"Sir, the man just now was called Wu Tao. He's the pawnbroker of Shengyue Tower in Huzhou City, a young and scoundrel. If you hit him, you'll be in big trouble. Leave quickly, or that man will find someone to avenge you. Wu Tao is ruthless and vicious. Once you fall into his hands, it will be terrible. I don't know how many young people who have just come to Huzhou City have fallen into his hands..." Yan Liqiang had just walked a short distance when a kind old man came up from behind on the side of the road and quietly reminded Yan Liqiang to be careful of the man who came to avenge him.
"Thank you for telling me, sir. I wonder where the Shengyue Tower is?" Yan Liqiang blinked and asked curiously.
"Some men don't like women, but like men instead. Shengyue Tower is a place for those men to have fun. There are some male sycophants in the tower. In Huzhou City, people in Shengyue Tower are not to be messed with..."
A lovelorn husband
Hearing this word, Yan Liqiang almost wanted to vomit. The so-called lovelorn husband refers to those men who sell their looks and pretend to be women to please men.
The Wu Tao just now probably dug a trap, trying to lure me to Shengyue Tower to sell my ass and be that crappy lover!
Hold!
This was the first time Yan Liqiang had encountered such a thing in his two lifetimes. He actually got into trouble just because he was too handsome.
The old man who told Yan Liqiang was probably afraid that the people from Shengyue Tower would come to retaliate. After whispering all this to Yan Liqiang, he saw an intersection in front of the market and walked to the road next to it.
Just a few minutes ago, Yan Liqiang was still thinking about how to make money by painting, but in the blink of an eye, a young scoundrel got Yan Liqiang into trouble.
At this moment, Yan Liqiang thought of Yang Zhi, the Green-faced Beast who bought a knife in "Water Margin". This is how the world is. Many times, even if you don't look for trouble, trouble will come to you.
Things have changed, and we can only adapt to the situation - Yan Liqiang is not Yang Zhi.
Yan Liqiang was thinking as he walked, his eyes gradually narrowed, revealing a sharp and fierce feeling.
The market was very lively, with all kinds of food and drinks available, and there were many stalls on the roadside. Yan Liqiang had not been shopping for a few minutes when he felt several dazzling gazes falling on him. While lingering in front of a stall selling candy figures on the roadside, Yan Liqiang glanced at the crowd behind him and found that two men in their thirties had been following him from a distance. Although there were people coming and going in the market, the two men were among the crowd, pretending to be shopping in the market. They were still seventy or eighty meters away from Yan Liqiang, but Yan Liqiang still keenly noticed the abnormality of the two men.
The two men were wearing fashionable black training suits, their faces were pale and their eyes were gloomy. It was obvious at first glance that they were not good people.
Yan Liqiang deliberately walked around the streets of the city several times, and the two men followed Yan Liqiang. Wherever Yan Liqiang went, they went. This made Yan Liqiang more certain.
It was probably because there were too many people in the market and it was too lively. Those people probably didn't dare to openly attack in the market for fear of causing public outrage, so they sent people to follow him first.
Seeing that there was a barbecue stall on the side of the road in Fangshi, business was particularly prosperous. Many people gathered in front of the stall, choosing food. The owner of the barbecue stall was very busy. Yan Liqiang also went over, watched for a while as if he was watching the fun, and then left.
There are several entrances and exits in the market. After walking around the market, Yan Liqiang turned to the entrance and exit of the market where he had just entered. As soon as he walked out of the market, Yan Liqiang suddenly started running, running towards the road outside the city where he had just come from in the carriage.
Half a minute later, Wu Tao, whose face was still swollen, and the two men who followed Yan Liqiang appeared at the entrance of the market at the same time.
"Where's that little bastard?" Wu Tao gritted his teeth and looked around with a ferocious look on his face. "If that little bastard falls into my hands this time, I'll show you how I'll discipline him!"
"Master Wu, look..." A man wearing a black training suit suddenly pointed to the distance, "That kid has already run away..."
Wu Tao looked up and saw a figure running wildly on the road more than 200 meters away under the moonlight. That person was Yan Liqiang or someone else.
“Chase…” Wu Tao said nothing and took two people to chase Yan Liqiang.
Catching up with Yan Liqiang was not only for revenge and to make Yan Liqiang look bad, but also for money. How could Wu Tao let a top-notch person like Yan Liqiang get away like that? Fortunately, this was not the first time Wu Tao and the other two had done such a thing. All three of them chased after Yan Liqiang with all their might.
Under the starry sky, Yan Liqiang led the three people behind him and ran in the opposite direction of the road he came during the day.
…
At this time, there were fewer people gathering in front of the barbecue stall in the market. The owner of the barbecue stall suddenly realized that one of the meat hooks used to hang the barbecue on the stall had been missing.
…
The farther away from Huzhou City, the fewer people there were on the road. After running five or six kilometers, as a village with lights still on disappeared on the side of the road, there were basically no pedestrians on the road. The scenery on both sides of the road became more and more desolate, with fewer and fewer fields and more and more weeds and trees.
"Little bastard, stop, you stop right there..." Wu Tao and the other two men shouted as they chased after Yan Liqiang. The three of them chased Yan Liqiang all the way here. The distance between them and Yan Liqiang has been shortened by half, from more than 200 meters at the beginning to only more than 100 meters. This made the three of them even less likely to give up easily.
