Chapter 35: A Mad Injustice p2
Ling Yizhu had been on his own long before he became the family head. After being the family head for so many years, he was even more of a dictator. No one in the Ling family dared to disobey him. His indifferent sentence was already a sign of great displeasure. A Ling family member would only have begged for forgiveness in fear and retreated.
But Xie Bailu was not a Ling family member, and she had ulterior motives. Therefore, after hearing his words, she immediately threw herself into Ling Song’s arms and said with a tearful voice, “Big Brother Ling Song, uncle is so fierce! Does he not like me? Then we won’t bother with him either!”
Seeing the surprised and pained expression on Ling Yizhu’s face, Ling Song stroked Xie Bailu’s back in comfort with undisguised pleasure and chuckled. “Alright.”
He looked up at Ling Yizhu. “Uncle, since you don’t like Lulu, then we won’t be an eyesore in front of you.”
Ling Song wrapped his arm around Xie Bailu and was about to leave.
The authority of the patriarch was challenged. Ling Yizhu’s face was grim. “Stop!”
Ling Song stopped, and Xie Bailu also looked up, revealing the eyes she had rubbed red in Ling Song’s arms.
Ling Yizhu stared at Ling Song. “What did you see in the forbidden area?”
Ling Song smiled at Ling Yizhu, and Xie Bailu also looked dazed, then as if she had suddenly exploded, “What could I have seen? I saw me! Family Head Ling, you didn’t care when Big Brother Ling Song was fighting with wild dogs for food before. Why are you asking so many questions now! You hypocrite! Is this a major family? Then it’s no wonder Big Brother Ling Song would rather fight to the death with people outside than come back!”
Since she was Ling Song’s lover, it was normal for her to be a little crazy like Ling Song, right? Birds of a feather flock together!
Ling Song was speechless. “…?” Fighting with wild dogs for food?
He looked down at Xie Bailu and raised an eyebrow. “Who did you hear that from?”
Xie Bailu’s emotions were interrupted by a friendly army, and she also asked in a daze, “What?”
Ling Song reminded her, “Wild dogs.”
Xie Bailu immediately felt a chill all over her body and sold someone out without hesitation. “Zong Sheng said it! And your mother and Ling Hong didn’t deny it either!”
Ling Song laughed, a devastatingly beautiful and dangerous laugh. “Where would the Ling family’s mansion get wild dogs?”
Xie Bailu was speechless. “…” How would I know! I just thought it was particularly satisfying to mention Ling Song fighting with wild dogs for food. Who cares if it’s logical or not? Anyway, I wasn’t the one who made it up.
Ling Song gently stroked the back of Xie Bailu’s neck and smiled. “Don’t say such nonsense in the future. I’ll go and remind Zong Sheng.”
Whether it was a reminder or a beating, that was hard to say.
Xie Bailu only felt goosebumps on the skin he touched and nodded obediently. “So it was fake. I was wondering how the dignified Ling family could treat you so badly.”
Ling Song said, “There were dogs set on people.”
Xie Bailu was shocked. “What? Who was it? Ling Hong?”
She suddenly looked at Ling Yizhu and said angrily, “Family Head Ling, you are the head of the family. The Ling family is such a large family. Can’t you even tolerate a child? Ling Hong is your son. You can’t even teach your own son, and you want to manage Big Brother Ling Song. Where do you get the confidence!”
No one had dared to challenge the authority for a long time. Ling Yizhu’s gaze on Xie Bailu was as if he wanted to freeze her to death.
Since Xie Bailu had already started to go crazy, she would see it through to the end. Wasn’t she very important to the Ling family? Let’s see how much the Ling family head could tolerate.
She put on a frightened expression and grabbed Ling Song’s arm. “Big Brother Ling Song, can’t you beat the family head?”
Ling Song said, “Of course not.”
Xie Bailu said with a serious expression, “Then you have to cultivate well. When you can beat him one day, you must help me get revenge. He just killed me with his eyes!”
