Red Mansion: Fuyao River and Mountain

Chapter 283 Unintentional Killing of the Beautiful Lady

In fact, the woman had already made up her mind that she would know whether Jia Cong could do it or not after just one cut of the knife.

If he was just a show-off, she wouldn't kill Jia Cong. The worst that could happen would be a lesson for him.

Seeing that the woman was coming at him fiercely, Jia Cong hurriedly raised his knife to block her attack. The two knives knocked against each other like beads, making dense and crisp collision sounds.

Jia Cong discovered that the woman's swordsmanship was very strange and different from the sword styles in the Central Plains.

The long sword was extremely deftly wielded in her hand, dancing like a wheel, circling around her body, dazzling the eyes.

Sometimes she would throw the long sword from her right hand to her left hand and chop it. She wielded the long sword like two swords and could chop at any part of Jia Cong's body.

Rather than calling this kind of sword technique, it seems more appropriate to call it a sword dance.

Jia Cong swung her slender waist, the knife flashed, the silver light was wrapped around her, it was even somewhat pleasing to the eye.

But he did not dare to slack off at all. In such a dense and fast chopping, if he was not careful, he would be injured by the opponent's knife.

Guo Zhigui, who was standing by, was stunned when he saw the two men fighting with swords. Wasn't the Third Master a scholar? When did he learn such high-level martial arts?
The woman's knife was powerful enough, but the Third Master was not at all inferior to her when facing her.

As soon as the woman faced Jia Cong, she found that it was beyond her expectations that this boy, who looked as pretty as a girl, was surprisingly skilled.

She and Jia Cong fought for half a cup of tea, but there was still no winner, and she became anxious.

Her swordsmanship was best suited for chopping and slashing on horseback, and she could often kill the enemy with one strike in an instant. Even when fighting with others on flat ground, it would only take a few strikes to end the fight quickly.

It would never be like today, where he and Jia Cong fought for hundreds of moves and still were evenly matched.

Moreover, Jia Cong's scimitar was quite heavy. Not only was it heavy and powerful, but his moves were also very strange.

After all, she was a woman, and naturally not as strong as men. Her arms were already starting to feel numb, and if she continued like this, she would definitely lose.

……

Suddenly, Jia Cong blocked her chopping sword with his scimitar, took a few steps back, and jumped out of the battle circle.

When the woman saw the situation, her expression suddenly turned ugly.

Just now, while he was fighting with that kid, his two men had already controlled Boss Chen.

Jia Cong smiled and placed the scimitar across Zhou Suqing's neck: "If the girl continues to pester me, I will kill him with one blow, and you will still not be able to do business!"

The woman glared at Jia Cong fiercely, then suddenly curled her cherry lips and whistled sharply.

Jia Cong suddenly felt a chill in the wind behind his head, and his mind flashed with lightning as he thought of the Saker Falcon that had just flown onto the tree.

Almost without thinking, he slashed behind him with his knife like lightning!
Then I heard the woman scream, "Stop!"

There was a snapping sound, and then a white thing flew horizontally in the air. Before falling to the ground, it suddenly stretched out its wings, flapped its wings, and landed on the ground.

It was exactly the Saker Falcon that the woman had, but it seemed a little dizzy after landing, and was swaying and unable to stand steadily.

The woman hurried forward to check and found that her pet was not injured, but was just knocked unconscious by Jia Cong's knife.

She held the Saker Falcon in her arms with heartache, stroking and comforting it constantly.

Jia Cong said helplessly: "You can't blame me. If it had scratched my head just now, would I still be alive? I used the back of the knife, otherwise your eagle would have died long ago."

The woman glared at him, tears in her azure eyes. "I just wanted it to scare you, not to really hurt you. Do you really need to use so much force?"

Jia Cong asked curiously, "You let it scare me a little, and it can understand what I mean?"

The woman replied: "My eagle slave knows everything except talking. She is smarter than you!"

Jia Cong's eyes lit up, not paying any attention to the sarcasm in the woman's words, and asked, "Can it deliver letters?"

The woman looked a little disdainful, as if she thought Jia Cong was surprised by what he had seen. "Delivering a letter is nothing. It can catch fresh prey every day."

But Jia Cong didn't seem to care about whether the eagle could catch prey, and continued to ask: "It only listens to you, so how can it send the letter to another place?"

