Chapter 9: The Short Stick IX

Sulfona waited silently for Mary to vent her feelings, and after a long time, Mary spoke again. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"Sulfona, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have lied to you. I'm actually the daughter of the lord here, and I'm Tifa you've heard of. Mary was given my mother's name to me when I was a child. I don't want to tell you my real name because someone wants to work against me. My mother died when I was very young, and after her death, my father married my mother's former maid, Beyolai. That person just now was my stepmother's younger brother, and it was my stepmother who wanted to kill me. ā€

After hearing this, Sulfur couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. She grew up with her father and mother since she was a child, but she didn't expect Mary to lose her mother when she was a child, and her stepmother wanted to kill her. She hurriedly asked.

"Why do you think your stepmother wants to kill you?"

When Tifa heard this, he couldn't help but snort coldly.

"She took me out last year, and the carriage I was in broke down on the road, but she walked on her own like no one. I was crushed to the ground by the beams of the carriage. I managed to dig a hole in the ground and get out. I found that the coachman had run away on his horse. Fortunately, half a day later, I met a kind person who rescued me. Otherwise, I would have died. When I went back, the slut was moved to tears. She said she sent a lot of people to come to me...... Hmph, it's clear that she did it herself on the carriage!"

After listening to this, Sulfura couldn't help but imagine the scene in her mind. Mary was crushed under the carriage and did not respond to the call. In the end, she gritted her teeth and dug a hole in the ground with her hands, and slowly moved her body out. In the middle of nowhere, Tifa was alone in a single dress, hoping that a carriage would bring her back. In the distance, there might be wolf howls and maned dog roars, and the hunger pangs in Tifa's belly came over her, but she held back her tears and kept walking.

"There's so much going on after that. Again I had a cold and was lying in bed coughing. The medicine handed to me by the servants was terrible, but I gritted my teeth and drank it every time. I think I'm going to get better soon, and if I'm sick, I'll be the happiest slut. Tifa said, sneering a few times, "But, I don't know why, my illness is getting worse and worse. So I vomited all the medicine that the servant had brought me. ā€

"Huh?"

"I secretly kept the medicine I vomited and fed it to my dog every day. After a month, my illness was basically cured, but the big white I raised was already sick and couldn't eat. I want to find out who is behind my back. I found the prescription that the doctor gave me at that time, and the doctor was a good person, and there was nothing wrong with the prescription he gave me. The doctor thought that someone had added something to the decoction of the medicine. So I went to the servant who had given me the medicine at that time. I found an excuse that he had done something wrong, and then hung him up and whipped him with a water-soaked whip. When he still had half a breath, he finally said that the slut had made him do this. ā€

Sulfona was stunned when she heard this.

"Could it be that the person who was hung up and beaten before didn't steal your things with unclean hands and feet?"

"Of course not...... Tifa said to Sulfona, "do you think I'm that kind of person, and I'm going to kill him if I steal something?"

Sulfona smiled wryly.

"Didn't you tell your father about this?"

"It's the same whether you say it or not. Tifa's face turned a little cold when she heard Sulfur mention her father, "That person has no interest in me at all. He didn't see how much attention he paid to the affairs of the territory. He never worshipped my mother, he was already mesmerized by that slut. No matter what I said to him, he didn't respond. ā€

After listening to this, Sulfona became nervous.

"Isn't that dangerous for you? Your father doesn't care about you, and you're going to be killed by your stepmother in the end. Sulfona grabbed Tifa's hand, "Now why don't you run away!

"Sulfona, you've always ...... like that," Tifa shook Sulfona's hand away, "I'm not going to run away." If I run away, there will be no one to avenge my mother. My mother was in good health, but then she became ill. That slut was originally his mother's slave, but then he suddenly married his father, and there was a conspiracy in this. I'm going to get that slut out for what he really is!"

"Isn't it dangerous for you to do this?"

"That's why I need the help of the master behind you!" said Tifa, putting her hand on Sulfona's shoulder, "Sulfona, I don't have anyone at home to rely on. And you're my only friend, and if you don't help me, maybe no one will help me again. Ever since I was abandoned in the wilderness, I've been determined to become stronger. I secretly looked at my father's sword book, learned the swordsmanship above, and then practiced swords in this clearing. The first time I saw you, I knew you might be my only hope for revenge......"

"Could it be ......," Sulfona's eyes widened in disbelief, "you were like asking me to help you avenge you from the beginning?"

ā€œā€¦ā€¦ That's right. Tifa was silent for a moment and said, "Do you think I'm selfish? But I can't help it. Every time I think of my mother lying in a hospital bed, I feel very heartbroken. My mother and father grew up together, but when my mother was seriously ill, my father was already fascinated by the vixen. My mother was bleeding from the hospital bed, but my father never visited my mother once. ā€

Speaking of which, Tifa sighed. She stared at the stick in her hand for a long time, then threw it away.

