Chapter 239
The name Li Tian is definitely very loud in the town, as he is the manager of the entire herb market and no one dares to offend him.
But today, he was destined to be disappointed, because he ran into Lin Ran.
“I said, bring your men and pick up all the herbs for me!”
Lin Ran looked at Li Tian with an icy gaze and said in one word.
“Kid! You’re F**king looking for death, aren’t you? You really think our Master Li has a heart of gold, don’t you!”
The tattooed man from before climbed up from there and shouted at the side as he heard the words.
“Master Li, don’t worry, just now we lost because we were careless, this time we won’t let this kid get away with it!”
The other tattooed man hurriedly explained.
“Hm!”
Li Tian smiled and nodded with a thought, his tense heart couldn’t help but relax a few points.
“Kid, I’m also playing by the rules and don’t want to be normal with you, now leave and I can pretend that nothing happened!”
Li Tian turned to look at Lin Ran and said blandly.
Lin Ran, however, was not moved at all, raising his head to look at Li Tian, his voice was cold as he said.
“I’ll say it one last time, bring your men and pick up all the herbs for me!”
“You!”
This aggressive attitude of Lin Ran caused Li Tian’s eyes to narrow slightly, revealing a chill.
“If you don’t want to eat your wine, then don’t blame me for not being polite!”
Li Tian’s eyes were cold as he greeted the two men at his side and rushed towards Lin Ran.
These two men were smart enough to eat the loss they had just suffered, and this time they both found steel pipes from the side to use as weapons so as not to suffer a loss.
“Young man, thank you, you’d better hurry up and leave!”
The old woman couldn’t bear it, so she hurriedly persuaded Lin Ran.
Lin Ran, however, smiled faintly at the old granny and said.
“Don’t worry, it’s alright!”
As they spoke, the two tattooed men had already rushed over and without saying a word swung their steel pipes round towards Lin Ran’s head.
At this moment, all the people around were so frightened that they hastily covered their eyes, and they all had great sympathy for Lin Ran.
There were so many people here who didn’t dare to stand up for themselves, but you, a young man, had to stand up for yourself.
“Young man, why do you have to do this!”
The old granny was so anxious that tears were flowing out of her eyes.
Lin Ran, however, rushed at her with a slight glance, followed by his entire body moving.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
Two clear sounds of physical combat rang out, and everyone present clutched their heads in fear, not daring to look.
But to everyone’s bewilderment, after the sound, there was no subsequent movement, just like two dumb cannons, and the imagined storm did not appear.
Everyone raised their heads in curiosity, but when they saw the situation in the field, they were all dumbfounded.
They only saw that Lin Ran was still standing in front of the old granny, as if he hadn’t moved.
And the two tattooed men who had originally rushed towards him were nowhere to be seen.
“Ah!”
As a miserable scream rang out, the crowd looked and couldn’t help but be confused.
In the distance, Li Tian was lying on the ground and the two tattooed punks were all pressed against him, even the cigarette they had just lit was crushed.
“B*****ds get up!”
Li Tian cursed angrily as he endured the severe pain in his body.
The two punks covered their chests and struggled to get up from him, each with an additional bright red slap mark on their faces, half of their cheeks bearing red swelling.
Lin Ran smiled faintly at the old granny beside him and followed, then walked towards Li Tian.
The old granny, however, looked stunned, just now Lin Ran’s smile made her feel very familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere before, but she couldn’t recall it for a while.
“You …. You …. Don’t you come over!”
Li Tian was so frightened that he moved backwards, but behind him was the crowd, and there was no more room to move.
Lin Ran stepped forward and grabbed Li Tian by the collar of his shirt, his voice icy cold.
“I’m going to count to three, immediately take your men and go pick up the herbs, you better not object or else ….!”
Lin Ran said and raised his palm, his white palm looked very beautiful, but Li Tian was unable to stop gagging as he watched.
Resounding with the bright red handprints on the faces of his two men just now, he was somewhat abashed.
“You… Who the hell are you!”
Li Tian asked, forcing down the fear in his heart.
However, what awaited him was a crisp slap.
“Slap!”
“Go pick up the herbs!”
Lin Ran said in an icy voice as he looked at him.
“You!”
Li Wei couldn’t stand it, yet just as he spat out a word, he only heard.
“Slap!”
There was another clear slap sound.
“Go pick up the herbs!”
“Son of a B*tch, you’re hitting…”
“Slap!”
“Go pick up the herbs!”
“I…”
“Snap!”
“Go pick up the herbs!”
Li Tian’s entire body was dumbfounded, and the sharp pain coming from his cheek caused tears to flow down his face.
Ever since he became the administrator of this market, he was the one who usually told others what to do, but today, he was actually slapped several times by a kid, and it was only that his face hurt, but the key was that he couldn’t lose face, his face was like being cut by a knife, it was hot.
