"Stay away from me!"
Beside the bluestone road, two old men wore vicious expressions, while the girl they had surrounded seemed to be trembling, unable to hold back a cry of alarm.
"What are those two old men doing? Why are they bullying a little girl?"
"How disgraceful! Where did these old bastards come from? No, I can barely stand to watch!"
A whole chorus of voices rose, everyone talking over one another in a noisy uproar.
Lord Bird and Old Man Essence Jades froze in astonishment. They quickly turned to look around and discovered that a large crowd had gathered, pointing fingers at them.
"At your age, you don't have a shred of dignity befitting your elders! Bullying the young, disgracing your age, and ganging up on her, too. Pah! You're making complete spectacles of yourselves!"
"Whatever you say, they're real pieces of work. Doing something like this in full view of everyone-have they no shame? If I were them, I'd slit my throat and depart this world!"
The two old men were so furious that their beards bristled and their eyes bulged. What sort of people were these? What was wrong with their eyes, and what nonsense were they spouting? They were the ones that little brat had toyed with over and over!
"Aaargh! You're infuriating this old man to death!"
"Don't let this little brat fool you! She... damn it, she's run off again! After her!" The two hurriedly sprinted away.
The crowd fell silent.
Although they still didn't quite understand what was happening, they couldn't go wrong by continuing to curse those two old men.
If they didn't have guilty consciences, why would they run?
Even if what the two old men said was true, so what?
Shi Zhao stretched her long legs and vanished with