Step Down, Let Me Come! Chapter 43
Translated by Liwiaa (Ko-fi)
Chapter 43: He’s an expert (3)
Shen Tang looked expressionlessly at the youth.
[According to a regular pattern, this kind of dying person would usually live longer than stronger people. After all, the scourge will live for a millennium. Too bad, I forgot about the mind-reading thing… Big brother, can you hear me?]
The youth coughed lightly: “… Young master, you’re pretty funny”.
Shen Tang: “…”
The silent shopkeeper: “…”
The shopkeeper first took a peek at Shen Tang's deep and wild face. It was a girl's face from the corner of his eye. Certain that he hasn’t judged her sex wrongly, he secretly criticized the youth for his bad eyesight -
How could he mistake female for male?
The youth frowned, but he didn’t explain.
That person moved from behind the screen, his eyes were slightly dropped, he glanced at Shen Tang and the shopkeeper, winking at the servant boy. The servant boy understood and gave the heavy bag with silver to the shopkeeper.
“Please, check”.
The shopkeeper has been in this business for years, so he didn’t have to count, he only needed to weigh it in his hand to know if the amount was right. It was right. And yet he opened the bag and started counting, full of smiles he said: “No problem, no problem”.
The man said: “If it’s like that, the loan is settled”.
According to the flow, next they should “see visitors out”.
The shopkeeper was tactful, he took the money and prepared to leave. However, he didn’t know if it was a coincidence, but a third strange cough came from behind the screen. After that, the sound of gritting teeth could be heard, as well as a muffled groan. Something rolled down.
Shen Tang stopped in her movements.
This -
That voice was obviously male’s voice, right?
His condition was bad.
She used to think that those who come here to have fun were the ones who would take the initiative. But the ones who were unwell and were lying on the floor were the real customers, right? This reminded her of an allegorical saying, toad [toad] on a frog, ugly and playful.
She also vaguely smelled a bit of blood and the unique bitterness of herbs. She couldn't help casting admiring glances at the man who kept some secret.
After hearing movements, his face wasn’t as cold anymore, he went behind the screen in big strides, Shen Tang could only glimpse a corner of his clothes.
Faintly, she heard that man’s voice: “Yunchi…”
Shen Tang: “…”
Yunchi?
Which Yun, which Chi? What’s his surname?
She seemed to hear it somewhere…
Shen Tang just thought about it, and suddenly she recalled something. The face of that man gradually turned stiff. Her eyes slowly moved upwards, and finally collided with the young man who was staring at her.
Just looking at the meaningful expression in the young man's eyes, she knew that she had been eavesdropped again. Does the GM not care about these cheaters?
Shen Tang retreated half a step, she placed her right hand behind her back. If the youth was about to take action, she would take out her sword at once to teach him a lesson. Because of the distance between them, she was confident to kill him in one blow. After all, the wenxin owners were all like Qi Shan.
The worker smilingly asked: “Young master, why are you nervous?”
Shen Tang said: “Why, you don't know?”
Under the shopkeeper's puzzled eyes, the youth asked Shen Tang without hesitation: “Young master, do you know Yunchi young master?”
Shen Tang asked in reply: “Is his surname Gong?”
The worker nodded: “Yes”.
Shen Tang: “…”
Unexpectedly, it was Gong Cheng, Gong Yunchi!
How could he appear in the Moonlight Building???
Momentarily, Shen Tang didn’t know where to start with her tirade - the Gong clan was sentenced. According to the official order, the men were sent to the frontier to serve as coolies in the army, and the women were sent to the brothel in Xiao City. – She recalled this piece of information to confirm that she didn’t remember it wrongly.
Shen Tang's sight landed on the screen. She looked like she wanted to puncture it to see the figure clearly: “How could he be here?’
“The road is difficult for ordinary people to survive, let alone those who had their dantian abolished. Most of them have died. Seeing that they were going to report to the king of hell, I got him here”. When the young man said this, he was sincere.
“Young master still didn’t answer, how could you know Gong Yunchi”. Without waiting for Shen Tang to answer, he said in a joking tone of voice, “If the Young Master doesn’t want to answer, for the safety of my subordinates and those involved in this matter, you won’t be able to go back intact”.
It only fell a bit short of saying murder to silence.
Shen Tang muttered in her heart: [whisper, who didn’t know that the Gong clan was sentenced? If I know his name, do I need to know him?]
She said in reality: “I also heard people talk about what happened to the Gong family, and I realized that Gong Yunchi was also included in the distribution. When I suddenly heard a familiar name, I naturally wanted to confirm it”.
The youth squinted his eyes while smiling, he asked: “Seriously?”
Shen Tang answered: “There is no lie”.
Worker frowned in deep thought. He didn’t know if he should believe her.
After all, Shen Tang knew that he could read her mind, but her mind was still so active. How could he know if she wasn’t deliberately misleading him?”
Just when the atmosphere was at a stalemate, a hoarse boy's voice came from inside the room: “Mr. Gu, is someone here?”
The worker smiled and put his hands in his sleeves.
He said languidly: “Said to have a relationship with you”.
After a while of clothes rubbing and moving sounds, the worker helped a youth whose upper body was wrapped in snow-white cloth strips to come out. A youth, but his appearance was two years younger than the young man next to him. He was at best seventeen or eighteen years old. Perhaps it was because of a lot of suffering on the road, his facial features faded away from immaturity and greenness and instead carried a thick lingering melancholy and weakness.
Shen Tang: “…”
It's really killing people!
She didn’t dare to think at all now.
That fraud who opened the cheating device to spy on other people's inner thoughts was still watching from one side, and she didn't want to get killed.
Gong Cheng also saw Shen Tang's appearance clearly and was slightly taken aback.
After seeing his reaction, the worker knew that Gong Cheng had seen Shen Tang before – that young master really didn’t lie?
“Yunchi, do you know him?”
That youth’s voice broke the silence.
Gong Cheng shook his head: “I don’t know, but we should have seen each other before”.
The worker was very vigilant and looked at Shen Tang sharply. His eyes carried a murderous intent that he shouldn't have in this kind of profession. If it was an ordinary person, he might get frightened by just one look.
He inquired again: “Can he harm you?”
Gong Cheng thought, then shook his head: “He shouldn’t”.
The worker became curious: “This person is…”
Gong Cheng smiled wryly and shook his head. He raised his hand and patted the back of the worker’s hand, signaling him not to help him. The official let go of his hand. Gong Cheng barely stood still on his own, he bowed to Shen Tang, and said: “I, Gong Yunchi, apologize to my wife’s brother”.
As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the room was shocked.
Youth: “…”
Worker: “…”
The one who was the most shocked was Shen Tang herself.
She almost couldn't control her emotions, and asked him in a blunt tone: “For what crime are you apologizing to me?”
Gong Cheng, the son of the Gong family, was sentenced.
Tian Shouyi earlier said that Gong Cheng and Shen's daughter were arrested and assigned on the day of their wedding. Gong Cheng had seen the bride, but because Tang Mei had wenxin, they all thought she was Shen's daughter's brother.
That's why the title “wife’s brother” came about.
The young man's surname was Gu, and he was currently a chaotic, but neutral character.
The worker was disguised.
The young man rescued Gong Cheng with some purpose and hid him here, where the young man could recuperate.
The two had nothing to do with the protagonist's camp for the time being.
