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"Zhou Liang, is there anything big happening in Miaohuafang recently?" Chen Mu asked the burly man on his left as they walked on the road.
The two strong men were members of a small gang in the east of the city. They were hired by Miao Huafang to protect him.
"I haven't heard of anything big, except that Boss Zhen went to Nanyang City for more than half a month and hasn't come back." Zhou Liang replied.
Chen Mu nodded to show that he understood, but he couldn't help but grumble in his heart.
According to the original plan, Miaohuafang would contact him with four business orders every month.
But now it’s late January and the first order has arrived.
This gave Chen Mu a slight sense of crisis.
He practiced martial arts every day and ate a lot of meat, so his consumption was extremely high.
If something goes wrong in the painting studio, his quality of life will be immediately affected.
"I hope Boss Zhen can come back soon."
Soon, Chen Mu arrived at the gate of a large mansion. On the door hung a plaque with two large characters "Zuo Fu" written on it.
Zhou Liang and Zheng Huan went forward and knocked on the door to report.
A servant led him in. Zhou Liang and Zheng Huan were left in the gatehouse to rest and wait.
Chen Mu has been painting portraits for people for several months and has become very skilled in his job.
After meeting the master of the Zuo family, he asked for his requirements and started painting immediately.
With his current second-level painting skills, even if he deliberately delayed the time to show his seriousness, it only took him less than an hour to finish the painting.
After receiving twenty taels of writing fee, Chen Mu followed the servant and walked out happily.
Passing by a small courtyard, a burst of shouting was heard.
Chen Mu couldn't help but turn his head to look.
Through the Moon Gate, a young man was practicing martial arts.
The man in his forties or fifties standing next to me was patiently giving instructions with a smile on his face.
As if sensing someone's gaze, the man turned around and looked over.
The two looked at each other and were stunned at the same time.
Sheng Hong?
Was he hired and invited directly to his home to be taught martial arts?
Chen Mu was stared at by the other party, and his heart couldn't help but feel weak: "Is it possible that I have mastered the Red Falcon Form Training Technique?"
Without showing any expression, she smiled and nodded at Sheng Hong, then left leisurely with the servant.
Sheng Hong looked at Chen Mu's background in confusion. He always felt that the man just now looked familiar.
After thinking about it carefully, it suddenly dawned on me: "It's that scholar who paints!"
He had a deep impression of Chen Mu.
Over the years, he has used the red falcon as bait to catch countless suckers.
It is not so easy to learn the art of physical training.
Anyone who came to see him would have to spend at least three hundred taels of silver before he would face reality.
But this scholar came once and never came again.
How could he forget the other party if he lost two hundred taels of silver?
"Looking at the other party's movements and posture, there seems to be some shadow of the shape-changing technique. Has he really mastered it?" Sheng Hong wondered.
Then he shook his head and laughed: "There are not so many geniuses in this world."
"Forget it, don't think about him, just concentrate on fooling this young master in front of me. He's the real sucker." Sheng Hong looked at the clumsy movements of the young master of the Zuo family in front of him, and smiled: "He has a big family and a lot of wealth. Maybe a full meal once will be enough for me to spend for the rest of my life!"
……
Ping'anfang, inside the Chen family residence.
"I didn't expect to meet Sheng Hong."
Ever since he learned the Red Falcon Shape Training Technique, Chen Mu subconsciously avoided the neighborhood where Sheng Hong was.
Sheng Hong used the shape training technique to cheat people out of money. He learned it in one go. If the other party knew about it, would they be willing to accept it?
Chen Mu not only avoided the other party, but also avoided Captain Lu.
The two were in collusion, and Chen Mu was afraid of causing unnecessary trouble. Otherwise, he would not have hired Jie Jia to buy medicinal materials for him at a high price.
"Looking at Sheng Hong's expression, it seems that he didn't recognize me at first." Chen Musong breathed a sigh of relief.
"As the coach of the eldest son of the Zuo family, it is even more impossible for him to think about me."
According to Zhou Liang and Zheng Huan, the Zuo family is one of the six major families in Qingshan County.
