Chapter 71
Zheng Fa felt that he ought to apologize to the Seventh Young Master.
Though the man had a foul mouth and made many enemies, it had been perfectly objective and reasonable to assume someone might come knocking to beat him up.
But this time, Zheng Fa had misunderstood. The Chen Family had truly not come to cause trouble for the Seventh Young Master.
The Seventh Young Master clearly felt Zheng Fa's misunderstanding had been perfectly reasonable too. He was even somewhat angry that no one had come looking for trouble with him.
"I waited for them all day!" The Seventh Young Master, who had stood ready for battle yesterday, wore an unhappy expression. "They actually didn't come for me. Are they looking down on me?"
"What grievance does Young Master have with those people from the Chen Family?" Zheng Fa was rather curious.
"No grievance. Their family is far too fertile... When blood brothers meet, they glare at each other like fighting cocks. Not only do they fight at home, they all want to rope me in too."
Zheng Fa nodded. Not every young master of a great family lived as comfortably as the Seventh Young Master, with Madam there to clean up after whatever he did.
"No, they wanted to rope you in, Young Master. Then how did you end up at odds with them?"
That was what Zheng Fa did not understand.
"Do you take me for a fool?" the Seventh Young Master snorted. "How could that lot be trying to befriend me? They merely wanted to use me as a spear! So I agreed to every one of them, thinking I'd watch a good show, and then..."
Zheng Fa watched as the Seventh Young Master's voice suddenly dropped.
"Then I secretly stirred the flames a