Chapter 6: The Woman in Red
Su Huai stretched, stood up and patted the broken leaves on his body, and followed everyone towards Jinyang City.
It was only when I saw the gate of Jinyang Castle that I saw it at the time of Shen, the city wall was originally made of flat bricks, but later in order to prevent nearby monsters, some of the walls were changed to stone barriers, and even now there are soldiers who are using stone bars to reinforce the city wall.
Not long after Su Huai walked into the city gate, he saw a group of onlookers, and couldn't help but be curious and walked over, and just walked to the edge of the crowd when he heard a woman's scolding voice, "Okay, you are a wine and meat monk, you dare to cheat your aunt and grandmother's money", saying a pair of delicate fists in front of the monk.
The monk looked at the woman in red in front of him, and then at the elegant young man who had been standing still with the girl, and subconsciously took two steps back, but had no intention of paying back the money.
This monk's name is Zhao De, more precisely, Zhao De is not a monk, but a gangster near Jinyang City, because of hunger in the stomach when he entered the temple to steal things, he took a monk's robe, and he didn't take it off when he wore it on his body, but he didn't expect to be mistaken for a monk not long ago and got a windfall, plus there were more pedestrians coming and going in Jinyang City recently, so he came up with the idea of pretending to be a monk to cheat money, but what he didn't expect was that this innocent and cute little girl, launched a rush but was like a tigress who did not give up, if it wasn't for the man next to her, I am afraid that he would have been beaten all over the ground to find teeth。
Zhao De rubbed his chest that was beaten painfully, and then checked the money bag that had just arrived, and decided to grit his teeth for a while. Zhao De looked at the girl in front of him, showed a smile that he thought was the most affinity, and said, "This female benefactor, poor monk, please look at the face of the Buddha."
"Heavenly King Lao Tzu can't do it either", the woman in red said domineeringly, and hit Zhao De's chest with a fist as she spoke.
Zhao De looked at the arrogant woman in front of him, and just wanted to hand over the money, but out of nowhere came out of nowhere to shout "stop".
The source of this shout is Su Huai, Su Huai originally just wanted to join in the fun, but when he squeezed into the crowd, he heard the name Shiquan, isn't this the master who still had a relationship with him yesterday, so he stood on tiptoe and looked inside, sure enough, it was yesterday's Shiquan Master, and when he looked again, he saw the woman in red shooting at Shiquan Master, so he jumped out of everyone's heads with a loud shout.
Su Huai's appearance attracted a lot of good deeds, and the woman in red also stopped waving her fist after hearing it, and looked at Su Huai curiously with a pair of big eyes, and when Zhao Degang heard someone shouting to stop, he thought that someone with good deeds would come and intervene so that he could take the opportunity to slip away, After seeing that the person who came was Su Huai, he felt that his scalp was numb, this little aunt and grandmother were enough to kill, if this kid was added today, I am afraid that it will be difficult to fly with wings.
"Hey, who are you, aren't you from this monk's gang", the woman in red shouted at Su Huaijiao with one hand on her waist and the other on her hand.
Su Huai didn't want to pay attention to the arrogant appearance of the woman in front of him, but when he thought that he had come to reconcile, he said "Su Huai" in a slight tone, then turned to Zhao De with a slight smile and nodded slightly, and then turned to the woman in red and said, "The master is a monk, you treat it like this, it's a bit arrogant."
"Hmph, I think you're in the same group", as soon as the woman in red finished speaking, she stepped forward and hit Su Huai's right shoulder.
Su Huai saw that the woman didn't agree with each other and didn't face the enemy head-on, but turned to the left, rotated his body in a circle, and patted the woman in red on the back with a palm, this palm was not strong, but the momentum of the woman in red rushing forward had not stopped, and Su Huai pushed her body forward and suddenly lost her balance, and when she was about to fall, she kicked the ground hard and changed the momentum of falling to jumping in the air, and when the woman in red landed, she saw Su Huai looking at him proudly with her hands behind her back.
The woman in red just wanted to teach Su Huai a lesson, and she didn't really want to do it, so although the shot was fast and the strength was not great, she never thought that she almost caught Su Huai's way under carelessness, at this time, the woman in red looked at Su Huai and was ashamed and angry, and stomped her foot angrily and rushed towards Su Huai.
