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“Brother Chen, how are things? Does the matter have a conclusion?” Shen Zhenghao answered the call and questioned.

“An accident, it’s already determined……” Chen Zhantian replied.

“Brother Chen, restrain your grief and accept fate. You and I are people who practice martial arts and have had to accept some unpleasant facts……” Shen Zhenghao comforted.

“I understand, thank you, big brother Shen. But this time’s phone call is me wishing to speak about something with big brother, our Chen Clan’s decision.” Chen Zhantian explained.

“Chen Clan’s decision?” Shen Zhenghao stared blankly for a moment, thinking in his mind, what relationship does Chen Clan’s decision have to do with me? If it was before, the two clans would have the relationship of being the parents of the children being engaged, so it would be fine if I heard it, but now, why should I hear it?

“Chen Jinpeng has already been instituted as Chen Clan’s third generation successor by my father. All of our Chen Clan’s resources will be going to him. As the matter stands, I see that our two clan’s engagement doesn’t necessarily be relieved. The older brother’s fiancée can be shifted onto the younger brother, this is a tradition in our ancient martial clans, and a commonly seen matter!” Chen Zhantian first used this matter to justify it, then said: “Big brother, what do you think?”

“This……” Shen Zhenghao didn’t think that Chen Clan would make such a quick decision. This actually made him feel somewhat embarrassed because he understood the words that Chen Zhantian said. Not speaking of getting married, even if married, the older brother’s wife shifting to the younger brother was also something commonly seen in the olden times. At least it was clear through etiquette.

Furthermore, this was an aspect¹ that Shen Zhenghao was willing to see. Having already been in contact with Chen Clan for so long, it was about time to substantiate the cooperation. If it² came to a premature ending right now, then Shen Zhenghao couldn’t contact other clans for a short while. This was unfavorable to Shen Zhenghao’s son’s fight over the position of the heir, so Shen Zhenghao thought it over for a moment. Then he agreed: “I don’t think it has any problems, but my daughter’s side, I have to work on, after all, it requires her agree first.”

“Hehe, no problem, there’s no need for Jingxuan to directly agree. How about the two children contact each other first to familiarize with each other, it’s only to be expected.” Chen Zhantian said. Of course, if the two people began to contact each other, then the matter would be almost done. Once it creates an established fact and rumors go around, how could the matter not become done? The two clans were both ones concerned about saving face. Among aristocratic clan juniors, it was either persisting in being together or not being together, otherwise the ultimate outcome would be the two clans having a falling out.

Xiao Clan and Cheng Clan, Yue Clan and Tang Clan, weren’t they like so?

“Okay, I’ll stop disturbing you, there’s a lot of clan affairs right now that I need to process.” Since Chen Zhantian reached his goal, he didn’t keep being wordy. He already began preparations for his son’s funeral.

After hanging up the call, Shen Zhenghao let out a sigh and looked at Shen Jingxuan, then said: “Jingxuan, it’s been determined that your engagement partner is Chen Jinpeng.”

“Chen Jinpeng?” Shen Jingxuan stared blankly for a moment. Chen Jinkun, she could reluctantly accept, but she didn’t even give a glance to Chen Jinpeng. This individual had no capability, just a hedonistic son of rich parents. He followed behind Xiao Chen before, using his powerful connections to intimidate people.

Of course, the thing that made Shen Jingxuan most unable to accept was that this person was a double dealer and back stabber. She very looked down upon this kind of behavior. Since you are Xiao Chen’s little brother, why did you hire yourself to Zhao Yuliang?

“Chen Jinpeng was just chosen as Chen Clan’s third generation successor right now and all practice resources will be going to him. Although this person won’t be able to catch up to Chen Jinkun’s position for a short time, it is just a matter of sooner or later.” Shen Zhenghao said: “Jingxuan, this person is still okay, isn’t he better than Xiao Clan’s Xiao Chen anyway? At least Chen Jinpeng can cultivate.”

“Oh……” Shen Jingxuan became aware that her father had already made the decision. No matter what she said at this time, it would be to no avail. In reality, Shen Jingxuan felt that Xiao Chen was actually much better compared to Chen Jinping. At least, even though Xiao Chen had lost the ‘young master’ halo, he was still able to live very well. This proved that Xiao Chen wasn’t a good-for-nothing.

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When Xiao Chen to put away the vendor stand in the evening and came home, Jin Beibei still hadn’t left. She was still in the middle of nitpicking a character inside a soap opera with the young lady. Seeing Xiao Chen coming over, Cheng Mengying let out a somewhat unhappy hmph: “Beibei and I still haven’t eaten a meal. You coming back so late, do you want us to starve? Don’t you know what status you have?”

“Hehe……” With regards to the young lady’s princess syndrome, Xiao Chen was already accustomed to it. He placed the bag in his hand onto the coffee table in front of them: “I’ve deep-fried some fried dough twists and deep fried cakes for you two, give it a try!”

“Waa, brother-in-law, did you guys make a new variety? This fried bread twist appears to be very delicious!” As Jin Beibei was speaking, she wiped the flowing saliva and seized a fried dough twist, them stuffed it into her mouth³.

“It looks very oily, won’t pimples grow on your face if you eat it?” Although Cheng Mengying thought that the fried bread twist’s outer appearance was good, since Xiao Chen came back very late, how could she be happy about him putting forward something delicious? Then that would mean that she’s very easy to coax: “However, this young lady’s innate nature is elegant, and reluctantly eat a bit. Which should I eat first?”

“Wuwa, quite delicious oh, brother-in-law, your cooking skill is really good, whoever marries you in the future will be very happy……” Jin Beibei’s mouth was full of flowing oil, holding one on each hand.

“Hey, leave some for me! Damned⁴ Beibei, you want to eat to death?” Cheng Mengying had just been acting reserved, but she suddenly discovered that there was only 1 oily fried dough cake left. The other three had been eaten by Jin Beibei, and there was still one more in her hand. This made Cheng Mengying instantly anxious, so she seized it away: “Don’t you know to yield some to your older cousin⁵?”

“Aiya, in any case, he’s cousin’s husband and you are cousin. If you want to eat it at any time, you can momentarily eat it. I can’t do that oh, only if you give be brother-in-law……” Jin Beibei somewhat unwillingly took a fried dough twist.

“Xiao Chen, if there’s anything delicious in the future, don’t let Beibei eat it.” Cheng Mengying let out a hmph, then ordered Xiao Chen.

“Oh, hehe.” Xiao Chen laughed as he funnily watched the two girls eat, then let out a sigh of relief. To speak the truth, he truly had come back a little late. His current status was the young lady’s manservant, yet he was busy with his own matters every day. It was indeed a little inexcusable.

“Brother-in-law, if you want to marry older cousin, then you need to curry favor with me oh!” Jin Beibei said.

“You guys eat, I’m returning to my room.” Xiao Chen wanted to go boil medicine. He didn’t want to speak about this topic, after all, he thought that it was impossible to get together with Cheng Mengying. It was okay to joke around, but this kind of joke wasn’t always okay to speak.

“Come back a little earlier tomorrow, so that we can go buy a car.” Cheng Mengying gave Xiao Chen a glance and said.

“Buy a car?” Xiao Chen then remembered that Cheng Mengying had spoke about buying a car during the weekend. It was just that he was so busy that he had forgotten: “Okay, I’ll come back in the afternoon.”

After returning to his room, Xiao Chen sent Tang Tang a text explaining the matter about buying a car tomorrow.

“What are you buying a car for, and is it for you?” Tang Tang quickly sent back a text.

“Hehe, I am a driver.” Xiao Chen returned.

“Oh, then go, but you need to come in the morning. I have more work than I can deal with in the morning.” Tang Tang said.

“I’ll definitely be there in the morning. I’ll be there a bit earlier tomorrow to knead some fried dough twists and use plastic wrap to cover it. That way, you can directly put it into the boiler in the afternoon.” What wasn’t unexpected was that Xiao Chen was still very proficient in making fried dough twists and deep fried cakes.

Early in the morning the next day, perhaps it couldn’t be said to be ‘early in the morning’.

At the very early time of 2 o’clock am, Xiao Chen got up. Since Xiao Chen now had a superiority in making food, Xiao Chen didn’t want to waste it. There was no need to eat instant noodles anymore, Xiao Chen directly made a pot of lean meat congee. He left a slip of paper for the young lady and Jin Beibei, then left.

Because they were going to buy a car today, Jin Beibei had stayed the night.

Xiao Chen had come a little earlier than usual, so he began kneading dough inside the old aunt’s grocery store courtyard. But what made Xiao Chen surprised was that before long, Tang Tang arrived.

“Why did you also come so early?” Xiao Chen was somewhat surprised.

“Didn’t you say you would come a little earlier? I woke up and couldn’t go back to sleep, so I came.” Tang Tang smiled: “Let’s do it together.”

“Eh, okay.” Xiao Chen thought that ‘let’s do it together’ was slightly ambiguous, but it seemed like he had thought a little too complicated.

The traffic accident in the morning market street didn’t have any influence to the morning market street. No one in these common households really cared about Chen Jinkun’s death. It was only on the aristocratic clan level where a great vibration was created.

Some people were sad, some people were happy. Actually, many aristocratic clans were unwilling to see Chen Clan and Shen Clan become related by marriage. After all, if Chen Clan became fierce, there would definitely be a threat to the positions of other aristocratic clans. But now that a very promising third generation of Chen Clan’s had died, and the relation through marriage would definitely fizzle out, many people were regarding Chen Clan as a joke.

Who would have thought that Chen Clan’s response would be so quick. On the night of the same day that Chen Jinkun died, Chen Jinpeng was nominated and the engagement with Shen Clan was also inherited. This made many aristocratic clans mocking them lose their words.

Of course, the affairs of this level had no relations to the current Xiao Chen and Tang Tang, and there was also no one informing them about the follow-up of this matter.

Xiao Chen also hadn’t cared about it from the start. In his opinion, nobody would suspect that cause of Chen Jinkun’s death was him. At least at the present stage it was improbable. Before he exposed his strength, he was safe.

“Ai, now that I think about it, us having our engagements broken is better than Shen Jingxuan’s fiancé dying. In the future, if Shen Jingxuan wants to get married, her selectivity is somewhat narrow.” Tang Tang felt that Shen Jingxuan was quite pitiful.

“Fortunately, she didn’t like Chen Jinkun. Death is just death.” The former Xiao Chen liked Shen Jingxuan, and even now, he still had some favorable impressions in his heart. He naturally didn’t want to see Shen Jingxuan unhappy.

Sometimes, it was very hard for Xiao Chen to speak clearly. Yesterday when he killed Chen Jinkun, it was for Tang Tang, but it was also because he didn’t want Shen Jingxuan and Chen Jinkun to be together. Of course, the former was the main reason, and the latter had a faint influence on Xiao Chen’s decision.

“Huh? It sounds like you seem to be interested in Shen Jingxuan?” Tang Tang was actually quite sensitive. From Xiao Chen’s tone, she could hear some unusuality.

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“Travelling along at a regular speed?” After Chen Zhantian heard this, he couldn’t help but knit his brows. Not to speak of travelling along at a regular speed, what was abnormal was that with Chen Jinkun’s strength, making a split-second decision wasn’t difficult. Even if there wasn’t any help, wasn’t it impossible for him to make way to the bottom of a truck?

At this time, Shen Zhenghao inquired Shen Jingxuan after the event, then also walked over. He happened to hear that Captain Zhong’s words and couldn’t help but ask: “This accident, is there any other circumstances?”

Shen Zhenghao’s questioning words was precisely what Chen Zhantian wanted to ask. Although Chen Clan is powerful, it isn’t like they didn’t have any enemies; every large aristocratic clan was in a hidden competition. As for killing a successor of Chen Clan’s, suppressing Chen Clan, it wasn’t impossible. Especially seeing that Chen Clan and Shen Clan were cooperating, and that Chen Clan tempo of going to suddenly rise up, killing Chen Jinkun at this time was tantamount to stopping Chen Clan and Shen Clan’s cooperation.

“According to the words of the eyewitnesses, it was an accident.” Captain Zhong replied: “But our accident branch colleagues have already found the driving record apparatus inside the car. There are also people going to obtain the video recording of this intersection, everything will be concluded very quickly.”

Chen Zhantian nodded and let out a sigh: “Then I’ll be troubling you.”

That Captain Zhong didn’t say anything, only seriously nodding, then immediately busied himself with other matters.

“Brother Chen, restrain your grief and accept fate. This matter appears to truly be an accident.” Shen Zhenghao said.

“I also hope that it is an accident……” Chen Zhantian nodded and said: “Originally, you and I could tie the knot through a marriage. Who would have known that an unexpected matter like this would happen, Jinkun this child, how could he be this reckless……”

Chen Zhantian’s voice somewhat shook, but was actually able to control his sorrow because it was estimated that other clans received this message. He didn’t want other people to see a joke.

“Brother Chen, feel relieved, even if our two clans aren’t related through marriage, this friendship can still be tied. In the future, we can still help each other out!” Shen Zhenghao actually didn’t want this kind of matter to happen. Shen Jingxuan had just been engaged to Chen Jinkun, but now that Chen Jinkun was dead, he was very depressed. Thankfully he hadn’t spread news of Shen Jingxuan being engaged. In fact, if he let out a rumor, other aristocratic clan juniors would line up to marry Shen Jingxuan and take her back home.

But this involved an issue of face; Shen Zhenghao was also from a rich and powerful clan. Immediately being engaged to some other clan after the fiancé over here just dying wasn’t so much of a problem. But at that time, it would be inevitable that it would be impossible for them to cooperate with Chen Clan again. This wasn’t the situation that Shen Zhenghao wanted to see.

He didn’t like double-crossing people; since he said he would cooperate, then he would cooperate. Although they weren’t related by marriage, causing this cooperation to become not too solid, at the very least he temporarily couldn’t choose another clan. After this matter blew over, they could discuss it again.

“Ai, brother Shen having this degree of intention, our Chen Clan is very grateful. Brother Shen, this place is noisy, how about you bring Jingxuan back first? She has received a not-small frightening, and you guys staying here is of no use.” Chen Zhantian¹ said.

“Okay, then we’ll go back first.” Shen Zhenghao nodded.

At this time, he also knew that he would’ve be able to help with anything by staying. Right now was Chen Clan’s sorrowful moment, their clan would need to talk over a countermeasure to deal with the situation.

Chen Jinkun had been considered and nurtured as Chen Clan’s third generation successor. Chen Clan’s cultivation resources were all tilted toward him, but now that he suddenly died, it was equal to disrupting Chen Clan’s deployment. At present, Chen Clan had to once again consider this as well.

The traffic accident scene was processed very quickly, but at this moment, Chen Zhantian already returned to Chen Clan. Inside Chen Clan’s meeting hall, Chen Clan’s old master, Chen Wushen’s, complexion was very unsightly.

At this moment, this originally spirited and very energetic old man suddenly aged a lot.
His hand was slightly trembling; he was somewhat unable to accept the fact before his eyes. The grandson he care for the most had died? Died like this?

Perhaps at this moment, within the entire Chen Clan, the happiest person was Chen Jinpeng! Even Chen Jinpeng’s father, Chen Huanling, didn’t wish for Chen Jinkun to die; a clan’s continuous development required an able person to operate it.

What kind of person his son was, Chen Huanling was very clear on. Naturally, it was the dandy type. His strength was inferior to Chen Jinkun, as well as his temperament, and nowadays, he would be other people’s little brother all day long. What future prospects could he have?

“Zhantian, just how did this situation come about, does the traffic police squad over there have a conclusion?” Chen Wushen sorrowfully asked.

“Father, there’s already a conclusion; it was an accident. Regardless of whether it is the surveillance camera nearby the street, or Jinkun’s driving record apparatus, both confirm that this was an accident, that nobody set up Jinkun.” Although Chen Zhantian was unwilling to be convinced, he still had to speak the truth from facts.

“Truly an eventful period! Originally, I thought that our Chen Clan and Shen Clan would be related through marriage and move a step forward, but now such a matter occurred……” When Chen Wushen heard that it was an accident, and also knew that other people had searched into it, he could only recognize it.

“Father, I think that our Chen Clan must put out a regulation. Jinkun died; although this is very sorrowful, I believe that we can’t give up the cooperation with Shen Clan!” Chen Zhantian² said.

“Oh? How can we still cooperate?” Chen Wushen slightly stared.

“Jinkun is dead, but there’s still Jinpeng. In the future, our Chen Clan can only treat Jinpeng as the sole fostering target. The way I see this engagement, it can be shifted onto Jinpeng’s body!” Chen Zhantian proposed.

“Oh?” After Chen Wushen heard this, he gave an extremely praising gaze to Chen Zhantian. As Chen Clan’s second generation public affairs person, Chen Zhantian, this person, already had the consciousness of putting the clan first. If Jingpeng and Jinkun were fighting openly and covertly, of course Chen Jinpeng wouldn’t be able to shine. Chen Clan didn’t think that Chen Jinpeng had any future prospects; even Chen Huanling didn’t feel that his own son would cause any storms. He only wished for his son to stay under the protection of Chen Clan, and become a wealthy man.

Chen Jinpeng quivered from head to toe. Yes, now that Chen Jinkun is dead, the only remaining direct descendant of Chen Clan is me, if they don’t foster me, then who will they foster? Especially the engagement with Shen Jingxuan, it nearly made Chen Jinpeng cry out in happiness!

He was also secretly in love with Shen Jingxuan, but previously he felt that there wasn’t any hope, and only daydream about it in his heart. Never did he think that it would become reality.

“Jinpeng, this child, doesn’t have any capability……” Chen Huanling said somewhat anxiously. His own son, he was more clear on than anybody else.

“Second brother, Jingpeng, this child, is also one that we watched grow up. Though he’s slightly naughty and mischievous, if our Chen Clan doesn’t cultivate him now, then who will we foster? Don’t tell me, we should go groom one of those inadequate collateral relatives?” Chen Zhantian interrupted Chen Huanling’s words and said.

“Huanling, what Zhantian said is right. Whatever the case, Jinpeng is our Chen Clan’s direct descendant, as well as our sole direct descendant, if we don’t groom him, then who do we groom³? This matter will be set like this, in the future, Chen Jinpeng will be our Chen Clan’s third generation successor!” Chen Wushen said in the tone of making the final decision: “Zhantian, give a call to Shen Zhenghao in a moment and talk about the matter of the engagement. Even though we’ve discussed it over, if the other doesn’t agree, then we don’t have the means.”

Actually, Old Master Chen also knew that what Shen Zhenghao had a fancy for in Chen Jinkun was his Third Layer Inner Strength power. Chen Jinkun was different, but it could only be tested right now.

At this moment, Shen Jingxuan was sitting still in Shen Zhenghao’s car, taciturn and not speaking.

“Fortunately, Jingxuan, you guys weren’t formally engaged. Otherwise, having an unmarried ** reputation wouldn’t be so good to hear……” Shen Zhenghao said with lingering fear. If it was truly like that, it wouldn’t be so easy for Shen Jingxuan to marry into another person’s family. After all, these large clans all attached great importance to face.

“Dad, now that Chen Jinkun’s dead, does that mean this engagement is cancelled?” Shen Jingxuan really didn’t like Chen Jinkun, not a bit at all. Now that Chen Jinkun had died, apart from some sympathy, she didn’t have any other feeling.

“Jingxuan, you know that as a girl of Shen Clan, it’s impossible for you to make your own engagement. Only if you genuinely like a powerful great clan’s young master, then Shen Clan will support you.” Shen Zhenghao replied: “Relation by marriage, although it’s a very vulgar working method, our Shen Clan has been continuously developing to date. Though we aren’t able to tower above, with the several calamities we’ve withstood, what have we relied on? Isn’t it some external help? Where this external help comes from, is through the relations by marriage!”

“I know, but after this matter, can you give me some time to calm down? At least, before I finish studying, no more engagements, okay?” In front of bystanders, Shen Jingxuan seemed very attractive and dazzling, but behind their backs, she felt a lot of sadness without the freedom to act independently.

“Jingxuan, you should know that Shen Clan has started beginning to select the best third generation successor. Your younger brother is among the list of names for the clan to groom, but whether or not he’ll be able to rise above others, besides his own strength, depends on his influence. You are his older sister, if you can marry into Chen Clan, then Chen Clan will be our supporter.” Shen Zhenghao said: “Jingxuan, you know that once the next generation clan head is decided, the other candidates will be assigned outside. If they don’t have any matters, they may not return to Shen Clan as they wish. This kind of ‘leaving one’s native place’ taste is unpleasant, you also don’t want your little brother and us to separate, right?”

“This……” Shen Jingxuan had some hesitations. When it came to Shen Clan, the one she cared the most about was her younger brother. Her younger brother was her pride; his age was young, yet he was already a Fourth Layer Inner Strength Martialist. However, Shen Clan was a great clan with great assets. Shen Jingxuan’s younger brother wasn’t the only Fourth Layer Inner Strength child. If one wanted to rise above the others and become the clan’s successor, it was necessary for them to have external help. Sometimes, whether or not the external help was formidable immediately decided the position of the person.

