Chapter 194

Li Banfeng put down his wine cup and coughed for a long time before calming down.

"You know Lu Xiaolan?"

"I know her; we're acquaintances."

Li Banfeng picked up his wine cup and asked: "How well do you know her?"

Ma Wu didn't know how to describe it: "If we count the most recent layer, she should be my fiancée."

Cough! Cough! Cough!

Li Banfeng choked again.

Fiancée?

Why had Ma Wu never mentioned this before?

Actually, this couldn't be blamed on Ma Wu; he didn't intentionally hide it.

This was caused by the temperament of the two. They never asked each other about things the other party didn't want to say.

But this logic didn't make sense at all.

Li Banfeng asked: "Lu Xiaolan is your fiancée, then what is He Jiaqing? Don't tell me he's your fiancé."

Ma Wu also choked: "What fiancé? How could I be sandwiched between them? There's... something else going on here."

Li Banfeng was very curious, but the tacit understanding between him and Ma Wu wouldn't change: "If you don't want to say it, forget it."

"I really don't want to say it, but this matter is of great importance and must be told to you. Lu Xiaolan is two years younger than me, and she made a marriage contract with me when she was thirteen."

In the Puluo Continent, marriage contracts between wealthy families were very common.

But marriage contracts also had to be well-matched.

Were Lu Xiaolan and Ma Wu well-matched?

Not well-matched.

She and Ma Wu and He Jiaqing were not well-matched.

The reason she was able to climb up to He Jiaqing later was because the Lu family's power had risen.

Li Banfeng asked: "I remember you are the legitimate son, and Lu Xiaolan is the illegitimate daughter, right?"

How could Ma Wu answer this question?

"I was the one least favored in the family..." Ma Wu was very embarrassed and continued, "By the time she was fifteen, it was almost time to talk about marriage, and I spent some time with her. Because of this, the Lu family and the Ma family almost turned against each other."

"Why did they turn against each other?"

"Lu Xiaolan and I are not the same kind of people. Every time we met, we would quarrel within three sentences.

I really couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to break off the engagement. She said I humiliated her and almost killed me."

Li Banfeng was cracking melon seeds while asking: "How did you humiliate her?"

Ma Wu was a bit embarrassed again: "We were young, so it was just in the bed..."

Li Banfeng nodded repeatedly: "Quarreling within three sentences doesn't stop you from sleeping in the same bed."

Ma Wu sighed: "I'm telling you, we were really young then. If it were now, I definitely wouldn't touch Lu Xiaolan. She was a three-layer cultivation assassin then, and I was still a white lamb. I almost died at her hands.

Later, the matter blew up, and the two families fell out, until Lu Xiaolan went to study in Yuezhou, and this matter slowly subsided."

Lu Xiaolan already had three-layer cultivation before going to Yuezhou?

"How old was she before going to Yuezhou?"

"Sixteen."

"How could she have three-layer cultivation at sixteen?"

Ma Wu took a sip of wine and said: "Most people don't know about this. Lu Xiaolan is different from other famous family children. She wasn't born to be a young lady; she was born to be an assassin.

Before she was ten, she entered the sect. As long as her body could handle it, she would keep taking elixirs and practicing martial arts, suffering a lot for this.

This isn't my wild guess; this is what Lu Xiaolan told me herself.

Although I wasn't a pleasure cultivator then, I still had the talent. Under those circumstances, she definitely wouldn't lie.

I've seen the scars on her body, I've seen the calluses on her hands, and I've seen the marks left by being beaten on her peach."

"You've seen so many..."

Li Banfeng regretted it!

Back then, He Jiaqing snatched the photo away in one go. Li Banfeng hadn't noticed so many details.

"Old Five, why were you still a white lamb at that age?"

How could he answer this?

As a wealthy family child, Ma Wu did enter the sect too late.

"Because I was the most unreliable one in the family..." Ma Wu blushed and continued, "Lu Xiaolan is a ruthless person cultivated by her mother. You can never let your guard down against this person at any time.

She's reclaiming land next to our territory now; I guess she's mostly here for you."

Li Banfeng shook his head: "That's not necessarily true. You were the one who was unfaithful back then; it could also be that she's here for you."

Ma Wu took another sip of wine: "Regardless of who she's here for, how do you plan to deal with this person?"

"What do you think?"

Ma Wu lowered his voice: "I plan to find an opportunity to kill her."

Li Banfeng laughed: "I want to kill her right now."

Saying it and doing it, Li Banfeng pressed his top hat and was about to get up, but was stopped by Ma Wu: "Old Seven, you can't make a move on this; let me do it."

