Sword from Songshan

Chapter 7 Everyone who meets you has a share

“…That’s all!”

After a fierce battle between heaven and man, the righteous villain finally defeated the evil villain.

Lu Nanxing admits that he is not a saint, but if he is asked to kill someone, especially his childhood friend who he has been with day and night, he really can't do it, at least he can't do it now.

So, he didn't pick up the stone at his feet in the end.

Of course, reason can suppress greed, but human selfishness cannot be imprisoned.

Staring at Wang Tiandong on the cliff, Lu Nanxing's eyes revealed a hint of expectation, hoping that he could fall down by himself!

In this way, he could keep the Ganoderma lucidum for himself without having to endure the condemnation of his conscience.

Unfortunately, nine out of ten times things don’t go as planned.

Wang Tiandong not only picked the Ganoderma lucidum, but also climbed up safely in the end. Then he let out another cry and jumped back over here.

"Congratulations."

Lu Nanxing stood up and took two steps forward to meet Wang Tiandong who had returned.

Facing Lu Nanxing's congratulations, Wang Tiandong, who had been full of joy just now, suddenly became serious, and his eyes revealed deep vigilance as he looked at Lu Nanxing.

He stuffed the cloth bag containing the Ganoderma lucidum into his arms, then took out the fire starter he carried with him and spoke threateningly.

"Lu Nanxing! I may not be able to beat you, but if you want to steal my Ganoderma, I will burn it, and then neither you nor I will be left with anything!"

In fact, when Wang Tiandong returned to the ground after picking the Ganoderma lucidum and was overjoyed, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart when he saw Lu Nanxing on the other side of the cliff.

Not only are he and Lu Nanxing of similar age, but they are also the only two outliers in the village who refuse to accept their fate! Therefore, the two of them are like-minded and usually walk the closest to each other.

The difference is that Wang Tiandong chose to study, while Lu Nanxing practiced martial arts. In Wang Tiandong's view, no matter how good a martial arts master is, he is just a reckless man, and will eventually fall behind. Only studying is better.

But in the current situation, Lu Nanxing, who practices martial arts, is indeed at an advantage.

In fact, because he was worried that Lu Nanxing would snatch it away, Wang Tiandong originally did not plan to go back to the cliff. He just walked away along the cliff until he was away from Lu Nanxing.

However, it was getting dark. Even if Lu Nanxing didn't follow, there was no telling how far they would have to walk to find another narrow place. It would be bad if they delayed getting down the mountain.

After weighing the pros and cons, he had no choice but to jump back.

Of course, he was not unprepared.

This fire starter, which was his reliance, was a method of 'burning both the jade and the stone to ashes'.

"Oh, you think I'll rob you."

Lu Nanxing sneered, as if mocking Wang Tiandong for his mean-spirited approach.

But in fact, he did covet the Ganoderma lucidum in Wang Tiandong's arms.

In fact, he already regretted not throwing the stone at that person.

He didn't even make a move just now, so it would be embarrassing to try to snatch it now.

The most important thing is that Wang Tiandong is extremely alert. If the Ganoderma lucidum is damaged during the snatch, all the efforts will be in vain.

For a moment, Lu Nanxing was quite hesitant.

"Nanxing, my good brother."

At this moment, Wang Tiandong spoke again and paused slightly, as if he had made a great decision.

"How about this! Let's go back to the village together, and when the Ganoderma lucidum is sold, I'll give you 10% of the money!"

“One percent…”

Lu Nanxing pondered in his heart, this Ganoderma lucidum could be sold for at least a few hundred taels of silver, and one tenth would be dozens of taels.

I have to say, it’s already quite a lot.

However, there is still some distance to the one hundred taels of tribute required to join the Songshan Sect.

Thinking of this, Lu Nanxing's face darkened and he decided to do it in one step.

"One hundred taels! I don't care how much silver you sell it for, I only want one hundred taels!"

"You are a robber!"

Seeing that Lu Nanxing was greedy and even raised the price, Wang Tiandong immediately scolded him.

"I risked my life to collect this Ganoderma! I'm giving you 10% of it because of our past friendship. How can you be so ungrateful!"

"You fight for your life? I don't know what's good for me?"

Lu Nanxing couldn't help but sneer, his face gloomy.

It sounds good, but if Wang Tiandong didn't want to take it all for himself, why would the two of them fight back to the village to get a rope?

