Chapter 18
"Boss, come out here! Is this food for humans? Look, is this for humans? Your food is not clean. Give me an explanation."
The man had shifty eyes and a ferocious look, and it was obvious at first glance that he was a scoundrel who was not doing his job properly.
"Sir, this is a small business, so please be kind. Please, please, this meal is mine, this meal is mine."
The young male shop owner came over tremblingly with a pleading look on his face. They could no longer bear the frequent people coming to cause trouble.
He buys fresh ingredients every day at the market early in the morning and washes them very carefully to ensure that there will be no stolen goods.
How could it be possible that only after the plate was empty did a neatly packed cockroach appear? The young couple now knew that these people were there to deliberately cause trouble.
"Have mercy? If anything happens to my health, who will compensate me? Your food is faulty, and you're trying to shirk responsibility? Pay me, or I'll destroy this lousy place of yours."
The man who was causing trouble had his hands on his hips and one foot on a stool. He had a ferocious look on his face and looked quite intimidating.
"Sir, our food is all clean. You can't do this. You can't do this."
Upon hearing this, the other person who was looking for trouble picked up his bowl and chopsticks and smashed them on the ground to boost his morale.
"Clean? Explain to us what's going on with these bugs?" The man pointed at the bowl with his chin, a fierce look on his face. It seemed as if this matter would not end until he gave an explanation.
"We are really out of money, really out of money. Please, sirs, have mercy on us and spare us."
The male shop owner knelt on the ground trembling, begging these people not to exploit them anymore.
The troublemaker didn't care about anything else. He grabbed the male shop owner's clothes and reached into his pocket to take out his wallet. He easily took out a light purse.
He shook it in his hand, and a few copper coins were dangling in it. He was very dissatisfied and yelled for more money.
The shop was run by a young couple who opened a small shop and did business honestly. Business was going okay, but they never expected to always encounter troublemakers.
"Oh, what a sin! I don't know what bad luck this young couple has brought upon themselves. Oh, how pitiful."
"That's right, that's right. How can we do business if this happens every few days?"
"That's probably what happened."
"What? You know the whole story?"
"I know that, too. I know that, too."
"Hey, I run a business next door. If I don't know about this, no one else will. That's what's going on."
"The couple are both honest and decent people, young and inexperienced. When someone started causing trouble, they didn't realize they were deliberately trying to make things difficult for them. They didn't know what to do for a while, so they just kept explaining, apologizing, and crying foul."
"Don't the troublemakers know they're being wronged? They didn't get the money, so they acted like they were going to break things. This scared the young couple. They were young and didn't understand the rules, so to keep the peace, they just paid them off."
"Now, those scumbags can get money by just threatening them. Look, they come every few days."
From the chatter of the onlookers around them, Zhang Yunniang and her husband figured out what was going on.
"Hey, this thing shouldn't have started like that."
"Who says it's not true? It's not like no one has intervened and helped them out before, but they are weak and can't always count on others to back them up."
"Yeah, yeah, if you help me once, twice, how can you expect others to help you three or four times? These days, I can barely take care of myself, so who has the time to care for others?"
"Who dares to provoke those hooligans? If they get into trouble, what's the point?"
"If you want to put me there, I don't care about anything. If you dare to blackmail me, I will pick up a bench and smash your head open first."
"That's right, that's right. Even if I can't win, the worst that can happen is that I'll suffer some physical pain. Thinking of taking money out of my pocket is wishful thinking."
"In business, money is more important than life. Anyone who cuts off my source of income will die."
The young shop owner was still begging, but the troublemakers were already making a move to smash the shop.
There are people causing trouble every few days, the shop is not making any money at all, and now they are almost out of money to buy materials.
The men were timid and the women were weak and could not stop it at all.
According to Zhang Yunniang's observation, the two men who were causing trouble were not as strong as the male shop owner in terms of physique, but their aura, one fierce and the other timid, made the male shop owner look much weaker.
Jun Qingmo gritted his teeth, veins throbbing on his forehead. He has always disliked such scenes of bullying, but what can he do?
Wasn't he also bullied in this way? Looking at the two people being bullied over there, he used to be so cowardly and timid, not knowing how to resist, but only hiding.
"Bang, crash." A wine jar fell from the corner and shattered in front of the feet of the troublemaker.
"Hey, kid, are you going to open this shop yet? If you still want to open it, fight him back. If you dare to do it, I'll help you if you can't beat him."
Zhang Yunniang looked over and saw a man dressed as a swordsman sitting in the corner of the room. He was holding a wine bowl and drinking the last sip of wine.
