Chapter 184 Acquaintance
Opening her eyes, she saw Yun Chen's handsome face so close to her, and her face turned red.
"Thank you so much for saving my life, sir. I have no way of repaying you..."
Yun Chen helped Zhi Luo to her feet and gracefully let go of her hand, "I'm glad you're okay, young lady."
Zhiluo continued:
"I have nothing to offer in return, but I am willing to serve you, sir, in return for your life-saving care and kindness, and also for your generosity... Please allow me to do so."
Yun Chen waved his hands repeatedly, his face flushed, and he picked up the pipa, which was only left with the neck, and said regretfully:
"It's just a small favor. There's no need to thank me so much, I'm glad you're safe. It's a pity that I'm afraid the pipa can't be repaired."
"I've been singing for years, making a living. I wanted to take advantage of the Qiqiao Festival to sing everywhere, but I came here by boat and was harassed by playboys along the way. Honestly... if you hadn't helped me, I'm afraid I'd be like this pipa, dead... Please agree to my request, and let me repay you."
"It's not easy for you to be alone, but you are also free. If you are with me, it will be neither easy nor comfortable. I accept your feelings, but I dare not restrict your innocence."
The two of them chatted back and forth, their faces slightly blushing, and they were chatting very lively, leaving Huo Gannian aside.
Are you two on a blind date?!
Huo Gannian swallowed these words in his stomach and tried to comfort himself: Don't lose your mind! Don't lose your mind!
Looking around, there were more and more boats at the dock. Many people were leaning on the side of the boats, watching the excitement coming towards the passenger ship. Huo Gannian said to Yun Chen:
"There are too many people around here, so we shouldn't stay here for too long. It would be bad if we were recognized. Let's go—"
Before he could finish the word "bar", a voice suddenly sounded not far away, full of provocation:
"The renowned richest man in Nan Country, the ninth-generation patriarch of the Huo Clan, second only to the emperor, son of the legendary Xuanjia warrior Huo Leiting, and the current head of the Huo Clan, Huo Gannian—I never expected to meet Young Master Huo here, a hero saving a beautiful woman. Interesting!"
Yun Chen looked over in the direction of the voice and saw that the person who was reading the household registration book to Huo Gan was a young man in a green military uniform.
He is tall and thin, with slanted eyes and a very obvious scar at the corner of his eye. He looks like a fox demon, quite eerie.
Beside him were a dozen or so men in uniform, who looked more like his equals than his followers.
They were standing on the cargo ship that Huo Gannian and Yun Chen were on. All of them were wearing swords and looked like guards, but they were more majestic and arrogant than usual.
The captain, with a look of fear on his face, stood aside holding the cargo list. It seemed that he was delivering the goods to this group of men in blue military uniforms.
Unexpectedly, in order to avoid being seen, Huo Gannian and Yun Chen specially bought a cargo ship to travel secretly, but they happened to meet an "acquaintance" who could recite Huo Gannian's family for eighteen generations.
It’s just that the “acquaintance” knows Huo Gannian, but Huo Gannian doesn’t know this “acquaintance”.
It was not until the captain opened a tightly bound cargo bag, took out a large roll of high-quality and expensive bright red cloth, and pushed out a cart of fine wine, that Huo Gannian and Yun Chen finally knew who these people were.
One hundred thousand gold coins can buy a life. You can only attack once. If you fail to kill the target, you will kill the employer.
The iconic red clothes and the outstanding and fierce martial arts.
The world's most peculiar, most rigorous, most mysterious and most terrifying killer organization:
Unrighteous blood guard.
A whole ship of red cloth and satin was specially shipped from the most expensive cloth shop in Ziwei Island to make uniforms for the Blood Guards.
Except when they were killing people or on duty, the Blood Guards wore green military uniforms at other times to conceal their identities.
As Huo Gannian was the only Wuyi Blood Guard in history who escaped and killed his employer, his name naturally resounded in the ears of every Blood Guard.
It is said that Huo Gannian's portrait is hung on the main wall of the Wuyi Blood Guard's palace.
