Orphan and Widow (Please Subscribe)

Gu Sinan, Yun Fei, and Wei Qi, seated at the table, were all taken aback, unable to guess what Meng Zhao was planning. Though full of doubts, the servant boy's eyes lit up, and he poured out every detail he knew like beans spilling from a sack.

This orphaned mother and son were hardly weak nobodies. They were the wife and son of Chen Sheng, the Sword Hero whose name resounded throughout Kun'nan and who possessed no small reputation even in Yanzhou: Chen Liu Shi and Chen Tai.

To the serving boy, Sword Hero Chen Sheng was truly a towering name, with peerless swordsmanship and a chivalrous heart.

He had done many earth-shaking deeds: striking dead the Tigers and Leopards of South City with his palm, killing the bandits outside the city with his sword, and slaughtering countless river pirates. He had punished the strong and aided the weak, proving the excellence of his martial arts and swordsmanship; he had relieved the elderly and frail, given generously in righteousness, and, for the sake of a promise, escorted his brother's widow back to Cloud Prefecture ten thousand li away without a word of complaint. This showed that he possessed the character and temperament of a great hero, not one who relied on martial force to commit violence.

To be honest, not only Meng Zhao—even Gu Sinan, Yun Fei, and Wei Qi, all three of the Demonic Path—could not help clicking their tongues in wonder as they heard of Chen Sheng's past deeds. A few more measures of admiration rose in their hearts.

Perhaps because material desires ran rampant, the words "chivalry and righteousness" had become truly rare in this day and age. So rare that those who practiced martial arts did so either for fame, profit, or to flaunt their ferocity,