120, malicious thoughts
120, malicious thoughts
Seeing the expressions of these four people, Lu Mingfei remembered something and told them about their family's hygiene habits and requirements. He didn't mean to target anyone in particular, so he explained, "Maintaining good hygiene habits can also prevent the spread and infection of some diseases, which is good for everyone."
Jixiang and Jixing both thought of their companions who died of illness in the dental clinic, and felt a little sad.
Ji Kang recalled some epidemics that had occurred in his hometown and the deaths of tribesmen and cattle and sheep, and wondered if they were related to the transmission and infection that the young master had mentioned.
After explaining the rules and requirements of their family, Lu Mingfei asked his father to get a set of his old clothes and a set of his mother's old clothes for Jikang and Ruyi. He took two sets of his old clothes for Jixiang and Jixing to change.
The ready-made clothes at the cloth shop were too expensive, so he planned to wait for his mother to come back and have her buy two bolts of coarse cloth from the cloth shop and make the clothes herself, or ask a nearby aunt or uncle to help make the clothes. This was more cost-effective than buying the clothes directly. So they found some old clothes and gave each of the four people a set to wash and change into clean clothes.
As for living quarters, the room where the Zhang Qi brothers live can accommodate two more beds.
After consulting Zhang Qi, Lu Mingfei asked his father to spread two old mats in the room over there for Jikang, Jixiang, and Jixing to sleep on. Ruyi, the only woman among the four, temporarily lived in the tool shed.
In this way, the problem of accommodating the four extra people in the house was solved.
After the duck farm they love is built, they may have to arrange two people to go there to look after the ducks, so there may not be so many people living here at home by then.
With six more people suddenly arriving at home, Lu Mingfei found the small courtyard a bit crowded. However, their rent was fixed for a year, so even if they wanted to move, they would have to wait until next year. For now, they could only stay here for the time being.
When he returned home and didn't see his wife, Lu Youtian knew she was still at the stall. He brought the buyers home and prepared to go out to look for her. He said to his eldest son, "I'm going to go check on your mother and see how she's doing. You stay home and take care of the four of them."
"Okay, Dad, you go." After thinking about it, Lu Mingfei didn't tell his father that someone was following him today.
When he was seeing his father off, he noticed two sneaky figures outside the door.
This time, after closing the door, Lu Mingfei called Ji Kang over and asked, "How are your boxing and kicking skills? Can you take down two people?"
"Yeah." Ji Kang nodded without hesitation.
"As soon as the door opens, we'll rush out and beat up those two sneaky guys outside, okay?" Lu Mingfei went to find two thick sticks, gave one to Ji Kang, took one for himself, and called Zhang Qi to come and open the door.
"I can." Ji Kang stopped the young master holding the stick and said.
"Brother, let me go." Zhang Qi took the stick from their eldest brother and said, "Your hands are needed for writing, don't hurt them."
Jixiang and Jixing also found a stick each and held it in their hands.
Even Ruyi, when she heard that their young master was going out to beat someone up, picked up a broom and prepared to rush out to beat someone up as soon as the door opened.
Lu Mingfei's hands were empty. He looked back and saw Jixiang, Zhang Qi, and the others all holding sticks. Were they all planning to rush out and beat the two stalkers to death? He had no choice but to stop the few who were leaving to join the group. He said to Jikang, the most burly of them, "Jikang, go out and capture them later. I'll interrogate them."
"Okay." Ji Kang nodded.
The gate of the yard opened, and Ji Kang rushed out in the direction of their young master's hand and caught two sneaky figures squatting by the willow tree.
Lu Mingfei had Ji Kang bring the men to their yard, and had Zhang Qi fetch two ropes. He tied the two men to a chair and then began to interrogate them: "Tell me, who asked you to follow me? What do you want to do?"
"What did you say? I don't know what you're talking about."
"Exactly. We were just squatting there enjoying the scenery. What did you bring us here for?"
"If you don't let us go, we'll..."
The two thugs were caught and were still shouting without knowing whether they were alive or dead.
"You really won't tell me? You're just being stubborn?" Lu Mingfei sneered at the two men's stubbornness and said to Zhang Qi, "Zhang Qi, report to the police."
"Okay." Zhang Qi responded and left.
"Wait, don't go!" the short gangster shouted.
The tall thug also shouted that they were not allowed to go.
If we were to say what these people fear the most, it would probably be the officials.
"So, are you two going to tell me or not? If you keep telling me and satisfy me, I'll let you go. Otherwise..." Lu Mingfei took the thick stick from Zhang Qi's hand, gestured at the two men's legs, and said viciously: "I'll break your dog legs!"
The two hooligans were frightened for a moment, and then they told what they were paid to do.
"That man gave us a few taels of silver and asked us to break your hand..." The short gangster told them what they were paid to do.
Break his hand? Lu Mingfei immediately understood Cai Renjun's intention of having someone do this. The academy entrance exam would be held in a month. If his hand was really injured, it would definitely affect his performance in the exam.
