Chapter 110: For Naughty Kids, Fists Still Worked Best
Chapter 110: For Naughty Kids, Fists Still Worked Best
Seeing how surprised the two girls were, Su Chunfeng realized he should have brushed it off with an unclear reason instead of mentioning millions. After all, those days, titles like “ten-thousand-yuan households” still held some status in the countryside, so words like “million” could easily shock people.
“Actually, I just heard about it. It’s all loans. I don’t know the details,” Su Chunfeng said with a smile, shaking his head and changing the subject. “I’ll go buy you some drinks…”
With that, he turned and headed toward the cold drinks stand they passed earlier.
Wang Haifei was still somewhat astonished. “Lifei, I didn’t expect Su Chunfeng’s family to be so rich.”
“Me neither. He usually dresses so plainly, and his parents are almost the same as villagers…” Zhang Lifei pouted. Her family was considered wealthy in the countryside, so after the initial surprise, she quickly calmed down. She shrugged, tilting her head playfully with a smug look. “Well, that’s perfect. Let him pay for everything today. Hmph! It’ll make up for standing us up last time.”
Just as she finished speaking, someone called out, “Zhang Lifei!”
“Hmm?”
Zhang Lifei and Wang Haifei looked toward the voice.
They saw five young people who looked like students—three boys and two girls—turning from the bend in the tree-lined path ahead. The tall, robust boy in front walked over to Zhang Lifei with pleasant surprise. “What are you doing here?”
“Ah, I’m here with my friends for fun,” Zhang Lifei said with a smile. “Yan Xin, what about you all…”
“We’re here to have fun too. What a coincidence,” the boy named Yan Xin said. “Well then, let’s all hang out together.”
“Why should we all hang out together?” one of the girls stepped forward, glaring at Zhang Lifei with displeasure. “She has her own friends. We’re not even familiar with each other.”
Zhang Lifei smiled. “Liu Ying is right. You guys go ahead and have fun. My friends will be here soon anyway.”
Looking at these fashionable peers, Wang Haifei couldn’t help but feel a bit reserved. She stood to the side, lightly biting her lip without saying a word. In those days, ordinary kids from the countryside often felt a mix of envy and something that could be called inferiority when facing city peers. It was an uncomfortable feeling.
A short, chubby boy with parted hair and glasses pointed at Wang Haifei and sneered, “Hey, look at this little country bumpkin girl, she’s so dark, haha…”
His companions all couldn’t help but laugh.
“Gao Shenghan, how mean can you be? You’re insane!” Zhang Lifei couldn’t help but scold angrily. She pulled Wang Haifei away. “Haifei, let’s go. Don’t mind him.”
Wang Haifei blushed, lowered her head, and didn’t make a sound.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they turned around, they happened to see Su Chunfeng returning with three bottles of drinks. Su Chunfeng heard what the chubby boy said, but his expression didn’t seem to change. He smiled and handed over the drinks. “Haifei, Lifei, have some cold drinks…” As he spoke, he noticed a faint glimmer of tears in Wang Haifei’s eyes—as the saying goes, don’t strike someone’s face, and don’t expose someone’s flaws. For a girl, her appearance was probably the thing she cared about most.
By then, one boy and one girl were already smiling and scolding the fat student named Gao Shenghan, saying he shouldn’t have spoken like that, that it was too much, though their expressions seemed rather casual.
Yan Xin hurried over. “Zhang Lifei, let’s hang out together.”
“Yan Xin, what do you mean? You have to invite Zhang Lifei along?” Liu Ying said angrily. “I think you like her, don’t you?”
“Don’t talk nonsense,” Yan Xin said, looking slightly awkward.
Zhang Lifei blushed and said angrily, “I don’t want to hang out with you… you’re so annoying.” With that, she turned to leave. “Chunfeng, Haifei, let’s go…”
“Wait,” Su Chunfeng said with a smile. He walked over to Gao Shenghan, holding a glass drink bottle and sipping through the straw. Smiling, he said, “Little fatty, apologize to my friend for that uncultured, shameful thing you said about your parents just now…”
“Fck, who do you think you are?” Gao Shenghan stiffened his neck and glared angrily at Su Chunfeng.
“Chunfeng…” Wang Haifei hurriedly tried to step forward to stop him, but Zhang Lifei pulled her back and whispered, “That guy deserves a beating. Let Chunfeng teach him a good lesson!”
The tall, robust Yan Xin strode over and pushed Su Chunfeng’s shoulder, sneering coldly. “Hey, buddy, don’t cause trouble for yourself.” He was already upset because the girl he liked so much was with this guy who looked like a country bumpkin, and they seemed quite close. He was full of resentment and jealousy, itching to pick a fight and beat this kid up. However, he didn’t want Zhang Lifei to dislike him, so he hadn’t found a reason to bother Su Chunfeng. Unexpectedly, this country bumpkin with a fair face actually stepped forward to play the hero. This made Yan Xin quite excited.
Su Chunfeng ignored Yan Xin and kept smiling, looking at Gao Shenghan. “Little fatty, I’ll count to three. If you don’t apologize, I’ll beat you up.”
Very straightforward words.
Without giving Gao Shenghan and Yan Xin a chance to mock or provoke, Su Chunfeng started counting.
“One.”
“Two.”
He counted quickly.
