Chapter Eighteen: Buy One Get One Free

  If it weren't for being trampled underfoot, if the situation hadn't become so dire, Fang Jie would have liked to patiently explain to the boss's wife that castration isn't done with scissors. Scissors can cut fabric to make beautiful clothes, they can cut paper to create intricate window decorations, they can cut many things, but they're definitely not specialized for cutting that thing.

  "Hurry up and go!"

  Fang Jie almost begged and shouted a sentence, because he spat blood and his throat was burning with pain, the voice that came out was hoarse.

  "Ah, you scoundrel! At such a young age, you're already deceiving women. You said you wouldn't marry anyone else, but now you've changed your mind? If you were a few years older, you'd probably deceive your way into the imperial palace! I hate men who are unfaithful the most. Today, if I don't castrate that hairless thing of yours, my surname won't be Du anymore."

  She didn't leave, but instead took big strides towards Fang Jie.

  "Get out!"

  The second curtain waved his hand and said, "Big brother, don't let her roll away. This short and ugly man's skin is really not interesting to peel off. Although this woman is dressed in a rustic way, she still looks like a decent person. If we peel off her skin and make a palace lantern, it would be extremely beautiful."

  "Don't delay, hurry up!"

  Mo Da said coldly and then ignored him.

  The second curtain chuckled and walked towards the boss with a smile, "Don't worry, my craftsmanship is famous in the Imperial City, it won't take long to peel off a complete human skin. The lanterns hanging on the dark passage of the Dalisi Temple are all made by me, one more beautiful than the other."

  "Really soon?"

  The boss's wife stopped in her tracks and asked timidly.

  "It's definitely coming soon!"

  Mou Er smiled slyly, pulled out a short knife from his bosom, and said while walking: "This knife doesn't know how many people's skin it has peeled off. Since leaving the Imperial City, I've only used it twice. The knife is lonely, and so am I. You may look older, but you're still barely passable. You won't humiliate my knife..."

  Boom!

  A loud, dull thud suddenly appeared and then disappeared from Mu Er's figure. Immediately after, there was another loud crash, as if something had heavily fallen to the ground. Mu Da hastily turned his head to look back, only to see that Mu Er had been embedded into the city wall!

  Mang Er's body was like a cannonball that had been fired out of its barrel and flew away, smashing into the city wall and creating a rather large hole.

  Too fast!

  It happened so fast that even Lian Mu didn't see who made the move. In other words, he guessed it was the woman in the extremely rustic clothes who made the move, but he didn't see clearly at all! Not to mention seeing how the woman made her move, he didn't even capture the trajectory of the woman's action. It wasn't until he saw Mu Er being embedded into the city wall that he discovered the woman was standing in the position where Mu Er had just stood.

  "What I hate most is others saying I'm old!"

  The boss's wife muttered with a gloomy face, seemingly very angry.

  The impact of the second curtain on the city wall was unknown, and his body was bent like a shrimp, with more than half of his body embedded in the city wall. The broken stones fell to the ground, and after a dull thud, a cloud of smoke rose up. The second curtain couldn't help but cough several times, with fresh blood constantly flowing out of his mouth. This time it was too heavy, and he didn't know how many ribs were broken. But he was after all a high-ranking master of the sixth grade, and he struggled to get out of the wall while enduring the intense pain.

  Boom!

  Another muffled sound, and when he looked again, the boss's wife suddenly appeared in front of Curtain Two!

  A foot clad in green embroidered shoes kicked him hard in the chest, forcing him further into the city wall. Dust and smoke rose again, and Curtain Two was completely submerged in the city wall.

  This scene left everyone utterly astonished. Fang Jie lay on the ground, his face sideways, mouth agape, staring at Boss Wang in a daze. Da Quan's eyes were almost bulging out, as if he still couldn't believe what he was seeing. And Mu Xiao Yao stood there, somewhat stupidly, muttering to herself, "How is this possible? How could you hide it from me?"

  It seemed that the boss had heard Mu Xiaoyao's muttering, and she smiled lightly as she tidied up her hair: "Someone like you is indeed rare in this world, able to sense others' strength. Unfortunately... your cultivation is still too low, it wouldn't be difficult for someone to conceal their true abilities from you. As far as I know, there's more than one person in Fanhu City who can do that."

  "There is someone else..."

