Chapter 293: Meeting in the Jianghu

Chapter 293: Meeting in the Jianghu

Chapter 293: Meeting in the Jianghu
"Everyone, I can go now!"

On Xifengdu Street, the man in black robe glanced at the four ruffians, then turned around and left with his bag on his back.

The crowd of onlookers scattered like birds and beasts. No one was surprised. It seemed as if it was natural. Since ancient times, the people did not fight against officials, the people did not fight against bandits, the people did not fight against scoundrels, the people did not fight against...

"Boss Xiao, we've made a fortune. How many meals can you eat at restaurants with this ingot of silver?"

"You only know how to eat. I think you might as well go to Hengyang City and find a local kiln to spend a few days in peace and contentment."

Someone hurriedly shook his head: "Don't go to the earthen brothel. It's dark there. The fat on the woman's belly can stretch three feet long. You can gnaw it at night without feeling anything, but you will feel sick for several days afterwards. I heard that it can also cause internal diseases. If you get infected, you can't be buried in the ancestral tomb."

The scoundrel laughed and said, "You despise the clay brothel because you want to be like Mr. Sha, pulling silver in a carriage and going to Hengshan to visit the Jade Courtyard to bring honor to your family? You don't deserve it!"

"Listen to Boss Xiao, Boss Xiao, how do you think we should spend this money?"

Xiao Rengui ignored his companions and stared at the black cloth bundle. It was heavy and must contain a lot of gold, silver and treasures. The greed in his heart was like a wildfire, which was very difficult to extinguish once it started.

"stop!"

"Who asked you to leave?"

"Stop it, me!"

He held the silver ingot in his hand, shouted a few times, and ran forward.

The three ruffian companions were left there, staring at each other in bewilderment.

Zhang Yu stopped and looked at the ruffian who was chasing him again, his eyes slightly cold.

"Do you have anything else?"

Xiao Rengui spread out his palm, the silver ingot shone coldly in the sunlight, and he smiled and uttered two words.

"not enough!"

Zhang Yu chuckled: "Are you trying to be naughty with me?"

Xiao Rengui had already determined to take advantage of this man, and threatened him in a cold voice: "Don't be confused, kid. Xifengdu is under the management of the Black Sand Gang. My wife's brother-in-law is a clerk under the Tongpan of Hengyang Prefecture. If you don't want to be sued, just pay the money!"

"I understand. There are people from both the black and white worlds."

Xiao Rengui nodded with satisfaction. As long as he could understand the rules, that would be good. He was afraid of meeting a young man who didn't understand the rules and would have to waste more time and effort.

At this time, the three hooligans also followed. Seeing that Boss Xiao had succeeded in blackmailing again, although they felt that the rules had been broken, they were more happy in their hearts. If they really stuck to the rules, who would be the street clean-up hooligans for the Heisha Gang?

Zhang Yu looked at them and asked, "How much silver do you want?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Rengui stared blankly at the things he was carrying.

"I want your bag!"

It's strange to say, Qingpi Maguai is greedy for money, but he usually has a sense of propriety. Today, when he saw the black cloth bundle, he didn't even know what was inside. The greed in his heart instantly destroyed his rationality.

Zhang Yu smiled even more broadly, took off the black bag with both hands and held it in front of him.

"Give me!"

Xiao Rengui stretched out his hand and tried to snatch the black bag, but Zhang Yu took a step back.

"You really want it?"

Xiao Rengui pulled out the boning knife tied to his leg, his face grim: "Give him to me! Otherwise, don't even think about walking out of this street alive!"

The three companions looked at Boss Xiao and suddenly felt something was strange. They were just hooligans and had not yet fallen into bandits. To slaughter a fat sheep, one must use "civil means", and this was obviously going to be a fight.

The black-clad guards around the tea shed had already been keeping an eye on this group of Hengyang local hooligans, and when they saw one party pull out a knife, they became even more cautious and moved to stand in front of the couple.

"Sister Shi, who was this person you just mentioned? Have you met him before?"

The man poured the girl a cup of tea very attentively while asking her questions.

