System: I Can Open Martial Arts Chests-Chapter 92 - 79: Yinfeng Stronghold?

Chu Qing’s mother passed away shortly after he was born.

Chu Yunfei told him it was because his mother contracted a grave illness, incurable, and eventually she left this world.

A child without a mother always pulls at the heartstrings.

Because of this, Chu Qing was mischievous from a young age, but as long as he didn’t do anything outrageous, Chu Yunfei would let him off lightly.

There was only one time he sneaked into Chu Yunfei’s room, rummaging for fun things.

But he accidentally broke a box, causing Chu Yunfei to fly into a rage, no longer as forgiving as before, and gave him a fierce beating with a bamboo strip.

Later, Chu Qing found out that the box was his mother’s relic.

Aside from things his mother brought herself, it also contained a token of love Chu Yunfei gave her in the past.

What left the deepest impression on Chu Qing was a gold hairpin.

Like a phoenix’s wing, exquisite and grand.

There was a character on the hairpin.

By then, Chu Qing could already read, and he knew the character was ’Chu’.

It was identical to the one he was holding now!

It was impossible for his mother’s relic to change hands easily, but if Chu Tian got married, would Chu Yunfei give his mother’s relic as a gift to his daughter-in-law?

Or perhaps he would give it to Chu Tian to give away as a token of love?

This was the most likely possibility, yet it made Chu Qing even angrier.

There was something wrong with this town.

When Uncle Erniu was taken away earlier, Chu Qing knew.

But he couldn’t rashly speculate about life and death because of these things.

The Zhao family’s restaurant was pointed out by that person, so there must be something fishy, which is why he came over, ready to act as soon as something seemed amiss.

Unexpectedly, before he found the irregularities, he discovered this gold phoenix hairpin.

In this case, why endure any longer?

The shopkeeper, unaware of the details, stubbornly said:

"Sir... Sir, I don’t understand what you mean... Please, let me go, this... this hairpin is... is mine..."

Chu Qing nodded at this, then immediately slammed the shopkeeper’s head onto the table.

He pressed his large face with one hand, casually taking a chopstick from the holder. With a shock of inner breath, the chopstick snapped immediately.

The sharp, jagged edge was frightening. He reached out and aimed the chopstick at the shopkeeper’s eye.

Moving closer bit by bit:

"Your chance is running out..."

The shopkeeper’s forehead dripped with sweat, his whole body shivering.

He struggled fiercely under Chu Qing’s hold, but with Chu Qing’s inner breath from the Mingyu Scripture coursing through him, how could he resist?

Yet the shopkeeper’s lips remained tightly sealed, even as the chopstick tip neared, he stubbornly refused to speak.

Chu Qing ran out of patience; with a swift motion, he drove the chopstick in.

"Ah!!!"

A scream erupted from the shopkeeper’s mouth.

Chu Qing had already pulled out the chopstick:

"You still have one eye left."

"I-I don’t know... I really don’t, please let me go, I really... I really know nothing..."

The shopkeeper cried and begged.

His expression so sincere, even Chu Qing doubted if he might have guessed wrong?

Just then, the waiter nearby suddenly spoke up:

"I know."

"Shut up!!!"

The previously cowering shopkeeper suddenly shouted with a contorted face.

Hearing this, Chu Qing sneered coldly, grabbed the shopkeeper’s neck, silencing him, then turned to the waiter:

"Speak."

"In... in the mayor’s courtyard.

"In the mayor’s courtyard, there’s a dungeon.

"They’re all imprisoned there."

After saying this, it was as if the waiter had all his energy drained.

He collapsed to the ground.

Chu Qing released the shopkeeper’s throat, and he coughed violently.

After catching several deep breaths and recovering, the shopkeeper grabbed a chopstick from the table, viciously stabbing it towards the waiter.

But before he could reach him, Chu Qing flicked his sleeve, knocking him to the ground.

With a crash, the table shattered, and the shopkeeper rolled on the ground.

"You dare commit violence in front of me?"

Chu Qing’s eyes darkened.

"Who... who do you think you are?"

The shopkeeper clutched his eye, looking at the waiter with a grotesque mix of laughter and tears, shouted:

"It’s over, it’s all over... you wretch, you’ve doomed us all!!"

The waiter shouted back:

"What does it matter if it’s over?

"I’ve had enough!

"My parents were killed by them, and so were my wife and children...

"What did they say at the time?

"They said my wife could cook for them on the mountain, and the child would be safe there, as long as I agreed to work for them.

"But what happened later?

"My wife was defiled by them long ago, and the child... the child..."

He couldn’t continue, simply pulling his hair in a frenzy, face filled with a breakdown as he shouted:

"Let it all die, everyone here deserves to die!!

"We’ve killed so many people, why should we still live?"

At his words, he suddenly stood up, violently heading for the tavern’s wall, intending to end his life.

But just before his head could hit the wall, Chu Qing grabbed his shoulder:

"No rush to die, take me to your mayor’s residence first."

The waiter struggled a bit, but couldn’t break free, knowing if he didn’t comply, he couldn’t even die, he then said:

"Okay, I promise you."

The shopkeeper just laughed: 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

"Go ahead, go ahead.

"You’re both done for, the third master will know what’s happened here, and then you won’t escape either.

"Don’t think you’re powerful just because you know a bit of martial arts and carry swords and knives.