Actually, this was understandable. This clan head’s connections were broad and was familiar with some powerful people. When the time comes that the clan meets trouble, the clan head could invite several fierce people over with personal connections, and settle the trouble.

Just as the father-daughter duo were speaking, Chen Zhantian’s call reached Shen Zhenghao’s side.

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Shen Jingxuan couldn’t help but smile. With regards to Jin Beibei, this small clown, she thought that it was quite interesting.

“Oh oh oh, no, my meaning is, that there was a loud matter. My return by running a moment ago, nearly made my chest run away, but the major event isn’t this……” Jin Beibei waved her hand, took in big breaths, then said: “Chen Jinkun……died in a car crash!”

“What?!” Cheng Mengying and Shen Jingxuan simultaneously widened their eyes. Chen Jinkun died in a car crash? When did this happen? True or false?

“Beibei, don’t speak irresponsibly……” Cheng Mengying wrinkled her brows. Although she knew that Jin Beibei definitely thought Chen Jinkun wasn’t pleasing in her eyes, and even though Cheng Mengying didn’t want to acknowledge it, she had to recognize it. Jin Beibei’s impression with regards to Xiao Chen seemed pretty good because she had never seen Jin Beibei be so harmonious with any other boy. Therefore, it was absolutely possible for Jin Beibei to put her dislike onto Chen Jinkun due to the previous unpleasantness. But hate is just hate, it’s can’t start a cursing rumor, right?

One has to know, Chen Jinkun was Shen Jingxuan’s fiancé in any case.

“I haven’t spoken irresponsibly! Just a moment ago, I went strolling on the morning market street to see if there were any good things and as a result, I heard a loud ‘bang!’ sound; a silver sports car was squeezed into a garbage truck’s butt.” Jin Beibei animatedly said: “Damn, at that time, I was thinking ‘which dumb****¹ drove their car and died such a miserable death, brain pressed into fragments’……but when I carefully took a look, I thought, ‘isn’t this Chen Jinkun’s Bugatti Veyron?’ Then I hurriedly ran back to disclose information……”

“Is what you’re saying real?” Although Shen Jingxuan didn’t like Chen Jinkun, it couldn’t be helped that she didn’t like him. After all, Chen Jinkun was already her fiancé, so Chen Jinkun dying at this time was a major event with regards to Shen Clan’s opinion. Under this situation, Shen Jingxuan had no choice but to attach great importance.

“How can I possibly play a joke oh……” Jin Beibei said, then turned her head to look at Xiao Chen: “Brother-in-law, the public restroom is by the street over there, you went to the restroom just a moment ago, right? You should’ve also saw it, right?”

Jin Beibei’s words made Xiao Chen’s heart go ‘thump’. Just a moment ago, Jin Beibei said that she had seen a car crash and promptly ran back. This immediately made Xiao Chen feel that it was fishy; he was also on the street over there, moreover, on the bench that was a little farther away from the street. He had also come back after the traffic accident occurred, yet Jin Beibei unexpectedly came back later by several minutes compared to him, and ran back gasping for breath. From the aspect of ‘time’, it was a little suspicious.

But it was possible that Jin Beibei was struck dumb at that time, that her mind was overloaded when she recognized that it was Chen Jinkun’s vehicle, so there was the possibility that she was slow-witted for a moment. Adding that there was a lot of people in the surroundings to that, it was impossible for Xiao Chen to note whether there was or wasn’t a Jin Beibei.

However, Jin Beibei’s sudden interrogation made Xiao Chen feel, Jin Beibei seems to be pointing at me?

“I immediately came back. Chen Jinkun died? That’s truly a good matter.” With regards to Chen Jinkun’s death, Xiao Chen displayed a very cheerful mood.

Jin Beibei actually didn’t ask Xiao Chen anything again. Instead, she turned to Cheng Mengying and asked: “Really unlucky, cousin Mengying, what do we do now?”

“Mengying, I’m truly sorry. I originally came to see you today, but who would have know that this matter would happen. After several days, I’ll come to see you again. This matter here, I have to handle it with the people in the clan.” Shen Jingxuan said with a dignified expression.

“Okay, you should quickly go. No need to manage me, I’m fine.” Cheng Mengying also understood how big of a matter this event was. Chen Jinkun was the younger generation that Chen Clan put emphasis to groom, reaching Third Layer Inner Strength Martialist at a young age. This already achieved the Martialist Guild’s standard for doing obeisance to a master. So long as he became 18 years-old, he could immediately do official obeisance to a master. His future prospects was promising, not inferior to Cheng Clan’s Cheng Zhongqian!

Cheng Zhongqian’s disappearance giving rise to an extremely large earthquake in Cheng Clan was something Cheng Mengying was very clear on. It was so much that Xiao Chen became a scapegoat. Although Chen Jinkun’s place in Chen Clan wasn’t like Cheng Clan’s inside information², it was feared that it would be very difficult to give up this matter.

Shen Jingxuan left, leaving Cheng Mengying feeling pretty awkward over here. Leaving wasn’t good, but staying wasn’t good either, and she didn’t know what to say to Xiao Chen.

“Brother-in-law, give me a round of soybean milk!” Jin Beibei was hungry from running, so she directly ran to Xiao Chen’s vendor ** edge and spoke. Shen Jingxuan had left and Chen Jinkun was dead, so she didn’t need to put up an act.

“A round of soybean milk³?” Xiao Chen was startled for a moment. These words were somewhat ambiguous, but he also understood Jin Beibei’s nature. He nodded and picked up a cup to prepare to fill with soybean milk, then asked: “Do you want deep-fried breadstick?”

“No, I’m not hungry, I already ate breakfast. Maybe cousin Mengying might want?” Jin Beibei replied.

“Oh.” Xiao Chen smiled and picked up a plate, put two deep-fried breadstick and two soybean milk on it, then handed it over to Jin Beibei: “Give this to the young lady. There’s a table to the side, you guys can sit there and eat!”

At that back of the morning market street, there was a row of free tables and chairs supplied by the marketplace. Every month, every stall ** would pay some use fee and management fee. Although they had to pay up, they didn’t need to feel anxious about being tidied up, and could feel relieved to engage in business. Therefore, Tang Tang was very happy to hand over this money.

“Brother-in-law, I don’t have money oh. Based on our relationship, you won’t collect my money, right?” Jin Beibei carried the tray and cheerfully walked away.

“Broke an engagement, yet calling brother-in-law so intimately, shows clearly that she wants to mooch a meal!” When Tang Tang heard that Jin Beibei wasn’t giving money, she muttered this somewhat out of sorts. Of course, it was unknown whether she was feeling out of sorts due to not being given money, or Xiao Chen being called ‘brother-in-law’.

“I’m content.” Although Tang Tang’s voice was small, Jin Beibei had heard it: “Besides, cousin has broken her engagement yet I haven’t, didn’t you hear sister-in-law is……”

“Beibei!” Cheng Mengying covered Jin Beibei’s mouth with her palm and stared in her eyes: “Don’t speak irresponsibly, are you going to eat or not? If you’re not going to eat, leave!”

“Eat oh, eat oh.” Jin Beibei took one of the things to eat.

“Haha, why should I use any strength to shout with a small girl.” Xiao Chen helplessly shrugged his shoulders: “Beibei, this person, is still pretty good and can be considered a friend. How can I take her money? Moreover, it’s just a name.”

“I understand……” Tang Tang let out an inward sigh in her heart⁴. It seems like Xiao Chen still likes Cheng Mengying, otherwise when Jin Beibei calls him ‘brother-in-law’, why would he be so happy? It’s clearly because he wants to become this ‘brother-in-law’!

Xiao Chen had lowered his head and occupied himself with kneading dough, so he didn’t see Tang Tang’s expression. Naturally, he didn’t know that Tang Tang had misunderstood.

However, Xiao Chen suddenly discovered that his mental fortitude had become high at some unknown time; he had killed someone just a moment ago. Although it couldn’t be considered homicide, and that it was just Tian Lao moving his hand and invisibly killing, it was Xiao Chen’s idea in the final analysis. Yet Xiao Chen was currently exceptionally unperturbed.

After going through life or death situations, Xiao Chen looked indifferently upon many things. Depending on others was ‘nothingness’; only depending on oneself was ‘real’⁵. He originally thought that the clan and his father was this lifetime’s greatest supporters. But now that he had been abandoned by the clan and his father went missing, his own strength was his top priority.

Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei sat on the table by the side, lowering their heads to eat breakfast. Cheng Mengying didn’t know what to say; Tang Tang being here made her feel very awkward.

“Cousin Mengying, brother-in-law seems to want to **!” Jin Beibei said as she looked towards the busy Xiao Chen and Tang Tang.

“You should care about something more useful.” Cheng Mengying didn’t want to bring up this topic: “Have you finished eating? If you’re finished eating, we’ll go back!”

“Oh, I already finished eating, it’s cousin Mengying that hasn’t finished eating.” Jin Beibei pointed at the deep-fried breadstick in Cheng Mengying’s plate and said.

“I’ll pack it up!” Cheng Mengying replied.

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Shen Jingxuan looked at the traffic accident site and was scared silly. She had already contacted her father Shen Zhenghao.

Shen Zhenghao is the person in charge of Songning City in Shen Clan. Although Shen Clan is a colossus, its foundation wasn’t in Songning City. Even though it put many investments in Songning City, if it truly wanted to establish themselves here, it would have to establish an aristocratic clan branch. That meant that it had to win over the support of some local major influences.

Shen Clan thought highly of Chen Clan and it naturally wasn’t because Chen Clan was very formidable; on the contrary, Chen Clan wasn’t the most formidable. What it cared about was that Chen Clan’s young master didn’t have an engagement!

Of course, the one without an engagement wasn’t just Chen Clan. Rather, it was also because of the strength that Chen Clan’s Chen Jinkun possessed, so much so that he could loftily regard other aristocratic clan juniors. It was these two conditions that made it⁶ agree. In that way, Chen Jinkun naturally became Shen Zhenghao’s chosen object. This is also how Shen Jingxuan became engaged.

However, what he didn’t expect was that just as this matter was settled, Shen Jinkun would unexpectedly die! Wasn’t this too coincidental?

When Shen Zhenghao arrived at the scene, Chen Jinkun’s father, Chen Zhantian, had also just arrived. Although Chen Zhantian was a person who practiced martial arts, now that his son had died an unnatural death, it as hard for him to resist the sorrow in his heart, causing his entire person to shiver.

He⁷ nodded towards Shen Jingxuan, then quickly stepped straight to the site of the traffic accident. But over here, the traffic police were already processing the traffic accident.

“I am the deceased’s father……how did this come about?” Chen Zhantian asked the traffic police handling the accident.

Chen Zhantian is Songning City’s celebrity, the chairman of Chen’s Public Security and Products Conglomerate. A lot of police equipment was manufactured from Chen’s Conglomerate, so the team leader in this traffic police squadron naturally recognized Chen Zhantian.

This accident is very important; just the value of vehicle that caused the accident was worth several million. Therefore, this team leader personally handled the accident. However, what he didn’t expect was that the person who died in the accident was actually Chen Clan’s young master!

“President Chen, you’re saying……the one that died in the accident is……” Captain Zhong became scared, he didn’t expect that the influence of the deceased was very large.

“Yes, so how did this come about?” Chen Zhantian didn’t wish to get angry, after all, these people were unrelated. He wanted to clarify the truth of the matter, as well as draw support from these people.

“President Chen, it’s like this: according to the eyewitnesses’ statement, your son’s car was originally travelling along at a regular speed, but it suddenly went out of control, making its way to the back of the garbage truck……” Captain Zhong presented.

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“You……” Tang Tang didn’t think that Chen Jinkun¹ would directly begin and was dumbfounded for a moment.

Originally, Xiao Chen wanted to disguise himself and used his ‘readily-available’ anger-restraining young master exterior, but at this moment, Xiao Chen truly was at his last straw. Those bills that hit Tang Tang’s face seemed to be hitting Xiao Chen’s heart. He was unable to deal with any offending Chen Clan or not, in any case, he already offended several clans, so he might as well add a Chen Clan. Xiao Chen easily lifted up the deep fryer that was deep frying deep-fried breadsticks, then went to splashing it towards Chen Jinkun’s head!

Tang Tang didn’t expect that Xiao Chen would make such an extreme action. She recognized Chen Jinkun, and knew that if Xiao Chen really poured this boiler oil, then even if Chen Jinkun was a Third Layer Martialist, he would be scalded. Being disfigured was a definite, so Tang Tang anxiously held Xiao Chen from behind at once: “Xiao Chen, don’t be impulsive……”

But Chen Jinkun was also frightened; he didn’t expect that Xiao Chen would unexpectedly dare to do such. He thought that Xiao Chen would be an enduring turtle all throughout! A wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him; although he was very angry, while Tang Tang was being a cushion, he took advantage of this opportunity to avoid this and hurriedly left the deep-fried breadstick stall **.

“Hu……” Xiao Chen set down the deep fryer and let out a mouthful of foul air. Although he had that moment of impulse a moment ago, in this moment, he had already calmed down. There were plenty of methods to deal with Chen Jinkun, and it wasn’t necessarily to insist on giving people a reason to injure him.

“Xiao Chen, what do you want to do! This much money, we can also earn, it’s nothing serious!” The one who received grievance was Tang Tang, but it was also Tang Tang consoling Xiao Chen.

In a place not far away, Cheng Mengying and Shen Jingxuan were feeling embarrassed and at a complete loss; they didn’t think such a matter would occur. Without doubt, they also understood that Chen Jinkun’s way of handling things was indeed somewhat excessive.

Of course, in Cheng Mengying’s heart, she still felt somewhat uncomfortable. What is Xiao Chen’s meaning, to seethe with anger for young beauties? First Lin Ke’er, then Shen Jingxuan, and now Tang Tang, am I really that inferior? How come he doesn’t get angry for me? In any case, am I not his previous fiancée?

On the other hand, Jin Beibei was engrossed in looking at Xiao Chen, looking pensive.

“Hmph! Xiao Chen, you’re good. I came with good intentions to cheer you on and deliver you money, and you guys give this attitude! I feel that it would be better if your breakfast stall wasn’t open! Tomorrow I will call over my buddies to come over; let’s see how you do business then!” The ‘buddies’ that Chen Jinkun were speaking about naturally was a group of dandies. These people didn’t excel in anything else besides stirring up trouble with people. If these people came, how would Xiao Chen be able to do any business?

With regards to Chen Jinkun’s manner, Cheng Mengying was somewhat unhappy, but she couldn’t publicly express support to Xiao Chen. But at this time, Chen Jinkun pointed his attack at Tang Tang: “Fat girl, are you Xiao Chen’s girlfriend? It seems like he quite cares about you? Very good, tomorrow, maybe he’ll be even more concerned about you!”

To speak about how Chen Jinkun usually was, it could be said that he was a relatively steady person. Although he somewhat had the aura of a dandy, he still knew propriety. Today he was truly angered to stupidity and spoke these words. Of course, it shouldn’t be thought that he had said these words casually, because he kept his promises!

“Jingxuan, Cheng Mengying, wait here for me, I’ll go to a five-star hotel to buy breakfast. We can eat over here and let Xiao Chen, this kid, take a look. If there’s no butcher, how can I eat a plucked pig?” After Chen Jinkun finished speaking, he furiously got into his Bugatti Veyron. The engine rumbling sounded out, but the car was unable to directly leave the morning market street.

Chen Jinkun couldn’t endure this tone. Formerly, he didn’t deal with Xiao Chen because at that time, there was the halo of Xiao Chen being the eldest young master of the Xiao Clan. But now, there weren’t many taboos. As long as he didn’t move Xiao Chen in front of Shen Jingxuan and Cheng Mengying, it was fine.

“Is this Chen Laosan? I am Chen Jinkun!” While Chen Jinkun was on the car, he directly dialed the telephone of one of Chen Clan’s disciples, Chen Laosan.

“Young master Kun, it’s me, what instruction do you have?” When Chen Laosan received Chen Jinkun’s call, he promptly became incomparably respectful. He knew that Chen Jinkun was Chen Clan’s next generation successor, so if he wanted to continue staying in a prosperous position in Chen Clan, it was necessary for him to curry favor with Chen Jinkun.

“Find several people for me to come to the morning market street tomorrow and smash Xiao Chen’s vendor stall. Smash the people into handicaps, but don’t kill them. The fat girl on the side, find some little brothers to gangrape² her!” Chen Jinkun instructed with a cold voice.

“Xiao……Xiao Chen?” Chen Laosan stared blankly for a moment. He naturally knew Xiao Chen, and also knew the grudges between Xiao Chen and Chen Jinkun. Even now, the second young master Chen Jinpeng and Xiao Chen’s falling out matter, he also knew. But he was bewildered, how did Xiao Chen end up going to sell breakfast?

“Right, Xiao Chen is in the morning market street selling breakfast. You go fix him up for me!” Chen Jinkun replied: “Okay, do the matter like this!”

“Yes, I understand!” Chen Laosan is one of Chen Clan’s work affairs disciple. He operated a public security firm under his hand and its³ nature was half white, half black. For this kind of matter, Chen Jinkun naturally would call on him.

After hanging up the call, Chen Jinkun started the car and left for the five-star hotel to buy breakfast⁴……

But on the side, Xiao Chen seemed to be calmly deep frying deep-fried breadsticks, but vicious qi suddenly burst forth in his heart! The words that Chen Jinkun had spoke inside the car, Xiao Chen had heard them clearly. He’s a Truth Cultivator; this distance was no problem for him.

With regards to finding trouble with him, Xiao Chen actually didn’t feel anything; different situations called for different actions. But Chen Jinkun’s last couple of words caused Xiao Chen’s just-suppressed anger to burst out again.

You want to put your hands on Tang Tang? Look for some people to gangrape Tang Tang? Very good, let’s see if people listen to your words once you’re dead! In Xiao Chen’s eyes right now, there already wasn’t any clan restriction. If you want to mess with my friend, I’ll kill⁵ you first.

“Tang Tang, substitute me for a while, I’m going to the restroom.” Xiao Chen said to Tang Tang without batting an eyelid.

“Okay.” Tang Tang simply didn’t think too much. After all, after a person eats mixed grain rice, who wouldn’t need to go to the bathroom? Last time, Xiao Chen had also gone to the bathroom.

Cheng Mengying watched Xiao Chen leaving and clenched her teeth: “Xiao Chen……”

When Xiao Chen took a look at the young lady, how could he know understand her meaning? He gave her a faint smile, expressing that it was sufficient goodwill. This made Cheng Mengying’s heart relax, apparently Xiao Chen understood her difficulties.

However, Xiao Chen didn’t have any extra time to say anything with Cheng Mengying. He feigned the appearance of his stomach hurting and hurriedly left the morning market street.

“Tian Lao, which direction did he go in?” Xiao Chen inwardly asked.

“He went to the left of the morning market street.” Tian Lao naturally knew Xiao Chen’s thoughts: “I say Little Chenzi, you aren’t going to move him on the main street, will you? The receiving party is but a Third Layer Inner Strength Martialist. Although you have odds of success, your odds of success isn’t that too large.”

“There’s no need to move him, it’ll be fine if you, Tian Lao, lend me a hand in a moment.” Xiao Chen wasn’t foolish. Fighting Chen Jinkun on the streets, wasn’t that equivalent to exposing his strength to the public? The current Xiao Chen didn’t want to prematurely expose his strength.

Xiao Chen came out of the morning market street, then walked to the left-hand direction, searched for a covert roadside bench, and sat down. Since Chen Jinkun had left from this side, then he would definitely return from this side, so Xiao Chen absolutely didn’t need to be worried about not seeing Chen Jinkun.

Chen Jinkun was fearing that Shen Jingxuan and the others would be waiting for too long, so he hurriedly came⁶ and hurriedly went. He bought four sets of high-quality soybean milk and deep-fried breadsticks at the hotel, then immediately drove the car back. His vehicle was a sports car, and because there weren’t many cars on the road first thing at dawn during the weekend, the sports car’s superiority was very obvious.

Suddenly, Xiao Chen opened his eyes. In the distance, a silver Bugatti Veyron had already entered the scope of his perception. This actually was thanks to Chen Jinkun; if not for his vehicle being extremely dazzling, it wouldn’t have been this easy for Xiao Chen to discover it.

“Tian Lao, help me make Chen Jinkun drive his car to knock against that garbage truck on the opposite road.” A cold and detached glint flashed through Xiao Chen’s eyes.

