The Legend of Zhu San
003: Becoming a Student
“Grandfather Who is this grandfather? And why did Grandpa have to fight to be injured this badly?”
The fifteen-year-old asked after he gave each of them a Bamboo Roof filled with drinking water to the two Grandfathers.
Then he sat down between the two grandfathers who occasionally coughed due to choking on the water they drank in a hurry.
“Tua Bangka Keriput, you're the one who told me, I'm not good at stringing words like you.”
Lin Kai said to Fu Kuan while wiping the slightly dripping water at the corner of his lips.
Fu Kuan let out a long sigh before he he began to explain who the two of them were.
“Young man, my name is Fu Kuan, I am known in the martial world of Liu Empire as the Swordsman of the Stars. While Old Grandpa Peot who was there, named Lin Kai. He is known as the Swordsman of the Blue Cloud.”
Fu Kuan then told me that the two of them fought not because they had problems or personal grudges.
The two of them agreed to fight to determine who was stronger and become the Number One Champion in the martial world of Liu Empire.
Although they are both different streams, but both do not want to interfere with each other's affairs.
Until a news was heard by Fu Kuan from his student that Lin Kai challenged him to a fight to determine who was the strongest among the two of them.
“Not you challenging me to fight and wanting to determine who is the strongest among us?”
Lin Kai's voice interrupted Fu Kuan's words, making Fu Kuan's face look annoyed.
The two of them had been arguing about it for a few minutes, before finally starting the fight with their minds filled with the question of who spread the news.
“Is it true you didn't challenge me Old Bangka peot? Then where did my disciple Chen Hu get the news from?”
The handsome young man whose face was bruised looked confused hearing the debate of the two Grandpa beside him.
While Dahi Fu Kuan was frowning, he was pensive as he recalled that he had not inquired in advance, the truth of the contents of the letter he had received from a man wearing the uniform of the Red Star Sect, who was wearing a Red Star Sect, it was led by Chen Hu, his first disciple.
That was because he saw the seal of the sect that was in the letter was the stamp that he made himself when thirty years ago founded the sect.
He gasped when he realized there was a possibility of a third party wanting to take advantage of their fight.
“Tua Bangka Peot, where did you get the news if I challenged you to a duel?”
Lin Kai turned his head towards Fu Kuan who asked in a softer tone of voice than before.
“I received a letter brought by a messenger from Nobles Wu Lei. The letter I received was a letter from my disciple Wu Ming, He said in his letter that You will come to the Devil Valley to challenge me to a duel to determine who is the Number One Champion in the Martial World Liu.”
Lin Kai later recounted that prior to his seclusion in the Demon Valley, ten years ago he had become Master Wu Ming, Wu Lei's first son.
Wu Lei was a great and famous noble who unofficially led Wuchang City. One of the seven Great Cities of the Liu Empire.
It was called so because in every city that was part of the Liu Empire, it was actually led by a Governor, not by a Noble.
“So so apparently, Grandpa Lin Kai also got the same letter as Grandpa Fu Kuan. Looks like there's another party that wants to pit Grandpa both and take advantage with the death of one or two in that fight.”
The words of the young man who helped them, made Fu Kuan and Lin Kai look at him with astonished faces, especially Fu Kuan who had previously thought the same thing.
“Smart young man, he lost his memory, but could deduce the same thing as me.. It seems that he is not from an ordinary family. Who he really is.”
Fu Kuan spoke in his own mind as he stared fixedly at the young man's face.
He smiled as he flashed a memory in his mind, a nobleman who had a resemblance of face and a smile with this young man before him.
Unfortunately he did not manage to remember the name of the noble, as he saw it at a feast held in the Palace attended by all the nobles present in Liu Empire.
It happened a year before he decided to seclude himself and create new, more powerful techniques to create the sect he founded thirty years ago, become a bigger and stronger sect.
Fu Kuan's desire grew stronger to make the Youth he did not know his name as his third disciple.
As the Number One Champion of the Black Stream, of course he could not accept this. Even though the words of the young man have not been proven to be true, but he believes that it is true.
It's just that who they are and what their purpose is with all of it, is still a mystery to be investigated.
However with his condition being injured in this severity, it was impossible for him to do so.
Seeing the young man who helped her was very smart, he said, he hoped that the young man could inherit all the techniques and techniques he possessed by making him the second disciple after Wu Ming whom he judged had failed to inherit the high-level martial techniques he possessed.
“Child, what if you become my second student? I will teach you all of my greatest techniques and techniques that are unmatched in this Liu Empire.”
“White! … What's the greatest move, Young man you're my only student, I'll teach you the highest skill I have, how?”
Fu Kuan, who was upset that his intentions were preceded by Lin Kai, immediately offered the same thing and did not care about Lin kai whose eyes were bulging with anger at him.
The two began to argue again, and stopped immediately when they saw the young man standing up. The hearts of the two strongest heroes in their respective streams, suddenly thumped at him.
“Grandpa Lin and Grandpa Fu, stop fighting. I don't want to be anyone's student if Grandpa's both still like that. I better get out of here, than every day to see Grandpa's pointless quarrel.”
The young man spoke without seeing Lin Kai or Fu Kuan which made the two gulp down hearing him.
Without them knowing that in his heart, the young man was laughing seeing the two of them speechless.
Lin Kai and Fu Kuan apologized to the young man who was still standing in their midst. They promised not to fight in front of him again.
The two breathed a sigh of relief as the young man who could not remember his name, turned around and smiled at them.
“Grandfather Fu, Grandpa Lin if so I am willing to become Grandpa's disciple both. What if Grandpa both sat side by side to accept my prostration?”
The two old heroes immediately shuffled their still-painful and weak bodies before the young man.
Both seem to try to be in front of the young man because of the joy of the young man's willingness to be their students.
“Grandfather Fu, it seems like Grandpa is Older than Grandpa Lin, therefore I will call Grandpa Fu As the first Master, and Grandpa Lin as the Second Teacher, how?”
The young man asked after he sat down before the two old heroes who had now sat side by side with faces that looked joyful.
“Of course we agree!”
The two said almost simultaneously and looked at each other for a moment before finally smiling and looking back at the young man.
The young man immediately kowtowed three times to Fu Kuan and Lin Kai. When they finished, the two looked awkward, as they were about to call out the young man's name.
“Tua Bangka Peot, since you were his first Master, what if you gave him the name?”
“Can't be so old Grandpa Wrinkles, he has become a disciple of both of us now, what if I give him a first name and you give him a last name?”
Lin Kai nodded his head, as a sign that he agreed to it.
Fu Kuan seemed to be trying to recall the name of the noble whose face resembled the face of the young man who had just officially become his disciple.
“Young man, since from this second you are a student of both of us. Since you haven't got a name yet, as your teacher we'll give you a name, your first name is Zhu and your last name is ..”
“... San, your name does not follow the surname of your father or mother. How, do you like the name we gave you?”
Lin Kai continued Fu Kuan's words by mentioning the second name for the young man.
“ Thank you First Teacher, Second Teacher, of course Students love it. And from today, the disciple will be named Zhu San.”
The Second Hand of Grandfather immediately rubbed Zhu San's head and a moment later they gasped and sat down with wide bulging eyes.
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