Chapter 237
“F**king hell, what a guy!”
When Li Yingming saw that someone dared to stop him, he became furious and looked towards the side.
In front of him was a youth with a thin build and a fair face, and Li Yingming instantly laughed.
“Kid, even a P***y like you F**king dares to meddle in my business! You’re looking for a fight, aren’t you?”
With that, Li Yingming wanted to throw his hands free of Lin Ran and then teach this weak kid a good lesson.
However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t break free from Lin Ran’s arm, and the latter didn’t even move his wrist.
“Apologise to her!”
Lin Ran looked at Li Yingming and said indifferently, his voice not loud, but full of an aura that made people not dare to question.
“What did you say?”
Li Yingming was stunned, following which he looked at Lin Ran like a fool.
In this town, he, Li Yingming, was definitely walking across the street, who would not avoid seeing him on a regular basis and ask him to apologise to others? This was really the first time in his life.
“Apologise!”
Lin Ran looked at Li Yingming and said indifferently.
“Heh, kid! You’re F**king looking for death, right? You really think I can’t handle you?”
Li Yingming’s face sank and he was about to snap.
The beautiful pa*senger at the side saw this and hurriedly spoke up.
“No, let’s forget it! We’ll be at the place soon.”
She had still been unable to swallow the anger, but remembering the driver’s words just now, she was afraid of dragging Lin Ran into it, so she wanted to put up with it and forget it.
“It’s alright, you go sit at my place!”
Lin Ran said as he smiled at the beautiful pa*senger.
“It’s alright? Who the F**k do you think you are!”
Li Yingming couldn’t hold back any longer and raised his other hand towards Lin Ran’s face.
This scene scared the beautiful pa*senger and the other pa*sengers, who instantly covered their faces, not daring to look.
Lin Ran was simply too thin compared to Li Yingming, and the shock from this slap up was not in the least bit smaller than the shock from hitting the beautiful pa*senger just now.
“Be careful!”
The beautiful pa*senger covered her face and hurriedly shouted.
However, Song Nuan, who was on the side, pulled her to sit next to her and said with a smile.
“Don’t worry, it’s alright!”
“Huh?”
The beautiful pa*senger was still a bit confused, Song Nuan looked like she was with him, how come she wasn’t worried at all at this moment?
Just when he was confused, he heard a crisp slap from behind.
The beautiful pa*senger and the group of people rushed to look over.
But when they saw the scene that appeared before them, everyone froze.
They saw that Lin Ran was still standing there and Li Yingming was standing opposite him, but at this moment the latter was covering his face with his hand, and under his palm was half of his cheek that was already red and swollen.
“You …. You ….”
Li Yingming looked at Lin Ran, his voice couldn’t help but tremble, just now he didn’t even see how Lin Ran had hit himself.
It was only a few seconds after the slap sounded that he felt the sharp pain on his cheek that was on fire.
“Sober up yet?”
Lin Ran looked at Li Yingming and asked blandly.
Li Yingming had recovered from his daze at this point, having been beaten by Lin Ran in front of so many people.
Moreover, many of these people knew him, which made Li Yingming’s face feel hot and spicy.
It was simply a double torture both mentally and physically.
“You! You’re F**king looking for death!”
Li Yingming was furious and struggled before lunging towards Lin Ran.
Seeing this, Lin Ran shook his head helplessly, followed by grabbing Li Yingming’s neck with one hand, and with a slight force on his palm, it was as if Li Yingming’s entire body was drained of strength, unable to move at all.
“Let go… Let go of me!”
Li Yingming’s face turned red as he held onto Lin Ran’s arm with both hands, wanting to break free but simply unable to do so.
At this moment, the driver stood by the side, neither persuading nor dissuading, and was at a loss for words.
“Drive!”
Lin Ran turned his head and glanced at him as he spoke.
“Huh?”
The driver was stunned at his words, then when he saw Lin Ran looking at him, he nodded in fear, followed by turning around and running back to start the car.
“You! What do you want! I’m a local of this town, you dare to offend me and wait to die!”
Li Yingming spat out unclearly as he was choked.
“You haven’t sobered up yet!”
Lin Ran laughed at him and followed a handful of times before pushing him back to make his own seat, following himself to sit next to him.
“You he …..”
With his throat restored to freedom, Li Yingming was just about to break into a cussing fit, but just as the words were coming out, he was startled to see Lin Ran also sitting down after him.
“You… What do you want!”
“Nothing, I’ll take you to blow off some steam!”
Lin Ran smiled lightly, only this smile seemed to Li Yingming to be tinged with ill intent.
“Come on!”
