Enter Chang Xiangsi and help Jingzhai fight

Chapter 106: The British Gang

I closed my eyes and tried again. After a while, I felt like I was just meditating. I couldn't help but open my eyes and sighed, "What should I do? I miss it but it doesn't miss me! There's no movement at all."

He frowned and thought for a moment, then asked, "Do you know exactly where the acupuncture points are?"

I answered, "About the same. Dantian is in the stomach, and Baihui is on the top of the head?"

He raised an eyebrow and said softly, "Then... can you show it to me?"

I pointed to my belly and said, "Look, about here—"

He glanced down and said, "Wrong. Further down."

I said "Oh~", moved my hand down again, pointed with my fingertips, and asked, "Here?"

He was a little anxious and stretched out his hand, but immediately retracted his fingers, pursed his lips, and asked: "I, can I touch you?"

I nodded and said, "Of course! When a master teaches his disciples, there is no need to be cautious about the distinction between men and women."

He sat closer, stretched out three fingers to hold my fingers, guided me to move sideways and downwards, stopped at the position below the navel, tapped my fingertips with his index finger, and whispered: "Here."

I felt a stream of clear water rising from my lower abdomen where he touched, then flowing upward like a trickle, down my arm to my palm.

I raised my left hand and found that my fingertips were glowing with a faint blue light, about the width of the edge of a French manicure, flickering and dim. I looked at him with joy, raised my hand to show him, and said, "Look, sir! It's done!"

He glanced down, his eyes were full of energy, and he was about to say something with the corners of his mouth curled up, when the curtain of the carriage was suddenly lifted by Ruiyang.

"Sir, Miss, they're here. Look, they are welcoming you at the door—" Ruiyang said as he turned around and saw Tu Shanjing's hand placed near my lower abdomen, his eyes widened almost as big as copper bells, and then he flipped his hand and pulled down the door curtain again.

Tu Shan Jing quickly retracted his hand as if he was scalded and turned his head away. I was also a little embarrassed, so I stole a glance at him, but all I could see was his red ears.

There was silence inside and outside the car. After a long while, Tu Shanjing coughed lightly and said, "Ruiyang, we are getting off the car."

Ruiyang lifted the door curtain slightly, revealing a gap, and took a look inside. Then he opened it completely and said, "Sir, Miss, please come in."

Tu Shanjing got out of the car first, and I followed him.

In front of him was a dilapidated City God Temple. Three or five people stood at the door, led by a ragged beggar, who must be the gang leader that Yu Xin mentioned. Next to him stood the half-grown boy from yesterday, two skinny men, and a middle-aged woman.

When we got off the car, the gang leader came out to greet us with a smile: "Young Master Qingqiu and his entourage are honored to be here. I am the gang leader Yu Azhi, nice to meet you."

Tu Shanjing also bowed and replied, "My respects go to Gang Leader Yu. I am Tu Shanjing from Qingqiu, nice to meet you."

The gang leader had a dark complexion, which made his teeth look very white. He opened his mouth to reveal all ten of his teeth, and made a gesture: "It's windy outside, please talk inside."

Tu Shanjing didn't doubt him, and followed him into the courtyard. I looked through the courtyard and saw that the City God Temple was really dilapidated and dark inside. I couldn't help but feel a little scared. I secretly pressed the small box on my waist with my hand in my sleeve, and I looked back at the trees around me.

After looking around, I still couldn't find which tree You was hiding in, and I didn't know whether he was fully prepared.

The young man who was standing next to me yesterday said, "What are you looking at, young lady? Please come in now."

Only then did I look away, and Ruiyang beside me winked at me. I felt relieved and followed the group of people in.

The courtyard was paved with blue bricks, which had been broken for many years and had holes and pits everywhere. The big red lanterns hanging at the temple gate were broken, and the vermilion had faded, showing an uneven, dull red.

In front of the altar for worshipping the statues in the hall, there were eight worn-out chairs and coffee tables of different styles and heights. An old woman with gray hair was holding a teapot and pouring tea into the cups on the coffee table.

Yu Azhi invited Tu Shanjing to sit in the upper seat, and waited for us to sit down one by one, then he sat in the first seat opposite and said, "This time, I invited you and your party to come here, first, to apologize to you. Xiaofeng offended the nobles yesterday, and now I have realized my mistake. Second, I want to thank you, repay evil with kindness, and help Xiaofeng's sister see a doctor. We in the Zhiying Gang are all people with miserable lives. We can only survive by uniting on weekdays. If we occasionally steal, we will never steal from poor people. We only take some things or money to help in emergencies. I hope that Master Qingqiu will forgive me and don't report us to Chenrong Mansion and suppress us."

When I heard this, I realized that they were afraid that Tu Shanjing would become friends with Fenglong, and that if they sued them they would be in big trouble, so they asked us to come and apologize.

Tu Shanjing smiled slightly and said loudly: "Boss Yu, please rest assured. What happened yesterday was just a small matter. I will never mention it to Fenglong. A few pieces of silver are not worth mentioning. It's just that I didn't know whether what this little brother said was true or not yesterday, so I only gave him a little silver. Now that it has been proven to be true today, then..."

After that, he took out a silver note from his bosom and put it on the coffee table next to him, and continued: "Here are five hundred taels of silver, enough for him and his sister to grow up without worries. When he grows up, he might as well learn some skills and have a business, so that he can be self-sufficient. What I said yesterday that if there is no way out, you can go to Chen Rong Mansion and report my name. It will also count in the future. Xiaofeng or anyone in the gang can go there at any time if they have difficulties."

Gang leader Yu stood up, bowed deeply, and said, "Mr. Qingqiu has an extraordinary demeanor and a broad mind. I bow down to him. First of all, I would like to thank you on behalf of everyone in the gang! The gang members are crude, so we can only use tea instead of wine. Let me offer you a glass."

Then he turned around, picked up the teacup on the coffee table, and raised it to Tu Shanjing.

Ruiyang pretended to scratch his hair and placed his hand on the silver hairpin on his head.

Tu Shanjing glanced at him and he put his hand down.

Tu Shanjing also picked up the teacup on the coffee table, toasted to Gang Leader Yu, and then drank it all in one gulp.

When Ruiyang and I saw him drinking, we both picked up the teacup and took a sip.

The tea was very light, with no taste, but it didn't have any weird smell either.

Boss Yu stared at Tu Shanjing, and when he put down his teacup, he clapped his hands and laughed, "Great! What a great young master of Qingqiu! Young master, we should not accept gifts without merit. We have received your kindness for nothing and have no way to repay you. Why don't you think about it and ask anything you want to ask. Apart from anything else, we know everything about the big and small things in this city of Chenyi."

Tu Shanjing smiled and asked, "May I ask if there are any unusual people coming to Chenyi City recently?"