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Chapter 103: Encounter on the Road

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A few days later in the afternoon, on the donkey cart returning from the west of the city to the Red Sleeve Pavilion.

"Hey, Fengxian, little Fengxian, what are you dazed about!"

Jin Lian reached out to push Xiao Yu's shoulder on the side, wondering: "What's wrong with you, asleep or?"

Xiao Yu looked left and right, discovering that the donkey cart had stopped at some point, and there was the noise of people shouting loudly outside.

"Hmm, took a nap; arrived at the Red Sleeve Pavilion?"

Jin Lian stared at her face and said: "Nap? But your eyes were open just now."

Opened wide, dazed.

"Okay, I was actually thinking about the 'Breaking Wave Fist' of 'Iron Fist Invincible' Sun Zhouhai, Young Master Sun." Xiao Yu made up a lie casually.

Although Jin Lian is not as famous as "Top Ten Famous Prostitutes of Eastern Shu" like Shao Yao, Hong Wei, Zi Xuan, etc., she is still considered a "top stream" in Tianmen Town.

In the past few days, Xiao Yu followed her to visit nearly thirty "Jiang Hu heroes"—at least those who have practiced true qi.

If you add "Wu Gong Talents" (practiced internal qi and have at least one specialty) and new martial arts stars, the number is even more, over a hundred people.

For example, the "Water Fairy Building Tea Tasting Meeting" attended this afternoon had more than thirty young heroes from Yingxiang Mansion participating.

Among them was even a young master of the Wen family, a concubine-born son of Wen Danxia's cousin.

They are all very high-quality "martial arts treasure houses."

Even if their own realm is not high, the immortal martial arts they practice are not bad.

For example, the Wen family young master also practiced martial arts from the "Wind Yin Treasure Mirror."

If Xiao Yu can break their core cultivation method, then the "Old Ancestors" in their family who practice the same cultivation method are also in danger.

The social customs of this era are very ridiculous; servants usually use "Grandfather/Grandmother" to address male and female masters.

Those with lowly status are especially so.

Xiao Yu, a brothel maid (she is nominally Jin Lian's maid), almost has to call everyone "Grandfather/Grandmother" when she sees them; it is normal etiquette for her to call them, and no one will feel she has ulterior motives.

This makes the triggering conditions for "Great Father-Destroyer" very easy to satisfy.

She should have had a bumper harvest, crazily harvesting the essence of martial arts in the Eastern Shu region without being noticed by anyone.

Unfortunately, after the Kunpeng Transformation, the gap in strength between her and them is a bit large.

"Great Father-Destroyer" was triggered, but the Purple Mansion had no movement.

Because she could easily stab most Jiang Hu heroes and martial arts talents to death even by clamping a tree branch with her feet.

She has already sighed and wrung her wrists many times in the past two days.

Today's "Water Fairy Building Tea Tasting Meeting" especially made her unwilling; there were too many young masters and young ladies from aristocratic families at the scene.

Even the Wen family young master couldn't sit in the upper seat.

The "He Zhimin" young master who was surrounded by everyone is said to be the grandson of the hidden Human Immortal "He Chaohong" of Tianmen Town.

Young Master He even performed the Human Immortal stunt "Qiankun Throw" on the spot: throwing out forty-nine flying darts in an instant.

Xiao Yu watched, her heart bleeding.

—If she could break the Human Immortal's Qiankun Throw, could the hidden weapons and crossbows of this world still hurt her?

But the Purple Mansion didn't react.

Young Master He was too weak, didn't even have internal qi, only practiced moves.

There is also the excuse Xiao Yu just gave, "Iron Fist Invincible" Sun Haizhou.

His "Breaking Wave Fist" is very ordinary, with form but no spirit, qi weak and power scattered.

But his father is the Law Enforcement Elder of the "Shahe Sect."

And Breaking Wave Fist is the town-sect stunt of the Shahe Sect, it's just that Sun Haizhou is too frustrated.

The Shahe Sect itself is not weak, having several big shots who are half-step Human Immortals.

If she could break the "Breaking Wave Fist Intent," the entire Shahe Sect would no longer be a threat to her... She doesn't have a grudge against the Shahe Sect; she just longs to possess the power to destroy a large sect.

Unfortunately, Sun Haizhou couldn't let the Purple Mansion deduce the "Breaking · Breaking Wave Fist Method."

Xiao Yu felt that gift packages worth ten billion were constantly falling on her head, but she missed them all in vain.

From the end of the tea tasting meeting until sitting on the donkey cart, she was always dazed, constantly calculating in her heart how to break the situation.

"Young Master Sun's Breaking Wave Fist ranks first among the eight great stunts of the Shahe Sect; of course, it is exceptionally exquisite, but you are a Sword Beauty, no need to distract your energy to think about fist techniques."

Jin Lian believed her ghost talk, persuaded her, then pulled open the curtain and asked: "Chun'er, Little Lu, what is the situation outside, why is the road blocked?"

