The Fragrant Wood Swordsman
pkh 11 part 4

Poisoned wine! A peasant woman sold a jar of wine to Bwee Ceng! Like the entrance of demons Keng Hong jumped and ran into the hamlet. It was still early in the morning but as was the custom of the hamlets, so early the inhabitants had woken up.

Seeing Keng Hong running around, they all felt shocked and astonished. Was not this young man who yesterday was the prisoner of six gallant men who spent the night in the temple? This handsome young man must be a criminal, so be the captive of the six warriors.

"Who has sold us a jar of wine?" Keng Hong shouted like a madman.

A half-old woman with pale face and wide eyes stepped forward and said, "I sold them a jar of wine this morning. Is there a young man? My wine only has that jar, if you want to add more, you have to go to the city..!"

The woman stopped her words, turning back and forth because Keng Hong had gripped her arm. This young man had thought that the grandmother who had poisoned them must have had some cleverness, but when she held his arm and found out that this woman was nothing and very weak, he immediately loosened his grip and snapped,

"Seekly say! Where did you get that wine? Watch out for lying, I'll kill you!"

The villagers became angry to see Keng Hong's rudeness towards a woman. Those, who were men, had already charged over while cursing, "Crazy people! Why come berserk? You are a prisoner, certainly an evil one!" Soar punches and kicks into Keng Hong's body.

But this young man did not care for all of them and still held onto the arm of the half-old woman who was shivering in fear. There was a noise of business when the attack hit Keng Hong's body, followed by the screams of the assailants themselves because their accomplices met with a body as hard as steel!

"He's a demon...!"

"Graans...!" the cries of those who complain make the atmosphere there become very rowdy.

"Brothers don't act recklessly!" Keng Hong shouted out loudly, "the parade sold by this woman contains poison because all my friends who drank the wine are now all dead!"

Hearing this explanation, the villagers turned pale in the face and they automatically stepped back and looked at the woman with wide eyes. The woman herself then dropped herself to her knees while crying.

"I don't know anything... I don't know about wine and about poison. I received the wine from a princess with a message to give to the group who stayed at the temple... And. because niocu (miss) was kind enough to give me a prize money.., of course I accept…"

Keng Hong released the clutches of his hands and pushed the half-old woman's body staggered backwards while holding onto the painful wrist, crying with a pale face.

"Say, what kind of lady gives you wine?"

"She was young, beautiful as a goddess.His clothes were all white, her voice was smooth and..."

This morning, watching the two Kong-thong-pai girls being served lovemaking by Keng Hong, in his jealousy the devil-looking girl then attacked with a secret weapon. Then, because there was Keng Hong who blocked his cruel intentions, he then used poison vilely and cleverly. Of course the girl knew that Keng Hong was immune to poison, but the six Kong-thong-pai were not!

"Biauw Eng, you are evil!" Keng Hong said with a heart full of regret and sorrow as he arrived inside the temple and stood looking towards the six corpse figures of the Kong-thong-pai disciples.

With a heavy feeling Keng Hong then dug a hole in the temple grounds and buried the corpses. When he finished he left the temple and only got the fact that many residents were watching from afar and secretly. When he stepped close, they fled and their voices were heard,

"Killer...! Vile murderer…!"

Keng Hong let out a long breath. All of Kong-thong-pai's students were killed by Biauw Eng, and again he was the accused. He did not blame the villagers for accusing him, and he found it pointless to explain to them. The harder the desire of his heart to quickly return to Kiam-kok-san, where he will no longer relate to the crowded world, will not be involved in all human affairs that only create bitterness and hostility. He continued to climb the slopes of the Kun-lun-san Mountains.

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Keng Hong stopped moving his legs and looked to the left in admiration. That girl, she dared to guess that the slim nimble body shadow was definitely a girl, running very fast.

His heart was pounding and his face was hot because he thought that the girl was Biauw Eng. But after getting a little closer and the girl's clothes were light green, not white like Biauw Eng's clothes, she guessed. Definitely not Biauw Eng, nor Cui Im, even though the girl's movement showed a high ginkang.

What was clearly different and looked from afar was the way this girl shouldered her hair, shouldered high above the head like a tower swaying as she ran fast. On his back was a sword in a red sword sheath.

When the girl who turned out to be beautiful sweet with a sharp and passionate eyes of life arrived near Keng Hong who was sitting under the tree, the girl looked startled, however, he even went straight to Keng Hong. For a moment the girl looked sharply then raised both hands to the front of her chest in homage as she asked,

"I'm sorry if I'm the one who's misguided bothers Twako with questions."

Keng Hong smiled. Glad to see the attitude of the girl who imagined this gallantry turned out to be very friendly and polite. He quickly got up and returned his respects, then replied,

"It is only natural that two people who meet each other in this quiet place ask each other. Miss was about to ask about what?"

The girl was stunned again. Presumably he did not think at all that handsome young man who was sitting bloated on the tree was such a delicate person, he said, imagine a person who knows the culture and is not at all an illiterate hillbilly. Then his eyes became increasingly sharp and full of search.