The world begins with refining skills

Chapter 153 1000-7 (Subscribe and vote)
"Boss Liu, please calm down."

When Er Gouzi heard what Boss Liu said, he felt something was wrong and immediately kowtowed to admit his mistake.

One of the rules that Boss Liu set for these beggars was that they were only allowed to beg for money and not for food, so even if they were very hungry, Ergouzi and the others did not dare to beg for food.

Today, Xiao Longnu first gave them money and then bought them food. Er Gouzi thought that since they were not begging actively, it should be fine, and the pies and buns were so delicious.

They couldn't help but eat it. When Er Gouzi heard Boss Liu talking about this, he knew that something bad was going to happen.

"Er Gouzi didn't disobey your order. It was the lady who wanted to buy food herself. Er Gouzi would never dare to violate your rules. Boss Liu, you have to believe me."

Er Gouzi kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, while Boss Liu picked up the teacup beside him and sipped it slowly. After a while, he put the cup heavily on the table.

"If you break my rules, don't even think about kneeling here now. But rules are rules. Whether you do it intentionally or unintentionally, you will be punished if you make a mistake."

Hearing this, Ergouzi's body shuddered involuntarily.

"But, Boss Liu, I am not an unreasonable person. Since it was an unintentional mistake, I will give you a chance."

"Today you have paid thirty-two coins. Tomorrow you only need to pay twenty more coins to make up for what you ate today, and I will forgive you this time."

Although Er Gouzi had not expected Boss Liu to have any kindness, his heart sank when he heard his request.

You have to know that they could only beg for a dozen cents a day in the past, and half of the money they could get today was given by Xiaolongnu.

If they added another twenty cents on this basis, there would be no way that Ergouzi and his men would be able to complete the task. This shows that Boss Liu is not only cruel but also hypocritical.

"Thank you very much, Boss Liu, for your kindness. Thank you very much, Boss Liu, for your kindness."

Although he knew that Boss Liu was deliberately playing a trick on them, Er Gouzi still had to act grateful on the surface.

"Okay, let's get down!"

Boss Liu waved his hand impatiently, and Er Gouzi quickly responded and retreated.

After Er Gouzi left, the man with a mustache next to him looked at Liu Laoda and expressed his doubts.

"Brother Liu, you even have to ask about such a small matter. No wonder everyone says you are the most dedicated person in our branch. I admire you so much!"

"Hahaha, Brother Sun, don't underestimate these little things." Boss Liu smiled smugly, "This matter may seem small, it's just eating a few cakes."

"But don't be fooled by the pitiful looks of these brats. If you don't let them suffer a little, they may ask for food unintentionally this time, but they will do it intentionally next time."

"Every time they beg for food, I lose a penny. One penny for each kid. For these twenty or so kids, that means more than thirty pennies a day."

"That's thirty or forty coins a day, that's one or two taels of silver a month, that's twenty or thirty taels a year, right?"

"I lost thirty or forty taels of silver in a year. What a huge loss that is. It makes me sad just thinking about it."

As he said this, Boss Liu looked as if he had really lost thirty or forty taels of silver, with a look of heartache and reluctance on his face.

"hiss"

The guy with a mustache didn't figure out for a moment whether he had missed something and didn't hear clearly, so how come the final calculation came out to be so much money?

But even if I didn't understand it, I still praised him: "What a profound insight! What a profound insight! Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading. I have learned a lot."

"Come on, Brother Liu, I'll offer you a glass of tea instead of wine."

As the man with the mustache spoke, he raised the teacup with both hands and pretended to clink glasses. Boss Liu was very pleased and accepted the flattery from the man with the mustache with a smile.

"Brother Sun, please don't laugh at Liu for being greedy for money. Liu is also afraid of being poor and thinking back to the past."

Boss Liu was reminded of his past and he talked incessantly about the past. However, as he was talking, he suddenly realized that something was missing.

What's missing?

Yes, Brother Sun’s voice is missing.

Boss Liu turned his head to look at the man with a mustache, and saw that he was staring at him blankly.

"Brother Sun, Brother Sun"

Boss Liu called out a few times, but the man with a mustache didn't respond. He still stared at Boss Liu, which made him a little scared.

"Brother Sun," Boss Liu raised his voice and pushed the man with a mustache.

puff~
dong dong!

This push caused the problem.

The man with the mustache suddenly fell down, landed on the table and rolled towards Boss Liu.

At the same time, blood spurted out like a fountain from the neck where the mustache man had lost his head.

The gushing blood rushed straight to the roof and splashed everywhere, pouring blood all over Boss Liu like rain.

"Ah! Ah~"

Boss Liu wiped his face in a daze at first, and when he saw his hands and body covered in blood, he suddenly burst into a soprano-like scream.

"Come here, come here."

Boss Liu screamed and ran towards the door. The sudden death of the mustache man frightened him. He had no time to think about what had happened. He just wanted to escape from there first.

boom!
As soon as he stepped out of the threshold, Boss Liu felt someone kick him on the back. He flew forward with his limbs flailing, and then fell heavily in the yard.

