Chapter Thirty-Nine: Betting Fight

  Lu Xiaofeng nodded and said: "I think you should come with us!"

  "Are you taken with that old woman selling sugar-roasted chestnuts or this Ah Tu covered in scabs?"

  Lu Xiaofeng smiled and said: "Neither of them, I have taken a fancy to another one of you!"

  Gongsun's eyes sparkled as she asked: "Are you referring to the Embroidered Flower Thief?"

  Lu Xiaofeng nodded and said: "Not bad!"

  Madam Gongsun smiled and said: "You're so sure I'm the Embroidered Flower Thief!"

  Lu Xiaofeng looked at Gong Sun's wife and said: "What! You don't admit it!"

  "Looks like I won't be able to deny it even if I want to."

  Lu Xiaofeng said: "That's right, the evidence is conclusive, and it's useless for you to deny it."

  Li Yunfei smiled and said: "You just saved us too, we're not ungrateful people."

  "Although you are not ungrateful, you are a fool!" said Mrs. Gong Sun. Li Yunfei was scolded as a fool, but he didn't get angry. His face didn't even change color. He just pretended he hadn't heard it.

  "Could it be that you want to send me to Jin Jiuyi for punishment?" Madam Gongsun said with a frown.

  Lu Xiaofeng nodded and said: "Not bad, but we will guarantee you a fair trial!"

  Li Yunfei laughed and said, "Actually, even if you stole something from someone else, it's not a big deal! But you have to steal from the Wang family. You must know that other cases can be ignored, but how can the case of the Wang family be ignored?"

  At this moment, a loud "ding" sound was heard, and Erniang's silver knife had already been nailed to the table. The green-robed nun stroked the sword blade, Ou Yang's face wore a cold smile. Jiang Zixia's lips were already pale.

  The girl in red laughed loudly again: "You want my sister to go with you? Are you dreaming?" Now her laughter no longer sounds as pleasant as it did just now.

  After she finished laughing, Mrs. Gong Sun said lightly: "They are not dreaming, and I may follow them."

  The girl in red was stunned, everyone was stunned. Even Li Yunfei and Lu Xiaofeng felt very surprised.

  "I like men with abilities. A real man with abilities, no matter where he wants me to go, I'll follow him."

  Ouyang Qing smiled. She was the first to understand Gong Sun's meaning and said, "If you want Big Sister to go with you, you must first let us see if your skills are enough."

  Lu Xiaofeng also smiled and said: "We have many skills, but I don't know which ones you want to see?"

  Gongsun's wife said: "I just want to see three!"

  Luk Siu Fung said: "Three kinds?"

  Gongsun's wife looked at him, her pupils seeming to shrink gradually, then smiled and said: "We'll decide the outcome in three rounds. If you can win two rounds against me, I'll go with you."

  Lu Xiaofeng smiled and said: "Three rounds to determine victory or defeat? This sounds quite interesting!"

  "Mrs. Gong said: 'I guarantee it will be extremely interesting!'"

  Lu Xiaofeng's eyes sparkled as he smiled and said, "What do we compete in first? Drinking?" Lu Xiaofeng thought that Madame Gongsun would certainly not compete with him in drinking. Because only the most foolish woman would compete with a man like him in drinking.

  Gongsun's wife was not a foolish woman, but she had agreed. When the wine was placed in front of Lu Xiaofeng, he was stunned. He had forgotten that he only had something to eat at noon and now it seemed that what he needed was not wine, but food and thick soup.

  Drinking is also a matter of physical strength, just like doing many other things. Moreover, at this moment, even if Madame Gongsun gets drunk, it doesn't matter, but he absolutely cannot get drunk. This place is full of Madame Gongsun's people, and there is only one person on his side, Li Yunfei. If he falls down, Li Yunfei will have to deal with seven people alone. At present, he can't even drink a single drop of wine. But now, six jars of Shanghai Daqu are placed on the table.

  Gongsun's wife looked at Lu Xiaofeng and smiled: "These six jars of wine are for the two of us to drink, I don't know if it will be enough?"

  Lu Xiaofeng smiled wryly: "Even if it's for two horses to drink, I'm afraid it's enough. The dishes on the table seem to be a bit insufficient! There is still one cold dish left on the table."

