Volume 1: Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Chapter 35: A Carefree Life with a Single Eye

  In front of the post office building, Hou San waited for more than five minutes, but still didn't see anyone coming to give Duan Yue money. They began to suspect that Duan Yue was just stalling.

  "Hey boss, is that friend of yours trying to swindle you?" Although Hou San didn't explicitly say that Duan Lei was cheating them, the cautious expression on his face had already begun to guard against Duan Lei.

  "Don't worry, he'll definitely be here!" Looking at Hou San's tense face, Duan Lei smiled and said: "See? Isn't that him?"

  Even standing in the crowd, Duanyue, who is 185cm tall, stood out like a crane among chickens and easily saw Yan Xiaoqing riding a Yamaha motorcycle, his smile even more intense.

  "Here I am!" Yan Xiaoqing squeezed into the crowd in his car and said.

  At a distance, Yan Xiaoqing had already seen Duan Lei. What can you do? Who made his appearance just placed there? Of course, Yan Xiaoqing would not be like Hou San, unable to recognize Duan Lei's appearance. After all, the two sworn brothers would video chat from time to time, talking about each other's recent situation, so Yan Xiaoqing was naturally aware of Duan Lei's changes.

  "Hou Ge said he can't recognize me, and I couldn't prove my own identity, so I had to call you over!" Duan Lei spread his hands out towards Yan Xiaoqing, suddenly switching to Tianzhou dialect.

  As soon as Duan Yun spoke fluently in Tianzhou dialect, the crowd watching the commotion around him was stunned!

  Originally thought it was an outsider's fat sheep, although knowing the other side was pretending to be a pig eating a tiger, came a beautiful turn around, and directly stunned everyone. If it were someone else, the surrounding audience would think that these two young people are playing tricks, and might suffer revenge from Hou San and his gang. But since it's Yan Xiaoqing who stepped forward, there's no suspense in how things will develop!

  In a small county like Tianzhou, Yan Xiaoqing is a celebrity. His Yamaha 150 is his trademark, and whenever he shows up, many things on the street can be easily settled. Of course, the young punks give Yan Xiaoqing face not just because he's a skilled fighter with a reputation that precedes him, but more importantly, because Yan Xiaoqing's old man, Yan Kaisan, is the most senior thug in all of Tianzhou County!

  In the late 1980s, Yan Kaisan, who was in his early twenties, had already been hanging out on the streets of Jiuzhou Town and Tianzhou County. However, unlike others who practiced martial arts with Duan Lei's grandfather, he didn't fight on the streets but instead opened a video game store. Of course, during that era of Famicom, street-side video game stores weren't always clean, and without someone powerful to keep things in order, the rowdy young customers might have made it impossible to stay in business.

  At that time, Yan Kai Shan relied on his own strength to establish his reputation in Tianzhou County. He became sworn brothers with many big shots in the underworld. However, because he was operating a game hall and internet cafe, which were legitimate businesses, he was not affected by the repeated crackdowns. On the contrary, his business continued to grow, and he became one of the few remaining big shots on the streets of Tianzhou.

  Although Yan Kai Shan rarely gets involved in specific things on the streets, everyone still respects him, and as a result, Yan Xiao Qing also becomes a young master in Tianzhou County.

  "Ah, young master, so he's your friend!" As soon as Yan Xiaoqing stepped forward, Hou San's face immediately lit up like a blooming flower, and he cupped his hands together to say: "If I had known he was your friend, even if you lent me a hundred guts, I wouldn't have dared to mess with him!"

  For this matter, Hou San didn't have much scruples either. Since things had already been done, and the other party was a friend of Yan Xiao Ye's, they might as well just let it go and everyone would be fine. Presumably, Yan Ye wouldn't make an appearance because of such a small matter to cause trouble for Lao Da with Hou San. Now that everyone has said their piece, the scene is over and there's nothing more to it.

  "Hou San, you really can't recognize who he is?" Yan Xiaoqing saw that Hou San still hadn't reacted and pointed at Duan Cui again.

  "Little master, I really don't have any impression of this gentleman!" Hou San stared at Duan Yue for a while, still shaking his head in confusion.

  To say that the outline in front of him was still a bit familiar, but Hou San couldn't think of who this person was for a while.

  "Really can't remember?" Duan Yue smiled and said some key words, reminding Hou San: "Six years ago, September, I and Xiao Qing, the stadium, Mango Street, ……"

  As Duan Lei's hints gradually came out, Hou San's mind slowly recalled the thrilling chase six years ago. The feeling of exhaustion and lingering fear seemed to be appearing on his own body again. And the image of the tall and strong young man in front of him was gradually overlapping with that of the frail boy who had frantically chased him with a brick six years ago. At this moment, Hou San finally remembered who he was!

  Looking at Hou San's face changing color, the confusion in his eyes also gradually disappearing, Duan Lei knew that the other party finally knew the answer.

  "Hou Ge, you're doing well now!" Duan Yue patted Hou San's shoulder and said with a smile: "I drove from Haicheng to Tianzhou for a whole day, and Hou Ge gave me such a gift when we met!"

