1429 The period of marriage
Listening to Wu Benyuan's words, Tang Ding felt that something was wrong, "The eldest brother of Hongmen thirty or forty years ago should be called Lin Shen, right? At that time, Hongmen was the real world's largest gang, and the current Hongmen eldest brother seems to be called Zeng Yaolong, but some time ago, there was some civil strife in Hongmen, and he was knocked on the door, and I have never seen any powerful characters in Hongmen? According to your uncle, my senior brother should still be alive, he should be thirty or forty years ago, he should not be confused, even if he is alive now, he has not yet entered the old age,"
"When he left the sect that year, he had just passed the year of establishment. Wu Benyuan corrected.
"Okay, then he was the year of his establishment, and forty years later, it was just the age of the ancients, but in the past few decades, Hongmen's eldest brother has changed in turns, if my senior brother is really a key figure in Hongmen Zhongxing, and he is in the prime of life, then he should have a very high status in Hongmen at this time, and it can be said that there is no problem in being the master of Hongmen, but why does Hongmen not respect him as the master?" Tang Ding doubted.
"That's because you don't know what your senior brother is, he is modest and cautious, even if he has the ability to penetrate the world, he rarely comes out, and always likes to hide behind the scenes, so like you said, the big brother of Hongmen takes turns, but without your senior brother, this is completely possible, this is your senior brother's character. And I estimate that you, senior brother, are very likely to retire to the second line and become a figure like an elder when Hongmen becomes the largest gang in the world. ”
Tang Ding listened to the words of his uncle Wu Benyuan, and immediately remembered that among his apprentices, there was really a child of Hongmen, Zuo Yuru, who was a double-flowered red stick of the Hongmen branch, although Zuo Yuru was not very old, but she was also considered an old qualification in Hongmen, she joined Hongmen at the age of twenty, was carefully cultivated, and was trained to become a master of dark energy.
However, after Zuo Yuru listened to Tang Ding's words, she thought about it and shook her head, "I really didn't know that there was such a person in the Hongmen General Hall who could remotely command the overall situation, no, I haven't met it." ”
Tang Ding also went to the Hongmen General Hall when the blood clan and Hongmen were fighting, and the Hongmen at that time was almost cornered by the blood clan's oppression, of course, the power of the blood clan is beyond Hongmen's imagination, Hongmen has developed to the present, only focusing on gang fighting, and he didn't expect to provoke the powerful race of the blood clan, but at that time, Tang Ding went to the Hongmen main hall to help boxing, and was finally enshrined as Hongmen Keqing, and he really didn't see the existence of such a behind-the-scenes master as a senior brother.
Of course, it is entirely possible that this matter is just like what Uncle Shi said, after the senior brother became famous, he retreated bravely, or retreated to the second line and did not appear in public. But that incident was related to Hongmen's century-old reputation, but the senior brother still did not appear. Therefore, it is normal for Tang Ding to suspect that there is such a person as a senior brother in Hongmen.
Zuo Yuru hadn't heard of this person, but she could ask her master, but Zuo Yuru's master hadn't heard of such a person, so Tang Ding was shocked to realize if he was looking in the wrong direction?
Senior brother is in Hongmen, this is just Uncle Shi's speculation, I think there is such a possibility, but no one can confirm it.
However, this matter is not so anxious, so let's wait until I come back from the capital to think about it.
After Uncle Wu Benyuan came, Tang Ding handed over some of the things that the Hidden Immortal Sect opened and sent to Uncle Shi to deal with, Uncle Shi has been on Hong Kong Island for many years, and he is very good at human feelings, so he is the most suitable person to hand over this matter to him.
Therefore, Tang Ding set off for the capital the next day.
However, now that it is approaching the end of the Spring Festival holiday, it is not easy to buy air tickets, and the connoisseur's family came to take a return ticket that had already been booked. Originally, Xing Zhengqi wanted to find someone to help Tang Ding and the four of them get a ticket through a relationship, but Tang Ding politely refused, with the expert's previous attitude towards himself, Tang Ding didn't need to pick up people's teeth.
Therefore, Tang Ding can only choose to go by car, and it just so happens that Kyoto also has a branch of the Kunpeng Group, but there is no risk that the vehicle is idle.
The Toyota Land Cruiser is a seven-seater car, and in addition to Tang Ding and Xing Muliu, three more people can be seated.
When he learned that Tang Ding was going to Kyoto, all his apprentices asked for the master to "lead the horse and fall into the stirrup", in ancient times, the horse and the stirrup were used as a slave to serve the master, and now the horse is to drive for Tang Ding.
If there is nothing to do on weekdays, Tang Ding simply brings all the apprentices with him, anyway, Tang Ding has fewer opportunities to be with the apprentices on weekdays, so he can stay a little longer, and he can also guide them more to enter the country.
However, there are special circumstances at the moment, it is a private matter to go to the capital by himself, and the schedule is very tight, and the sect is about to be established, and he has just invited his uncle from Hong Kong Island thousands of miles away, but he has left with his apprentices in a blink of an eye, what does this make Uncle Shi think?
Therefore, Tang Ding can only take three more people to travel together.
Yarudiba is going to take it, because Tang Ding plans to fly directly to Europe after finishing in the capital to find Jina's traces, and with Yarudiba, a "local", to guide the way, I am afraid that he can avoid a lot of detours.
