I Have a Lake as I Walk Through the Courtyard

Yi Zhonghai and the other two old men noticed something was wrong. They exchanged glances, realizing that if Lin Feng continued talking, they would be completely exposed.

"Fine, fine! Since you're so tough on me, don't come to us for mediation if anything happens in the future!"

Lin Feng didn't respond to that. Instead, he found a small wooden stick at his doorstep, picked it up, weighed it in his hand, and found it very handy and satisfied.

"What do you want to do?" The three old men were so frightened by Lin Feng's actions that they all backed away, while the young men in the yard hurriedly searched for something on the ground.

Lin Feng ignored the three guys and looked at the neighbors who had gathered around. "Dear neighbors, it is true that the house repairs have caused some disturbance. This is unavoidable. I apologize to everyone here first. If you feel that you have been wronged, the normal procedure is to report it to the neighborhood office and let them handle it. I, Lin Feng, will accept it. But if any of you want to deliberately cause trouble while I am repairing the house, then I am not someone to be bullied."

Lin Feng finished speaking with a beaming smile, ignoring the gossip from his neighbors. "I'll put on a show for everyone as an apology!"

"Who wants to watch your show? What if your house repairs disturb the baby in your belly?"

Lin Feng looked up and saw that it was none other than Jia Zhangshi. Lin Feng didn't argue with the old woman. He placed the two ends of the stick on the bricks, leaving the middle empty, and then struck it hard with his right hand. The stick broke in one fell swoop, and the whole courtyard fell silent instantly.

Lin Feng dusted off his hands and looked at Jia Zhangshi's pale face. "Are you satisfied with this program?"

Jia Zhangshi trembled and couldn't speak. She looked at Lin Feng as if she were seeing a demon!

Lin Feng clasped his hands in greeting to the surroundings, glanced at the three old men with undisguised contempt in his eyes, and then casually went back into the house under the watchful eyes of the crowd.

After Lin Feng disappeared, the group went into an uproar, especially Sha Zhu, who picked up two broken pieces of wood and looked at them, his face growing paler and paler.

"Good heavens! This guy's got real wood! If that punch landed on a person, it would be disastrous! This kid's been hiding his true strength!"

Xu Damao, who had just returned from showing a movie in the countryside, saw the half-wood and his eyes lit up. Especially when he saw Sha Zhu's pale face, his face flushed with excitement. This was the real God of War!

The old man sighed upon seeing this. "No wonder this kid's gotten so tough lately! He's got some confidence now! Alright, alright, I don't dare mess with this kid! If he hit me like that, I couldn't take it."

Liu Haizhong was even more terrified. Thinking about the way Lin Feng had looked at him earlier, his legs were trembling. Looking at his son's eyes full of hearts, he was furious.

"What are you standing there for? Come back inside with me!"

As Yi Zhonghai watched his two companions leave, he felt increasingly uneasy. Faced with the martial prowess displayed by Lin Feng, he had no confidence whatsoever. He glanced at Sha Zhu beside him, sighed, and shook his head.

Lin Feng thought the storm had passed, but he underestimated how difficult his neighbors in the courtyard were. Most people in the courtyard were reasonable, but there were always a few exceptions.

The next day, as soon as he got home from get off work, he saw Qin Huairu sitting at his doorstep with a big belly, and Lin Feng instantly felt a sense of foreboding.

Why are you sitting in front of my house?

Qin Huairu's face turned deathly pale. "I don't feel well! My stomach hurts so much!"

The three women saw Lin Feng return and rushed over. "Is he having trouble with the baby?"

"If you're having trouble with the baby, go to the hospital. Why are you sitting in front of my house?"

"It's because your house is too noisy! It startled the baby in her belly."

Lin Feng was almost laughing in anger. In this day and age, there wasn't even an electric drill for renovations, and Qin Huairu was living in the central courtyard, quite a distance from his own house.

"Alright, alright, you guys play like this, huh? Okay!" he said, and went inside to check on Master Zhao.

"Master Zhao!"

"Oh, boss, you're finally back! Your neighbors in this yard are truly something else! Perhaps you should find someone else?"

"It's alright, please don't worry! I'll definitely resolve this today."

Lin Feng finished speaking and walked out of the house. "Qin Huairu! With your pregnant belly, I can't do anything to you, but you have another one at home, with a pretty good figure, she should be able to take a beating!"

"What do you want to do? Oh dear, I can't breathe!"

Lin Feng smirked, too lazy to pay attention to the woman, and strode straight into the central courtyard. Before he even reached the Jia family's residence, he saw a figure darting away like a mouse beside the moon gate.

Lin Feng reacted quickly, and upon seeing the figure, he rushed over and kicked her to the ground.

"What warnings did I give you yesterday? You ignored me, didn't you? You let my foreman not work a single day, causing me to lose a day's wages for nothing!"

"Ouch! Someone's been killed! Help!"

Lin Feng frowned as he watched the old woman sitting on the ground throwing a tantrum. A feeling of disgust welled up inside him. As the old woman's commotion grew louder and louder, Lin Feng's patience ran out. He rushed over and started punching and kicking her.

The women working in the courtyard gasped at the sight. It had been so long since a woman in this courtyard had been beaten! Especially the older women, this was truly a rare occurrence!

Lin Feng had a bad temper in his past life, and the chef in this life wasn't much better. The two incidents combined made Lin Feng's attacks increasingly severe. Fortunately, Jia Zhangshi was thick-skinned and tough; if it were someone else, they would have been half-dead.

The women in the courtyard offered a few symbolic words of advice, then stood aside and began to watch the spectacle; surprisingly, not a single one of them went out to report the news!

Qin Huairu clutched her stomach, watching from afar, trembling with fear. Thinking about what Yi Zhonghai had said to them yesterday, she mentally cursed Yi Zhonghai's ancestors for eighteen generations.

"Stop hitting me, stop hitting me! If you keep hitting me, I'll kill you! Waaah, stop hitting me!" Jia Zhangshi's pleading voice grew softer and softer, and Lin Feng's anger subsided considerably!

"You old hag! You think you can find gold in a pile of shit? Don't you know your own limitations? Do you think I'm some kind of fool who's easy to bully?" Lin Feng said, still not satisfied, and kicked the old woman's arm again.

"Stop! Raymond Lam, what are you doing?"

Lin Feng turned around and saw the three aunties accompanying Director Wang, who was running over breathlessly.

Upon seeing Director Wang, who was crying out in injustice and with disheveled hair, Jia Zhangshi burst into tears. "Director Wang, I can't take it anymore! Someone's been beaten to death... Waaah, I'm too ashamed to face anyone!"

"Lin Feng, what's going on?"

Lin Feng watched as Director Wang pointed at Qin Huairu. "This pregnant woman said the house renovations disturbed her pregnancy, and she sat at my doorstep whining all day, preventing my contractor from doing any work!"

"Then why did you hit her mother-in-law?"

"I wouldn't dare hit this pregnant woman!" Raymond Lam said confidently.

Director Wang was almost laughing in exasperation. "What you said actually makes a lot of sense!"

Lin Feng simply recounted what had happened yesterday. "Director Wang, why don't you take some time to talk to all the neighbors again about what rights these three old men have? And this pregnant woman, I'd accept it if she lived in the front yard, but to be so far away and disturb her unborn child! What is she carrying? Why is she so delicate?"

Hearing this, Director Wang finally understood the whole story and glanced at Qin Huairu beside him. "Were you startled and had a miscarriage?"