Chapter 1615 - 1667: I’ve Always Been a Bully
Wang Jing and the others already knew who the man in front of them, who had brazenly taken action, was. Naturally, they didn’t dare to be rude anymore. Although they weren’t sure how wealthy the Li family actually was, they knew it wouldn’t be difficult for the Li family to deal with them.
Wang Jing and the others never expected today’s events to go this far.
Wang Jing opened by asking for half a million, but he didn’t really expect the other side to give that much. He thought they could negotiate; if not five hundred thousand, how about four hundred thousand? Three hundred thousand? And if not, they could borrow it.
Wang Jing also underestimated the seriousness of this matter. He didn’t expect Chu Xiaoyao’s reaction to be so intense. He thought she was still the same Xiaoyao from a few years ago, with no parents around, not having much of a clue, and still easily intimidated. He never expected that Xiaoyao had someone to lean on, and that young head of the Li family would personally come over to support Xiaoyao.
No matter how bold they were, no one dared to provoke Li Yifei.
Li Yifei glanced around, let out a cold laugh, and said, "Xiaoyao heard her uncle was sick and specially came to see him, yet you staged this farce. Fine, fine."
Wang Jing quickly apologized, "I’m... I’m sorry! As an elder, I was wrong. Please be the bigger person and don’t stoop to our level."
Li Yifei chuckled and said, "No, I can’t accept your apology."
Just now, Li Yifei really wanted to kill these so-called relatives directly, but he didn’t. It wasn’t that he couldn’t, but it was pointless. Xiaoyao was already hurt by these elder relatives. Killing them wouldn’t help; Xiaoyao might even feel more hurt.
So Li Yifei didn’t do it. After letting Xiaoyao go downstairs, he decided to have a word with them.
"For fifty thousand, you’d resort to deception? If you can’t deceive, you bully? Short-sighted, you know the Li family has always been supportive of relatives like you. If you could swallow your pride and ask, it wouldn’t be hard to be a millionaire or multimillionaire; we could even just give you the money." Li Yifei said calmly, "Why bother with such petty tricks and lose a true support."
Hearing Li Yifei’s words, Wang Jing and the others felt a thud in their hearts, and the taste in their hearts was indescribable. So they could’ve easily become millionaires? But because of their own greed, all that money flew away...
Thinking of this, Wang Jing and the others wanted to beat their chests and wail.
"I..." Wang Jing wanted to speak, but Li Yifei glanced at her, and she immediately swallowed her words, only to hear Li Yifei say, "But it’s too late. The event has happened, and you’ve lost the chance to become wealthy. Moreover, I guarantee as long as you’re in Mile City, you’ll remain small people. As long as the Li family is here, you’ll never have a day of success. You, your children, and your grandchildren will only earn meager wages for life. Want to earn more? Ha."
The words were plain, but the threat was direct. Hearing this, Wang Jing felt a desire to die.
After finishing speaking, Li Yifei didn’t leave. A squad of security guards briskly ran up, soon reaching the fifth floor. Seeing Li Yifei, they automatically lined up and saluted him.
"Master, the first squad is here!"
"Smash everything you can see here, if anyone tries to stop you, smash them too." Li Yifei commanded.
The guards immediately complied, not caring whose house it was or who these people were. As long as Li Yifei gave the order, they would follow it.
"No, don’t smash it!" Upon hearing this, Wang Jing panicked, trying to stop them, but they couldn’t stop the guards. The guards pulled out batons, pushed them aside, and began to smash things.
The sound of smashing was heard, and neighbors opened their doors to take a look, but soon went back, speculating among themselves about whom the Zhang family offended, to cause such wrath.
It’s unclear who they offended, but it must be someone powerful; otherwise, they wouldn’t rush in broad daylight to smash things in their home.
Wang Jing and the others tried to intervene but to no avail, eventually giving up and sitting on the ground, staring blankly. Wang Jing cried and wailed, but it was futile.
Li Yifei walked over from the window and slowly said, "You could have been good people, but you chose to be bullies. I’ve always been a bully, so this time I won’t pretend to be a good person!"
Passing through the Zhang family members, he reached the door and added, "Either get lost, or keep your heads down in Mile City, and if you dare harass Xiaoyao again, you won’t live."
Even though the sound of things being smashed was loud, Li Yifei’s words clearly reached the ears of everyone in the house, including Zhao Zimo. Their bodies trembled, trying to pull their heads in, fearing that if Li Yifei pointed, those fierce guards would come and beat them.
The house filled with noises of smashing, and although the guards weren’t used to doing this, they did it skillfully. Soon, in this less than ninety-square-meter house, everything they could see was smashed, with even cabinets not spared, leaving nothing intact.
After smashing everything, Li Yifei nodded slightly at the Zhang family members and gave a grin, then slowly turned around and walked down the stairs. The security guards, silent and without a word, followed him one by one down the stairs.
