Chapter - 189 Master of Taohua Island (5) (1/2)
Zhu Cong continued for her, ”He was just farting!” then he covered his mouth, laughing.
Huang Rong continued, ”A month ago Hong Qigong was obviously with Brother Jing and I. Brother Jing, give him another blow!”
”Right!” Guo Jing said, moving toward Qiu Qianren.
Qiu Qianren was scared; he turned around to escape, but Mei Chaofeng was standing in the middle of the door. He turned around again, but this time Lu Guanying blocked his way. He quickly pushed until Guanying staggered and fell. Even though he gained his fame by deceiving people, Qiu Qianren still possessed some real martial art skill. If he didn't, he would not recklessly dare to challenge the Six Freaks and Guo Jing. Lu Guanying was certainly not his match.
Huang Rong jumped to block him. ”You carried an iron cauldron over your head and walked on water, how did you do it?” she asked.
”That was my special skill,” Qiu Qianren answered. ”My title is 'Iron Palm Floating above the Water'; that was the 'Floating above the Water'.”
”You are still boasting,” Huang Rong said with a smile. ”Aren't you going to tell me the truth?”
”I am old, my martial art is not as it used to be,” Qiu Qianren answered. ”But my lightness kungfu has been trained to perfection.”
”Very well,” Huang Rong said, ”There is a large golden fish bowl outside at the courtyard. Why don't you demonstrate your 'Floating above the Water' that everybody can see your skill? Just go out the hall, turn left underneath the sweet-smelling 'gui hua' [osmanthus] tree.”
”How can someone trains in a fish bowl …?” Qiu Qianren had not finished speaking when something flashed brightly in front of his eyes, and without him realizing it his foot had been caught and he was hung upside down.
”Your death is imminent, yet you still open your big mouth!” Mei Chaofeng shouted. Her 'du long yin bian' [poisonous silver dragon whip] curled midair and hurled him toward the fish bowl following Huang Rong's direction.
Huang Rong quickly followed to the fish bowl, waving her butterfly shaped steel menacingly. ”I won't let you out of the bowl unless you explain to me your 'Floating above the Water'!”
Qiu Qianren kicked the bowl bottom, trying to leap up, but Huang Rong's steel punctured him on the shoulder. He fell back into the bowl, soaking wet. With face cringed from pain he said, ”That cauldron was inlaid with thin sheet of iron, the mouth was sealed, above it I put three inches deep of water. In that creek I had hidden some wooden poles about five, six inches from the surface; to make them invisible.”
Huang Rong laughed, then she re-entered the hall, did not pay Qiu Qianren any more attention. He quickly leaped up the bowl and hastily ran out the hall without looking back.
Mei Chaofeng and Lu Chengfeng smiled in embarrassment. They have fought and cried over nothing. Their master was not killed. Everything was that old scoundrel Qiu Qianren's blabbering mouth. Now that this matter was made clear, they felt uneasy toward each other. Mei Chaofeng hesitated for a moment, then clearing her throat she said, ”Lu Chengfeng, let my disciple go. For the sake of our Master I won't remember our past differences anymore. As for the fact that both of us husband and wife had to run to Mongolia … oh well, that was our fate.”
Lu Chengfeng heaved a deep sigh. He said in his heart, ”Her husband had died, her eyes blinded. She is alone and forsaken in this world. Both my legs are crippled, but I have a wife and a son. I have a family and I have a business. Actually my condition is hundred times better than hers. Both of us are decades older than we were, why would I keep having a resentment toward her?” Therefore, he answered, ”You can take your disciple away. Mei Shijie [older martial sister], your little brother will leave for the Peach Blossom Island to visit our benevolent master tomorrow. Are you coming with me?”