The ultimate master in the city

Chapter 62 Maoshan Qi Lian'er

Zhou Fengchen quickly chased after the girl in front. Behind them, the entire demon cave began to collapse, burying the corpses and the garden. Debris and stones flew everywhere.

At this moment, the girl aggravated her wound while running, clutching her stomach, frowning, and her speed involuntarily slowed down.

Zhou Fengchen glanced back, panicked, and without saying a word, scooped her up in his arms and ran.

The girl froze, her eyes widening. "What are you doing?"

Zhou Fengchen ran incredibly fast, shouting, "What can we do? We might get buried alive!"

The girl gritted her teeth and closed her eyes, letting Zhou Fengchen hold her, her breathing gradually becoming heavier.

As they ran, Zhou Fengchen sniffed and looked down, saying, "Did you eat some flowers? Your breath smells so sweet!"

The girl opened her eyes and glared at him. "Shut up!"

Zhou Fengchen was taken aback. "When you glare like that, you actually look quite handsome."

"You..." The girl blushed and simply turned her head away from him.

Just then, loud shouts came from ahead, while Monk Yuan Zhi collapsed unconscious to the side.

When Zhou Fengchen arrived, he glanced at Monk Yuanzhi, then looked ahead and saw two paths, both pitch black. He dreaded making such choices, so he asked the girl in his arms, "Which way?"

The girl frowned: "To the right, and to the left, there's the obscure old osmanthus tree."

Zhou Fengchen was carrying the girl, while Xu Ke and his father were carrying Yuan Zhi. Just as they stepped onto a path on the right, everything behind them collapsed, turning into a chaotic mess of ruins.

The group crawled out of what looked like a dog hole and found themselves in the northwest corner of Osmanthus Village, more than a mile away from the old osmanthus tree and the old well.

It was morning outside, with a light drizzle falling and the sky overcast. Zhou Fengchen looked at the mountain scenery in the rain and suddenly felt as if he had been transported to another world.

"How long are you going to hold me like this?" the girl in his arms said fiercely.

Zhou Fengchen quickly put her down and said with a dry laugh, "I'm used to it after running all this way."

The girl smoothed her slightly messy hair, pressed the wound on her lower abdomen tightly, and then rushed into the drizzle.

Zhou Fengchen was stunned for a moment. Why was she leaving so suddenly? He quickly took off his leather jacket and chased after her, draping it over the girl's shoulders. "Where are you going? It's raining."

The girl struggled to throw the leather jacket back to Zhou Fengchen, frowning as she said, "Why are you acting so strangely! What business is it of yours where I go?"

Zhou Fengchen said, "We killed a snake demon together, doesn't that make us friends? You're injured, and it's easy to get infected in the rain."

"We're not friends, it's none of your business, goodbye!" The girl wasn't having it.

Zhou Fengchen inexplicably thought of Wang Min; he seemed to have said something similar to her before. This overly familiar feeling... wasn't pleasant. "Then you should at least tell me your name, right?"

The girl hesitated for a moment, then said, "Maoshan, Qi Lian'er!"

"Qi Lian...er?" Zhou Fengchen murmured a few times, feeling somewhat unsatisfied. This kind of girl seemed to have a strange attraction for him.

When he turned around, he saw that Tsui Hark and his father were dressed in tattered clothes, looking like beggars, and were looking at him curiously, then at Qi Lian'er who had walked away.

"I... well..." Zhou Fengchen blushed slightly and stammered, "I feel like this girl is quite interesting."

Tsui Hark said with a pained expression, "Master! Stop fooling around, the master seems to be dead."

Yuan Zhi is dead? Zhou Fengchen was startled and rushed over. He checked his pulse and found he wasn't dead, but he was close to it. He quickly said, "The one who tied the knot must untie it. Carry him on your back and let's go find that old tree demon."

The muddy road was difficult to walk on because of the rain. Zhou Fengchen walked in front, while Xu Ke and his son carried Yuan Zhi behind them. It took them half an hour to reach the old osmanthus tree.

