Chapter 9 Forget it

  For a country, the greatest calamity is to perish. For an individual, the greatest calamity is to lose one's life. Lying on the cold and hard pallet in the dog meat shop, surrounded by slaughtered dogs, the sleep was exceptionally sweet. It's unknown whether it was the effect of the extremely precious medicine added to the pear blossom wine that was too potent or if he was just too timid and got drunk to the point of losing consciousness. His face was flushed, occasionally revealing a lustful smile, seemingly unaware of what lascivious things he had dreamed about.

  The man in the green shirt looked at Fang Jie's belly and placed his hand on it, pressing down gently. It seemed like a normal action, but Fang Jie's body suddenly sprang up like a shrimp. His body bounced up and then heavily fell back onto the bedboard, causing the bed to creak loudly. Yet, for some reason, he still didn't wake up.

  "Huh?"

  The man in the green shirt frowned slightly, a hint of disgust between his eyebrows: "Compared to the previous method, there are a few more changes, and it's even more vicious. If this thing isn't broken open today, I'm afraid he'll be drained into a dry corpse by midnight. It seems that someone has been holding back, but I don't know why no one gave him medicine. The thing inside his body is about to break out of its shell, and in a short while, it will enter his brain. Once it occupies his mind, he will become a walking dead man."

  Su Tu's dog crouched on one side, puffing on a tobacco pipe and nodded: "I can see some doorways, but I don't know which family's vicious trick this is. Such tricks often come from the southern border... I really can't figure out how big of an enemy this kid has, ten years ago I saw it once... now thinking about it still makes me shudder, that one battle, too many people died."

  The man in the green shirt nodded and his face didn't change: "I can only save his life, but I'm afraid his body will be even weaker than before. Without suitable medicine, we can only use drastic measures to shatter that poisonous wasp."

  "It's his good fortune accumulated over several lifetimes."

  Boss Du Hongxian said in a low voice: "This kid is always smiling and laughing like a spoiled child, I'm afraid he also knows something. The eyes behind his back are always sad, making people's hearts ache. It's his blessing to meet you. But when my husband and I were idle, we also checked him out. He seems to have no background. Three years ago, he came to Fan Gu City alone, like a beggar, with no relatives to rely on. His brain is very good, in three years, he became the hottest person in Fan Gu."

  "Actually, you and your wife can join hands to save his life."

  The man in the green shirt said lightly.

  Su Tu's dog was stunned for a moment, shook his head: "Don't want to intervene in other people's business anymore, we two have been hiding in this Fan Gu City for ten years, living a dull life, but also down-to-earth. If the poisonous insect is broken, it can't be said that someone behind will be brought out. Fighting and killing, really meaningless."

  "Ten years ago you broke off a finger."

  The man in the green shirt looked at Su Tu's right hand: "Without a thumb, it's impossible to hold a knife."

  "What I'm afraid of is not being unable to hold a knife, nor is it provoking trouble, but rather that I won't be able to wait for you anymore."

  Su Tu's dog tapped his pipe on the ground and slowly stood up, saying solemnly: "You can keep this life, but you still have to let me control it."

  The man in the green shirt took out a porcelain bottle from his bosom, pulled out the stopper and a stream of fragrance wafted out. He poured out an emerald-green pill from the bottle, pinched open Fang's mouth and stuffed it in. The pill looked like a jade bead, with a faint golden glow shining through its crystal clarity.

  "Jade Belt Dan!"

  Su Tu's dog's face changed, his eyes suddenly opened wide and round: "This thing can be exchanged for three thousand taels of gold."

  "Ten years ago, sir gave some, but I didn't eat a single one."

  The man in a green shirt threw the porcelain bottle at Su Tu: "Keep it, you'll need it."

  "You have always disliked relying on external forces like medicine."

  Su Tuogou didn't refuse, and handed the porcelain bottle to his wife: "Take good care of it, it will definitely come in handy. One small golden elixir can save a life, and with one more life, we can repay our benefactor once more. Cats have nine lives, and with this small golden elixir, as long as it's not shattered at the Sea of Qi and the Field of Elixir, you can prolong your life."

  Du Hongxian solemnly accepted it and didn't say a word of courtesy.

  "You don't need to take action, just send me to the place and it's fine."

