Fairy Desire

"Meng Xiang, you...you...what are you doing out here?"

Meng Xiang smiled slightly: "Captain Lou, why can't I come out? Didn't you just say that anyone present can do it? Am I right, Lord Mayor?"

"This...Meng Xiang, you are right, you can shoot those small balls."

"Mayor, you..." Lou Wuliang saw that the mayor ignored his pleading eyes and turned his head to the side, so he could only look back at Meng Xiang, "Okay, even if you can shoot those small balls. But I haven't explained the rules yet Well. There are nine small balls on the silk thread, one for each arrow, so you can only shoot nine arrows. If you shoot all nine arrows and you don’t shoot all nine small balls completely, you will lose. Xiang, do you still dare to fight now?"

Before Meng Xiang answered, Yang Juyuan sneered: "Lou Wuliang, I have seen shameless ones, but I have never seen one more shameless than you. Your precious son, five shots didn't break a small ball, now But asking Meng Xiang to shoot one of them with one arrow, do you think it's fair?"

The mayor also seemed to feel that Lou Wuliang's request was too much: "Captain Lou, is your request..."

At this time Meng Xiang said: "Mayor mayor, Boss Yang, you don't need to say any more. I just accept Captain Lou's request. But I have a question for you. If I really shoot nine arrows through the nine A small ball, will you really promise me 1 taels of silver?"

"I, Lou Wuliang, always keep my word. If you can shoot nine small balls with nine arrows, I will give you 1 taels of silver immediately. But what if you can't? What are you going to pay? It’s a good thing to reap the benefits without paying the price.”

"If I can't break the nine balls with nine arrows, I will give you 2 taels of silver." Meng Xiang's expression was as calm as water.

"2 taels?" Lou Wuliang looked Meng Xiang up and down, and sneered contemptuously, "You poor ghost, where did you get 2 taels? I don't think it would be worth selling yourself ten times." Worth it."

"Shut up! Lou Wuliang, don't forget that nephew Meng Xian joined the hunting team of our Lianfeng, and his business is our Lianfeng's business. If nephew Meng Xian loses, I will pay the 2 Two taels of silver. Lou Wuliang, you don’t think that our Lianfeng has given out 2 taels of silver, do you?”

"Hmph. Yang Juyuan, you have the guts. But I hope you don't deny it when you lose." Lou Wuliang shifted his gaze from Yang Juyuan to Meng Xiang, "Boy surnamed Meng, why don't you make a move? Don't you? Are you going to put the mayor and all the adults in this wilderness to freeze?"

Meng Xiang didn't speak, just cast a dismissive glance at him, then raised his hand and made a gesture.Yan Shi, who was standing in the crowd of onlookers, immediately walked over quickly, handed him the bag containing the tiger bow and a pot of tiger tooth arrows, and quietly retreated back.

Meng Xiang didn't delay any longer, and directly pulled the Tiger Bow out of the bag.At this moment, the eyes of the people around looked at him differently. They all had some knowledge. When they saw the lively downhill tiger on the tiger's back, they immediately knew that he was a tiger fighter. It's just a tiger wrestler, but in the remote Maple Town, it's also a top master that hasn't been seen for decades.

And Lou Wuliang and Lou Deshui's father and son were even more mournful, almost crying.Because he knew very well what a tiger warrior meant to Maple Town at the moment when the hunting competition between the villages and towns was about to be held, and what kind of decision the town mayor would make.

Meng Xiang didn't react at all to the behavior of the people around him. He directly pulled out nine tiger-tooth arrows from his quiver, stuck six on the ground, and held three directly between his fingers.

He looked up at the target in the distance, then took a deep breath, raised the tiger bow abruptly, and pulled it hard. The onlookers hardly saw his movements clearly, and the three bows were shot. Go out, and then the remaining six arrows were also shot out.

The whole process was almost a blink of an eye, Meng Xiang had already bent down and picked up the bag, ready to put the Tiger Bow in it, but what was left to the people was the sound of the bowstring's ringing that hadn't dissipated.

After Meng Xiang handed back the bow and arrow to Yan Shi, he walked up to Lou Wuliang who seemed to have not recovered from his composure, and said indifferently: "Captain Lou, remember to send the 1 taels of silver to my residence as soon as possible. Hope to see them before sunset."

Almost subconsciously, Lou Wuliang retorted: "What are you in a hurry for? The result didn't come out? Why should I give you money?"

Meng Xiang was not angry at all: "Then I will wait for the result."

Yang Juyuan, who had already learned about Meng Xiang's details through shopkeeper Liu, took a step forward and said with a smile: "Mayor, everyone, for the sake of fairness, let's go and see the results together."

The mayor led the crowd to walk towards the target together. Lou Wuliang and Lou Deshui didn't want to go at first, but the listless Yang Juyuan didn't want to let them go and insisted on letting them follow.

After a short time, the group arrived at the target. In fact, after a long distance, everyone already knew the result. The nine small balls on the silk thread were no longer there, and they were undoubtedly shot through by Meng Xiang.

