Chapter 115 - Provoking Him Time and Again!
Chapter 115 Provoking Him Time and Again!
“Xiaobai, stop the mischief!”
The amiable old man could not help but scold her in a serious tone, trying to warn her.
However, Liu Xiaobai did not get the cue and even raised her cup higher, saying, “Major General Chu, cheers.” After saying this, she poured her wine onto the ground.
The amiable old man’s eyes narrowed, and his eyelids jumped. Only the libation for the dead would be poured out.
“Xiaobai, you’ve gone too far!” the old man in the wheelchair scolded her.
“Master... how could you scold me for an outsider?” Liu Xiaobai said in a soft and sweet voice, playing the trick that women were good at—acting like a spoiled child.
The old man in the wheelchair frowned but said no more.
The amiable old man shook his head. His master was absolutely a good person except that he was too tolerant of the faults of those who were close to him. He treated Liu Xiaobai even better than treating his own granddaughter. Thus, Liu Xiaobai was spoiled very much that sometimes, even the amiable old man could not put up with her. Despite his anger, the amiable old man would not watch her get into trouble for she was his junior apprentice sister.
He stole a glance at Chu Xun, finding that he looked calm without any emotion on his face as if he were not the man that Liu Xiaobai insulted.
However, the amiable old man knew that Chu Xun must be angry inside. Even he, a secular man, had heard a common saying of Martial Tao, which was, a Grandmaster was not to be insulted. Besides, Chu Xun was not an ordinary Grandmaster; he had terrifying cultivation and astonishing skills, so it was no exaggeration to call him god’s favored one.
Therefore, it was impossible for such a person not to be enraged when being insulted like that.
The amiable old man knew that under Chu Xun’s calm expression was a raging storm, and it was just the quiet before a storm.
“Do you know Liu Xiefei?”
Chu Xun looked at Liu Xiaobai and asked suddenly.
Liu Xiaobai was apparently caught unprepared. She was nervous for a moment but quickly regained her composure. “Are you interrogating me, Major General Chu?” she asked with undisguised sarcasm.
Chu Xun smiled and replied indifferently, “You can think so.”
Liu Xiaobai was a little taken aback, and a storm of anger was gathering in her eyes. She was so angry that she mocked with a smile, “The capital city is different from the poor and remote Gujiang City, so not everyone could afford the price of being willful here.”
“Do you know Liu Xiefei?”
Chu Xun asked the same question in the same indifferent tone.
However, before Liu Xiaobai could reply, Chu Xun continued, “I didn’t have any other intention; I was just trying to say, if you know him, Miss Liu, please tell him that I’ll kill him, and he has no place to flee, and no one can save him.”
Liu Xiaobai stood up furiously, and her beautiful eyes turned icy. Her seemingly delicate and weak body emitted murderous intent, which aimed at Chu Xun.
“Repeat your words,” said she.
Chu Xun compressed his lips and turned to look at the amiable old man. “Can I kill her?” asked he.
He uttered a serious question in a casual tone as if he were asking, “Did you have lunch?”
The amiable old man’s body got tense in an instant, his eyebrows furrowed hard. He knew how he replied to the question would decide where the relationship between him and Chu Xun would go and what kind of attitude Chu Xun would hold toward the country.
It was impossible to bind someone like Chu Xun with law, and the only way to do that was to become his friends.
At this moment, the amiable old man hated Liu Xiaobai to the extreme. The only reason he would bring Chu Xun to see his master was that Long Ao told him Chu Xun could cure his master’s injuries. However, in such an awkward situation, he was too embarrassed to ask Chu Xun for help.
“Alas...!” the amiable old man sighed heavily and looked at Chu Xun with a helpless expression in his eyes. “Can you spare her life if I promise you something?” he said in a deep tone.
A promise of a national leader meant a lot.
Chu Xun stared at the amiable old man in silence until the old man felt he could not hold on under his gaze. He suddenly smiled and replied, “Ok, but just this once.”
