200: Chapter 200 I Came Specially to Amuse You!
200: Chapter 200 I Came Specially to Amuse You!
Wang Yunxiao didn’t know much about the students from the South, but in his memory, students from the North, especially those north of Shanghai Pass, always fought in groups organized by class or even grade.
He still remembered, back when he was in school, during the big clean-ups, if you went to the office to clean, pulling open the drawers, you wouldn’t find lighters or comic books, but all sorts of butterfly knives and machetes instead.
In Northern schools, especially as a middle school or high school’s disciplinary director, if you didn’t have the skill to subdue tigers in the mountains and capture dragons in the sea, you really couldn’t control the scene.
The situation was slightly better from south of Shanghai Pass to north of the Yangtze River.
Although the students usually behaved themselves and acted like decent individuals, you must never provoke them, for if you did, they would explode.
For example, being a victorious country yet still having to sign twenty-some unfair treaties, ceding territories and such… that would escalate things severely.
As one of the transportation hubs of the Northern region, a meeting place for all walks of life at Jiuhexiaotiao, Old Tianmen people usually gave outsiders the impression of being soft in character, humorous, and easy to bully.
That’s actually a wrong stereotype.
The Jianghu spirit and chivalrous heart are ingrained in the bones of Tianmen people.
Outsiders always thought Tianmen’s loafers were hopeless and not ready for public view, but they never considered why these loafers were the only ones seen on the streets of Tianmen.
Back when the President had not yet risen to fame, he was in Tianmen organizing the New Army, which is now known as the Ink Green Qilin Army, selected from local militias.
Any man with some ambition and spirit had long gone to join the military in service of the country, so how could they still be loitering on the streets?
The students in school were genuinely afraid of Wang Yunxiao, but once Wang Yunxiao called them to arms, they would bravely follow him into a fight, that was also true.
With a shout from Wang Yunxiao, suddenly, more than a dozen boys stood up.
They were all first-year kids, sprouting beans without the rich nutrition of a future era, barely taller than their desks when they stood up.
The teacher beside them was incredibly anxious, “Wang Yunxiao, what are you trying to do?”
“Shut up, this has nothing to do with you.”
With a pointed finger from Wang Yunxiao, the teacher dared not speak further.
It was indeed inappropriate for a teacher to step in; what could they do?
Teachers can only persuade with reason, but if Jiang Yinyin’s father was the kind of person who could listen to reason, the situation wouldn’t have escalated to this point.
It’s not about capability if you can’t handle the situation, no one would blame you.
But if you act as if nothing is wrong and even block others from rescuing someone, then it’s an attitude problem.
Wang Yunxiao turned and walked out the door, leading this bunch of sprouting beans, armed with broomsticks and stools, out of the school gates in a majestic procession.
On the way, he briefly explained the situation with Jiang Yinyin, and everyone was furious and excited.
Getting a chance to skip school in the afternoon, following their big brother on a heroic rescue mission, such good fortune hardly ever comes once in a lifetime — how could anyone decline?
Say nothing of free labor; they’d probably even be happy to pay for it.
Of course, Wang Yunxiao didn’t really count on this bunch of sprouting beans to be of much use.
The key was to have a just cause.
If he personally visited, it would change the nature of the event, and people seeing it might concoct some malicious stories.
But if Jiang Yinyin’s classmates went to her home to find her, and her parents were uncooperative, it would be entirely appropriate for Wang Yunxiao to step in at that time.
Having a just cause was very important; even Constable-in-Chief Lu would know to cut ten pounds of meat before hitting someone.
Wang Yunxiao, lacking experience and having taken a loss once, had learned his lesson.
The class monitor was a clever young man, so Wang Yunxiao put him in charge of the vanguard, arranging the procedure like this and like that.
When they arrived in front of Jiang Yinyin’s house — which was actually a mud brick house hardly better than a latrine — her father, having gambled away the house, could only share this kind of burrow with others.
Burdened with gambling debts and with no means to make a living, he might not even survive the next winter.
Surrounded by his classmates, the class monitor gathered his courage and knocked on the door for a long time before a lazy voice inside responded, “Stop knocking!
Are you trying to rush me to my grave?”
After a good while, someone finally came out.
The man had disheveled hair and a scruffy beard, dressed in tattered and torn clothes, barely distinguishable from a beggar.
His rosy cheeks and glazed eyes suggested he had just enjoyed a drink at noon; he hadn’t completely sobered up yet.
Startled to see people outside, he turned and ran back inside.
This left the squad leader, who had been ready to speak, stunned and at a loss for what to do next, instinctively turning to look for Wang Yunxiao.
Wang Yunxiao had found a clean spot to sit nearby and waved him off.
Suddenly, four or five men burst out of the room.
The leader, a burly man, glared with wide eyes, pointed a finger sternly at the chest of the squad leader at the front: “What’s going on here?
Where did all these little brats come from, all of you better scramble!”
His forceful pointing nearly made the squad leader lose his balance, leaving him feeling suffocated and igniting his anger.
He shouted, choking with rage, “We are Jiang Yinyin’s classmates, call Jiang Yinyin out, we have questions for her!”
“What Jiang Yinyin crap, all of you just scram!”
The burly man, seeing just a bunch of frail kids, hardly took them seriously and with a menacing look, he grabbed the squad leader by the collar: “Move or I’ll kill you, believe it or not?”
The squad leader, too stubborn to fear, glared back fiercely: “You dare kill me, my classmates will go back and call the police, and they will come to arrest you!”
“Damn your mother’s cousin!”
Furious and embarrassed, the burly man backhandedly slapped the squad leader across the face: “I’ll slap you dead, you little bitch…”
He was about to slap again, but his wrist was firmly grasped by someone, leaving him unable to move.
Startled, as he was about to turn his head to look, his opponent grabbed his wrist, quickly twisted it, and gave a fierce kick under his knee, forcing him to kneel on the ground.
Wang Yunxiao pressed down on the burly man, turned his head to look at his followers, and sneered, “Where do you guys think you’re from?
So hot-tempered, had a mom but no manners, huh?”
The others, intent on rushing to save him, hesitated seeing Wang Yunxiao’s skill and the tone of his speech.
“Your grandfather…”
The kneeling burly man still tried to talk tough, and Wang Yunxiao grabbed one of his fingers and twisted it until it snapped.
“Grand…”
This person was quite stubborn.
Wang Yunxiao thought this wasn’t a matter to be settled by just breaking a finger.
He grabbed his hair, pulling his face up.
He swung hard and landed a heavy slap on his cheeks.
A sharp crack resounded!
Only Wang Yunxiao knew the strength in his hands.
Everyone stared dumbfounded as the burly man’s head jerked sharply to a ninety-degree angle, and seven or eight blood-stained teeth flew out of his mouth.
The man was completely dazed, kneeling and swaying silently.
Wang Yunxiao rubbed his fingers and pointed at someone behind him: “You, come here!”
The man turned pale and immediately knelt down with a thud.
“Grandfather, please spare my life!”
“Who is your grandfather?”
Wang Yunxiao kicked him over, while the remaining few turned to run.
But at such a close distance, they could not escape and were each knocked down by a punch from Wang Yunxiao.
“Tie them all up!”