Chapter 14
Chapter 14: Her Little Face Smacked Loud And Felt So Good
Jiang Tea Tea was being wildly blamed and cursed by a bunch of passersby who thought they were standing up for justice.
She calmly stuck out her pinky to dig her ear and asked lightly: “Oh, I’m a vile, ungrateful white-eyed wolf, and then what?”
People love clever tricks, but real sincerity is the true killing move. Jiang Tea Tea threw their own words back at them with one simple question, and they all choked. They opened their mouths, but not a single word came out.
Seeing something was wrong, Jiang Yi Zhu wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and snapped: “What do you mean ‘and then’? You admit you’re a vile, ungrateful white-eyed wolf, so hurry up and go to the Police Bureau to bail Dad, Mom, and Brother Chu Ming out. Then kneel and kowtow to apologize to us, and we’ll forgive you.”
Jiang Tea Tea was amused by her. Her palm-sized face shone like the sun over Mother Earth, bright and dazzling, her presence warm.
Huang Da Zhuang and Lu Ling’er stared at her in a daze. [Ahhh, the way she stood there, one person facing a whole crowd so arrogantly, looked so good. Their hearts were racing like crazy. They were cheering for her madly in their heads.]
Jiang Yi Zhu’s eyes almost split: “What are you laughing at? What’s so funny? You useless trash with no supernatural ability.”
Jiang Tea Tea almost laughed until she cried. She took a step forward, leaned close to Jiang Yi Zhu, and said: “I’m laughing because you think I should kneel and apologize to you. You think you deserve that?”
She was at the Great Demon Stage. Above, she only knelt to Heaven and Earth. Below, she only knelt to her maternal grandmother. Other than that, no one could make her kneel. Where did Jiang Yi Zhu get the nerve?
“We’re not worthy? Why not?” Jiang Yi Zhu was scared to death, but she didn’t want others to look down on her. She forced herself to act tough, forgetting all the pain from before. Just like three years ago, she still thought Jiang Tea Tea was someone who never fought back or talked back. She raised her hand, ready to slap her.
“You vile thing, don’t push your luck.”
Jiang Tea Tea grabbed her wrist in one move and squeezed hard.
The pain made Jiang Yi Zhu suddenly remember. Jiang Tea Tea had once broken her fingers and her wrist. Jiang Tea Tea had awakened supernatural abilities.
Her face changed. Before she could break free, Jiang Tea Tea dragged her over in front of the passersby and asked them in a very mocking tone: “Everyone, use those smart brains that got you into the Royal Military Imperial Academy. Think about it. Can the law code of the Zhenlin Empire really be shaken by someone like me, who supposedly has no supernatural abilities?”
“Who am I? Am I the Emperor of the Empire, or the Empress, who can just say one word and wave a hand, and send the Jiang parents and Brother Chu Ming and his parents into the Police Bureau to be locked up? You really think too highly of me.”
‘“Well said!”’
As Jiang Tea Tea finished speaking, a boy with black eyes in a First Year combat department uniform, a beastman with two small fleshy horns on his forehead like tiny tree branches, picked up her words. He spoke out in a righteous tone and started scolding the passersby who had blamed Jiang Tea Tea.
“The law code of the Zhenlin Empire is strict. It will not wrong a single good person, and it will not miss a single bad person.”
“You are students of the Royal Military Imperial Academy. After you graduate, you will enter the Empire’s army and serve the Empire.”
“Yet a few sentences from someone else are enough to trick you into thinking the Empire’s Central Public Security Bureau can just grab whoever they want and lock them up. Don’t you feel ashamed?”
Jiang Yi Zhu could not break free from Jiang Tea Tea. The pain made her face pale. A chill rushed up her back and straight into her head.
The passersby who had blamed Jiang Tea Tea felt their brains buzzing. Their faces flushed, turning green then white. It was not just shame. They were so embarrassed their toes wanted to dig into the floor. They wished there was a crack in the ground they could jump into.
Jiang Tea Tea took in every change on their faces and stabbed them right in the heart with one more blow: “With future pillars of the Empire like you, who don’t use your brains, the Zhenlin Empire will surely become the strongest in the M31 Star System. I really believe in you.”
The righteous passersby almost wanted to kneel to her and beg her to stop. So many male beastmen, yet they had let someone lead them by the nose. Their faces were completely lost.
The beastman boy with the two little horns on his forehead was just like Jiang Tea Tea. He also did not plan to let these people, who listened to rumors and treated them as truth, off so easily.
