Chapter 267 Jealousy

Chapter 267 Jealousy

Chapter 267 Jealousy
Mrs. Wang left the courtyard empty-handed, with a frown on her face and hurried steps.

However, spilling half a bowl of chicken soup caused a lot of strange talk, which had never happened before. The rules of the Lin family were not very strict. Even if the maids and servants made mistakes, they were treated just like that. If it were ten years ago, with her hot temper, she would definitely take out the golden knife and fight her husband to the death.

Zheng Kang stopped far away and saw Madam Wang's voluptuous and graceful figure passing by. He swallowed his saliva and felt regretful. He thought he was too impatient on the "Fuwei" that day.

"Ugh!"

Lin Zhennan sat alone in front of the stone table and sighed.

"General escort chief."

"It's Brother Zheng."

He glanced at the person who came and saw it was the escort leader Zheng Kang, and the dejection on his face disappeared.

"Captain Escort, why did you sigh so deeply just now?"

"sit down."

Naturally, Lin Zhennan didn't want to reveal his thoughts.

"Pingzhi has been pestering me these days, wanting to become Mr. Zhang's disciple!"

"Mr. Zhang?"

Zheng Kang's face turned grim when he thought of the young man who suddenly appeared. He wanted to find out more, and since he was the head of the escort agency, it was not difficult for him to find out the whole story from the porter on the boat.

"If I hadn't accompanied the young escort leader to compete for the tide that day, I would have been the hero who saved the beauty."

Zheng Kang secretly hated Zhang Liyu. When he thought of Mrs. Wang's delicate body being hugged by another man, he couldn't help but feel jealous.

Lin Zhennan continued, "The Exorcism Sword Technique passed down by our ancestor Yuantu is profound and mysterious, with a myriad of variations. As long as you study it carefully and practice diligently, its power will be no less than any martial arts of the time. Pingzhi's enthusiasm for learning other martial arts is really putting the cart before the horse."

The Fuwei Escort Agency is financially strong, so if they want to obtain some third-rate or second-rate martial arts secrets, they have ways to do so.

However, the story of how Lord Yuantu used the 72 Sword Techniques to fight against both the black and white worlds and dominated the martial arts world may be gradually forgotten by outsiders as time goes by, but it is a pride that is often talked about among the descendants of the Lin family.

Therefore, when faced with martial arts from other sects, Lin Zhennan couldn't help but compare them in his mind. Would it be possible for him to 'dominate the world and defeat both the black and white worlds' after learning them?
If you can't, then it means "don't learn, don't learn".

Zheng Kang suppressed his jealousy and said with a smile: "The young escort leader is very reasonable and he listens to the chief escort leader's words."

Lin Zhennan sighed and said, "It's not that I have a sectarian bias. Since Pingzhi insisted, I wanted to make this happen."

Zheng Kang was surprised and asked, "Did the chief escort agree?"

Zhang Liyu became the instructor of the young escort leader and was able to frequently enter and leave the inner house and come into contact with Mrs. Wang. Zheng Kang's hostility increased greatly.

He is an expert in prostitution, but he loves chaste and heroic women the most.

The chief escort has damaged the foundation, and Madam Wang is at the age of a tiger and a wolf, with strong needs. As long as he wields the shovel well, he believes that he cannot pry open the flower path. But suddenly there appears Zhang Liyu, who has a very good appearance and saved Madam Wang's life. Zheng Kang feels that his plan has been greatly challenged.

"This man's martial arts skills are OK, but he has a deep mind and his origins are unclear. I'm afraid it's not very appropriate for him to be Pingzhi's teacher."

In Lin Zhennan's mind, the mess in the food box and the half bowl of chicken soup kept appearing.

Zheng Kang was delighted to see that Lin Zhennan did not trust Zhang Liyu very much. He pretended to be hesitant and said, "Captain Escort, I have a few words that I have wanted to say for a long time, but I was afraid..."

"You and I are brothers, we know each other well, we are not outsiders, brother Zheng, just speak frankly."

"That night, the Fuwei was attacked by pirates. I followed the young escort leader to fight the tide, but later I heard a few things from the brothers on the ship. Thinking about it carefully these few days, I always feel that there is something... strange!"

"A bystander can see more clearly. Brother Zheng has always been very intelligent. What's the matter? Tell me quickly."

This matter was also a hidden worry in Lin Zhennan's heart. He sent several groups of people to visit the water strongholds and boat crews along the Minjiang River, but no one had ever heard of this group of people. The six black-clad swordsmen with high martial arts skills seemed to appear out of thin air and disappear out of thin air.

"Captain of the escort, one of the strange things is the identities of those six people. They are wearing black clothes and masks, and they act stealthily. It is obvious that they don't want people to know their identities. They are highly skilled in martial arts and swordsmanship. They are not like ordinary pirates."

