The atmosphere in the hall instantly turned awkward. Even Grandpa, seated at the head, couldn't help twitching his mouth...
Second Master had endured all these years of hardship, yet his temper truly hadn't changed in the slightest...
Everyone, including the collateral elders, looked awkward at that moment. After all, the people Second Master had called shamelessly crawling over included them as well.
"You... how can you talk about Second Brother like that?" Fourth Elder pointed at him with a trembling finger. "Back then, how much did the family sacrifice for your son Xi Ye? Oh, now that he has achieved something, you don't acknowledge the family anymore? And we're the shameless ones? Let me tell you today! Everyone here has the right to come ask you for a slot!"
Those words made everyone's backs straighten a little. Come to think of it, back then, the family had scrimped and saved to support Xi Ye from Second Branch. How far had they gone to make ends meet? Why was asking for a slot now considered shameless?
"Heh..." Zuxing wasn't buying it at all. "Xi Ye entering the Heavenly God was a policy everyone agreed on. The mistake in the backdoor quota budget shouldn't be something my family alone bears. After all, if Xi Ye had taken the warrior path back then, his prospects would have been much more secure. You keep feeling that your families were wronged, but my son gave up his originally bright future to take a gamble. Wasn't he wronged too?"
"What's more, all these years, my wife and I resigned from our family duties and worked outside. For over a hundred thousand years, every bit of our savings was handed over to the family. We even sold the genes we'd condensed ourselves. The total amount we contributed