Chapter 50: An Even More Important Matter (1/2)

Tang Doudou gave a deep meaningful smile, then lightly coughed before beckoning Qing Yin with her small hand, “Let’s head in!”

After she said so, she took the lead and entered the Alliance Head Residence.

Li Hong laughed mischievously then followed. On the way, he shouted towards the people inside, “The Alliance Head has returned!”

There was a burst of clamor in the residence. Everyone talked with liveliness as all kinds of noise bustled out. Moments later, it was brought under control by a familiar rough voice, “Head out to welcome the Alliance Head’s return!”

It was Elder Yu’s voice. Tang Doudou’s lips hooked slightly, recalling what Li Hong said earlier.

Who could have told from looking at Elder Yu, that coarse and unbridled type of person, that he was actually a wife-fearing wimp?

From what Li Hong said, Elder Yu’s wife was a barbarous, overbearing, and equally coarse woman. Elder Yu, who feared nothing in Heaven or Earth, feared this tigress the most.

Ever since Madam Yu found out that the martial arts convention was being held at Rutaceae Pavilion, she had kicked up a fuss several times. One time she had even gone to make a disturbance where the Cloud City’s Lord was, but in the end, she was expelled by the City Lord with one sentence. She couldn’t do anything about the Cloud City’s Lord, so she could only come back and kick up a fuss with Elder Yu again.

Even though he was afraid of his wife, this martial arts convention was very important to Elder Yu, so someone put forward plans to help him secretly attend it. Originally this was a completely hush-hush matter, but it was disclosed by someone and the next day, Madam Yu ran over to the Alliance Head Residence to kick up a fuss and even gave Elder Yu a thorough beating.

That tigress was fierce and violent, no one dared to step up to pull her away.

In the end, it was actually Bai Feiyun who stood out to mediate this matter. But after that incident, Madam Yu continued to make a fuss, wanting to repudiate her husband*. In the end, she went back to her maternal home while crying.

Lol, it sounds like Madam Yu’s family is higher ranked than Elder Yu, otherwise how come he would keep staying with such a violent wife? Unless she’s beautiful? Anyways, in ancient times, there was no divorce. What took the place of divorce was repudiation, which was more one-sided and usually from the man towards the wife. The wife is basically rejected and kicked out back to her maternal home which is a severe disgrace. Lol, and that’s why Madam Yu must be of some high status to repudiate Elder Yu. Repudiate, btw, is the old English word for divorce, still used in non-Christian religions. Its most common meaning is “refuse to accept or be associated with”, but I’ll be using it to represent the Chinese context I talked about.

Elder Yu naturally refused to agree and also didn’t return. He simply went ahead and stayed in the Alliance Head Residence.

Tang Doudou rubbed her chin as she silently scorned Elder Yu, this grace-forgetting, ungrateful old bastard. Hell, Bai Feiyun ah, Bai Feiyun, why’d you have to have such a good heart? Why didn’t you just let that tigress beat this old bastard to death?

Waste of effort. Now that was just great. You saved this old bastard and ended up getting yourself dragged into this mess.

Just as she was lost in her random thoughts, a burst of people trampled out.

There were both men and women. Leading them still was the fully bearded Elder Yu. He had a clear and bright smile on his face and his gaze swept towards Tang Doudou as if he was seeing an old friend for the first time in a long while. As for how fake that smile and that gaze was, it was as fake as described. If it were someone that didn’t know the situation, they’d really think he was meeting an old friend! But that faint purple mark on Elder Yu’s old face would cause people to want to laugh when they saw it.

“Alliance Head! You’ve finally returned!”

Tang Doudou blinked at Elder Yu and really did end up laughing. Only after quite a while did she reply with a surprised tone, “Aiyah, after numerous days of not seeing you, what happened to your face? Did you run into something when you got up at night? Tsk tsk, how can you be this careless? If there’s not enough light at night, then just let the servants increase the lights ah. Even though I’m not in the residence, you shouldn’t treat yourself as a guest. If there’s anything just instruct the servants!”

After she finished speaking, she folded her hands behind her back and walked over, standing before the stiff-faced Elder Yu. She tilted her head slightly as she said to Li Hong who had followed behind her, “Li Hong ah, pass down my instruction, remember to help Elder Yu increase the lighting at night, got it?”

“Yes!” Li Hong hurriedly cupped his fist and lowered his head as he responded, yet he couldn’t hold back the smile at the corners of his mouth.

Hearing Tang Doudou pitter-patter a torrential stream of words the moment she opened her mouth, the smile on Elder Yu’s face turned stiff. Was he trying to display an initial show of strength upon arriving?

But who was Elder Yu? How could he be defeated just by these few sentences from Tang Doudou?

It was just that Elder Yu couldn’t pull out that beaming expression anymore. With a slightly stern tone, Elder Yu asked, “Is Alliance Head’s return due to Bai gongzi’s matter?”

Tang Doudou glanced over at him, then retrieved her gaze, “Of course, but other than this matter I still have an even more important matter to resolve first.”

“Could it be that there’s still some matter even more important than saving Bai gongzi?” Elder Yu asked in surprised.

From the very start, Bai Feiyun’s reputation was quite good in the Jianghu. In addition, he recently helped Tang Doudou deal with quite a few matters in the Alliance Head Residence so he had obtained even more public praise. Everyone saw that Tang Doudou had returned and thought it was for the sake of saving Bai Feiyun. But Tang Doudou actually said that there was an even more important matter that must be taken care of… it immediately attracted a lot of discontent from the people.

But still, no one stood out to criticize Tang Doudou because they knew that the only entity that could save Bai Feiyun right now was Tang Doudou, who had the Alliance Head Command Tablet!

These were all things everyone was well aware of. Naturally, Tang Doudou was also well aware, which was why she could say what she had earlier.

And it was for the precise purpose of drawing out the question Elder Yu had asked.

“Of course! Even though saving Bai gongzi is important, but before saving him we still have another matter to take care of first.” Tang Doudou stood in front of everyone with her hands folded behind her back. The corners of her brow lifted, then she pointed towards the crowd, “Hey, you, come out.”

The person she pointed at was a short and skinny man with shrewd lips and monkey-like cheeks. His first reaction was to stare blankly. Then he looked left and right, before pointing at himself again, completely not understanding what Tang Doudou meant to do.

Tang Doudou saw him daze out and shouted loudly again: “Yes you! What are you looking around dilly-dallying for? Hurry up and step out here for me.”

The short skinny man was startled by her holler and immediately reacted, squeezing out of the crowd. Then, he looked uneasily towards Tang Doudou with confusion, “Alliance Head, what is it ah?”

“Stand properly first!”

“Oh!” The short skinny man rubbed the back of his head and straightened his posture.

Tang Doudou circled around him several times while looking him up and down, then asked: “What’s your name?”

Even though he didn’t know what she was asking this for, the short and skinny man still replied honestly: “This subordinate is Hou ZiT/N!”