Little Lantuo Mountain was the backyard of one of the three families in the inner city, "King of Hell Sima" family. However, the Dong family had launched a bloody massacre that had been planned for a long time. Almost half of them survived overnight. However, a centipede dies but never falls down. After the Dong family hit a wall with the young drunkard on the roof, especially when the Young Master of the Aquarius State heard that Chicken Soup Monk had given an alms bowl to "Tie Mu Die 'er", the young swordsman who had once assassinated Yan Wenluan with his sect, the Great Yue House, came to the thatched cottage at the foot of the mountain. The cautious Wang Weixue mistook him for a protective amulet that the old monk had pasted on the Sima family's door. Therefore, he ordered the Dong family's assassins to stop pursuing the Sima family. Hsu Fengnian, who was sitting leisurely on the bench, also felt the strength and resilience of the city. The Sima family was already in a miserable state. If it were a family in the Central Plains, the monkeys would have fled when the tree fell. However, the Sima family still sent more than 30 Men of Sacrifice, whose clothes were still wet from blood to swords, to protect a similar number of women, children, and the elderly. It seemed that this was the last bit of the Sima family's spirit left. Obviously, they really regarded Hsu Fengnian, who was sitting on the bench under the thatched cottage, as a life-saving amulet. After the Six-jewel Bodhisattva came and went like a ghost, the Sima family's spirit rose a little. After all, in the Western Region, it was not a bad thing to have a connection with Lantuo Mountain. Hsu Fengnian, who had nothing to do, looked at the people 200 steps away. They were also looking at him, a strange guest of unknown origin. Among them, the eyes of the children were wide open. They were all holding weapons. Whether it was the weapons or the tragic situation tonight, it was too heavy for them. Many children still had tears on their faces. There were slightly tall boys comforting the little girls beside them. There were also adult men with crossbows who were bandaging their wounds with the help of the women. There were also nimble children who picked up arrows from somewhere and tiptoed carefully to put them into their elders' quiver.
In order to prevent the Dong family's assassins from assassinating under the cover of the night, lanterns were hung on the branches of the trees. The lights were unusually bright.
In the night breeze, Hsu Fengnian looked at them. The children were also staring blankly at this powerful figure who could make friends with the Bodhisattva of Lantuo Mountain.
Then, under the escort of several experts from the inner city who were more skilled than the retainers of ordinary families, a woman with a huge ox-horned bow on her back walked towards Hsu Fengnian. Her graceful figure, slender waist, long legs, and the huge killing weapon were particularly eye-catching in the light. Hsu Fengnian slowly got up, thinking that he was helping the monk who called himself the senior brother of the monk of the Dragon Tree to entertain the guests. However, he obviously underestimated his "momentum". When he bent down and got up, except for the woman, the other three experts suddenly froze. Then, when they found that the mistress was still moving forward, they gripped their weapons tightly and followed her. Before Hsu Fengnian stood up, he found that the group of people were so nervous, so he sat back down, thinking that this would probably make them feel more at ease. However, he did not expect that his rise and fall would completely irritate the group of frightened birds. They whistled and shouted. Without saying anything, a relatively young man stood in front of the mistress and pointed his saber at her. He stared at Hsu Fengnian, as if he was going to fight to the death. Hsu Fengnian felt a little helpless. "Do you want me to stand or sit?"
The woman whispered to the experts beside her, who were trained by her family for thousands of days, and then asked them to stay fifty steps away. She walked in front of Hsu Fengnian alone and smiled as she pointed at the bench where the Six-jewel Bodhisattva sat. Hsu Fengnian nodded. She took off the ox-horned bow and sat down. She smiled and said, "Young Master, please don't mind. Our Sima family is really jittery tonight. Oh, I forgot to ask you, can you understand me? "
Hsu Fengnian smiled and said, "I'm not from Beimang. Of course I can understand Madam Chai's Central Plains official language."
Not only this city, but the entire Western Region knew that the head of the Sima family was Madam Chai. After marrying into the Sima family, no woman took her husband's surname. She had been in charge of the family for twenty years, so some of the three families in the inner city called the Sima family the Chai family. Hsu Fengnian had gathered intelligence in the Whispering Room and learned that Madam Chai was a refugee from Dongyue. She was forced to migrate to this place, and the elders in her family quickly withered away. She was alone and pitifully married into the Sima family, which was still struggling in the outer city. It could be said that she had personally managed the Sima family to its current status. As for the hardships she had gone through, Hsu Fengnian did not know about them, nor did he have any interest in them.