Chun'er is her personal maid.

Little Lu is a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, the youngest son of the old turtle slave Lu Er of the Red Sleeve Pavilion, a young turtle slave.

The small donkey cart couldn't hold too many people; Chun'er walked on the ground, and Little Lu led the donkey in front.

"Seems like someone jumped into the Small Lianghe."

Chun'er leaned to the edge of the curtain and deliberately lowered her voice, but couldn't suppress the strange excitement in her voice.

It wasn't happiness, nor was it sadness, purely the excitement of watching the fun.

Her nose with a few freckles was sweating, and her squinty eyes were trying hard to open wide, flashing with strange luster.

"Miss, don't get off the cart; I'll squeeze to the front to take a look for you."

After speaking, without waiting for Jin Lian's response, she scolded Little Lu to hold the donkey firmly and not look around, and she herself, like a small mud loach, drilled into the crowd, arched a few times, and disappeared.

"Hey, in broad daylight, why would someone jump into the Small Lianghe?"

Jin Lian was full of pearls and jewelry, wearing silk and satin, and had no idea of getting off the cart to squeeze people.

"If they weren't unable to live, who would jump into the river in broad daylight?"

Xiao Yu lifted the curtain to look forward and suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure, so she said: "Jin Lian sister, I met an acquaintance, I'll go down to say hello."

She had a higher level than Chun'er; her embroidered small shoes stepped lightly on the crossbar of the board cart, and her person was like a flying swallow, lightly crossing two or three zhang, landing on the stone bridge railing.

"Cui'er sister, what a coincidence!"

It was Cui'er, the maid of the Wang Hermit family.

Cui'er was still supporting an old woman of fifty or sixty at this moment.

The old woman wore silk clothes, her hair combed neatly, oily and shiny, with the appearance of being pampered.

However, the old woman's state was not very good, panting hard while covering her chest, her old face purple and red.

Cui'er was still anxiously pulling her to squeeze forward.

"This is the Feng Niangzi of the Mansion, right?"

"Ah, Fengxian sister, why are you here?" Cui'er asked in surprise, then faced the old woman and said: "This is our Old Feng Niangzi, Feng Niangzi, this sister you should also know; the one practicing sword on the roof every morning is her."

"Oh, Fengxian girl, you—"

The old woman was dizzy, her eyes a bit muddy, and she was panting after not finishing a sentence.

"Are you trying to cross the bridge?" Xiao Yu asked.

Cui'er patted the Feng Niangzi's back while anxiously saying: "Isn't it trying to cross the bridge! As a result, we encountered someone jumping into the water, the bridge was crowded with people, and our old mother was squeezed into asthma."

Xiao Yu laughed: "Crossing the bridge is not difficult; you both close your eyes, I will take you across the river."

She jumped off the beast-head pillar, grabbed the arms of Cui'er and the old woman separately, lifted them lightly, as easily as carrying two lanterns.

Then she jumped forward, landing on the beast-head pillar of the bridge, and jumped three more times, lightly, like a dragonfly skimming the water; by the time the people on the bridge looked over in surprise, she had already brought Cui'er and the old Feng Niangzi to the big willow tree on the other side.

"Ah, ya, ya!" Cui'er didn't close her eyes, just reacted slowly, and screamed in panic after landing.

"Oh, Fengxian girl, you jumped so high, you scared the old body." The old Feng Niangzi also cried out.

"Little girl, what a handsome skill!" There were cheers from the bridge.

Xiao Yu stood straight with a smile, cupped her hands toward the position of the cheers, then turned to the Wang family master and servant and said: "Having seen me dancing with a sword on the roof, you should understand that just now was just a small test."

"Fengxian sister is really amazing!" Cui'er believed it, her face full of admiration.

The old Feng Niangzi caught her breath and pulled Xiao Yu's hand to say thank you.

"Fengxian is accompanying Miss, so I will return to the other side, Feng Niangzi should also go home early."

Xiao Yu didn't talk nonsense with them, jumped, even more swift and light than before.

Even the old Feng Niangzi who didn't understand martial arts felt her posture was beautiful, like a flying celestial maiden, with a unique rhythm and agile beauty.

The pedestrians on the bridge and the bridge also cheered again.

When carrying Cui'er and Feng Niangzi Wang across the bridge before, Xiao Yu didn't look carefully, but this time she saw clearly.

In the middle of the bridge lay a wet corpse, and a few people were fighting and arguing with each other.

"Hey, Fengxian, here, here!" Chun'er waved at her.

She was very good at drilling, drilling through the crowd all the way to the front line.

"Chun'er sister, what is the situation? Eh~~"

Xiao Yu suddenly recognized an acquaintance among the people arguing.

It seemed to be the "Gambling Stick Old Xu" she saw at Never Return a few days ago.

"Hey, little girl, you just sent the Feng Niangzi of the Mansion across the bridge, right? Is the old lady okay?"

