Chapter 21: Shrew vs Shrew, the fight has to be professional
The heavy wooden stick, with a whistling sound that tore through the air, carried with it all of Feng Lan's anger, despair, and hatred, and smashed down on her head!
Chen Kangsi was terrified. His mind, pampered by the comforts of his office, was incapable of processing the barbaric, irrational scene before him. He felt a gust of evil wind blowing in his face, and the shadow of death instantly enveloped him.
"ah--!"
He let out a scream that was not like a human voice, and the instinct for survival made him lean back suddenly and fall on his butt.
"call--"
The wooden stick brushed past the tip of his nose and hit the door frame behind him hard.
“Crack!”
With a loud bang, a deep hole was smashed into the hard door frame, and wood chips flew everywhere!
Chen Kangsi collapsed to the ground, his crotch rapidly soaking wet, a foul odor permeating the air. Trembling, he raised his head, staring at Feng Lan's ferocious face and the wooden stick just inches from his forehead. He shrugged and scrambled back, shouting incoherently, "Madman! You madman! How dare you hit an official appointed by the imperial court! I'll put you in jail! I'll put your whole family in jail!"
His scholarly dignity and calculations were shattered to pieces in the face of absolute violence.
Feng Lan held a wooden stick across her chest and approached step by step. She looked at the puddle on the ground, and the sarcasm at the corner of her mouth scraped Chen Kangsi's face like a knife.
"An imperial official? Are you worthy of that?" Feng Lan's voice was low, but it echoed clearly throughout the courtyard. "A worthless person who relies on the money from his niece's prostitution to survive in the government office, you dare mention the word 'imperial official' in front of me?"
"You want fifty taels? Fine." Feng Lan slammed the other end of the stick on the ground and pointed at Chen Kangsi's nose. "Write me an IOU right now and sell yourself to my family as a farmhand for ten years. I'll give you fifty taels right away! You'll also experience what it feels like to be treated like an animal and have a fixed price tag on you!"
The whole yard was silent.
Everyone was shocked by Feng Lan's determination to fight to the death.
Only then did they realize that the woman before them was truly capable of killing. She wasn't just making a scene or throwing a tantrum. She was using her own way to tell everyone that the only way to make her surrender was to walk over her corpse!
In the courtyard of the village head's house, the atmosphere was as frozen as a piece of ice that had been frozen for a thousand years.
Chen Kangsi collapsed on the ground, shaking like a sieve. The threats he made seemed pale and ridiculous in front of Feng Lan's stick, which was still covered with sawdust.
Wang, the wife of the village head, saw her husband being forced into a corner and the invited "expert" Chen Laosi being scared to wet his pants. The courage of a village woman that she had accumulated in her daily life finally overwhelmed her fear.
She felt that no matter how crazy Feng Lan was, she was still a woman. She couldn't deal with men, but when it came to women, she, Wang Shi, had never been afraid of anyone in Pingjiang Village!
"This is outrageous! How dare you act so wildly in my house, you damn bitch!" Wang rolled up her sleeves, revealing two strong arms, and like an enraged sow, she pounced on Feng Lan with a roar.
Her fighting style was the most classic and practical routine among the women of Pingjiang Village - one grab, two scratches, and three bites. She stretched out her hands with long nails and went straight for Feng Lan's face and hair.
In her opinion, as long as she grabbed Feng Lan's hair, made her sweep the floor in an undignified manner, and then scratched a few bloody marks on her face, this woman's arrogance would naturally disappear.
However, she seriously underestimated Feng Lan.
Feng Lan was no ordinary peasant woman; she was a demonic spirit, vengeful and reborn from a sea of blood and corpses. Playing with her hair? It was like wielding a sword before Guan Gong.
Just when Wang's hand was about to touch her, Feng Lan thrust the wooden stick in her hand into the ground like lightning. Using this fulcrum, she turned her body to the side and easily avoided Wang's hungry pounce.
Wang used too much force and missed the target, stumbling and almost falling.
Before she could stand still, Feng Lan had already grabbed her wrist. Feng Lan's grip, honed from years of hard labor, was like a pair of pliers, squeezing Wang so hard that she cried out in pain.
Then, Feng Lan raised her knee and hit Wang's fat belly mercilessly!
"Bang!"
There was a dull sound, as if it had hit a leather bag full of fat.
Wang felt as if her internal organs were dislocated, and the leftover rice she had eaten nearly spurted out of her throat. She doubled over in pain, like a boiled prawn.
Feng Lan, still not satisfied, grabbed her hair and forced her to look up. Then, she raised her other hand and slapped her left and right. "Pa! Pa!" Two crisp and loud slaps landed firmly on Wang's fat face.
"Fight me? Who the hell do you think you are?"
"You dare to drink the blood of my man and my daughter? I'll let you drink it! I'll let you drink it!"
Feng Lan cursed while grabbing Wang's hair and banging her head against the wall. Although she didn't use much force, the sound and Wang's pig-like screams made her scalp tingle.
The whole process was smooth, fast, accurate and ruthless!
The villagers who were watching, including the women who had just joined in, were all dumbfounded.
This...how could this be called a fight? This was clearly a one-sided assault! Wang's 150-pound weight was like a chicken under Feng Lan's hands, powerless to fight back.
Only then did they understand that Feng Lan's "madness" was not the madness of throwing a tantrum, but the madness of really daring to kill and really fighting!
The face of the village head Zhou Zhengde had turned from liver color to purple.
He could tolerate himself taking money to do things, and he could tolerate himself confusing right and wrong, but he could never tolerate his wife being beaten like a dog in front of the whole village!
This wasn't a blow to Wang, it was a blow to his face! It was a blow to his authority as the village head!
"Stop!" The village head roared and rushed forward to pull Feng Lan away.
Chen Kangbo had been watching coldly. When he saw Li Zheng was about to take action, his tall figure flashed and stood in front of Li Zheng like a wall.
"Village head, when women fight, it's better for us men not to interfere." Chen Kangbo's voice was very flat, but his dark eyes revealed an unquestionable warning.
The village head felt a chill in his heart when he saw him, and he stopped dead in his tracks. He knew that if he dared to move, Chen Kangbo's fist, as big as a clay pot, would definitely fall on him.
He could only watch his wife being beaten until she screamed in pain and lost all face.
"That's enough!" The village head could only yell at Feng Lan in a timid tone, "Chen Kangbo's family, don't go too far! If things get really awkward, it won't benefit anyone!"
Feng Lan was tired of beating her, or rather, she had almost let out all her anger. She loosened her grip in disgust and shoved Wang, whose face was bruised and her hair disheveled, to the ground like she was throwing a rag.
She dusted off her hands and looked at the head of the village coldly.
The village head took a deep breath, suppressing the humiliation and anger in his heart. He knew that he could not use force, so he could only use soft tactics.
He turned to the silent Chen Kangbo, and his tone softened, even adding a hint of earnestness: "Kangbo, I know you're angry. But listen to my advice. We're all from the same village, and we'll see each other sooner or later. No matter how wrong your parents are, they're still your elders who gave birth to you and raised you. No matter how wicked your brother is, he's still your brother from the same mother. Blood is thicker than water, and this bond is predestined, and you can't sever it."
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