This martial arts tournament is time-stopping.

Ye Chu followed Madam Yang and quickly found the location of the Yang family's hidden money. However, his time-stopping range was limited, and he didn't have much time-manipulation ability. In addition, he couldn't let Madam Yang discover that there was little money in the house.

He quickly left the bedroom and hid in the next room.

It wasn't until Madam Yang took the silver to the threshing ground to select people with Niu Da that Ye Chu secretly slipped into the bedroom.

Lifting the wooden board under the table, one could see a pottery jar embedded in the soil, containing seven 5-ounce pieces of snowflake silver and three 3-ounce gold ingots.

"After being a landlord for so many years, I've only saved this little bit of money?"

But that's enough for me to settle down in the county town and learn martial arts..."

Ye Chu felt that the Yang family must have other places where they hid money, since they hadn't seen any copper coins, which were the most widely circulated coins.

They took a piece of clothing from Landlord Yang, took out the silver and gold ingots, and wrapped them up to prevent the silver from clanging as they walked.

After the wooden planks were put on, they began to look around the house.

The Yang family has produced a martial arts scholar and has a mysterious connection with the immortal Tang Zhou in Huangtian Temple, so there should be some good things in their home!

When Ye Chu went to the bookshelf to browse, a book he had never thought of before caught his eye.

"Huh? This must be the 'Yellow Turban Warrior' that Niu Da and Madam Yang were talking about!"

"Is the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Yellow Heaven, the Tang Zhou Dynasty... part of the Way of Peace?"

Ye Chu's mind went blank for a moment, and his memories of his past life came flooding back. He remembered who Tang Zhou was:

Tang Zhou was a disciple of Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Way of Peace. It was he who wrote to the Han Dynasty to inform on the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which led to the early outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion!

"That can't be right, this is the Great Zhou Dynasty! Or is the Taiping Dao's business expanding that much?"

"But regardless, Tang Zhou doesn't seem like a good person, so let's put our trip to Huangtian Temple to seek the Dao on hold for now!"

Ye Chu flipped through the thin book of "Yellow Turban Warriors," which was only a dozen pages long, and found that the Immortal Body of Longevity had directly incorporated the Daoist text into it.

[Skill: Yellow Turban Warrior lv.0 (Beginner 0/10)]

"The Immortal Body is truly powerful!"

However, the Yellow Turban Warriors are Taoist practitioners; I wonder if they have any power to subdue evil spirits? If only they could help me remove the ghost hand mark on my wrist…”

Ye Chu didn't rush to add points. Instead, he put the Taoist book back in its original place and quietly slipped out of the Yang family with the silver.

On the way home, you can still see many villagers bringing their boys to gather under the big locust tree in the threshing ground in front of the village.

"Yewa, I remember you're only 16 this year, right? The Yang family just announced that they want to select four boys aged 12 to 16 from the village to learn martial arts with Young Master Yang Heng. Why don't you go to the threshing ground and see if you can be selected?"

"He offended Niu Er last night; Steward Niu will definitely not choose him to learn martial arts!"

"Is that so? Tell me more..."

As Ye Chu walked home, some relatives and friends kindly reminded him of what had happened in the village, while others took the opportunity to exaggerate and smear him.

As Ye Chu approached his house, he heard a commotion and sounds of smashing coming from inside!

When Niu Da received Madam Yang's order to have Niu Er announce the news of the Yang family's selection of people to the whole village, he found that Niu Er and his gang of followers had disappeared!

He asked around and learned about the feud between Niu Er and Ye Chu, which stemmed from Niu Er's failure to obtain the hidden field and their subsequent fight in the field.

But where does a lowly tenant farmer get the courage to rebel?

After arranging for people to gather all the eligible boys in the village at the threshing ground, Niu Da, accompanied by his servants, went straight to Ye Chu's house.

He wants to make an example of someone!

He wanted to establish his authority in front of these lowly people!

While I'm at it, I'll also try to find out where my second brother has gone.

As Ye Chu stepped into the house, he saw Niu Da lecturing Ji Meng, while three thugs smashed all the tables, chairs, and benches in the house!

"Stop it, all of you!"

Ye Chu drew the arrow, nocked the bow, and bent the bow in one fluid motion, pointing it at Niu Da.

Niu Da turned around and saw that he was being pointed at with arrows, and he was also startled, but he was just a lowly commoner...

