Zongwu: Eavesdropping on the inner voices, the female warriors have become strange

"Don't worry, sir, I will definitely help you find it." The waiter immediately reached out to take the silver ingot.

Chen Liu took the ingot back and looked at the waiter with a half-smile. The waiter also realized that he couldn't give it to him right away. He needed him to help find that strange snake.

The waiter smiled sheepishly, withdrew his hand, and patted his chest to assure, "Don't worry, sir. As long as there are such strange snakes near Xiangyang, I will definitely help you find them."

Chen Liu nodded and said, "If you can really help me find that strange snake and take me to the place where it is, I wouldn't mind giving you an extra five taels of silver after I confirm it."

The waiter became even more eager after hearing this. He had already decided to take a few days off and devote all his energy to finding that strange snake. If he could find it, it would be more than a year's salary for him. If he didn't make this money, he would be miserable.

"Go ahead, and ask your inn to quickly deliver the food and hot water I ordered."

"Yes, sir, please wait a moment, I'll be there soon." This is a distinguished guest and he cannot be neglected. The waiter immediately ran out of the room and went to urge the kitchen of the inn to entertain Chen Liu with the fastest speed and the best service.

Huang Rong had thought Chen Liu would come to her later and try to build a good relationship with her. However, she waited and waited, but Chen Liu never found an excuse to meet her by chance. It was already quite late, and there was still no sign of him. Huang Rong could no longer bear it, so she quietly went to Chen Liu's room, touched his window paper with her finger, made a small hole, and put her eyes through the hole to look. She was almost furious. Chen Liu had no intention of looking for her at all. He was meditating in his room.

Huang Rong returned to her room and lay on her bed, still feeling a bit irritated. She wondered if Chen Liu was trying to cast a longer line? To hook her, the mermaid? Since he knew her, he must also know how beautiful she was. Perhaps he wanted to have both her and her money. "If that's the case, I'll make sure you lose both," Huang Rong thought angrily.

The next morning, after Chen Liu finished his morning prayers and came downstairs, the innkeeper immediately said to him, "Sir, the food ordered by that little beggar yesterday, plus the food he ate and took this morning, totaled 82 taels and 3 qian of silver. Your room and meal costs were 2 qian and 3 fen yesterday. I'll round off the difference for you, and you still owe 27 taels and 5 qian. Sir, our inn is just a small business, you see..."

"Bring the bill here for us to see." Chen Liu said.

"Okay, okay, sir, here is the bill." The boss quickly handed the bill to Chen Liu.

Chen Liu took the bill and looked at it while complaining, "Boss, I spent so much money in your store, and you only gave me 30% off. This is too unethical."

boss:……

The boss smiled awkwardly, "Sir, we are a small business, um, um, you see..."

"Okay, the little beggar has left?" Chen Liu took out another ingot of five taels of gold and handed it to the boss.

"They've already left." The boss breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the money. If Chen Liu didn't acknowledge the debt, he would be in trouble. More than twenty taels of silver. When his inn was doing well, the net profit per month was only a dozen or twenty taels. More than twenty taels of silver was equivalent to a month or two of work going to waste.

"Got it." Chen Liu walked towards a table in the inn lobby and said as he walked, "Get me some food. I'll leave the rest with you."

"Okay, I'll be right there." The innkeeper quickly agreed and told the waiter to ask the kitchen to prepare food for Chen Liu.

Huang Rong, who was secretly hiding in the dark and observing Chen Liu, saw that Chen Liu just asked her if she had left, then ignored her and concentrated on eating breakfast.

After breakfast, Chen Liunian wandered around Xiangyang City, mentally evaluating the city's hustle and bustle. He even paused for a long time in front of a brothel.

"A brothel? I haven't been to one yet. But it's still morning and the brothels haven't opened yet. The girls should still be catching up on their sleep. I'll come back to the brothel in the evening and see what ancient brothels were like."

Huang Rong:......

Chapter 56 Huang Rong (Part )

Huang Rong could see that Chen Liu was not really looking for her, nor was he trying to hook her. He really didn't care about her, even though she had cheated him out of fifty-five taels of silver and spent more than eighty taels of silver.

"They say that women in ancient times were all natural, untainted by cosmetics, but natural doesn't always mean pretty. After all, beauties were a minority, and the vast majority of women were very simple. Even a modern woman with average makeup would be considered a beauty here. And the worst thing about women in ancient times was that they covered themselves up too tightly. If you walk down the street nowadays, you can see beautiful thighs everywhere, but here, there's nothing to see. It seems if you want to see beautiful thighs, you'll have to wait until night to visit a brothel."