The woman replied impatiently: "Humph, why should I tell you!"

……

Now she knew that her business was ruined by Jia Cong, so she took out a gold ingot from her pocket and threw it in front of Zhou Suqing. "I don't have the ability to make money from you, so I'll give the gold back to you!"

Zhou Suqing's face was full of bitterness. She had thought that everything would be fine as she had escaped to such a remote place and hired such a capable guard.

I didn't expect to end up in this situation. It really is true that the net of heaven is vast and there is no way to escape what is coming.

Seeing that this woman lost her business but still took out the gold to return to her employer, Jia Cong thought that she was a decent person and couldn't help but smile.

Seeing her turn and leave, Jia Cong's eyes did not leave the Saker Falcon on her shoulder.

"Young lady, please stay."

The woman turned around and looked at Jia Cong in surprise.

Jia Cong smiled and said, "I want to hire a girl to be my bodyguard for one ounce of gold a month. What do you think?"

The woman looked surprised and asked, "You are so good at using a knife, do you still need a bodyguard?"

"This town is very chaotic, it's always good to hire one more person for protection."

The woman raised her eyebrows and said, "You can hire me, but I won't pay you one ounce of silver a month, I'll pay you two ounces of silver a month!"

Jia Cong was a little unconvinced and said, "Why do others hire you for one tael of gold, but I hire you for two taels of gold?"

The woman snorted, looking playful and charming: "Because you ruined my business and beat up my eagle slave, I don't like you, so I want two taels of gold!
If you don't want to, forget it. There are many wealthy southern merchants in this town, so I'm not afraid that no one will hire me!"

Thanks to her skills with a knife, this woman had never suffered any loss in the town, except when she met Jia Cong, where she was restricted and felt quite dissatisfied.

Moreover, she was not afraid of not being able to earn this tael of gold, so naturally she wanted to use it to humiliate Jia Cong and vent her anger.

"Okay, two taels of gold a month. Tomorrow morning you will meet me at the Military Affairs Office. Here is a hundred taels of silver note, which will be converted into ten taels of gold as your commission in advance."

As Jia Cong spoke, he took out a silver note worth one hundred taels and handed it to the woman, who was stunned for a moment.

Two taels of gold was just a random price she made up. There was no such outrageous price in the town. This smiling bastard actually agreed to it. Is he stupid?

Jia Cong asked with a hint of sarcasm: "I have already agreed to the price, you are not afraid to take this business, right?"

The word "dare not" seemed to irritate the woman. She stretched out her hand and snatched the banknote from Jia Cong's hand, saying, "There is gold to be earned, why dare not? I will be there tomorrow morning."

After saying this, he put the banknotes in his arms, turned around and left.

Jia Cong asked the figure from behind, "What's your name, young lady?"

"My name is Ellie."

Guo Zhigui and Jiang Xiaosi, who were standing by, were stunned by this scene.

Guo Zhigui looked puzzled: "Third Master, two taels of gold is equivalent to twenty taels of silver. You spend so much silver to hire a ghost woman as a bodyguard. This is too expensive.

I heard from my mother that the old lady of the West Mansion was a first-rank imperial concubine, and her monthly allowance was only twenty taels of silver. This ghost woman was actually the same as the old lady... "

Jia Cong found Guo Zhigui's analogy quite funny and couldn't help laughing.

Jiang Xiaosi on the side kept winking at Guo Zhigui, and his expression seemed a little ambiguous.

Guo Zhigui was unaware and asked, "Third Master, you spent so much money, you didn't fall in love with this ghost woman, did you? She looks so creepy, and her eyes are shining blue."

Jia Cong glared at Guo Zhigui and said, "What nonsense! I didn't fall in love with her. I fell in love with her eagle."

Guo Zhigui and Jiang Xiaosi looked at each other. What was so good about that woman's eagle? It would just sit on people's shoulders stupidly every day.

"Shiki, how long did it take you to get from Shenjing to Liaodong?"

"We walked for nearly a month. Even if we changed horses at the post station, it would still take more than ten days."

"She is an expert at falcon training. The eagle will arrive in two days at most!"

Guo Zhigui and Jiang Xiaosi both looked confused and didn't understand what Jia Cong meant.

Because they are not Jia Cong, they do not understand the speed of information transmission and how great a role it can sometimes play.

(End of this chapter)