Book 2 Chapter 35 The Visitation of the Matchmaker
Teng Jia Vige was engulfed in joy. The vige first set about repairing the broken gate, but once night time arrived, every nsmen went to the training field to celebrate with a feast. Up till now, the Iron Mountain Gang had gone to a number of viges in order to collect their annual fee, so the the nsmen from the Teng Jia Vige were quite worried....
Once they arrived in Teng Jia Vige, what sort of repercussions would they bring?
The unknown is mankind’s greatest fear.
However, today’s result was to everyone’s satisfaction. Using only 200 taels of silver to end the potentially disastrous affair, and not a single nsman dying in the process? How could this not be worthy of celebration?
“Haha... Qingshan.” Teng Yunlong raised his winess. “Throughout all of today, my heart was stuck in my throat. Nheless, the oue was amazing. We were able to resolve the problem with only 200 taels of silver. Without the threats of the Iron Mountain Gang and the White Horse Gang, our Teng n can happily spend our days in Yi City!”
In this world, if viges like the Teng Jia Vige could eat their fill and dress warmly, they would consider it to be a happy day.
“Today’s resolution was all due to Qingshan.” The adjacent Teng Yongleiughed as he raised his wine ss. “Qingshan,e. Your uncle offers his ss to you. This is for saving my life!”
Teng Qingshan proceeded to stand up and raise his ss.
The group of people who were in charge of affairs in the Teng n sat around a table. Everyone drank to the man of honor as all sorts of food flowed around the table. At this point, Teng Yunlong said, “Everyone knows that this mountain cannot house two tigers. The Iron Mountain Gang and the White Horse Gang will definitely fight it out, so in the following days, Yi City will be quite disorderly.”
“Mhm.” Teng Yongfan nodded his head. “The Iron Mountain Gang may have left today, but everybody should intensify their training. Moreover, we must take extra precautions.”
“Mhm. Qingshan, you should go to Great Yan mountain during the day time for the intensive training. You should leave in the morning, and it would be best to return in about 2-4 hours. Otherwise, you can leave at dusk,” Teng Yunlong said. Teng Qingshan also nodded his head. “Understood, grandfather.”
Teng Qingshan knew that bandits would need at least four hours to travel to Teng Jia Vige.
Furthermore, the bandits would have to return to theirir before dusk. This was because this was an ancient society, and so electricity didn’t exist. Once darkness arrived, it would truly be pitch ck. Unless the moon on that night was extremely round, travelling in the night with 100-1000 people would be an exceptional nuisance.
Therefore, Teng Yunlong nned everything out with this in mind. After all, Teng Qingshan was the vige’s number one expert.
Today, if it were not for Teng Qingshan, 10,000 taels of silver would most likely have been extorted from the Teng n.
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Time psed peacefully; everything went ording to Teng Yunlong’s predictions. It was impossible for Yi City’s White Horse Gang and Iron Mountain Gang, the tworgest factions, to remain tranquil. They repeatedly confronted each other, and massacres would often ur. Both the White Horse Gang and the Iron Mountain Gang suffered heavy losses.
The White Horse Gang had many men as well as arge money reserve.
On the other hand, the Iron Mountain Gang had three leaders, each of whom were powerful experts.
The Great Leader, “Wang Tieshan”, could split mountains open with one saber strike. It was unknown how many experts perished under his de.
The Second Leader, “Wang Tiefeng”, wielded two red copper hammers. People imed that the red copper hammers were dyed by fresh blood.
The Third Leader, “Wang Tiehai”, was equipped with a Iron Essence Spear. He held the reputation as Yi City’s number one spear expert.
These three brothers were fully aware of the White Horse Gang’s Master Hong Si and his reputation. However, they were still willing to establish a gang in Yi City. Without strength, why would they bother trying? They had even attracted internal energy experts from various regions. Although these martial internal experts had decent strength, they were extremely difficult to deal with considering that they faced horse thieves and bandits.
The Iron Mountain Gang experienced a ferociously cataclysmic rise to power.
What about the White Horse Gang?
Master Hong Si was already over 70 years old. Although he was the peak of the Postliminary Realm, he had yet to step foot in the Innate Realm. His body’s martial capabilities had naturally declined, and so he was no longer as robust. Master Hong Si was capable of facing one of the Wang brothers. However, there was no way that he could take on all three brothers at once.
Although the White Horse Gang also had three leader, the other two leaders, in terms of strength, were significantly inferior to Master Hong Si. Furthermore, despite being internal energy experts, whenpared to the fearsome and eminent three Wang brothers, their strength was also slightly mediocre.
Nheless, a camel that is starved to death is stillrger than a horse (TLN: Chinese idioms are weird). The White Horse Gang had 8000 men; how could they be trifled with?
Moreover, Master Hong Si’spetent son, also known as the young master, was at prime of his life and had a robust body. He was known as the White Horse Gang’s second strongest expert, only inferior to Master Hong Si.
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These tworge factions fought for many years without resolution. On the other hand, Teng Jia Vige experienced extremely peaceful days.
In the blink of an eye, a year had passed. There were only a few days left until the yearly sacrifice.
Within Teng Qingshan’s home.
“Sister Lan, in a few days, your family’s Qingshan will be 16 and will step into adulthood in a few days. He can also find a wife.” A womanughed as she pulled on Yuan Lan’s hand, “My niece, Xiao Yuan, can be called the flower of our Great Li vige. She is 15 this year, and has just be an adult. If she were to marry your family’s Qingshan, they would be a perfect couple matched by heaven!”
