Volume 1: The Return of the Ancestor Chapter 6: Remember, you can’t practice martial arts without money
The other three guards of the Huang family were also frightened by Wu Yue's sword. When they heard Huang Tianzhao's order, they threw the daggers in their hands to the wall without thinking.
Seeing that his opponent had no weapon, Wu Yue felt a little relieved.
But all of this was under Su Yan's control, so he showed no emotion and continued to transmit his voice: "Continue to learn from my teacher - what's your name, sir?"
Wu Yue changed to a more comfortable sword-holding posture and awkwardly imitated Su Yan's tone and asked, "What's your name, sir?"
"My last name is Huang. Lady, please spare my life. I am just..."
"I ask questions and you answer them." Wu Yue interrupted Huang Tianzhao and said a little stumblingly, "If you keep talking too much, I'll kill you."
"Yes, yes, yes." Huang Tianzhao's tongue was trembling and tied.
"How much do you think your life is worth?" Wu Yue asked again.
Hearing this, Huang Tianzhao calmed down a little bit - he was most afraid of running into that kind of foolish young man, being killed with a sword as a target of chivalry. Now that he knew Wu Yue wanted money, not his life, he breathed a sigh of relief.
However, he couldn't bear to part with the money as his life had to be saved.
You have to know that the Huang family's money, apart from what was passed down from his father, was accumulated by him day after day through hard work of extortion at the market. Every penny was hard-earned, and he would feel bad to give it away.
So, after thinking for a while, he raised a finger and asked tentatively: "Ten taels?"
Wu Yue laughed, "Ten taels? Mr. Huang's life is so worthless? Then why should I keep you alive? I'd better kill you."
As he spoke, Wu Yue pressed the tip of his sword down a little further.
Feeling the sharp edge on his neck was more piercing and painful, Huang Tianzhao shouted hurriedly: "Stop! I'm worth a hundred taels! A hundred taels should be enough, right?!"
" You're really greedy for money." Wu Yue shook her head, and then said directly: "One thousand taels of silver, if you don't give it, I will kill your entire family, search yourself!"
"One thousand taels..." Huang Tianzhao never expected that Wu Yue, a country girl, would ask for such a large sum of money. He immediately cried, "I really don't have any, lady. Even if I sell all my belongings, I still can't raise so much money..."
Before he could finish his words, Huang Tianzhao felt a chill on his head.
'My head is gone?'
As soon as this thought came to his mind, he collapsed to the ground, frightened to the point of incontinence.
Smelling a foul odor, Wu Yue frowned, but put the sword on Huang Tianzhao's neck again and said, "I told you, don't talk too much. That was your last chance. One thousand taels, will you give it to me or not?!"
'I'm not dead?'
Huang Tianzhao suddenly realized that Wu Yue's sword only cut off his bun.
At this moment, he felt that life was so wonderful that money and other things were not important, so he quickly agreed: "Give it! I'll give it to you!"
"Also have your people prepare a carriage with a driver. Remember, tell your people not to do anything tricky, otherwise even if you have a fortune, it won't be your turn as a dead man to enjoy it. Do you understand?"
"I understand, I understand." Huang Tianzhao shouted, "Madam Liu, quickly prepare according to what this lady said... The silver is buried under the floor tiles of my bedroom where the toilet is placed."
After saying that, he did not forget to explain to Wu Yue with a big smile on his face: "Auntie Liu is my wet nurse, just like my own mother, she won't harm me."
Wu Yue did not respond to Huang Tianzhao's words. She followed Su Yan's instructions and asked someone to find a hemp rope to tie up Huang Tianzhao.
Huang Tianzhao suddenly panicked, "Lady, I have already promised to give you the silver, what are you doing?"
Wu Yue didn't say anything, but asked the other members of the Huang family to tie each other up, and she checked whether they were tied tightly. If there were any that were not tied tightly, she would directly pull out the scabbard and ask them to tie them again.
Just like that, after Liu Ma arranged the carriage and brought over the small box containing a thousand taels of silver, she was also tied up by Wu Yue.
Afterwards, all the members of the Huang family were tied together under the old locust tree in the yard, and their mouths were gagged with cloth.
Finally, Wu Yue threatened the driver to follow him out of the Huang family mansion, closed the door, got on the carriage and left from the east of the town...
"Master, what do we need so much money for? What if Mr. Huang reports us to the authorities and has us wanted?"
