The Devil's Tribulation

The next day, the couple sent the doctor to the ox cart, and Pan Huilian looked better. Pan Chengfeng practiced at home last night, and came to Uncle Niu's house in the morning and saw this scene. Uncle Niu also saw Pan Chengfeng, pointed at him and said to his wife: "This kid is the one I told you about, who wants to learn hunting from me, you can just call him Gou Wa." Although Pan Huilian had seen Pan Chengfeng, she had never spoken to him seriously. She smiled and said: "He looks quite handsome. How old is he?" Uncle Niu said: "One year older than Niu'er. Niu'er is just 9 years old, and this kid will be 10 years old soon." After saying that, her heart tightened inexplicably, as if something was going to be stolen by this kid.

Pan Huilian walked towards Pan Chengfeng and said with a smile: "It's just right for Niu'er to be a companion. The two of them should be able to play together." Uncle Niu's face was dark at this time. What he feared came true! Pan Chengfeng quickly said: "Hello, Sister Niu, my name is Pan Chengfeng." She was as well-behaved as possible. Sister Niu nodded, looked at Uncle Niu and suddenly said sadly: "Mom should be here in a few days. I want to accompany her more. I'll trouble the head of the family for other things." Uncle Niu said: "Don't worry, you go to accompany Niu'er's grandmother, and you don't have to worry about other things." Looking at Sister Niu's back, Pan Chengfeng also said a little sadly: "Birth, aging, illness and death are the normal state of the world. You should persuade Sister Niu well." After speaking, he put his hands behind his back, looking regretful.

Uncle Niu looked at the little brat, who looked like he had seen through life, old age, sickness and death, and his hands itched. He raised his hand and hit him on the head: "Stinky boy, do I still need you to teach me?!" Pan Chengfeng cried out "Ouch" and covered his head with both hands. He squatted on the ground and rubbed his forehead and said: "I am doing this for your own good, but you hit me!" Uncle Niu glared at him: "Still talking!" and pretended to hit him again. Pan Chengfeng immediately became timid: "No more, no more!" Uncle Niu then put down his hand and said: "Practice your skills well, it's not your turn to care about my business." After that, he went back to the house.

Pan Chengfeng covered his head and said angrily, "I don't want to care. It's not that you haven't finished your work, I don't know what to do." Pan Chengfeng just stood up, and a little girl next to him looked at him with a smile and said, "You must have done something bad, otherwise your father wouldn't beat you." Pan Chengfeng's face turned black. He actually let a little kid see his embarrassment. He lied, "It's your dad who is jealous of me!" The girl asked innocently, "What is jealousy?" Pan Chengfeng thought for a while and said, "It means that I am more handsome than him." The little girl asked again, "What is handsome? Is handsome fun?" Pan Chengfeng thought speechlessly, "Why am I talking to a little kid about this? Go back and practice!" He turned to the girl and said, "Girl, tell your dad later that I'm going home and will come again tomorrow."

Ten days later. In the morning, in the yard of Pan Chengfeng's house, Pan Chengfeng was seen standing upside down beside the stone table, with six fingers supporting his whole body. Sweat was pouring down, but Pan Chengfeng didn't shake at all. "It's been two hours." Pan Chengfeng turned over and landed on the ground. Qiao Jian's skills were no longer as weak as before. Although he still looked thin, the muscle lines on his body could be clearly seen. Pan Chengfeng clenched his fists: "Well, Uncle Niu said that I can have a strength of 600 kilograms, but why do I feel more than that? I'll ask later. Let's go to the mountains first and chop some firewood." He carried the hemp rope and the axe and went out.

The journey that used to take two hours now takes less than an hour. Pan Chengfeng jumped up and down while chopping wood all the way until he came across the place that made him feel dangerous last time. Pan Chengfeng stopped and thought, "What was staring at me last time? Forget it, I'd better go back. If I run into a tiger, I can still run away, but if I run into a monster, it's over! Safety first."

After walking back a short distance, Pan Chengfeng suddenly found a hare in the grass. He was delighted: "It's so fat. I can have some meat today." He squatted down, picked up a small stone on the ground, looked at the hare more than 20 meters away, raised his hand and flicked it: "Look at my finger magic!" He looked at the direction where the stone flew, and then tilted his head slightly to look at the hare. The hare was eating grass leisurely and ignored him. Pan Chengfeng was angry and raised his leg to rush up and grab it with his hand. The hare swooped and got into the grass. Pan Chengfeng said depressedly: "Forget it, I'll ask Uncle Niu to teach me next time." He sorted out the firewood, and there were actually five or six bundles.

After returning to the village, Pan Chengfeng thought: "It's been more than ten days, Uncle Niu should be almost done with his work, I'll go check it out tomorrow." He walked to the back door of Pan's kitchen and knocked on the door. The door creaked open with a bang: "Gou Wa, you're here." Looking at the young man in front of her, Liu Yuexin suddenly felt something was strange, and she couldn't tell what was wrong. Pan Chengfeng smiled shyly and said, "Miss Liu, I'm here to exchange for rice." "Oh, bring it in." Liu Yuexin came back to her senses after hearing what Pan Chengfeng said. Looking at Pan Chengfeng carrying five or six bundles of firewood, she was secretly surprised and said, "Why is he carrying so many bundles? It's four or five times more than before. And I saw him dragging it before, but now he can actually carry such heavy firewood. Those are at least three hundred pounds."

