Chapter 92

Although he was calculating the matter of the troublemakers in his heart, Seeing Chu Tianshu still ate his lunch with a good appetite.

He can now control his digestive ability, so he doesn't get hungry as easily as before.

But he has to practice cultivation, so naturally, it is impossible for him to maintain his digestive ability at the lowest state of eating only a little grain and water.

A steamed fish and a plate of mutton in every meal are necessary, and others are extra.

Although there is no stir-frying at this time, the Wen family restaurant's way of making mutton is somewhat similar to stone-grilled meat, sprinkled with dogwood powder and salt.

The umami of the mutton itself paired with salt, plus the spiciness of the dogwood, can be said to be the closest to the taste of the barbecue from Seeing Chu Tianshu's hometown among the meat dishes in the restaurant.

It is still that kind of barbecue that can highlight the aroma of meat; the seasoning is the best foil, not overshadowing the main dish.

Used to pair with green essence rice, it makes people unable to stop.

By the time Seeing Chu Tianshu finished lunch, there were more guests in the building.

Because it was time for Dao Bai Shu to tell stories again.

"What the old man is going to tell today is: 'The Evil Person Secretly Uses a Strategy of Alienation, General Fu Bo Pacifies Lingnan!'"

Dao Bai Shu took the stage and first raised the large paper-pasted hammer.

"General Fu Bo Ma Yuan of the Great Han Dynasty is said to be the first-generation master of the Drum-Beating Jar-Weight Hammer."

"After he died, the soldier spirit dissipated, but this pair of treasure hammers was of excellent quality and was passed down to Li Yuanba, who nurtured a soldier spirit in them; their dominance was even greater than their predecessor."

"However, although Li Yuanba's martial arts were unrivaled in the world, he was young after all and did not understand the wonders of civil governance, while General Ma was both civil and martial."

"In the past, when there was a rebellion in Lingnan, after General Ma wiped out the bandits, he governed the local area, built water channels, promoted merchants, and comforted the people, making the Central Plains people and Lingnan people as close as one family."

"But there were also evil people whose thieving hearts did not die, causing trouble from within, secretly using evil methods and tricks to provoke the friendship between the Central Plains people and the Lingnan people."

"Pity how many commoners were secretly used by them, and how many dry bones were trampled under their feet, just to satisfy their own selfish desires..."

When Dao Bai Shu said this, his righteous indignation was evident, and he waved the paper-pasted hammer in the air, as if he wanted to smash the evil people of that year into pieces with one hammer.

"What kind of tricks and evil arts did the evil people have, and how did General Ma pacify this matter? Listen to me tell it in detail!"

Most of the people in the hall were listening to the storytelling with excitement and anticipation, because Dao Bai Shu told it in a gripping and fascinating way.

Moreover, General Fu Bo Ma Yuan, in some rumors, had also been to Nanzhao, erected copper pillars to offer sacrifices to heaven, and educated the local people, making him quite famous among the Nanzhao folk.

Everyone loves to hear stories about famous people.

The Drum-Beating Jar-Weight Hammer also linked Ma Fu Bo and Li Yuanba together, adding to the anticipation.

But there were also some people who, having just heard the beginning, figured out a bit of the flavor.

This story about evil people provoking alienation clearly talks about Lingnan on the surface.

In secret, I'm afraid it is talking about Nanzhao.

It corresponds exactly to the recent rumor that "Nanzhao people's wealth has all been robbed by Tang people."

Some people thought even deeper.

This Dao Bai Shu is not a Tang person.

He is a Bai person, and he comes from a major clan among the Bai people; the Nanzhao royal family are also Bai people.

Originally, some people had not deeply believed the rumors, but after hearing them so much, it was inevitable that they had a somewhat awkward impression of Tang people.

Now hearing Dao Bai Shu say that someone is hiding behind the scenes to cause trouble, that little bit of awkwardness immediately turned into a feeling that someone was trying to use their dissatisfaction.

Seeing Chu Tianshu noticed the changes in everyone's expressions, walked to the counter, and smiled in a low voice, "Is this a move Madame Wenjing thought of?"

Madame Wenjing was looking at the stage and shook her head, "I didn't tell Old Man Dao about these things."

Cheng Xiazi said, "It seems the old man is also a thoughtful person."

"No wonder he always wants to recite a disclaimer; it turns out that deep down he is someone who likes to make allusions, laying down armor for himself first."

Seeing Chu Tianshu said things others didn't quite understand, full of smiles, "His book is told well; the good thing is that although it is an allusion, there is a sense of righteousness in his heart."

Cheng Xiazi sighed, "But how much use can this have?"

"If we can't drag out the group of people who are secretly plotting and slaughter them, what we do will always be just mending the fold after the sheep are lost. Guarding against thieves for a thousand days, there will always be omissions."

Cheng Xiazi tightened his grip on his scabbard, his expression somewhat irritable.

"It's so unsatisfying!"

Madame Wenjing patted his shoulder.

Seeing Chu Tianshu said, "Don't be anxious. If they want to make things really big, their actions will only increase, and the flaws they reveal will be more."

