"Little brother, may I ask how much one grilled fish costs?" Jiang Nannan walked up to Huo Yuhao at that moment, speaking in a gentle manner that made her seem very polite.
(This senior sister is so polite! She's just like Teacher Xiaoya.)
After hearing Jiang Nannan's words, Huo Yuhao also felt that she was very polite, much like Tang Ya, who had always treated him so well.
"Five copper coins for one grilled fish."
"That's a little expensive. Could you sell one for three copper coins?" Jiang Nannan said, but Huo Yuhao refused directly.
"I'm sorry, but today's fish are already sold out. The remaining two were reserved by someone else. How about you come back tomorrow? I'll prepare more grilled fish then."
Huo Yuhao wanted to make money too, but those two fish were for Tang Ya and Beibei.
"Then I'll come again next time." After hearing that, Jiang Nannan politely left. However, the junior students were different; they were all Jiang Nannan's fans.
"How could he treat Senior Sister Jiang Nannan like that? Isn't it just one grilled fish? Did he have to be like this?"
"Let's teach him a lesson."
"I think you've got it wrong. We don't need to do anything. Someone will teach that new junior a lesson. Trouble's coming for him. A big shot is about to make trouble for him."
(Could Senior Sister Jiang Nannan come from some powerful family? And some big shot is going to cause me trouble?)
Just as Huo Yuhao thought that, a figure suddenly charged over. The person looked extremely sturdy, as though he were very formidable.
"You brat! You'll pay for this!"
A young man who looked like a hot-blooded youth rushed over and swung at Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao dodged, but the instant he evaded, the other party grabbed his clothes.
"This guy is so fast..." Huo Yuhao did not know who the other person was, but his Soul Power Level had to be far higher than Huo Yuhao's, or he could not have been faster than him. At that moment, Beibei suddenly appeared and stopped the man's attack.
"Have you made enough of a fuss? Sanshi, there's no need to treat my junior brother like this!"
At that moment, Beibei rescued Yuhao from Sanshi's grasp.
"Sanshi, there's no possibility between us. You should give up."
Jiang Nannan said this to Xu Sanshi.
"Little Yuhao, don't worry. We'll help you." Tang Ya walked over at that moment and pulled Huo Yuhao to her side.
"Sanshi, let's have a match in the Soul Fighting Zone. Don't bully a junior student here."
"Fine."
Soon, everyone arrived at the Soul Fighting Zone. Tang Ya also introduced the relationship between Xu Sanshi and Beibei. Simply put, they were friends who knew each other well. One possessed the strongest offense in the outer academy, while the other possessed the strongest defense in the outer academy.
Their relationship was actually quite good. Although they often seemed to fool around and get along poorly on the surface, they were truly close. If either of them ran into trouble, the other would genuinely come to help.
Only then did Huo Yuhao understand why Xu Sanshi had let him off for Brother Beibei's sake. So that was the reason.
"Xu Sanshi's temperament... Put simply, whenever it comes to Jiang Nannan, he gets especially emotional and loses his head. But he's actually very good to his friends. It's just that he is, after all, a little... Hahaha."
After hearing Tang Ya say that, Huo Yuhao understood. Put simply, Xu Sanshi was love-brained. He blindly pursued the girl he liked. That was understandable.
(If that White Tiger Duke had treated Mom like that, would she have ended up this way? In the end, she didn't even get a proper grave.)
Huo Yuhao recalled the days he had suffered in the White Tiger Duke Mansion, as well as that irresponsible White Tiger Duke. He had enjoyed his mother's body, and what had he left behind? Some White Tiger Dagger as a token of love.
Then Huo Yuhao's mother, Huo Yun'er, brought Huo Yuhao to the White Tiger Duke Mansion, only to suffer such treatment. The martial soul he awakened was also an eye martial soul with merely level one Innate Soul Power: the Spirit Eye.
After that, they were driven to live in a woodshed. Even to eat a hot meal, his mother could only get it by scalding herself.
It could be said that if the White Tiger Duke had been love-brained like Xu Sanshi—at the very least treating his wife well and not deceiving her—then Huo Yuhao's mother, Huo Yun'er, would not have ended up like this.
"A love-brained man is at least better than a scumbag. At least he's much better than the scumbag who deceived my mother."
"? Little Yuhao, was your mother deceived by a scumbag? Is your father a scumbag? Can you tell me your story?"
At that moment, Tang Ya could tell that her little disciple had something on his mind.
"It's actually about my family. I'm the illegitimate son of a noble, and my mother..."
Huo Yuhao told her the revised version of the story about himself and his mother, Huo Yun'er, that he had told Wang Dong. After hearing it, Tang Ya understood why Huo Yuhao had said those things.
"So that's what happened. Although Xu Sanshi is love-brained, he truly treats the woman he likes especially well.
Look at how Xu Sanshi pursues Jiang Nannan. He doesn't fool around with mistresses. He likes Jiang Nannan wholeheartedly. You can tell that even though he's love-brained, he treats the person he likes very well.
But your father went too far. He enjoyed your mother's body, and then... He already had a wife, yet he still had an affair, and he never even told your mother. That's truly awful. Nobles are all like this. If our ancestor Tang San had not defeated Spirit Hall back then, Spirit Hall might have unified Douluo Continent long ago. By then, they probably would no longer have been nobles.
If Spirit Hall's unification of the continent had not endangered the continent's peace, and if they had not launched the Soul Hunting Operation, ancestor Tang San would not have gone to war with Spirit Hall. And if the Sun Moon Empire had not collided with Douluo Continent, perhaps the Tang Sect could have continued developing and truly found a way to solve the problem of nobles."
In Tang Ya's heart, the Tang Sect was everything to her, the pride in her heart. She believed the Tang Sect could solve every problem, which was why she said that.
But Tang Ya had not noticed the flaw in her words. Tang San had fought Spirit Hall on behalf of the nobles back then. Did that mean Tang San was merely someone who served the nobles? Then had the war between Spirit Hall and the empires been wrong from the beginning?
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