TWQQF ch 132 - Taught Every One A Tough Lesson; Dimension Leveled Up (5)

He had no choice but to pull strings stating their old relationship with the Cheng’s but that didn’t work with Cheng Xiao Xiao the brat either. Not only did she make no effect to handle the situation with finesse and made him lost face, she had further rubbed salt on his wounds.

If it was any other issues, he would have exploded already!

Thinking about all the words that he had heard about the Cheng’s, he restrained his  sullenness and forced out the words at Cheng Xiao Xiao, “And exactly how would you like us to make it up to you?”

“Wrong! Not how I want you to make it up to us, it’s all about your sincerity!”

“You!!”

This damn little rascal, scolded the associate dean inside his head. He fished out a sachet from his chest and painfully handed it over to her, “You can take this as a gift that I’ve brought for this meeting. You better not push your luck and give me some face. Back in the days your father had called me ‘master’…”

“Not master, it was ‘instructor’!” stared Cheng Biyuan and elaborated.

The associate dean laughed embarrassingly and said, “Oh, it’s all the same!”

Cheng Xiao Xiao didn’t pay him any attention, she had already tossed the sachet in her hand into the dimension and let Yuteng go play with it.

She turned her head and looked at the dozens of students. Waving the fly swatter in her hand, she said, “Hey, old man, we are building our new house right now and we are running low on logs. I see these people have way too much time on hand coming here to cause trouble over and over again. Don’t you think we have them work out a little?”

“Cough, cough, cough….” The associated dean almost choked to death. He looked at Cheng Xiao Xiao in disbelief, “You want them to go logging in the mountains?”

“Yeah, why not?” Cheng Xiao Xiao lifted the corners of her mouth and showed him a cold grin. Casually she waved the fly swatter in front of him. He was startled. He had seen the power of the odd-looking fan. Bang, bang, bang, and he took a few steps back.

“You little….!!”

The associate dean, who was so angry that his eyes were wide and his goatee sticking up, saw that Cheng Xiao Xiao was raising her eyebrows and swallows his words back into his mouth. He sighed helplessly.

All the students upon hearing about physical labor work looked at each other. They must have heard wrong. Since when have they ever had to do physical labor?

They all felt a fiery anger burning in the pit of stomach but before they could react, the associate dean had already accepted the deal, “Okay, we will listen to you. They do have some free time, we can let him help you chop down trees for a few days. How’s that?”

“Don’t think you can slack. They must bring back 1,000 logs a day. We will send our men to examine the logs they send back. If they are not acceptable, we will increase the amount accordingly. And you, old man, and your instructor will be their supervisors. Remember, you won’t get paid. This is all free work!”

TWQQF ch 131 - Taught Every One A Tough Lesson; Dimension Leveled Up (4)

“Junxian, you stayed out of this. We will catch up in a bit!” Cheng Biyuan said slowly; he didn’t want to give him a hard time.

Gu Junxian’s look was a little bit stiff. One could see the struggle in his eyes, but he finally nodded and stepped back.

The associate dean had recovered to his normal colors. He took a look at Cheng Biyuan and gave him a tender smile, “Cheng Biyuan, we’ve known each other for a long time as well. Back when you were a student of School of Divine Condor, I was your instructor. What? Do you no longer think of me as your teacher?”

The associate dean has decided to swallow his pride and pretend everything that had transpired didn’t happen. He smiled at Cheng Biyuan in a friendly way.

Nobody would have anticipated that the usually stern and arrogant associate dean would smile like a henchman, the change in his attitude was quite drastic.

Cheng Xiao Xiao gave him a look of despise directly but the associate dean just pretended that he didn’t see that. Smiling cheerfully, he said, “Maiden Cheng, according to your father’s level at School of Divine Condor, I should be your shi zu 1!”

“Shi zu? What, you?” She had no respect for this goatee man. He was shameless.

Seeing that the young girl wouldn’t recognize him as her father’s teacher, the associate dean started shouting at the top of his lungs, “How dare you try to destroy your ancestry! What I said was all true! You can ask your father, back in the days Cheng Biyuan was in my class!”

“Stop!”

A wave of her hand and a gigantic fly swatter swayed left and right in front of his eyes. Squinting, Cheng Xiao Xiao said, “Old man, we got a lot to settle. You thought you can just pull strings? Let me tell you this – don’t even think about it. Your School of Divine Condor is nothing but garbage. I couldn’t care less about it!”

“You little brat, what are you talking about?!”

At this moment, the smile on the associate dean’s face was gone and a tremendous chi exploded from his body like giant waves.

Yes Cheng Xiao Xiao was seeing illusions in her mind. It was as though it wasn’t an old man standing in front of her, but a terrifying monster instead.

