I use my daughter's body to cut down the rivers and lakes

Chapter 288 Goodbye Trio

Tao Zhiyan originally wanted to take Liu Qi to experience the prosperity of Jiangnan, but she had forgotten that Liu Qi's appearance was so eye-catching that she was almost always under the gaze of passers-by along the way.

Fortunately, the three of them were obviously from the underworld, both in terms of their attire and their aura, so even if ordinary people had some ideas, they would not dare to come up and cause trouble.

Those who have a little insight among the passers-by can easily recognize that Liu Qi among the three is none other than Liu Bawang who has been very popular in the martial arts world recently.

Liu Qi took the lead and walked in front. Although he attracted countless eyes from the passers-by around him, wherever he passed, the originally crowded pedestrians all turned around and made way.

Just at the corner of the next street, Liu Qi saw a crowd of people in front of him, and then the crowd dispersed. Lu Jian, wearing a blue shirt, walked through the crowd and walked towards Liu Qi with a smile on his face.

"Miss Liu..."

After Lu Jian stood still, he just made a bowing gesture, but found that Liu Qi had no intention of stopping and walked straight past him.

Seeing Lu Jian's somewhat surprised expression, Tao Zhiyan and Tao Zhili couldn't help but look at each other, smiled knowingly, and then kept chasing after him.

Tao Zhiyan chased all the way to Liu Qi's side, then leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Cousin Fangfu, do you think this guy surnamed Lu is interested in you?"

Tao Zhili, who was half a body length behind the two, glanced behind him vigilantly. After hearing what Tao Zhiyan said, he couldn't help but frowned and reminded in a low voice: "It seems that Mr. Lu has caught up with us."

When Tao Zhiyan heard the voice, she looked back and saw that Lu Jian's face had regained his cheerful smile and he was quickly catching up with her and her group.

She couldn't help but curl her lips and muttered with disdain: "This Lu Jian is too shameless. Cousin Fang Fu clearly doesn't want to pay attention to him, but he is still like a dog-skin plaster."

Tao Zhili said helplessly: "Little sister, don't forget that we are still living in someone else's house."

"Miss Liu, if you have time to come out for a walk today, why didn't you tell me in advance? I can then do my best to play the role of host!" Lu Jian walked up to her and greeted her with a smile, as if Liu Qi's behavior of ignoring him just now had no effect on him at all.

Liu Qi kept walking, his eyes looking straight ahead, without even glancing at Lu Jian standing beside him. He said calmly, "Could it be that without Master Lu, Liu Qi can no longer travel around Jiangnan?"

"How dare I, how dare I." Lu Jian quickly replied, "I just thought that Miss Liu came from afar and might not be familiar with Jiangnan. If Miss Liu doesn't mind, I am willing to be your guide and take you to appreciate the scenery of Jiangnan!"

"If Mr. Lu has the time, why not take care of the household affairs first?" Liu Qi glanced at Lu Jian and said coldly, "Zheng Cheng was once a notorious bandit who came and went without a trace. The Lu family should be worried about this now, right?"

When Lu Jian heard this, he felt his head buzzing, and then he stood there in a daze as if he had been struck by lightning.

"It's indeed her!" Lu Jian looked at Liu Qi's gradually receding back with a gloomy face. For a moment, his heart was filled with mixed feelings and a complicated look appeared in his eyes.

Lu Jian couldn't help but think of his father's furious look at home today. Although he didn't dare to ask his father why he was angry, he vaguely guessed that it might be related to "Sword Seven" who was wanted by his father himself with a reward.

"Jian Qi" is a close confidant of Lu Jian's father, Lu Jiuzhang. Even Lu Jian has no idea where he usually goes.

In addition to himself, the chess piece in the open, his father indeed made some secret arrangements for Liu Qi. However, it now seems that Lu Jiuzhang's arrangements are obviously useless.

When he thought of this, the corners of Lu Jian's mouth slightly curved up, but it was restrained completely in an instant. At this time, Liu Qi and his group had completely walked out of his sight. Lu Jian did not intend to catch up with them, but turned around and left somewhere else.

……

"Miss Liu, I'm sorry." The middle-aged man in a bleached coarse cloth shirt stood at the steps in front of the building and bowed to Liu Qi, saying, "The owner of the building has not returned yet. Please come visit again on another day."

Liu Qi raised his head and looked at the three bold and powerful characters on the plaque: Xiake Building!

This is the branch of the Beggars' Sect in Jiangnan, and it is also the base camp of the chivalrous sect.

The author of this post, Xiu Shaoyang, should still be in charge of the overall situation at the Junshan headquarters of the Beggars' Sect.

Regarding the Beggars' Sect, there have been some rumors in the martial arts world recently, saying that the leader of the Beggars' Sect, Gu Liancheng, has not appeared for a long time. Now Xiu Shaoyang is in power in Junshan, acting like the master of the house. The disciples belonging to the Xiaoyao lineage have long been dissatisfied with him, and there are even rumors that Gu Liancheng has been secretly harmed by Xiu Shaoyang.

