Chapter 1111 — Why Are You Crying?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Tell me, what exactly is going on? I'd like to see it — I'm sitting right here, and someone dares to come and take you away?" Er Goudan's stubborn streak flared up; he glared wide-eyed and snorted.
Er Goudan felt a certain fondness for Yu Yuanyuan. He thought her a kind girl — she had treated him to a meal, which was far better than that female swindler! So now that Yu Yuanyuan was in trouble, and Er Goudan was by nature a warm-hearted man, how could he possibly look the other way?
"Fine. If you want to hear it, I'll tell you..." Seeing that Er Goudan was determined to get to the bottom of it, Yu Yuanyuan stopped resisting. These past two days her heart had been unbearably pent up anyway; pouring it out to an outsider might at least make her feel a little better.
In truth, Yu Yuanyuan did not believe Er Goudan could do anything — he had only just come to the city; what did he know of the world's coldness? So she told him how Xiao Luozi had schemed to trick her father into going to the boxing arena to watch a match, how he had then lent money, and how he had forced her to become Master Li's concubine.
Hearing of Yu Yuanyuan's plight, Er Goudan flew into a rage, glaring at Yunhai Shuku, who sat nearby with a face full of gloom. "What are that Xiao Luozi and Master Li supposed to be? One's a street thug, the other's a showman who fights on a platform for a living. I thought they were some formidable characters — turns out they're just a pair of trash. And you'd actually think of handing over your daughter to settle a debt? What kind of father are you? Are you even a man?"
"Whether I am or not, what difference does it make? That Xiao Luozi is a man of the underworld, and Master Li is fearsome too — one punch from him and he shatters a steel security door. What am I, an old man, supposed to do? One word from them and our whole family is ruined!" Yunhai Shuku said with a bitter smile.
"So you just accept your fate? You'd give your daughter to him as a concubine?" Er Goudan was furious. What kind of father was this?
"And what good would refusing do?" Yunhai Shuku shook his head helplessly. "Young man, you don't understand. You're too simple and honest — you don't know how formidable those people are!"
"Formidable? How formidable can a street ruffian and a showman boxer be?" Er Goudan said scornfully. "That sort bullies the soft and fears the hard. Show weakness and they turn hard; show hardness and they turn soft. If I were you, I'd go settle it with them, life for life!"
"Life for life? How could I be their match? They'd beat me to death!" Yunhai Shuku felt Er Goudan was talking more and more wildly, and shook his head.
"How can you talk about my dad like that? You've only just come to the city — what do you know about how formidable they are? It's easy enough for you to say. Then why don't you go settle it with him, life for life?" Yu Yuanyuan was angry now. Her father might be a disappointment, but to hear an outsider like Er Goudan run him down like that still stung. What Er Goudan said had some sense in it, but he had no idea how tangled the whole business was, or how formidable those people were!
"A pair of trash — they're not worth my life!" Er Goudan stood up. "Give me the address of that Master Li, and I'll go kill him with one punch!"