Of course Yan Liqiang would not stop, but continued to run towards the place in his memory.
This run lasted for about thirty or forty minutes, all the way to the foot of a hillside more than ten kilometers away from Huzhou City. Then Yan Liqiang suddenly dived into the woods on the side of the road under the gaze of the three people behind him.
When they ran here, the three people behind were already panting and exhausted, but fortunately they could still hold on. Seeing Yan Liqiang hiding in the woods nearby, the three of them didn't think twice and rushed into the woods as well.
When we got here, there were very few people on the road, and it was even more impossible to have anyone in the woods.
"Be careful..." Wu Tao's face turned pale from running so fast that he had to take a breath before he could finish his sentence. "Be careful...what tricks does that little bastard play..."
"Master Wu, there are three of us and he is just one person. What is there to be afraid of? What tricks can a fourteen-year-old kid play? I can crush him to death with one hand. As long as the three of us don't get separated, it's fine. That kid must be unable to run anymore and must have found a place to hide..." A man next to Wu Tao said while panting, parted the branches in front of him, and walked in front. The man behind him thought about it and pulled out a dagger from his waist.
Just like that, all three of them went into the woods.
The light in the woods is darker, especially at night. The shadows of the trees are heavy, and the starlight and moonlight in the sky are cut into pieces, greatly affecting people's vision. All they can hear are the chirping of insects and the sound of the rushing river not far away.
…
In just a short while, Wu Tao and his two companions went hundreds of meters deep into the woods. With their eyes wide open and their teeth gritted, they searched in the woods.
Suddenly, there was a slight noise in the grass under a tree not far from the three people. Without thinking, the three people rushed over and parted the grass in a flash.
There is nothing in the grass...
Just when the three were feeling strange, a dark figure silently hung down from the tree next to them and appeared behind the three people - Yan Liqiang's two feet were hanging upside down on the tree, with his head and body hanging down. There was a cold light flashing in Yan Liqiang's eyes, and in his hand, he held an iron meat hook that was more than a foot long.
"Strange, was there a mouse or a rabbit here..." The man in black holding the dagger just turned his head and met the eyes of Yan Liqiang who was hanging upside down. The distance between the two people was less than one meter.
Before the man could scream, Yan Liqiang had already swung the iron meat hook in his hand. In just a moment, the sharp end of the meat hook dug directly into the man's eye and pierced his brain. The man fell down without a sound.
Yan Liqiang then pounced down from the tree and rolled on the ground. Just as the other man in black heard the noise behind him and suddenly turned around, the meat hook in Yan Liqiang's hand dug into the man in black's neck from bottom to top. The man in black screamed, covered his neck, and fell to the ground.
Yan Liqiang's figure falling from the sky and the black-clothed man's scream as he fell to the ground frightened Wu Tao who was standing nearby. Without thinking, he shouted in fear, leaving the two men behind and rushed out of the forest.
Yan Liqiang rolled over from the ground, unable to catch up with Wu Tao, so he picked up a fist-sized stone from the ground and smashed it hard at Wu Tao.
The two sides were not far from each other. The stone hit Wu Tao's leg, and knocked him down with a scream.
Blood was gushing out of the neck of the man in black who was lying on the ground like a spring. The man in black was not dead. He covered the wound on his neck and looked at Yan Liqiang standing in front of him in horror. Under the moonlight, Yan Liqiang raised the cold and hideous meat hook high in his right hand, like a butcher walking in the dark night...
"don't want… "
Before the man in black dared to say two words, Yan Liqiang's meat hook had already smashed down again and landed on his chest...
Yan Liqiang's hands were waving mechanically, resolutely and coldly. Each time he used the hook, he smashed it down fiercely, digging the sharp end of the meat hook into the vital parts of the black-clothed man lying on the ground - the neck, the head, the chest...
One... Two... Three... Four... Ten...
Blood splattered from the man's neck and head, covering Yan Liqiang's face.
After digging with more than ten hooks, the man on the ground was already a bloody mess and there was no sound at all.
After wiping the blood that splashed on his face, Yan Liqiang turned around and walked towards Wu Tao who was not far away.
Wu Tao crawled on the ground for several meters. The stone that Yan Liqiang had just thrown at him directly broke his shin bone, making him unable to stand up.
Hearing the noise behind him, Wu Tao, who was crawling on the ground, turned around. Yan Liqiang's face stained with blood made Wu Tao scared to death. It was not until this time that Wu Tao realized that Yan Liqiang's handsome face was so terrifying and cold, like a devil.
"I'm from Shengyue Tower. If you dare to touch me..." Wu Tao shouted.
Yan Liqiang walked over in silence without saying a word. He just raised his hand and smashed it down hard. The hook dug into Wu Tao's head, knocking back all the remaining words of Wu Tao.
Wu Tao's body twitched and twisted. Yan Liqiang stepped on Wu Tao's back with one foot and raised his hand again. The cold meat hook smashed down fiercely again and again. Each time, a deep bloody hole was opened in Wu Tao's body...
After more than ten times, Wu Tao stopped moving...
The dark woods are filled with a bloody smell...
(End of this chapter)