Chapter 36
There where an elderly man in the corner whom the kind waiter did not drive away. The old man's body seemed to be shriveled up in the water, his face was wrinkled, he was wearing a worn-out cotton coat, his thin beard was messy, his hands were closed, and he kept kneeling on the ground The ground was raving about the passing people, with a broken bowl beside it.
Zhang Chengling peeped at him, with his ears full of Cao Weining's talk: "... there is the chrysanthemum fragrance coming from bitter cold ..."
"No, Brother Cao, chrysanthemums bloom in autumn. Is it so cold in autumn?"
Ceo Weining coughed" most poets sign over things not worth signing, contributing nothing useful to society. They are the generation of loafers who compose boring things about nature in their libraries. Being unable to tell which season chrysanthemums blossom in is tropical of them !"
"Oh, there are only a bunch of nerds who don't understand anything, hahaha ..."
Cao Weining and Gu Xiang discussed the beauty of the four seasons and poetry, and they could drove people to insanity. Zhang Chengling tolerated it for as long as he could, and once he could not bear it any longer, he drugged-out a few copper coins, went downstairs, and pent to put the coins in the begging old man's bowl.
The old man whispered and said, "Good person, thank you, compassionate goddess, of mercy, bless you ..."
Zhang Chengling pursed his mouth and smiled very reluctantly. His father was a good man God blessed him for a lifetime, and Except for that night, the god had gotten drunk and didn't keep watch, and his father had died.
Good people rely on God to bless them, but bad people can survive fiercely. Isn't this ridiculous?
He sat on the steps and of his accord, started reciting the things that Zhou Zishu taught him, but he was still puzzled by the many things. As he recited like a little monk reading the sutra, his mind wandered, his gaze drifted far away. I wonder why Master hasn't returned yet? The first thing Master would do is scolding him again. Why did he have to be this stupid?
As a Half-matured child, his bones are growing furiously. The clothes that Zhao Jing just asked someone to make for him a few months ago now look small on his body. His pants are short and the hem hanging laughably above his ankle.
Zhang Chengling lowered his head, stretched his fingers and pinched his trousers, rolled it up, and put it down again thinking to myself, I didn't mean to be so stupid. Who doesn't want to be smart, learn the skills early, and seek to avenge his family a little earlier?
He remembered that when he was young, the master who taught him martial arts complained about him to his father. His father just touched his head and said to the master with a smile on his face: " please be more forgiving on him. It's like how the five fingers on the hand do not grow to be the same length. Well, my child had a fever when he was a kid, and is a little bit slower than others, but he is also a good boy. In the future, I don't expect him to be very successful but I want him to take care of himself, which is good enough. "
In this world, If there is an emperor and ruler that accomplish great things, there are also has to be a peddler and messenger that do insignificant things, otherwise, could the world even function?
Zhang Chengling felt that he was born to be a "peddlers or massager", but God wouldn't let him lead a peaceful life, but forcing him to grow in the mold of his Master, Uncle Zhao. Wasn't this depriving him of a livelihood?
The little boy had all sorts of things in his mind that he couldn't figure out. he couldn't figure out the theories his Master taught him. He couldn't figure out the swordsmanship of his predecessor. He couldn't figure out his destiny. He couldn't figure out where he should go. If you can't live, then die.
The desire to die was too painful. His eyes were sore and he couldn't help crying. He couldn't help thinking of Master's unimpressed face again, recalling him saying, "Leaking horse piss at the sightless thing, are you still a man? , and forced his tear back.
Deeply immersed in his warring thoughts, Zhang Chengling did not notice that the entertainer covered with black veiled was plucking at the strings of their restaurant and slowly approaching him ...
Meanwhile, Just as Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing had been about to leave the alley one after the other, the atmosphere was odd, and suddenly heard a woman's scream not far away, Zhou Zishu paused in his steps.
