The man seemed drunk and unsteady. When he bumped into Xu Shiyan, he staggered and was about to fall over. He hurriedly reached out and grabbed Xu Shiyan's clothes to steady himself.
And at this moment, the hand holding Xu Shiyan's clothes suddenly had an extremely sharp blade.
I saw a flash of cold light, and the blade cut towards Xu Shiyan's coat.
"Brother, I only have this piece of clothing that I can wear when I go out to see people. If you get cut by me, your sister-in-law will scold me when you get home."
Just when the blade was about to cut through the cloth, the man's wrist was firmly grasped.
The man was stunned and looked up to see Xu Shiyan looking at him with a smile.
All this was said to be slow, but actually happened very quickly, in the blink of an eye.
That man was a habitual thief, his movements were concealed and extremely deft, but he didn't expect that he was seen through and restrained as soon as he made the move, and he was shocked.
"Say, what are you talking about? I don't understand." The man was stubborn and refused to admit it, and hurriedly pulled back his hand.
But his wrist was firmly grasped, like being clamped by a vise, and he struggled for a long time to no avail.
Xu Shiyan stretched out his hand, picked up the blade from the man's hand, and waved it in front of the man's eyes.
"Your little tricks are not enough in front of me."
In his previous life, when he was watching ginseng, he fought wits and courage with many local gangsters.
Once, someone was killed by a gun. Xu Shiyan couldn't bear it and saved him again.
They didn't get to know each other without fighting. Later, the relationship between that group of people and Xu Shiyan was pretty good. As for the methods of these people, Xu Shiyan was very knowledgeable.
The man caught by Xu Shiyan turned very ugly when he saw the blade.
At this time, several people suddenly walked over from the side, all of them with fierce looks on their faces.
You don't need to guess to know that these are all from the same group. If you can't steal secretly, you have to rob openly.
"Boy, you are very brave, let me go." One of them stepped forward and said in a very arrogant manner.
"Young man, do you know who we are? How dare you sneer on our territory?"
Xu Shiyan's face looked a little bad. He was careless and thought it would take a few years for things to get really chaotic. He didn't expect that someone in the county would dare to be so arrogant now.
"Brother, I just came to the county town to do something. We had no grudges in the past and have no grudges in the recent days. How about we live in peace and harmony?"
Xu Shiyan sighed, let go of the boy holding the blade, and reached his other hand into his coat without leaving any trace.
"Brother Cao, I saw this guy just came out of the buying station. He had a big bundle of money in his pocket, more than a thousand yuan."
The boy finally broke free of Xu Shiyan's hand, jumped aside, pointed at Xu Shiyan and said.
"More than a thousand yuan? You are so unreasonable. You come to the county town to do business and you don't pay some tributes to your brother. How can you do it?"
Come on, take out the money." The leader on the other side turned red when he heard that there was more than a thousand yuan.
"I happen to be short of money for the New Year, so hurry up."
"Brothers, please keep a line in your work and don't push others into a hurry."
Xu Shiyan glanced across the street and saw that there were four people in total. None of them had anything in their hands. He should be able to greet them all by himself.
"Hey, listen to what he said? It's so funny. Don't push people too hard. What can you do if you push them too hard?" The leader sneered with disdain.
"In this territory of Fusong, I have the final say. If you don't pay today, I will prevent you from leaving the county. Do you believe it?"
"Really? I'm sorry, but the money I earned from going up the mountain with all my life cannot be given to you so easily."
Xu Shiyan directly pulled out his hunting knife from his waist.
I didn't think much about it when I went out. I just brought self-defense with me out of habit, but I didn't expect that it actually came into use.
The knife is slightly longer and narrower than the butcher's knife, and is polished very sharply.
The few people across from me were quite knowledgeable and recognized it at a glance. It was a knife commonly used by hunters.
When the leader saw the knife, his expression immediately changed.
People who can go into the mountains to hunt are not ordinary people. They are cruel and ruthless. They can kill the wild animals in the mountains, let alone people.
Now, the people on the other side were in a dilemma.
You start to rob, but the person in front of you is not a good person at first glance. If you don't make trouble, you will get hurt. Retreat? You feel shameless and embarrassed. What should you do?
Just as the two sides were in a stalemate, a whistle suddenly sounded in the distance, and then several people in grass-green uniforms and big hats ran towards this side.
When those few people heard it, they all dispersed immediately.
Xu Shiyan also quickly put the knife back on his waist, adjusted his coat to cover it, and then left quickly, heading straight to the station.
The car on the return trip was still crowded with people. Xu Shiyan paid extra attention and finally reached Songjiang River. It was almost five o'clock.
In winter in the north, the days are short and the nights are long, and it’s already dark outside at five o’clock.
No matter how dark it was, he had to walk back. Fortunately, it was downhill all the way. Besides, he was very familiar with the road, and there were no problems on the road. He got home around six o'clock.
"Daughter-in-law, I'm back. Is there anything to eat? I'm starving."
After being out for a day, I didn't want to eat at noon. By now I was already hungry, so I cried out when I walked in.
Finally, when I walked in and looked into the room, I saw my mother sitting at the head of the kang. "Mom, why did you come here?"
"Why are you coming back so late? I went to Qingling in the morning and came over to see you two in the afternoon.
But Yingzi said you were out. What were you doing?" When Zhou Guilan saw her son coming back, she finally let go of her worries.
Seeing that there was snow on my son's hat and shoulders, I quickly took a broom to help clean it.
"Take off your hat and scarf quickly and put them on the kang to dry."
The scarves and hats were all covered with hoarfrost, which was formed by the condensation of moisture from exhaled breath. It was freezing cold outside, and even Xu Shiyan's eyebrows and eyelashes were covered with frost.
"The food is still hot in the pot. You need to take a breath before eating. Don't eat directly when you feel the cold wind in your stomach. It may cause stomachache."
Su Anying handed Xu Shiyan a towel and asked him to wipe his face, but she was not in a hurry to serve him food.
I was afraid that Xu Shiyan would eat as soon as the cold air in his stomach choked him, and he would suffer from eating problems.
"Mom, you went to Wu's house in Qingling today. What happened to the fourth child?"
Xu Shiyan wiped his face randomly, hung up the towel, turned around and sat next to his mother, and asked.
"What can we do? Your father and I will take the fourth child over, and just like you said, leave the fourth child to them, do whatever you want."
"Fourth son was beaten badly by your father yesterday. His face was bruised and bruised, and the corners of his mouth were also bruised.
When the Wu family looked at it, they realized that we were really angry, so they lost their temper.
At the end of the discussion, we still decided as planned, to get engaged on the sixth day of the lunar month and to get married on the 26th."
Zhou Guilan kept shaking her head as she spoke. The Wu family was just trying to coax the fourth child, but when they saw how serious the Xu family was, they were intimidated.
"We shouldn't get married like this. If the Wu family is not good enough, I'm afraid it will be troublesome in the future." Zhou Guilan sighed.
I'm afraid that marrying such an in-law will cause a lot of troubles in the future.
"Your father and I were not optimistic about the old Wu family from the beginning, otherwise the marriage would have been decided long ago.
It's a pity that the fourth child is so stubborn that he has identified the girl from the Wu family, what do you think he should do?"