Chapter 42: The Wounds of Love

Wei State, the Great Wilderness City.

Zhang Cheng walked out of the side door of the "gladiatorial arena" covered in blood, and the wounds on his shoulder and chest were shockingly bloody, making him walk a little staggeringly, and it seemed that he would fall to the ground at any time. But he had a smile on his face, a happy smile.

The gladiatorial arena is a unique entertainment project of the Wei State, those rich and wealthy officials who are full of food all day long are tired of the bright and prosperous peaceful days, so they want to find some exciting things to play, and there are always smart people who come up with various ways to satisfy these people, so the gladiatorial arena came into being.

It's full of violence and gore that can make your blood boil until you scream to your throat, and there are countless opportunities for riches, and if you're a spectator, you can bet here, and ten gladiatorial fights a day can make you rich in one day. If you are a samurai, you can participate in gladiatorial fights here, and as long as you win, you can take away the high prize money.

Of course, there are always opportunities and risks, and it is possible to lose a bet and lose one's life in a gladiatorial fight. This is the gladiatorial arena, one of the most loved and hated places.

Zhang Cheng was a samurai and a poor man. I don't know who my father is, and I don't even know who his mother is, but his mother is a prostitute, and she accidentally sent him to him. He was twenty years old, but his mother was old, and his mother was sick and sick for many years, and the prostitute could not become a prostitute, so the burden of life fell on Zhang Cheng, who had just grown up.

Zhang Cheng is not a waste, he grew up in a brothel, he is the most pleasing to people, and he likes martial arts since he was a child, and always fantasizes that one day he can dominate the world, so he pesters the guards of the brothel to learn martial arts, and most of the guards are willing to teach second-hand to this likable child, so when he grows up, he is really extraordinary, and he can knock over a few people.

His good skills allowed him to have a good job, following the caravan organized by the Wang family, the largest wealthy merchant in the "Great Wilderness City", as an escort, and spending half a year walking through the Great Wilderness Desert to traffic goods to the "Great Division" on the other side of the desert. He'd been on two trips, but luckily he hadn't encountered the most terrible sand thieves in the desert. Half a year's income is enough for him and his mother to have no worries about food and clothing.

Zhang Cheng recently had a secret, which made his money insufficient, and he fell in love with a person, Wu Qing'er, the daughter of the shopkeeper Wu of the sesame oil shop on the adjacent street. A girl with a goose-egg-shaped face, round eyes, and a very sweet smile, Zhang Cheng was deeply intoxicated by her smile.

The girl never promised him, but every once in a while, she would look at something in the various shops in the city, rouge gouache, clothes and skirts, and even all kinds of shiny and beautiful jewelry. Zhang Cheng always smiled and waved his hand: Buy!

Poverty is a sin.

A few days ago, Wu Qing'er fell in love with another piece of jewelry, but Zhang Cheng's savings for two years had been spent, and there was no money to fulfill her wishes. Looking at Wu Qing'er's cold pretty face and silent condemnation, Zhang Cheng felt that his sin was simply too deep, and the inner torment made him sleepless at night......

Touching the bulging purse around his waist, there were ten gold coins there, which were the result of a victory in a life-and-death gladiatorial battle. He looked into the distance, and his heart was hot: Xiao Qing'er, we have the money to buy jewelry.

"Chengzi, how did you get like this, who did you fight with?"

Zhang Cheng was covered with injuries, but he didn't dare to go home, so he turned to the house of his friend Liu Shi, who had played since he was a child. Seeing him like this, Liu Shi couldn't help but be startled and asked questions repeatedly.

Zhang Cheng smiled, revealing a nonchalant look, and said:

"It's nothing, I can't die, it's just to go to the gladiatorial arena and play around and get some money to spend. ”

Liu Shi was shocked when he heard this, and shouted:

"You're crazy, you dare to go to the gladiatorial arena......, don't you want to die?

"Okay, okay, if you don't go, you won't go, you didn't see me hurt, and you can't come and help me!"

