37, robbing the sect for money? It's robbing the rich to help the poor!

Just then, Huang Rong came over with her sword and looked at the few Beggar Gang disciples who were staring at each other:

"Elder Peng colluded with the Hanshui Gang to do evil. You wouldn't hide this from your gang leader, would you? Or perhaps, you were also involved in the Hanshui Gang's wicked deeds?"

Seeing Lu Chen's gaze turn cold, the few Beggar Gang disciples broke out in a cold sweat and quickly shook their heads repeatedly:

"We were just here temporarily to protect Elder Peng at the banquet. We know nothing about his actions! And we certainly didn't collude with the Hanshui Gang to do evil."

They actually knew what Elder Peng had done. But with a Nine-Bag Elder pulling rank on them, what could they do?

Furthermore, they themselves truly hadn't participated in the Hanshui Gang's evil deeds. Even if they reported Elder Peng's matter to the gang leader, at most they would be punished for knowing but not reporting. While they would certainly face demotion and a beating, their lives would be safe.

But if they clashed with these three fearsome figures, especially the "Little Sword Demon" who defeated Elder Peng with a single sword strike, they would instantly lose their lives.

Dying for Elder Peng and the Hanshui Gang was truly not worth it, so these few Beggar Gang disciples were naturally unwilling.

"Very good. You may leave. Remember to take Elder Peng's body with you and clearly explain to your gang leader the evil he committed."

Huang Rong said with a stern expression on her small face:

"We are so young, yet our martial arts are so high. I'm sure you must also know that our background is not simple. So, our elders can also speak with the Beggar Gang Leader! If you don't report truthfully, then the consequences... hmph hmph..."

In reality, she didn't know the Beggar Gang Leader – she grew up on an island and was new to the martial world. Of course, she didn't know any of the senior experts in the martial world.

But this didn't stop her from using words to bluff those few Beggar Gang disciples, and her explanation sounded reasonable and was absolutely effective.

Those few Beggar Gang disciples felt as if they had been granted a great pardon. While repeatedly saying, "We will definitely report truthfully to the gang leader," they lifted Elder Peng's body and quickly scrambled away.

Li Mochou also came over at this time and asked:

"What should we do next?"

Huang Rong snapped her fingers:

"Next, it's time to plunder the Hanshui Gang's ill-gotten gains!"

Li Mochou's eyes lit up:

Killing people and setting fires, wiping out entire families and robbing them... no! Uprooting the strong and helping the weak, robbing the rich to help the poor. This can be considered practicing the way of a hero, right?

Next, the three of them robbed the rich and helped the poor at the Hanshui Gang's Main Headquarters.

Under the guidance of Huang Rong, who was skilled in mechanisms and good at finding secret rooms, they found a secret room and plundered a large amount of banknotes, gold and silver, and IOUs. They also found an underground prison and released more than a dozen women from inside.

The gold and silver, along with the banknotes, added up to only a few dozen catties, which Lu Chen could easily carry. After finishing things here, they could go to Xiangyang City, find a money changer, and convert most of the gold and silver into easily portable banknotes, leaving only a small amount of gold and silver for use within the Jin Dynasty.

As for the various loan shark IOUs, they were directly burned in a fire.

As for the more than a dozen women, some were kidnapped by the Hanshui Gang, some were tricked into situations that led to their families being indebted and them being seized to repay the debt, and some were simply robbed from passing ships by the Hanshui Gang at night, posing as water bandits. They were all young women of good looks, intended to be trained and sent to brothels to make money.

The local women who were kidnapped or seized for debt were easy to deal with; they were each given a sum of money and sent home.

As for the few women from out of town, they were a bit more difficult to handle.

Huang Rong pondered for a moment and had an idea:

"Take them to Xiangyang and find a reputable escort agency to entrust them to, and send them back to their respective homes. Hmm, whether they are local or from out of town, give them all a sum of money. Consider it us robbing the rich to help the poor."

Speaking of this, she remembered something else:

"Oh, right, the Hanshui Gang also has a backer, someone called Inspector Song. We've wiped out the Hanshui Gang. If we openly take people to Xiangyang City to entrust them to an escort, that Inspector Song might notice us. So..."

Lu Chen understood and nodded with a smile: "Eliminate evil thoroughly."

In this world, true experts even dared to break into the Great Song Dynasty's imperial palace. For example, Huang Yaoshi's disciple Qu Lingfeng, and also Hong Qigong, Ouyang Feng, and even the Jin Dynasty's Prince Zhao's F4, had all broken into the Great Song imperial palace.

Lu Chen felt that while he couldn't compare to Hong Qigong and Ouyang Feng now, he should be comparable to Qu Lingfeng. He could even break into the Great Song imperial palace, so killing a small inspector was of course no pressure at all.

This day.

The Hanshui Gang's Main Headquarters was wiped out. The bodies of the First Boss, "River-Turning Dragon" Cao Song, the Second Boss, "Black-Clothed Scholar" Shen Qingshi, and a group of the gang's skilled fighters were all hung at the main entrance of the Main Headquarters' manor. A line of bloody characters was also left on the main gate:

Those who harm the common people shall receive this retribution!

