Chapter 147 - Outbreak of Explosive Anger (1/2)
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Moments later, the guard captain gave the carriage a vicious glare and turned around. “Let’s go. We’ll see who can outwait whom!”
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Lin family’s pupils looked at each other and nervously glanced at the two carriages up front.
Lin Zezhi furrowed his brows, “What should we do now?”
Lin Xuanzhi’s voice came through the carriage door, “Sit back and wait silently.”
Lin Zezhi’s irritation was written on his face as he grit his teeth, “What good will waiting do? If those families behind us lose their patience, then they’ll come and cause trouble for us. By then, we’ll have to contend with both the guards in front and the families at our back.”
Lin Yan also felt a rare moment of unease and nodded. “Yes, there’s some truth to what he says as well. It’s not a solution to just wait like this. If we cannot handle this well, then we’ll offend the many families behind us, which will be greatly detrimental for our Lin family in the upcoming competition.”
However, Lin Xuanzhi remained impassive. “Continue waiting, it’s not time yet.”
Lin family’s pupils could only go back to their carriages one by one to wait in fear and apprehension without knowing what they were waiting for.
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The people behind them, however, would no longer wait.
Before long, two young men came up from behind with dark expressions.
A youth stood next to Lin Xuanzhi’s carriage and knocked on the door as he said unkindly, “I say, you guys may not want to enter the city, but don’t obstruct other people’s path.”
Lin Xuanzhi asked, “Which family do you belong to?”
The young man lifted up his face and answered proudly, “West Continent’s Gu family.”
“As a third-class family, aren’t you worried that they will frisk you as well?” Lin Xuanzhi asked lightly.
The youngster was stunned, “Aren’t they just going to search your family?”
Lin Xuanzhi chuckled, as though he had heard a good joke.
“What are you laughing for?” The young man frowned.
Lin Xuanzhi explained, “I was laughing because you haven’t even noticed that other people are looking down on you in wanton contempt, and are still ignorant of it all.”
The other youth asked with an unhappy expression, “What do you mean by that?”
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Lin Xuanzhi said lightly, “If these people only wanted to search my Lin family, then it’s fine. But they actually want to search all the third-class families in the lower rankings. Before, there were several second-class families who jumped the queue and cut before the third-class families – you saw it as well. I’m afraid that this Huangfu family wants to suppress us with a preemptive blow. I just don’t know whether your families are willing to receive this blow or not.”
After they heard this, the two young men exchanged glances and saw the surprise in each other’s eyes.
Lin Xuanzhi continued, “From a glance, you two are also young. However, I don’t believe that you haven’t heard about the humiliation the Gu family suffered at the gate of Sky Peak City during the Hundred Families Gathering a hundred years ago. It’s not impossible for history to repeat itself.”
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All of a sudden, the surprise in the two youngsters’ eyes turned into anger.
“We will report this matter back to our families.” The young man left after speaking.
After the two men left, Duan Yuyang looked at Lin Xuanzhi in astonishment, “It’s as if you’re going to drag all the aristocratic families into the water.”
Lin Xuanzhi glanced at him. “If we don’t blow things out of proportion, then how can we enter safely without offending anyone?”
Duan Yuyang asked, “How do you know they will believe it?”
Lin Xuanzhi scratched under Ah Bai’s chin, “Because it’s not as though this kind of situation hasn’t happened in the past Hundred Families Gathering before.”
Huangfu family was not the only one. Nobody knew what kinds of crazy things several elite first-class families in Sky Peak City were thinking about at the Hundred Families Gathering a hundred years ago, but they had joined forces and thought up various ways to make things difficult for individual third-class families at the city gate. Although not all of them had been frisked, the nature of their harassment was still enough to annoy those third-class families.
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At that time, the third-class families didn’t resist and instead suppressed their anger as they entered the city with a belly full of fire.
However, in the competition afterwards, the third-class families who were bullied seemed to have been triggered and unexpectedly formed an alliance.
Although the third-class families were relatively weak, their numbers were high. Those few elite first-class families actually lost quite a lot of young sprouts, and one family even fell directly into the ranks of a second-class family; it was simply terrifying!
Since then, situations where people made things difficult right from the beginning never happened again in subsequent Hundred Families Gatherings.
But this was the psychological shadow that the Hundred Families Gathering left for the third-class families.
Before long, news that the city lord’s guard dogs were preparing to search all the third-class families spread like wildfire throughout the entire queue.
The disciples of the third-class families suddenly became furious.
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“Fuck, the Huangfu family really likes to bully people. Laozi has never felt this insulted in all my life!”