VAGRANTS
Monks and Sinners

"You may be big, but your heart is small."

Qi Ling looked at the man blankly. The tip of his eyebrows shot up high, the sweat of pain soaked his body. He sometimes hissed, and took the time to ask, "who are you?"

The bald-headed man smiled amiably, then answered Qi Ling's question courteously, "why would a wild creature like you want my name?"

The rustling sound of the leaves being stepped on made Qi Ling look backward. "They're coming, you don't want to run?" Ask the man.

Judging from the style of speech, appearance, as well as the calm aura emanating from his body, the man was a monk. "I will kill you, even if you are a saint." Threaten Qi Ling.

"Are you scared?"

"Huh?"

"You'll cut me off if I even touch you. You stay nervous, and you're always ready to attack. You're distancing yourself from everyone because you're too afraid of humans." Monk Lectures. "You are the weakest man in the village."

Feeling humiliated, Qi Ling deigned to slash at the man. However, the exclamation from the soldiers who saw it, made even Qi Ling run away in fear and hide in the bush.

"Where'd he go?" Ask a soldier. "Yin Chen's! where is Qi Ling? Which way did he go?"

Yin Chen pointed in a direction with his thumb. "Kesana."

The soldiers immediately withdrew from the location, bringing the riot away with it.

"Yin Chen, I don't know who you are, but I don't need your help." Said Qi Ling who was hanging on top of a bamboo tree. "The villagers and the soldiers won't be able to catch me. I don't owe you anything."

Yin Chen grinned, then shouted. "Hey! That's her! Qi Ling is here!"

Qi Ling blinked, and fled from there like a frightened panther.

Yin Chen laughed out loud when he saw the soldiers in the crowd changing direction at the pace, and went past him again to chase after Qi Ling's back tirelessly.

The next day, the hunting effort intensified. Support troops were sent from other provinces. The villagers continued to participate in the hunt. They were ordered to leave their fields. They were forced to explore the mountains armed only with bamboo spears. But after all that, Qi Ling was still not caught.

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Shengicun Temple.

A thick moustached man poured his own chirpy Baijiu inside the sacred Shenggun temple. He sipped the drink, and for once he complained and commented to God.

"It's messed up. If we don't catch Qi Ling immediately, I'll lose my voice and be put to death." Said Yong Kai, the gubernatorial candidate.

"Calm down, Mr. Yong Kai's. We'll find him soon." Calm down a monk who lives in that temple.

"Chou Yu, where is Chou Yu?!" Jerk Yong Kai. "If I have to die, I will die accompanied by a beautiful woman!"

"I'm trying to find him..."

"Then it accelerates, you bald fellow!!"

The monk bowed his body, then came out of the temple and shouted calling Chou Yu's name around the village.

Without the monk noticing, behind an old tree, Chou Yu sat there crying for Qi Feng who had been leaving for a month. "Qi Feng, you bastard." Bump Chou Yu in such a slow voice.

Someone sat in front of him. A monk Chou Yu knew, but not the monk who had been searching for his name. "Yin Chen?"

"Chou Yu, they're looking for you." Answer Yin Chen.

"I don't care." Reply Chou Yu. "I hate that mustachioed guy. Every day all he did was drink, and try to rape me inside the temple. Such a man would not be able to catch Qi Ling."

"Hmm. You're right. All right, I want company?"

Yin Chen looked into Yong Kai's eyes then said to him, "how could a pervert drunk catch a man like Qi Ling?"

The monk serving Yong Kai instantly gaped and broke into a cold sweat.

"What did you say?" Reply Yong Kai with one eyebrow raised.

"How many months, how many hundred men do you need just to catch one?" Yin Chen asked, before sitting face to face with Yong Kai. "The villagers are tired of you and your inability to do this."

Yong Kai took out a knife from his pocket, then pointed the flat object at Yin Chen. Chou Yu who was next to Yin Chen screamed hysterically, while Yin Chen himself still remained calm. "Hmmm..." The man massaged his jaw firmly, then said. "How can an incompetent captain slash my body?"

Yong Kai stomped his feet so tight on the straw floor, showing how upset he was. "Repeat your words, monk!"

"Ha ha ha. How many times do I have to tell you? All right, I'll repeat it again." Yin Chen grinned, with a hand that pointed at Yong Kai. "I'll talk on a per-la-han basis, so you can understand what I'm saying."

"Ti-dak-kom-pe-t-"

"Darah!!" Chou Yu cut off Yin Chen's words and smothered him. "I'm sorry, he's always like this. He's chatty, and he always says indistinctly. Don't put it in the heart." Please Chou Yu.

"No, No. We shouldn't hide the facts from her, Chou Yu." Reject Yin Chen. "Not Competent is incompetent. If a person is not aware that he is incompetent, then someone needs to tell him right in front of the face."

"How dare you insult me?! I'm killing you!"

Yin Chen dodged the Yong kai knife, then said. "I can't believe that Qi Yuan didn't kill this man!! I'm really interested."

"Huh?"

"I mean, the villagers should have stopped working in the field if it wasn't for your incompetence." Yin Chen. "They were forced to join a hunting mission and work without pay. That's so heartbreaking. Citizens should be making a living right now."

"On top of that, Qi Ling was a wild being. Why would they waste their lives just to help you catch that guy." Its effects.

"But, it's for des-safety"

"Village safety? is that why they have to sacrifice their lives? Hmmm, maybe you're right." Yin Chen stood up, then walked out of the temple. "Then, I'll go up the mountain to catch Qi Ling. But on two conditions, pull back all the people you've sent, and as long as I go as well as the next, you shouldn't touch Chou Yu or even Qi Yuan."

"A-- What?! Even Qi Yuan??"

For Yong Kai, Qi Yuan was his special menu at night. If you can't touch it again, it's like you want to die. "Rabhhhh!!!" Yong Kai slashed at Yin Chen.

"Yin Chen!!!" Shouted the monks, who were peering from the door.

The man did not move at all from where he was standing. And strangely, he instead laughed out loud while licking the blood flowing from the skin of his injured arm. "If you don't put strength in your hips, all you can cut is skin!!"

"Yin Chen's... They just called him Yin Chen..!?" Inner Yong Kai.

"Faliance on the master. Funeral for many. These are all the basic virtues your position requires."

"Enough, Yin Chen."

"Y-Yi-Yin Chen!!" Inner Yong Kai again. "Yin Chen, a close friend of Sun Jian, the king of the southern kingdom!?"

"You don't care about interfering with the lives of the villagers, nor do you care about the suffering of your troops. One thing you care about is forcing beautiful, sexy women to serve your Baijiu." Firmly Yin Chen. "You are just a corrupt man. You came here just to get the most votes. I'd love to say more, but it's over for you. After all the mess you made, you still can't catch a young man named Qi Ling."

"You will be put to death, Yong Kai." Honest Yin Chen. "But, for now I'm going to save your life by catching this one bad boy before the deadline comes."

"You...help me?" Yong Kai did not believe it.

"Yes. Use this opportunity to repent to the Buddha." Yin Chen replied, then went out of the temple, followed by Chou Yu who was still confused by what had happened.