Liu Changgui's scalp was almost torn apart, the veins on his neck bulged, and he let out intermittent, pig-like screams.

"It hurts...it hurts! Third Master...Third Master, spare me!"

"Now you know to call me Third Master? Weren't you bragging just now? Weren't you going to the county police station to set me off?!"

Ma Santuzi's eyes flashed with ferocity. He grabbed Liu Changgui's hair and slammed him down, then raised his knee and delivered a vicious knee strike to Liu's face!

"Snap!"

With a sharp crack, Liu Changgui's nasal bone broke on the spot, and two streams of blood gushed out like mud from a burst dam, instantly covering his face in blood and making him unrecognizable.

Liu Changgui was in so much pain that he couldn't even scream. His hands flailed futilely in mid-air, and he slumped to the ground like a dead dog, convulsing.

Ma Santuzi straightened up and gave a cold wink to the two burly thugs behind him:

"Go, pin this old codger's hands down on the doorstep."

"Yes, Third Master!"

Two thugs grinned and stepped forward. One stepped on Liu Changgui's back, while the other dragged Liu Changgui's right arm like a dead pig and pressed it hard against the hard, thick wooden threshold.

Liu Changgui was utterly terrified. A pool of foul-smelling yellow urine instantly seeped from his crotch. His bloodshot eyes widened as he wailed and begged for mercy in a heart-wrenching scream.

"Third Master! Third Master, I was wrong! I had a foul mouth! I'm not human! Please don't chop off my hand! Please don't chop off my hand!"

Ma Santuzi pulled a gleaming boning knife from his back waist, casually tapping it in his hand as he walked step by step to the threshold.

He narrowed his triangular eyes, the tip of his knife gently lifting Liu Changgui's bloodied and mangled chin, his voice chilling like a demon crawling out of the deepest hell:

"Hey old man, I'm going to teach you a lesson today. In this little corner of the world, I'm the law!"

"You owe me 360 ​​yuan. If you're short even a penny today, I'll cut off one of your fingers right here and now. If cutting off all five fingers still isn't enough—"

Ma Santuzi turned his head, his gaze falling menacingly on Liu Cuier, who lay unconscious in a pool of blood beside him. A cruel and lewd smile spread across his lips.

"I'll strip your daughter naked and hang her on the big tree at the entrance of the village, letting all the men, young and old, take turns judging her. Then I'll sell her to some seventy- or eighty-year-old widow in the mountains to be shared with by a childless old man. See if that's enough to settle my debt!"

Upon hearing this, Aunt Liu, who had been lying on the ground barely breathing, suddenly jolted awake as if struck by lightning, struggling to lift her head from the pool of blood.

"You beast...you damned beast!!"

Aunt Liu, drawing upon her last ounce of strength, frantically crawled towards Ma Santuzi's legs, her bloodied hands desperately clutching at his trouser hem.

"Come at me! Don't touch my daughter! Don't touch Cui'er!!"

Without even lowering his head, Ma Santuzi kicked Liu Da Niang hard in the chest.

"Bang!"

Before Aunt Liu could even scream, she was kicked and slid two meters away on the ground, her head hitting the leg of the octagonal table hard. Her eyes rolled back, and she completely lost consciousness.

"So fussy and noisy."

Ma San Tu Zi withdrew his foot, casually patted the mud off his trousers, and pressed the gleaming boning knife against Liu Chang Gui's right knuckles again.

The blade was icy cold, making Liu Changgui's hair stand on end, and the stench of urine in his crotch grew even stronger.

He saw with his own eyes Ma Santuzi's triangular eyes, devoid of any human emotion, and knew that this devil was really capable of doing such a thing that would wipe out his lineage!

"Don't chop! Third Master! I'll tell you! I have money! I really have money!!"

Liu Changgui's face was a mess of snot, tears, and blood, and he screamed in a hoarse voice:

"The money's in the house! Right here in the house! Someone came to arrange a blind date and gave Cui'er a dowry! It fell on the floor! It's all bills!!"

Ma San, the bald man, paused slightly in his grip on the knife, his triangular eyes darting sideways.

"A deposit for a blind date?"

"Yes, yes, yes! They were right on the table! They were all scattered on the floor when the fight broke out! Under the table! By the corner! They were all the bills he threw down! Third Master, please take them all! Please, have mercy and spare my life!!"

Liu Changgui was only focused on frantically kowtowing and begging for mercy.

Ma San Tu Zi winked at the thug next to him.

The burly man immediately bent down, reached under the blood-stained and broken porcelain table, rummaged around for a while, and pulled out a small handful of loose banknotes.

Six bills printed with the image of steelworkers working together, plus a few five-yuan and one-yuan notes.

The thug roughly counted, then whispered in Ma Santuzi's ear:

"Third Master, that's seventy-six yuan and fifty cents in total."

Ma Santu grabbed the money and stuffed it into his pocket.

He looked at the meager amount of small bills in his hand, and his face instantly darkened to the point of being dripping with gloom.

"Old Liu, you think you can get rid of me with just seventy-odd yuan?"

Ma Santuzi suddenly raised his foot and slammed it heavily onto Liu Changgui's shattered nasal bone!

"Awooo—!"

Liu Changgui screamed in agony, his limbs twitching violently.

"You owe me a full three hundred and sixty! Subtract seventy-six yuan and fifty cents, and you still owe me two hundred and eighty-three yuan and fifty cents!"

Ma Santuzi looked down at him with a sinister and vicious gaze, his foot stomping hard on Liu Changgui's broken nose.

"What? You're not going to pay this money back?!"

"I'll pay it back! I'll pay it back! Third Master, I'll definitely pay it back!!"

