Chapter 420 A Team of Powerful Bodyguards
She told a long story, and Wang Feng spent twenty minutes hearing it out. During this period, Wang Feng seldom interrupted. He just listened to her speaking to herself as if he was caught in her sad memory of the past.
After hearing her story, Wang Feng was full of sympathy for her indeed. It was quite an honor to be a member of the Dragon Spirit Squad. Members of the Dragon Spirit Squad could run amuck in Celestial Empire. Even the military area dared not to provoke them.
However, her only mistake was marrying the wrong man who she should have married.
When she was just born, her parents took it upon themselves to arrange a marriage for her. To put it bluntly, she was a child bride. But she was taken away by a master passing by later and started her road of cultivating. She then got out of this world.
She learned how to cultivate first, and then she went to the military area for further practicing. Finally, she passed through the layers of selection into the Dragon Spirit Squad, which was the most glorious in the army of Celestial Empire.
However, good times didn’t last long. She was in the Dragon Spirit Squad for less than half a year, and her family urged her to go back home and get married. They said the man’s family wanted them to get married soon.
Out of gratitude to her parents and filial piety, she went back to her hometown in the end and resolutely chose to marry that man.
When they just got married, that man was indeed very nice to her and took her as a guest of honor, but it didn’t last long. After a short time, she found that her husband should have a pernicious habit of gambling, and he had owed a huge sum of gambling debts outside.
He thought of this marriage which was arranged in his childhood when he was hounded by his creditors and went back to his hometown.
It could be said that she had been trapped in an endless cycle of debt payments since she was married. No matter how much money that man owed outside, she was the one to pay it back.
As time went by, that man became bolder and bolder in gambling and lost hundreds of millions of yuan. But she still paid off the debt for him.
Because she loved that man, and she didn’t want him to be hacked to death on the street because of his huge gambling debts. She persuaded him once, but it didn’t work at all. On the contrary, he beat her severely.
As for why she didn’t fight back, it was that she loved that man, and she didn’t want him to be hurt.
But that man was a jerk indeed. He didn’t treasure his wife who was so great but became more rampant. He not only owed some money outside but also beat his wife often.
Especially when she was disabled in the Dragon Spirit Squad, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse. It almost became a commonplace for that man to beat her. He didn’t take her as a human at all. He punched and kicked her when he was not happy.
When hearing of this, Wang Feng really felt so sorry for her. There was actually such a scumbag in the world. It was really an eye-opener for Wang Feng.
Because of love, she didn’t fight against his violence at all no matter how severely he beat and scolded her. How deeply she loved him! It was really so easy for her, a cultivator of the Internal Strength, to kill an ordinary man. She could have ended his life with one blow. However, she just tolerated him all these years. No one knew how she made it.
For such a woman, Wang Feng didn’t know how to describe her. Silly? Stupid? Or she had been blinded by love.
“Then how did he die in the end?” Wang Feng asked. He felt indignant for the woman in front of him. If it had been him, he would have broken out and killed that man already.
“I killed him.” The woman said, which quite startled Wang Feng.
“But why? You loved him so much that you were reluctant to fight back.” Wang Feng goggled and asked incredulously.
“Because I have no income. Even if I had not killed him, he would have been killed by the debtors in the end. In this case, it’s better for me to put an end to his life in person.” The woman said, then becoming calm gradually.
“Alas!” After hearing her story, Wang Feng said nothing but just heaved a long sigh.
A sad story just ended like this. That man was punished accordingly. What else could he say? After all, everything was gone after death. No matter how notorious he was when he was alive, he died now, and then everything was gone forever, after all.
It was not until now that Wang Feng had really figured out why a former commanding member of the Dragon Spirit Squad descended to such a situation.
All her money was taken away to repay her husband’s debts. If she hadn’t made up her mind to kill him, he might have owed more money outside.
“I really appreciate your help, and I will keep it in my mind forever.” She said solemnly again when she finished her story.
“Ho-ho, don’t hurry to thank me. In fact, I’ve got a selfish motive to help you today.” Wang Feng said, waving his hand.
“May I know what you want me to do for you?” The woman in front of him was so smart, and she immediately understood what Wang Feng meant.
“It’s pleasant to talk with smart people.” Wang Feng smiled, and then he added, “Actually, the main purpose of my coming to you today is that I want you to protect some people for me. You can take it as a job acting as a bodyguard.” Wang Feng said.
“Aren’t you trying to ask me to protect some murderers?” The woman asked, making Wang Feng roll his eyes helplessly.
“You are so imaginative! I just want you to protect my family. After all, I’m totally exposed now, and danger may come to me at any moment. Sometimes, I may not have the energy to protect them. So, I came to you.”
“Oh, you don’t have to worry about your remuneration. We’ll just follow the army’s standard. I will pay as much as you got in the troop. You will absolutely not be wronged.” Wang Feng said, promising in a hurry.
The annual salary of a member of the Dragon Spirit Squad was fifty million yuan. It was very high, but it depended on who they were. After all, sometimes, you just couldn’t hire a cultivator, no matter how much you paid.
