[From Oscar's resentment +30!]
[From Tang San's resentment +30!]
Hearing Ye Yin's words, the other students at Shrek Academy came rushing over.
Oscar yelled at Tang San, "Little San, why aren't you pulling up your pants yet? If others see you, the misunderstanding will be huge!"
Tang San cried out twice and was about to pull up his pants.
"What misunderstanding? Pull up what pants?" Dai Mubai's cultivation was high and his room was close by, so he and Ma Hongjun were almost the first to arrive. Dai Mubai immediately noticed Tang San pulling up his pants, with blood still dripping from his butt. He looked at the collapsed bed frame and recalled what Oscar had just said.
"Awoooo!" Dai Mubai howled. "So that's how it is! Oh my, Little Ao, how could you do such a thing? Even if you can't get Ning Rongrong, you can't get Tang San! Boss Dai introduces pretty girls to you, how could you be like this? Fatty doesn't not call you when he goes to the brothel! Are you also consumed by lust?"
[From Oscar's resentment +50!]
Oscar genuinely wanted to cry. "Boss Dai, listen to me, it's really not like that!"
Ye Yin nodded hard. "That's right, it's really not like that, but wasn't that the sound in the room just now?" He perfectly imitated the sounds from inside the room.
Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun's eyes widened. Initially, they had just scoffed, not daring to believe it, but now they truly started to. Mainly, under normal circumstances, such sounds couldn't be made.
"Boss Dai, Fatty, Yin Ge, listen to me, it's really not like that!" Oscar explained frantically. "That bed collapsed, it wasn't because of me and Tang San. Tang San sat on it, and it just collapsed by itself. After it collapsed, there was a nail sticking up from underneath the bed—I don't know how—and it just happened to stab Tang San in the butt. Then I pulled the nail out for him. That's how it was."
Ma Hongjun and Dai Mubai exchanged glances, then looked at Ye Yin. "Yin Ge, do you think things are really that coincidental?"
Ye Yin nodded. "It is a bit coincidental, but it's a little too coincidental for this plane."
While they were talking, the others also arrived. Upon hearing the story, they all shook their heads as they looked at Oscar and Tang San. Shao Xin was a Food-type Spirit Master, and before, he had mostly guided Oscar. To be precise, Oscar was considered Shao Xin's apprentice.
"Alas, Little Ao," Shao Xin sighed. "Don't say you're my student when you go out from now on. It's embarrassing!"
"Teacher Shao, I..." Oscar was really about to cry.
[From Oscar's resentment +50!]
"It's really like I said."
Flender sighed. "Since you say it was all because of a nail, where is the nail then?"
Oscar cried out. "Right, right, the nail is still there! The nail will definitely prove my innocence. I just pulled the nail out."
Oscar and Tang San searched frantically inside the room, but couldn't find where the nail they had just pulled out had gone.
"Stop pretending, Little Ao," Dai Mubai patted Oscar's shoulder. "No need to pretend anymore. It's good that this matter came out early. Boss Dai supports you guys, it's just that, next time, be a little more careful, don't be so hasty. It's the first time, look at all that blood Tang San is losing? Someone who didn't know would really think a nail got stuck in his butt."
After speaking, Dai Mubai turned and left. The rest of them glanced at the two and didn't linger, all going to attend to their own matters.
"Alas," Ye Yin sighed. "Little San, come find me after you're done with your business. There's something I need to talk to you about."
After everyone else left, Tang San suddenly found the nail. It had actually been stuck inside Oscar's shoe. Oscar, holding the nail, rushed out. "Don't go! Listen to me, there really was a nail! Look, there really is one!"
Ye Yin waved his hand. "Alright, we know. There really was a nail. We believe you."
[From Oscar's resentment +70!]
[From Tang San's resentment +70!]
Tang San and Oscar slumped weakly onto Oscar's bed. "What do we do? Now the more we explain, the worse it gets, and we can't clear our names."
Oscar glared at Tang San. "It's all your fault! If you hadn't gotten a nail stuck, we wouldn't be so unlucky."
Tang San sighed, his butt slightly pouting. "It really is unlucky. Why are we so unlucky? So many things happened, and we just happened to be seen. It's simply too unlucky."
"Oh right, Yin Ge asked me to go over just now. I'll go over first."
After saying that, Tang San limped to Ye Yin's dormitory.
"Yin Ge, you were looking for me."
Ye Yin looked at Tang San's appearance and sighed. "Little San, I won't say much else. I've already arranged everything for you and Grandmaster's apprenticeship. My consideration is whether to hold an apprenticeship ceremony and let all the teachers and students of the academy witness it."
Tang San, hearing about the ceremony, nodded excitedly. "Good! Brother Fan, an apprenticeship ceremony can happen! This must happen! Everything is all up to Yin Ge!"
Ye Yin watched Tang San's retreating figure, shaking his head repeatedly. "Alas, this brother of mine, not by blood, is truly worrying himself sick over Tang San."
Ye Yin immediately went to Soto City to help arrange this matter, personally booking an apprenticeship banquet for Tang San and Yu Xiaogang at the Soto City Grand Hotel.
"Apprenticeship banquet? We haven't done one before, we've only done wedding banquets. It's similar, all the same."
Ye Yin also specifically hired a master of ceremonies. When the master of ceremonies heard Ye Yin say it was an apprenticeship banquet, he was a bit stunned. "Apprenticeship banquet? I've never hosted one before, I only host wedding banquets."
Ye Yin waved his hand casually. "It's not important. It's all similar anyway; they're all banquets. Just improvise when the time comes."
The master of ceremonies nodded silently. "Alright, then I'll listen to you."
"The time is set for tomorrow. Tomorrow is a propitious day."
After Ye Yin finished with the hotel arrangements, he specifically went to customize invitations.
"Apprenticeship invitations? I haven't made those before, I've only made wedding invitations."
"Similar, similar, just change the wording."
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