  The man in the green shirt looked at Fang Jie again, put down his sleeves and walked slowly to the door. Outside, it had already completely darkened, and a bright moon hung in the eastern sky. Before he reached the door, he picked up the half jug of pear blossom wine and took a sip under the bright moonlight.

  "This wine can't be gulped down like a cow, it's meant to be savored slowly. Leave it for now, drink it slowly."

  He tied the wine jug to his waist and said to Su Tu Dog, "There is no one in the world who is better at horse riding than you. After you send me to my destination, hurry back. You and your wife change places and hide out. I have left a good deed on Qing Le Mountain. Those people's hands can stretch very far, but there are two places they find it extremely hard to get into: one is Chang'an City, the other is Qing Le Mountain."

  "I need to conserve my strength, especially after entering the domain, it's even more perilous. The journey there will consume too much energy, and I don't have many chances of winning against that person. I can't waste a single bit of energy. So, Toudou, I need you to send me over. Anyone we meet on the way, you take care of them."

  No!

  "Ten years ago, in that battle, there were the two of us by your side. Ten years later, this battle, how can it be without us? I'm afraid to die, but what I fear most is not being able to die in battle by your side."

  "If there were two fewer of you, the Jianghu would be even weaker. The external enemy is strong, and we need a few people who can hold their own on the scene. We can't rely on those cowards from Qingyue Mountain, once they have a relationship with the imperial court, they will have many worries and become worldly, losing their bloodiness... When I arrive at the destination, I will kill as many people as I can, and the pressure you leave behind will be lighter. No need to fight anymore... If you continue to fight, I'll go alone, and you won't be able to keep up with me."

  "Yes!"

  Du Hongxian pulled a still quarrelsome Su Tugou and nodded: "We'll send you there and then come back."

  "It's not you, it's Butcher Dog himself, just wait for him here and then go to Qingyue Mountain together."

  The man in the green shirt smiled and said, "You two have never been apart before. Today, I'll make a special exception and let Butcher Dog send me off. If you both follow him, you will surely not leave my side. If there's still something that can bring Butcher Dog back, it would be you. Your husband-and-wife relationship is indeed enviable."

  "Enough, no more arguing... Ten years ago I didn't die, ten years later, it's not certain that I will die."

  He smiled faintly and stood proudly.

  At this moment, Fang Jie, who was lying in bed, suddenly turned over and let out a loud cry, his voice piercing to the extreme, and it was likely that half of the city of Fan would have heard it. He sat up abruptly from the bed, and immediately sucked in a mouthful of cold air in pain. When his vision was blurry, he couldn't see things clearly in front of him, so he shook his head hard and vaguely saw the owner of the dog meat shop squatting on the ground crying, while Su Tu Dog had already packed up and left without looking back.

  He was shocked and looked down to see his entire body naked.

  "Oh my god!"

  He exclaimed and looked at Du Hongxian with a sad expression, asking: "What have you done to me? How can you not avoid this... even if Butcher Brother is old-fashioned, he won't tolerate this matter, why don't you hurry up and chase after him!"

  ……

  ……

  Her lower abdomen was burning with pain, and she could hardly walk. He asked many questions and said a lot of words, but Du Hongxian just squatted on the ground crying and didn't care about him at all. Fang Jie was helpless, and with great difficulty, he put on his clothes himself, then slowly got out of bed, and as soon as his feet touched the ground, the pain in his lower abdomen became even more severe. His legs trembled, and he actually knelt down.

  "My god!"

  He glanced at Du Hongxian and thought to himself, "No wonder Su Tuzi was dealt with so thoroughly. This woman has quite the skills..." It's understandable that a woman would be clumsy in her movements after losing her virginity for the first time. But I'm a man, how did I end up being handled like this? What kind of intense exercise could have left me in this state? And after getting drunk, why didn't I feel any pleasure at all?

  "You're responsible for me."

  He sat on the ground, panting heavily: "Although you're a bit older, but your looks are still quite good. For the rest of my life, if I'm paralyzed in bed, you can't abandon me. If I really can't walk, find someone to make me a wheelchair that can move on its own, and install 1,328 hidden weapons on it. Also, make a sedan chair with 1,328 hidden weapons inside, which also has wheels and can move on its own. In the future, if we encounter those high-ranking officials or whatever, I'll just point to the sky and the ground and be able to take them down."

