The two slaps from Ji Yuan were not just gentle caresses; they were given with great force. If it were anyone else, one slap would have made the person's head turn 180 degrees, and the second slap would have separated his head from his body.
The woman who received these two slaps was not an ordinary person, but in her current situation, she felt very uncomfortable. Her pretty face quickly swelled up, and she covered her face with her hands and looked at Ji Yuan with shock.
After Ji Yuan finished cursing for two sentences, the following words followed immediately.
"What? You still dare to stare at me? I'm wrong to say you have no sense of shame. If you were someone with sense of shame, even if you were cheating on someone, you would have cried by now. And today you did such a dissolute thing in this holy place of Buddhism. Do you think no one will recognize you in a foreign land?"
The scholar who had been knocked down by the woman before also stood up carefully and quietly shrank into the crowd. The so-called sympathy for women was not recommended at this moment.
The people around pointed and talked at the woman who was covering her face.
"Oh, so this woman did this, huh?"
"Is it true? She's so promiscuous?" "Of course it's true. Look at her..."
Some older female pilgrims especially disliked this kind of woman and would make cold comments on her.
"Look at how she pounced on the scholar just now. It was clearly intentional." "Yes, I saw it too. How shameless!"
"Haha, didn't you hear what that gentleman said? She has cheated on me more than once or twice. Looking at her breasts, she must have children at home."
"I don't know how the child will look upon his mother in the future!"
Some of the people around spoke rudely, some just scolded her, and there were even those who were nosy and lustful and stared at the woman as she moved up and down.
In just a few breaths, the atmosphere became like this. At first, the woman didn't quite understand why Ji Yuan would start a quarrel with her, but now she has vaguely reacted. Being pointed at by people around her even made her feel isolated like an ordinary person, which was very abnormal.
"You are slandering me. You are a scholar, but you slander a weak girl like me. I am clearly a virgin, but you slander my innocence like this! You, you, you... you are unworthy of being a scholar!"
The woman’s fingers were about to poke Ji Yuan’s face, but Ji Yuan dodged to the side and swung a palm knife at the woman’s neck with his right hand. When the woman heard the tearing sound of the wind, she knew how powerful this move was.
Almost as a conditioned reflex, the woman shook her head and dodged, leaping backwards. One of her long legs kicked out from under her skirt, directly blocking Ji Yuan's knife, and the other leg kicked Ji Yuan's head.
Ji Yuan's knife was blocked, and he moved his body backwards to avoid the kick from the woman transformed by the real devil, then immediately pointed at the woman and spoke loudly.
"Everyone saw it. This is how a weak girl from a good family should behave. Just now, she was barefoot and couldn't even walk. She accidentally fell into the arms of that scholar. Now she is so agile. She is obviously a martial arts expert. How could she not be pretending when she fell down so delicately just now?"
Ji Yuan put his hands behind his back and took another step towards the woman transformed by the real devil. He glared at her, making the other party, who was afraid, subconsciously take a step back.
"You are such a shameless liar. You are defiling the holy land of Buddhism. Your family asked me to take you back. Why don't you surrender?"
Ji Yuan's words made it difficult for the woman to defend herself. At the same time, his right hand formed a claw and grabbed the woman's neck directly.
The woman could no longer act, so she flew backwards and leaped with all her might, just like a skilled warrior performing lightness skills. She leaped onto the eaves of a Buddhist temple, and then jumped out again.
"Ji Yuan, I am not afraid of you here. Self-discipline cannot defeat temptation. People's hearts are like this, what can you do? Mo Yun will fall into my hands sooner or later!"
The woman's voice came from afar, and her figure had already escaped in a few leaps.
Ji Yuan had no intention of chasing after them. Instead, he looked at the people around him. The crowd had retreated a lot when the two sides started fighting just now, but their nature of watching the fun made them not move far away, and there were still quite a few people surrounding them at this moment.
Ji Yuan bowed to the people around him and spoke loudly.
"This woman has an extremely bad character. She has been married for a long time but she is not content with her lot. She has flirted with men everywhere, from young boys to men who are already fathers. It is common for her to be fickle and she likes to destroy other people's families. She is no different from a flower thief!"
Many people around looked at each other in bewilderment. Some women found it unbelievable, while the older people were even more indignant.
"Such a shameless person who brings disgrace to the family..."
"You should be put in a pig cage!" "Yes, you should be put in a pig cage!"
"Everyone, be careful. Stay away from this person next time you see her." "Yes, yes, she also knows martial arts!"
Of course, some men were angry on the surface, but they were upset in their hearts. However, this did not affect what Ji Yuan wanted to do. He quickly told a complete story, telling the woman's name, how long she had been married, how many men she had cheated on her with, how many families she had ruined, and that the woman's legitimate husband was still waiting for her to change her mind, etc...
Ji Yuan explained a series of things in a very clear and logical way. The key point was that Ji Yuan's serious expression and gentlemanly appearance made his words particularly convincing, even though he did not tell the specific details of the location, he just mentioned it so as not to embarrass the victim, the man.
Later, quite a number of monks in the temple and some dignitaries who came to the temple to burn incense came to listen. Even those who did not come to listen soon learned about it from others. Some people even found the scholar to ask about it and got indirect evidence.
