"Enough, all of you!"
Yuan Siwu pointed at them. "You really think you deserve any respect? Why don't you piss a puddle and look at your own reflections? Who do you think you are?"
"Even a starved camel is bigger than a horse. My Yuan Family may not be what it once was, but you still can't bully us!"
"And you bring up the Clear Sword Sect-don't you know perfectly well what happened? If Lin Yi hadn't killed Yuan Sheng, would the Clear Sword Sect have let it go? I haven't even settled that score with your Lin Family yet, and here you are, stirring up trouble first!"
Lin Ran was about to retort, but Lin Weitian waved a hand, signaling for him to sit down.
Then he stood up. "Head of the Yuan Family, isn't this the wrong time to bring that up? Besides, although my elder brother Lin Yi caused the trouble, he wasn't the one who killed him!"
"Please have evidence before you speak. I arrived at the scene afterward and heard what was said."
"The Clear Sword Sect accepted my elder brother's account too. Otherwise, why would they have withdrawn so readily? Besides, our Lin Family can be considered to have driven off the Clear Sword Sect. Our merits offset our faults. What more is there to say?"
"We're holding this family meeting today to discuss the Female Thief. Let's leave other matters aside!"
Yuan Siwu was reluctant to accept his arrangement, but the Yuan Family's decline was a fact, and Lin Weitian's words weren't too unreasonable. He could only take the offered slope to climb down.
Inwardly, however, he had already cursed him countless times.
*The Lin Family drove off the enemy? Wasn't Lin Yi kicked out long ago? Just because people were spreading that