The police escorted the vice principal downstairs, preparing to take him to the police station for interrogation. There were quite a few people gathered downstairs, including students, teachers, family members, and several victims whose underwear had been lost.

Seeing the dusty vice principal being escorted out, everyone was furious, especially the female students who had been bullied by the vice principal. They were so angry that they wanted to eat the beast alive.

"Kill this old scoundrel and rid the people of this evil!"

A sharp cry was heard from the crowd, and then a stone was thrown at the vice-president, hitting him right on the forehead, causing his head to bleed.

This stone was like a fuse, instantly igniting everyone's anger. They rushed forward and surrounded the vice-principal. The police and the principal had to step aside, otherwise they would also be beaten.

In just a few minutes, the vice principal was punched countless times and spat on. He became so miserable that he curled up on the ground like a stray dog.

Xia Tao in the crowd smiled triumphantly and left with a sense of accomplishment.

If 759 hadn't restricted her, this old beast would have been tortured to death by her long ago.

Ruan Qiqi only found out about this a day later. She knew right away that Xia Tao was behind this and that the vice-principal had been detained. If nothing unexpected happened, he would be sent to a farm for reform.

She didn't call Pei Yuan either. With Xia Tao's personality, she would definitely not let go of this old beast like the vice-principal. After going to the farm, this old beast would die.

As the New Year draws closer, the aroma of cured meat and cured fish fills the family buildings every day. For people in Hunan Province, no matter how difficult their family life is, they will smoke some cured meat and make some sausages during the New Year to entertain guests in the first month of the year.

Ruan Qiqi didn't smoke it because she didn't know how. Ruan Shuangjiang was an expert at smoking bacon. She bought a lot of meat and fish and asked Ruan Shuangjiang to smoke them, and she ate the ready-made ones.

There are also pig blood cakes, cured pork liver, cured pork feet, cured pork intestines, etc. Everything can be cured, and it smells so good.

There have been a lot of good news recently. Both Lu Ye and she's salary in 759 have increased, and Lu Ye's rank in the army has also increased. Originally, the higher-ups wanted him to be the regiment commander, but Lu Ye refused, so only his rank was increased.

He was level 15 before, and is now level 14. His salary also increased from 141 to 158, plus a year-end bonus of 759. Ruan Qiqi came first and Lu Ye came second, so they made a lot of money this year.

When you have money, you want to spend it. Ruan Qiqi was bored at home. She felt envious of the Ding kiln porcelain cup that Mo Qiufeng had found. So while Lu Ye was resting, she dragged him to the antique shop to have a look.

Lu Ye rode his bike with her at a leisurely pace. The atmosphere of the New Year was particularly strong in the city. The streets were filled with happy pedestrians, carrying their hands full of New Year's goods. Ruan Qiqi wanted to eat pork trotters and soybeans, but when she entered the vegetable market and saw the long line in front of the meat stall, she immediately gave up the idea.

She would rather not eat than wait in line for an hour for a bite of food.

"I came to line up before dawn and finally got the pig's trotter. My daughter-in-law just gave birth and she needs this pig's trotter to grow strong!"

An old lady came out in great joy, with two fresh pig's feet in her basket. Facing everyone's envious and jealous eyes, the old lady was particularly proud. Her daughter-in-law had given her a big fat grandson, so even if she had to stay up all night, she had to buy the pig's feet so as not to let her precious grandson starve.

"My daughter-in-law just gave birth to a baby. Look, the pig's feet are probably gone."

The other auntie was a little frustrated. A pig only has four legs, and by the time it was her turn, they would have been sold out. This pig was really ignorant. Couldn't it have grown a few more legs?

"Have you heard? The widow at the tofu stall has hooked up with Old Zhu at the pork stall. Old Zhu's guests are still in the dark and treat the widow as a close sister."

"I've seen it a long time ago. She and Old Zhu are flirting with each other every day. They must be having an affair!"

"No one told Mr. Zhu?"

"Who dares to say anything? Old Zhu's knife has no eyes, and he has a bad temper. Who dares to offend him?"

A few middle-aged women were bored waiting and started gossiping about sex. The subjects were the big man chopping meat at the pork stall and the tofu beauty, a weak and beautiful widow at the stall next door.

Everyone lowered their voices and chatted animatedly. Ruan Qiqi was about to leave when she was attracted by the gossip and stood nearby, listening with fascination.

