Unlimited employment

Chapter 8 008 [Yuhuang Temple]

People have different temperaments.

The eyes of ordinary people always look at others with numbness, vigilance and a hint of cunning; but the gangsters and villains who make a living by notoriety dare to stare fiercely at everyone whose eyes meet, as if they are telling others all the time: I am not easy to mess with.

As soon as Chen Sheng stepped into the yard, he discovered several figures that were out of place with the wedding procession.

So when Wei Heming waved his hand, he raised his hand and swung the hatchet out, accurately stabbing it into the thigh of one of them.

After crippling one man in the blink of an eye, Chen Sheng deftly took off the backpack from his back and rushed towards the man closest to him among the three.

When the man saw his companion injured and rushing towards him, he was shocked at first, but then his expression turned fierce and he stabbed Chen Sheng in the chest with a knife.

However, Chen Sheng simply raised the backpack in his hand and put the man's oncoming knife and half of his arm into the backpack filled with half a basket of wild vegetables.

Then he skillfully clasped the man's arm with his ten fingers, and with the force of the two of them rushing towards each other, twisted his shoulder joint and dislocated it.

Afterwards, he raised his foot and kicked the man hard on the side of his kneecap, breaking his joint and bending his calf, and he fell to the ground.

It only took Chen Sheng two breaths to get rid of this man, but it was enough time for the last man to catch up with him from behind, roaring and stabbing him with a knife.

In a flash, Chen Sheng turned around, raised his hands, and with a clean and neat move, he grabbed the opponent's wrists with both hands, accurately holding both hands.

Then he used brute force to twist the man's wrist, and with a push of his arms, he pushed the dagger in his hand into his shoulder.

Finally, after the man felt pain and let go of the dagger in his hand, he snatched the knife and cut the tendons of his hands.

Chen Sheng kicked the man in front of him to the ground, looked around at the crowd around him, and said in a deep voice.

"This is what will happen to anyone who dares to take advantage of my brother."

Chen Sheng had been eating grass for half a month, and although he was now very strong and did not look like a man who had been hungry for a long time, the fact that he had killed three people in a row was the limit of his current strength.

If the people from the Wei family who were welcoming the bride rushed over, he would have no choice but to surrender.

But the three people he dealt with were well-known ruffians in the neighboring village. Normally, no one dared to mess with them because of their ruthlessness. But now they were beaten to a cripple and could only lie on the ground groaning and screaming.

This made the wedding procession, who usually only knew how to play musical instruments and sing, feel a chill down their spines, as they were unwilling to become enemies with such a vicious person just for the small amount of wages paid by the Wei family.

I don't know who took the lead, but more than 30 people in the yard turned around and ran away.

Even the injured headman and his son and the three disabled people who were holding the corpse were supporting each other and running out of the yard.

Chen Sheng looked at Wei Heming who was mixed in, took a few steps forward, pulled the thing back, and asked directly.

"Bring me the marriage certificate you signed."

"I didn't bring..."

Snapped!
Chen Sheng was not willing to tolerate Wei Heming, so he slapped him in the face and spread his hands, saying:

"Bring me the marriage certificate."

"You...you know that I have the title of scholar, and you actually dare to hit a scholar..."

Snapped!
"It's not right to go pick up the bride without the marriage certificate. If you bring it honestly, you can save yourself some trouble."

"My Wei family is a wealthy family in the county. You are making enemies with my family..."

Snapped!
"My father was a successful candidate..."

Snapped!
"I'm going to ask the county magistrate to mobilize three squads of yamen runners to arrest your entire family and put them in jail..."

……

"Grandpa Zhu, it's my fault, it's my whole family's fault. Please don't bear grudges against me, just treat me like a fart."

"Please, stop hitting me."

After all, Wei Heming was a scholar who knew the current situation. After being beaten more than a dozen times, he willingly took out the marriage certificate in his arms.

But Chen Sheng did not stop until all his good teeth were knocked out and his cheeks were swollen like a pig's head.

After checking that the contents of the marriage certificate were correct, he took out a tinder, lit it, and threw it on his thatched hut.

Thatch is flammable and grows faster in the wind. The blazing fire in his own house cast a dim light on Chen Sheng's face, and it was unclear what he was thinking.

After a long time, he lowered his head and looked at Wei Heming on the ground and said softly.

"get out."

"Thank you, Grandpa Zhu, for giving me a chance to live."

Looking at Wei Heming's figure crawling away, Chen Sheng shook his head with a hint of regret.

"It's a pity. Now is not a chaotic time with order broken down. Once you kill someone and are wanted by the government, your subsequent plans will not be easy to implement. I can only spare your life for now."

……

It's night, dark and windy.

Chen Sheng tucked three pieces of silk under his arm and carried the Wei family's betrothal money in a basket on his back, and groped his way to the mountain god temple at the west end of the village.

This small temple, which is more than one meter tall, is built with cement and blue bricks. It covers an area of ​​only ten feet square and has become dilapidated after years of wind and rain.

Chen Sheng pushed open the mottled temple door and saw that there were no lights or fires in the temple, only a pile of ashes from incense burning all year round on the ground.

"It's me, are you guys there?"

"elder brother."

As soon as Chen Sheng finished speaking, two heads popped out from behind the statue of the God of Land. They were Zhu Chongliu and Zhu Chongqi.

Seeing that they were safe and sound, he breathed a sigh of relief and took out four bean flour buns from his pocket and handed them over.

"Eat now. After this meal, we will leave Guzhuang Village in the dark.

We can’t stay here anymore, I’ll take you to find a way to survive.”

The two brothers, who hadn't had a proper meal for three months, had their eyes light up when they saw the steamed buns. They picked them up and stuffed them into their mouths greedily.

Chen Sheng picked up the steamed buns when he passed by the headman's house. He had no moral pressure to break into the house and plunder the accomplices of the Wei family.

After eating two steamed buns, Zhu Chongliu remembered what Chen Sheng said, turned his head and burped.

"Brother, what happened?
And where are we going to find a way to survive?"

Chen Sheng briefly explained that the Wei family wanted him to be buried alive with the dead, and then, amidst his angry curses, he revealed his destination, which he had been thinking about for a long time.

"The Wei family is powerful, so I want to take you to Yuhuang Temple to hide."

"Yuhuang Temple? Brother, didn't you say that place only lends grain to people who own land?

If we, landless tenants, seek refuge with those greedy monks, will they take us in?"

"Don't worry, I know what's going on."

During the past half month of traveling, Chen Sheng not only ate weeds and leaves to nourish his body, but also planned several alternative growth routes for himself.

Taking refuge in the Imperial Temple was one of them.

There are two advantages to taking this path. First, it makes it easier to learn the martial arts of this world.

This was his main purpose for traveling through this world. Joining a large temple or a Taoist temple was the most convenient way to learn martial arts.

Secondly, it can ensure that my two younger brothers have enough food to eat.

After all, he had the stomach and intestines of a cow and a horse, and could survive anywhere by eating grass, but his younger brothers would die of malnutrition if they continued to eat grass roots.

Now that they have offended the Wei family, seeking refuge in the Imperial Temple even has a third benefit: it helps the three brothers hide their identities and avoid the Wei family's revenge.

“It is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge.

With the added bonus of a professional profile, as long as I can stay in a stable place for a few years, the difficulties I’m facing now will become insignificant in a few years…”

(End of this chapter)