The Baihua rchant Guild had safely entered Guiyang city.
Although the Green Forest surrounded Guiyang, the lively appearance of the city was still the sa.
Cho Myung looked around Guiyang city.
It was unfamiliar.
Since he had only stayed at Yifeng Hall, there was no way he would be familiar with it.
The Baihua rchant Guild, which had moved straight along the straight road, stopped in front of a main gate with a huge sign.
Baihua rchant Guild.
They had arrived at one of the three major rchant guilds in Guiyang.
"Welco, Deputy Head!"
"Oh, have you been well?"
"We've been well. You've worked hard for a long ti. Hualan has beco even prettier."
"Thank you. I heard you got married? I'm sorry I couldn't attend."
"Weren't you far away on business for the rchant guild?"
"Still."
Bai Shangjing and Bai Hualan exchanged greetings with those who greeted them. The two were in a special mood because they had returned to their family after a long ti.
"Did you hire ronin?"
"Ah, that's right."
Bai Shangjing, who had co to his senses late, took out a purse from his bosom.
"Dad, I'll hand it out."
Bai Hualan said, reaching out her hand.
Bai Shangjing handed over the purse without much thought and then said a word to the ronin.
"You've all worked hard."
The ronin also responded with a word each and bowed their waists.
Bai Shangjing nodded his head and then walked into the Baihua rchant Guild.
"Let's go in."
"Yes, Deputy Head."
Bai Hualan, who had received the purse, headed towards the ronin.
The ronin's faces were full of smiles in anticipation of receiving the balance.
"I'm glad you're all safe. This is also a connection, so if we happen to see each other again next ti, let's do it together. As you know, the Baihua rchant Guild is not a stingy place."
"Stingy! There's no place as reliable in its treatnt as the Baihua rchant Guild."
"That's right. If there's a chance next ti, I'll be the first to co running."
When the ronin spoke with a smile, Bai Hualan also smiled.
She opened the purse and handed out the promised balance to each person.
The ronin were overjoyed.
They had arrived safely without a single fight, and they had received the balance properly, so there was nothing more to wish for.
Finally, it was Cho Myung's turn.
Cho Myung held out his hand towards Bai Hualan, just as the other ronin had done.
But what was this, Bai Hualan put the purse away.
"What right do you have to ask for money?"
Bai Hualan threw a sharp question.
The overjoyed ronin turned to the two. Bai Shangjing, who was going in, also stopped and looked back.
"You made the people I hired earlier suspicious by talking about being a shield, and now you're shalessly holding out your hand?"
Bai Hualan deliberately brought up that incident.
It was to make sure that the ronin would not spread bad rumors.
"I had no intention of coming to Guiyang. I ca because you said you would give money."
"That's right. I hired you, saying I would give you money. Why would I hire you? For safety. But what you did was to cause a disturbance and make us even more precarious. And yet you're asking for money?"
Cho Myung could not understand.
What had he made precarious?
He had just told them the conversation they had had.
"I did not make you precarious, and I ca here because you said you would give money."
"You're really rude. Good. Then let's ask the others."
Bai Hualan turned to the ronin.
And she asked.
"Is there even a little bit of unreasonable stubbornness in what I said? Do you think the Baihua rchant Guild is being stubborn because it's stingy with a re two silver coins?"
From the ronin's point of view, it was not sothing to hesitate about.
One side was the employer and one of the top rchant guilds in the land of Guizhou, and the other was a wanderer ronin like themselves. And a newcor ronin who could not even distinguish between shit and piss.
"How could that be?"
One of the ronin opened his mouth with a servile attitude.
It was at this ti.
"Is that really not the case?"
A booming voice suddenly cut in.
When everyone looked back, a burly man was walking with a swagger.
His clothes were clearly those of a bandit of the Green Forest.
But he was bare-handed.
He did not look like he had co to fight, and it was not a place for that.
So everyone just watched with a face that said 'who is he?'.
The man, while everyone was watching, approached directly and then stopped in front of Cho Myung.
"Hey, little brother. It's been a long ti. Right?"
He grinned cheerfully at Cho Myung.
Cho Myung recognized the man.
The fortress master of Dongjia Fortress, Xiong Fu Fan Zhong, it was him.
"Yes."
Cho Myung's face, who was answering, changed strangely.