“Yes! I’ll go, I’ll go!”
Li Tian did not dare to talk any more nonsense, understanding in his heart that if he dared to continue talking nonsense, this guy in front of him would dare to continue beating him.
“Master Li!”
The two tattooed men climbed up at this point, with unwilling anger on their faces.
“Master Li let’s fight with him!”
One of the tattooed men shouted.
Li Tian glared at him and cursed angrily.
“Sparring nonsense sparring, still do not quickly go to the old me to pick up herbs, still not enough shame!”
Li Tian was really angry, his two men were no match for Lin Ran, how could they fight? How could they fight? They would just be beaten up by others again.
Although it was humiliating to pick up herbs, at least they didn’t have to be beaten up.
“I’ll take this revenge!”
Li Tian walked towards the old woman while cursing angrily in his heart, he would not be Li Tian if he did not take this revenge.
Under Li Tian’s leadership, the two tattooed men had to obediently run together to pick up the herbs.
“This ….”
On the side, the old granny was a little overwhelmed and turned to look at Lin Ran.
Lin Ran only smiled and did not say anything, but the crowd that had been watching the show erupted in applause and cheers.
Li Tian led his two men to pick up the medicinal herbs, and the efficiency was still very fast. In just ten minutes, all the medicinal herbs scattered all over the ground were picked up.
Putting the last handful of herbs into the old granny’s bag, Li Tian then breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at Lin Ran with an ugly face.
“I’ll put up with it if it’s in your hands today, if you’re a man with a hand, give your name, we’ll settle this score later!”
“Yes! Name him if you have the guts!”
“Give me your name!”
The two punks behind her echoed the words.
The old granny tugged at Lin Ran’s coat, indicating that he should not say his name to avoid getting into trouble.
Lin Ran, however, smiled faintly and held the old granny’s hand, before turning to look at Li Tian and saying blandly.
“My name is Lin Ran, my family lives just outside the town in Linjiawan, come find me anytime you want to find a fight!”
“Lin …. Lin Ran!”
As soon as Lin Ran’s words fell, Li Tian and the others hadn’t reacted much, but the old granny at the side was stunned, and her whole body trembled unconsciously.
She stared at Lin Ran, and the more she looked at him, the more familiar she felt, followed by tears that couldn’t stop flowing down her eyes.
Chapter 240
“Humph! Let’s go!”
Li Tian snorted coldly at this, he was not interested in what Lin Ran and the old woman were up to, and he directly turned around and left the place.
“Ranzi, is it really you?”
Granny Lin still had some disbelief, when Lin Ran left home to go to university, it was three years in the blink of an eye, although he would come back for a few days every New Year, but from the last time he came back to this time, Lin Ran’s change was just too big.
“Grandma, it’s really me!”
Lin Ran choked out, his eyes unconsciously red.
After receiving his ancestor’s inheritance, he had been busy with work and his parents’ affairs, but he had left his grandmother here alone to endure so much.
“When I first started working part-time, I told you not to come here to sell herbs, how did you ….”
Lin looked at his grandmother’s pale face and his heart ached.
“It’s not that I can’t be bothered!”
Grandma Lin laughed, but tears flowed down her cheeks.
“Grandma, let me introduce to you, this is my college cla*smate, Song Nuan!”
Lin Ran couldn’t bear to see his grandmother in tears, so he hurriedly pulled Song Nuan over and introduced her with a smile.
Grandma Lin was stunned at first when she saw Song Nuan, and then smiled.
“What a beautiful girl!”
“Thank you, Grandma!”
Song Nuan was a little embarra*sed by the remark, her little face flushed red.
“Alright grandma, this is not the place to talk, let’s go home and talk!”
Lin Ran hurriedly rounded up the situation, smiling as he took the backpack from his grandmother and greeted the two of them as they left the herb market together.
On the way, Grandma Lin looked for an opportunity to ask Lin Ran.
“Ranzi, is this your girlfriend!”
“Sort of!”
Lin Ran laughed as he scratched his head awkwardly.
“What do you mean by sort of, yes or no, she’s so pretty, you should keep an eye on her!”
Grandma Lin admonished.
“Don’t worry, Grandma!”
Lin Ran was a little helpless.
“Don’t worry, you can’t bully her, if you can get such a beautiful daughter-in-law, your grandmother I can also have a long face in the group, more so for our old Lin family, in Linjiawan!”
Grandma Lin said seriously.
Lin Ran nodded helplessly, he couldn’t change the old generation’s ideas, but he knew that his grandmother was doing all this for his own good.
To get home from the town, one needed to first do a tricycle, a very rudimentary form of transport, which was, to put it bluntly, a three-wheeled motorbike with a top, converted into one.
Song Nuan had never seen this kind of transport before and was very curious on the way, but after waiting for the bumps to wash away her curiosity, all that was left was to pray.
She prayed that she would be able to get off at the station soon.
