August 11th.
Before dawn had even broken, Li Banghua was awoken by the sound of jeering outside. Pushing open the window, he looked down to see four or five young men sitting at a table by the entrance of the relay station. As they ate their breakfast and drank tea, their mouths never stopped spewing insults.
"Li Banghua, you old fossil, not dead yet—you're nothing but a thief!"
"To have wasted seventy-one years of life without achieving a single feat, only capable of wagging your tongue and spreading falsehoods! You aid the tyrant!"
"Shameless old thief, do you not know that every scholar in the realm wishes to eat your flesh and strip your skin while you yet draw breath!"
Chapter 485