“Haha, I knew that you, Little Chenzi, wouldn’t be so impulsive. Just a moment ago, I was puzzled, what you wanted me to help with, so it turns out that you wanted me to help you like this!” Tian Lao was previously a person from the Cultivating World, and over there, there were no cars and such, so he simply didn’t think of the matter of making Chen Jinkun dying via traffic accident. Therefore, he was very baffled, but with the response right now, it turned out that Xiao Chen wanted to kill him without touching him.

Influencing a Third Layer Martialist was an instantaneous decision. With regards to Tian Lao, it could be said to be something very easy. Chen Jinkun’s silver sports car suddenly changed direction, made a beeline for the opposite road, and stopped on the roadside. Just at that time, the garbage truck’s rear end knocked against it.

“Bang——”

The traffic accident happened in a split second; it was but a wink of labor. The Bugatti Veyron was totally destroyed under the truck’s rear end, and Chen Jinkun head was also instantaneously crushed by the impact.

In a flash, the roadside was drenched with blood. Beside the truck, the worker operating the garbage truck’s rear loader was already terrified upon seeing the bloodstain and fragments on the ground, not knowing what to do.

In the end, a Third Layer Inner Strength Martialist was too weak. By being crushed under pressure, there was absolutely no hopes in returning alive.

Xiao Chen was disinclined to take more than one glance. He got up from the bench, then quickly ran towards the morning market street.

After returning to the breakfast stall, Xiao Chen feigned a nonchalant appearance. Seeing Tang Tang rushing around and brow beaded with sweat, a burst of a peculiar feeling appeared in his heart. It was still the working people that were the most lovely: “Tang Tang, is it too busy? I’m here.”

As Xiao Chen was speaking, he skillfully took the work in Tang Tang’s hands. Meanwhile, both Cheng Mengying and Shen Jingxuan were somewhat awkwardly standing in a place not far away. They couldn’t exactly leave, yet they couldn’t exactly not leave. They also didn’t know what damnable thing Chen Jinkun was doing, leaving for so long and not returning.

As for Jin Beibei, it was unknown where she went. It was reckoned that she had gone to stroll along the morning market street. She previously hadn’t come to this kind of place, so she was naturally full of curiosity.

After a while, Jin Beibei suddenly ran back panting with both her hands supporting her chest, gasping for breath: “Not good, not good, a major event occurred! My chest nearly ran off……”

Although Jin Beibei’s voice wasn’t loud, it still attracted several nearby young men’s peculiar visions. Cheng Mengying’s face immediately blackened and she glared at Jin Beibei’s eyes: “Beibei, are you sick? Can your chest running away be considered a major event? Won’t there be no problem if you don’t run?”

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“He……” When Cheng Mengying spoke of Xiao Chen, she was somewhat helpless in her heart, but on the surface, she naturally couldn’t display her concern for Xiao Chen. If only Shen Jingxuan was here with her, it wouldn’t be too bad to speak about. But now that there was the outsider Chen Jinkun, she naturally had to put on a cold face and say: “Seems like he went to sell breakfast.”

“Sell breakfast?” Shen Jingxuan slightly stared blankly, but Chen Jinkun also stared blankly. Why is Xiao Chen selling breakfast?

“Oh, sheltering him here is already pretty good and he shouldn’t count on me giving him money. If he wants to live, he should earn his own money.” Cheng Mengying coldly said: “But since he’s such a waste young master, then he also doesn’t have any abilities, and can only be obliged to sell breakfast.”

Shen Jingxuan naturally knew that Cheng Mengying wasn’t this kind of cold-blooded person. Her speaking like this was probably due to some reason, but now that there was the hinderance known as Chen Jinkun, she didn’t have any means to ask for a clear understanding and could only say: “That Xiao Chen is really pitiful, Mengying, although he wasn’t too good previously and always attracted your anger, he’s now gone down in the world. Wouldn’t it be bad for us to not in the least be concerned?”

Shen Jingxuan had this kind of disposition, so her speaking out like this wouldn’t make people feel that it was inappropriate. In particular, when Chen Jinkun heard Shen Jingxuan’s words, a plan popped up in his heart. Remaining calm and collected, he smiled and said: “Since it’s like this, then how about we go to the place where he’s selling breakfast? We can go pay him a visit, eat some breakfast, and even assist him!”

Chen Jinkun’s true goal was to go humiliate him, as well as let Shen Jingxuan see that this type of trash simply wasn’t fit for pursuing her! Of course, Chen Jinkun didn’t think Shen Jingxuan was moved by Xiao Chen from the start, but he was a narrow-minded person and was fond of being jealous.

It was needless to say that Shen Jingxuan knew what disposition that Chen Jinkun had, since the two had been acquainted for so long. Although they weren’t explicitly together before, Shen Jingxuan still paid quite a lot of attention to Chen Jinkun, this person that was very likely to be chosen to be connected through marriage. So just as she wanted to refuse, what she didn’t expect was that Cheng Mengying would first open her mouth: “That’s fine, this young lady just happened to want to take a look at Xiao Chen’s ‘in-dire-straits’ appearance! Hmph!”

In reality, the young lady’s true thoughts was something she herself wasn’t too sure about. She wanted to understand how Xiao Chen’s present life was, she wanted to take a look at how he and Tang Tang sold breakfast every day.

Chen Jinkun feared that no one would support him to go humiliate Xiao Chen a moment ago, but now seeing Cheng Mengying’s attitude, he immediately felt relieved. At that time, even if Shen Jingxuan wasn’t happy, he could depend on her best friend to convince her.

The three people walked out the villa together.

When Chen Jinkun realized that his silver Bugatti Veyron sports car was a two-seater vehicle and that the young lady didn’t have a car, it made him feel somewhat embarrassed: “That……how about Jingxuan, you and Cheng Mengying drive, and I take a taxi to go there?”

Just as it was getting awkward, a Beetle car stopped in front of the villa; it was Jin Beibei’s car!

“Cousin Mengying, isn’t today the day we go buy a car?” Jin Beibei rolled down the car window and yelled: “Elder sister Jingxuan also came!”

“It’s Beibei!” Shen Jingxuan recognized Jin Beibei and greeted her.

Chen Jinkun complexion slightly changed. Regarding Jin Beibei, this little demoness, he had heard about and didn’t wish to have any dealings with her, and merely sent out a greeting in courtesy: “Miss Jin came.”

Jin Beibei glanced at Chen Jinkun, obviously not acknowledging his meaning. Rather, her gaze turned towards Cheng Mengying, inquiring her ‘what is going on’.

“Jingxuan, it just happens that I can sit on Beibei’s car, how about you guys go ahead?” Cheng Mengying looked towards Jin Beibei and said.

“That’s also fine……” Shen Jingxuan nodded and sat in Chen Jinkun’s car.

Cheng Mengying also opened the door of the Beetle and sat down by Jin Beibei’s side. The two cars slowly started up and drove towards the direction of the morning market in tandem.

“Cousin Mengying, where are you guys going?” Jin Beibei was still confused up until now. She only knew that she had to drive following after Chen Jinkun, but didn’t know what the destination was.

“Jingxuan and Chen Jinkun want to take a look at Xiao Chen……” As she was speaking, Cheng Mengying went on to repeat what the several of them spoke before to Jin Beibei, then reminded: “Beibei, don’t chaotically shout in a moment. If we let people know that our and Xiao Chen’s relationship is pretty good, my family will definitely be unhappy. Therefore, you understand……”

“Don’t worry cousin Mengying, I’m not a fool, calling brother-in-law at home is fine. You should feel at ease, I won’t speak out your secret.” Jin Beibei patted her swaying chest and replied.

“You……what secret do I have!” Cheng Mengying immediately became annoyed, but didn’t dare to retort. She feared that if she retorted, Jin Beibei would say some inappropriate words.

The two cars stopped in front of the morning market street in tandem. Jin Beibei’s Beetle actually wasn’t too eye-catching, after all, cars worth 300,000 truly wasn’t considered anything grand nowadays. However, Chen Jinkun’s Bugatti Veyron sports car was somewhat cool, dazzling, and conspicuous.

Inside the morning market were vendor stalls and hawkers. Although some cars stopped by the roadside and their drivers went to buy breakfast, it was their first time seeing such a luxurious car!

Just as everybody was guessing what these people wanted to do, they didn’t expect that the four people would get out of their cars and directly move towards Xiao Chen and Tang Tang’s breakfast stall! The other hawkers couldn’t help but sigh, this deep-fried breadstick unexpectedly had such profit? Even second-generation rich who operate sports vehicles came by?

Xiao Chen naturally saw Chen Jinkun and the others. He wrinkled his brows; he didn’t think that the young lady and Jin Beibei, as well as Shen Jingxuan, would unexpectedly come. What were they doing coming over, to mock him?

If it was before, Xiao Chen would definitely think like this. But now that he understood the young lady’s disposition, he knew that the young lady absolutely wasn’t that kind of shallow person, so he decided to take a look before saying again.

Xiao Chen didn’t pay any attention and skillfully went towards the deep-fryer to admit the breadsticks. Although Tang Tang had also caught sight of Cheng Mengying and the others, she also didn’t know what this group of people coming over wanted to do. Since Xiao Chen didn’t speak, she naturally continued selling deep-fried breadsticks.

Actually, when Shen Jingxuan appeared, it made Xiao Chen’s heart slightly tremble. This was his……former truly somewhat liked girl, her gentle and soft temperament, genial smile. She was the number one goddess in all the male student’s minds in school.

But now, things changed with the passage of time. Xiao Chen knew his weight, so he concealed these thoughts into the bottom of his heart, not even daring to give her an extra glance.

“Hehe, isn’t this young master Xiao? I truly can’t see my previous brother. Xiao Chen, you’re an elegant person on the inside ah, hiding such a supreme skill in your body, having a miracle to protect your body. This deep frying deep-fried breadstick is simply better than a five star hotel’s!”

Although Chen Jinkun’s words seemed to be praising Xiao Chen on the surface, it was actually making cutting remarks towards Xiao Chen. How could Xiao Chen not hear it?

An indignant look surfaced on Xiao Chen’s face. Both of his hands shivered, and he nearly lifted up the deep fryer to splash it onto Chen Jinkun’s face. Of course, he was pretending; to tell the truth, he hadn’t paid attention to Chen Jinkun from the start.

Although Chen Clan’s people were repulsive, they were more easier to deal with compared to those concealed behind-the-scenes people who wanted to cause him to die. Xiao Chen was currently only maintaining his previous character. If he made other people become aware that he was still very calm even though he was in dire straits, then who wouldn’t believe that he had some reason?

Xiao Chen didn’t want to prematurely expose the fact that he was a Truth Cultivator.

“Many thanks for your praise.” Xiao Chen deeply breathed in a breath and seemed to calm down his mood. However, his following words seemed to bring the taste of gunpowder: “If you want to buy, go to the back to line up. If you don’t want to buy, then don’t stand here and be a hindrance.”

Xiao Chen’s action made Chen Jinkun feel unwell! If it was substituted for the previous Xiao Chen, he would definitely explode, but now, he could only swallow his anger and use ‘line up’ to counter attack. However, did he need to line up?

Chen Jinkun straightforwardly took out five 100 RMB bills, shook it before Xiao Chen’s eyes and said: “Give brother four sets of soybean milk and deep-fried breadstick!”

“Go to the back to line up.” Xiao Chen coldly replied.

“Yes, why are you people cutting the line? We have lined up for a long time, but are we like you?” After Xiao Chen spoke like this, the customers lined up in the back immediately became discontent.

“I’ll buy with a higher price, so why should I line up? If you have the capability, you can also spend more ah¹? If you can spend a thousand, I’ll definitely let you buy first, how about it? If you don’t have money, shut up!” In order to humiliate Xiao Chen, Chen Jinkun naturally couldn’t let it pass like this.

But, Xiao Chen seemed to not especially long for the 500 RMB in his hands. Xiao Chen’s appearance after going down in the world and becoming a poor-***, unexpectedly wasn’t moved? Pretending, absolutely pretending!

Chen Jinkun felt that Xiao Chen young master’s face was definitely flaring up. He probably felt embarrassed to accept his charity, so he tried a little harder: “1000 RMB, give me four sets, hurry up!”

“Go to the back to line up!” Xiao Chen still replied with a half-raised head.

“Xiao Chen, stop being concerned about face, what person do you think you are? If not for considering Mengying’s face, would I still come over here to have a meal?” Chen Jinkun’s face was somewhat unable to hang. He had come to humiliate Xiao Chen, but lost his face to this breakfast seller, Xiao Chen, instead! In his opinion, him taking out money to pay Xiao Chen was something that Xiao Chen should be welcoming with a smiling face and fawning. Could it be that he wasn’t short of money? That was impossible, if he wasn’t short of money, then he wouldn’t be selling any damn breakfast!

“5000 RMB! Consider brother bestowing it to you!”

“Uncle, how many deep-fried breadsticks do you want?” Although Tang Tang sucked in her tongue at Chen Jinkun’s “nouveau riche” behavior, since Xiao Chen clearly didn’t want this money, Tang Tang naturally also wouldn’t want it. She directly crossed over Chen Jinkun and asked the uncle behind him.

“10 RMB worth.” The uncle handed over a 10 RMB bill and replied to Tang Tang.

“Okay!” Tang Tang nodded and began skillfully weighing.

Chen Jinkun’s complexion was terribly gloomy in this moment. It wasn’t good for him to punch and beat up Xiao Chen in front of Shen Jingxuan. After all, he was here to flatter her and it wasn’t good for him to beat up Xiao Chen, so Tang Tang became his venting object!

“Smelly *****, did you not hear me?” Chen Jinkun was burning with anger. He smashed down folded bills directly onto Tang Tang’s face and a clear ‘pa’ sound echoed: “Hurry up and give me four sets of deep-fried breadstick and soybean milk!”

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The next day.

It is a Saturday and also the first weekend that Xiao Chen and the young lady experienced after co-renting.

But Xiao Chen had gotten up at the crack of dawn and immediately ** left the villa; Saturday was also a day to go sell breakfast. Moreover, not only was it to sell breakfast, but also to sell food for the entire day! It was very difficult to get a day of not going to school, so Tang Tang naturally wanted to earn a bit more money.

Every previous weekend, Tang Tang had spent her time this way, but this was the first time with Xiao Chen.

“Tang Tang, how come there’s so much flour?” When Xiao Chen arrived at the auntie’s grocery store, he just happened to see how many things were on top of Tang Tang’s tricycle. When he saw this enormous amount of dough flour, he couldn’t help but be astonished!

This was more than triple of what they usually got in the morning; who was Tang Tang going to sell this to?

“We can sell breakfast until noon today. During the weekend, many office workers have a long lazy sleep and get up at noon. Since the time to sell so long, it’s only natural to prepare some more!” Tang Tang explained: “Don’t worry, with your capability, selling this much flour is a mere trifle!”

Xiao Chen thought that it was right. Selling some more was some more money, but he was still somewhat puzzled: “Then we’re still selling breakfast in the afternoon?”

“Naturally we won’t sell that in the afternoon; we’ll be selling fried dough twists in the afternoon. The amount of flour that I prepare ordinarily is only ⅓ at most of what I’ve prepared today. However, now that you’re a deep-fried breadstick prince, the amount of fried dough twists being sold might also be a lot, so I prepared some more.” Tang Tang patted Xiao Chen’s shoulder: “Buddy, it’s all up to you! Don’t you currently have a lot of western-style lunches and western-style pig feet? You’ll immediately become a deep-fried breadstick and fried dough twist prince! Such a handsome lady-killer frying deep-fried breadsticks is very rare, and are very popular as opposed to those aunts or whatever……”

“Pft……” After Xiao Chen heard Tang Tang’s words, he immediately became speechless. However, his hands didn’t stop and incessantly helped Tang Tang move things onto the vehicle.

Xiao Chen was in the front pedalling the vehicle while Tang Tang sat in the back. The breeze blew past and scattered Tang Tang’s bangs. Tang Tang tidied up her hair and looked at Xiao Chen’s back, a trace of happiness emerging in her heart.

Just at this moment, a black limousine passed by the two’s side. The person driving the vehicle was a boss-style man, while the person sitting in the copilot seat was a book bag carrying student.

That student said: “Papa, look, those two people are very young ah. They really work hard, selling breakfast first thing in the morning……”

“Yes, this is the fate of those who don’t properly study. You think that it’s exhausting when I bring you to make up for a missed lesson in the early morning. Now, how you seen what is really called ‘exhausting’? If you don’t properly study, you’ll be just like them when you grow up; having no other choice but to rise early to sell breakfast and go to sleep late……” The boss-style man preached.

On this early peaceful morning, there weren’t many vehicles on the road. Since Xiao Chen is a Truth Cultivator, his sight and hearing is outstanding. When Xiao Chen all of the sudden heard the conversation of the father and son on the car, he became quite dumbfounded, I’ve turned into the other party’s teaching material? Looking towards that black limousine, Xiao Chen helpless shook his head. When he was formerly in Xiao Clan, this kind of several hundred thousand car was something he disdained to drive. There were several sports cars worth tens of millions though……

“But……I think that they’re pretty good, look at that older sister happily smiling……” The schoolchild said.

“What happiness? Look at her pig-like appearance, if you don’t properly study, then afterward you’ll also marry this kind of wife!” The boss put on a serious face and said: “Nowadays, a beautiful woman would rather sit in a grand car and cry than sit on the back of a tricycle and happily smile. Only this kind of person would smile!”

“Oh……” That schoolchild nodded in half-understanding.

Beforehand when Xiao Chen was being used as a negative teaching material, he indeed was in dire straits and didn’t fear others’ words. However, when this person went as far as to scold Tang Tang, it caused Xiao Chen to be at the end of his patience. He glanced to the side and saw a shattered triangle-shaped metal on a place not far away. As a result, Xiao Chen feigned a nonchalant appearance as he rode and used some strength to kick that triangle-shaped metal towards the small limousine’s tire ahead of them.

Only hearing a ‘whoosh’ sound, a big hole appeared as that tire was pierced by that triangle-shaped metal. The right rear wheel shriveled in a flash……

That boss had no means and had no alternative except to pull up to inspect it. When Xiao Chen cycled past him, he faintly smiled: “Sometimes a tricycle is more useful than a small limousine.”

When the boss heard Xiao Chen’s words, he was somewhat bewildered. He didn’t know
that Xiao Chen had heard their previous conversation and also didn’t know that the wheel was burst by Xiao Chen, so he glared at Xiao Chen: “Who asked you to care!”

Xiao Chen didn’t respond to him and rode away on his vehicle.

“Xiao Chen, what did you say with the person just now?” Tang Tang was somewhat confused. She felt Xiao Chen wasn’t that kind of person who liked to spontaneously provoke and speak sarcastically. Could it be that the young master’s superiority feeling was offended?

“He cursed you.” Xiao Chen said.

“Cursed me?” Tang Tang stared blankly for a moment.

“He told his son that if he didn’t properly in the future, he would become like me pedalling on a tricycle and marry a wife like you.” Xiao Chen explained.

“Like me……” Tang Tang wasn’t stupid. She immediately understood Xiao Chen’s meaning; so it turned out that Xiao Chen had heard that person mocking her appearance!

“Haha, but I think you’re very good.” Xiao Chen smiled: “Actually, what he said was right; the two of us can be considered to be well-matched.”

Xiao Chen feared that Tang Tang would be unhappy, so he disparaged himself.

“It’s fine Xiao Chen, I’m not that weak. What you said is right, the two of us really are quite well-matched, haha……” Tang Tang said with a smile.

The two people bantered around with each other and arrived at the morning market street. Xiao Chen nimbly arranged their vendor stall and began a new day¹.

Not long after the breakfast vendor stall was set up, it became filled with many people. The surrounding several breakfast stalls both extremely admired and hatefully envied Tang Tang. It was just that Tang Tang would leave after the morning, so they usually wouldn’t particularly repel Tang Tang.

But it was different on the weekend; these peoples’ eyes were red with envy. Only these people whose skill was worse than them didn’t have any pretext to find trouble with them. These people could only first endure.

When the young lady woke up², it was already 8 o’clock. Furthermore, she was woken up by the noise of a phone call; the person telephoning was her best friend, Shen Jingxuan.

“Mengying, are you living a good ** life with Xiao Chen?” Shen Jingxuan said with a laugh.

“Jingxuan, what are you saying? How can it be **? He’s my servant, okay?” When Cheng Mengying heard her best friend call, she immediately became energetic.

“Then you aren’t living together?” Shen Jingxuan smilingly said: “Do you have time today? I’ll go to take a look at how you’re doing?”

Shen Jingxuan was actually very helpless. Shen Clan had issued her a mission today; to visit as a guest to Chen Clan’s Chen Jinkun. Shen Clan wanting Shen Jingxuan to accompany Chen Jinkun to walk around outside could be considered to be the clan wanting them to understand each other.

To tell the truth, Chen Clan’s Chen Jinkun pursuing Shen Jingxuan wasn’t a secret and Shen Clan quite supported this person, Chen Jinkun. He was so young, yet was already a Third Layer Inner Strength Martialist. His future prospects was limitless so Shen Clan made this statement to approve of the two clans’ matters.

