In De-Tong’s carriage…
“You guys must be curious about how I could make the owner of the city agree to hold the punishment party for his son.”
They nodded.
“It was nothing that difficult. I just made a deal with him. I offered to give him something valuable in exchange for him giving his son a lesson.”
“Something valuable?” De-Na-Lan could not help but ask Zheng-Fu with a child-like curiosity…
“Yes. Something valuable that the owner of the city could not refuse to take,” Zheng-Fu answered De-Na-Lan while shrugging his shoulders and sticking out both of his bare hands…
“What was that valuable thing? Why did he agree to take his son over ?” De-Tong was also very curious about the valuable thing…
“I can’t tell you guys what it was. Let me just say that it was something valuable.” Zheng-Fu could not tell the two that it was the whole city…
“Okay…”