Chapter 72 Tavern Brawl Cui An Takes Action

  Ma Chao had just come out of Cai Yong's place when he saw Guo Jia rushing towards him, panting and out of breath, his face flushed with excitement.

  "I asked Brother Guo, what's going on here?"

  Guo Jia rushed to Ma Chao's side, panting heavily, and patted his chest with his hand: "I'm telling you, Mengqi brother, now you still have the heart to tease me. Go take a look quickly, Fu Da is fighting with someone in the tavern!"

  Ma Chao thought to himself, "It's true that what you worry about will come." He had just finished talking with Cai Yong and making arrangements for Cui An, but this kid had already gotten into trouble again. He wasn't worried about Cui An at all, but rather the person who was fighting with Cui An. While he was still by his side, Cui An hadn't used much force, but now that he wasn't around, if someone really got killed, it would be a disaster. Thinking of this, Ma Chao hurriedly rushed towards the wine shop, and previously said "Thanks, brother Guo".

  "Brother Mengqi, you don't have any sense of justice, nor do you wait for me to catch my breath. Fine, I'll come find you once I've recovered!" Guo Jia shouted back at Ma Chao while panting heavily.

  Ma Chao can no longer afford to care about Guo Jia, time is life, and stopping Cui An early will allow him to rest easy. When he arrived at the tavern, he saw a circle of people surrounding it, but they all kept a certain distance from the tavern, also fearing being implicated.

  Only the sound of things falling to the ground, crashing sounds, and the sound of destruction came from the wine shop. Ma Chao rushed into the crowd wanting to enter the wine shop, but as soon as he entered the crowd, he was pulled back by someone.

  The person pulling him said while pulling, "Young man, don't go in, it's too dangerous. You can watch the excitement from outside."

  Ma Chao thought to himself that the old man was kind-hearted, "Thank you for your advice, but since my friends are inside, if I go in they will stop fighting!"

  The old man listened and hurriedly said: "Then go quickly, your friends are not young anymore, don't let them fight like kids!" The old man was quite humorous.

  Ma Chao rushed into the wine shop and saw one person say: "Ugly ghost, today you will definitely taste grandfather's power!"

  "Who's afraid of who? Come on, black ghost! Your grandfather Cui is waiting for you!"

  Ma Chao furrowed his brow upon hearing this, but fortunately the other party didn't seem to have any issues. It seemed that since they could fight with Cui An and emerge unscathed, their martial arts skills must be quite impressive.

  "Ugly ghost, you don't even take a good look, who is actually darker between us two?"

  "Cut the crap and take this punch!"

  The two of them started fighting again, you punch me and I kick you, what a lively scene.

  Ma Chao was worried because he didn't know the situation earlier. But now that he has seen with his own eyes that the other party is fine, he doesn't worry anymore. Ma Chao wanted to see what kind of skills this big black guy had, so he temporarily didn't make a move.

  As expected, the two of them fought over thirty rounds without a winner. Ma Chao nodded secretly, okay, as expected, he was quite skilled, and Hei Da's martial arts were not inferior to Cui An. Having watched enough, he knew it was time for him to take the stage, just as the two on the field were in a stalemate.

  The two of them were using their four arms to struggle, Ma Chao stepped forward and used the greatest strength to separate the two. Although he was born with divine power, these two powers were absolutely not small, so Ma Chao used his greatest strength.

  Choi An saw someone coming to intervene and was about to blow up, but when he saw it was Ma Chao, he immediately became speechless. To say that both he and the opponent knew that one person had entered the wine shop, but neither of them paid attention to who it was, they were all focused on each other, and then concentrated on fighting, and only noticed when Ma Chao arrived in front of them.

  The black big man opposite was surprised in his heart, he didn't expect to come and have a drink today and meet a master, and there's more than one. The ugly ghost opposite didn't say anything, but even the young man next to him who looked like a bookworm had such great strength, not to be underestimated.

  Ma Chao separated the two and his face sank, "Fada, what did I tell you before?"

  Choi Ahn listened and was frightened in her heart, "This, this, this......"

  "What's this! Have you forgotten what I said?" Ma Chao asked reproachfully.

  "Master said that when going out, it's best not to provoke trouble, or else...or else..."

  "Otherwise, you can go back to your hometown in Fufeng!"

  Ma Chao felt that he had been too indulgent towards Cui An in the past, just like today's incident, where he hadn't seen him and yet he was causing trouble again. Fortunately, the other party's martial arts skills were not weak, otherwise if they were no match for Cui An and ended up getting killed by him, that would be a real disaster.

