Daliang Chen Xiuming was so nervous that he couldn't sleep. He turned over and sat up from the kang, and said in a vain: "Brother Xiaoqiu... are you... still blaming me?"

There were four teenagers living in the room, but now only Xiaoqiu and Shen brothers were left. The other one had already gone to another house to avoid suspicion.

Before Xiaoqiu could speak, Erliang Chen Xiuwei rushed to say, "Brother, you are too... honest. You don't know how dizzy San'er's character is. Why do you confess to him? You are still in front of so many people."

Chen Xiuming's face turned red, but fortunately it was dark and no one could see it. "I don't want to, but Taoist Zhang helped the prince. When he glared, who dared to resist?"

"Brother Xiaoqiu dares."

Chen Xiuming didn't want to get entangled with his younger brother anymore. Looking at Xiaoqiu's location in the dark, "Brother Xiaoqiu, you offended the prince and Taoist Zhang. You are so brave. You dare to call him "San'er" in public. Today, at least ten people secretly asked me about the origin of "San'er"."

"Then have you told them the truth?" Chen Xiuwei asked.

The confrontation in the afternoon ended without any success. Seeing Xin Youtao's expression changing, Zhang Lingsheng immediately ordered the children to disperse and did not give Xiaoqiu a chance to continue humiliating the prince.

"Well, I said a little bit, but you can guess it without saying it."

Chen Xiuwei snorted disdainfully. In the afternoon, he stood firmly beside Xiaoqiu and did not regret it at all afterwards. "When everyone knows that Damn San'er is actually a coward, let's see how he still shows off."

Xiaoqiu lay on his back on the kang, "What did Xin Youtao tell you later?"

Chen Xiuming's face turned red again. After the afternoon confrontation, he and several young men from Yelin Town were called by Xin Youtao to tell me something. He was the last one to come out of the prince's room. He wanted to mention this matter later, but Xiaoqiu asked directly, "It's nothing, the prince is... Brother Xiaoqiu, don't fight him. The person the prince hates the most is Chen Hao. He said that as long as you are willing to take the initiative to walk over and admit your mistakes to him tomorrow, he will not blame him and will give you many gifts. You forgot that Chen Hao has been your opponent since he was a child. Why do you take care of him for his sake? He has the support of his uncle and does not need others to help. We are homeless and finally we are taken in by Pang Shan. Don't cause trouble everywhere. The prince is a prince after all, and Pang Shan must be facing him."

After Xiaoqiu listened quietly, the two of them were always best friends. Whenever Xiaoqiu was impulsive, only Chen Xiuming could persuade him to turn around, but this time it didn't work.

Xiaoqiu also sat up from the kang, patted Erliang Chen Xiuwei on the shoulder, and stopped him from speaking, "Daliang, I will call you Chen Xiuming in front of outsiders, and I will call you Daliang in private."

"I call you Brother Xiao Qiu in public or in private." Daliang was a little moved.

"Where is unknown in Yelin Town, there are only nine of us left. We are Yelin Town. You, me, Chen Hao is no exception. Xin Youtao wants to make friends, and I will never mention the matters at that time again. But what Xin Youtao wants is not friends, but followers and servants. Daliang, we can't bow our heads. If we lower our heads today, we will never be able to lift it up. In that case, Yelin Town will be gone. Help me return the dagger to Xin Youtao and tell him that I will not violate the river water."

When Xin Youtao became a "criminal" in the forest, Xiaoqiu snatched a dagger. He felt that the things should be returned to the original owner now, but Erliang Chen Xiuwei was very reluctant. "Why should I return it? I sniffed San'er and snatched Fangfang's oil lamp, but didn't return it?"

Xiaoqiu still took out the dagger and handed it to Chen Xiuming. The room was quiet, and the three teenagers sitting on the kang were all thinking about their thoughts.

"Can I live here tonight?" A voice outside the door ended the silence in the room.

It was Chen Hao, I don’t know how long he had been outside the door.

"Of course." Xiaoqiu said, giving up a place to the side.

Chen Hao pushed the door and put in a set of bedding on the kang, took off his clothes and lay down, and the room returned to peace. After a while, he said, "Thank you, Brother Xiao Qiu."

Daliang Chen Xiuming fell asleep and never spoke again.

Xin Youtao's arrival completely broke the original pattern in the museum. Before that, dozens of children were naturally divided into several small groups, and they were coming and going with each other. The nine teenagers in Yelin Town had a slightly higher status because of the large population, but that's all. There was no one bullying anyone, let alone hatred.

Prince Nishisuke asked everyone to make clear choices, either stand on his side, or be classified as a minority alternative.

Xin Youtao did not get up in the morning to practice boxing, and the children's division was not obvious. When he appeared in the dining room in the front yard, everything would be different.

Xiaoqiu, Fangfang, Chen Hao, and Chen Xiu only sat at a table together. The other children tried to stay away from them as much as possible. Chen Xiuming and other five young men in Yelin Town sat in the corner, away from the core of the fight. They were still in the "observation period" and were not qualified to be too close to the prince.

Xin Youtao first occupied a table alone, glanced at the dining room, designated two children to sit opposite him, and then accepted the thanks for coming in turn while eating. The gifts he generously distributed yesterday played a huge role, and nearly half of the disciples recruited by Pang Shan were from Xijie, so he naturally had some awe of the prince of his country.

