Chapter 524: The Tribulation of Sancha (Part )

This was not a war between equals, but a massacre with a huge disparity in strength.

In terms of numbers, the 800 disciples led by Song Yu far outnumbered Tao Amu's 300-plus cavalry.

In terms of martial arts, Jinjianwu’s elite troops are out in full force, and they can fight even if they encounter an equal number of Mongolian elite troops, let alone Taoamu’s second-rate troops?
In terms of fighting spirit, Song Yu's people were eager to save their master, and they came well prepared, so their morale was high.

On the other hand, Tao Amu's men were attacked from behind without any preparation. They suffered heavy casualties before the battle even started, and their formation was in chaos, resulting in a crushing defeat.

In less than half an hour, Tao Amu's cavalry had been killed and defeated by the disciples of Jinjianwu, and their weapons and armor were discarded.

At this time, the bodies of Mongolian soldiers were lying in all directions outside the tea shed. The desolate Sanchakou was piled with corpses, blood flowed like a river, and the air was filled with a thick bloody smell that made people nauseous.

The tea drinkers at the tables in the teahouse were already scared out of their wits. They didn't even dare to sit on the stools anymore, and all ran under the tables, holding their heads and shrinking their necks, their bodies trembling.

The girl was also frightened by the scene before her eyes, her eyes wide open, her face pale. She had collapsed to the ground, staring at her uncle's body with a dull look, unable to recover for a long time.

Today's scene was so terrifying that she had never even dreamed of it.

Jin Fu Yu sat next to Wu Shuang, chatting and laughing with him, drinking with him, as if what was happening before his eyes was not a bloody killing, but an exciting drama.

After drinking a pot of tea, Song Yu, covered in blood, carefully stepped over the corpses on the ground and walked quickly towards the tea stall.

"Song Yu is late, and the owner of the dock is frightened!"

When he got closer, Song Yu knelt on the ground, bowed to Jin Fu Yu and apologized, looking very frightened.

"Get up!" Jin Fuyu's tone was as calm as water, without any emotion, "What was the result of the battle?"

"Reporting to the master, more than a dozen of them escaped." Song Yu said guiltily, "Their war horses are very fast, and it is difficult for us to catch up for a while, so... I didn't let my disciples chase them..."

"Don't chase after a desperate enemy. You did a good job." Jin Fuyu interrupted, "After all, this is Mongolian territory. Their reinforcements are everywhere. If you chase them rashly, you will be ambushed."

Song Yu heaved a sigh of relief, and said, "Fortunately, the owner of the dock had foresight and sent someone to Jinchuan to inform us before dawn, otherwise we would never have been able to rush to help."

"Tao Amu has also escaped." Leng Yiyi looked around and suggested to Jin Fuyu, "He will definitely go to get help. We should not stay here for long. We should leave quickly."

"In that case, let's set off immediately and rush back to Jingjiang Prefecture."

"This……"

Faced with Jin Fu Yu's order, Song Yu surprisingly did not agree. Instead, he stood there submissively, hesitating, and seemed unable to speak.

Seeing this, Jin Fu Yu suddenly felt an ominous premonition in his heart.

Just as he was about to ask, he saw Song Yu's eyes were always looking at Wu Shuang intentionally or unintentionally. Jin Fuyu instantly understood everything, turned to Wu Shuang and said with a smile: "Young Master Wu, the fork in the road will definitely become a dangerous place. It is difficult to stay here for long. I wonder where you will go next?"

"I want to rest for a while." Wu Shuang put the teacup on the table, tapped the bottom of the cup with his fingers, and said jokingly, "Master Jinwu, please go ahead."

"In that case, I will take my leave first." Jin Fuyu did not bother to argue, and stood up, bowed to Wu Shuang and said goodbye, "The mountains remain unchanged, the water flows forever, and we will meet again if we are lucky!"

"Master Jinwu, take care!"

"Take care, Young Master Wu. Goodbye!"

After saying this, Jin Fu Yu no longer hesitated, turned around and left the tea stall, walking towards his carriage.

"Master..."

"Don't worry!"

When they reached the car, before Song Yu could speak, Jin Fuyu stopped him and said, "This is not the place to talk. Let's leave first."