  "What a mess!"

  His nonsense stopped Du Hongxian's crying, and she looked at this shameless person in confusion.

  "Like an unfeeling sedan chair."

  Fang Jiehuan was still panting and talking to himself: "Speaking of which, Sheng Yu is also a cripple with no internal energy, his body as weak as a woman's, yet he's the best in lightness skills and hidden weapons. Although I can't cultivate, relying on my wit, I can still make a name for myself among the four great capturers of Fan Gu City."

  "Get out!"

  Du Hongxian didn't understand and was even more annoyed in her heart. She immediately cursed viciously and stood up, turning around to walk towards the inner room, no longer paying attention to Fang Jie.

  Fang Jie shook his head and smiled wryly, thinking that he had seen many tyrants bully girls and then leave without a care. Damn it, he thought, I'm so unlucky to have met a female tyrant. Luckily, I'm not the kind of guy who would kill himself after being bullied. Since I couldn't walk away, I'll just crawl back. At least I still have my big dog and Little Waist. Life is like this, who knows when it's time to be sad or happy, or when it's time to die?

  After experiencing death and rebirth, he would no longer find it difficult to accept anything strange that happened to him again.

  He took a few difficult steps forward, and suddenly realized something. He was shocked, hastily lowered his head to look, and after parting his legs, he let out a mournful cry towards the sky.

  "My god, that's too ruthless."

  That thing that feels off is actually swollen to a terrifying degree. It looks just like an angry dragon, as if it could take to the air and harm people at any moment...

  On the main street of Fangucheng, Su Tuogou carried a large package and followed closely behind the man in green clothes, and when he was about to reach the city gate, he couldn't help but turn his head back for a glance.

  "Reluctant to part?"

  The man in the green shirt asked.

  Su Tu Dog shook his head, recalling the scene he saw earlier and couldn't help but sigh: "Just now you broke the poisonous gu for that kid, how did it get so hard and erect after just one palm print... is it a natural talent? Looks very arrogant..."

  "What he's puzzled about is actually this matter, the man in green clothes couldn't help but laugh: "The poison in his abdomen was too potent, I originally wanted to force it out but because there wasn't enough medicine to guide it, I couldn't thoroughly expel it. So I dispersed the remaining poison throughout his limbs and body, after normal blood circulation later on, it can be slowly expelled from the body. That place being closest, inevitably absorbed more of the poison... What you said was hard and swollen... actually it's swollen."

  "Can it be restored?"

  Su Tu Dog continued to ask.

  "It's up to him now."

  The man in the green shirt smiled and walked forward with big strides.

  "Sū tú gǒu dī tóu kàn le kàn zì jǐ kuà - xià, rěn bù zhù yáo tóu yàn xiàn: 'yīn huò dé fú…… yīn huò dé fú…… zhè xiǎo zǐ píng bái dé liǎo zhè xǔ duō nì tiān yùn qì, zhēn tā niáng de ràng rén xiàn sǐ. jiǎ suàn zhè dú xìng bù néng gēn chú, fēi duì shēn zǐ wú bì fǎn ér dé le yī gēn zhī hòu zòng héng chuáng dǐ zhī jiān de dà shā qì, zhè dé ràng duō shǎo nǚ zǐ ài dé sǐ qù huó lái ā…… nà ge…… ēn gōng, zhè fǎ zi nín hái néng yòng yī cì ma?"

  Translation:

  "Slaughter dog looked down at his own crotch and couldn't help but shake his head in envy: 'Good fortune from misfortune... good fortune from misfortune... this kid has obtained so much heaven-defying luck, it's really enviable. Even if the poison can't be completely eliminated, not only is it harmless to the body, but he's also gained a powerful tool between the sheets, making many girls love him to death... Ah, sir, can you use this method again?"

  "What's used?"

  Su Tu Dog said seriously: "I also want to try it once, the red thread is not by my side, this time I'm going west for a thousand miles, there must be many brothels and wine shops on the way, who knows if there's a chance encounter or something... hehe"

  The man in the green shirt said calmly: "You can also make yourself look swollen."

  Su Tu Dog lowered his head and looked at him: "Can't bear to part with it..."

  The man in the green shirt said: "At least for a month, you'll be pissing blood and feeling like you're going to die, do you want to try?"

  "Never mind..."