Under the pressure of his tremendous pressure, Cheng Xiao Xiao felt suffocating and her face started to turn red.

She was too stubborn to back off. Standing straight up, she dared at him without even blinking.

“Let me tell you this – you can insult me, but you can insult our sacred School of Divine Condor!” said the associate dean enunciating each word carefully and solemnly.

This side of him immediately won the respect of all the students of School of Divine Condor. Everybody looked at him with respect in their eyes.

Cheng Xiao Xiao curled her lips in disdain, “Save it. I suggest you to apologize immediately. Otherwise we will strike you all out. This fly swatter of mine is no vegetarian, it’s carnivorous!”

“Yeah, you go, Xiao Xiao!”

“Shi mei is right. You need to apologize quickly!”

“Apologize! Apologize quickly!”

Multiple villagers chimed simultaneously. The had inadvertently taken on the instructors and students of School of Divine Condor as their opponents, but even though none of them have any background in cultivation, none of them were afraid of these elite martial artists.

The well-respected associate dean felt embarrassed by the event. He didn’t expect Cheng Xiao Xiao to be unmoved by neither coaxing nor coercion. This had put him on the spot and he didn’t know what else he could do.

Even though he had just arrived at the city of Daling, but he had spent all day yesterday learning about the misunderstandings and conflicts between School of Divine Condor and the Cheng’s. His intention today was to throw their power around and suppress them. He didn’t expect that to backfire on him.

     

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Seeing him, Cheng Biyuan and Mrs. Cheng both paused for a second. When Cheng Xiao Xiao heard his name, her brows furrowed into one straight line and her look became even colder.

“Young mistress, that’s your fiancee?” came little Yuteng’s voice.

“Doesn’t count. I never agreed to it!”

Cheng Xiao Xiao rejected that without so much as thinking about it.

“Hehe, young mistress, this Gu Junxian is quite good looking. Much more handsome than Liu Danhuang!”

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Mu Qingtong stared at her furiously, but he was speechless. He knew about the meeting between Cheng Xiao Xiao and the three deacon elders from the nine to sects. Judging by the time of their meeting, it did coincide with the time that Ning Xunzong and the lot was attacked. So if they have to say that she was the culprit, that was a bit irrational.

No matter what he looked like, Cheng Xiao Xiao was looking severe. Looking at everyone in front of her, “You guys were quite blatant about coming here to bully us. I am tell you this now, you better give me an answer today. Otherwise, none of you are leaving here!” Her words were both determined and ruthless.

“PRESUMPTUOUS!”

The associate dean was so angry his goatee was sticking up. He was just about to condemn her justly and severely when a loud roar came, “Who are you calling presumptuous?”

That was from Cheng Biyuan who rushed back from the construction. The veins were popping out on his head and his eyes burning with anger, he scolded, “Mr. Associate Dean. Have I, Cheng Biyuan, offended you in the past? Or why did you guys comes once, twice, and three times to pick on my family. Who is the presumptuous one here?!”

“You!!” The associate dean acted as though he was struck by a lightning. He was stunned. He stared oddly at this dignified and well-presented man in front of him. For a moment there, it was as though he had seen the high-spirited, well pampered and talented youth from 10 years ago.

He was no longer the dispirited person that he remembered him by, but exuding more majesty. He could almost see the young version of old man Cheng from the Cheng’s in Emperor City in him.

And, what was even more surprising was the fact that Cheng Biyuan was no longer a martial master, but a mid-level martial spiritualist. He had recovered his original cultivation! How was that possible!

Cheng Biyuan stared at the associate dean who didn’t know what to think, his eyes looked dangerous, and coldly he said, “Mr. Associate Dean, I believe our Xiao Xiao had already clarified. Whatever happened to your students had nothing to do with us. Yes you came here with all these people to condemn us, basing on nothing but the words from your students alone. Isn’t that kind of ludicrous?”

“Dad, didn’t they say it was us who did it? Well, in that case, let’s just do it. That ought to make them happy!”

Cheng Xiao Xiao stood proudly and looked at everyone while ridiculing them.

“Master, us too!”

“Mr. Cheng, we are on your side if they dare bully you!”

“You all are crazy! Xiao Xiao is a good maiden and you came here to blame something on her that she had not commit. Don’t you think you are crossing a line here?”

“As long as we are here, we won’t let you mistreat Mr. Cheng and his family!”

In addition to Liu Danhuang and the lot, the several dozens of villagers that have been helping out at the  construction site had also been drawn there by the ruckus. They have in their hands simple tools such wooden rods and metal spades. They looked like they were ready to engage in combat.