"What are you afraid of? My wounds are all healed." Li Banfeng really wanted to go; his grudge with Lu Xiaolan was deep. He had almost died at Lu Xiaolan's hands as soon as he arrived at Yaowang Valley.

"I know your wounds are healed, but I've already shown my face in front of Lu Xiaolan. She knows I'm here, but she might not know you're here. Just because of this, you shouldn't make a move.

And even if she knows I'm here, she can't do anything to me. My identity is out in the open; I'm just an abandoned son of the Ma family.

You're different. Your identity can't be known by the Lu family, and you can't let Lu Xiaolan trick you out, so you can't make a move on this."

No matter when, Ma Wu could always consider problems from Li Banfeng's perspective. He was indeed a good brother.

But could Ma Wu kill Lu Xiaolan?

Before college, Lu Xiaolan was three-layer, and now it's said she's already four-layer. Relying on Ma Wu, a two-layer, he definitely wasn't her opponent.

If he couldn't kill Lu Xiaolan alone, what should Ma Wu do?

"Don't tell me you're going to take the Bagworm Ladies to kill Lu Xiaolan."

That scene would be huge.

Ma Wu shook his head: "Yanzi and the others are too eye-catching; I'm planning to take A-Qin."

"Who is A-Qin?"

Ma Wu led Li Banfeng to A-Qin's room.

A-Qin was playing the piano in the room.

Judging by her appearance, she seemed to be a woman of twenty-seven or twenty-eight.

Should be a woman, right?

Big eyes, thin eyebrows, high nose bridge, she looked quite handsome.

There were two antennae on each of her forehead corners, but it didn't affect the overall beauty.

The lower body was slightly sturdy, but she had two long legs.

These legs were very well-shaped, just a bit thin.

Li Banfeng asked Ma Wu: "Is this a grasshopper?"

Hearing the word "grasshopper," A-Qin was unhappy and glared at Li Banfeng: "Five-Lang, who is this?"

Ma Wu reminded Li Banfeng to pay attention to his tone: "A-Qin is a senior, a genuine six-layer body cultivator. She practiced in Three-Head Fork."

Body cultivator?

Did a person turn into a grasshopper, or did a grasshopper turn into a person?

Li Banfeng lowered his voice and asked: "Was her original form a person?"

Ma Wu didn't make a sound.

This question wasn't easy to answer.

A-Qin was about 1.6 meters tall and looked very much like a person, but her original form was indeed a grasshopper.

Ma Wu reminded Li Banfeng again: "Senior A-Qin's identity is unusual; she is Wen Hongyan's master."

Wen Hongyan?

Chu Er's big branch?

In Li Banfeng's impression, Wen Hongyan was over forty. How old was this senior?

How could he bring himself to do it?

How should Wen Hongyan address Ma Wu in the future?

"Old Five, you're really committing a sin."

Ma Wu told A-Qin about the matter.

A-Qin moved her antennae and said calmly: "When are we moving?"

"The sooner the better."

A-Qin got up immediately, without making any preparations.

"Five-Lang, you just tell me who that woman is. You don't need to make a move; leave the rest to me."

Ma Wu was a bit worried: "I'll take Old Zuo with me."

"Don't take him; Seeing Seeing Zuo Wugang always stares at me, and I find him disgusting."

Seeing Seeing Zuo Wugang took a fancy to A-Qin?

He was one of the most famous big branch hangers in Green Water City, and he took a fancy to a grasshopper?

Like master, like hanger.

This matter would definitely make the front page of the newspaper if it got out.

Ma Wu followed A-Qin and set off. When they arrived at the reclaimed land, Ma Wu didn't see Lu Xiaolan, nor did he see the other land reclaimer.

But he saw the plot light up.

Qiu Luoye responded?

He actually responded so quickly!

"It doesn't matter," Ma Wu gritted his teeth. "Wait until they reclaim the land tomorrow, then we'll make a move. We definitely can't let them succeed in reclaiming the land."

A-Qin shook her head: "Five-Lang, before reclaiming the land, I can do whatever I want. After reclaiming the land, I can also find an opportunity to make a move. During the reclaiming of the land, I can't mess around; I have a contract with Qiu Luoye."

"What contract?"

"I'm considered Qiu Luoye's subordinate. Someone is reclaiming land on his territory, and I can go to examine them, but I need his permission; otherwise, I can't enter the plot at will."

A-Qin's situation was the same as the wild boar and the bagworm woman. They could come to examine Li Banfeng and Ma Wu, but the premise was that Shui Yongquan allowed it.

Could A-Qin go to examine Lu Xiaolan?

Qiu Luoye probably wouldn't allow it.

