Chen Feiqing remained silent for a while. He felt that the word "master" was not quite right. It was not as simple as finding a backer.

"Cousin, do you want to learn martial arts?" Chen Feiqing guessed for a moment and couldn't help but ask.

Li Shu nodded: "Don't all the people in Wuzhuang practice martial arts?"

"..." The brother and sister were silent for a moment, finding it difficult to say what they wanted to say.

Martial arts are not so easy to learn!

Most people here can only improve their physical fitness so that they are less prone to illness, or develop some willpower so that they are less likely to collapse on the battlefield. Only a very few can withstand the hardship of daily training!

It's already quite good if you can develop even a smattering of skills.

There are very few masters like Uncle Yu who are still alive.

The brother and sister were too embarrassed to discourage Li Shu, so they comforted him, saying, "It's good that you have this idea. Even if you don't succeed, it will make your body stronger. However, Uncle Yu is very skilled. If you ask him to teach you, you might suffer a lot. Why don't you go find Xiao Wutou? He also knows martial arts..."

“My master has already accepted me, so how can I back down on the front lines? I can learn.” Li Shu said firmly.

Seeing this, the two dared not say anything more.

She only thought that she would come and watch her practice martial arts from time to time, so that Uncle Yu would not hurt Ali if he went too far.

Soon, the two took Li Shu to meet a group of friends.

They were all young people under twenty, and they all had a very unique spirit. Most of them were cheerful and talkative, unlike most of the people the original owner had ever met.

The leader's surname was Duan, and his name was Duan Changdong. He was also a minor martial arts leader and was the same age as the Chen siblings.

Upon seeing him, Li Shu could roughly understand why this person was the leader of the young martial arts group. He had a square face, was not old, but looked exceptionally upright. He was also very robust, even a head taller than Chen Feiqing. His broad body made him look like a wall when he stood there.

This person didn't seem particularly kind; he had a certain air of authority.

Li Shu was then surrounded.

A group of people stared at her.

“Aying and Feiqing both said that you will be one of us from now on. Although you are not young, you look really weak. Since you are weak, you will be our little sister from now on. As long as you behave and don’t do anything bad, we will all protect you.”

“This is Wu Tou, you can call him Brother Duan from now on. My name is Chang Fa. Next to him is Qi Yu, the Qi Yanfeng you killed was her relative. These are the Deng brothers, Deng Xian and Deng Ren, and…”

They introduced everything at once.

The people in front of me are all over fourteen years old.

Those under the age of fourteen are another group, serving as the reserve force here.

Li Shu looked at the person named Qi Yu, who met her gaze and grinned broadly.

"Don't worry, my family and Qi Yanfeng's family are not close. His family is a commoner, which shows how distant their ancestral relationship is..." Qi Yu quickly explained.

This person was very beautiful, with a bright smile, but compared to Chen Ying, she lacked some of the heroic spirit and possessed more of a tranquil beauty.

Li Shu could indeed sense the goodwill emanating from these people, so she was curious and simply asked, "How did my cousins ​​introduce me to you?"

Upon hearing this, the group paused for a moment, then gave an awkward laugh.

"It just means you're young and need to be taken care of," Chen Feiqing quickly tried to cover it up.

When the others saw that Chen Feiqing was in a hurry, they all laughed and started shouting.

"They say you're timid, that you've been bullied by your younger siblings since you were little, and that you've never met a good person..."

"They said there's a recent death in your family, so it's not good to have too much noise or disturb them."

"You're being ostracized and have no one to rely on. They told us to treat you like a little sister, to be nice to you, and not to take your things, or they'd get angry..."

"..."

In their eyes, she was weak, pitiful, and utterly tragic.

The Chen siblings blushed. They weren't disgusted with their cousin; they just said that to try and prevent others from being too harsh on Ali!

These people had met Li Shu a few years ago and had some impression of him. After being described in detail by the brother and sister, they felt that Li Shu was a person more fragile than porcelain and could not withstand the slightest blow.

They were also forced by the brother and sister to promise to take care of Li Shu.

Li Shu was not surprised at all by these words; no wonder these people looked at her so cautiously.

Although it should feel good to be protected, she felt resentful about the excessive sympathy.

We must find a way to establish our authority first.

However, before she could even utter a provocation, a little child ran over.

"Hey Wu! Something's happened to our old cypress tree! It's attracted a horde of ants, swarming around it like crazy. Several fish in the little pond to the east have died, and... and on the north hill, a few tombstones have inexplicably collapsed..." The child blurted out as he approached, then added, "I heard a jinx has come to our Wu Village. Some of the elders say they've been cursed by this jinx. Should we go and cause trouble for it?!"

"..." Everyone's eyes turned to Li Shu.

The Chen siblings were furious, and Chen Ying even slapped the child on the head: "Who are you talking to? Do you want a beating?!"

“Oh yeah, looks like a relative of yours, hehe…” the child grinned.

Chen Ying looked at Li Shu with some concern.

However, Li Shu didn't care about any of that.

There's a saying that goes, "It's easy to invite a god, but hard to send him away." She's already here; you can't just send her away.

"What a coincidence! Don't worry, we said we'd protect you, and we'll shut up these rumors for you!" Duan Changdong frowned, quite dissatisfied, and then called out, "Brothers, let's go see who's causing trouble!"

"Yes! Let's go!"

They ran off together in a flash.

Li Shu thought for a moment and then joined in.

In her previous life, she was always alone. She had a bad temper as a child and couldn't stand being bullied. Many children were scared of her because of her, which resulted in her having no friends and never feeling that she needed any.

As she grew up, she met some people her age and collaborated on some projects, but apart from work, she had no personal relationships with them.

It's very rare to find a group of fools like this who aren't drawn together for personal gain.

To her, so many "people of strong character" were like... a hunter seeing a knife.

Li Shu felt that he was really immoral.

While others were thinking about how to protect her, she was thinking about how to sharpen her knife.

Human beings are indeed so varied in their goodness and evil.

Soon, Li Shu saw the large tree surrounded by ants.

Just as the child had said, the base of the tree was indeed covered with countless moving black dots. The young man surnamed Chang stepped forward, dug at the soil for a while, then put the soil in his mouth and smacked it a few times. After tasting it, he reported with a smug look on his face: "Boss, it's sweet. Someone must have given it sugar water!"

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