Chapter 423 - Men in Black (2/2)

“But I’ve been watching a lot of ancient TV programs, and that’s where I picked it up. Anyway, brother-in-law, let’s not come to such roadside stalls to eat again for the sake of hygiene. If not for you, I will definitely not… oh wait, your humble younger brother-in-law isn’t trying to be patronizing here, but it’s not like we are too poor to afford to go to restaurants, right? Any random restaurant in the city is better than this, isn’t it?” Su Canye said.

Xiao Luo shook his head and offered his own take on the culinary world as he saw it. “The delicacies of our country can be found in the common street food. And you won’t find them by going to the fancy restaurants that you alluded to,” he said.

Su Canye was evidently not convinced. “Really?”

Xiao Luo did not respond to Su Canye and sat in silence, waiting for the food.

It did not take too long before the stall owner walked over with a tray to serve them the two bowls of steaming hot souped rice-noodles. It looked and smelled delicious with condiments and portions of bak choy on top of the noodles.

Xiao Luo started to dig in with his chopsticks.

“Are you sure you won’t get food poisoning from eating this?”

Su Canye muttered aloud, frowning deeply as he hesitated on whether to eat it or not. But his stomach was growling, and after getting a whiff of the fresh fragrant of the souped rice-noodles, he decided it was worth the risk and started to dig in. He needed to have something in common with his brother-in-law, for what it was worth, and if he actually got food poisoning later, that was a small price to pay.

He psyched himself up and started to dig in…

Little did he expect that once he started eating, he could not resist finishing the entire bowl.

“Man, it’s friggin’ yumz… it’s so friggin’ yumz!”

Su Canye ate heartily and was generously complimenting the food in between bites, for the texture of the rice-noodles was excellent, it was chewy and fresh, and something he had never had before, which instantly gave him an appetite.

Sitting next to him, Xiao Luo smiled and shook his head. He was familiar with the Xiahai slang used by Su Canye, by which he meant that the food was “yummy.”

As they were enjoying their bowl of noodles, a black car was fast approaching from afar, and without warning, it screeched to a halt right in front of the stall. A group of muscular men in black tees alighted from the car armed with baseball bats and iron pipes.

They appeared to be following the orders of someone—and that person was none other than Lei Shijian from the Wild Wolf Mountain!

“What’s the team from Wild Wolf Mountain Motorsports doing here?” Su Canye asked, scratching the back of his head.

Xiao Luo smiled and replied, “They have a menacing aura, definitely up to no good, by the looks of it.”

“Could it be that they want the money back?”

Just as Su Canye spoke, Lei Shijian pointed aggressively at Xiao Luo with the baseball bat in his hand. “Boy, if you don’t want to live the rest of your life as a handicap, then you better hand over the money right now. Otherwise, I’ll beat the hell out of you,” he said.

One of his minions stepped up to Xiao Luo and threw the POS machine on the table. Wanting to appear fierce and threatening, he threw it down really hard. Lei Shijian immediately turned to him and lashed out, “F*ck you, what are we gonna do if you broke it?”

“Shhhh…”

Suddenly, Xiao Luo raised a hand, indicating for Lei Shijian to keep silent.

Instantly, a cold and dark chill crept across the ground, and everyone felt it. Not only did Xiao Luo and Lei Shijian sense it, but even Su Canye could also feel the strange sensation of impending danger, the feeling one got when being targeted by a prowling beast.

“Over there!”

Xiao Luo turned around suddenly and looked over to the east side of the street.

Lei Shijian and Su Canye and everyone else followed the direction Xiao Luo was looking at, and what they saw made their hairs stand on ends. Two men, dressed in black and armed with gleaming machetes, were approaching them under the veil of the dark night. They did not make the slightest noise, and nobody would have noticed the assailants if Xiao Luo did not alert them to it.

Shocked, Su Canye blurted out, “F*ck, are they playing assassins like in those ancient dramas?”