Reclaiming land examination was to examine whether a person had the ability to take on a plot of land. A one-mile plot wasn't a big plot anyway. Qiu Luoye wouldn't allow a six-layer cultivator to examine a land reclaimer; this didn't conform to the rules of land reclaiming.

A-Qin couldn't go, but Ma Wu had other ways: "Tomorrow I'll have Yanzi come; she's a wandering monster and doesn't need to follow the rules of land reclaiming."

A-Qin was worried: "Yanzi is still young; that girl lacks tempering. I'm afraid this matter won't be handled steadily."

Ma Wu was stunned: "Young? Lacks tempering? A-Qin, which Yanzi are you talking about?"

"Wen Hongyan, my disciple. When she was learning from me, she didn't get beaten less; her peach was full of board flowers. I'll have her show you another day."

Ma Wu laughed: "I'm talking about our Yanzi, not Chu's branch hanger."

A-Qin was unhappy: "Why are you mentioning that shameless bitch again!"

Ma Wu hurriedly hugged A-Qin and coaxed: "We're all one family; we should be harmonious in the end."

A-Qin shook her shoulders: "I can't be harmonious with her."

"Good A-Qin, don't haggle; I'll go back and listen to you play the piano."

"Five-Lang, I didn't help you with this matter; you're not allowed to be angry with me."

"I'm not angry, but you have to compensate me well."

"Then you have to cherish me more."

The next day, land reclaiming began.

Ma Wu took Yanzi and A-Qin to the plot.

Lu Xiaolan might not be there, because the owner of the plot could hire people to reclaim the land.

Ma Wu was prepared for this too. If Lu Xiaolan reclaimed the land herself, he would have Yanzi drive her out and have A-Qin kill her.

If Lu Xiaolan wasn't there, he would have Yanzi mess up the land reclaiming.

Walking all the way, A-Qin and Yanzi quarreled all the way.

"Little Lang-ge, why bring this grasshopper? I can handle this small matter myself."

A-Qin sneered: "It's because I think you're stupid and afraid you won't succeed."

"Bitch, who are you calling stupid? Believe it or not, I'll dismantle your legs?"

"Come and try; I'll break your teeth first."

Ma Wu laughed dryly: "Handle the serious business first, handle the serious business."

Near the plot, several land reclaimers were guarding a bonfire eating, but Ma Wu didn't see Lu Xiaolan among them.

Ma Wu ordered: "Yanzi, drive them out!"

This land reclaiming had to be messed up. Letting Lu Xiaolan reclaim a piece of wasteland in front of his own door, Lu Xiaolan would stare at it when she had nothing to do, and hide in her plot when she had something to do. This was like driving a nail into Li Banfeng and Ma Wu's hearts.

Yanzi rolled her eyes at A-Qin: "Bitch, it's not your turn this time."

A-Qin shook her antennae and didn't make a sound.

Yanzi crawled into the plot, scaring the land reclaimers until they trembled.

Yanzi smiled and came to the crowd, flipping over a land reclaimer with her antennae: "You young men are quite handsome. If I didn't already have a master, I'd really like to play with you properly,"

"Since I'm in a good mood, you'd better roll away; if you roll slowly, you'll lose your lives."

A group of land reclaimers fled in all directions. Yanzi returned to Ma Wu's side and rubbed against Ma Wu coquettishly.

A-Qin lowered her head and didn't speak. Ma Wu stared at the plot and smiled slightly.

Lu Xiaolan, I don't believe you won't show up.

As long as you show up, I'll take your life!

That evening, Shui Yongquan came to the door: "Brother Ma Wu, I heard you took a bagworm and drove away the land reclaimers?"

Ma Wu didn't admit it, nor did he deny it: "Shopkeeper Shui, bagworms don't need to follow the rules of land reclaiming. Whether this matter has anything to do with me or not, it's not a problem for the bagworm to mess up the land reclaiming, right?"

Shui Yongquan took a sip of tea: "The logic is that logic, but the matter isn't that matter."

Li Banfeng said from the side: "Then you point it out; what exactly is the matter?"

Shui Yongquan said: "I finally discussed it with Qiu Luoye that we wouldn't fight anymore in the future. No one has ever successfully reclaimed land on his territory, and now that someone has finally come to reclaim land, you went to mess it up. Isn't this forcing him to turn against us?

I'll make it clear to you two: if Qiu Elephant really turns against us, he will definitely fight over again. If he fights over, you two will be the first to suffer. Two brothers, I've said what I needed to say; weigh it yourself."

Not long after Shui Yongquan left, Chuanzi sent a message: "Someone is reclaiming land again, still on Qiu Luoye's territory."

PS: Why do local deities cherish land reclaimers so much?

(End of chapter)