Chapter 15: Beasts
Luo Haoming and Zhang Yiheng arrived at this martial arts hall, but the depression along the way exceeded their expectations, walking on the bluestone slabs that had been broken, and there were collapsed houses on both sides.
Soon Luo Haoming arrived in front of the hall owner's hall, Zhang Yiheng couldn't wait to go in, but a long stick stopped him!
"Where did the hillbilly come from, do you know the rules, and the hall owner dares to break in!" The guards on the side saw that Zhang Yiheng was about to step forward, and he was about to smash it down with a stick, if this stick was smashed, Zhang Yiheng would have to overflow his brains.
Although this person is just a gatekeeper, he has the strength of a second-rate martial artist, which is far from what Zhang Yiheng can contend with, and at the critical moment, Luo Haoming made a lightning move and grasped the iron rod that struck like thunder.
Seeing that this janitor was so ruthless, Zhang Yiheng was suddenly furious, "What are you doing, I'm a disciple of the hall master, let me in!"
"Disciple of the Pavilion Master, it's really funny, whether our Pavilion Master has you or not is a big question of your age!" the janitor burst out laughing when he heard this.
"My master, Zhao Youde, is in his seventies, how can he not be as old as me!" Zhang Yiheng said angrily.
"Pavilion Master Zhao Youde, hahaha!" The gatekeeper seemed to have heard some big joke, "Zhao Youde's old guy has long been sick and died, and now he is Li Kaitao and Li Pavilion Master in charge!"
"Master, his old man has passed away!" Zhang Yiheng was stunned, and a line of tears remained, "I am really unfilial, I haven't even seen the last side of Master!" Zhang Yiheng was adopted by the owner Zhao Youde since he was a child, and it can be said that Zhao Youde is Zhang Yiheng's father.
Luo Haoming didn't know how to comfort the village chief Zhang Yiheng on the side.
"You are Yiheng!" The sluggish Zhang Yiheng heard someone calling him at this time, but when he looked back, he was an old man, dressed in tattered clothes, his face was full of wrinkles, and his hand holding the broom was shaking from time to time.
"You are Old Butler Zhang!" Zhang Yiheng looked at it carefully for a long time before he remembered that this was not Master Zhao Youde's housekeeper, but how did he end up like this.
"You are really Yiheng, he really saw the wrong person back then!" Saying this, the old housekeeper's eyes widened, and his hands trembled.
"What the hell is going on, Steward Zhang!" Zhang Yiheng felt that something big must have happened in this martial arts hall, he was Zhao Youde's eldest disciple back then, but his qualifications were limited, although he was as close as father and son to Zhao Youde, but his third-rate martial arts cultivation could not inherit the owner of this hall at all, and finally Zhao Youde had to give up on him, and the depressed Zhang Yiheng finally left the martial arts hall, went away from home and was in distress, and was rescued by the old village chief of Donghua Village, and Zhang Yiheng, who had no intention of returning, stayed.
"Li Kaitao, that brute, after you left, he kept currying favor with the master, and the master was also confused, he even married the young lady to him, and even selected him as the heir of the martial arts hall in Yueyang County!" Although the old man Zhang said this, but Li Kaitao was good at martial arts, and he was also one of the favorites at that time, thinking that Li Kaitao was the best heir.
Zhang Yiheng's face suddenly darkened when he heard this, "Li Kaitao's qualifications are the best among many junior disciples, and it is only natural to choose him as the owner of this martial arts hall!" Zhang Yiheng and Zhao Xinnai, the daughter of Master Zhao Youde, are childhood sweethearts, although Zhang Yiheng is now married and has children, but when he hears the news of his family, he is still very uncomfortable.
"But that bastard Li Kaitao poisoned the master!" said Old Man Zhang, gritting his teeth.
"Senior Brother Li Kaitao poisoned Master, how is it possible!" Zhang Yiheng was dumbfounded by this news.
"Sir, he was only seventy-eight years old when he died, his body was strong, how could he die of illness, he was fine that morning, but he didn't get up again at noon!" said the old man with a blushing face.
Zhang Yiheng thought about it, it is true, the life span of first-class martial artists has been greatly increased, and they can generally live to about one hundred and fifty years old, and there is true qi, martial artists generally do not get sick, how can the master die of illness.
"After the old man died, Li Kaitao also recovered his nature, not only made this martial arts hall a miasma, but even the master's home was occupied by this bastard, and old servants like us were used by him as hard labor!"
"This Li Kaitao is doing this, is there no one to take care of it!" Luo Haoming was also resentful when he heard it.
"Li Kaitao was already the pinnacle of second-rate martial artists when I left, and now I'm afraid he is already a first-class martial artist!" Zhang Yiheng sighed, although he couldn't wait to kill that Li Kaitao now, but for that Li Kaitao's talent, Zhang Yiheng also had to admit that he was very strong.