Right after, a white shadow flashed in front of their eyes, and with a "thump", the green vixen Liu Qianqiao was tossed to the ground like a burlap bag by the intruder, she rolled to the side, trying to get up, but her acupuncture point looked to be sealed as she collapsed back down again.
This person, who has no tender pity for the fairer sex and causally flung people around, was none other than that old glutton Yi Baiyi.
Pointing at Liu Qianqiao, Ye Baiyi asked Zhou Zishu: "What with this ugly freak mad like a dog?"
This sentence almost pierced Liu Qianqiao's dead point. The woman's glared toward Ye Baiyi liked she want to cut him into thousand pieces. At this moment, Zhou Zishu realized the reason why this Ye person was this odd was most properly because he has been single for all of his life, if a woman is willing to spend the rest of her life with someone like him, never mind climbing a tree, a female pig could ascend to heaven!
Wen Kexing caught up, grabbed Zhou Zishu's wrist as he stepped forward, and glared at Ye BaiyiFor some unknown reason, Valley Master Wen was very hostile to Elder Ye. But of course, this reason may be similar to the bestial instinct that made Dog and wolves guard their--only to hear Wen Kexing asked very unpleasantly, "Why is it you again, hanging around like specter haunting us ?"
Ye Baiyi glanced at him and ignored him. It seems that since Wen Kexing said that he will take his life "Determine your life within ten years", Ye Baiyi's tolerance for him has increased a lot, just pointing at Liu Qianqiao gently: "I came after a little thief and was about to catch him. This woman suddenly jumped out and blocked my path insistently, and the little thief escaped."
Zhou Zishu frowned at Liu Qianqiao, and asked Ye Baiyi: "A thief? Senior is so loftily above mortal affairs, but he has become a constable who arrests thieves? What thief is so remarkable, what did he steal?"
Ye Baiyi said, " the night after you left, the Goe family Manor was burgled. What else could have they stolen?"
Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu glanced at each other, stunned -what kind of person was that, who can steal from the heavily guarded Geo Family Manor?
Ye Baiyi glanced at Zhou Zishu and said, "Boy, you better be careful, Shen Zhan is dead."
Even with his quick reflexes, Zhou Zishu can't help but pause. Wandering, What Shen Shen's death has to do with him, and why he has to be cautious? Before he could speak, Wen Kexing has already asked him: "so what ?"
Ye Baiyi didn't answerbut looked up behind them. a very distinct line appeared between his brows-- unbelievably, this stone Buddha frowned.
A cold hum rang from behind the two of them, and someone said, "Naturally it has something to do with you. On that day, Lord Gao received a note that said," If you want Zhang Chengling's life, exchange the lapis Armour for it. " out of concern for the son of an old friend, Hero Shen immediately left to trace the sender down, but when we found him, he was already a corpse, and he was carrying a note similar to the one Hero Gao had received, and the Goe Family Manor was burgled that night. You tell us, What does it have to do with you?"
After listening to the chaotic footsteps, Zhou Zishu knew that a large group of people was coming. suspicious rising in his heart and turned around. It was the Cangshan Sect leader Huang Daoren whom he had sent flying that day. He was unusually smug when he had spoken; together with his rat feature. He looked like a gigantic rodent whose tail was sticking straight up in great pomposity.
Zhou Zishu didn't know why. Suddenly his hands and feet felt itchy and wanted to send him flying again.
Yu Qiufeng calmly stood not far behind Huang Daoren, and his face still as water as he asked "Can you explain to me where you went that day, Master Zhou? After taking the Zhang boy right under the public eye?
As the saying goes" A spell of autumn rain, a bout frost". After the autumn rain that night in Dongting, the weather was close to freezing. Yet at present, the head of Huashan was still able to waft his fan in hand, interrogating Zhou Zishu on the street with clearly- enunciated words, giving office slight of air of someone independent of worldly-affairsit was most probably that the people around him could not stand such a cool breeze, and fled from his iron fan.
Zhou Zi paused, lowered his head, chuckled suddenly, and asked, "Why does everyone here feel that other than kidnapping Zhang Chengling and obtaining the Zhang's Lapis Armour piece. I also took him hostage and ransomed him for the other two pieces of the Goe family Manor?"
