"What utter nonsense! Utter nonsense!"
Crane Tear grumbled as he sat in the back seat of the 'Silver Blood Citroën,' pulled out a handkerchief, and scrubbed viciously at his mouth. As the dignified Earl Silverbell, he usually ate rare delicacies and exquisite cuisine, so that damned Cha Huan had actually forced him, forced him to...
...eat at the cafeteria!
And because the students nearby were watching, Crane Tear could only swallow his anger and finish an entire bowl of Beef Brisket Zha Jiang Yi Mein to preserve the good image of his Martial Pillar of Restraint. He even drank the complimentary soup dry and had no choice but to pay with a Gold Coin. Cha Huan had said he would treat him to dinner, then immediately claimed he hadn't brought his meal card. Crane Tear hadn't brought any small change either, so he could only pay with a Gold Coin.
The moment he thought about being forced to eat a bowl of noodles meant for the lower classes, about being cheated out of a Gold Coin by Cha Huan, and about fleeing the Imperial Academy in disgrace, Crane Tear was so furious that his whole body trembled and his hands and feet turned cold. Several more wrinkles appeared on his weathered yet handsome old face, and his vision seemed to blur.
"Cha Huan! If I don't avenge this grudge, I'm no man! Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river..."
Zhong Shujun glanced at the white-haired Crane Tear and thought that the Earl Silverbell was rather optimistic about his own lifespan. He said casually, "Earl Silverbell, don't be anxious. Didn't we anticipate this before coming here? Cha Huan merely made the choice we all knew he would make."
With two muffled sounds, the car started up.