Huo Chenan looked at the middle-aged beggar in front of him and asked, "Senior, is your surname Hong?"
The middle-aged beggar was also stunned by Huo Chenan's irrelevant question, and he shook his head blankly.
Huo Chenan asked again, "Then senior, is your surname Su?"
The middle-aged beggar shook his head.
"Then senior, do you know the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and the Dog Beating Stick Technique?" Huo Chenan asked again.
The middle-aged beggar's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he smiled and said, "No."
Looking at his pretentious smile, Huo Chenan's brows twisted together, and he said, "Do you know how to do the Sleeping Arhat Fist?"
Hearing this, the middle-aged beggar was overjoyed. He had already regarded Huo Chenan as a young man obsessed with martial arts novels, and today he was sure to have him. Thinking of this, the middle-aged beggar laughed directly: "Hahahaha."
Suddenly, the laughter stopped, and the middle-aged beggar said calmly: "No."
"Tsk, I'll give you a lung! You're wasting my time." Huo Chenan said with a curse, and turned around to leave.
"Little brother, little brother, don't go." The middle-aged beggar saw Huo Chenan was about to leave, and hurriedly stopped him: "Although I don't know the martial arts you mentioned, I know other things." Huo Chenan said impatiently: "What can you do?" "Face-reading." Huo Chenan was so angry that he laughed. The feudal superstition had come to his head. He snorted disdainfully and said: "Hmph, then tell me what you have seen." "I think you are amazing, a martial arts genius among ten thousand. It depends on you to maintain world peace. I have a secret book here. I think you are destined to be together, so I will sell it to you for 10 taels of silver!" The middle-aged beggar took out a yellowed book from his arms. There were four big characters "Tathagata Palm" written on the book. Huo Chenan's eyes widened immediately, and his heart was excited: "This beggar is not also a time traveler, right?" Although Huo Chenan's heart was already in turmoil, his expression was still calm. He lowered his voice and said to the middle-aged beggar: "Odds change, but evens don't."
The middle-aged beggar's eyes blinked, as if he didn't understand what Huo Chenan was talking about.
Huo Chenan saw that he didn't respond for a long time, and wondered if this guy was a poor student before he traveled through time, so he whispered again: "Palace Jade Liquor."
The middle-aged beggar's eyes were still blinking, with a black question mark on his face.
Huo Chenan rolled his eyes in disappointment. It turned out that he was just a liar. He made him think that he met a fellow villager. He was so embarrassed to show off such a low-level trick. I'm afraid only a fool would be fooled.
Huo Chenan was too lazy to pay attention to him and turned around to leave.
"Wait, this book is not suitable, there are more." Seeing this, the middle-aged beggar hurriedly stopped him, and took out four more books from his arms, namely "Dugu Jiujian", "Yiyang Finger", "Nine Yang Magic", "Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms", and "Thousand Hands Palm".
Huo Chenan ignored him and continued to move forward with his head tilted.
The middle-aged beggar thought Huo Chenan was still interested, so he followed Huo Chenan and said, "How about this, I'll go back and see if there are any Dog Beating Stick Techniques and Sleeping Arhat Fist. These two unique skills sound very promising."
Huo Chenan was really annoyed, so he said, "I didn't bring any money."
The middle-aged beggar stopped following him immediately, and stood behind Huo Chenan and cursed, "Poor bastard, why didn't you say it earlier? I wasted so much saliva."
...
Huo Chenan wandered around for a whole day and didn't find any traces of the Japanese, so he had no choice but to go home.
Back to Wuwei Escort Agency, Chu Xiaomei and Deng Lingchong also found nothing.
Deng Lingchong excitedly took out a book from his bosom and said to Huo Chenan: "Mr. Huo, I met a master today. He said that I have amazing bones and am a rare martial arts genius... In the end, I only spent 10 taels of silver to buy a martial arts secret book."
As he said this, he showed Huo Chenan the Tathagata Palm with a yellowed cover.
Huo Chenan covered his face with his hands and couldn't bear to look at it. There are really fools who are fooled.
He took the book and turned to the last page. He saw that the price was 50 wen written in small calligraphy.
Chu Xiaomei covered her mouth and laughed softly, while Deng Lingchong looked incredulous.
Huo Chenan asked: "Is the person who sold it to you a beggar?"
Deng Lingchong nodded dully. Ten taels of silver, that was the money he had saved for who knows how long.
Huo Chenan thought to himself, how did this Beggars' Gang become a fraud gang?
"Hey, learn a lesson from your mistakes." Huo Chenan comforted.
Just as Huo Chenan and Chu Xiaomei were comforting Deng Lingchong, Zhang San jumped into the room with bandages wrapped around him. He said anxiously, "The Japanese are coming."
Deng Lingchong was immediately refreshed after hearing this. He finally found someone to vent his anger on. He immediately stood up and said, "Oh my god, I was just in a bad mood, and the Japanese came to my door and asked me to kill them."
Huo Chenan hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't worry, just clean it up and don't kill anyone. Let's play the long game and catch big fish."
"What fish? Where to fish?" Deng Lingchong asked puzzledly.
Huo Chenan was too lazy to explain, and waved his hand and said, "Follow me."
Just as they were about to leave, Huo Chenan said again, "Zhang San is still injured, so don't go. Xiaomei, don't go either. Don't hurt you by mistake."
Chu Xiaomei was touched, but also a little aggrieved. After all, she was the one with the highest martial arts in the group.
But Huo Chenan didn't know that in his eyes, Chu Xiaomei was just a "weak woman" abducted by human traffickers. She was indeed very beautiful, but unfortunately she was a "Princess Taiping".
Huo Chenan brought Deng Lingchong to the gate of Wuwei Escort Agency, where several wanderers were standing at the gate and shouting: "Miss Su, this is the betrothal gift our prince gave you."
The leader threw two dead dogs at the gate of Wuwei Escort Agency, and then another wanderer poured a basin of dog blood on the ground.
The people watching around saw such a bloody scene and all exclaimed and retreated, fearing that they would be splashed with blood.
The leader continued: "Black dog blood, evil spirits, Miss Su, the prince is very good to you, hahahaha."
The man laughed and laughed, and then he said: "You have an old saying called slowly enlightened Wei Junjie, Miss Su, do you understand?"
Before the voice fell, something flew towards the wanderer's face at a very fast speed.
There was a crisp sound, and the ronin fell to the ground, holding his nose and howling.
Only then did everyone see clearly that what had just flown out was a green brick.
And Huo Chenan was still standing at the door, throwing bricks.
He weighed the brick in his other hand and said to Deng Lingchong: "Can you beat it?"
Deng Lingchong grinned and said: "Twice as many is no problem."
Huo Chenan raised the brick and said: "Fuck him."