This Ice Island! Because of this, there is reluctance in his heart. Even though he was always leading the way and guiding the way, in everything, down to choosing food and lodging which Kwee Lun always paid for, this young man always asked Swat Hong's opinion and decisions!
One day the two men arrived at the foot of the Tai-hang-san Mountains which were very wide and stretched from south to north. Their destination was Tian-an, the capital of the Tang Empire. In this hamlet they stopped to eat at a simple rice stall. They ordered rice, noodles and wine. Kwee Lun didn't forget to ask Swat Hong for warm water so this lady could wash her face after a hot, dusty trip. While Swat Hong was washing his face with warm water, scrubbing his face with clean water until his cheeks were rosy, he heard an interesting conversation coming from the direction of the tavern's kitchen.
"Not playing crowded!" a man's voice sounded, presumably a worker in the kitchen.
"It's much busier than seeing two martial arts experts fighting! Just imagine! The tiger roared until the earth shook, then crashed and clawed at the bear. However, the bear was no less skilled, he growled and I'm sure you yourself would peeing at the growling! He can parry with his forelegs and bite back. They claw, bite each other, first parry each other and then struggle! What a mess!"
"Ahhh, never mind. Who will believe what you say? At most you see people complain crickets and you lose another bet! Better hurry up and boil the water, the tea is almost finished."
Swat Hong rushed over to Kwee Lun and whispered, "There seem to be traces of my Suheng here!" "Ehhh...? Kwee Lun asked in surprise.
"Someone was in the kitchen earlier telling me about the match between a tiger and a bear. If I'm not mistaken, my feeling is that the bear belongs to Suheng."
"Eh? Your Suheng keeps a bear?" Kwee Lun asked even more surprised.
"I haven't told you yet, Twako. When I separated from suheng, he was treating an injured bear. Of course the bear became tame and is now his pet."
"Ouch! Your Suheng sure is great, dare to treat a bear!"
"Never mind, Twako. If one day we meet, you can get to know Suheng himself. Now I hope you can ask the worker in the kitchen about the bear he told you about earlier."
"Why don't you just call him over here? Hey, manservant!" The servant immediately approached.
"Please call the friend who was talking about bears, he works in the kitchen. Hurry up!"
The servant was surprised, but he also went inside. He soon returned with a young man who looked timid. This man is thin and wearing a chef's outfit, it seems he is a handyman or a cook's assistant at the shop.
"I... I don't know anything..." the man said as he approached the table.
Kwee Lun gesticulated impatiently. "Aahh, why are you afraid? We are only interested in hearing the story of a bear fighting a tiger. Where did this happen and how did it start?" Kwee Lun took out a piece of money and gave it to the man. "Now tell me! Don't be afraid, this is the prize."
The person received a gift. After looking left and right he said, "This morning, before going to work I accompanied my cousin to take a cart of firewood up there..." he said.

pointed outside the shop. "Up where?"
"At the Peak of the Red Clouds, where Xiangkoan Lo-enghiong lives. We both delivered firewood and saw a commotion there. Hearing terrible screams, I sneaked ahead and preceded my brother to scout. It turned out that there was an extraordinary game being held there. usual, namely fighting tigers and bears! I don't know who the bear belongs to, but I know that tiger as the pet tiger of Siangkoan Lo-enghiong which is usually kept in a cage. It's very busy and I'm very scared. Presumably at Xiangkoan Lo-enghiong's place there are guests who brought the bear"
"Who are the guests? What kind of people are they?" Swat Hong urged with tension.
But the man shook his head. "How should I know? There are a lot of Lo-enghiong's disciples up there and people like us have no connection with Red Cloud Peak. We are not allowed to go up unless there is an order from there, only occasionally Siocia or Lo's disciple." -enghiong who came down here. Seeing that very fierce match, I was scared and quickly ran down again "
Swat Hong furrowed his brows. Could it be that his suheng 'lost' got to this place?
Kwee Lun suddenly asked, "That person you call Xiangkoan Lo-enghiong, is he named Siangkoan Houw?"
“How do I know his full name?” the man shook his head, looking timid. “His nickname is Tee-tok (Earth Poison), isn't it?”
The man was even more frightened, but he nodded. "Once I heard a student talk about that nickname... please forgive Ji-wi, I still have a lot of work to do in the kitchen." She didn't wait for an answer but immediately returned to the kitchen in a frightened manner.
"Aihh, I wish Tee-tok now lives in this place!" said Kwee Luna. “Twako, who is the Earth Poison?”
"Hmm, an extraordinary person, you can say that rivals Suhu. According to the story of Suhu, it is difficult to say who is superior. He is one of the world's famous kang-ouw figures. I myself have only heard his name from Suhu. According to Suhu, he is a brave and honest person. However, unfortunately, his heart is vicious and cruel towards people he doesn't like and he is very shrewd and dangerous as a terrible poison master. Hence his nickname is Poison of the Earth. It is really unexpected that we will meet someone like him!”
"Hmm. Then you have planned to visit Red Cloud Peak, Twako?"
"Isn't that what you want? It seems very likely that the bear belonged to your Suheng, Hong-moi, because in a place where someone like Tee-tok lives, anything could happen. Of course it's very suspicious and my heart won't be satisfied if I haven't investigated there. If it turns out that your Suheng isn't there we'll go down again because I have nothing to do with Tee-tok."
Swat Hong nodded. "Alright then let's get going. For some reason, however slim the possibility is that Suheng is there, but my heart feels something strange. We have to investigate there."
After paying the price of the food, the two of them went to Red Cloud Peak, of course, followed by eyes full of astonishment and anxiety by the shop attendants who they asked where the peak was. As they approached the hill and arrived at the top slope, they saw the large building at the top that was meant to be. They didn't understand why the peak was called Red Cloud Peak, even though when they got there that afternoon, the clouds weren't red but blue and white.

as usual.
"Twako, our arrival is only to investigate whether Suheng is there. Therefore it is not good if we come to explain, it can arouse people's suspicions, even though we don't intend to find matters with that kang-ouw character, do we? Then we better split up. You investigate by turning from the left, I from the right, until we meet each other. If Suheng isn't there, and the bear isn't his, we'll immediately go back to the hamlet and just play there."
"All right, Hong-moi. That way the investigation can indeed be carried out more freely and quickly."
They continued climbing, and when they got outside the walls of the large building at the top they split up. Swat Hong who took the road from the right slipped above the trees and mountain rocks. Soon he heard someone's voice. Quickly he came over and peeked, and what he saw made him almost scream out of shock!
You can imagine her astonishment and shock when she saw her suheng, Kwa Sin Liong, shackled by both wrists and half hanging from a tree! His suheng's upper body was naked and only his pants and shoes covered his body. Sin Liong looked calm, even though his forehead was sweating. It seemed that the young man had deliberately let himself be shackled. Swat Hong was very sure that if his suheng wanted him to, how difficult would it be to free himself from such shackles? Of course something strange has happened here!
Swat Hong suppressed the anger that made him want to charge out, and he looked at the people there. Two men in uniforms, wearing strange hats, guarded behind a tree and their hands felt the handles of machetes. An old man who was tall, bearded and wide-eyed, angrily approached Sin Liong, holding a strange weapon in his right hand. Not guns, thought Swat Hong, but deer antlers that looked like they were meant to be used as weapons. What does deer antlers just like that mean to his suheng? What made him astonished was to see that his suheng was in that place and was so easily shackled and humiliated! What has happened?
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