In addition, the person in front of him was absolutely reliable. Thus, Wang Feng didn’t care about how much it would cost at all. After all, you could always make money if you lost it. However, if someone was dead, he couldn’t be saved no matter how much money you paid.
Therefore, Wang Feng was not stingy on the remuneration at all.
“I guess you took it wrong. I’m not worried about money. Although I am penniless now, you saved my life today, and it’s reasonable for me to do something for you. After all, it’s a grace of rebirth, and I have no way to repay.”
“By the way, what’s your name?” Wang Feng looked at the woman in front of him and asked.
The woman looked more than thirty years old on the surface, but Wang Feng could see some thick calluses on her hands. It seemed that she had been badly suffocated by the pressure of life all these years.
“I’m Liu Yinghong. You can call me Xiaohong in the future.” The woman said with a smiling face.
“How dare I! You must be older than me. I’d better call you Sister Hong in the future.” Wang Feng said, making the woman smile.
They were both from the same troop, so Wang Feng didn’t dare to call her Xiaohong. It was how a leader called his subordinate. Wang Feng would take those people he looked for this time as his friends, not his subordinates.
“That is true. But names are just codes. You can call me whatever you like.” Sister Hong said, and she was not intertwined with this matter.
“Now that you can walk normally, I think we’d better leave here now. I want to look for other people.”
“You still need to look for other people?” Hearing Wang Feng’s words, Sister Hong asked in surprise.
“Sure. I try to look for all the retired members of the Dragon Spirit Squad. I’ve got the name list already. So, we’d better not waste our time and set out in a hurry.”
“Then you wait outside for me for ten minutes. I want to say goodbye to those people outside. After all, it is just through their care that I have been able to hold on and survive all these years.”
“All right. I’ll be waiting for you outside.” After saying this, Wang Feng turned around and walked to the entrance of the lane.
Although Liu Yinghong used to be disabled, Wang Feng could feel that she was in the stage of the late of Internal Strength. She was a master in Internal Strength. Therefore, Wang Feng felt quite relieved when she agreed to protect Bei Yunxue and the other women.
It seemed that all the retired members were masters. They could not be of weak strength.
Liu Yinghong was disabled, but she stood up and walked out of her home now. Thus, it could be imagined what a sensation her appearance caused. Almost all the people of each house came out to watch the scene of bustle.
She expressed her gratitude and said that she would leave here at once, which incurred many people’s detainment. But she would not stay here anymore no matter how they kept hold of her because she was to pay a debt of gratitude.
Wang Feng gave her the chance to walk again. She could only repay it with the rest of her life.
“Let’s go.” Wang Feng waited for about five minutes at the entrance of the lane, and then she came out with empty hands. She didn’t take anything at all.
All these years when she lived here, the income from her embroidery every day could barely cover her meals. She had no spare money to buy anything else at all. Fortunately, she was a cultivator with a very strong immunity. Otherwise, she would have been tortured to death by diseases.
There was nothing in her house, so she had nothing to take with her. To put it unpleasantly, she even didn’t have enough money for a ride now.
“You’ve managed everything?” Wang Feng asked, looking at Sister Hong.
“Yes.” Sister Hong nodded. Then she looked back reluctantly.
“Then we shall leave...”
After that, Wang Feng spent three or four days running about in many different cities in Celestial Empire, looking for people everywhere.
His team was getting bigger and bigger. It had been developed from Liu Yinghong at first to ten people now.
Of course, they chose to follow Wang Feng because Wang Feng gave them chances of rebirth. After all, even the current medical treatment could not cure their disabilities. Wang Feng was the only one who could cure them.
Thus, in return for his kindness, they were all willing to be bodyguards in Wang Feng’s home.
Although it was less glorious than being a member of the Dragon Spirit Squad, it was much better than staying at home with disabilities.
During that period, every time Wang Feng found a retired member, he treated him first. If anyone wanted to go with Wang Feng, Wang Feng would take him to leave. If someone didn’t want to go with him, Wang Feng wouldn’t force him, either. Every man had his own will. Wang Feng couldn’t force them.
After all, this was a group of people who once made great contributions to their country.
They were of equal strength. They were all in the interim or the late of Internal Strength. None of them was in the prime of Internal Strength. Wang Feng was quite gratified on this.
With them guarding the castle, even if cultivators of the Great Void came there, they could be defensive.
After seven days, Wang Feng finally returned to Zhu Hai City with a group of people. When they arrived at the airport of Zhu Hai City, Wang Feng felt quite relieved indeed.
He almost ran all over Celestial Empire in these seven days. His traces were left at every corner. He had almost visited all over Celestial Empire.
He got twenty people in total in seven days. All of them were powerful cultivators. He was very tired as well. It was quite difficult for him even to walk.
After all, it was not an easy task to cure those people. Especially, some stubborn and ineradicable injuries were quite troublesome to cure. But luckily, he had X-ray vision and an excellent master, Guijianchou. Otherwise, he would not have been able to cure these injuries, either.
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