Lin Ran laughed out loud, following which he ripped open the window inside and directly pressed Li Yingming’s head out.
The bus was one of those luxury tourist buses where the front windows were impossible to open, and only the sides of the last two rows could be opened.
Li Yingming was sitting near the window.
At this moment Lin Ran pressed his head directly to the outside, and the driver drove this last ten minutes of the journey simply as fast as he could due to the fear of a long night.
The strong whoosh of wind blew in Li Yingming’s face, turning his mouth out of shape.
From time to time, cars pa*sed by, blowing a faceful of black smoke for little reason, sometimes less than a fist’s length from his head, scaring him so much he almost didn’t wet his trousers.
“Don’t… Don’t play brother, I… I know I’m wrong!”
Li Yingming shouted in fear, but it was so windy outside that his shouts were blown away by the wind and Lin Ran couldn’t hear him at all.
Ten minutes, a whole ten-minute journey, took the driver a hard five minutes to drive to.
And when the car arrived at the station, Lin Ran also pulled Li Yingming in through the window, only to take another look, even Lin Ran couldn’t help but be shocked.
He saw that Li Yingming’s hair was standing on end and his face was a full layer of paste, with a combination of grease from the black smoke and dust that was simply disastrous.
More to the point, his whole body was frozen in place, as if he had lost his soul and was motionless.
“Is he alright?”
Song Nuan asked with a smile as she walked over with her luggage.
“It’s fine, it’s too exciting, he’ll be fine when he calms down!”
Lin Ran said with a smile, while taking the luggage and immediately greeting Song Nuan as she got out of the car.
After getting off the bus, the beautiful pa*senger and Lin Ran thanked her a hundred times, Lin Ran just laughed and advised her to hurry up and leave, to save this guy from reacting and taking revenge.
After seeing the female pa*senger leave, Lin Ran and Song Nuan then hailed a taxi and headed straight to the inner part of the town.
“Go to the herb market!”
As soon as they got into the car, Lin Ran shouted at the driver.
“The herb market? Aren’t we going home?”
Song Nuan asked, puzzled by the side.
“Wait until then, you’ll know.”
Lin Ran turned his head and smiled mysteriously, not saying much.
At this moment, outside the taxi window, street scenes kept drifting past, looking at the familiar scenery, Lin Ran couldn’t help but give birth to a slight feeling of comfort.
This was perhaps the feeling of home. Although he had not yet arrived home at this time, he had often come here to play in the town when he was a child.
Returning to the town again after so many years, he could not help but feel a sense of homecoming.
As the car sped along, it soon arrived at the herb market, and seeing the market’s gate, Lin Ran even revealed a rare smile.
“Come on, let’s go in!
Lin Ran greeted Song Nuan and immediately took his luggage and walked in.
Chapter 238
Every year, many herbalists from the big cities come here to buy herbs.
And this town has only developed because of this.
When they arrived at the herb market, Song Nuan thought that this guy wanted to buy something, but who knew that the two of them would go straight through the herb market and come to the other side of the market outside.
Here, there was a long street surrounded by people with stalls, with a wide range of goods and everything, but the most popular ones were those selling herbs.
“Go, follow me!”
Lin Ran smiled as he greeted Song Nuan and walked towards a stall not far from his memory, with anticipation in his eyes.
Only just two steps outside, suddenly there was a commotion ahead, followed by Lin Ran seeing that a lot of herbs were tipped over into mid-air, while a youth’s shouting voice came through.
“Old woman, you don’t F**king understand what I’m saying, do you! If you don’t pay the stall fee, you won’t be able to set up a stall in the whole street, not to mention the previous stalls, understand? Get the F**k out of here!”
“What’s going on?”
Song Nuan tugged at Lin Ran’s clothes and asked.
The town didn’t fight, and it sounded like the people were quite arrogant.
“Nothing, let’s go over and take a look!”
Lin Ran said, following and squeezing towards the front of the crowd.
In the crowd, an old granny, dressed in plain clothes but very clean, was hurriedly gathering up the herbs that were scattered all over the ground, picking them up as she did so.
“I’ve paid my stall fee before, how long has it been since you came back to collect it?
“How can you be so F**king reasonable? The one you paid before was the previous manager, now it’s Master Li who manages it, can it be the same!”
A young man with a tattoo and a cigarette in his mouth said disdainfully.
Beside him, there was a companion, also dressed in the same way, while beside him, there was a middle-aged man, around his early forties in age, looking impatient.
The old granny was old and moved a little slowly, picking up herbs as she did so.
“How you managers change, how can we little folk care, but you charge rent twice a month, do you still want to give us a living!”
“You still have F**king…”
The youth was just about to retort, but the middle-aged man next to him spoke in a cold voice.
