I would never be their lackey!
"It's for my own good? How come I didn't know?"
Li Dahai slung his faded canvas backpack over his shoulder, put one hand in his pocket, and swaggered into the school gate.
Wang Pengchang jogged to keep up with him.
"Big brother, Qin Boyan has good grades and all his teachers like him. If we keep causing trouble, and the teachers find out, they will definitely ask us to bring our parents in. In serious cases, they might even expel us from school!"
He didn't want to drop out of school, because once he had no school to attend, no matter what the neighborhood committee did, his stepmother's vicious mind would definitely persuade his father to send him to the most remote rural area.
Although he was almost seventeen, his stepmother disliked his large appetite and only allowed him half of what her son would eat at each meal. For ten whole years, he never had a full meal, and he always had to save a bite for his younger sister.
As a result, he is now almost a head shorter than his peers, and he is very thin. In addition, his skin is dark, so his classmates have given him many nicknames.
His self-esteem was trampled on, and he was naturally sad and angry. However, he didn't have the confidence to confront those classmates, so he could only silently endure it and try to minimize his presence in front of others.
If... if he gets expelled from school this time, and his stepmother persuades his father to send him to a remote rural area, he might be able to endure the hardships of rural life, but what will happen to his sister without his protection?
His stepmother has recently set her sights on his sister, intending to marry her off to a lame, one-eyed old bachelor. If it weren't for his strong opposition, even holding a kitchen knife to his neck to defend his sister, his father would definitely have agreed to his stepmother's proposal!
As the saying goes, "If there's a stepmother, there's bound to be a stepfather."
Wang Pengchang experienced this firsthand from a young age.
Especially when you think about how his father favored boys over girls, and how after his mother had a difficult childbirth and his sister died, he couldn't stand the sight of his sister, but after his stepmother came into the family, he treated his stepmother's son and daughter very well.
It was as if those two were his biological children, while he and his sister were illegitimate children.
"If he dares to tell the teacher, I'll kill him!"
Li Dahai dismissed Wang Pengchang's words, glancing at him sideways and saying, "Look at you, so spineless. I'm your older brother. If anything happens, I'll cover for you. You won't be implicated. Don't worry!"
Li Dahai casually patted Wang Pengchang's face and said in a nonchalant tone, "You've been eating and drinking well with me these past few days. If you don't want me to stop targeting that Qin guy, you'd better spit out what you've eaten!"
He was just doing his job for money. Besides, all the other party wanted him to do was teach the Qin siblings a lesson. No one was going to die. It was no big deal!
Besides, fifty dollars is no small amount; it's more than a month's salary for an average worker. He's already spent quite a bit of it. If he doesn't do the job to the employer's satisfaction, where will he get fifty dollars to pay back?
"Big brother, we can't do anything reckless!"
Wang Pengchang lowered his voice and reminded him, "You still have a grandmother at home to take care of!"
"Can you... can you stop being such a spoilsport?"
Li Dahai glared at Wang Pengchang and said, "I think you're worried about your sister!" He was afraid that he would be implicated and imprisoned, leaving his sister without anyone to take care of her, and that his stepmother would sell her off with a high dowry!
Trying to outsmart him? Don't you think that's a bit too naive?
"I……"
Wang Pengchang stammered, which, in Li Dahai's eyes, was undoubtedly an admission of his selfish motives.
"If you're scared, stay away from me!"
Li Dahai glared at Wang Pengchang again, then quickened his pace, leaving Wang Pengchang behind.
What a spineless bastard! He treated the other person like a brother, protecting him and always making sure the other person got a share of the good food and drink.
Ungrateful wretch!
He's a complete scoundrel!
Despite his inner turmoil, Li Dahai seemed to have taken Wang Pengchang's words to heart, and didn't cause Qin Boyan any more trouble at school that day. However, after school in the afternoon, Li Dahai left the school early and blocked Qin Boyan on his way home.
What do you want to do?
Before Qin Boyan could speak, Qin Yaxin jumped off the back of her bicycle. She looked at the two boys blocking Qin Boyan's bicycle and, seeing that they were the same two she had seen at the school gate that morning, her eyes immediately filled with disgust. She said, "Get out of the way, or I'll go to the police station and report you!"
Wang Pengchang pursed his lips and remained silent.
Li Dahai glanced at Qin Yaxin, then finally looked back at Qin Boyan: "Kid, let me beat you up for three days straight, and we'll call it even. What do you say?"
"If you're sick, go take your medicine."
Qin Boyan said coldly.
"Hey Qin, don't be so stubborn. I'm already being polite by talking to you like this. If you don't know what's good for you, I'll teach you a lesson right now!"
Li Dahai's family wasn't well-off, but perhaps he inherited the family's tall and strong genes. At seventeen, he was not only over 1.8 meters tall, but also had a rather broad frame. Coupled with his fierce appearance, he was quite intimidating to Qin Boyan.
Unfortunately, Qin Boyan wasn't exactly a model student in the capital. He had skipped classes and gotten into fights before. If he were forced to confront Li Dahai now, it's uncertain who would come out on top.
Without responding, Qin Boyan asked, "Tell me, why have you been picking on me these past two days?"
"I just don't like the look of you, is that reason enough?"
Li Dahai blurted out a sentence.
"Some time has passed since the start of the school year."
The implication is that your reasoning is invalid.
In other words, you don't like me, so why didn't you cause trouble when school started?
"Stop spouting nonsense. Do you think I need to pick a time just because I don't like you?"
Li Dahai threw the canvas backpack into Wang Pengchang's arms. Then, he clenched his index fingers together, his knuckles cracking loudly. It seemed he was determined to attack Qin Boyan.
"Go stand over there."
Qin Boyan said something to Qin Yaxin, then set up the bicycle kickstand by the roadside, hung his military green canvas backpack on the handlebars, and then turned his gaze back to Li Dalong, asking indifferently, "Are you sure you want to fight me?"
"You fucking talk too much nonsense!"
With that, Li Dahai threw a punch at Qin Boyan's face, but Qin Boyan easily dodged it. The next moment, Qin Boyan subdued his opponent with a single move.
He tied Li Dahai's hands behind his back, pressed his right knee against the other man's back, and said with a mocking tone, "With this kind of amateurish skill, you think you can show off in front of me? Kid, do you think too highly of yourself and think you're number two and nobody dares to call themselves number one in front of you?"
Grabbing Li Dahai's hair and forcing him to look up, Qin Boyan said, "Look at me. Now you can answer the question I asked you earlier?"
"Go ahead and kill me if you dare!"
Li Dahai's attitude was very firm.
"So you don't want to talk about it, right?"
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