Chapter 82: Nine-curved heart

Hearing Xu Changqing's question, Long Jinbao scratched his head awkwardly and said, "I know I can't hide it from my master. After I became rich here a few years ago, I sent someone back to my hometown to give me some money or something to take care of their lives. Unexpectedly, after hearing my whereabouts, all of these bastards came here to take care of their lives with me. There were a total of one or two thousand people. At that time, I really couldn't think of a place to resettle them. The remnants of the Boxer Rebellion here happened to be very fierce in those years, so I spent money to ask the Governor of Zhili.

An armed militia united the brothers together and became officers and soldiers." As he said, his face proudly, "In recent years, because of his meritorious killing of thieves, I was transferred to the post of the general of Bazhou under the prefect of Hebei. The militia unit formed was also incorporated into the Martial Arts Camp of Bazhou. In addition, the earth knives and earth guns in my hand were replaced with foreign guns and cannons in the past two years, and I became a small figure in this area. Not only did the new Beiyang army come to win me over, but the regent of the capital sent people to invite me a few days ago, which happened to meet the master's criticism that year, and he had a strong ambitions to climb to the sky!"

"No, good, your achievements have exceeded my expectations. It seems that you have put in a lot of effort over the years!" Xu Changqing nodded slightly, and then said with a serious expression: "Although you are so glorious now, unfortunately you are too sharp, but you don't know that you are in the midst of water and fire, and you may be destroyed at any time."

Long Jinbao was careless, but his pride in his heart was fascinated by his eyes. After hearing Xu Changqing's words, he was stunned for a moment, then thought about it for a while, and immediately saw the deep crisis from Fanhua Sijin on his appearance. His pride was completely curled up, and he knelt in front of Xu Changqing with a pale face and said anxiously: "Master, save me, save me!"

"Get up, although all parties want to swallow your troops, it is a crisis for you, but if you can grasp it well, it may not be a turning point. Let me calculate your fortune first!" Xu Changqing helped Long Jinbao up and signaled him to stand up and down, then closed his eyes slightly, circulated his true energy, opened his eyes suddenly, and looked up and down carefully at Long Jinbao's fortunes. The left finger was so fast that there was no trace, so he used the Tianluo Doushu to calculate. Although the Xuangang Heavenly Demon had made the fortune near the capital a mess at this moment, even a person who was proficient in numerology like Xu Changqing could not calculate the general trend, but it was still okay to not look at the overall situation and deduce a person's fate.

As Long Jinbao's destiny deepened, Xu Changqing's face became a little strange, and Long Jinbao couldn't help but worry. When the calculation stopped, he couldn't wait to ask: "Master, can't I overcome this hurdle?"

"Don't worry, not only will you not be in trouble, but you will be blessed in disguise and go to a higher level." Xu Changqing said calmly: "Are you hesitating now to surrender to the Regent or to the Beiyang New Army, right?"

"Yes! That's what my apprentice means!" Long Jinbao nodded vigorously and said.

Xu Changqing took a sip of tea and said, "Don't worry, as long as you follow my instructions, you will not suffer any loss if you defect to that side."

Long Jinbao hurriedly filled Xu Changqing with a respectful teacup and said, "I hope Master will make it clear!"

Xu Changqing looked at the teacup in front of him, hesitated for a moment, fell into a state of contemplation, frowned slightly, and suddenly said, "Jinbao, do you really want to be my registered disciple?"

Long Jinbao was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect Xu Changqing to ask him about this. He quickly woke up and knelt in front of Xu Changqing and said, "There is a god three feet high. If I, Wang San, don't really want to become a disciple, I will rush to the sky to thunder, and after death, I will fall into the eighteenth level of hell and never be reborn."

"Okay!" Xu Changqing looked at Long Jinbao with a sincere face, nodded and said, "Go to tea! Apprentice to Master!"

After hearing this, Long Jinbao immediately showed his happiness. He picked up the teacup and raised his hands respectfully over his head. After Xu Changqing took the teacup, he performed the grand ceremony of three kneelings and nine kowtows until Xu Changqing reached out to help him.

