Chapter Twelve Yu Changkong

  With a woman's intuition, Gu Yinghua furrowed her brow, feeling that Liu Suoyun's request would be a big trouble: "You said..."

  "Miss Gu!" Liu Suizhen felt it was a difficult matter to bring up: "I think we should first return to Linjiazhuang and settle down my brothers."

  "Impossible!" Gu Yinghua thought that Liu Suoyun had really lost his mind. How could he come up with such an out-of-place idea?

  It takes at least a day to return home from this mountain, and another day to come back. Now the Pang family is pursuing them tightly, but Liu Suizhen insists on going down the road of death: "We must hurry up to Yuanzhou as soon as possible. As long as we arrive in Yuanzhou, we are not afraid of anything! Why do you want to go back to Linjiazhuang and throw yourself into the net? Are you afraid of Pang Tianshan?"

  "There's no one in this world who hates the Pang family more than I do!" Liu Suoyun restrained his murderous intent: "Even if Xu Zhaodi didn't have such hatred, what I want to go back for is not to covet life or fear death, but to let these brothers of mine live on. They are good friends I've known since childhood, from the same village and town..."

  He recalled the group of fellow villagers and brothers with endless sadness: "For Miss Gu, they are just a group of thugs you hired with money, but for me, they are my hometown friends I've known since childhood. They were willing to escort you through Luoxing Mountain also because of my introduction, so I have to live up to them, each and every one of them is my good friend."

  "No way!" Gu Yinghua said, though she didn't regret it, but felt a little disappointed: "I used the last pill of Jingjingxiang on you, you have to help me..."

  "I'll definitely help you to Yuanzhou, even if it costs me my life!" Liu Suoyun clenched his fists and said: "I know every single one of them. From here to Yuanzhou, there's at least four days of journey left. With their skills, in this situation now, not a single person can survive... Take Liu Xing for example, I've known him since I was five years old. We grew up together from childhood, and as long as he has food on the table, I won't go hungry. When I returned from my downfall at the edge of the sky, my family was in a terrible state, and it was he who came to help me repair my house first..."

  Gu Yinghua let out a soft sigh, quietly listening to Liu Suoyun recount his past with Liu Xing, yet knowing that this friendship had long since passed.

  Liu Xing is already dead, died in today's joint raid by the Pang family and the Tianyi gang. Liu Suizhen still doesn't know that his good friend has fallen silently: "I also helped him plant an acre of peach trees, planning to sell them in the county when they're ripe, and he can get married this year."

  "Have you two never quarreled or argued with each other?"

  "How could I, from young to old we had a lot of disputes, but I always didn't mean to say sorry to him..." Liu Suoyun's voice sank down, he told Gu Yinghua about his own heart: "I originally went out to Jianghu with one heart, wanting to fight for fame and fortune, but ended up having a big quarrel with him. In the heat of the moment, I said some things that shouldn't have been spoken, and now I still regret it."

  "I've always wanted to find an opportunity to apologize to him, but until now I still haven't had such a chance."

  "You don't have to apologize, he won't mind." Gu Yinghua's delicate face trembled slightly in the dim light, and with a "slap" sound, Liu Suoyun's face was slapped. Gu Yinghua gave Liu Suoyun a slap: "This is the last time, don't take liberties on my behalf again!"

  Her proud voice was tinged with a sob for the first time: "We'll be back in Linjiazhuang tomorrow."

  "Thank you, Miss Gu." Liu Su Yun didn't know how to express his feelings. The refreshing and cool medicinal properties of the fragrance made the slap from Gu Ying Hua feel light as a feather, and he was even more grateful for her decision.

  These are at most the brothers of the rabbit gang, who can't even finish the journey below. In the joint pursuit and killing by the Pang family and the Tianyi gang, they will have no survivors. Even if they return to Linjiazhuang, they must have him sit in town: "You... you're a good person!"

  Miss Gu Yinghua replied to Liu Suizhen in a somewhat stiff tone: "I don't like anyone making decisions for me, this world should revolve around me, Gu Yinghua. This is the last time, next time it won't be as simple as now."

  The sun rises again.

  Liu Su Yun's decision sparked a polarized reaction in the crowd.

  The young people from Linjiazhuang all breathed a sigh of relief, they knew that Liu Suizhen would not abandon them, from childhood to adulthood, he was always a good man who valued relationships and righteousness, he could bring them back home.

  They had long since sounded the retreat, and the Tianyi gang was a force to be reckoned with in Linjiang County and even half of Yunzhong Prefecture, where not even the leading figures in the prefecture dared to provoke them.

  Gu Yinghua indeed offered a good price, but for two or three thousand wen, they would be sending their own lives away, and of course, they were not willing.

  To think that this price is just for escorting Gu Yinghua and Huo Qianshu over the Luoxing Mountain, without considering that they would encounter the Tianyi Gang, let alone a powerful family like the Pang family, which is countless times more terrifying than the Tianyi Gang. Not to mention that two people have already been lost this time, it can be said that they have suffered a huge loss.

  Their faces were all filled with relieved smiles, but Huo Qianshu was different, he brandished the Flowing Star Hammer and rushed towards Liu Suoyun: "You little brat, are you looking for death?"

  "Returning to Linjiazhuang is the way to survive!" Under the sunlight, Liu Suoyun became elegant and courteous, thanks to the help of that one pill of Jingxinxiang. His old injuries were almost gone, his strength was even greater than in his heyday, and he seemed to have become more handsome, even Gu Yinghua couldn't help but be taken aback by him: "Ma Qianjun is blind, he won't think I'll turn back and return to Linjiazhuang!"