Huang Rong:......

Pervert! Huang Rong secretly spat at Chen Liu.

"Huh? Xia Guo Ju?" Chen Liu felt a little hungry after walking around, so he ordered a bowl of noodles at a street noodle stall. At a table next to him, two customers who had finished their noodles were still chatting at the stall. Their conversation happened to touch upon something Chen Liu was interested in, and Chen Liu immediately became interested. He turned to the two customers and said, "Excuse me, brothers, could you tell me about Xia Guo Ju?"

"Who are you?" The two guests were confused when they saw Chen Liu talking to them.

"I'm from out of town. I've learned some martial arts and am very interested in the world of martial arts. I just heard you mention the great hero Guo Juxia from Xiangyang. I've also heard of him and admire him greatly, but I'm not very familiar with his deeds. Could you tell me more about his heroic deeds?" Chen Liu turned to the stall owner opposite and called out, "Boss, give these two brothers another bowl of noodles, two tea eggs, and a bunch of tofu. It'll be on my bill."

"Okay." When the noodle stall owner saw that Chen Liu was treating him, he immediately started to get busy.

The two guests were delighted to see Chen Liu treat them to noodles, tea eggs, and tofu. Although they had already eaten a bowl of noodles, they were only half full. Furthermore, they were treated to a story about the heroic deeds of Guo Juxia, a hero greatly admired and respected by almost all Xiangyang residents.

Both were natives of Xiangyang, one named Wang Saner and the other Song Zhong. Speaking of the Xiangyang hero Guo Juxia, they immediately became excited and recounted Guo Juxia's many heroic deeds to Chen Liu.

Guo Juxia, the hero of Xiangyang, is a well-known first-class figure in the Song Dynasty martial arts world. He is even more famous in the Xiangfan area. Even a three-year-old child can tell a few of Guo Juxia's heroic deeds.

The exploits of Guo Juxia could be recounted in three days and nights. The most famous example is his discovery of a caravan of over 200 soldiers disguised as merchants. He single-handedly pursued the group for 300 miles, beheaded the leader, a young Yuan prince, and hung the head on the walls of Xiangyang. He also convened a martial arts conference in Xiangfan, urging Xiangfan's martial artists to accompany him on the battlefields between the Song and Western Xia dynasties, assassinate Western Xia officers, gather intelligence on the Song army, and so on. Furthermore, after Guo Juxia's rise to fame and power in Xiangfan, the bandits and pirates in the city were virtually eliminated, either returning to farming or leaving. This was a tremendous boon for the people of Xiangfan, freeing them from the harassment of bandits and pirates, not only from the exploitation of the government but also from the harassment of bandits and pirates.

"The most talked about are the three children of Hero Guo Ju." Wang San'er said to Chen Liu excitedly, "The eldest daughter, Guo Fu, is as beautiful as a flower, known as the most beautiful woman in Xiangfan. Young men from aristocratic families, even officials, have come to the Guo family's door in droves to seek marriage..."

"Puff..." Chen Liu spat out a mouthful of noodle soup, even splashing it onto Song Zhong who was standing next to him.

"What the hell? Guo Fu? Isn't this the eldest daughter of Huang Rong and Guo Jing? How did she become the daughter of Guo Juxia?" Chen Liu was a little confused, thinking to himself: "Is it because this is a world of Zongwu? So the characters have to be arranged reasonably? But that's right, Guo Fu, Guo Xiang, and Guo Polu are all the children of Huang Rong and Guo Jing. If their identities are not arranged reasonably, how can they appear? Huang Rong has just disguised herself as a beggar, and it seems that she hasn't met that fool Guo Jing yet. If the original plot develops, Guo Fu will be born for several years, and Guo Xiang and Guo Polu will be born even longer, at least ten or twenty years later."

Huang Rong:......

What the hell? I had three children with a fool? Also called Guo Fu, Guo Xiang, and Guo Polu? Also, this person knows my future trajectory? The original plot? Is that what I thought it meant?

Huang Rong was very smart. Through Chen Liu's inner voice, she had already guessed the general situation. Chen Liu should not be from their world, and their world was called the Zongwu World by Chen Liu. Their world was probably a world fused together by multiple worlds. Chen Liu knew the original fate of many of them, but because of the fusion of the world, the identities of many people had changed. For example, Guo Fu, Guo Xiang, and Guo Polu were supposed to be the children of her and a fool named Guo, but now they have become the children of Guo Juxia. This also explains why Chen Liu knew her name and even guessed that she was the one who stole his money. After all, Chen Liu also had martial arts skills, although they were not very strong and much worse than hers, but ordinary beggars did not have her skills and could not steal Chen Liu's money.

