The difficulty of this journey made him think of Tangseng's pilgrimage to the West to retrieve the scriptures. It truly rivaled the ninety-nine eighty-one tribulations.
But the outcome was positive. The mountain villagers had never laid eyes on a big shot like Xia Guoxiong, and they looked at him as if he were a Bodhisattva.
Taking advantage of nobody being around, Xia Guoxiong had a private talk with the assassin's parents and proposed that the assassin alone take the blame, in exchange for a hefty compensation.
The parents had never considered that their son, charged with attempted murder and attempted rape, would spend how many years in prison.
What they thought was, with Xia Guoxiong's money, they could buy a bride for their younger son, and then their family could continue to grow and prosper.
Xia Ning was extremely shocked to hear what Xia Guoxiong said. It was a world she had never been exposed to, something that never appeared in her worldview.
