Chapter 69 (1/2)

Ling Xiao huffed and panted; as he lowered his head by chance, he saw that his palms had a faint sheen of red that was actually blood! He could not help but receive a shock, inwardly scolding himself for dealing out such a heavy hand towards his son.

Both Chu Ting’er and Ling Ran had their eyes filled with unshed tears, and pounced forward at this time, cradling Ling Tian in their bosoms. This darling of theirs was screaming out, and seeing how Ling Tian’s b.u.t.tocks were intermingled with blood, both women could not help but start tearing. They simultaneously focused their glares at Ling Xiao.

Ling Ran did not even bother with manners, and immediately started berating, ”Brother, you are unreasonable! Tian’er is just a little child, is there a need to hit him so hard? What can a child of his age know? The top beam is not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.[1] Even if he did anything wrong, why should you vent your frustrations on him?” When she thought of how she finally got a chance to visit her parents, she hurriedly ran over to play with her long missed nephew. Who would have known that this would result in Ling Tian getting a severe beating!

Hearing such words, Chu Ting’er seemed to have turned red with embarra.s.sment. She immediately carried her child and ran inside the room, ordering the servants to bring ointment as well as clean bandages over.

Ling Xiao turned around in embarra.s.sment. Although his heart was full of regrets, he still did not wish to put himself down to admit his wrongdoings. Furthermore, what Ling Xiao was angry about in actuality was not about the fiasco created by Ling Tian. For such a small kid, even if he clowned around, what about it? What could actually happen? What really blew Ling Xiao’s top was that with so many people seeing his son acting so wretchedly, it was impossible for him to hide it.

Ling Xiao could imagine that this matter would travel through the entire capital and provinces in the next few days, and he would most likely end up as a laughingstock in the entire imperial court. The Ling’s Young n.o.ble who was a silkpants was most a.s.suredly going to resound throughout!

Ling Kong and son, rejoicing in the misfortune, only offered a few conciliatory phrases to Ling Xiao before leaving in a joyful mood. Right now, it was no longer suitable for them to continue staying any longer.

Ling Xiao turned around, carrying a black face, and came face to face with a bunch of giggling Blood Iron Warriors. Because of frequently mixing around with them, they had Long become brothers in arms. Seeing their bedraggled looks, he could not help but lift up a brow and ask, ”What are you all doing? Why do you all look so worn out?”

The crowd in question turned silent, no one had forgotten those steely words that Ling Tian had spoken that day: ”No one should even think about revealing my matters to others!”

After a while, Ling Xiao’s face was growing all the more black, and his eyes looked akin to a storm brewing. ”To think even his subordinates were not bothering to answer his question?”

Seeing that the situation was not going well, Feng Mo scratched his head and said: ”Ooh… this… errr…. this…”

Ling Xiao blew up once again. ”What this and what that! Quickly spit it out!”

Feng Mo could only recite prayers in his heart as he spoke: ”The Young n.o.ble made us go running.” Inside himself, he thought: ”This should not be considered as revealing his secret, right?”

”Running?” Ling Xiao revealed some suspicion, ”Run for what?”

”This…” Feng Mo scratched his scalp in embarra.s.sment. ”...the Young n.o.ble said that running was very fun…” After mulling about it for half a day, Feng Mo this sort of upright and honest man finally came out with his first lie, making him red with embarra.s.sment.

”FUN?!” Ling Xiao jumped out of his skin once again, furiously hopping on his feet and snarling, ”This daddy here worked so hard to train up the Blood Iron Warriors, to create warriors of the country that would win a hundred battles and more, to create heroes on the battlefield! This b.a.s.t.a.r.d actually dare to ask you go to run for fun??! What… what a d**che bag!”

Looking at the group of Blood Iron Warriors, Ling Xiao spoke in shame, ”Fellow brothers, I was the one who caused this to you. Because of me, you have to suffer the torture of this little b.a.s.t.a.r.d and his antics. Please rest a.s.sured, brothers, I will think of a method to return you guys back to the military!”

The crowd looked at each other in dismay, all wisely choosing to remain silent.

While they were touched by Ling Xiao’s sense of brotherhood, the crowd could not help but be worried — if Ling Xiao were to really get his way, they would all be recalled back to camp! In this half a month, the thirty six of them could clearly feel that be it in energy or physique, all of them were experiencing growth once again, and even to a point where it was unbelievable. This was just in half a month! The Young n.o.ble even said, that this feeling was only the beginning, and was just a test. The real method to strength increase was far from this!

With such a golden opportunity and good master in front of them, who would choose to return to that dark and hopeless future of an army camp? Unless, that person’s head had been kicked by a mule! Immediately, everyone’s heads turned towards Feng Mo; if his simple two sentences would make everyone else lose this chance, then they would definitely want to peel off his skin alive!

Being the target of the piercing stares, Feng Mo’s head started to sweat profusely and he forced a smile to say, ”General does not need to worry, we little ones are also quite happy to stay here right now.”

Ling Xiao let out a Long sigh, the rims of his eyes wet with tears. He patted Feng Mo’s shoulder, lowly saying, ”Brothers, I know you all desire to keep me out of trouble. You all need not say more, all of you brothers can wait for my good news.” As he finished, Ling Xiao turned and left, his expression solemn and his steps heavy.

All those behind him were stunned silly! As they looked on the disappearing back of Ling Xiao, all of them walked towards Feng Mo with gritted teeth. Everyone started to clench their fists, the ‘Kaka’ sounds sounding unceasingly.

Seeing that the situation had taken a turn for the worse, Feng Mo hurriedly retreated while drying laughing, ”Brothers, let’s sit down and talk it out, hahaha, I was also forced to a corner…”

”Beat him up!” No one knew who first shouted, but immediately, a deluge of black clothed people covered Feng Mo in an instant. Feng Mo turned to run, but it was already too late. The sound of anguished wailing sounded, even worse than what Ling Tian had given out previously.

Inside the room, Ling Tian who was regulating his inner Qi while listening to the conversation of the crowd, let out an expression of satisfaction. He now knew that this group of Blood Iron Warriors was really beginning to lean towards his side.

A tiny shadow dashed out from Ling Tian’s residence, this was precisely Ling Jian. The moment Ling Jian returned to the residence and heard that Ling Tian had gotten punished, he had panicked and rushed in without even cleaning his face.

Seeing Ling Jian coming out, all of the Blood Iron Warriors gathered around him to listen to the latest news, leaving behind a Feng Mo on the brink of death….

”Hey hey, Ling Jian ah, how is the Young n.o.ble right now?”

”Ya ya, Jianjian, what did the Young n.o.ble say?”

”Ya ya, it has already been half a month, has the Young n.o.ble said that we pa.s.sed yet?”