The chivalrous spirit is fickle

"Don't worry, Boss Sun, I've already arranged everything. You just have to wait for payment."

These two people were Sun Zheng who had not appeared for a long time and the man with rotten teeth, who was also the one sold to Shi Gu by Tongtian Pavilion at a higher price.

Song Chao.

Sun Zheng looked displeased and snorted coldly, but he kept moving forward and urged Song Chao.

"I have been patient enough, but you are too slow. Don't you want to make money from me?"

Song Chao let out a breath, glanced at Sun Zheng, and said lightly.

"The other party has the elder token of Yulin League. It is possible that he is a difficult master. I will naturally investigate him more carefully."

Sun Zheng's expression relaxed a little, and he stopped urging her and started to ask.

"So how's your investigation going?"

Song Chao pointed his hand into the distance. Sun Zheng looked in the direction Song Chao pointed and happened to see a restaurant.

"Let's go to the restaurant and talk slowly. Don't worry, we are the only ones left in the restaurant."

Sun Zheng frowned slightly and said nothing more. He followed Song Chao into the restaurant and found a room on the second floor and sat down before he slowly spoke.

"You can talk now."

Song Chao took his time, poured himself a glass of wine, and then spoke calmly.

"This is a private job. I cannot use the power of Zong Mingfu, so the investigation was handed over to the assassins in Honglou. They investigated it quite carefully."

"The man who killed your brother is called Shi Gu. He is probably like me, in the fifth rank martial realm."

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult for me to do it alone, so I need some help."

"So, I hired thirty Red Mansion assassins, all of whom are at the fourth-grade martial realm. This way, even if he is at the sixth-grade martial realm, he will not be able to escape."

Hearing this, Sun Zheng felt relieved. He poured himself a glass of wine and asked Song Chao.

"When are you going to take action?"

Hearing this, Song Chao smiled slightly, drank the wine in the glass, swayed the glass, looked at Sun Zheng with a squint, and smiled.

"Of course, this depends on your sincerity, Boss Sun. You know, the price of a Red Mansion assassin is not cheap, and I am short of money. It is difficult to do anything without money in my pocket."

"If you can pay me the agreed fee in advance, I can act as soon as possible."

Sun Zheng's eyes twitched and he slammed the table with his hand. Then he stood up suddenly and pointed at Song Chao angrily.

"Mr. Song, don't push your luck and treat me like a fool."

"I'm telling you, I won't give you a cent until the man who killed my brother dies."

Song Chao didn't care at all. He just shook the empty wine glass in his hand and smiled slowly.

"I also tell you that we will not take any action until we see the silver."

"At worst, we can just pretend that there is no such business and we can go our separate ways."

Sun Zheng's face twitched and he glared at Song Chao, unable to speak for a long time. After a moment, he sat back in his seat dejectedly and said listlessly.

"I will give you half of the reward first. Don't think about bargaining anymore. This is my biggest concession."

"If you still don't agree, then let's just part ways."

Song Chao smiled when he heard this, raised his empty wine glass and made a toast gesture.

"Okay, it's settled."

"Three days later, there will be a lantern festival in Lin'an City, which is also the day when the Incense Pavilion will reopen. Shi Gu will definitely go to the Incense Pavilion, and then we will split up."

"I will take the assassins from the Red Mansion to kill Shi Gu, and you will take the others to kill the others in the yard."

"After I succeed, I will bring Shi Gu's head to see you. You must prepare the remaining silver by then."

Sun Zheng let out a long sigh, leaned back dejectedly, looked at Song Chao, and asked.

"Is there no expert in this courtyard?"

Song Chao raised his eyebrows slightly, shook his head and smiled.

"Of course not. The assassin from the Red Mansion told me that there are only two girls in this yard. I heard they are pretty good-looking. I am giving you a good job."

Sun Zheng ignored Song Chao's joke. He swept the wine glass in front of him, grabbed the wine jug on the table, put the spout to his lips, and drank from it in big gulps.

The wine flowed down Sun Zheng's chin and soaked his clothes on his chest.

Snapped!

Sun Zheng slammed the wine jug heavily on the table, looked coldly at Song Chao, and said in a deep voice.

"I can't understand why a lonely person like you would be so greedy for this yellow and white thing?"

"I don't see you enjoying any luxury. You are just like a Pixiu, taking in but not giving out."

Song Chao smiled, held the wine glass in his hand, turned it around his fingers, and spoke slowly.

"I have been used to a hard life since I was a child. I don't like to enjoy anything. I just want to survive."

"But at the same time, I'm also afraid of being poor. I can't sleep unless I sleep surrounded by money."

"My parents were poor and stupid. They gave me more than a dozen brothers and sisters, but they died early, leaving me, the eldest brother, to take care of them."

"When I was young, I was most afraid of winter. At that time, I slept in a dilapidated temple with my brothers and sisters."

"Sometimes, when I woke up, I would find that a brother or sister had frozen to death in a dilapidated temple."

"You won't understand that feeling."

Song Chao narrowed his eyes slightly, put the wine glass on the table, leaned forward slightly, and said in a deep voice.

"I sold them all so that my remaining brothers and sisters could survive."

"If they follow me, they will freeze to death in the dilapidated temple sooner or later. They are also very obedient. When I sold them, they didn't cry or make a fuss."

"I swore that one day I would make a lot of money and redeem them all."

"But they were too weak, and no one could wait for me to save them. By the time I came to their door, some of them had died of illness, and some had been beaten to death by their masters."

"The best one ate too much in the master's house on the day he was sold and died of starvation."

"Because he never had enough to eat when he followed me."

Song Chao's pupils shrank slightly, and he stared at Sun Zheng like a wild beast, and spoke slowly.

