Chapter 22 [New Starting Point]

For a whole month, Yujiantang was so sad that even Shen Lang fell ill. He was very haggard and his head turned a few white.

Several groups of officials came to investigate them, and even inner court guards from the palace came to investigate them, but in the end they could only come to one conclusion: it is impossible!

He ran back and forth for two thousand miles in one night, broke through the many guards of the royal palace, killed a number of core figures and fled, and even exposed the underground palace in broad daylight, which was already out of the scope of human beings.

The investigation lasted for more than a month and ended quietly. The superior seemed to be bored. After all, he was really unwilling to invest too much energy in a vassal king who plotted to rebel against him. Zhou Xun's successor to King Jinyang was just a short-term strategy of the emperor. After all, the killing of the royal family was too embarrassing. But soon, the Jinyang king's line would no longer exist.

However, the investigation did not stop completely. At this time, a familiar old man in green and a cold woman in red received a secret order to investigate the unsolved case of the murder of the three of Jinyang Wang and his family of three.

The cold wind is gradually rising, winter is coming, and everything in the world is bleak.

Shen Lang, who had been ill for a month, walked out of the room and came to the yard today, accompanied by Yun Rou.

"Brother Shen, thank you." Yun Rou said this without thinking, but Shen Lang understood.

There is no such coincidence, but it is hard to believe it and there is no evidence. However, the culprit that killed Xu Bo is ultimately dead. It is a coincidence or a punishment from heaven. What is important is that the great revenge is enough.

"Drink!" The sound of the children practicing martial arts came over. Shen Lang was a little surprised and walked towards the martial arts training ground. Yun Rou immediately followed.

On the martial arts practice field, Xiao Shitou was like a little adult, supervising other teenagers to practice martial arts. Ah Hua and Azhu were teaching a few young children with a somewhat strange face.

Xiao Shitou seemed to have grown a lot, even the older children than him could not compare to his maturity at this moment.

When a child’s mind is opened, he or she is either inspired by knowledge or is stimulated by the tempering of life, the little stone is the latter.

"Master..." Seeing Shen Lang, the children were all very happy, and Xiao Shitou was even more excited.

After a long time, he found that there were a few more obvious white lines on Shen Lang's head, which seemed to have aged a lot, and he was suddenly a little sad.

The murderer who killed Xu Ji died. Although he died inexplicably, Xiao Shitou vaguely guessed something. Perhaps others were suspicious of Shen Lang's killing for thousands of miles, but Xiao Shitou would not, because he knew that Shen Lang must have done it with sword control. But he had heard his father and Grandpa Xu said that if he could practice sword control to the level of sword control for thousands of miles, even the ancestor would be reluctant to give up.

Shen Lang was very pleased, put his hand on Xiao Shitou's head and rubbed it, then looked at the other children.

"What are they?" Shen Lang asked, pointing to several children who had never seen before.

Ahua came to Shen Lang and said, "Master, they all came to learn from their masters. This one was called Xiao Chu, this one was called Aniu, and this one was called Dapeng." Shen Lang saw that these children were not very good-looking, because they were caused by long-term hunger. It was probably also the poor children in the city who came here to make a living.

Shen Lang did not refuse, but asked Xiao Shitou Ahua and the others to carefully teach these later junior brothers and sisters to practice the "Twelve Body-building Styles". Although he knew that none of these people might have a talent for martial arts, he was still willing to take them in. Shen Lang would not refuse the things that could make these children eat. Just like Xu Ji, he would stick to the tradition of the sword hall.

He and Yun Rou turned around and left, and the two gradually deepened their understanding and could communicate without too much.

"But this way, the expenses and expenses of the temple will increase. It's too hard for you to make money by yourself. I can usually take some private work of sewing and washing, and I can supplement it." Yun Rou had already held one of Shen Lang's arm at some point, and her expression was a little excited.

Shen Lang nodded and replied, "No, you don't have to accept private work. You should leave it to me, the master, the big man."

"What are you going to do?" Yun Rou asked with some concern. The last time Shen Lang gave her a lot of money, and the funeral of Xu Ji was handled by Shen Lang, and the expenses were not small. In the end, in order to redeem the temple, she gave Xu Feiyan five hundred taels of silver. She calculated that at least, Shen Lang spent thousands of taels of silver, which really made her feel a little worried.

Shen Lang comforted, "Don't worry, I can't do that kind of thing. I'll take the children to participate in martial arts exchanges in several nearby counties after a while. Through actual results, people will see the skills of our sword hall, so that someone will bring their children to their homes to become disciples. You also know that if you can send children to become disciples, how can you not be worth a lot? I expect that as long as you can recruit about fifty such rich children, you won't have to worry about the expenses of the temple."

"How could you say so simply?" Yun Rou smiled and patted Shen Lang's chest.

