C23

Su Xiaoyue, A-Ke, and the other girls were busy in the kitchen at the back of the yard.

Meanwhile, Xu Chen was in the room applying medicine to Xu Shengyan. The wounds on her face had healed quite a bit, or at least they looked even better than yesterday.

Xu Shengyan looked at Xu Chen with her big eyes blinking. She was gentle and quiet and extremely obedient. However, the scars on her face made one's heart ache.

"Does it hurt?" Xu Chen asked gently.

Xu Shengyan lightly shook her head, indicating that it didn't hurt and didn't say anything. She didn't seem to like to talk.

"You should talk more in the future, otherwise, you will forget how to talk." After Xu Chen finished applying the medicine, he gently caressed Xu Shengyan's small head.

"But I don't talk well. No one wants to listen to me." Xu Shengyan lowered her head in inferiority.

In the past, no matter how loud she shouted after Xu Shengyan's food was snatched away, those beggars would only indifferently eat the food and would not pay any attention to her.

After a while, Xu Shengyan stopped talking and hid in a corner alone. Gradually, she got used to not talking.

"That won't happen. In the future, I'll talk to you, and those big sisters will talk to you. Do you understand?" Xu Chen smiled, causing people to feel very warm in his presence.

He could see Xu Shengyan's inferiority complex, but he couldn't force her to do this sort of thing. He could only patiently guide her along.

"Xu Chen."

Just as Xu Chen and Xu Shengyan were talking, Su Xiao Yue's voice came from outside the door.

Then Su Xiao Yue pulled open the curtain and revealed her head. She said, "Someone is looking for you outside."

"Looking for me?" Xu Chen frowned slightly. All the people he knew in the entire town were already in this courtyard. Who else would be looking for him?

"I don't know. His entire head is bandaged, so I can't see his face." Su Xiao Yue smiled, revealing her row of canines. "Could it be that guy who was beaten up so badly by you, and still dared to come looking for me?"

"Do you want us sisters to help you teach him a lesson?"

"No need, I'll go out. Take good care of the smoke." After saying this, Xu Chen walked out of the room.

Xu Chen wasn't worried that the scar-faced man would take revenge on him. Since that scar-faced man was able to find him here, he definitely understood the situation here and didn't dare to act rashly.

Walking out of the courtyard, Xu Chen saw a tall and sturdy man whose head was covered in bandages. The white bandages were covered with blood and it seemed that his injuries were not light.

Although his entire head was wrapped in bandages, his appearance could not be seen. However, from his body, Xu Chen was able to recognize him at a glance. He was indeed the scar-faced burly man from the Scented Wine House.

Xu Chen did not express much emotion. He looked at him calmly and asked, "Did you find this place for something?"

"No …" The scar-faced man didn't have his arrogant attitude from before. Instead, he was a bit reserved, just like a little girl.

"We've already settled that matter. If you have anything else, just say it." Xu Chen directly said.

The scar-faced man hesitated for a moment and then said with a bit of shame, "I came this time to thank you."

"Thank me for what?" Xu Chen asked.

"Thank you for your grace of not killing me, and for your words. I want to apologize to you, and I hope you can forgive me!" The scar-faced man raised his head and said apologetically to Xu Chen.

That day, Xu Chen beat him up and told him a few things. When he calmed down and thought about it carefully, he felt that Xu Chen's words made a lot of sense.

Furthermore, at that time, Xu Chen was completely capable of killing him. Furthermore, it was extremely easy for him to do so. However, he had only been able to hit him once and showed no mercy. Otherwise, Xu Chen would have been beaten to death.

Furthermore, he had not held back at all when he attacked Xu Shengyan that day and had almost killed her.

The comparison between the two made the scar-faced man remember that when he was young, he also wanted to become a cultivator. He wanted to walk the world with his sword and hate evil, but now, he had become the evil person in his heart when he was young.

With Xu Chen holding back, and Xu Chen's words, he felt a person's bearing and state of mind. This was also the state of mind that a cultivator should have. This was also the state of mind that he should have when he was young.

So the knife-scarred man thought for the whole night, and the more he thought about it, the more ashamed he felt.

When dawn arrived, he asked someone to find Xu Chen's residence, ignoring his injuries, and came to apologize.

From the scarred man's eyes, Xu Chen could tell that he was very sincere. However, Xu Chen had long since exposed this whole matter, so he didn't pay too much attention to it.

"You don't have to thank me. Although my sister was injured by you, you didn't directly kill her." Xu Chen calmly looked at the scarred man and said.

"It's very fair that you let her live while I let you live. Leave."