  Mrs. Gong Sun smiled and said: "The dishes are indeed too few, fortunately we are not competing in eating vegetables or drinking wine."

  Mrs. Gong knew that when drinking on an empty stomach, the amount of alcohol should be at least halved. Now Lu Xiaofeng's stomach was as empty as a beggar's purse. After three bowls of wine, he already felt something was wrong, and after two more bowls, Lu Xiaofeng couldn't help but start gulping down his drink. Then Li Yunfei found that Lu Xiaofeng had already started vomiting, vomiting so hard that his intestines were almost coming out.

  "You're drunk!" But Lady Gong Sun was still as sober as if she hadn't had a drop to drink, and said: "You've already lost the first round!"

  Li Yunfei said with a drunken slur: "No way, I'm not drunk yet. I'm just like I haven't had any wine at all, it's just that my stomach doesn't feel comfortable."

  "Ha! You think you can cheat and not admit defeat?"

  Lu Xiaofeng wanted to say something, but Li Yunfei pulled him back and said: "No need, he's drunk, we admit defeat, what's the next match?"

  "Good," said Madame Gongsun with a smile, "I'll give you credit for being trustworthy. Let's have a sword fight in the next round!"

  Li Yunfei smiled and said: "Alright then! Let's have a competition between me and you, Old Lady!"

  "Impossible," said Madame Gong Sun, shaking her head. "It's only fair if Lu Xiaofeng and I compete with each other. Otherwise, if I drink and you don't, wouldn't I be at a disadvantage?"

  Li Yunfei smiled, then looked at Gong Sun's wife and said word by word: "Just now we agreed that it would be us against you, not Lu Xiaofeng against you alone. If you think it's unfair, fine, then you can also switch to someone else, how about that?"

  "Alright, you wait a moment, I'll go change into something else!"

  Lü Xiao Feng muttered: "If we're going to have a sword fight, why change clothes?"

  "Ah, you don't understand," said Madame Gongsun with a smile. "When drinking wine, one must wear clothes for drinking wine; when competing in swordplay, one must wear clothes for competing in swordplay!"

  Lu Xiaofeng asked in puzzlement: "Why?"

  "Because clothes can also affect a person's mood, and women are born to love changing clothes. When a woman changes her clothes, her mood improves, and so does her swordsmanship." With that said, she went downstairs.

  Lu Xiaofeng was still searching everywhere for wine, probably because he had drunk too much and couldn't even find the wine in front of him.

  Li Yunfei was about to grab Lu Xiaofeng when he suddenly froze, his eyes fixed on the person who had just walked out from behind.

  A woman, resplendent as the dawn, noble as a queen, and lovely as an immortal fairy. Even the clothes she wore were not those of mortals, but rather the seven-colored rainbow garments from heaven.

  Li Yunfei didn't recognize the woman, he had never seen such a noble and beautiful woman before. Even in that world where beauties were as common as clouds, he hadn't seen a woman as beautiful as her, more beautiful than every beauty he had ever seen, more noble.

  However, Li Yunfei still recognized the sword in her hand, a pair of short swords, with blades one foot seven inches long, and red tassels tied to the hilt. Could it be that she was actually Lady Gong Sun? Wasn't she just an ordinary middle-aged woman from earlier? Or was she that beggar woman who sold sugar-roasted chestnuts? Li Yunfei rubbed his eyes. He could hardly believe what he was seeing. This was also too unbelievable, a woman, and such a beautiful one at that, how did she manage to disguise herself so uglily before?

  "Ah, can't you recognize me again?" said Mrs. Gong Sun with a smile as she looked at him.

  Li Yunfei sighed and said: "I just can't figure it out?"

  "What's bothering you again?" asked Mrs. Gong Sun.

  Li Yunfei smiled and said, "What I don't understand is that a beautiful woman like you, why dress up as an old lady. If I were you, even if someone put a knife to my neck, I wouldn't be willing to change into this!"

  "Then how did you know this was my true face?"

  Li Yunfei shook his head and said: "I don't know, I just hope your true face is like this."

  "What's going on?" asked Mrs. Gong Sun in confusion.

  Li Yunfei sighed and said: "Because if I must die at someone's hands, I only hope to die at the hands of a person like you. This is not in vain for this life."

  "Indeed you are a very eloquent person, my heart is almost softened by your words."