Chapter 298: Xu Green Tea

"Help, Huì Zhǎng Dà Rén!"

"I'm just an ordinary person who came with my junior sister to take the Liàn Dān Shī badge exam."

"But as soon as we arrived at Dān Tǎ, someone tried to forcibly take her away. The world has gone downhill, so full of heartlessness and coldness... Cough,"

"Cough, cough!"

A sneeze—

Xu Xiǎoshòu choked on his own words and immediately twisted his nose to blow it, wiping it off casually.

Shī Ti: ???

This was his most cherished Liàn Dān Shī guild master's robe! And this guy...

Used it to wipe his nose?

"Under suspicion, passive value, 1."

What the hell happened here? And who is this character? You can talk, but do you have to cling to my leg like that?

Shī Ti instinctively tried to kick him away, but a strange force rebounded from the young man.

It felt like his leg had been slashed with a knife, painfully unbearable.

"Hiss!"

Shī Ti's face turned pale as he quickly enveloped himself with Líng Yuán.

Is this guy some kind of hedgehog?

"Let go!"

Xu Xiǎoshòu ignored him completely. After blowing his nose, he pointed at Fù Xīng behind Shī Ti and continued crying, "It's him, right there!"

"He's bullying people with his status, not only eyeing my junior sister but also attacking others."

"He hit me with 'Zǐ Lóng Yìn'! Do you know how much that hurts?"

"I saw he was from a powerful background, so I didn't even dare fight back. I just took his punch, and I... I..."

"Pfft!"

Xu Xiǎoshòu spat out a mouthful of blood, but halfway through, the injuries shaken loose inside him were healed by "Shēng Shēng Bù Xī."

He abruptly stopped speaking.

Damn thing, why won't you cooperate? Don't heal so effectively right now!

Fù Xīng's face turned iron blue. What about the damage from Zǐ Lóng Yìn? I ended up taking all of it myself, so how much could you have hurt?

It was me who got hurt!

He wanted to speak, but Xu Xiǎoshòu pointed at him and cut in, "You tell the truth! Answer honestly—is what I said real?"

Fù Xīng was about to shake his head, but Xu Xiǎoshòu pressed on, "Say it: Did you eye my junior sister?"

"Under curse, passive value, 1, 1, 1, 1..."

"I didn't..."

Fù Xīng's words were cut short as Xu Xiǎoshòu burst into tears again, "Oh, so you think it but won't admit it, you coward."

"I'll skip that question. Next one: Answer honestly—did you hit me with a punch?"

Shī Ti turned his head and looked at Fù Xīng.

Fù Xīng sighed up at the sky, thinking, It really is like this.

In front of this guy, I can't get a word in edgewise, can I?

He reluctantly nodded. It was the truth, nothing to deny.

Even if he wanted to lie, there were so many people around watching; not everyone was blind.

Not everyone is loyal to the city lord's mansion without a shred of justice.

Even if they all wanted to defend me, Fù Dà Gōng Zǐ, my sense of justice wouldn't allow me to lie or deny the facts!

"See!"

Xu Xiǎoshòu tightened his hold on Shī Ti and looked up at the old man with a face full of grievance.

"He hit me, and I didn't even dare fight back..."

At that, he turned back to the crowd, "Did I fight back?"

Shī Ti looked at the onlookers.

The crowd all shook their heads.

Is everything this kid said actually true?

Shī Ti was stunned.

"Under suspicion, passive value, 1."

He stopped struggling and said slowly to the young man below him, "You say you didn't strike back, and Fù Xīng only hit you once, so how did all this happen?"

Shī Ti pointed to the huge hole in the ceiling, his eyes filling with anger again.

No sooner had he spoken than another small stone slab fell, followed by a charred Dān Dǐng.

The crowd: "..."

"This has nothing to do with me."

Xu Xiǎoshòu dropped his mournful act, clapped his hands, and stood up.

Seeing that the old man could speak and wasn't the type to twist the truth just because of Fù Dà Gōng Zǐ's surname, Xu Xiǎoshòu didn't need to keep up the performance.

He turned to Fù Xīng.

"Shouldn't you be the one answering this? Why did you fly off after hitting me?"

Fù Xīng: ???

He couldn't stand it anymore and said darkly, "This is what I want to ask you—why did I fly off after hitting you?"

"You're blaming me for your own flight?"

Xu Xiǎoshòu glared, annoyed. "What's the logic here?"

"If your kitchen knife can't chop through something, do you blame the thing for being too tough?"

"If you want to blame anything, blame your crappy knife!"

"Where's your knife?"

Xu Xiǎoshòu shifted his tone, leaving everyone baffled.

The next second, he sighed, "Oh, you don't have a knife anymore; you've only got vegetables..."

"Vegetables, and you're blaming me?"

"Being weak is the original sin! If you can't hit your opponent, just train harder instead of asking me why you flew away."

"Who am I supposed to ask?"

The scene fell silent.

"Pfft!"

Finally, someone couldn't hold back and burst out laughing, which set off a chain reaction of chuckles.

People whispered among themselves, all wide-eyed with amazement.

"Wow, who is this guy? He tears people down with such sharp words—I'm impressed!"

"Has he lost his mind? Doesn't he know he's facing the city lord's mansion's young master? That's bold as hell!"

"Shh, I watched the whole thing... He knows exactly what's going on; he's just got a mouth that won't stop."

"My goodness, it's a bit brash, but it sounds so satisfying!"

"Yeah, I'm tired of these privileged young masters. They can't handle someone and then complain about why they flew away?"

"What did you say?!"

"Hah, are you on Fù Gōng Zǐ's side? Today, I'm backing this young guy!"

Fù Xīng's face turned purple, like it was covered in eggplant skin.

At first, he hadn't fully processed Xu Xiǎoshòu's words, but with the crowd's comments, he nearly wanted to crawl into a hole.

"Weak..."

"Yeah, he makes a good point. If I couldn't hit him, it's my fault—why ask extra questions?"

Fù Xīng felt the world darkening around him.

Shī Ti could see that Fù Dà Gōng Zǐ was deeply affected. He himself was shocked by the young man's quick tongue.

After that speech, even Shī Ti started feeling like Xu Xiǎoshòu was the victim.

But thinking about Fù Xīng's arm that was almost crippled, and seeing how unharmed this guy was...

Dān Tǎ had been pierced through—how could this kid have no responsibility?

"Don't you know the rules of the Liàn Dān Shī Association? How dare you fight inside Dān Tǎ? Who gave you the courage!"

He made one last effort to argue.

"Courage..."

Xu Xiǎoshòu tilted his head and, under the guards' horrified gazes, pointed at him. "He gave it."

The guard slumped to the ground.

Xu Xiǎoshòu said calmly, "Who would dare act after knowing Fù Dà Gōng Zǐ's identity?"

"I wouldn't dare; I'm just a lowly commoner... I just wanted to play a little game to flirt and let him vent his inner frustrations."

"But they..."

Xu Xiǎoshòu covered his face again, his voice turning tearful and dramatic:

"They guaranteed that fighting one punch in Dān Tǎ was okay, and one of them actually punched me..."

"I—I didn't even fight back! I'm just the one who got hit!"

"Why, why are you all questioning me?"

"I'm the victim here... Wū wū..."