"Besides, those three people who targeted Madame Wenjing were slaughtered by you, and their bodies were taken away by the officials. If such a gang wants to have cohesion, they should have some desire for revenge. What if it is found out that you killed one of their young masters before..."

"Heh, they will definitely take action against the restaurant again. More people will come, and the strength and status of the leader will also be more important."

Seeing Chu Tianshu's eyes brightened slightly, "That will be our opportunity instead."

Cheng Xiazi said in a deep voice, "Unfortunately, most of these are just our guesses, and we can't rely on this to ask the officials to send more people to protect the restaurant."

The people sent by the officials are currently focusing on protecting those important figures who have already been assassinated but have not yet died.

Just as they were talking, a strong young man entered the door, also dressed as a waiter, but with a medicinal smell on him, mainly originating from the sack on his back.

"Are you Physician Chu?"

The medicine shop waiter said, "I am from the Purple-Gold Pharmacy in the city. This is the medicinal material delivered to you. Where should I put it?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu said, "Come with me."

He took the waiter and walked toward the guest rooms.

There are many prescriptions recorded in the "Breaking Shaolin" fist manual, but some medicinal materials cannot be bought here in Nanzhao.

For example, things like "Acanthopanax" are only distributed in the northern part of the Great Tang in the current era.

The materials used in the prescription Seeing Chu Tianshu chose are easy to buy in Nanzhao, and he made partial replacements and additions based on his grasp of his own body and pharmacology.

Currently, the medicinal materials he uses are basically ginseng, polygonatum, eucommia, morinda officinalis, and purple gold vine.

Because the amount he asks for each time is relatively large, when buying, the waiter helps him fill a sack as high as his knees, waiting for him to crush it himself and mix it into the sand.

The Wen family restaurant has a courtyard behind the main hall, with the kitchen and warehouse on the left and right sides.

Passing through the back wall of this courtyard to a new courtyard, the ground is paved with stone bricks, and there are dwarf trees and flowers on both sides.

The new courtyard is surrounded by guest room buildings on three sides, each building divided into two floors, each floor having four rooms, showing the scale is not small.

However, compared to the lively appearance of the main hall now.

The guest rooms are very deserted during the day.

The guest room where Seeing Chu Tianshu lives is in the building to the north.

When he walked into this building, his footsteps paused slightly.

Each floor in the building has to be divided into four rooms, and the rooms have to be furnished comfortably enough.

Therefore, there is no place to set up a hall here; upon entering, there is only a five-foot-wide corridor.

On both sides of the corridor are wooden walls, and inside the wooden walls are the rooms.

Raw wood pillars, carved doors and windows.

Seeing Chu Tianshu stood in the corridor, as if for the first time carefully admiring the wooden walls on the left and right.

The pharmacy waiter said, "What's wrong?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu turned his head to look at the waiter, his pupils brightening slightly, and said, "I went to the pharmacy before, why haven't I seen you?"

"There are so many waiters in our pharmacy; how could you know them all, guest?"

The pharmacy waiter smiled and handed over the sack, "Guest, hurry up and take the medicine."

Bang!!!

The sack suddenly burst.

The waiter's right hand pierced through the sack, his fingernails becoming pitch-black and sharp, and the length of his five fingers changed strangely.

The five fingers, which should have been uneven, seemed to become symmetrical with the middle finger as the axis.

After the five fingers merged, they looked exactly like a carefully crafted black iron spearhead.

This penetrating power is absolutely incomparable to the lethality of an ordinary person's palm strike.

At this moment, a piece of cloth the thickness of a little finger was highlighted in the waiter's black belt, appearing cyan and shiny.

After the Yuwen family became a martial arts family, besides ancestral martial arts, they also specifically collected highly concealed endurance and blood-refining techniques.

This waiter's soldier spirit was on his belt, named "Lion Savage Belt," and the endurance method paired with it was called "Lion Savage Spear"!

Once this kind of soldier spirit power is activated, the strength is like a savage beast, and the hand is like an iron spear.

But when he thrust his hand out, the air on the side of his arm suddenly had a feeling of slight expansion.

That was Seeing Chu Tianshu's hand waving over.

His hand gesture was neither a fist nor a palm, a bit like a handshake.

The web of his thumb was forward, sweeping away, but the speed was too fast, causing the air to be oppressed by his palm, producing an unusual disturbance.

Pfft!!

The fake waiter's wrist was grabbed by Seeing Chu Tianshu.

In the soldier spirit state, the arm was as hard as a rock.

Under Seeing Chu Tianshu's grab, the sleeve was shattered, the flesh was torn, and the bones cracked.

There were even a few lines of blood spurting out from between Seeing Chu Tianshu's fingers, splashing on the ground.

The fake waiter's expression twisted, revealing a look of unbelievable, extreme pain.

Seeing Chu Tianshu's hand shook again in an instant.

The fake waiter only felt a force surging into his body like a wave, making his facial skin tremble and penetrating his whole body, and then the sound of the wind changed suddenly.

