Xuanxia

Chapter 130 Nebula Chamber of Commerce
Yue Heng’s story is indeed very simple, yet also very exciting.

He came from the nearby city of Qingyang. His father was a private school teacher, so he had been studying since childhood. However, because his parents died early, he did not have much source of income, so he was extremely poor and could only make a living by occasionally writing letters for others.

One day, a rich young lady who was shopping noticed the beautiful handwriting on his small stall and stopped. She had a very nice name, Lin Chuchu.

A talented man and a beautiful woman, they share similar interests, are youthfully curious, and are passionately passionate.

The two of them soon went from chatting on the street to chatting in the restaurant, from the wine table to the boudoir, and reciting poems and composing couplets turned into chatting about red waves.

It was not until the day they got engaged that Yue Heng was shocked to learn that the delicate girl beside him was actually the daughter of the prefect of Qingyang City!

That night, the poor scholar, who was braver than the sky, decided to elope with the beauty!

It’s a pity that the poor scholar was still a poor scholar after all. He had no experience in the underworld, nor did he have enough money, and he didn’t know how to hide his whereabouts well. The couple was caught before they even left the city.

The furious prefect wanted to kill him on the spot, but fortunately Lin Chuchu was unwilling to leave her lover and threatened to die, so she finally saved Yue Heng's life. However, he still couldn't avoid a good beating, and his leg was broken at that time.

Yue Heng was already disheartened, thinking that he would never see the beauty again, so he packed his things and prepared to go to Beijing for the exam as planned. Unexpectedly, on the day of departure, Lin Chuchu wrote a letter and sent someone to deliver it to his home.

Also delivered was a handful of gold and silver and a bottle of fine medicine.

In the letter, Lin Chuchu asked him in sad words whether he still wanted to be with her, and told him that if he still wanted to rekindle their past relationship, he should take the money to a remote alley in the city to find an old beggar and ask the beggar to help him "make a bet."

Yue Heng excitedly but ignorantly went to the alley, found the old beggar, told him that he wanted to be with the prefect's daughter, and handed over the pile of gold and silver.

The old beggar took the money and told him to go home and wait... He went home and waited anxiously for a day. When he woke up the next day, he found an extra contract on the table.

The words "Nebula Chamber of Commerce" were clearly written on the title of the contract.

The content of this contract shocked Yue Heng very much - it said that the prefect of Qingyang City had reached a contract with him, Yue Heng, giving him two days to escape. After midnight two days later, someone would come to hunt him down!
The hunt lasted for three days, starting at midnight and lasting for three hours until dawn.

If Yue Heng can survive this hunt, the prefect will never interfere in the affairs between him and Lin Chuchu again!
The contract also stated that all those who went to hunt down Yue Heng would be hired and dispatched by the Nebula Chamber of Commerce, but at the same time, the Chamber of Commerce would also find someone to protect him.

Yue Heng didn't know how the "Xingyun Chamber of Commerce" persuaded the prefect to sign the contract, nor did he know how the content of the contract was determined, but it seemed... he had no other choice.

So he simply treated his wounds with the medicine Lin Chuchu brought him, and then limped on the road. It took him two days to finally reach the dilapidated temple, but his legs and feet were so painful that he could no longer walk, so he simply stopped there.

"In the past two days, I haven't seen anyone come to protect me."

Yue Heng drank another glass of wine, his face flushed like a rosy cloud: "Haha, but I didn't expect Brother Fu to come today!"

Fu Qingzhou gave a dry laugh, looking somewhat helpless.

Damn, it turns out Zuo Lamei took money from the Chamber of Commerce and wanted to protect the scholar!
In the end, I came here to work for nothing!
Forget it... Since Zuo Lamei will help me deal with Fanyin Temple, I won't bother with it...

But since the Nebula Chamber of Commerce would make such a bet, it means that the strength of the party protecting people and the party killing people should not be too different?
That Zuo Lamei... is much better than me!
Can I really handle the next killer? !

Fu Qingzhou had a headache.

"What are you afraid of?" The Smoker said nonchalantly in his mind, "Anyway, this guy has already said that if you can't beat him, just run away."

Yue Heng was already half drunk. He sat leaning against the incense table with the statue in front of him, holding up his wine glass, and laughed: "Life is but a dream. It is better to die for love than to regret it for the rest of your life! Brother Fu, don't worry. If I die, just come and light some incense for me!"

Seeing this scholar being so free and easy, Fu Qingzhou couldn't help but smile, and all his worries disappeared.

"Since you have this state of mind, I won't be hypocritical." He laughed: "Since you said I would protect you, I will do my best - Brother Yue, you rest here, I'll go out for a while."

Yue Heng glared: "Brother Fu, you...hiccup, what are you going to do?"

"Set some traps."

Fu Qingzhou stood up and winked at him.

Setting traps in the mountains and forests is his specialty, which he is very skilled at.

There were still several hours until midnight, which was enough time for him to prepare fully.

Dig traps and bury sharpened wooden stakes; collect strong enough vines to weave into a net and make a hunting net trap; use hidden grass lines as triggers for falling wood traps...

These things were easy for him to catch, even though he had not hunted for two or three years. After all, these were skills he had honed since childhood on Bailu Mountain and were deeply engraved in his bones.

Unconsciously, he had transformed the area within several hundred feet around the ruined temple into a forbidden area full of dangers and murderous intentions.

Fu Qingzhou carefully returned to the dilapidated temple, only to find that Yue Heng had fallen asleep again.

He reeked of alcohol and his shouts were deafening.

"This guy is really generous."

Fu Qingzhou chuckled.

Although I have only met Yue Heng for a short while, I can feel that he is special - to put it nicely, he is free and easy, to put it bluntly, he is a little naive.

When he met a young lady, he slept with her without even asking about her identity or background.

After knowing that she was the daughter of the prefect, he eloped with her without thinking.

When people asked him to "make a bet", he didn't even ask the whole story and just bet his life on it without thinking.

Now that a powerful killer could appear at any time, he didn't care and even got drunk and slept so soundly.

"It's good to have this mentality. This way, I don't have to worry about him holding me back later."

Fu Qingzhou took the bow and arrow from his back and looked at the sky through the window.

The moon is high in the sky and it is almost midnight.

He blew out the oil lamp, walked out of the dilapidated temple again, closed the door very lightly, and jumped lightly onto the branch of a large tree nearby.

"Since I kept my promise and found you a piece of jade..."

Fu Qingzhou whispered in his mind: "If anyone approaches, help me locate it."

The Smoker was in a very good mood today, and he laughed and said, "Okay, okay - pay attention to your east, there are already people coming five hundred steps away, fifteen of them, all of them are from the fourth realm."

Thanks to the book friend 20221101162037282 for the reward~
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