Chapter 12: The Blade Slashes Towards His Head (1)

  I ran out of the classroom, feeling like I had narrowly escaped death. Deep down in my heart, I was worried about our future married life. This damn guy would really chase after her later on, and if he wanted to be intimate with her, it would depend on her mood. It's really suffocating to live like this.

  I touched the bank card in my pocket, ready to go to the bank to check if the money has arrived. There are three places around our school that are particularly numerous: banks, restaurants, and lovers' hotels. This seems to be a common feature of all schools in China.

  I arrived at the Construction Bank ATM, checked my balance, and couldn't help but admire my mom's efficiency in handling things. I withdrew all the money, whistling a tune, feeling quite pleased with myself as I strolled around the surrounding streets, looking for a flower shop to choose from.

  Rumbling and crackling...

  Just then, at the corner of the street next to me, a sound of car parts shaking started, and I felt that this sound was too familiar. I looked in the direction of the sound and saw an Audi 100 emitting black smoke appearing first, followed by four taxis.

  "Isn't this Xiao Ge's car? How did it end up here?" I wondered to myself, walking towards the Audi 100.

  Bang!

  The Audi 100 crashed brutally on the side of the road and caught fire. Xiong Ge got out of the car first, holding a machete in his hand, pointing at the taxi behind him and shouting: "Get out of the car, you all!"

  First, three extremely robust young men got out of an Audi 100, each holding a pickaxe handle over one meter long, closely following behind Brother Xu.

  Then more than 20 people came down from the taxi, all of whom were wearing white gloves on their right hands. They were mostly in their 20s, holding machetes or pickaxe handles.

  These young people had just gotten out of the car, four taxis, a beautiful U-turn, stopped one after another at the street corner, ready to make a run for it. It was only then that I noticed that the license plates of the four taxis all had two digits covered with rags.

  I saw this scene and knew that they must be here to fight, there were also many onlookers around, I hesitated for a moment, but still walked up, after all, Brother Xiao had helped us before and spent a lot of money treating us well, if I hadn't seen it, it would have been fine, but since I bumped into them, I definitely couldn't pretend not to see, that's not my style.

  "Ah Xiong!" I shouted and walked over.

  "Xiao Fei, what are you doing here? Hurry up and leave!" Xue Ge said with some surprise, puffing on his cigarette, telling me to hurry up and get out of there.

  "I may not be able to fight, but I also can't just watch. That's not my style. Give me a pickaxe!" I said, and was about to grab the pickaxe from the sturdy young man following behind him.

  "Stop messing around and hurry up, you can't help with this matter!" Xiang Ge's face turned red as he hastily said.

  "Ah Ge, who is this kid? He's got some guts. When others see a fight, they run away with their tails between their legs. This kid actually comes over to join in the fun!" The young man whose shovel handle I had snatched laughed and said, but didn't return the shovel handle to me.

  "My younger brother, you don't know him, Xiao Fei, if you're not leaving, then go sit in the car for a while, this isn't something you can get involved in, listen to me, or I'll kick you!" Xiong Ge said seriously.

  "Alright, you have something on, I'll definitely go up!" I said and turned around to get into the Audi 100, rolled down the window and looked at Xiao Ge.

  "This little guy has some guts, he's a real man!" The young man whose shovel I had snatched commended me with these words.

  "Shut up with your nonsense! You people, follow me closely. If anyone dares to run away, I'll chop him off the moment I turn my head!" Xiong Ge shouted at the people behind him.

  "Who runs is the son!"

  "Xiao Ge, don't worry!"

  "They will definitely be killed in no time!"

  Everyone expressed their opinions loudly, but Xiong Ge looked at them with a frown, and from his expression, it seemed that he didn't quite believe them.

  "Let's go!" Xiong Ge took the lead, holding a machete, and walked towards a store first. I took a look at the storefront, it was a lottery station.

  I used to pass by this lottery station often and knew that there was a cat hiding inside. Of course, it wasn't a regular lottery, but rather an underground lottery with gambling nature, just using the regular lottery as a cover. Our school students didn't know how much money they had lost here, the police came to investigate twice, but not long after, this lottery station opened again with great fanfare, I guess there's some background.

  Today, the lottery station's door was tightly closed. Brother Xu led his men and just arrived at the entrance of the lottery station when suddenly, with a loud creaking sound, the rolling shutter was pulled open from inside, and five middle-aged men in their thirties rushed out.

  A fat man holding a shotgun with four middle-aged men carrying machetes following behind him.

  "You dare to fight me? You want to have a go with my big brother?" Xiong Ge held the knife, pointing at the middle-aged man's nose, and scolded him loudly, not caring about the gun in the middle-aged man's hand.

  "What are you, not worthy of talking to me? Where's Xiao Hei?" The middle-aged man lazily looked at Xu Ge with a sleepy expression.

  "Damn it, can you even see the black guy? Are you going to close this crappy store or not? If not, I'll burn it down for you!!" Xue Ge yelled at the middle-aged man, but I always felt that his momentum was no match for the lazy and carefree middle-aged man, lacking intimidation.

  "You're that crazy Xue, right? Do you believe I'll shoot you?" The middle-aged man raised his shotgun and said to Xue Ge with a slanted gaze.

  "Come on! Are you looking for trouble, coming over here?" The young man who had his shovel snatched away by me earlier took a step forward and blocked Xiaohu behind him, pointing to his own forehead as he spoke.

  "Come on! I'll let you win too!"

  "Come on, are you brave enough?!"

  Three young men who were previously sitting in an Audi 100 stood in front of Xiao Ge, constantly provoking the middle-aged fat man, being extremely arrogant. Xiao Ge, on the other hand, was standing behind them with a smile, not saying a word.

  "Haha, this is interesting! No wonder Crazy Xu has been acting out lately, it turns out he's got a lot of young and foolish followers. I'll be damned, I'm going to take down one of them today!" The middle-aged fat man was initially laughing, but his expression suddenly changed as he spoke the second half of the sentence, quickly pulling the trigger on his gun.

  Boom!

  A dull gunshot, tearing through the air, a wave of gunpowder smell spreading out, my hands were all sweaty, an exciting moment, I saw just as the middle-aged fat man was about to fire, Xiao Hu's brother made a swift move, chopping down with his knife on the middle-aged man's arm holding the gun.

  The middle-aged man's hand was slightly off, and the gun shot hit the young man's leg, which I had previously snatched from him. In an instant, his thigh turned a bloody red, with countless small holes as if the entire leg had been shattered.