Chapter 12 Not Smart Enough
Chapter 12 Not Smart Enough (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
"How about this place? Isn't it nice?"
Supervisor You smiled and said, "This place was originally where the young master stayed. Normally, we were not allowed to come up here. But today, Manager Xu made an exception and allowed you to come up here to enjoy the blessing of the Immortal Master. By the way, help me close the door."
Tian Lin turned around, closed the door and bent down.
Sure enough, after he heard the sound of wind in his ears, he heard a "bang" and sawdust fell on his face.
Supervisor You pulled the mace from the wooden door and said with a fierce smile, "You are really smart. I didn't trick you, but you managed to dodge it."
After saying that, Supervisor You hit Tian Lin on the shoulder with another stick.
Tian Lin rolled over to avoid it, and the mace smashed a hole in the floor to his right.
The noise in the house was too loud, and Manager Xu's voice came from downstairs, cursing: "Can you please stop destroying the house? Doesn't it cost money to mend this wooden house? Is it easy for me to get a few cents out of those poor guys every day?"
His curses reached the ears of the miners in the mine through the house. The miners said angrily, "It's his fault that he can't even cultivate to the first level of Qi training even with the immortal arts. I've never seen such a person who spends a penny in two."
The small room on the second floor was noisy all day long.
At night when it was time for dinner, Tian Lin was dragged out of the hut like a dead dog and thrown back into the wooden house where the miners slept.
At this time, Tian Lin's face was covered in blood. He was lying on the ground with sticky blood at the corners of his mouth.
The already tattered clothes were now stained the same color as the bloody body, and from a distance he looked like a skinny pig that had been slaughtered.
When the miners came in, they all looked sad and did not dare to go near the fields and forests.
The one who was not much better than Tian Lin was Boss Zhang——
The originally majestic Boss Zhang was now hung on the beam, with a piece of flesh torn off his chest.
He peered down from the beam and said with a smile, "You little brat, are you still alive?"
There was no reply from Tian Lin in the room. The voice of Zhang Lao Da came from the beam again, asking, "Stinky boy, are you dead or not?"
At this time, a miner finally plucked up the courage to say: "He seems unable to speak, but he is not dead yet - he just moved his hand."
Lao Zhang's voice came from the beam: "Brother, please help me give him some water. He hasn't eaten for a day. Don't let him die."
The miner was not so bold and could only say, "Brother Zhang, don't blame me for not helping you. The person you offended was Manager Xu. We are so weak that we dare not go against Manager Xu."
"Well, Manager Xu is trying to kill us brothers."
After saying this, Boss Zhang didn't say anything else, and Tian Lin on the ground was completely speechless.
Finally, it was midnight. Seeing that everyone was asleep, a miner quietly got up and walked to Tian Lin's side.
He stuffed a pill into Tian Lin's mouth, and Tian Lin recovered.
Tian Lin looked at the unfamiliar man in front of him. The man whispered, "Your brother did something for me a few days ago and asked me to help you at a critical moment. But my help is limited. In addition to the medicine your brother gave me, I can only give you some water so that you don't die of thirst."
While Tian Lin was feeding him water, he tried his best to say, "Please help me with something..."
Before Tian Lin could finish, the man whispered, "Impossible. If my things weren't still in your brother's hands, I wouldn't want to get involved with you two brothers."
"Please bring me some Soul Burial Flowers tomorrow."
Tian Lin also interrupted the man and said with difficulty: "If you do me this favor, the knife hidden under my shop will be yours."
Hearing that he could get something in return, the man hesitated. He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, you want to eat the Soul Burial Flower and commit suicide, right? You committed suicide on your own, you can't blame me."
He gave Tian Lin some water and left, and the next day he brought back the Soul Burial Flower. He thought Tian Lin was going to commit suicide, so he didn't stay here for long.
After he left, Tian Lin took one and a half soul-burying flowers and put them in his mouth.
Compared to the previous night, Tian Lin looked even more miserable the next night.
Zhang Lao Da, who was on the beam, said weakly, "Stinky boy, can you still hold on?"
There was still no reply from Tian Lin, so Zhang Laoda said, "In this world, things that come easily are less trusted and cherished. What do you think?"
Tian Lin still didn't reply until the man fed him water and ate the Soul-Burial Flower in the middle of the night.
That night, Tian Lin practiced for the entire night.
Early the next morning, Supervisor You pushed the door open and the miners reflexively got off the kang.
When they saw Supervisor You, they were no longer in a hurry to run out and grab food.
Because Supervisor You would ask Boss Zhang on the beam as usual whether he was convinced or not.
If Boss Zhang said "no" as usual, Tian Lin would be arrested.
Sure enough, after Supervisor You and Boss Zhang finished their conversation, Tian Lin was picked up from the ground and taken to the second floor of the cabin where the supervisors lived.
There was another round of beating on the second floor, and the miners were terrified.
Someone couldn't help but ask, "Are these two brothers made of iron? Why are they so stubborn? Even at this point, they still refuse to give in?"
Then a miner sneered and said, "You don't know, the reason these two brothers entered the mine is to earn some chips and get a reward from Mr. Shang. One of them is a first-rate expert, if they want to make a living, there are many places they can go. So they have great ambitions and will never be willing to work as dogs for Manager Xu."
Indeed, if you work like a dog for Manager Xu, how could you possibly bypass Manager Xu and get the magic that Master Shang bestowed upon you?
"However, if the two brothers continue like this, they will be in trouble. The You family is not an easy person to deal with."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Manager Xu's scolding on the first floor: "You, you bastard, can you be a little quieter and stop damaging my wall panels? If the wall panels are damaged, will you compensate me?"
As soon as Manager Xu finished speaking, he saw the door and wall of the small house on the second floor suddenly crack.
Immediately afterwards, a black figure was thrown down from the wooden house and landed heavily in front of Manager Xu.
Manager Xu was stunned for a moment, looking at Supervisor You with a messy face, and squatted in front of Supervisor You in disbelief.
He patted the face of Supervisor You, who was vomiting blood, and asked, "Do you want to die or not?"
Supervisor You was speechless at this time. Manager Xu stood up and looked at the dilapidated hut, only to see that the door and wall of the hut had been smashed open again.
Tian Lin looked down from above and smashed the mace in his hand towards Supervisor You on the ground.
With a loud 'bang', Supervisor You's head exploded like watermelon juice, and blood splattered everywhere.
"Mr. You, you're not smart enough. I didn't trick you into closing the door, so why can't you dodge the mace?"
"Well, it's better to die. If I die, I won't have to waste money on medicine."
When Tian Lin's mace fell, Manager Xu did not try to save Supervisor You. Instead, he jumped away to avoid getting his clothes stained by blood.
The clothes he wore were bought in town seven years ago. They were so expensive! He was reluctant to change them even after they were patched up.
(End of this chapter)