One hundred and sixty-four people are strong

Actually, Li Wei really wanted to yell at the tree below, "Why don't you come up here!"

Thinking about it, I decided to give up. But waiting for reinforcements in the tree like this was quite annoying. I wondered who Li Lin had gone to find. But no matter who she went to, judging from the way the young master looked, he didn't seem afraid at all. This was a problem.

Li Wei was extremely conflicted. She wanted someone to rescue her, yet she also didn't really want anyone to come. Leaning against the tree trunk, looking down at the people below, she felt a surge of anger. If it weren't for these guys, would she be in this predicament? She simply crossed her arms, curled up into a ball, and shouted down, "The birds under the tree are all in pairs—"

The others, except for Tong Cheng, were holding back their laughter. Looking at Tong Cheng's face, they didn't dare to actually laugh out loud.

A passerby stopped to admire the madwoman singing in the tree.

Li Wei continued: "The little birds lead the way, and the wind blows towards you."

Two more passersby came over to watch the commotion and started pointing and whispering.

Li Wei got even more excited and yelled at the top of her lungs, "I'm just a tiny little bird, I can't fly very high even if I want to!"

More and more passersby gathered, and they began to whisper and chatter amongst themselves.

The group of delinquents from Tongcheng looked at each other, wondering what was going on. They had never heard of this before, let alone experienced it. Were they being watched by the revolutionary masses?

Li Wei never expected that her singing from the tree could have such a wonderful use, and continued to try to create a powerful public opinion momentum: "Little Swallow in her flowery dress arrives here in the spring." Geng Xinyang nudged Tong Cheng: "Let's go, so many people are watching." You can't do bad things like this, right? Even if a great hero or something doesn't jump out to eliminate evil, you can't withstand the power of a large number of people.

Tong Cheng was still carrying Li Wei's two cotton boots. He shook them and said unwillingly, "This time the little brat got off easy. Let's go. Let's go." He refused to believe that she would fly off to a tree the moment she saw him. Then he would truly admire her.

Li Wei watched as the group quickly disappeared through the crowd. She was overjoyed. The power of the masses was truly amazing! She immediately burst into song to thank everyone: "We workers have power! Hey!..."

Li Wei watched the group disappear around the corner not far away. Just then, a car sped up as if trying to put out a fire. A screeching sound of brakes filled the air. Several people jumped out quickly: Luo Da, Li Lianhui, Xiao Hei Shou, and Li Lin.

A classic case of hindsight bias—the bad guys were brought to justice. The police arrived.

The four of them spotted Li Wei in the tree from outside the crowd. They quickly ran to the tree. Li Lin called out, "Sister, how are you? Where are those bad boys? Did they bully you?"

Li Wei shaded her eyes with her hand and looked into the distance: "They're gone. They're nowhere to be seen. If you had come two minutes earlier, you might have seen them. Even a thousand-mile-long shading pavilion—all good things must come to an end. They're gone, so be it."

Luo Da's face was ashen. Perhaps he'd been beaten up by his sixth senior brother again. He looked up at Li Wei in the tree and said, "Are you going to come down yourself, or should I go up and get you?"

His emotions were so subtle they were almost undetectable, bordering on the normal.

Li Wei glanced down and thought, "You think you're so tough? Several people couldn't do anything to me, and you still want to come up here? I'd like to see how you manage to get up here." So she said, "Why don't you come up and pick me up? I think it's nice up there. You can see further from a higher vantage point. As the saying goes, 'To see a thousand miles further, climb one more story.'"

Luo Da took off his coat and tossed it to Li Lianhui, leaving only his sweater underneath. He exchanged a glance with Xiao Hei Shou, then took a few steps back, suddenly ran towards Xiao Hei Shou, leaped up, and kicked Xiao Hei Shou's two hands that were poised to meet. He then jumped high, grabbing the base of a thick tree branch in front of Li Wei. With a flip of his legs, he sat on it.

He almost came face to face with Li Wei, and the crowd below, who had scared away the bully, erupted in cheers. It was like watching a street performer.

Luo Da reached out and grabbed Li Wei's waist, flipped over on the tree branch, hooked his legs around the base of the branch, and handed Li Wei to Li Lianhui, who was looking down from below. Li Wei landed safely. This move had a name: "Monkey Scooping the Moon," which Li Lin later summarized.

Although Li Wei landed safely, her shoes were gone. A shameless and wicked young man had stolen them. Helpless, Li Wei ignored everyone else and skipped and hopped onto the car. Once she sat down, phew! Finally, her feet were on solid ground.

A sense of pride welled up within her. Actually, she was quite clever and brave. Wouldn't you call that cleverness? Li Xiaoming wisely retreated. Several thugs got into the car with strange expressions. Luo Da drove, and they quickly left the small street where people kept coming to see what strange things had happened, and drove onto the main road.

No one spoke in the car until Li Lin finally couldn't help but ask, "Sis, are you happy? What's there to be happy about? Weren't you taken ice skating by them? Why are you up a tree?" This is so strange.

Li Wei was indeed quite happy. She glanced at Li Lin and said with a smile, "Kid, you don't understand. This is called the 'Flowers Blooming on a Tree' strategy from the Thirty-Six Stratagems. Before they could climb the tree and grab me, I rallied the nearby crowd and scared them away. Hehe, if we can't fight them head-on, we'll outsmart them."

