The world is fair. If you keep giving, you will always reap the rewards, whether you give good or bad. When the time comes, you will naturally receive them, just like a fleeting moment. What you truly gain is like the fleeting moment of the ephemera. You don't feel anything special. It is often the process of giving that is heartbreaking and memorable.
It may not be fair sometimes. In order to gain a little, we work hard and give, but we lose too much: our body, soul, dignity, and freedom. Sometimes these precious things, which symbolize various aspects of life, can be lost so easily that they become worthless.
Sometimes it's hard to say which is more worthless: wasting one's youth or selling it as a sex worker. Different values have different perspectives at different times.
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When Xiaoyan was being dragged into the house, she felt a little desperate. She had had threesomes with other men, but only with two men, and it was in a bathhouse where the men were all clean.
They were a bit more civilized now. Two of the men... were little kids, all dirty like stray dogs on the street. These two little kids grabbed her wrists tightly and wrapped their arms around her neck.
His body rubbed against her fair skin, taking advantage of her. For the first time, Xiao Yan felt ashamed. In the past, she had slept with men, even if she didn't know them, but it was always with her consent.
If she finds a man annoying while at the bathhouse, she can choose not to accompany him. The owner of the Tiger Bathhouse in Hancheng takes good care of the girls, and of course, he can also rough around with someone whenever he wants, but he is very gentle.
And the boss didn't do all that rough work for nothing; he paid the same amount of money as other customers, but he couldn't let his wife know. The boss was very rich and didn't care about money.
But in his words, his wife had struggled alongside him, building their business from scratch step by step. They had feelings for each other, and his fear of his wife wasn't genuine; it was a fear of hurting her feelings. Xiaoyan felt that men like him were rare these days.
She felt that he was a good man, and for that reason, she chose to leave Shao Xiaodong and work at his bathhouse. Although they were both prostitutes, the bathhouse owner did not treat the prostitutes as less than human, or rather, he did not treat them as that kind of people.
Shao Xiaodong was still sneering, his face contorted with rage: "Damn it, you dare to curse me? Fuck her, fuck her as hard as you can, beat her to a pulp! You slut!"
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"Shao Xiaodong! That's going too far!"
"Hmm?" Shao Xiaodong glanced at Chen Chu, and the six people who were pulling Xiao Yan also stared at Chen Chu.
"Hahaha!" Shao Xiaodong laughed, almost laughing until tears streamed down his face: "Who the hell are you? You think you can talk to me like that?"
"Hmph..." Chen Chu snorted: "Shao Xiaodong, if I don't talk to you, who the hell am I talking to? Are you an idiot!"
"Damn it!" Shao Xiaodong flung his hand, and the six men released Xiao Yan and surrounded Chen Chu.
"Damn it, who are you? Where are you from?"
"Chen Chu!"
"Chen Chu? Have you heard of that name?"
At this moment, the two dirty, half-grown boys laughed, revealing their big yellow teeth: "We know, they're my sons!" The two boys had sly faces and spoke in a sly manner, and their necks were covered in scabies, which made Chen Chu feel disgusted.
Although he is also from the countryside, people from the countryside don't do things like this. They wash themselves very clean before and after working every morning and evening, damn it!
Chen Chu kicked out with a bang, hitting one of the boys squarely in the stomach. The boy was at most 1.6 meters tall and weighed at most 80 kilograms. He was kicked more than two meters away by Chen Chu and fell directly onto the long wooden sofa where they had just been sitting.
The wooden sofa was a long, large recliner made of hard wood, like mahogany. The kid fell on it and rolled off, howling and screaming.
"Damn it, all of you, charge at me!" Shao Xiaodong frowned, and the remaining five men rushed over. At this moment, Xiao Yan stood up, hesitated for a moment, rushed to Chen Chu, and shouted loudly, "Don't fight! I'll fight you! I'll fight you all..."
"Get out..." Chen Chu pushed Xiao Yan, who was stunned.
Chen Chu ignored him, while the guy called Brother Yan grabbed Xiao Yan and threw her behind him, cursing, "Go to hell!"
The five men rushed up together, and Chen Chu quickly shrank into a corner. With walls on both sides for support, the enemy could only attack from a 90-degree angle. If he stood in the middle of the house, he could be attacked from any angle.