Today could be considered the formal definite Shen Clan and Chen Clan’s connection through marriage. Therefore, no matter if the person involved, Shen Jingxuan, agreed or not, or had any contradictions, as a Shen Clan person, it was compulsory for her to abide by her elder’s wishes.

Shen Clan wanted to expand their influence in Songning City and Chen Clan was a pretty good choice, so used this connection through marriage.

Although Shen Jingxuan knew she was unable to defy this kind of matter, just like this previous Cheng Mengying and Xiao Chen, now that this matter had fallen onto her head, she was still utterly unhappy.

She didn’t plan to be together with Chen Jinkun alone. Even if they were going to be together in the future, she didn’t plan for it right now. Therefore, she thought up an idea; that was exactly to pay a visit to Cheng Mengying together with Chen Jinkun. This was a high-sounding justification, so Chen Jinkun definitely wouldn’t reject.

As expected, when Shen Jingxuan raised this request, Chen Jinkun didn’t refuse, rather refreshingly agreed.

Actually, Chen Jinkun had his own plans. In his opinion, if he was able to cultivate affection with Shen Jingxuan, it didn’t matter where they went. Going to Cheng Mengying’s home was fine, going to the playground or cinema was also fine; doing it in accordance to Shen Jingxuan’s wishes also showed his elegant demeanor.

Moreover, the most important was that Chen Jinkun couldn’t cope with Xiao Chen! He was Shen Jingxuan’s pursuer and Xiao Chen also was. Xiao Chen publicly expressed himself liking Shen Jingxuan many times, so it could be considered that Chen Jinkun hated Xiao Chen to the marrow of his bones.

Of course, there was also the reason of his younger brother Chen Jinpeng. Chen Jinpeng and Chen Jinkun couldn’t deal with each other, but they were born from the same roots, why conflict with each other? But many big clans were like this; there could be only one successor, so internecine strife often occurred.

Although Chen Jinpeng already wasn’t Xiao Chen’s little brother, Chen Jinkun and Xiao Chen’s enmity still hadn’t dissolved. Since an opportunity to ridicule at Xiao Chen had come, how could Chen Jinkun let it slip by?

“Ah? You want to come over? Great, I just happened to be bored, come over!” Hearing that Shen Jingxuan wanted to come over, Cheng Mengying naturally agreed cheerfully.

After finishing the call, Cheng Mengying got up to wash her face and brush her teeth. As soon as she finished dressing up, the rumbling of a car’s engine sounded from outside the villa. She took a look outside the window and saw a Bugatti navigation sports car stopped at the gate of the villa.

Shen Jingxuan and Chen Jinkun got out of the car and when seeing them, Cheng Mengying slightly wrinkled her brows. Chen Jinkun also coming was actually somewhat contrary to Cheng Mengying’s expectations. Although Shen Jingxuan and Chen Jinkun shouting together was very loud, the elders of their respective clans hadn’t stepped up. Now that they were together in public, it may be assumed that this matter should be settled.

Thinking of Shen Jingxuan also undergoing the worries of a connection through marriage, Cheng Mengying inwardly let out a sigh, then went to open the door for them.

“Mengying, I missed you to death!” Shen Jingxuan immediately smiled faintly after she went in and gave Cheng Mengying a hug. As for Chen Jinkun, he stood confident and at ease on the side and gave a smiling nod to Cheng Mengying.

“Jingxuan, you two?” Although Cheng Mengying already roughly guessed the matter, she still couldn’t help but ask at this moment.

“Young lady Cheng, let me introduce myself, I currently am Jingxuan’s fiancé. I heard that you were Jingxuan’s best friend, so the two of us came to pay a visit.” Chen Jinkun stated.

With regards to him addressing himself as her fiancé, Shen Jingxuan was actually somewhat helpless, but didn’t have any means. Her clan had already agreed to this matter, so what could she do? She had no other choice but to ambiguously interrupt: “Mengying, Xiao Chen?”

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Xiao Chen didn’t have as many thoughts as Cheng Mengying. What Xiao Chen thought of was, The Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist that tracked me today, what is his background?

Since this Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist already tracked him for a day, it showed that he shouldn’t have any malice towards him and should simply want to take a look at him. If it was like this, was this person from Xiao Clan……or someone dispatched by Cheng Clan?

Thinking of these two possibilities, Xiao Chen slightly calmed down in his heart.

If it was Xiao Clan dispatching someone to take a look at how his current situation was, then there had to be some reason. But if it was Cheng Clan, it was naturally to see whether or not he was currently very miserable!

“I’m done eating. I’ll first go to the room to take a look at whether or not the medicinal soup is ready or not. You don’t need to clean up after you’re done eating, I’ll come back after a while to tidy the tableware up.” As Xiao Chen was speaking, he stood up his body and began walking towards his own room.

“Okay……” Cheng Mengying is a lady; she eats very slowly. While Xiao Chen already wolfed down his food and finished, she was still eating slowly.

Xiao Chen returned to his room and looked at the electric earthenware pot. There was still some time before it would be appropriately boiled, thus he lied down on his bed and closed his eyes to rest for a while. These past few days, there were truly too many things happening, making Xiao Chen somewhat unable to digest.

He had transformed from a young master in dire straits into a mysterious as well as flamboyant Truth Cultivator. If this was spoke out, perhaps nobody would believe him. It was just that Xiao Chen’s currently only needed to be low key; even if nobody would believe him, he couldn’t speak irresponsibly.

After waiting a while, the electric earthenware pot automatic power-off beep sounded out, signifying that the boiling medicinal soup was complete. Xiao Chen took out the medicinal soup and directly drained it in one gulp, then began slowly refining the medicinal soup in his stomach using the Seizing Good Fortune War Mantra’s mental mnemonic chant……

Guessing that the time was just about right, that the young lady should have finished eating dinner, Xiao Chen temporarily stopped cultivating and pushed the door open to leave his room. As expected, the young lady already wasn’t inside the living room.

It goes without saying that Xiao Chen thought that Cheng Mengying had gone upstairs to rest in her room. However, when he turned his head to glance about, he unexpectedly discovered that the young lady was inside the kitchen standing before the sink, clumsily washing the tableware!

When had Cheng Mengying ever done these matters inside the house? However, today she was actually taking the initiative and giving it a try. At this very moment, she somewhat admired Xiao Chen; it was truly hard to fathom how he, a young master, changed his mentality and adapted to doing housework!

Of course, these could still be regarded as nothing; Xiao Chen could even go as far as to sell breakfast while she, Cheng Mengying, couldn’t even wash tableware. For a while, she thought that the good-for-nothing wasn’t Xiao Chen, but her.

“You……” Xiao Chen didn’t think that Cheng Mengying would go wash dishes. This made Xiao Chen not know what was good to say. After speaking the word ‘you’, he couldn’t continue on.

But, it would have been fine not to even say it. This word made the originally somewhat flustered young lady frightened and the hand holding the chinaware bowl trembled. The chinaware bowl in her hand slipped and dropped downwards.

‘Pling!’

The sound of the bowl breaking sounded from the floor and it immediately broke and split into many pieces. Yet what was extremely unfortunate was that a fragment directly shot towards her bright and clean foot; blood immediately started flowing out!

“Ya! My foot……” Cheng Mengying cried out in alarm. She looked at her own ‘bobo’ bleeding foot and became somewhat scared, then screeched: “Xiao Chen, you’re a ghost, scaring this Young Lady to death without any warning!”

“Uh……sorry.” Xiao Chen suddenly felt that his head would explode. He didn’t think that him opening his mouth would frighten the young lady, but since this matter had already happened, Xiao Chen could only brace himself and apologize, even though he thought he didn’t make any mistake.

“What use does a ‘sorry’ have? My foot is already injured!” It wasn’t that Cheng Mengying was weak; after all, she was an Ancient Martial Clan’s young lady, and had suffered hardships from childhood; but that she had been frightened into stillness by the blood on her foot! She didn’t fear pain, but felt sick when seeing blood!

“Sorry, I’ll help you get the medicine box……” After Xiao Chen finished speaking, he became slightly distracted. He and the Young Lady had just moved into the villa a few days ago and they hadn’t prepared a medicine box, so where would he go get a medicine box?

Thinking up to here, Xiao Chen had no solutions and had no alternative but to go upstairs and search for Ye Xiaoye, hoping that she had a hemostatic drug-type of thing!

The villa’s second floor.

To tell the truth, besides helping the Young Lady carry things up on the first day, Xiao Chen hadn’t gone up ever since. When he arrived at the second floor, he went up the Ye Xiaoye’s room door and knocked on it.

“Who is it?” Very quickly, Ye Xiaoye’s voice sounded out from inside of the room. Apparently, Ye Xiaoye was home, but just that she hadn’t gone downstairs.

“It’s me, Xiao Chen.” Xiao Chen replied.

‘Ka!’

The door was opened and when it opened, the strong scent of medicinal soup assaulted his senses. However, Xiao Chen was already used to it due to boiling medicine in his own room, so he was actually indifferent to it. Through the dense steam, Xiao Chen could see Ye Xiaoye in a full-body yoga suit, her small face red and filled with perspiration.

Frankly, this was Xiao Chen’s first time seeing such a youthful and agreeable Ye Xiaoye. The previous Ye Xiaoye had a cold face without any expressions, but the Ye Xiaoye at this moment truly resembled a girl at her age.

The yoga suit was very skimpy; besides covering the crucial places, it exposed a large part of her beautiful and white skin.

A girl that practiced martial arts was different. Even though the skin on her body was extremely fair, it was also very tight and didn’t have a bit of unwanted fat, very healthy and beautiful.

“Seen enough? What did you come to do?” Ye Xiaoye’s ice-cold voice pulled Xiao Chen from ** back to reality.

Xiao Chen let out a hollow laugh and asked somewhat embarrassedly: “That is……do you have a medicine box or hemostatic drug for wounds?”

“No.” Ye Xiaoye indifferently replied: “What’s wrong?”

“Cheng Mengying’s foot was lacerated.” Xiao Chen explained: “Since you don’t have, then I’ll go to the pharmacy. Thank you.”

“Wait.” Ye Xiaoye said: “Within the flowerbed downstairs, go to the medicinal herb by the lower left corner. Randomly pull up a strand, chew it, and promptly spread it on the wound. Its effect in stopping bleeding is very good and also won’t leave behind a scar.”

“Ah?” Xiao Chen didn’t expect Ye Xiaoye to plant this kind of herb. He looked slightly distracted for a moment, but immediately nodded and answered: “Okay, thanks a lot!”

Ye Xiaoye didn’t speak any further and closed the door with a ‘bang’.

Xiao Chen helplessly shrugged his shoulders and quickly ran down the stairs. Then he directly rushed out of the villa, went to Ye Xiaoye’s part of the flowerbed and found the medicinal herb that Ye Xiaoye was talking about.

“Hm? This is a Healing Spirit Grass, I didn’t expect that there would be someone growing this here!” Tian Lao’s voice sounded out from beside Xiao Chen’s ear, frightening Xiao Chen.

“What Healing Spirit Grass?” Xiao Chen asked in confusion.

“Nothing, it’s just an extremely low level healing medicinal herb in the Cultivating world.” Tian Lao explained.

“Why are you so surprised at an extremely low level……” Xiao Chen was somewhat speechless. You being this surprised made me terribly frightened.

“Low level goods of the Cultivating world doesn’t represent that it’s commonly seen in the Secular world. A Healing Spirit Grass is very difficult to grow in the Secular world’s kind of environment. Being able to unexpectedly grow here is truly strange!” Tian Lao said.

“Forget it, doesn’t matter if it’s strange or not.” Xiao Chen directly extended his hand and pulled out a strand, then returned to the villa’s kitchen, where the Young Lady was still bleeding!

“Mengying, chew this medicinal herb in your mouth, then apply it onto the location of your wound and it’ll be okay. This is Ye Xiaoye’s medicinal herb and it’s said that its effect is very good and won’t leave behind any scars.” Xiao Chen handed over the Healing Spirit Grass to Cheng Mengying and said.

“Chew? Such a dirty grass with dirt on it, you want me to put it in my mouth??!” Cheng Mengying was angered to the point of widely opening her eyes: “Won’t you help me mash it up?”

Xiao Chen was just about to agree, but at this time, Tian Lao’s voice sounded from beside his ear: “Little Chenzi, you don’t need to waste any effort; mashing it is useless. Healing Spirit Grass requires saliva in order for it to be effective.”

“Eh……Mengying, this medicinal herb requires chewing. It will only have an effect if there’s saliva.” Xiao Chen explained.

“Ah?” Cheng Mengying stared blankly for a moment. She didn’t expect that there would be this kind of view, how come she had never heard of this? Is Xiao Chen deliberately swindling me? But, what advantage would swindling me give him? Cheng Mengying was somewhat unable to understand.

“I say Young Lady, quickly make a decision, your foot……” When Xiao Chen saw Cheng Mengying foolishly staring blankly, he bitterly smiled and reminded her.

“Then you help me chew and apply it, don’t you know that I feel sick at the sight of blood!” Cheng Mengying found an excuse for herself. Although making Xiao Chen chew and apply it on her foot made Cheng Mengying feel strange, she couldn’t pay attention to so many things at this time. Along with actually feeling sick at the sight of blood, she unexpectedly also didn’t want to help herself.

“Feel sick when seeing blood?” This was Xiao Chen’s first time knowing that Cheng Mengying felt sick at the sight of blood. Before, when he was beating up Ma Gangmen in the gym, how come she didn’t look sick at the sight of blood? In reality, what Xiao Chen didn’t know was that when he was hitting Ma Gangmen, the young lady didn’t feel dizzy, but if Ma Gangmen was hitting him, the young lady would immediately feel dizzy!

But, Xiao Chen didn’t ask any further and put the Healing Spirit Grass in his mouth to chew. Then, he applied it over the young lady’s foot. When Xiao Chen’s finger touched the young lady’s foot, her body trembled slightly.

In the olden times, a woman’s feet was the most secretive place and absolutely couldn’t be touched by another other man than her husband. If a man wasn’t careful and touched a woman’s chest or buttocks, it wasn’t too important, but her feet were absolutely something that couldn’t be touched.

In the ancient times, there were many spring-palace paintings where all places of a woman’s body could be naked and revealed except for the feet. Actually, there was never before a painting where a woman was bare-naked; this was sufficient enough to explain how important and secretive this place was.

Although this wasn’t paid attention to in the modern times, Cheng Mengying is an Ancient Martial Clan’s young lady, so she more or less retained the mannerisms of the ancient times. Although she could reveal her bare feet, she still felt very uncomfortable for a man to be touching it.

However, she also knew that Xiao Chen was applying medicine on her, so she endured it……

“Done.” Actually, the wound on the young lady’s foot wasn’t large. It was just that the blood flowing out was quite a lot, causing one to feel frightened. After Xiao Chen cleaned it up and applied the medicine, it wasn’t so scary.

Cheng Mengying looked at her own foot and became somewhat shy. She didn’t express her thanks and quickly dodged to the slide and went upstairs, clearly wanting to hide from Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen thought little of it and tidied up the fragments on the kitchen floor, then continued to finish the work the young lady hadn’t finished.

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“Venerable sir, I am not concerned about who you are. I have already given you face. I am a person from an Ancient Martial Aristocratic Clan, Cheng Clan!” Cheng Zhongfan and Cheng Zhongming were unalike. Cheng Zhongming did business, so he had money in his hands. Although he could take out this 100,000 RMB, his hand wasn’t ample. Spending 100,000 RMB to bring back a pile of waste medicine for no reason, what use would he have for it?

“Yanyan, write out a receipt for this guest!” Grandpa Chen actually paid no attention to Cheng Zhongfan and directly instructed Hong Yan.

“Okay, grandfather.” Hong Yan naturally could hear the difference in grandpa’s mouth when he said “customer” and “guest”. This referred to two different clientele, so the receipt books were also different.

Hong Yan took out a slightly yellowing book that somewhat looked like those trading company’s detailed list from the past. The top didn’t have a lattice, there was only the four big characters “Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce” written on the side.

“It can’t be that you’re forcing us to buy this? Do you not want to mix in Songning City?” The sunglasses male was in a bad mood. We’ve given your small pharmacy a lot of face, yet you truly believe you’re some extraordinary character?

Also, not asking how big of an influence Cheng Clan is in Songning City? If you want to do business here, then offending Cheng Clan means you’ll be in an extremely precarious situation!

However, when Cheng Zhongfan saw those folded banknotes in Hong Yan’s hands, his eyes immediately jumped. He turned around, swung his arm, and gave the sunglasses male a sudden ‘pa!’ slap to his face, causing the sunglasses on his face to be fly off: “Shut up!”

The sunglasses male was slapped stupid by Cheng Zhongfan. He amazedly covered the inflamed half of his face, foolishly standing in spot, not knowing what would be good to say.

But Cheng Zhongfan didn’t pay attention to him. Rather, he politely said to Grandpa Chen: “Sorry for inconveniencing Venerable sir, this subordinate doesn’t understand rules. What you said is right; the medicinal herbs have already been grabbed, if I don’t buy it, then there will be no one buying it.”

“En……” Grandpa Chen naturally knew why Cheng Zhongfan’s about-face change was so big. However, he wasn’t alarmed at strange sights, only snorting to indicate that he knew.

“Still not hurriedly taking out your money? This batch of medicine just happens to be taken back to mend your brain, you eyeless thing!” Cheng Zhongfan berated the sunglasses male.

“Yes, yes……” The sunglasses male hurriedly took out his bank card and carefully handed it over to Hong Yan.

Hong Yan swiped the card and the sunglasses male input his password. Then Cheng Zhongfan took that package of medicine towards the sunglasses male’s chest and gloomily left the pharmacy.

Hong Yan was behind them, covering her mouth trying not to laugh, but Cheng Zhongfan didn’t dare to have the slightest degree of dissatisfaction.

After walking out the door, only then did the sunglasses man very carefully ask: “Brother Fan, what organization is that Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce?”

“Don’t ask what you shouldn’t ask.” Cheng Zhongfan wrinkled his brows, clearly not wanting to speak more. He simply said: “Walk, let’s return.”

In Old Master Cheng’s practice room inside Cheng Clan’s mansion, Cheng Tianqiu was sitting upright on a taishi chair¹. After Cheng Zhongfan returned back to Cheng Clan, the first thing he did was arrive here.

“How’s the investigation? Did Zhongming really turn Xiao Chen into a servant and not secretly give him material assistance?” Cheng Tianqiu faintly asked when he saw Cheng Zhongfan come in.

Cheng Tianqiu wasn’t an idiot; the older one got, the more experienced one was. Although Cheng Zhongming had previously said that he would make Xiao Chen degenerate into a servant and ruin Xiao Chen’s self-esteem, after calming down, Cheng Tianqiu feared that Cheng Zhongming was taking advantage of this justification to secretly aid Xiao Chen!

After all, Cheng Zhongming and Xiao Feng were sworn brothers and there was extremely sincere sentiments between the two². Cheng Zhongming was a person who attached importance to loyalty, so he had Cheng Zhongfan secretly go investigate.

“Father, according to my investigation, Xiao Chen currently is indeed quite miserable. There hasn’t been an indication of big brother helping him in secret.” Although Cheng Zhongfan did want to destroy his big brother’s image in their father’s heart so that he could replace him, he wasn’t an idiot. He knew that if he talked rubbish, father would definitely be skeptical. Thus, no matter whatever he³ did, he would give an impartial point of view to explain the issue in order to give father a just impression.

“Oh? Truly quite miserable?” Cheng Tianqiu was slightly dazed, thinking in his heart ‘Did I think a little too much? Cheng Zhongming is Cheng Clan’s person in the end, representing Cheng Clan’s interest! Even if Xiao Feng is his sworn brother, that’s only swearing brotherhood. What is missing is his own blood younger brother!’

“Yes, it seems like Mengying hasn’t even given Xiao Chen a cent in wages. Xiao Chen is currently impoverished and defeated. He has to wake up at 3 o’clock in the morning every day to go to the morning market street to make a living by selling breakfast……” This was what Cheng Zhongfan had seen with his own eyes and couldn’t speak falsely about it.

“Him? Going to the morning market to sell breakfast?” Cheng Tianqiu was very astonished. A former young master from the Xiao Clan, who didn’t need to worry about clothes or food, unexpectedly went to the morning market to sell breakfast? Who would believe it if told that?

“That’s right. In addition, he is selling breakfast together with Tang Clan’s Tang Tang.” Cheng Zhongfan replied: “It seems like the two people’s relationship is pretty good.”

