Chapter 23 (1/2)

The first day of the anniversary was always boring. There was nothing going on more than familiarizing with each other to avoid mistakes with the positions in the family hierarchy in the following days of it. For the juniors of the family, it was even more boring.

However, today, Huang Xuan's magic disappearance shocked Huang Song and Huang Shunwei. The two embellished the story of how Huang Xuan had disappeared… but the most wonderful part happened at 11 p.m.

Huang Xuan's older male cousins were gloating over seeing through the ”terrorists” tricks of smelly roast and laxative and was walking toward the parking lot arrogantly. ”How pathetic it is not to be able to drive a car when you are under 18!” they said sarcastically to the younger kids when they were pa.s.sing by.

Then—

Accompanying the familiar rumbling, a series of sounds of car cras.h.i.+ng broke out. Several cars were b.u.mped into each other before they had even been started. Luckily, there were no casualties.

It was spectacular to see ten-odd brand name cars cras.h.i.+ng. Huang Liming was furious and started cursing. The car had cost him 1.2 million dollars and now was squeezed into a heap of sc.r.a.p metal.

”It must be Huang Xuan who did this!” said Huang Xuan's sixth cousin, Huang Jianxuan, stepping out of his wreck. Ever since he had beaten up Huang Zhi, Huang Xuan had drugged him effectively twice with laxatives.

”Stop shouting! Are you trying to make everybody know that you have been tricked?” Huang Liming was 26 years old, the fourth born child in the family. Hence, he was much more thoughtful than Huang Jianxuan. ”Ten-odd cars have crashed in the family parking lot at the anniversary. The seniors must know about this by now. How will they react? They might punish Huang Xuan, but how would they look on me? How would they treat Huang Xuan? Should I keep silent and put up with this?”

Huang Liming fell into a dilemma. At this moment the lot became a chaos. Seeing Huang Liming talking to himself, Huang Jianxuan shouted impatiently, ”I don't care. I will teach that kid a lesson today.”

Hearing this, the eleventh child in the family, Huang Pinyan jumped up. He had spent 1.5 million to buy this BMW 7 series. However, now, it was all for nothing. His father had no spare money to buy him a new one. Looking at the wreck, Huang Pinyan even more furious. He stared at Huang Jianxuan and said, ”Stop trash talking! Let's go beat that b.a.s.t.a.r.d to death!”

The securities the Huang Family had paid a lot to hire had come to the scene early. Huang Pinyan rushed out of the crowd first. Huang Jianxuan shouted, ”The ones with b.a.l.l.s, follow me!” and then ran away. People in the crowd looked at each other, and only two followed him eventually.

The securities just stood there and didn't dare to stop them. Several people in the crowd looked at Huang Liming, who moved his lips and then closed them again. Inwardly, he thought that what was happening was the best solution to the situation.

Huang Xuan was fooling around with other kids. Hearing the uproar coming from afar, he started cursing excitedly. Huang Zhi couldn't help talking about the ”poisonous sausage incident” proudly, which was one of today's few successful cases. First shouts, then arguments, were heard from outside the garden. It seemed somebody had barged in. The older kids quieted down first. According to the family rules Huang Jindi had set up, barging into the ancient houses was a major sin.

When the noises were suddenly gone, the kids weren't in the mood to play anymore. They were about to leave when the shouts were heard again. Then two hefty men dashed in, swinging their arms. Several helpers tried to stop them but failed.

”It seems to be Huang Jianxuan,” Huang Zhi recognized his sixth cousin, who had beaten him up before, very quickly. Back then, his second older sister had newly wedded, and no one among the juniors in the third branch could match his st.u.r.dy sixth cousin, so the whole had been let go.

Huang Xuan's older cousins were all about to go to high school and weren't in the genealogical tree of the fourth branch. Seeing the two factions were going to have a conflict, they moved away from where they had been sitting.