Chapter 161: Teaching Wang Ge a Lesson

Chapter 161: Giving Wang Ge a Lesson

Hu Yuyun and Wang Ge also recognized He Zhao and his group.

The moment Wang Ge was stunned, He Zhao had already used his Lightness Skill to leap into the air and grabbed the child mid-air.

The tiny child was wrapped in a blue-and-white flowered quilt, her eyes bright and sparkling, totally unaware of how close she'd just come to dying.

Seeing the child still giggling and sucking her fingers, He Zhao couldn't help but poke her dimples and chuckle, "Little girl, you're a fearless little thing!"

"Ni'er! Thank you, sir, for saving Ni'er!"

At that moment, Hu Yuyun rushed over as well. Her hair was a mess, her face tear-streaked, and she took the baby girl from He Zhao's arms, gently hushing her, "Ni'er, don't be afraid. Mama's here, Mama's here, boohoo..."

As she comforted the child, Hu Yuyun couldn't help but start crying again. He Zhao frowned at the sight. "What are you crying for? You two are a weird couple, honestly—throwing your own kid into a stone tower?"

Honestly, He Zhao was kind of annoyed with Hu Yuyun. Earlier, when Wang Ge had beaten her, He Zhao had offered to report it to the authorities, but she didn't want that. Now she was here crying and wailing with the child—a classic case of asking for it.

"What biological kid?!" Wang Ge, hearing He Zhao's words, immediately started cursing indignantly. "She's just some random bastard kid! A worthless money pit, what good is she? Just toss her into the baby tower and be done with it."

"Bastard?"

"Baby tower?"

He Zhao and Qin Jiao each zeroed in on different things Wang Ge said.

"You're not the kid's real dad?" He Zhao glanced at Wang Ge, then turned his gaze to Hu Yuyun. "What's going on here? You..."

He wanted to ask if Hu Yuyun had cheated on Wang Ge, but he held back, too embarrassed to ask—it would've been way too rude, after all.

"Yeah, I had this kid with someone else." In the end, it was Hu Yuyun herself who spoke up, tears streaming down her face.

"Ah... I see." He Zhao's face went stiff. No wonder Wang Ge was so pissed he wanted to kill the kid.

"See! She admitted it herself! She's nothing but a slut, a pig who'll sleep with anyone!" Wang Ge looked all smug and satisfied when he heard Hu Yuyun confess.

Qin Jiao looked at Wang Ge's face and felt uneasy. For some reason, he didn't think Hu Yuyun was the type of person Wang Ge was making her out to be.

"Mrs. Hu, if you're in trouble, you can tell us. Perhaps we can help." Qin Jiao looked at Hu Yuyun.

Hu Yuyun opened her mouth, a flicker of something complicated in her eyes. "I..."

"Yuyun, what trouble could you possibly have? Come on, let's just go home!" Seeing Hu Yuyun hesitate, Wang Ge felt a surge of nervousness. He stepped forward, slung his arm around her shoulder, and whispered, "Don't forget, your son's still waiting for you at home."

"Wang Ge, you—!"

Hu Yuyun's face turned red, and her hands were shaking as she held the kid. Anyone with eyes could tell something was off, but Hu Yuyun refused to speak up, and even seemed about to go back with Wang Ge, kid in her arms.

"Hey, Mrs. Hu..."

Qin Jiao reached out to stop her, but someone beat him to it. Zhang Fei strode forward, shoved Wang Ge aside, and pulled Hu Yuyun behind him.

"Yuyun! Are you crazy? Do you really have to wait until Wang Ge throws Ni'er into the baby tower again before you come to your senses?!"

After getting shoved, Wang Ge tripped on a rock and ate dirt. He scrambled to his feet and started cussing out Zhang Fei. "Who the hell are you?! Where'd you crawl out from, you bastard—you this pig's lover too?"

"Old man eating rat poison—you got a death wish?" He Zhao, with his short fuse, charged over and landed two punches on Wang Ge. "Watch your mouth!"

