Chapter 103: Cuiyun Study House (I)

On the second day after the battle of Tongjun Mountain, Cuiyun Village, which was tightly wrapped by the beautiful landscape, still rose as usual.

In a farmhouse in the village, Lu Lingxuan, dressed in plain clothes and light makeup, was holding a bowl of steaming egg porridge, walked slowly to a room and knocked on the door gently.

"Ling Rui Shaoxia, you better eat more or less, if Sister He'er knows that you are like this now, she will definitely be heartbroken." Lu Lingxuan pursed her lips and whispered to Ling Rui in the house in front of the door.

Seeing that there was no response in the room, Lu Lingxuan gently pushed open the door and walked into the room, only to see Ling Rui sitting at the table with a strange smile, as if he was enchanted and focused on depicting Ouyang He's smile on the paper.

"Young Ling Rui, you ......" When Lu Lingxuan was about to step forward and try to continue persuading Ling Rui, Chu Birou quietly stretched out her left hand and grabbed Lu Lingxuan's right shoulder.

Lu Lingxuan turned her head and looked at Chu Birou with puzzled eyes. And after Chu Birou shook her head at her with a solemn face, Lu Lingxuan looked at Ling Rui who was immersed in her world again worriedly, and then she followed Chu Birou out of the room.

"You're eating behind closed doors again? It seems that Ling Rui's current state is really not very optimistic. After Chu Birou and Lu Lingxuan returned to the kitchen with egg porridge, Gao Che walked over from the side and sighed to the two.

"Yes, I think when I was still in the beggar gang, if I couldn't eat a meal, I felt dizzy to death." Lu Lingxuan spread her hands helplessly and said.

Just as the three of them were discussing how to let Ling Rui get out of his low mood as soon as possible, Xing Mingming suddenly pouted and ran into the kitchen with egg porridge.

"Isn't there anything to eat here? I hate eggs the most! You, go get some bird's nest for the county lord to cook porridge! Xing Mingming pointed at Gao Che and said pointedly.

"Lord Xing, I'm a fugitive from Shu now, I'm afraid there's no reason to continue to be sent by you, right?" Gao Che said seriously to Xing Mingming with a disdainful expression on his face.

"Heh, you're a normal man here, if you don't run errands, do you still let us weak women go?" Xing Mingming didn't seem to be intimidated by Gao Che's deliberately terrifying expression, but she continued to babble and argue with Gao Che for all kinds of reasons that she had come up with on the fly.

"Okay, don't fight anymore, I'll go to the town to find out if there is any bird's nest. Miss Lu, please help me look at the fire on the medicine stove. In the end, in the face of the two who refused to give in, Chu Birou reluctantly offered to help Xing Mingming find bird's nest.

"Take a good look, this is called dedication, look at you again, the spirit is dissipated, I'm afraid it will be a problem whether you can marry into an official family in the future!" Gao Che continued to sarcastically mock Xing Mingming with his poisonous tongue, and suddenly Xing Mingming's cheeks were so angry that they were red.

Seeing that the two of them refused to give up for the time being, Chu Birou, who had never been willing to talk to others, didn't bother to pay attention to them anymore, so she immediately picked up the bamboo basket and walked out of the kitchen quickly, leaving Lu Lingxuan with an embarrassed face trying to reconcile the atmosphere between the two.

Bird's nest is a rare commodity after all, and Chu Birou searched for nearly two hours in the town, and finally bought some remnants of bird's nest in a small grocery store. Seeing that it was approaching noon, Chu Birou, who was worried about Ling Rui's situation, immediately prepared to return to Cuiyun Village.

Just as she was then sitting in a tea shop on the side of the road drinking water and resting, a group of thugs with malicious expressions also walked into the tea shop, and quickly sat around a tea guest next to Chu Birou.

"Yo, isn't this Mr. Fang from Cuiyun Village? What's the matter, I'm waiting for a few brothers here today, are you finally willing to pay back our boss's money? The man in the lead asked with a wicked smile.

"Several, the last time I promised Boss Jin to repay the money was three days later, this is ...... I really don't have any money to pay back now! The tea guest whispered a little timid to the men.

"Heh, I think you're crazy, you nerd, aren't you? You don't inquire in advance, in this boundary of Hangzhou, who dares to bargain with our Jin Ye! Several people did not give up on the tea guest, and one of them suddenly pulled him up from his seat, and then several people dragged him into the woods beside him.

Because she didn't know the real situation, although Chu Birou slightly clenched the sword beside her, she still didn't stop all this after hesitating. And after drinking the tea with some trepidation, she was ready to get up and leave immediately.

At this moment, the tea guest hurriedly ran out of the woods with a scar, and coincidentally collided with Chu Birou.

This time the people chasing after him quickly caught up, and the tea guest was immediately hit with another wave of punches and kicks.

"Stop!" Since the beating happened in front of her, Chu Birou decisively knocked a beating man to the ground and stood up in front of the tea guest.

"Where did the stinky girl dare to meddle with our business, my brother beat her a few times!" Several people saw that some of their companions were beaten, so they rushed up and wanted to besiege Chu Birou.

However, Chu Birou's martial arts were far above these people, and after a fight, Chu Birou only used his leg skills to pull out the sword from the scabbard, and easily repelled these little thugs.

"Damn, dare to go against our Jin Ye, you wait!" After a thug said this cruel word to Chu Birou, he immediately fled quickly with the others with an embarrassed face.

