Chapter 41: Violence Frenzy

  Liu Zhang handed the drawings to Wang Fu, with bamboo notes on the numbers above. Even so, Wang Fu still frowned and took it hard, hoping that the assembly line workshop would be more efficient than individual work.

  When Liu Zhang returned to the house, Huang Yue was no longer there, only Liu Xun was still writing. As soon as he saw Liu Zhang, Liu Xun immediately rushed over and shook Liu Zhang's hand, saying: "Father, father, look at the poem written by Xun'er."

  "Poem?" Liu Zhang was startled, and hastily took over the bamboo slips to read:

  "The north wind is cool, the rain and snow are foggy. Kind and fond of me, hand in hand... Ah, not bad, very atmospheric, very rhythmic, you're really a genius! I thought it was already good enough that you could write the character 'fog'."

  Liu Zhang smiled with a curved mouth, Liu Xun stood in front of him, rubbing the hem of his clothes, and said in a low voice: "Dad, that's Shi Jing, I wrote it below."

  "Huh?" Liu Zhang coughed awkwardly and looked to the left, reciting: "The west wind is so cold, hail hits the wall. The sun rises in the east, scared me to death..."

  The surrounding crowd of relatives and soldiers almost suffocated him with their concern.

  Liu Zhang saw the four words "sun rises in the east" and almost dropped his bamboo slips, then nodded vigorously: "Well done, my son! This poem has a profound atmosphere, vivid descriptions of scenery, and accurately depicts the psychological state of the characters with the two words 'scared to death'. Especially the phrase 'sun rises in the east' is majestic and reveals a sense of prosperity after a storm.

  "Sixteen characters and only four mistakes, that's impressive! However, I remember that when it hails, the weather is usually not cold. But don't let one flaw overshadow your overall performance, keep working hard and never be arrogant, got it?"

  "En." Liu Xun nodded vigorously, delighted by Liu Zhang's praise, and went on to "create" with great enthusiasm.

  Liu Zhang picked up his brush again, hoping that Wang Fu could quickly make a batch of chairs. Every day, he sat on the mat with his legs numb and had no place to lean when he had a headache.

  Just as he was about to continue drawing, Liu Zhang looked at the pen in his hand and frowned. He carefully drew the structure of a fountain pen on the white paper. Writing with a brush is slow and wastes ink. If he switched to using a fountain pen, he wondered how much money and time it would save.

  He drew a pen, Liu Zhang drew some simple and practical things for future generations, his physical strength could not hold on, so he went to rest. The hall was left with only one person, Liu Xun, who leaned against the wall, thinking hard, and whenever he had a "good sentence", he would write it down on paper with excitement.

  At this moment, at the tall city gate of Chengdu, a person with a dirty body, disheveled hair, tattered shoes and clothes that were barely covering their skin, making it impossible to tell if they were male or female, was leading a short horse, staring blankly at the prosperity of Chengdu.

  "Wow, so many people!" A crisp female voice exclaimed, which was completely inconsistent with her own image. It was Xiao Furen, the Five Streams Barbarian Girl.

  "Little beggar, either come in or get out, don't block the entrance and affect the city's appearance." a guarding soldier shouted.

  "Hey, you're the little beggar, your whole family are little beggars! What's wrong with Miss standing here?" Xiao Furan shouted at the soldier with her hands on her hips, her loud voice startling him.

  "Get out, standing here makes me sick." A man with a goat-like beard and wearing Chinese clothes looked back at Xiao Furen with his head tilted back, his eyes vacant, as if Xiao Furen was a pile of dog shit.

  Xiao Furong was furious and was about to physically attack when the surrounding villagers gathered around, pointing fingers at Xiao Furong.

  "Let's go, let's go."

  "Let's go, let's go."

  "Ugh." Xiao Furen finally couldn't take it anymore and ran away with her sleeve covering her face.

  The sun sets in the west, Xiao Furen leads a short horse to find a paddy field to wash her face clean. When she returns to the city, there are few people on the street, and only a small vendor is selling scallion pancakes beside her.

  "Dead Liu Zhang, looked all day without seeing a beauty."

  Xiao Fengrong covered her growling stomach, her big eyes staring unblinkingly at the scallion pancake in front of the street vendor, emitting hot air, and her moist face sparkled with tiny lights under the sunset.

  "Brother, five scallion pancakes."

  "Good, ten cents."

  "Brother, um... have you seen Flying Female Knight?"

  "What?" The vendor was taken aback and vigorously shook his head.

  "We've met now."

