âI wonât hit a woman, and you canât beat me either.â Yanche first looked at Ling Yue, then back at Lan Caier.
He prefers the little one over the big one because the former likes to smile at him with those pretty eyes rather than make mean faces at him like the latter.
âWhat, I dare you to say that again. I canât beat you?â Now itâs on. Lan Caierâs unreasonable temperament just got lit.
As the daughter of a general, sheâs learned how to fight long before she even learned how to walk. To think there would be an idiot foolish enough to claim she canât beat him. Thatâs just asking for a beating from her!
âBig girl, return from where you came, I wonât take your money.â Yanche obviously didnât want to face the woman. Picking up his stall, he readies himself to leave.
âWhere do you think you are going. I am Lan Caier of the Lan House! Today I will have you learn what it means to look down at me.â In a flash, the money thatâs in the tray were swiped away by her quick hands.
As soon as Lan Caier proclaimed her identity in open public, the observing crowd all fell into cold sweat for Yanche.
Her name was simply too infamous in the capital. If thereâs a girl courageous enough to beat up even the crown prince of the kingdom, itâs a certainty the mass populous would catch wind of the name.
âHey, thatâs robbery, hurry and return them.â Seeing his hard earn coins being snatched away, Yanche also grew anxious for its his life-saving money.
Totally unreasonable, Lan Caier stamped her feet to steady her body and then performed the Lan familyâs signature move: Tablet Breaking Hand. Aggressive and overwhelming, this technique was more suitable for the male sex to learn then a girl; however, due to her long years of training from a young age, she has made it her own by mixing the Yin energy of the female constitution into the normally Yang nature of the technique.
(Note: Imagine the Taichi diagram of Yin and Yang. The black Yin part is usually meant for the female and the white Yang part is usually meant for the male. Mix Yin and Yang together and you get a more powerful effect)
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Although sheâs been angered by the sexist words coming out of Yancheâs mouth, sheâs not crazy enough to forget the guy was but a dull common folk incapable of using Yuan energy. Therefore, in her strike just now, she didnât insert any of her powers and only relied on physical strength.
But as soon as her hands came into contact with Yancheâs arm, she was shocked when he gave her the slip like a slithering loach.
Yanche had full advantage at that moment due to the opening he created, but as per his claim, he didnât hit her. Instead, he only grabbed onto Lan Caierâs shoulder to keep the girl at a distance.
Now this was a real shocker for Lan Caier. She honestly never expected the kid to be capable of slipping out of her hands when using her familyâs signature move.
She can die but she canât be shamed.
Flushing red with annoyance, she invokes the Yuan energy from within her body and directs it all into her hand until a golden layer of light wraps around it like a glove. Then turning his hand into a claw shape, she aims straight for Yancheâs lower abdomen area.
Immediately, a burning pain overtook Yancheâs belly after having his clothes ripped apart by the energy enforced strike.
Only ripped the clothes?
Lan Caier originally thought her second attack would be enough to warrant retaliation from the big loaf, but not only did she fail, she also felt a mysterious force sucking in the momentum of her punch just now when she made contact with the guyâs stomach. Now she canât even retract her hand because the big guyâs ab was so hard that itâs keeping her fist in place!
âSo painful.â Yancheâs pupil shrunk at the pain. As someone thatâs born with an abnormally strong physique, heâs inherently more resilient to outside interference. As such, the punches and kicks from those thuggish servants from earlier equated to nothing more than tickles and scratches.
However, Lan Caier here was a totally different story. As an upper celestial martialist, her attacks may not be enough to injure Yanche for good, but itâs still enough to cause the big guy to make a heavy grunt due to the impact.
âLetâs stop here now shall we.â Seeing neither of the two can come out on top, Ling Yue shakes her head and breaks them apart with a whisk of her hand.
âYou are very good.â Nauseated by the shock to his stomach, Yanche rubs his belly to sooth the discomfort. On his somewhat dirty face, an approving expression takes hold.
âYou are not bad either, barely qualified to be my sisterâs bodyguard.â Lan Caier temperament was the typical type where she would make a friend by getting into a fight. Although she didnât settle the match with the big loaf, but Lan Caier knows full well she honestly couldnât come out on top.
If the foe doesnât even have Yuan energy to fight and can still stand on equal grounds, then no doubt this Yanche does have some talent aside from just being all muscle.
No wonder, my father always say my eyes are inferior to Ling Yueâs.
Picking the string of silver coins out of her friendâs hand, Ling Yue hands it to Yanche.
Despite his obvious desire for the money thatâs dangling in front of him, Yanche kept his pose and denied it with a shake of his head.
âAigh, I say big dummy, why are you being so stubborn for? Ten silver a month is not a small offer. If I use that fund I can easily hire a lower celestial martialist instead.â Now Lan Caier was starting to get annoyed again because she never expected this dull and silly big loaf would know something like bargaining.
âTen silver, not enough to eat.â Yancheâs voice grew weaker when he said this. At the same moment, a loud grumbling sound came from his stomach.
Based on this alone, itâs highly probable that the big loaf was enduring the beatings while heâs on an empty stomach.
Leaving both girls speechless, they can only find a local noodle booth to solve Yancheâs meal problem before continuing.
One bowl, two bowlâ¦. Eventually a mountain of bowls were piled up on top of the table. By now the girls have come to the realization that feeding Yanche would become a major issue that they must solve if Ling Yue wishes to employ the big hunk.
âTwenty-three bowls of noodles, are you a man or a pig?â Dumbfounded, Lan Caier almost couldnât believe her own eyes despite seeing this first hand.
âHave you had enough?â Although Ling Yue was also astonished by Yancheâs appetite, but compared to the guyâs godly physique, this was nothing much.
âFull enough.â He could actually eat some more, but even he felt embarrassed to ask for more.
âIf you want to eat more then go ahead, I got more money still.â Ling Yue then pulls out a silver ingot and places it on top of the table.
I love having money so much! It solves all the small problems.
âThen can I have another fifty bowls of noodle?â Making a pitiful expression, Yanche had a lot of similarities to a certain individual currently busily hatching a certain egg somewhere.
Another fifty bowlsâ¦.
By this point both girls have finally got it. So this was the reason why the big hunk didnât join the army or have a wealthy family employ him as an escort.
With that kind appetite, very few people out there could honestly afford to keep him. If not for Ling Yueâs recent windfall, even she couldnât afford to employ him otherwise.
But this time though, instead of digging in as soon as the noodles arrived at the table, Yanche found a wheelbarrow and began transporting the food towards the suburbs.
Surprised and perplexed by the move, both girls followed from behind to see whatâs up.
Unlike the bustling core of the city, the suburbs had poor roads with a lot of soil pavements everywhere. Despite the confusing arrangement, Yanche went through the maze-like terrain with ease like heâs very familiar with the area.
Eventually the cart stopped outside a shabby looking shack. When the residence inside heard Yancheâs voice, about a dozen kids ran out to welcome him.
There are boys and girls among the group that ranged from two to six years old. Like Yanche, they all had tall statures with blue eyes, clearly of foreign heritage.