Chapter 9: Being Involved
If it was just an ordinary chase, people in the team wouldn't be surprised, after all, such things are too common in this world.
However, the two people rushing over here at this moment made everyone panic. Some even looked for a place to hide. Even Liang Zifeng widened his eyes in shock and subconsciously pulled his younger brother and sister behind him.
The reason why Liang Zifeng lost his composure was that the two people rushing over there were flying on the treetops, as if their bodies had no gravity. They used the treetops to gain leverage and jumped more than ten meters away.
"Brush~"
The middle-aged man behind swung his knife at the target in front of him from a distance. A crescent-shaped energy more than one meter long suddenly shot out. Liang Zifeng's eyes lit up after seeing it.
I thought the young man in front would be attacked because his body was still in the air and he had nowhere to gain leverage.
But to everyone's surprise, the young man threw his backpack to the side, and with the slight reaction force, his body glided to the other direction, barely avoiding the oncoming knife attack.
The young man did dodge it, but the sword energy did not dissipate. Instead, it shot towards the team due to inertia, and Liang Zifeng and the others happened to block the direction of the sword energy.
When Liang Zifeng realized the seriousness of the problem, he suddenly discovered that there were only four of them and two cows left on the forest path. Everyone else had run into the dense forests on both sides and hid.
Liang Zifeng showed a wry smile on his face. He was so engrossed in watching that he didn't notice the actions of the people around him. Feeling the trembling coming from behind him, Liang Zifeng forced himself to calm down.
When the sword energy was 40 meters away from Liang Zifeng and the others, Liang Zifeng began to try to control the sword energy with his mental power. Unfortunately, he found that he couldn't do it at all. The sword energy contained a very strong willpower that could not be shaken by his mental power.
Since he couldn't control it, Liang Zifeng had to try to change the direction of the sword energy. Then he found that even if he used all his mental power to move the sword energy, the effect was very poor.
However, to his surprise, there was an effect. He could feel that the sword energy was moved a little bit.
Finally, thanks to Liang Zifeng's unremitting efforts, the sword energy was deflected a little bit, passed by the four siblings, and cut down a tree behind them that was so thick that it took two people to hug it.
The whole process was completed in less than two breaths. If it weren't for his mental strength, Liang Zifeng would have tried his best to push it, and the consequences would have been disastrous.
"what?"
When the middle-aged man was about to continue chasing the young man, he noticed something unusual about Liang Zifeng. He looked at Liang Zifeng with some curiosity, then chased in the direction the young man fled, and disappeared after a while.
"Huh~" Liang Zifeng saw that the incident was over, he subconsciously let out a breath, and his whole body relaxed.
After a few breaths, Liang Zifeng came to his senses and quickly ran to the package that the young man had thrown away, but he did not pick it up immediately. Instead, he stood there and used his mental power to check what was inside.
Inside the package were several silver bills, a book, a few small porcelain bottles, some clothes, a few darts, and a dagger, but it was this dagger that gave Liang Zifeng a special feeling.
After checking, Liang Zifeng took out the silver bills, books and the dagger from the package. He did not take anything else. He put the silver bills into the inner pocket of his gown and the dagger into the backpack on his back. Then he walked back while flipping through the books.
It was a secret book of Qinggong, which contained methods of breathing and various skills related to Qinggong. Unfortunately, without true qi, everything was in vain.
After resting for a while, he recovered more than half of his consumed mental strength. At this time, other villagers also came out one after another, but they looked at Liang Zifeng with evasive eyes.
The people in Liujia Village also understood something. They saw with their own eyes that when the sword energy reached Liang Zifeng, it suddenly changed direction. Although they didn't know how Liang Zifeng did it, they already knew that Liang Zifeng was a master with terrifying strength and they couldn't afford to offend him.
Unlike other villagers, Liang Zifeng's younger brothers and sisters were full of admiration. The third and fourth brothers also thought that they must seriously practice what their second brother taught them in the future and strive to become warriors as soon as possible.
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This time at the market, he earned more than 200 taels by selling medicine to Hongyiguan, because this time there was a ginseng that was more than 60 years old.
In addition, he also sold the secret book of Qinggong to Hongyi Clinic and unexpectedly received 1500 taels of silver notes. At that time, even the owner of Hongyi Clinic personally received the four siblings and said that Hongyi Clinic owed Liang Zifeng a favor.
What surprised the four siblings was that the owner of Hong Medical Clinic was the middle-aged man who received them last time, and the white-haired doctor was the old owner, the father of the current owner.
It was also through the explanation of Hong Yiguan that he learned that the martial arts secrets in this world were extremely precious. If his book of light skills was sold in the county town, it could be sold for more than 2500 taels, but Hong Yiguan did not have that much cash, and in the end only gave 1500 taels, plus some precious Chinese herbal medicines.
This time at the market, the four siblings bought a lot of iron tools, including a full set of carpenter's tools, 200 kilograms of grain, cloth and silk, more than 20 chicks and two old hens.
He also bought 50 kilograms of coarse salt. Liang Zifeng purified part of the 30 kilograms of coarse salt he bought last time. After tasting the fine salt once, he left the task of purifying the rest of the coarse salt to his two younger brothers.
In addition to the above items, Liang Zifeng also bought many books this time, including historical records, travel notes, Buddhist and Taoist classics, and some martial arts knowledge. He did not find any martial arts secrets he wanted.
Before leaving, Liang Zifeng bought a lot of pens, ink, paper and inkstone. He planned to go back and practice calligraphy, and teach his younger brothers and sisters to read and count.
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June 15th is the day when the brick kiln was completed and the first batch of bricks began to be fired. On this day, the small mountain village was officially named Yuanshan Village. As the name suggests, there is no mountain village farther away than this village.
After setting off firecrackers, the villagers officially began to carry bricks into the brick kiln, then sealed the door for delivering the bricks, and then started to light the fire. The only thing left was to send people to take turns to add firewood, and it would take 5 to 6 days to burn.
When the brick kiln was lit, Liang Zifeng just showed up, and after making sure there was no problem, he went home. He knew that the villagers would feel uncomfortable if he was there.
Liang Zifeng did not sit idle after returning home. He planned to forge a Tang sword by himself. Blacksmith shops in this world are generally not allowed to sell swords and other weapons.