Chapter 44: Enemies Meet on a Narrow Road

Listening to the somewhat enthusiastic words of the woman in front of him, Bu Gong felt a little uncomfortable; the petite girl ran out from behind the counter quickly before Bu Gong could say anything, pulled Bu Gong’s sleeve, and walked towards the lobby on the first floor.
The other woman behind the counter saw her good friend like this, then raised her eyebrows slightly, stomped her feet, and said angrily, “Hey, you girl who forgets your friends for the sake of beauty, wait and see how I’ll deal with you when you come back.” The petite girl ignored the scolding of the woman behind her, and pulled Bu Gong into the crowd in front.
At this time, Bu Gong was a little speechless looking at the girl who was pulling him, feeling both amused and helpless for a moment; he was being pulled through the crowd by a petite and sweet-looking woman, which made people along the way look at them with extremely ambiguous eyes.
In this situation, no matter how thick-skinned Bu Gong was, he still felt a little hot; Bu Gong pulled his hand away slightly, but what made him even more speechless was that the petite girl in front of him got strength from nowhere and held his hand tightly, making it impossible for Bu Gong to break free with her delicate little hands.
Unless Bu Gong really uses force, but someone is so enthusiastic in helping you, and you are still a little ungrateful and want to shake off his hand, doesn’t that make you seem a little too unkind?
“By the way, junior brother, I haven’t asked you yet, what’s your name?” Just as Bu Gong was scanning the crowd around him, the petite girl who was holding his hand in front of him turned around and asked him casually.
“Hmm?” Bu Gong was also brought back to his senses by the voice, and then he chuckled and said, “Senior Sister, you are too polite, just call me Bu Gong.” After saying this, Bu Gong once again glanced around, his expression remained the same.
The girl was also a little depressed by Bu Gong’s nonchalant attitude. She lowered her head slightly and looked at her body. “I have a good figure, so why am I not attractive to him? But his name sounds a little familiar,” the little beauty thought to herself a little depressedly.
At this time, Bu Gong was looking around like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden, and did not notice the subtle movements of the girl in front of him. The two walked for about ten minutes and stopped in front of a rather shabby table on the right side of the innermost part of the hall.
Bu Gong was stunned for a moment when looking at the table in front of him, and he muttered in his heart: “Is this place where outer disciples receive their medicine so shabby?”; and the woman who was holding his hand was also introducing some daily affairs handled by the counter to him as they walked.
After the woman’s introduction, Bu Gong also understood a little; it turned out that the place where the outer disciples received the elixirs was the most unusual, because it was the least conspicuous of all the counters, and the location chosen by the counter was also the least conspicuous of all places.
Bu Gong was a little puzzled about this; he asked the woman, but she didn’t know either. She only knew that this was the place where the outer sect could collect elixirs, but she couldn’t explain why such a shabby and inconspicuous place was chosen.
Bu Gong slowly walked to the table and saw an old man who looked a bit sloppy sitting behind the table. He was lying on the table with sleepy eyes, and it seemed that he was playing chess with Zhou Gong, and bickering from time to time.
Bu Gong was speechless at this. “These outer disciples are at least the core strength of the sect in the future, right? You arranged for such an old man to come here and fight against the outer disciples? This…” Thinking of this, Bu Gong was a little hesitant.
Then she turned around and whispered to the woman next to her: “Senior Sister, you haven’t come to the wrong place, have you? Look how terrible it is…” But before she could finish her words, Bu Gong had her mouth covered by the woman.
Bu Gong was a little dazed at this time. A gust of fragrant wind blew over him. Because the white and tender little hand covering his mouth was a little too sudden, his brain became dull for a moment.
At the same time, the petite girl gently took away her hand that was covering his mouth, and then whispered to him, “Don’t talk nonsense about the old man here, otherwise you will be in trouble.”
Hearing the woman’s slightly fearful voice, Bu Gong looked at the old man who was sleeping on the table with a bit of suspicion.
“Well, then how do I get the pills? Should I wake him up?” Bu Gong hesitated for a moment and then asked; because from the tone of the woman before, she was obviously in awe of the unremarkable old man in front of her.
Although he didn’t know the specific reason yet, since he could make others so respectful of him, there must be a reason; therefore, Bu Gong understood it in his heart at this time.
Then, the voice of the woman next to him gently came into his ears: “Don’t call him yet, wait, talk to him after he wakes up.”
“Um, okay.” Bu Gong was a little helpless about this.
When you don’t know someone’s background, it’s better to be careful; because he remembered what Blind Zhang once said to him: “Talk less and do more when you are outside, because a lot of trouble comes from the mouth.”
Bu Gong and the girl who brought him here just stood in front of this shabby table; Bu Gong was nothing special, he looked at the nose with his eyes and the heart with his nose, his standing skills were really powerful.
