Chapter 这种绝活谁敢要啊 Who Dares to Want Such a Skill

Although Miss Red Wine might be right, Hu Ma was still reluctant to accept Ji Tang's "treasure."

The Suishi's (Year Keeper) skill was quite magical, but he didn't know if it was completely unscientific. For example, if he casually replaced two big kidneys, whose child would it be in the future?

As for the so-called Qing Shi Hand (Green Corpse Hand), Flying Legs, and even the five senses that Ji Tang had refined from death, he didn't need them even more. He admitted that he was a bit of a clean freak in this area.

While thinking about these things, he saw Miss Red Wine starting to put away the Kongming lantern containing Ji Tang's living soul, so he hurriedly searched the scene.

But the result was disappointing.

Last time he fought with Granny Cui and the others, he had scavenged a lot of things afterward. But now, this dignified Beggar Gang leader had nothing but a knife?

You're such a big gang leader, alone, bringing only a broken knife to ambush someone. Who wouldn't kill you?

"Let's go!"

Miss Red Wine only slightly tidied up the few yellow pennants on the wooden frame. After Hu Ma took the knife, she helped right the carriage with him, and also helped up the horse that was half-dead and looked very sad on the ground.

It was determined to die, but it was knocked unconscious, and its will to die became even stronger out of shame and anger.

In fact, it had already woken up just now, but it was still lying on the ground, only its empty eyes looked at the sky, blinking occasionally. Until it was helped up by Hu Ma and put on the cart, it still looked like it had no love for life.

""

"There's a lot to do!"

Hu Ma looked amused. "What's this little bit of stuff? Senior, you can take a basket if you want!"

Two full baskets of local specialties were still neatly inside, as if they had never disappeared.

Earlier, these two baskets were filled with the "local specialties" that Xiang Yaotou had given him to take back to the village. But at some point, Miss Red Wine had replaced these specialties with shadow puppets.

Miss Red Wine, however, addressed as Han Niangzi, lightly hopped and sat on Hu Ma's cart, stretched, and said, "Let's go, to the town ahead. We need to help you get the Suishi's method of entering the manor, and also explain some necessary things to you."

Hu Ma ignored her, just looked at the two baskets on the ground, feeling a little nervous.

Where did his specialties go?

"Forget it!"

For a moment, he hesitated whether to ask Miss Red Wine.

But now, he lifted the two big baskets back onto the cart, and immediately felt that the weight seemed a little off. He hurriedly looked inside, but was suddenly stunned.

He hurriedly wanted to kneel down and kowtow, and then ask Miss Red Wine what her instructions were.

"Or, you take this extra basket?"

"You have a place to stay here, right? Spare two rooms for me, and prepare four tables of food. I just took care of something and need to rest here."

When Hu Ma heard this, he became serious, and quickly comforted the horse that wanted to die but failed, and hurried forward.

Miss Red Wine pointed the way, and soon they came to the nearby Niutou Town, where there was actually an opera troupe performing.

"What, worried that I stole your stuff?"

Miss Red Wine stopped with Hu Ma by the roadside, waited for them to finish singing, then walked over, took out a waist牌 (waist牌, a type of badge) from her arms and showed it to them. The others in the opera troupe were stunned, but the troupe leader was immediately shocked.

"No, no..."

Miss Red Wine glanced at Hu Ma and said, "I just borrowed your basket, it's not like you're short of these things."

Miss Red Wine gave the order as a matter of course, and the troupe leader didn't say a word, immediately went to arrange it.

""

Before long, they were led to a house next to the stage, which they had rented as a place to stay. They gave up the largest and most spacious room and ordered people to prepare four tables of wine and dishes.

Miss Red Wine didn't stand on ceremony and said directly, "By the way, after you finish singing here, if you have time, take a trip to Anzhou Lingshou Prefecture."

"Someone there is hiring an opera troupe, and the money you earn will probably be more than you usually earn in a month!"

""

The other party was very grateful and took their leave.

Hu Ma looked at Miss Red Wine curiously, and heard her lazily say, "I told you, the identity of the Zhuodao Zhishi (blade-holder) is very useful."

"Since I am the Zhuodao of the opera world, then everyone in the opera world can be considered my disciples and grandchildren. As long as I come, whether they know me or not, they will naturally have to show respect."

"Of course, if they encounter difficulties and ask for my help, then I have to come forward to solve the problem."

""

Hu Ma said, "Then your waist牌 (waist牌, a type of badge) must be recognized by people in the opera world, right?"

"What if this troupe leader doesn't recognize it?"

""

Miss Red Wine glanced at him and said, "Do you always have so many questions?"