Huang Daoren: "Isn't that the case ?"
Zhou Zishu looked up at the sky, suddenly sighed softly, and shook his head: "I was wrong, why did I even think that the pig's brain can think of human ideas ..."
Wen Kexing supplemented sagely: "Nothing surpassed learning from his mistakes; it's the greatest blessing of all to change in your misguided way."
"You ..." Huang Daoren was just about to step forward, only to see Ye Qiufeng "snap" a folding fan, one-handedly stopped in front of him, and said to Zhou Zishu: " Master Zhou, then, may I ask this then? we, together with young hero Ye, was chasing a scumbag that had been loitering suspiciously at the Goe Family Manor. why did that scumbag disappear at this spot, as we run into you two instead, and ... "
He glanced down, and met Liu Qianqiao's gaze by chance, Liu Qianqiao gently shivered as if she had been covered by cold water, but Yu Qiuyu laughed and drugged-out his voice as he said: "Oh? This lady, can't be the legendary green vixen Liu Qianqiao, can she? Her thousands variation unpredictable even by the gods and ghosts, to what this humble Yu own the pleasure, to be able to witness this individual's...true face it is truly the luck of three lifetimes.
As soon as the words "Green Vixen Lui Qianqiao" came out, a large group of people behind ye Qiufang flashed with surprise, disgust, or scorn, and it seemed that this woman's reputation was rotten to a certain degree. She was sealed by Ye Baiyi's acupuncture points, and she couldn't rush when she tried her best, so she fell to the ground, her face flushed, and the scar on her left cheek seemed to be throb vividly, which was even more disgusting and terrifying.
Zhou Zishu inexplicably remembered the moment she entered the restaurant. She was very confident and graceful like an immortal. It instantly attracted everyone's admiration, and then he walked toward her, though knowing that she was not worthy sympathy, But a slight trace of pity for her rosed within him
Was one's appearance that important?
Liu Qianqiao looked at Yu Qiufeng, opened her mouth, seemed to want to say something, her lips twitched slightly, but she swallowed her word back down.
Ye Baiyi suddenly said, "Not his doing ."
Yu Qiuyu smiled and said, "Ye is still young, and he has lived in Changming Mountain for a long time. He doesn't understand the sinister mind of the world. If Zhou said that it had nothing to do with this matter, do you dare strip, and let us check if there's a ghost mark on your lower back? "
Wen Kexing shouted immediately, "What? Even if he strips, he can't strips for you. Who do you think you are?
Yu Qiufeng ignored him and focused on Zhou Zishu alone. He asked, "Does Master Zhou refuses because he has something on him that is too disreputable to show others?
Too disreputable to show others? A sense of rose in his heart. This all was too ridiculous there was not anything on his lower back, but he has seven nails in his chest. yet, weren't they like the ghost's marks, something that could only stay hidden in the shadows?
He suddenly laughed and thought: Why should I stay hidden in the shadows? Back when the previous emperor has been on the throne, I was the one who set up a series of plans in motion to wipe out the Second Prince's gang, and it was me who picked out a whole bunch of worms who had eaten holes in the rotten court. When the northern barbarians invaded the Central Plains and smashed the capital, it was me who guarded the Chengwu Gate to the death, without budging a single inch. The reason why this nation of Daqing can gradually recover from the wind and storm and the thousands of holes riddled into it to show a hint of liveliness, that all of you may live and work in peace freely, even snap at each other like dogs because you have nothing better to do - all the dirty, disreputable work behind the glory era, I managed it single-handedly-back then, my methods were vicious, and I hurt people, I too can drag this broken body and despicable soul to do good and accumulate good karma. From the beginning to the end, my conscience was clear, so why do I have to hide in the shadows?
Zhou Zishu's eyes glanced at yu Qiufeng, and he was silent for a moment, and said gently, "Yeah, who do you think you are?"