His left hand poked straight towards Su Huai's right ribs, and his right hand smashed into Su Huai's chest into a fist, Su Huai let go of the attack of the woman in red's left hand on one side, and at the same time raised his right hand to smash the fist to the chest, and Su Huai felt that the power of this punch was so great that Su Huai smashed it back, and slid back half a step to stabilize his body, just when Su Huai was a little surprised by the strength of the woman in red, he felt a strong wind coming towards him, and the woman's left hand missed a blow and changed to a slash towards Su Huai's door, Su Huai saw that it was too strong to dodge this blow, and cast a smoke step to open some distance between the woman and the woman。
The elegant man who was with the woman saw Su Huai's indifferent expression a little more attentive when he saw Su Huai's approach. How strong is the exercise that the woman in red has just performed, this elegant man knows best, although he usually neglects to practice the mastery of this set of exercises is not mature, but he is also the best among the strong peers of this exercise, this set of exercises is called 'Seven Clever Soldiers', which integrates knives, guns, swords, sticks, whips, hammers, axes, seven different weapons, and can use the power of the bare hands to make various weapons such as knives and axes, and the power is unpredictable and infinite.
"It seems that this Brother Su is not an idle person," the elegant man muttered as he looked at the two of them in the field.
As soon as Su Huai and the woman in red fought, he knew that the other party's martial arts must be very powerful, and at the moment, he dismantled the opponent's moves while performing the smoke step to dodge, and after dismantling dozens of moves, Su Huai found that this woman's moves were not very proficient, only her shape and not its meaning, and the moves seemed fierce but incoherent, just like the swaying trees in the wind, which seemed dangerous but were at ease.
After dismantling dozens of moves, Su Huai simply held his left hand behind his back and resolved the opponent's moves one by one with only his right hand, this is not Su Huai's intention to show off, but this is Su Huai's first time fighting with others in the real sense, and he just wants to know what his skills are, but this scene falls in the eyes of the woman in red as if she is being looked down upon, she has been regarded as a pearl in her palm since she was a child, and her own cultivation is not weak, and the words that have always surrounded the ears of the woman in red have always been compliments and appreciation, and now she was bullied by this kid of unknown origin not long after leaving the house, the woman in red at this time was annoyed and angry, biting her lower lip tightly, and her move to attack Su Huai was a little more powerful, Su Huai saw that the other party's moves seemed to be a little more fierce, but in fact they were a little more messy, and he was not in a hurry, relying on the subtlety of the smoke step as chic and free, on the other hand, the woman in red was more and more disorderly, and a little bead of sweat was oozing from her forehead.
The elegant man next to him looked at the competition between the two, shook his head a little helplessly, and just wanted to step forward to pull the two apart, but unexpectedly, the woman in red punched Su Huai, Su Huai raised his right hand to meet it with his elbow, and when the two retreated at the same time, he saw the woman in red turn his fist into a palm and turn his palm at the same time, a sharp sword flew out of his sleeve and pointed directly at Su Huai's chest, the two just hit their fists with their elbows, and just stood firm from the retreat, and the sword in the sleeve of the woman in red flew towards Su Huai.
The elegant man has been watching the battle, and he knows the moves of the woman in red well, only to see the woman in red flip the palm of his hand and shout "Be careful" at the same time his body rushed towards the two people who were fighting like a sharp arrow, but he was relatively far away from the two, and it was too late to stop the sword at this time.
Su Huai had just gained a firm foothold, and the flying sword had reached less than three inches of his chest, fortunately, he was reminded by an elegant man that he was ready, and it was too late to dodge, so he could only touch hard, his body quickly tilted back, and at the same time, his right hand pointed into a sword and pointed at the tip of the sword, and the fingers touched the sword, but there was a sound of 'dang', as if the sound of two swords intersecting, Su Huai's feet kicked the ground, and the whole person shot backwards, and fell to the ground in the air with a flip.
The woman in red took a few steps back to stand firmly, the short sword in her hand was still buzzing, the hand holding the sword shook the sword in her hand hard, and the buzzing stopped, but although the sword did not sound, her hand was sore and numb, if it weren't for her natural stubbornness, I am afraid that the short sword had fallen to the ground.
The elegant man wanted to stop the fight between the two, but when he saw that the woman in red was at a loss, he rushed to the woman in red and asked nervously, "Xuan'er, are you okay?"
