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Chapter 1480 Mental Torture, Cui Xiaohong Goes Bankrupt! (Please Subscribe!)

"Master, what master? Dude, what do you do? Are you buying meat?"

Seeing that Hua Shier didn't look like a butcher, the tall, thin man's smile faded considerably, and his right hand instinctively grabbed the meat cleaver on the cutting board.

Hua Shier revealed a slight smile:
"Hey bro, do you know Liu Haizhu? The one with the yellow rubber shoes, capri pants, and the melee mage Liu Haizhu!"

"My name is Liu Tiezhu, not Liu Haizhu!"

Liu Tiezhu was getting a little impatient:

"What are you doing anyway? If you're not going to buy meat, stand further away. You're getting on my nerves!"

"Oh, I thought you looked a lot like Liu Haizhu, so I assumed you two were related!"

Hua Shier pointed towards Guo Dapao's stall as he spoke:
"I came here to ask you, what grudge do you hold against him that you insist on killing him?"

Liu Tiezhu's face visibly tensed up, and he forced a smile, saying:

"Wait, bro, who are you? What are you talking about? I don't understand a word you're saying."

Sensing the other person's nervousness, Hua Shier smiled faintly:
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand, I'll explain it to you in detail. That night, you first rode your bicycle to the place where Guo Dapao was burning paper money on the riverbank, then got a boat and deliberately dumped the body in the river not far from the bank, trying to frame him. You did all of this, didn't you?"

Sweat streamed visibly down Liu Tiezhu's face, and his lips trembled incessantly.

No, um...

He was scared, and even became somewhat incoherent. Then he suddenly overturned the meat counter, ran out from behind it, and ran away as fast as he could.

Hua Shier dodged the meat chopping board that was about to smash in his face and kicked Liu Tiezhu in the lower back, sending the guy sprawling face-first into the dirt.

"The matter hasn't been explained clearly yet, why are you running away?"

Hua Shier, hands in his pockets, teased with a smile.

Holy crap!

The fall enraged Liu Tiezhu, who scrambled to his feet and lunged at Hua Shier with a meat cleaver in hand.

As Hua Shier dodged the meat cleaver, he kicked Liu Tiezhu in the crotch.

As expected, Liu Tiezhu was attacked in a vital spot. He immediately knelt on the ground, revealing a look of pain. The meat cleaver fell to the ground, and his fierce aura instantly dissipated.

Hua Shier picked up the meat cleaver and plunged it directly into Liu Tiezhu's shoulder:
"Brother, you dropped your knife. Let me pick it up for you. You're welcome!"

Liu Tiezhu's eyes nearly popped out, and he let out a scream.

"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

Hua Shier was startled and quickly helped Liu Tiezhu pull the knife out.

With a 'plop', Liu Tiezhu screamed again, then watched helplessly as blood began to ooze from his shoulder.

"I drafted the ancestors' names"

Hua Shier was immediately displeased and tried to reason with him:

"I only pulled it out because I saw you were uncomfortable, why are you cursing at me? Fine, I'll give it back to you!"

With a 'plop', he casually put it back in.

"Oh"

Liu Tiezhu was in so much pain that his cries were no longer normal.

Hua Shier gripped the knife handle and, using the meat cleaver embedded in Liu Tiezhu's shoulder, shook his body, asking with concern:

"How are you feeling, buddy? Nothing serious, right?"

Liu Tiezhu started screaming in pain, his eyes rolling back in his head. Then, perhaps because of the pain, he fainted and began foaming at the mouth.

Hua Shier was very experienced in this kind of thing. He pulled out a meat cleaver and slashed Liu Tiezhu's body three times.

The excruciating pain brought Liu Tiezhu back to his senses, and he cried out in agony:

"Are you fucking crazy? Help! Murder! Call the police for me!"

At first, he thought Hua Shier was there to arrest his Uncle Hat, but seeing the ruthlessness of the other party, he realized they weren't regular troops, so he started calling for help.

Hua Shier stood up with a smile and lit a cigarette:

"Go ahead and shout, I'll rest for a bit, and we'll talk again when you stop shouting!"

Liu Tiezhu also realized something was wrong. The market, which had been bustling just moments before, was now completely deserted except for him and the mentally ill man in front of him.

"Who are you? What do you want? Where is everyone around?"

"Don't you know what I want to do? I want to ask you why you framed Guo Dapao?"

Liu Tiezhu looked at the several bloody holes in his body and the knife stuck in it, hesitated for a moment, and then asked:
"If I speak, can you take me to the hospital?"

Hua Shier squatted down and casually pulled out the knife from his body, stabbing it directly into his thigh. The speed and skill of the move stunned Liu Tiezhu, who didn't even have time to cry out in pain until a second later when the excruciating pain struck, at which point he opened his mouth to scream again.

"I hate it when people try to bargain with me. If you don't talk to me, believe me, I'll castrate you right now!"