“Tang Tang……oh, I understand.” Cheng Tianqiu also knew about Tang Clan and Yue Clan’s matters. Now that he heard that Tang Tang and Xiao Chen walked quite closely, his heart relaxed. It seems like Xiao Chen is self-aware that he isn’t fit for Cheng Mengying and went to Tang Tang, who has similar life experiences as him. Actually, Cheng Tianqiu was most afraid that Xiao Chen and Cheng Mengying would become friendlier over time. But now, this possibility was practically none.

“Xiao Chen isn’t a Martialist and was previously a dandy young master, so it is estimated that he is unable to handle standing upright selling for two days. As a matter of fact, he went to a family pharmacy this evening and wanted to get some medicinal supplements to make up for his health.” As Cheng Zhongfan was speaking, he also spoke about the matter of Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce to Cheng Tianqiu.

“This boy’s luck is actually good, to have Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce gift him a batch of medicine for free.” After Cheng Tianqiu finished listening, he shook his head. What this Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce was doing, wasn’t something Cheng Clan could meddle with. Regarding the Martialist circles, there were two big mystical secret organizations that an individual clan could mess with.

One was the Martialist Guild, which was in charge of distributing some Martialist aspect information and smelting trial missions. The other was Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce, which specialized in selling spiritual medicines or treasures and so on to Martialists.

“Yes, that old ******* isn’t any nice person. He scammed me of 100,000 RMB!” Cheng Zhongfan helplessly said.

“The way they work has always been subjected to their moods and cannot rashly be discussed!” Cheng Tianqiu’s expression was solemn as he repeatedly warning Cheng Zhongfan: “Since we know that pharmacy is a subsidiary to Hong Clan’s Chamber of Commerce, don’t go provoking it in the future.”

“Yes, I understand!” Cheng Zhongfan promptly answered.

“All right, don’t focus attention on Xiao Chen, this junior’s, body, just pay attention to news of changes.” Cheng Tianqiu only made Cheng Zhongfan to ask around. Since there were no problems, then it would be fine for Xiao Chen to run his own course.

Xiao Chen was in the front walking to return to the villa, while Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei car was in the back stopped at the villa’s entrance. However, Jin Beibei couldn’t reside here today; she still had to go home. It was fine for her to occasionally stay the night outside, but if she wanted to live outside, Old Master Jin wouldn’t agreed because he treated this granddaughter like a treasure.

Cheng Mengying got off the car and took a glance at Xiao Chen. Then, she said: “Why did you go buy medicine? What problem does your body have?”

Xiao Chen knew that he couldn’t constantly conceal the truth from Cheng Mengying⁴, but he still couldn’t say the entire truth. He merely said: “I actually have no problems. It’s just a auxiliary medicine to strengthen and invigorate one’s body. Formerly, my father would regularly get some for me to drink, saying that after I drank it, I would be able to cultivate Inner Strength.”

“So it was like this……” After Cheng Mengying listened to Xiao Chen’s words, she immediately became silent.

Actually, Xiao Chen not being able to cultivate Inner Strength wasn’t merely just Xiao Chen’s sore point, not so long ago, it was also Cheng Mengying’s sore point. When Cheng Mengying found out that she had a good-for-nothing fiancé, how could she be happy in her heart? She would definitely secretly be very bitter.

But at that time, Cheng Mengying didn’t understand what she did now. Now that she had been in contact with Xiao Chen for some time, Cheng Mengying discovered that Xiao Chen was suffering even more than her. From what she had seen, Xiao Chen thirsted for obtaining strength more than anyone else, to cultivate Inner Strength, but the Heavens didn’t care for him.

Of course, what Cheng Mengying didn’t know was that even though the Heavens⁵ didn’t care for him, Tian Lao quite cared for Xiao Chen……

“I’m going to brew medicine.” Xiao Chen smiled towards Cheng Mengying: “After that, I’ll go fix up some dinner for you to eat.”

“It’s not urgent, go brew medicine first.” Cheng Mengying shook her head. It was very unexpected that she didn’t stop Xiao Chen from brewing medicine with her young lady temperament today: “Xiao Chen, not having Inner Strength doesn’t mean anything. I previously……hadn’t avoided you……”

As for whether or not she had avoided him, only Cheng Mengying herself was clear about it in her heart. Because Cheng Mengying’s current impression of Xiao Chen had changed a lot, she naturally wouldn’t avoid him now. But previously, to be honest, she truly despised Xiao Chen.

“Hehe……” Xiao Chen laughed. He clearly knew that the Young Lady was being a little hypocritical, but it was still very unexpected to him. Cheng Mengying could unexpectedly say these kind of words; was this her true opinion?

Shaking his head, Xiao Chen returned to his room. Even if what the Young Lady said was true, Xiao Chen wouldn’t naively think that he could now have any results⁶ with Cheng Mengying. Some matters, when they occur, it’s impossible to go back.

After setting the electric earthenware pot to the correct temperature, he went to the kitchen to fix up something to eat at once. The staple food was naturally still instant noodles, but the dishes were some foods that were placed in the refrigerator yesterday. Xiao Chen took them out and used the microwave to heat it up, then arranged it on the table.

Xiao Chen and Cheng Mengying sat side by side on the dining table eating things. Without Jin Beibei, Cheng Mengying suddenly felt that it was somewhat unbearable! Initially, she and Xiao Chen would also eat stuff like this, but she didn’t think too much about it. Cheng Mengying didn’t know why, but today she felt that she and Xiao Chen were like a newlywed couple, sitting at the dining table and eating a meal at home.

If there weren’t any accidents between Xiao Clan and Cheng Clan, after how much time would this scene still happen? At that time……she should be Xiao Chen’s wife!

Formerly, Cheng Mengying would absolutely reject this matter. However, thinking of these today, she didn’t know why, but she felt especially warm. As if, there was a faint trace of expectation.

How is this possible? Cheng Mengying shook her head and got rid of these chaotic thoughts, peacefully eating the food……

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“I understand.” Xiao Chen bitterly smiled somewhat helplessly. Bitter Relief Fruit. His house actually had a lot of this, but it wasn’t his, it was Ye Xiaoye’s! Xiao Chen didn’t count on Ye Xiaoye to hand over the Bitter Relief Fruits in her hand and also didn’t plan on going to steal.

Although Ye Xiaoye, this **’s, disposition was indifferent, she was a good person. Xiao Chen also owed her a new earthenware pot due to borrowing one from her!

After handing over the money, Xiao Chen carefully received the packaged medicinal herbs and left the pharmacy.

“Grandpa Chen, this person is quite eccentric!” Hong Yan said as she looked at Xiao Chen’s back.

“Yes, I also feel that it’s somewhat strange. A person that needs Bitter Relief Fruits shouldn’t be over here.” Grandpa Chen shook his head, then said: “Forget it. Young Lady Yan, you must remember, we speak business in a business. As for the things other people buy or do, that isn’t something we need to know.”

“Yes, Grandpa Chen.” Hong Yan hurriedly nodded.

Cheng Mengying watched Xiao Chen walk out from the pharmacy. She wasn’t clear on what he had bought, but it was estimated that it should have some relationship with the medicinal herbs that he had bought before. It should be similar stuff.

Xiao Chen was walking in the front with Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei following closely behind him. After walking not too far, Tian Lao’s voice echoed from beside Xiao Chen’s ears: “Little Chenzi, this time you are really being watched!”

“What?!” Xiao Chen’s heart suddenly went cold. He was really being watched? But, how come he didn’t sense it?

However, Xiao Chen didn’t think Tian Lao would deceive him in this kind of matter. Although Tian Lao, this master¹, sometimes didn’t act like a senior and played some jokes, it was absolutely impossible for him to make irresponsible remarks on this kind of important matter.

“It’s a Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist, you not sensing it is normal.” Tian Lao’s following words made Xiao Chen almost stagger and fall onto the ground!

Seventh Layer? Xiao Chen was already at a loss coping and escaping yesterday’s Fourth Layer Martialist. Now that a Seventh Layer Martialist was sent out, was this letting him live or not?

“From this person’s body, I can’t feel any killing intent and is different from other people.” Tian Lao’s voice continued to echo by Xiao Chen’s ear: “As a matter of fact, I saw this person today morning; he had gone to your vendor stall to buy deep-fried breadsticks. At the time, I thought it was a coincidence. After all, a Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist is also a person and requires things to eat, but now it seems that it isn’t a coincidence. This person truly is following you.”

“Following me without killing intent? Then why is he following me?” Xiao Chen was faintly surprised and somewhat bewildered. If it was according to Tian Lao’s statement, during early morning, this person had many opportunities to move against him. Regardless of running to the grocery store during the wee hours of the morning or collecting the vendor stall with Tang Tang and going to school, all of this required him to pass through many uninhabited alleyways. Moving against him at those times were optimal opportunities and he didn’t need to wait until now.

“How can I know? You think Truth Cultivating is so amazing that one can see through another person’s thoughts?” Tian Lao unhappily said: “Let alone, I simply can’t display my strength.”

“Okay.” Xiao Chen could only brace himself to nod and continue walking in the direction of the villa area.

“He entered the pharmacy.” Tian Lao’s following words made Xiao Chen’s heart go cold again. This person went to the pharmacy? What was he doing at the pharmacy?

However, Xiao Chen knew that even if that person went into the pharmacy, asking Tian Lao was of no use because he had already walked very far now. By means of Tian Lao’s perceptivity, he wouldn’t necessarily be able to hear the dialog inside the pharmacy and could only go back tomorrow to ask Hong Yan or the old grandfather.

The number of people entering the pharmacy was actually two and not one person. Only, on that Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist’s side was a sunglasses male. This guy was merely a First Layer Inner Strength Martialist, so it could be assumed that this guy’s strength was meager and was automatically neglected by Tian Lao!

This kind of First Layer Inner Strength Martialist simply didn’t have any fighting power before Xiao Chen.

“Brother Fan, please go in.” The sunglasses male helped that Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist open the door and made an ‘invitation’ hand gesture.

The Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist called ‘Brother Fan’ nodded his head and entered the pharmacy. This ‘Brother Fan’ was Cheng Clan’s Cheng Zhongfan, Cheng Zhongming’s second brother and Cheng Mengying’s second uncle!

“These two gentlemen, what medicine would you like to buy?” When Hong Yan saw customers come in, she put down the book in her hand and courteously asked.

“Young girl, I would like to inquire a matter.” Cheng Zhongfan looked towards Hong Yan and was scared by this girl’s temperament. He was somewhat baffled at heart; inside this kind of street pharmacy, how could there be such a elegant and refined female?

But Cheng Zhongfan pursued the Clan Head’s authority and not beauty. Towards these things that had an influencing his body and cultivation, Cheng Zhongfan was very temperate and didn’t want to develop a step further with this girl.

“Oh? What matter?” Hong Yan nodded and asked.

“There was a young man that came to buy medicine just a moment ago, right? Help me obtain one set of the exact same.” Cheng Zhongfan said.

Hong Yan was slightly startled in her heart. It was unknown what background Cheng Zhongfan had, but she remained calm on the surface and said: “Please wait a moment, I’ll go call my grandfather over. It was my grandfather that grabbed the medicine before.”

“Okay.” Cheng Zhongfan politely nodded.

Hong Yan entered the inner room and didn’t speak many words. She only said to Grandpa Chen that some people came and wanted a batch of the exactly same medicinal herbs that Xiao Chen bought. This pharmacy’s inner room’s distance wasn’t far from the outer room, so if Cheng Zhongfan’s ears were good, he should be able to hear. Therefore, Hong Yan didn’t add her own subjective opinion. Although, she could also feel that the two people who came were bad and it seemed that they would be harmful to Xiao Chen.

“Oh, I understand.” Grandpa Chen nodded and also didn’t say much, immediately leaving the inner room.

“Venerable sir, troubled you!” Cheng Zhongfan was a Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist in any case. Although his eyes and ears couldn’t be compared to a Truth Cultivator, if he wanted to say that he hadn’t heard what Hong Yan and Grandpa Chen had said at such a close distance, then it would be impossible.

As a result, he heard Hong Yan’s words and knew that Grandpa Chen already knew his goal, so that was why he said ‘troubled you’ just now.

Grandpa Chen skillfully grabbed some medicinal herbs, put them into a package, then placed it in front of Cheng Zhongfan and said: “100,000 RMB.”

“Geh？！” Cheng Zhongfan stared blankly. What was this thing? A heavenly treasure material? A batch of broken medicine unexpectedly cost 100,000 RMB? Moreover, Cheng Zhongfan and Cheng Zhongming were different. Cheng Zhongming studied business while Cheng Zhongfan like to research heavenly treasure materials from childhood. Regarding some medicinal herbs, he understood their uses. He reached out with his hand to flip over the several medicinal herbs before his eyes. This was undoubtedly a batch of medicinal herbs for body strengthening tonic, simply not worth 100,000 RMB. It was worth 20,000 RMB at max.

“Old *******, you dare to blackmail us?” The sunglasses male was frightened and subconsciously went to pull on Grandpa Chen’s collar.

Cheng Zhongfan actually waved his hand to stop the sunglasses male’s actions, then creased his brows and said: “Venerable sir, this is a batch for body strengthening tonic, are you certain you just sold this batch of medicine?”

What Cheng Zhongfan was currently confused about was not how much money the medicine was worth, but rather how Xiao Chen could buy anything! Because in his opinion, it was impossible for Xiao Chen to buy this kind of tonic! Was Xiao Chen ill? Since he was already forced into destitution and had to wake up first thing in the morning to work himself to death, how could he spend 100,000 RMB on a tonic?

“That’s right.” Grandpa Chen indifferently said.

“He spent 100,000 RMB?” Cheng Zhongfan already felt like cursing.

“No.” Grandpa Chen shook his head.

“Ah? Then how much money did he spend?” Cheng Zhongfan slightly looked distracted.

“No money.” Grandpa Chen replied.

“Pff……then for what reason are you selling it to me for 100,000 and selling it to him for free?” Cheng Zhongfan was thoroughly played insane by this old ******* in front of him: “Are you playing with me?”

“Hmph, old *******, do you know who my boss is?” The sunglasses male also felt that this old ******* was playing with them.

“A Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist, this old man doesn’t have any interest in knowing who you are.” Grandpa Chen’s tone was still extremely indifferent.

“Geh！” Cheng Zhongfan once again stayed in place looking distracted. He looked at the old man before his eyes in disbelief. He simply hadn’t revealed his strength, yet this old man before his eyes unexpectedly exposed his strength rank. How was this possible?

Even if it was him, if another Martialist didn’t expose their strength, then he wouldn’t be able to accurately judge the other party’s strength. So what did the old man in front of him depend on?

But no matter what, cold sweat already started to cover Cheng Zhongfan’s forehead. This old man in front of him simply didn’t resemble what he had imagined, that is, an ordinary street doctor.

“Venerable sir, pardon me, I offended you just now. I hope you can forgive me, I just wanted to ask, why did you give that young man a batch of medicine for free? Do you know him?” Cheng Zhongfan had no other option but to bear his temper and ask. He hadn’t heard that Xiao Chen had such an awesome patron at all. If this old man truly was a ruthless person, then it wouldn’t be good for Cheng Clan to offend Xiao Chen in the future.

“Don’t know.” Grandpa Chen shook his head: “Because he didn’t have money and you have money. I saw that he was pitiful, so I gave him a batch and was content.”

“Pff……” Cheng Zhongfan was somewhat speechless. It turns out that you old-timer consider me as a stupid idiot? But hearing that this old man and Xiao Chen neither knew each other nor had any relationship, Cheng Zhongfan’s heart was pacified! He thought in his heart that this old man’s temperament was really eccentric enough, but selling a batch to Xiao Chen for free could actually be understood. Xiao Chen had recently been expelled from his clan, and now this young master was going to bed late and waking up early to sell breakfast. Xiao Chen wasn’t a Martialist, so he was probably tired and it could be estimated that he wanted to buy some body strengthening medicine. The outcome was that this old man saw how pitiful Xiao Chen was and decided to present him a batch of medicine because he didn’t have any money. Naturally, Xiao Chen also didn’t know the value of the medicinal herbs².

Speculating like this was very reasonable, thus Cheng Zhongfan no longer pestered this old man because how this old man saw through him was queer. He prepared to come back after he looked up this old man’s background!

“Venerable sir, then I won’t bother you anymore, goodbye.” Cheng Zhongfan thought for a while and said.

“Your medicine.” Grandpa Chen pointed at the medicine on the counter and reminded.

“This medicine, I already don’t want, many thanks.” If Cheng Zhongfan bought this medicine and went back, he wouldn’t even have a farts use for it. He was already a Seventh Layer Inner Strength Martialist, so his body was very robust. Why would he need a nonsense supplement?

“I already picked it. If you don’t want it, then who do I sell it to? Could it be that you want to renege on a debt?” Grandpa Chen’s complexion became slightly cold.

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“En……” Xiao Chen nodded and let out a sigh of relief in his heart. The second batch of Body Tempering medicinal herbs funds had their whereabouts. The distance from upgrading his strength became nearer by a step.

Taking the tricycle and delivering it to the grocery store, Xiao Chen and Tang Tang went together to a 24-hour business bank. Watching Tang Tang take out the 10,000 RMB that she had just saved up, Xiao Chen couldn’t restrain the slight tremble in his heart.

But Tang Tang seemed to not pay attention to this. She took the money and immediately handed it over to Xiao Chen: “Here, take it!”

Things had already gone to this point, so what else could Xiao Chen say? There was no other choice but to receive the 10,000 RMB and put it away.

When they arrived at school, Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei also arrived. Lou Zhenming was fawning upon Cheng Mengying at that moment, returning those review materials that he had picked up yesterday back to Cheng Mengying.

Although Cheng Mengying didn’t have a good opinion on this guy, Lou Zhenming, she couldn’t exactly reach out and slap a smiling-faced person, to say nothing of Lou Zhenming who had come to return books.

“Mengying, did you come across any matter yesterday?” In reality, Lou Zhenming wanted to wrap Cheng Mengying’s words and see through that Sha Dage’s origins, to make sure whether or not he was Cheng Mengying’s bodyguard.

“No, what matter could there be?” Cheng Mengying rhetorically asked.

“Haha, nothing. Right, before, why was Xiao Chen and that big fellow walking together by your side?” Lou Zhenming pretended with a calm appearance as he asked thoughtlessly.

“What big fellow?” Cheng Mengying stared blankly.

“Cousin Mengying, it’s that Sha Dage. Did you forget? He looked for us to ask for directions and we happened to go the same way, so he came along. I saw that he was looking at cousin Mengying’s beauty and came to hit on you!” Jin Beibei suddenly opened her mouth and said.

“Ask for directions? Hit on her?” This answer made Lou Zhenming look distracted, but he relaxed in his heart. It was good as long as this person and Cheng Mengying didn’t have any relationship.

“Yeah, he asked us for directions, then politely helped me and cousin Mengying by holding our bags. Later, when we came across a robbery, he wanted to show off his ability ‘hero saving the beauty’!” Jin Beibei said: “Cousin Mengying doesn’t have any eye for such a guy, so she doesn’t have any impression!”

“Ooh, so it was like this……” Lou Zhenming suddenly became happy. So it turns out that Cheng Mengying doesn’t like any ‘hero saving the beauty’! Luckily my ‘hero saving the beauty’ plan was defeated, from what it seems now, there was nothing to regret!

As for whatever relationship Cheng Mengying and Xiao Chen had, Lou Zhenming simply didn’t ask. In Lou Zhenming’s opinion, they definitely didn’t have any relationship. Moreover, Xiao Chen and Tang Tang, who had become a ‘couple’, entered the classroom just now, so Lou Zhenming was even more relieved!

Xiao Chen had made clear his interest in Tang Tang. For this country bumpkin from the mountains, it was only right for him to pair up formerly fantasized about school beauty.

Making Shou Hou give back Xiao Chen his review materials, Lou Zhenming was disinclined to speak with Xiao Chen. Yesterday was a forced situation, today is ‘what isn’t seen, isn’t grieved over at heart’.

Jin Beibei’s car had been delivered to a 4S Shop by a Jin Clan disciple and returned it back after it was serviced. She heard that it was some pipe that fell, not a big problem.

The day passed by without anything happening, with Xiao Che still looking over the review materials the whole day. Although the breakfast income was considerable, having more paths was better. What’s more, after Xiao Chen tested into a college he had to depend on himself, it was impossible for the clan to give him a single cent.

During evening dismissal, Cheng Mengying sent a text to Xiao Chen and allowed Xiao Chen sit together on the car to go back. Although the Beetle was small, he could still fit if he squeezed in.

But Xiao Chen wanted to go buy medicine in the evening, so he naturally politely refused the Young Lady’s good intentions.

However, Xiao Chen’s covering up actually made Young Lady Cheng misunderstand. Seeing that Xiao Chen said that he still had matters after evening dismissal, her vision couldn’t help but sweep towards Tang Tang and was somewhat annoyed at heart! Are your eyes blind? This Young Lady is a lovable youth without rival, why are you getting along with Tang Tang all day long? Getting beaten to death by someone is deserved!

