Chapter 4064 — What Kind of Joke Is This?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 3
"Wei Zhao, as a new disciple of Yingxin Pavilion, you actually dare to break the rules—openly parading two brothel women around in broad daylight, swaggering right up to the gates of my Hong Clan Merchant Guild! Where does that leave the reputation of the Sandie Pavilion?" Si Haitao berated him with a face of righteous indignation—except that the pair of leering little eyes he kept darting toward the two women still gave his true nature away.
Back when he had gone carousing at the brothel, he had heard Nan Tianxiong and Nan Tianguan mention it in passing: the Sandie Pavilion had always been strict with its disciples and absolutely forbade them from taking up with brothel women—offenders were severely punished without exception.
Of course, rules were rules, and they were mainly aimed at newcomers. Men like Nan Tianxiong and Nan Tianguan never took such sect regulations seriously; so long as they were not caught red-handed, it was all just empty talk.
Having just come from the brothel himself, and with the liquor still working on him, Si Haitao subconsciously took the two women for brothel women as well. After all, if they were Wei Zhao's girlfriends, he could have one at most—how could two come at once?
Wei Zhao was a cultivator, after all; he could not possibly take an ordinary woman as a companion. At the very least he would find a female cultivator—but female cultivators were all proud and lofty. Even Si Haitao himself had only one female cultivator wife at home!
Only the women of brothels could pull off such a three-in-bed affair. Still, brothel women were bold and inventive, capable of far more open things than this—he himself had just enjoyed a threesome.
"What did you say? I advise you to watch your mouth, Your Excellency—careful lest disaster come out of it!" Wei Zhao's aura turned cold and sharp at his words.
"Ho ho, with that piddling strength of yours, you still dare play the tough guy in front of me?" Si Haitao burst into wild laughter, pointed at Wei Zhao, and sneered, "Honored retainers, help your proprietor subdue him! Notify the Pavilion Master of Yingxin Pavilion to come collect his man!"
The moment the words left his mouth, four unfathomable figures appeared without warning around Wei Zhao, hemming him in tight on all sides.
Wei Zhao's heart tightened—these four honored retainers were nothing like the ones he had seen before!
At the Hong Clan Merchant Guild, the honored retainers were hired by the guild, but each also had designated masters they served. The original four had already gone to Middle Island together with Hong Zhong; these four were unfamiliar faces who answered only to Si Haitao.
Different people or not, anyone who could become an honored retainer of the Hong Clan Merchant Guild was at least a Golden Core expert—of that there was no doubt.
Seeing that Wei Zhao dared not make a move, Si Haitao's smile grew even more smug. He turned his leering gaze to the two women: "You two beauties—what you sell when you come out is spirit jade, isn't it? Your proprietor has plenty, and I guarantee I'll pay more than that penniless brat ever could. Why not follow me from now on?"
The situation had shifted abruptly. Ning Xuefei and Shangguan Lan'er had been rather dazed at first, but now that an old man was so brazenly molesting them in public, they finally came to their senses.
"You old bastard! What did you call me?" Shangguan Lan'er was so furious she ground her teeth.
"You... you... you actually called us brothel women? I'll fight you to the death!" Ning Xuefei, her pretty face flushed crimson with rage, threw all caution aside and struck straight at Si Haitao.
The two of them were, by status, little princesses—noble figures who could not suffer the slightest indignity. And now they had been publicly insulted as brothel women?!