As Hua Shier spoke, his gaze lingered maliciously between Liu Tiezhu's legs.

Liu Tiezhu felt this man was truly capable of such a thing, and a chill ran down his spine. If that were to happen, he would truly wish he were dead. He gritted his teeth:

I said.

It turns out that Liu Tiezhu had a bad temper and was always fighting with people. He was sentenced to several years in prison and then started this meat stall after he got out.

He originally had no grudge against Guo Dapao, but as the saying goes, "competitors are enemies."

Guo Dapao and Liu Tiezhu's meat stalls were right next to each other. Guo's stall had a good location and good business, while Liu's meat stall was next to the wall and in a corner, so his business was naturally poor.

But Guo Dapao was a show-off, and he would tell Liu Tiezhu every day how much he had earned and how much money he had made.

At first, it was fine, but as time went on, Liu Tiezhu couldn't stand it anymore. He already had a bad temper, and jealousy made him unrecognizable.

From that time on, Liu Tiezhu wanted to find an opportunity to mess with Guo Dapao.

At this point, it's just an idea; whether or not it will actually be taken into account remains to be seen.

As luck would have it, Liu Tiezhu knew a prostitute from his village. They would meet up for sex, and he wouldn't pay her.

However, as the saying goes, what's free is often the most expensive. Recently, a streetwalker's family had a big problem and needed a lot of money, so she asked Liu Tiezhu for 20,000 yuan.

Liu Tiezhu usually spends all his earnings, so he wouldn't have 20,000 yuan to give to the other party. After refusing, they parted on bad terms.

However, the prostitute knew about his past theft of radiators and threatened to report him to the police station and send him to jail if he didn't pay her.

Just as Liu Tiezhu was getting worried about this matter, he heard Guo Dapao talking about how finding a fortune teller was a mess, and that they were going to burn paper money, kowtow, and throw knives by the river that night.

He didn't pay attention at first, but when he turned around, his eyes lit up. He asked Guo Dapao where he burned paper money and said that he was also a butcher and would burn paper money there too.

Guo Dapao didn't think much of it and told him the approximate location. Liu Tiezhu was already prepared to kill and frame someone. That night, he lured the prostitute out, stabbed her to death, wrapped the body in a plastic sheet and a quilt, hid it, and went to stake out near Guo Dapao's house.

When Guo Dapao went out late at night, he followed him to the riverbank.

After determining the location where the paper money was burned, they moved the body to the riverbank and used a rented small boat to dispose of it.

In Liu Tiezhu's mind, even if the body was exposed, Guo Dapao's actions would attract Uncle Hat's attention and would not lead to suspicion against him.

As he expected, after the body was discovered and the police were notified, the police's initial investigation identified Guo Dapao as the culprit.

Moreover, Guo Dapao's actions that night—burning paper money, kowtowing, and throwing knives—were all highly illogical and impossible to explain. As a result, he was identified as a suspect by the police and has been detained ever since. Liu Tiezhu has gradually become more at ease.

After hearing this, Hua Shier couldn't help but curse Guo Dapao for making trouble out of nothing. If he didn't like to show off, would he have attracted such an undeserved disaster?

After Liu Tiezhu finished speaking, he said somewhat weakly:

"I've told you everything, buddy, get me to the hospital right now, I think I've lost a lot of blood."

Hua Shier asked with a chuckle, "Do you think you can still live?"

Liu Tiezhu quickly said, "Brother, I still have two thousand yuan at home. I'll give it all to you. I think I can still be saved!"

Hua Shier pulled the knife from Liu Tiezhu's body, and amidst Liu's screams, smiled and said:

"This person did something wrong, so he has to pay the price. Come on, buddy, let me clean you up first and pay for your blood debt!"

As he spoke, the blade sliced ​​towards the space between Liu Tiezhu's legs.

"Oh no! Holy crap! I'm a eunuch now! I don't even have a son yet!"

Liu Tiezhu yelled loudly.

He felt someone tugging at him: "Da Liu, Da Liu, what's wrong with you?"

Liu Tiezhu suddenly came to his senses and looked around at the bustling vegetable market. A cold wind blew, and his forehead, face, and body were covered in cold sweat.

He stood behind the meat counter, his pants already wet, dripping with a foul-smelling yellow liquid that ran down his cotton trouser legs.

A crowd of onlookers had gathered in front of the meat stall, pointing and whispering about him. The person calling him was Xiao Zhang, the vegetable vendor across the street, while the person who had just performed the castration on him had vanished as if he had never been there.

Holy crap!

He plopped down on the ground, panting heavily, his mind a jumbled mess, unable to tell if what he had just experienced was a hallucination or reality.