  Xiao Furong held the scallion pancake, jumped onto the pony, and the pony immediately lifted its hooves and galloped away. The vendor was left standing in a daze on the spot.

  In the early morning, in the governor's mansion, Liu Zhang was telling Huang Yue about the actual size of the object. Suddenly, he felt a slight headache and couldn't help but lean against the wall to rest, rubbing his temples with force.

  "What's wrong with you?" Huang Yue saw Liu Zhang looking uncomfortable and furrowed her brow.

  "It doesn't matter, let's continue."

  Liu Zhang struggled to prop up his body, and recently, he had been having more frequent headaches. Could it be that killing someone really did have consequences?

  "You must be tired, let me give you a massage." Huang Yue put down her pen and said to Liu Zhang.

  "This isn't very convenient, is it?"

  "When I'm at home, whenever my brother is tired, I just give him a massage and he's fine, no big deal."

  Huang Yue stood up and said, Liu Zhang couldn't refuse, nor did he want to. Having such a beautiful woman give him a massage was also a kind of enjoyment.

  Huang Yue really didn't lie, the massage technique was very skilled, with the middle finger applying force to the sunspot, and the other four fingers cooperating with varying degrees of strength, making Liu Zhang feel more comfortable than when he did it himself. Suddenly, his head felt much clearer.

  "Huang is truly multi-talented."

  "As long as you don't mind, it's fine."

  Two men were talking when a soldier suddenly rushed in: "Report to the master, something's wrong. There is a beggar outside throwing stones at our mansion."

  "What?" Liu Zhang's eyes widened in incredulity: "What did you say, throwing stones at the governor's mansion of Zhongzhou?"

  "Yes, sir, and the beggar was throwing stones while cursing."

  "It's all over." Liu Zhang suddenly stood up. Huang Yue saw that Liu Zhang seemed to have moved in anger and didn't want him to bother, so he said to the soldier: "Just a beggar, you can drive him away."

  "Stop." Liu Zhang suddenly calmed down, thinking that it wouldn't be because of his own mismanagement and causing public discontent. This was a big deal, he wanted to see who had the audacity to throw stones at the provincial government office.

  The soldier looked bitter and said, "We rushed over, but not only did we fail to drive them away, more than a dozen of our brothers were knocked down. General Wang Xiu was also unable to hold his ground. Let me go ask the commander if he should send troops over."

  "Come on, follow me and take a look."

  Liu Zhang walked out the door with his hands behind his back, Huang Yue followed behind him. As soon as they reached the entrance, they saw Xiao Fu Rong standing in the middle of the road outside, her hair disheveled and her face twisted in anger, shouting loudly. More than a dozen soldiers were scattered on the ground, wailing in agony.

  "Liu Zhang, you big cheat, hiding inside like a turtle, where's the beautiful woman? The aunties on the street carrying vegetable baskets and driving ducks with whips are even better-looking than the girls who used to wipe my butt when I was little. You'd be lucky to pick one of them up, taking home an old lady would be more like it..."

  "Hey, little beggar, don't be arrogant." Wang Xu fell on the stone steps, with blood overflowing from the corner of his mouth, and shouted while struggling.

  Xiao Furan immediately glared at Wang Xie with an unpleasant expression, causing Wang Xie to shrink his neck in fear. Earlier, Xiao Furan had knocked down over a dozen guards with just a few moves, and now that she was approaching him, he couldn't help but reveal a fearful gaze.

  "Who are you calling a beggar? Who are you calling a beggar? I want you to be a beggar, I want you..."

  Xiao Furong kicked Wang Xi in the waist, and Wang Xi couldn't help but cry out "ah". Xiao Furong was about to kick again when Liu Zhang, who was standing at the door, hurriedly shouted: "Stop!"

  Xiao Furong stopped immediately upon hearing the voice, and saw Liu Zhang walking out of the mansion. She was stunned for a moment, then raised her eyebrows and said with a huff: "Ah, you've finally come out. You big cheat! You said Chengdu has many beauties..."

  Xiao Furan suddenly stopped talking, because she saw Huang Yue behind her, with a dignified and elegant face, a tall and poised figure, wearing a simple yet elegant yellow dress that accentuated her perfect curves, leaving Xiao Furan's mouth agape.

  Huang Yue smiled and looked at Xiao Furan, listened to Xiao Furan's words, then looked at Liu Zhang's expression. The clever Huang Yue suddenly understood that this violent and unscrupulous person who didn't know the rules of courtesy, with a mouth that was not guarded and without any feminine image, had an unusual relationship with Governor Liu.