Xu Chen's words were not a false benevolence and righteousness, but a fact. The fact that Xu Chen was able to do so many things for the Xu family proved that he was not a simple person.

In other words, he was not a merciful person. However, he had his own principles. He knew what kind of people he should kill and what kind of people he should not kill.

Although the knife-scarred man had been ruthless to Xu Shengyan, he did not kill her. Moreover, they were responsible for what had happened.

Because of this, Xu Chen did not kill him.

However, that scar-faced man stood there with his head down, not saying anything for a long time. He didn't leave either, standing there just like that.

At this moment, Su Xiao Yue saw that Xu Chen had not returned for a long time. She was a little worried that Xu Chen would fight with the thug, so she was worried that Xu Chen would suffer a loss. Thus, she ran out.

"Xu Chen, what's going on?" Su Xiaoyue whispered into Xu Chen's ear when she saw this.

"It's fine. Let's go back." Xu Chen saw that the scar-faced man stood there for a long time without saying anything. He was prepared to leave with Su Xiao Yue.

"Xu Chen, what did you say to him? I think he's about to cry." Su Xiaoyue had heard of this person before. He was a famous hooligan in the town, and his notoriety had spread far and wide.

However, based on what Su Xiao Yue had just seen, it seemed like the rumors outside were not to be trusted.

"Nothing." Xu Chen lightly replied, but did not explain in detail about this matter.

Over the next few days, Su Xiaoyue found something strange. That scar-faced man came here every morning after dawn.

He just stood there and didn't talk to anyone. When Su Xiao Yue came to ask him if he wanted to see Xu Chen, he didn't say anything.

Su Xiaoyue had told Xu Chen about this. Xu Chen had only said that he knew and did not go out to meet the scarred man again.

After half a month of recuperation, Xu Shengyan's body had recovered a lot, and she was now able to walk on the ground.

The bandages on the scarred man's head had also been removed. There were even more scars on his face, making him look even more ferocious. These were the scars that Xu Chen had left behind.

That day, Xu Shengyan was in the yard listening to Su Xiaoyue's story when the scar-faced man suddenly barged in.

"What are you doing here!" When Su Xiaoyue saw the scarred man, she quickly hid Xu Shengyan behind her.

Seeing that he seemed to be a little scared, Xu Shengyan grabbed Su Xiaoyue's clothes tightly and hid behind her back with half of her face exposed as she anxiously looked at the scar-faced man.

"I mean no harm."

"Don't be afraid, I'm here to apologize." As the scar-faced man spoke, he took out an exquisite little windmill from somewhere and handed it to Xu Shengyan.

He looked very clumsy, but people could feel that he was apologizing, apologizing to Xu Shengyan.

Su Xiaoyue was stunned. She couldn't understand what was going on. What did Xu Chen say to this man that made him act like this? It was really unbelievable.

Actually, even Xu Chen wouldn't be able to understand. Sometimes, when a person changed, the person changed. Sometimes, the person changed.

The human heart was complex, and not something that could be changed just like that.

"Will you forgive me?" The scarred man tried his best to show a warm smile, but the scars on his face made him look somewhat afraid.

Xu Shengyan was a little scared and didn't dare to pick it up. She hesitated in her heart.

At this moment, Xu Chen appeared behind Xu Shengyan.

"If you can forgive him, take it. Don't be afraid." Xu Chen lightly patted Xu Shengyan's shoulder. He did not force Xu Shengyan to go and pick up his things. He only guided her.

After hearing Xu Chen's words, Xu Shengyan's expression became less afraid. She looked at the burly man for a long time before carefully reaching out her hand to grab the windmill belonging to the scarred man.

"Thank you." The scar-faced man thanked her sincerely. He was thanking the little girl for forgiving him.

"Hey, Xu Chen, what did you tell him?" Su Xiaoyue, who was beside him, bumped Xu Chen with her hand. She had asked this question several times already.

However, Xu Chen didn't say anything. He just smiled and didn't say anything.

What happened after returning to the Scented Wine House that day, Xu Chen felt that there was nothing to say. He just felt that there was a reason for him to be wrong.

To be honest, the fact that this scar-faced man came to apologize was beyond Xu Chen's expectations.

That day, Xu Chen didn't think too much about it. It was just that they were at fault for what happened. If Xu Chen had killed him at that time, it would have been a grave mistake.

Wasn't this the same as when the scar-faced man had attacked Xu Shengyan? There was no distinction between right and wrong, and the strong bullied the weak.

Xu Chen's personality was like this. Whoever was in the wrong was the wrong. He wouldn't blame everything on someone else just because he was stronger than them.

If a person didn't even dare to face their own mistakes, how could they face their formidable enemies in the future?