The sword-wielding girl seemed to have remembered something and chuckled, "Nothing, not really."

The man nodded and said, "It's best if we don't know each other! As the saying goes, once is a chance, never again. If I were him, even if I didn't know martial arts, I would still bleed all over the streets and fight these scoundrels to the death. Only then can I show my manliness. How can I let others ride on my head and shit on me..."

When he saw the girl picking up the teacup, he felt that he was being rude and quickly stopped talking.

Seeing the black-robed man, the sword-wielding girl reluctantly took off her black bag and handed it to the hooligans who were chasing after her. Her sword-like brows slightly furrowed, and she thought to herself, "Not really? With his martial arts skills, even if he has not made any progress in the past few years, he shouldn't be bullied like this by a few hooligans."

The man laughed and said, "Look at you, sister. You are so tall for nothing. You don't have any manliness at all. You are such a coward, a complete coward!"

The sword-wielding girl glanced at him and said calmly, "Everyone in the world has their own experiences. What if he gets seriously ill and loses all his martial arts skills, so he can't fight anyone? Tolerating humiliation temporarily, like the Marquis of Huaiyin, can't be said to be a man without blood, right?"

The man was stunned with shock. He had been trying to please her in every way along the way, but the other party was very frugal with his words. Suddenly, he said something that implied a protective meaning, as if he had been holding it in for a long time.

He suddenly felt very aggrieved and said indignantly: "Sister, didn't you say you didn't know this person? How, why are you speaking for him... and... who is Huaiying? Is that this person's name? The name is so delicate, no wonder he is so weak like a woman..."

The girl with the sword stopped talking and sighed slightly, "What a marriage my father found for me!"

"Sister Shi, you don't talk to me again..."

She turned her face away completely and looked at the dispute happening over there with the man in black robe.

People in the world love excitement and don't mind big things. When they saw Qingpi Maguai taking out a boning knife, they saw a circle of people gathered in the distance around two groups of people on Xifeng Street. At some of the snack stalls, customers had only eaten half of their meals when they saw something exciting up ahead. Although they didn't know what it was, they put down their bowls and chopsticks and were attracted over.

Just as the black bag attracted Xiao Rengui.

Xiao Rengui held the knife, his eyes burning: "Give it to me!"

Zhang Yu sighed. It was difficult to persuade a damned ghost with good words, so he didn't plan to persuade him anymore. He glanced at the group of people, thinking about getting out as soon as possible.

"I can give you my things, but... you have to hold on to them. Once they land on the ground, they will still be mine."

Xiao Rengui sneered, "What's the difficulty? If I can't hold it, I won't want the thing anymore. I will kneel down and kowtow in front of these neighbors and call you grandpa three times!"

Those onlookers shook their heads and thought to themselves that this excitement would not last long and was not exciting at all, as the pale-faced scholar was going to give in so quickly.

The black bag looked heavy, but they saw with their own eyes that the frail scholar had been carrying it with both hands for quite some time without even a bead of sweat on his forehead, and his face wasn’t red and he wasn’t out of breath. So how heavy could it be?

Everyone here knows that Qingpi Maguai, who has been hanging out on the streets for years and makes a living by fighting and bullying, is very strong. How can he be inferior to this scholar?

To put it bluntly, this person was just looking for a way out to save some face. "Well, you take it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the man in black robe pushed his hands forward.

The long, box-shaped black bundle suddenly rushed towards Xiao Rengui, who was three steps away.

"Oh!"

There was a muffled sound.

Everyone's eyes widened.

The girl with a sword in the tea stall in the distance also stood up to see what was going on.

She had learned the whole story through her guards, but she still felt it was not that simple.

"I caught it. Haha, I caught it. I thought there was some mystery."

The man suddenly slammed the table and laughed, causing the lids of the cups and tea bowls to fall to the ground.

The girl with the sword sat down slowly. It turned out that she had been overthinking. She couldn't help but feel complicated.

