Chapter 20 Delivering the Goods (1/2)

“A thousand liang of silver?” Zhou Donghuang was stunned at first but started laughing uncontrollably immediately after. “You should know… the pure profit from a single day of business from my Yunxuan Restaurant, regardless of all operating costs, already exceeds a thousand liang of silver. If Yunxuan Restaurant was yours, would you sell it to someone offering you a thousand liang of silver for it?”

Zhou Donghuang looked at the middle-aged man as he spoke as though he were looking at an idiot.

“Zhou Donghuang, a thousand liang of silver is the greatest gesture of sincerity our second young master will offer… if you are not willing, just beware that you might lose the restaurant and not get a single cent!”

The middle-aged man had a cold gleam in his eye, and his tone was threatening.

“What? Your second young master of the Li family of the prefecture capital is surely not thinking of seizing my Yunxuan Restaurant?”

Zhou Donghuang remained expressionless, but his smile became brighter and brighter.

“You could say that,” the middle-aged man said in a low voice, “I’ll give you one last chance… accept the thousand liang of silver and hand over the title deed to Yunxuan Restaurant. Otherwise, I’ll maim your arms and legs and take the title deed to Yunxuan Restaurant off your body myself.”

The middle-aged man began to rise as soon as he finished speaking, fixing Zhou Donghuang with a savage grin as though he would lash out immediately if Zhou Donghuang dared to refuse.

As a level-two adept, he believed that he could handle this martial invalid before him.

“What? You intend to start a fightsomething?” Zhou Donghuang asked with a laugh, his expression carefree and relaxed, not showing even a hint of the fear that the middle-aged man expected.

However, there was a touch of coldness in the depths of his gaze.

Maim his arms and legs?

“It seems you have chosen the latter.”

The middle-aged man’s eyes flashed, and his body seemed to flicker as he swiftly took a large step towards Zhou Donghuang. He extended and then tucked in his arms like a hawk would with its wings and grabbed for Zhou Donghuang’s shoulders with both clawed hands. “If that’s the case, I’ll maim both your arms first!”

A level-two adept?

In the split-second the middle-aged man took to make his move, Zhou Donghuang had already discerned that he was a level-two adept, although his qi was not as concentrated as Wang Yukun’s.

Anyway, even Wang Yukun had died at his hands, and Donghuang had been nowhere near as strong then as he was now.

These two days of practice had made the qi within his body even more concentrated, and he was only a step away from level-one of the gathered qi.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The middle-aged man’s figure flashed before Zhou Donghuang, and as both his clawed hands grabbed for Zhou Donghuang’s shoulder, Donghuang bent his upper body backwards as though he was drawing a bow. His arms trembled as he straightened up in an instant, and Donghuang flung his body forward like a thunderclap, both palms aiming for the middle-aged man’s arms.

Eh?

As the middle-aged man was surprised at how quickly Zhou Donghuang had struck out with his palms, Zhou Donghuang’s palms had already landed on both his arms.

Pong! Pong!

Ka-chak! Ka-chak!

Two loud sounds were followed by the clear sound of bones shattering.

The next moment, “Aaaahhhhh—”

The middle-aged man let out a piteous scream like a pig being slaughtered and flew backwards, landing heavily on the dining table with no way out of this difficult situation.

Swoosh!

As the middle-aged man landed on the dining table, Zhou Donghuang moved in a flash to pursue him and stomped down with one foot on the chest of the middle-aged man as he struggled to rise.

“With just this little bit of ability, you intend to seize Yunxuan Restaurant from me, Zhou Donghuang?” Zhou Donghuang smiled, looking down at the middle-aged man.

“You…”

Now, the middle-aged man looked at Zhou Donghuang with shock and dread as though he had seen a ghost, cursing Li Xian continuously in his heart.

Did Li Xian not say that this Zhou Donghuang was a martial invalid? How could a martial invalid have such great abilities?

In the instant that Zhou Donghuang’s palms had struck his arms, he realized that Zhou Donghuang’s ability exceeded his.

Without considering any other factors, the strength contained in the blows from Zhou Donghuang’s palms was not what an ordinary level-two adept would have been able to exert.

“Go back and tell your dog sh*t, second young master that if he wants to seize my Yunxuan Restaurant, he can come here personally.”

As Zhou Donghuang finished speaking, his gaze suddenly turned cold, and he squatted down without warning. With a whoosh, his palms landed on the middle-aged man’s legs.

Immediately, the middle-aged man’s legs suffered the same fate as his arms, and with another piteous scream like a pig being slaughtered, he fainted.

Just a moment ago, the middle-aged man had been supremely arrogant, proclaiming that he would maim Zhou Donghuang’s limbs. Now, Zhou Donghuang’s limbs were whole and undamaged, and it was this man’s limbs that had been maimed.

Walking out of the heavenly dining booth, Zhou Donghuang instructed Chief Steward Fu who had been waiting outside, “Take the money for the meal off his body… then go out and find some people and a stretcher and send him back to the Li family. The money to employ those people and buy the stretcher, you don’t have to take it from him… our Yunxuan Restaurant can still afford this bit of money.”

As soon as he finished, Zhou Donghuang left under the reverent gaze of Fu.