She said bluntly, "Since Young Master is not a Beimang barbarian, then I'll be frank with you. If I offend you in any way, please don't be angry. As long as Young Master can protect the one hundred and twenty-four members of the Sima family, no matter what Young Master wants, as long as I can afford it, I'll give it to you! "
Hsu Fengnian did not say anything.
This madam, who was almost forty years old but was still more charming than a young woman, had a determined look in her eyes. "Perhaps Young Master feels that the Sima family is not worth mentioning, but I can guarantee that as long as we survive this crisis, as long as the Sima family's golden name is not completely destroyed tonight, then I'll be able to gather two thousand people again in less than half a year."
Then she suddenly felt a little miserable. That young man was actually looking into the distance in a daze at this critical moment that concerned the survival of her family.
For her to be able to lead her family to this day, she naturally had her own perseverance. She said in a more serious tone, "Maybe young master is a man from the Central Plains who happened to pass by the Western Regions, or maybe you are a first-rate talent from the most prominent sect in the Liyang River Lake. You have the ambition to reach the peak of martial arts, and you don't care about the glory and disgrace of one or two families in the Western Regions. However, I sincerely ask young master to help us this time. The Sima family will definitely be grateful to young master. In the future, as long as young master sends a message back to the Western Regions, even if it is the Southern Jiang, the Liao Kingdom, or the Liyang Capital, if I am still alive, I will personally lead my family's elite forces to young master. Even if I am already dead, the next head of the Sima family will definitely not refuse to help young master! If I, Chai Dongdi, violate my oath, then I'll never be able to be a human again! "
Hsu Fengnian turned to look at this woman, his eyes in a trance.
Her eyes instantly became cold, and her tone also became colder. "I've said it before. As long as I can afford it, Young Master can take it away!"
In her life, she had seen too many men show this kind of expression in front of her. In the early years, it was the influential people in the outer city, and later, it was the ambitious people in the inner city, such as Dong Tieling of the Dong family, the father and sons of the Li family, and those men who were arrogant because they were masters on the ranking list.
She said expressionlessly, "But I'll only give Young Master what he wants once."
She was no longer the ignorant girl who thought that there were chivalrous people everywhere in Jianghu.
For so many years, for the sake of this family, she followed the rules of the Western Region and did many things that went beyond the bottom line of morality. She was cruel, bloody, dirty, scheming, scheming, and trapping.
But for herself, there was one thing that she had always kept to her bottom line. She originally thought that in a few years, or at most ten years, the Western Region would no longer talk about her appearance as Madam Chai, and there would no longer be any young people who would drool over her figure. Then, she would be able to live up to the memory of her husband, who only had a surname left.
Hsu Fengnian did not become angry because of the misunderstanding. He only smiled. "Madam Chai is thinking too much. It's just that you reminded me of a very important person."
He turned to look in the northeast direction and said softly, "I miss her very much. In fact, I've always missed her. "
She was stunned on the spot as she looked at the side of his face that was filled with warmth. She could see that this man's longing at this moment could not be faked.
She suddenly felt sad and self-deprecating for no reason. The things that appeared on his face were the most extravagant things in the Western Region. She, a woman who had rebuked the winds and clouds of the Western Region for twenty years, had never felt this way before.
Hsu Fengnian retracted his gaze and smiled. "The person I'm waiting for hasn't arrived yet, so I do have some time left. Instead of sitting here in a daze, I might as well make a deal with you."
Even someone as calm as her could not help but reveal a pleasantly surprised expression. However, the young man's next words made her feel as if she had been struck by lightning. "Madam Chai, is there really only one time? Can we talk about it again? "
Whether it was her imposing manner, her arrogance, or her temperament, they were all exhausted at the first spurt of energy. Although Madam Chai was still angry this time, she was no longer as solemn and stirring as before. On the contrary, it was probably because she was too old, so even if she was angry, she still had a different kind of charm. At this moment, she seemed a little … shy?
Hsu Fengnian laughed heartily and waved his hand. "Alright, let's stop joking. It's just that I felt that your heartstrings were too tense earlier and that this kind of injury was actually endless. Madam, you're an expert in using the bow, so you should know the principle of relaxation. Let's talk about business. To tell you the truth, I have some secret operations in the inner city. In the last half a year, I've established a power in the inner city. Madam, you might have already met that sour old scholar. He's one of my men in the Western Region. "
Madam Chai's expression became serious. Most women in the world were like this. After the pleasant surprise, she could not help but fuss over every little thing. She softly asked, "I heard that the old man surnamed Liu either has a background in Beiliang, or he's an expert from the God of Fortune's Li family, one in the open and one in the dark. In fact, they're both from Liyang and Zhao Gou."
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