He understood that the amiable old man was in a dilemma, so he consented to his request, just because he did not want to hurt the feelings of the amiable old man’s master, who was so weak and possibly would collapse if Chu Xun killed Liu Xiaobai.
“Thank you!” the amiable old man breathed a sigh of relief heavily.
“Senior Brother, what are you doing?” Liu Xiaobai could not believe what she had heard. It seemed that her senior brother was interceding for her, which was so ridiculous.
“Shut up!” the amiable old man got angry. In normal times, he could forgive Liu Xiaobai’s arbitrary behaviors for the sake of his master. However, now, he was trying to save her, and if she still kept being so ungrateful, then even God could not save her.
Liu Xiaobai tried to say something, but when she saw the amiable old man’s fierce eyes, she said nothing in the end. The amiable old man was the top official of the country, and his authority was not what she could challenge. If she irritated him, both she and her family would fall despite she was his junior apprentice sister.
The eyes of the old man in the wheelchair were full of questions. He knew his disciple well enough to know that he yielded to Liu Xiaobai again and again for the sake of him. Thus, when he saw the amiable old man treat Liu Xiaobai so coldly, he realized there must be a reason for his reaction.
“Is it because of Chu Xun?” the old man in the wheelchair wondered to himself, but so he rejected the idea. He had watched the video of Chu Xun saving the hostages, and thus concluded that Chu Xun was at most in the Acquired Realm. Though it was quite talented for Chu Xun to reach the realm at such a young age, the old man in the wheelchair did not think it was enough to let his disciple treat Chu Xun like that.
“Why did he scold her?” the old man in the wheelchair looked at the amiable old man with questioning eyes.
The amiable old man glanced at Chu Xun minutely.
Seeing that, the old man in the wheelchair was stunned and then astonished. “Is it really because of Chu Xun? Could it be that Chu Xun comes from an ancient sect?”
Liu Xiaobai’s eyes were burning with anger, and when she looked at Chu Xun from time to time, there was killing intent in her eyes. Her intent was so strong that even the amiable old man could feel it.
“Xiaobai, apologize to Major General Chu now,” the old man in the wheelchair shouted angrily.
Liu Xiaobai looked at the old man in disbelief. She could not believe her master, who doted on her most, actually scolded her for an outsider.
She gnashed her teeth and glared at Chu Xun. It was impossible for her to apologize to Chu Xun.
The amiable old man clenched his fists tightly, and his palms were soaked in sweat. Though Chu Xun promised that he would not kill Liu Xiaobai, the amiable old man could not guarantee that Chu Xun would keep his words even in anger if Liu Xiaobai provoked him again and again like that.
At this moment, Chu Xun’s cell phone suddenly rang, breaking the depressing tension between them.
It was Hua Qingwu who was calling. Chu Xun went aside to answer the phone.
Hua Qingwu told him that she would go to Gujiang City in a few days and entrust the Hua Family to Hua Sheng, a capable man who could lead the Hua Family to a higher position as long as there was a platform for him to exert himself.
Hua Qingwu also told Chu Xun that she would bring the fake Yun Nanfeng, who was as capable as Hua Sheng, to Gujiang City and let him help her manage Purple Bamboo Club.
Chu Xun agreed to her decision. He did not care about those secular properties; now, he only hoped that those who had a close relationship with him had time to prepare for cultivation.
After that, Hua Qingwu said some loving words to Chu Xun sweetly. As Chu Xun was not good at speaking loving words, he just listened to her and said nothing.
Hua Qingwu ended the call with some flirting words.
Chu Xun held the phone and showed a gentle smile without himself even knowing it.
When Chu Xun went away to answer the phone, Liu Xiaobai went to a corner and made a phone call.
“Investigate a man named Chu Xun, as well as his purpose in the capital city. Besides, check out if he came here alone. I need to know all the information as soon as possible, and your reward will be transferred to your bank account immediately.”
