The chivalrous spirit is fickle

"Why are you smiling bitterly? What I hate most is people like you who don't say what you want to say directly, but instead put on a bitter face and force others to ask questions."

Shi Gu took a deep breath, walked to the counter, and took out an envelope from the drawer. He calmly folded up the written paper and stuffed it into the envelope.

Dan Xiu became a little impatient and kicked the counter angrily.

"Speak up, why are you pretending to be dumb at this time?"

Shi Gu slowly sealed the envelope, pressed his finger on the seal, and brushed past it, his eyes wandering, as if he remembered something, and spoke in a low voice.

"But you are the only one in this entire martial arts world who likes the Heavenly Tribulation Killing."

"The girl he saved, after learning about the tragic situation of that small sect, showed no gratitude towards the Heavenly Tribulation, but was instead terrified."

Danxiu rolled his eyes and pouted.

"It's just a stupid mistake. If she knew how that small sect would deal with her, she would be grateful to the Heavenly Tribulation Killer."

Shi Gu put down the envelope, his eyes calmed down, and he spoke softly to Dan Xiu.

"Some things, if not explained in detail, will appear different in the eyes of others."

"For example, in the eyes of that woman, she was almost bullied, but a passerby killed 78 people for this. Anyone who sees this would think it is an extremely horrifying thing."

"It's just human nature. You can't let ordinary people accept that the person who helped them get up is a monster who killed an entire sect overnight."

Dan Xiu was choked when she heard this, as if she didn't know how to refute. After thinking for a long time, she still couldn't find a suitable answer. She bit her lip and said stubbornly.

"Forget it. Zhu Tian Jie Sha wouldn't care about such a thing. He didn't do those things just for a few words of thanks."

"He doesn't care."

Shi Gu blinked his eyes, looked at Dan Xiu who was unmoved, leaned forward slightly, and leaned towards Dan Xiu.

Originally, there was a counter between the two of them, but when Shi Gu leaned forward, the distance between them became extremely close, as if Shi Gu was going to kiss her.

Seeing this, Dan Xiu panicked and subconsciously wanted to step back, but at this moment, she saw Shi Gu, who was very close to her, uttering a few words in a deep voice.

"Do not."

"He cares."

Dan Xiu's body swayed, and he didn't react for a moment. After taking a step back, he asked belatedly.

"What did you say?"

Shi Gu straightened his body, there was no trace of laughter on his face. Instead, he looked unusually serious and spoke slowly.

"I said, he cares if anyone thanks him."

Hearing this, Dan Xiu frowned and retorted without thinking.

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could a master like him care about such a trivial matter?"

Shi Gu didn't hesitate at all. He looked at Dan Xiu deeply and asked back.

"After saving someone, isn't it natural to hear a word of thanks?"

"Is this a luxury or an excessive request?"

Hearing this, Dan Xiu was at a loss for words and stammered.

"But...but...he is the Tribulation Killer of the Heavens."

Seeing this, Shi Gu shook his head repeatedly and spoke slowly in a low voice with a bit of helplessness.

"It is precisely because he is the Heavenly Tribulation Killer that he wants to hear these words that he has never heard before."

"He has been killing people all his life, killing people, killing people non-stop. He should have something he wants."

"Something he never had."

When Dan Xiu heard this, the look she gave Shi Gu suddenly became strange. She held her chin with one hand, her white palm supporting her chin, and looked at Shi Gu's whole body carefully.

"I say, how do you know so much about Zhu Tian Jie Sha? You can't really be his son, right?"

"They are both master and apprentice, and father and son."

Hearing this, Shi Gu almost couldn't breathe a sigh of relief. Instead of getting angry, he laughed, looked at Danzhu with a squint, and asked.

"What if I say yes?"

Dan Xiu raised his chin slightly, put his hands on his hips, looked up at Shi Gu who was a head taller than him, and said as a matter of course.

"If you are really the son of the Heavenly Tribulation, then I want to be your stepmother."

The muscles on Shi Gu's face twitched as if they were out of control. He could see that the fool in front of him was serious. This was not a joke, but she really wanted to do this.

Because of this, this fool seems even more foolish than other fools, almost insulting the title of fool.

Dan Xiu had no idea what Shi Gu was thinking at the moment, but instead asked Shi Gu with a little expectation and some temptation.

"So, is this thing going to work out, my dear son?"

Shi Gu held back countless dirty words and a mouthful of thick phlegm, wanting to spit them on Dan Xiu's delicate face, but seeing the eager look on his face, which was as cautious as a little animal, he swallowed all the dirty words.

After a moment, Shi Gu grabbed the sealed envelope beside him, threw it in Dan Xiu's face, and said lightly.

"Don't worry about it. Zhu Tian Jie Sha is already dead. This is something that the whole martial arts world knows."

"Put away your messy thoughts and do your work. You can only stay like this for five days. Don't waste time daydreaming."

Dan Xiu reached out and grabbed the envelope from her face, her eyes full of dissatisfaction, as if Shi Gu had touched a sore spot. She pinched the envelope and muttered softly.

"If I hadn't trusted her wrongly back then, I wouldn't have turned into that damn bird and ended up being kept as a mistress by you."

Shi Gu did not comment on this, but he did not agree with the so-called hidden beauty in a golden house, and replied with the same dissatisfaction.

"The beauty hidden in the golden house?"

"You know, not long ago, you were standing on the counter, saying you were going to shit a bunch of shit to wash my hair."

"Who calls hiding something like this a hidden beauty in a golden house?"

Hearing this, Danxiu's face turned red, and he waved his little fist, slamming the counter hard, and said angrily.

"Shut up, she is she and I am me."

"How can you put the blame on me for what she said?"

Hearing this, Shi Gu suddenly felt tired. He waved his hands helplessly and sighed.

"Alright, alright, I won't argue with you."

"Hurry up and deliver this letter. You can smell where I stayed the longest today."

Dan Xiu wanted to say something else, but in the end she just stuck out her tongue at Shi Gu and grabbed the envelope. She turned and left, and her figure turned into a ghost and disappeared in an instant, as if she had never appeared, without a trace.

Chapter 19 Bandits

After Dan Xiu disappeared, Shi Gu looked at the empty room and sighed inaudibly. He leaned down, put his palm on the secret compartment, turned the mechanism, and opened the secret compartment.

There was a sword case in the secret compartment. Shi Gu placed the sword case on the counter and wiped off the dust on it with great pity, but he did not even look at the sword in the sword case.

After a while, after Shi Gu wiped the sword case clean, he took out the long sword from the sword case.

A cold light appeared, and the chill suddenly increased. The sword was like autumn water, with seven stars engraved on it. Even in the darkness, the sharpness of the sword was not swallowed up. It was just that the sword was dirty, which made it seem out of place.

Suddenly, a black mist rolled in and turned into the appearance of Dan Xiu, but she had already gone and returned. Dan Xiu regained her previous cold appearance. If you didn't know her true nature, you would think she was a quiet and elegant person.

Dan Xiu took a look at the sword, a strange look flashed in his eyes, and he said in surprise.

"This sword... is it the sword of the Star Catcher Pavilion?"

Shi Gu took out a white handkerchief, placed it on the sword, and wiped it across the sword, simply wiping it in a very perfunctory manner.

"Yes, when the Star Capture Pavilion was destroyed, I took it from their ancestor. I wanted to sell it for some money."

"I didn't expect that after the Star Capture Pavilion was destroyed, the prices of everything in their sect dropped. This sword is now stuck in my hands, and I can't sell it no matter what."

As he spoke, Shi Gu looked up at Dan Xiu, who was trying to put on the appearance of a master again, and said calmly.

"You go ahead and follow the scent until you find the convoy. Except for the women in the convoy, you can do whatever you want with the others."

Danxiu frowned and asked.

"Why don't you come along? In my current condition, I can't handle an eighth-rank character."

Shi Gu had guessed that Dan Xiu would ask this question, so he threw away the white handkerchief in his hand and spoke slowly.

"I need some time, just go ahead and try to delay for a while, I will be there in time."

Dan Xiu frowned even more tightly when he heard this, and was worried in his heart, but he said nothing. Instead, he turned around and left, turning into a ball of black mist again and disappeared without a trace.