The tricycle drove all the way outside the town before the three of them got off.
From there, it was all down to two legs, to walk back to Linjiawan, a kind of outside town.
Linjiawan is located between two mountain peaks and is a typical village in a mountain village. If a dirt road had not been built some years ago, I am afraid it would have remained isolated.
The scenery in the mountains was great. For the first hour, Song Nuan was able to walk on her own, but later on her legs became too weak to obey.
Lin let the luggage straddle the front and let Song Nuan lie on his back, although the load was a bit much, but for him, it was still bearable.
After another half hour of this rush, the three of them had reached the foot of the mountain, and there was only the last half hour of the journey left.
“Or else I’ll come down and walk, it’s not far left anyway!”
Song Nuan said with a red face and some embarra*sment.
Although Lin Ran had been carrying her for the past half an hour, the road was really bumpy, and this guy didn’t know if he was intentionally or seemingly unintentionally, if he wiggled up a bit, so that he could only hold on to him tightly.
It felt wrong for a girl to hug him so tightly, and most of all, this guy didn’t even have the slightest intention to put himself down.
This couldn’t help but raise a hint of doubt in Song Nuan’s heart.
“This guy shouldn’t have gotten addicted to carrying, right?”
Just as she was thinking in her mind, a voice suddenly came from afar, followed by a figure running over from afar.
“Granny Lin, why are you back so early today?”
“Huh who are these two?”
Lin Ran looked up and smiled when he realised that the visitor was actually Yingzi, his playmate after childhood.
“Yingzi, even I don’t recognise you!”
Yingzi was dressed in plain clothes, but was very neat and tidy. When she heard Lin Ran’s words, she was stunned, and then she smiled.
“Brother Lin Ran? What are you …. Piggybacking your daughter-in-law?”
Song Nuan smiled and her pretty face became even redder, she didn’t know whether the pig was piggybacking or not, but she had heard the phrase carrying her daughter-in-law.
“Go, go, what are you talking about? This is my college cla*smate, Song Nuan, who came back with me this time!”
Lin Ran hurriedly explained.
Yingzi, however, had a look of disbelief on her face and laughed and joked.
“University cla*smate? I’m afraid it’s not a female broken reins there!”
“Go, go, don’t talk nonsense!”
Lin Ran said with a smile, but his face was a little shy.
Yingzi couldn’t help but laugh at this.
“Brother Lin Ran, I really didn’t see it, when we were kids we were fine playing together bare-a*sed, now we’re shy when we find a girlfriend! Haha!”
“Stop it, hurry up and give me a hand, I’ll treat you to something delicious later!”
Lin Ran laughed and changed the subject while handing Yingzi some traveling gifts.
“Or else I’d better do it!”
Song Nuan was a little embarra*sed and hurriedly climbed off Lin Ran’s back and said.
“No need, you’re a guest, besides these things are nothing to me!”
Yingzi laughed, following which he easily lifted the two large bags of gifts and ran back towards the village in a flying boast.
“Let’s hurry back too.”
Lin Ran greeted with a smile, and the three of them quickly headed in the direction Yingzi had left, following.
As Song Nuan walked, she asked Lin Ran in a low voice.
“Playing bare-a*sed together after hours? I didn’t see that, you’ve had peachy luck since you were a kid!”
Yingzi was so pretty that Song Nuan couldn’t help but think about it a little more.
“Why are you jealous?”
Lin Ran looked at Song Nuan with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
“Who… Who’s jealous!”
Song Nuan’s pretty face flushed, a little embarra*sed.
“Yingzi got married when I was in college, and when I came back last year, there were two big fat kids!”
Lin Ran said.
Song Nuan, however, sounded even more embarra*sed and hurriedly said.
“Why are you talking to me about this, it has nothing to do with me.”
“Nothing?”
Lin Ran smiled at Song Nuan and said.
“This is not afraid that some people will be jealous, so that’s why I said it. Of course, if you are really jealous, it’s not impossible, we can also have a big fat boy ah!”
“You …. Rascal!”
Song Nuan’s face turned even redder as she listened to this, the eight words hadn’t even been written, and she actually gave birth to a big fat kid directly, if this was in the past, she would have definitely slapped her face.
But looking at Lin Ran’s B*tchy appearance, she was angry and happy at the same time, she couldn’t feel a trace of anger at all.
The two of them were chatting pa*sionately, but they didn’t notice that Lin’s grandmother was already covering her mouth and sN*ggering.
Seeing that the two suddenly stopped talking again, Grandma Lin couldn’t help but dryly cough twice, and then spoke.
“This year is the Year of the Pig, it’s not bad to have a golden pig baby!”
“…..”
“…..”
Both of them were suddenly dumbfounded, Song Nuan’s pretty face even turned red to the base of her neck, glaring at Lin Ran forcefully as she walked shyly and quickly to the front.