What a joke! Someone who was able to endure such brutal training during the body-shaping period, can’t just stand like this for a while?
Although Bu Gong was able to do it, the woman next to him couldn’t sit still; she insisted on pulling Bu Gong to talk to her, and Bu Gong had no choice but to answer her questions one by one.
On Bu Gong’s side, two people were chatting with each other; and on the other side of the hall, two young men were walking slowly side by side, one in white and the other in green; behind the two men were four or five young men dressed as disciples.
And judging from the way those young men spoke to the two men in front, one can roughly guess that the people behind them followed the lead of the two men in front.
If Bu Gong were here, he would recognize that the man in white among the two people in front of the group was Hou Ming, whom he had defeated with one punch on the day of the talent test.
At this time, Hou Ming had a gentle smile on his face, which was completely different from the ferocious look he had shown after the confrontation with Bu Gong a few days ago; but his eyes kept sweeping over some of the women in the hall, and an imperceptible heat flashed in the depths of his pupils from time to time.
At this moment, the man beside him, wearing a green robe and with a pale and slightly feminine face, said in a somewhat lazy tone, “Hou Ming, I heard that among this year’s new disciples there is a girl named Xiang Ling’er who has surpassed the seventh level of talent. I wonder if this is true?”
Hou Ming’s eyelids fluttered when he heard this. He glanced at the young man and asked, “Why, Xue Li, are you interested in her?”
“Huh…” The man in green clothes named Xue Li chuckled, curled his lips slightly, and did not answer.
Afterwards, Hou Ming and his group began to wander aimlessly in the hall on the first floor of the medicine hall; while the white-clothed disciples behind them glanced around, occasionally giving pointers and comments to the women passing by, and occasionally complimenting Hou Ming and the other two in front of them.
The direction this group of people was heading was towards the hall; during the time, Hou Ming and the man in green chatted from time to time. It seemed that they had come out to stroll around on purpose today.
Just as they were walking aimlessly in the hall, Hou Ming’s eyes suddenly became extremely gloomy, as if he had cast a spell to freeze him. The face that originally had a slight smile on it also became gloomy at this moment.
He was seen staring at the innermost corner of the hall with his fists clenched tightly in his sleeves and his chest heaving slightly; and following his gaze, he found a tattered table there, with a man and a woman standing in front of it.
The man was wearing a bright red robe, and the woman had a pretty face and a slim figure. The woman was still chattering about something at the moment, and these two people were Bu Gong and the petite beauty who led him here.
“Huh? Hou Ming, what’s wrong with you?” Hou Ming’s abnormal behavior at this time was first noticed by the man in blue clothes beside him. Then the man named Xue Li turned his head slightly to look at Hou Ming and asked.
Hou Ming did not answer him, but continued to stare straight ahead; he looked like a leopard that had seen its prey, but there was no joy in Hou Ming’s eyes at this moment, but instead there was deep anger and humiliation.
Bu Gong, who was chatting with the woman at the moment, seemed to have sensed the malicious gaze, and then he followed the gaze and looked over.
After discovering the owner of this gaze, Bu Gong’s eyes showed a hint of surprise: “It’s really a narrow road for enemies to meet. How come I met this guy by chance today?” Bu Gong was muttering secretly in his heart at this time.
As the two gazes met from a distance, Bu Gong’s eyes were as calm as a pool of stagnant water; while Hou Ming’s eyes were filled with resentment and anger that was about to erupt like a volcano at any time.
The girl who was chattering around Bu Gong also noticed Bu Gong’s expression at the moment; then she followed Bu Gong’s gaze, and her pretty face turned pale in an instant, and then she quickly turned around and pulled Bu Gong’s sleeve.
“Junior Brother Bu Gong, hey, do you want to die? Do you know who he is?” The girl pulled Bu Gong’s sleeve and muttered to herself.
“Eh? What? Senior sister is calling me?” At this time, Bu Gong was brought back to his senses by the girl next to him, and then he asked.
“Huh, if it’s not you, then who could it be? Do you know who you were looking at just now?” The girl said angrily, patting her bulging chest with lingering fear.
This made Bu Gong, who saw it inadvertently, feel a little nervous; “What? No one dares to look him in the eye?” Bu Gong said, and glanced at Hou Ming not far ahead with the corner of his eye, and said in a somewhat nonchalant tone.
“Don’t look at him. Why are you like this? Do you know that guy over there is usually very arrogant and domineering? Even among us inner disciples, many senior brothers and sisters are reluctant to mess with him when they see him.” The woman next to Bu Gong explained in a low and serious voice.
“Oh? That guy?” Bu Gong curled his lips towards where Hou Ming was, his tone a little indifferent.
“Is the guy you are talking about so powerful? But I remember that I broke one of his hands a few days ago. I didn’t expect to meet him here again today.” Bu Gong seemed to be talking to himself.