She looked at the gossiping male and female protagonists, and indeed discovered something fishy. While they were busy greeting customers, they took the time to exchange glances with each other, their eyes were so charming.

The tofu beauty was not very beautiful, but she had a pair of watery eyes, and looked particularly pitiful when looking at people. Men all liked this type, especially a hot-tempered and rough man like Lao Zhu, who would definitely be controlled by her.

A scent of scallion oil wafted over, and Ruan Qiqi couldn't help swallowing her saliva. It had been a long time since she had eaten scallion pancakes.

"I'll go buy it, you wait here for me!"

Lu Ye was particularly considerate and ran to buy scallion pancakes.

"Buy some more sugar-coated rice cakes." Ruan Qiqi shouted.

Lu Ye agreed and quickly ran to the scallion pancake stall. He also had to queue up, but the line was not as long as the one in front of the meat stall, so he only had to wait for a few minutes.

Ruan Qiqi, who was concentrating on listening to the gossip, did not notice a fat boy walking over with a lit incense stick in his hand. He took out a firecracker from his pocket, lit it, and when the fuse was almost burned out, he threw it towards Ruan Qiqi's direction.

"Snap"

The firecrackers exploded above Ruan Qiqi's head, deafeningly. The sudden loud noise scared her and the others were also frightened. After they came to their senses, they all spoke up to blame the boy.

The boy was not afraid at all. He made faces and stuck out his tongue at everyone, and even threw firecrackers. He liked to see others get scared and panicked. It was so fun.

"Who are this child's parents? Why don't they take care of him? He has no manners!" someone accused angrily.

"What are you arguing about? Do you still want to buy meat?"

The tall and mighty Old Zhu chopped the knife on the chopping board and roared in a rough voice.

"Manzai is back, and you're playing even though I told you not to!"

Tofu Xishi scolded the boy a few words without much sincerity, but the boy didn't listen at all and insisted on setting off firecrackers. Tofu Xishi ignored him and continued to greet customers.

Anyway, in the vegetable market, no one dares to bully them because they have Lao Zhu's support!

The customer who had just scolded the boy was now waiting to buy meat. Old Zhu glanced at her and cut a piece of meat that was more lean than fat. Naturally, the old lady was not happy with this and started to yell.

"You can buy it if you want, there are plenty of people who will buy it, next one!"

Old Zhu snorted coldly, took down the weighed meat, and refused to sell even one or two pounds of meat.

Others also urged the aunt to get out of the way so as not to affect their purchase of meat. The aunt was so angry that her face turned blue, but she could do nothing about Lao Zhu because his family was still waiting to eat meat.

The boy threw another firecracker, still at Ruan Qiqi. The firecracker flew over her head. Ruan Qiqi dodged to the side, and the firecracker hit the ground and exploded.

She quickly walked up to the boy, took out all the firecrackers from his pockets, lit them one by one with a lighter, and stuffed them into the boy's coat pockets, one by one.

“Pah…Pah…Pah…”

The boy could hear constant explosions in his pocket. He kept jumping on the spot as if he had a cramp, crying and calling for his mother.

Lu Ye came back with scallion pancakes and sugar-coated rice cakes. His first reaction when he saw the situation was to protect Ruan Qiqi, fearing that she and the baby in her belly would be frightened by the sound of firecrackers.

"It's okay, go buy another string of firecrackers, the louder the better."

Ruan Qiqi spoke softly with a faint smile on her face, teasing the boy like she was playing with a monkey.

The butcher, Old Zhu, and the tofu lady both rushed over. Old Zhu, holding a knife that gleamed with cold light, shouted angrily, "You are a grown man, why are you bullying a child? Stop it now, or you will be rude to me!"

Tofu Xishi wanted to save her son crying, but the sound of firecrackers was too scary. She didn't dare to go forward. She looked at Lao Zhu pitifully with tearful eyes.

Old Zhu was so excited by what he saw that he took a step forward and tried to push Ruan Qiqi away, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, he was pushed back by a huge force, and he retreated repeatedly, hitting his back against the wall.

"How do you want to be rude?"

Lu Ye bought some firecrackers and pushed Lao Zhu away with just one hand. Moreover, he was wearing a military uniform and looked very imposing, which immediately frightened Lao Zhu and made him stop swearing.