The disagreement between the Xiaxing lineage and the Xiaoyao lineage within the Beggars' Sect has a long history.

The former insists that a chivalrous man has a benevolent heart, and that if a man has the strength to spare, he should go out into the world and perform chivalrous deeds to eliminate the injustices in the world.

The latter, on the other hand, prefer a free and easy life, believing that punishing evildoers and upholding justice are matters that the court should worry about. Beggars like them are as humble as dust, so why should they care about these troubles? They should just live a carefree life of drinking and enjoying life today.

In fact, the difference between the two factions can be seen from their clothing.

The middle-aged man in front of him was wearing coarse cloth clothes, which had become a little white due to excessive starching, but they were still clean and tidy, and there was no peculiar smell on his body.

And some people in the Xiaoyao lineage are really no different from beggars.

When Liu Qi was admiring the large characters on the plaque, the door of the Knight's Tower suddenly opened, and two men in grey coarse cloth clothes came out of the tower carrying a large basket.

It was not until the two men carried the basket down the stairs that Liu Qi caught a glimpse of the basket full of steamed buns. Moreover, the steamed buns in the basket were not as white and soft as the ones he usually ate at home. They looked gray and hard, and did not look like they were freshly steamed.

The two men carried the basket full of steamed buns to one side under the steps and placed it there. Then one of them took out a small gong from behind and started beating it "clang clang clang".

Deng Deng Deng Deng...

As soon as the gong sounded, Liu Qi heard footsteps coming from all directions, followed by people running out from the alleys around the Xiake Building.

As these people appeared and ran to the entrance of Xiake Building, Liu Qi clearly smelled a foul odor.

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Miss Liu." The middle-aged man beside him smiled respectfully and said, "This is the rule of our Xiake Building. We will give these beggars some food before noon every day."

"The smell here is not good. If you have nothing to do, Miss Liu, you may leave first. When the host comes back, he will send someone to inform you."

Liu Qi ignored the other party and looked at the beggars who kept gathering from all directions and swarmed to block the door of the Knight's Building. If the two men had not stopped in front of the basket, these hungry beggars would have snatched it away long ago.

Seeing that Liu Qi had no intention of leaving, the middle-aged man from the Xiake Tower invited the three of them to move aside, away from those beggars who smelled sour.

Tao Zhiyan covered her nose and asked in a muffled voice: "Aren't these people all brothers from your gang? Why are the buns you gave them almost rotten?"

Facing Tao Zhiyan's question, the middle-aged man smiled and replied: "This girl may not know that although these people are also beggars, they are not members of our Beggars' Sect. As for those steamed buns... although they don't look good, they can still fill your stomach."

"But..." Tao Zhiyan wanted to say something, but was stopped by Tao Zhili who was standing beside her and quietly pulled her arm.

After leaving the Xiake Tower, seeing that it was almost noon, the three of them randomly found a restaurant.

After ordering the dishes, the waiter started to prepare them. Tao Zhiyan slammed the bamboo jade flute in her hand on the table and said indignantly, "I think the Xiakelou is just a name in vain. We wouldn't even give out these steamed buns for charity!"

Tao Zhili poured tea for Liu Qi and Tao Zhiyan while whispering, "My dear sister, our family gives alms for charity, but it's different in Xiakelou."

Tao Zhiyan stiffened her neck and asked, "What's the difference? Aren't they both giving food to beggars?"

Tao Zhili pursed his lips helplessly, then glanced at Liu Qi who was calmly drinking tea, then looked around, and found that no one was paying attention, so he said softly: "The Xiake Tower is giving alms on the surface, but in fact it is to select people from these beggars!" Liu Qi's eyes flashed when he heard it, and then he raised his head and looked deeply at Tao Zhili, and then continued to drink tea with his head down.

I didn't expect that my cousin had some insight.

Although the Beggars' Sect claims that all beggars in the world are one family, it does not mean that beggars are members of the Sect.

In simple terms, people who are willing to eat moldy steamed buns all their lives will be looked down upon even by the Beggars' Sect.

As long as the group of people gathered at the door of the Xiake Building have a little bit of unwillingness to be content with the status quo, the people in the Xiake Building will provide them with a path to move upward. Even if they do not have the talent for martial arts, they can be low-level disciples who are responsible for waving flags and cheering, so that they will not have to eat moldy steamed buns.

Beggars are to the Beggars' Sect as the common people are to the imperial court.

The imperial court recruits talents from all over the country, and the Beggars' Gang selects talents from among beggars.

Unless there is a day when there are truly no beggars in the world, the Beggars' Gang will always exist!
In the past, Liu Qi didn’t understand why there were so many masters in the Beggars’ Sect, but they were willing to associate with beggars.

