Under the neon lights of the playground, Yi Feng checked his son’s injuries and was surprised to see heavy bruises, blood clots, bite marks and torn skin.

He was even more surprised when he looked at Zi Yang’s condition.

Both eyes swollen, clothes torn, bruises on his rib-caged chest clearly seen, a broken bone in the left arm and a sprain in the leg. There was no blood outside, but he was more seriously injured than his own son.

He could see that this boy was holding on by sheer determination.

Admiration aside, he had to ask, “Kid, what was so seriously wrong that you had to fight such a bloody battle?”

While asking, he looked curiously at the guardian of this kid who hadn’t said a word till now.

Baize was also amazed. More like blown off.

Only today did he know Zi Ming’s weight to Zi Yang. He would rather bite of piece of flesh in exchange for serious injuries than let the perpetrator go.

Zi Yang voice was a little muffled as his lower was puffed up in a while they started talking, “He didn’t teach his brother well, so I taught him today.”

Yi Feng’s dad, Yi Xin was at a loss when Baize communicated the entire story of how Yi Hai and Zi Ming had a brawl and Zi Yang took his elder brother out so as not to bully the weak.

Baize was also organizing his words, so Yi Xin could clearly feel his perplexed emotions.

Yi Feng, on the other hand, was confused now.

So, you beat me up because of Yi Hai? Who should I got to reason? Oh, Yi Hai.

Just in time to turn his head and saw Yi Hai looking at Zi Ming beside Mama Mei with his hands folded and saying, “Your brother’s so cool.”

Zi Ming has his hands on his hips and nose turned to the sky.

When he heard this, he quickly became vigilant and pushed him back saying, “He’s mine. You have your own.”

The big ones stopped fighting; the small ones started again.

Yi Feng felt a chill on his back, only to see Zi Yang staring at him again.

He quickly shouted, “Dad, stop their fighting.”

Fortunately, Mama Mei intervened and stopped the fight soon after it began.

No harm done.

Except of course, a certain 10-year-old who had a psychological shadow of being beaten because of his brother.

Baize processed everything and said, “Young Master, we should go home now. Your injuries are serious.”

Zi Yang did not say anything but just looked at Yi Feng as if he would eat him alive the next second.

Then slowly moved away.

After a while, sounds of howls came from the streets, “Uncle Bai, not there, pick me up carefully – ah ah ah I’m dying. Zi Ming, you have to remember to live well…”

Yi Xin and a crowd of onlooker were stunned at the sudden change of script.

The street hero bawled like a market shrew.

The contrast was too great.

“Then give that kid Yi Hai some color.”

As soon as this came out, the crowd was silent again. How vengeful was this kid?

Still missing a fight.

What outrageous is the younger brother replied, “yes brother. Don’t worry”

Then he also started crying “brother’s dying? Like mom?”

Intermittent sounds of crying of injuries like a shrew and consoling his brother like a responsible adult made for an odd comedic ending of the drama tonight.

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Yi Xin looked at his sons with sympathy.

Both brothers are now on the radar of the Zi brothers.

He now somewhat wanted his sons to follow the two brothers.

Not because of the brawl but because he saw something different in the kid.

He saw resilience to struggle, determination to hold on, viciousness to bite off a piece of meat, integrity to not bully the weak ones, and protectiveness of a closed one.

He also saw the aura of a superior when the kid became quiet all of sudden and just kept looking at his son.

He had seen that momentum on the captain of the beast regiment and the mayor once.

His old Yi family branch is now withered and discarded by the capital.

Following a wise master can at least provide some safety to his kids.

Before that, he had to enquire some more details about the kid.

Yi Xin was also a man of action.

In the next week or so, he enquired everything there was to know from the neighborhood community and had a deeper understanding of the kid.

Thus, on one fine morning while Zi Yang was still manning the counter – lying behind the counter covered in plasters, Aunt Jo was busy looking after the kids and Mama Mei was looking for an eloping panda couple again; Yi Xin walked in with younger son, Yi Hai.

