Fu Shifeng

Chapter 35

Anguti's execution and Tianchi's enchantment disintegrated, symbolizing that the recent chaos in the Western Regions has come to an end.The Dadu Protectorate sent Qingqi to various parts of the Western Regions, and issued an announcement stating that the elder of the Zoroastrianism, Mu Xid, was assassinated by the demon An Quti and his henchmen. The collusion caused a lot of harm, and the Hu and Han people in the Western Regions suffered a lot from it. However, under the all-out suppression of the Dadu Protectorate, all the monsters and chaotic parties have been wiped out.

Although Angutti died, his headless body was still brought back to Quzhi City, where a wooden fake head was installed, and then beheaded in public, as an explanation to the local Zoroastrians.

Although the process was a bit tortuous, the Anxi Four Towns' Protectorate's response to the sudden rebellion was swift. When the inspectors sent by the imperial court arrived at Quzhi City, everything was settled and the roads in the Western Regions were back to normal. Local people can also live and work in peace and contentment.

Quzhi City was bustling as usual. During the day, the streets were bustling with people. Businessmen and travelers from all walks of life seemed to forget the previous turmoil in a blink of an eye, and all kinds of businesses returned to their former prosperity.

At this moment, I saw Cheng Sanwu holding the handle of the knife and stepping into He's warehouse with his head held high.

Now that the Baochang Society has been revived and has regained its various properties, he, the number one thug, walks on the road and inspects the merchants, and he can't help but feel a little high-spirited and domineering.

Ordinary merchants were in awe when they saw him, and quickly crossed their hands to say hello. Some shops offered food and drink, lest they neglect this vicious top thug.

Fortunately, Cheng Sanwu didn't stay on the road for too long, this time he came to look for the guy who had taken the initiative to sell Baochang Society, and the surrounding merchants didn't dare to ask, and avoided them one after another.

"Yo, isn't this He Liulang?"

When Cheng Sanwu entered the door, he happened to see the owner of the warehouse packing up his belongings, and he went up and sat down on the wooden box.

He Liulang took two steps back in fright, and quickly stretched out his hand to greet the servants, but those servants who had never experienced fighting dared to step forward rashly, pushing each other and making a mess.

"Look at how cowardly you are." Cheng Sanwu smiled and said, "I didn't say what to do, why are you afraid of this?"

"Did Master Su ask you to come?" He Liulang asked, leaning against the wall with weak legs.

"Lao Su is discussing important matters with the gentlemen from the imperial court. If he can't get away, let me chat with you." Cheng Sanwu kicked away the sack next to him, and his tone became colder: "Wu Maocai was that stinky man back then." It's a violation of the rules for the little devil to come directly to make trouble while I'm not around. But if he can really bring down our Baochang Society, then I won't say anything, in the Western Regions, those who are incompetent will deserve to be beaten."

Cold sweat broke out on He Liulang's forehead, and Cheng Sanwu raised his finger and pointed at him: "But you shouldn't have betrayed us. Back then, you lost all your capital and were desperate. It was our Baochang Society that took your family in. I even pointed out how many times that nephew of yours Lu Dao, but he actually colluded with the Maocai Society, and even attacked Lao Su at the most critical moment. If Lao Su was not good enough, he would have died long ago!"

Cheng Sanwu usually doesn't manage much in the Baochang club, but he is well known for his martial arts skills, and the other thug guards in the club have more or less been instructed by Cheng Sanwu.It's just that Baochang Society is not a martial arts sect, let alone any inheritance of martial arts.

Therefore, the thugs of Baochang Society can't talk about the relationship between Su Wangting and Cheng Sanwu as mentors and apprentices, and the word loyalty is even more empty talk.

"My nephew has already been killed by you, isn't that enough?" He Liulang's teeth were chattering.

"Don't pretend to be an innocent victim in front of me." Cheng Sanwu shook his head: "I just heard that Xu Yan from the Maocai Society returned to Quzhi City and hid with you."

"I don't understand what you're talking about." He Liulang's face was pale: "If Baochang Club wants me to pay off the debt, then I will pay it off."

"The one with the scar on the face, you can recognize it at a glance." Cheng Sanwu raised his hand and gestured, and when he saw the other party shut up, he immediately showed displeasure: "I didn't see it, you are quite stubborn. Originally, I still Thinking, if you are willing to obediently hand over the person, then listen to Lao Su's words and save your life. But if you insist on going to the end now, then don't blame me for being rude."

After saying this, Cheng Sanwu drew out his saber. Although the treasured saber promised by the Chief Protector of Qi hadn't been forged yet, no one would doubt that Cheng Sanwu's saber couldn't cut anyone.

Seeing the blade slowly raised, a shout came from the back room: "Stop!"

Cheng Sanwu looked up, and Xu Yan with a scar on his face appeared from the back room: "You are looking for me, you don't need to involve other people."

