8 FOUNDING EMPEROR (1/2)
As he was thinking of many things of course Charles did not pay attention to his surrounding when he collided into a young girl and the sound of crash could be heard and then the sound of crying fills the second floor of the Everlasting Happiness Inn.
Charles falls to the wooden floor and feels his butt a little numb because of the impact but he was not badly affected.
The crowds on the second floor were also shocked and then look at the boy and girl that crashed each other.
Seeing that the boy and his uncle come down from the third floor, many people in the crowds guessed that the uncle and nephew pair is a distinguished person.
The crowds also look at the girl the boy crashed with.
The girl was cute and very precocious. But the boy, the boy was beautiful minus a lightning scar on his left forehead.
Many of the crowds believe when this boy grows up he would break many woman hearts.
The crowds have seen the girl from the beginning she entered, she has been running around the Inn with no person inside the Inn manages to catches her which makes her a Jianghu person.
The old man behind the girl was also a distinguished person.
The second floor crowds mostly come from Jianghu and distinguished household, and some of them knows the Old person and whispered to their friends.
'Old man Du' some of them whispered.
Then some of them recognized the red scabbard of the other person and the shock in their heart multiplied with a smile on their faces as they are sure today is a good day for a great show as they whisper to their friends
'Red Sword Lancel.' The crowds knowing this also feel excited.
Knowing that both of the men in each side is a person normal people dare not offend, they just watched, eager to see a good show.
The people in this kind of inn, does not worry about trouble.
They only worry the trouble is not big enough.
After all if the trouble is not big, how could they enjoy a great show?
In Jianghu the most common place for a duel to erupt is at tavern or a restaurant. And duel in Jianghu erupt sometimes for nonsensical reason.
Battle for martial arts manual is also numerous, and sometimes even fighting to the death
They are used to it.
So, the Jianghu people are truly eager to see what will happen. Will the young man with the red sword duel with Old man Du?
If they did, then in their wandering in Jianghu, they will tell these stories added in with their opinions and will be crafted to not only enhance the battle but also made the people not watching it green with regret.
This is why story of battles greatly spread among the Jianghu people as fast as forest fire in the summer.
The girl was immediately brought up by an old man with a white beard and white eyebrows. The old man was wearing a black robe and he looked otherworldly.
It was the aura he is giving off, like he was untainted with mundane matters, pure of heart.
He dusts off any dust around the girl and asks her
'Yuhuan, are you fine?' The old man asks.
The girl was sobbing as she keeps rubbing her forehead.
There is some redness on her forehead. Charles while he was also fall, he did not feel that much pain.
He did not even flinch. The only reason he falls because of his lack of balance.
Seeing the girl would not stop crying Charles felt guilty. If he pays more attention to his surrounding how could he crash himself with this girl?
Her name was Yang Yuhuan hailing from Chu of the Aeropa.
Yuhuan was running around the second floor with her grandfather and was clearly awestruck by the colorful costume of the dancers and performers of the Everlasting Happiness Inn.
His grandfather is coming here to the Pass to visit the Scholar of Sword Meng Zhang to inquire about some matters.
Yang Yuhuan comes from a Jianghu family so she is very willful and very precocious.
They passed the Pass inspection since the General of the Pass knows her grandfather. Her grandfather is the Diviner Sage Du Long.
Famously known as the Diviner Sage Du.
Since many people in Jianghu knows that the Scholar of Sword Meng Zhang is the owner of the Everlasting Happiness Inn, her grandfather wanted to meet him first to ask for some help.
In the morning when Yuhuan heard her grandfather wanted to go to Everlasting happiness Inn, Yuhuan insisted to follow her grandfather.
Of course her grandfather could not really bring her to kind of place that could give birth bad reputation for a maiden like Yuhuan but since she was a child, her grandfather has always doted over her.
In the end, her grandfather allowed her to come.
When she saw how lively and how colorful the Inn really is Yuhuan could not contain her excitement and run around the Inn.
It was then when her grandfather started chasing her on the second floor asking her to stop that she collided with the boy
Yuhuan was already 13 years old.
She is older from Charles by three years and by that logic she should not have felt so much pain. But when she collided with that man forehead it was like she crash her head onto a boulder.
She felt like her head is being split open.
On the other hand Diviner Sage Du could only shakes his head and smiles bitterly as he apologizes to the boy uncle.
As he was apologizing he looked at the boy and then he was shocked.
In his heart alarms rings out.
'He could not let that kind of boy near her granddaughter'
He instantly thought but when Lancel look at the old man gaze towards Charles, Lancel did not let go of the old man hand, preventing the old man from coming near to Charles.
The old man channels some internal energy too push away Lancel and come to his granddaughter but Lancel reflect the internal energy with his own internal energy.
They battle in silence, trying to overwhelm each other with their internal energy, with no people in the crowd knowing any better.
Charles who did not realize the gaze of the old man and the silent battle ensuing because of him was thinking of something to stop the girl in front of him from crying and then he think of something.
Then he inconspicuously takes a coin from his pocket and put it into his hand.
The performer around the young boy of course realize it but the girl did not notice anything
'Want to see something interesting?'
He says to the girl and the girl slows the volume of her sobbing as her big eyes look at Charles inquisitively.
She nodded as she uses her dress sleeve to wipe her tears. The performers nearby also look at the young boy manners and was very impressed.
The boy wanted to console the girl and has a trick.
The performers have long been in the performing business and the way the kid does it while it is crude it is interesting. What performance can one do with a coin?
He keeps his eye contact with the girl while palming the coins.
When his eyes look at Yuhuan, she blushed looking so intensely by a boy.
Even though she is willful she knows the separation between men and women.
Then Charles makes his move and he reaches his hand behind Yuhuan head and Yuhuan blushes more furiously than before.
Some of the performers giggle and was curios. What is the kid trying to do?
He moves his hand slowly away from the person as he slides the coin from the back of his hand to the front.
Yuhuan felt her body tingles with embarrassment.
Charles holds up the coin in front of her and he declared
'You got a gold coin inside your ear!' and looking at this sudden appearance of the gold coin appears out of nowhere Yuhuan was puzzled.
She touches her ears trying to feel if there is any more gold coin.
A gold coin is a lot for poor people.
Yuhuan could eat many mantou with a gold coin so she tries to dig her ears with her fingers eliciting the laughers of the performer.
'Brilliant kid!' One of the performers shows a thumbs up to Charles as Charles just smile.
He already managed to keep the girl from crying that is good enough.
'Here.' Charles said as he gave the gold coin to Yuhuan.
'This comes from your ear so it will certainly belong to you' Charles said and the performers laughed again.
Yuhuan take the gold coin in a daze but then she grabbed Charles robe.
Her eyes was round and was full of curiosity and excitement
She asked enthusiastically
'How did you find a gold coin in my ear? My mother always cleans my ears and never found any gold?'
She asked with a questioning appearance and Charles chuckled.