  What's more important is how to harm an innocent person, Ma Chao doesn't think that there will be anything that makes each other deeply resentful in this matter, so it's okay, the opponent's martial arts are comparable to Cui An. If the opponent's martial arts are higher than Cui An's, then the one who loses out can only be Cui An himself.

  Choi Ahn immediately fell silent as soon as he heard the four words "Fufeng's old home". This was what he feared the most.

  After finishing speaking, Chui An, Ma Chao then made a fist to the big black man in front of him, "If this friend has committed any offense, please forgive me!"

  Hei Da Ge listened and said that Ma Chao also said so, he naturally wouldn't go into details either. "Actually, I was also wrong in this matter, please forgive me!"

  It's settled then, no need for further violence to resolve the issue.

  "In the lower Fu Feng, Ma Chao and Meng rose up. What is your surname and great name, friend?" Ma Chao asked Hei Da.

  "In the lower reaches of the Pei River, Xu Chu and Xu Zhongkang!"

  Ma Chao thought to himself, "So it's Xu Chu after all. No wonder he has such impressive martial arts skills."

  "Fuda, haven't you come to pay respects to Xu Zhuangshi yet?"

  Ma Chao called out to Cui An beside him, intentionally letting the two make amends and turn their animosity into friendship. Cui An was unwilling, but feared Ma Chao would send him back to Fufeng, so he reluctantly nodded at Xu Chu without saying a word.

  Ma Chao found it amusing. "Fada, you and Xu Zhuangshi have a grudge against each other for whatever reason, I just hope the past is in the past, and neither of you will hold onto it anymore, okay?"

  Choi An heard Ma Chao say this, he felt that he could only listen to his master, otherwise if his master got angry, it would be all over for him.

  He made a fist at Xu Chu, "Fu Feng Cui An Cui Fu Da, I've seen Hei, heh heh, I've seen him. If there's anything I owe you before, don't mind it!"

  Xu Zhu heard this and also cupped his fists, saying: "I too have my shortcomings, so let's just call it quits!"

  Ma Chao took a look and these two people still didn't quite get along. Never mind, it's their own business anyway, they've done about the same themselves.

  "Foda, didn't you come here to drink? Why did you end up fighting with Xu Zhuangshi?"

  Choi An's head got big after hearing this, thinking that the master was going to scold him again, so he muttered and couldn't speak.

  Xu Chu, who was beside them, said, "Let me tell you, it's like this..." and then he told Ma Chao the reason why the two of them were fighting.

  After Chui An received a special pardon from Ma Chao, he happily ran to the tavern. His mind was only thinking about drinking and didn't pay much attention to other things.

  Just as Cui An rushed to the entrance of the tavern, he didn't notice that there was also someone next to him who had the same idea, so the two of them bumped into each other. With just this one bump, both of them almost fell over.

  Choi An stopped and said, "How are you walking? Don't you see there's a person next to you?"

  The other party was furious upon hearing this and thought "You're blaming me too? How am I supposed to walk?"

  "You're still asking me? I'd like to ask you how you look at the road, the door is so big, didn't you see there's another person next to you?"

  Chui An wanted to make a scene, but suddenly remembered what Ma Chao had told him: when going out, don't provoke trouble, or you might be sent back to your hometown in Fufeng.

  He restrained himself, "I'm in a good mood today, so I won't bother with you!"

  After finishing speaking, Cui An entered the wine shop. Xu Zhu heard it and became even angrier, but his mood was not bad today either, so he didn't mind too much. He just said a sentence "each other" to Cui An, then he also entered the wine shop afterwards.

  Chui An ordered a pot of wine and two dishes to go with it, but although the dishes arrived, the wine did not.

  He slapped his hand on the case and said, "Buddy, why hasn't the wine been served yet!"

  Suddenly he found Xu Chu not far away, and the other was enjoying fine wine. Cui An got even angrier, "Buddy, everyone else has been served, why hasn't my wine arrived?"

  Cui An stood up and grabbed the collar of his companion, who was thin and weak, and not skilled in martial arts. With a strong pull, he lifted him off the ground. The companion's face turned red from being choked, "Sir, sir, let's talk this over. Please put me down first."

  At this time, the shopkeeper also came over and said hastily: "Sir, it's our fault, we didn't take good care of you. We'll pay for this drink, please let go of my employee!"