Of course, she needed to gather more information and conduct further analysis to confirm this. Regardless of whether it was true or not, Huang Rong was very upset. Very upset. How could someone as intelligent and beautiful as Huang Rong marry a fool? How could that be possible?

"And Yang Guo, Yang Guo is Mu Nianci's son. Oh, speaking of Mu Nianci, now that Huang Rong has run away from home, it seems like it won't be long before Mu Nianci holds a martial arts competition to find a husband. If I had gone to Leigushan as planned, my wife would have been kidnapped."

Chen Liu suddenly realized that if he went to Leigushan as planned, by the time he came out of Leigushan, the flowers would be cold. Chen Liu thought to himself, "No, I can't go to Leigushan first. I have to wait a few days to see if I can find Dugu Jianzhong or the Pusiqu Snake. If I don't find them, I have to rush to Jin Dadu. I have to catch up with my sister Nianci for the martial arts competition to win her hand in marriage, otherwise she will be seduced by that traitor Yang Kang. Although I don't have any decent martial arts skills now, by the time I get to Jin Dadu, I will be a top-notch master, right? Yes! I hope I can beat Mu Nianci. If not, I will just have to act like a rogue and take off my pants."

Huang Rong:......

Huang Rong's face flushed red. Scoundrel, damn scoundrel, how could there be such a shameless person?

Chapter 57 Guo Xiang

Huang Rong was very angry, very, very angry. She had originally thought that Chen Liu wanted to hook her because he knew her in advance and understood her, so he could get both money and money. Unexpectedly, Chen Liu's target was not her at all, but a person named Mu Nianci. And the reason why Chen Liu was so generous in giving her money and treating her to a meal was just to establish a good relationship with her, he had no thoughts about her at all. That person named Mu Nianci was so good? How could that damn guy still be obsessed with her? He even ignored her, a smart, beautiful and extraordinary beauty. Could it be that Mu Nianci was more beautiful than her? This made Huang Rong very unconvinced. She wanted to compete with Mu Nianci to see who was more beautiful.

"Brother Chen Liu, what's wrong with you?" Wang Saner was confused when he saw Chen Liu burst out laughing when he mentioned Guo Fu.

"It's okay, it's okay. I drank the soup a little too quickly and choked accidentally. I'm sorry, sorry, Brother Song, I'll help you wipe it off." Chen Liu hurriedly helped Song Zhong wipe the noodle soup that splashed on him.

"It's okay, it's just some splashed noodle soup, don't worry about it, brother Chenliu." Song Zhong didn't mean to blame Chenliu. They were just ordinary civilians. It was common for them to get covered in mud while working. It was just some splashed noodle soup, so just wipe it off.

"Brother Song is so generous." Chen Liu turned around and shouted to the owner of the noodle stall, "Boss, do you have any wine and snacks? If you do, bring up two pounds of wine and a couple of snacks. If you have meat, cut up a plate and bring it up. I'd like to treat Brothers Wang and Song to a drink."

"Yes, yes, yes." The boss quickly got busy again.

"Oh! Oh! Brother Chenliu, I am so sorry." Wang San'er and Song Zhong's faces were almost blooming with smiles. Ordinary people could hardly eat meat once a month. They didn't expect that today they could earn a meal of wine and meat just by telling the young man from outside Chenliu about the heroic deeds of the Xiangyang hero, who was familiar to almost everyone in Xiangyang. This was a big profit.

"Brothers, keep talking," Chen Liu said.

With the wine and meat, Wang San'er and Song Zhong became even more excited. They said, "We were just talking about Hero Guo's eldest daughter. Although she is beautiful, she is too far away from us ordinary people. I have only seen her from a distance..."

"Half of it? Either you have seen it or you haven't. How can you only see half of it? You are not going to say the same thing as "still holding the pipa with its face half covered"? " Chen Liu complained.

"Still holding the pipa, half covering her face?" Wang San'er was stunned for a moment, then said admiringly, "Brother Chen Liu, well, Mr. Chen is a scholar. We are all uneducated people, so we can't say such cultured words."

"That's right." Song Zhong nodded repeatedly and became much more respectful.