After dismissal, Cheng Mengying left one step earlier with Jin Beibei. She was heavily angry, but after boarding the car, her anger disappeared. She thought about yesterday’s danger and became somewhat anxious.

“Beibei, about those people from last night, do you think they’ll still look for trouble tonight?” Cheng Mengying asked.

“Is cousin Mengying worried for brother-in-law Xiao Chen?” Jin Beibei asked back with a smile.

“Why would I be anxious about him? I only fear that he’ll die and damage my reputation! The outside would think that this Young Lady is narrow-minded and unable to tolerate people, and will definitely think that I was the one who caused Xiao Chen’s death!” Cheng Mengying explained.

“Oh, oh.” Jin Beibei nodded.

“Why are you ‘oh’-ing?” When Cheng Mengying heard Jin Beibei’s reply, she felt that Jin Beibei needed a little beating.

“It’s just that I understand.” Jin Beibei replied.

“Understand, yet still not driving after Xiao Chen? Let’s take a look at what he’s doing!” Cheng Mengying helplessly ordered.

“Okay oh.” Jin Beibei started the car. At this time, they just happened to see Xiao Chen, Tang Tang and Deng Xiaokun walk out of the school.

But what made Cheng Mengying surprised was that Xiao Chen unexpectedly waved goodbye to Tang Tang and Deng Xiaokun at the school gates and didn’t walk with them. This made the somewhat quietly resentful Young Lady’s heart a little happier.

Xiao Chen didn’t dare to walk any alleyways today. He would rather go around through a longer proper street because at least on a proper street, there would be more people making it safer. Of course with that said, if the person wanting to cope with him didn’t fear any influences, then they could totally still deal with him on a proper street. However, Xiao Chen felt completely at ease with his plan.

Onlu, after not walking too far, Xiao Chen’s heart was faintly alarmed! Apparently, he was being followed again! Xiao Chen hadn’t turned his head to take a look, but his improved six senses allowed Xiao Chen to detect himself seemingly being followed!

It can’t be that I have such bad luck right? That Sha Dage from yesterday came again? After all, the first time he met danger, those two Martialists both died, so it created a short period of peace for Xiao Chen. But yesterday, Sha Dage shouldn’t have died, so there was some reason if he came again today.

Xiao Chen was anxious at heart and cold sweat covered his forehead, when suddenly, Tian Lao’s familiar ridiculing voice rang out from beside his ear: “Little Chenzi, you seem quite nervous.”

“No kidding. When being followed, who wouldn’t be nervous? Don’t tell me you haven’t perceived it!” Xiao Chen said with a bitter smile.

“Stop speaking, I truly didn’t perceive it. I haven’t discovered anyone behind you except for your goddess.” Tian Lao mockingly said.

“Goddess?” Xiao Chen stared blankly: “What goddess?”

“Your fiancee, Cheng Mengying……oh, sorry, now it’s your mistress Young Lady Cheng.” Tian Lao replied.

“Cheng Mengying?” Xiao Chen turned his head in amazement, and sure enough, not far away, a red-colored Beetle was slowly travelling along! Xiao Chen was astonished and somewhat silent at the same time, not knowing how to take this. At that time when he was at Xiao Clan, apart from his die-hard Zhu Yingxiong, Xiao Chen basically didn’t feel that there was a friend who was concerned about him. But after he was driven out of Xiao Clan and lost power, there was still so many good people by his side!

Tang Tang, Cheng Mengying, Xiao Chen engraved it into his memory and heart.

Although Young Lady Cheng was regularly haunted with the ‘proud and lovable princess disease’, the more contact Xiao Chen had with her, the more often he saw her kindhearted and enthusiastic side.

Regarding Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei’s tailing, Xiao Chen didn’t plan to expose. Xiao Chen previously buying medicine and not wanting them to know was entirely based on the principle of confidentiality. After all, if they knew where he went to buy medicine, it was hard to say if they would leak out information. If he caused Cheng Clan or his enemy’s Clan to know, then it certainly wouldn’t be amusing.

But since they already knew, Xiao Chen didn’t need to keep concealing. He believed that the Young Lady wouldn’t do anything harmful to him!

It was still the previous pharmacy that Xiao Chen had visited two days ago. Those previously bought auxiliary medicinal herbs could still be use another time for today, but it would would run out tomorrow, so Xiao Chen planned to buy tomorrow’s medicinal herbs.

Pushing the door to enter to pharmacy, that girl called ‘Yan Yan’ was still sitting behind the counter reading a book. A tranquil peacefulness permeated from her, causing the people watching to feel extremely comfortable.

When Hong Yan heard a visitor come in, she put down the book in her hand and raised her head to take a look. When she saw that it was unexpectedly Xiao Chen, she couldn’t help but be slightly startled: “It’s you?”

“En, I’ve come again.” Xiao Chen nodded: “When I came the day before yesterday, I spoke about needing five auxiliary medicinal herbs.”

“Oh, wait, I’ll call grandfather.” Hong Yan didn’t say anything else. Orders involving the Bitter Relief Fruit wasn’t something she could take responsibility for. Although she was a rich young lady, she was merely here to learn and experience. The pharmacy’s operation was Grandpa Chen’s responsibility.

After saying this, Hong Yan turned around and went into an inside room. Soon after, she came back with “her grandfather”.

“Young fellow, it’s you?” Grandpa Chen glanced at Xiao Chen: “I heard you wanted to buy medicine?”

“Yes.” Xiao Chen nodded.

“I can make a loss selling you a batch of auxiliary medicine this time, but the next batch will not be at this price.” Grandpa Chen said as he was preparing Xiao Chen’s prescription: “Did you prepare your 10,000 RMB?”

“Prepared, many thanks old grandfather!” Xiao Chen knew that taking advantage of another person twice was already quite good and that wanting to always benefit wasn’t realistic. He and the other party weren’t relatives or friends, so why would the other person want to make a loss selling him medicinal herbs? But Xiao Chen was currently impoverished, so he couldn’t help but ask: “Old grandfather, next time I buy…..how much money do I need?”

“Next time……I can give you a discount. 20,000 RMB and the Bitter Relief Fruit can be considered as a present to you, but after next time, I will collect 50,000 RMB.” Grandpa Chen said. In reality, his condition was already very generous. Even if it was 50,000 RMB, it already showed a lot of consideration for Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen wasn’t the kind of person that was avaricious and insatiable. Although he felt that it would be somewhat difficult to take out 20,000 RMB after 3 days and very troublesome to take out 50,000 RMB afterwards, Xiao Chen didn’t have any solutions. He could only walk a step and look a step.

“Many thanks old grandfather, I will earn money as soon as possible.” Xiao Chen nodded.

Grandpa Chen didn’t speak anymore. After grabbing all the medicinal herbs, he handed it over to Xiao Chen, saying: “If you can get Bitter Relief Fruits yourself, I can still sell you the medicinal herbs for 20,000 RMB afterwards, but the Bitter Relief Fruit in my hands aren’t much.”

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“Okay, I know now. You can go at ease to heal from your wound!” The young man didn’t blame Sha Dage at all. Although Sha Dage was a little foolish, today’s matter couldn’t be blamed on Sha Dage. If there was someone to blame, then Lou Zhenming would take the blame!

“Yes, young master!” Sha Dage let out a sigh of relief and carefully got off the recreational vehicle.

“How do you see this?” After Sha Dage walked, the young man turned and asked the housekeeper on his side that hadn’t spoken.

“Those hooligans gives the impression that they should be randoms. Since Lou Zhenming jumped out to fight the hooligans, it proves that he and the hooligans aren’t together and him considering Sha Dage to be hooligan also proves this point.” The housekeeper analyzed: “However, this person is the helper Xiao Chen called for without a doubt! That is to say, the matter from the previous time wasn’t a coincidence!”

“I understand. Last time I made you investigate the relationship between Lou Zhenming and Xiao Chen; are there any results of the investigation?” The young man inquired.

“None. Young master, you should also know that Second High isn’t our sphere of influence because we previously did not pay any attention to Second High’s affairs. But according to the many inquiries I made, that Lou Zhenming apparently doesn’t have any relationship with Xiao Chen. On the contrary, it seems like they have some contradictions?” The housekeeper said somewhat doubtfully.

“Contradictions? There are contradictions and he still went to help Xiao Chen, is he sick?” Nevertheless, the young man simply didn’t believe this rumor.

“This is unknown.” The housekeeper shook his head and said: “After Xiao Chen arrived at this new school, he seems to be very low-profile. Practically no one recognizes him, so inquiring about him is very difficult.”

“Okay, continue investigating!” The young man said.

“Then……are we going to conduct the next step in targeting Xiao Chen?” The housekeeper asked.

“Let it be. Recuperate and first feel out Lou Zhenming’s approach, then we’ll speak about it.” The young man hesitated for a while and asked: “Right. Say, do you think Lou Zhenming knows that the two people were dispatched by me?”

“This is unpleasant to say, but since we can investigate that the other party was Lou Clan’s people, Lou Clan naturally can investigate our origins. It just depends on whether or not they want to investigate!” The housekeeper said after thinking about it.

“That’s right.” The young man nodded. To be honest, the reason why he unscrupulously dared to dispose of Xiao Chen was because Xiao Chen didn’t have the shield of the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Chen himself didn’t have the ability investigate who exactly wanted to deal with him. Once Xiao Chen was dead, that was it. No matter how amazing Xiao Clan was, it wouldn’t be able to investigate if there wasn’t any evidence.

But Lou Clan is different. No matter what, Lou Zhenming was Lou Clan’s young master. Even though Lou Clan was last place in the ‘Four Large Aristocratic Clans and Five Small Aristocratic Clans’, it shouldn’t be underestimated. If it wanted to track them through the clues, it really wasn’t a difficult matter.

In the wee hours of morning.

Xiao Chen quickly crawled off of his bed, got up, put on his clothes, and hurried to the grocery store near the morning market street. Although Xiao Chen had been ambushed yesterday evening, he couldn’t be scared of going out because of that. He still had to continue on living.

The current Xiao Chen was totally rushing against time. As long as he could win some more time, he would be able to upgrade his strength. Then, he would easily be able to confront the pressure.

When Xiao Chen arrived at the grocery store, Tang Tang also just arrived. Regarding Xiao Chen arriving so early, Tang Tang was somewhat amazed: “Young Master Xiao, alright! Getting up more earlier huh?”

“Isn’t this to think up of ways to earn a little more money!” Xiao Chen was truly short of money, otherwise he wouldn’t be in this situation of not even letting a single cent off.

“Haha, I didn’t expect you to also be a miser! Come over quickly and help!” Tang Tang rubbed her hands and used her finger to point towards the tricycle inside the yard.

It was already late autumn at present and the weather was gradually turning cool. The early mornings were very cold, but since there was Xiao Chen, Tang Tang didn’t go to touch the ice-cold tricycle handle.

Xiao Chen didn’t mind it. He jumped onto the tricycle and said to Tang Tang: “Still not getting on? That’s right, don’t you need to tell auntie?”

“No need, auntie doesn’t wake up so early.” Tang Tang jumped onto the tricycle and Xiao Chen began biking towards the direction of the morning market streets.

The cold early morning autumn wind blew on Tang Tang’s face, blowing her hair into disorder. Tang Tang smiled and brushed away her hair. Looking at Xiao Chen’s back, she suddenly felt that it was especially warm.

It was really interesting to speak of them. The two of them were abandoned by their clans and now, they were unexpectedly selling breakfast together.

Thinking about the previous period of life when she lived as a young lady, Tang Tang felt that it was very far away. Her current life actually made her happier, especially after running into Xiao Chen. She discovered that she was no longer lonely!

It wasn’t that Tang Tang didn’t know about Deng Xiaokun’s feeling, but it was that she didn’t have any way to respond! The Tang Tang from before had an engagement on her, so it was impossible to be together with Deng Xiaokun. The present Tang Tang already became an abandoned child of the clan; even if Deng Clan was already discharged from the ranks of the ‘Four Large Aristocratic Clans and Five Small Aristocratic Clans’, it was impossible for him to marry Tang Clan’s abandoned child with a broken engagement from the Yue Clan.

So even though Tang Tang and Deng Xiaokun were best friends, it was absolutely impossible for them to grow into lovers!

But Xiao Chen was different. Xiao Chen and Tang Tang were both juniors from the ‘Four Large Aristocratic Clans and Five Small Aristocratic Clans’ and were similarly abandoned children from their clans. The most important was that both had their engagements broken! The two people could be said to be super well-matched!

Of course, the most important thing was that the both of them were compatible!

Once this thought appeared, it greatly shocked Tang Tang, she……why was she thinking of this?

Tang Tang shook her head and abandoned her wildly running imagination. At this time, Xiao Chen finally rode the tricycle to their stall position on the morning market street.

Xiao Chen didn’t have Tang Tang’s melancholy. He was being aimed at by people, how could he have the mind to get into a romantic relationship? After quickly taking the equipment down from the back of the tricycle and arranging them, Xiao Chen began to knead the dough.

Tang Tang also began to get busy. The two people resembled a married couple beginning their daily business……

Possibly because Xiao Chen’s craftsmanship was good, there were many repeat customers from yesterday that brought the deep-fried breadstick and felt that the flavor was pretty good. They came one after another to the deep-fried breadstick stall to buy, and the people who didn’t buy yesterday, also crowded in today.

In a instant, Tang Tang’s hands became full with dealing with customers and receiving money, and simply didn’t have time to give a hand to Xiao Chen!

“Just take responsibility for selling!” Xiao Chen was currently already skilled in this work. He was using the boiler to deep-fry the dough sticks while kneading dough, not wasting any time on both tasks! The most miraculous thing was that Xiao Chen seemed to be capable of calculating when the deep-fried breadsticks were ready to leave the boiler; not over, not less, just in time!

This made Tang Tang click her tongue in admiration. This guy was simply a natural at deep-frying deep-fried breadsticks! If this opinion was heard by Tian Lao, it was unknown whether or not he would spit blood. Truth Cultivating was such an amazing and high-end profession, yet it was Tang Tang actually turned it into a deep-frying talent……

Tang Tang had already prepared a lot of dough today, but according to the present speed, it was feared that their supply wouldn’t meet the demand. After just an hour, already half of the amount of dough was sold and the amount of people lining up didn’t lessen. It was estimated that an hour later at most, the remaining dough would be completely sold.

And now, it had just become 5 o’clock! Tang Tang would usually sell out at 7 o’clock previously!

As expected, when it was a bit over 6 o’clock, the dough in Xiao Chen’s hands was completely sold. Towards the customers that lined in the back that didn’t get to buy deep-fried breadstick, Tang Tang could only give a deep apology!

In many situations like this, the more things that one couldn’t buy, the more everyone would hound. It has to be said that sometimes the ‘starving the hungry tactics’ was quite effective, but Xiao Chen and Tang Tang weren’t using the ‘starving the hungry tactics’. Rather, they had truly run out!

“Still too conservative!” As Tang Tang and Xiao Chen were tidying everything up together, Tang Tang lamented: “If we had some more dough, we would still be able to sell out.”

“You want to tire me to death? Fellow student Tang Tang!” Xiao Chen had been moving like a machine for the past two hours. Although he was a Truth Cultivator, this work truly wasn’t easy to do! He had to concentrate his awareness on the dough ball in his hands and the deep-frying breadstick inside the deep fryer every single moment! As long as he was a little careless, he probably wouldn’t have been able to attain the results at present! Naturally, Tang Tang didn’t know this and still thought that he really was deep-frying deep-fried breadstick talent!

“The capable should do more work! Xiao Chen, did you know that we earned more than 600 RMB today? If we sell double tomorrow, then we’ll make more than 1000 RMB!” Tang Tang was somewhat excited and stirred up. She had sold breakfast for such a long time, but never did she make this much money in one day.

“Oh?” Xiao Chen was slightly surprised. They had earned more than 600 today? If it was really as Tang Tang said, then they could make more than 1000 RMB in one day and in less than 10 days, he could really save up 10,000 RMB! This amount of money would be enough for him to buy medicinal herbs to use! Thinking up to here, Xiao Chen hesitated, then used a discussing tone to speak to Tang Tang: “Tang Tang, you can prepare double the dough tomorrow, but……the money we earn, can you give it to me first?”

“Give you? You’re in urgent need of money?” Tang Tang was slightly surprised.

“En, I need 10,000 RMB, urgently.” Xiao Chen bitterly smiled: “If not for being in urgent need for money, I wouldn’t go all out like this to earn money……”

“Yesterday when you were reviewing materials for the whole day, was it for taking the 10,000 RMB scholarship?” Tang Tang seemed to understand Xiao Chen’s way of thinking; so it turns out that Xiao Chen needed money.

“Yes.” Xiao Chen gave an affirmative nod.

“Why didn’t you say so earlier!” Tang Tang actually smiled: “Although I previously sold breakfast, I didn’t earn money like this. After removing rent and such, there wasn’t much remaining, but I still saved up 10,000 RMB. If you wanted more money, then I truly wouldn’t be able to help you. I happened to save up 10,000 RMB a few days ago; in a while, I’ll give it to you!”

Xiao Chen was stunned when he looked at Tang Tang’s light and relaxed smiling expression. A warm feeling rushed forth in his heart! Although Tang Tang spoke it in a light and relaxed manner, Xiao Chen could imagine that saving up 10,000 RMB for Tang Tang wasn’t easy!

Tang Tang had sold breakfast for so long, yet she just saved up 10,000 RMB. But because his words, Tang Tang had no reservations and took it out. Xiao Chen was extremely moved; he didn’t know which virtue or ability of his could make Tang Tang sincerely help him in this way.

“Thanks……” Xiao Chen didn’t decline becaue he understood Tang Tang’s temperament. If he declined, Tang Tang would instead be unhappy.

“Ai, Xiao Chen, you regard me as an outsider? The two of us are buddies that can be considered to have gone through the same trials and tribulations. Moreover, you’re a deep-fried breadstick master; isn’t 10,000 RMB something we can make back in 8 to 10 days?” Tang Tang magnanimously smiled: “Let’s go, in a while I’ll go and give it to you.”

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“What use is acknowledging? Even if he didn’t know me, these young masters of influential clans would make up some pompous reason to defend their face. Even if I wasn’t there, he and Tang Tang were impossible.” Xiao Chen shrugged.

“Young masters of influential clans? I say Young Master Xiao, listening to your tone, it seems like you don’t belong to this category?” Cheng Mengying suddenly felt that it was laughable.

“Me? I don’t have that kind of face.” Xiao Chen bitterly smiled: “Don’t speak about these, eat.”

When Cheng Mengying saw Xiao Chen not speak too much, she was still under the impression that she was poking Xiao Chen’s weak spot and thus, didn’t speak any further. How could she know that Xiao Chen didn’t care about it from the start?

Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei were truly hungry, but when Cheng Mengying ate, she quite had the very refined manner of a girl from a wealthy family. Even if she was hungrier, she wouldn’t gorge herself and still use her very graceful small mouth to eat things.

As for Jin Beibei, she didn’t have a speck of consciousness from being an aristocratic family daughter. She directly reached out with her hand to grab a large shrimp and put it into her mouth, speaking incoherently while eating: “Oh, oh……cousin Mengying, this is delicious!”

Xiao Chen’s eating style was about the same as Jin Beibei’s. Xiao Chen originally thought that Tang Tang’s way of eating was bold and unconstrained enough, but he didn’t expect that Jin Beibei would be even ‘better’! Although Tang Tang wasn’t mannered or refined, she didn’t directly grab it and eat it with oil dripped down her mouth. But Jin Beibei, she ate with and sucked on her fingers……

“It’s truly better not to be said, but Beibei, you marrying him is really appropriate. The two of you are like reincarnated starved devils.” Cheng Mengying watched the two people’s table manners, not knowing what would be good to say.

“Eating like this makes it delicious!” Jin Beibei was without the slightest bit of concern and grabbed a lobster to eat. However, the lobster shell was too hard; when Jin Beibei bit down, she couldn’t break it open. Thus, she directly handed it over to Xiao Chen: “Brother-in-law, help me break it open.”

Xiao Chen took the lobster and used his hands to peel open the shell, then handed over the inside meat to Jin Beibei. Jin Beibei actually opened her mouth and extended her head over, clearly wanting Xiao Chen to feed her.

Xiao Chen didn’t think too much about it and put the lobster meat into Jin Beibei’s mouth. On the side, Cheng Mengying wasn’t able to keep watching. She coughed twice and said: “I say Beibei, don’t you know plumpness can cause asthma? You must really want to marry Xiao Chen, showing affection in front of me.”

“Ah……eh, brother-in-law isn’t a stranger. Whatever said will come, isn’t calling sister-in-law half of brother-in-law’s duty?” Jin Beibei continued to indifferently open her mouth, waiting for Xiao Chen to feed her lobster meat: “Ah——”

“Pff……” Cheng Mengying was dumbfounded. She angrily said: “He isn’t your brother-in-law! Moreover, what duty? Beibei, how is your thinking so complex?”

