Chapter 172
Chapter 172: Twisted, Controlling Parents Who Make Their Children Slap Each Other
Wolf Luo Feng: “????”
[What, is that bear missing a screw? Shouldn’t he be trying to please me, the mother? Shouldn’t he give me the transfer papers for that shopping mall first?]
Sui Xuan Chu not only started a video call with his uncle, he also shared the surveillance recording with him.
What he did not expect was that, as soon as the call ended, his uncle sent him a message: “Stay sharp. If you mess up this mission, I’ll break your legs when you get back.”
Sui Xuan Chu stared at the reply for a long time, then sent back a string of confused symbols: “????”
Chong Ming did not reply. He tapped twice, deleting all the messages between them so nothing would leak out and expose his identity.
In the passenger seat, Mo Jing Chun could not help it. She turned her head, leaning forward, wanting to say something, but her partner Cheng Mian grabbed her wrist.
She opened her mouth but did not speak. Instead, she looked over at Cheng Mian.
Cheng Mian shook his head at her.
Mo Jing Chun fell silent again.
On the flying device, Jiang Tea Tea and the others did not discuss anything. Every word would be under surveillance. They relied on their tacit understanding and spoke with their eyes.
From the central city of Barley Star to the Lang Family Estate, the flying device traveled at full speed. After forty-five minutes, they arrived at the White Wolf Tribe’s settlement.
The White Wolf Tribe’s settlement covered a huge area and was built against the mountains. There was a lake and a plain in front of the gate, and all the living facilities anyone could need.
Each household was separated by more than a kilometer. As dusk fell and night approached, lights came on. The lights from each house lined up like a long string of fireflies.
In the safe zone of the settlement, on the main square, they could see many White Wolf Tribe younglings running and playing.
Wolf Yin Feng, as the White Wolf Tribe’s clan leader, lived in the largest building in the tribe, a castle-like house in the very center of the settlement. It had a huge courtyard. Other than a straight path, the rest of the courtyard was covered in lawn.
The eight of them, including Jiang Tea Tea, got off the flying device and followed behind Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun. They walked in after Wolf Yin Feng and entered the Lang Family Estate.
From the outside, the Lang Family Estate looked old and very ordinary. But once they walked in, it was a different world, full of luxury.
Cheng Xiao Ting leaned toward Jiang Tea Tea and the other seven and whispered: “The pillars in the main hall of the Lang Family Estate are each carved from a single piece of rare crystal stone. They cost a fortune. One pillar is worth at least tens of millions.”
“And that table, that sofa, they’re all made from rare tree species. Those trees are protected now. No one is allowed to cut them. The furniture is basically antique. A set like that is worth at least hundreds of millions.”
“The tea set looks plain, but every handle on every cup is inlaid with rare ores. If we snapped off just one piece, it would be enough to cover the living costs of all eight of us for a year, and we still wouldn’t use it up.”
Sui Xuan Chu added: “Look at the floor. Those are fossils, all cut from fossils over ten thousand years old.”
“The patterns in the floor formed naturally over thousands and thousands of years of sun and moon. They are completely natural.”
“The paintings, the wallpaper, all the decorations, they are all valuable. Every single thing is worth money. So, just from what we can see, the Lang Family Estate is ridiculously extravagant. Their annual income is nowhere near enough to support this level of luxury.”
Huang Da Zhuang, Orange Sparrow, and Jiang Tea Tea all nodded quickly, looking like country bumpkins who had finally opened their eyes in the big city.
The ten or so children of the Lang Family Estate, except for Wolf Xin Rui and Wolf Xin Ping, were all waiting in the first-floor hall. No matter if they were male or female, each of them was dressed up with care, formal and refined, as if they were going to a formal ball.
Compared with them, the eight in Jiang Tea Tea’s group looked like savages in rough clothes the moment they covered their faces. It was obvious no one thought much of them.
It took Wolf Yin Feng more than ten minutes just to introduce his children to Jiang Tea Tea and the other eight.
After the introductions, he invited them to dinner. The round table for dinner was so huge that its diameter felt almost like two li across.
The wolf clan members loved meat, so dinner was mainly meat dishes.
The ten or so brothers and sisters of the Lang Family Estate were either secretly sizing Jiang Tea Tea up or openly showing the disdain in their eyes.
Under their stares, Jiang Tea Tea simply kept eating and drinking. She did not act like them at all, taking just one tiny bite of each dish and holding back.
If she liked something, she ate a few more bites. If she did not like it, she at least tasted the seasoning. Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun, the husband and wife, liked her attitude. Some of the ten-plus brothers and sisters of the Lang Family Estate, however, showed open contempt in their eyes.
After the meal, they rested for a while. Then the eight team members, including Jiang Tea Tea, and the couple Mo Jing Chun and Cheng Mian were led to the guest rooms.
Ten people, nine rooms, all on the same floor. As soon as they entered their rooms, the first thing they did was check the place.
Cheng Xiao Ting helped check the room belonging to Mo Jing Chun and her husband. Only after he confirmed there were no surveillance systems or listening devices did he leave their room.
After their son left, Mo Jing Chun took her partner’s hand and asked in a low voice: “Husband, did you already know that our kid and his little buddies seem to be on a mission?”
Cheng Mian asked back with a smile: “Otherwise, what did you think? Why do you think our son kept telling us over and over to come pick him up, not to bring too many bodyguards, and not to act too strong no matter who we meet?”
Mo Jing Chun said with deep relief: “Husband, our son has finally grown up. He has not even finished his first year at the academy, but he is already a different person.”
Cheng Mian reminded her: “As long as you understand, then just cooperate with our son.”