Therefore, the story of a woman named "Zhen Mo" spread quickly. It is foreseeable that this matter will inevitably become a topic of conversation among people after dinner, and will spread further and wider for quite a long time.
Half an hour later, Ji Yuan came out of the temple, and Xiezhi then asked him.
"You put so much effort into changing the form of the True Demon, wouldn't it be in vain? Even though he can't use too much mana here, it's not difficult to change his appearance."
"Even if he has changed, the impact will not be zero, otherwise why would I spend so much effort on it?"
After leaving the temple, Ji Yuan kept walking, moving forward on the street with great purpose, turning from an alley from time to time, and soon arrived at a small restaurant where the scholar was having dinner with his friends.
"Didn't you say that person wasn't Mo Yun?"
"Indeed, he is not. However, Monk Mo Yun must be not far away from him. Otherwise, this scholar would not give people such a special feeling. The True Demon would not mistake him. This person must have left a very deep impression on Mo Yun in the past and had a profound influence on him."
When Ji Yuan arrived at the door of the tavern, the young man inside obviously saw him and looked a little flustered, but his friend next to him did not notice this and was still teasing him.
"Hahaha, Brother Li, you are really lucky!"
"Yes, I heard that although the woman was shameless, she was really beautiful and had an outstanding figure. Brother Li must have enjoyed it very much, right?"
"Yes, yes, hahahaha, you must be enjoying it, right?"
The scholar coughed a few times and raised his voice a little.
"How can we read the books of saints and sages and have such bad thoughts? I was just embarrassed just now, how could I have other unnecessary thoughts? You two brothers look down on me!"
The two of them were smiling at the dinner table, and one of them nudged the scholar with his elbow while holding a cup.
"Don't pretend. You were the most relaxed when we went to Yichunyuan that day."
"Ahem..."
The scholar, who had just taken a sip of wine, choked on the wine and started coughing. At this time, Ji Yuan came to their side and spoke in a calm and gentle voice.
"Three of you, I wonder if I can sit at the same table with you. Well, I have nothing else to do, but I want to ask this scholar named Li some questions."
"Who are you?"
The friend asked in confusion, and Li Shusheng quickly stood up.
"This is the gentleman who just fought with that bitch. Please take a seat, sir!"
"Thank you!"
Ji Yuan thanked him and sat down. He glanced at the food and the people on the table, then looked around the restaurant, inside and outside, but didn't see anyone special.
"Sir, what do you want to know?"
"Oh, I just want to ask how you met Zhen Mo. He is very dangerous and will not stop until he achieves his goal. Who knows, he might be watching you."
Hearing this, Li Shusheng felt inexplicably happy, but his face was very serious and he even showed worry.
"What should I do? That woman seems to be a martial arts expert, and I am powerless..."
Ji Yuan smiled understandingly.
"Even if you are caught by that woman, you can just do whatever she wants. Your life won't be in danger. First, tell me how you ran into her, and then tell me about your daily life habits and personal details, so that I can figure out why she came to you."
"Oh good!"
Ji Yuan looked like a man of great learning, and even had the air of a scholar from a wealthy family. The scholar had no ill feelings towards Ji Yuan and was not wary of him. He explained in detail how he had come into contact with the girl, and spoke about the depth of his knowledge, his family and his school experience as if he was answering questions from a scholar.
When facing Ji Yuan, Scholar Li told him everything he knew, and even the other two scholars beside him would occasionally add to the story, as if they were answering questions in front of the teacher.
Not long after, after Ji Yuan had understood enough, a child hurriedly ran into the restaurant from outside, holding a few books.
"Dad, I'm back. Hey, Brother Li, you're back from the academy. That's great!"
Judging from the child's clothes, he should be a student of a middle school in the city. Li Shusheng obviously has a good relationship with him, as he directly held the child and sat on his lap.
"Hey, Xiao Du, your brother Li was almost killed by a female thief today!"
"Ah? A female thief?"
"That's right. That female thief only feeds on men. If things go wrong, your brother Li might be thrown into the pig cage with her."
The child looked at Li Shusheng.
"I heard that it was Zhen Mo who was not faithful to her husband and always harmed other people's families, right? What the old abbot said was true. It is true that women harm people. Good be to the Great Ming King Buddha!"
Ji Yuan sipped the wine that Li Shusheng poured for him, watched the kid's mouth curl up, and then he swung the hand holding the chopsticks to the side and up.
Whoosh~ Whoosh~
The two chopsticks shot towards the roof like two meteors.
“Dang~” “Dang~”
"Bang~~"
A big hole appeared in the roof, and a woman holding two short knives fell directly from the hole while blocking two chopsticks.
"So this scholar is not Mo Yun. Luckily I followed closely. Ji Yuan, let's settle our matter today! I let you take advantage of me just now, but magical powers are not what matters here. You are no match for me in martial arts. Brute force alone is useless. Hahahaha..."
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PS: Book recommendation as agreed in the previous joint event: Reborn in the ancient times before the Conferred God War, Li Changshou became a small Qi Refiner. He had no good luck, nor was he destined to be the son of a great calamity. He only had a dream of cultivating immortality.
The title of the book is "My Senior Brother is Too Steady"
I have to take a few looks before the mighty thunder strikes down, thank you big brother (?)!