"Cough, cough, cough..."
Dust flew everywhere, and Wu Gudì choked on a mouthful of dirt, lying on the ground and coughing.
Hearing the sound, Boss Zhu turned around. Seeing his temporary lover, Wu Gudì, who was usually glamorous, lying on the ground, he felt a pang of heartache. He hurried to her side, reaching out to help her up.
But when he saw Wu Gudì's dirty hand, he recoiled as if disgusted, stepping back two paces, as if afraid she would dirty him.
Wu Gudì naturally didn't miss Boss Zhu's series of actions and his look of disdain. This made her heart sink.
This man was her destined husband, her true love, and the man she would rely on for the rest of her life. She couldn't let him look down on her.
"Little Zhu Zhu, he pushed me. When I walked past him, he not only pushed me but also tried to touch me. If I hadn't blocked him with my hand, he would have succeeded. You must get revenge for me. I'm your woman." After getting up from the ground, Wu Gudì immediately pointed at Zhang Liunian, accusing him.
"You're talking nonsense. You clearly pounced on him yourself." Zhang Qian had witnessed the entire incident and wouldn't let Wu Gudì twist the facts.
Chen Zhenghè also stepped forward. "Comrade, you lost your balance yourself. How can you blame Boss Zhang?"
Boss Zhang? Boss Zhu disliked Chen Zhenghè's respectful address to Zhang Liunian. How could someone like Zhang Liunian, a pretty boy, deserve the title of "boss"? Wasn't that beneath his status?
"Factory Director Chen, just because someone buys a couple of piglets doesn't mean they can be called a boss. I don't want to hear you call anyone else boss besides me."
Boss Zhu, with his nostrils pointed to the sky, ordered Chen Zhenghè. Before the other man could respond, he continued, "Make this Zhang fellow apologize to my little Gu, and I'll pretend I didn't see anything."
"On what grounds? It wasn't our Brother Liunian who pushed her. She fell herself, so who is to blame?" Zhang Qian hated hearing such words the most. He immediately stepped forward and spewed saliva at Boss Zhu.
Boss Zhu recoiled in disgust, put his hands in his pockets, and said, "If there's no apology, none of you will see tomorrow's sun. I mean what I say."
I'm just this arrogant. Are you scared?
This was Boss Zhu's inner thought. However, when he looked at that pretty boy Zhang Liunian, he found the latter looking at him as if he were an idiot, which infuriated him.
"What are you looking at? Keep looking and I'll skin you alive," Boss Zhu roared, feeling uncomfortable under Zhang Liunian's gaze.
Zhang Liunian finally showed an expression. He sneered and walked towards Boss Zhu step by step, then mocked, "You, an old, bald, and stinking man? If you have the ability, I'll call you Grandpa."
Provocation. This was naked provocation.
"Do you know what you're saying?" Boss Zhu's face turned purple, and he clenched his fat fists, looking ready to strike.
Wu Gudì, who had gotten up from the ground, was so excited she wished she could set off firecrackers and laugh three times. Heaven was helping her.
Before she could badmouth Zhang Liunian, he had come to them himself, seeking his own death.
"Little Zhu Zhu, he's so arrogant. You can't let him go."
Wu Gudì suppressed her excitement and came to Boss Zhu's side, whispering in his ear.
Boss Zhu nodded in agreement. "There are very few people in this world more arrogant than me. How dare a nobody try to imitate me? He's tired of living."
After saying this, he suddenly clapped his hands. Two young men appeared out of nowhere and stood behind him.
"See this pretty boy? Go get him. I'll pay for it if you beat him to death." Boss Zhu gave the order and stepped aside to watch the show.
"Boss Zhu, you can't do this..." Chen Zhenghè, seeing that Boss Zhu had brought people and intended to cause trouble, immediately tried to stop him.
Unfortunately, no matter how loudly he spoke, Boss Zhu wouldn't listen. Instead, he sneered at Zhang Liunian and said, "If you call me Grandpa, I might consider letting you keep your dog's life."
Dog's life?
Zhang Liunian sneered inwardly but didn't move. He waited for the young men's fists to attack him. Just then, he finally moved. Everyone saw his long leg kick out, sending one of the youths several meters away, crashing into the pigsty and scattering a group of piglets.
The other youth didn't expect Zhang Liunian to have such skills. His punch paused for a moment, but in that instant, Zhang Liunian seized the opening and delivered an uppercut, dislocating the man's jaw and causing him to spit blood.
In two moves, just two moves, Zhang Liunian defeated Boss Zhu's summoned helpers.
This made Boss Zhu even more furious. He had expected to see Zhang Liunian kneeling and begging, but instead, his subordinate had lost.
Unconvinced, Boss Zhu couldn't stand it and lunged at Zhang Liunian with his fist.
Zhang Liunian's eyes flashed. He stepped forward and threw a punch at Boss Zhu's right eye, instantly turning it into a panda eye.
"You pretty boy, you beast! How dare you hit your Grandpa Zhu! You don't want to live anymore." Boss Zhu cried out in pain, covered his eye, stumbled back two steps, and charged forward again.
"Bang." This time, Zhang Liunian hit his left eye, giving him a perfectly symmetrical pair of panda eyes.
"Beast, you just wait." Boss Zhu, having attacked twice and lost to Zhang Liunian both times, and now sporting panda eyes, immediately understood that he was no match for the other man.
Since that was the case, he would find someone else!
His life was too precious, worth more than the entire county. He wouldn't risk his life here.
With that thought, Boss Zhu unhappily said, "Let's go," and sheepishly left.
Wu Gudì, seeing that the matter had ended like this, and Zhang Liunian was unharmed, was furious. However, seeing Boss Zhu in a rage, she decided to try and influence him again later when he was in a better mood.
After all, she would not let Zhang Liunian off the hook.
"Boss Zhang, I think you should lay low for a couple of days. This Boss Zhu is not a generous person. He's arrogant and petty. If you encounter him again, he won't let you go," Chen Zhenghè said. Seeing Boss Zhu driven away by Zhang Liunian, he was excited, but thinking about their recent interactions, he couldn't help but worry about Zhang Liunian.
Zhang Liunian smiled at him and said, "It's fine. Let's talk about the piglets."
Zhang Liunian hadn't forgotten the purpose of his visit, which was to buy piglets.
"Boss Zhu has ordered all these piglets. I can't help you if you want them, unless you choose a different breed." Chen Zhenghè was intimidated by Boss Zhu and didn't dare to give the piglets to Zhang Liunian.
Although his impression of Zhang Liunian had greatly improved, Boss Zhu was not someone to be trifled with. He had changed the liquidated damages to fifty thousand yuan right under his nose.
Fifty thousand yuan! It was almost enough to sell his entire factory.
Thinking of this, Chen Zhenghè gritted his teeth in hatred towards Boss Zhu and vowed never to cooperate with such a person again.
"Tell me about the other breeds. I'll see if there's anything similar to this breed," Zhang Liunian said. It was his first time raising pigs, so he naturally didn't have the expertise of a professional.
Chen Zhenghè nodded and took Zhang Liunian to see a few more breeds. However, after hearing his explanations, Zhang Liunian still preferred the breed that Boss Zhu had taken.
"How about this, I'll think about it and give you an answer tomorrow," Zhang Liunian said, seeing that it was getting late, and decided to take his people to the county town to stay at the guesthouse.
Chen Zhenghè hesitated, then said, "Boss Zhu will be shipping out tomorrow. If you come over, you might run into him."
"So what if we meet? Who's afraid of whom?" Zhang Liunian didn't take the man named Zhu seriously at all.