God of Pets

Chapter 377 Don't look after me
Deep in thought, Hu Sanqian's eyes grew increasingly resolute.

After a while, Hu Sanqian suddenly looked up and laughed loudly. After a long while, he calmed down and said, "Kid, I've broken your move. Watch closely."

Having said that, Hu Sanqian concentrated his energy and suddenly unleashed a powerful tiger claw attack.

This grab was neither offensive nor defensive, appearing as both a grab and a push, looking extremely strange.

However, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that this move is truly ingenious, seemingly both offensive and defensive, both grasping and pushing, with countless variations in its follow-up, making it the nemesis of Chen Guan's starting stance.

Faced with this move, counterattacking is not an option, nor is refusing to attack; in fact, it negates the advantage of the Black Tiger Heart-Piercing Move.

"How was that? Did I break that move beautifully?" Hu Sanqian said smugly.

"Beautiful," Chen Guan said.

"No brute force was used to break the move, clean, right?" Hu Sanqian asked again.

"It's as clean as it gets," Chen Guan nodded.

"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and become my disciple!" Hu Sanqian said.

"I won't bow," Chen Guan shook his head.

"You want to break the contract?" Hu Sanqian's expression was not good.

"I am a person who keeps my promises and will not break my word," Chen Guan shook his head again.

"If you don't break the contract, why don't you become my disciple?" Hu Sanqian asked, his face full of doubt.

Chen Guan took out a watch, pointed to the time, and said, "You just said it was one hour, right? When you were laughing, an hour had already passed. If you hadn't laughed and had used this move directly, it would have been exactly one hour. But now, you used this move after the time was up. How do we calculate this?"

Hu Sanqian was stunned. He quickly took out his pocket watch and glanced at it. Sure enough, just as Chen Guan had said, he had exceeded the time limit.

He was so engrossed in his work that he forgot about the time, which led to this situation.

After all, being able to break through such a starting stance is indeed an exciting thing. He was so excited at the time that he wouldn't have forgotten about the time limit.

"I..." Hu Sanqian's expression shifted, but he finally gritted his teeth and decided to admit defeat.

However, Chen Guan spoke first, saying, "I admit that you broke the move back then, but you didn't actually use it. Let's call this a draw, regardless of winning or losing. How about we become friends? If you don't mind, I would be honored to become friends with someone like you despite the age difference."

Hu Sanqian was delighted to hear this: "Haha, what's your name, little brother?"

Hearing Hu Sanqian address him like that, Chen Guan breathed a slight sigh of relief, realizing that he had been overthinking things. Hu Sanqian wouldn't scheme against a stranger like him for no reason.

"Chen Guan." Chen Guan replied.

"Alright, Brother Chen Guan, let's become sworn brothers here today. I, Hu Sanqian, hereby acknowledge you as my brother." Hu Sanqian was very happy and then asked Chen Guan, "What's the name of that move you used?"

"Black Tiger Claws Out the Heart," Chen Guan replied.

“Alright, then I’ll call my new move Black Tiger Steals Hearts.” Tiger Three Thousand said, then pulled Chen Guan up the mountain: “I’m so happy today, let’s have a good drink, I have some good wine here, I guarantee you’ll be happy.”

Chen Guan wasn't a big drinker, but since Hu Sanqian was so happy, he didn't want to spoil the mood.

After reaching the top of the mountain, there was a large courtyard halfway up the mountain. The courtyard was filled with various vegetables and other plants, but there was hardly anyone there except for Hu Sanqian. Hu Sanqian pulled Chen Guan into the house, where a huge, transparent glass jar immediately caught Chen Guan's eye.

That glass jar must have been four meters tall, and it was filled with a clear liquid, which I guessed was alcohol.

This wine contains rare and precious herbs such as ginseng and lingzhi. The other ingredients are not bad, but one of the old ginseng plants, not counting the fine roots, is three or four meters tall and almost fills the glass jar.

Chen Guan couldn't imagine how many years this ginseng had grown to be; it must have taken hundreds of thousands of years to grow to this size.

"Come on, brother, let's drink to our hearts' content today. This Ginseng Wine, let's have a good time today." Hu Sanqian took the wine pot over, filled two pots from the large glass jar, and gave one pot directly to Chen Guan.

While drinking, Hu Sanqian stir-fried two freshly picked green vegetables, which tasted incredibly delicious.

Chen Guan took a sip of wine and immediately felt his vital energy spreading throughout his body. The wine's effect on replenishing vital energy was even better than the expensive pills he usually ate.

Hu Sanqian was overjoyed to have created the move "Black Tiger Steals Hearts," and he drank with great gusto.

Chen Guan was not to be outdone; he gritted his teeth and insisted on drinking this kind of wine that could replenish vital energy with Hu Sanqian.

The two were enjoying their drinks when they heard someone knocking on the courtyard gate.

Normally, Hu Sanqian dislikes being disturbed while he's drinking and would get very angry.

But he was so happy today that he casually said, "The door isn't closed, come in."

The person outside heard Hu Sanqian's voice and then pushed the door open and came in.

Chen Guan turned his head and saw that the person who came was none other than Manager Wang, the old Dan Wang's manager.

Shopkeeper Wang was slightly taken aback when he saw Chen Guan, seemingly surprised to see him here, especially since Chen Guan was drinking with Hu Sanqian.

However, he thought for a moment: "Chen Guan probably couldn't buy the medicine from me, so he turned to Tiger. But given Tiger's temper, why would he drink with him? I wonder what tricks he used to win Tiger over."

"Little Wang, what brings you here again?" Hu Sanqian said with a sneer when he saw that it was Manager Wang.

Shopkeeper Wang, all smiles, cupped his hands to Tiger and said, "Tiger, my shop is out of stock of Black City Old Pills again. The main ingredient, Old Mountain Ginseng, can't keep up with the demand. Please, could you please increase the monthly quota?"

“There are only so many ginsengs each month. If we increase your quota, what about the others? We can’t increase their quotas.” Hu Sanqian flatly refused Manager Wang.

"Master Tiger, we are willing to raise the price by another 50% on top of the original price," Manager Wang said through gritted teeth.

Hearing what Manager Wang said, Hu Sanqian rolled his eyes, looked at Manager Wang and smiled, "It seems that Old Pill King has really made money over the years."

"It's all thanks to you, Tiger, that we have this livelihood. You are our provider," Manager Wang said hastily.

Hu Sanqian laughed heartily, patted Chen Guan on the shoulder beside him, and said, "Normally, let alone a 50% increase, even a 10% increase wouldn't be enough. But I just made a new brother today, and I'm happy..."

"Brother Tiger, don't think I have that much influence over you." Chen Guan interrupted Hu Sanqian. He was a very vengeful person, and he would never miss a chance to get revenge.

Manager Wang's face immediately turned extremely ugly. He really couldn't understand how Chen Guan had ended up with Tiger and even been recognized as a brother by Tiger.

At this critical moment, Chen Guan suddenly said this, and Manager Wang knew things were about to go wrong.

(End of this chapter)