Chapter 18: Competition
Chen Qing frowned slightly and asked puzzledly, "What's so special about the Li family guards?"
Cheng Ming patiently explained from the side, "You don't understand this. Our Gaolin County has five major prominent families: Huang, Han, Li, Zhu, and Luo. These five great families have very high requirements for selecting guards, requiring at least obvious strength cultivation."
"Oh?"
Chen Qing was somewhat surprised. He well knew that in ordinary wealthy households, martial artists with obvious strength were sufficient to serve as head guards. He hadn't expected that in the five great families, they could only be ordinary guards.
On second thought, this was quite reasonable.
The five great families of Gaolin County almost monopolized the county's main businesses of rice, flour, grain, oil, cloth, and tea leaves. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they controlled the entire county's economic lifeline.
In the eyes of local people, these five great families were veritable local emperors.
Cheng Ming continued, "Zhu Ming's Severing Sea Boxing skills are indeed not bad, but he's still far from achieving mastery."
Achieving mastery in boxing techniques wasn't easy, requiring not only extremely high comprehension but also time.