“Oh, then he is cousin Mengying’s servant. He can still help me peel the lobster.” Jin Beibei said in a natural and justified manner.

Cheng Mengying didn’t feel like paying attention to Jin Beibei. Of course, Cheng Mengying also didn’t believe that Jin Beibei took a fancy to Xiao Chen. Even though she usually acted with an erratic behavior, she actually had a high vision. The young men in aristocratic families, Jin Beibei didn’t even glance at them.

Previously, Jin Beibei would often speak malicious words towards Xiao Chen with Cheng Mengying.

Xiao Chen had run into a once-in-a-millennium big spender and requested a lot of dishes. Even if there were several people, they could all gorge themselves and still have a big pile of leftovers. It was just that one couldn’t eat seafood from the previous day, but there were still a lot of other dishes.

Cheng Mengying finally couldn’t eat anymore. After she finished eating dinner, she lied down on the sofa and watched television. As for Xiao Chen, he was still tidying up crab shells, lobster shells and so on. Jin Beibei actually didn’t go rest, but rather helped Xiao Chen tidy up the unfinished food.

“Cousin Mengying, if you don’t exercise after eating, you’ll put on weight oh!” Jin Beibei warned.

“It seems like the meat all goes to your chest? I dislike inconveniences when I go out!” Cheng Mengying wasn’t convinced. She knew her own figure; she wouldn’t become fat with whatever she ate. She was always very well-proportioned, but chest was her weak spot. Therefore, she was naturally discontented with Jin Beibei’s after-meal exercise.

Jin Beibei didn’t go comfort Cheng Mengying. Instead, she minded her own business and put everything into the lunchboxes one by one. Then, she put into the refrigerator and went to watch television with Cheng Mengying.

However, Xiao Chen took those shrimp peels, crab shells, bones and others and threw them all together into the trash. Then, he went to the backyard of the villa and threw it to the stray dog. The stray dog actually wasn’t picky and ate with extreme joy.

When Xiao Chen returned to the villa, he saw Ye Xiaoye coming down the stairs and go to the refrigerator to take something. However, when she smelled the dense food smell inside the refrigerator, she couldn’t help but immediately wrinkle her brows!

“Why did you guys put leftovers in the refrigerator?” Ye Xiaoye was a bit anxious as she turned her head to cast an angry look towards Cheng Mengying.

“Isn’t the refrigerator suppose to hold leftovers?” Before Cheng Mengying even open her mouth to speak, Jin Beibei opened her mouth.

“You……” Ye Xiaoye wanted to retort, but actually didn’t have any way to retort. Right, which family wouldn’t put the leftovers into the refrigerator? She could only say: “My things shouldn’t be put together with the leftovers or else it will be contaminated.”

“Then take it out and it’ll be fine.” Jin Beibei said in a natural and justified manner.

“Take it out?” Ye Xiaoye was heavily angered by Jin Beibei’s words and subconsciously asked: “How come you won’t take it out?”

“I don’t fear contamination, why would I take it out? Whoever fears contamination should take it out.” Jin Beibei said with an innocent look.

“You……” Ye Xiaoye was played by Jin Beibei into losing her temper. It was precisely because of Jin Beibei’s words, which were reasonable and fair, that made her unable to nitpick the logic! Ye Xiaoye finally tasted Cheng Mengying’s suffering. This little girl before her eyes clearly didn’t resemble the easy-to-handle Cheng Mengying. Although Cheng Mengying had the temperament of a young lady, she wasn’t very scheming. However, Jin Beibei’s mischievousness made her seem like a small demoness.

Understanding that arguing with Jin Beibei wouldn’t produce a result, Ye Xiaoye simply turned around and walked out of the villa.

Regarding Ye Xiaoye walking out so late, Xiao Chen had some doubts, but it wasn’t good to inquire. Although Ye Xiaoye had lent him an electric earthenware pot, he was part of Cheng Mengying’s group in any case, and had no way to help Ye Xiaoye.

“Great! Beibei, Ye Xiaoye’s fire was extinguished by you all at once!” Cheng Mengying finally let out her resentment. For the past few days she had been here, she had been oppressed by Ye Xiaoye but in the end, she retaliated.

Jin Beibei was actually laughing happily without saying a word. She could see that Ye Xiaoye belonged to the ‘not particularly good at dealing with people’ disposition. Luckily, she happened to catch up today. Otherwise, it would usually be very difficult to embarrass Ye Xiaoye.

After a while, Ye Xiaoye came back with a roll of plastic wrap held in her hand. Afterwards, she went and opened the refrigerator. Then, she grabbed the case with Bitter Relief Fruit and wrapped it around 3 times clockwise and 3 times counterclockwise before sealing it tightly and finally putting it back inside the refrigerator.

Evidently, regarding this public-use refrigerator which she didn’t have independent rights to, she could only think up a solution.

But after Ye Xiaoye completed these tasks, she didn’t show any resentment and immediately went upstairs. Originally, Cheng Mengying wanted to see Ye Xiaoye’s anxious face, but didn’t see it. There was nothing but to say that Ye Xiaoye really was a strange person.

In a place very far away from the small alley from before, there was a recreational vehicle parked. Inside the recreational vehicle was that previous gloomy young man’s face looking at a body, the Sha Dage that had returned wounded!

“Did you succeed?” The young man looked at Sha Dage who returned wounded, having a kind of unlucky premonition in his heart.

Xiao Chen was only an ordinary person, yet Sha Dage unexpectedly receiving an injury. This obviously wasn’t a good matter!

“Young master, sorry, I failed to live up to your trust……” Sha Dage guiltily said.

“Xiao Chen didn’t die? How can that be?” The young man’s complexion slightly changed. As expected, things had gone wrong! But he was a calm person, so he didn’t flip out on the spot.

“It’s like this young master, before when I came across Xiao Chen, I was deceived by him……” After he finished speaking, Sha Dage spoke about how Xiao Chen disguised himself as ‘Xiao Chen’s little brother’ to the young man.

“And you believed all of this? Your name ‘Sha Dage’ really lives up to its meaning!” When the young man heard Sha Dage’s words, he became heavily angered. However, he also knew Sha Dage’s nature, so he didn’t have any solutions.

“Young master, sorry……” Sha Dage said with fear and trepidation.

“Forget it, continue speaking. Since you knew that you were cheated, then why didn’t you begin?” The young man waved his hand, indicating to Sha Dage for him to continue speaking.

“After this, just as I was questioning Xiao Chen where his elder brother went, a group of hooligans suddenly appeared. Of course, these hooligans weren’t experts; they couldn’t even be considered First Layer Inner Strength Martialists! Thus, I just wanted to smack them down, then question Xiao Chen!” Sha Dage continued on: “But the result of me disposing of these hooligans caused some person named ‘Brother Lou’ to suddenly rush out. It seemed like he was Xiao Chen’s classmate. When he appeared, Xiao Chen seemed to greatly relax. I feel that this person should be Xiao Chen’s partner and that the beforehand Xiao Chen, who always kept me waiting, should have been waiting for this person to come support him! However, he regarded those hooligans and I as a group. After hitting those hooligans, he began to fight me.”

“Brother Lou? Lou Zhenming?” A name immediately popped up in the young man’s mind, causing him to suddenly become very angry. He smashed the teacup onto the small table in front of him: “Lou Zhenming, **** you! This matter doesn’t even have a single bit to do with you, why do you always destroy my work?”

The previously calm young man couldn’t help but flip out, but it wasn’t surprising. Last time when he sent out Martialists to deal with Xiao Chen, they were intercepted by Lou Zhenming’s Lou Family helpers and killed. This time, Lou Zhenming jumped out!

“This……I don’t know if he’s called Lou Zhenming, Xiao Chen called him ‘Brother Lou’……” Sha Dage carefully said.

“Continue speaking the important points, what happened after Lou Zhenming came out?” Actually, the young man didn’t need to question it. He had already guessed in his heart that it was most likely Lou Zhenming sticking his foot in and messing it up.

“Yes, that ‘Brother Lou’……after Lou Zhenming came out, he wanted to teach me a lesson, but he wasn’t my match. It was just that, a formidable subordinate suddenly jumped out and made a move. His subordinate was also a Fourth Layer Inner Strength Martialist, about the same strength as me, so we were both wounded as a result……” Sha Dage replied.

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“No……Cheng Mengying, you misunderstand. My meaning is that I can help you look for the bracelet……” Xiao Chen had just realized that his action caused the Young Lady’s misunderstanding, so he bitterly smiled as he gave an explanation.

“You……sniffing my hand, mean to help me find my bracelet?” Cheng Mengying creased her brows, not really believing Xiao Chen’s words. But carefully thinking about it, for the past few days of Xiao Chen living with her, he had behaved himself and didn’t think about taking small advantage. Could it be that he really wanted to use this method to help her find her bracelet?

“That’s right.” Xiao Chen nodded. His six senses upgrading was a benefit of becoming a Second Layer Qi-Training Truth Cultivator and he also held the mentality of giving anything a try. After all, higher level Truth Cultivators would sometimes depend on their sense of smell deep inside ancient mountain forests to seek out Heaven and Earth Spiritual Herbs.

“Damn, I had already said that cousin’s man was a transformer. Now he’s changing form into a police dog!” Jin Beibei excitedly exclaimed: “Cousin Mengying, quickly let brother-in-law perform!”

“That……fine.” Cheng Mengying was somewhat skeptical. She thought in her heart: If you can’t find it in a while, watch how this Young Lady will punish you! Daring to use this kind of excuse to take this Young Lady’s small advantages, this Young Lady will definitely perplex you without end!

Xiao Chen nodded and pulled Cheng Mengying’s hand, once again carefully sniffing the smell. It was a very natural, fresh and clean girl’s body fragrance, making Xiao Chen somewhat intoxicated. However, Xiao Chen currently didn’t have the mind to enjoy it. If he couldn’t find the bracelet, it was estimated that the Young Lady would flip out.

Seeing Xiao Chen’s serious face and earnest manner, Cheng Mengying actually almost believed him. However she looked at him, Xiao Chen didn’t seem like a lecher. This was the reason why she allowed him to sniff.

When he more or less remembered the Young Lady’s body fragrance, Xiao Chen let go of her hand. He understood the principle ‘stop before going too far’; although it was a very nice smell, however……the current Cheng Mengying, already wasn’t his fiancée.

“Follow me.” Xiao Chen slowly walked forward, but even though his eyes were looking at the ground, he wasn’t ‘seeing’. He was currently relying completely on his sense of smell within the six senses. He believed that the Young Lady’s bracelet had just fallen, so the smell on it shouldn’t have completely dispersed. In the case that it was still within several meters vicinity, he may be able to smell the fragrance.

Cheng Mengying had a doubtful face, but Jin Beibei actually had a curious face. The two people followed Xiao Chen and they walked forward.

After walking approximately 1 li¹, Xiao Chen suddenly stopped in his tracks. Then, he turned towards the greenery by the roadside and walked over to it!

Watching Xiao Chen walk towards the greenery, Cheng Mengying’s look immediately became a little ugly. She had been pulled by Xiao Chen and ran all the way to the villa area. Although they hadn’t necessarily gone in a straight path, it was nevertheless impossible to turn up inside the greenery right?

If one wanted to say that her bracelet would appear within the greenery, how could it be possible?

But Cheng Mengying still followed while she was panting in rage. She wanted to take a look; if this place didn’t have it, then how would Xiao Chen explain it?

However, what made Cheng Mengying surprised was that Xiao Chen stood at the base of a tree and a lone puppy was lying there. The puppy looked like a stray dog, undernourished, coat color was dirty and looked to be the descendant to the kind of ‘unknown how many types of dogs were crossbred’. Not only was it emaciated, but its appearance was also very ugly.

Of course, this stray dog wasn’t important. The important thing was that under this stray dog’s paw, her bracelet was unexpectedly there! Moreover, it was exactly the bracelet that Cheng Mengying had lost! Evidently, this bracelet had been discovered by this stray dog and was held in his mouth to over here!

At this moment, Cheng Mengying’s eyes was full of unimaginable shock! Xiao Chen unexpectedly had this kind of mystical ability? This person……was her former dandy fiancé? Cheng Mengying couldn’t make out Xiao Chen more and more. On his body, it seemed like there were many unknown secrets.

“Well damn, cousin Mengying, you picked up a treasure. Brother-in-law truly is a transformer!” Jin Beibei was also stunned at this moment. She curiously looked at Xiao Chen, looking him up and down, as if wanting to make out if Xiao Chen had any different place: “Brother-in-law, did you previously disguise yourself as ‘a pig to eat the tiger’²? If I had known earlier that you were this fierce, I would’ve replaced cousin’s place to marry you. What breaking off a marriage, what a waste.”

“Beibei, if you want to marry, it isn’t too late. Couldn’t you just turn around and discuss it with me and sister-in-law?” After Cheng Mengying heard Jin Beibei’s words, her complexion blackened and she turned her head, glaring at Jin Beibei.

“Eh……umm, I don’t seize away people that don’t like me, haha……” Jin Beibei closed her mouth.

“Little doggy, can you give back that bracelet to elder sister?” Cheng Mengying squatted, afraid that the puppy would hold the bracelet in its mouth and run away.

“What can you discuss with a lousy dog? Just take it and it’ll be fine.” Xiao Chen conveniently took the bracelet and returned it to Cheng Mengying, then said: “This dog seems to be a stray, how about we catch it and cook it into soup to drink? How about it, Jin Beibei?”

“Good, good.” Jin Beibei nodded with saliva flowing.

“Xiao Chen! How can you not have sympathy? This good puppy helped me find my bracelet! Instead of being grateful to it, you want to kill it and make soup?” Upon seeing Xiao Chen take the attitude of wanting to catch the dog, Cheng Mengying was immediately anxious.

“Wasn’t I the one who found the bracelet?” Xiao Chen pointed at himself, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: “It’s just a stray dog. If you look at its back leg, it seems like it was injured. Leaving it here is akin to making it wait for death, so we might as well make it die with some value.”

“Who said that it would stay here? This Young Lady quite likes this puppy. This Young Lady feels that it is her lucky star and wants to bring it back home to raise it!” Cheng Mengying rapidly said: “Xiao Chen, if you dare eat it, this Young Lady will eat you!”

Cheng Mengying’s words were somewhat ambiguous. Jin Beibei’s mind quickly revolved and a flash went past her big eyes. She looked at Cheng Mengying’s attractive red lips, then looked at Xiao Chen’s crotch. She wanted to say something, but didn’t dare to speak.

Cheng Mengying saw Jin Beibei’s mischievous ‘xixi’ looking around out of the corner of her eye and immediately understood that she wasn’t thinking of anything good. Cheng Mengying seemed to think of something and her complexion became faintly red, but she feigned calm and said: “Xiao Chen, this Young Lady isn’t discussing with you. You are this Young lady’s manservant; now carry that puppy and let’s return home!”

“Okay……” The smile of a plot having prevailed flashed by the corner of Xiao Chen’s mouth, but the Young Lady actually couldn’t see it because Xiao Chen already bent down to carry that puppy!

The fact was that when Xiao Chen had just come over, when he discovered the bracelet, he felt that this puppy seemed to have some sort of familiar breath on its body. As for what, Xiao Chen was unclear, but this kind of intimate feeling made it seem like he and this stray dog were similar?

When this idea popped up, it made Xiao Chen immediately somewhat dumbfounded. How could he and a dog be similar? But regardless of anything, Xiao Chen wanted to bring this puppy back and slowly study it in the future.

But he was currently living under someone else’s roof. If he randomly brought home a stray dog, wouldn’t Cheng Mengying explode in anger? As a result, Xiao Chen acted out a small plan and as expected, Young Lady Cheng was quite full of compassion, taking the initiative to bring back the puppy and raise it.

The puppy was carried by Xiao Chen and didn’t struggle. Instead, it seemed to be very relieved following Xiao Chen. Jin Beibei looked at the puppy, then looked at Xiao Chen. She wrinkled her nose, looking pensive.

When they returned to the villa once again, it was already over 8:00 PM. Jin Beibei’s car had broken down, so she was unable to return to her home, leaving her with no choice but to stay in the villa for the night.

When they returned to the villa, they immediately saw Ye Xiaoye inside the kitchen decocting medicinal herbs. A strong medicinal herb smell permeated the entire living room, making Cheng Mengying not help but wrinkle her brows. Just as she wanted to say something, Ye Xiaoye immediately carried the electric earthenware pot upstairs, not giving Cheng Mengying even a chance to flip out!

Clearly, the smell of decocted medicinal herbs in the room was unpleasant but Xiao Chen endured it. They had returned late today, so it was calculated that Ye Xiaoye thought that they wouldn’t come back. Thus, she returned to the kitchen to decoct medicinal herbs and as a result, didn’t expect that they would return midway.

But Ye Xiaoye’s reaction was quick; she immediately carried the earthenware pot and walked.

“She infuriates me.”Cheng Mengying clenched her teeth, but didn’t have anything to vent her anger.

“She’s that Ye Xiaoye?” Jin Beibei looked towards Ye Xiaoye’s figure and asked.

“Yes. Beibei, teach her a lesson for me later.” Cheng Mengying seethingly said.

“Eh……okay.” Jin Beibei nodded.

Xiao Chen put the stray dog in the villa’s backyard pet room. When the villa was built, there was originally a space put aside for house pets on the design; a separate cabin behind the villa.

“Xiao Chen, I’m hungry. Go make us instant noodles.” Cheng Mengying was sincerely tired enough today. Not to speak of running from school to home, they had even turned back to find her bracelet. After returning home, she just fell on the sofa and didn’t want to move.

Jin Beibei was actually spirited and energetic. She was curiously looking here and there because it was her first time here.

“There’s no need to eat instant noodles today, I brought home some food.” As Xiao Chen was speaking, he opened his bookbag. Before, they had lost the review materials, but his bookbag had been on his back all along. Inside his bookbag was the food that he had ripped off of Yue Shaoqun at noon in the cafeteria.

When Xiao Chen took out the lunchboxes inside his schoolbag out one by one and arranged them on the dinner table, Cheng Mengying was shocked and stared blankly in place! She didn’t expect that Xiao Chen would actually prepare food for her! Before in school, she had seen Xiao Chen gorge himself and believed that he had forgotten about her!

Remembering that she had eaten up what she had originally wanted to give Xiao Chen, the Young Lady immediately became somewhat ashamed. Her charming face became red, but the words that came out of her mouth were: “Isn’t this your and Tang Tang’s leftovers?”

Xiao Chen was distracted for a moment. He didn’t think Cheng Mengying paid much attention to him, otherwise how would she know he and Tang Tang had eaten together? Before in First High, it seemed like Cheng Mengying didn’t even take a glance at him? Xiao Chen mind was slightly unclear for a moment.

“No. It’s the food that guy, Yue Shaoqun, treated me to. There were extras, so I packed it and walked out.” Xiao Chen replied.

“Why did Yue Shaoqun treat you to a meal?” This was the question that Cheng Mengying wanted to ask before in the afternoon, but because she was sitting pretty far away and didn’t know how to matter happened, she felt embarrassed to ask.

“He saw Tang Tang and I together and thought I was Tang Tang’s new boyfriend. Since he finally found a reason to abandon Tang Tang, he naturally felt happy to treat.” Xiao Chen replied.

“Then you acknowledged?” When Cheng Mengying heard that Xiao Chen was Tang Tang’s boyfriend, she was somewhat slightly uncomfortable at heart.

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However, this way actually averted Sha Dage’s harming of Lou Zhenming. This kind of ‘firmly staking it all’ manner forced Sha Dage have no other choice but to wholeheartedly respond to it or rapidly escape. In short, he simply had no time to deal with Lou Zhenming.

But Sha Dage clearly didn’t think a Martialist whose strength wasn’t weaker than his would exit and come attack him. There wasn’t enough time for him to dodge, so he had no alternative but to release Lou Zhenming, turn around, and strike in response to Lei Dianfeng.

“Hong——”

The sound of muffled thunder burst forth from the collision of the fists from the two people. The two people simultaneously retreated several steps; this really was true ‘meeting force with force’! Lei Dianfeng feared that Lou Zhenming would be injured by Sha Dage, so he had no other choice but to use all his strength and make Sha Dage defend himself. Thus, Sha Dage also had no other choice but to use up all his strength.

The outcome was that the two people were mutually injured and both received a very severe internal injury.

The two formidable experts bumping each other caused Lou Zhenming to suck in his tongue. Wasn’t this too flamboyant? Luckily Lei Dianfeng jumped out to save him otherwise he truly would have died here!

But Lou Zhenming had some doubts; where did this Sha Dage come from? Before, Lou Zhenming was under the impression that he was the migrant worker that Jin Beibei had hired from somewhere. However, when this damn person truly struck out, it was with the strength of a Fourth Layer Inner Strength Martialist! How would he be so easy to hire?