Gao Shenghan felt a bit scared.
But Yan Xin felt his moment to show off in front of the girls and his buddies had arrived. He grabbed Su Chunfeng’s collar. “What are you pretending for? What can you do if he doesn’t apologize?”
“Three!”
As Su Chunfeng uttered this word, his right hand let go of the drink bottle and lightning-fast grabbed Yan Xin’s hand that was clutching his collar. With a twist and a turn, his left arm hooked around and gave Yan Xin an arm lock and wrist twist.
“Ouch!” Yan Xin cried out in pain.
Su Chunfeng lifted his leg and kicked Yan Xin in the butt, sending him stumbling several steps until he crashed headfirst into a large tree trunk. He fell to the ground with a thud, seeing stars, clutching his head and groaning in pain.
“You…” Another boy reacted quickly and rushed forward, throwing a punch.
Su Chunfeng tilted his head to avoid the punch, stepped forward, and used an iron shoulder charge, hitting the boy with his shoulder and sending him flying. Then, with a calm expression, he walked over to Gao Shenghan, who was trembling and staring in shock. He grabbed the collar of his shirt at the shoulder, pulled him forward, turned his body, and swept his leg against the back of Gao Shenghan’s knees.
Thud!
The little fatty knelt straight down. Su Chunfeng stepped on his calf and said calmly, “Alright, apologize now.”
“I…”
Slap!
Su Chunfeng raised his hand and slapped him. “Apologize.”
“Sorry, sorry, I was wrong…” The little fatty immediately cried in fear, apologizing repeatedly. “Brother, sister, I was wrong, forgive me, please forgive me, wuwu…”
To deal with naughty kids, fists and violence worked fastest, alas. Su Chunfeng sighed inwardly. With a smile, he leaned down and patted the little fatty’s cheek. “Why bother? Be more careful from now on…”
After saying that, Su Chunfeng turned and left.
By then, Yan Xin and the other boy who was sent flying had stood up with the help of two girls. Yan Xin, caught off guard and humiliated, shouted angrily, “Fck, how dare you hit me…” Cursing, he charged forward.
The other boy also rushed up to help.
Crash, bang, smash.
In just a few seconds, Su Chunfeng had knocked both of them to the ground again.
Dealing with these kids who had never had any combat training and only been in a few fights at most was like child’s play for someone like Su Chunfeng, who was mature-minded, extremely calm, quick-reacting, and had combat skills.
“Alright, don’t get up and get beaten again,” Su Chunfeng said, smiling easily as he waved at the two boys lying on the ground. Then he turned, grabbed the nervous Wang Haifei with one hand and the excited Zhang Lifei with the other, and strode away.
Behind them, Yan Xin and the other boy lay on the ground, bruised and swollen, not daring to get up and fight that seemingly frail, fair-faced but clearly trained country bumpkin. The two girls and Gao Shenghan hurried over to help them up, looking fearfully and incredulously at the departing figures of Zhang Lifei and the others.
Only after the three had gone far did Yan Xin stand up, spit, tears of humiliation in his eyes. He said angrily, “Dammit, I’m calling my dad right now…”
Then, wiping his tears, he strode out of the park.
Su Chunfeng, now far away, smiled at Wang Haifei, whose palms were still cold from nervousness. “Haifei, don’t be afraid. It’s nothing.”
“Mm,” Wang Haifei nodded.
“Chunfeng, you’re amazing!” Zhang Lifei said happily. “From now on at Municipal No.1 High School, if anyone dares to bully me, I’ll have you help me get revenge, okay?”
Su Chunfeng shook his head, amused and exasperated.
He didn’t want to fight with kids unless necessary. It was boring.
“Alright, let’s go to the zoo, so we don’t run into them and ruin the mood,” Su Chunfeng said with a laugh. Then he led the two girls toward the west gate of the park.
Outside the west gate, diagonally across the road less than a hundred meters away, was the zoo.
Pingyang City Zoo wasn’t big and didn’t have many animals. But for teenage boys and girls from the countryside in those days, it was quite a nice and novel place. So the three had fun looking around and enjoying themselves. When they reached Monkey Mountain, they stopped in front of the huge iron cage, pointing and laughing at the monkey-like creatures leaping about on the lush, vegetated hillside inside.
Just then, about five or six adult men and a few young students came rushing over from not far away.
“There they are, over there!”
“I won’t let them off today!”
“Beat them to death!”
Visitors in front of Monkey Mountain’s iron cage hurriedly scattered as they saw the group approaching aggressively.
“Chunfeng, Yan Xin is here for revenge!” Zhang Lifei cried out in alarm.
“Ah!” Wang Haifei was so scared she quickly grabbed Su Chunfeng’s arm. “Chunfeng, what do we do?”
Su Chunfeng originally felt a bit helpless. He thought leaving the park would avoid Yan Xin seeking revenge, but he never expected they’d track them to the zoo. Then again, it made sense. Nowadays, when country kids came to the city for fun, it was mainly the park and the zoo. Where else would they go?
What should they do now?
However, when Su Chunfeng clearly saw the leader of the approaching group, he couldn’t help but show a relaxed, amused expression. He stood still, not moving, his left arm held tightly by Wang Haifei. He raised his right hand and gently patted the back of her hand to comfort her, all while smiling and watching the people rushing toward them.