Chapter 13: A Bet at a Glance

"Who are you again?"

Several people in the hall looked at the screen.

The town mayor heard it was a young voice and said angrily: "Where did this stinky kid come from, talking... without covering or blocking, empty-mouthed and white-toothed, slandering good people!"

Originally he had even uglier words, but remembering that he suddenly knew Shopkeeper Ma was a mage, the previous car was a lesson, and he kept a little caution in his heart.

But that anger was still a bit hard to suppress.

Because those words did hit some of his obscure thoughts.

Although he was the town mayor, the limelight of the Meng family had covered him in the past few years.

And the old families in the town were all people with deep ancestral virtues, mainly holding land deeds.

The wealth of the Meng family mainly relied on shops and factories. If a group of robbers could really enter the town, even if they couldn't break into the Meng family's courtyard, it would be good to rob those shops.

"I am Seeing Chu Tianshu, just a doctor."

Seeing Chu Tianshu walked out from behind the screen.

Meng Lianfa said: "This is the Doctor Chu I just mentioned, who beat the robber to death."

Several big families hadn't heard of the power of the leopard cat warrior, and of course they didn't care about the person who beat the robber to death just now.

But when Seeing Chu Tianshu walked out and got a little closer, several old men on the chairs felt a bit uncomfortable.

The area around this kid's body was obviously hotter than other places.

He looked gentle, but if you closed your eyes, the feeling he gave people was like, like an old bear blind man coming down the mountain to find food!

A middle-aged man beside the town mayor, with a horse face and short beard, wearing a sword at his waist, saw his employer shrink back and said: "Young man, it's a good thing to practice some martial arts, but don't get carried away."

"Regardless of whether you are practicing fist techniques or a doctor, you must maintain respect for these prestigious figures."

Seeing Chu Tianshu turned his eyes to stare at him and suddenly smiled: "So, should I apologize to you for what I just said?"

The horse-faced man nodded slightly: "It's good to know you're wrong..."

"I was indeed wrong, I shouldn't have just relied on my mouth."

Seeing Chu Tianshu's smile remained, "Looking at your high spirits, you must be the most capable guard hired by the town mayor."

"I had a hard time beating that robber, why don't I try two moves with you to see the result?"

The horse-faced man held the sword scabbard and stared: "You want to fight me?"

The town mayor said: "Wang Fu, little brother, was originally the chief escort of the Hewei Escort Agency. Brother Meng, if your guest wants to fight him..."

Seeing Chu Tianshu interrupted him, looking directly at Wang Fu: "Why, don't you dare?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu was not challenging randomly.

On the way to the Meng family with Shopkeeper Ma, they chatted a lot.

According to Shopkeeper Ma, the leopard cat warrior alone was a significant threat to this town.

The escort and martial arts hall industry was most developed in the north, especially near Jinghua. During the Qing Dynasty, some masters of escort agencies there could often enter the palace to receive awards, followed by the southeast.

And Yizhou here was the southwest border, relatively barren. Those who could come out of the escort agency and martial arts hall to be guards for town families certainly had skills, and their overall quality was good, but their ability to fight alone... was just like that.

Basically, none of them could deal with an adult leopard cat warrior alone.

Wang Fu didn't know Shopkeeper Ma's evaluation of him, but he had already been angered by the yellow-mouthed child in front of him.

"Good boy, I'll give you some pointers and let you calm down."

Wang Fu walked to the front yard, suddenly turned around on the stone path, and in the moment of turning, with a clatter, the long sword at his waist had already been drawn out.

He was indeed experienced, guarding against people sneaking up from behind, making it too late for him to draw his sword.

This change in figure, unexpected, grinding steps, turning around, and drawing the sword, was completed in a blink of an eye.

"The robbers I've killed under this sword, added up over the years, are not eighty but fifty. Even those who hold guns, I've chopped off the hands of one or two."

"That kid, what weapon do you use?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu was empty-handed, stepped over the threshold, his voice light.

"My weapon, you will see it when you should see it. Are you ready?"

Wang Fu snorted coldly: "Playing mystery, come on!"