After talking with this tea guest, Chu Birou learned that his name was Zhong Ping, a teacher in Cuiyun Village, because he had borrowed money from Yingmantang Jin Erye, who was quite influential in the surrounding area of Hangzhou, to build the "Cuiyun Study", so he was beaten by Jin Erye's minions because he was temporarily unable to repay the money.

"So, all this you did was for the children of Cuiyun Village?" After Chu Birou learned about the relevant situation, she couldn't help but have a little admiration for Zhong Ping.

"Yes, as long as I think that the children finally have a school that can shelter from the wind and rain, these hardships are nothing to me." Zhong Ping wiped the blood stains from the corners of his mouth with a wry smile, and the pain in his whole body made it very difficult for him to stand up.

After briefly treating Zhong Ping's wound with the medicine bag she carried, Chu Birou carefully helped him onto the horse, and then led the horse on foot, and the two returned to Cuiyun Village together.

After the diagnosis and treatment of Chu Birou and another local doctor, Zhong Ping had multiple signs of fractures on his body, and it may be difficult to fully recover in a short period of time.

"Miss Chu, a few young heroes, the old man has a reluctant request now, and I hope you don't refuse." After learning that Zhong Ping had been injured by gangsters, the village chief of Cuiyun Village came to inquire about Zhong Ping's situation. Then, he said to Chu Birou and the others with a trace of apprehension and melancholy.

"Village chief, please tell me if there is anything in the village where we can help, and we will do our best." Chu Birou replied to the village chief with a polite smile on her face.

"I look at the words and deeds of several young heroes, they must all be rich and talented. If the young heroes don't dislike it, Lao Yu hopes that one of you can temporarily replace Mr. Zhong and continue to teach the children in the village to read and write in the Cuiyun Library. The village chief continued in a slightly pleading tone.

"This ...... I wonder if you can let us talk about it first? Gao Che and Lu Lingxuan widened their eyes at the same time and looked at each other, while Chu Birou hurriedly asked the village chief for permission to spend a certain amount of time thinking about this matter after observing the expressions of the people behind her.

"Haha, it's okay, this is not a trivial matter after all, all the young heroes can think about it slowly." The village chief smiled kindly and then got up to leave.

None of the five of them had ever been a teacher before. So out of lack of confidence in their teaching ability, they were more or less hesitant in the face of the village chief's entrustment.

In the early morning of the next day, a villager suddenly came to the house where Chu Birou and others lived and knocked on the door, and after Lu Lingxuan opened the door, the villager hurriedly told them that Lu Jing, a six-year-old girl from Lu Qiang's family in the east of the village, had suddenly disappeared, and the village chief wanted to ask them to help search for the girl's traces.

Subsequently, after asking Lu Qiang about Lu Jing's daily interests and hobbies, Chu Birou, Gao Che, and Lu Lingxuan each started a search operation for the location they were responsible for after locking the three most suspicious locations of Cuiyun Study, Jinghong Bailian, and Yunhe Flower Valley.

Finally, after a careful search, Lu Lingxuan found Xiao Lu Jing who was hiding her face and crying under a boulder in Yunhe Flower Valley.

"I want to go to school, I don't want to stay at home and be a female celebrity, but my father always says that girls can't study, otherwise no one will marry me in the future. I don't care if anyone marries me in the future, I want to study now, and I want to read more books than the little tiger next door! When Lu Lingxuan comforted her and tried to ask her about the specific reason why she ran here to cry alone, Lu Jing continued to express her eagerness to Lu Lingxuan to study.

Now that they have received the news that the child has been found, Chu Birou and Gao Che are suddenly relieved. After the two met, they planned to rest together in a teahouse near the entrance of the village.

At this time, the two gradually noticed that somehow today, since the early morning, many people from outside the village have come to Cuiyun Village one after another, and the atmosphere in the village is instantly much more tense than usual.

"Kongtong faction, Xuefengmen, Iron Tiger Gang, could it be that these people in the rivers and lakes are all here for him?" After using his afterglow to roughly observe the outfits of these people, Gao Che deliberately lowered his voice and asked Chu Birou.

Gao Che's question instantly evoked Chu Birou's memories, just three days ago, they had started a fierce battle with Wang Xiao, who was armed with the Kui Evil Sword, in order to save Ouyang He. Although the combined efforts of everyone were not Wang Xiao's opponents at that time, at the moment when they were about to die under the Kui Sha Sword, a black-robed man with a silver mask suddenly appeared, and with a move they had never seen before, and at the same time, the power of the top internal skill, quickly beat Wang Xiao to the ground.

"The kind of peerless martial arts that can uproot the surrounding bamboo and wood like a snap of a finger like a withering and decaying body, I must have never seen it in my life." Gao Che continued to add to Chu Birou, who was frowning slightly at the moment.

Indeed, I was also impressed by his powerful but strange exercises. It's just that he doesn't seem to want to communicate with people, and after saving us, he left in a hurry, leaving us without even a word. Chu Birou whispered to Gao Che thoughtfully, and then she lowered her head and secretly described the scene at that time, "That domineering energy, fast and strong, invincible, seems to be about to turn the tide in an instant, swallowing the sun and the moon ......."

"That was the Burning Sky Sword Qi, the strongest killing move of the "Soul Killing Sword Demon" Jin Yuzun Dubu Martial Arts back then. Just behind Chu Birou, a martial arts person sitting alone at another table was silently chanting with a slightly trembling tone of expectation.