novellaaa Chapter 93 You two will protect me, right?
Chapter 93 You two will protect me, right?
Chapter 93 You two will protect me, right?
Liu Ding walked into the courtyard and couldn't help but circle around Qin Chuan two or three times.
Seeing this, Qin Chuan asked with some confusion, "What are you doing?"
"What am I doing?" Liu Ding glared at him. "I'm about to ask you what you're doing! Have you been secretly taking some kind of magic pill or elixir behind my back?"
Qin Chuan was stunned for a moment: "What?"
"Elixirs of immortality, divine medicines, rare and precious herbs," Liu Ding counted on his fingers, "or perhaps some master bestowed upon you a powerful initiation? That's what the stories I heard when I was a kid all said, an ordinary young man suddenly achieving great skill..."
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Qin Chuan shook his head, a helpless expression on his face: "Brother Liu, what exactly do you want to ask?"
Liu Ding sighed and said, "I know you have good comprehension, but even the best comprehension has its limits, right? Your tiger form yesterday was indeed well done, but it didn't reach the point of condensing true meaning. And yet, just one night later, you actually grasped the true meaning of that tiger form."
"No, do you know how difficult it is to comprehend the true meaning of the Tiger Form?" He became more and more excited as he spoke. "The martial arts master told me that this thing relies extremely on comprehension. Some people take three to five years, some take eight to ten years, and some people practice boxing their whole lives and still can't even get close to it. That's why I didn't tell you about this when I was teaching you before. After all, normally you wouldn't even be able to touch this threshold. Who would have thought that you would comprehend it in just one night?"
As they were talking, Liu Ding suddenly turned to Qin Chuan and said, "Why don't you teach me? I'll become your apprentice! Tell me, how did you comprehend it?"
As he said this, he was holding Qin Chuan's hand and making a move to kneel down.
Qin Chuan quickly stopped him, saying, "No, no, I'll tell you, I'll tell you it was just a dream, do you believe me?"
"Bullshit." Liu Ding retorted instinctively, his mouth moving faster than his brain. "You can dream about something like that? If I dream about getting married every day, will I wake up tomorrow morning to hold my son?!"
He stopped abruptly halfway through his sentence.
Because he saw the expression on Qin Chuan's face, and it wasn't a joke, nor was it just a perfunctory response.
Qin Chuan's eyes were serious, his gaze frank and unwavering, clearly stating the facts.
Liu Ding frowned and tentatively asked again, "Really—it's like this in a dream?"
Qin Chuan nodded, offering no further explanation: "Let's go inside and talk."
The two entered Qin Chuan's house one after the other.
Qin Chuan closed the doors and windows, and then recounted what happened after he entered the dream last night. Of course, he concealed the fact that the panel and skills were involved, only claiming that he was lucky and suddenly comprehended the true meaning of the Tiger Form in the face of life and death, which was just enough to break that thing's methods.
After speaking, Qin Chuan looked at Liu Ding and asked, "Brother Liu, have you ever heard of or encountered anything like this before?"
Liu Ding didn't answer immediately. Instead, he looked up and thought carefully. After a while, he finally replied, "To be honest, I've never actually encountered what you're talking about. Although I've heard of similar things before, they were all just rumors."
"However," he changed the subject, continuing, "I once asked that martial arts master out of curiosity if there were any demons or monsters in the world, and he answered that of course there were. I then asked why I hadn't seen any, and he laughed and said that Huizhou is close to the capital, a place where human fortune gathers and dragon energy prevails, so how could demons and monsters dare to run wild in this area? If you go southwest, cross the river, enter the mountains, and go to those remote and impoverished places, deep in the forests, you're guaranteed to see them. Don't wet your pants when you do."
After saying this, Liu Ding shrugged: "At the time, I thought he was just teasing me, making up some supernatural stories to scare me. But seeing what happened to you today, it seems he wasn't really lying to me."
Qin Chuan listened and began to ponder. Judging from what the martial arts master said, there seemed to be quite a few demons and monsters in this world, but for various reasons, ordinary people rarely saw them.
He looked at his profession, "The Fate Thief." Since people have luck, it was only natural that the dynasty was "a gathering place of human luck" and "a place where dragon energy is concentrated."
Kyoto is protected by dragon energy, which keeps demons and monsters away. Qinghe County, where I live, is just a small, remote county. It's not surprising that demons and monsters dare to run rampant in such a "poor and remote place".
Qin Chuan suddenly remembered the matter of the children's examination.
If I were to become a scholar, wouldn't that mean I would have "official rank" and be protected by "human fortune"?
You should know that in those storybooks, the academic achievements of scholars had another use: a newly appointed top scholar could scare away ghosts and monsters, and even the Dragon King had to give some face to an imperial envoy.
He used to think it was just literary embellishment, an attempt to glorify himself, but now he realizes it might not all be made up.
The academic achievements of scholars are ultimately a form of "the dynasty's fortune".
With this in mind, Qin Chuan had already made up his mind.
Although he already had the profession of "Ghost Suppressor," he naturally couldn't let go of any opportunity to have more self-protection capabilities.
It seems that the matter of the children's examination cannot be taken lightly.
Despite the dream incident, life must go on.
Qin Chuan also made his usual trip to Song Tou's place and the school. Near the end of the afternoon, he went to Heaven and Earth again.
After entering, I saw Zhao Fuquan behind the counter. He was using an abacus to keep accounts. When he saw Qin Chuan come in, he glanced at him and then ignored him.
Qin Chuan stared at him carefully for a while. To be honest, after what happened last night, he suspected that Zhao Fuquan was behind it, but judging from the man's behavior just now, it really didn't seem like it.
Just then, Ah Niu came over and said, "Manager Qin, when Zhao Fuquan asked me about the money earlier, I really didn't know he was trying to frame you. If I had known, I certainly wouldn't have told him."
Qin Chuan glanced at A Niu and knew that he was referring to Zhao Fuquan's attack on him in the main hall for embezzling money from the Heaven and Earth Club. When he gave A Niu money to buy medicine to practice the Iron Body Technique, only the two of them were present. Normally, no one else should have known.
However, Zhao Fuquan later learned that Qin Chuan had given him ten taels of silver, which meant that A Niu must have told him about it.
Looking at Ah Niu in front of him, Qin Chuan laughed and patted him on the shoulder, saying, "It's nothing serious, it's alright."
Just as he finished speaking, Qian Laifu came out from the backyard. Seeing Qin Chuan, he said, "You've come at the right time. The Iron Hand Gang and the Black Tiger Gang are going to negotiate at the dock. Come with me."
Qin Chuan hesitated upon hearing this.
Qian Laifu, seeing this, paused, turned his head, and asked, "What's wrong? Don't you want to go?"
Qin Chuan cupped his hands and said, "Brother Qian, what would I do if these two gangs were negotiating? Besides, with my skinny arms and legs, I would only be a burden if the two sides started fighting, and would only cause you trouble."
Qian Laifu sized him up: "As the head manager of Heaven on Earth, you naturally have to attend the negotiations between the two groups. However—"
He paused, his gaze falling on Qin Chuan. "What you said makes some sense. I'll find you a bodyguard."
Hearing this, Qin Chuan said, "Master Qian, you don't need to look anymore. Brother A Niu and Manager Zhao are enough."
Then, Qin Chuan looked at A Niu and Zhao Fuquan and asked, "Manager Zhao, Brother A Niu, you two will protect me, right?"
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