Chapter 125, exclusively published on Jinjiang Literature City: Who would have thought they would start fighting so suddenly...?
"What's that sound?!" The disaster victims were startled by the piercing alarm.
Li Tie said in a deep voice, "Something's happened!"
The villagers, not bothering with the unreasonable confrontation with the disaster victims, looked around and realized that their relatives were not with them, and their expressions immediately turned fierce.
The surrounding disaster victims thought they were suddenly going crazy, but instead they saw a group of people rushing out in the direction of the alarm.
Remembering Li Tie's earlier words, "Something's happened," the disaster victims looked at each other, wondering if the frightening sound was related to these people.
"How about we go take a look?"
"Let's go! Let's go together!"
A group of people subconsciously suppressed their fear of the flood and chased after it with the intention of watching a spectacle.
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When the village chief and others, including Lu Xuan, arrived at the location where the alarm had sounded, a large crowd of disaster victims had already gathered around.
As Lu Xuan got closer, he easily heard the voices of Li Jing and his brother, as well as their sister Lu Qing, inside the inner circle.
Lu Xuan's expression hardened, and he casually gathered a gust of wind and attacked the crowd layer upon layer.
The disaster victims felt as if they had been suddenly hit by a hurricane, and they were so startled that they kept making "ouch, ouch" noises. They couldn't help but fall to both sides, clearing a path for people to pass through.
The villagers took the opportunity to widen the road and quickly squeezed in.
Finally reaching the center of the incident, everyone heard six or seven burly men covering their ears and shouting, "What strange thing! Stop that noise!" Some even rushed over with ferocious expressions, ready to attack.
The villagers quickly stepped forward to stop them, shouting, "What are you doing! Don't come any closer! Do you want to fight?!"
Li Tie and Lu Xuan then went to their respective relatives and asked, "What exactly happened?"
Seeing that Lu Qing was carrying an alarm, Lu Xuan reached out and turned it off first, then asked, "They didn't hurt you, did they?"
Lu Qing shook her head. "I'm fine, but these people are deliberately causing trouble; they don't have good intentions."
Li Tuo said angrily, "These people clearly deliberately bumped into us, and then they turned around and said that we weren't watching where we were going and were deliberately picking a fight."
Li Jing, who is usually very good-tempered, was unusually angry. "At first, he just argued with us, but then he started saying that something was missing and accused us of stealing their supplies, demanding that we hand it over."
Lu Xuan raised an eyebrow. "What did they say you stole?"
The viewers in the live stream also put one ear over.
Li Jing was speechless. "Ten pounds of meat."
Lu Xuan: ?
Audience: ?
Other villagers: ? ? ?
Are they hearing problems or do these people have some serious mental illness?
Ten pounds of meat is a huge lump even when you hold it in your arms. Whether they brought meat or not, people on the street can't see.
If the person being accused stole meat, would it be impossible to tell whether they were carrying ten pounds of meat or not?
The live stream was flooded with question marks.
【I don't understand, but I'm deeply shocked!】
[You've made me laugh so hard. Couldn't you have come up with a slightly more sophisticated excuse?]
[If they're going to use such a perfunctory excuse, why not just admit that all the supplies in Yunlu Village were stolen and make the villagers hand them all over? :)]
They're probably dreaming. With the streamer around, they won't get a single penny off the table.
Lu Qing pointed at the stall, which was unrecognizable, and gritted her teeth, saying, "These people not only tried to take advantage of us by being unreasonable, but they also overturned the stall we had rebuilt and trampled the vegetables we brought out."
Li Jing and his group initially wanted to settle things peacefully, but their perfectly good food was trampled and the other party hurled all sorts of insults at them, including some extremely offensive language directed at the women. No man could tolerate that!
Since we can no longer tolerate it, then there's no need to tolerate it any longer!
The two sides quickly started shoving each other, and Lu Qing immediately sounded the alarm.
It wasn't out of fear, it was purely to call for backup.
A fight can't be complete without people!
With so many people in their village, how could they be afraid of a few mentally challenged guys?
It was only then that the audience noticed the mess on the ground.
Upon learning that the rotten fruits and vegetables, almost unrecognizable as round, belonged to the Lu family, they were immediately enraged.
[Aaaaaah! Streamer, beat them to a pulp! (Furious emoji)]
These bastards, do they know how hard it is for us to eat a bite of natural food?!
[Everyone who ruins natural foods should die!!!]
Lu Xuan glanced at the ruined food on the ground, and his gaze turned cold as he swept it over the idiots who were still yelling for them to return the meat.
Needless to say, other villagers who came after hearing the news also came.
Lu Qing wasn't the only one who was scolded and had her supplies wasted; in fact, she was the one who lent a helping hand. Besides her, Wu Yinyin, Ye Ping, Wei Qiaoqiao, and others were also present.
