Chapter 12 (1/2)
“Why are you still hitting me?”
Li Gong clutched his face, filled with disbelief. Why was this fellow so gusty? Wait a minute, he suddenly realized something. “Do you think that Headmaster An Xinhui can protect you? Stop dreaming. The school isn’t a place where her words alone hold sway…”
This time around, he didn’t wait for Li Gong to finish talking. Sun Mo directly opened up his stance. His back-hand and front-hand launched forward, slapping both sides of Li Gong’s face.
Pak! Pak! Pak!
In the storehouse, the sound of slappings echoed out.
“Stop hitting, I’m in the wrong!”
Li Gong covered his head. In order to cure his lame leg, he decided to endure. Besides, he had discovered that this brat was much more self-confident than before. His tongue was also more ‘poisonous’.
Sun Mo stopped. His gaze held no fluctuations as he stared at Li Gong. He didn’t forget the vile attitude this fellow had shown him that day when he scolded him.
This fellow kept finding trouble for Sun Mo because his purpose was to get him fired. Once Sun Mo was fired, he would have a black mark on his record forever, and it might be impossible for him to find another job as a teacher in another school. Even if he were to look for other jobs, his future would definitely be affected.
Facing a fellow who wanted to destroy his future, Sun Mo absolutely wouldn’t feel pity.
“What do you want me to do before you will cure my leg?”
Li Gong’s tone turned soft. Many intern teachers were afraid of committing mistakes during their internship as they would be fired. Thus, what he could threaten Sun Mo with was his power to grade Sun Mo badly. But if Sun Mo didn’t care whether he joined the faculty or not, the threat Li Gong presented would be ineffective.
“What do you think?”
Sun Mo counter-asked.
Li Gong fell silent. As an experienced member of the society, he knew what Sun Mo wanted. However, he couldn’t say it or he wouldn’t be able to stay in the school any longer.
“No one instructed me to make things hard on you. I was the one who feels that you are unworthy after I heard that you are Headmaster An’s fiance. I felt unhappy in my heart, and this was why I messed with you.”
Before the sound of Li Gong’s words faded, Sun Mo’s hand smacked over again.
Pak!
Li Gong staggered, his face had swollen.
“Who the hell do you think you are? With your guts, how would you dare to mess with me if there was no one instructing you? Have you gone stupid from eating too much?”
Sun Mo sneered.
Plop!
Li Gong’s knees turned soft as he knelt. Mucus and tears flowed down his face as he cried, “I can’t say it. If I say it, not only will I not be able to keep my job, but I will also be beaten to death.”
“You can escape.”
Sun Mo squatted down and looked at Li Gong. “Once your leg is healed, you can find another job whenever you want.”
Li Gong hesitated. He felt he was extremely unlucky.
“It’s Department Head Yang Cai from the logistics department. If I can chase you away, he promised to make me his vice department head.”
“Why does he want to target me?”
Sun Mo frowned.
“Maybe you took something from him?”
After Li Gong finished speaking, when he saw Sun Mo lifting his hand again, he hurriedly covered his head. “I have no idea. Maybe the higher-ups wanted to make trouble for An Xinhui and you got implicated?”
Any places with humans would have disputes over benefits. The Central Province Academy also wasn’t a board of iron. It had fallen to the bottom of the ‘D’ grade in the league tournament and was at the point where its name was about to be removed. Other than the calamity that had happened 300 years ago being a part of the reason, there were also huge issues in the internal departments of the school.
Sun Mo furrowed his brows as he sank into contemplation.
Li Gong knelt on the ground, didn’t dare to disturb Sun Mo or get up.
“You should have done many bad things for Yang Cai, right?”
Sun Mo suddenly spoke, scaring Li Gong badly.
“No! No!”
Li Gong hurriedly waved his hands in denial. Pak! Another slap was launched at him, and he almost became stupid from the force of it.
“There are over twenty staff in the logistics department, so why did he choose you specifically? If you say you are not his lackey, who will believe this?”
Sun Mo liked to read novels, and he especially loved those logic deductions genres.
“Are you a devil?”
Li Gong’s body shivered. Sun Mo’s eyes had clear distinctive shades of black and white, and the calmness and self-confidence radiating from them made Li Gong feel as though he had been seen through. 1
“Alright, tell me everything you know!”
Sun Mo grabbed hold of Li Gong’s lame leg and started to employ the circulation technique.
Li Gong’s body trembled. He had been prepared to not say anything even if he was beaten to death. However, a current of warmth could be felt from his lame leg, causing his spirits to stir.
“You…”
Li Gong stared at Sun Mo with shock. The Ancient Dragon Capturing Hands were truly awesome. With a casual press, his leg already felt much more comfortable.
Ding!
Favorable impression points from Li Gong +5.
Prestige connection with Li Gong: Neutral (6/100).
“I said it before, I can heal your leg!”
Sun Mo’s voice was filled with confidence.
Li Gong hummed and hawed, eventually saying all the ‘black history’ he knew about. His leg had been crippled for almost 12 years. He would feel it grow cold in the summer, and he had to wrap his to protect it. It felt even worse in the winter. Now that he had felt a sense of comfort from his leg, he truly didn’t want to miss out on this opportunity.