Whoosh!

Without a word, Ye Chu loosened his grip, and the arrow pierced through Niu Da's turban. When his hair fell loose, Niu Da couldn't help but shudder!

"Butler Niu, my hands are shaking a little!"

After Ye Chu finished speaking, he continued to draw his arrow, nock it, and point it at Niu Da: "So, you smashed up my house, what are you planning to do?"

"Me, me,"

When Niu Da was so frightened that he stammered, he saw Ye Chu's hand start to tremble again, as if he was about to release the bowstring.

Then you'll be truly free of arrogance!

"My second brother had a fight with you last night, and I've come to apologize! Also, I wanted to ask if you saw my second brother today?"

"How often do I see your second brother sleeping past noon? Is your apology really equivalent to smashing up my house?"

"Hahaha, this, this... this is perfect, I'll just replace it with a new one!" Niu Da wiped the sweat from his forehead guiltily, inwardly marveling at his quick wit.

"Forget it, you don't need to buy a new one! Just give me a tael of silver as compensation!"

Just when Ye Chu was worrying about how to move to the county town, someone offered to help.

In addition, one tael of silver was quite valuable; it could probably buy 150 catties of fine rice, or 300 catties of mixed grains, or seventeen or eighteen old hens...

Therefore, one or two taels of silver is more than enough to exchange for this room full of old bamboo furniture!

In addition, although Niu Da ran to Niu Er's house, Ye Chu did not intend to kill Niu Da in front of the villagers.

Killing someone secretly is different from killing someone openly and honestly.

The former has no way to prove anything, while the latter has ample evidence, which will make the Yang family wary and vigilant, and will also lead to being wanted by the government...

Not worth the candle.

"Butler Niu, something terrible has happened! Evil spirits have invaded the back village, and everyone is dead!"

A servant, who was on his way to gather all the eligible boys in the village, hurriedly ran towards the big locust tree in the threshing ground in front of the village, shouting as he went.

Ye Chu's house was located right next to the threshing ground in front of the village.

"Brother Ye, look at this, why don't I go and see what happened?" Niu Da was also a little frightened when he heard the news.

As for the threshing ground in front of the village, things have already gotten out of hand.

"Pay up first! Otherwise, nobody's leaving the house today!"

Ye Chu knew that something had really happened in the back village, but the evil spirits had been suppressed by the yang sun during the day, so the front village was fine.

But if we let Niu Da go out, given the chaos outside and the fact that everyone is abandoning the village and running away, we definitely won't get the money!

When Niu Da saw Ye Chu blocking the door and pointing a dangerous bow and arrow at him, he understood the principle that a wise man does not stand under a dangerous wall. He could only take out the money bag he had just given Niu San to go to the martial arts school with the young master.

After the silver tael fell into Ji Meng's hands, Ye Chu opened the door.

After Niu Da and his men left, Ye Chu closed the door and instructed Ji Meng:

"Something bad has happened in Houcun. Go tell your father-in-law that we should abandon the village and go to Shuanglong County to hide. Then go to that biased grandfather and uncle's house and tell them to pack up our valuables and run away!"

If they don't listen to you, just come back, and we'll leave on our own!

The Ye and Ji families are both located at the front of the village, so they are safe for now.

Ji Meng didn't go out immediately:

"Young Master Ye, your uncle said this morning that your cousin Ye Hao broke through his martial arts training yesterday and became a martial artist!"

Later, you were accepted as an inner disciple by the Bafang Martial Arts School. This morning, you were supposed to ask us to take an oxcart to Shuanglong County to celebrate, but I didn't see you this morning, so you told me to wait for you at home!

"Ye Hao has become a martial artist?"

Ye Chu felt little joy.

The price Ye Hao paid to attend the Bafang Martial Arts Academy last year was the land he was entitled to when he divided the family property with his uncle, which his grandfather sold to Landlord Yang. In addition, he worked as a tenant slave for Landlord Yang to raise the first tuition fee for his martial arts training.

However, the cost of starting martial arts training is high, and the cost of nourishing herbal soups to replenish qi and blood is even higher. Not only did his grandfather and uncle sell everything they owned, but they also tried to extort money from him, the person who had separated from the family, every now and then...

It's fair to say that my cousin Ye Hao's ability to practice martial arts is due to the whole family working themselves to the bone to support him!