He was glad to et soone he knew in a difficult situation, but he had stopped smiling when he realized that his identity was a bandit.
"Why the long face? Aren't you glad to see ?"
"I'm glad to see you."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"Good. Let's put off the pleasant greetings for later, what's going on?"
Cho Myung could not answer and hesitated.
Because he could not judge whether it was okay to tell the bandit, Fan Zhong.
"Hey, who are you to interfere in the affairs of the Baihua rchant Guild?"
Bai Hualan asked, turning on her double wicks.
The martial artists who were guarding the entrance of the Baihua rchant Guild also approached with caution.
"Who are you to be such a bitch to my little brother?"
"B-bitch?"
"Should I say you're having a fit instead of being a bitch?"
"Hey!"
"Shut up! Where do you think you are, yelling and being a bitch! I'm going to tear your mouth and throw it in the toilet."
"Y-you!"
"You're being rude!"
Bai Hualan gritted her teeth, and Bai Shangjing, who could not watch anymore, intervened and approached.
"We'll see who's being rude. Little brother, since your big brother is here, tell what happened."
The situation had beco serious.
It was no longer just his own business.
Since Fan Zhong's position was also involved, he had to be sure.
Cho Myung told him the process of how he had been hired in detail.
- The good thing about a newcor is that he's easy to use. He probably won't even realize that he's being used as a shield until it happens.
He had told her exactly what Bai Hualan had said.
At that mont, Fan Zhong's lips split wide.
He was smiling.
"I knew it. Since my little brother is so kind, you were trying to use him."
"That's ridiculous!"
Bai Hualan shouted with a red face.
"What!"
Fan Zhong shouted back.
"I never said such a thing, and there were three seats between that person and us. It was lunchti, so the inn was very noisy and chaotic!"
"You foolish woman! It must have been like that from your point of view."
"I told you to be careful with your words!"
"Then you explain it!"
When Bai Hualan spoke rudely to him, Bai Shangjing spoke coldly and stepped forward. Then Fan Zhong shouted, emitting a fierce light from his eyes towards him.
Bai Shangjing realized that Fan Zhong was an unusual being from that light.
And for good reason, when you're rude at the main gate of the Baihua rchant Guild, you must have that much confidence.
While Bai Shangjing was making a serious face and trying to figure out Fan Zhong's identity, Fan Zhong opened his mouth again.
"It's a good thing my little brother is kind. If he had my temper, he would have torn all your mouths. And you foolish woman! With my little brother's skill, he would have heard the sound of you peeing. Know what you're talking about! Hey, little brother! It's not bad to be kind. Although I'm rolling around in the Green Forest, I know that being kind is good. But it's not good to endure everything like my little brother. Once people know that it works, they'll use it on others too. So when you think it's not right, don't endure it and just throw a punch. That's contributing to the peace of the martial world."
Fan Zhong poured it out at length.
Although the words were long, they were refreshing.
Cho Myung nodded his head.
The words that if they knew it worked on him, they would do the sa to others, touched his heart.
But there was one thing Fan Zhong was wrong about.
That the him of now was different from the him of the past that Fan Zhong knew.
Cho Myung held out his hand towards Bai Hualan.
"The wages."
"You will definitely pay the price for disrespecting the Baihua rchant Guild."
Bai Hualan held out a purse.
But her expression as she looked at Cho Myung was venomous.
Since Fan Zhong had said he was from the Green Forest and had been rude at the main gate of the Baihua rchant Guild, she had a queasy feeling and could not dare to face him, and she seed to be barely holding back her desire to take out her anger on Cho Myung.
Cho Myung took the purse, took out two silver coins, and then returned the purse. And he stared at Bai Hualan, who was glaring at him, and said.
"That bitchy attitude won't work on ."
"......!"
The mont Bai Hualan's face was distorted with annoyance and anger.
Thwack!
Cho Myung's fist was embedded in Bai Hualan's face.
Bai Hualan, who could not even react because it was so fast, was sent flying back, spewing blood from her mouth and nose, and fainted on the spot.
"Hualan!"
Bai Shangjing ran and checked on the fainted Bai Hualan, and the martial artists of the Baihua rchant Guild drew their weapons and prepared to attack.
Cho Myung looked over the martial artists of the Baihua rchant Guild and then threw the silver coin he was holding in his hand.
Thwack!