Liu Yuexin looked at Pan Chengfeng and suddenly asked, "Gou Wa, have you grown taller?" It has only been a short time, but he seems to have grown a lot taller. Pan Chengfeng was also surprised and asked, "Really? Why didn't I feel it?" "That's right! You were just here before, and now you are here." Liu Yuexin first compared her chest, and then pointed to her chin. Pan Chengfeng was also a little surprised, and moved closer to Liu Yuexin and compared, "Huh~ Really, it seems that you have grown a lot taller." Liu Yuexin continued, "Not only taller, but also a lot stronger." As she spoke, she raised her hand and pinched Pan Chengfeng's biceps, only to find that this action was a bit inappropriate, and quickly took her hand back and said, "Let's go, follow me to the kitchen, it's so heavy, I can't lift it." After that, she pointed to the firewood behind Pan Chengfeng.

Following Liu Yuexin to the kitchen, she heard the voice of Butler Pan after she had taken a few steps: "Who asked him to go to the kitchen? What if he lost something?" Liu Yuexin hurriedly said: "Butler Pan, I can't carry such a big bundle of firewood, so I asked Gou Wa to help me bring it in." Butler Pan looked at Liu Yuexin, then at Pan Chengfeng and the bundle of firewood he was carrying, and was secretly shocked: "How can this kid be so strong?" But he said coldly: "Miss Liu, although you are the young master's wife-to-be, it will take several years. We don't know what you will be like by then. Do you want to be the head of the family so soon?" After saying this, a mocking expression appeared on his face. Pan Chengfeng said quickly, "Butler, it's my fault. It has nothing to do with Miss Liu. I'll put down the firewood and wait outside." As he was about to unload the firewood, Butler Pan suddenly yelled, "Who the hell are you! How can you speak here? You idiot! Get out!" When Pan Chengfeng heard this, he turned his head and stared at Butler Pan fiercely and asked, "What did you say? Say it again!"

It was also Pan Chengfeng and Liu Yuexin's bad luck. Today, Pan Dahu invited an accountant from the county town to check the accounts of the past few years. He found that more than two hundred taels of silver did not match. He asked Butler Pan what was going on. Usually, Pan Dahu also checked the accounts by himself, but Butler Pan had done all the accounts. Pan Dahu, a half-baked man, would definitely not be able to tell. This time, a professional accountant was invited. After finding out that so much silver was missing, he immediately scolded Butler Pan and asked him to make up the money within this month, otherwise he would take him to see the authorities. Butler Pan knew that even if he made up the money, he would most likely be kicked out. Just as he was getting annoyed, he saw Liu Yuexin taking Pan Chengfeng to the kitchen, so he wanted to find a vent.

Butler Pan sneered, "Why? You little bastard beggar, if I hadn't pitied you, do you think you could exchange your broken firewood for rice?" Butler Pan was right. In this small village, it was hard to find a family willing to exchange rice for firewood. Only families like Master Pan, who had a large population and didn't go out to chop firewood, would exchange firewood with the villagers. It was Master Pan's care for his fellow villagers. But what Butler Pan said was just to make it sound good. In the past, a bundle of firewood chopped by Pan Chengfeng weighed about 40 to 50 kilograms. According to the market price, it could be exchanged for a kilogram of rice, but it was all withheld by Butler Pan. Butler Pan made a lot of money from the villagers by exchanging rice for firewood, but in the final analysis, it was all for his own benefit.

Regardless of what Butler Pan said, Pan Chengfeng stared at Butler Pan with a cold face and asked again: "I asked you what you said just now?" Seeing Pan Chengfeng's expression, Butler Pan suddenly felt a little timid and took a small step back. But he immediately realized that something was wrong and thought to himself: "How could I be afraid of this kid? I was actually intimidated by this kid?!" Butler Pan, who was furious, blushed, raised his fat hand and slapped Pan Chengfeng in the face, shouting: "Little bastard, I think you are looking for death!" Pan Chengfeng raised his left hand and grabbed the fat butler's wrist and squeezed it hard. A sharp pain came immediately, and Butler Pan cried out "Ouch~!" and shouted, "Let go!! Let go!! I told you to let go!!" Pan Chengfeng pinched Butler Pan's wrist and looked coldly at the fat man who had bullied him for two years. Thinking of the rice he had deducted in the past two years, he was about to increase his strength to make the fat man suffer more, when he heard Liu Yuexin's panicked voice: "Gou Wa, let go quickly, you're going to break Butler Pan's hand!!"

