yingxuan is an extremely smart person, and after talking two or three times, he already knew the pros and cons. Therefore, he agreed to give up the plan to win over the five-series insect repellent, and he took his wife away from home. The five-series insect repellent On the surface, it gradually became balanced again!" "Then..." Guan Xiu stared into Pan Changyuan's eyes and said. "Oh! It's just that I believed his words too much at the time. He hid secretly for five years just to avoid the punishment of heaven. Five years later, when he returned to the capital, Pan Jun was already full moon, and he said that Pan Jun's His mother died of hemorrhage when Pan Jun was born. He kept secret about what happened in the previous five years. After returning to Peking, he seldom went out. Apart from taking care of the daily affairs of the Cordyceps Hall in Peking City, he closed the door to thank guests. It was so peaceful After spending seven years on Earth, the Heavenly Punishment reappeared, but this time the news brought by the Heavenly Punishment shocked me. According to legend, besides the five clans of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, there is another kind of insect repellent, called As a human herb master. The human herb master's whereabouts are surreptitious and extremely mysterious, and few people know that he is almost proficient in the insect repellent techniques of all schools of the insect repellent master family, and the human grass he planted is the most insidious insect repellent technique of the Heavenly Punishment Organization—— The only antidote to health preservation. More importantly, they know how to use the secret treasures of the various departments of the insect repellent family to reveal the ultimate secret of the insect repellent family. But the news brought by the Heavenly Punishment Organization this time is that the human grass master is afraid Already killed, two corpses that had been burnt to the point of inhumanity were found in the hermit's place, presumably one is the human herb master, and the other is the human herb master's wife! Found this on the same day Immediately after that, they launched an investigation, and after seven years, they finally discovered that the death of the cursive master seems to have an inseparable relationship with Pan Yingxuan!" Pan Changyuan sighed at this point. "Could it be that the five years he traveled away from home was looking for a human grass master and waiting for an opportunity to kill him?" Guan Xiu said in horror. "Sky Punishment was also suspicious at that time, but I still couldn't believe it. So I postponed the eradication of Sky Punishment again. I found Pan Yingxuan overnight, and this time I explained to him straight to the point, hoping that he would tell me the truth , but he told me that this matter had nothing to do with him at all, and promised me that he would never leave the Pan family for half a step. He said so and I believed him again. In the next few years, he really kept his promise, God Punishment subsided again. Yet a chance encounter seven years later wiped out what little trust I had in him." "What happened?" Guan Xiu asked. “在七年之后的一天夜里天惩再次找到我，当他们找到我的时候其中几个人已经虚弱不堪，面色苍白，我立刻给几个人号了脉。那是我见过的最为奇特的脉象，似沉脉般平和，又似虚脉般无力。我木系潘家自幼便研习岐黄之术，更兼木系驱虫之术中本也有治病救人之法，因此几乎所有的疑难杂症都不在话下。可是对于那些人却束手无策。一时之间我焦急万分，正在此时我忽然想起一件事，那就是摄生术。天惩多年之前掌握着一种最为阴毒的驱虫之术便是摄生术，中者除了人草之外再无其他解药。我立刻翻出典籍，终于发现他们的症状竟然和摄生术一般无二。据说天惩虽然掌握着摄生术，然而多年之前却出现了两个叛徒，企图利用摄生术为祸，最后在天水城中引起一场极为罕见的瘟疫。从那之后摄生术便被天惩之人严密封锁了起来，以至于流传到后世早已不知所终。当时那场瘟疫，时任木系君子的潘守仁曾经参与过，而且在临行之时带走了几枚虫卵。如果说这世上还有谁会摄生术的话恐怕也只有木系潘家了！”潘昌远说着哀叹道，“那几个人在摄生术的折磨中痛苦地死去，而与此同时我也下达了对潘颖轩的铲除令！” “不过事有凑巧，在那道命令下达不久之后潘颖轩却突然死在了土系君子冯万春的手中！”潘昌远淡淡地说道，“潘颖轩死后这一切终于再次归于平静，这平静一直持续到两年前，两年前爱新觉罗·庚年不知从何处打听到了我的身份，忽然来到了双鸽第！他告诉我一件让我更为惊异的事情，那就是日本人一直觊觎我们的驱虫之术，他怀疑在驱虫师家族之中有内奸，至于这个内奸是谁，以及他的目的却不得而知！”潘昌远淡淡地回忆道。 “起初对于庚年所言我并不在意，因为五系驱虫师家族各自当家，有些家族门徒众多，其间出现一两个败类也是在所难免。然而庚年似乎早已经猜到了我会有此反应，于是立刻从怀里掏出一张照片，那张照片上死者的尸体竟然数月不腐。在看到那张照片的一瞬间我便惊出声来，那照片上的人显然是中了摄生术，于是立刻向其追问那张照片的来历以及拍摄时间。庚年说那张照片中的场景是他偶然在北京城南的一处破旧的瓦窑中发现的。那个原本以为已经消失的如同噩梦般的摄生术再次重现，让我彻夜未眠，潘颖轩死后，这摄生术便也随之销声匿迹了，可是现在摄生术再次出现，究竟意味着什么？第二天我便找到了庚年，我们暗中制订了一个引蛇出洞的计划。一方面将那些感染了摄生术的尸体用火焚烧掉，而另一方面则静观其变，当时我们的信息太少，根本弄不清对方究竟是何身份，如果他们想要达到目的的话必定会加紧行动，而行动越多所露出的马脚必定会越多！”潘昌远说到这里感觉口干舌燥，管修连忙拿起桌上的茶壶为他倒了一杯水。潘昌远微微笑了笑，接过茶碗喝光之后接着说道：“这一等就是两年的时间，这两年内庚年和天惩的人经常会发现一些死于摄生术的尸体，然而却没有进一步的行动，这令我和庚年都十分不解。而两年之后忽然有一天欧阳雷火的到来却令这一切变得豁然开朗了，他们终于再也忍耐不住开始行动了，现在正是整个计划的关键！” “原来是这样！”管修听完潘昌远所说不禁长叹了一口气，心中种种的谜团一点点地被解开了，忽然他想起什么，说道，“对了师父，今天我又从一个日本人的口中得知了一件事！”接着管修将武田对他所说的话一五一十地转告了潘昌远，在管修诉说的大半个时辰里，潘昌远始终面无表情。当他说完之后潘昌远陷入了沉思，片刻之后潘昌远才伏在管修的耳边低声耳语了几句。