“Kill…” Yan Liqiang roared, and rushed towards Pingxi County Magistrate Ye Tiancheng, Mo Leng whose finger he had bitten off, and a group of criminal arrest guards in Pingxi City…
Countless arrows instantly pierced Yan Liqiang's body, but he still didn't feel any pain, he only felt a burning anger in his heart...
Yan Liqiang held a dog leg in one hand and a dagger in the other. He was invincible. The prisoners and guards fell before him one by one.
There were so many figures around, it seemed like they would never be killed enough. As soon as I killed one, two would pop up immediately.
Yan Liqiang roared, his eyes bloodshot, and in his mind, there was only one goal - to save his father!
Yan Liqiang didn't know how long he had been charging. When he was about to rush in front of Mo Leng, he saw Pingxi County Magistrate Ye Tiancheng laughing loudly. He actually flew up from the ground and turned into a monster with three heads and six arms. "You are just a powerless civilian, the son of a blacksmith. How dare you fight me? I am the Pingxi County Magistrate appointed by the court, an important figure of the Ganzhou Ye family. The whole Ganzhou will belong to our Ye family in the future. I want to kill you and your son, just like crushing an ant. What you did today is just to seek death. I will start with your father, Mo Leng..."
As Ye Tiancheng shouted, Mo Leng, with an evil look on his face, smiled sinisterly at Yan Liqiang and slashed at Yan Dechang with a sword.
Yan Dechang fell down and shouted to Yan Liqiang, "Go quickly...
The world was instantly filled with blood red...
"No… "
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Yan Liqiang screamed loudly and opened his eyes suddenly, only to find that his whole body was soaked in sweat. He was panting and curled up under the eaves of a woodshed. At this moment, the sky was just getting a little bright, and there were still bursts of chill in the air...
It turns out that I was just dreaming!
But... Yan Liqiang touched his face, and unknowingly, he was already in tears. The heart-wrenching feeling was still so real that it made it difficult for Yan Liqiang to breathe.
Yan Dechang's death is a lifelong pain for Yan Liqiang. Even though so much time has passed, whenever Yan Liqiang thinks of what happened that day, he can't help but fall into deep self-blame and regret...
If I hadn’t had such a strong sense of justice and hadn’t provoked those Shatu people… If I hadn’t taken those shortcuts that day… If I hadn’t been so nosy that day… If I hadn’t rashly entered that tunnel after discovering it…
Would the final result be different? Would Yan Dechang not have to die
There are too many ifs in Yan Liqiang's heart, but there are no ifs in reality.
This is what is worrying.
If he had a choice, Yan Liqiang would do anything to bring Yan Dechang back to life.
Unfortunately, all this can only be Yan Liqiang's extravagant hope.
"What are you yelling about here, beggar? You scared everyone. If you wake up the customers in the store, I will beat you up. Get out of here and stay away from me..."
The waiter of the inn got up early and started working. He was preparing to light a fire and boil water in the kitchen to prepare hot water for the early risers. The waiter was carrying firewood to the wood room when he heard Yan Liqiang screaming in his sleep outside the wood room. He could not help but walk out from the back door and cursed at Yan Liqiang, and even pretended to beat Yan Liqiang up...
Yan Liqiang wiped the tears from his face, stood up without saying a word, and walked towards the street outside.
Only by becoming stronger can we have hope of revenge and kill our enemies...
Yan Liqiang clenched his fist tightly...
The town has woken up, and all kinds of people who make a living have begun to prepare for a day's work. Yan Liqiang followed the road he took last night, left the town, came to the road outside, and then, leaning on the branch, slowly walked towards Huzhou City.
The distance from the small town to Huzhou City is only about six or seven kilometers, which is not a long distance. Yan Liqiang walked for almost two hours until the sun rose completely, and then he arrived outside Huzhou City again.
The gates of Huzhou City were wide open, and countless people had begun to go in and out of the gates, especially those selling vegetables and those who were preparing to enter the city to do small business. They were queuing at the gates, moving their feet to prepare to enter the city.
Somewhat surprisingly, Yan Liqiang also saw a few beggars who were dressed the same as himself, in rags and tatters, with faces covered in dust, also queuing up to enter the city - it seems that even if they are beggars, they can get more in the city than outside.
At the city gate, in addition to a team of soldiers, there were also two men around thirty years old, staring with bloodshot eyes at those entering the city one by one.
The clothes those two men wore were exactly the same as those worn by the two men Wu Tao called over last night. Not only were their clothes the same, but their temperaments were also similar. These two men guarding the city gate also exuded the same bravery and aggressiveness of the young thugs in the stock market.
As soon as he saw these two people, Yan Liqiang knew that these two people were guarding the city gate, either waiting for him or waiting for those three people. It was estimated that Wu Tao and those two people did not come back last night, so these people in Shengyue Tower were a little anxious.