Zhang Cheng interrupted him impatiently and walked towards the back room. Liu Shi had no choice but to stop, took out a box from the corner of the house, and took out the wound medicine powder and white cloth from it. Zhang Cheng was often injured in martial arts, and when he went home, he was afraid that his mother would worry, so he kept these wound medicines and cloths here in Liu Shi in case of emergency. Liu Shi helped him with medicine and bandage, and chattered:

"Chengzi, what have you done and lack money like this, you have to go to that place...... Ah......h

Liu Shi suddenly remembered something, exclaimed, and looked at Zhang Chengdao with a serious face:

"You...... You can't be because of her, she asked what you were going to buy her?"

Zhang Cheng smiled, with a happy look, and said:

"You don't understand, it's a joy to buy something for your beloved!"

Liu Shi suddenly jumped up and shouted angrily:

"Happy, happy fart, that woman, do you know ......?"

Zhang Cheng suppressed his smile and looked at Liu Shidao:

"Shut up, I don't want to hear anyone say bad things about her!"

Liu Shi was stunned and looked at Zhang Cheng blankly. After a long time, he gritted his teeth and said loudly:

"If you don't let me say it, you have to say it, whoever makes us friends, if I don't say it, no one will remind you......"

After a pause, seeing that Zhang Cheng lowered his head and did not speak, he continued:

"That woman, she stretches out her hand when she comes to clothes, she doesn't do anything when she eats, she only knows how to dress up all day long, and that's it. How much money did you spend for her, did she ask you a word about how hard it was to make money? You went to the gladiatorial arena to get hurt in order to buy her jewelry, if you let her know, do you think she would say a word of concern?"

"Yes, sure, she's going to be heartbroken, so I can't let her know. ”

Zhang Cheng said as if muttering to himself.

Liu Shi smiled bitterly, sighed and persuaded:

"Forget it, brother, that kind of woman is born to be a vase of a big family, and she has to spend a lot of money to raise, you can't afford it!"

Seeing that Zhang Cheng was silent with his head buried in his head, Liu Shi finally couldn't help but say:

"Don't get excited about what I said, brother, yesterday I saw Wu Qing'er and Wang Yang, a disciple of the Wang family, shopping together in the shops on "Autumn Leaf Street", it looks like ...... Hey, hey, don't run, the wound isn't over yet!"

Zhang Cheng had already disappeared like a gust of wind.

Akiba Street.

This is the street with the most shops and the most lively in the Great Wilderness City. It was already dusk, and the streets were still full of people, and the shops were also full of customers.

Zhang Cheng ran forward and ran to this street, which was Wu Qinger's favorite street. He ran, only one thought in his head, whether all this was true, he wanted to ask clearly.

rushed through the flow of people, bumped into people and didn't look back, and when he hit the eighteenth person, he suddenly stopped, looked at everything in front of him, and was speechless......

Wang Yang said and smiled proudly, and his eyes looked at Wu Qing'er like looking at a prey that was about to arrive. Wu Qing'er said with a sweet smile, raising her hand to cover her lips from time to time, and on her wrist, a jade cutter shone in the sun. Then, she saw Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng's eyes stared at the jade handpiece on his wrist, which was the jewelry that Wu Qing'er had taken a fancy to a few days ago but he had no money to buy, he looked at the handpiece blankly, and muttered in his mouth:

"Why, why can't you wait for only a few days? I'm rich now, I'm rich......"

He took out the gold coin and held it in his hand and held it in front of Wu Qing'er:

"Look, there's money. Shall we go shopping for accessories?"

Wu Qing'er turned her face away.

"Boy, what are you doing, before I get angry, get out of the way, and don't ask for trouble. ”

Wang Yang is the third son of the Wang family, and also the youngest and most beloved son of the wealthy businessman Wang Shenyan.

In the past two days, she fell in love with the daughter of the old Wu of the sesame oil shop, and she immediately hooked Wu Qing'er with a flamboyant tongue and money offensive. I spent a lot of money today, and I was thinking about how to recover some "interest", but I didn't expect such a person to come in front of me, it seems to be an "ex-boyfriend", and he is blocking the road and confessing, which makes him very unhappy, and he scolds him with a frown.