"Cough cough."

First he suffered a heavy blow on the back, and then he fell down hard. Boss Liu felt as if his internal organs were about to be shattered.

Liu Lao Da sat up while enduring the pain in his internal organs, and saw a man and a woman standing on the steps at the door of the room, looking at him coldly.

"Not a ghost? He's a gangster."

After realizing that the death of the little mustache was caused by the man and woman in front of him, Boss Liu first breathed a sigh of relief, but then he was worried again, thinking about the strange way the little mustache died.

"Even if these two aren't ghosts, I can't deal with them. I'll just have to coax them away no matter what."

Thinking of this, Boss Liu swallowed his saliva and said, "My two heroes, no matter how Sun Changshan offended you, this matter has absolutely nothing to do with me."

Mu Sheng and Xiao Longnu didn't say anything, but looked at him coldly. Seeing this, Boss Liu couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart.

"You're not here to find me, are you? I've never offended such a powerful person before."

While trying to recall what he had done recently, Boss Liu continued:
"Sun Changshan is a bastard. I have long guessed that he is not a good person. Please leave without worry. Liu will never reveal a word about this matter."

Just then, footsteps were heard in the aisles on both sides. They were the people who were attracted by Boss Liu's scream.

Soon, a dozen Beggar Gang disciples wearing rags appeared in front of them. However, Boss Liu did not feel at all relieved when he saw his men appear.

As a three-bag disciple of the Beggars' Sect, he had witnessed how powerful the masters in the sect were. He knew that his men were only good at dealing with beggars or ordinary people, but would be of no use to the two people in front of him.

"Long'er, you go." Mu Sheng looked up and gestured to Xiao Longnu.

Xiao Longnu, who had been holding back her anger for a long time, threw out two long silk ribbons and rushed towards the dozen or so Beggar Gang disciples.

For Xiaolongnu, who has already mastered the Jade Girl Heart Sutra, she doesn't need to use the second trick to deal with Boss Liu, let alone these minions.

With hatred in his heart, the golden bell at the end of the ribbon, carrying with it the powerful energy, smashed into the crowd like a giant hammer.

boom! boom! boom!
Connect! Connect! Connect!
In just a few breaths, more than a dozen Beggar Gang disciples were smashed and flew everywhere, dying with broken sternums and damaged internal organs.

After letting out a sigh of relief, Xiao Longnu's anger was reduced a little. She put away the silk ribbon and walked towards Mu Sheng. When she passed by Liu Lao Da, she glared at him fiercely. After feeding the five beggars during the day, the two did not leave Xiangyang City, but kept observing the beggars quietly.

I followed them all the way here and heard the conversation between Boss Liu and his men.

With Mu Sheng's supplement, Xiaolongnu also understood the heinous crimes these people had committed.

Harvesting and cutting!

When she was a child, her master also told her some stories about the martial arts world, but before that they were only verbal legends. Now, after seeing this kind of thing with her own eyes, Xiao Longnu wished she could cut Liu Lao Da into pieces to vent her anger.

"Brother Sheng, how should we deal with this person?"

"Don't worry, I won't let him die easily. Go and bring all those beggars here."

"Yeah!" Xiao Longnu nodded and went to find those little beggars. Before leaving, she glared at Liu Lao Da viciously.

At this time, Boss Liu also realized that the two people in front of him were probably coming for him, and Sun Changshan with a small mustache was implicated by him.

But he could not figure out how he had offended the two of them. Judging from the momentum of Xiaolongnu who killed his dozen or so younger brothers so swiftly and efficiently, Boss Liu felt that she was even more powerful than the seven-bag disciple he had met before.

"Hero, hero, is there any misunderstanding here?" Boss Liu was a little flustered as he watched Mu Sheng walking towards him step by step.

"Liu has never met you two. I, Liu Sanshui, have never done anything bad. I have also adopted many disabled children and provided them with food and drink."

"Sir, you really have the wrong person."

Mu Sheng raised his hand and tapped the air a few times. Several invisible energy points hit Boss Liu's acupoints, blocking his mouth and ability to move.

Then Mu Sheng turned around and went to Boss Liu's room, quickly dragged out a chair and placed it in the middle of the yard.

Then he dragged Liu Lao Da to the chair, took out several ropes from the space, tied Liu Lao Da's legs, feet and arms to the chair one by one, and then fixed his neck to the back of the chair.

After doing all this, Mu Sheng stood quietly aside and waited for Xiaolongnu to bring those little beggars over.

The place where Ergouzi and his fellow beggars lived was a wing room on the west side of the yard. The room was about 20 square meters in size, and the windows around it had long been broken and had some wooden boards nailed on top.

Some mud was also applied in the gaps between the wooden boards to prevent cold air from entering the room.

At this time, Ergouzi's five-member gang no longer had the joy of eating pies and buns during the day, after learning that Boss Liu asked them to hand over fifty-two cents the next day.

