"Senior Mao," he said, keeping the same kind of respectful address that had been drilled into him by his sect before they expelled him for the way he 'entertained' young women. "Why do you let Little Boss Gao order you around like that? From what I've seen this past month, Senior Mao is much stronger than Little Boss Gao. How come he's in charge here?"
"Little Brother Dai has a lot to learn," the veteran member of the Mountain's Bones gang said, shaking his head at the new recruits naivete. "Say that around Little Boss Gao and watch how fast he crushes your bones to dust," he added. "He only looks fat. I don't pretend to understand his physique or cultivation, but you and I, we store extra food as fat on our bodies if we don't train our bodies well. Little Boss Gao stores extra energy as fat."