Before Chun'er could speak, a forty-something, rough-handed and rough-footed big mother shouted.

Xiao Yu turned to look; the big mother looked ordinary, her mouth was a bit big, her eyes were a bit small, she wore a blue jacket that had been washed white, and a gray-brown pair of pants on her lower body, with only a wooden hairpin on her head, dressed very neatly, and her face and body also looked very clean and tidy.

She was trying hard to widen her small eyes to look at Xiao Yu; seeing Xiao Yu look over, she laughed loudly: "I know you, are you the one practicing sword on the roof every day?

Heh, everyone calls me 'Mother Zhang', and I also live in 'Soy Sauce Alley'!"

Soy Sauce Alley is the alley less than two meters wide between the Small Quiet Pavilion and Squire Wang's house.

Xiao Yu asked the aunt of the Pear Fragrance Garden, and half of the houses and storefronts in Soy Sauce Alley belonged to the Red Sleeve Pavilion.

One of them was a soy sauce shop, making half the small alley smell of soy sauce.

"Oh, it's Mother Zhang, Mother, hello! My surname is 'Yu', called 'Fengxian', just sent the Wang family grandmother to the willow tree shade, there were too many people, she was squeezed."

"Little Fengxian, you are a good girl, you look handsome, your martial arts are handsome, and your heart is also good!" Mother Zhang laughed heartily, her laughter hearty, and her expression very rich.

"Hehe, Mother Zhang is over-praising, what is going on here?"

Meeting a Mother Zhang who knew how to handle things, Xiao Yu didn't need to ask Chun'er.

"Sigh, Xu family Feng Niangzi is bitter!" Mother Zhang's smile was immediately replaced by sadness and pity, sighing: "Her family's Old Xu owed a debt, the creditor was fierce, and came to the door to grab her daughter.

She had no choice but to take out the ancestral treasure jade, ready to go to the Xianghe Pawnshop to exchange for silver to save the emergency, but the two big ingots she exchanged were fake silver, which was recognized by people in the gambling house. She couldn't bear it and plunged into the Small Lianghe..."

"Mother Zhang of the Zhang family, if you don't know, don't talk nonsense here."

Among the few people tearing at each other, a little old man with a goat beard and a long-winged hat shouted excitedly: "Xu Feng Niangzi did come to my pawnshop, but she didn't sell the jade pendant to me at all.

It was someone else who bought the jade plaque.

The fake silver ingots are not from my house.

Heaven and earth conscience, heard that Xu Feng Niangzi fell into the water, I was the first to bring the shop assistants to the bridge to fish for people.

Xu Feng Niangzi's corpse was hooked up by me and Wang Er with bamboo poles.

You don't thank me, but actually slander me, slandering me for using fake silver to cheat people.

Heaven and earth conscience, my pawnshop, my character, you neighbors for decades, who doesn't know?"

"I saw Xu Feng Niangzi enter your pawnshop." Someone shouted.

"The character of your Hu Laosi, everyone knows; you built a big house recently, right? If you don't earn black-hearted money, how can you live in a new house every year." Someone sneered.

Old Xu, who was already tearing at Hu Laosi, grabbed his arm tightly, and cried out miserably: "It's not your fake silver, why are you guilty, why are you in such a hurry to rush over to save my old wife?

My poor old wife, you died so miserably, my poor Hui'er, the silver used to save your life was cheated away by the black-hearted pawnshop owner~~~"

"How am I guilty? It was my shop assistant Wang Er who saw Xu Feng Niangzi's expression was wrong and shouted for me to save people; Wang Er, you say!" Hu Laosi shouted.

"I said it, said it many times."

Wang Er was also grabbed by the sleeve, with scratches on his face, and also thick grievance and helplessness.

"You dog thing, this time you harmed your master me miserably." Hu Laosi scolded.

Wang Er shouted: "I told you, master, that piece of golden carp jade pendant had a warm and moist luster, agile and elegant, suspected to be an object of a noble in the palace, worth at least five hundred taels of silver.

You just promised her, gave Xu Feng Niangzi fifty taels of silver to save her daughter's life, not a loss at all.

You insisted on not giving it, only willing to give others fifteen taels.

Also said something like, Xu Feng Niangzi is in urgent need of money, she will inevitably come back to pawn the jade pendant.

Then the jade pendant was cheated away by a passerby at the door with fake silver, causing Xu Feng Niangzi to die unjustly, creating a human life lawsuit, and you still blame me, on what basis!"

"You don't sing in harmony here; the one who harmed my wife and cheated away my treasure jade is you, it's 'Xianghe Number'!" Old Xu insisted on his own opinion and shouted. ===== CHAPTER 104 =====

"You don't sing in harmony here; the ones who harmed my wife and swindled away my precious jade are you, it's 'Xianghe Firm'!" Old Xu insisted on his own view and shouted.

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