"As long as you know." Cheng Sanwu said coldly.

Xu Yan guarded He Liulang behind his back: "Let the He family leave."

"What? What's your relationship with them?" Cheng Sanwu asked.

"I'm his son-in-law." Xu Yan stared at Cheng Sanwu. At this moment, he was already frightened just standing and talking with him.

Cheng Sanwu frowned, and said with a sneer: "So you still have this relationship. He Liulang, I didn't see it. You are betting on both ends early, hoping that one day Baochang Society will be overthrown, so that you Take the opportunity to make a fortune?"

He Liulang hid Cheng Sanwu's sharp eyes, Xu Yan gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "I know that you, Cheng Sanwu, are faithful, and I also know that you are seeking revenge on me. As long as you let the He family go, I can go with you."

Cheng Sanwu put away his smile: "I'll give you a chance, at the Boneyard in the south of the city, you and I will fight alone, there will be no complaints between life and death!"

"Yes!" Xu Yan immediately agreed. A woman in the back room exclaimed and tried to rush out. He Liulang quickly stopped the woman.Xu Yan bowed deeply to He Liulang, and then left the warehouse with a sad face.

Cheng Sanwu glanced at it, didn't say any more nonsense, and immediately rode out of the city with Xu Yan one after the other.

In the southern outskirts of Quzhi City, there is a wasteland with sparse vegetation. After the poor people in the city die and have no money to arrange funerals, they will be taken to this wasteland to be buried hastily.Because the corpses are usually not buried too deep, wild beasts are attracted to dig up the sand and eat the carrion, so it has been called the bone burial ground by the people in the city for a long time.

Sometimes the Baochang Club wanted to kill their opponents for business, and the corpses were thrown into the burial ground in the south of the city. Later, it simply became a place for duels and fights. When they died, they threw the corpses here, which saved a lot of trouble.

When Cheng Sanwu arrived at the burial ground, there happened to be a few wild dogs digging the ground in the distance. When they saw Cheng Sanwu, they were frightened and fled immediately, but they turned their heads from time to time, their cloudy eyes seemed to be filled with anticipation.

Turning over from the horse, Cheng Sanwu took two jugs of wine from the horse's back, he lifted the mud seal, and Xu Yan came slowly on a poor horse.

"You didn't run away halfway, you are a man." Cheng Sanwu threw another pot of wine to Xu Yan, who took it with a puzzled face, Cheng Sanwu said: "This is the rule I set for myself. Invite someone to drink, and when you fight like this, you won't be afraid of the pain when you are stabbed."

After Cheng Sanwu finished speaking, he raised his head and drank vigorously, the spirit and blood boiled in his throat, and he didn't know whether it was because of the strength of the wine or the strength of his heart.

Xu Yan also unsealed the seal and drank heavily. After a few sips of strong wine, he became three-point drunk, dispelled the fear in his heart, and asked boldly, "Are you going to avenge that black-clothed brother?"

"His name is Peng Ning." Cheng Sanwu said: "You didn't even know who he was before you killed him?"

"At that time I didn't want to ask too much, I just wanted to get the Mani Pearl." Xu Yan looked at the black-glazed jug and said with a wry smile: "I went back to Quzhi City yesterday and saw the notice and found out that it wasn't a thing at all. It's ridiculous to teach holy objects."

"Peng Ning is similar. To the end of his life, he thought it was a Buddha bone relic." Cheng Sanwu sighed.

"Is he your relative?" Xu Yan asked.

"No, I just met him, not a few days ago." Seeing Xu Yan's confusion, Cheng Sanwu looked up at the blue sky: "As a person, I must do what I promised, and if I can't do it, I feel uncomfortable. Now the things have been snatched back, but Peng Ning left his life in the desert forever."

"That's why you want to kill me." Xu Yan figured it out. In fact, in the Western Regions, this kind of enmity and hatred happens every day, which is really very common.

"What about you?" This time it was Cheng Sanwu's turn to ask: "It was not easy for you to survive the fight at the Huluo Inn, so why did you go back to Quzhi City?"

"How could you not come back? My wife and children are in the city." Xu Yan took a sip of his wine.

"Then you should be clear that once you show up in Quzhi City, we will definitely be noticed by Baochang Society." Cheng Sanwu said with a smile: "With your face, you can't hide it from others at all. Why do you want to throw yourself into the trap?"

"I heard that the inspectors of the imperial court have come to Quzhi City?" Seeing the other party nodding, Xu Yan continued, "After floods and droughts and riots by bandits, the inspectors will go to the localities to inspect the officials and the people, and accept complaints of grievances. We I just hope to inform the inspector of Mr. Wu's matter, so as to take revenge on your Baochang Society."

Cheng Sanwu was taken aback, then smiled and said, "You know a lot, yet you can still do this."

"Otherwise? What else do you think I can do?" Xu Yan raised his head to drink.

