Flip the table and divide the family property! Take his wife and daughter into the mountains and eat

"Hey, Lao Liu, what kind of deadly hard qigong are you practicing in broad daylight, with the door closed inside?"

A sinister, slightly mocking, hoarse voice drifted in suddenly from the front door.

The voice wasn't loud, but it carried a chilling, sinister quality that sent shivers down one's spine.

Liu Changgui's hand suddenly froze, the wooden stick hanging in mid-air, and he turned his head, panting heavily.

Three figures were blocking the open doorway, completely obscuring the sunlight outside.

The man in the lead wore a shiny black leather jacket, with half a cheap cigarette dangling from his mouth, and a short scar under his eye twitched slightly with a cold laugh.

This man was none other than the notorious bully Ma Yanwang, also known as Ma Santuzi, whom everyone in the surrounding villages avoided.

Ma Santuzi exhaled a puff of smoke and slowly stepped over the threshold. Two burly thugs followed him in from the left and right, blocking all the exits from the main room.

"Old Liu, your house is quite lively."

Ma Santuzi squinted his triangular eyes and glanced at Liu Cuier, who was lying on the ground covered in blood and seemingly lifeless, with a forced smile. He then glanced at Liu Da Niang, who was lying in a pool of blood and barely breathing. His eyes showed no surprise at all, but rather as if he were watching an extremely ridiculous drama.

"Tsk tsk tsk, look at this red soup all over the ground."

Ma San, the bald man, tilted his head, flicked his cigarette ash, and a sardonic, sarcastic smile spread across his face.

"Everyone outside says you, Liu the carpenter, are a cowardly wimp who doesn't even dare to breathe loudly when he's using a plane in the village. But today, I, Ma San, have truly seen it all! So all your extraordinary skills and ruthless nature are just kept to yourself in this tiny mud-brick house, used against the two old women in your own room?"

The two thugs behind him burst into laughter, their shrill laughter sounding like the hooting of an owl.

The wooden stick in Liu Changgui's hand clattered to the ground. The ferocity on his face vanished instantly, his lips trembled, and he was so frightened that he could barely speak.

"Third...Third Master, what brings you here?"

"When do you have some free time?"

Ma Santuzi sneered, his eyes instantly turning gloomy. He casually pulled out an IOU with a bright red handprint from his inner pocket and flicked it with his fingers, making a loud slapping sound.

"If I hadn't come, you probably would have killed someone and run away, right? I can't be bothered with you beating your wife and daughter at home, but that two hundred yuan you borrowed from my secret account last month to try and win it back is due today. With interest, it's a full three hundred and sixty."

Ma San, the bald man, strode forward, tapped Liu Changgui's forehead with the burning hot cigarette butt in his hand, and grinned sinisterly:

"So, Mr. Liu, are you coming out with real gold and silver today, or are you going to break off these two arms that just hit someone as payment?"

The cigarette butt was sizzling on his forehead, and Liu Changgui winced in pain, but he didn't dare to flinch. His hands were pressed tightly against the seams of his trousers, and his face was plastered with a fawning smile that looked more like a grimace.

"Third Master! Third Master, please grant me two more days! Look at my family... there's just been a little trouble, and Ga Zi... yes, the big boss of Kaoshantun, Er Ga Zi, is about to bring the betrothal gifts! As soon as the gifts arrive, I'll immediately send them to you with interest! Please, Third Master, have mercy and grant me three more days... just three days!"

"Three days?"

Ma Santuzi sneered, his eyes suddenly turning fierce. He grabbed Liu Changgui by the collar and forcefully stubbed out the hot cigarette butt on Liu Changgui's neck.

"Sizzle—"

A burnt smell instantly filled the air.

"I'll give you three days? Who the hell gave me three days? If you can't pay, I'll chop off two of your fingers today!"

The intense pain and the despair of being cornered were like a raging fire, instantly bringing back the frenzied rage that Liu Changgui had just displayed.

Either way, we're doomed!

The nerve in Liu Changgui's brain snapped completely with a "snap," his previously hunched back straightened abruptly, he shoved away Ma Santuzi's hand, his two bloodshot old eyes glaring like copper bells, and he exploded hysterically:

"Ma Laosan! Don't push me to the brink! If you really push me too far, I won't let you get away with it!"