"Yes, he broke through not long after you left, and the master agreed to marry the young lady to him because he became a first-class martial artist, but after the old man died, this guy took more than a dozen concubines one after another, and now this martial arts hall, where is there still the status of the young lady!" The old man Zhang couldn't help but be silent when he said this, where is Zhao Xin has no status, it is simply trampled on by everyone, and Li Kaitao's concubines even use her as a maid.
"How can he do this to Xin'er, I, I'm going to take Xin'er away!" Zhang Yiheng immediately wanted to find that Li Kaitao desperately, but thinking of Zhang Jianwei and Zhang Tianbao, Zhang Yiheng had no choice but to give up this idea.
"Yes, Yiheng, you take Miss away quickly, Miss is in the clean room now!" Old man Zhang was overjoyed when he heard this, fortunately, this Zhang Yiheng still remembered the ease of the year, this Zhao Xin was watched by Old Man Zhang, and now watching her suffer, Old Man Zhang is also heartbroken, if he can follow Zhang Yiheng, at least he will not be reduced to the point of hard labor.
"Clean room!" Zhang Yiheng felt that his chest was burning, that was the laundry room, Li Kaitao, a brute, actually treated his wife like this.
Thinking of that lively junior sister, now she is actually doing the work of a subordinate, Zhang Yiheng can no longer stay, and immediately goes to the inner courtyard cleaning room, he has lived here since he was a child, although he has been away for more than ten years, but he still knows the layout here.
Along the way in the inner courtyard, Zhang Yiheng saw the dilapidated martial arts hall, and listened to the old man Zhang along the way, this Li Kaitao is simply killing chickens and eggs, for the martial artists to which the martial arts hall belongs, all kinds of fees, using the majesty of the martial arts hall in the past, in a short period of time to achieve huge wealth, but also in a short period of time to make the martial arts hall majestic and lose popularity.
Originally, there were nine second-rate martial artists in the martial arts hall, hundreds of third-rate martial artists, and the cultivation of true qi was as high as four figures, plus a first-class realm hall owner, it can be said that in this Yueyang County City is a behemoth, the martial artists relied on the martial arts hall to get their own rights and interests, and the martial arts hall owner also had a lofty status because of the support of many martial artists.
However, now, the martial arts hall martial artists in Yueyang County City are completely gone, and the only thing left is that Li Kaitao belongs, counting that Li Kaitao is only a first-class, two second-rate, and more than a dozen third-rate martial artists, compared with Master Zhang Yiheng's peak, that is, three or two small fish, and the martial arts hall has no prior status in Yueyang County.
Luo Haoming followed Zhang Yiheng to the clean room soon, and at least a dozen washers had to be invited here, but now there is only one lonely figure.
"Xin'er?" Looking at the figure in front of him, Zhang Yiheng even couldn't believe it, was this really the pampered Zhao Xin'er who was favored by the entire martial arts hall, the whole person became haggard Not to mention, but it was obviously the scalded face What's going on.
The middle-aged woman turned her head and looked at Zhang Yiheng blankly, "You, you, you are Brother Yiheng, you are Brother Yiheng!" The woman suddenly remembered something, exclaimed in surprise, and threw herself into Zhang Yiheng's arms as she spoke.
"Li Kaitao, bastard, Xin'er has really suffered you all these years!" Zhang Yiheng stroked the face that was burned and wrinkled, without the slightest abnormality, and still had the same look and love as she did more than ten years ago, so that Zhao Xin'er couldn't help crying anymore.
"Xin'er, come with me, I'll take you out of here!" Zhang Yiheng pulled up Zhao Xin and wanted to leave, but at this time, the door of the clean room was blocked by several people.
Seeing the person blocking the door, Zhang Yiheng's eyes were about to burst into flames, "Li Kaitao, you brute, I really misjudged you back then!" This Li Kaitao was brought into Zhao Youde's door by Zhang Yiheng back then, but he didn't expect that the little beggar back then would be such a deceitful and rebellious person.
"Zhang Yiheng, you don't hide well, you dare to come to this martial arts hall, you are really impatient!" Li Kaitao said with a smile.
"Li Kaitao, I regret it, I really regret it!" Zhang Yiheng lowered his head, not knowing what expression, Li Kaitao thought that Zhang Yiheng was asking for mercy, and suddenly looked interested, "I really regret bringing you back, I should have let you starve to death and freeze to death outside!" Zhang Yiheng raised his head with a hideous face, and shouted angrily.
"Hahaha!" "Hahahaha!" Li Kaitao was stunned for a moment, and then laughed wildly, "Senior Brother Zhang Yiheng, Kaitao is grateful for your great kindness, just ...... Only...... I'll leave you a whole corpse!" After saying that, I saw that Li Kaitao jumped up, turned his palm into a claw, and took Zhang Yiheng directly.
Li Kaitao is in the realm of a first-class martial artist, and Zhang Yiheng is just a third-rate, seeing that Li Kaitao is about to get stuck in that Zhang Yiheng's neck, but Zhang Yiheng has not reacted, but a pair of fleshy palms blocked Li Kaitao's way at this critical moment.
"Boy, you're looking for death!" Li Kaitao shouted.