"Hey, have you heard? Ji the Fourth was carried back home last night."
"How could I not have? I saw it with my own two eyes! He was lying on a bamboo stretcher, groaning nonstop. Looked like he'd been beaten..."
"Whoa! Who would dare to beat a child student?"
"Who knows? I heard they rushed to town to get a doctor in the middle of the night."
"No, no, you're wrong! The doctor wasn't for Ji Liantang, he was for Old Man Ji!"
"What's wrong with Old Man Ji? He seemed perfectly fine when I saw him yesterday evening."
"Do you even have to ask? It must've been Ji the Fourth who angered him!"
"What's going on with this Ji the Fourth? He always seemed more capable than Song Jing, but this time, not only did Song Jing completely overshadow him, he also ended up in this state. Could it be..."
