Right at this moment, Peach-Red and Willow-Green pounced at her from right and left, trapping Gu Xiang between them. Taking clear action, she lifted a leg and a dagger sprung out, aiming straight at Green Willow Grandpa’s skull. However, Green Willow Grandpa still had some capabilities: he did not duck or hide, but swiped his cane horizontally. Gu Xiang felt a gust of strong wind rush at her, knew that she could not beat it, and swiftly retracted her leg. But she was not fast enough, and the dagger on the tip of her shoe was shattered.

Gu Xiang whipped back around immediately, thinking of reusing the same trick, but Peach Red Grandma had already crept up behind her.

Panicked, Gu Xiang exclaimed, “I’m about to die, and you’re still enjoying the show!”

There was a light laugh, before Peach Red Grandma felt a gust of wind sweep at her and slam into her back. It was too late for her to dodge; she could only spring forward with all her might and stick herself onto the rafters like a giant lizard. Gu Xiang took the chance to hop off the rafters, and the crowd only noticed then that the thing that had nearly scared the daylights out of Peach Red Grandma was actually a walnut shell...and it was only half of one.

Immediately after, the “crack” of a walnut being unshelled came from the doorway. A man with unassuming features was holding a small packet of walnuts in his hand. Two fingertips pinched inwards, and the walnut shell burst open. He then threw the kernel into his mouth, and feasted on it delightfully. Beside him followed an even more sorry-looking person. These two people looked like they were born of the same mother, since they shared the same yellowish-green coloring and puffy eyes.

The one holding the walnuts was still politely offering them to the one beside him, saying, “You’re not eating them?”

Like he was dodging a catastrophe, the one beside him arched backwards, and replied with an expression of revulsion, “Get this thing further away from me.”

The one holding the walnuts laughed. “Oh, the great...is afraid of eating walnuts? Silly, this is good stuff. Eating these make you smarter, they enrich your brain[9].”

The one beside him took two steps forward and reached out to grab hold of Zhang Chengling’s shoulders, saying, “No matter how you enrich a pig’s brain, it’ll stay the same.”

Yu Qiufeng’s brow wrinkled as he questioned commandingly, “Who are you?”

The person holding Zhang Chengling close shoved the youth forward and murmured by his ear softly, “I find him an eyesore. Go beat him up on my behalf.”

Mouth agape, Zhang Chengling looked at him dumbly. “Shi...I…”

“You, what? They bullied your Gu Xiang-jiejie, and you’re just standing aside? Are you a man, or are you not?”