He tapped open his light-brain wrist terminal, projected a holo screen, pulled up the noon news, and opened the trending search on StarNet: “Senior male schoolmates, senior schoolmates, the Capital Planet Central Public Security Bureau broke a case last night: a group debauchery case.”
“You see, the main people behind this case are a family of three surnamed Chu and a married couple surnamed Jiang. Don’t they look just like this cute little older sister here, whose teeth got knocked out and who used you as her guns, and like her dear parents and her Brother Chu Ming?”
“Oh, you still can’t see clearly? Then here on the Royal Military Imperial Academy’s official site is the notice expelling Second Year fire-element supernatural ability user Chu Ming.”
“And here is the notice of a major demerit and observation given to First Year water-element supernatural ability user Jiang Yi Zhu and Third Year water-element supernatural ability user Jiang Yi Cheng.”
The passersby who had stood up for her stared wide-eyed at the holo screen in front of them. The news had been released just over two hours ago. At that time, they had still been in class, so they did not know something this big had happened.
They also did not know that the Royal Military Imperial Academy had already expelled fire-element supernatural ability user Chu Ming and given Jiang Yi Zhu and her older brother Jiang Yi Cheng a major demerit and put them under observation.
Every one of them watched with deep regret. They wished they could go back in time and slap themselves twice.
Jiang Tea Tea gave the beastman boy with the two fleshy horns a thumbs-up, then flung away the hand that was still gripping Jiang Yi Zhu’s wrist.
Jiang Yi Zhu was thrown down right at the feet of the passersby who had spoken up for her. They immediately turned their mockery on her.
“Jiang Yi Zhu, you look like a normal person, but your parents broke the law. Yet you ignore the law and shout ‘catch the thief’ while being the thief. You really have no shame.”
“Chu Ming is your older sister’s fiancé, right? He broke the law with your parents. You ran over here to beg your older sister and wanted her to sign a letter of forgiveness. Oh, I get it now. You are the third party stealing your older sister’s fiancé.”
“When the beam on top is crooked, the lower beams are crooked too. Your parents committed crimes, you are shameless, and you even dragged us in to be your helpers. You are such a disgusting, low woman.”
Jiang Yi Zhu had wanted to use morals to tie up the senior male and female schoolmates and make them speak for her, attack Jiang Tea Tea, and pressure her into saving her parents and Brother Chu Ming’s whole family of three.
She never thought she would pick up a rock only to smash her own foot. Everything in the news got exposed, and the academy’s punishment for her and her older brother got exposed too.
What should she do? If she could not get her parents out, and could not get Brother Chu Ming’s family out, who would give her money to spend, who would love her, who would deal with Jiang Tea Tea for her?
No, she had to find her older brother.
After making up her mind, Jiang Yi Zhu quickly climbed up from the ground, shot Jiang Tea Tea a fierce look, shoved her way through the crowd, and ran off with her tail between her legs.
After she left, the passersby who had stood up for her looked at Jiang Tea Tea with guilt.
Jiang Tea Tea answered them by rubbing her eyes hard with her hand.
“Little hatchlings, wipe your eyes bright. Don’t be blind while they’re open.”
The passersby naturally understood what she meant. Their faces turned red. They were too embarrassed to even look her in the eye.
“First Year Pacification Division Class 6 students Jiang Tea Tea and Huang Da Zhuang, is that you?” The male beastman with the two little horns on his forehead saw Jiang Tea Tea about to leave and hurriedly called out to her. His eyes also slid over to Huang Da Zhuang.
Huang Da Zhuang smoothly moved to Jiang Tea Tea’s side. He nodded busily at the beastman with the little horns and said: “Yes, yes, I’m Huang Da Zhuang, and she is Jiang Tea Tea. Do you need something from us?”
The beastman with the two little horns looked at the two of them and said: “Here is the situation. The Commander in Chief of the Empire’s Three Armies and Prince Regent, His Highness Chong Ming, will be coming to the Royal Military Imperial Academy tomorrow morning at eight for an inspection and a speech.”
“The school has just decided to pick three extra students without supernatural abilities, among humans, beastmen, and half-beastmen, to join the welcoming group.”
“The other half-beastman without supernatural abilities has already been notified. You two came here right after class to eat. The notice did not reach you in time, so we were ordered to wait in the school cafeteria to tell you.”
“Especially you, schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea. You will be the first one to step forward and give His Highness Chong Ming flowers.”