"I also knew I couldn't do anything. I'm just a kid, and even if I practice for another ten years, I might not be able to beat those hired mercenaries. And I'm still a girl, and I'm going to marry in the future, so I can't care about the things in the territory at all. But I just can't swallow it. Please, can you help me?"

"I ......"

Sulfona felt Tifa's hot gaze, and she was a little moved.

"The man is injured now, and although he is much better now, he may not come to help. ā€

"Hurt?"

Tifa's mind was spinning, and she had been puzzled why a master would pass on her swordsmanship to Sulfona. Sulfona is thin and small, and at first glance she is not a good seedling to inherit the mantle. In addition, Sulfur is also a little less clever, I'm afraid it will be difficult to please the other party. Now hearing Sulfur say this, Tifa understood a little.

"Did you save her? And then she passed on the swordsmanship to you out of gratitude to you?"

"No, no," said Sulfona, "I did meet her in the woods, and gave her a few sips of water, but she didn't seem to appreciate me at all, and was always pointing fingers at me. When I was building her house, she thought I was cutting wood too slowly, so she taught me how to cut ......."

"You fool!" Tifa almost laughed angrily when she heard Sulfur's words, "Why does the master of swordsmanship teach you how to chop wood? How many times has she swung her sword and how many times has she swung her axe? She must have taught you swordsmanship! She said that it was used to cut trees, so you really thought it was used to cut trees?"

"Is that so?"

Sulfona scratched her head. She suddenly thought that Sister Dajian had used the method of "sitting cross-legged" to sit on the ground before. At the time, Sulfona thought she was just relieving the pain in her body, but the pose itself may have a self-healing effect. When the greatsword makes Sulfur feel tired, she uses "sitting cross-legged" to reply, perhaps also taking advantage of its self-healing effect. Then the posture that Sulfura used to chop the thin and tall "cut down the tree" may be an attacking swordsmanship, and the "running in the forest" posture used by Sulfura to avoid Scarface's kick may be essentially a footwork......

It dawned on her that she had learned a lot of swordsmanship.

"But she said before that she would never teach me swordsmanship......"

"That must be because the master is unwilling to accept you as a disciple. Tifa thought for a while and said, "Being a disciple or not is related to many things, and if people don't want to, it must be her consideration." But in order to repay you, she wanted to teach you a trick and a half, so she lied to you that it was chopping wood. In this case, you can only deceive you as a fool. You said...... She asked you to build her a house?"

"That's right...... It's all man-made by me, and she doesn't help me at all. ā€

"That should make you more familiar with the swordsmanship she taught you. Tifa grabbed Sulfona's hand and said, "Can you take me to the master, I'll go and beg her myself." I don't believe her heart is made of stone. ā€

"No! no! no!" Sulfur quickly shook off Tifa's hand, "I promised her that I would never tell her about her." Moreover, she also said that she is now being hunted by the enemy. If I had spoken out, I and anyone else who had known the news would have been affected. ā€

"No one can tell?"

"Yes, only I know about her. ā€

"I see...... Tifa said thoughtfully, "that's a strange thing." ā€

"What's wrong?"

"I ask you. Tifa said, "When you met the master, was she seriously injured?"

"Very heavy, I've never seen someone as badly injured as she is, still alive. For several days, she had difficulty even moving. ā€

"So you say she's almost okay now?"

"Well, I see that the wounds are basically healed. ā€

"You said that you alone know where she is, so you didn't have a doctor to come and treat her?" Tifa continued, "but I don't think you have the money to get a doctor." There are only a few doctors in town, and I know where they've been during this time, so there's probably no one to help anyone with treatment. You're afraid you won't have any medicinal herbs at home......"

Tifa asked, looking at Sulfura with blazing eyes.

"No doctors, no medicines...... So how did her injuries heal?"

"That's it...... It's just a natural healing......" Sulfura was stunned for a moment, then stammered.

"Why does a person who is so badly injured that he is about to die get better naturally? Not to mention that in the house, when you have not built a house, she just lies in the wilderness, and her wounds are not infected and inflamed? After the inflammation, the patient will have a high fever for half a day, and she will not last for three days. This is a phenomenon that everyone will have, even if any master is strong in swordsmanship, there is no way to disobey it...... Unless...... Unless she's not human. ā€

When Sulfona heard this, her face turned white. Tifa coughed lightly a few times and continued.

"You say that no one but you knows about any of the masters, and your parents must not know either. So you're going to be home at night, and you're going to practice swords with me. During this time, the master must have stayed alone in the woods. You said she couldn't move, so why wasn't she eaten by the beasts of the woods?"

ā€œā€¦ā€¦ā€

"I've heard that beasts hate demons, and they hate half-human, half-demon swords. Where there is a great sword, people and animals are reluctant to come. Tifa stared into Sulfona's eyes and asked, "Could it be that the swordsman you saved is a great sword?"