There are large tracts of land outside the city and rows of shops inside the city, and the wealth is astonishing.
"I heard that the young master of the Zuo family is a playboy who hangs out in brothels. He cannot endure hardship or fatigue. If he can practice martial arts for half an hour every day, he is considered diligent."
"It's really not easy to teach such students martial arts."
"Given the difficulty of learning the form training technique, Sheng Hong can at least stay in the Zuo family for a year or so."
"One hundred taels for seven days, half a year, hiss..."
I wish I could take his place!
"I don't want to think about it anymore. The more I think about it, the more sour I feel. I'd better just practice my skills and eat my own food."
Cold seasonal vegetables, pan-fried fish fillets, crystal pork elbow, and a bowl of fragrant white wheat rice.
Chen Mu placed a square table in the yard and admired the beautiful sunset while enjoying the increasingly delicious food.
A good income, successful martial arts training, and delicious food to enjoy, this was the life he had dreamed of in his previous life.
"Scholar, are you enjoying yourself?" A voice suddenly sounded behind him.
Chen Mu shuddered and turned his head suddenly.
I don't know when, a figure was standing behind me.
Sheng Hong?!
The other party sneaked into his house quietly and he didn't even notice!
"Master Sheng, how about we share a bite?" Chen Mu raised his hand and pointed at the food on the table.
"Don't disturb me?" Sheng Hong said jokingly.
"No way, it's my honor to invite Master Sheng to dinner." Chen Mu took out a new set of bowls and chopsticks and prepared them.
"I didn't expect you to have such a skill." Sheng Hong was chewing a piece of crystal pork elbow and exclaimed in amazement: "I can't bear to do it."
Chen Mu's scalp suddenly tightened.
"Of course, I'm not an unreasonable person." Sheng Hong ate the fish slowly.
"Six hundred taels. Six hundred taels for your life. That's reasonable, isn't it?"
Chen Mu couldn't help but tremble all over.
"Don't say you don't have it. I checked it out very clearly. You make at least a hundred taels of silver a month by painting for others. It's been more than half a year. How could you not have six hundred taels of silver?"
Chen Mu felt as if someone had poured a bucket of cold water on his head.
He never thought that Sheng Hong had always been thinking about him.
"Haven't you become the head coach of the Zuo family?" Chen Mu couldn't believe it. He had already made a lot of money, so why were you still thinking about me?
"Who would complain that they have too much money?" Sheng Hong laughed.
"Aren't you afraid of offending Miao Huafang?" Chen Mu roared angrily.
Sheng Hong glanced at Chen Mu and said, "I advise you to pay the money obediently. I have knocked out the two idiots outside the door. They won't be able to hear you no matter how loud you shout."
Have Zhou Liang and Zheng Huan been released?
Although he had completed Yi Jin, Sheng Hong had practiced Xing Shu for half his life, so he was at least at Yi Gu realm.
"Were those two really knocked out by you?" Chen Mu couldn't help but ask.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 22 Awakening
"Why do you have to force me?"
"Hey, that's the way the world is." Sheng Hong shook his head: "Everyone does this. It's just bad luck that you ran into me."
"Were those two really knocked out by you?" Chen Mu asked, lowering his head.
"Are you scared now?" Sheng Hong laughed jokingly, "If you are scared, just behave yourself..."
"Afraid? No, I want to thank you."
"Varied……"
"Thank you for knocking them both out!"
Woo!
Chi!
Blood splattered, Sheng Hong's eyes widened, and half of his ear disappeared.
"You!" Sheng Hong looked at Chen Mu in astonishment. If he hadn't dodged quickly enough, his eyes would have been blinded!
woo woo woo...
A series of locust stones flew towards us.
Sheng Hong's figure suddenly disappeared, leaving a trail of afterimages on the spot.
"Scholar, you're hiding really well!" Sheng Hong said angrily, "It's a pity that I've been trained in dodging hidden weapons!"
He pushed the Red Falcon's body shape training technique to the extreme, and although the Flying Locust Stone was ferocious, it couldn't touch him at all!