70 Mockery. Keeping an Eye Out. Coercion! (1/2)
The capital was in chaos.
In reality, Tiantang City had been chaotic all this while.
Ji Ling and the ladies of each noble family were going around inquiring about one particular individual during this time. They had sent out countless others to help them in their efforts.
As for the four great families of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, they were involved in the search as well. Later, even the families of East, South, West, and North joined in as well.
Of course, they were not only searching for Ji Ling’s lost brother. They were also searching for Chu Tianlang, or perhaps, the person who took Chu Tianlang away.
There was competition among the young masters too, be it out in the open or in the dark; it was strange, however, that they were divided into two camps, in obvious separation.
Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter were together while East, South, West, and North played in one team.
Although they were fighting all over the place internally, both camps would never intersect each other. On the contrary, their hostility towards each other’s camp was thick and heavy.
Even when they walked together, they disregarded each other. Even if two people in the same troop were arguing, as long as one of them had a conflict with someone else from the other party, they would simultaneously redirect their attack outwards!
Ximen Family had the most people now – since Ximen Wandai had been assassinated, Ximen Family had more than a hundred men gathered here.
Other than the ten of them who were to send the coffin home, the rest of them had stayed in Tiantang City.
The proclamation of Chu Tianlang as the assassin was obviously a guise to temporarily save themselves from punishment. Therefore, they still had to investigate and find the real murderer.
In this, the Ximen family would not give up easily.
In the process of the Ximen family’s investigation, someone had mentioned that they should reacquire the loot that Ximen Wandai had lost in a wager, now that he had died.
Ximen Wanli was rather partial to this.
However, just as they were about to act on their words, the girls had come over, led by Ji Ling, the newly appointed big sister, to mock and ridicule them.
“Ximen Family can’t afford to lose?”
“The person has already died but they actually want to go ask for the wager. A wager that they had lost!”
“Why didn’t you ask for the wager that your Ximen family ancestors lost three hundred years ago?”
“You guys can go right on ahead to ask for all the wagers from your dead Ximen family members millennia ago.”
“Then the Ximen family would prosper!”
“The whole world would be yours!”
“So brazen!
“So shameless!”
“Whichever sister who gets married into the Ximen Family would have a lot to spend… the wager that ancestors have lost in bets, just go ask for them after the ancestors have passed on.”
“How fascinating, it makes me want to be married into the Ximen family.”
“Such thickness of skin!”
…
The girls were sharp-tongued, passing the ridicules back and forth, mocking the people from Ximen Family to the point that they almost wanted to kick the bucket.
After much begging and pleading, they finally sent this bunch of tigresses away. As for finding Yun Yang to ask for the wager, they would never speak of it ever again!
It wasn’t worth the provocation that came with it.
They had eyes, they could see that these girls had come due to Yun Yang. They had come specifically to stand up for him! If they had insisted on going, these girls would probably do more than just mock them.
The Ximen family had two elders to lead the party this time. Both the elders were puzzled. “Who had Ximen Wandai offended? Who did he bet with? Why did it come to this?”
The corners of Ximen Wanli’s eyes kept twitching. He really could not imagine that his dead ass of a brother had made such a big mess.
“That Yun Yang was from Tiantang City… He doesn’t have much of a background; his dad was merely Marquis of Heavenly Clouds of Tiantang…”
“Then why all of this?” Both the elders were perplexed.
“This Yun Yang is very good-looking. In every other aspect, he’s practically useless.” someone said.
“There you have it.” One of the elders had a sudden realization and huffed, “How can a good-looking man be considered useless? Don’t you know there’s an old saying, girls like handsome men… How could there be no reason for this incident today?”
All the youngsters of the Ximen family had the corners of their mouth twitching in amusement.
They would never have imagined that third grandfather, who had always been rather uppity, was also one of their kind. F*cking girls like handsome men; this saying came from the brothels. It would never be appropriate to use that epithet on these girls!
“Looks like third grandfather was also a promiscuous figure before!” One of them teased.
“F*ck off!” Third grandfather’s slap came flying true, sending the fellow tumbling across the floor.
On the other hand, the quartet that was Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter was attracting their own share of attention.
Wherever they had gone, they had everyone’s eyes on them!
Three young masters were dressed all in green, sauntering besides their guards and wearing a swollen pig head. Each of them was green from head to toe, their green hats even had an emerald green bamboo shoot! Their belt, shoes, sword and saber scabbards were all in green!
Young Master Dong Tianleng was beaming in delight. He was dressed in white, gleaming like pure snow, as his arms were crossed behind his back, walking alongside the three green-dressed men who stood out strikingly.
Although he still had some injuries on his face, he had been allowed to heal them after winning the bet so there were only faint scars left behind. Wherever they went, before everyone else could comment, Dong Tianleng was already causing a commotion.
“Oh, sh*t! Look at this everyone! There are three peculiarly dressed people here!”
“Brother, may I ask why are you dressed like that?”
The more people they were, the more Dong Tianleng was diligently questioned.
The other three were fuming internally, cursing Dong Tianleng’s ancestors over and over again in their hearts.
How could this guy be so cheap!
It was a wonder how the Dong family’s elders could give birth to such a cheap thing! He was so unbelievably cheap that no one could even hope to surpass him.
However, they could only grumble and murmur in their hearts, they could never say it out loud. The three of them kept their glares trained on Dong Tianleng. No matter what happened, they must never let this fellow move about alone!
Even if he was going to the washroom, someone had to accompany him.
“We know this rascal will go and find the person who helped him win!”
“We must keep an eye out!”
“We must never let him move about alone!”
“This person must be found no matter what it takes!”
“Otherwise, we will only keep losing, and that is something I can’t withstand!”
“Find the person and we can win when we go up against other!”
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Dong Tianleng was helpless.