Chapter 44 - Villains Smashed the Bakery!

Li Muyang lifted Zhang Chen and threw him into the lotus pond. Such a fucking awesome thing that he did made Li Muyang once again a hot topic of Fuxing High School.

Every day when Li Sinian came back from school, she would tell him the following influence of the disturbance with an excited look on her face.

“Brother, brother, do you know what? Now, lots of boys in our school worship you.”

“Some people suspect that it must be fake news. After all, in the past, Zhang Chen was as sharp as a razor while you were a lousy fighter. Hey, but then many people came out, saying that they had seen for themselves how you defeated him. It was a real slap in the faces of those suspects…”

“Brother, a girl in my class, wrote you a letter. It’s a love letter. You haven’t received any love letter before, have you? Come on, touch it. That’s how love letters look like. Hua Juan is my best friend. How about being her boyfriend?”

…

Nevertheless, Li Muyang remained calm. No matter how vigorously Li Sinian talked about this, he just smiled faintly. Occasionally when he felt that these little girls were funny, he would tease himself along with his sister.

After throwing Zhang Chen into the lotus pond, Li Muyang didn’t let anybody know it when he left the school. He knew that if he stayed at school, there would only be more conflicts. He didn’t want to compromise, nor would he apologize to Zhang Chen.

Of course, just like him, Zhang Chen certainly would neither compromise nor apologize.

He had also heard that Zhang Chen’s father was a mighty person. “So what? Can he be as powerful as Crow?” Li Muyang thought to himself.

Li Muyang had been reflecting on himself over the past few days.

In the past, Li Muyang had often been mocked or bullied like this. Many times, he suffered much severer bullying. But in a peaceful mind at that time, Li Muyang didn’t mind being bullied as long as these bullies didn’t affect his sleep, and after that, he would always hurry to sleep. Li Muyang had never been so furious, nor would he fight with his classmate only because he had a few words of a dispute with him.

Li Muyang knew that his body had experienced some huge changes.

For example, he punched Zhang Chen away with one move. Also, he hit Crow into the air with his fist. For another example, he could easily rip off a large piece of rock from the bluestone table.

His heart was filled with fury, and he could felt that his blood was boiling.

Li Muyang knew that there was a monster living in his body.

He remembered that Crow asked before his death, “What kind of monster are you?”

“What kind of monster is living in my body?” Li Muyang had been thinking about this question in his mind. There were always intermittent scenes appearing in his dream. He dreamed that his body was torn by a giant dragon whose body was then chopped into several pieces. In addition, he saw two balls of light intertwining with each other in the sky and knew that it was his fateful enemy…

Moreover, he could acquire some knowledge automatically. Besides, he knew various ways to solve problems in the study, though they were even strange to himself.

Li Muyang had changed so much that he felt that he was no longer who he used to be.

What made him more upset was that he didn’t know to whom he could talk about his changes, nor could he find any person to remove his doubts.

He was waiting. In a surprisingly pleasant but cautious state, he waited for the real self of him to emerge and the distant Capital Heaven to send him an invitation.

“Xifeng University…” Li Muyang muttered this name. “Please.”

Recently, Li Muyang had been practicing calligraphy. He rarely wrote in the past, so he had lousy handwriting. As he felt that he couldn’t write well, he was less motivated to practice.

Such was human nature!

However, during this period, he found that he had made great progress in writing. His writing appeared to be much more good-looking with his more skillful strokes. With ease, Li Muyang could smoothly make vigorous calligraphic works.

At the sight of this, Li Muyang was overjoyed.

He had heard someone say that handwriting could be considered as a person’s second face. Since Li Muyang didn’t get a handsome face, he really wanted to draw some attention from others by using his “second face.”

As long as he had some free time, he would bend over his desk to practice writing. Without deliberately imitating the works of famous calligraphers, he just wrote freely.

The more he wrote, the better his works of calligraphy. It seemed to him that the writing style originally belonged to him long ago.

“Again, I got another skill that seems to have been mine before.” Li Muyang sighed softly.

After practicing the brush calligraphy for two hours, Li Muyang stood up and went to stretch out his body in the yard.

After going through the incident about Crow, he discovered the importance of his body.

Therefore, whenever he got some free time, he would walk according to the steps described in the “Qi-breaking Technique”. After walking a few more laps, he could easily get rid of his fatigue feeling, and his mind would become much clearer and more comfortable.

While Li Muyang was walking, there came a rat-a-tat on the door.

It was a series of sharp knocks. It seemed that someone had something urgent.

Li Muyang quickly walked over and opened the door. Aunt Zhao, who lived next door, stood at the gate of the yard. When she saw Li Muyang, she hurriedly asked, “Li Muyang, is your father at home?”

“No. Aunt Zhao, what’s up?”

“Muyang, hurry up to find your father and ask him to go to your family’s bakery—something bad happened there.” Aunt Zhao was so anxious that she kept stamping her feet as she spoke.

Li Muyang got heated and asked, “What happened in the bakery? Is my mother all right?”

“When I passed by the shop door, I saw a group of hooligans making trouble in the shop. Your mother is fine now, but I’m afraid that she will suffer later… Go to get your dad back now!”

Li Muyang closed the door of the courtyard and strode toward the bakery.