In fact, the two of them had only met once, and they didn't even know each other's names, but that one meeting... She remembered it for a long time. The other party's martial arts, free and easy style, and appearance all left a deep impression on her.

After all, what she found difficult to accept was that the person who once amazed her ended up being just like everyone else.

All the onlookers thought they had seen through the pale-faced scholar's pitiful trick to save his reputation, but the three ruffians closest to the two men noticed that Qingskin Maguai was abnormal. Their eyes widened and their faces showed fear.

"Boss Xiao..."

"Boss Xiao, are you okay?"

"If you're alright, please say something..."

No matter how they shouted, Xiao Rengui seemed to be under a spell, motionless, standing there with the black bag in his hands. After a moment, he suddenly uttered four words.

"I... caught it!"

The sound is as thin as a mosquito.

In an instant, Xiao Rengui's face turned dark red, like a piece of pig liver. His eyeballs bulged and quickly began to turn red. More and more red threads appeared, gradually covering the black and white eyeballs.

"puff!"

"puff!"

After the crisp sound, the onlookers saw an extremely horrifying scene.

The eyeballs spurted out and exploded into two balls of red mist. When they fell to the ground, they looked like the glutinous rice cake that Madam Liu had pounded a thousand times. They turned into two lumps of rotten flesh and blood, and no trace of their original shape could be seen at all.

Everyone was silent.

Then he saw the black bundle fall straight out of Xiao Rengui's arms and hit the bluestone paved street of Xifengdu.

"boom!"

This time there was a loud bang that shook the earth, and many weak people staggered.

At the same time, Xiao Rengui seemed to have his spine pulled out. He knelt down limply, then his upper body fell forward, with his entire face pressed against the cold bluestone slab, just like... he had kowtowed, which at least fulfilled half of his promise.

"It's rare, he's a man of his word!"

Zhang Yu chuckled, picked up the black iron chain wrapped with cloth strips with both hands, put the black bag on his back, and walked out quickly through the gap that opened automatically. Those people avoided him as much as possible, and watched the pale-faced scholar leave with eyes as if he were a wild beast in the mountains.

"Get out of the way, stop squeezing..."

"let me see!"

Seeing the pale-faced scholar leave, Xiao Rengui, whose life or death was unknown, was carried away by his three companions and sent to the clinic for treatment. Strangely, the onlookers did not disperse, but crowded around and looked down at the place where the two men had stood.

"Step aside!"

The black-clad guards who were originally around the tea stall pushed through the crowd and made way for a path.

The girl with the sword walked quickly in front and arrived at the place.

A two-foot square pit, two fingers deep, appeared on the originally flat bluestone street. There was no gravel at the bottom, only a layer of fine stone powder, which showed that it had obviously suffered a huge impact.

With this pit as the center, there are spider-web-like cracks that can extend up to a meter long.

"Impossible, impossible... How is this possible? Absolutely impossible..."

The man stared at the pit as if he had lost his soul, muttering to himself.

"Yes, it's a magic trick. It must be a magic trick! I heard that there is an ancient color artist in Hengyang Prefecture who is good at magic tricks."

"The two of them colluded and used a sleight of hand."

This matter is too unbelievable. Some people always find it difficult to accept things that are beyond their understanding. At this time, if someone can give them an explanation, even if it is not rigorous and reasonable, they will believe it like a life-saving straw.

Seeing that someone believed him, the man glanced at the girl with a sword standing in front of the pit and spoke even more excitedly.

"Just wait and see. The pale-faced scholar will definitely bring some goods. He will be on the street selling the powerful pills tomorrow at the latest."

"I've seen this kind of tricks in Guanzhong before, so don't be fooled by him..."

The man looked like he was wearing a brocade robe and a jade belt, and his identity was extraordinary. What he said was also well-reasoned, so many people believed him. However, they thought to themselves, if that scholar really came to sell the powerful pills tomorrow, they would have to buy a few to try. What if they really work?

The girl with the sword didn't say anything. She looked at the pit, then looked in the direction the man left, and a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

some people.

It is not necessary to meet, reunite, or get to know each other.

As long as I know he is still in the world.

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