Chapter 252 - Counselor (1/2)
Chapter 252: Counselor
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Fang Wenshi+ had not expected that he would be so poverty-stricken The first thing that he thought of when he opened his eyes every rains of rice to feed his hunger He had once been respected by hbors because he was a man of poetry, ell versed in many books, and can hold conversations about philosophical matters Even the local wealthy hter However, he had rejected the offer A real man’s aspirations should be endless- why should he be afraid about not having a wife? When he had traveled around the country for four or five years and had returned to his horeeted by the same rich man He rejoiced in secret for several days
Today’s Fang Wenshi+ was like an invisible person in the village The once fahbors had either pretended to be blind or had been hiding away from him because they were afraid that he would ask them to borrow money As if his bad luck hadn’t already peaked, he had been blocked by two strangers in the yard today
At that ti Wenshi+ had been at his older brother’s house next door He had used his silver tongue; he begged, intimidated, and induced One would have had heard sublie of Astronoht of and the Devil of hell would had been moved However, his sister-in-law had not even blinked a wink, and had kept on feeding the chicken in the yard as usual Not even a grain of rice had been allowed to be “borrowed” To her, her brother-in-law’s voice was no different than the noises that wereheart, Fang Wenshi+ thought that he was not needed and that there was no need to return Suddenly, two unfamiliar fellows pushed open the door and entered without permission They had apparently heard reliable infors, they asked, “Are you called Fang Wenshi+?”
The big felloearing travel-stained felt clothing Their faces were rough and their tone was blunt They looked like the kidnappers who had kidnapped hi and he hurriedly shook his head
The reaction of his sister-in-laho had not spoken the whole tily quick She said pree descended fro Wenshi+ had a th to parry against the rough rugged men His head was covered and there was darkness before him Then, he was lifted up to be carried away This was start of the last part of his unfortunate life
Fang Wenshi+’s sister-in-law breathed a long sigh of relief as if she had recovered from many years of a stubborn illness However, it had occured to her that her husbandfor the big fellows to leave for some tihbors left their homes and watched They only had time to see the dust raised by the horses They wondered in their hearts, ‘Who would be so blind as to kidnap a poor man? Besides, why kidnap hiers would happily tie the scholar up and send hi Wenshi+ hi fellows carried Fang Wenshi+ andThey had rested for only a short ti Wenshi+ felt that the bones of his body had been torn apart When a big fellow had taken out soobbled it up, without even asking where they were going
The big felloas shocked and had thought that this scholarWenshi+ had guessed that they were going ard However, it had been strange that the big fellows had not chosen the safest and most unobstructed path- the Tianshan South Road, which passed through Jade City and was protected by Golden Roc Fort Instead, they had taken the wilderness north of the mountains, where so his stoan to worry about his safety He politely asked the two “pals” for sos The two big fellows did not speak much to each other There were only the monotonous sounds of horse hooves that went on nonstop, day and night, which even lingered in their dreams
After more than half aon his head was re Wenshi+ felt that he was still floating on a turbulent horse His feet had felt like they had stepped into a heap of cotton flowers As soon as the big fellow had let go of hiround and laid there for half a day
This was a large tent with not s that were laid out There were a dozen roughon either side, each with short or long heavy swords hanging by their sides Fang Wenshi+ had a feeling that the status of these people was proportional to the size of their swords
However, his first ied on the inside of the shortest couch From his point of view, he should had been the leader; but the sword by his side was the shortest
The young man’s face was pale, and he seemed to have an illness The face should have had been handsoloo on both the left and right sides of the low couch On the left was a very handsolance at hiirl
Fang Wenshi+ sed soed prepared in his heart, “Your majesty, please spare my life This lowly little scholar has no rabbed the wrong person”
The young htly lazy, but there was a kind of dignity that feltWenshi+ co Wenshi+, don’t you recognize hly looked at him for a while His mind quickly churned He hoped that he could think of so Then his eyes lit up “It’s you, eh, why didn’t you say so sooner? Has brother been well? Is your fa o, at Iron Mountain Caiven you the horse?”
With this re man in front of him, but he still couldn’t remember this person’s name “It’s you! You…how…aren’t you…where is this place?”
“This is theHuan, and I aer a killer from Golden Roc Fort”