Taiping Inn

Li Xuandu was certain that Chu Yunshen would not collude with Han Yaoyue, not because he acted rashly, but because he had his own considerations.

First, Han Yaoyue was born in Wangqing Sect, one of the five sects in Liaodong, and its range of activities was far away from Qizhou. Chu Yunshen worked in Qizhou all year round, and it was unlikely that the two would have any intersection.

Secondly, among the twenty-two sects of the righteous and evil ways, apart from the few Buddhist and Taoist sects, the rest of the sects are inseparable from the Taoist sect. The reason why they are divided into the righteous and evil sects is that after Confucianism was the only orthodoxy and Huang Lao was abandoned, one group of Taoists tended to be orthodox and accepted Confucianism, while the other group of Taoists rejected Confucianism and turned to integrate the rest of the schools of thought. Therefore, Confucianists are born righteous people, and the dispute between righteousness and evil was caused by Confucianism. Confucianism has no reason to help the evil people.

According to the female zither player, Chu Yunshen was born in the Wanxiang Academy, that is, a Confucian disciple. His act of coming out to help the Governor of Qizhou is quite in line with the Confucian concept of meritorious service. Moreover, Mr. Chu Yunshen's reputation in the martial arts world is also very good. It is precisely because of these reasons that Li Xuandu decided to ask Chu Yunshen for help.

In the martial arts world, although people's hearts are unpredictable, there are countless cases of turning against each other and repaying kindness with hatred. There are also many cases of smiling in front of others and stabbing in the back. Li Xuandu has experienced Chen Guhong repaying kindness with hatred, but Li Xuandu is still willing to look at this martial arts world with a more benevolent attitude, so he will occasionally do chivalrous and righteous, and he also believes that others will do chivalrous and righteous. It is impossible that in this huge martial arts world, only you, Li Xuandu, are good people, and others are evil people; only you, Li Xuandu, care about the world, and others are ambitious; only you, Li Xuandu, are humble, and others are jealous of talents; there is no such reason.

This world is full of people. There are those who cannot bear to see others do well, and there are those who are willing to pave the way for the younger generation. There are hypocrites, and there are true gentlemen. You cannot generalize. If you think that the world is full of dangers and that there is no good in it, then you are underestimating this world.

Chu Yunshen looked at the woman and asked, "Who is this girl?"

The woman hesitated for a moment and said, "My last name is Bai. I wonder if you can call me Bai Juan."

"Bai Juan" Chu Yunshen muttered softly, "One Li Xuance, one Bai Juan, with such cultivation, has never revealed their names in the world. At least Chu has never heard of them. This is the third wonder."

Li Xuandu smiled helplessly and said, "This is our first meeting, and we have never met before, so I used a pseudonym to cover it up. My real name is not Li Xuance, but Li Xuandu. I hope you can forgive me."

Chu Yunshen said, "Huh" He said, twisting his beard, and asked, "Who are you, Situ Xuance?"

Li Xuandu answered truthfully, "Situ Xuance is my senior brother."

Chu Yunshen smiled and said, "I see, no wonder I saw Brother Li's aura flow in the teahouse and it looked familiar. It seems that I was right to call him Brother Li."

Li Xuandu asked, "I don't know what Mr. Chu meant by this?"

Chu Yunshen sighed, "I think you two know that I was assassinated by my enemies in my early years. Not only did my legs get crippled, but I almost lost my life."

Both nodded.

Chu Yunshen exhaled lightly: "Although saints have supernatural powers, they never use them as their own ability. Sub-sages are good at cultivating the spirit of righteousness and never rely on their strength to bully others. Therefore, it is not surprising that some Confucian disciples have amazing martial arts and some are powerless." "Back then, I was just an ordinary scholar. My family had a manor. There was a large mountain stronghold in the mountains not far from the manor. There were many bandits in it. They were arrogant and said that they were acting on behalf of heaven and loyalty was the first priority. Although there were a few poor people who had no choice, most of them were ruthless villains who wanted to attack my manor many times, but I used tricks to repel the enemy. Then those bandits used a trick and sent one person to hide his identity and sneak into my manor to do a few things. The villager of the month, then joined forces with the outside to break into my village. I led people to kill out of the village in the chaos, and the thieves followed closely behind. The guards around me became fewer and fewer. Some died, and some escaped in the chaos. In the end, I was the only one who could not escape and fell into the hands of those thieves. Among the thieves, there was a scholar. His magic was nothing, but by chance, he got a book of talismans with all kinds of vicious talismans. This person directly cut open the flesh of my legs, and then carved several talismans on my leg bones, thus destroying my legs and making me faint. They thought I was dead, so they threw me off the cliff. "

Li Xuandu sighed lightly.

Without the constraints of rules, this is the evil of human nature.

Chu Yunshen sighed and said, "It was my fate that I was caught by a branch halfway up the mountain. I didn't fall to my death, but I hung there for two days and one night, unable to move. Fortunately, it was the transition between summer and autumn, and the weather was neither too cold nor too hot, so I wouldn't freeze to death or get sunburned. But I hadn't eaten anything for such a long time, and I was almost dying of thirst and starvation." "Fortunately, at that moment, someone passed by and saved me. I don't need to say much about this person. I'm sure you two have guessed that it was Mr. Situ. After Mr. Situ saved me, he helped me heal my leg injury, but the injuries to flesh and bones were easy to heal, but the talismans engraved on the leg bones could not be erased, unless the two legs were cut off directly and the limbs were regenerated. But who in the world has such magical powers? Even if there is, it's nothing more than a great celestial master or a master of earth energy, how could they use it on me? So I gave up on this idea."

Speaking of this, Chu Yunshen smiled slightly: "Mr. Situ was also chivalrous back then. After asking the reason, he went to the mountain stronghold with a sword and destroyed the whole mountain stronghold. Then he found the evil sect behind the mountain stronghold and killed several evil masters in one go. He was worthy of being a hero at that time. Later, Mr. Situ took me back to the manor, which was in ruins, and my wife and children were all dead. I was desperate and wanted to kill myself, but Mr. Situ stopped me. After some guidance, he sent me to the Wanxiang Academy in Longmen Mansion. That's how Chu Yunshen is today."

Li Xuandu didn't know there was such a thing. If it was Li Xuandu who did it, it would be roughly the same. No wonder Zhang Haishi liked Li Xuandu, who ranked fourth, the most among the four junior brothers and sisters, saying that he resembled the eldest brother Situ Xuance.

Chu Yunshen asked softly, "Later, it was rumored that Mr. Situ had died. May I ask Brother Li, is that true?"

Li Xuandu sighed, "I have never seen the eldest brother, but my master and the second brother said that the eldest brother is no longer alive."

Chu Yunshen smiled bitterly when he heard this, "What a pity."

"I have been hoping for the best over the years, and I have visited Mr. Hai Shi, but every time Mr. Hai Shi talked about this, he was very angry and didn't want to talk about it anymore." Chu Yunshen sighed, "No matter what, since Brother Li is Mr. Situ's junior brother, I can't just sit back and watch."