714: A Disgrace to Decorum [Two-in-One]

This wasn't the first time Tao Yan had been cursed out from head to toe by Shen Tang. At first, he'd been helplessly furious, but after it happened so many times, his threshold had risen. The fact that Shen Tang's repeated curses had failed to do him any real harm stirred a faint, complicated feeling in him.

His anger had passed its peak and plummeted in an instant.

Still pointing at Shen Tang, he ranted with brazen confidence: "Let go of me, all of you! I'd like to see how you'll arrest me, Shen Youli! You, Shen, what can you do besides curse people? Who are you putting on this angry act for? Can you produce food? Can you take in the commoners of Yanzhou who have no food? A couple of empty words and a sham performance, all to make you, Shen Youli, look like a benevolent gentleman who loves his people? Bah!"

Zhang He's eyelid suddenly started twitching wildly.

Qian Yong, who was enjoying the show, raised an eyebrow.

At that moment, he and Zhang He were perfectly in sync.

[Did Tao Shenyu, that wretched bastard, just talk back?]

[Heh. He's gotten pretty good at it.]

Everyone knew that before this, whenever Shen Tang verbally went after Tao Yan, he'd done nothing but seethe and smoke with rage, utterly unable to fight back. He considered himself a normal person, and didn't dare get too cocky around Shen Tang, who had extraordinary martial prowess and was always liable to fly into a fit of madness.

Was he just scared?

Not entirely.

Everyone in the Alliance Army knew Shen Tang practiced both civil and martial arts. In other words, either her lifespan was short or her mind was unsound. Her occasional outbursts were only to be expected. If a normal