There where an elderly man in the corner whom the kind waiter did not drive away. The old man's body seemed to be shriveled up in the water, his face was wrinkled, he was wearing a worn-out cotton coat, his thin beard was messy, his hands were closed, and he kept kneeling on the ground The ground was raving about the passing people, with a broken bowl beside it.
Zhang Chengling peeped at him, with his ears full of Cao Weining's talk: "... there is the chrysanthemum fragrance coming from bitter cold ..."
"No, Brother Cao, chrysanthemums bloom in autumn. Is it so cold in autumn?"
Ceo Weining coughed" most poets sign over things not worth signing, contributing nothing useful to society. They are the generation of loafers who compose boring things about nature in their libraries. Being unable to tell which season chrysanthemums blossom in is tropical of them !"
"Oh, there are only a bunch of nerds who don't understand anything, hahaha ..."
Cao Weining and Gu Xiang discussed the beauty of the four seasons and poetry, and they could drove people to insanity. Zhang Chengling tolerated it for as long as he could, and once he could not bear it any longer, he drugged-out a few copper coins, went downstairs, and pent to put the coins in the begging old man's bowl.
The old man whispered and said, "Good person, thank you, compassionate goddess, of mercy, bless you ..."
Zhang Chengling pursed his mouth and smiled very reluctantly. His father was a good man God blessed him for a lifetime, and Except for that night, the god had gotten drunk and didn't keep watch, and his father had died.
Good people rely on God to bless them, but bad people can survive fiercely. Isn't this ridiculous?
He sat on the steps and of his accord, started reciting the things that Zhou Zishu taught him, but he was still puzzled by the many things. As he recited like a little monk reading the sutra, his mind wandered, his gaze drifted far away. I wonder why Master hasn't returned yet? The first thing Master would do is scolding him again. Why did he have to be this stupid?
As a Half-matured child, his bones are growing furiously. The clothes that Zhao Jing just asked someone to make for him a few months ago now look small on his body. His pants are short and the hem hanging laughably above his ankle.
Zhang Chengling lowered his head, stretched his fingers and pinched his trousers, rolled it up, and put it down again thinking to myself, I didn't mean to be so stupid. Who doesn't want to be smart, learn the skills early, and seek to avenge his family a little earlier?
He remembered that when he was young, the master who taught him martial arts complained about him to his father. His father just touched his head and said to the master with a smile on his face: " please be more forgiving on him. It's like how the five fingers on the hand do not grow to be the same length. Well, my child had a fever when he was a kid, and is a little bit slower than others, but he is also a good boy. In the future, I don't expect him to be very successful but I want him to take care of himself, which is good enough. "
In this world, If there is an emperor and ruler that accomplish great things, there are also has to be a peddler and messenger that do insignificant things, otherwise, could the world even function?
Zhang Chengling felt that he was born to be a "peddlers or massager", but God wouldn't let him lead a peaceful life, but forcing him to grow in the mold of his Master, Uncle Zhao. Wasn't this depriving him of a livelihood?
The little boy had all sorts of things in his mind that he couldn't figure out. he couldn't figure out the theories his Master taught him. He couldn't figure out the swordsmanship of his predecessor. He couldn't figure out his destiny. He couldn't figure out where he should go. If you can't live, then die.
The desire to die was too painful. His eyes were sore and he couldn't help crying. He couldn't help thinking of Master's unimpressed face again, recalling him saying, "Leaking horse piss at the sightless thing, are you still a man? , and forced his tear back.
Deeply immersed in his warring thoughts, Zhang Chengling did not notice that the entertainer covered with black veiled was plucking at the strings of their restaurant and slowly approaching him ...
Meanwhile, Just as Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing had been about to leave the alley one after the other, the atmosphere was odd, and suddenly heard a woman's scream not far away, Zhou Zishu paused in his steps.
Right after, a white shadow flashed in front of their eyes, and with a "thump", the green vixen Liu Qianqiao was tossed to the ground like a burlap bag by the intruder, she rolled to the side, trying to get up, but her acupuncture point looked to be sealed as she collapsed back down again.
