Chapter 6 (1/2)
The people who were watching got totally surprised. One of them knew An Zheng and realized that the child who had just defeated the ruffians was the orphan who had always used to be subservient. Knowing this had made him more surprised. Why had An Zheng changed so much after only one day? Having defeated those ruffians brutally, was it him, An Zheng who used to know nothing, except in holding his head while being beaten, not daring to fight back?
Zhang Lei’s face was full of blood. Blood and flesh mixed together, which seemed to be seriously injured. It seemed that his face would be damaged forever even if the trauma had already been healed. Those who only knew how to bully weak people were extremely rejected by An Zheng. He needed a place to heal himself. Otherwise in his golden age, he just only needed to raise his hand and those people would have become cloud and smoke.
He hated the tyrants like sin. If it had happened before he had gotten injured, those b.a.s.t.a.r.ds would have vanished.
– “Have you remembered how much you owe me yet?”
An Zheng kicked Zhang Lei and frightened him out of his wits. He asked Zhang Lei a question while Zhang Lei was lying on the ground as quietly as a dead swine. He had wanted to answer, but half of his face was covered with blood, so he could not even open his mouth.
An Zheng saw that he was not able to answer, so he bent down a little, and looked at him:
– “I will a.s.sume that you owe me 500 liang's, ok?”
Zhang Lei’s eyes were sparkling as to show his disagreement. However, An Zheng again raised the brick upwards, and he nodded continuously. An Zheng accepted, and he came to Lou LaiZi:
– “Do you remember how much you owe me?”
Lou LaiZi did not dare to deny, and responded nervously:
– “Yes, yes… I owe you 140 liang's.”
An Zheng sighed:
– “140 liang's… well, let me adjust the number because I don’t like odd numbers.”
Lou LaiZi responded happily:
– “Thank you! Thank you!”
After that, An Zheng bent down, and broke one of Lou LaiZi's legs:
– “A leg costs fifty liang's. You have just owed me 140 liang's lately. So, now it is 190 liang's, rounded to 200 liang's. Do you think that it is fair now?”
Lou LaiZi shouted sorrowfully, but how could he have dared to say no? He repressed his feelings and nodded non-stop. He himself did not know what to curse at An Zheng. An Zheng ignored him, and moved to Zhou An slowly:
– “How about you? Do you remember how much it is that you owed me?”
Zhou An was so scared that he crawled back, crawling while crying:
– “Ye ye, I beg of you, I will agree with whatever that it is, the price of my debt, please just don’t beat me… Lou LaiZi owed you 200 liang's, so I will also owe you 200 liang's, is that possible?”
An Zheng nodded satisfactorily:
– “Reasonable! Your att.i.tude is not bad, so I will a.s.sume that you owe me 200 liang's. However, I am an honest person, and I don’t like to take over people’s properties. You had said that you had owed me 200 liang's, but I had not beaten you enough for this amount. If news of this spreads out, everyone will say that I am not fair. If so, who will dare to find me for their businesses? I had remembered that you had owed me 160 liang's, so I am going to break…”
Crack! A leg of Zhou An's had been broken.
Said An Zheng:
– “210 liang's but I will only charge you 200 liang's.”
He turned to the third one, the third ruffian was so frightened that he continuously stepped back. He found a brick, and immediately, he picked up the brick and he beat his face with it:
– “An ye, I also owe you 200 liang's. You don’t need to set out because I will do it myself. Is that fine?”
Having finished his question, he once again beat the brick on his face strongly.
An Zheng looked at them. They were really frightened to death by me. From now on they won't dare to cause anymore troubles with me even if someone pays them money to do so. His style in the past was to strike at the root of all evils, so he would have killed those people without sparing anyone although they were not valuable for him to do so. However, he did not know much about the Illusory Perennial Domicile, and he also did not want to kill any humans brutally in this place, so he stopped.
– “That leading head owed me 500 liang's, and each of you owe me 200 liang's. So, you owe me 3,300 liang's in total. Now I’m waiting for you to pay me.”
He had not finished his words only to see Gao Di turning back to run, but he was caught by Du ShouShou. Du ShouShou pulled Gao Di back, and Gao Di was so scared that his face turned pale. He saw An Zheng looking at him, so he tried to smirk:
– An Zheng… An ye, you are a great person who will not resent the bad hat’s mistakes. Please just see this bad hat as the fart, and forgive me.
An Zheng sighed coldly:
– “Even if I ate s.h.i.+t, I could not dare to fart such smelly farts as you.”
He raised his leg and kicked Gao Di’s chin:
– “I had intended to gradually acquire from your debts, but you found a dead way yourself, so you will be satisfied.” Other people had been broken an arm and a leg, but you, I’ll not charge you.
An Zheng looked at Zhang Lei:
– “This guy is for you. He will be up to your treatment. You owed me 3300 liang's. I counted this one to be about 300 liang's, so I will only charge you 3000 liang's and that’s all.”
The face of Zhang Lei was full of blood by being beaten, but the trauma was not very serious. At that time, An Zhen’s eyes looked like the death. Although An Zhen was not so tall, he had set out as strongly as a demon. Even though they had fought with him once, they were not his rivals. From now on, as long as An Zheng was still in the South Mountain Town, he would not have dared to appear in front of An Zheng.
Hearing An Zheng’s saying, Zhang Lei nodded strongly, and said with courage:
– “Don’t worry An ye, just give this s.h.i.+t to this bad hat.”
An Zheng nodded:
– “Go get money! These people will be kept here temporarily. You go home and bring money here to take them back. I am very fair, 200 liang's for each person. However, if I hear that you had robbed from other people or have forced them to give you money, you will surely die by me before midnight.”
An Zheng pointed to the sidewalk:
– “Don’t stay there as such obstacles. All of you move to the sidewalk, line up in order, and wait for your leader to bring money and take you back.”
Zhang Lei did not dare to be late, even for a minute. He took Gao Di with him and escaped the South Mountain street.
Du ShouShou went to stand by An Zheng’s side: