Martial Lord

What Wu Xie didn't expect was that as soon as they entered Huo's house, they were given a big blow.

A group of people entered Huo's mansion in a mighty manner, but there was no master in the hall.The butler claimed that Huo Xiangu was ill recently and it was inconvenient to see guests, so all guests were asked to rest in the guest room first.

Wu Xie didn't think much about it at first, it's normal for the old lady to have a headache, but judging from the faces of everyone, he obviously thought things too simply.This trip was invited by Huo Xiangu on her own initiative, there is no reason to refuse to see the invited guests no matter what.The Huo family is still the head of the woman. If Mrs. Huo really got seriously ill, the Huo family would be in chaos.Wu Xie really couldn't think of any other reason for the old lady Huo's arrangement, other than playing tricks.Isn't she afraid that Zhang Qiling will be impatient and walk away?

Just as he was thinking, a delicate voice brought him back to his senses——

"Brother Wu Xie, please stay safe."

The curtain was lifted, and a little girl came out from the inner room. She was fair-skinned, pretty and lovely, and she was the one who helped him in Jinling that day.

"You are... Xiuxiu?"

Under Xie Yuchen's reminders all the way, Wu Xie finally remembered that this beautiful little girl was Huo Xiuxiu, and she was Huo Xiangu's granddaughter.In the early years, when the Wu family had not withdrawn from the arena, they would also participate in the Nine Gates Gathering. At that time, Wu Xie was introverted and rejected by other children, so he only got to play with Xiaohua and Xiuxiu.Not wanting to see each other for so many years, he actually forgot even this past event.

The little girl from the Eighteenth Transformation of the Female University blinked playfully, and said, "How about it, Brother Wu Xie, I said I would see you again."

Wu Xie scratched her head with a dry smile. On the one hand, she was embarrassed by her own forgetfulness, and on the other hand, she also felt that the Huo family's women were really unusual, and even such a little girl was good at calculating.

Since Huo Xiangu didn't see any visitors, they couldn't just wait in the hall.It was getting late, and after everyone had dinner, they were taken into the wing by the Huo family.Wu Xie's room was not in the same room as the others, probably out of consideration for his status as a member of the Nine Clans. He was placed in the east of where the young master and miss of the Huo family lived, next to Xiaohua, and Xiuxiu was across the courtyard wall.There was nothing wrong with such an arrangement, but Wu Xie was always a little uneasy.There is a distance from the West Wing, and it is inconvenient to take a detour. He offered to move to the Wing, but was told that the Wing was not used by anyone on weekdays, so he hadn't cleaned up the extra rooms.Unexpectedly, Zhang Daxia once again said something astonishing——

"Wu Xie lives with me."

After finishing speaking, he ignored everyone's surprised eyes and left calmly. Shopkeeper Xiao Wu behind him was embarrassed to find that everyone's eyes were on him again.

"Well... let's do this first! I have something to do with my little brother, so let's go first!"

Although I am very sorry for Xiaohua and Xiuxiu's kindness, but now that even Chen Pi Asi has suddenly tagged him with "life and death don't matter", he really has to be cautious.Compared to the old lady Huo whom he had never met before, and the eccentric Huo Xiuxiu, he still felt that being by his brother's side was the safest and most at ease.

Huo Xiuxiu looked at the backs of the two men with some differences, and asked Xie Yuchen puzzledly: "Brother Wu Xie has been kidnapped? Why do you listen to that dumb Zhang?"

Thinking of what she had seen and heard along the way, Xiaohua shook her head and sighed, "It's okay if it's kidnapping, but I'm afraid it was done willingly."

He knew about Wu Xie's departure from home a long time ago. He had guessed that it would have something to do with Zhang Qiling, but he didn't expect Wu Xie to be so persistent.There are tens of thousands of roads in the world, but he, a foolish young man, wants to get into the most difficult situation with the most dangerous person - he is really possessed by evil spirits.

After dinner, Wu Xie followed Zhang Qiling back to the wing room, still worrying about what to do if the bed was too small.As soon as he saw Zhang Qiling's residence, he understood Zhang Daxia's intentions.