  The shopkeeper had some insight, he had seen that Cui An was not a good person, and at the sight of his ferocious appearance, he trembled with fear. He could only try to make polite conversation, hoping this man would finish his drink quickly and leave soon, but today the shopkeeper's plan would ultimately come to nothing.

  Choi An heard this and let his partner down, after all, the boss had said a lot of good things, so he gave him some face.

  "Hey buddy, how come everyone else's has gone up, but mine hasn't?"

  Choi An asked again, and the shop assistant had a bitter melon expression. He was only dealing with Choi An and didn't notice the boss giving him a signal on the side. The boss's meaning was simple: don't tell the truth, just make up a reasonable excuse to fool this gentleman.

  The result was that the waiter didn't see, and still spoke the truth, "This is a small mistake, because that customer also ordered the same wine as you, and you both came in at almost the same time. So, so I made a mistake with the wine."

  The shopkeeper listened and thought it was all over, today is going to be a disaster.

  "Hurry up and bring this customer the wine he wants!"

  The shopkeeper said loudly to his partner that he wanted to use wine to divert Cui An's attention and also to ease his emotions.

  But the fact was not as good as he imagined, Cui An heard that the waiter had made a mistake and sent his own wine to someone else first, and suddenly got angry. Originally, he had been resentful of the incident where Xu Zhu collided with him at the door, and now another thing happened, Cui An couldn't bear it anymore, so he exploded. What Master's instructions, Fufeng's old home, were all thrown behind his head by him.

  He pushed away his partner and shopkeeper, came up to Xu Zhu, "You drank my wine, what do you have to say?"

  Xu Zhu heard that and said, "What do you mean I drank your wine?" Previously, he didn't know that his partner had made a mistake. It was only when they were talking earlier that he found out. Since the wine they wanted was all the same, his partner had poured some for himself first, while Xu Zhu's side had already started drinking, so it wasn't possible to return it now. That's why Xu Zhu didn't say anything at first.

  However, Cui An walked up to him. If he wanted to say a few good words and everyone was polite, then nothing would happen. But Xu Chu looked at Cui An's attitude and listened to his tone of speech, and it seemed that this guy came with an attitude.

  Xu Chu wasn't a good-tempered person either, and he immediately retorted, "I drank it, so what do you want to do about it?"

  Cui An smiled, "Alright, today I'll let you see the prowess of your grandfather Cui!"

  As soon as he finished speaking, he kicked the case that Xu Chu had just approached, and everything was turned over, including the wine jar which was smashed. Xu Chu dodged out of the way, but he was furious, "Alright, you ugly ghost, today I'll teach you a good lesson!"

  Choi Ahn looked at the broken wine jar and was delighted, "Look at you, ugly ghost! What are you going to drink now? I'll let you drink, I'll let you drink!" After saying that, he also trampled on the broken pieces of the jar several times, crushing them into even smaller fragments.

  Xu Chu saw him and angrily shouted: "Ugly ghost, you have deceived me too much!" After finishing speaking, he rushed to strike Cui An.

  "Good timing!" said Cui An.

  The two of them started fighting in the tavern, and at first, the shopkeeper tried to persuade them, "You two gentlemen shouldn't fight, my small store can't withstand your disturbance, oh no, my 20-year-old Du Kang wine! You two gentlemen..."

  The shopkeeper took a look and found that no matter how much he shouted, it was useless. In the end, there was no way out, in order to avoid being implicated, he had to leave the tavern, nothing is more precious than one's own life.

  As for the troublemaker, he had slipped away long ago. The fellow ran after seeing the two fighting, and even if the tavern was razed to the ground, he would only lose his job at most. But if he had run a little later, what he lost might not have been just his job.

  The two men were unarmed, with only their fists and feet, but in reality they had more than just fists and feet. Whatever was available in the tavern, they threw at each other and kicked at each other, it could be said that the tavern was in a state of chaos. They fought for over twenty rounds like this, when Ma Chao suddenly realized that reinforcements were arriving.

  Ma Chao listened to Xu Chu's account of the whole story, and saw that Cui An had nothing to say in response. It seemed that Xu Chu was telling the truth without any exaggeration. This matter was indeed mishandled by Cui An, although it takes two hands to clap, he was the one who made the mistake first. If Ma Chao were in Xu Chu's shoes, he probably wouldn't have handled it better either.

  Just then, another man rushed into the tavern. Seeing Ma Chao and his two companions, he said regretfully: "You're late, you're late! Why didn't you wait for me before finishing the fight?"