“Adoptive parents, Grandpa. My foster father's name is Kam Si Ek...”
“Ha-ha-ha-ha, Kam Si Ek General Hou-han?”
"You know my adoptive father, Grandpa?"
The grandfather shook his head. His very thick eyebrows furrowed and twitched. Her lips were also twitching, then came the words. "Strange but True. Maybe once a Gold Flute...”
Lin Lin's heart was pounding. "What? My arch enemy is that golden flute, grandpa? Do you know where he is? If he's true, I'll invite him to compete for his life."
Instantly the grandfather looked at him as if surprised, then he chuckled while holding his stomach, bent over so hard he laughed.
Lin Lin was angry. "What is so funny? Don't laugh at me, Grandpa. It's not good to see you laugh, your teeth are yellow...!”
Instantly the old man stopped laughing. "What are you saying? My teeth are white like... like...”
“...like chalk!” said Lin Lin smiling. "Well, don't just laugh, what's so funny?"
“You want to have a match with the Golden Flute? Aha, even if you squeeze and drain your intelligence, it's not certain that you can win.”
"Not care. I will meet him. Take me to him, Grandpa, and you'll love to help me out when I lose. We have the same nose and teeth, right?"
"True, true! We are one nation, one tribe, I will help you. Watch him if he dares to disturb you!”
Happy Lin Lin. He is indebted to the Kam family, and the only way to return the favor, is to avenge the family.
“But I can't just leave my two brothers, Grandpa. They will certainly be restless and look for me everywhere.”
"If General Kam is your adoptive father, they are of course sworn brothers too, right? Why bother?"
"Oh, don't be like that, Grandpa. Even if their foster brothers are very kind to me, like their own siblings.”
"Okay, let's ride on my back, we leave a message in their room."
Lin Lin understands that grandpa is a powerful person, strange, and his attitude is still childish. Without hesitation and hesitating again, he then jumped onto the grandfather's back and in the next moment he had to hold the grandfather's shoulder tightly because his body immediately floated like flying fast!
After writing a letter to Bu Sin and Sian Eng, Lin Lin then went out of An-sui city with the old man. They were walking and talking now. Lin Lin was told to exert his intelligence, but he saw how the short geezer just strolled next to him but never left behind.
"If it crawls like a snail like this, when can it get there?" The grandfather grumbled.
"You mean up to the Golden Flute, Grandpa?"
“Where else? Aren't we looking for him? But you have to learn the science of hitting first to deal with it. Let!" The old man grabbed Lin Lin's hand and suddenly Lin Lin felt how fast he was running, twice as fast as usual.
Towards morning they stopped next to a small but very beautiful forest. Various flowers filled the forest. Spring this time has really spread to the forests and let a thousand and one kinds of flowers develop very beautifully.
“Heh-heh, it's good here. We're playing around here!” The old man was quick to twist tree roots into a rope and a few minutes later he was swinging back and forth, sitting on a piece of wood that was tied and suspended by two ropes from a tree branch. Just like a child playing on the swings.
Seeing that grandfather was playing on the swing while laughing happily, Lin Lin reprimanded, "Grandpa, he said he wanted to teach me science?"
"I'm teaching you now. You take a good look!”
Lin Lin furrowed her brows. It's too bad, this grandpa is always messing around. When will he be taught to play the swing? If only he didn't witness and prove for himself how old man could run like he was flying, had extremely fast hand movements when he borrowed his hairpin, of course he wouldn't believe that this old man was a magician. Could it be that this grandpa only has the ability to run fast and wants to make fun of him? Is he really a saint? Why is this? No shoes, wears earrings like a girl, and has a character like a child.
“Grandpa, who are you really? I don't even know your name."
"Heh-heh, I don't even know your name. What does the name mean? When we were born, we didn't have names, right?”
Lin Lin didn't want to care about that old man's weird philosophy anymore. "Grandpa, my name is Lin, sheku of course..." Lin Lin was about to say "Thurs", but the old man had already preceded him.