When Yan Liqiang followed the people entering the city and walked in front of them, the two men just glanced at Yan Liqiang, then treated Yan Liqiang as air and continued to chat in a low voice.
"You think nothing will happen to Wu Tao and Lao Shu and Zeimao? I heard that Master Zhu personally led people to chase them for hundreds of miles last night, but he didn't encounter Wu Tao and the others on the road..."
"Who knows? Wu Tao won't say anything. Lao Shu and Zeimao are both experts. They never blink when stabbing people, and they never fail in doing such things. With the two of them here, three grown men together, they can't be defeated by a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old..."
"What the hell, I've been standing here for hours, my legs are numb..."
"I heard that the young man last night was someone Master Fu happened to meet at the market. Master Fu was in the restaurant at the time, and he saw him when he looked down, and then he asked Wu Tao to go out. This was the first time Master Fu had failed to get the person he specifically asked for. I heard that Master Fu was furious last night..."
"Master Fu is the biggest sponsor of our Shengyue Tower. How dare you offend him?"
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Listening to the words of the two thugs behind him, Yan Liqiang came to the box for paying the city entrance fee, took out three copper coins from his sleeve, put them in the box, and then entered Huzhou City without any hindrance.
The Huzhou City in front of him was a little dangerous for Yan Liqiang, but compared to this danger, what Yan Liqiang was more unwilling to give up was the opportunity to join the Lingshan Sect.
Without the support of these big sects, and without joining these big sects, as an ordinary person with nothing, how could I learn high-level martial arts and secrets? Without high-level martial arts and secrets, the so-called revenge will always be just a dream...
For this opportunity, Yan Liqiang is willing to take the risk.
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As soon as he entered the gate of Huzhou City, what appeared in front of Yan Liqiang was a bustling street. The street was two-story, and there were magnificent attics over seven stories high built with huge wooden blocks everywhere. There were carved beams and painted buildings everywhere. On the street, pedestrians and horses walked on each side. The wide roadway could accommodate almost ten carriages side by side. The goods in the roadside shops were dazzling and had everything. In order to attract customers, many merchants even hired people to perform various juggling shows at the door.
The prosperity of Huzhou City is almost ten times that of Pingxi City.
Yan Liqiang was wandering around Huzhou City without attracting any attention from others. With his appearance, everyone thought he was a beggar and no one would even look at him twice.
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Just one hour later, Yan Liqiang saw a clothing store selling various men's ready-made clothes, shoes, hats and other items on a relatively deserted street in Huzhou City.
There was no one in the store, only a fat shopkeeper, who was standing at the counter next to the store door, staring at the customers on the street.
Yan Liqiang took a look at the things in the store and walked in.
"Get out, get out, get out..." When the fat shopkeeper saw Yan Liqiang coming in, he rushed out from behind the counter as if he had eaten a fly, and tried to drive Yan Liqiang out with an annoyed look on his face. "It's so early in the morning, and there's no business, but you come here to beg for food. Isn't this bad luck?"
"Who said I'm here to beg?" Yan Liqiang glared at the shopkeeper, took out a few taels of silver, and slapped it on the counter, "I'm here to buy clothes."
Seeing the few pieces of silver on the table, his face suddenly changed into a smile, and his anger disappeared. "Please, please, please come in. You are a guest when you come to my house, you are a guest when you come to my house..."
The store sells all kinds of ready-made clothes, from cheap coarse cloth clothes to high-end silk robes, high, medium and low-end.
In just a short while, Yan Liqiang picked out a complete outfit for himself from head to toe.
"How much are these?"
The shopkeeper was calculating on his abacus. "These clothes, shoes, socks, and the headpiece are all the best in our shop. If you buy all of them, I'll give you a discount and waive the seventeen copper coins. The total cost of these clothes is three taels, nine cents, and six cents of silver..."
Three taels, nine qian and six fen of silver, this price sounds small, but it is not cheap. Not only is it not cheap, it is also very expensive. In this era, an ordinary family of four would only need five or six taels of silver to live for a year. The set of clothes selected by Yan Liqiang is enough for an ordinary family to live for half a year.
"Can I change clothes in the store?"
"Yes, yes, there are two changing rooms at the back..." the shopkeeper said quickly.
"Well, I'll give you four taels of silver, and you don't have to give me the change, boss. Just get me two buckets of water from the dressing room, and I'll wash and bathe here..."
"Well... I'm afraid our shop doesn't have that much hot water right now..."
"Cold water will do..."
A little water was worth a few dollars, and he could just draw some from the well in the backyard. Thinking that he could earn a few more cents by just drawing two buckets of water, the shopkeeper immediately smiled and nodded in agreement.
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(End of this chapter)