The faces of the little beggars were numb and dead silent. The only little girl, Xiaohua, thought of the punishment that Boss Liu would give to those who failed to complete their tasks, and she began to tremble with fear.

boom!
Suddenly, the door of the wing room was pushed open and a familiar figure fell in. It was the Beggar Gang disciple who usually guarded these little beggars.

The guard who used to bully these little beggars has now fallen to the ground with blood gushing from all his orifices, dead.

A white figure appeared at the door of the wing, casting a long shadow in the afterglow of the setting sun.

The person came with his back to the sun and his face hidden in the shadows, but Ergouzi still recognized Xiaolongnu at a glance.

"It's the kind sister from the daytime!"

The enclosed room was very dark, but for Xiaolongnu, who had lived in the ancient tomb for many years, it was dark enough for her to see clearly what was going on in the room.

Twenty or so little beggars with disabled limbs were crowded here, and the air in the room smelled of decay and dampness.

Even though the door had been violently opened and the Beggar Gang disciple who usually guarded them had fallen to the ground and was motionless, these little beggars did not react much. They just stared at Xiao Longnu without saying a word or making any movements.

Xiao Long Nu's nose was sore and she took a deep breath: "Those bad guys are dead, no one will bully you anymore, come, all of you follow me."

As Xiao Long Nu spoke, she stepped back and motioned for the little beggars to come out.

The little beggars turned their heads around and looked at everyone else. No one moved for a long time. Boss Liu's rules had long been engraved deep into their genes, and they could not go out without permission.

But now the guard was beaten to death by Xiaolongnu, and the little beggars didn’t know whether they should obey Xiaolongnu’s orders or not.

After a while of stalemate, someone finally stood up. Xiaolongnu looked carefully and found that they were the little beggars she had seen during the day.

Er Gouzi and his friends walked carefully towards Xiao Long Nu.

It’s not that he wasn’t afraid of Boss Liu, but the sharp knife of fifty-two cents was hanging over his head. Considering the beatings and punishment he would suffer if he failed to complete the task, he decided to take a gamble.

"good boy"

Xiao Longnu touched the little heads of several people. After someone took the lead, the other little beggars also came out one after another.

He brought more than twenty little beggars to the center of the yard. During this time, the last ray of sunlight disappeared behind the mountains.

Fortunately, there are no dark clouds at this moment, and under the bright moonlight and stars, there is no need to worry about not being able to see clearly.

"Brother Sheng, I have brought all these children here, what are you going to do?"

Mu Sheng looked at these poor little creatures and said: "First, let's find some warm clothes for them and some food."

Clothes were an easy problem to solve. There happened to be more than a dozen Beggars' Gang disciples lying in the yard. They probably didn't need clothes, so Mu Sheng organized these little beggars to strip them of their clothes.

It takes some time to prepare food. Although there are ingredients stocked in the kitchen, they have to be cooked on the spot.

An hour passed before the little beggars had eaten and drunk their fill. Boss Liu, who was tied to a chair, felt a little sleepy after the inner torment of the hour.

Snapped!
Mu Sheng slapped Boss Liu to wake him up!
"woooooo"

Boss Liu woke up with a start and looked at Mu Sheng, who was making a humming sound.

Mu Sheng untied Liu Lao Da's mute point with a simple tap.

"Master, master, please spare my life. I am a five-bag disciple of the Beggars' Sect. If you kill me, the Beggars' Sect will definitely hold you accountable."

When Liu Lao Da saw Mu Sheng's Xiao Long Nu cooking and dressing those little beggars, he knew that he was unlucky and had met a chivalrous man.

“You’re right. After all, the Beggars’ Sect is the largest sect in the martial arts world today, with a large number of people and great power,” Mu Sheng said, holding one hand in front of his chest and touching his chin with the other.

"Yes, yes, that's right. Moreover, our leader, the Northern Beggar Hong Qigong, is one of the most powerful martial artists today. And the hero Guo Jing is also a friend of our Beggars' Sect."

Seeing that Mu Sheng seemed to be persuaded by him, Boss Liu quickly agreed, "Why did you go into so much trouble for a few beggars?"

"What you said makes sense, but I finally managed to do something chivalrous, but it ended so anticlimactically. I always feel a little dissatisfied."

Mu Sheng suddenly squatted down and looked at Liu Lao Da at eye level: "How about this, let's play a game, if you win I will let you go, how about that?"

"play games?"

Boss Liu was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Mu Sheng's hobby was, but as long as he could survive, he was willing to sell his butt, so he quickly agreed:

"Sure, of course. Just tell me what game you want to play."

"Oh? You agree? That's so straightforward. Boss Liu, I'm starting to like you," Mu Sheng said happily.

"This game is very simple. It's an arithmetic game. You start from one thousand and subtract seven each time. If you get the answer wrong, you have to start over from the beginning. How about this game being simple?"

"Simple, simple, thank you for sparing my life."

After hearing the rules, Boss Liu's face turned red. He thought that Mu Sheng was intimidated by the strength of the Beggars' Sect and deliberately let him win.

"Very good, then I'll start!" Mu Sheng said with a smile on his face.

"What is 1000-7 equal to?"

　Five-body cast!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)