According to common sense, when a person from the bottom of society becomes successful, he or she will most likely cut off ties with his or her shameful past.

Only the Beggars' Sect do not shy away from their humble origins and are even proud of it.

Liu Qi recalled the middle-aged man who was neither humble nor arrogant in front of the Knight's Tower, and the people from the Beggars' Sect that he met instantly emerged in his mind.

There was Qiao Wulang who attacked Liu Qi with one move in Li'an City, Fei Chao who secretly instigated the people in the martial arts world to deal with Liu Qi in Yongquan Prefecture, Fengzi Cheng who came to visit him in Baishui County, and Xiu Shaoyang who was on par with Liu Qi outside Qingjiang Prefecture.

From Fei Chao, the deputy leader of the branch hall, to Cheng Fengzi and Qiao Wulang, the master and apprentice who are both seven-bag and eight-bag elders, and finally to Xiu Shaoyang, the deputy gang leader.

All of these people have a very similar temperament.

Even if they are not in the right, they always act righteously, as if dying in their hands is what others deserve.

Liu Qi now vaguely understood something.

The most difficult step in cultivation is to cultivate your mind.

If one's mind is not firm, his martial arts practice will naturally not go smoothly.

But the Beggars' Sect took a different approach and used their identities to achieve spiritual cultivation.

In simple terms, the reason why the masters of the Beggars' Sect are unwilling to cut off their identities as beggars is that they take advantage of the world's sympathy for the lower classes to perfect their own martial arts aspirations.

I am a beggar, so poor that I can't even have enough food to eat, so it is only right for me to rob and plunder!
I am a beggar, already the most pitiful person in the world. It is wrong for you to argue with me.

I am a beggar, a lowly person who can be trampled upon by anyone. How dare you go against me? Aren’t you too inhumane!

……

After figuring this out, Liu Qi couldn't help but sigh that the founder of the Beggars' Sect was truly a martial arts genius!
The meaning of the song is distorted in this way.

Bitter, of course, it was eaten by real beggars.

However, the Beggars' Sect has the right to define the word "beggar".

No matter whether you are good at martial arts or lead a life of luxury and debauchery, as long as you are a member of the Beggars' Sect, you are a beggar!

From now on, no matter whether he bullies the weak or robs others by force, it will not affect his martial arts spirit.

When Taoist sects such as Qingcheng and Taiyi distanced themselves from the secular world in order to cultivate their minds, the Beggars' Sect had already swept the world with millions of disciples. No wonder the Beggars' Sect has always been one of the most powerful sects in the world.

……

Liu Qi had just come out of the inn when he suddenly noticed a chaotic noise coming from a distance.

Then, people were seen falling to the ground in the street. A figure jumped down from the roof of a building without any regard for the pedestrians on the road. Wherever he went, people fell to the ground and wailed.

"Zhang Yang, where are you running to!" A loud shout echoed throughout the long street, and then four figures emerged from the rooftop. Three of them flew down and came to the long street.

As if they saw the pedestrians on the street wailing everywhere, the three of them stopped at the same time, looked at each other, and hesitation appeared in their eyes.

The man who stayed on the roof saw the three people suddenly stop and immediately asked in a stern voice: "Qing'er, what are you waiting for? Go chase the traitor!"

At the same time, the person who spoke narrowed his eyes slightly, swept his gaze across the crowd of people dodging in panic on the street, and locked onto the fleeing figure.

But then he seemed to notice something out of the corner of his eye, his pupils trembled slightly, and his expression changed drastically.

"It turned out to be her!"

Liu Qi felt that someone was spying on him, so he raised his head and looked up, and soon saw the face of the person on the roof clearly.

What a fate!

The man on the roof was none other than Li Feiling, one of the Four Little Flying Cranes.

If he had not injured Liu Qi with the Crane Feather Divine Needle, Liu Qi would not have turned around in rage to kill him, which eventually led to Lin Yangui, one of the Four Little Flying Cranes, becoming a scapegoat and dying at the hands of Liu Qi.

When Li Feiling saw Liu Qi, he became flustered and for a moment he even forgot that he was chasing a traitor in the sect.

The three people who had just been questioned by him about why they stopped were now chasing after the fleeing person.

Liu Qi slowly moved his gaze to the three people and was surprised to find that these three were also old acquaintances.

The leading woman had a frosty face and held a long sword. She was Song Qing'er, whom she had met in Cangzhou before.

A round-faced girl holding a long sword almost as long as herself, and a young man with a messy hair, stood on Song Qing'er's left and right.

Liu Qi, who had the opportunity to meet them during his time in Cangzhou, still remembered their names.

The round-faced girl is named Cheng Zhenzhen, and her father was the spearmanship instructor of the imperial guards.

The young man with the chicken-coop hair is a disciple of the Beggar Gang called Xiao Jiang by Song Qing'er and Cheng Zhenzhen.

(End of this chapter)