“Don’t bother with her, just kick her out, will you still collect the rent for the stall behind you!”
Hearing the middle-aged man’s rebuke, the tattooed youth was startled and hurriedly nodded his head and said.
“Yes yes Master Li! I’ll blast them away, I’ll blast them away!”
“Do you hear me old woman, if you don’t get lost I’ll be ungracious!”
Turning his head, the youth’s attitude immediately changed a hundred and eighty degrees, as if he wanted to eat the other party.
“You’re all bandits!”
The old woman was discouraged, picking up the herbs on the ground and preparing to leave.
But the youth was unrelenting, grabbing the old granny by the collar and cursing.
“Pick up! Pick up your paralyzed pick up, hurry up and get the hell out of my way!”
“My own herbs, why don’t you let me pick them up, what else do you want!”
The old woman said with great excitement.
At this moment, the other merchants on the side could not stand it anymore, not when someone came forward to accuse.
“You guys are going too far, how many years has Auntie Lin been setting up her stall here, and this is how you treat the old merchants?”
“Yes! It’s simply getting too much!”
“Charging rent twice a month is simply bullying!”
“Huh?”
Hearing the discontent of the people around him, the middle-aged hottie known as Master Li, with a slight frown, glared at the tattooed youth, who immediately comprehended and shouted at the side.
“What? Not convinced, are you? Don’t worry, whoever is not convinced stand up and say something, when I find you one by one, if you don’t pay the rent today, all of you get the F**k out of my way!”
“You!”
As soon as the tattooed youth’s words left his mouth, the merchants who had been indignant before, all wilted.
They were all counting on their stalls here to make a living, and it would be more than worth it if they couldn’t set up their stalls here either because of the strong-armed stance.
“Why don’t you say anything? Bunch of wimps!”
The tattooed youth shouted, following which he turned around and shouted at the old granny.
“Old woman, I have a limit to my patience, if you don’t pack up and get out, I’ll be rude!”
With that, the tattooed young man showed his arms and sleeves, ready to kick him out.
The old woman was so angry that her face turned blue and she looked at him and shouted.
“If you won’t let me set up my stall, at least let me pick up all the herbs!”
“You don’t understand what I’m saying, do you!”
The tattooed youth was also furious, Master Li had long been impatient by the side again, if he dragged on and he was blamed, it would be no joke.
Thinking of this, the tattooed youth slapped the bag in the old granny’s hand, which contained all the herbs he had just picked up.
“I’ll let you pick them up!”
As soon as the words fell, the bag was directly slapped away, and the herbs he had just picked up once again fell to the ground.
Still not feeling relieved, the tattooed youth grabbed the old granny by the collar and cursed angrily.
“Don’t know how to lift a finger, I have to throw you out!”
Tugging at the old granny’s collar, the tattooed youth was about to walk out at once.
But just then, a black shadow flashed by, followed by a palm firmly choking the tattooed youth, while a cold, emotionless voice rang out.
“Let her go or die!”
“You …..”
The tattooed man was stuck in his throat, stammering and unable to speak at all, moreover the other party’s eyes looked so chilling to him that his palms actually unconsciously let go of the old granny.
“What a man!”
To the side, the tattooed man’s companion saw this and rushed straight over, copying a steel pipe from a side stall with his hand and lunged towards this side.
“Get lost!”
Lin Ran didn’t even turn his head, and directly shouted coldly, followed by a kick out towards his back, directly sending the man who had lunged over flying backwards.
“Kid! Who are you!”
In less than a second, he had directly subdued two of his own men, and at this moment, Master Li couldn’t help but frown and look at Lin Ran.
“You’re Master Li?”
Lin Ran asked as he turned around and looked at the middle-aged man with an expressionless face.
“That’s right, since you know my name, then be sensible and leave now so that the old man can pretend that nothing has happened!”
Master Li’s voice was icy cold, although he was the manager of this market, he could also know the truth that a good man does not want to lose in front of his eyes.
The opponent’s body was extraordinary, and his two men had been knocked over in one shot.
Lin Ran looked at the other party and did not reply to his words, instead he pointed to the ground next to him and said in a cold voice.
“Take your men with you and pick up all the herbs for me! One less, and I’ll waste you!”
“You!”
Master Li’s face suddenly turned gloomy when he heard that, he had already restrained his attitude, but he didn’t expect the other party to be even more arrogant than him.
“Kid, don’t eat your punishment with respect to wine, in this medicinal herb market, people who go against me, Li Tian, will not end up well!”
Master Li scolded coldly, and even gave his real name in order to deter this kid in front of him who didn’t know the sky was high.
