Volu 12 Chapter 20
My male classmates looked as though they had a botched makeup job. My female classmates were latched onto each other and crying. An unbearably arrogant guy had He Shi pinned down while rcilessly hamring his broken leg.
“Zhao Yuejing?!” I exclaid once I saw the face of the guy assaulting He Shi. “What the hell is he doing here?”
“I literally just told you it was him. He’s always been a bully. He was the one who claid to have lost sothing and insisted on searching our classroom,” Miss Shi fud.
The only thing it looks like he’s finding is trouble, though… Those vicious attacks are sothing a man out for blood would dish out.
“You think you’re tough because Lu Feiming didn’t finish you? This is what you get for opposing ,” grouched Zhao Xin.
Miss Wang Zi popped over to tell , “He Shi couldn’t help hurling a few insults after witnessing the others take beatings, so…”
“Teacher’s pet, everyone knows you’re a lowly boot licker, yet you think you can act tough with ? Call him a ‘dog’ ten tis, and I’ll let you keep a leg.” He Shi’s sweat had darkened his clothes, while his face was losing redness, yet he didn’t make a sound, prompting Zhao Xin to bray, “You going to say it or not?!”
“I will…” He Shi looked up. “… You’re an inbred dog.”
“Eat this!” Zhao Xin stomped on He Shi’s face. “You think you’re untouchable because the principal likes you, huh? He values your potential to pass the imperial exams, not you, you teacher’s pet. All right, I’ll leave your leg alone and take your hands, instead. I’d like to see you pass the exams with your feet.” Zhao Xin lifted a foot up.
“Wait!” I called out.
Zhao Xin looked over to and exclaid, “For what?!”
“There’s a fly!” I swung my hand in an arc from my side, clapped Zhao Xin’s cheek and continued over to the side, turning his head.
Like a scripted scene, Zhao Xin spun one revolution and dropped onto the ground, and that was the last sound heard for a while.
Zhao Xin spent a while on the ground in disbelief prior to crawling to his feet. “Who… hit …?”
Eyes on my hand, I mumbled, “I missed?” I looked up at Zhao Xin’s face and let another one rip.
Zhao Xin didn’t go down again, but his neck seed stuck in the new position, and his lips were spastic. “Y-you…”
I looked back to my hand. “Damn, missed again.”
Fool once, sha on you. Sha twice, sha on . Fool three tis, yeah right. I wasn’t going to make the sa mistake three tis. I set my hand on Zhao Xin’s shoulder.
“What are you doing?! What are you doing?!” cried Zhao Xin.
“Hiya!”
I aid thirty-plus shots precisely at the black dot on the left side of Zhao Xin’s face, yet the fly didn’t budge. I had picked up the flower vase by the side to smash it when he yelled, “This is a mole!”
“Huh?”
Why didn’t you say so sooner? What a waste of my energy.
“Are all of you dead? Help out here!”
The dunces Zhao Xin brought along finally reacted. “Oh, right, right.”
Perhaps their clumsiness was a product of their exasperation, but they released him all at the sa ti once they had pulled him over, dropping him onto the ground. Instead of taking it out on them, however, he turned to and yelled, “How dare you hit ? … How dare you, hmm? Hong Jiu!!”
Hong Jiu: “You called?”
“Not you, Hong Jiu!”
Wu Dayong scratched his head. “What the hell is he on about? Zhou Teng, you following?”
“What’s so hard to understand? You don’t understand Mandarin? ‘Hong jiu’, red wine. Red wine is an alcoholic beverage in the Western Regions made from grape varieties. They’re obviously talking about alcohol.”
Everyone confused: “Oooh.”
“I’m talking about this guy!” Zhao Xin pointed at and exclaid. “You knocked into the pond, stole from and just assaulted ! This isn’t over! Wait… Give it back!”
Oh, crud… Isn’t your father a general?! You’re going to make a big fuss over three thousand taels?
I was mid-rant in my head when soone burst onto the scene without a sound.
“Zhao Xin, is he the one you were talking about?”
“Master Qi? Why did you not help if you were around?”
“Who do you think you are to order around?” Master Qi demanded, “Answer the question.”
Zhao Xin went to smirk, only to give himself a sharp shot of pain. “It’s him! Kill him, Master Qi!”
Master Qi cast his gaze up to . “This one should not be so impolite on our first eting, but he is under orders, so he must make demands of you and… bash you.”
I shook my head in a condescending manner. “You’re a decent martial artist, but defeating ? You’re too naïve.”
My classmates’ eyes brimd with admiration for my heroism, skill and good looks.
“Oh, is that so? Let’s put that assumption to the test, then!” Master Qi uncorked a straight palm toward .
“Hmph.” I pivoted and ran like a bat out of hell. “Second! Second! Help! Help!”
As soon as we passed each other, Hong Jiu intercepted Master Qi’s strike. Judging from the fact that they both went for each other’s vitals, I supposed they had already exchanged blows once. Master Qi’s entrance told he was pretty good, but fighting on equal footing with Second wasn’t sothing I imagined. When Master Qi suddenly whispered sothing, Second yelled, “Not now!” His mont of distraction opened him up to Master Qi’s hook kick.
“Second, what’s your problem? Co on, man. Are you really going to lose?”
“Leader, there is a reason f-”
“Shut up. Let .”
“Whoa, are you sure?” Switching a soft voice, Hong Jiu asked, “You still want to fight when you can’t use your skills?”
“Who said I’m fighting?”
“Did you not just s-”
“I was saying I would teach you how to fight.” I pushed Hong Jiu back to the battlefield. “I have to show him what I can do. He has no idea who Three-Eyed Horse Lord is. Second, follow my instructions.”
“Oh, Yesu Sir!” Hong Jiu promptly got into his stance.
“Deep inhalation first.”
“Roger.”
“And then blast him with The Proud Dragon Repents!”
“Try this, ‘The Proud Dragon Rep-, wait. Leader. I can’t use palm skills, or I might reveal my identity. Besides, I haven’t even mastered that technique.”
He had a point. If his identity was exposed, I also needed to find a new hiding spot.
“All right. In that case, The Twin Dragons Fetch Water! Sumr Flowing Fireflies! Full Speed Ahead! Now, Cyclical Wind Blast!”
The two disengaged following a few exchanges, staying out of a blade’s reach. Hong Jiu bound forward again, forcing Master Qi to perform a clumsy evasion manoeuvre.
You couldn’t say Hong Jiu wasn’t gifted when he could string together the tricky combo I made up.
“And now the deciding exchange, Tai Chi Limitless Push.”
Hong Jiu trapped using his left hand and locked using his right to push Master Qi’s hands away.
“Finish with ‘Tiger Claw Steals the Heart’!”
Hong Jiu seized Master Qi’s chest with one hand and then stopped for so reason.
A girl’s squeal shut down Hong Jiu’s mind, and, before he could recompose himself, he took a slap flush on his cheek.
Glossary
Hong Jiu and red wine – Sa pronunciation.
Three-Eyed Horse Lord – A god in Chinese folklore and Taoist mythology.
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