Liu Yuexin was also startled when she heard the sound of pinching the hand. If she really broke the bones of Pan Guanjia, it would be a big deal, so she hurriedly reminded Pan Chengfeng. After hearing Liu Yuexin's words, Pan Chengfeng slowly loosened his palm. Pan Guanjia sat down on the ground, looking at the handprint on his wrist, his heart and gall bladder were broken! What kind of power is this? ! A 10-year-old child actually has such great strength? Is it true that some people are born with supernatural powers? ? Pan Chengfeng looked at the fat housekeeper and suddenly said with a fake smile: "Don't blame me, the big housekeeper, the kid was in a hurry just now, please forgive me." The fat housekeeper shuddered, tears and snot flowed together, and nodded frantically. Looking at the fat housekeeper sitting on the ground, Liu Yuexin felt a little bit sorry, and hurriedly helped the housekeeper up and explained: "Housekeeper, Gou Wa didn't mean it, don't be angry with him." How could Pan Guanjia dare to speak, but just nodded. Pan Chengfeng smiled and said, "That boy and Miss Liu went to the kitchen." Butler Pan looked at the direction the two men left, the viciousness in his eyes could no longer be hidden, but he couldn't beat them now, so he could only endure it for the time being.

Liu Yuexin held the rice bag and looked at Pan Chengfeng who was putting away the firewood. She wanted to ask but was a little afraid to speak. Pan Chengfeng turned around and saw Liu Yuexin's expression, and smiled foolishly: "What? Don't you recognize me?" Seeing Pan Chengfeng's smile, Liu Yuexin confirmed that it was still the Gou Wa she knew, so her father angrily said: "Gou Wa, how dare you hit Pan Zongguan? You won't exchange rice in the future?" Pan Chengfeng smiled and said: "The rice must be exchanged, but the next time he dares to say something about my parents, I will pinch his neck!" Thinking of Pan Chengfeng's parents' death, Liu Yuexin somewhat understood Pan Chengfeng's feelings, but still curiously asked: "By the way, how did you become so strong? You are only 10 years old, right?" Pan Chengfeng did not hide it and explained: "I am learning hunting with Uncle Niu now. He first taught me some ways to build up my strength. I practiced for a while and the effect is not bad." In fact, Pan Chengfeng's strength increased so much, mainly because of the beast meat, and then the result of training. How could an ordinary person increase so much strength so quickly? Pan Chengfeng always felt that he had more than kilograms of strength, but there were no props to test strength here.

Liu Yuexin was also very happy to hear that someone was teaching Pan Chengfeng how to hunt, and asked hurriedly: "Is it the tall man? I heard that Uncle Niu, who was taught by an expert, is the best hunter in the village. He came to Panjia Village more than ten years ago and beat the four brothers of the Pan family." Uncle Niu himself spread the news that he was taught by an expert to explain why he was so good at hunting. Pan Chengfeng smiled and said: "Uncle Niu is really good at hunting, he has even killed tigers! The last time Uncle Niu and I went hunting, we heard the roar of a tiger as soon as we entered the mountain..." Pan Chengfeng just lied to Liu Yuexin who had never been to the mountain. Tigers generally do not appear in the marginal areas, but this does not affect Pan Chengfeng's storytelling.

Pan Chengfeng's eloquence is such that he can make something alive even if he doesn't talk about the dead. But he is also eloquent, which made Liu Yuexin stunned, sometimes with eyes wide open, sometimes covering her mouth. Pan Chengfeng took the opportunity to carefully look at Liu Yuexin's face. It has been so long since I have seen her carefully, how can I miss this opportunity? Liu Yuexin listened attentively to Pan Chengfeng's nonsense, and Pan Chengfeng also looked at Liu Yuexin's face carefully. Liu Yuexin had an oval face, white skin, willow-leaf eyebrows, peach-shaped face, white teeth and red lips under her high nose bridge. You really don't know until you see it, and you can't take your eyes away! No wonder Pan Dahu bought Liu Yuexin for his son as a child bride. Those who don't know would think that Pan Dahu is going to take a concubine. Liu Yuexin is thirteen years old this year, and she has grown into this appearance. Won't she be a disaster to the country and the people in the future? It's hard to imagine that this is a girl raised by a rural family. It turns out that when she was first bought by Pan Dahu, she was still fine. I've kept it at home for the past two years, without being exposed to the wind or the sun, without having to do heavy work, and with good food, so it's growing well.

Liu Yuexin found that Pan Chengfeng was staring at her in a daze, and asked curiously: "Gou Wa, what are you looking at? Why don't you say anything?" Although he is only 10 years old, his mentality is that of a man in his thirties. What can Pan Chengfeng see? Of course, he was looking at something crooked. When Pan Chengfeng heard Liu Yuexin's question, he said a little embarrassedly: "It's getting late, I should go back." Pan Chengfeng got up and picked up the rice bag. Liu Yuexin also realized that he had been talking for half an hour, and said disappointedly: "It's so late, it's time to go back." Seeing Liu Yuexin's disappointed expression, Pan Chengfeng smiled and said: "I will continue to tell you next time. Uncle Niu and I have also fought bears and leopards!" Liu Yuexin's eyes lit up: "Okay, tell me next time." Leading Pan Chengfeng out of the kitchen, Liu Yuexin also went back to the house to rest.