The huge sign hanging on the main gate of the Baihua rchant Guild was split with a roar.
Cho Myung, who was about to throw the remaining silver coin, was surprised himself and slowly lowered his hand.
"Is it usually that weak? I was just trying to embed it."
Cho Myung looked back at Fan Zhong and asked.
Fan Zhong looked at the broken sign and answered.
"It's made of iron. If it were made of wood, it would have been embedded... anyway, this has beco too big. Shall we run away?"
"No. I'm not running away. I was angry, and I let it out. If they have a complaint, they can let out their anger on ."
Cho Myung was thinking of fighting back even if the entire Baihua rchant Guild rushed at him.
It seed cowardly to just run away after causing trouble like this. That was sothing his deceased master would also scold him for.
While Cho Myung was thinking like that, Bai Shangjing, who had had Bai Hualan carried inside by the martial artists of the rchant guild, slowly turned around.
"You will regret not running away."
It was a sight that was so cold that it even felt murderous.
Leaving aside right and wrong, how could he not be angry when his daughter's face was struck by a fist?
"You're the one who will regret it."
"What will I regret!"
Bai Shangjing, who spoke even more fiercely when Fan Zhong intervened.
Fan Zhong replied with a nonchalant cross of his arms.
"That you deceived and insulted a newcor, that you didn't give him his wages cleanly, and that you're now thinking of seeing blood without admitting your fault."
"A gang from the Green Forest has flocked here, and yet you're blabbering on, you won't live long!"
"Hey, since I was weaned off my mother's milk, I've lived without anyone's help. Throw it!"
Fan Zhong, who was angry at Bai Shangjing's aggressive words and sneered coldly, suddenly shouted.
The mont Bai Shangjing looked around and was on guard, several people appeared on the roof of the inn in the back.
"Here it cos!"
A person on the roof of the inn shouted and threw sothing with all his might with both hands.
Spin, spin!
What was flying, rotating, was none other than a large axe.
"Let tell you in advance, this is not the work of the Green Forest, but of and my little brother."
Fan Zhong said confidently and stretched out one hand behind him without even looking back.
Thud!
"......!"
At the sound that shook the main road, Fan Zhong's face was distorted.
The flying axe had lost its power and had fallen to the ground.
"Ha, this is embarrassing..."
He had prepared to show off coolly if sothing happened, but he had ended up looking ridiculous in front of Cho Myung.
"You bastards! You'll all be dead when you return to the fortress!"
Fan Zhong, who was walking with a swagger towards the axe that had fallen on the main road and shouting nervously, shouted back from the roof of the inn.
"That's why I told you! The fortress master's axe is too heavy!"
"Shut up! Can't the vice fortress master even do this properly?"
"Do whatever you want, whether you kill him or save him, and just finish the work there quickly! It'll be a big problem if the main fortress master finds out we're doing this!"
"Shut up! It's a bigger problem that my little brother thinks I'm pathetic!"
Bai Shangjing's face was surprised as he watched the two who were bickering loudly.
'Xiong Fu...!'
He was the only one among the many Green Forest bandits who had beco a fortress master at the young age of thirty and used a huge axe as big as an adult's height as his signature weapon.
Xiong Fu Fan Zhong!
People who were well-versed in the internal affairs of the Green Forest knew.
That he was one of the candidates for the next Green Forest King.
That was why Bai Shangjing's face began to harden.
It was okay to smash an ordinary fortress master. Since they were in a state of confrontation with the Green Forest anyway, and depending on the situation, it could be smoothed over with a large sum of money.
But Xiong Fu was different.
He was a person who was also called the future of the Green Forest. To harm such a person would be to touch the pride of the Green Forest.
"Ha! Really! You know the fortress master's face is like shit, you're all dead!"
Fan Zhong, who ca back, holding a large axe in one hand and swinging it around in the air.
Bai Shangjing watched Fan Zhong's appearance with a deep frown.
"Deputy Head! It's been a long ti. But what is all this!"
A senile voice was heard from inside the Baihua rchant Guild.
When Bai Shangjing looked back, three old n were coming out with a relaxed look.
The mont he saw them, Bai Shangjing's hardened face brightened.
The eight forr masters who the Baihua rchant Guild Master had personally gone to recruit a long ti ago!
The Eight Guests of Baihua!
Three of those masters had stepped forward.
(End of Chapter)
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