How could their fathers, brothers, and husbands not stand up for them?
Lu Xuan didn't waste any words, "Let's just fight."
A large group of young and strong men surrounded the burly men who were unaware of what was about to happen.
The burly men who were trying to stage an accident panicked for a moment, but still maintained their arrogant demeanor, saying, "What do you want?! Are you trying to rebel?!"
Without saying a word, the villagers rolled up their sleeves and charged forward.
Stop talking nonsense and just take action!
Men should let their fists do the talking!
The burly men who came looking for trouble were surprised by their tough attitude, and the two sides quickly started fighting.
The burly men fought back while shouting, "You've really gone too far! You actually dared to fight us! Do you know who we are? Do you know what happens when you offend us?!"
The villagers spat and said, "I don't care who you are! Do you think the women of our village are people we can bully? And you think you can trample on my wife's things?!"
In the past, villagers who rarely even went to the town would never have dared to argue or even fight with city people, especially strong men who were clearly not to be trifled with.
But times have changed.
These days, they have either awakened superpowers or have been enhanced by both mutated fruits and evolution fluids.
They're terrifyingly strong now! They don't even know the meaning of the word "fear"!
Moreover, once the real action was taken, everyone quickly discovered that this group was nothing but a bunch of weaklings with empty promises.
Wouldn't this fight be like child's play?
And that is indeed the case.
The burly thugs, who were initially very arrogant, were quickly overwhelmed by the villagers' heavy punches and began to grimace in pain.
They were filled with shock and anger. Just then, one of them managed to break free from the villagers' encirclement while dodging. He touched a wooden stick that someone had brought to weigh down the cloth on the ground. He gripped the stick tightly, got up again, and swung it hard at one of the villagers who had his back to him.
"Watch out—!" The sharp-eyed women couldn't help but warn her after seeing it.
Almost simultaneously, Lu Xuan, who also witnessed this scene, reached out and, amidst the horrified gazes of the surrounding disaster victims, forcibly pulled the stick into his own hand, then threw it at the man with a backhand motion.
The heavy wooden stick, amplified by Lu Xuan's deliberate force, slammed into the other's shoulder and back.
"Ah—!" With a clearly audible cracking sound of bones breaking, the man's face contorted in pain.
Live stream viewers: Well done, streamer! Smash him to death!
The groans he made, several times louder than the others when they were being beaten, startled his companions. When they turned around and saw what was happening, their faces turned pale instantly.
The other person's arm, which had been struck by the wooden stick, was completely flattened. The bone in his shoulder had pierced through the flesh and was exposed to the air, the stark white bone still covered with bright red flesh. The shocking scene caused the onlookers to gasp in horror.
With his arm smashed like that, how can he possibly survive?
One of the accomplices was on good terms with the person who was hit. He was both afraid and angry, and while being beaten, he angrily roared at the disaster victims.
"What are you all standing there for? Come and help! Can't you see how ruthless these newcomers are? They dare to harm us like this now, but tomorrow you'll be the ones getting beaten to a pulp!"
The disaster victims looked at each other in dismay. Some were indeed terrified by Lu Xuan's actions, their faces showing fear. But most of them just frowned, or turned their heads away as if they hadn't heard, or grinned from an angle where they couldn't see, revealing a gleeful smile.
Lu Xuan casually flicked the wooden stick that had somehow returned to his hand, his eyes cold: "You're right about one thing. I am indeed ruthless, so it's only natural that you get a beating, broken arms and legs."
The thugs: "???" Is this even human language?
Also, when did the stick get back into his hands? I clearly didn't see him go near the brothers to pick it up.
The disaster victims kept rubbing their eyes, their faces filled with disbelief.
After Lu Xuan finished speaking, he threw the wooden stick out again.
This time, he didn't use as much force. He simply used his wind-based ability to wield the wooden stick and punched the thugs' arms and legs from a distance.
The sounds of bones breaking and snapping accompanied by screams echoed continuously. At first, the thugs could still curse, but after a short while, they began to beg for mercy with tears streaming down their faces.
"Ahhh! I know I was wrong, please let me go!"
After the villagers saw Lu Xuan make a move, they each punched them a few times before retreating to the side.
When Lu Xuan's bizarre attack stopped, the thugs not only had broken bones, but their faces were also bruised and swollen, and they were beaten beyond recognition.
The disaster victims stared in astonishment at the scene before them.
The county officials and constables who had been hiding in the crowd and watching the whole thing were equally dumbfounded.
They had originally planned to seize the opportunity presented by the "trouble" in Yunlu Village to intimidate the villagers and force them to hand over the strange vehicle they shouldn't have. But now...
These troublemakers dare to be so arrogant towards the gambling den thugs, acting even more like thugs than the thugs themselves. Do they really respect the government?
