At the hour of the Goat, the Feng Family's martial matchmaking contest officially began, the arena set up outside the Prefectural School.
The Feng Family announced the candidates who had passed the written test on the spot. Xue Wen ranked first, but after Feng Hongde finished reading the names and swept his gaze around, he did not see Xue Wen.
Feng Hongde frowned and continued reading. Once he had finished the list, he immediately lowered his voice. "Go find him. Though I favor him, such neglect is truly excessive!"
The steward hurriedly sent people to look for him and said quietly, "He is the last to take the stage. He is probably hiding somewhere, taking it easy, waiting to appear at the crucial moment."
"Hmph, he is not even my son-in-law yet, and he already thinks so highly of himself. If he truly enters the Feng Family, won't he become even more outrageous?"
Feng Hongde intended to give Xue Shao a sharp lesson once he arrived. "Tell Tang Jing to teach Xue Wen a good lesson. So long as he does not beat him crippled, anything goes. Let him know that even if I have taken a fancy to him, my daughter is not so easy to marry."
The steward promptly lowered his head and accepted the order.
Yet neither master nor servant expected that the Feng Family's servants would fail to find Xue Shao. Moreover, Xue Shao never appeared even after the martial matchmaking contest ended.
Tang Jing, who had remained standing on the arena until the very end, stood there with a bewildered expression, somehow winning without understanding why.
Feng Hongde was so enraged that his eyes turned red. He snapped the armrest of his chair in two and gritted his teeth. "Find Xue Wen for me! Even