Lin Zhennan nodded slightly: "That's the truth."

"The second strange thing is the appearance of Mr. Zhang. It's too much of a coincidence. I heard that Mr. Zhang came ashore not long after the Fuwei fired the flare. Could it be that he has been lurking nearby from the beginning?" Lin Zhennan's face changed slightly.

"The third strange thing is that Mr. Zhang is a martial arts expert. I heard that the six men were also quite skilled. Why did the pirates retreat after just one fight? Could it be that the two sides had some tacit understanding beforehand..."

Lin Zhennan fell into deep thought. After hearing what Zheng Kang said, he felt that he was letting a wolf into the house.

We really cannot rule out the possibility that Zhang Liyu staged a drama just to sneak into the Fuwei Escort Agency with ulterior motives and colluded with insiders and outsiders, and the three generations' foundation might be destroyed because of this.

Now that things have come to this, Zheng Kang no longer needs to hide anything.

"Captain of the Escorts, I am not a mean person, I am jealous of talented people, but for the long-term development of the Escort Agency, I think we should investigate Zhang Liyu's background in detail, and we should not trust him easily and entrust him with important positions."

Lin Zhennan pondered for a long time before saying, "Brother Zheng, you are a meticulous person. I have something I would like to ask you to do."

Zheng Kang said excitedly, "Please give me your orders, Chief Escort."

"Find a few smart porters to take turns watching this man and see who he comes into contact with and whether he has any improper behavior."

Zheng Kang cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry, Chief Escort, I will definitely find out the background of this man."

Once the seeds of distrust are planted, they do not need excessive watering or fertilization. They will soon grow into poisonous vines, wrapping around people's hearts and showing only their thorns to the outside world.

Over the years, the Fuwei Escort Agency has recruited many young talents, but except for Zheng Kang, a son of a wealthy family with a strong official background, it has been able to retain very few talents. To this day, the escort leaders in charge of the headquarters and various branches are all old brothers who started the business with Lin Zhennan twenty years ago.

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Outside the city of Fuzhou, on the bank of the Minjiang River, there was a sandbank with a sloop anchored.

The Jade Lion of Zhaoye brought a river clam the size of a wash basin from somewhere, raised its hooves high, and with a "kua cha" sound, the hard shell shattered, revealing the delicious and soft clam meat inside. It stuck its tongue in and started chewing it in big mouthfuls.

"This beast really thinks he is a lion beast."

Zhang Yu retracted his gaze and chuckled.

He sat cross-legged at the bow, spread out the cowhide sword book, and looked at the long sword in front of him, which he had obtained from Luo Renjie of the Qingcheng Sect outside Jiangzhou City.

"The art of hidden swordsmanship consists of nine swords, three swords each for upper, middle and lower swords."

"The three lower swords, Broken Waterfall, Swarm of Bees, and Flying Arrow, each have their own mysteries."

Each sword is related to the three swords at the previous level.

In other words, due to the limitations of ordinary people's intelligence and energy, the best method is not to learn all three lower swords first and then learn the three middle swords, but to first learn one of the lower three swords and then learn the corresponding sword of the three middle swords, and so on.

The difficulty of hidden sword art lies in treating the sword as a person, using mysterious techniques to stimulate its "meridian acupoints", stimulating its inner potential to the greatest extent, and using the power of the sword itself to deliver the strongest blow. When Ren Yingying faces an assassination, she can use a move called "Swarm of Bees" to unleash a sword that is close to that of a congenital master.

Zhang Yu held the scabbard and felt the slight clanging of the cold blade.

Every sword is limited by its own quality, and has an upper limit to the power of sword moves it can withstand. The most ideal state is undoubtedly to exhaust all potential, which is called perfection. This is the greatest respect for the sword.

"It's like... just like a master, burning up all his energy and blood to perform a stunning move, and then the sword is destroyed and the person dies, without further ado."

The Bei Ming Qi was contained in his hands, and he gently brushed it over the sword.

"It's just that the hidden sword technique is more complicated. If you want to use the nine swords in the face of the enemy, there are three steps: opening the joints, nurturing the sword, and infusing it."

"The first step, pass the festival!"

All things are difficult at the beginning. Treat the sword as a person and use the techniques recorded in the art of sword hiding to gently pluck and twist the sword, strike it from all sides, and open up the blocked joints, so that the sword hidden in the sheath is in a state of being about to break.

"If the force and direction are slightly wrong, the sword will be completely broken."

Zhang Yu broke five or six swords before and after, but today he succeeded on this sword from the Qingcheng Sect that was neither good nor bad.

As for the sword moves, he chose 'Breaking Waterfall' from the lower three swords.

(End of this chapter)