This person, who has no tender pity for the fairer sex and causally flung people around, was none other than that old glutton Yi Baiyi.
Pointing at Liu Qianqiao, Ye Baiyi asked Zhou Zishu: "What with this ugly freak mad like a dog?"
This sentence almost pierced Liu Qianqiao's dead point. The woman's glared toward Ye Baiyi liked she want to cut him into thousand pieces. At this moment, Zhou Zishu realized the reason why this Ye person was this odd was most properly because he has been single for all of his life, if a woman is willing to spend the rest of her life with someone like him, never mind climbing a tree, a female pig could ascend to heaven!
Wen Kexing caught up, grabbed Zhou Zishu's wrist as he stepped forward, and glared at Ye BaiyiFor some unknown reason, Valley Master Wen was very hostile to Elder Ye. But of course, this reason may be similar to the bestial instinct that made Dog and wolves guard their--only to hear Wen Kexing asked very unpleasantly, "Why is it you again, hanging around like specter haunting us ?"
Ye Baiyi glanced at him and ignored him. It seems that since Wen Kexing said that he will take his life "Determine your life within ten years", Ye Baiyi's tolerance for him has increased a lot, just pointing at Liu Qianqiao gently: "I came after a little thief and was about to catch him. This woman suddenly jumped out and blocked my path insistently, and the little thief escaped."
Zhou Zishu frowned at Liu Qianqiao, and asked Ye Baiyi: "A thief? Senior is so loftily above mortal affairs, but he has become a constable who arrests thieves? What thief is so remarkable, what did he steal?"
Ye Baiyi said, " the night after you left, the Goe family Manor was burgled. What else could have they stolen?"
Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishu glanced at each other, stunned -what kind of person was that, who can steal from the heavily guarded Geo Family Manor?
Ye Baiyi glanced at Zhou Zishu and said, "Boy, you better be careful, Shen Zhan is dead."
Even with his quick reflexes, Zhou Zishu can't help but pause. Wandering, What Shen Shen's death has to do with him, and why he has to be cautious? Before he could speak, Wen Kexing has already asked him: "so what ?"
Ye Baiyi didn't answerbut looked up behind them. a very distinct line appeared between his brows-- unbelievably, this stone Buddha frowned.
A cold hum rang from behind the two of them, and someone said, "Naturally it has something to do with you. On that day, Lord Gao received a note that said," If you want Zhang Chengling's life, exchange the lapis Armour for it. " out of concern for the son of an old friend, Hero Shen immediately left to trace the sender down, but when we found him, he was already a corpse, and he was carrying a note similar to the one Hero Gao had received, and the Goe Family Manor was burgled that night. You tell us, What does it have to do with you?"
After listening to the chaotic footsteps, Zhou Zishu knew that a large group of people was coming. suspicious rising in his heart and turned around. It was the Cangshan Sect leader Huang Daoren whom he had sent flying that day. He was unusually smug when he had spoken; together with his rat feature. He looked like a gigantic rodent whose tail was sticking straight up in great pomposity.
Zhou Zishu didn't know why. Suddenly his hands and feet felt itchy and wanted to send him flying again.
Yu Qiufeng calmly stood not far behind Huang Daoren, and his face still as water as he asked "Can you explain to me where you went that day, Master Zhou? After taking the Zhang boy right under the public eye?
As the saying goes" A spell of autumn rain, a bout frost". After the autumn rain that night in Dongting, the weather was close to freezing. Yet at present, the head of Huashan was still able to waft his fan in hand, interrogating Zhou Zishu on the street with clearly- enunciated words, giving office slight of air of someone independent of worldly-affairsit was most probably that the people around him could not stand such a cool breeze, and fled from his iron fan.
Zhou Zi paused, lowered his head, chuckled suddenly, and asked, "Why does everyone here feel that other than kidnapping Zhang Chengling and obtaining the Zhang's Lapis Armour piece. I also took him hostage and ransomed him for the other two pieces of the Goe family Manor?"
