Chapter 54: 54: Encounters with Ruffians in the Village
Chapter Fifty-Three
After a while, the store owner walked out with a slightly bashful Chun Tao.
Long Xiaoshan took another look at Chun Tao and noticed that her figure had become even more sexy. The store owner said, "Big sister, don't think that my stall is small, what I sell here is all genuine. This brand is Ting Mei, and it's different when you wear it. I guarantee you won't sag even when you reach my age."
That's the way to do business.
After all, women love beauty, even the simple Chun Tao couldn't erase her nature.
Although she was extremely shy at the moment, she didn't say she wanted to take it off anymore.
Long Xiaoshan handed her a pair of jeans and a goose yellow T-shirt that he had chosen, saying, "Try on this set of clothes too."
"Little Xiaoshan, I, I really can't..."
Before Chun Tao could finish, Long Xiaoshan pushed her in and said, "Hurry up, otherwise I'll be unhappy."
"Big sister, look at your husband, he really knows how to treat people well. I'm even envious," the store owner laughed.
Chun Tao bit her lip and stole a glance at Long Xiaoshan, seeing that he showed not a trace of unhappiness, an inexplicable joy welled up in her heart.
She took the clothes given by Long Xiaoshan and went behind the curtain.
Since they were summer clothes, she quickly changed and came out.
As the curtain lifted, Long Xiaoshan's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help saying, "You look beautiful."
It was a heartfelt compliment. At this moment, Chun Tao, dressed in jeans and a tight T-shirt, perfectly outlined her figure. Having often worked in the fields, she was fit and athletic, and her legs were particularly long and straight. With her legs tightly together, there was not a gap to be seen. The goose yellow top made her look young and vibrant.
If it weren't for the simple and timid air of a village woman on her face, she would look just like a young girl.
After all, she was still quite young, only about twenty-three or twenty-four years old.
"Wow, it's like you're a completely different person," the store owner also lavished praise.
Long Xiaoshan said, "Just wear it like that, don't take it off. Store owner, I'll pay."
Long Xiaoshan happily paid three hundred yuan.
He walked out holding Chun Tao's hand.
It was Chun Tao's first time wearing jeans and such a tight T-shirt.
She walked uncomfortably, as it was obviously sexy, and there were a lot of people looking at her on the street. Many men kept staring at her top and bottom as if their eyeballs were about to fall into her clothing, making her feel very embarrassed.
Long Xiaoshan then went to other stalls and bought some clothes, some for his parents, and some for himself. As for Long Xiaoling, he didn't need to worry; Su Wan took good care of her.
After finishing shopping, Long Xiaoshan went to look at dogs.
In the countryside market, everything is for sale, including dogs, though mostly local breeds.
Long Xiaoshan didn't need any noble breeds, as local dogs were just as good and easier to raise. They were the best for guarding homes and courtyards in the countryside.
Moreover, Long Xiaoshan was thinking of conducting an experiment to see if dogs fed with Spiritual Liquid would be any different.
The place where dogs were sold didn't smell good.
Long Xiaoshan asked Chun Tao to wait for him back at the pickup truck.
He went to pick a dog himself.
It took about ten minutes or so.
Long Xiaoshan picked a litter of local dogs that looked better than the rest, twelve in total.
After paying, he picked up the litter of puppies and headed straight for the pickup truck.
Unexpectedly, surrounding the pickup truck were several people dressed in a shabby way, when originally Chun Tao was sitting inside the vehicle and now, she was dragged down, scuffling with these men under the car.
Moreover, those men were laughing and joking, their hands unscrupulously roaming over her.
Even though this was the countryside, it had its own share of chaos.
Daring to commit such criminal acts right in the middle of the market.
Long Xiaoshan was instantly enraged upon seeing this.
He quickened his pace and shouted, "What are you doing, let go."
"Who the hell are you, kid, to meddle in other people's business?" one of the thugs asked Long Xiaoshan aggressively.
Long Xiaoshan pushed through the men, pulling Chun Tao behind him. Her newly bought clothes were clearly torn, and there were dark handprints on her chest. Chun Tao looked terrified and, upon seeing Long Xiaoshan, threw herself into his arms with tears in her eyes, "little Xiaoshan."
"Don't be afraid," Long Xiaoshan said while comforting her, then roared angrily, "In broad daylight, you dare to molest women like this?"
"So what if we're molesting her, kid, if you don't want to die, then get lost," the thugs threatened.
If this had been in the past, Long Xiaoshan would have definitely fought back.
However, because of the recent incident with Ergouzi, Long Xiaoshan now didn't want to act impulsively and, even if he were to get into a fight, he couldn't leave any evidence behind.
He had learned his lesson; the outside world was different from prison, after all.
Long Xiaoshan placed the puppy in the bed of the pickup truck, opened the door, and said, "Chun Tao, let's go."
Arguing with such thugs was pointless, as even if the police were called, they'd likely be detained for a couple of days and then released—absolute futility. Long Xiaoshan did not want to waste time.
The thugs brightened up when they saw Long Xiaoshan driving a vehicle.
Initially, they were just looking to have some "fun" with the attractive village woman, and this wasn't their first time engaging in such acts. They were fearless because a thug's uncle held the position of deputy head of Lotus Township.
If any issue arose, they believed it could easily be smoothed over.
Little did they expect that this village woman's man was wealthy. In Lotus Township, anyone who could afford a pickup truck was considered wealthy.
"Hold on, you think you can just leave?" one thug forcefully held the car door and said, "She just scratched my face; compensate me two thousand yuan first."
Indeed, there was a red mark on the thug's face, probably from Chun Tao's struggle, but there wasn't even any bleeding—just a slight redness.
Long Xiaoshan scoffed angrily, "You try to assault a woman and now you're attempting to extort twenty thousand yuan from me."
"What, you injure me and think you won't pay up? If you don't compensate, we'll just take this car, and I'll take the woman as well. I even want to 'shake' her up in the car," the thug said arrogantly.
Long Xiaoshan had been holding back until now, but he couldn't endure it any longer.
For these scums who preyed on the villagers, there was no reasoning, no way to talk sense into them; only violence could resolve this.
He clenched his fist, throwing a punch.
But midway, he changed his mind and turned it into a poke with a finger, which he drove forcefully onto one of the thugs.
The poke seemed light, but the thug suddenly started screaming about itching, and then tore his own clothes in his frenzy, rolling on the ground. When the other thugs were taken aback and about to strike at Long Xiaoshan, he poked out with a few more fingers.
All the men toppled over, screaming like pigs being slaughtered.
Their shrieks could carry for miles.
"It really works!"
Seeing the thugs lying on the ground, wailing in agony—pain that couldn't be feigned—Long Xiaoshan felt a surge of satisfaction. He had intended to avoid serious injury which would have been troublesome, so he used an attack on their pressure points from a medical book.
The human body is full of such points—some induce sleep, some could kill if pressed. Long Xiaoshan targeted their tickling points.
Adding True Qi to his touch, he made the thugs itch as if thousands of ants were crawling through their bones, an agony worse than if they had their limbs cut off.