Chapter 3044 - 3045: Alarm Bells Ringing

Chapter 3044: Chapter 3045: Alarm Bells Ringing

So this is the ability Ao Song obtained, but it seems it only targets the Zhong Family?

In an instant, Bai Ruozhu understood why they wanted Ao Song to be Patriarch; this ability of hers was enough to intimidate anyone in the Zhong Family.

The Sixth Clan Elder’s body kept being forced forward, a look of pain appearing on his face. The guards beside him were even worse off, directly collapsing to the ground and crying out in agony.

"Songsong, stop it at once!" Zhong Kui’s voice rang out as he and Madam Zhong rushed over in extreme anxiety.

Ao Song withdrew her hand and gave a cold snort. "I told you not to push me."

"Zhong Kui, just look at the good daughter you’ve raised!" the Sixth Clan Elder said angrily, though his voice was obviously not as full of Qi as before.

Madam Zhong hurried to Ao Song’s side, grabbed her hand and asked, "Songsong, are you hurt?"

"Mother, I’m fine. It’s they who went too far. Sister Ruozhu’s friend came looking for her, and they treated Sister Ruozhu like a criminal, even insulting the Astrologer." Ao Song’s expression darkened. "The Astrologer nearly lost his life to save me and thus entered the Zhong Family, but that doesn’t mean he can be insulted at will."

Madam Zhong instantly guessed what had happened. She too was an outsider who had married into the Zhong Family; before becoming the Patriarch’s wife, she had suffered no small amount of disdain from the Zhong Family’s main line. All the more so for the Astrologer, a man who was practically in the position of a son-in-law who married into the wife’s family.

These old fossils of the Zhong Family guarded against Bai Ruozhu like she was a thief, and now they insulted the Astrologer like this—truly senile.

Madam Zhong’s temper flared as well. Her daughter had been bitten back for the sake of the Zhong Family, and now they still pressed her step by step?

"Sixth Clan Elder, do you really think my Ao Song is easy to bully just because she’s young?" she said loudly.

"You’re just a woman. Do you think this is a place for you to speak? Ao Song’s been spoiled rotten by you," the Sixth Clan Elder said.

Zhong Kui blocked his way. "Sixth Uncle, Songsong’s mother is the Patriarch’s wife. Is there anywhere in this Residence she can’t speak? You’ve always had a hard stance toward guests, but don’t forget, they are benefactors of the Zhong Family."

Just then, footsteps sounded again in the distance as the Great Clan Elder arrived with people in tow.

The Zhong Family’s Great Clan Elder was in poor health and no longer involved much in clan affairs nowadays, so among the clan elders, the most respected were the Second and Third Clan Elders.

"What’s going on here? We’re one family—talk things out properly." The Great Clan Elder couldn’t help coughing after he spoke. He seemed to have good relations with everyone; at once they all showed worried expressions and fell quiet.

Bai Ruozhu and Jiang Yichun exchanged a glance. This was now the Zhong Family’s internal affair, so it wasn’t their place to butt in. Still, the Zhong Family had no reason to confine them, stop them from leaving, much less prevent them from seeing their friend.

"Big Brother, Ao Song is simply lawless. Just now she actually..." The Sixth Clan Elder, playing the victim, began rattling off a string of complaints.

Ao Song showed a disdainful look. "I’ve always respected all you Clan Elder Grandpas. If I hadn’t been pushed too far, I wouldn’t have used this kind of self-defense ability."

"Bullshit, as if I’d kill you!" the Sixth Clan Elder roared.

The Great Clan Elder hurriedly patted his shoulder. "Enough, be kinder to the younger generation."

Just then, a dense ringing came from within the Zhong Residence, as if hundreds of bells were chiming at once, urgent and clamorous.

"This is bad, it’s a Level-One alarm bell!" Zhong Kui’s face changed drastically. "I’ll go check it out first."

As he spoke, he had already dashed off, leaving the Great Clan Elder and the Sixth Clan Elder behind, their expressions shifting unpredictably.

"Troubled times, troubled times indeed," the Great Clan Elder sighed.