Yang Juyuan looked at Lou Wuliang, Lou Deshui and his son, and asked with a smile: "Captain Lou, you have seen it? I hope you will keep your promise and send ten thousand silver to Nephew Meng Xian's house before sunset. Otherwise, I will do it this way." Elders, I don't mind helping him collect debts."

"Hmph! Isn't it just ten thousand silver? I, Lou Wuliang, can still afford it. Deshui, let's go." Lou Wuliang took Lou Deshui's arm, and was about to leave angrily.

"Captain Lou, you can't leave yet!" Yang Juyuan took two steps forward, and his huge body immediately blocked the way of Lou's father and son.

"Yang Juyuan, what else do you want to do? Didn't I promise to hand over 1 taels of silver?"

"What are you doing? Lou Wuliang, do you think the mayor and us are all fools? The matter of your son Lou Deshui's cheating is not over yet. Where are you going?"

"Cheating? Yang Juyuan, don't go too far. The matter has been clearly explained. What evidence do you have that my son cheated?"

"Evidence? The facts in front of you are evidence. You said that your son shot and killed the three bald eagles, so why couldn't he even hit a small ball?"

"Yang Juyuan, what do you mean by that? The bald eagle is the bald eagle, and the small ball is the small ball. What is the relationship between them?"

"Lou Wuliang, are you still pretending to be confused with me? The bald eagle is the overlord of the sky, with sharp eyesight and unusual cunning. It is extremely difficult to be hunted. Your son Lou Deshui can't even hit a small ball placed on the ground. How can he do it?" Shoot the bald eagle? Isn't that cheating?"

"Evidence, what I need is real evidence. Yang Juyuan, these are all your guesses. Can you conclude that my son cheated based on these guesses?"

"Lou Wuliang, you...you...you are sophistry. This is obviously..."

Before he could finish speaking, Meng Xiang stopped him with his hand: "Boss Yang, you don't need to quarrel with Captain Lou. He needs evidence, let's tell him the evidence."

When the group returned to the town, Meng Xiang went directly to the platform, where the three bald eagles were still placed, and there were special guards.When all the important people in Fengshu Town stood on the stage, Meng Xiang borrowed a hunting knife from a hunter, and after wiping it clean with a clean white cloth, he slashed out with the knife.

The onlookers only felt a flash of white light in front of them. Before they could clearly see the movement of the hunting knife, he had already retracted the hunting knife, and then gently touched the heads of the three pierced bald eagles with the tip of the knife. It was neatly divided into six pieces from the wound.

After Meng Xiang put away his knife and stood aside, the old hunters who were in charge of inspection moved forward again. After a careful inspection, one of the oldest ones walked up to the mayor: "Report to the mayor, I Waiting for a new discovery in the wound of the bald eagle."

Hearing the old hunter's report, Lou Wuliang and Lou Deshui's father and son immediately changed their faces. In a panic, Lou Deshui was confused and shouted loudly: "You are lying, you are lying! There is no trace of sumac sap in the wound. I've already cleaned it up."

As soon as Lou Deshui finished speaking, everyone around turned their heads towards him and looked at him with strange eyes, but he himself was a little puzzled: "Why are you looking at me like this? I can guarantee that there is absolutely no wound in the bald eagle's wound." Sumac sap. Someone must have framed me. Yes, it must have been when we went out that the kid surnamed Meng and the person who instigated him rubbed lacquer sap into the wound. You must punish them severely. You must..."

Meng Xiang looked at Lou Wuliang and Lou Deshui father and son with disgust, and lightly cupped his fists: "Mayor, seniors, I'm a little tired. I'm leaving." After finishing speaking, he turned around, stepped off the high platform quickly, and walked along the town. The villagers left the road, and behind him were Yan Shi and Shopkeeper Liu.

The mayor acted very quickly. Before the sun set, he announced the punishment of Lou Wuliang and Lou Deshui's father and son—the whole family was expelled from Fengshu Town.

However, in view of Lou Wuliang's contribution to Fengshu Town as the captain of the security team for so many years, setting the expulsion time for next spring, and not branding them as cheaters, can be regarded as giving them a way to survive.

Although Meng Xiang was dissatisfied with the mayor's punishment of Lou's father and son, and felt that the punishment was light, there was nothing he could do about it. After all, the affairs of Fengshu Town were beyond his control.

In addition to Meng Xiang knowing the fate of the Lou family and his son, many other things happened that afternoon.

Originally, Lianfeng had promised him and Yan Shi 5000 taels of silver, but this time it might be that Yang Juyuan was showing his favor to them, and it was 5000 taels more.

Seeing the 2 taels of silver, Meng Xiang behaved very calmly. On the contrary, Yan Shi, who had never seen so much money before, seemed very excited. He looked left and right, and was reluctant to let go.

Meng Xiang smiled and didn't bother him, but walked into the room with the bottle containing ten drops of maple tree essence. He wanted to see what was so extraordinary about this legendary good thing.

Unexpectedly, the moment he opened the cork, an accident happened, which also broke the plan he had made before.