Chapter 4065 — Crippled
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Flanked on either side by two breathtakingly beautiful young women, Wei Zhao's treatment made everyone around them drool with envy—and when they thought of the two women's formidable backgrounds, it drove them wild with jealousy!
To attach oneself to either one of them would mean gaining both power and beauty—a winner in life. And here he had two at once! The lad looked thin and frail, no expert by any measure, with nothing particularly outstanding about him—so how was he so favored by Heaven?
Of course, envy was envy. Looking at the five golden-core experts of the Chongtian Pavilion stationed around the two women, and with Si Haitao's bloody example right before their eyes, no matter how unbalanced the crowd felt, they could only stare helplessly without daring the slightest move.
Compared to Wei Zhao's enviable fortune with the ladies, Si Haitao's fate was truly a tale of bitter tears. By the time he was faintly roused by the unbearable agony wracking his body, a full day had passed.
And when he finally realized the surroundings he was in, he was so shocked that he could not help drawing a sharp breath—as the esteemed branch manager of the Hong Clan Merchant Guild's North Island branch, Si Haitao had actually been dumped in the street of the market's inner lane, left to fend for himself!
"Hey! Are you all dead? How dare you treat your manager like this—I'll have every last one of you fired today!" Under the strange looks of passersby, Si Haitao's old face flushed bright red, and he cursed in a fit of humiliated rage.
Even if he had made such a low, laughable mistake yesterday, he was still a branch manager, after all—surely he would not end up like a beggar wandering the streets.
Si Haitao immediately cursed and struggled to rise, but after several exhausting attempts he found he simply could not stand. Only then did it dawn on him: the meridians of his four limbs had been shattered by true qi long ago—he was now a cripple.
Even so, Si Haitao did not shed his lifelong arrogance. Straining his voice at the passersby, he called out, "Someone come carry me! Carry me to the Hong Clan Merchant Guild and your manager will reward you richly!"
Had this been yesterday, the inner lane's open day, perhaps some passersby ignorant of the truth might have been willing to try. But today was no open day—only people of status and standing on North Island could come and go here. And Si Haitao's foolish "heroic deed" of yesterday had long been spread far and wide; no one would pay any attention to such a blind fool.
After shouting himself hoarse for quite some time and seeing the passersby still unmoved, Si Haitao finally stopped his dry howling in despair. Yet he refused to give up—if no one would carry him, then he would crawl there himself!
The inner lane was only so big; even crawling all the way from the street to the Hong Clan Merchant Guild was not too far a distance. And once he reached the guild, it would be his own domain.
Enduring the pointing and whispering of the onlookers, Si Haitao gritted his teeth and actually crawled all the way to the gates of the Hong Clan Merchant Guild. Yet the subordinates and clerks inside, who had once fawned and flattered him so shamelessly, merely froze for a moment at the sight of him before averting their eyes as if they had seen nothing at all.
"You useless, undiscerning lot—what are you standing around pretending to be busy for? Hurry up and carry your manager inside! Don't you want your jobs anymore?" Si Haitao cursed furiously. R1152