"I don't hide it from you. The reason why I accept you as a registered disciple is mainly because you may be able to help me in the future. It is entirely because of the word "Li". Even if you vote for another sect in the future, it will not be a big deal. Just inform me of it!" Xu Changqing said bluntly: "It's just that before you vote for another sect, you must exchange what you owe me to me before I can agree."

Long Jinbao swears: "Disciples will never dare to betray the master. If there is such a traitor, the disciple is willing to..."

"Okay! Now that you are my registered disciple, you are considered half a person in the world of cultivation. It is better to say less about such things. It is not just empty talk to have a god three feet tall." Xu Changqing interrupted Long Jinbao's swearing, and then took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms and handed it to Long Jinbao, saying: "This bottle of Qi-raising pill is a pill refined by a master of Louguan Dao. It has the effect of reincarnation and nourishing qi and refreshing the spirit. In two days, I will send someone to send an internal mental method and some Taoist practice methods. You only need to follow the above method, take a pill every day when you practice. On the day you finish taking the pill, you will be almost half a practitioner. Whether you can achieve the great way in the future depends on your chance."

"Disciple remembers the master's order!" Long Jinbao quickly took the little bottle and put it in close contact, then hesitated for a moment, and asked timidly: "Master, haven't told me yet, how to survive the disaster in front of me?"

"You only need to remember one sentence," Xu Changqing said with a serious expression: "That sentence means that when you encounter water, it will be reversed. No matter where you surrender, you must remember to oppose everything you encounter with water."

"When it comes to water, it will turn back?" Long Jinbao nodded slightly and murmured and repeated the sentence.

Xu Changqing put the teacup on the table and asked, "Jinbao, is Cao Kun still here with you now?"

"Yes! Master." Long Jinbao was stunned for a moment, nodded and said.

Xu Changqing thought for a while and said, "Take him over here, I want to see him!"

"Okay, Master!" Long Jinbao bowed and retreated, took the door up, and walked towards another accord in the backyard. He could feel that he was in a good mood at the moment when he heard his steps.

"Master, why should I accept this person as my disciple?" Guan Zheng, who had not spoken, suddenly asked: "Although Guan does not understand physiognomy, he can also see that this person has a fierce face and will be a butcher in the future. Today, the master accepts this person as his disciple. The murder he committed in the future will inevitably fall on the master. Moreover, this person has a rebellious face and has no roots. He is definitely not a good disciple."

"Since Brother Guan can see it, can't I see it?" Xu Changqing smiled indifferently and said, "I have seen his shortcomings before, so no matter how filial he respects me, I have never accepted him as a registered disciple. However, I just calculated it and found that he might become one of the people who will be robbed in the future. It is not a bad idea to take the risk of accepting this evil disciple for the sake of future plans. As for the murderous crimes that Brother Guan mentioned, there is no way to talk about. Although I said I accepted him as a disciple and received his three-kneel and nine-kneel ceremony, I did not drink his tea for apprenticeship. The ceremony of apprenticeship has not yet been completed. He is not my disciple, and his murderous crimes cannot be brought into my body."

Guan Zheng looked suddenly and couldn't help but sigh inwardly: "Oh! I'm not my master. Since the master has already made a clear plan, if it's time for us to need him, he will turn to his door and will not help us, then..."

Xu Changqing smiled slightly and said confidently: "Brother Guan, please don't worry. Since Jinbao received my pills, he owed me my debt. As long as he did not pay back what he owed me, he could only help us."

Just as the two of them were talking, Long Jinbao walked outside the house with a man in casual clothes and said, "Brother Cao, my master is waiting inside, please come in!"

As he spoke, he pushed the door open and saw a tall and thin middle-aged man standing next to Long Jinbao, with an eagle-eyed hooked nose, which looked particularly gloomy. In his eyes, there was always a trace of viciousness, and it felt like a wolf that could never be full. When he walked in and saw Xu Changqing and Guan Zheng, who were wearing Western clothes and looked young, he couldn't help but be stunned, frowned, and said with some angrily: "Brother Long, are you playing with Cao? Don't tell me that these two guys are your master who is in the Dragon Dragon Dragon Jinbao!"

"What Brother Cao said is good." Long Jinbao walked to Xu Changqing and introduced: "This is my Long Jinbao's master, Mr. Xu Changqing of Chen Jiachong."

