An old saying goes well, "He who does nothing wrong is not startled by a knock at midnight."
Understood in reverse, this means that once someone feels guilty, they start to connect unrelated events together, feeling as if they are riddled with blunders.
As a chef who knew only a few simple martial arts moves, he was no grandmaster. When he discovered that the turmoil in Chaochang was caused by Brother Tian, he was so frightened that he wet his pants.
The woman from Bishui Lake had been abducted by Brother Tian, and the gravely injured man that the Arbitration Office was seeking was in Fuyun Temple.
If the formidable Arbitrator found him and that boy was to rat out Brother Tian, it would spell colossal disaster!
The fat man did not believe that the disfigured fellow would be able to withstand the Xiang Family's methods. If it came to that, it would be too late for anything.
