The Villain's Counterattack

The Four Gentlemen of Longshan were very lucky that their enemy was a big fool and a sanctimonious bitch, and beating and scolding him would not have serious consequences. If they had made an enemy of the boy in front of them, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Fengyun looked at each other. When it comes to his enemies, Bu Jingyun will choose them based on the person. If they are good people, he will probably beat them up severely. If they are bad people, he will just kill them regardless of whether they are right or wrong. Nie Feng thought about it carefully and suddenly felt that he was a bit similar to Shenhua Wuming. He didn't like killing people and might let them go lightly.

The mysterious visitor's personality was not very good, at least not as good as Nie Feng and Wuming. She directly asked Duan Lang to demonstrate on the spot, which scared the Four Gentlemen of Longshan so much that they endured the pain in their mouths and begged for mercy repeatedly.

This inconsistency and bullying of the weak and fear of the strong left everyone speechless.

They were afraid of this thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, but they were not afraid of the martial arts legend Wuming?

Is Wuming not powerful enough? Is this boy too powerful?

They all knew that this was not the case, but the young man was smarter and knew that it was better to strike the first blow to avoid a hundred, while Shen Hua Wuming was too soft-hearted.

According to Duan Lang, anyone who dared to cause trouble or challenge would be captured and made into a slave until they had the Eighteen Dharma Protectors. Then, anyone who came would be dealt with first. If they couldn't handle the Eighteen Dharma Protectors, they would be kicked out. If they were stronger than the Eighteen Dharma Protectors, they would be taken down and replaced with the weakest of them. This way...

"Once upon a time there was a strange hero, highly skilled in martial arts and erudite. Because of his immense talent, he could not stand the hypocrites in high positions and the villains of high reputation. So, admiring his own beauty, he lived alone overseas, amusing himself by planting peach blossoms and playing the flute."

"He, too, was destined to be a lonely star. His parents died young, his wife passed away young, his disciples betrayed him, and his only daughter wanted to leave him. He didn't give up on himself, but instead relished his solitude. He was both good and evil, renowned for his power. He was talented and enjoyed life. The slaves on the island were all evil men he had captured, blinded or dumb. Not a single good person remained."

Duan Lang looked at the people around him with a smile and said, "Do you think there would be a fool who would want to challenge such a person?"

Everyone shook their heads, saying that unless they were truly fools, they would never dare to challenge such a master.

"So how does the behavior of this eccentric hero compare to that of the legendary unknown predecessor in the martial arts world? Is he good or bad?" Duan Lang's words left the Four Gentlemen of Longshan speechless.

There's no comparison, there's really no comparison!

If Wuming was this cruel and ruthless, even if they knew he was a good person, they wouldn't dare to provoke him casually. The cost was too high! Moreover, they didn't think they were good people. If they took the initiative to provoke the strong, they would ask for it if they were killed. Unless the other party was a saintly bitch like Wuming, you might have the right to provoke him and curse him even if you were caught.

If the other party is the young man opposite, or someone like Xiongba, do you think they would dare to do it?

The mysterious visitor glanced back and forth at the Four Gentlemen of Longshan and asked softly, "If the master does this now, is it not too late?"

Duan Lang shook his head slightly and said, "Perhaps it will have some effect, but it may not be very significant. It's easy to change a country, but it's hard to change one's nature. His character has been figured out by too many people. But I do have an idea..."

"Please tell me and listen."

"Hmm, ahem~" Duan Lang cleared his throat, pointed at the broken things on the ground and said sternly, "The four of you, for your own selfish reasons, used force in public, completely disregarding the lives of innocent people, and destroyed so much of the teahouse's finances. This century-old Venus Nan wood table and the antique porcelain passed down from our ancestors are absolutely impossible to buy without eight thousand taels of silver. As the saying goes, a life must be paid and a debt must be repaid. If you can kill to avenge your father, you will surely not refuse to pay, right?"

The four gentlemen of Longshan were furious when they heard this. "Eight thousand taels of silver?" This entire teahouse was worth less than thirty or fifty taels. This was definitely extortion.

"Tell me now, are you going to pay the money or not?"

The Four Gentlemen of Longshan looked at each other in bewilderment. It was not that they were unwilling to pay, but they simply did not have that much money.

"That's okay. I'll allow you to keep the debt. I'll get someone from the government office to act as witnesses. I'll allow you to write an IOU, and the government office will pay half of it. You can leave me with collateral and then go collect the money. You can hand it over directly to the government office. What collateral are you talking about, worth 18,000 taels? Haha, martial arts manuals, real estate deeds, at least some manipulation will do."

Duan Lang continued, "The teahouse owner won't ask for the money you owe. The government will take care of it. The interest goes to the government as a service fee. It's like the normal interest rate for private lending, nine out of ten goes to the government. If you delay paying, it will be considered tax evasion, and you'll be blacklisted by the government and become a wanted criminal."

"I think disciples of famous and upright sects still have some dignity. They can't really post notices all over the world that the four villains of Longshan are wanted for owing money and not paying it back." Duan Lang looked so surprised that the four gentlemen of Longshan were very upset.

We are four gentlemen, not four villains!

The mysterious visitor left satisfied. Fengyun was ultimately unable to personally visit the person they longed to see, but he obtained the contact information of the mysterious visitor.

Fengyun, Duanlang and Kongci drove away in a carriage, taking away the four swords of the Four Gentlemen of Longshan.

Duan Lang: Can you please stop looking at me like that? I paid the teahouse owner a hundred taels of silver for them. Is it too much to take their four broken swords? These four broken swords are definitely not worth a hundred taels of silver if we weigh them by the pound as scrap metal.

Fengyun: But these four swords are of the same style, similar weight and excellent quality. You can’t get any one of them without five hundred or one thousand taels of silver. They are definitely rare treasures of Longshan.

Duan Lang: Didn’t I leave my name here? Later they can exchange the sword for 8,000 taels of silver, and I didn’t even ask them for 10,000 taels.

Fengyun: But you only paid one hundred taels. The most important thing is that the name you finally reported was Dugu Ming from Wushuang City. You directly refused to admit that you were Duan Lang, the son of Duan Shuai, the leader of Nanlin Sword.

Although Wushuang City has been forcibly occupied by the Tianxia Association, the power of the Dugu family is still considerable. As long as the Sword Saint Dugu is still there, no one dares to underestimate the Dugu family.

Fengyun is not a fool, they know why Duanlang gave money to the teahouse owner. Mu Yingxiong thanked the teahouse owner sincerely before leaving, but this gave the four losers, the Four Gentlemen of Longshan, an opportunity to take advantage of the situation. If they left like this, the teahouse owner would most likely be angered.

This is why Duan Lang gave him money and asked him to leave as soon as possible. As long as the teahouse owner is smart and moves away as soon as possible, or even if he doesn't move far away, he can move a little so that they can't find him. After a while, they will naturally forget about him.

After all, the teahouse owner is innocent and harmless. There are big and small things like venting anger on others, and his is a very small one.