At this moment, the old osmanthus tree was soaked by the rain, which masked the fragrance of the osmanthus. At first glance, it didn't seem special, but a branch was missing on the left side, and blood was oozing from the "wound".

Tsui Hark and his son also remembered what happened yesterday. Seeing the blood, they felt a pang of fear and, supporting Monk Yuanzhi, dared not go forward.

Zhou Fengchen gripped his goose-wing blade and walked to the old well, looking down into it. He found the well water had dried up. He looked up at the old osmanthus tree and sneered, "Old tree demon, you're badly injured. I want to use your pearl now. Will you spit it out, or should I kill you and you take it yourself? Don't struggle. Your old snake and old goat are both dead. Think about what happened to them."

The old osmanthus tree creaked and swayed, revealing a distorted human face that groaned and spat out a round, egg-sized bead.

This bead is the demon core of the old osmanthus tree, the essence of its entire body. Anyone harmed by it can be cured with this demon core. However, from now on, the old osmanthus tree will truly become an ordinary tree, and it will take countless years to regain its cultivation.

Zhou Fengchen took the demon core and breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the somewhat withered old tree. He was exhausted after a long night and didn't want to fight the old tree demon to the death.

Next, he instructed Xu Ke and his son to fill in the old well, and said things like that people of unknown origin should not be trusted. He then took the demon core and carried Monk Yuanzhi back to the city.

……

Back in the rented room, Zhou Fengchen ground up the demon core, boiled it in water, and fed it to Yuanzhi. After a while, the monk Yuanzhi started vomiting and having diarrhea, and then drifted off to sleep.

For three or four days in a row, Zhou Fengchen went to work at the small restaurant during the day and came back at night to take care of Monk Yuanzhi. It wasn't until the fifth night that Monk Yuanzhi finally woke up completely, but he was too weak to get out of bed.

At this moment, he had lost a lot of weight. He looked at Zhou Fengchen and burst into tears, saying that he was finished, that he had been played by an old tree demon several times, and that he would never be able to face anyone in this life.

Zhou Fengchen laughed uncontrollably and comforted the monk Yuanzhi for a long time before he finally calmed down, smacked his lips, and said, "Brother, we still have a little over ten thousand left, right?"

Zhou Fengchen took out the money and counted it. The original amount, plus the money Sun Zhenguo gave him later, still amounted to about 15,000 yuan.

Monk Yuanzhi said with a mournful face, "Fifteen thousand yuan should be enough for a while, brother! I can tell that we've been having a run of bad luck lately. Nothing we've encountered has been easy. We might even be out of luck next time."

Zhou Fengchen also felt it was going to be tough, and said, "Just focus on getting better. Let's take a six-month break. Even if someone offers a million, we won't do it."

……

The next day at work, Zhou Fengchen noticed that the boss's wife seemed to have dressed up carefully, and the way she looked at him was a little strange. He couldn't help but feel uneasy, thinking to himself, "Is she planning to treat me to Western food again?"

After a busy day at work, it was time to leave, and sure enough! His boss's wife called out to him with a charming smile, "Little Zhou, look... we get paid tomorrow, how about I treat you to dinner tonight? Otherwise, this salary..."

"Hehe..." Zhou Fengchen scratched his head, turned to look at Old Li who was walking out, "Old Li, the proprietress is treating you to something to eat."

Old Li took off running, yelling, "Get lost! I'm looking for you!"

Zhou Fengchen then looked at the other two female helpers, "Um..."

"We've already eaten!" The two helpers said with ambiguous expressions, and hurriedly left the house.

"Are you that afraid of your older sister? I haven't had a proper conversation with you for days." The proprietress walked over and gave him a charmingly disdainful look.

Zhou Fengchen's lips twitched. You've already promised to have my child, how could I not be afraid of you? I'll die if I lose my virginity!

Just then, Wang Min's cheerful voice came from outside the door: "Zhou Fengchen, I'd like to invite you out for a bite to eat."

"It's you again, you little brat!"

The proprietress's face instantly turned cold. The two women stared at each other, and the air felt a little chilly.