Chapter 1609: Mr. Zhu

Following the fat man into the backyard, Zhao Tiezhu saw an old man.

The old man had white hair and beard, and looked very energetic. When Zhao Tiezhu first saw him, the old man was practicing Tai Chi. His movements were gentle and slow, but there was no lack of tension. It can be seen that his Tai Chi skills were not shallow.

The fat man just stood by with Zhao Tiezhu and watched the old man practicing. The old man seemed to have not seen them at all. He practiced on his own. He kept practicing for half an hour, and then he stopped with a beautiful hand-holding posture.

At this time, the fat man took Zhao Tiezhu forward and said, "Boss, Zhao Tiezhu is here!"

"Oh!" The old man nodded, looked at Zhao Tiezhu, and showed an ambiguous smile on his face, saying, "Tiezhu, right? Hello!"

"This... Hello!" Zhao Tiezhu was terrified by the old man's ambiguous smile and shrank slightly.

"Hahaha, don't be afraid! I won't eat you!" said the old man, "Is this your first time in the palace?"

"Yes!" Zhao Tiezhu nodded.

"Well, then do you know what you should call me?" the old man asked again.

Zhao Tiezhu shook his head decisively.

"In the palace, everyone calls me Zhu Lao when they see me." The old man said with a smile, "You can either call me the boss or Zhu Lao."

"Hello, Zhu Lao!" Zhao Tiezhu bowed respectfully.

"Well, polite." Zhu Lao smiled, "The leader of the second group is as old as me, but he is very smart. You can call him Hou Lao."

"Hou Lao?" Zhao Tiezhu's face was a little weird.

"The leader of the first group has a long face all day long. You can call him Ma Lao!" Zhu Lao continued.

"Ma Lao? Pig, monkey, horse? Are you going to the West to obtain scriptures?" Zhao Tiezhu laughed in his heart.

"We are not going to the West to seek Buddhist scriptures." Zhu Lao said with a smile, "Our division of labor is different."

"Oh my god, does this guy have the ability to read minds?" Zhao Tiezhu looked at Zhu Lao in surprise.

"We don't have the ability to read minds!" Zhu Lao said to himself, "The main research direction of our three groups is human psychological emotions and expressions! Simply put, we are responsible for taking advantage of the situation, one group is responsible for attacking, and the second group is responsible for defense."

"This... I'm a little confused." Zhao Tiezhu was confused by what Zhu Lao said.

"Every time the Special Operations Department goes out to perform a mission, it is often three groups together." Zhu Lao said, "People in one group are responsible for attacking the place, and people in the second group are responsible for guarding. Our three groups are generally responsible for the final interrogation, or arranging tactics in advance according to the enemy's personality characteristics."

"Oh!" Zhao Tiezhu nodded. These three groups are like the human body. One group is the feet that can kick out, the second group is the fist that can protect the body, and the third group is the brain, responsible for analyzing intelligence.

"The people in our three groups are all very smart!" Zhu continued, "However, every ruler has its own strengths. Although the people in our three groups are smart, they lack martial arts skills. Did you meet the people in the other two groups just now?"

"Yes!" Zhao Tiezhu said.

"Do they look down on you?" Zhu asked.

"Well... a little!" Zhao Tiezhu nodded.

"Hmph, those violent elements have always been violent. In their eyes, we who use our brains are weak and powerless. It's okay outside, where they need to use our intelligence analysis, or when interrogating people, they also need to use our micro-expressions, but in the palace, those people's tails are up to the sky!" Zhu said, "This is why I asked Zhao to let you join our three groups!"

"Ah?" Zhao Tiezhu looked at Zhu in confusion.

"I know your fist and foot skills are not weak, even very strong."

"Fortunately, it's okay!" Zhao Tiezhu said modestly.

Old Zhao narrowed his eyes slightly, and suddenly he moved directly. His right foot drew a half arc forward, and then he stretched out a hand and grabbed Zhao Tiezhu's arm. Zhao Tiezhu didn't check for a moment, and was grabbed by Old Zhu. Then Old Zhu grabbed Zhao Tiezhu's arm and pulled him towards him. Zhao Tiezhu tried hard to stop Old Zhu, but a huge force suddenly broke out from Old Zhu's hand. Zhao Tiezhu didn't expect Old Zhu to have such great strength, and was directly pulled over by Old Zhu. When Zhao Tiezhu's strength broke out, he wanted to pull his hand back, but he didn't expect Old Zhu's hand to push Zhao Tiezhu out again at the moment when Zhao Tiezhu's strength broke out.

At this moment, Zhao Tiezhu was depressed, because this push just happened to mix with the force of Zhao Tiezhu pulling his hand outward, and it was as if he pushed himself outward. While taking advantage of this huge force to move outward, Zhu Lao suddenly tilted the foot that was paddling out to the side, and the knee just hit Zhao Tiezhu's thigh. Then Zhu Lao pulled Zhao Tiezhu to the side, and Zhao Tiezhu's upper body suddenly lost balance. Because his thigh was pushed by Zhu Lao, Zhao Tiezhu fell to the ground beside him.

Even if the fall was real, it probably wouldn't hurt much, but Zhao Tiezhu's face couldn't get over it! When he completely lost his balance, Zhao Tiezhu exerted force on his hand and pulled Zhu Lao towards him. Although Zhu Lao was strong, he was old after all, and Zhao Tiezhu was even stronger. Zhu Lao's body lost its balance after being pulled by Zhao Tiezhu, but Zhu Lao's reaction was very fast. He moved his other foot to the side and stepped on the ground with a bang, making a muffled sound.

Zhao Tiezhu looked at the sky helplessly and swayed for a while, then he fell to the ground.

The whole person fell to the ground completely.

This was the first time that Zhao Tiezhu fell so thoroughly in such a long time.

Zhao Tiezhu was stunned!

Although Zhu Lao was suspected of sneak attack, and Zhao Tiezhu did not use his own ability, Zhao Tiezhu was really thrown to the ground by someone in a few moves. This is the so-called routine.

Zhao Tiezhu felt that his tactics were very powerful, especially from the book his great-grandmother gave him, Zhao Tiezhu learned a lot, so Zhao Tiezhu didn't take ordinary people seriously at all. Unexpectedly, he suffered a loss at the hands of Zhu Lao as soon as they met, and Zhu Lao's tactics were obviously better than Zhao Tiezhu's!

"Alas, I'm old, and my reaction is slow. I almost got pulled down by you." Zhu Lao smiled and shook his head, stretched out his hand to Zhao Tiezhu who was lying on the ground, and said, "Young man, very good."