  "Hou San!" Yan Xiaoqing glared at Hou San upon hearing this!

  "Brother Shi, I really didn't mean to!" As soon as he thought of Duan Pao's crazy appearance back then, Hou San's legs softened a bit, and he turned to Yan Xiaoqing for help: "Young master, you must speak up for me, I'm really innocent!"

  Hou San was now really regretting why he had set his sights on this Q7 in the first place. He had thought he would come across a fat sheep, but instead he had run into an iron plate! Those few guys were not very righteous, as soon as they saw Yan Xiaoqing arrive, they all hid far away and left him here to be the scapegoat!

  "Alright! Alright!" At this time, Duan Lei found the atmosphere a bit awkward and smiled: "Anyway, I didn't lose anything, so let's just drop it. Monkey brother, what do you think?"

  "Whatever you say! Whatever you say!" As soon as Duan Yan said he wouldn't pursue the matter, it was music to Hou San's ears!

  "Alright, it's all over! Everyone has dispersed! Go back to your own homes and do what you need to do. Don't gather around here anymore!" Seeing Duan Lei's attitude, Yan Xiaoqing naturally knew what to do, waving his hand to disperse the crowd of onlookers.

  It turns out that Yan Xiaoqing is quite charismatic, and after shouting twice, the people who were desperately squeezing in earlier suddenly dispersed and slowly left, with only a few people watching from a distance.

  "Come on, I'll introduce you!" Duan Yue patted Yan Xiaoqing's shoulder and walked straight to the window of the front passenger seat, knocking on it.

  "Lui'er, this is Yan Xiaoqing, my childhood friend!" After the window came down, Duan Lei acted as the introducer and said: "This is Lui'er, just call her sister-in-law!"

  "Go away!" Lian'er blushed slightly upon hearing Duan Yue's straightforward introduction and pouted.

  "Sister-in-law is great!" As the black car window came down, revealing Lian Er's delicate face, Yan Xiaoqing suddenly felt that his brain was a bit inadequate, and he, who was originally eloquent, also stuttered.

  It's been said that Duan Yue has a girlfriend at Haida, but I never thought it would be someone as stunning as this. At first sight, Yan Xiaoqing was indeed shocked and her mind went blank.

  "Let's go home together first, and we'll catch up later!" Duan Yue patted Xiao Qing's shoulder and said.

  "Wow! I haven't tasted Aunt's cooking for a long time!" Duan Lei patted, and Yan Xiaoqing's cleverness immediately returned.

  After sitting firmly in the driver's seat, Duan Lei waved at Hou San who was dazing on the roadside and beckoned him to come over to the car door. Then he handed him two red envelopes and said: "Take these to drink tea with your brothers, I'll go first with Xiao Qing!"

  Before Hou San reacted, Duan Yue started the car and sped away!

  Yan Xiaoqing's Yamaha followed Duan Yue's back and rushed straight to the ancient town of Jiuzhou!

  As the main characters left, the crowd that had been watching lost interest in continuing to watch and dispersed. The road surface, which was previously congested, suddenly became empty and restored to smooth flow. However, everything that happened today will definitely become a hot topic for the idle people of Tianzhou City to discuss after dinner, after all, everything is too dramatic.

  Hou San grasped two red lanterns, staring blankly at the receding figure of Q7 in the distance. Suddenly, he felt his brain was not enough to comprehend, perhaps the thoughts of a great man were something he would never understand.

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  "Stones, how can you still give that scoundrel money! He's obviously a swindler, should report to the police and catch him!" Although it was in the car, through the glass window, Lian'er still clearly judged the whole process.

  "That guy we had a fight with before, and the friendship that came out of it! I and Xiao Qing chased him for two streets with bricks! Duan Lei laughed and told Li Er about his past exploits: "Although he has taken this wrong path, but as fellow villagers, there's no need to push him to desperation, lest Xiao Qing have a hard time..."

  "Oh?" Lì ér was somewhat puzzled, nodding her head.

  In her past life experiences, right and wrong were clearly distinguished because most of her understanding of this society came from books and media, which had already been processed. Only recently, being with Duan Lei, she began to come into contact with many vivid social realities, and discovered that this was not a black-and-white world. Fortunately, Lui Er didn't need to face these complicated situations head-on; she just needed to quietly hide behind Duan Lei and let him shield her from the wind and rain.

  The car quickly passed through the city, left the national highway at a fork in the road, crossed a bridge with a strong ethnic flavor over a small river that was like a green jade belt, and then plunged into a sea of bamboo.

  At this time, Lizi felt that the air rushing in from outside the window was filled with an indescribable wonderful breath, completely different from the air with exhaust fumes in big cities and the dusty feeling elsewhere. The whole lungs seemed to have been washed clean, extremely comfortable.

  "Is this really the hometown of stones? It's so beautiful!" Luli muttered to herself as she gazed out the car window at the breathtaking scenery.