"Yes."

Following Song Yu's reluctant response, Jin Fu Yu turned back indifferently and once again showed a refined smile to Wu Shuang in the tea stall, and then, with the help of Song Yu and Leng Yiyi, he quickly got into the carriage.

"Go! Hurry!"

Without caring about the corpses on the ground or the frightened people in the tea stall, Leng Yiyi hurriedly called out, and hundreds of people walked towards a fork in the road to the south.

Wu Shuang saw the whole scene just now.

Although Jin Fu Yu did not mention a word about what happened in Jingjiang Prefecture, Wu Shuang could easily guess from Song Yu's strange look of wanting to say something but stopping himself, as well as Leng Yiyi's impatient urging voice, that something big must have happened in Jinjianwu.

Thinking of this, Wu Shuang's mouth curled up into a gloating smirk.

"Hurry... run! If the Tartar reinforcements come soon, none of us will be able to escape alive."

Someone called out, and a group of tea drinkers came out from under the tables one after another. They no longer bothered to pack their luggage, and they rushed out of the tea shed, scrambling to get on their horses.

A group of people disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

In a flash, only Wu Shuang and the shop girl were left at the bustling intersection.

Other than that, there was only a pile of steaming corpses.

"Ugh!"

After a moment of silence, Wu Shuang sighed and slowly stood up. When his butt moved away from the three-legged chair, the motionless chair suddenly collapsed.

"Girl, life and death are determined by fate. Please... accept my condolences."

After that, Wu Shuang dug out a pile of money bags from the pile of dead bodies and threw them in front of the girl, saying, "The shopkeeper died in vain, so this money should be regarded as compensation to you. After something like this, the teahouse can no longer be run. To avoid disaster, you'd better take the money and leave your hometown, find a place where no one knows you and start over."

However, the girl turned a deaf ear to Wu Shuang's consolation and sat on the ground like a puppet, motionless.

Wu Shuang frowned slightly and said, "Miss, do you have any relatives at home? If so, persuade them to leave as soon as possible and make a living somewhere else!"

The girl remained unmoved by this.

"Ugh!"

Wu Shuang looked helpless. He pushed dozens of money bags in front of the girl and walked away.

"Young Master..." Before Wu Shuang walked out of the tea stall, the weak voice of the girl suddenly sounded behind him.

"Sir, I don't want these bad guys' money..." The girl said as she pushed the purse away from herself.

"You don't want their money?" Wu Shuang teased, "Do you want mine?"

"Don't misunderstand me, sir. I don't want your money either..." The girl hurriedly explained, "I just... just..."

"Just what?"

Faced with Wu Shuang's questioning, the girl seemed a little embarrassed to speak.

Suddenly she stood up and ran to Wu Shuang. She knelt down on the ground with a plop and kowtowed, saying, "My parents died early, and I have depended on my uncle since I was young. Now my uncle has been killed by bad guys. I have no other relatives in the world. I am now an orphan without anyone to rely on..."

"Girl, you look quite old." Wu Shuang seemed to have guessed what the girl was thinking and interrupted her immediately, "Even if you are helpless, you cannot call yourself an orphan. With this money, you can go somewhere else to do some small business, or find a good family to entrust your life to. When you get married and have children, you will have relatives in the world again..."

"If you don't give up..."

The girl mustered up the courage to interrupt Wu Shuang, but then stopped abruptly, as if she was very hesitant.

Under Wu Shuang's suspicious gaze, the girl simply made up her mind and said timidly: "If you don't abandon me, after I bury my uncle, I am willing to accompany you for the rest of my life..."

Having said this, the girl seemed to be worried that Wu Shuang would despise her, and hurriedly added: "I have absolutely no improper thoughts about you, sir, and I have no intention of overstepping my bounds. I just want to stay by your side as a slave. As long as you can give me something to eat, I have no other requests..."

By the end of her speech, the girl's voice was as thin as a mosquito's thread and too weak to be heard.

"Miss, we just met by chance, how can I let you be my slave?"

