Chapter 1191 — You Know Him? Hearing Shen Yushu's Words, Er Gou Dan Was at Once Left Speechless — This Dog Can Talk? Had This Girl Watched Too Many Cartoons?
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"By the way, you said you came to settle accounts with the lion — what was that about?" Wei Zhao recalled Er Gou Dan's earlier words and asked.
"Well, it's like this, I..." Er Gou Dan held nothing back, and recounted the whole affair from first to last.
"You mean you beat up both of the skilled hands at Gou Huli's house?" Wei Zhao was caught between laughter and tears at Er Gou Dan's tale. He and Uncle Qing had once studied the two experts the Xiao family had sent; Wei Zhao was confident he could fight the external-school expert at the peak of the late Xuan stage to a draw across ranks, but he had no absolute certainty of defeating him. And yet Er Gou Dan had settled the whole matter just like that — quite beyond Wei Zhao's expectations.
"Yes. I didn't want to hit him at first, but the old man begged me to beat him, said his own skin was itching. I had no choice but to give him a thrashing! But I went a little too hard, and broke his leg..." Er Gou Dan scratched his scalp, embarrassed.
"It wasn't his skin itching... his name really is Pi Yangyang..." Wei Zhao felt boundless sympathy for Pi Yangyang. The man had been shot while lying down — even his name got him beaten. How unlucky could a fellow be? Wei Zhao had long since learned Pi Yangyang's name from Uncle Qing, and so grasped the crux of it at once.
"Hahahaha!" Shen Yushu doubled over with laughter. "Pi Yangyang... I'm dying... you took it for 'skin itching'..."
And beside her, Gu Mengyao too was caught between laughter and tears. Pi Yangyang — how had the man come by such a name?
"Huh? His name is Pi Yangyang?" Only after Wei Zhao's explanation did Er Gou Dan catch on. "So he wasn't 'skin itching'? What a mess this is. I really owe him an apology..."
"He didn't fight back?" Wei Zhao glanced at Er Gou Dan, his expression somewhat odd. That Er Gou Dan could break Pi Yangyang's leg, Wei Zhao believed; but to break it with no resistance at all — how strange was that? Could Pi Yangyang really have let Er Gou Dan beat him without striking back?
"No, he kept guarding his own body the whole time..." Er Gou Dan said.
"You really were lucky." Wei Zhao shook his head with a bitter smile. Yet he felt not the slightest guilt over Pi Yangyang's injury. Hurt was hurt; it had little to do with him anyway.
"Brother Jianpai, you know him? Is he your underling?" From the exchange between Wei Zhao and Er Gou Dan, Shen Yushu could tell they had known each other before, and seemed to be quite close.
"Yes, we've known each other a long time. We're from the same village, grew up playing together." Wei Zhao said, "Let me introduce you properly. Zhou Qiming, nicknamed Er Gou Dan! Er Gou Dan, this is Gu Mengyao, my employer, and this is her best friend Shen Yushu..."
"Hello..." Er Gou Dan rubbed his hands together, embarrassed. This was his boss's employer? Just now he had shouted at them and even tried to frighten them. Would his boss be angry?