“...nothing because you're not she Kam. Who am I? People call me Kim-lun Seng-jin. Dash my name, huh? Heh-heh, Kim-lun is a golden wheel. Well, here it is.”
When his hand moved and suddenly he had taken out a pair of gold bracelets. Called a bracelet not a bracelet, because the middle is fitted with spokes like a wheel. The centerline is one foot. Presumably this pair of golden wheels had been hidden under the clothes. Just like when removing it earlier, once the wheel moved it was gone again. So fast like magic.
“My name is Golden Wheel, indeed life is spinning like a wheel. It's perfect, right? Heh, A-lin, have you been paying attention to this lesson?”
Lin Lin was surprised, also amused to hear her being called 'A-lin'. Grandpa's movements were very fast when he took out the pair of wheels or bracelets. But are these objects weapons? If the word is used as a weapon, it was not even played. Grandpa is swinging all the time, how can you say that he is teaching a lesson?
"Which lesson, Grandpa?"
“Heh! Your nose and teeth are fine, one hundred percent Khitan, but your brain has been infected with the stupidity of city people! Take a good look!”
Lin Lin took a good look. Only now did he realize that the grandfather was not just swinging. His body didn't seem to move at all, his legs weren't used to swing, but the rope kept swinging as if someone was pushing it. Strangely, sometimes the swing stops in the middle of the road, either swinging backwards or swinging forwards. Sitting on a swing can stop the swing movement, this is great, just like playing magic.
"Well, have you seen now? To be able to swing like this, you must have the Knowledge of Khong-in-ban-kin (Empty Clouds of a Kati). Even though it is empty, it contains energy like kati, even though it is heavy and strong, but it is empty. The essence of this lesson can one day make your body light or heavy according to what you like, and flying is no longer an empty daydream.”
Lin Lin began to accept the gong from the strange grandfather. Kim-lun Seng-jin is a magician who rarely appears in Kang-ouw's world, always hiding and doesn't like looking for things. He's a strange person, always moving on his own, not wanting to be bound by associations or by the state. His sudden appearance, however, always leaves a deep impression on the kang-ouw characters. Even though no one could predict how deep this grandfather's knowledge was because he never wanted to get involved in fights and fights, they still believed that this grandfather was not to be trifled with. Not even Thian-te Liok-koai, the Six Evils or the Six World Devils themselves dared to make fun of Kim-lun Seng-jin.
At that time, the world of kang-ouw only knew Thian-te Liok-koai and the leaders of the major martial arts parties as figures with supernatural powers. Lately, Suling Emas has emerged as the youngest magical character. But this gold flute is full of secrets and it is rare for a gold flute to show itself. His situation is full of secrets, and he can be compared to other strange people, namely Kim-lun Seng-jin, Bukek Siansu, and another strange person known only as Empek Gan! Of course Bukek Siansu is at the highest level, not only because of his age, but also because there has never been heard of a character who has more supernatural powers than this grandfather.
Lin Lin can be considered lucky to be able to attract Kim-lun Seng-jin's heart because this weird magic grandfather has never wanted to accept students. With great zeal this girl received training in the great lightening technique, namely Khong-in-ban-kin who was also an extraordinary lweekang. Apart from this, this strange grandfather also passed down a martial art called Khong-in-liu-san (Empty Cloud Enclosing the Mountain).
Kim-lun Seng-jin seems to be afraid of meeting people. He took Lin Lin to wander into the mountains and forests, sometimes they practiced by the very quiet river. It's weird for these two people, a teenage girl and an old man, they argue every day, but Lin Lin always makes the old man give in because it's this girl who can please him with her lively character and especially can please his stomach with delicious food. Lin Lin was very good at capturing the old man's heart by roasting delicious forest beast meat. From this grandfather he also knew many powerful figures in the world of martial arts.