Hearing Long Jinbao's words, Cao Kun was stunned. He suddenly thought of a person his superior Feng Guozhang once mentioned. Then, the two corresponded to each other, and his face suddenly changed. Although there was a smile on his face, there was a trace of disdain in his eyes. He said, "I didn't expect that Brother Long was actually Mr. Xu's disciple, no wonder he did this," and said, "As he met Mr. Xu, he longed to be famous, and he never had the chance to see him. I, Cao, was lucky in my three lives."

Although Cao Kun's behavior was respectful, he exuded a sense of contempt and indifference from his bones.

"The Cao commander is so polite! Please sit down." Xu Changqing said nothing about Cao Kun's attitude. He pointed to the chair in front of him indifferently, and then signaled Long Jinbao to go out. Guan Zheng also felt that it was not suitable for him to stay here, so he got up and left, and went outside to wait for Xu Changqing to come out.

"I wonder what happened to Mr. Xu called Cao?" Cao Kun sat down, leaning lazily on the chair, with an arrogant look. Although Xu Changqing had already become famous, in Cao Kun's eyes, he was just a wise man in the world. With his current status as an equal to Xu Changqing, he was already worthy of his face. More than a year ago, he snatched the position of Duan Qirui's third town and became a man with military power. Now he has called the wind and rain in the northeast area and become a king and domineering. Even his old superior Feng Guozhang was still brotherly when he saw him. Naturally, he did not take the magical witch in front of him too seriously.

Xu Changqing easily saw his thoughts from Cao Kun's face. Without saying anything, he always had a cold smile on his face and asked bluntly: "At this moment, Cao Zhengzhi was not staying in the northeast and watching the Japanese army, but he actually secretly disguised himself in Beijing. I guess he was instructed by Lord Feng! I wonder if I can let me know what trouble Mr. Feng has to use the general Cao Zhengzhi?"

"This is a military matter, and Cao cannot tell me." Cao Kun was very uncomfortable with Xu Changqing's direct questioning. He couldn't help but rush to his forehead and was about to stand up and leave. However, he suddenly found that his body could not move at this moment, as if an invisible rope tied his body tightly, causing him to lose control of his body. Cao Kun was not a fool. Thinking of Xu Changqing's various legends, he naturally understood that his body must be the one who was in front of him. So he glared at Xu Changqing with a gloomy face and asked: "What is Mr. Xu?"

"I don't have any other intentions, but I just want to let General Cao sit for a while and tell him some ways of dealing with the general Cao." Xu Changqing looked at Cao Kun coldly and said, "It is a good thing for people to be arrogant, but we must also distinguish who they are. I am used to being flattered at home and I don't like someone to pretend to be an old man in front of me, let alone secular people like ants in front of me. Even if you have great power now, it is just a blink of an eye to take your life. I wonder if General Cao is willing to try it?"

In addition to his own ability, Cao Kun was able to climb to his current position, and because he was able to move when he saw the situation and surrender when he encountered the strong. Seeing that Xu Changqing was indeed truly talented and learned, although he was extremely angry, he still put away his arrogance and laughed generously, saying, "Mr. Xu is a strange man in the world. Why should he be angry with me, an ordinary man? Today, Cao drank two more cups of horse urine and was messing around here again. I hope you don't blame him. Lord Feng had told us about Mr. Xu before, and he mentioned many times that he should never neglect Mr. Xu. Since Mr. Cao wanted to ask Mr. Cao, he would definitely know everything."

Xu Changqing did not let go of his spell confinement and asked directly: "It's still the same. Now General Cao is working in full swing in the Northeast. Why did Lord Feng ask General Cao to put down his military affairs and come to Bazhou to win over treasures in such a risky manner? I don't think it's just for the establishment of a new army!"

Cao Kun looked at Xu Changqing, his eyes turned, and said without changing his face: "Actually, there is a conflict between Lord Feng and Duan Qirui, which is a bit unrestrained. Now Wei Shuai is under house arrest, and Wang Shizhen is a typical fence-bearing man. Duan Qirui has several towns of people in his hands, but Lord Feng is only my third town's men far away in the northeast. He felt that if something happened, I would not have time to return to help, so..."
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