For instance, Zhou Zhihan treated Meng Zhao that way, wanting to raise him into her own little husband. That was why she had been so generous, teaching him two martial arts at once. Of course, the most crucial things, the Martial Dao Secret Manual and Martial Dao Secret Medicine, could never be handed over so easily.
In a place like the Three Lions Merchant Guild, members of the Su Family were vastly more likely than outsiders to learn martial arts. Even Su Family sons-in-law had a better chance than ordinary people.
Sun Lao Liu pondered it and felt that even if he joined the Three Lions Merchant Guild with Wen San and started from the bottom, martial arts would still remain an unreachable dream. It might not even be as comfortable as staying in Little Cold Village.
So he gave up the idea of following Wen San to the county seat and risking his life to carve out a splendid future.
As for the others, they did not have Sun Lao Liu's fine family background or broad experience. The name of the Three Lions Merchant Guild had dazzled them all.
They were poor commoners. After working all year long, they could not earn much money. Asking young men like them to fret over the little matters in the fields like their elders did was simply beyond their patience and care.
Farming depended on the heavens for food, and they did not see it as a path to wealth and prosperity.
In the end, three people besides Kong Scarface decided to leave Little Cold Village with Wen San.
Their family circumstances were all ordinary, and they shared a common trait.
Either they were alone, filling one stomach with no family left hungry, or they had many brothers at home and were