Hearing that Old Man Gu said that he was planning to move to the East China Sea after finishing this time, the four brothers hurriedly asked: "Teacher, Shuangyu Island is ours? How much money did it cost?"
Old Man Gu sighed and said: "I originally wanted to tell you about this later. After all, we haven't paid the money yet, so this island is not still ours. Two months ago, Taoist Wutong took advantage of others' danger and took it.
One hundred and seventy-six thousand taels for the master. This amount will be paid within one year. When will it be paid, we will be considered the owners of the island."
All the brothers looked at each other, and the eldest brother asked: "We have no cash anymore, where can we find so much money?"
Old Man Gu said: "I have already made an agreement with him that day. If I don't have enough money, I can also use beautiful girls to repay it. My teacher has just decided that the beautiful girls like Luoyang Xiu'an will be used to offset part of the payment.
The rest will be used to attack Xiu'an in Hangzhou and Xiu'an in Fuzhou!"
Everyone is in a heavy mood. Cultivating a beautiful girl is not something that can be done overnight. The first step is to "win over" the powerful factions in each Taoist palace and build a nunnery. This is a huge expense. The second step is to select a girl who knows her roots well.
The old bustard from Yangzhou was trained to recruit Donghai monks to control the market, which was also a lot of money.
The Apparition Palace, which is connected to the top, only gives Old Man Gu 10,000 taels of silver in preparation fees every year. How can this amount of money be enough to sustain it? If Old Man Gu hadn't sold beautiful girls to the East China Sea, it would have been impossible to support it, and it would have been completely impossible to maintain his gambling career for so many years.
Since three years ago, when Old Man Gu gambled with a huge amount of money during the highly publicized Sword Trial Incident of Three Provinces and Four Masters, and lost everything, their lives as masters and disciples have been very difficult. At the beginning of last year, it was even worse.
With the idea of turning his back, Old Man Gu took out all the remaining money and had a huge gamble on Ling'ao Island. He encountered a tragedy when the dealer opened forty-three hands in a row. He lost on the spot and lost his pants. If it weren't for overseas
Monks rarely have the habit of borrowing money. No one on Ling'ao Island has borrowed money from him. He is probably on the run.
But it was precisely because of this that Old Man Gu came to his senses after encountering the Xiuxianqiu Lottery. From then on, he became obsessed with this elegant and stylish Guanbao game. He completely put aside his unbearable career as a bad gambler, which can be regarded as unfortunate.
great luck.
Seeing that several of his disciples were not in a good mood, Old Man Gu encouraged him: "In fact, it is not necessary to use the beautiful girl as a mortgage to buy the island. As long as we can succeed this time and kill Zhao Zhiran, from his storage method
In the utensils, the harvest must be great. I have asked many questions for the teacher, and they are very rich. When Jiang Tenghe got married, the bride price was not less than one million taels of silver! This Zhao Zhiran can make 20 yuan from the practice lottery every year.
More than 10,000 taels! Think about it, how much silver must he have in his stored magic weapon? How many treasures are there? Let’s not worry about Dongfang Li and Wei Chaozong. Once we get his belongings, our masters and disciples will immediately
If you really gain a lot after leaving the capital, you can even ignore the nunneries in various places for the time being and go to the East China Sea to hide for three to five years!"
Sure enough, the money moved people's hearts. After some encouragement, several apprentices immediately cheered up. The senior brother said: "The teacher is right. Taking down Zhao Zhiran is much better than killing others. The only concern is the incident in the Third Palace."
It's not secret, and the news got out, otherwise why would someone named Zhao slip away from us again and again?"
Old Man Gu shook his head and said: "It's really hard to say, and I don't rule out the possibility of your speculation, but this possibility is extremely small. Duan Chaoyong and Zhu Longxi are not people who are lax in their speech. I have carefully considered this just now.
This thing is probably Zhao Zhiran’s own child’s ability to calculate using plum blossoms.”
Several apprentices expressed doubts: "Is the number of plum blossoms so powerful?"
Old Man Gu solemnly said: "Plum blossoms are easy to count and easy to learn but difficult to master. Among my great Ming dynasties, there are only three people who are truly proficient. One is Patriarch Tieguan, the second is Patriarch Longyang, and the third is Shao Da Tianshi. Do you think they are great or not? But I am.
The master originally underestimated him, and the boy named Zhao may be considered a semi-proficient person with the guidance of Patriarch Longyang, otherwise how could he have avoided our ambush many times?"
Several apprentices were very worried about this: "What should we do?"
Old Man Gu sneered: "Since he uses plum blossoms to count, don't blame us for not following the routine!"
Several disciples were still puzzled: "What does the teacher mean? How can we not follow the routine? Can we avoid his easy counting of plum blossoms by not following the routine?"
Old Man Gu explained: "You don't know how to count plum blossoms. It's not your fault. I never taught you..."
Several apprentices raised their hands at the same time: "Teacher, the principle was explained in an issue of "Junshan Notes" last year."
Old Man Gu took a breath, took a deep breath, straightened his thoughts, and asked: "Now that you have seen it, it will be easier to talk about it as a teacher..."
The boss shook his head: "The "Junshan Notes" has been published, but the disciples have not read it. Have any of the junior brothers read it?"
The second child also shook his head: "No, it's too complicated and I can't understand it."
The third child was deep in thought, trying to remember: "I'm already dizzy just reading the question. What's it called?"
The fourth child replied: "Matrix research on the parameters of plum blossom easy number substitution!"
The three senior brothers praised in unison: "Yes, yes, that's the name. Fourth brother, you are so awesome. You can actually understand it? It's amazing!"
The fourth child took out a booklet from his storage bag, waved it to several senior brothers, and said, "I haven't read it either, but I have stored every issue of "Junshan Notes" in my storage bag, isn't that right?"
Old Man Gu pulled the "Junshan Notes" that his disciples were holding and threw them aside, and shouted: "Don't read it, you may not be able to understand it after reading it for a lifetime, just listen to me briefly. The biggest plum blossom is easy to count.
The characteristic is to substitute parameters for research, such as assassination, ambush and other statements, which are all important parameters. We no longer assassinate, we change to explicit killing. Not only explicit killing, we also do not preset the ambush location or the ambush time.
I want to see how he calculates it!"
Several disciples were a little confused: "Teacher, is it okay to kill someone openly?"
Old Man Gu nodded and said: "We will wait around Xuantanfang. As soon as he shows up, we will take action. No matter who sees him first, he will shout "Death to the traitor". After shouting, the others will surround him.
To annihilate it, we will do it openly and openly, this is an open killing, do you think Zhao Zhiran could have thought of it?"
The third child raised his hand: "Teacher, you cannot preset the location."
Old Man Gu thought for a while and praised: "The third child is right. Let's walk around the streets and alleys of Xuantanfang and attack him wherever we see him. This way there will be no preset location."
"when to go?"
"Did you forget that you can't set a time?"
"Yes, Senior Brother is right. Let's go to the Qinhuai River for dinner tonight. After dinner, we can take a walk. In short, we are walking around. Whenever we see the person named Zhao, we will take action. There is no forewarning.
Set up time so that he can’t calculate!”
Old Man Gu finally solemnly warned the four disciples: "You must remember the assassination, ambush, time, place, etc., and don't even think about it in your mind!"