Hu Ma was immediately a little embarrassed. Miss Red Wine sighed and said, "Those who make a living in the martial world know the importance of rules. How can they not find out about their own world's affairs?"

"Of course..."

Saying that, she changed her tone again, "If there really are people who don't recognize it, then we can only pretend that we recognized the wrong person and find a place to go ourselves..."

Hu Ma noted these rules one by one, wondering when he would need them in the future.

After all, martial world rules are important, sometimes more important than ability.

Miss Red Wine didn't know if it was because she cared for newcomers, or simply thought Hu Ma was good-looking and pleasing to the eye. Anything useful to Hu Ma, or that he was curious about, she would casually explain to him.

During this time following Miss Red Wine, he had learned more martial world experience than he would have gained in a few years on his own.

Wiping his face and changing out of his blood-stained clothes, Hu Ma sat down, ready to eat with Miss Red Wine, his eyes looking at the Kongming lantern.

The moth inside was the most important thing in this trip, right?

However, he needed to search the soul to get the method he wanted, but soul-searching has always been a major event. Miss Red Wine was in the opera world, did the opera world have such methods?

"Don't rush to pick up your chopsticks yet, we still have friends coming over..."

Miss Red Wine also wiped her hands, sat down, poured a glass of wine first, and slowly said, but didn't touch the food.

Hu Ma looked at the four tables full of food and guessed that someone was coming, but he was still a little puzzled: "Which kind of friends are coming this time?"

"Since it's the Anzhou Transcenders' group building, how can we not show up and have a few drinks?"

Miss Red Wine smiled faintly and said, "Aren't we waiting for them to come now?"

"We're having a party?"

Hu Ma was shocked. Inviting so many people to besiege the Beggar Gang leader was already incredibly bold. If they were noticed, it would be a big trouble. They weren't afraid of trouble getting bigger, and now they were going to gather together for a meal?

"You'll know when they come."

Miss Red Wine didn't explain this, but smiled faintly and replied, and then said, "I have already arranged the soul-searching, so you don't need to worry."

"Soul-searching to obtain methods is a taboo in the opera world, and it doesn't sound good to say it out loud."

"But the more this is the case, the more we can't act furtively, but rather be generous."

"The Beggar Gang has done a lot of evil and deserves to be killed by everyone. We don't know how many crimes they have in their bellies. We are searching his soul to save people, aren't we?"

"Getting the method of entering the manor is a bonus, so we're not afraid of being asked."

""

"The reasoning is correct..."

Although Miss Red Wine often did things unexpectedly, Hu Ma now vaguely understood her style.

When dealing with Xiang Yaotou's matter before, she chose to invite martial world fellows and send her back with a loud fanfare. Now, she was going to have a lively group building to make the death of Ji Tang, the Beggar Gang leader, known to the world.

So, her secret to handling things was actually two words: make it big?

While slowly talking, as the sun set and dusk approached, the wooden door outside began to knock. Miss Red Wine gently raised her hand, and the door bolt in the courtyard opened by itself.

Immediately, the door opened, and Jianghu (martial world) people began to walk in one by one. Some were old, some were young, some were dressed richly, and some seemed poor and embarrassed. But they all came in urgently, and then cursed the shamelessness of the Beggar Gang.

Some even took out the name list of the young ladies from wealthy families who had disappeared on Pingnan Road in recent years, and begged Miss Red Wine to search Ji Tang's soul and find the whereabouts of these poor people.

Hu Ma secretly looked at them, and saw that these people had different appearances.

Some looked like wealthy merchants, some carried weapons, and were obviously Jianghu people, some looked like storytellers, some looked like fortune-tellers holding flags, some looked like merchants, some looked like shopkeepers. It seemed that all kinds of people in the entire Jianghu had come.

For a moment, he was surprised. Were all of these people Transcenders from Anzhou?

However, he immediately realized that it was impossible. The number of Transcenders was not small, but compared to this world, it was extremely small, with not necessarily one in a prefecture.

Among these people who came, only a few must be Transcenders, but it was difficult to distinguish who was who.

The key was that when these people came, after they sat down, they started talking about the Beggar Gang and Ji Tang, their words were fierce and full of resentment. Of course, he watched, but he didn't know which one was a Transcender and which one wasn't.

While greeting these people, Miss Red Wine also glanced at Hu Ma faintly, her eyes seemed to have a hint of triumph.

Hu Ma understood that look: "Of course, not all of the people who came were Transcenders, and even those who took action on the road just now and helped solve Ji Ping were not all Transcenders."

"The Transcenders are among these people. Those who are know that they are, and those who are not don't know that they are not. But they all have the same attitude as the Transcenders, and will follow the Transcenders' ideas at critical moments."

"These are all people who live in the shadow of the Transcenders."

(End of this chapter)