  Being trapped by others didn't make Mu Xiaoyao disheartened, but the boss's wife's words made her extremely disheartened.

  "Nature has its own way, at least our family didn't keep it from you, did they?"

  She spoke casually, seemingly completely disregarding Mu Da.

  "Who... who are you?!"

  Mo Da swallowed hard and unconsciously took a few steps back.

  "I'm your mother!"

  The boss's wife was at least twenty meters away from Mu Da when she said this. She started walking as soon as she spoke the first word, lifted her foot on the second word, and put it down on the third word. The fourth and fifth words were spoken right in front of Mu Da, face to face with him. The distance between them was less than half a meter, almost just a blink of an eye, and the boss's wife was already standing in front of Mu Da.

  Bang!

  A crisp and loud slapping sound rang out, shattering the quiet night. The slap was so loud that people in the eastern part of the city could probably hear it. Five clear finger marks slowly appeared on Muda's face, clear enough to see the veins from those finger marks. After this slap, the crowd that was already stunned became even more stunned.

  "Oh no...... I forgot to use force again, and our family's head will see it and laugh at me again."

  The boss's wife looked at Mu Da's face with a red handprint and smiled apologetically: "I'll do it again, sorry."

  Although Mu Da was stunned, he didn't dare to stand still again. He immediately tried to jump back and avoid the boss's wife, but just as his foot was about to exert force, the second slap from the boss's wife landed heavily on his face. This time it wasn't as loud as the previous one, but it sent Mu Da flying out horizontally. Mu Da completely lost control of his body and his back heavily collided with the city wall. With a "thud", Mu Er, who was standing close by, was also embedded into the city wall.

  "Awesome!"

  The boss's wife let out a long sigh and said: "It's been ten years since I've felt so relieved."

  ……

  ……

  "Sister, if you're satisfied with hitting me, can you help me up first?"

  She bit her lip to make sure she wasn't dreaming, then looked pitifully at the boss's wife and said, "I don't know how many of my ribs he broke."

  "Get down!"

  The boss's wife yelled at him without turning her head, rolling up the sleeves of her blue flowered padded jacket and walking towards the two people embedded in the city wall: "I'm not satisfied yet!"

  Fang Jiegei continued to lie down, but couldn't help but praise: "Overbearing, too damn overbearing. Now I finally know why Su Tugou was dealt with so obediently."

  The big dog also lay on the ground, watching the woman walk towards the city wall with big strides, and couldn't help but shiver: "Marrying such a woman would be enough to get oneself tortured to death. Fang Jie... you said her husband is still alive? Miracle... it's really a miracle."

  "Unbelievable..."

  Mei Xiao Yao was still standing stupidly on one side, her eyes somewhat dull: "Actually can't sense it... How is this possible, what method did she use... how could she possibly deceive me?"

  The boss's wife, however, ignored the three men and quickly walked up to Mu Da, looking at this twisted person with a cold tone: "It seems that over the years you brothers haven't been harming women, right? You can do it for an hour, right? While doing it, you still like to dig out people's eyeballs and cut off people's noses, right?"

  She said that when she could do it for a while, her hand rose and fell with a "clip" sound, cutting off the thing under Mu Da's crotch. When she said she liked to dig out people's eyeballs, the scissors had already dug out Mu Da's two eyeballs from his eye sockets. When she said she liked to cut off people's noses, she casually threw the scissors aside and pinched Mu Da's nose with her thumb and index finger, pulling a nose straight off his face.

  In an instant, Mu Da's face turned into a bloody gourd.

  "One o'clock!"

  With a loud crash, the landlady punched Mu Da in the chest, and his body bent over before being smashed into the city wall. The landlady seemed to have vented her anger, punching once and saying one sentence for an hour, repeating this five times. After five punches, Mu Da's figure was nowhere to be seen, having been smashed into a deep pit the size of a washbasin.

  The boss's wife dragged Mu Er out of the city wall with one hand, and threw him out at least 20 meters away. The next second, the boss's wife appeared beside Mu Da. Despite being beaten so violently, Mu Er was still alive. He struggled to open his eyes, wanting to beg for mercy but unable to speak. His eyes were filled with fear, endless fear.

  "Do you know what my husband does?"

