Chapter 147: The Fox Repays Kindness

"What exactly is going on with you two? How did you guard the night? How could you fall asleep without a notification?"

On an early spring morning, with the dew still cold, the angry bellowing and scolding of the escort leader echoed in a wind-sheltered nook nearby the mountain.

Many students who were still in deep sleep were awakened by the angry bellow. They rubbed their eyes open, only to see a middle-aged bodyguard with a weather-beaten face scolding two men as sturdy as bears, who shrank back as if they were quails, unsure of what to do.

However, the scolding of the leader quickly softened, for a youthful scholar with a gentle air spoke,

"No man is perfect, and slip-ups are bound to happen. A rebuke or two is enough. I can see that these two mighty men have taken last night's events to heart, and I'm sure they wouldn't dare to make the same mistakes again!"