It turns out that Kim-lun Seng-jin is very knowledgeable in the world of kang-ouw. He knew all the characters, in fact he also knew Lin Lin's father. Lin Lin asked several times about his father, and it was only when Lin Lin roasted the deliciously smelling rabbit meat that grandpa fulfilled the answer to this question.
“Kam-goanswe? Heh, your adoptive father was a hard hearted, honest and loyal true warrior. His honesty and loyalty plus his hardness of heart is what makes people look up to him, his intelligence is meaningless. However, he once shocked the world of kang-ouw when he managed to steal the heart of Liu Lu Sian, a powerful girl nicknamed Tok-siauw-kwi (Poisonous Beautiful Devil).”
"Then what, Grandpa?" asked Lin Lin who could guess that this Tok-siauw-kwi Liu Lu Sian must be Bu Song's mother who Kui Lan Nikouw called a woman from the black group and had been divorced from her adoptive father.
"Somehow next I do not hear anymore. However, their marriage was a shock. This beautiful devil is the daughter of a very powerful Beng-kauw Religious Head, a very influential person and still has family ties with the kings in Nan-cao (West Yunan). Liu Gan, this divine being, disapproved of his daughter marrying your godfather, but because Liu Lu Sian was so stubborn and reckless, the old man couldn't do anything either. However, I heard that the relationship between this father and daughter was broken. What's next."
Lin Lin knows next. Liu Lu Cyan gave birth to a son, named Kam Bu Song and whom he is currently looking for, and Liu Lu Sian was divorced from his adoptive father.
"Where are Liu Lu Sian and his father named Liu Gan now, grandpa?"
“Hey, how would I know? Wasn't Liu Lu Cyan your adoptive mother?”
"No. He has been divorced for a long time, leaving a son who is now also gone somewhere else. If there's someone who really hates Dad, it's Liu Gan, Grandpa. Where is he now?"
"I do not know? He is a very high position. Then he disappeared, never to be heard from again. I also have no relationship with him, nor do I want to investigate. He's a... ummm, a black person, I'm afraid my hands will turn black too if I come into contact with him.”
The meat is already done. Kim-lun Seng-jin swallowed his saliva and greedily grabbed the meat of the rabbit thigh that Lin Lin had been cradling hotly.
“Wow, you're great! I wonder, why if I'm the one grilling it can't be this delicious and tasty? Your hands are amazing!” he said while enjoying the hot meat.
Lin Lin smiled. It wasn't her hands that made the meat delicious and tasty, but salt and seasonings, especially fragrant leaves and cinnamon that she found in the forest, which she used as seasonings. Presumably this grandfather who is good at eating is not good at cooking, blind to the secrets of cooking spices.
"I've cooked delicious for you, but what's your reply?"
"Ihhh, don't I train you every day with those sciences?"
"All Khong-in (Empty Cloud) Knowledge, it seems also useless. What does it mean to use it against my arch enemy, the Golden Flute?”
The old man poked, but still gnawed at the flesh, “You look down on it, don't you? Let me see, if the Golden Flute is able to catch you, I dare to bet my two eyes! Don't you mess around, bad boy. With Khong-in-ban-kin already perfectly trained, so It-gan Kai-ong won't be able to chase you, you know?"
“So, I will only be able to run away? You trained me to run to save myself if I met a holy person?”
“Heh, do you think it's unnecessary? That's the most important, save yourself first. What does it mean to be good at hitting people if in the end we also get beaten to death? Khong-in-liu-san's punching skills, don't take it lightly. By learning this, now your intelligence has multiplied ten times than before, you know?”
Of course Lin Lin didn't believe in this, but she was also secretly happy. “Do you think I can fight the Gold Flute now?”
Kim-lun Seng-jin widened his eyes with raised eyebrows. “Nice talk! Fighting all kinds of baddies is still fine, but facing him? What kind of person do you think the Golden Flute is?”
"What kind of person is he? How clever is he?”
