118 The State of Affairs (1/2)

A few days later, That ”The Tenth Young Master of Golden Roc Fort fought against thousands of bandits” became the only statement everyone made about the survivors of the journey.

Since detaching themselves from fame is one of the principles of the killers, they were willing to be her nameless killers.

In the beginning, Shangguan Ru patiently explained to others that she was not the main commander. But it only brought her a reputation of ”modesty”. Gradually, she only laughed without trying to explain anymore as she had accepted the whole thing. Being the Tenth Young Master of the Shangguan family, having led dozens of machetemen and a larger number of handymen forward throughout an entire day and night, having personally killed countless enemies, and the blood on her body when she was rescued, all of this made her deserve the overwhelming praise.

She had never known, and would never know that the camel driver, who seemed to be an ordinary man, was a top killer arranged by her father. The man was finally killed by several black-robed women in his line of duty.

After calming down, Slave Qing began to make many friends in Iron Mountain's bandit camp. He kept telling everyone how perfectly his master performed in the ”assassination” of him, and how brave she was when she beat back the roving bandits. His words were so vivid and full of excitement as if he had followed his master in every killing.

As a result, Shangguan Ru and Shangguan Yushi found themselves extremely popular in the camps. From Bighead Kingpin to ordinary troops, they all regarded the two girls as heroes and top killers, and the girls loved all these. They went to parties all the day, drank with vulgar men, and mingled around, finding it a worthy trip.

On the evening of the slaughter of the roving bandits as the sacrifice for an offering to their flags, Bighead Kingpin invited all the survivors to a grand banquet. Even the handymen were also invited to the main camp to enjoy the feast. When they saw Bighead Kingpin's underlings heavily drinking and quarreling, they were so amazed.

No matter who they were and how much they could drink, all the brown-belt assassins had to drink bowl after bowl with the chiefs of Iron Mountain. But halfway through the banquet, the four assassins were all collapsed in a drunken stupor. Hence, the fact that those killers were not good at drinking became a joke in the camp.

However, the two masters were enthusiastic about drinking and did not refuse the wine. In terms of alcohol tolerance, they seemed to be no weaker than the bandits of Iron Mountain, and this had redeemed the honor of Golden Roc Fort. Bighead Kingpin praised them greatly and rather envied the Supreme King. ”If I had one more daughter, I would let her enter the service of the Tenth Young Master anyway, even if she were to be a maid.”

Before Gu Shenwei was completely drunk, he heard Bighead Kingpin announced that the roving bandits in the desert had dared to attack the Tenth Young Master of Golden Roc Fort, subjecting Iron Mountain to great humiliation, thus he would search every patch of sand and send all his men to slay those loathsome bandits and get revenge for Shangguan Ru.

Being inspired, the chiefs vowed, sprinkled wines, and shouted: revenge, revenge. They almost turned the camp over.

Early the next morning, Gu Shenwei woke up in dizziness. He felt bad about the hangover.

An underling brought him a breakfast and a letter.

The letter was from Fang Wenshi. In few lines, it said that Fang Wenshi appreciated the ”hero” for saving his life, and he needed to continue on his way, blah, blah...

Gu Shenwei almost forgot about the plain scholar and he suddenly thought up that he still had some questions to ask. After borrowing a horse and finding out where the scholar had gone, he started his pursuit.

Fang Wenshi had expected that he could get close to Bighead Kingpin and changing his life from that point onward, but he was quite disappointed. He did not know kung fu, could not drink much and was not even from Golden Roc Fort. He could not make himself fit in the camp. Even the underlings also made fun of him, let alone allow him to meet Bighead Kingpin.

He attended the banquet last night and made it to the main table. As he was ready to give his spectacular speech in a toast, he stepped on a large piece of meat, slipped and fell down. He got a bruise on his head, which invited more laughter.

Fang Wenshi felt disgraced at behaving like a clown. Even worse, as soon as he stood up, the sub-chiefs immediately pulled him to the wine before he could speak. The next morning, he woke up to find himself lying on a pile of filth and surrounded by smelly feet.

Fang Wenshi was so depressed. For the first time in his life, he began to doubt whether what he had learned with difficulty over the past 10 years was of any value. Wide as the world was, there was still no stage for him. He scribbled a letter and had it sent to the ”hero”. Packing up his stuff, he left the camp alone. Along the way, he was full of remorse and was even thinking of committing suicide.

When Gu Shenwei caught up with him, he was drowning in sorrow. Standing on the road, he uttered a long loud cry in tears and even did not notice the sound of hoofs behind him.

”Mr. Fang, why did you leave without saying goodbye?”

Fang Wenshi was startled. Turning around, he saw Gu Shenwei. As it would be a shame for a man to be seen crying, Fang Wenshi wiped his tears away, clasped his hands and said, ”Hero, don't persuade me. I'm not going back to see Bighead Kingpin anyway. Iron Mountain is full of boorish fellows and there is no place for a counselor, like me.”

”Bighead Kingpin isn't going to see you; he doesn't even know who you are.”

Fang Wenshi let out a long sigh and felt he had no strength to even take another step.

Looking at the man who was rather sad, Gu Shenwei began to doubt whether his judgment about this man was correct. Killing him seemed to be beneficial to both sides. ”Mr. Fang, I have a present for you. Please take it as your traveling expenses.”

Gu Shenwei took out a small bag of gold and jewelry, which was a gift awarded to him by Bighead Kingpin.