Huang Daoren: "Isn't that the case ?"
Zhou Zishu looked up at the sky, suddenly sighed softly, and shook his head: "I was wrong, why did I even think that the pig's brain can think of human ideas ..."
Wen Kexing supplemented sagely: "Nothing surpassed learning from his mistakes; it's the greatest blessing of all to change in your misguided way."
"You ..." Huang Daoren was just about to step forward, only to see Ye Qiufeng "snap" a folding fan, one-handedly stopped in front of him, and said to Zhou Zishu: " Master Zhou, then, may I ask this then? we, together with young hero Ye, was chasing a scumbag that had been loitering suspiciously at the Goe Family Manor. why did that scumbag disappear at this spot, as we run into you two instead, and ... "
He glanced down, and met Liu Qianqiao's gaze by chance, Liu Qianqiao gently shivered as if she had been covered by cold water, but Yu Qiuyu laughed and drugged-out his voice as he said: "Oh? This lady, can't be the legendary green vixen Liu Qianqiao, can she? Her thousands variation unpredictable even by the gods and ghosts, to what this humble Yu own the pleasure, to be able to witness this individual's...true face it is truly the luck of three lifetimes.
As soon as the words "Green Vixen Lui Qianqiao" came out, a large group of people behind ye Qiufang flashed with surprise, disgust, or scorn, and it seemed that this woman's reputation was rotten to a certain degree. She was sealed by Ye Baiyi's acupuncture points, and she couldn't rush when she tried her best, so she fell to the ground, her face flushed, and the scar on her left cheek seemed to be throb vividly, which was even more disgusting and terrifying.
Zhou Zishu inexplicably remembered the moment she entered the restaurant. She was very confident and graceful like an immortal. It instantly attracted everyone's admiration, and then he walked toward her, though knowing that she was not worthy sympathy, But a slight trace of pity for her rosed within him
Was one's appearance that important?
Liu Qianqiao looked at Yu Qiufeng, opened her mouth, seemed to want to say something, her lips twitched slightly, but she swallowed her word back down.
Ye Baiyi suddenly said, "Not his doing ."
Yu Qiuyu smiled and said, "Ye is still young, and he has lived in Changming Mountain for a long time. He doesn't understand the sinister mind of the world. If Zhou said that it had nothing to do with this matter, do you dare strip, and let us check if there's a ghost mark on your lower back? "
Wen Kexing shouted immediately, "What? Even if he strips, he can't strips for you. Who do you think you are?
Yu Qiufeng ignored him and focused on Zhou Zishu alone. He asked, "Does Master Zhou refuses because he has something on him that is too disreputable to show others?
Too disreputable to show others? A sense of rose in his heart. This all was too ridiculous there was not anything on his lower back, but he has seven nails in his chest. yet, weren't they like the ghost's marks, something that could only stay hidden in the shadows?
He suddenly laughed and thought: Why should I stay hidden in the shadows? Back when the previous emperor has been on the throne, I was the one who set up a series of plans in motion to wipe out the Second Prince's gang, and it was me who picked out a whole bunch of worms who had eaten holes in the rotten court. When the northern barbarians invaded the Central Plains and smashed the capital, it was me who guarded the Chengwu Gate to the death, without budging a single inch. The reason why this nation of Daqing can gradually recover from the wind and storm and the thousands of holes riddled into it to show a hint of liveliness, that all of you may live and work in peace freely, even snap at each other like dogs because you have nothing better to do - all the dirty, disreputable work behind the glory era, I managed it single-handedly-back then, my methods were vicious, and I hurt people, I too can drag this broken body and despicable soul to do good and accumulate good karma. From the beginning to the end, my conscience was clear, so why do I have to hide in the shadows?
Zhou Zishu's eyes glanced at yu Qiufeng, and he was silent for a moment, and said gently, "Yeah, who do you think you are?"