What if they were attacked along with the group the moment they stepped forward?
The officers exchanged glances. "Perhaps we should wait until they return to their residence in the east of the city before completing the task assigned by our lord."
“That’s right. We don’t need to bring adult matters into the public eye and make adults the topic of conversation among the disaster victims.”
"That makes sense! Why don't we just go to the east of the city and wait for them to come to us?"
"Great idea! Let's go!"
The group that reached a consensus quickly withdrew from the crowd and turned to leave.
They were government officials, so of course they wouldn't be afraid of a group of unruly people, much less afraid of being beaten.
They simply didn't want these audacious troublemakers to challenge them in public, indirectly affecting the county magistrate's position in the city.
That's right! That's exactly it!
Adults will understand them too.
Lu Xuan, having retrieved the wooden stick, looked up at them, then quickly looked away and asked Lu Qing and the others, "Was that satisfying? Want to continue?"
Wu Yinyin, Ye Ping, and the others quickly shook their heads, "That's enough, that's enough." If they kept hitting, someone would really die.
Lu Qing said, "After being beaten like this, they should know that we are not people who can be bullied."
Hearing this, the disaster victims gasped. "You're all so fierce. It's hard to say who's bullying whom."
However... the disaster victims, who had suffered a lot of bullying from the thugs, looked at the people groaning on the ground with hatred, relief, and regret in their eyes. They regretted that they weren't the ones who did it.
Lu Xuan casually threw the wooden stick to the ground, and the thugs, writhing in pain, were so provoked that they begged for mercy again.
"Get out of here. If there's a next time, you'll lose your life."
The thugs, looking like they'd escaped death, clutched their broken bones, fearing he might change his mind and stagger away.
The villagers cursed at their retreating figures a few more times before letting out a cold snort, turning around to help the women clean up the messy stalls, and then leaving the trading street.
In the alley not far away.
The siblings, who had been discussing last night whether the newcomer would clash with the city's powerful figures, were stunned by what they saw.
The older sister thought that these outsiders wouldn't easily clash with the local bullies since they were newcomers, but who would have thought they would start fighting so suddenly!
The younger brother excitedly tugged at his older sister and whispered, "Sister, look! They really beat up the bad guys!"
The older sister exclaimed "Ah!" with a somewhat dazed expression.
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On the way back, the women were still heartbroken over the damaged supplies, and the men belatedly began to regret their actions.
"I should have made them pay!" We vented our anger by beating them up, but we still can't get the supplies back!
As they were talking, Wu Yang, with his amazing eyesight, was the first to spot several figures in front of the house they were staying in. After noticing their attire, Wu Yang's expression changed slightly.
"There are government officials."
"Officials?" The villagers instinctively tensed up, then suddenly remembered the current situation in the county town, and what kind of world it was these days. Hmm... it didn't seem like there was any need to be too afraid.
Some people even took a special look at Lu Xuan's expression and saw that he remained calm, so they immediately relaxed their tense nerves.
Li Jing reasonably speculated, "Didn't Miao An say yesterday that someone would come to collect rent today? This is the county government's territory, so they must be here to collect rent, right?"
The others nodded in agreement, finding it reasonable, and were no longer worried.
Forty catties of grain, which came from public supplies, was a mere necessary expense that shouldn't be a concern.
"Miao An must have told you yesterday, right?" The officer's first words were, as expected, to demand rent. "The rent for the two houses is forty catties of coarse grain per day. Hurry up and come up."
Although his tone wasn't very friendly, Li Tie had dealt with county clerks before and didn't take it to heart. He used the same trick again, pretending to take forty catties of coarse rice out of his backpack and hand it to the other party.
The officials took the grain and examined it carefully. Their eyes revealed a blatant and undisguised greed, as if they were looking at a fat sheep to be slaughtered, which made the villagers frown uncomfortably.
The officials did not leave immediately after taking the grain. Their unbridled gazes lingered on them for a moment before glancing at the villagers who had opened the door to greet them.
Seemingly disappointed at not seeing what he wanted to see, the other party clicked his tongue in disapproval, then, adopting an official air, spoke again: "I heard you drove a strange vehicle into the city yesterday? And it was covered in a lot of glass?"
Li Tie's eyelids twitched.
The official said in a high-pitched tone, "You should know that the highest-ranking official in the city right now is us, sir. The reason you can live peacefully in the city is all thanks to your protection, do you understand?"
The villagers: "..."
The official said, "So, if you want to continue to receive the protection of the adults, you should hand over such good things voluntarily without us having to remind you."
The villagers: "!"
Live stream viewers: ???
The official boasted shamelessly, "If you are willing to pay another large sum of protection money, then we, the officials, can promise to let you live in the city for a long time."
Everyone: !!!
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