“Go to bring your dad back! You can’t help.” Aunt Zhao reminded him from behind. As every neighbor knew, Li Muyang was invalid.

Many people gathered at the Sinian Bakery.

Standing in front of the bakery, Luo Qi said with a smile, “Big brother Tianyi, I have the greatest respect for you, but the profit of the little bakery that we laboriously run is too little. Besides, we have paid the management fee at the beginning of this month. Now it is just in the middle of the mouth, why do you charge us the fee again? In this way, we really can’t afford it. If this continues, at the end of the next month, we will get nothing, and instead, we will have to pay out of our own pocket to keep this shop going.”

Zhang Tianyi, a squat, muscular man with a chubby head, was the most powerful street gangster in the Water Willow Street. At this moment, he stared at Luo Qi with a skin-deep smile and said, “Boss Luo, you can say your troubles to others, but it’s meaningless to tell us these things. After all, we are your old neighbors, so I’ve seen how exactly your business is every day. Also, I know how many people have gone in and out of your bakery. I have asked my men to record it. Boss Luo, you are a capable person, and your Sinian Bakery has some reputation in Jiangnan City. So what do you think? You still don’t want to pay the management fee, do you?”

Zhang Tianyi glanced at the followers behind him and said with a smile, “If you don’t want us to protect you, it’ll be fine for us. But if anyone comes to your bakery to fight…”

Zhang Tianyi rushed into the shop, took a plate of lotus cake that Luo Qi had just made from the shelf, and slammed it to the ground.

“Clank…”

The iron tray bounced back into the air after hitting the granite floor, while those cakes that smelled like lotus were rolling around.

“Big Brother Tianyi, why do you have to push me to a dead end? It’s not that I don’t want to hand in the management fee, but I have already paid at the beginning of a month. If you charge a fee per month, we can barely bear it. But now you want us to pay the fee twice in a month. We really can’t afford it.”

“So, you don’t want to give the money to me, right?” Zhang Tianyi asked, smiling as brilliantly as Maitreya, the Happy Buddha.

“Can you wait until next month?” Luo Qi said with embarrassment, “I have to pay to send my two children to school. Beyond that, there are household expenses for us to cover. Each month, we managed to get along with the little income of the shop, so we really can’t afford to pay the fee again.”

“Brother Tianyi, don’t talk so much nonsense to her. Let’s smash her shop.”

“Those who are unwilling to pay the small fee will lose a great deal more. At the time when you don’t even have a shop, I’ll see how you’re going to support your family.”

“Brother Tianyi comes to you, representing the will of the god. Do you still dare to go against the will of heaven?”

“Wow, brother Leopard, what a great compliment! It sounds so imposing and domineering!”

…

When Zhang Tianyi looked at Luo Qi’s still charming face, an evil idea cropped up in his heart. He said with a smile, “Have you thought it all over? If you don’t want to pay, there is the other choice for you…”

“What’s the choice?” Luo Qi asked with a vigilant look. She came from a wealthy family and hence had a clear understanding of human nature. She didn’t believe that Zhang Tianyi would be so kind as to free them from the cost.

“How about going to have a drink with me? We can sit together, drinking and chatting. Then, maybe we’ll come up with the other solution, am I right? You can ask around to see if I have ever charged a fee from the widow Bai who runs a restaurant across the street.”

“Clap!”

Zhang Tianyi got a slap in the face.

The smile on Luo Qi’s face disappeared. She stared coldly at Zhang Tianyi and said, “Don’t even think about it.”

“Tut-tut-tut…” Zhang Tianyi stretched out his hand, touching his cheek that was slapped by Luo Qi just now. Then he stuck his tongue out at his palm center and said with a big smile, “Sweet. You smell so good. It tastes like milk.”

Zhang Tianyi waved his hand, thundering, “Brothers, smash the bakery.”

“Clank!”

A shelf was pushed down.

“Bang!”

They smashed a large hole in the stove.

“Don’t smash our shop.” The little girl of the bakery rushed forward, trying to stop them. However, a tall and bulky man instantly caught her and kissed her hard on her tender face.

“Stop! All of you stop now!” Luo Qi roared in a hoarse voice and rushed over, intending to grab the little girl from the big fellow’s arms.

Zhang Tianyi stepped forward, barring her way with his muscular body. Wearing a sensual smile, he said with pleasure, “Boss Luo, what’s your plan? If you don’t accept my suggestion now, there will be nothing left in Sinian Bakery.”

“Stop daydreaming. I’d rather die than take your advice.” Luo Qi shouted with a sharp voice.

“See? Look at you! You are not as smart as the widow Bai on the opposite side of the street. It’s originally a small matter that can be solved easily. Why do you have to make it so complicated?” It looked that Zhang Tianyi felt very regretful for her.

He glanced at the miserable scene around him and said with a smile, “I’m Zhang Tianyi. I come to you on behalf of the divine will. If you refuse to accept your fate, gods in heaven won’t allow you to continue earning a living in this street. Other places are out of my control, but in this Water Willow Street, people do whatever I tell them to.”

He raised his arm high and then cut it down with great force. He shouted, “Smash the shop! Smash hard! I want you to knock everything in this shop down in broken pieces!”