"I just didn't expect you to be so loyal to Wu Maocai." Cheng Sanwu said, "He is the son of the Duke of England. There are many people serving him, and you are the only one missing."

Xu Yan was silent for a while, then gestured to the scar on his face: "You left the new scar, do you know who did the old scar?"

Cheng Sanwu shook his head, Xu Yan laughed at himself: "It's you too."

"You..." Cheng Sanwu tried his best to recall, and Xu Yan said: "Six years ago, I helped someone escort a group of slaves, but you rushed out to intercept them and insisted on robbing the group of slaves. We are not convinced, and then we will fight you. In the end, you cut it all down with one knife. My scar was left at that time."

Cheng Sanwu smiled and said: "It seems that you are not good at it, and you didn't leave much impression on me. I didn't even remember seeing you in Hongsha Town."

"That's right." Xu Yan did not deny this point: "In the Western Regions, if you have no ability, you can't get along. Those slaves were taken away by you, and our business was completely ruined. If the young master hadn't acted at that time Help, I’m afraid I’m no different from these white bones on the ground.”

Xu Yan looked at a broken skeleton buried shallowly on the ground, and his tone was somewhat relieved.

"It seems that Wu Maocai didn't treat you badly." Cheng said in three or five words.

"Mr. Wu has done me a favor of rebuilding, and I will give up my life to repay it. If the inspector refuses to accept, then I will seek revenge from you." Xu Yan said firmly, and he raised his head and drank the spirits in the pot.

"Then you should understand that after saying this, I will definitely not let you go." Cheng said in three or five words.

"You don't have to keep your hands." Xu Yan shattered the jug and pulled out his knife.

This time, Cheng Sanwu was calm and gentle. He put the jug away, and pointed at Xu Yan with his sword: "One knife, I will only take one knife."

"Come on!" Xu Yan only felt that he was back to that day six years ago, when Cheng Sanwu, with his back against the afterglow of the setting sun, stood on the top of the sand dune, casting a large shadow, which made people fearful.

At this moment, Xu Yan had no other thoughts, he just stared at the horizontal knife in Cheng Sanwu's hand, and focused all his body and mind.

Cheng Sanwu lightly breathed out the smell of alcohol in his chest. Although the horizontal knife had been honed after many fierce battles, it was still a little chipped and unusable for a long time.

Lifting the step and entering the body, the knife splits out like a mountain.Xu Yan took a step to the side, raised his saber diagonally, trying to slide past the attack, and then cut straight down Cheng Sanwu's waist and abdomen.

But the moment the two knives collided, Xu Yan's mouth couldn't bear the heavy pressure, and he was knocked to the ground with the knife. A wound appeared in his throat, and blood flowed out crazily.

Xu Yan struggled and tried to get up, but his strength was lost along with the blood, his eyes quickly became dark, and the cold began to spread to his limbs.

Xu Yan died and was beheaded by Cheng Sanwu.

Cheng Sanwu stood there silently for a long time, until the blood flowing on the ground touched the toes of his boots.

Crimson Da Ma came to the side at some point, Xiang snorted to wake up Cheng Sanwu from the silence.

"I'm fine." Cheng Sanwu put the knife back into its sheath expressionlessly, then picked up the wine jug on the ground, and poured the remaining half of the jug of spirits on the ground.

Cheng Sanwu didn't ride a horse, but walked slowly with his head down.Before he could go far, those wild dogs who were accustomed to eating carrion immediately ran towards Xu Yan's corpse. They were about to feast on Xu Yan's corpse, when a few stones flew towards them without warning, directly piercing through their bodies, causing more damage to the boneyard. Added a few corpses.

Cheng Sanwu didn't turn his head, and rubbed his feet on the stones. After death, the body is destined to rot in the ground. What's the use of killing these wild dogs by himself?

Just when Cheng Sanwu fell into inexplicable doubts, he suddenly felt a sense, and looked up, a woman hurriedly ran up, when she saw Xu Yan lying in a pool of blood, she immediately rushed to cry, her voice was shrill.

"You killed my husband!" The woman cried for a while, just in time to see Cheng Sanwu standing still, took out a short dagger, and rushed towards him like a madman.

The woman didn't have any martial arts skills, Cheng Sanwu didn't speak, just turned sideways and avoided it lightly, the woman staggered and fell into the dust by herself.

"I promised Xu Yan, let the He family go, don't waste your life." Cheng Sanwu said.

"You killed my husband, and you still want to insult us?" The woman's face was mixed with tears and dust, and she was in a panic.

"If I want to bully your family, there are many ways." Cheng Sanwu looked into the distance: "If I don't kill him, he will kill me too. If you want revenge, I won't be soft next time, so I can handle it myself. "

After saying this, Cheng Sanwu got on his horse and galloped towards Qu Zhicheng, leaving behind a trail of smoke and dust in the afterglow of the setting sun.

(End of this chapter)