"Ding Xiaoli getting crippled took everyone by surprise, my father included.?With what he had done, most of us expected an imdiate reaction from the store, after all, the whole commotion had happened just outside their door and the pillar Ding Xiaoli crashed through was theirs.
But no one ca out.
At the ti I couldn't understand why, and just naively assud the reason they didn't react was that even they knew Ding Xiaoli's actions were unpardonable.
I thought they too had grown so conscience from the whole commotion. Xiaoli always behaved like a fiend, but never to the extent of what he did that day.
It was wishful thinking on my part that maybe the store had tacitly approved of my father's actions hence the lack of reaction on their part.
Because a few seconds later, one of the shop clerks of the store ca out and picked up Ding Xiaoli's unconscious and crippled body and went back to the store.
Not once did he interact with my father, he didn't even spare a glance his way.
I rember feeling relieved when I saw that clerk walk back into the store..." Wu Mingli said with a bitter smile.
"I thought my father had got away with it, that the world was finally ready to accept just acts. How wrong I was.." Wu Mingli said as he shook his head.
"Back then I didn't know, but a few, especially the city guards and those well-inford, they knew why the store didn't react and it wasn't because they had grown a conscience as I had assud.."
Wu Mingli's eyes laced with coldness and contempt fell on Duan Hu.
With his eyes still on the forr emperor, Wu Mingli said,
"The reason the store didn't react was because of the title my father wore. Even though he was just a late-stage foundation establishnt cultivator, at the end of the day regardless of his cultivation base, he was still a city guard, and city guards by default regardless of their attainnts and rank fell under the emperor's jurisdiction.
Openly?acting against a city guard was no different than slapping the emperor's face.."
Wu Mingli didn't bother to hide the contempt in his tone as he said the last sentence.
"If my father had been just another bystander and not a city guard, they would no doubt have acted against him then and there, but because he was a city guard, the store had to be tactful in how they reacted.
They couldn't act against my father in the sa manner Ding Xiaoli did to Li Fei. To act against him, certain 'conditions' had to be t.
Considering how domineering the store and the subsidiaries had been acting to the point that they could openly torture a citizen of the empire without fear of reprisal, fulfilling those conditions was sothing simple for them.
After all, the person in charge of those conditions was the sa person who allowed them to act as they wished, isn't that right, Emperor Duan Hu.." Wu Mingli coldly said.
The forr emperor's response to the question was an impassive sigh and silence. His actions drew a scoff from Wu Mingli.
"With such an attitude, I am genuinely amazed as to how you reached the palace realm.." Wu Mingli said before turning his attention back to Yang Qing. He would have plenty of ti to deal with the emperor.
"With the store not coming after him, my father quickly carried Li Fei, bringing him back to our ho. There was a heavy expression on him, which at the tiI assud was because he was worried about Li Fei who didn't seem to be doing too well.
My father quickly tended to his injuries. While he couldn't do anything about his crippled cultivation, dealing with his broken legs and dismbered arm was easy enough.
After he was done, I saw him handing Li Fei sothing and a few words as he escorted him back to his ho. That was the last ti I ever saw Li Fei or his family, because the next day, their house was empty save for the household items, but for the people who inhabited it, none of them were there.
Neither Li Fei, nor his sisters, nor their sick mother was there. And it wasn't just them, because his aunts and cousins did too. Co the next day not one of them could be seen. I can only hope that the reason for their disappearance was them running away, and the words my father left Li Fei with was telling him to run.."
Wu Mingli genuinely hoped that they run because if they did, then that ant his father's actions back then were not in vain.
"Though it's been 238 years since that incident, I doubt Li Fei is alive, but for his sisters, and the rest, I hope they had a better turn in their fates.."
Though Wu Mingli thought that, he couldn't fully believe in it. Has the world really ever been that fair?
When it ca to Li Fei's family, his father was the one with the highest cultivation. Li Fie's father just like his father, was also a late-stage foundation establishnt cultivator, with Li Fei's father being slightly higher at the tenth stage while his father's was at the eighth.
Having experienced the ruthlessness of the cultivation world over the past few hundred years,he knew a foundation establishnt cultivator was just a stronger ant. They'd struggle to survive in that world just as much as a qi and or body refinent cultivator. A foundation establishnt cultivator was just a little sturdier that was all.
The strongest person in Li Fei's family was his father, but his foundation establishnt cultivation was insufficient to guarantee his family's life, if it was, would his wife have been denied treatnt by the Greem General Dragon Store?
If he had been at the core formation realm, while the store would have not feared him, they would have afforded him the basic courtesy afforded to soone of that station.
A core formation cultivator could be considered a precious resource even within a high-ranking organization like the Golden Bamboo Pavilion, let alone one of their subsidiaries. The Green Dragon General Store would not have wanted to fall out with one easily just because of a re sky-grade herb.
Were Li Fei's father a core formation expert, they would have likely reached an easy compromise, but he wasn't and because of it, things devolved as they did, to the point he was forced to risk his life along with his brother's to search for alternative ans elsewhere.
If their father's strength could be considered trivial, what about Li Fei's? Or his sisters'?
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