Boom!!

With a shake from Seeing Chu Tianshu, the force was transmitted, and he used this fake waiter as a weapon, smashing through the wooden wall on the right.

In the room on the right, a strong man holding a long knife was about to take action.

The wall shattered, causing his expression to change slightly; the fake waiter's two legs had already swept horizontally onto this strong man.

The strong man's chest collapsed on the spot, all his ribs were broken, and he sprayed blood and flew backward, hitting the corner of the wall.

The wooden wall on the left also shattered with a bang, but the fragments sprayed into the corridor.

That was the three people hiding in the room on the left killing their way out.

Their wrist guards, belts, and short knives each emitted light and attacked at the same time.

Seeing Chu Tianshu retreated one step, using his back foot as an axis. When his heel hit the ground, the vibration force spread throughout his body and also surged out from his right hand.

A violent sound of "Whoosh!!" rang out in the air.

The fake waiter's body was swung back by Seeing Chu Tianshu like a large iron whip.

In one fell swoop, he brought all three people into the range of the sweep.

Thud!!!

The attacks of the three landed on the fake waiter almost at the same time.

Then the three figures all felt a powerful vibrational force rebounding, making their facial skin shake, their chests feel stifled, and they retreated.

Bang, crash, crash!!

The tables, chairs, potted plants, and beds in the room on the left were all smashed to pieces in their fierce and staggering retreat.

But at this moment, the corridor suddenly brightened.

The floor of the second floor was destroyed by a force.

But this time, there was no sound of wooden boards cracking and shattering.

Because that force that shattered the floor was both fierce and clean.

Fierce in that, under this strike, within this range corresponding to the corridor below, seven feet long and five feet wide, all the wooden boards were shattered into powder.

Clean in that, this force was only vented on the wooden boards in this range.

It did not spread to the surroundings, causing more wooden cracks.

So throughout the whole process, there was no extra sound at all.

Just a slight sound of something vibrating.

The blade light shone, and it had already fallen along with a large amount of wood chips and dust falling rapidly.

Seeing Chu Tianshu's eyes changed slightly, feeling that the momentum of this blade had already enveloped him; once he retreated, he would be met with a storm of pursuit.

He might not be unable to deal with that kind of pursuit, but his instinct for studying fist techniques made him choose a better way to respond. His right hand suddenly loosened, and his body slanted forward to insert itself.

The fake waiter's body was still lying in mid-air.

Seeing Chu Tianshu appeared on the left side of the fake waiter, and the figure holding the knife appeared on the right.

The longitudinal blade light suddenly changed, sweeping horizontally from right to left.

But the next moment, Seeing Chu Tianshu suddenly appeared in the direction pointed by the fake waiter's feet.

Two figures, like wind blowing through messy catkins, circled around the fake waiter's body like butterflies among flowers.

The surrounding dust was driven by the wind of the two figures, faintly forming a short-lived vortex.

But Seeing Chu Tianshu only circled once, while the knife-wielder's blade light was horizontal and vertical.

In the blink of an eye, Seeing Chu Tianshu appeared inside the room on the right.

The fake waiter's body landed and split into more than a dozen pieces.

The knife-wielder stood at the breach of the room on the left, the dust had already thinned, revealing his appearance.

That was a burly middle-aged man with big eyes, a flat nose, and short needles-like whiskers. The large knife in his hand was four feet long, as wide as a human palm, and thick and heavy.

Just now, he used such a knife, and it was actually as light as a blade as thin as a cicada's wing.

"Good blade technique; your killing intent is hidden much better than these few in the room."

Seeing Chu Tianshu's ears moved slightly, and he heard the sound of chaos and shouting coming from the main hall in front, as well as the faint sound of weapons clashing.

But even if there was a battle over there, it did not produce a threat as high as the swordmaster in front of him.

"It is very gratifying that you all could take the initiative to deliver yourselves to my door, but wasn't your target originally Madame Wenjing?"

Seeing Chu Tianshu swept his right sleeve, leading the dust around him away, smiling on his face, his tone somewhat questioning.

"How did the real experts end up here with me?"

The person holding the knife snorted coldly.

"Open people don't speak secret words. The people in this restaurant have lived in Nanzhao for a long time; how could they know the movements of our Yuwen family?"

"If you want to talk about people who have abruptly appeared recently, there is only you!"

The knife-wielder's center of gravity sank, and his breathing was slightly heavy.

"The Great Tang Internal Guard is indeed extraordinary, actually able to detect clues and send people to deal with us!"

"Although you are not the commander of the left and right divisions of the Internal Guard, this skill is definitely not that of an ordinary person."

"I, Yuwen Tongxin, will kill a talent of the Internal Guard today to eliminate a major trouble for my Yuwen family in the future!"

Seeing Chu Tianshu's eyebrows moved.

"So I am an Internal Guard."

Seeing Chu Tianshu muttered, "I heard that the reputation of the Great Tang Internal Guard is like an evil ghost; then should I be more cruel?"

(End of Chapter)