Ma Santuzi was slightly taken aback by his shout, then the scar at the corner of his eye twitched twice, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, and he chuckled sinisterly with his neck crooked:

"Oh ho, you've gotten bold, haven't you? Then tell me, how exactly are you planning to make things difficult for me?"

Liu Changgui's chest heaved violently a few times.

He didn't say anything immediately. Instead, in front of Ma Santuzi, he grabbed the collar of his old cotton-padded jacket, which had been torn askew, and pulled it straight out. Then he raised his hands and patted off the mud and cigarette ash stuck to his chest.

He forced his withered old face up high, even squeezing out an extremely sinister sneer at the corner of his mouth:

"Old Ma, don't think I don't know anything just because I stay cooped up in the village all day."

Liu Changgui squinted his bloodshot old eyes, his voice low and harsh:

"I went to the lumber mill in the county town to pick up some timber the other day, and I heard all about it! Recently, the county got a new leader in charge of public security, and he's been cracking down on gambling and thugs everywhere to clean up the atmosphere! Several tough guys running shady businesses in the east and west of the town have all been taken down and paraded through the streets in big iron handcuffs!"

He took a half-step forward, his spittle almost hitting Ma Santuzi's face:

"Those uniformed officials up there, desperate to meet performance targets and curry favor with the new leadership, are now like hungry wolves, scrambling to find examples to showcase!"

Liu Changgui gritted his teeth, his eyes gleaming with the ferocity of a dying wild dog.

"Tell me, if I, Liu Changgui, were to risk my old life, with all the bloodstains you just left on my body and my scalded flesh, and run headfirst into the county committee compound and the county public security bureau to cry out for justice and file a complaint—"

He took a hard half-step forward, spitting on Ma Santuzi's face, his voice shrill and sharp:

"I'll kneel down at the gate and expose all your shady dealings in the back hills—your loan sharking, the murders you've caused—in front of the entire town! Tell me, what kind of end do you think you, Ma San the Bald, will have?!"

Liu Changgui's rapid-fire howling echoed through the room, and surprisingly, Ma Santuzi didn't respond immediately.

Ma Santuzi just stood there, his triangular eyes slightly narrowed, a cigarette ring dangling from his mouth, silently sizing up Liu Changgui. The air in the room seemed to freeze instantly.

Seeing Ma Santuzi's silent demeanor, Liu Changgui felt a sudden sense of relief, and the arrogance of a gambler who had succeeded instantly surged into his mind.

He thought that Ma Santuzi was really intimidated by these words, afraid of the government's crackdown, and afraid that he would really cause trouble in the county committee compound.

Liu Changgui straightened his back even more, and even subconsciously put his hands behind his back, adopting the air of a senior elder in the village, and gave a forced, insincere snort:

"Alright, Ma Laosan, we're all from the same village, we'll run into each other again soon, I don't want to push things too far."

Liu Changgui raised his chin, adopting a condescending attitude of offering the other party a way out:

"Take your men back first. When I'm financially secure, I'll pay you back in full. You don't need to watch me like a thief every day, worrying that I won't pay. Go around asking around the surrounding villages. In all my years as a carpenter, have I ever owed anyone money? Just let me go—"

"Fuck you!!"

Before Liu Changgui could even utter the word "heart," the fierce glint in Ma Santuzi's eyes suddenly exploded!

Ma Santuzi suddenly raised his right foot, his hard old leather shoes whistling through the air, and kicked Liu Changgui squarely in the chest!

"Bang!!"

A muffled thud that made your teeth ache.

Liu Changgui's withered body flew backward like a tattered sack, slamming hard against the edge of the earthen kang behind him, causing dust and debris to fall from the entire earthen wall.

"puff--!"

Liu Changgui felt a sweet taste in his throat and immediately spat out a mouthful of thick blood. He clutched his chest and curled up on the ground, feeling as if his internal organs had been shattered. His eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and he couldn't even breathe.

Ma San, the bald man, slowly dusted off the dirt from his leather shoes, strode over to Liu Changgui, and spat a mouthful of thick, bloody phlegm in his face.

"You old codger, you think you're all that just because I gave you a little leeway?!"

Ma Santuzi bent down, grabbed Liu Changgui's sparse, graying hair tightly, and forcefully lifted his head off the ground. The scar at the corner of his eye twisted like a centipede.

"Trying to act tough with me? Using the county public security bureau to intimidate me? Who do you think you are, putting on airs in front of me?!"