Zi Yang did not expect for them to visit here, but seeing the peaceful uncle here made him want to respectfully ask, “Uncle, do you need anything?”

Yi Xin pointed to his son and said, “Can I enroll him into the daycare center? You wouldn’t mind because of the fight, would you?”

Zi Yang was taken aback for a second but he did not refuse. He did not expect this uncle to be so candid and joke about it.

Zi Yang also took it in sport, “It’s not like he had a death feud with the kid. The price for Zi Ming’s injury was already paid by Yi Feng and besides, keeping him closer will allow Zi Ming study how to defeat him himself so, good.”

Yi Feng also laughed. He liked this kid even more.

That’s how Yi Hai joined the daycare center.

But in the evening when Yi Feng and Yi Xin came to pick him again, they discovered tiny teeth mark on his cheek and hands.

They thought that he had a fight with Zi Ming again and asked him casually.

Who knew the kid said, “It was done by my wife”

Accompanied by the sentence was, a little girl shouting, “Daddy, he cheated on me. He became my man. Woo… woo…”

Yi Xin first spurted out the takeaway coffee he was drinking.

Then he almost spurted a mouthful of blood.

“Your wife? Explain.”

“Cheat? Which bastard took advantage of my sweetheart?”

Two voices seemed to overlap – of Yi Xin’s and Bai Tu’s.

Then Yi Hai and Bai Lian spent some time explaining, fighting and quibbling out some gibberish that anyone hardly understood.

Thankfully, a worker explained the whole story to them.

Turns out that when Bai Lian knew that this kid had beaten Zi Ming, she was furious because she thinks only wives can beat their men, no one else can do so.

And the kid took seriously the joke that she was Zi Ming’s wife. So, she claimed territory or authority and beat this kid again.

Then, thinking of this the worked laughed again and said, this kid Yi Hai was also a master of trouble and argued that since only wives could beat their men and now that Bai Lian has beat him, so she was his wife not Zi Ming’s.

Considering that everyone said Zi Ming was safe and also because she was a little scared on Zi Yang, she did not dare to beat Zi Ming now and wanted to wait until they become older. Because older people can do what they want.

But now Yi Hai took as Bai Lian’s teeth mark as a marriage certificate.

Everyone except Bai Tu was amused.

He did not expect a yellow haired one had already come to grab his cabbage so soon.

He glared at Yi Hai and said sternly to Yi Xin, “even if you’re in the beast regiment, your son can’t casually recognize any wife.”

Yi Xin was at a loss.

He genuinely had a feeling that his life had gotten strangely off track after knowing these people.

A brother-control lunatic was barely enough and here’s coming another, a daughter-control – that’s the worst kind!

Aunt Lan, kind as always, resolved the tense ambience. She twisted Uncle Bai’s ear and reprimanded, “How do you speak to a soldier? Speak properly or don’t speak at all.”

Uncle Bai immediately lost his macho and everyone seemed to see him transformed into a hopping rabbit.

Huh.

That’s the only word that can describe the weirdness of this place.

And somehow, his son has joined this group of weird people within one morning.

He didn’t know if this was a good or a bad thing.

Looking at his son giggling while having his ear twisted by little girl Bai Lian who imitated his mother, Yi Xin simply felt tired.

He missed his wife.

He looked at Yi Feng for some comfort and thankfully, his son was not infected yet. He is even wondering if he should send him to work here part-time as he had previously decided.

But then looking at Baize who was lying on the lawn chair in a happy mood; Yi Feng decided to stick to it.

An auspicious beast stays here even after his contract ended. That’s got to speak volumes.

Baize felt someone thinking about him and soon figured ins and out through Yi Xin’s behavior, expression, and attitude.

He has to admit that there were still some people with a good vision even in this countryside.

Another lively evening thus ended in a discussion on marital relationships.