Seeing that Gou Zihan had begun to speak, Third Master Gu immediately scrambled before him and began to kowtow with loud, thumping sounds.
Not content to kowtow alone, he angrily barked at the others, "Why haven't you come over to apologize yet? Do you intend to sit by and watch your mother and sister-in-law be poisoned to death?"
The rest of them shuffled over, deeply reluctant. Second Master Gu, his beard trembling, muttered, "Absurd! When has an elder ever knelt and kowtowed to a junior? Mingyue, are you not afraid of losing your own life's merit by doing this?"
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