It turns out that the Huo family also knows how to treat them differently.What kind of "guest room" is Zhang Qiling's residence? It is a single courtyard with complete furniture and decorations. At the entrance is an exquisite large screen with landscapes, flowers and birds. .In such a room, not to mention living in an extra person, even the fat man would stay there when he came over, but the same reason, it's too easy to tamper with.This place is remote and spacious, even if the Huo Mansion makes any big moves, there will never be any movement inside, it is hard to guard against

Thanks to the drug, Wu Xie slept a lot during the day, and now he is overly energetic.As soon as there were no outsiders, he immediately took off the copper fish in his shirt to have a look.He had a premonition that everything about the martial arts, about the Zhang family, about my little brother, and about himself must all have something to do with this thing.

"Brother, is this why you came to Wu Shandang?"

Wu Xie contacted the cause and effect, and deduced this conclusion on the way.He tried to grasp this clue and came up with a train of thought, but there were still many details unknown.Since the little brother was looking for this copper fish, why didn't he take it away?Even if he snatched it by force, he had nothing to do. Of course, if Zhang Daxia asked, he would not refuse.Could it be that the little brother feels embarrassed to take his things for nothing?

"Not all." Zhang Qiling took the copper fish in Wu Xie's palm, and his eyes suddenly changed.

Wu Xie followed his line of sight, and couldn't help being surprised: "What's going on?"

The copper fish has been kept by Wu Xie close to him since he was a child, and he is very familiar with every pattern. The one in front of him is obviously the snake-browed copper fish that his grandfather left him.But at this moment, there are a few more lines of subtle marks on the "eyebrows" of the copper fish.If it is not someone who is very familiar with this fish, it will be difficult to find it.

With a flash of light in Zhang Qiling's eyes, he immediately placed the copper fish on the table, took rice paper to cover it, and pressed it gently. After a while, a dark red mark was left on the rice paper, which looked like a fingerprint at first glance, but upon closer inspection If you look at it, you can find that the lines under these rubbings are quite regular and don't seem to be formed naturally.

"Look, little brother!" Wu Xie was shocked again.

I saw that after the trace was rubbed, the lines on the copper fish disappeared.No, it can't be said to disappear. If you study and compare carefully, you can still find clues, but the lines are too detailed. Unless there are impurities sneaking into the gaps, it is really difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.From this point of view, the copper fish is still the original copper fish and has not changed. These traces were also there before, but they never noticed it.In order to confirm this guess, Wu Xie tried rubbing with ink again, but in the end he only got a few black ideas without any mystery.

"It's blood." Zhang Qiling said, "This is your blood."

It was only then that Wu Xie remembered that although the wound on his neck was not deep, the collarbone was also stained with blood because it was not discovered in time. It must have been at that time that the fish saw the blood and came back to life.

Wu Xie wanted to get some more blood for verification, but was stopped by Zhang Qiling.The man pushed the scabbard with one hand and rubbed the back of his hand—the knife was only a quarter out of the scabbard, and the tip of his left finger was already bleeding profusely, soaking the copper fish on the table thoroughly.

"What are you doing!" Wu Xie said in shock.

This loser!How could a fish eyebrow need so much blood, and he still planned to raise fish with blood?

Zhang Daxia moved so fast that Wu Xie had no time to react, so he could only help him stop the bleeding.As if Zhang Qiling had never heard of it, he let Wu Xie toss with one hand, and picked up the second piece of paper with the other hand and said to Wu Xie, "Look."

Wu Xie took a closer look and couldn't help but let out a "huh".Only the area between the fish eyebrows is bright red, how can there be any fine lines?

What the hell is going on here, it's also blood, why can't it be done.

"Let's try with my blood again." Wu Xie wanted to touch the ancient black gold sword, but Zhang Qiling stopped him.

"No need, this one is enough." He said, carefully putting away the blood-stained rice paper.

"Brother, what the hell is going on?" Wu Xie found that since he knew Zhang Qiling, he had asked him the most about this sentence.This time it's about him, so he can't be fooled by Zhang Daxia's vague words.

"This is a way to hide information. Only the blood of a special person can be integrated into the gaps in the lines, thereby rubbing the information on it."

