I am a swordsman in a strange city

Chapter 12

He ran all the way, and when he got tired he walked, waving the flat wooden stick in his hand all the way.

There were trees on the road with branches hanging down, but he did not pick the drooping leaves.

Instead, it jumped up and stabbed the high-raised branches. Its stick was like a sword, piercing the leaves high above, one by one.

There were lights on the road, shining through the gaps between the leaves and falling onto the ground, like sword lights that could cut people.

He swung the wooden stick in his hand towards the falling lights, and rushed past the edge. The stick and sword cut through the light, but the light was also blocked by the shadows, as if it was broken.

He swung his sword as he pleased, the Thirteen Wandering Dragon Styles, freely.

Play for a while, run for a while, run for a while and then walk for a while, and then run while swinging the sword.

Finally, after arriving home, he was exhausted. He felt tired but strangely relaxed. It seemed as if all his unhappiness had been vented as he swung his sword along the way.

He went to knock on the door, and after a while, he heard heavy footsteps approaching quickly.

The iron chain was pulled, and grandpa's figure came into view.

At this moment, he discovered that his grandfather was actually not as tall as himself. His grandfather, who he had always thought was tall and strong, looked a little hunched under the light in the yard.

"What's going on? You're sweating all over. Where's the car?" Mr. Pei asked in surprise.

"The car was stolen." Pei Ju said, and held up the broken lock. He came back all the way and even brought the lock back with him, because there was iron inside the lock, which could be sold for some money.

"So what if you stole it? Why did you run all the way back?" Fourth Master Pei made way for him. Pei Ju hummed and said, "Grandpa, let me tell you, I ran all the way back and practiced swordsmanship. I feel like my swordsmanship has improved again."

Fourth Master Pei didn't laugh. He said, "You ran all the way back from there. Isn't there a lecture going on there at this time today?"

"Yes, I took a look and felt that it was not a good place, like a place to cheat people out of money. I don't want to study there anymore." Pei Ju answered quickly, as if he had already prepared his words in his mind.

Mr. Pei was stunned for a moment, then said, "What kind of place is this for scamming people? After all, he's the vice president of the Hai City Secret Forbidden Association. How could he cheat people? Besides..."

He paused here, then turned and looked into Pei Ju's eyes, and asked with suspicion and anger: "Did he charge you money?"

Pei Ju was not good at lying after all. He was silent for a moment and said, "I didn't see him. Maybe the person who registered him didn't know."

Mr. Pei Si immediately turned around and walked into the house. He walked much faster than before.

He walked into the room and came to a table against the wall. He opened the drawer and took out a small notebook with a black leather cover. He opened it to the latest page, where he had copied the phone number when Tian Youhan called him before.

He took the phone book to the sofa, turned on the hands-free mode, and was about to make a call, but he stopped after pressing three digits and turned off the phone.

Under the light, Pei Ju saw his grandfather sitting there motionless. He probably thought of something.

"Grandpa,..." Pei Ju wanted to say it didn't matter, but when he thought about it, if he didn't take the [Certificate of Secret Forbidden Studies], then the Sword Hall wouldn't be able to issue the certificate, so it wasn't a big deal.

Pei Ju suddenly felt that the light in the room was suppressed because it was wrapped in the darkness outside. It could only appear in this room, and it was so heavy that it made people breathless.

"Without Tian Youhan, we'll have to eat hairy pigs!" Mr. Pei said angrily. Then he flipped through the phone book, turned to the front, and started dialing the numbers on it.

The first one was a dead tone, then a burst of rapid sounds, and the call didn't go through.

Mr. Pei dialed again, but it was still the same. He stopped dialing this number, flipped through the phone book, and called another one, but this time it was an empty number.

He dialed again, as if he was afraid that he had dialed the wrong number. He pressed the number very carefully, comparing each digit one by one, but this time it was the same, the number was still not in service.

He turned the page again and dialed again. This time he pressed the numbers very slowly, looking at them one by one. This time the call went through, but there was a noisy sound coming from the other end, as if from some place. Mr. Pei called twice, but the other end said he couldn't hear clearly and hung up.

Mr. Pei Si did not type this again, but sat there flipping through his notebook, as if he was considering who to call.

After thinking for a while, he finally dialed another number. It rang once more when the other end of the line answered. It was a woman's voice, but she sounded quite old.

"Hello, who are you?" the woman opposite asked politely.

"It's me, Pei Si." Master Pei Si said.

"Ah, Fourth Brother, why did you think of calling me? Is there something wrong?" The female voice on the other end asked quickly and seriously.

She seemed to know that something must have happened to the Fourth Master, otherwise he would not have called her suddenly at this time, because the Fourth Master was not the kind of person who liked to call people to talk.

"Oh, it's like this. I need your help with something." Mr. Pei said slowly.

"Fourth brother, your business is my business. You were not so polite when you saved my life." Although the voice on the other side was a woman's voice, the words spoken were decisive and generous.

"Don't all places involved in mysterious business need to apply for licenses recently? And applying for licenses requires practitioners to have relevant certificates. You know, it's no longer appropriate for me to take the exam, so I asked my grandson to prepare for it, but I don't know the specific content of the test. I'm not good at secrets, so I want to find a pre-exam training class."

"Fourth Brother!" The other party's tone had turned serious. "With your reputation and status, I can help you apply for a special channel for the permit."

"Alas, what reputation or status does it have? I'm old and useless. You don't need to apply for anything special for me. Others can get the certificate normally, so can I. If it fails, the worst that can happen is that I will just take off the badge." Mr. Pei Si said seriously, but as if he didn't care.

"Fourth brother, you're so tough. Let me ask Hai City who is qualified to run a tutoring training class for you. I'll call you back later."

After they hung up the phone, Pei Ju sat down next to them. He couldn't help but ask, "Grandpa, who is this?"

"A friend I met many years ago." said Mr. Pei Si.

"She just said that you, grandpa, saved her life?" Pei Ju asked.

"It's just some small things. She made it sound serious." Mr. Pei Si said slowly.

After waiting for about ten minutes, the phone rang: "Fourth Brother, one of my juniors has been invited to Hai City to open a famous teacher class there. I'll tell you the address. When you get there, you can just say my name or yours. Also, remember not to pay tuition!"

"Okay." Mr. Pei Si responded and picked up a pen to write down the address.

The two chatted for a while, and at the end, the other party said, "Fourth Master, please take care of yourself. I am looking forward to seeing the God-Slaying Sword reappear in the martial arts world again."

(End of this chapter)