Seeing his nervous appearance, the woman in red was originally full of anger, and most of her anger suddenly disappeared, and she scolded her, "Even you helped them bully me", and after speaking, she stomped past the elegant man and walked towards the edge of the crowd.
The elegant man looked at the appearance of the woman in red at this time, and knew that most of the anger in her heart had disappeared, and the rest of the anger could not be extinguished in one or two sentences, so he stood still and looked at Su Huai and said, "In Xia Xue Jun, it was just a spur of the moment just now, and I hope Brother Su will not blame."
Su Huai saw that the man named Xue Jun spoke quite sincerely, and if he hadn't reminded him just now, maybe he would have been caught in the way of the woman in red, his impression of Xue Jun and Su Huai was still very good, Su Huai said very heartily, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm not hurt."
"Why is that thief monk gone" Just as Su Huai and Xue Jun were talking, there was a loud shout from a woman in red.
The woman in red had just been deflated under Su Huai's hands, and was trying to find Zhao De to vent her anger, but she didn't expect Zhao De's figure at this time, only to see the woman in red with her hands on her waist, and she was angrily sweeping towards the crowd of onlookers.
Seeing that the woman in red was so angry in the crowd that her face turned blue and white for a while, Xue Jun said cautiously, "When the two of you competed just now, the monk had already left."
"Let's go," the woman in red almost shouted when she heard this, "My Du Xuan'er's silver is not so easy to deceive," the woman in red said through gritted teeth.
Su Huai saw that the woman named Du Xuan'er hated itchy, looked at Xue Jun who was not far from him, and asked, "How did that master offend the sister."
It turned out that just two hours ago, Zhao De pretended to be a monk and turned his relationship to Du Xuan'er, Du Xuan'er saw that his monk's robe was shabby, this Zhao De could speak well, and he gave him the silver taels on his body when he was soft-hearted, but Du Xuan'er went to the inn to find Xue Jun to ask for some silver taels when he was hungry, and he happened to see the monk who turned to him this morning was drinking wine and eating meat, and then thinking about his hungry empty stomach, a nameless fire came out.
On weekdays, all the famous thieves and thieves in the rivers and lakes at home have been made by themselves, but Zhao De's body capsized in the gutter, how could he not be angry. Deng Shi rushed up and punched Zhao De in the chest, Zhao De was drinking and eating meat but was suddenly punched, and was about to get angry and let the other party pay a hundred or eight taels of silver, and when he saw the other party's appearance clearly, he couldn't care about the pain in his chest, and ran towards the outside of the inn with a rolling belt, shouting "kill someone, kill someone" while running, trying to attract onlookers to take advantage of the chaos to escape, but Du Xuan'er had a very high martial arts, and was kicked by a vicious dog before he ran out of the inn.
Zhao De only felt a hot pain all over his body, he was dizzy from the fall, and he couldn't run anyway, so he lay on the ground and pretended to be dead and didn't move. Du Xuan'er saw Zhao De lying on the ground pretending to be dead and angry, and just wanted to go up and make up for two more feet, but was stopped by Xue Jun, who rushed to hear the sound.
After listening to Xue Jun's story, Su Huai remembered the monk Fang Yuan who was hiding behind the medicine jar and eating chicken legs, and couldn't help but say, "It's just drinking wine and eating meat, it's not a big deal," and Su Huai felt wrong as soon as he finished speaking.
It is taboo for Buddhist disciples to drink and meat, and sure enough, Su Huai's words came out before he spoke, and the eyes of the surrounding crowd looking at him were a little weird, like looking at a frog at the bottom of a well.
"Are you really stupid or naïve, you're just a dumbfounder", Du Xuan'er said to Su with hatred.
Su Huai knew that he had lost his words just now, and he didn't know how to defend himself, so he just stood still in a daze. Xue Jun looked at Su Huai curiously, and he didn't mean to open his mouth to break the siege.
Perhaps out of kindness to solve the siege or knowing that there was no more excitement to see in the field, a middle-aged woman dressed as a peasant woman in the onlookers said, "The two little brothers just deceived you Yinliang is not a monk, his original name is Zhao De, he is a scoundrel in this Jinyang City, and he didn't know where to steal the monk's clothes, and he actually deceived you."