Xiang You just came from Hong Kong Island, and he also strongly asked to follow Tang Ding together, among these apprentices, only Xiang You has the least time to follow Tang Ding to learn art, so as soon as he said it, everyone was embarrassed to refuse.
There is another person, Tang Ding, who wanted to bring Song Tina, but Song Tina had a very good personal relationship with Zuo Yuru, and she recommended Tang Ding to bring Zuo Yuru, after all, Zuo Yuru is the home of the capital, and you can go home to see it this time.
And Tang Ding thought about it, Zuo Yuru is from the Hongmen European Branch, if she goes to Europe this time, she is also a good guide, and if she has time to check her unmasked senior brother, Zuo Yuru can also play a big role.
In this way, the three candidates were decided.
The apprentices who stayed in Yancheng to prepare for the establishment of the sect were not mediocre hands, and Tang Ding was more at ease.
Xu Xiaojie is the earliest apprentice who followed him, and has both the inheritance of the Thief Sect and the Hidden Immortal Sect, and he is already able to take charge of himself, and his strength cannot be underestimated. Song Tina also followed her earlier, although she was slightly inferior in cultivating internal kung fu, but she was better than her clever mind and her amazing perception of Taoism.
To say that among Tang Ding's disciples, the fastest progress in the inner boxing is Meng Yi, Meng Dong father and son, father and son are both geniuses in the inner boxing, the grasp of the qi and potential of the inner boxing, it is not an exaggeration to say that the talent is amazing, this may be because their father and son are both from the depths of the mountains, and they have a lot of contact with fierce beasts when they are young, so in the inner boxing, a lot of animal attacks are integrated.
Of course, there are still many people among Tang Ding's apprentices who have also made great progress, because they learned from scratch, such as Jiang Wenwu, Zhang Dongzhe, and Tang Ding's foreign apprentices Emily, Alicia, etc.
There are also those who already have some foundations, such as Ciyun, Huang Yongjue and others, although these people have also made a lot of progress, but compared with others, the improvement is not so great.
With these people "looking after the family" in the sect, Tang Ding is still more relieved. And according to Uncle Shi, after Tang Ding left Hong Kong a few years ago, he met Tang Ding's master Longhu Daoren, he said that he was busy with the current business, and he would come back as soon as possible, originally Longhu Daoist asked Wu Benyuan to go to Yancheng together, but Wu Benyuan asked Tang Ding to invite him first, so Wu Benyuan left a letter to his senior brother, saying that he would go to Yancheng first, and asked him to go directly to Yancheng if he couldn't find himself.
With so many apprentices, coupled with the return of the Dragon and Tiger Dao people, the Hidden Immortal Sect is the real "strong soldier and strong horse".
Tang Ding, a group of seven people, set off for the capital.
The Xingjia family took the plane back the afternoon before the big day, and they had to go back to prepare early, because they had to inform their friends of the good news of their marriage.
In fact, according to the advice of the connoisseurs, the wedding banquet should not be held in such a hurry, almost five or six days after the connoisseurs came to Kyoto, it was too hasty, according to the connoisseur's style, it would take at least a month to prepare before it could be done decently.
But Tang Ding can't wait for a month, it's already February, and a month later it's March, and the opening ceremony of the Hidden Immortal Sect in May will be held, and there are a lot of trivial matters, Tang Ding also wants to take advantage of this time to go to Europe to see if she can find Ji Na and let her cure her father Tang Guoqing's illness. And Tang Ding also hopes to have time to go to Kunlun Mountain, try his luck, and see if he can find the entrance to the Yaochi Wonderland, if he has time, Tang Ding also hopes to find his unmasked senior brother, and the brothers will carry forward the Hidden Immortal Sect together.
Therefore, the connoisseur wanted to delay the wedding banquet, but Tang Ding did not agree.
If you follow the old man's meaning, forget about the family banquet, he is not an old stubborn, and he thinks that it is completely unnecessary to engage in those formal things.
Joining the strength of Tang Ding now, the connoisseur has two irreversible reasons, so it was agreed that the wedding banquet would be held on the ninth day of the first lunar month.
Tang Ding and his entourage of seven people, two days in advance, arrived in the capital on the seventh day of the first month, although the connoisseur said that all the matters of the family are handled by the connoisseurs, but if Tang Ding is really like a guest, wait until the eighth or ninth day of the first month, it will not be sincere enough, so Tang Ding came two days in advance.
Come over and ask, with the power and status of the expert, he really doesn't need Tang Ding's help, he just needs to attend the banquet.
With the status of connoisseurs, if the wind of the family banquet is released, the people who want to come to the banquet may not be able to hold five hundred tables, but in view of the repeated high-pressure situation, the wedding banquet cannot exceed thirty tables, so the people who notify these notices can only screen and screen, and the news can only be spread in a small area, and the objects of dissemination are the kind of people whose status is the same as that of experts, as well as those subordinates who are slightly lower in level, but have a close relationship, as for those who want to catch the big tree of experts, they can only be sorry.
Therefore, it is also beneficial to have a tight schedule, so that the people who should be notified have arrived, and those who do not need to be notified can just prevent the spread of the news to the greatest extent.