Zhou Bing is now located in the Shennongjia area of ​​Hubei Province. The scenery here is beautiful, the mountains and rivers are dangerous, the mountains and vast forests, and the legend of rare birds and beasts attracted him.

It is better to say that it is escaping from home than to say that it is taking the opportunity to come out to see the world.

Here he met the old Taoist priest by chance. He spoke in harmony and the two of them got along very well. They didn't take their age seriously. They were both teachers and friends, and they stayed together for three years.

His home is in Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan.

After going down the mountain, I spent a lot of money to buy a horse in the village at the foot of the mountain, and rushed to my house.

On this day, one man and one horse came to Laohekou. The key is that the slow horse could not run fast, and he was not in a hurry. He just swam forward slowly while enjoying the flowers and the scenery.

It was already noon, and Zhou Bing felt a little hungry, so he found a tavern on the side of the road and walked over.

He asked the waiter to take the horse to feed him. He went into the store and found a seat and sat down. He ordered a few side dishes. He didn't drink alcohol, so he only had a bowl of noodles.

Just as I was waiting for the waiter to serve the dishes and deliver noodles, I heard a noise on the post road, and there were dozens of people. Ji Er started to move his hands.

An old man on the table next to him shook his head and sighed, "Oh, the Zhou family is gone this time, chaos is coming."

The old man’s deskmate said, “Yes, there are not ten or eight of them killed in the past few days. The government did not even see a shadow, and I don’t know when it will be in chaos? Hey, why did you say that the Zhou family is gone?”

The old man said, "I don't know. The pawnshop is still open. If the Zhou family doesn't have this incident, who dares to make such a fuss? The salt price rose again yesterday. It will not be so easy for ordinary people to eat salt and use kilograms of cotton in the future."

Zhou Bing was secretly surprised when he heard the conversation between the two old men. At the same time, he was also very interested and got up and came over.

"Brother-in-law, please." Zhou Bing bowed.

The old man put down the bamboo chopsticks in his hand, bowed to him, and said, "You are kind to you, brother."

Zhou Bing said, "I didn't understand what my father-in-law said just now, so please explain it."

The old man looked at him: "Isn't the guy from Xiangwu?"

Zhou Bing nodded and said yes, and the old man said, "This Zhou family is the number one martial arts master in our Central Plains. For many years, the Zhou family has been under pressure, and no one dares to spit wild urine on this Central Plains.

The Zhou family manages the salt cotton from these five provinces. The people in the five provinces are better than the rich and poor than the rich and poor, and can eat a bite of low-priced salt and use a few kilograms of cheap cotton. Salt cotton is the life of the people."

The old man sighed, drank a glass of wine, and then said, "At the time, the price of this salt cotton was unified in the five provinces, who dared to turn it over?

If you ask in these five provinces, who doesn’t know the Zhou family? Even the government has to look at the color of the Zhou family.

These salt sellers and cotton makers, which one is not good at it, and they are all good and good, so the people will enjoy their happiness. Now it's over,"

The old man shook his head, sighed a little, and said, "The Zhou family is about to disappear. The salt and cotton sellers are gangs fighting for robbery every day, killing and killing each other.

This has nothing to do with others, but the price of salt and cotton has been rising again and again, so what is the common people still want? Now in the Central Plains, how many families offer tablets to Mr. Zhou and ask him to rebirth."

The old man shut up for a while, sighed and drank three bowls of wine. The person at the deskmate advised, "Brother, why do you have to do this? Good people don't live long, the law of the eternal ones."

This man also did a bowl of food.

Zhou Bing only felt a thunder sound in his ears, holding the table with both hands to stabilize his body, and asked in a strong control tone: "Is the father-in-law saying, the Zhou family is gone? Mr. Zhou, aren't there anymore?"

Isn’t this exactly what the Zhou family can do except his father?

The old man covered his face with his sleeves, nodded, and said, "That's right. The good days for the people in the five provinces are over."

Zhou Bing lost his mind for a moment, tears poured out from his eyes, which made the two old men stunned and didn't understand what was wrong.

After a while, Zhou Bing came to his senses and said, "Do you know that... that... Zhou... Old Master, when... when... went?"

The old man sniffed and said, "It was the fifth day of last month. At that time, the people who burned incense and saw him off were lined up.

This brother He opened an incense shop. As long as he burned incense and fire for the old man, he would not charge a single penny. In a day, tens of thousands of coins would be lost."

The old man surnamed He said, "Oh, Mr. Zhou has to do his best to serve the people of our five provinces throughout his life. Isn't the incense shops in these five provinces the same?"

The waiter brought the dish noodles and greeted Zhou Bing. Zhou Bing took out the silver ingot and threw it to him, saying, "Forget it, let's take out the horse for me."

The waiter took the silver, looked at him blankly, turned around and led his horse out. Zhou Bing bowed to the old man and He, turned around and went out of the shop to get on the horse, wiped his tears, and ran away.

However, you can't run away if you beat the horse anymore, so you can only abandon it halfway. Finding a way to change the horse will be considered faster. When he came here, he was on a boat and went back to extend the post road. It was much faster.

Five days later, Zhou Bing changed his horse twice and finally arrived at home.

From afar, he saw a mourning banner carrying a mourning spirit banner at the gate. His heart felt sad and tears came out. He did not answer the person and jumped off his horse and went straight to the inner courtyard.

The inner courtyard was quiet, and the big red pillars were wrapped in white cloth. Everyone was wearing white xiao. When they saw someone breaking in, they all looked over in surprise.

When he saw it was him, someone ran over and knelt on the ground and cried: "Second Master, you are back, Master... Master has been hurt by someone, um..."

Everyone was crying, and everyone was wiping their tears. Zhou Bing even cried so hard that she wet her front. She felt pain and regretful in her heart. She hated that she shouldn't have been in a hurry, which made her father not see her for the last time.

Sobbing, "Take me...go..."

Before he could finish speaking, the servant got up and led him to the mourning hall of the old man Zhou Haisheng.

Zhou Bing walked to the front of the spirit and knelt down and kowtowed nine times, stood up and walked to the coffin, pushed the lid of the coffin with both hands, revealing the old man's face.

Zhou Haishan looked pale, and a wound on his left ear to his throat spread straight into his longevity suit, almost cutting off his head and neck. Although the wound had been sewn, his skin was still rolling up, which shows how severe the wound was and how cruel the person who started the attack was.

The body had been washed and changed into a birthday suit, but his eyes were open, his face looked shocked and suspicious, and his hands were tightly held, as if he wanted to catch something.

Zhou Bing reached out and wanted to open his father's hands. The man next to him said, "The master didn't close his eyes and just grabbed his hands like that. The eldest master tried it. There was no way. He was afraid that he would hurt the master, so he didn't dare to move again."

Zhou Bing ignored his words and stroked his hand to the corpse's hand, feeling a chill, and another stinging pain in his heart surged throughout his body, tears fascinated his eyes.

He gently separated the hands of the corpse, put their fingers straight, placed them on both sides, and stroked his hands in the eyes of his father, saying, "Dad, I'm late, I'm already wrong."

He choked up a little, "But it's too late. I will find out the murderer and avenge you. Dad, go with peace of mind. As long as I'm here, the Zhou family will not be gone."

With a gentle stroke, the old man's eyes closed and his face became peaceful.

The servant said "Huh" and looked at him, but didn't dare to speak again.
Chapter completed!