"From that moment on, I vowed to save as much money as I could in my lifetime."

"Even if I have to die, I have to die in a pile of silver."

Chapter 41 Genius (I)

Dusk rises and the sun sets.

Shi Gu was sitting in the courtyard, holding a book and reading it absentmindedly. The book was a collection of common rumors in the world, and the whole book was composed of the author's own conjectures.

For example, the book says that the current leader of a cult is actually a grown man who became possessed by his practice and turned into a delicate woman.

As for evidence, the author did not mention a single word, and insisted that the leader of the cult was just a man.

In the bathtub not far away, the blue ice crystals had all melted at this moment, and instead, it was like boiling water, with a puff of white hot steam rising. Shen Yue sat cross-legged in the bathtub, holding her breath and concentrating with her eyes closed.

The rising white mist flowed into her body with her breathing, and her little face, which had been frozen pale, gradually turned rosy.

Suddenly, a black light flashed by and stopped at the edge of the bathtub. It was the black bird Dan Xiu.

Dan Xiu moved the table back and forth on the edge of the wooden tub, looking at Shen Yue in the bathtub with a drooling look.

Shi Gu, who was not far away, absentmindedly threw the book in his hand lightly. The book drew an arc in the air and hit Dan Xiu accurately.

Dan Xiu's tiny bird body was thrown far away by the book, but when it was about to fall to the ground, it flapped its wings, turned a circle in the air, and flew up again, angrily flying towards Shi Gu, like a black arrow, fast and fierce.

Snapped!

Shi Gu casually slapped Dan Xiu, who was flying towards him, to the ground, as casually as if he was slapping a annoying mosquito.

Dan Xiu quickly got up from the ground, shook his body, and was furious, but he didn't dare to get close to Shi Gu again. He stood at a distance and cursed at Shi Gu.

"Let go, I'll fuck you!"

Shi Gu rolled his eyes, leaned back in the recliner, looked at Dan Zhu with a squint, and sneered.

"Do you have that ability?"

Danxiu jumped up and down on the ground angrily and shouted indignantly.

"Isn't the difference between you and me too big?"

The "she" that Dan Xiu mentioned was not Shen Yue who was practicing, but Dan Xiu in human form. It was herself, and not herself.

This is what happens to a warrior who fails to transform into a demon. His human nature and demon nature are separated, and he can be considered two completely different people.

Shi Gu was too lazy to refute anything and spoke rather lazily.

"You are you, and she is she."

"At least the Denhu I know doesn't eat human flesh."

Dan Xiu bravely jumped to Shigu's feet and emphasized to Shigu as a matter of course.

"It is natural for monsters to eat humans, just like humans eat chickens, ducks, fish and meat."

"Why can humans eat chicken, duck, fish and meat, but we demons can't eat humans? What's the logic behind this?"

Shi Gu didn't care about Dan Xiu's rebuttal and just said it lightly.

"Don't tell me this. Do you think I'm a reasonable person?"

Dan Xiu was suddenly speechless, with his head hung, looking dejected.

Shi Gu glanced at Black Bird Dan Xiu, then sighed, took out a medicine bottle from his arms, poured out a pill, and threw it to Black Bird Dan Xiu.

"Eat this."

When Black Bird Dan Xiu saw the pill, he was overjoyed. Without waiting for Shi Gu to urge him, he swallowed the pill impatiently.

As the pill entered his stomach, a black mist began to spread. A small white foot stepped out of the black mist and landed lightly on the ground.

Dan Xiu, in human form, appeared again, but this time, she was no longer naked like last time. The black mist wrapped around her body and turned into a long black dress.

Dan Xiu blinked her beautiful eyes and looked at Shi Gu dimly with a hint of resentment. She raised her foot and kicked Shi Gu without any hesitation, saying angrily.

"Prodigal son."

"The more I take this pill, the less it will become. If I finish it, I won't have a chance to return to my current state."

Shi Gu slapped the ground with one hand, dragged the recliner under him and moved backwards, avoiding Dan Xiu's kick, and said helplessly.

"Everything will work out when the time comes."

Dan Xiu gave Shi Gu a coquettish look, strode over, forcefully pulled Shi Gu up from the chair, sat down herself, and crossed her legs.

"Tell me, why do you want me to come out so soon?"

Shi Gu laughed dryly and explained guiltily.

"It's not a particularly troublesome matter. I just hope you can take care of Shen Yue for me these few days."

Upon hearing this, Dan Xiu looked up at the bathtub in the yard, looked at the wisps of white mist, sniffed it with the tip of his nose, and a strange color flashed in his eyes.

"Duolan flower? You're using such a luxurious thing to help Little Moon practice?"

"Your family background is much richer than I thought."

The Tuoluohua flower grows in the extreme west. It can bring the dead back to life and turn bones into flesh. It is an extremely rare elixir. Danxiu has only seen so many Tuoluohua flowers in his own Medicine King Valley.

Shi Gu had no recliner left, so he had to stand beside Dan Xiu and smiled bitterly.

"Over the years, I have collected a lot of things that I don't need, but if I use them lavishly like this, they won't last more than a few days."

"It will never be like today again."

Dan Xiu remained silent. She had seen Shi Gu's family background with her own eyes. This man must have robbed all the major sects. He could use those rare treasures to create a half-baked master.

"Xiao Yueliang is indeed extremely talented. With your extravagant training method, it won't take long for her to become a first-class martial artist."

"However, this kind of practice has an unstable foundation. If she hadn't practiced the evil way of Yuan Mo Da Hua, she would have gone astray sooner or later."

As he spoke, Danxiu shook his head and sighed.