"He's an ordinary person, but his intelligence is great. Hard to hold the tail. He's a person who, like me, doesn't want to be close to crowds. Always work quietly in secret. I myself only know him as Flute Gold, a very shrewd young man, but no one really knows who he is. I don't know where he came from, only the world has known him for the past seven eight years."
"Why do you think that maybe he killed my foster parents, Grandpa?"
“A person like him can do anything. In short, it wouldn't be surprising if you heard one day that Flute Gold killed the Emperor, or killed the head of the Kun-lun-pai. His lunge can not be followed by people. Maybe your parents were killed because there was something wrong with them, maybe it was because of your father's attitude towards the kingdom, or because of other matters, who knows?"
“Grandpa is he really that shrewd?”
"He's great."
“You are afraid of the Golden Flute?”
The old man poked again, the rabbit's bones which were no longer fleshy were bitten broken and the marrow sucked. "Afraid of what? Kim-lun Seng-jin has never known fear.”
"Then you dare to fight him? Who are you and him more shrewd, Grandpa? Can you win him?”
The old man sat back down, took a deep breath. “Don't think you can pit me against the Golden Flute. Of course if he bothers you, I will step in. But I can't be sure if I will win. At any rate, I want to try his wits right now.”
Lin Lin's heart is happy. "Then let's quickly look for it in the king's city, Grandpa. You said he was there, right?"
“About that. But people like him are difficult to follow his shadow. We'll see, in the city of the king we can find information about him. You'd better practice that punch again."
Thus, while traveling to find the gold flute, Lin Lin was continuously trained in martial arts by Kim-lun Seng-jin and without realizing it himself, Lin Lin's intelligence was increasing rapidly. This girl was completely unaware that Kim-lun Seng-jin deliberately took a detour, through the mountains and forests so that the time they used to reach the king's city was five times longer, the journey became very far and difficult. This old man did this on purpose because he wanted to see Lin Lin train until he was mature in martial arts so that Lin Lin's safety could be maintained. Often times, when they were sleeping in the forest, the old man would sit and stare at Lin Lin's face for hours on end. The old man took a deep breath and shook his head. “Similar really... similar really...”
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Let's leave Lin Lin who is traveling with Kim-lun Seng-jin and let's see how Bu Sin and Sian Eng are. The siblings also quickly leave An-sui, heading to the king's city to find their older brother whom they have never seen, a person named Kam Bu Song.
The two of them had traveled quickly, but now their excitement on the journey had diminished considerably now that Lin Lin was not near them. In fact, both of them were a little gloomy in their faces, because even though Lin Lin was only a foster sister, they still loved her very much. In particular, Bu Sin always frowned.
He was the eldest brother and he was the one who felt responsible for Lin Lin's safety. Now the girl has gone without knowing where. If something goes wrong, isn't he the one responsible and he is also the one to be blamed later, both by his half-brother, Kam Bu Song, and also by his teacher's aunt, Kui Lan Nikouw. However, remembering the sound of the letter that Lin Lin left in the inn room, and remembering the Hou-han husband and wife's message stating that Kim-lun Seng-jin was a divine being, his heart became somewhat relieved.
The royal city of the Sung Kingdom is not far away and by traveling quickly, in just a week Bu Sin and Sian Eng have entered the royal city. When he was still living with his father in the Cin-ling-san Mountains in Ting-chun village before his father died, former General Kam often told stories to his three children about the state of the king's city which was very lively and beautiful. Indeed, in the past, even though General Kam Si Ek served in Shan-si, he was a government official of the Sung Kingdom because at that time the Hou-han Kingdom had not yet risen and the Shan-si region was still part of the Sung region.
Having heard about this king's city, when they entered the king's city, Bu Sin and his sister felt excited and amazed, but not surprised like the villagers who were entering the big king's city for the first time in their lives. The two of them looked for an inn, then they started with their investigation, asking around about a young man named Bu Song, she Liu. Bu Sin and her sister still remember the story of their teacher's aunt how Bu Song once took the exam in this king's city by using she Liu, that is, her mother's she.