"So many things happened just now, and everyone else was just running for their lives. Only you were willing to think about me..." The girl looked at her uncle's body and sobbed, "My uncle once said that there are not many good men in the world. If I can meet a kind-hearted man who is willing to think about me, I can... entrust my life to him."

"Girl, are you...really relying on me?"

"Sir, please don't misunderstand me. Although the world is vast, it is in chaos. I am powerless and don't know how to survive. I only ask you to keep me by your side as a servant. It is better than wandering in the chaotic world and living in fear of death..."

"Girl, you..."

"It's hard to cross the mountains and rivers, who will pity the lost? We are strangers to each other. It's rare that this girl is destined to be with you. You are a man of seven feet tall, why do you have to be so hesitant and timid?"

Accompanied by an old man's laughter, a carriage slowly stopped in front of Wu Shuang and the girl. The driver was so frightened when he saw the bloody scene in front of him that his soul was terrified and his bones and muscles were weak.

"Driver, you can go back now. I have found some friends, and they will lead the horses and drive the carriage for me."

As they were talking and laughing, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and Xu Qingnian, with a beaming face, slowly poked his head out and said with satisfaction: "Young Master Wu really keeps his word! I have prepared everything, and you can take me to see your master."

"It's a long journey, Mr. Xu, please take care of your health."

"Don't worry! My old bones won't die in a short time." Xu Qingnian smiled heartily and turned to the girl and asked, "Girl, what's your name?"

"My name is Chun Xing."

"The spring scenery in the garden cannot be contained, a red apricot blossoms outside the wall." Xu Qingnian praised, "What a good name! What a good name!"

Hearing this, Wu Shuang could not help but raise his eyebrows and said teasingly, "I've always heard that when Mr. Xu was young, he was a playboy and a womanizer. He could deceive women all over the world with his clever words and make them stay with him until death. Today, it seems that he is indeed extraordinary."

"Did your master tell you?"

"Boss Xu is famous. Who in the martial arts world doesn't know him?"

"Ha ha……"

Xu Qingnian did not get angry despite Wu Shuang's teasing. Instead, he pointed at the girl and said, "Xing'er, I will make the decision for him and accept you for the time being. When you find your ideal husband in the future, you can leave at any time."

"Thank you, old man..."

"Ahem!" Wu Shuang coughed twice and pretended to be unhappy, "Mr. Xu, it's obvious that you are still determined to do evil. Why are you talking about making the decision for me?"

After saying that, Wu Shuang looked the girl up and down, making her eyes shy and her cheeks flushed.

"Sir, why are you looking at me?"

"Can you be my servant, serving tea, washing clothes and cooking?" Wu Shuang asked.

"Row!"

Wu Shuang frowned and deliberately said, "If I'm in a bad mood, you can let me beat you up, okay?"

"My life was saved by you, so what does beating and scolding mean? Okay!" the girl agreed immediately.

"Also..." Wu rolled his eyes and said with a wicked smile, "Change clothes and take a bath, massage your legs and back, fan yourself in the summer, and warm the bed in the winter, okay?"

Hearing this, the girl's cheeks immediately turned red, and she felt shy and embarrassed for a moment.

However, before Wu Shuang could take the opportunity to speak, the girl nodded silently.

"Oh! Forget it!" Wu Shuang said helplessly, "You can stay, but you have to change your name. Something like 'A red apricot branch out of the wall' sounds awkward. From today on, you are not Chun Xing, but... Chun Tao."

"Hey! I think the name 'Chun Xing' is just right..."

"Tao'er will obey the Master's orders!"

Without waiting for Xu Qingnian to argue, the girl readily agreed and bowed to Wu Shuang. Knowing that she would have someone to rely on in the future, she finally burst into tears and laughed.

"You... you... alas!"

Seeing that the girl didn't care about his thoughts at all and only cared about Wu Shuang, Xu Qingnian couldn't help feeling embarrassed. Then he pretended to be disappointed, sighed, and went back to the carriage in annoyance.

Seeing this, Wu Shuang laughed uncontrollably and clapped his hands in approval, which made Chuntao unable to hold back her laughter.

After burying Chuntao's uncle, the three of them got on a carriage and galloped towards the end of the western fork in the road under the afterglow of the setting sun.

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(End of this chapter)