The swordsman, perhaps feeling unhappy, smashed his wine bowl to pieces with a clang, then continued, "A real man should stand tall and proud. You are so timid, you are unworthy of being a man."
As long as someone takes the lead and expresses his opinion, countless people will follow suit.
"Hit him, hit him, do it quickly."
"You make the move, and we'll all help you fight."
"Yeah, there are so many people here, what are you afraid of? Just do it."
The onlookers could no longer bear to watch and started to make a fuss.
"I, I, I," the male shop owner was still standing there, hugging his trembling wife, not daring to do anything at all. He was really cowardly.
The person who had just caused trouble was a little timid when he saw the people around him making a fuss, but after seeing this scene, he no longer felt guilty.
"To tell you the truth, this place is mine. Pay me now. If you don't, you can forget about running this shop."
"Give me the money, I'm busy."
"You are such a coward, little boy! If your wife and children were humiliated someday, would you still be so cowardly?"
The swordsman who had just spoken couldn't stand it any more, so he slapped the table, causing it to break and the dishes on it to spill all over the floor.
I really feel sorry for their misfortune and angry at their lack of resistance.
"Hahaha, hit me, come on, hit me, if you dare to hit me, I, Hu San, will call you grandpa."
"Bah, you coward, I'm standing right here today. I really don't believe you dare to hit me." The two troublemakers stepped on the stool with a careless look, very arrogant.
"If you're a man, stand up and beat him."
"Coward, coward, you're a grown man, fight him."
"Go ahead, do it, and hit me."
"Hahahahahahaha, come on, hit me, hit me, hit me here, hit me here, you coward, hahahaha."
"Give me the money quickly! My time is precious. If you dare to waste my time, I'll tear you apart."
The male shop owner looked at his wife who was crying in his arms, then looked at the arrogant face of the troublemaker, as well as the disdain and contempt of the onlookers around him. Suddenly, he let go of his wife and rushed forward screaming "Ah ...
He moved too quickly and knocked the troublemaker to the ground.
The other man reacted and immediately started to hit him.
The male shop owner kept shouting and screaming, and his moves were completely methodical. He was used to doing the work and had great strength.
He went crazy at this moment, and there was no need for others to come forward to help, as the two men were knocked to the ground by him.
There were beatings and kicks, and the emotions of being bullied for so long completely erupted at this moment.
"I told you to bully people, I told you to bully people."
"You son of a bitch, you son of a bitch, I'm going to beat you to death, you motherless bastard."
"I see you're still bullying me. I'm going to beat you to death. I'm going to beat you to death. Ahhhhh, I'm going to beat you to death."
The people around him kept cheering for him, and all he could hear were shouts of "well done" and constant applause.
The two men who had been so arrogant and domineering just now were now beaten so badly that they had no strength to fight back and began to beg for mercy on the ground.
The male shop owner was sweating profusely, as if he had vented his emotions. He finally stopped howling, looked at the man who was beaten to a pulp by him, and slowly calmed down.
He looked at his frightened wife who was huddled aside, walked over firmly, and held her in his arms to comfort her. At this moment, his timidity disappeared.
The farce was over and the people around slowly dispersed, with excitement on their faces, as if they were the winners.
Jun Qingmo watched the farce in front of him silently.
The male shop owner's embarrassment and cowardice of being bullied and not daring to fight back reminded him of his past self.
He must have looked just like this when Jun Zhili pinned him to the ground and beat him up that day.
It turns out that cowardice and incompetence can really stimulate people's desire for destruction.
It turns out that from the perspective of an observer, he was also so ugly.
Fortunately, fortunately, Jun Qingmo said it twice in his heart, but he couldn't say what it was specifically.
There was nothing exciting to watch, and the crowd behind me gradually dispersed.
Zhang Yunniang pushed the person forward and was surprised by the silence in front of her. The person had not said a word since just now, and looked as if he was lost in thought. She didn't know what he was thinking about.
"Why aren't you talking?"
"What I saw today has given me some emotion. I used to be just like them. No wonder, no wonder others disliked me when they saw me. How could I have liked myself back then?"
"Yes, if you can't become strong, the mountains will fall and people will run away. You can only rely on yourself for your whole life."
"Oh, I know, don't count on you."
"Uh." Zhang Yunniang was rarely speechless.
Jun Qingmo gestured for a stop. He turned back and looked seriously into Zhang Yunniang's eyes. He asked, "Just now, these people felt pity for the shop owner's cowardice and were angry at his lack of fighting spirit. Did you feel the same way when you first looked at me?"
"That's not the case." Zhang Yunniang looked back at Jun Qingmo, blinked, and felt a little lacking in confidence.
"oh?"
"That's about the same."
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