In the Song Dynasty, no matter how skilled you were in martial arts, you were often addressed as a "young hero" at best. Unless your martial arts skills were so high that the imperial court and government officials took you seriously—a feat that required at least a congenital master—you were nothing more than a wuxia warrior in the eyes of the Song people. While they wouldn't dare offend you, they didn't necessarily respect you much either. The Song people respected scholars the most. Only scholars could hold official positions, and officials were the true superiors who governed the people of the Song Dynasty. Even when they met a scholar, even a mere student, they would respectfully address him as "young sir." If Chen Liu were merely a wuxia warrior, Wang San'er and Song Zhong could still chat with him normally, but once he became a scholar, they immediately became somewhat reserved.

Chen Liu also noticed the change in the two men and said with a smile, "Brothers, you don't have to call me little husband. I attended a private school for two years when I was young. I heard the teacher recite a few lines of poetry, so I remembered them. But I'm not a scholar, and I don't like reading. I prefer to wield swords and sticks. Brothers, continue."

"Still holding the pipa, half covering her face"? Is this a poem? Where's the full text? Although Huang Rong was a chivalrous woman, she was also very cultured. After all, she had a father who was almost a genius, and her father was also very talented. It was hard for her to be uneducated. However, she had read many poems, but she had never heard of "Still holding the pipa, half covering her face." However, Chen Liu only said half of the sentence, or even didn't finish it, which made her feel itchy.

Chen Liu didn't expect that just by casually reciting a few words of Lao Bai's poem, he would arouse Huang Rong's heart. What he didn't expect was that this was a comprehensive martial arts world, with Qin, Sui, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, but no Tang Dynasty. The characters of the Tang Dynasty were all deleted from this world, so there was no Li Bai, no Bai Juyi, and naturally no Tang poetry in this world.

"Okay, since my young husband likes to hear it, then I will..."

"Just call me Brother Chenliu."

"Then, then we're overstepping our bounds." Wang San'er continued, "If there's anyone closer to us commoners, it's Second Miss Guo Xiang. Although she's young, she's incredibly generous and magnanimous, embodying the heroic spirit of the great hero Guo. Furthermore, she never minds the difference in status between us and us, even dining and drinking with us commoners. I even had a drink with her once, clinking glasses with her once."

A look of pride appeared on Wang Saner's face.

Seeing Wang San'er bragging, Song Zhong couldn't help but slap him in the face and said, "Wang San'er, you're just bragging. Last time you said it was your cousin who drank with the second young lady, how come you're the one who said it now?"

Wang San'er's face flushed bright red, but his dark complexion wasn't noticeable. He stubbornly retorted, "It was just me. My cousin was there another time. I just happened to run into the Second Miss at the dock a few days ago, so I asked for a glass of wine and clinked glasses with her. I just didn't tell you, so you didn't know."

"Then tell me which day and time it is?" Song Zhong continued to expose Wang Saner's tricks.

Wang San'er naturally couldn't say anything, so he stiffened his neck and said, "Why should I tell you? I won't tell you, or you'll be mad to death."

Chen Liu was amused by what he saw. It was actually very interesting to chat with these people from the market.

Speaking of Guo Xiang, she's truly charismatic. Although she's a woman, in the original novel, she mingles with many of the lesser-known characters, enjoying hearty drinks and feasting on meat. Of Huang Rong's three children, the eldest, Guo Fu, is unruly and headstrong, like a spoiled brat. In a fit of rage, she chops off one of Yang Guo's arms, turning him into a one-armed hero. While the second daughter, Guo Xiang, appears late and doesn't feature heavily in the story, she's the most engaging and endearing character. However, her ending wasn't ideal. She harbored a one-sided love for Yang Guo, but couldn't reconcile him. She ultimately founded the Emei Sect at forty, remaining a lonely old woman. This truly left many people with regret. As for the third son, Guo Polu, it seems he fled to the Western Regions after the fall of Xiangyang and the deaths of Guo Jing and Huang Rong. It's unclear where he ended up.

Huang Rong:......

Guo Fu: ...

Guo Xiang: ...

Chapter 58: The great knight serves the country and the people

Guo Fu and Guo Xiang were also bewildered. Yesterday, their father, Guo Juxia, brought home a little boy named Yang Guo. It was said that Yang Guo was the posthumous son of their father's sworn brother. A few days ago, their father heard that the Scarlet Snake Fairy Li Mochou had gone to Jiaxing Lujiazhuang to seek revenge. Their father had a connection with the manor's owner, Lu Zhanyuan, so he went to Jiaxing to help. Unexpectedly, he ran into his sworn brother's posthumous son. After driving Li Mochou away, Guo Juxia brought the boy back. Also among those Guo Juxia brought back were Wu Dunru and Wu Xiuwen, the two sons of Wu Santong and his wife, who had died in Lujiazhuang.

