Little Nonpoint dashed up to Meng Chuan on his short legs and started pounding him with his fists.
"Uncle Meng is a bully!"
Meng Chuan lifted Little Nonpoint by the scruff of his neck. Unable to reach him, the little fellow could only flail in the air.
"Why are you hitting me instead of choosing your Ten Fiends Treasure Technique?" Meng Chuan asked with a smile.
"Hmph! Uncle Meng is mean!" Little Nonpoint turned his head away, refusing to look at him.
The little fellow puffed out his cheeks so fiercely that his face looked like a steamed bun.
Everyone in the village was baffled. What had happened?
Wasn't he choosing a Treasure Technique? How had things suddenly turned out like this?
"Mr. Yuan, what's..." Shi Yunfeng asked hesitantly.
What on earth had happened?
"Chief, come with me."
Holding Little Nonpoint in one hand, Meng Chuan walked with Shi Yunfeng to the village entrance, stopping beside Willow God.
"That cottage is mine..." Meng Chuan had meant to tell Shi Yunfeng the truth, but on second thought, something felt wrong.
If I say that, won't everyone find out my whole 'no talent' act in Stone Village is a sham?
"Willow God and I run it together!" Meng Chuan declared, thinking up a perfect explanation on the spot.
As for why he had taken Shi Yunfeng aside rather than telling the rest of Stone Village...
It wasn't that he distrusted them. This was a secret, but not one that truly needed keeping from them.
Meng Chuan simply didn't want the truth to make them slack off.
"Uncle Meng tricked me! He didn't give me a reward!" Little Nonpoint said fiercely from the side.
The little fellow was clever. The moment he saw those words in his mind, he understood a great deal.