Chapter 40 (1/2)

After 10 seconds, Uncle Wang and Aunt Zhang noticed the seven or eight men coming from the end of the street. Their faces turned pale as soon as they saw the men and began to close up the stall frantically.

“Kiddo, I’ll pack the rest of the food for you. Just leave right now! Leave!” Aunt Zhang ran toward him and said with a hushed tone.

Ye Chen remained unmoved. “Why should we leave?”

“Kiddo, you’re still young. Maybe you still don’t understand certain rules, but it’s not going to end well if you don’t leave soon… I’m begging you… Alright?”

Aunt Zhang’s voice started to tremble.

Ye Chen was about the reply when a loud noise rang beside his ear!

He turned his head quickly to see men who were wearing black singlets were already at the food stall. The bald guy leading the group who had a gold chain around his neck had even flipped the table beside Ye Chen over, scattering everything on it to the floor!

He had made a mess of the place.

“Yo, Old Wang, not bad. It seems that there are still customers brave enough to come over.” The bald guy found a stool and sat down. He glanced over at the notice on the wall detailing the change of location for the stall. “Yo, today’s the last day huh? Changing locations tomorrow? Why are you changing to an old street? You sure you can earn enough money with the meager amount of people passing through there?”

Uncle Wang’s expression darkened as he shot a glance at the bald guy. Then, he smiled apologetically, “Master Hu, um… You’re a gentleman, please I beg you, don’t bother my small business anymore.”

After he spoke, Uncle Wang took all the money out from the cabinet and handed it over to the bald guy carefully with a smile. “Master Hu, this is all my income I’ve gotten these few days. I respectfully give them all to you… You see…”

Slap!

The bald guy, Master Hu, swept his eyes across the money and gave Uncle Wang a big slap on his face.

“What the f*ck am I supposed to do with this money? I’ve told you guys to prepare fifty thousand as your protection fees. Is that really so hard? Did you really think moving will save you from me? Keep on dreaming! Do you want to bet if I’ll smash the windows of your new place tomorrow? You won’t be able to open your stall at this rate!”

When he heard that, Uncle Wang’s face turned white instantly! He had thought that changing the location of his stall would prevent such fiasco as the one before his eyes to happen again in the future! It turned out that these bloodsuckers had latched onto them.

They were merely running a small business. It was impossible for them to rack up such money!

Aunt Zhang was so scared she was trembling from head to toe. As a woman, she felt that it was completely useless for her to stand up against these people.

They were threatening them with their lives!

Master Hu looked at the money on the ground and spat on it. He ordered, “I’ll be back this time tomorrow. I expect to see fifty grand and your business can revert back to its booming stage. If not, I promise I’ll find every new stall that you open and mess that place up!”

When he was done, Master Hu waved a hand in the air and outside.

Before he could take another step, a cold voice came from behind him. “Did I say you can go?”

Master Hu stopped in his tracks and his body tightened up. He turned around to see Ye Chen who was in the midst of eating his barbecue skewers.

He forced a laugh, turned, and sat right in front of Ye Chen. He said, “Kid, were you talking to me?”

Ye Chen used his chopsticks to pick up some vegetables and proceeded to savor it. After a few seconds, he looked over to Master Hu and said, “If I wasn’t talking to you, was I talking to a dog instead?”

His words stunned not only the henchmen, but Uncle Wang and Aunt Zhang were so freaked out that their faces turned white!

This kid had a lot of balls to say these things!

Was he that oblivious to the danger of the situation?

Master Hu was the boss of this district. He had ten or more henchmen under him. Did he know how many had to go about their day according to his means? They were about to leave them alone already when he spurted out the insult that Master Hu was a dog!

This kid might very well be retarded.

He had dared to mess around in Master Hu’s presence.

He was going to die for sure.

Aunt Zhang was about to persuade Ye Chen to stop but was stopped by Uncle Wang instead.

“What can you, a woman, can do about it? Let this kid clean up the mess he made. Don’t try to fix something you can’t. He has offended Master Hu. There’s nothing we can do now. Can’t you see how many people here witnessed this?”

Aunt Zhang kept her silence after she saw those seven or eight hooligans who were staring intently at the scene before them.

It did not matter what they had to say anymore. They were merely ordinary people. How could they go up against these irrational people?

At that moment, Master Hu’s expression was not looking well. At any rate, he was the leader of this district and never had anyone disrespect him that way, especially not in front of his face!

This young guy was looking for trouble!