Chapter 3851 — He Still Threw Them Down
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"You linger here and will not leave—it seems soft words are wasted on you, and you mean to have the hard ones?" Hong Zhong's expression was unchanged as he lifted his teacup again and smiled faintly. "Four guest retainers, would you be so good as to see these two troublesome guests out for me?"
At these words, Nan Tianguan and Yu Jiang's expressions shifted sharply, and once he had grasped what was said, Nan Tianguan hurriedly threatened, "This old codger has gone mad! I should like to see which of you will go mad along with him!"
In Nan Tianguan's view, even if Hong Zhong himself had lost his senses and no longer cared about the threat of a Four-Direction Inspector, the others—including those four formidable guest retainers—would never lose their minds alongside him. After all, once vital interests were at stake, cultivators had always been the most pragmatic breed of people.
To his surprise, after only a brief pause, those four powerful auras settled over his head once more without hesitation. Clearly, between Hong Zhong and Nan Tianguan, these four formidable guest retainers had already made their choice.
The four appeared at once, giving Nan Tianguan no chance to resist or speak, and surrounded him and Yu Jiang completely. Following the same method used on Nan Tianyong last time, they pitched the two of them out of the second-floor window without another word.
Since it was not an open day for the inner street, there were not many pedestrians about, but two grown men suddenly flung down from above—one of them a man of Nan Tianguan's hotly sought-after standing—set the inner street of the market district instantly abuzz.
Pointed at and discussed by all around them, subjected to a fierce gauntlet of jeering and mocking stares, not only did a personage like Nan Tianguan feel humiliated—even a nobody like Yu Jiang felt his face utterly lost, too ashamed to show himself.
This time the two of them had gotten a genuine taste of what Nan Tianyong had felt back then. The only difference was that Nan Tianyong had been alone, whereas the two of them had come as a team to lose face together!
"Damned old codger!" Nan Tianguan glared at Hong Zhong, calm and composed in the second-floor window, grinding his teeth in hatred, his face burning with shame.
Back when he had learned that his third brother Nan Tianyong had been thrown down from the Hong Clan Merchant Guild, he had poured scorn and contempt upon the man. Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that now it was his turn—and that despite making thorough preparations in advance, he still could not escape the same humiliating fate. How was he supposed to bear it?
The managing senior disciple of the Soaring Sky Pavilion, flung from the second floor into the street before all eyes, utterly powerless to resist, mocked and gaped at by so many passersby—on this trip today, Nan Tianguan had thrown away a lifetime's worth of face!
And Yu Jiang, that nobody, was at this moment cursing inwardly as well: this martial uncle of his had been so high and mighty, bearing down on Hong Zhong and his people from the very first moment until they could scarcely breathe—and yet he had still come to such an awkward end!
Not only had they failed to dig up the truth about Lin Er, they had lost face alongside him for nothing. Truly, a case of going for wool and coming home shorn!
The Three Heroes of the Nan Clan—what a name they had! Yet pitted against a colossus like the Hong Clan Merchant Guild, the third and then the second had been flung one after another into the street to be humiliated and laughed at. Yu Jiang had seen it clearly enough now: the two sides had never been on the same level at all!
Amid the stares and jeers of the passersby, Nan Tianguan and Yu Jiang had no time for rage or venting; they scrambled to their feet and made to cover their faces and flee. RS