It was already night time, but the city of Lin'an was still brightly lit. There were many pedestrians in the streets and alleys, wandering among the various stalls. Red lanterns were strung from the end of the street to the main street, and the city was bustling with people.

Amidst such a lively scene, a ball of black mist was swirling around the red lanterns, flashing past people's heads in a flash.

The black mist meandered like a long snake, and soon it had passed through the streets and alleys and headed straight into the dense forest outside the city. After the black mist fell into the dense forest, it turned into Dan Xiu's figure again, stepping on extremely thin branches.

The wind blew the grass low, but the branch under Dan Xiu's feet, which was only as thick as a chopstick, did not move at all.

Dan Xiu looked ahead, his small nose moving slightly, as if he was sniffing something. After a moment, a gleam of light flashed in Dan Xiu's eyes, and his figure rushed out in an instant.

There was a loud bang in the air, and a black track, like lightning, instantly cut through the dense forest and disappeared into the darkness.

The sound of wind passed by his ears, and Dan Xiu's lower body had turned into rolling black mist, churning and swirling. At an incredible speed, it passed through the dense forest. The moonlight was cold and silvery, but it could not illuminate Dan Xiu's shadow.

An hour later, Danxiu had traveled a hundred miles. She suddenly stopped and landed on a thin branch again. She stretched out her white fingers, picked up a leaf, turned around and looked behind her, quietly waiting for the target to arrive.

Lin'an City is located in a remote area, and there is only one good road to take, so when Dan Xiu smelled the scent left by the convoy, he already knew the other party's route.

So she took a detour, overtook the convoy, arrived here ahead of time, and waited for the fish to take the bait.

When the moon set behind the treetops, Dan Xiu, who had been waiting for a long time, finally saw a convoy with lights on, heading towards this place.

Seeing this, Dan Xiu smiled, and with her snow-white skin, she looked like a soft light in the dark night, bright and beautiful.

Suddenly, Dan Xiu flew down, pinching the leaf with two fingers, and landed in front of the convoy.

"Bah!"

Dan Xiu gave a delicate shout in a proper manner, trying to make a glaring expression, and shouted at the slightly confused people in the convoy.

"I opened this road, I planted this tree."

"If you want to pass through here, stay and sell food for the journey."

"If you dare to say no, you will be beaten with a stick..."

"I don't care about burying it!"

After shouting out the slogan he had been thinking about for an hour, Dan Xiu looked at everyone in the convoy with excitement, and was completely immersed in the show.

She had never imagined that being a bandit could be so satisfying. If you have money, you can rob the money; if you don't have money, you can rob the woman. It would be a real treat to capture the beauty in the car and take her back to be your wife.

Perhaps it was because she had been suppressed for too long, or perhaps it was because she had regained her human form after a long time, the more Dan Xiu thought about it, the more excited she became. She was looking forward to the other party fighting with her, even though she was not strong enough to defeat the other party in the early morning.

And just as Dan Xiu was looking expectantly, a ferocious man with a knife on his back lifted the curtain of the car and threw a front bag to Dan Xiu.

"what?"

The man with the knife on his back saluted and spoke loudly to Dan Xiu in the distance.

"Friend, we know the rules. This money is for treating you to a meal and a drink. If you are satisfied, can you please make way?"

"……Eh?"

Dan Xiu was stunned on the spot and subconsciously reached out to take the purse thrown to her. She looked at the purse in her hand, then looked at the man with a knife on his back in the carriage, and stood there like a stupid bird.

Why is it different from what I imagined?

"Friend? Friend?"

The man with the knife on his back called out several times, and Dan Xiu finally came to her senses. She weighed the purse in her hand, which was heavy. The other party was not a stingy person.

If she were an ordinary bandit, she would have made way and watched the convoy leave with a smile on her face, but Dan Xiu couldn't do that because she was not a bandit.

Dan Xiu had an idea, and he put on a ferocious expression on his delicate face, shook the purse in his hand, and shouted loudly to the man with a knife on his back.

"Are you giving this little money to beggars?"

"You have to add..."

Bang! Before Dan Xiu finished speaking, a bigger and heavier money bag was thrown over. Dan Xiu caught it subconsciously again, and then he froze in place again.

So being a bandit is so profitable? I wonder if I chose the wrong career.