At a 90-degree angle, it would be difficult for them to rush up together. Two half-grown boys were not very useful and were just getting in the way.
However, since there were many of them, they pounced forward and grabbed Chen Chu, some by the arms and some by the legs, and pinned him down.
"Damn it!" Chen Chu frowned. The house was too small, and he couldn't use his skills properly. Suddenly, a surge of energy rushed from the soles of his feet into his lower abdomen, and then flowed into his limbs and bones. Chen Chu knew that it was qi, qi condensed from qigong.
As if guided by some unseen force, Chen Chu clenched his fists, tensed his arms, and straightened his body. Then, he pressed his tongue against his upper jaw, clenched his teeth, and groaned, "Open for me!"
A burst of force ripped the five people holding him off, and Chen Chu leaped up, delivering a powerful punch to Brother Yan's chin.
He then kicked another boy in the stomach.
After taking down the two men, Chen Chu pounced on the somewhat dazed Shao Xiaodong, grabbed him with one hand, and pinned his neck with his duckbill-shaped hand.
"Fuck you, I'll kill you!" Chen Chu said fiercely. The duckbill grip is a hand position that resembles a duck's bill. It is also called a duck mouth grip. This hand position grabs a person's neck or wrist and usually makes it impossible to break free.
Shao Xiaodong felt his neck being choked and had difficulty breathing. He hurriedly called out, "Brother, brother, let's talk this out, let's talk this out..."
"Fuck your mother!" Chen Chu slapped Shao Xiaodong across the face.
Shao Xiaodong chuckled instead: "Brother, it's been over half a year, and this is the first time anyone's hit me. You've got guts..."
"Damn it, what are you going to do about hitting me?" Chen Chu raised his knee high and slammed it into Shao Xiaodong's lower abdomen with a thud. He felt that Shao Xiaodong's lower abdomen was soft and muscular.
He thought to himself, "Damn it, how did he get ahead with this? If it were a one-on-one fight, Venus could take on three of him."
"Cough cough..." Shao Xiaodong was captured and hurriedly waved to his men to stop them from coming forward. He felt that Chen Chu's strength was enough to strangle him.
"Brother, let's talk this out. Um... isn't Xiaoyan your sister? Fine, I'll release her, okay?"
"Fuck you! Now you want to release them?" Chen Chu slapped him again.
"Alright, brother, that's enough. Don't push your luck." Shao Xiaodong coughed twice. Chen Chu glanced at him, exhaled, and thought to himself that it was best to stop while he was ahead.
Xiao Yan said that this guy has thirty-four brothers under him. If you really offend him, nothing good will come of it.
"Brother, let's talk this out, just let me go..."
Chen Chu shoved him, and Shao Xiaodong was pushed against the wall. He then straightened his clothes, tossed his hair, looked at Chen Chu, and said, "Brother, where do you hang out? I've never seen you before!"
"I'm not a gangster, I just know Xiaoyan, but you guys are going too far!"
"Hmm?" Shao Xiaodong frowned slightly, then chuckled, "Brother, you and her... are you two together? Hehe, it's alright, I won't make things difficult for her for your sake. But brother, it's a shame you're not in the business with those skills, you could take on ten people at once! Haha..."
Shao Xiaodong took out a cigarette and offered it to Chen Chu, but Chen Chu shook his head and said he didn't want one.
At this moment, the kid called Brother Yan also recovered. Chen Chu's punch to his chin knocked him unconscious. His underlings pinched his philtrum and shook his arm to wake him up.
Those two boys were rather unlucky; they were still clutching their stomachs and couldn't get up.
Shao Xiaodong lit a cigarette. He wasn't stupid; three of his own men were already out of the fight, and he wasn't sure how the remaining three who could fight would fare.
He then probed further, "Brother, you're really not a gangster? Who do you know in the underworld?"
Chen Chu chuckled and pondered for a moment.
"I've met Brother Yin and Brother Qu a few times. We're not exactly close, but we can talk to each other."
"Oh?" Shao Xiaodong's eyes darted around, and he took out his phone and dialed a number.