These people were considered the Li family’s retainers. They wouldn’t ask why, but they had to obey orders.
When he got downstairs, Li Yifei saw that Chu Xiaoyao wasn’t waiting for him in the car. Instead, she was hugging her arms, squatting by the entrance, her eyes somewhat vacant and looking lost. Li Yifei walked over, squatted down beside Chu Xiaoyao, and he didn’t speak, just let his shoulder touch hers.
Chu Xiaoyao slowly turned her head, her eyes red, evidently having cried downstairs. Tear stains still marked her face. After a few seconds, Chu Xiaoyao said, "Uncle, do you have a cigarette? Give me one."
"No, and you’re not allowed to smoke. It’s not good for the baby." Li Yifei answered quite seriously.
The security guards got into the car silently, avoiding looking at the conversation between the family head and one of his mistresses.
Chu Xiaoyao pouted, furrowed her brows with two lines appearing on her forehead. Seeing that Li Yifei wouldn’t give her a cigarette, Chu Xiaoyao gave up, patted his hand, and said, "Let’s go, honey, let’s go home!"
"Alright, let’s go home!" Li Yifei nodded, helped Chu Xiaoyao up, took the BMW key out from his pocket, threw it to the security guards, and said, "Drive the car back."
The security guards received the order and left. Li Yifei drove the Audi A7, taking Chu Xiaoyao out of the complex.
The five people in the Zhang family were all cried out by now. The door deformed by Li Yifei’s kick was one thing, but now everything visible in the house had been smashed beyond use, whether it was the refrigerator, the range hood, the water heater, or even the cabinets, everything was broken.
Call the police? They had thought about it, but what good would it do? Li Yifei dared to do this without fear of them calling the police. Even if the police came, they might not handle it.
Wang Jing now really wanted to just bash his head in and end it all. Originally, they thought they could get some money through familial ties, but now, not only did they not get any money, but they stirred up a hornet’s nest. Estimating the damages to everything Li Yifei smashed in their home, it’d probably amount to twenty or thirty thousand, plus their son got slashed...
Zhao Zimo looked at these four from the Zhang family, shook his head, sighed, and said, "Auntie, Taozi, better to just endure it, the Li family isn’t easy to mess with, and this is already getting off lightly."
"I have more things to do, I’ll go now. You guys clean this up." At this moment, Zhao Zimo felt that this good friend’s family was really dangerous and had to leave quickly. As Li Yifei said, with the Li family backing them, they could make money doing anything. Why did they have to resort to deception and extortion, turning a good situation into such a mess? This kind of friend should be kept at arm’s length; low intelligence can be contagious.
Having said that, Zhao Zimo hurriedly left, stopping on the third floor to pat his chest and wipe the sweat off his forehead, silently thinking how lucky he was. Otherwise, if he got involved, he wouldn’t be able to get by in Mile City or the entire province.
Zhao Zimo left just like that, but it didn’t end there. Zhang Tao’s girlfriend also wiped her tears, stood up, and said to the remaining three, "I have to go home too."
She grabbed her bag, jogged to the door, put on her shoes without saying extra words, and hurriedly went downstairs, just in time to run into Zhao Zimo. They exchanged a glance, both feeling a sense of fortune and an urge to escape danger.
"Do you think Taozi’s parents have something wrong here?" Zhao Zimo pointed at his head as they walked downstairs together.
Zhang Tao’s girlfriend rolled her eyes and said, "Damn, is this just a small problem? This is complete stupidity. Such a good opportunity, and they messed it up... No matter how rich a relative is, they’re not obliged to give you money, right? You can’t just demand it outright and flip out if you don’t get it. Damn it, Zhang Tao is equally brainless, egging them on. That woman was so beautiful, how could she look like an idiot..."
At this point, Zhang Tao’s girlfriend had understood a lot, but it’s a pity she too was one of the shameless ones, along with Zhao Zimo, thinking they could use her charms to get close to Chu Xiaoyao to meet a wider circle...
Li Yifei and Chu Xiaoyao didn’t go home. Li Yifei called the two women in the hospital to assure them they were safe, saying he was taking Chu Xiaoyao out for some fresh air. Xu Shanshan just said that he didn’t need to come to the hospital tonight, and that she can accompany Lin Qiong, no problem.
Li Yifei didn’t insist and agreed.
After hanging up, Chu Xiaoyao rubbed her stomach and said, "Honey, I’m hungry!"
"Hungry? What do you want to eat? We’ll go eat that." Li Yifei said.
"I... want to eat at the night market. I want to eat lots of tasty food." Chu Xiaoyao pointed at a row of night market stalls by the roadside and said to Li Yifei.
Li Yifei chuckled and said, "Alright then, let’s go eat. I haven’t had it in a long time either."