After ending this call, Liu Xiaobai made another one. This time, she did not talk too much and just uttered a bank account and said to the other party, “Transfer one million to this bank account.”
In less than two minutes, her cell phone rang again. She received a message about the information on Chu Xun.
Liu Xiaobai’s delicate eyebrows furrowed as she read the message, which told her that Chu Xun came to the city with Azure Dragon and Tang Rou.
She naturally knew Azure Dragon, who served in the National Security Agency and was a member of the 12 Chinese Zodiacs and was in the Grandmaster Realm.
Soon, she relaxed her eyebrows. Since Chu Xun was a major general while Azure Dragon served in the National Security Agency, the two belong to different systems. Besides, the two could not have any personal connection. Chu Xun was at most at the first level of the Acquired Realm, possibly as powerful as her or even weaker than her, while Azure Dragon was a Grandmaster. In one world, Chu Xun and Azure Dragon were not at the same level at all.
She suspected that when Chu Xun went to rescue the hostages kidnapped by Golden Wolf Mercenary, the 12 Chinese Zodiacs received the same mission, only that Chu Xun was one step ahead of them.
She further suspected that probably because Chu Xun settled this big event excellently and demonstrated the power of Huaxia greatly, the amiable old man called in Chu Xun, which provided Chu Xun an opportunity to take the same plane to the capital city with Azure Dragon.
Liu Xiaobai looked relaxed completely. As Azure Dragon was a Grandmaster, she was afraid of him. However, now, it seemed that she had worried too much.
Moreover, she also figured out why her senior apprentice brother would defend Chu Xun. That was because Chu Xun showed how powerful the Huaxia soldiers and Huaxia Country could be by saving the hostages out. It was necessary for her senior apprentice brother to praise Chu Xun even though it was just for show. What was more, it was her senior apprentice brother who brought Chu Xun there, so she would make him lose face by provoking Chu Xun over and over again. That was why he would scold her. She believed that her senior apprentice brother was just trying to save his own face instead of defending Chu Xun.
As long as she was more patient and did not deal with Chu Xun until he left there, her senior apprentice brother would not bother to interfere if she did not leave any evidence.
“Chu Xun, you’re just a nobody and supposed to die long ago. We have been so kind that we let you live three more years. Now, I don’t mind to let you live a little longer,” Liu Xiaobai whispered, her eyes flickering with killing intent.
She gazed at Tang Rou’s name and smiled, her eyes looking cruel. “Tang Rou, your man displeased me today, so I have to vent my anger on you, and you only have Chu Xun to blame,” she said with a sneer.
After saying that, she made a call once more.
“Catch that celebrity Tang Rou, and before I go to meet you, she is yours.” Liu Xiaobai laughed chillingly.
After hanging up the phone, she walked swinging back to the stone table, only to find that Chu Xun had come back after answering the phone.
Liu Xiaobai paused, turned around, and walked into a room beside. A moment later, she went out with a cup in her hand.
She filled the cup with wine and raised it to Chu Xun with both hands. She smiled brightly and said in a soft voice, “Major General Chu, I apologize for my rude behavior. Please forgive me.”
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Both the old man in the wheelchair and the amiable old man felt shocked. They knew Liu Xiaobai well as a girl who would never apologize to others easily, so they wondered if there was something wrong with her head today.
Ignoring the shocked expression on the faces of her master and senior apprentice brother, Liu Xiaobai held the cup of wine respectfully with a bright smile on her face.
Chu Xun looked at her with an indifferent look, his dark eyes as deep as a cold pond, seeing which, Liu Xiaobai shivered with fear.
Liu Xiaobai’s hands trembled, spilling several drops of wine on the stone table. The spilled wine was evaporated in an instant. Liu Xiaobai’s body went stiff as she had never seen such a pair of cold, ruthless, emotionless eyes before. Looking at them made her feel cold all over as if she were in hell.