The carriage was shaking as it moved along the dilapidated official road. Wu Yue looked at the white silver in the small box. Her eyes flashed for a moment but quickly returned to normal. She expressed her doubts in a puzzled manner.
Su Yan said: "Remember, practicing martial arts is a form of cultivation, and money, friends, methods and land are all indispensable.
Among them, money comes first, because whether it is your daily food, clothing, housing and transportation, or the elixirs needed for practicing, or even the weapons you use, etc., generally you need money to buy them.
When you first started practicing martial arts, you had the skills taught by your master and the elixirs accumulated by your master, so naturally you didn't have a deep understanding of this.
In the beginning, my master had accumulated a fortune of over one million taels through business, which allowed him to have a smoother journey in learning martial arts.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just take the Peiyuan Pill that you are taking. One pill is worth thousands of taels of silver in the martial arts world, but it is still in short supply.
When you have finished taking the Peiyuan Pill, you need to spend money to buy more. If you need other pills for your practice and your master doesn't have them, you also need to spend money to buy them.
I won't give other examples, but in short, if you want to practice martial arts well, you can't be without money. Do you understand?"
"Oh." Wu Yue nodded slowly.
But she still felt something was wrong - when she heard stories about knights in the past, they were all free and unrestrained, and she seemed to have never heard of any knight worrying about money?
If warriors also have to work hard for money, then what’s the difference between them and ordinary people?
Or maybe there is no difference at all?
At this time, she heard Su Yan's voice transmission again: "Of course, robbing the rich and unkind like today can be done once or twice when you are in urgent need of money, but it cannot be used as the main way to make money.
On the one hand, if you do too much, your reputation will be damaged in the end; on the other hand, you won’t make a lot of money and it’s easy to get into trouble.”
"Master, are you talking about the government?"
"Government?" Su Yan smiled. "The Daliang government was already extremely incompetent when my master was roaming the martial arts world. Now, thirty years have passed, and since it is still Daliang, and judging from what I saw and heard in the town today and the road conditions, the government is probably even more incompetent.
The detectives might take care of ordinary thieves and robbers, but they are unwilling to do anything about real martial artists like us.
Compared to the government, our actions are more likely to offend the local martial artists. If Mr. Huang knows any martial artists, he will definitely hire someone to chase us.”
Wu Yue listened thoughtfully and nodded, "Disciple understands."
The old driver had been listening to the noise in the car. At this moment, he felt terrified and his hair stood on end.
In his opinion, the man that Wu Yue had carried on his back before, who was motionless, was most likely a corpse.
Now Wu Yue seemed to be talking to someone in the car, but he couldn't hear the other person's voice, which made him wonder: Is this female bandit talking to a ghost?
When this thought came to his mind, he immediately lost all thoughts and just wanted to get Wu Yue to her destination as soon as possible so that he could get away and go home.
So he boldly asked, "Lady...lady, where are we going?"
"Go straight along this official road to Sangqiu County."
…
That afternoon, when they were five miles away from Sangqiu County, Wu Yue gave the old driver five taels of silver and asked him to return to Gou County.
Afterwards, Wu Yuecai placed Su Yan on the carriage and led the carriage into Sangqiu County.
This was not the first time Su Yan came to this county town, but the last time he came seemed to be fifty years ago.
He released his spiritual consciousness and scanned the scenery along the streets of the county town. He found that the county town had not changed much. It was just a little worse and more chaotic than before, and there were many more beggars on the streets.
In fact, when Su Yan saw that the cultivation of the Xiantian Realm was slow, he thought about starting a rebellion, changing the dynasty, and even unifying the entire continent before establishing the Wuji Dao.
However, it was later discovered that although the Daliang court was corrupt, the royal family, the Xiao clan, also had several innate masters, and the three top sects in Daliang were also interested in maintaining the stability of the dynasty.
Thinking about changing the dynasty was not an easy task and was quite stressful, so Su Yan changed his mind and established the Wuji Dao.
But he didn't expect that the once famous Wuji Dao had declined to the level of a third-rate sect in just over 30 years.
Fortunately, he "came back to life", otherwise Wuji Dao might have disappeared at any time.
"Master, what should we do next?" Wu Yue asked softly outside the car.
She already knew that as long as she was within three meters of Su Yan, Su Yan would be able to hear her even if she spoke softly.
Sure enough, Su Yan's voice rang in her mind again: "Let's go to the clothing store and change our clothes first."