And just a moment ago when he asked him whether he was companions with Xiao Chen or not, from what he saw, this person clearly wasn’t Xiao Chen’s companion. Could it be that he was in a group with Cheng Mengying? Cheng Mengying’s bodyguard?

It was possible once he thought about it! Remembering his completely uncalled for offense to Cheng Mengying’s bodyguard, Lou Zhenming felt a fire burn inside. He had truly sent out troops for no reason! Not only did he not obtain the proper result of ‘Hero Saving The Beauty’, on the contrary, he offended people!

“Who are you?” After Lei Dianfeng spat out a mouthful of blood, he coldly looked at Sha Dage and asked in a loud voice.

Sha Dage wasn’t much better. After Lei Dianfeng spat blood, he also couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of blood. Only, Sha Dage didn’t respond. He hesitated but also didn’t continue fighting. Instead, he turned around to run away!

Lei Dianfeng hesitated yet didn’t go chase. His current injury wasn’t light, moreover he feared that Sha Dage was planning to lure him away. His top priority was to send back Lou Zhenming safe and sound, so he endured the injury inside his body and said to Lou Zhenming: “Young Master Ming, let’s quickly leave this place.”

“O-oh, okay!” Lou Zhenming was a bit stunned. Hearing Lei Dianfeng’s words, he hurriedly nodded! Taking a glance at the hooligans lying on the ground, even if Lou Zhenming was extremely unwilling in his heart, he could currently only helplessly say to Ma Gangchuan and Thin Monkey: “Gangchuan, Thin Monkey, carry these people inside and deliver them to the hospital! Right, there are also the books on the ground. Pick them up and return it to Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei tomorrow.”

“Yes, Brother Ming……” Thin Monkey and Ma Gangchuan promptly responded, but taking a look at the scattered review materials on the ground, Thin Monkey carefully asked: “Right, should we also pick up Xiao Chen’s materials together?”

“Pick!” Even if Lou Zhenming didn’t want to pick them up, since today’s circumstances had already become like this, if he picked up Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei’s and only not Xiao Chen’s, then this good person would also be tarnished! Thinking about it, he had really bad luck. Not only did his ‘hero saving the beauty’ fail, but he also became a porter for free.

The original lively alley instantly become empty without a person.

Xiao Chen pulled Cheng Mengying and Jin Beibei and madly dashed, running straight towards the villa area. Despite the two females having exercised themselves from childhood and also on the basis of having cultivated inner strength for a period of time, they still were tired panting at this moment.

“Tired…….tired to death……Xiao Chen, you *******, do you want to tire this Young Lady to death……” Cheng Mengying held her chest and heavily breathed in big mouthfuls of air.

“My chest, my chest, nearly ran away waa……” Jin Beibei used her hand to support the twin peaks of her big chest. She sighed and cried out: “Brother-in-law Xiao Chen, compensate me for my chest!”

“Beibei!” Cheng Mengying turned her head and glared at Jin Beibei. What sort of time is this, yet still asking to compensate for your chest? Xiao Chen is a big man, how can he compensate for your chest?

“Eh……then no need to compensate. Who let him become my cousin’s man!” Jin Beibei said with a suffering face.

“Do you believe that I will grasp you right now……and pinch your chest until it explodes?” Cheng Mengying had a murderous gaze that made Jin Beibei firmly shut her mouth.

Xiao Chen naturally wouldn’t take Jin Beibei’s words seriously. He was very clear on Jin Beibei’s character, moreover he didn’t believe that if Jin Beibei called him ‘cousin’s man’ several times, he would really turn into her ‘cousin’s man’. He would only believe it if he was a ******.

“Sorry, I’ve implicated you guys……” Xiao Chen apologized to the panting Young Lady and little girl Jin Beibei.

“Xiao Chen, what’s the matter? Who was that person? Why did he want to find trouble with you?” Cheng Mengying calmed down and seriously looked at Xiao Chen: “Do you need this Young Lady to call my father to check?”

Although the Young Lady’s tone was icy and arrogant, the ‘deeply concerned’ expression on her face couldn’t be faked, making Xiao Chen’s heart warm! Today, he almost caused the two of them to have bad luck, but the Young Lady actually didn’t find fault and blame him. Instead, she inquired if he had any troubles!

From what he could see now, aside from being arrogant and pampered, the Young Lady’s character was very kind hearted. It was just that he wasn’t clear about this before. He was still thinking that she was a proud and arrogant looking-down-on-people person, but now he could see that it actually totally wasn’t like this. At least when Xiao Chen went down like this, Young Lady Cheng still didn’t look down on him.

“I don’t know. There are many people who will hit a person when he’s down, who knows if it’s Lou Zhenming’s self-directed performance? Moreover, there’s also Chen Jinpeng, Zhao Yuliang and others who will hit a person when he’s down……” Xiao Chen spoke up to here and broke off, then looked towards Cheng Mengying: “Of course……actually, there’s another possibility……”

After he spoke up to here, Xiao Chen didn’t continue speaking. But because Cheng Mengying was extremely intelligent, she was able to guess what Xiao Chen wanted to say.

As expected, Cheng Mengying’s complexion slightly changed; Cheng Clan was one of Xiao Chen’s suspected targets. Quickly after, Cheng Mengying gave up the idea of letting Cheng Clan help investigate. Her father had said not to rely on Cheng Clan. Even if he was the Young Clan Head, he was only temporarily managing Cheng Clan’s business. Grandfather Cheng also didn’t give him too much authority to interfere with family affairs, rather firmly controlled it by himself. In fact, to be honest, Cheng Zhongming had already wanted to take over. Due to Grandfather Cheng’s original way of thinking, the position of Young Clan Head should be left to Cheng Mengying’s missing brother-in-law, but he had encountered a sudden encounter midway! If Cheng Zhongming helped Xiao Chen under this kind of Clan environment, it was very possible that he wouldn’t be able to help him, but also implicate himself! After all, there was still Cheng Zhongfan on the side who was covetously eyeing the position of Young Clan Head!

“Let’s go home, we’re going to buy a car on the weekend.” Cheng Mengying didn’t ask any further. Rather, she said these words very flatly.

The meaning of buying a car was very obvious; that was to let Xiao Chen drive them back to the villa every day. This way, they could greatly reduce the possibility of meeting an enemy in this kind of unlucky street alley.

“Good good, I just happened to want to change cars!” Jin Beibei happily said.

Towards Jin Beibei’s simple-mindedness, Cheng Mengying didn’t what was good to say. She was tidying up the cuff that Xiao Chen pulled wrinkled and about ready to go home, but was suddenly alarmed: “Ah! My bracelet……”

“What bracelet?” Xiao Chen stared blankly.

“Before my grandmother departed, she left me a bracelet. This is the only relic my grandmother left me……” Cheng Mengying was a little anxious. Inside Cheng Clan, a girl wasn’t a target of much importance. Although she was proud Cheng Clan Young Lady outside, from the view of Cheng Clan people, she was going to be some other family’s daughter-in-law from beginning to end.

Therefore, in the aspect of cultivating Inner Strength, she could only cultivate a bit. It was very unlikely for a specialist to take the trouble to guide her. As for inside Cheng Clan, the person best to Cheng Mengying outside of Cheng Zhongming and his wife, was Cheng Mengying’s grandmother, Esteemed Mother Xiao.

Esteemed Mother Xiao was surnamed Xiao and in fact was considered Xiao Clan’s person. She was Xiao Chen’s grandfather’s adopted younger sister, but there was no blood relation.

This was also the reason why Cheng Mengying and Xiao Chen could be engaged so smoothly at the time. Cheng Zhongming and Xiao Feng, however said, was their Clan’s second generation. Another good matter was that without the Grandfather’s nod, it was impossible for their children to be engaged in private.

At the time, there was Esteemed Mother Xiao pushing it along, so this matter naturally didn’t encounter any resistance. However, now that Esteemed Mother Xiao had passed away from a long time, Grandfather Cheng began to waver. Cheng Clan’s son also had something bad happen, so as a result, Cheng Clan didn’t have any speakers to defend Xiao Chen.

If it was an ordinary ornament, Xiao Chen wouldn’t care too much about it, but this bracelet was different. It was the gift that his grandfather had given Esteemed Mother Xiao when they swore siblinghood. He didn’t think that it would unexpectedly pass into Cheng Mengying’s hands! The implied message in this action was self-evident.

Of course, Xiao Chen also didn’t think Esteemed Mother had any other bracelets. This was because Esteemed Mother Xiao wasn’t a woman that wished to be beautiful. She was a Martialist, so she had very few jewelry.

But even if this bracelet wasn’t the one his grandfather gave Esteemed Mother Xiao, Xiao Chen would still help the Young Lady look for it. Firstly, it was because that it was his fault that the bracelet was lost. Secondly, even if it wasn’t his fault, the Young Lady hadn’t been cold to him these days. Thus, if he could help, he naturally would help.

However, how to search?

Xiao Chen didn’t speak. Cheng Mengying had already begun turning around towards the original road to find it. However, with this greatly dark sky, even if there was street lights, it would be very hard to look for something on the ground.

“Cheng Mengying, wait.” Xiao Chen opened his mouth and called for Cheng Mengying to stop.

“En?” Cheng Mengying turned her head and looked at Xiao Chen somewhat doubtfully, not understanding why Xiao Chen called for her to stop.

Xiao Chen didn’t speak too much. Instead, he quickly walked to Cheng Mengying’s side, suddenly reaching out and held Cheng Mengying’s small hand. Then, he proceeded to pick it up and sniff it with his nose.

“Ah……what do you want to do?” Cheng Mengying was frightened by Xiao Chen’s abrupt action. She subconsciously shook off Xiao Chen’s hand and fumed as she glared at Xiao Chen: “You want to take small advantages?”

“Let me smell again.” Xiao Chen said as he went to pull at Cheng Mengying’s hand again.

“You…….what do you want to do?” Cheng Mengying was startled and angry: “Xiao Chen, did you take the wrong medicine? Look at what time it is yet you’re still thinking of these dirty matters? Before, you just pulled me and ran. Did you not pull enough?”

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“What？！” After Xiao Chen listened to it, he couldn’t help but be startled. How could it be that kid Lou Zhenming? This guy truly was like a lingering ghost! But from the point of view that Tian Lao had communicated to him, Lou Zhenming hadn’t targeted himself this time. His targeted person was Young Lady Cheng, Cheng Mengying. He was just something chanced upon to become a funerary object.

This made Xiao Chen somewhat helpless. If he wasn’t here, then Cheng Mengying would at most be disgusted and not have any big matter. But since he was here, it was estimated that there would be a beating!

“But it doesn’t matter. Those several small subordinates aren’t even First Layer Inner Strength Martialists.” Tian Lao’s words made Xiao Chen let out a sigh of relief. But the words Tian Lao said afterwards made Xiao Chen feel like spitting out a little blood: “As long as you pay attention to the secret place over there, there is Martialist that is a bit ferocious, at Fourth Layer Inner Strength!”

“Pfft……!＠＃￥％……＆……” Xiao Chen didn’t know what was good to say. Another Fourth Layer Inner Strength Martialist had come, was this letting him live or die?

“Can you influence this idiot’s thoughts and make him go over there to fight that hidden Fourth Layer Inner Strength Martialist?”

“Unable to influence. You’re too weak and furthermore, the circumstances this time and last time are different. The influence of a second or two has no use; before he would even be able to rush to the side of that Fourth Layer Inner Strength Martialist, he would probably awaken.” Tian Lao decisively dashed his hopes: “Think up some other solution.”

“……” Xiao Chen was speechless. Think up other solutions? How could other solutions be so easy to think up?

“Great little brother, have you finally remember what your brother confessed before he left? Have you properly thought about it?” Sha Dage was a bit impatient. This was his first time carrying out a mission, so he naturally wanted to have a perfect completion without any mistakes.

“I have actually thought about it well……but there are several people in the front that are disturbing my thoughts!” Xiao Chen’s mind came up with an plan. Immediately spreading out his hands, he spoke very helplessly. Although Xiao Chen had already played this dog-eat-dog trick twice before, besides it being well-tried, it was the third time using it, so it wouldn’t be that interesting!

The last two times were all due to Tian Lao’s influence, but this time could only be done by taking a step and watching a step. It all depended on his social skills! Thinking up to here, Xiao Chen’s deliberately showed a distressed faced and spoke.

“Oh? Who is disturbing you?” Sha Dage stared blankly, then suddenly became irritated: “Don’t trick me, where are the people?”

“Aren’t they in the front!” Xiao Chen moved forward and pointed. It just so happened that Ma Gangchuan had just brought five little brothers from the shadows out!

Sha Dage turned his head to take a look and sure enough, there were several people with bad intentions walking over. He didn’t suspect how Xiao Chen discovered this in his heart. He thought that Xiao Chen had also just seen them. After all, his attention had been on Xiao Chen’s body before and he wasn’t paying attention to whether or not the front had any people.

“Don’t move, this is a robbery!” When Ma Gangchuan saw that Xiao Chen and the others had discovered him, he immediately didn’t hide away. Instead, he shouted out to clear the way.

Sha Dage became furious! Where did this group of trash come from? Why did they come to rob at the most important time? Didn’t they see that he was interrogating? If Xiao Chen’s train of thought was interrupted and he didn’t remember where his elder brother went, how would Sha Dage be able to go back to report ‘mission completed’?

As a result, Sha Dage said to Xiao Chen: “Wait here. I’ll get rid of them, so think about it well!”

After he finished speaking, Sha Dage dashed forward and went to face Ma Gangchuan and those several hooligans!

Ma Gangchuan stared blankly. He didn’t expect this oaf to take the initiative and dash towards them. Just before, wasn’t it said that this guy was an employed migrant worker? Seeing this attitude, didn’t he resemble a bodyguard?

But seeing that Sha Dage dashing over, Ma Gangchuan didn’t think too much about it. He directly told to his several subordinates: “First take down this rash youth down for me!”

“O……” One of the subordinates in the front rushed out and promptly agreed, but just as he said half of this ‘Okay’, he caught sight of a big fist greeting his face right before his eyes. As a result, there was a “Peng!” and the subordinate was sent flying. This was completely unexpected and the subordinate didn’t guard against it!

And this hit was especially ruthless and spicy. After the subordinate hit the ground, he incessantly moaned in pain because his bones had been broken into many pieces. Under one fist, he was punched into a disabled person. Later on, he could ride in public transportation free of charge.

Ma Gangchuan looked on distracted. He didn’t think this oaf would be this amazing, directly overturning one of his subordinates. Even if it was in a situation where it was a sneak attack when not paying attention! His complexion became somewhat unsightly and he said to the other people: “Kill him for me!”

Actually, they didn’t need Ma Gangchuan’s reminder. The remaining 4 little brothers dashed and encircled Sha Dage. The collapsed little brother was their sworn brother buddy. In ordinary times they would get along but now that he had been flipped over to the ground, how could they not worry?

But the strength Sha Dage revealed nevertheless was impressive. Not waiting for these 4 little brothers to attack, Sha Dage took the initiative to attack and once again, without suspense, another little brother lied down on the floor. His eyes rolled up and he wasn’t able to say anything before immediately fainting after!

It had to be said that these little brothers and Sha Dage’s strength had a large disparity. They couldn’t even handle one move! One was a Fourth Layer Inner Strength Martialist while the others were hooligans who hadn’t even reached First Layer Inner Strength. Fundamentally, they weren’t on a level playing field.

Seeing two of the people that he had searched for be disposed of by the migrant worker by Xiao Chen’s side, Lou Zhenming was seized by anxiousness. Where had this person come from? How could he be this violent? Were migrant workers this ferocious?

But regardless of everything, Lou Zhenming couldn’t wait any longer. He had to make some response otherwise there wouldn’t be anything for him to deal with in a moment! As a result, Lou Zhenming had no other choice but to jump out ahead of time and loudly shouted: “Cheng Mengying, don’t fear, I’m here to rescue you!”

Although these words could be said to be a bit false and the current Cheng Mengying absolutely didn’t have any dangers, he couldn’t let ‘hero saving the beauty’ plan that he schemed with great difficulty go to waste. This was completely different from Lou Zhenming’s anticipation of Xiao Chen being beat up to the point of not being able to tell if he was dead or alive and Cheng Mengying receiving serious threatening.

After he finished speaking, Lou Zhenming wasn’t concerned about whatever attitude Cheng Mengying had. He directly dashing to the 3 not collapsed hooligans and started brandishing his fist!

Although those remaining several hooligans thought that the present was different from how it was planned out prior, since Lou Zhenming sent over his fist, they naturally put out an appearance of not being his match and successively fell down!

Seeing Lou Zhenming posturing, a trace of a sneer flashed past the corners of Xiao Chen’s mouth. Then, he gratefully and passionately said: “It’s Brother Lou! You came to save¹ us?”

“Yes……Xiao Chen, quickly take Cheng Mengying and escape from here. Let me take care of this place!” Although Lou Zhenming didn’t want to let off Xiao Chen, this kind of circumstance made it clearly impossible to tidy up Xiao Chen, so he could only first let him run. But the words that came out from his mouth displayed much magnanimity, seeming like a hero who would rescue Xiao Chen in his times of calamity.

“Brother Lou, many thanks! Then we’ll go ahead!” After Xiao Chen finished speaking, he didn’t stay any longer. He used his left hand to pull Jin Beibei and his right hand to pull Cheng Mengying, then began running away!

Although Sha Dage was a little stupid, he wasn’t retarded. Hearing that Lou Zhenming and Xiao Chen were acquainted and hearing him call Xiao Chen as Xiao Chen, he knew that he had been fooled! Xiao Chen had no damn elder brother; it was clearly him that was Xiao Chen! The words that this kid had spoke just a moment ago was just nonsense to cheat him!

In addition, it was estimated that Xiao Chen spoke bullshit in order to stall for time and wait until this whatever “Brother Lou” reinforcements arrived. As for those several robbers, they were probably an accident. This made him utterly angered! Seeing that Xiao Chen wanted to run, he didn’t bother dealing with the robbers and turned around to give chase!

However, Sha Dage’s movement in Lou Zhenming’s eyes became ‘wanting to follow after Xiao Chen to leave together’! In Lou Zhenming’s eyes, this Sha Dage was most likely Xiao Chen’s hire or helper. In front of Cheng Mengying, he was unable to teach Xiao Chen a lesson. But for this meddlesome Sha Dage that wrecked his plans, Lou Zhenming wasn’t prepared to let him off!

He lifted his hand and pulled on Sha Dage’s clothes, coldly saying: “Why are you leaving so urgently? As a robber, you must have the consciousness of being beaten!”

Lou Zhenming wasn’t stupid and immediately framed Sha Dage as a robber. In fact, he was fearing that this Sha Dage and Cheng Mengying had relations. If they had relations, then he could explain it as ‘I mistook him for a robber because I came “afterwards”. When he and Xiao Chen were together before, I didn’t see.’

Moreover, the reason why Lou Zhenming dared to get rid of Sha Dage was because Sha Dage hadn’t exposed his real strength yet. After all, Sha Dage simply didn’t need to use his real strength for several hooligans. Therefore, what Lou Zhenming didn’t know, he didn’t fear.

“You and Xiao Chen are a group?” Sha Dage wrinkled his brows. Previously, he had a bad mood towards Lou Zhenming, but felt anxious to pursue Xiao Chen so he didn’t pay attention to him. However, he didn’t expect this kid to dare move against him! Was he tired of living?

“Correct! Robber, don’t run!” Lou Zhenming pretended not to understand and continued to frame Sha Dage as a robber.

But Sha Dage was clearly indifferent regarding whether or not Lou Zhenming framed him as a robber. He coldly gazed at Lou Zhenming and said: “Then you can die!”

Lou Zhenming was just about to ridicule Sha Dage as ‘fearless manner and lightning tongue” but before these words came out, Lou Zhenming’s cold sweat came out! Because Sha Dage clearly didn’t want to be entangled with Lou Zhenming, he directly exposed his real strength and prepared to kill Lou Zhenming with one fist.

Fourth Layer Inner Strength Martialist!

Lou Zhenming trembled from head to toe. He wanted to escape but both of his legs seemed to be weighed down with lead and he wasn’t able to move one step. Of course, in front of a Fourth Layer Inner Strength Martialist, he wouldn’t able to run away.

“Receive this move!” Just as Lou Zhenming turned pale in fright and believed that he was going to be finished here, Lei Dianfeng jumped out! He had also seen Sha Dage’s real strength but had no choice except to move!

In the most crucial moment, Lei Dianfeng directly jumped out and used his palm to slap towards Sha Dage! He feared that Sha Dage’s move would be harmful to Lou Zhenming, so he came out with his most formidable strength. Furthermore, the move he used was the most primitive! It was the most technique-less ‘firmly staking it all’²!

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