Mo Jing Chun nodded quickly: “I understand, I understand. But Wolf Yin Feng and his wife are still as petty as ever.”
“Tea Tea is their daughter, their only pure human daughter. She should have grown up treasured and pampered. But they actually lost her and did not find her for eighteen years.”
“Do you believe that?”
Cheng Mian said with a deep meaning: “Words always come from people’s mouths. When someone talks to others and cries about their problems, they always focus on how wronged they are and how bad the others are. You get used to it.”
Mo Jing Chun spat lightly: “Get used to it? I can’t get used to it at all. Let me tell you, if it weren’t for our son and those seven kids, I would have already stood there and cursed that couple from the Lang Family Estate out.”
“What kind of people are they? They begrudge spending a bit of money on Tea Tea, and they even called back all those kids who work or study outside.”
“Those ten-plus children haven’t seen Tea Tea in eighteen years. Today is their first time meeting her, and none of them brought so much as a small gift.”
“These are the children they raised. They still dare to say Tea Tea was taken away by someone else. I spit on that. I bet… they thought she was just a pure human who would never awaken any supernatural abilities, so they threw her away on purpose.”
“Now they see that Commander in Chief Chong Ming values her, and that she is a 3S-level variant plant-type healer. Now that they think she is useful, they rush over to recognize her.”
Cheng Mian placed his hand on her back to calm her: “Don’t be angry. We will slowly see, in the end, who is the prey and who is the hunter.”
Mo Jing Chun nodded like a pecking chicken: “Okay, okay. I’ll listen to you. We will stay here and treat it like a vacation.”
Cheng Mian looked at her with a smile. This vacation was definitely going to be spectacular.
With a loud bang, the sound of ores smashing onto the floor echoed through the Lang Family Estate basement.
Even though more than a few of the Lang Family Estate’s ten-plus children had already been adults for a long time and even had their own younglings, the sudden loud crash still scared them so much that they shook all over on reflex.
“Pa pa pa…”
The echo of ores hitting the ground had not yet faded when Wolf Yin Feng swung his arm and slapped every one of the fourteen children standing in front of him, from oldest to youngest, across the face.
His strength was great, and his movements were practiced. None of the children dared to dodge. Their faces were all slapped to the side, and red swelling with clear five-finger marks appeared.
“Wolf Xin Yi, Wolf Xin Wei, you two are the eldest and the second. How are you leading your younger brothers and sisters?” Wolf Yin Feng pointed at his eldest son and eldest daughter and scolded them: “I told you before, Tea Tea, Jiang Tea Tea, is a 3S-level variant plant-type healer who is deeply valued by Commander in Chief Chong Ming.”
“I asked you to come back and meet her and get close to her so she could feel some family affection. Later she could smooth your supernatural abilities and comb through your spiritual power so that every one of your supernatural abilities could go up another level.”
“But what about you? One by one, you all had such stinky faces, full of disdain. Who exactly were you looking down on?”
As Wolf Yin Feng’s eldest son and the eldest brother among more than ten siblings, Wolf Xin Yi bowed his head with half of his face swollen: “I’m sorry, Dad. As the older brother, I did not remind my younger brothers and sisters. If you want to blame someone, blame me. If you want to hit someone, hit me. It has nothing to do with them.”
Wolf Yin Feng slapped him again, using his fatherly power to crush the dignity of a male son who had long since reached adulthood and had his own youngling: “Wolf Xin Yi, do you think you are being noble right now?”
“Let me tell you, do not think that one person can take the blame when so many people make a mistake. We will follow the old rules. Each of you will slap each other ten times.”
Arms folded across her chest, Jiang Tea Tea leaned casually against the wall, watching everything while invisible. Her gaze fell on Wolf Yin Feng’s face.
[Wow, he really is sick, isn’t he? Making fourteen of his own children slap each other? Those fourteen kids aren’t actually dumb enough to really slap each other, are they…]
Before she even finished complaining in her heart, she saw the fourteen children pair up, two by two, standing face to face. One slapped, then the other slapped back.
Every slap landed hard, leaving clear five-finger marks on each other’s faces. Every single one of them was using all their strength to hit the one in front of them.
Even though their eyes were full of tears, even though their hands were shaking and their bodies were trembling, they did not dare use less force. They just kept slapping each other as hard as they could.
The crisp sounds of slaps echoed again and again. The main culprit, Wolf Yin Feng, stared straight at them, afraid that his subordinates would hold back.
After every person finished their ten slaps, they each calmly took out a healing spray from their space knob storage devices and sprayed it all over their faces.
The powerful healing spray quickly reduced the red, swollen faces, making the swelling and redness fade.
After using the healing spray, all fourteen of them stood in a row, heads lowered, eyes down, very obedient, like soulless puppets.
Wolf Yin Feng raised his hand and pointed at two fifteen- or sixteen-year-old kids, one girl and one boy: “Eleventh, Twelfth, you two showed obvious disdain toward Jiang Tea Tea at the table today. Were you trying to make her feel like she does not belong in this family?”
“Ten and Four, you two are the children I like the most. Today you looked Jiang Tea Tea up and down and acted fierce toward her on purpose. What were you trying to do?”
The four children of the Lang Family Estate who were named all dropped to their knees one after another with four dull thuds. They pressed their heads to the ground. Their voices shook with fear as they said: “Dad, you misunderstood us. We did not look down on Jiang Tea Tea. We were just looking at her normally, hoping she could join this big family.”
“Yes, Dad, we were not judging Jiang Tea Tea. We were hopeful. We were looking forward to her. We hope she can come home and listen to you, Dad, and use her 3S-level healing-type supernatural abilities to create more value for you.”