Shi Tianwu shared with you the magnetic field rotation

Chapter 536 Chai Jin, the High-Ranking Official

Zhu Wu, Yang Chun, and Chen Da, wearing straw hats, went out of the city through the west gate and circled around, watching from afar as Shi Jin was fighting with someone near the south gate.

Shi Jin was shirtless, revealing the nine dragon tattoos on his body.

With a twitch of his muscles, the nine dragons tattooed on Shi Jin's skin came to life, rising and falling with his breath.

Shi Jin challenged someone to a staff-fighting contest, and the person who challenged him was Hong Wushi, a servant of Chai Jin, the wealthy official.

There were people acting as the bookmaker and people placing bets. Apart from Chai Jin, who placed ten taels of silver on the bookmaker Hong Wushi, everyone else was betting that Shi Jin would win.

Ever since people learned that Shi Jin was the disciple of the Great Hero of the South, many people have come to challenge him to a martial arts contest every day.

Shi Jin was very young; if he didn't say he was in his early twenties, people would think he was just a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy.

After cultivating the power of the magnetic field, Shi Jin regained the youthful vitality that a young man should have, and his face no longer showed any bitterness or resentment.

"How many rounds do you think the martial arts instructor from Master Chai's family could last against Nine-Tattooed Dragon?"

"I think he'll lose within thirty rounds. After all, he's someone close to Master Chai, so Young Master Shi should at least give him some face, right?"

"Thirty rounds is still too many. It's not that Young Master Shi is being lenient, but that Master Hongwu's martial arts are too mediocre."

Having watched Shi Jin fight many times, the spectators' knowledge has greatly improved. They can now judge a lot about a person just by looking at the momentum of the two before they start fighting.

Hongwu shouted, "Come, come, come!" and unleashed a powerful, fiery staff strike at Shi Jin, taking the initiative.

Shi Jin smiled calmly.

This Hongwu master made too many unnecessary movements, so Shi Jin used a "stirring up the grass to find the snake" motion with his stick to attack him.

Hong Wushi swung his staff down, but Shi Jin's staff tip bypassed the blow and struck Hong Wushi's wrist instead.

Hongwu Master's hard staff was almost knocked out of his hand by Shi Jin.

Shi Jin spun his staff around and slashed at Hong Wushi again, deliberately striking the hard staff in Hong Wushi's hand.

Hong Wushi took two steps back.

Upon sensing Shi Jin's power, Hong Wushi's expression turned extremely ugly.

Shi Jin has already given him enough face; otherwise, he would have lost in three rounds. Now, he's been allowed to last five rounds.

Shi Jin assumed a horse stance, holding his wooden stick horizontally, waiting for Hongwu's army to attack again.

Hongwu held up his stick, his eyes searching for a flaw in Shi Jin.

There are no flaws!!
Hongwu Shi did not believe that the young Shi Jin was without any flaws. He believed that he was simply too inexperienced and narrow-minded to notice the flaws in Shi Jin's moves.

"Look how awesome I am!!"

Hongwu Master shook his staff, using it as a headless spear to thrust at Shi Jin.

Shi Jin adjusted his stance, using the staff like a long sword, and with a diagonal slash from below, he split Hong Wushi's staff in two. With another slash, the staff landed on Hong Wushi's neck.

Within just five rounds, Hongwu lost to Shi Jin.

"We won! We won! Let's split the money!!"

The onlookers paid no attention to Master Hongwu. After taking a share of the money from the bookmaker who had bet on Shi Jin's win, they turned around and threw a dozen or so copper coins to a dozen or so homeless children.

"Thank you so much, brothers! Thank you so much, Brother Shi!!" The little street urchins were very grateful for the reward money and scattered to buy food from the surrounding stalls.

Hong Wushi felt he had lost face, so he turned and left alone, ignoring Chai Jin's calls.

"It really is Shi Jin."

Chen Da, the leaping tiger, stared intently at Shi Jin, confirming that this was indeed Shi Dalang, Shi Jin, with whom they had a grudge in Shi Family Village, Huayin County.

"Ok?"

Shi Jin glanced out of the crowd and saw three men with straw hats covering their faces giving him hostile looks. Shi Jin ignored them.

There are many people who are jealous that he is the disciple of Wang Jin, the great hero of Nanyan, and many people want to get rid of him, but so far none of them have succeeded.

Some people invited him to dinner and drinks, some introduced him to girls, and some tried to get him to do a highly profitable business, but Shi Jin refused them all.

"Truly, heroes emerge from among the young!" Chai Jin stepped forward and spoke to Shi Jin.

"Master Chai, I've long admired your name," Shi Jin greeted with clasped hands.

"It's all empty fame, nothing but empty fame," Chai Jin said cheerfully to Shi Jin.

Shi Jin glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw three men wearing straw hats walking away into the suburbs.

“Master Chai, it’s getting late. Why don’t we go into the city to rest?” Shi Jin said.

"Young Master Shi, where will you spend the night? I would like to have a talk with you by candlelight." Chai Jin held Shi Jin's hands in both of his, his eyes filled with nothing but Shi Jin.

"I'll sleep here."

"Right here at the south gate?" Chai Jin asked, somewhat surprised.

“Yes. I’m not alone, I have these little strays to keep me company,” Shi Jin said with a smile.

"Oh?"

“These children have come to Yuhang from all over the country. They are all orphans. I felt sorry for them, so I took care of them as a matter of course,” Shi Jin said to Chai Jin.

“I also lost my parents, and my master is like my second parents.”

“Looking back when my parents were alive, I was a fool who didn’t know how to be filial,” Shi Jin said, bowing his head.

“It’s not like you can’t spend the night at the city gate. I’ll give it a try,” Chai Jin said to Shi Jin.

"Young Master Shi, how do you take care of these homeless children?"

"That is, to teach them some principles of being a good person, to tell them the principles of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness, and to teach them some survival skills in the wild."

Shi Jin slowly pried Chai Jin's hand away, returned to the table, and made a wooden identity plaque for Chai Jin. He carefully carved Chai Jin's name on the plaque with a carving knife.

Chai Jin took the wooden identity plaque handed to him by Shi Jin. The dark wooden plaque was hard and heavy, and it was not made of ordinary wood.

“It wouldn’t be easy for someone to copy this,” Chai Jin said.

“This is a century-old ironwood,” Shi Jin said.

"Ironwood..."

"Ten-year-old ironwood has slender branches, only as thick as a finger. Only ironwood that is over a hundred years old can be made into such a large wooden plaque."

"Where does this ironwood grow? I've never seen it before."

"In the southwest region, does Master Chai know of the Dali Kingdom?" Shi Jin asked.

"So it's south of Yunling, no wonder," Chai Jin said with a sigh.

After exchanging pleasantries, Chai Jin led his large entourage into Hangzhou, and Shi Jin finally found peace and quiet.

Chai Jin was a direct descendant of the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He possessed an iron certificate of merit bestowed by Emperor Taizu of Song. His family was extremely wealthy. He enjoyed making friends with heroes from all over the world and was known as the Lord Mengchang of his time.

Lord Mengchang...

Shi Jin was uneducated and did not know Lord Mengchang, but the title he engraved on the wooden plaque he gave to Chai Jin was "Little Lord Mengchang".

Lord Mengchang was one of the Four Lords of the Warring States period. He served as prime minister in the states of Wei and Qi, and had thousands of retainers. He treated all his guests equally, regardless of their social status.

Chai Jin intended to emulate Lord Mengchang, but the world today was no longer an era that could accommodate Lord Mengchang.

(End of this chapter)