As soon as the voice fell, he saw a little silver light flash from Seeing Chu Tianshu's left hand.

Ding!!

The silver needle hitting Wang Fu's right knee was cut down by a sword.

Wang Fu's face flashed with a hint of urgency, his body had a tendency to retreat and dodge, and his hands hurriedly shook his wrist to pick the sword.

Under the moonlight, his long sword seemed to unfold a fan-shaped residual light in front of him, blocking from the right knee to the left shoulder.

The sword body finally blocked the second silver needle shooting toward the left shoulder in time.

"Hit!"

Seeing Chu Tianshu's figure rushed forward, a heavy sound burst from his mouth, his five fingers opened in mid-air, his palm exerted force, and he slapped directly on Wang Fu's sword body.

Wang Fu had just blocked the needle in a hurry, the sword spine was outward, and in order to change direction at extreme speed, his wrist hadn't slowed down at this moment.

Seeing Chu Tianshu's arrow step and palm support didn't look like facing a dangerous long sword at all, but like slapping an iron sheet.

The palm hit Wang Fu's chest through the iron sheet.

Bang!!!!

Wang Fu's back arched backward, retreating three or four steps, the long sword supported the ground, his left hand touched his chest, his mouth was tightly pursed, and his face was flushed red.

Seeing Chu Tianshu no longer looked at him and turned into the house.

Several people in the main hall wanted to watch the battle, but they saw Seeing Chu Tianshu's back seem to move twice. As soon as he rushed out, he turned and walked back.

"What's going on? Not fighting anymore?"

The town mayor walked to the threshold, and Old Master Zhu and Old Master Tan also poked their heads out to look.

Wang Fu faced the eyes of the crowd, his face flushed even redder, his Adam's apple bulged, and he finally couldn't help it.

"Ugh!!"

He bent over and vomited all over the ground, feeling like a stone pestle was stirring in his stomach. After vomiting, he couldn't straighten his waist even more, vomiting repeatedly.

At a glance, he was vomited by a hit.

Even a fool could see that Wang Fu had become like this, and if Seeing Chu Tianshu was willing, he could just add another move to knock him down.

The town mayor retreated half a step, at a loss.

Old Master Zhu, Old Master Tan, and the guards beside them all changed their expressions.

They had all seen Wang Fu kill bandits before and knew that this person was powerful, so they were even more shocked by this scene.

"Sorry, I dirtied the Meng family's courtyard."

Seeing Chu Tianshu's voice drilled into their ears, "Only hitting here will not really get hurt. Hitting other positions, if it's light, I'm afraid he won't be convinced, if it's heavy, it will be a waste of a good hand in the town."

He hit the cardia, the junction of the human esophagus and stomach, located behind the xiphoid process of the sternum, and the force was extremely precise.

Vomiting for a while won't hurt the body.

Seeing Chu Tianshu looked at the town mayor and others again, and the eyes of several people were a bit evasive.

"What are you afraid of?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu's brows were cold, saying, "I am not a robber, and I will not kill into your home, but the corpse on the ground tore my clothes when I fought with him, and almost hurt me."

"If that group of robbers all killed into the town and attacked your high-door and thick-walled courtyards, do you really have the confidence to hold on with just the guards of your own family?"

Shopkeeper Ma opened his mouth at the right time: "And I have already said, they are Vietnam people. Even if you want to negotiate with them, they may not understand what you are saying."

The town mayor and others turned pale and finally listened to the words in their hearts.

Meng Lianfa stood up: "I will now allocate half of the guards in my family to coordinate with the militia. If unfortunately, the robbers break into here first, my family's guards are familiar with the road, and a large number of people can also support my family as soon as possible!"

Old Master Zhu, who rounded the field before, immediately shouted: "How can Brother Meng bear this kind of thing alone? I will let people go home and allocate half of the guards."

The town mayor and Old Master Tan also echoed loudly.

Shopkeeper Ma secretly clicked his tongue, looked around at the crowd, clasped his fists and said: "Since the matter here is settled, I have to go back to the restaurant to prepare."

Seeing Chu Tianshu said: "I'll go back together."

