Chapter 1092 — One Must Be Cautious
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Yes. Without certainty of victory, all we can do now is swallow it and endure!" Zhong Yongliang sighed. "Paozi, to be honest with you, your brother is in a truly wretched state right now — I have many enemies, yet I too must swallow it and endure!"
"Oh? What other enemies?" Zhang Naipao was rather startled by Zhong Yongliang's words. "Brother Liang, what has happened to you?"
"Your Brother Liang had the kidney cut out of him!" Zhong Yongliang sighed. "I am a one-kidney man now!"
"What? Brother Liang, someone cut out your kidney? Who did it?" Zhang Naipao was shocked out of his wits and stared at Zhong Yongliang in astonishment.
"If I told you now, you wouldn't know the man anyway. Never mind — wait until you come down the mountain, and we'll settle all these scores together! You need only know that your Brother Liang is in a most miserable plight, and that you, Paozi, must work hard!" In painting himself as so wretched, Zhong Yongliang also meant to fire Zhang Naipao's fighting spirit, so that he would train all the harder in the future.
"Rest easy, Brother Liang! I understand. I will work even harder and advance to the Earth rank as soon as I can!" Zhang Naipao vowed.
"Good. Seeing you today has given Xiaofu and me confidence as well — we know the day of our revenge is not far off!" Zhong Yongliang nodded. "By the way, while you are here, is there anything you need?"
"Nothing. There is nothing lacking here. Every day I only cultivate; there is nothing else for me to do." Zhang Naipao shook his head.
"All right then. Xiaofu and I are relieved to have seen you, so we will not disturb your cultivation. We will head down the mountain first and come see you another day!" Zhong Yongliang said.
"Fine. I will see you down the mountain!" Zhang Naipao nodded.
"Ah, your sect doesn't even have a car, and we have to walk all the way back. It will wear me to death!" Zhong Yongliang sighed. With one kidney cut out, his stamina was plainly not what it had once been.
"Brother Liang, I'll carry you," Zhang Naipao said with indifference.
"You'll carry me?" Zhong Yongliang was stunned.
Zhang Naipao smiled faintly, tucked Zhong Yongliang and Gao Xiaofu one under each arm, and went flying down the mountain!
Zhong Yongliang and Gao Xiaofu were startled. They had never imagined Zhang Naipao was already so formidable — carrying a man under each arm, and still able to run that fast!
And Zhang Naipao was only a late Yellow rank expert. One could well imagine, then, that when Wei Zhao had dealt with the three of them before, he had already been holding back; otherwise, the three would long since have been beaten to death by Wei Zhao!
These past two days Yunhai Shuku had been thoroughly depressed, wearing a gloomy face the whole day long, yet he dared not tell his wife and daughter of his misfortune. How he wished that what he had been through were only a dream! But he knew it was no dream: yesterday Xiao Luozi had come to the grocery store in the market to find Yunhai Shuku, and told him that today would be the final deadline for Yunhai Shuku to repay his money!
"Ah!" Yunhai Shuku sighed, gazing at his own shabby, battered furniture, utterly at a loss as to what to do.
If dying could end it all, he would rather die and be done with it! But he knew he could not die! If he died, Xiao Luozi would not spare his wife and daughter either, and their fate then would be even more wretched than it was now!