Every newcomer who joins the Wuyi Blood Guards must listen to the story of Huo Gannian's escape and remember the shame of destroying the Wuyi Blood Guards' reputation.
Therefore, everyone in the Wuyi Blood Guard recognized Huo Gannian and was waiting for someone to be willing to pay 100,000 gold to buy Huo Gannian's life.
This feeling is very strange. It cannot be said that Wuyi Xuewei and Huo Gannian have any personal grudges.
However, an employer spent 100,000 gold to kill Huo Gannian, but failed, forcing the Wuyi Blood Guards to kill the employer instead.
To a certain extent, the Wuyi Blood Guard avenged Huo Gannian in disguise, which can be considered as a "favor" to Huo Gannian.
But it was the Wuyi Blood Guards who caused the deaths and injuries of all the Huo Gang members and Huo Gannian's broken leg after falling off a cliff.
If the Wuyi Blood Guard is likened to a sharp, poisoned knife, the owner of this knife can be anyone.
This knife can also hurt anyone, including the person holding it.
But every injustice has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor, who would be angry with Dao?
Yun Chen had fought with Wuyi Blood Guard twice and knew that he was very powerful. Even the lowest-level Blood Guard could be killed by her with great difficulty.
As for the rank of these blue-clothed men in front of them, it was unknown what level they were in the Blood Guards, but what was certain was that if a fight broke out here, Huo Gannian and Yun Chen’s chances of winning would not be high, and they would be extremely conspicuous.
Even so, out of his protective instinct, Yun Chen habitually looked at each person calmly, memorizing their body shape, number of people, weapons, and standing positions in his mind.
Yun Chen looked at the blood guards.
Among the Blood Guards, there was also someone looking at her.
Although that man was standing at the back of the Blood Guards, the people around him looked at him with great respect.
He looked to be about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, tall, handsome, with a cold and unfriendly expression. He seemed more unruly than the other blood guards, and was looking at Yun Chen with a strange look.
Huo Gannian glanced at the blood guards in green clothes and knew that he could no longer take this boat and had to choose another way to continue. He jumped onto the cargo ship, picked up Yun Chen's package, and looked at the blood guard who was carrying Huo Gannian's household registration book with a blank expression:
"One hundred thousand gold for life, how much gold for you to shut up?"
The Blood Guard pulled out a piece of red letter paper that smelled strongly of incense and candles and was covered in golden talismans. He smiled and said,
"Very good, very good. If Young Master Huo needs to hire the Wuyi Blood Guards to do an errand, burn this paper in the sky on a full moon night and chant loudly, 'Boundless blessings, rank among the immortals, eternal life, and everlasting youth.' The price is negotiable."
Huo Gannian didn't move, just watched coldly.
Yun Chen also came from the passenger ship and landed on the cargo ship. He took the red paper from the blood guard and asked seriously:
"What's the sentence after 'Boundless blessings, and ranking among the immortals'? Tell me again."
At this time, the blood guard who had been looking at Yun Chen with strange eyes spoke:
"Live forever and stay young."
Such an absurd and frivolous statement, spoken seriously by that person, was quite funny.
Yun Chen looked over and asked again, "Is it okay to just read it once?"
"Yes. I'm 'Shan Ji'. You can come to me for errands from now on."
Faced with this nonsensical sentence, Yun Chen didn't know how to respond.
Her first reaction was that she didn't have 100,000 gold, and nothing was worth spending so much money.
Huo Gannian was unwilling to have any more dealings with this group of people who didn't know right from wrong, so he took Yun Chen's hand and left, saying softly:
"Yun Chen, let's go."
Upon hearing this, the blood guard named "Shan Ji" looked calm, but his pupils suddenly constricted. His gaze instantly shifted to the holding hands of Yun Chen and Huo Gan Nian, and his look became even weirder.
Huo Gannian and Yun Chen jumped onto the dock and left.
For some reason, Yun Chen couldn't help but look back at Shan Ji, but saw Shan Ji was also looking at her from afar.
There seemed to be an indescribable loneliness and desolation in those strange eyes.
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