Martial Arts Escort System: I Got A Maxed Level Divine Technique From The Beginning-Chapter 397 - 200 Thieves’ Gang_2

The woman was initially reluctant, but when she looked down at the cornbread, her eyes lit up immediately. Forgetting about drinking, she hurriedly broke it apart to share with those around her.

For a moment, everyone who had looked sallow now got up to collect the pieces of cornbread.

The Master sighed: "Lord Su, I am embarrassed..."

"It’s alright, it’s alright."

Su Mo waved his hand dismissively.

Little Situ curiously asked, "Where is the injured person?"

"In the house."

The Master quickly directed someone to show the way.

Little Situ first glanced at Su Mo, and upon seeing Su Mo nod, let the four girls carry him following the directions.

The house was not far, and they quickly arrived at the location.

The four girls skillfully carried the soft sedan chair into the house.

The Master looked on from the side, only to feel his sleeve being tugged.

Looking down, he saw a seven or eight-year-old child, staring at him with wide eyes: "Master, do you have any more? I... I want to bring a piece back for my mother."

"This..."

The Master hesitated.

Wei Ziyi had already brought over two pieces of bread: "Here you go."

"Thank you, sister."

The child held it in his arms, then after a moment of thought, returned one: "You eat too, sister."

After saying that, he hugged the remaining one and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"This..."

Wei Ziyi looked at the bread in her hand and then at Su Mo: "To be reduced to being a mountain bandit to this extent..."

She didn’t finish her sentence, after all, the Master was still standing by.

Su Mo pondered for a moment and glanced at the Master:

"Speaking of which, I have yet to ask for the Master’s esteemed name."

"I dare not, I dare not."

The Master quickly waved his hand: "My surname is Hu, and Jianghu people have nicknamed me Hu Sandao!"

"..."

Su Mo felt it would be inappropriate to criticize such a name and simply nodded:

"Brother Hu, I have something to say, though I am unsure if it is my place."

"Ah... You have seen the hardship within this stockade, Lord Su. What is there that cannot be said?"

Hu Sandao sighed: "Please speak your mind, Lord Su."

Su Mo nodded: "We only had a brief encounter before, but from your Blade Technique, Brother Hu, I can tell it is exquisite. With such martial arts skill, where could you not aspire to greater things? Why fall into banditry?"

He paused slightly: "I hope you won’t take offense at my blunt words with our shallow acquaintance."

After listening, Hu Sandao stared blankly at Su Mo, unable to speak for a moment.

Su Mo was startled: "What’s wrong, Brother Hu?"

"I..."

Hu Sandao shook his head and sighed: "Lord Su, despite your young age, your fame reaches high as the sun. Back in Southwest, I blocked your path and challenged you, indeed resenting you in my heart.

"The day you defeated me and left those words, I thought it was just to take revenge.

"Now I realize that I was judging a noble man by my own mean measure.

"With your current reputation and martial arts ability, to speak to someone as insignificant as me this way...

"I... I thought there was no nobility in this dangerous Jianghu, this difficult world, but today I finally see that there are still true heroes in Jianghu!

"Hu Sandao admits his defeat today. Please accept my bow, Lord Su!"

Without awaiting Su Mo’s reaction, he knelt on one knee as if toppling over a mountain of gold or a column of jade.

Su Mo hastily reached out to help him up: "Brother Hu, why go to such lengths?"

"Lord Su, this bow is nothing but sincere admiration for your martial arts and your character.

"In Jianghu, there are many used to bullying the weak, even those so-called reputable sects or those lofty martial artists who come and go.

"None of these people deserve Hu Sandao’s bow, but Lord Su, in such a time as this, did not fear an ambush within my stockade.

"Back in Southwest, I had offended you, yet now you don’t hold the past against us and even provided food for my brothers.

"And for the sake of saving a stranger, you are willing to brave danger yourself.

"Such a person of kindness and righteousness is truly rare in my life. This favor, this sentiment, I shall never forget for all eternity!"

As he said this, the man before him had tears in his tiger-like eyes, clearly speaking from the depths of his heart.

"You put it too heavily," said Su Mo as he pulled him up from the ground. "We are all mortals, who dares to stand above the rest?

"One’s martial arts proficiency cannot sort people into different classes.

"If I do not speak to you like this today, should I instead look down upon you with raised chin and snobbish eyes, full of arrogance, yet oblivious as to what end?"

"Ha ha ha."

Hu Sandao laughed heartily upon hearing this, but after the laughter subsided, he sighed deeply:

"Lord Su, you do not know, such people are indeed numerous.

"You ask why, with such martial arts ability, I resorted to banditry...

"Ah... It’s actually because I stumbled upon these martial arts by accident."

From that moment on, Hu Sandao had no more secrets from Su Mo and simply shared his own story and the circumstances of the stockade.

He was from Southwest, his home was within the territory of Wusheng Hall.

Wusheng Hall was a large and influential entity with countless affiliated gangs.

One such gang, called Duan Dao Gang, was a small gang that managed the lands around where Hu Sandao lived.

Although the gang was small, in Hu Sandao’s view, it was everything.

The disciples of Duan Dao Gang, as Hu Sandao just mentioned, often looked down on others with arrogance, speaking and acting with such condescension that they might as well have the words ’I reign supreme’ engraved on their foreheads.