These three were all relatively young. Yang Guo was the same age as Wu Dunru, Wu Xiuwen, and Guo Xiang, and was three years younger than Guo Fu. After returning to Xiangyang, Guo Juxia had taken Yang Guo, Wu Dunru, and Wu Xiuwen as his disciples. To celebrate the occasion, to help Yang Guo, Wu Dunru, and Wu Xiuwen find some clothing, and to get them acquainted with his three children, he took the six children out for some shopping and then found a restaurant for lunch.

While eating, Guo Fu and Guo Xiang heard someone at a street noodle stall not far downstairs talking about their father, which caught their attention. The conversation turned to them. It wasn't surprising that they were talking about them, as there were plenty of people in Xiangyang City who talked about them every day. But today, there was a very strange person among them. They could hear his thoughts. But besides the two sisters, neither their father, Guo Juxia, nor their brother, Guo Polu, nor their three new apprentices, Yang Guo, Wu Dunru, and Wu Xiuwen, could hear him. Most importantly, the strange person said that they were originally the daughters of two men named Guo Jing and Huang Rong. He also said that Guo Fu was unruly and headstrong, and even cut off one of Yang Guo's arms, turning him into a one-armed hero. Guo Xiang, on the other hand, had a crush on Yang Guo, but she couldn't get his love, and ended up living alone for the rest of her life.

After hearing Chen Liu's thoughts, Guo Fu was naturally furious, but in order to maintain her image as a lady, she did not dare to rush down and hit the guy on the head in front of her father. Moreover, this matter was too outrageous and no one would believe it if she told others about it.

But Guo Xiang listened with great interest and didn't care at all, as if Chen Liu was not talking about her.

Huang Rong was also confused. What was that guy talking about? Not only did she marry that idiot named Guo Jing and give birth to three children, but she also died with Guo Jing in the battle of Xiangyang? Was she that stupid?

"Brothers, stop arguing. Come, have some drinks and let's continue talking about Hero Guo." Chen Liu saw that the two men were arguing more and more fiercely and had started to fight with each other, so he hurriedly tried to persuade them.

"Okay, I'll give Brother Chen some face today and not argue with you." Wang San'er took a sip of wine, smacked his lips, and said, "What I admire most about Hero Guo is that he cares about us common people and is very approachable. Hero Guo himself lives a simple life, but if there's a famine and Xiangyang sees refugees, he'll always sell everything he has and give them porridge to help them. And whenever there's danger, he's always the first to rush in..."

Wang Saner talked a lot about Guo Juxia's deeds. To sum it up simply, when the country was in trouble, he was the first to charge forward, and when the people were in trouble, he was also the first to stand up and help.

As Wang San'er spoke with increasing excitement, his voice inevitably rose. Wang San'er possessed a natural talent for storytelling, making anyone listening feel incredibly passionate. Guo Juxia, Yang Guo, Guo Polu, and the others, who were dining in a nearby restaurant, naturally overheard the story as well. Yang Guo, Wu Dunru, and Wu Xiuwen were all thrilled and adored, staring at Guo Juxia with admiration. Guo Fu, Guo Xiang, and Guo Polu also looked both honored and humbled, leaving Guo Juxia feeling slightly embarrassed.

"The greatest heroes serve their country and their people!" Chen Liu also admired people like Guo Juxia. He quoted the words of Guo Juxia from The Legend of Condor Heroes, but this sentence is also very appropriate for Guo Juxia.

"Great!" Wang San'er and Song Zhong couldn't help but cheer loudly when they heard Chen Liu say, "The greatest heroes serve their country and their people." Even the people nearby, who had their attention focused on Chen Liu and Wang San'er's table, couldn't help but cheer loudly. This sentence was a perfect description of Guo Juxia.

Guo Fu, Guo Xiang and Guo Polu also smiled happily. Guo Fu, who had originally had a bad impression of Chen Liu because of his words, developed a good impression of Chen Liu because of this highly positive comment about her father.

The greatest heroes serve their country and their people. Hearing this, Guo Juxia couldn't help but chew on it for a moment, his heart still slightly surging. He would have no regrets even in death if he had received such a comment in his life.

Of course, some people were excited and thrilled by this, but naturally, some people were dissatisfied. A malicious voice suddenly came over, saying, "Is a warrior worthy of serving the country and the people?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present could not help but look towards the source of the voice in anger. However, when they saw that the other party was a man wearing a large turban, they immediately retracted their heads and dared not say a word.