Zhang Cheng's eyes were red, his hand holding the money trembled slightly, and he forcibly asked:

"Wang Gongzi, I know who you are, please walk away from Qing'er immediately, she is mine!"

Wang Qiang laughed loudly and said:

"Ha, haha, she's yours? Just like you, you're in tatters, holding two copper plates in your hands and want people to go with you? See, there is a woman lying next to the garbage can on the side of the street, also a mother, waiting for you!"

The flower-skinned lying on her stomach by the garbage can on the side of the street looked up and looked at it when she saw someone pointing at it.

These words are too yin and immoral, Zhang Cheng yelled angrily, clenched his fists, and tried his best to pounce.

Seeing this, Wang Qiang hurriedly stretched out his right arm and erected the folding fan in his hand, raised his left hand and bent his vertical palm and put it in a frame pose, shouting strangely:

"Yo ho, I can't stand it, I still want to use force, and I don't estimate the pile of cow if I eat it, such a big one, be careful to swell you to death...... Ahh

Suddenly realized that it seemed that even he was scolding, so he hurriedly snorted, and then drank:

"Bodyguard, someone bullied your young master, hit him for me. ”

"Yes!"

A man in black stood over from the side, smiling all over his face, it was Li Changfeng.

How did Li Changfeng become this playboy's bodyguard?

This is not a summer affair: after he slipped away from the battlefield that day, he inquired all the way to the city closest to the "Great Wilderness Desert", "Great Wilderness City".

He is a strict person, and he knows that if he is not prepared to enter the desert, he will be sent to death, not to mention that he does not know the specific location of the "Ascension Immortal Gate" in the desert, of course, he must prepare to inquire first. But he didn't expect that no one had heard of this Immortal Ascension Sect at all, which made him helpless.

But he still has to enter the desert, so he decided to follow others into the desert, first, to familiarize himself with the desert environment, and secondly, to have more contact with these "old deserts", learn some desert storage skills, and accumulate experience for a person to wander in the desert in the future.

I heard that the wealthy merchant in the city was organizing a caravan into the desert and needed to hire a team guard, so he signed up to participate.

On this day, Wang Yang was going out to pick up girls, and he wanted to get a guard to protect him and carry things, which was a beautiful and face-saving thing in front of women. But his father was only a wealthy merchant in the city, and he was not an official, and he did not have the habit of equipping his son with a special guard, so he had to find another way to find a guard.

What is the way? Make money, five silver coins a day, in the escort who is about to enter the desert. This is a lot of money, and the guards are all tempted and have signed up, even Li Changfeng is no exception. Why, because he is poor, Li Changfeng is a principled person, and he doesn't want to rely on his ability to make money, so he is very poor, and the money to prepare for entering the desert has not yet arrived.

Wang Yang saw that so many people had signed up, and he was worried, there were too many people, more than a dozen, and they were all invited, so even the money for picking up girls had to be put in to escort them. After thinking about it, there is, come up with a question to take a test, and if you answer well, please. So he came up with a question: What is a guard?

This question is simple, everyone has answered, some say that it is to protect the safety of the main family's property, some say that it is to protect the safety of the main family's life, and the smarter ones will protect the property and life of the main family, but none of them satisfied Wang Yang. Only then did everyone realize that this question seems simple, but in fact, there are too many answers, but it is not easy to give an answer that satisfies and likes Wang Yang in combination with the current situation.

At this time, Li Changfeng slowly stood up and replied:

"Guards are bodyguards......

No one spoke, and they didn't understand where the word bodyguard came from.

“...... The duty of the bodyguard is: follow the master's house, and if others bully the master's family, they will beat him. The lord bullied others and beat him as well. ”

When the words fell, Wang Yang applauded happily and made a decision on the spot. The guards were stunned and shocked. Wang Yang also felt that the word "bodyguard" sounded very pleasant, so it became a special word for Li Changfeng, and he called him a bodyguard.