Chapter 1436: Countermeasure
“Let’s be patient,” said Feng Qingyou while enjoying a sip of wine.
Ye Qing asked, “You think that a fight would break out after all?”
Feng Qingyou did not answer him directly. Instead, she responded to his question with a question of her own, “What do you think of Wei Duanliu, Joyless?”
Seeing that Feng Qingyou wasn’t worried, Ye Qing calmed down and replied, “Wei Duanliu?” Well, I think he’s an admirable character.”
Feng Qingyou asked another question, “Do you think he’s a smart man then?”
“He undoubtedly is.” Ye Qing nodded. The guy might act like a simple-minded, barbaric brute, but he definitely carried an intelligent, meticulous brain inside his skull. This was proven by the fact that he had neutralized all of Xuan Youxuan’s threats and the verbal assaults of his followers in just a few sentences. Frankly, he had utterly dominated this verbal spar and gave Xuan Youxuan no room to fight back despite how annoyed the city lord clearly was.
In fact, the best way to deal with a two-faced, exploitative wolf in sheep clothing like Xuan Youxuan was to hit him with aggression, overbearance, and rudeness; to tear apart and crush whatever conspiracies he threw up in an attempt to gain an advantage. One effective punch saves one a hundred ineffective punches. The idiom described this situation perfectly.
Wei Duanliu was qualified to pull off this strategy as well. For one, he had strong backing. He was the deputy lord of Floating Light Celestial Island after all. And two, he was an extremely powerful warrior in his own right. He was the number one warrior below the Sage-stage.
If he was lacking in either area, then Xuan Youxuan would have just slapped him out of orbit already. He would not have bothered to waste his breath on him.
In conclusion, Wei Duanliu was a smart man. At the very least, he was not as reckless or brainless as he appeared to be.
It made sense. A brainless, reckless fool could not hope to become the deputy lord of the Floating Light Celestial Island. He could not have been entrusted to manage one of their most important lands, the Floating Light Celestial Islet.
The truly foolish ones were those who believed that Wei Duanliu was stupid and reckless.