So one can imagine Cai Renjun’s purpose, which is to prevent him from taking the college entrance examination!
If he fails to take the college entrance examination, or performs poorly on it, he will have to start over again at the second provincial examination, which means he will have to wait another two years. If Cai Renjun succeeds this time, that person will definitely find another way to harm him next time.
The tall thug glared at his shorter companion, his eyes seemed to say: Why do you say anything? Don't you even know how to lie?
"Take this as a warning. Don't let me meet you two again next time! Otherwise..." Lu Mingfei swung the stick in his hand and slammed it to the ground with a clang.
"Yes, yes, we don't dare anymore." The short gangster responded quickly.
They couldn't kill the two men, and they had to hand them over to the authorities for such an unfounded matter, so Lu Mingfei released them as promised.
"Brother, why did you really let them go? Aren't you going to send them to the government?" Zhang Qi asked.
The two thugs who had just walked out of the gate of the Lu family courtyard heard that they would be sent to the government, so they ran away.
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"Even if we send them to the government office, they won't be locked up for a few days before being released. I know who hired them to cause trouble for me. I'll go find that person later." Lu Mingfei patted Zhang Qi's shoulder and asked Zhang Qi to come back and close the door.
Although it was the first day they met, Lu Mingfei had a good impression of Jikang, Jixiang and the others. He asked Jixiang and Jikang to take turns to take a shower and change clothes, and asked Zhang Qi to go to the kitchen to boil a pot of ginger soup and a pot of noodle porridge for everyone. Then he went to the study to read.
It was not until around five or six in the afternoon that his father and mother came back from outside, leading their big blue donkey.
After asking, I found out that business was not good today and they sold out the goods and closed the stall in the afternoon.
Not long after his mother came back, Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan also came to their home after finishing their private school.
While the three of them were reading in the study, Zhang Lingxuan told his friend what his eldest brother had said: "I told my brother about you and Cai Renjun, but my brother said that we have no evidence and I'm afraid Cai Renjun won't admit it, so this matter is a bit difficult to handle."
"I know, my father said the same thing. It's okay, I have thought of a way to deal with it, so there is no need to trouble your brother. Please say thank you to your brother for me later." Lu Mingfei was not surprised that the eldest brother of the Zhang family would say this.
This is indeed the case. Given Cai Renjun's character, he would never admit that he had done such a thing if the facts were not laid out before him.
"How about the three of us go stop Cai Renjun and beat him up?" Ye Zhuoran suggested.
"Are you thinking of going to jail?" Zhang Lingxuan glared at the man.
Ye Zhuoran had no choice but to shut up.
"Trust me, I can handle this matter myself." Lu Mingfei patted Ye Zhuoran on the shoulder. He knew Ye Zhuoran's character and knew that Ye Zhuoran wanted to help. However, if the three of them really went to block Cai Renjun on the road, that would really play into Cai Renjun's hands.
Afraid that Cai Renjun would send someone to look for Zhang Lingxuan and Ye Zhuoran, he also reminded his two friends to be careful when going out recently.
"Okay, we will be careful." Zhang Lingxuan frowned when he heard this, and he felt very disgusted with people like Cai Renjun.
Ye Zhuoran became even angrier.
But they have no evidence to prove that this matter is related to Cai Renjun and that it was Cai Renjun who did it, so for now they can only be careful and pay attention.
As for how to deal with Cai Renjun, Lu Mingfei has already thought of it.
While Ye Zhuoran was going to the toilet, he asked Zhang Lingxuan where Cai Renjun lived.
It just so happened that Zhang Lingxuan had visited the Cai family with his family before and remembered the layout of the Cai family's courtyard, so he drew a layout diagram of the Cai family's courtyard for him.
"Thank you. If you hear anything later, just pretend you don't know, okay?" Lu Mingfei took a look at the layout diagram drawn by Zhang Lingxuan, memorized the diagram in his mind, and then stuffed the paper into his teacup to soak.
Once soaked in water, the paper became soft and the ink on it became a mess.
"Yeah." Zhang Lingxuan smiled knowingly and nodded. He didn't ask Lu Mingfei what he would do, but he knew that Lu Mingfei must have come up with a solution.
At this moment, Ye Zhuoran returned to the study room from outside and happened to see Zhang Lingxuan laughing again. Seeing Lu Mingfei beside him, he looked at the two of them with suspicion and asked, "What are you two talking about?"
"We were just discussing the possible questions for this year's college entrance examination..." Lu Mingfei did not say it was nothing, because if he said it was nothing, Ye Zhuoran would definitely know what secret things they were talking about without telling him, and would pester them to get to the bottom of it and must know it.
So he deliberately used another topic to distract Ye Zhuoran. Author's words: Thank you Bole 9492239 (9492239) for your support. Kisses! To know more exciting content, please leave me a message on Liancheng Reading.
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