Males be adults at 16 years while women be adults at 14. Most males find a wife once they be adults.
“I have never seen Xiao Yuan before. What is her character like?” Yuan Lan was slightly interested.
“This, I don’t need to tell you. If you find others, they will all say that Xiao Yuan is a polite and good child. In the future, she will definitely show filial respect to her parents inw. Furthermore, she can do every form of housework,” The woman subsequently said.
The adjacent charming young woman, who was listening in on the conversation, wrinkled her nose and harrumphed. “Second aunt, the wife my brother is looking for is not simply anybody. At the very least, she must pass my test. In the recent few days, the sheer amount of people who havee to our house to discuss matchmaking has led to our doorstep bing ttened. My brother should choose wisely.”
“Oh, Qingyu,” the womanughed. “That’s also correct. There are very few people like Qingshan in Yi City. What sort of woman doesn’t want to be married off to someone like Qingshan?”
“Of course.” Qingyu proudly lifted her head.
“However, in the past two years, whenever a boy in our Teng Jia Vige became an adult, many young women from the other vige would wished to marry him,” the womanughed. “Many matchmakers came for my son, Er Wa. I don’t even need to mention your family’s Qingshan. After all, Qingshan is our Teng Jia Vige’s number first-rated hero.”
TLN: Er Wa is probably a nickname.
Due to the White Horse Gang and the Iron Mountain Gang’s skirmishes, especially because of the Iron Mountain Gang’s pressure, many viges faced difficult times.
Comparatively, Teng Jia Vige, which had already lived quite pleasantly before, lived even better now. So, manydies in the surrounding viges all wished to marry into the Teng Jia Vige.
As for Teng Qingshan, he was the vige’s number one man. His reputation had risen to the point where people spoke of him ughtering a group of wolves at a mere age of ten. Being able to lift 10,000 jin was insignificantpared to this... all kinds of legends had caused many youngdies in other viges to indulge in fantasy. In this sort of era, the most admired people were strong, brave men.
Suddenly, the courtyard door creaked open. A youth gripping a Damascus Iron Spear proceeded to stride in.
“Brother.” Qingyu subsequently stood up and ran over to him.
“Qingshan has returned.” The woman stood up and enthusiastically greeted him.
“Er Niang.” Teng Qingshan also smiled, “It’s already noon. Er Niang should eat lunch with us.”
TLN: Er Nianga is probably a nickname or something. Remember her in chapter 49? Kek.
“It’s okay.” When the woman saw Teng Qingshan, she looked slightly awkward and proceeded to smile and say, “My family’s lunch is almost ready, so I will take my leave first. Sister Lan... you should carefully consider what we just discussed. My niece, Xiao Yuan, really is a good youngdy. She is definitely not a bad choice.”
Yuan Lan also smiled as she proceeded to see her out.
“Another matchmaker here.” Teng Qingshan helplesslyughed.
“Brother, I find that you’re quite happy today. What’s the momentous asion?” Qingyu and Teng Qingshan were brother and sister, so when they were together, it was very easy for Qingyu to notice when Teng Qingshan was especially happy.
“You even noticed this.” Teng Qingshan smiled as he spoke.
“Of course! Who do you think I am? I am the sister of the Teng Vige’s number first-rated hero,” Teng Qingyu said while giggling.
“Mhm, it really is a happy asion. However, even if I tell you, you will not understand. Oh, father has returned. Let’s get ready to eat lunch.” Teng Qingshan’s mood today was quite good. Starting two years ago, he would enter the mountain to train in the early morning before the first ray of light had even emerged in the sky. He would run around while carrying arge stone in the mountain.
He would stay there for an hour before returning to eat breakfast.
During the daytime, Teng Qingshan would stay in the vige and cultivate either his Xing Yi Martial Arts or his spear arts.
Today, he had finally broken through thest barrier.
“I didn’t realize that as one’s body became stronger, it would be harder to open the meridians. Nheless, I have finally opened myst meridian... from today onwards, all the meridians in my body will bepletely unobstructed.” Teng Qingshan felt carefree in his heart. After the past two years of training, his current strength was much higher than that of two years ago.
All of his body’s inner qualities had improved. Of course, the rate of advancement was not as much as the “Strongest n’s” four years of improvement.
“My current strength is about 30% higher than that of two years ago. However, who would’ve thought that I still wouldn’t be able to reach the bottom of the Frost Jade Pool?” Teng Qingshan thought to himself. “Today, I have finally opened all of my meridians. Starting tomorrow, I will start training my Xing Yi Martial Art’s Grandmaster skill, “Godly Tiger Form Technique”! When my strength has improved by arge margin, I will once again attempt explore the depths of the Frost Jade Pool.”
“Qingshan.” His father, Teng Yongfan, had also sat down in preparation for the meal. “On the way back just now, I saw Er Niang.”
“Brother Fan, you saw her?” Yuan Lan ced the rice bowls on the table while smiling and said, “She is matchmaking for her niece. Our family’s Qingshan still has a few days before he bes an adult, and there is a plethora of youngdies who wish to marry him. Every one of them is as beautiful as a flower.”
“Qingshan, what do you think? When do you n on getting married?” Teng Yongfan asked while grabbing his chopsticks.