After a while, he got up and ran to the public toilet. After witnessing with his own eyes that his second brother was still there, he finally confirmed that what had just happened was just an illusion, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He thought it was just guilt after killing someone, so he didn't take it to heart. He packed up his stall early, went home to change his clothes, and then went to the temple to get a peace charm. Only then did he feel completely at ease.

Nothing happened that night, and the next day, Liu Tiezhu set up his stall early.

Just as he turned around to hang the newly arrived pork on the hook, he saw a handsome young man in a trench coat smiling at him from outside the meat stall.
"Hey bro, do you know Liu Haizhu? The one with the yellow rubber shoes, capri pants, and the melee mage Liu Haizhu!"

Everything felt like it was happening again yesterday.

From that day on, Liu Tiezhu went mad. He would urinate on his own meat counter and then run around the market, sometimes taking off his pants to show people and asking if he was a eunuch.

He would sometimes shout that his name was Liu Tiezhu, not Liu Haizhu, and that he didn't know any sorcerers.

Liu Tiezhu was taken away by his family and sent to the countryside. They had no money to treat his illness, so they chained him up in the barn. He would have seizures every day, shouting and yelling. Everyone thought he was crazy.

But only Liu Tiezhu knew that in his mental world, he was subjected to castration every day, which gradually progressed to being cut into a thousand pieces, and his mind was on the verge of collapse every day.

If it were someone else, no matter how strong their mind was, such daily torment would drive them insane.

But there is a force that keeps his spirit on the line between broken and unbroken. One step forward and he will collapse and go insane. But no matter how much mental pain he suffers, he cannot take that step. He can only consciously enjoy inhuman torment and torture every day.

That's right, all of this was Hua Shier's doing. He used the power of the Soul Gem to create a mental space similar to the Sharingan. Liu Tiezhu's spirit was trapped in that mental space, and he would repeat the experience of being castrated and tortured every day.

Moreover, these punishments were not static; there were daily additions, with various cruel punishments from different dynasties being used in turn.

This kind of life will continue until he clears Guo Dapao's name.

On one occasion, before his execution, Hua Twelve told Liu Tiezhu about this matter.

When Liu Tiezhu learned of Hua Shier's idea, he immediately cried and begged, saying that he was willing to turn himself in, to confess, and to be executed to atone for his sins.

Ke Hua told him very seriously;

"No, I must personally clear Guo Dapao's name. Buddy, just wait a bit. After the bar exam next year, I'll be a lawyer. When I win the case, I'll release you to defend yourself!"

Liu Tiezhu:
Meanwhile, Cui Xiaohong stayed at home for three days. During these three days, the old lady's health visibly improved, and she was able to get out of bed and go out to buy groceries.

Seeing that the old lady had recovered her health, Cui Xiaohong decided to leave.

That day, taking advantage of Hua Shier and Li Xiaozhen bringing the children back for dinner, she spoke up at the dinner table:

"Mom and Dad, Guoming, I still have some things to take care of in Japan. Now that Mom is alright, I need to hurry back and deal with them."

Grandpa Cui didn't say anything, but the old lady forced a smile:

"Okay, Mom's fine now. You can go back. You're all grown up now, with your own careers and lives. As long as you're doing well, that's all that matters. Mom won't keep you here. Just remember to come back and visit often!"

Cui Xiaohong looked at Hua Shier: "Guoming."

She wanted to ask her younger brother to take good care of their parents.

But before she could even speak, Hua Shier interrupted her directly:

"Stop! Please don't force me to swear in front of the children, okay?"

Cui Xiaohong:
Erpang glanced at his uncle, who was engrossed in eating, then turned to Cui Xiaohong and asked with some anticipation:
"Mom, will you take me with you?"

Cui Xiaohong looked somewhat embarrassed.
"Erpang, Mom will send you living expenses. You don't speak Japanese, so you won't be able to adapt over there!"

Erpang asked again, "Mom, will you come back? We're doing fine here, so please don't go to Japan, okay? Dad's coming out in a couple of days too."

Cui Xiaohong's face became even more embarrassed: "Erpang, you don't understand adult matters!"

Even with his good temper, Erpang couldn't hold back any longer. He knew his mother simply didn't want him.

She slammed her chopsticks down and shouted, "What do you mean I don't understand? Uncle is right, you just don't want me, Cui Xiaohong, you abandoned your husband and children!"

After saying that, she ran into the inner room crying.

Grandpa Cui sighed and downed the wine in his glass in one gulp.

Cui Xiaohong was wiping away tears when the phone rang at home.

Li Xiaozhen quickly answered the phone, then said with a strange expression:
"The other person was speaking what sounded like Japanese, but I couldn't understand it."

Cui Xiaohong wiped away her tears, quickly walked to the phone, took the receiver, and began speaking in broken Japanese. Her expression changed from shock to disbelief. She said in Japanese:

"What? Our family is bankrupt? You lost a billion yen? And the Yamaguchi-gumi are coming to collect debts? You want to come here with me and lay low for a while?"

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