"Pah!" Wang Ge spat out a mouthful of bloody spit. This time he actually got aggressive, shouting at He Zhao, "And who the hell are you? You think you can just hit people 'cause you've got a few dirty bucks? What, you want to have a kid with that pig too?"

"Heh! I really..." He Zhao had probably never met anyone this shameless, and he was so mad he was almost speechless. Just as he was thinking about just smashing Wang Ge's mouth in, Shen Fuqing walked over holding a gleaming dagger.

"Let me handle this." Shen Fuqing smiled, his expression almost gentle. "I've always enjoyed dealing with people who've got such smart mouths."

When Shen Fuqing finished speaking, Qin Jiao couldn't help but look at him. Their search for the Sharp-crested Snake hadn't gone well, and Shen Fuqing's face had been grim the whole way down the mountain. Now that Wang Ge had run into him, Qin Jiao almost felt bad for the guy...

Sure enough, after He Zhao stepped aside, Shen Fuqing scattered a handful of medicinal powder onto Wang Ge's face.

"It's my senior brother's numbing powder." He Zhao said, glancing at Xiao Baiyu. There stood Xiao Baiyu in his white robes under the sunlight, eyes curved like crescents, smiling ever so gently.

Xiao Baiyu: "Don't worry. The numbing powder only restricts movement—it doesn't block the sensation of pain."

Qin Jiao edged closer to Xie Nai upon hearing this, and after pondering for a long moment, said worriedly, "Sixth Brother, Lord Shen isn't going to execute Wang Ge on the spot, is he?"

From Qin Jiao's understanding of Shen Fuqing, the angrier he was, the more beautiful his smile became. And right now, Shen Fuqing's eyes carried a smile so intense it was almost eerie.

"No." Xie Nai took Qin Jiao's hand and said with certainty, "He thinks he's too dirty."

Reassured by Xie Nai's words, Qin Jiao relaxed. Then, the very next second, he watched Shen Fuqing use that gold-tipped dagger to smash Wang Ge's mouth into a bloody pulp with several swift blows.

Qin Jiao: "..."

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that the cold, aloof Lord Shen could act like a blacksmith, clanging away and shattering a man's teeth.

"Ah!!—It hurts!"

Wang Ge, his teeth shattered, let out scream after scream. But this wasn't the end—Shen Fuqing then picked up the dagger and slashed wildly at his neck.

"Wuwuwu, please, save me... Doing this, you'll end up in prison!"

The excruciating pain made Wang Ge's entire face tremble, but Shen Fuqing remained utterly unmoved. He was in a wonderful mood, using the dagger to draw on Wang Ge's neck—sometimes a circle, sometimes a flower. Fine, dense lines of blood spread out, some dripping onto his clothes, some onto the ground. The whole scene was both bloody and bizarre.

"I like your mouth." Shen Fuqing's dagger moved up to Wang Ge's face. "Go on, keep talking. The uglier your words, the more I enjoy it."

With Shen Fuqing saying that, Wang Ge understood the threat perfectly well. He immediately stammered, "I won't! I won't dare say anything more!"

"Oh? In that case..." Shen Fuqing traced a turtle on Wang Ge's forehead with the dagger while looking at Zhang Fei and Hu Yuyun. "Then you two will do the talking."

He gave Hu Yuyun a pointed look. "Tell the truth, or I'll draw a few turtles on your child's face as well."

As he finished speaking, he suddenly applied force with his hand, and Wang Ge let out an earth-shattering scream!

Hu Yuyun looked over and saw that half of Wang Ge's ear had been sliced clean off. Blood covered his entire face, and the pale, mangled flesh and bone were exposed. Hu Yuyun was so terrified she collapsed to the ground.

"Waa-waa—"

The child in her arms, perhaps sensing her mother's distress, began wailing loudly as well.

The mountain wind carried Wang Ge's screams and the child's cries into the distance, and inadvertently, these sounds drew the attention of several groups of people nearby...

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