While everyone else remained silent, Li Wei and her sister chatted animatedly, showing no sign of the victim's pitiful state.

Luo Da drove the three siblings home, then turned the car around and drove off with Xiao Hei Shou without saying a word.

Li Wei was carried up to the second floor by her brother Li Lianhui. After getting home, she took a hot shower and changed her clothes. Looking at her coat, she realized it needed to be cleaned and repaired.

I held a cup of hot tea and sat on the sofa watching TV and enjoying it.

Having experienced it firsthand, Li Lin looked at her sister with great admiration for the first time. She really hadn't realized that her sister was so smart and brave! It seemed that she wouldn't have to worry about being bullied by the girls in her class anymore. It seemed that her sister hadn't wanted to be as immature as them before, otherwise, would she have let them bully her?

Even Li Lianhui, who is usually quiet, asked about Li Wei's condition. Seeing that she had neither suffered physical harm nor mental distress, he left with peace of mind.

Li Wei asked him where he was going, as it was almost evening.

Li Lianhui said he was going out for a stroll, to check out the martial arts school, and that he didn't need to wait for him for dinner that night, and then he left.

Li Wei didn't think too much about it. She and Li Lin sat on the sofa, drinking tea, eating snacks, watching TV, and chatting. They were very comfortable.

Li Wei had told Aunt Gao in advance not to come and cook dinner, so they had originally planned to eat at Auntie's house. But now, seeing the situation, they were too lazy to call Aunt Gao again and decided to wait for Li Lianhui to come back so they could cook something themselves.

It was already quite dark, and Li Lianhui still hadn't returned. Li Wei asked Li Lin to call the martial arts school to ask what was going on and whether he was coming back for dinner.

The staff said Li Lianhui wasn't there. Li Lin covered the phone and asked Li Wei what to do.

Li Wei pouted and said, "Ask him if Luo Jianhua's 'little black hand' is there. Let them answer the phone."

The results were all missing.

Li Wei felt something was off. Watching Li Lin put down the phone, she began to ponder.

It wasn't until after 8 p.m. that Li Lianhui returned, carrying Li Wei's long-legged boots that had slipped off while running. He threw the boots on the living room floor, sat down on the sofa, and looked at her sister: "We're going to teach those boys a lesson. They'll never dare to bully you again."

Li Lianhui's tone was gloomy, possessing a maturity and ruthlessness beyond his years, which sent a chill down the spines of Li Lin and her sister. They felt very uncomfortable; was this really their Xiaohui?

Li Wei hesitated for a moment and said, "Um... who are you all? How did you deal with them?" She was afraid that someone might die!

Li Lianhui glanced at her sister, his expression softening, and said, "Don't worry, Hua Ge and I know what we're doing, nothing will happen."

No matter how much Li Wei asked, he wouldn't say anything.

The more he acted like this, the more worried Li Wei became. She absentmindedly heated up some food for Li Lianhui, then watched him take a shower and go into the bedroom. She hurried over, picked up the phone, and called her aunt's husband, Ding Anping.

Li Wei felt that her aunt's husband had to know about this, otherwise if something serious happened, the adults might be caught off guard, and even if they had a solution, it wouldn't be enough.

It just so happened that her aunt's husband, Ding Anping, answered the phone, saving Li Wei the trouble of explaining the lie to her aunt.

Li Wei recounted the entire incident to Ding Anping, then asked her uncle, "Do you think they might have gotten into trouble? What should we do if that happens?" They're still so young.

Ding Anping thought for a moment: "Don't worry, let me ask someone to find out what's going on first. I'll contact you again after that. But I don't think Luo Jianhua and Xiaohui are reckless kids, so don't worry, nothing serious will happen. Don't tell anyone, including your family, just get a good night's sleep. I'll call you tomorrow morning. Don't worry, your uncle is here."

Suddenly having someone to back her up, and someone who seemed quite reliable, warmed Li Wei's heart, and tears streamed down her face. Afraid that Ding Anping would worry, she simply said "hmm" and hung up.

Li Lin went inside to rest, while Li Wei sat on the sofa in a daze. Having lived two lives, she had never felt life was so cruel. Suddenly, she felt a cool sensation on her face, and hurriedly wiped away her tears with the loose sleeve of her pajamas before getting up and going back to her bedroom.

But I couldn't fall asleep in bed. I tossed and turned, my mind a jumbled mess.

Li Wei had never encountered anything like this in her two lifetimes combined. She had never known what the real world of violence in the adult world was like. Even in movies and television, although some of them were quite realistic, they were far from being comparable to the unknown fears that happened around her.

Li Lianhui... and Luo Jianhua are both people very close to her. They don't want her to be hurt, and she doesn't want the people around her to be hurt even a little bit because of her. They are still minors and shouldn't have the mentality of solving problems with violence in the future.

Although the world has a dark side, she always felt that it was a very distant part that had nothing to do with her.

Now, I may have changed the course of some people's lives, such as my aunt, but she would never want to be associated with darkness.

Li Wei couldn't fall asleep even in the middle of the night, so she got up and went to check on Li Lianhui and Li Lin. They were both sound asleep, so she didn't disturb them and quietly left.

After arriving in the living room, I thought for a moment, picked up the phone, and dialed Uncle Luo's house. Shouldn't Uncle Luo be home?