Xiaoqiu didn't care about the coldness that was within reach in the dining room. She could only talk and laugh with Erliang Chen Xiu. Fangfang smiled but didn't say anything, while Chen Hao seemed very depressed, feeling that he had implicated three partners.

Several village women who delivered the meal noticed the abnormality today and pretended to be unaware of it carefully. Only the village woman with high cheekbones kept looking around, her eyes full of curiosity. Delivering meals to the museum was originally a boring job, but now it has some meaning.

After breakfast, the villagers walked out of the door happily with the food boxes in their hands and the cloth they had just obtained under their arms. Xiaoqiu knew that even they would not remain neutral.

Xin Youtao changed his strategy and no longer confronted the stubborn teenager in Yelin Town, but instead changed to a roundabout strategy. This move achieved a major victory in the evening of the same day.

Chen Hao's uncle returned and entrusted the villagers to call out his nephew at noon. The conversation lasted a long time this time. It was not until dinner that Chen Hao walked into the dining room. He seemed to have suffered a heavy blow, looked depressed, and his steps were dragging. He did not have the temperament of the second young master of the Shen family. His head was hanging on his chest, and no one looked at him. He went straight to the front of Prince Xin Youtao.

"Haven, Your Highness..."

"I said, everyone in Pangshan Daotong is an equal fellow Taoist, don't call me Your Highness." Xin Youtao probably knew that this would happen, so he had long been sitting upright, as if the one in front of him was not rice and vegetables, but the delicious Wang family dish.

"Fellow Daoist Xin, please forgive me for my recklessness and ignorance in the past. I didn't know your identity at that time, otherwise I wouldn't dare to give me a hundred courages..."

The three of Xiaoqiu couldn't listen to the table. They put down the unfinished meals and stood up and left. Few children noticed them. Everyone was shocked by Chen Hao's sudden surrender, and they felt that the prince should not be offended.

In the study, Erliang Chen Xiuwei walked around indignantly, "Er Shuan is such a bastard. Let's stand on his side, he actually... he is such a bastard!"

Fangfang was also a little confused, "That shouldn't be like this for those who practice Taoism. When everyone arrives at Yangshen Peak and truly starts practicing, maybe... maybe their mood will change, so there is no need to compete for a high or low."

"Xin Youtao wants to turn everyone into his slaves." Xiaoqiu said that he and Xin Youtao have no deep hatred, but are just unwilling to break through the bottom line. "I won't bow to him."

"Neither, nor will I bow my head to the dizzy Saner." Erliang Shen Xiuwei rubbed his stomach, "But we should not leave too early next time. Let's finish the meal. It's too wasteful to leave there."

Fangfang laughed out loud, "Anyway, we just don't mess with him. After all, this place belongs to the Pangshan Taoist dynasty. Even if King Xijie comes in person, you can't force everyone to listen to him."

"There is such a rule? You have to tell me." Erliang Chen Xiu's confidence increased and he listened to Fangfang's narration of the contents of the book with unprecedented patience.

After dark, Xiaoqiu and Shen Xiuyi practiced bone-building fist in the yard for half an hour before returning to the room to rest.

Daliang Chen Xiuming moved out and no longer lived with his younger brother and good friends, but Chen Hao did not. He lay on the kang quietly, as if he had fallen asleep long ago.

Chen Xiuwei snorted lightly and slept on the other side of the kang, Xiaoqiu had to lie between the two of them.

A quarter of an hour later, Chen Hao cried, crying loudly. Chen Xiuwei initially despised him, but later he felt sympathy and advised: "Forget it, there is nothing to be sad. He is a prince, so it's not too embarrassing to admit his mistake."

"Uncle forced me." Chen Hao sobbed, feeling aggrieved, and had nowhere to talk, so he could only tell the two people in the same room, "He was a small official in Xijie City, afraid of the prince's revenge, I have to... After you left, the prince asked me to sit next to him, he gave me something to eat, and touched my head, as if... It seemed like I was his puppy, everyone saw it, and I knew they were laughing at me in their hearts."

"It turns out that having an uncle is not all good." Chen Xiuwei's sympathy increased a little more. "You are forced to do nothing, but why are you going back to this room to sleep? If you let San'er know, he will bully you again."

"He ordered me to come back." Chen Hao stopped crying, feeling even more embarrassing. He sat up, took out something from the bedding, put it on the kang and pushed it to Xiaoqiu. "He asked me to hand it over to you, saying that unless you apologize in public, admit that you were a thief, and that "three times fainting" are all lies you made up. He will not take back the dagger, nor will he forgive you. He also said..."

Chen Hao was stuttering, full of disgust and hatred for the role he was playing at this moment.

"What else do you say?" Xiaoqiu asked, wondering what Xin Youtao wanted to distort the facts.

"I also said that if you don't apologize, then openly compete. He wants to prove that he is capable. If you are a liar, he will not faint at all."

Xiaoqiu was silent for a while. The boys in the same town were attracted by Xin Youtao one by one, conquered and defeated. This made him calm down, carefully pondered his current situation, made different decisions three times, and rejected them three times. Until he felt that he had no other choice, he replied: "Then let's compete."

After saying that, Xiaoqiu took the dagger back and fell asleep.
Chapter completed!