The first person they asked was a literature teacher who opened a school for prospective exam takers, a man over sixty. Indeed, Bu Sin was always careful and she was very clever and good at finding information. There was no one more apt to be questioned about an examinee a dozen years ago in the king's city than an old literature teacher.
However the literature teacher shook his head and frowned. “Really sorry I don't remember all those names anymore. There are hundreds of people she Liu, and since fourteen years until now, who knows how many thousands of students have taken the exams.”
Bu Sin and Sian Eng looked disappointed and very sorry. In fact, Sian Eng almost cried when he remembered how their journey was not only in vain, they also lost Lin Lin. Looking for a brother can not be found, now even lost a sister. Hearing this old teacher's answer, it seemed that it was impossible to find someone who was in this king's city and took the exam fourteen years ago!
When they were about to give up, the old teacher said comfortingly, “There is still one way to find that person. Fourteen years ago, the head of the exam was Prince Suma Kong who now lives in An-sui city. You guys just try to go to him and ask for his help, because I think the prince has a record of the examinees and who knows he will be able to provide information on Liu Bu Song's whereabouts.”
The brothers' faces changed and they glanced at each other when they heard these words. Prince Suma in An-sui? That was the family whose building they went to, and it was also there that Lin Lin disappeared. There were even It-gan Kai-ong and a shrewd young man they heard called Suma-kongcu. As this thought made them feel confused and tense, Bu Sin immediately thanked them and excused herself.
After leaving the teacher's grandfather's house, Bu Sin took a deep breath. “Should we go to that house? Such a dangerous place, what if those who are there, especially It-gan Kai-ong, know us? Isn't that the same as entering the dragon and tiger cave?”
“Sin-ko, with them we have no enmity. If Prince Suma is the only person who can help us, why are we hesitating? We better try, who knows if the old prince understands where Brother Bu Song is. If not ask him, who else? That grandpa teacher alone can't help us, what else can anyone else?”
"With Prince Suma's family, we really don't have any animosity, but you have to remember It-gan Kai-ong who was there. We used to fight with beggars.”
“Hasn't he forgiven us after being given silver money by Lin Lin? If he really had bad intentions, I think he would have intervened a long time ago.”
Finally Bu Sin made up her mind and said, “Okay, let's go to An-sui, ask Prince Suma Kong for help. Whatever happens, we must face it because it is our obligation to fulfill Father's last message to find Bu Song's sister. Come, Eng-moi, let us return to An-sui."
They spent only one night in the king's city and the next day, they made their way back to An-sui quickly. Arriving in An-sui a few days later in the afternoon, the two of them headed straight for the building they had known one night, entering the large courtyard. Their hearts were pounding with tension when the servant they had asked to report to Prince Suma that they both asked to face, entered the large front door.
Finally the door opened and what a shock and tense their hearts. What emerged was not an old prince, but a tall and handsome young man with an aquiline nose and sharp eyes like an owl. This was the young man they saw that night, Suma-kongcu or Suma Boan! Moreover, Sian Eng was thrilled when he saw the young man's pair of eyes looking at him as if he was about to swallow him whole and the mouth that was imagining that cunning was smiling.
Behind this young man came out dozens of tall men and with one look you could guess that they were bodyguards because their clothes were uniform. Suma-kongcu signaled and dozens of bodyguards went back inside, then the young man returned the respect of his two guests by juggling and saying.
"According to the report of the maid, Miss and brother are going to face Prince Suma. It just so happened that Dad was taking a nap, but if you have business, you can talk to me about Ji-wi (you guys), because all of your business has been delegated to me. Is there a need for Ji-wi to come to see Father?”
Because for Bu Sin it was the same, both Prince Suma and his son provided they could provide information about his older brother, so he immediately said respectfully. "Forgive us if we disturb your precious time, Suma-kongcu. We come to ask Prince Suma with the intention of asking for help, because for our business, only Prince Suma can help."