If he had taken advantage of Wang Tiandong's misfortune just now and directly pushed him off the cliff, there would be no need for bargaining now.

Even if we don't mention all these, he did save Wang Tiandong's life from the jaws of death before. Isn't that worth one hundred taels of silver?

"If you don't agree, then we'll go our separate ways!"

Lu Nanxing's eyes were cold as he walked closer to Wang Tiandong while speaking, no longer caring about the fire starter in his hand.

"You...you...stop! Stop now!"

Seeing this, Wang Tiandong couldn't help but feel a little flustered and kept shouting to stop him, but Lu Nanxing refused to listen.

As for actually burning the Ganoderma lucidum with a fire stick, how could Wang Tiandong bear to do that?

"...Okay! I promise!"

Seeing that the distance was less than two meters, Wang Tiandong shouted hurriedly, and then said dejectedly with the look of a defeated rooster.

"One hundred taels of silver. I will give you one hundred taels when the time comes! But no more!" "It's a deal!"

Lu Nanxing indeed stopped, nodded vigorously, and a smile appeared on his face.

One hundred taels. As long as he sells this Ganoderma lucidum, he can go to the Songshan Sect!

Seeing Lu Nanxing agreed, Wang Tiandong secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Although one hundred taels was painful, it was still within his acceptable range.

What he feared most was that Lu Nanxing would be greedy and continue to raise the price.

Now that it has been finalized, we can feel a little relieved.

"It's getting late, let's get down the mountain quickly!"

But he was afraid that Lu Nanxing would change his mind, so Wang Tiandong said something else and walked towards the outside of the mountain.

"it is good."

Lu Nanxing nodded and quickly followed.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he got closer, Wang Tiandong jumped away reflexively like a cat whose tail was stepped on.

Then, realizing that his reaction was too exaggerated, Wang Tiandong turned his head away embarrassedly.

However, he still kept some distance from Lu Nanxing.

Obviously, he was still worried about Lu Nanxing and was afraid that he would attack him on the way!

I have to say, intellectuals are very cunning!

In response, Lu Nanxing snorted and kept his distance from Wang Tiandong.

Because they were worried about the tiger, the two men did not dare to return the same way and had to go around in a circle in the mountains.

This, in turn, wastes a lot of time.

Fortunately, it is midsummer and the days are exceptionally long.

Finally, we walked out of the mountains before the sun set.

When we returned to the village, the sky was full of stars.

"Nanxing, Tiandong! You're finally back!"

At the entrance of the village, the villagers who were enjoying the cool air saw the two of them coming back and hurried to greet them.

"We heard that you went into the mountains early in the morning and haven't come back yet. We were very worried!"

"That's right! Fortunately, everything is fine. It was just a false alarm."

"By the way, why did you come back so late? Did you get something big?"

"Hey, where's your medicine basket?"

"Don't mention it."

Facing everyone's questions and suspicious looks, Lu Nanxing took a breath and said with fear on his face.

"We encountered a tiger in the mountains."

"tiger!"

Hearing these two words, everyone was shocked.

But then he came to his senses and looked at the two of them suspiciously again.

"Has there ever been a tiger in this mountain?"

"Yeah, how could there be a tiger? Did you see it wrong?"

"I saw it wrong? Ha, we were almost eaten by a tiger, how could we be wrong!"

Lu Nanxing snorted coldly and then gave a serious warning.

"I don't know where the big beast came from. Anyway, don't go into the mountains until the government kills it."

"If we don't go into the mountains, where will we go to collect herbs?"

"Yeah! If we don't collect herbs, we'll have nothing to eat or drink!"

"Oh my! Isn't this going to kill our entire family?"

“I don’t know how long we have to wait for the government to hunt tigers.”

"Just leave it to fate."

Facing the panicked crowd, Lu Nanxing said something and then waved his hand.

"We are too tired today. Let's go to the county government office tomorrow morning to report to the authorities and ask them to post a notice to prevent anyone from entering the mountains and being killed by tigers."

After saying that, Lu Nanxing and Wang Tiandong went into the village.

Watching the two people leave, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment.

Since he wanted to report it to the authorities, it must not be nonsense. After all, lying to the authorities is a crime.

"Oh no! What should I do?"

"Yeah, how could there be a tiger?"

Then, the villagers became anxious again. There were tigers in the mountains and they couldn't collect herbs. How would they survive?

(End of this chapter)