Ling Song immediately burst into laughter. “Alright, I’ll remember that.”
His gaze fell on Ling Yizhu carelessly. The Ling family head, who was usually expressionless, was now so angry that his chest was heaving. It was a rare sight.
Normally, no one could anger the Ling family head to this extent, because they would have been taught a lesson before that. But Xie Bailu was important to the Ling family and could not be touched, so he could only endure it.
What kind of scheme could make the head of one of the five major families endure such anger?
This time, Ling Song took Xie Bailu and left. Ling Yizhu did not shout for them to stop, but just watched them go with a cold gaze.
Xie Bailu felt that she could still be pricked by that gaze even after walking far away.
She felt a sense of lingering fear. She had been so crazy in her confrontation with Ling Yizhu, and he had actually endured it. She could imagine how miserably she would die if they found out that she and Ling Song were not a couple at all.
The label “Ling Song’s woman,” she decided, had to be welded onto her body!
Therefore, after they were far away from Ling Yizhu and Ling Song had let go of her, she insisted on squeezing next to him and said coquettishly, “I’m afraid someone will assassinate me. Big Brother Ling Song, you must save me!”
Ling Song said with amusement, “So afraid? Weren’t you very happy just now?”
Xie Bailu said with a sincere expression, “This is all for you!”
Others would only think that she was venting her anger for him and standing up for her. Her behavior and logic were the same in front of Ling Yiyao and Ling Yizhu, but both she and Ling Song knew that she was helping Ling Song to crazily test the Ling family’s bottom line.
For now, it seemed that they hadn’t reached the bottom yet.
Knowing that it was fake, Ling Song was still pleased by Xie Bailu’s seemingly protective actions that had angered Ling Yizhu. He thought for a moment, then took off his storage bag and handed it to Xie Bailu. “You can choose one.”
Xie Bailu was stunned. There was such a reward?
She looked at Ling Song with pleasant surprise. “Really? Anything? You won’t go back on your word?”
Ling Song replied, “Not today.”
Xie Bailu was speechless. “…” Damn it, does that mean if I pick something too outrageous, he’ll snatch it back in the future?
That’s right. If he kills her, wouldn’t all her things be his? Giving her things was just letting her keep them for a while.
Xie Bailu’s excitement immediately died down. Since she couldn’t be sure she could keep it, she might as well take something she might be able to use.
Just as she was about to choose, Xiao Xing, who was always as quiet as a chicken in front of Ling Song, suddenly popped out and then immediately hid again. Although it didn’t say anything, its appearance was a reminder.
Xie Bailu and Xiao Xing also had a bond of life and death, so she didn’t look at anything else and chose the water elemental essence stone that Ling Song had taken before.
She also wanted that wood elemental essence stone. Now that the original owner was dead, she wasn’t afraid of being tracked and hunted, but unfortunately, she could only choose one.
Seeing that Xie Bailu had chosen, Ling Song took back the storage bag.
He caressed Shishang, which he had summoned at some point, and said, “I’m going to find Zong Sheng. You can go back first.”
Xie Bailu said, “…I’m not going back.”
What would she go back for? She also wanted to see Zong Sheng get beaten up!
She added, “It’s not good to fight in the Ling family’s mansion, right? If you fight halfway, someone will come to stop you. I think it’s better to trick him out and fight.”
Ling Song stared at Xie Bailu, a look of great interest on his face. “How do you trick him?”
Xie Bailu smiled faintly.
Zong Sheng was currently lying on a tree, his legs crossed, pondering the matter of Ling Song and Xie Bailu.
He still couldn’t figure out how the two of them got along. How could they be shouting and fighting one moment, and as thick as thieves the next?
Just as he was wondering, he saw Xie Bailu running over in a hurry. As if she had suddenly seen him on the tree, she shouted anxiously, “Quick, quick, take me away first! Ling Song is trying to kill me again!”