  Huojian Tree was a perceptive person: "But that's two days' time, exactly two days! That's enough to let the Pang family mobilize how many people!"

  "No matter how many enemies there are." Liu Suiyun also had his own persistence: "This life of mine has already been sold to Miss Gu, I, Liu Suiyun, have never owed debts, whether it's a debt of gratitude, money, emotions or life, I will definitely be able to escort Miss Gu to Yuanzhou, you can rest assured."

  Hu Qian's eyes widened like copper bells: "Do you know what Miss Gu's identity is? One hundred of you are not worth a single life of the young lady, I absolutely disagree with the matter of returning to Linjia Village!"

  "Uncle Huo, don't worry!" Gu Yinghua spoke up: "I've already made up my mind, let's head back to Linjiazhuang first!"

  "Miss!" Huo Qianshu said with extreme grievance: "We're heading down a dead end!"

  "What's wrong, I'll take responsibility!" Gu Yinghua had already gotten on the slide: "Fire Uncle, trouble you to make an extra trip."

  Under the insistence of Gu Yinghua, this small team once again set foot on the road back to Linjiazhuang. They didn't even bring away the bodies of Liu Xing and another young man, but simply buried them hastily and made a mark.

  Liu Suiyun, who lost two friends, couldn't bear to reminisce about the deceased. He hid his tears in his eyes until now he finally realized that one of his best friends had left forever.

  His responsibility was heavy, and he couldn't afford to lose another person in the team. He also had to escort Gu Yinghua and Huo Qianshu safely to Yuanzhou, so he searched for any threatening targets with extremely sharp eyes.

  It's been two years, exactly two years!

  His state has never been better, two years of suffering and torture have become a precious sediment, allowing him to even surpass his peak period, just as Huo Qianshu and Gu Yinghua guessed, he is not a warrior who can fight tigers at the peak.

  He would have liked nothing more than to find someone to fight and vent out all the repression and pain of the past two years.

  Unfortunately, he seemed to have said it incredibly, although the Pang family and the Tianyi gang had set up a net in the entire Yunzhong County, sending out hundreds of people and horses to pursue them, but they didn't think that they would kill a horse and return directly to Linjiazhuang. In this half-day period, they walked quite smoothly, only encountering large groups of monsters and beasts, with Liu Suizhen and Huo Qianshu presiding over the situation, although it couldn't be said that everything went off without a hitch, but fortunately, there were no major mishaps.

  Everyone's pace naturally quickened, especially when they saw that they had returned to Linjiazhuang. The originally gloomy and even somewhat painful atmosphere became lighter, and the young people even started discussing Gu Yinghua and Liu Suoyun's affairs in hushed tones. Huo Qianshu had already spoken up: "Once we get over that mountain, it's Linjiazhuang. Everyone can disperse then!"

  Liu Suiyun's eyes were fixed on the stretcher where Gu Yinghua was sitting, and the next journey would be him and Huo Qianshu carrying this stretcher. Suddenly, his gaze flashed, and he roared towards the dense forest beside him: "Who? Come out?"

  Huojian Shu immediately grasped a pair of meteor hammers, while the young people from Linjiazhuang had already picked up their weapons: "Who?"

  Six or seven people with weapons in hand jumped out from the dense forest on one side: "Suiyun, you have a big nerve! You dare to come back, do you think Tianyi Gang is vegetarian?"

  The first one was a forty-year-old man with long hair draped over his shoulders, wearing a green long gown, holding a large sword, and shouting at Liu Suizhen: "You have the guts of a leopard, dare to return to Linjia Village?"

  Huojian Tree was shocked, this middle-aged man turned out to be a strong practitioner who had also reached the peak of Bone Refining Realm. If they were to fight, he would definitely be able to match himself evenly. The young people around them exclaimed in unison: "Yu Shifu!"

  "Teacher Yu!"

  "Yu Shifu!"

  Liu Suiyun has stood out, he bowed his hands to Yu Shifu and said: "Uncle Changkong, I have sent them back."

  "The Tianyi gang has offered a reward of 500,000 yuan, dead or alive, as long as you're caught!" Yu Shifu glanced at Liu Suoyun: "So I came all the way from the county town just for this, knowing you'd definitely come back, and sure enough, I've caught up with you."

  "Isn't there anyone from the Tianyi Gang around here?" Liu Suoyun asked, "That's for the best then. Brothers, please trouble Longkong Shu to take care of things, I still need to escort Miss Gu and Huo Shu to Yuanzhou."

  Yu Changkong was furious, he said loudly: "Do you know or not, how many masters are chasing and killing you in Yunzhong County now? The reward for this Miss Gu is 10 million yuan, a full 100,000 taels of silver!"

  One million yuan, or one hundred thousand taels of silver, is enough to buy sixty or seventy thousand dan of grain, or several thousand mu of good land. Even hearing this number makes everyone's heart chaotic.

  It was Gu Yinghua who felt no surprise at this reward, and she even felt a little disappointed. Liu Suoyun was absolutely an extremely stubborn person: "Changkong Shu, I still want to escort Miss Gu over the Luoxing Mountain to Yuanzhou. I am Liu Suoyun, the one who is first in infatuation, second in vegetable growing, third in Taoist magic, and fourth in martial arts."

  Yu Changkong let out a loud roar: "Give me one reason to go against Tianyi Gang!"

  The Tianyi Gang is the largest gang in Linjiang County, and its leader, Ma Qianjun, has profound martial arts skills that are immeasurable. The gang has numerous skilled members, numbering in the hundreds. Yu Changkong knew that even if Liu Suoyun had exceptional abilities, he would still be no match for the Tianyi Gang.

  "For my woman!"

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