The town mayor hurriedly said: "Why don't the two go to my house to sit, and I will let people move what needs to be prepared to the restaurant, and if it's not enough, I..."

Meng Lianfa blocked the town mayor.

Those two turned a deaf ear, had already turned around the shadow wall, went out, and when Seeing Chu Tianshu left, he wrapped the straw mat with hemp rope and took the corpse away.

Shopkeeper Ma drew a spell on the corpse to form interference to prevent the sorcerer on the robber side from realizing that this person was dead too early.

But the spell drawn by hand had a limited time, so he had to go to the restaurant to make up with cinnabar.

"This group of people... really troublesome."

Seeing Chu Tianshu walked on the road, "I understand a little bit why Shopkeeper Ma, you restrain your skills, to save yourself from dealing with this group of people."

Shopkeeper Ma walked with a lamp: "This town is already considered good. If you enter the city, it seems safer, but in fact, it is chaotic, and there are more things that can kill people."

"By the way, you were quite restrained before, I didn't expect you to be so active just now."

Shopkeeper Ma's tone slowed down, "You haven't been in town for a long time, have you ever thought about leaving the town to avoid disaster?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu didn't stop, and when he heard this, his eyeballs moved.

If he wanted to leave, he could find a reason.

But he still had many reasons to stay.

For example, being easily targeted by bestial fierce spirits, leaving alone might not be safer than staying in the town; finding a house to hide might not be safer than promoting a larger team and getting involved...

Or for example, collecting evil spirit materials, earning progress in qi, etc.

But setting aside these things, he was not very willing to leave just like that.

"This is a chaotic world after all. Looking at the changes in various countries in the newspaper, I am afraid it will be a chaotic world of unprecedented scale."

Seeing Chu Tianshu said, "I can hide here today, hide there tomorrow, do I have to keep running like a rat and achieve nothing?"

He deliberately flattened his tone, but couldn't completely suppress the irritability and ruthlessness.

"I hate the feeling of only being able to run away. If there is a thirty percent chance, I should fight for it!"

Shopkeeper Ma walked silently, and after a while, he laughed: "Good, a person who can cultivate both magic and fist techniques is indeed a person with heart."

Seeing Chu Tianshu didn't ask how he knew he was cultivating both, but a smile appeared on his face.

Old Ma was also from another place, just came earlier, and had no family here, and was so old.

But he was clearly going to actively fight that group of robbers, not only for that restaurant, but not only for the restaurant.

One old and one young, both could feel some similarities in their moods.

This feeling of having a fellow traveler was very good.

After returning to the restaurant, Seeing Chu Tianshu saw the dishes left for him on the table, not very hungry, just poured a cup of tea.

"Come with me."

Old Ma left a sentence and walked quickly in front.

Seeing Chu Tianshu followed with a teacup and stopped at the door of Old Ma's room.

He saw Old Ma push the quilt to the inside of the bed and lift the bed board directly.

His bed was like a large box, yellow paper, cinnabar, inkstone, brush, copper mirror, copper basin, willow stick, gold coin sword.

Piles of things were taken out and piled on the table.

Finally, he picked up a thick peach wood sword, with a talisman engraved on the hilt, and dense cinnabar talismans on the sword body, presenting a jujube red color, and the color was deeper where there were talismans.

"Fighting with robbers who use evil arts, you should have a good weapon. This is what I used when I was young. Now that I am old, it is not handy to use. You take it."

Seeing Chu Tianshu took the sword, felt the weight was wrong, observed it, and pulled it with both hands.

Clang!!

A thick-spined iron sword was hidden in the peach wood sword. As soon as it was pulled out, it was bright and dazzling. Only then did he see the cyan forging patterns like fish scales on the silver-white sword body.

"Wooden sword beheads ghosts, iron sword beheads people."

Shopkeeper Ma had a look of reminiscence in his eyes, saying, "However, the forging method of this sword's edge, the weight distribution, etc., are most suitable for fist masters who pursue dragon entanglement."

"Out of the general and into the prime minister, three in one, but I don't know which path you are taking now?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu was admiring the sword, puzzled: "What is three in one?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 14 =====