Seeing that there was no one around, Shen Lang simply hugged Yun Rou. The atmosphere between the two suddenly became charming. However, when Yun Rou thought of Xu Ji, her face suddenly dimmed, and Shen Lang immediately captured it carefully.

"Rou'er, I will always remember Master Xu, but we still have to walk on our own, and we cannot indulge in the past. We people in the martial arts world actually don't value life and death that much, and some even value righteousness and despise life. For us, we must live wonderfully without regrets when we are alive, so that we can't afford to live this life. It's not ruthless, but living people are more important." Shen Lang knew that Yun Rou might not accept this idea at once, but he didn't want everyone to continue to be immersed in grief because of Xu Ji's death.

Only by working hard to live well and living better for the dead can we comfort the dead.

Shen Lang doesn't like those who have been confined to grief after a person dies, as if he puts the blame on the dead, but in fact he is himself in a cocoon. Everyone needs to grow, transform, and adapt.

Yun Rou nodded, leaned against Shen Lang's chest, and said, "Brother Xu saved my life, just like my father. I will try my best to remember him, but I will not stop because of this."

"Okay, I once promised the promise master to take good care of you and these children, so I won't make you unhappy. Your first half of your life is not happy, but we have to fight for what our future will be like. Yunrou, are you willing to stay by my side by my Shen?" Shen Lang asked gently.

Yun Rou hugged Shen Lang tightly, unable to express her mood in more words.

Master Xu, please rest in peace, we will always remember you in the days ahead. But I will not be too sad about this anymore, because we still have to move forward.

At the same time, an old man and a young woman came to Youran County and entered the city gate.

"All this starts here. Let me, the iron fox, find out the truth." The old man got off the horse and held it in his hand and walked slowly along the street.

"Dad, why don't we come to the door directly..." The woman was wearing a veiled hat and wearing a blue dress. At this time, she also took a few steps and came to the old man and said.

"Ling'er, why have you forgotten again? Listen to me this time, this person is not as simple as it seems, so you must not act rashly." The old man said with some displeasure.

The woman snorted and said dissatisfiedly: "Then it depends on Daddy."

The old and the young quickly mingled into the crowd, like water droplets melting into the river, and disappeared in a flash.

Three days later, Shen Lang completely recovered, so the Yujiantang started lively training again. However, compared with the past, the current training atmosphere was much more lively. Under the leadership of Xiao Shitou, Ah Hua and others, the children later did not play secretly, but practiced the exercises very seriously. Although these children had average martial arts qualifications, one or two had the conditions to get started, which surprised Shen Lang a little.

"Okay, you sit down first, and the master has something to say to you next." Shen Lang stopped practicing in the morning and asked everyone to sit on the grass near him.

The children looked at him curiously, especially the few who had just arrived, from fear to respect. Although this uncle who looked a little weird and had a few neat white strands of them was rare after all, he was always kind and patient with them, and always had enough food here, which was enough for them. As for the hardships of practicing martial arts, it was really not worth mentioning than being hungry.

Shen Lang quickly told his arrangements, which immediately made Xiao Shitou Ahua and others very excited. After all, it was exciting to think about it.

"I'm wrong, it's a fight, a fair fight. You all know that there are traditions of fighting in Jinyang County, especially those who practice martial arts. When our sword hall was prosperous, we often fought, and we were challenged by others at that time. So now we have to take the initiative to challenge others. Think about it, when we defeated our opponents from nearby prefectures and counties one by one and became the first dojo in Jinyang County, who would dare to look down on us at that time? And at that time, there were many people who challenged us. For this reason, I decided to lead you to explore the surrounding dojo in the spring of next year, but the premise is that you must learn the martial arts I taught you well. At present, you are still working hard, so you don't need to learn internal skills for the time being, but body skills and fist skills are very necessary. Do you understand?" Shen Lang said a lot in one breath, and most of the other children cheered, but some children felt a little scared.

Xiao Shitou was the first to stand up and applaud, extremely excited. Among the children, he had the highest martial arts skills and had no opponents at all. He could not beat Shen Lang at all, which made him very frustrated. When he walked into the city and saw the ring set up on the street, he couldn't help but want to go up and try it several times, but he was afraid of being scolded by Shen Lang and Yun Rou. Now, he finally had the opportunity to show his strength.

"Everyone must learn a set of body techniques, boxing techniques, leg techniques, palm techniques, etc. You must choose according to your own characteristics and must not for any other purpose. The fastest improvement in martial arts is in actual combat. No matter how good you practice, you always lack the timing. Do you understand?" Shen Lang stood up and asked.

"I understand!" the children replied in unison, very neatly.

Seeing these children with hope and excitement on their faces, Shen Lang couldn't help but feel that he had taken another step.
Chapter completed!