"Hey, what are you doing?" Chun Xiaobai hurriedly hauled him to his feet and said sternly.
"Remember this, damn it! A man's knees are worth their weight in gold. Kneel only to heaven and earth above, and to your parents below!"
"We don't do all this kneeling at my Black Wind Stronghold!"
"A man's knees... are worth their weight in gold..."
When Xiao Zhang heard those words, he could no longer hold back. Two streams of hot tears, laden with years of pent-up grievances, suddenly rolled down his face.
He had spent so many years scraping by in Heavenly Baleful Valley that even he could no longer count all the hardships and suffering he had endured.
To scrape together a few more cultivation resources, he had worked like an ox and a horse for the senior disciples of the Inner Sect;
To keep his regular stipend from being docked, he had bowed and scraped, living like a dog.
He had crawled through his entire journey on his knees!
When had anyone ever told him that his knees were as precious as gold?
"Chief..." Xiao Zhang wiped away his tears and snot, then cried out from the bottom of his heart in a tear-choked voice, "From this day forward, you're my own father!"
"No! You're my own grandfather! Just let me..."
"Enough, enough!" His words gave Chun Xiaobai goosebumps all over. If he did not cut him off now, the fellow would probably start calling him Dad.
"Get back to work! We have less than seven days left. Stop wasting time here!"
He knew this fellow had never seen any real money before. Having earned so much for the first time in his life, he had gotten a little too excited and started babbling incoherently.
Of course, fleecing more than fifty