Chapter 28

"After the Wu family's patriarch took another wife, Madam Wu saw the middle-aged Second Miss Huo, and was instantly struck as if by a celestial being."

"At this point, Madam Wu's guard was raised to the maximum, and she forbade the Wu family's patriarch from having any further contact with Second Miss Huo."

"Moreover, whenever she quarreled with the Wu family's patriarch, she would call Huo Xiangu a vixen…"

Swish—

The moment the words "vixen" left Zhang Lin's mouth, the fan in his hand was smoothly flipped open.

At that instant, a hidden weapon flew out from the fan, shooting straight toward the box where Old Madam Huo sat.

Old Madam Huo sensed the hidden weapon coming at her.

But the hidden weapon Zhang Lin had launched was too fast—Old Madam Huo had no time at all to dodge.

Slicing—

The hidden weapon flew past the side of Old Madam Huo's face, the same side from which she had removed her earring.

In the end, it lodged itself firmly in the wall of the box.

Old Madam Huo felt a sharp sting on her face.

"Hiss…"

Huo Hongxiu heard the sound, turned her head to look, and discovered a long streak of blood on Old Madam Huo's face.

Beads of blood were seeping out along the wound, a terrifying sight.

Huo Hongxiu was startled, and immediately took out a handkerchief to wipe Old Madam Huo's face.

"Grandmother, what happened to you? Who hurt you?"

At that moment, they heard Zhang Lin on the stage say: "To use 'vixen' to describe a woman—a middle-aged woman at that—"

"Everyone, just think of Huo Xiangu's bearing back in the day. She must have been a vision of such grace and beauty that any man who saw her would have been rooted to the spot!"

Hearing this, all the men in the theater burst into laughter.

Huo Hongxiu saw Old Madam Huo glaring hatefully at Zhang Lin.

She also realized that the one who had just struck was very likely this storyteller, Mr. Zhang!

Huo Hongxiu immediately said: "How dare he hurt a member of my Huo family? I'll go and vent grandmother's anger for her!"

Unexpectedly, she was stopped by Old Madam Huo.

"Hongxiu, don't move."

"Go and see what that thing on the wall is."

Huo Hongxiu swallowed her fury, walked to the wall, and tried to see clearly what kind of hidden weapon had cut Old Madam Huo's cheek!

But the moment she looked, she was so shocked she could not speak.

It took her quite a while to come back to herself. She took the hidden weapon down and handed it to Old Madam Huo.

"Grandmother, this is actually… actually a tea leaf!"

Old Madam Huo looked at that incomparably verdant tea leaf, her eyes full of disbelief.

She prided herself on the Huo family's hidden-weapon skill being unrivaled under heaven.

She had never expected that today she would see someone wound her with the one thing least suited to be a hidden weapon!

In the art of hidden weapons, one must never choose something soft and lacking in resilience.

This steeped tea leaf happened to possess both of those flaws!

Yet the tea leaf Zhang Lin shot out was not only extremely fast, but carried enough force.

A steeped tea leaf itself is not sharp, with neither edge nor corner.

So for this tea leaf to have sliced open Old Madam Huo's face,

it relied entirely on the force and speed with which Zhang Lin launched it!

What was even more terrifying, after cutting Old Madam Huo's cheek,

the tea leaf could still use its remaining momentum to lodge itself firmly in the wall!

One could well imagine how terrifying Zhang Lin's hidden-weapon skill was!

Looking at the tea leaf in Huo Hongxiu's palm, Old Madam Huo sighed.

"Skill is no match…"

"Enough, this old woman concedes defeat…"

Old Madam Huo's edge had been blunted, and Zhang Yueshan and Yin Nanfeng in their box naturally noticed as well.

But the two of them could not see what was happening inside Old Madam Huo's box, and could only guess blindly.

Yin Nanfeng said: "This storyteller's technique is far more brilliant than that Old Madam Huo's."

Zhang Yueshan also nodded. Old Madam Huo's temper was notoriously difficult to deal with.

And from her youth, she had been matchless in looks, which had further fostered a character that could not bear to lose out.

Even the people of Jiumen mostly gave way to her.

This had caused Old Madam Huo's temper to grow ever more eccentric, and the older she got, the harder she was to approach.

At this moment, being able to see her put in her place,

Zhang Yueshan, who had lived a great many years, could not help but let a smile show on his face.

"This is what they call—it takes a stronger hand to grind down a villain!"

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