Hongde clenched his fists and said, "He has no shame. A few days ago, he went and provoked a classmate, and the two of them ended up fighting. When the Master saw it, he was going to punish them, but Shitou adamantly claimed it was the other student who bullied him first. We even went to testify, clearly knowing that he was the one who had bullied the other, even trampling his books to pieces. He refused to admit it, insisting instead that we had ganged up to bully him."