Chapter 86 — The Third Brother's Underling
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"You bunch of trash!" Kang Xiaofeng was in one of his manly moods these past two days, and seeing Tang Zhi bullied by Zou Ruoming, he simply could not hold back any longer. His blood boiling, he clenched his fists and charged forward!
Wei Zhao had not expected Kang Xiaofeng to stick his nose into this. He truly had not seen it coming — for the sake of the goddess in his heart, even a timid, trouble-shy boy like Kang Xiaofeng had his moments of eruption.
"This day... is really more trouble than it's worth!" Wei Zhao had meant to lie low for a few days, but now there was no lying low to be had! Kang Xiaofeng had already charged in — could he just stand by? Was he to watch that bastard Zou Ruoming beat Kang Xiaofeng to a pulp?
"Zou Ruoming! Are you even a man? Tang Zhi won't go out with you, so you resort to such despicable tricks to force her into it!" Kang Xiaofeng rushed over and planted himself in front of Tang Zhi.
Zou Ruoming had been waiting for Tang Zhi to make her choice — that was precisely the effect he wanted, to force Tang Zhi into a corner where she had no choice but to decide! His coming here was itself a gesture, a threat! By standing here at Mother Tang's barbecue stall, he was telling Tang Zhi: if you don't agree today, then from now on, neither you nor your mother will have a moment's peace, and your damned barbecue stall won't be able to stay open either!
So Zou Ruoming was fifty percent confident that Tang Zhi would agree, would become his girlfriend under duress.
It was precisely because of these misgivings that Tang Zhi had kept her head down and said not a word. On the one hand she feared for her own safety, and on the other she feared for her mother's damned barbecue stall! She knew that if she fell out with Zou Ruoming today, her mother's barbecue would never sell again; if Zou Ruoming and his followers came to make trouble every day, their family's means of survival would be cut off then and there.
Just as Tang Zhi stood at a loss, Kang Xiaofeng came charging abruptly over. Zou Ruoming was stunned, and so was Tang Zhi, who thought to herself: Who is this person? She did not even know him!
"Who the hell are you?" Zou Ruoming, seeing Tang Zhi on the verge of being forced into her choice, had a Cheng Yaojin burst in from out of nowhere and was furious at once. Pointing at Kang Xiaofeng, his voice turned sinister.
"I... I..." Facing Zou Ruoming's vicious, man-eating glare, Kang Xiaofeng's earlier courage drained away in an instant. He had only been capable of a sudden outburst, and once it was over, it was over; he was no Wei Zhao, with real strength to back him up. If it came to a fight, he was no match for Zou Ruoming, and being barked at like this took the wind out of his sails. But he knew he could not show weakness at a time like this — at the very worst, the boss was still behind him. If he got beaten up, would the boss just stand by? So he stiffened his neck and said, "I'm one of the Third Brother's men — one of the Four Great Villains of the school!"
"The Four Great Villains? Third Brother? His men?" Zou Ruoming was taken aback, thoroughly muddled by Kang Xiaofeng's words. "What kind of nonsense is this? You're one of Zhong Yongliang's people? That son of a bitch Zhong Yongliang still isn't behaving himself after the beating he got, and he dares stick his nose into my business?"
"Go fuck your mother, even your boss wouldn't dare stick his nose into Brother Ming's business -- who the hell do you think you are?" The broad-faced fat kid shoved Kang Xiaofeng hard. "Go home and tell your boss I said fuck his mother!"