  The boss's wife crouched down beside Mu Er, her palm pressed heavily on his chest. With a ripping sound, the clothes on Mu Er's body suddenly shattered and flew out in all directions. It was unclear what kind of technique the boss's wife had used earlier, but despite the severity of the blow, there were hardly any visible wounds on Mu Er's body.

  She picked up the short knife that Mu Er had dropped on the ground and said word by word: "Su Tou Gou is a butcher, his most skilled move is skinning mountain dogs. But no one in the entire Fan Gu City knows that it was I who taught him how to skin!"

  "A few scoundrels, daring to be evil and do wicked things. What's lost is not only the face of the imperial court, but also the entire Great Sui's face! If you really want to act fierce, go to the Western Snowy Mountains to find Buddha's sect to act fierce. Didn't Buddha say that even Buddha has a moment of golden anger? Then go and dig out Buddha's eyes, cut off Buddha's nose, and peel off Buddha's skin! Without this guts, yet committing atrocities in your own territory, I won't kill you or strip your mother, but from now on, both will be furious and can't sleep!"

  After these words were spoken, there was one more corpse on the ground.

  She casually threw a complete human skin on the ground, the boss's wife pulled out a handkerchief from her sleeve to wipe her hands, then stood up straight and stretched her waist: "This is what it means to be refreshed."

  She stretched out and suddenly turned around to look at a certain rooftop: "Dead cripple, I'm done, have you seen enough?"

  ……

  ……

  An old cripple who was drinking on the roof of a civilian house, lying along the ridge, couldn't help but shake his head and sigh. He carefully plugged the stopper of the wine gourd and tied it to his waist. He sat up straight from the rooftop, looking at the landlady below with some helplessness, saying: "You kill your own people, I watch my play, I don't care about you, why do you scold me?"

  He spoke while re-checking the wine gourd to make sure it was tightly sealed. The gourd was just an ordinary one, and the wine inside was the cheapest Northwestern Burnt Wine. In a tavern in Fanggu City, ten copper coins could fill this gourd. Although the gourd was ordinary, both its upper and lower sections were larger than a human head. This showed just how cheap the Northwestern Burnt Wine was.

  The landlady raised her hand and pointed at the old cripple, scolding: "You tell me, if I didn't come would you have taken action?"

  The old cripple nodded and said, "Of course I will, otherwise why would I come?"

  "Why don't you make a move then!"

  The boss's wife asked again.

  "You're here, aren't you."

  The old cripple chuckled and said, "Besides, I wouldn't have saved that tasteless little brat even if I had taken action. And I definitely wouldn't save that guy who's even uglier than me. If it weren't for the old man seeing the good potential in this girl, maybe we wouldn't have come back today. Provoking the imperial court is such a troublesome thing, and we can barely escape. Getting involved with fox spirits and causing trouble, that's something I, the old cripple, least want to do."

  As soon as he finished speaking, his man had already arrived in front of Mu Xiaoyao. The old cripple looked into Mu Xiaoyao's eyes and asked word by word: "Are you willing to be my apprentice? I've been searching for an apprentice all my life, and just before I die, I've finally found one who is pleasing to the eye. I had planned to wait a few years to see how good your potential is, but unfortunately, you want to leave... are you really willing or not?"

  Mei Xiao Yao's waist felt a bit sore as she shook her head and muttered: "Another one... I didn't even sense it!"

  The old cripple was just about to speak when someone behind him shouted loudly, "I'll take charge for her! From now on, she's your master and you're her disciple... uh no, she's your disciple and you're her master! Such a high-quality disciple, even if you wanted to buy one, you couldn't!"

  The old cripple smiled and said: "You're quite straightforward! Just for the sake of getting a good apprentice, tell me, what are your requirements that I can satisfy you?"

  With great difficulty, he crawled up and sat on the ground panting heavily. After his chest and abdomen were relieved of their congestion, he said seriously: "One for one, I'll take her only if you buy one too."

  "Are you kidding me?!"

  The old cripple glared and said: "I wouldn't buy you even if I were blind!"

  "Wrong!" Fang Jie shook his head seriously and said.

  He raised his hand and pointed at Mu Xiao's waist, saying: "She was bought, I was given."

  The old cripple almost subconsciously said: "Just buy her one, will that do? Give it to her for nothing, will that do?"

  Fang Jie gritted his teeth and said firmly: "I won't sell!"