Zong Sheng was speechless. “…?” What kind of crazy Daoist companion is this!
But Xie Bailu’s expression was too panicked, and the situation was urgent. In addition, his mother had asked him to take Xie Bailu and run before, so he didn’t have time to think and quickly jumped down from the tree, picked up Xie Bailu, and ran.
As long as he delayed for a while, reinforcements would come!
He ran far away before turning back and just happened to see that red robe. He didn’t dare to look again and flew even faster.
But he still took the time to ask Xie Bailu, “What’s wrong with you two again?”
Xie Bailu said, “He still thinks I have something going on with you.”
Zong Sheng was speechless. “…?”
He almost cursed. If it’s for that reason, then don’t come to me! Doesn’t that just confirm Ling Song’s suspicion?
But Zong Sheng didn’t dare to stop and explain to Ling Song. He wouldn’t listen!
Therefore, Zong Sheng ran even harder. He flew out of the Ling family’s mansion and flew for dozens of li before Xie Bailu suddenly said, “I don’t think I can implicate you. You should put me down. I will face him bravely.”
Zong Sheng was speechless. “…” Then don’t come to me in the first place!
Zong Sheng thought of how Xie Bailu had successfully appeased the Ling Song who was about to kill her before, so he simply put her down and retreated a little.
This time, he had to see with his own eyes how she was moved by her words.
Ling Song was chasing closely, so he arrived quickly. But to Zong Sheng’s surprise, Ling Song didn’t even look at Xie Bailu and flew straight at him, slashing out with his sword from a distance.
Zong Sheng, who had been planning to watch the show, narrowly dodged, stunned and angry. “Brother, stop listening to her nonsense! I have nothing to do with her!”
Ling Song caressed Shishang and smiled. “I know.”
Zong Sheng was puzzled. “You know? You know and you still…”
But he heard Xie Bailu shout from not far away, “Zong Sheng, he knows about you spreading rumors that your brother fought with wild dogs for food! How dare you spread such rumors that your brother fought with wild dogs for food? I don’t even dare to mention the rumor that your brother fought with wild dogs for food!”
Zong Sheng was speechless. “…” You fucking repeated it three times!
Zong Sheng loved to be cheeky in front of Ling Song, but he was also quick to be cowardly, so he immediately said, “I also heard it from someone else!”
Xie Bailu said again, “Something as baseless as your brother fighting with wild dogs for food, if you say it again, you’re also responsible!”
Of course, she had also said it, more than once. She was also responsible, but she didn’t care. She was happy to say it. Anyway, Ling Song wasn’t going to settle accounts with her. If she didn’t say it this time, she wouldn’t be able to say it again in the future.
Ling Song glanced at Xie Bailu from afar and finally put all the blame on Zong Sheng. He smiled creepily. “Come on, brother.”
Ling Song almost never called Zong Sheng ‘brother’, unless he wanted to kill him.
Zong Sheng sighed at his magical treasures in his heart and prepared for battle. He knew that running was useless and would only expose a flaw and get him beaten even more miserably.
He said loudly, “Brother, hold back a little. I’m very easy to kill!”
He had said the most cowardly words in the most arrogant posture.
Ling Song nodded. “Alright, I won’t kill you.”
Thus, Xie Bailu took out the melon seeds she had hidden in a corner, found a tree to sit on, and watched from afar while cracking melon seeds. Every time Zong Sheng was stabbed by Shishang’s sword qi and left a wound, or was knocked down and vomited blood, she would applaud and cheer, and Zong Sheng would vomit blood even more happily.
Xiao Xing popped its head out, squeezed out a hand, and gave a thumbs up. “Master, you’re amazing, making them fight each other for you!”
Xie Bailu was speechless. “…” Although it sounds strange, it’s kind of true.
She pushed Xiao Xing’s hand back. “Don’t make a hand for such a trivial matter!”