Su Huai saw that the peasant woman who spoke just now should be a local farmer, if this Zhao De is really a local scoundrel, then he should not admit his mistake, and then turned his head to look at the crowd of onlookers, most of the people dressed as peasant vendors nodded to Su Huai with a smile on their faces, Su Huai really believed that the guy named Zhao De was indeed a local scoundrel at this moment. couldn't help clenching his fists, thinking in his heart, "It's really sinister."
Du Xuan'er's expression after seeing Su Huai know the truth was exactly the same as when she was at the beginning, and she smiled a little brightly, "Why, how many silver taels have you been cheated by this stunned person."
Su Huaizheng was secretly pondering, and when he heard the voice, he looked up and met Du Xuan'er's bright smile, and just wanted to speak, he realized that something was wrong, the other party was talking about it, and subconsciously took a step back, and waved his hands again and again, "You see how I look like I am rich, and I have a relationship with him." After speaking, he smiled wryly at Du Xuan'er.
Du Xuan'er saw Su Huai's nervous appearance and became even more convinced of her conjecture, and immediately laughed unscrupulously.
The crowd of onlookers dispersed in twos and threes when they saw that there was no excitement to see, and for a while there were only Su Huai, Xue Jun, and Du Xuan'er left, Du Xuan'er at this time had long been out of anger, knowing that Su Huai had been deceived worse than herself, and the previous unhappiness had long since disappeared, which could be described as fifty steps and a hundred steps.
Du Xuan'er saw that the crowd of onlookers had dispersed, and then she remembered that she was going to the inn to find Xue Jun to get the silver taels, and her empty stomach was already grumbling with hunger at this time, so she ignored Su Huai and turned around and walked towards the inn.
Su Huai is worried that he has no money to eat, and now that someone invites him, there is no reason not to go, and Su Huai still has a very good impression of this man named Xue Jun.
Du Xuan'er was looking at the kitchen door with her cheeks in her hands, but when she heard the footsteps, she saw Xue Jun and Su Huai walking in together, she glared at Su Huai with a pair of apricot eyes, didn't say anything, and turned her head to look in the direction of the kitchen.
Su Huai was ready to be rejected, but unexpectedly, in exchange for a pair of white eyes, he looked at Xue Jun a little dumbly, Xue Jun smiled indifferently and said, "Sister Xuan is straightforward and has an excellent heart."
Su Huai recalled that from the time he met these two people to the present, he only had a misunderstanding, so he said, "If you don't fight, you don't know each other."
"Hmph," Du Xuan'er snorted softly, which was a response to the two.
Not long after Su Huai and the three of them sat down, there was not much left in the inn, most of them were reckless in the rivers and lakes, blowing together in the south and the north, Su Huai and the three of them had not been involved in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and they were quite satisfied with the atmosphere in the inn, especially Du Xuan'er was the most excited, if it weren't for Xue Jun, he would have already found other people from the rivers and lakes to share the table.
When the three of them were talking about this trip, a group of four people walked into the inn, looking like a businessman, but Su Huai felt an extremely uncomfortable feeling from an old man, just like the breath on the old man's body and Su Huai. Looking at Du Xuan'er and Xue Jun again, they didn't seem to notice that the people at the other tables were still drinking and eating meat, and there was nothing unusual. "Could it be my delusion," Su Huai pondered.
"Brother Su, what's wrong with you", Xue Jun looked at Su Huai's strange expression and asked, following Su Huai's gaze, it was the four merchants who had just entered the inn, "It's just a few merchants, Brother Su can see that something is wrong."
"He was stunned for a moment or two, what could he see," Du Xuan'er pouted and said.
"It's nothing, it's just curious," Su Huai said in agreement when he saw that everyone else was not unusual.
In the next time, the three of them ate some things and went back to their own rooms, Xue Jun opened a room for Su Huai before returning to the room, and made an appointment to go to the Dragon Forest together tomorrow morning, looking at the back of Xue Jun going back Su Huai shook his head helplessly, thinking that he would have been worried about eating and drinking in Chaoyang City, and he couldn't imagine that he would be in such a situation when he left the house, but this is good, if not, how can he get in touch with these friends.
From the conversation just now, Su Huai learned that Du Xuan'er and Xue Jun came to the Dragon's Forest purely to join in the fun, and they didn't have much interest in the iron ginseng, watching Xue Jun disappear into the corridor of the inn, Su Huai walked towards the outside of the inn.