There is such a technique, Wu Xie is speechless, to engrave the lines so finely that it is almost invisible to the naked eye, one can imagine what kind of ingenious workmanship is required.He had heard of people who could sculpt lifelike characters on peach pits, and now there are people who can carve characters on fish eyebrows, which is too high-end.And Wu Xie is even more puzzling——

"What kind of information is it that requires such a lot of trouble?"

"It's a map," Zhang Qiling said, "What is engraved on this copper fish is a map."

Wu Xie recalled that small mark, the lines on it were horizontal, vertical, vertical, curved, straight and straight, and it was a mess.Since it is a map, there must be some markings, such as going left and then going right, turning right when you see a big tree in front of you, seeing a well and then drilling down, like this?

Zhang Qiling continued: "This is a shrunken map, which cannot be seen clearly with the naked eye. This is only a part of it. To get a complete answer, another copper fish is needed."

"Is this fish a couple?"

"No, it's a set, connected end to end, there are three in total. One is with you, one is with Zhang's, and what I'm looking for is the other."

"So Xiangu Huo said that the fish is with her, which means that the last snake eyebrow copper fish is in Huo's house?" Now Wu Xie finally got a clue.

Zhang Qiling nodded, it seemed that he believed Huo Xiangu's words.

After thinking about it, Wu Xie finally asked: "Brother, forgive me, can you tell me what kind of map this is? Is what you are looking for related to your current situation?"

Generally speaking, all the "treasures" that appear on the map, but even gold and silver mountains are things outside the body. The little brother really doesn't seem like a person who will rush around for such things.He thought, to make the little brother pay so much attention, it must be something more important than treasures.

Zhang Qiling looked at Wu Xie, and suddenly said: "That's something that everyone in the world wants, and it's not an exaggeration to call it the ultimate."

"People in the world...do you want it too?"

Zhang Qiling shook his head: "I'm looking for it precisely because I don't need it."

This is too contradictory. If you don't need it, why look for it?Could it be that the "thing" would be entrusted to my little brother in a dream every night, saying come to me, come to me, my little brother felt very annoying so he decided to kill "it" with his own hands?Okay, stop talking... Wu Xie thought for a while, but still couldn't understand the mystery.He shook his head and said frankly: "To be honest, I still don't understand, but according to you, you must do this, right?"

"Yes." Zhang Qiling said.

Wu Xie nodded and said, "Okay, then let's look for it together."

Zhang Qiling was taken aback.

Wu Xie met his eyes, and then realized that his attitude was a little too natural, and hurriedly said: "Well... Fatty and I will help you, we are friends! And my blood seems to be useful, although not I don’t know if it works all the time, but it’s always worth a try.”

Now that he already knew that the little brother was looking for the Snake Eyebrow Copperfish, and his physique was inexplicably able to help, then he absolutely had no reason to stand idly by.The little brother is kind to him, and the little brother's business is his business.What's more, this matter may have something to do with the Wu family. He had a hunch that as long as the mystery of Tongyu was solved, many things would be solved.

"Ah," Wu Xie thought suddenly, "Chen Pi Ah Si wanted to kill me, is it because of this?"

Zhang Qiling shook his head: "No, these are two things. He wants to kill you because once I die, you will be the first successor to the martial arts leader."

Wu Xie frowned.

Although it was not the first time he had heard similar conclusions, he still felt that this matter was too unbelievable.It's ridiculous that he, a small boss who doesn't even know martial arts, suddenly became a candidate for the leader of the martial arts that everyone is looking forward to.Who the hell made this so-called "long-term agreement"?Could it be grandpa?If so, grandpa must have worked so hard to find a great job for his unborn grandson more than 30 years in advance. He is really a "good grandpa in heaven".

"Brother, according to what you said, the leader of the martial arts alliance is determined by default, so what about after me? Could it be that after the Wu family is Chen Pi Asi?" If this is the case, it is no wonder that the old man is anxious, after all, he is Living casually seems to have much more time left than the old man.

"You are the last one, 'it' only has time to arrange you." Zhang Qiling shook his head again and said, "Your grandfather didn't tell you anything, which means he originally hoped that this matter would end with me."

Wu Xie frowned, and he wanted to ask again, but suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"You two distinguished guests, my old lady is here to invite you."

Hearing the sound, the two people in the room looked at each other.

Not feeling well?It's so late, what will happen to find them?