Below the large characters, there was also a line of smaller characters:

Be careful, the Little Sword Demon can return at any time...

These words were not empty threats.

Lu Chen and Huang Rong would visit Brother Condor from time to time, and who knows, one day they might feel a sudden urge to come and mete out justice on behalf of Heaven.

Those scattered Hanshui Gang lackeys, if they thought the storm had passed and wanted to continue preying on the innocent, would need to carefully consider if their necks were tough enough to withstand a sword strike from the "Little Sword Demon."

Not only that.

That night, a certain Inspector surnamed Song was also assassinated in his home. The killer left no trace, and the case became a cold case – those who knew the relationship between Inspector Song and the Hanshui Gang, after hearing that the Hanshui Gang's Main Headquarters had been wiped out and that Cao Song and others were hanging dead outside the Main Headquarters gate, of course knew who the killer was.

After all, that person had announced his name, "Little Sword Demon Lu Chen." Besides the few Beggar Gang disciples, many scattered Hanshui Gang members had heard this name or even witnessed him killing people at the Hanshui Gang's Main Headquarters.

So, who the killer was was not a secret originally.

However, which local official dared to easily provoke such a skilled and bloodthirsty killer?

Pretending not to know and glossing over it was the best course of action.

Furthermore, the day after Inspector Song was assassinated, a reputable escort agency in Xiangyang City took on an escort mission. The task was to send several young women back to their respective hometowns, one by one.

The task was not difficult, and the reward was quite generous, but the chief escort was still apprehensive when accepting the escort, patting his chest and repeatedly guaranteeing that the escort would be safe as long as he was alive, and that the escort's loss meant his death.

It's said that the smiling person who entrusted the escort nodded and said:

"The escort is safe, I live. The escort is lost, I die? Well said, Chief Escort. When you're out in the world, you have to keep your word. I've really taken your words to heart, Chief Escort."

The Chief Escort still puffed out his chest then and said that people in the martial world spit on the ground and it's a promise, and the esteemed guest could rest assured.

But as soon as the person who entrusted the escort left, the Chief Escort immediately broke out in a cold sweat and nearly collapsed onto the ground.

As someone in the escort business, he naturally had to deal with "good friends" from all corners of the land, so his information was certainly well-informed. Therefore, the Chief Escort knew exactly who that smiling, seemingly easygoing young man who entrusted the escort was.

That was the "Little Sword Demon" Lu Chen, a great evil star who had killed over sixty people in a single day, even killing a Nine-Bag Elder of the Beggar Gang and an inspector!

So, this Chief Escort, as expected, later mobilized all the elites of the escort agency, personally led the escort himself, and successfully completed the mission.

At this moment.

In a restaurant in Xiangyang city.

Lu Chen, Huang Rong, and Li Mochou were sitting in a private room, celebrating with drinks.

The local women had all been sent back to their homes, and the few women from out of town had been entrusted to the escort agency. More than half of the gold and silver had been converted into money drafts, and a portion had been given to Li Mochou, letting her taste the sweetness of "robbing the rich to help the poor" and strengthening her resolve to act chivalrously.

"Brother Lu, Sister Rong'er, where do you plan to go next to act chivalrously?"

Li Mochou toasted Lu Chen and Huang Rong with a cup, then asked with great interest.

Huang Rong smiled and asked, "Where does Sister Mochou plan to go?"

Li Mochou had originally heard that Dali was like spring all year round with vibrant camellias and had planned to travel south to Dali.

However, she had now changed her mind and wanted to travel the martial world with Lu Chen and Huang Rong.

She looked at Lu Chen and Huang Rong with anticipation:

"I want to travel with Brother Lu and Sister Rong'er, is that okay?"

Hearing Li Mochou's suggestion and seeing her expectant eyes, Huang Rong originally wanted to refuse.

Although Li Mochou was very interesting and they had cooperated well when dealing with the Hanshui Gang, still...

Just the two of her and Lu Chen was just right, adding a third felt a bit crowded.

However, on second thought, Li Mochou's Movement Technique and sword techniques were quite exquisite, and Lu Chen needed to collect a large number of sword techniques to improve his sword dao. Perhaps Li Mochou's sword techniques could count as one?

So she smiled and nodded:

"Okay! Sister Mochou can come with us."

Li Mochou was immediately overjoyed, filled a cup of wine, raised it to Lu Chen and Huang Rong in salute, and drank it down without a word.

After drinking the cup of wine quickly, a faint flush appeared on her fair, jade-like cheeks.

Looking at Li Mochou's joyful appearance, Lu Chen's expression couldn't help but seem a little strange.

Traveling the martial world with the future infamous "Crimson Armored Fairy"...

Well, if Li Mochou didn't go south and instead went north with him and Rong'er, she wouldn't meet Lu Zhanyuan, nor would she fall in love and then suffer heartbreak, leading to a drastic change in her personality, twisting and darkening into a demoness.

So, as long as Li Mochou follows us, doesn't that count as indirectly saving quite a few lives?

The yet-to-be-born Lu Wushuang and her entire family, as well as the innocents who were supposed to be brutally massacred by Li Mochou years later, should at least kowtow to me and Rong'er