Liu Changgui was in so much pain that snot, tears, and blood streamed down his face. He flailed his arms wildly in the air and screamed in a hoarse voice.

"Repay? With what? How will you repay?!"

Ma Santuzi sneered, the scar at the corner of his eye twitching violently, his tone full of impatience and malice.

"Third Master... whatever you say goes! You draw the line, and I, Liu Changgui, will do as you say! I'll do whatever you say!!"

Liu Changgui was utterly terrified and only wanted to save his life, so he begged for mercy repeatedly.

"Go to hell! You think you can just listen to me? What the hell are you arguing about?!"

Ma Santuzi's face suddenly darkened. He pulled out the gleaming boning knife from his back and stabbed it into the threshold next to Liu Changgui's ear with a "whoosh," sending wood chips flying!

"I want cash today! If you can't come up with it, I'll gouge out your eyes right now, and chop off your arms to feed the dogs!"

The cold blade pressed against the back of his ear, and Liu Changgui trembled with fear, his eyes darting around the room in terror.

Suddenly, his gaze fell on Liu Cuier, who was lying on the ground, her face covered in blood and half-dead.

Then he remembered the rumors that Ma Santuzi's sickly wife had just passed away last year and that the harem was still empty. The wicked scheming nerve in Liu Changgui's mind instantly clicked.

As if he had grasped a life-saving magic weapon, ignoring the excruciating pain on his face, he grabbed Ma Santuzi's trouser legs with both bloodied hands and shouted urgently:

"Third Master! Third Master, please have mercy! I have a way! I have a great way to settle this debt!"

Liu Changgui swallowed hard, pointing at Cui'er on the ground, his face plastered with a fawning and lewd smile:

"Third Master, didn't your wife pass away last year? Now you don't even have a warm bed or anyone to serve you tea and water! Look at my daughter Cui'er, she's one of the most beautiful girls in the whole area! Although I just scratched her a little, she's very strong and has a big bottom, which is good for childbirth!"

Liu Changgui got more and more excited as he talked, completely pushing his daughter away like an animal:

"I'll marry Cui'er to you! No, I'll give her to you as your concubine! The remaining two hundred and eighty yuan will be considered as your betrothal gift! You'll get a beautiful young woman to serve you for free, what a bargain, Third Master!!"

Upon hearing this, Ma Santuzi's sinister triangular eyes suddenly lit up, and his gaze involuntarily followed Liu Changgui's pointing finger, landing on Liu Cuier lying in a pool of blood.

Although the little girl's head was covered in blood and her cotton-padded jacket was torn to shreds, her small, oval face, delicate skin, and full breasts stood out conspicuously in the dimly lit room.

Ma Santuzi's Adam's apple bobbed slightly, clearly indicating that he was having wicked thoughts. After his dead wife died of tuberculosis last year, there really wasn't even anyone to keep the bed warm in his house.

But just as this surge of anger rose, a cold glint flashed in Ma Santuzi's mind.

Although he was a local thug who terrorized the area, it was precisely because he had been walking on the edge of danger for many years that he knew better than anyone when he could act tough and who he could kill.

He dared to defecate on Liu Changgui's neck in this dilapidated mud-brick house because he knew that Liu Changgui was a selfish, greedy, cowardly, and rotten good-for-nothing at heart!

But if we were to just forcibly take her back as our wife, that would be a complete disaster!

If he were seen on the road by those meddlesome troublemakers in the village, or by production team cadres or commune security officers, or if this old widow later turned around and accused him of abducting or seizing women, in this climate of cracking down on crime, then Ma Santuzi would really be doomed!

The greed in Ma San's eyes instantly turned into a fierce glint. He grabbed Liu Changgui by the collar and let out a cold, sarcastic laugh:

"Marry me? Liu Changgui, don't you dare try to trap me!"

"I'm a man who respects rules and the law! In this new society, we value freedom of marriage. You may talk a good game now, but what if I take her home and then you turn around and report me to the commune for forcing her into prostitution and abducting her? I'd be the one to take the bullet for you!"

Liu Changgui was so frightened that he trembled violently, his whole body slumped against the threshold, snot, tears, and blood streaming down his face, wailing in a tearful voice:

"Third Master... then... then what do you suggest we do?! You've seen the mess my house is in, I'm truly broke! Besides this dilapidated mud-brick house and the worthless trash on the ground, I've almost pawned my underwear, I don't have a single extra penny!!"

Ma Santuzi sneered, abruptly releasing his grip and letting Liu Changgui fall to the ground like a lump of mud.

He slowly straightened up, looking down at Liu Changgui, and leisurely drew the boning knife from his back. He used the tip of the knife to poke at Liu Cuier's blood-stained clothes, and spoke in a sinister tone:

"What to do? I'll teach you!"

"If you want to use your daughter to settle a debt, stop with the nonsense! I need irrefutable evidence!"

Ma Santuzi's eyes gleamed with a venomous calculation; the tip of his knife suddenly shifted, pointing directly at Liu Changgui's nasal bone.

"You get me some paper and pen right now, and we'll write down this voluntary marriage agreement in black and white! Not only will you, as the father, have to put your bloody fingerprint on it, but you also have to wake that girl on the floor right now!"

"Make her agree to marry me in person, and then make her put her red fingerprint on this marriage certificate! As long as she nods and puts her hand on the document, it's a legally binding marriage, and even the authorities can't interfere!"

A cruel, sinister smile curled at the corner of Ma San's mouth.

"If she dares not agree, or if you, as her father, can't control her... I'll chop off both your hands and feed them to the dogs today, so you'll understand what the King of Hell's tent is like! Do you understand?!"

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