The courtyard suddenly fell silent.
Pan Ping'an touched his swollen cheek and turned to give Pan Taigong a somewhat aggrieved look, while Hua Second Mother was firmly held by Jing Taihe, unable to break free, and could only twist her neck to one side and curse silently. In the Pan Family courtyard, which just a moment ago was in an uproar, now everyone looked troubled, their heads bowed in silence.
What to do, what else could they do?
The way the Antai Garden shopkeeper Zhu conducted himself, Hua Xiaomai had seen much of it by the riverside today—summed up in three words, it was "unreasonable"—if Shopkeeper Zhu had any intention of resolving things amicably, why else would he have brought those three burly men with him?