"Hey, Brother Yin! Busy? Oh... I have a brother here, named... yes, Chen Chu, he said he knows you... Hey, haha, I knew it, Brother Chen Chu is definitely not an ordinary person. We're having a drink right now! Why don't you have a drink with me, Brother Yin... Uh, okay, Brother Yin, don't worry, I'll find an even better girl and send her to you. How was that Xiao Fei from last time? Not bad, right?"
Shao Xiaodong then looked at Chen Chu again, his expression changed, and after exchanging a few more words with Fatty Yin, he handed the phone to Chen Chu.
Chen Chu took the phone and said, "Brother Yin..."
"Brother, how did you end up with Shao Xiaodong..."
"Hmm, a stroke of luck, hehe, a stroke of luck." Chen Chu smiled.
After Fatty Yin hung up the phone, Shao Xiaodong changed his tune: "Hehe, so it was... Brother Chu, huh? Look, we misunderstood. We're all family, family, right? By the way, Xiao Fei's food tasted pretty good, didn't it? Haha, I didn't touch it. I sent it straight to Brother Yin, and he gave it to you, Brother Chu..."
Chen Chu smiled as well.
In the underworld, peace is often valued. If you meet someone you know, you can talk it out and let it go. If you don't find someone to mediate, you'll only resort to violence if the feud is truly irreconcilable.
At this moment, Shao Xiaodong glanced at Xiao Yan and cursed, "You damn slut, it's all because of you! Otherwise, would Brother Chu and I have gotten into a fight?! Get out! Get out of here!"
Xiao Yan was a little dazed. She glanced at Chen Chu and quickly thanked him, "Thank you, Brother Xiaodong, thank you... thank you, Brother Chu."
Chen Chu wanted to say something, but he held back.
Shao Xiaodong waved his hand: "Brother, let's have a good drink today. As for... Xiao Yan, you can do whatever you want. I'm only doing this for Brother Chu's sake. Pick up that two thousand yuan on the ground, I don't want it..."
Xiao Yan thanked him repeatedly, picked up the money, gave Chen Chu a meaningful look, and then left.
The group went downstairs. Shao Xiaodong pulled Chen Chu along, making phone calls non-stop. By the time they got downstairs, there were about fifteen or sixteen brothers gathered there.
"Let's go! Let's grab a bite!" Shao Xiaodong called out. Just as they entered a hot pot restaurant, the curly-haired guy next to him handed over his phone: "Brother Dong, we've got a customer!"
"Damn it..." Shao Xiaodong took the phone, said hello, exchanged a few words with the other party, then checked the time and said, "At least two thousand, send the money over first..."
Shortly after, a middle-aged man dressed in black came in, took out a wad of cash from his bag, left a note and a photo, and then hurried away.
Halfway through the hotpot meal, Shao Xiaodong, who doesn't drink, called out to everyone, "Fifty yuan each, let's beat up that little brat named Fang Zheng!"
Then Shao Xiaodong told his men to move forward, handed the photo and note to the curly-haired guy, and said, "Yanzi, you go first. It would be best if you could get it done!"
The curly-haired man nodded, and the group walked out onto two main streets, splitting up as they went. Chen Chu and Shao Xiaodong walked at the very back.
At this moment, Chen Chu saw the sign on the gate opposite – Hancheng No.1 Middle School.
Chen Chu was stunned, thinking, "Damn it! Hit that kid!"
The curly-haired man made a few phone calls at the school gate, accompanied by only two people. A short while later, six or seven students in school uniforms emerged from the gate of the school, the one in the middle being tall and thin.
Curly asked, "What the hell is your name, Fangzheng?"
"Damn it!" The kid named Fang Zheng pulled out a machete from behind and started slashing. At this moment, more than a dozen of Shao Xiaodong's men rushed out from all sides. Some of these men had been looking around, some had been pretending to buy books and read newspapers, and some were squatting on the ground.
They all rushed over and started punching and kicking him. The square-faced boy dropped his machete, and several students behind him were also knocked down. Curly-haired boy picked up the knife that had fallen to the ground and was about to slash him, but then he looked back at Shao Xiaodong.
Shao Xiaodong shook his head, then grabbed Chen Chu's arm and said, "Run!"
The two ran off first, and their underlings kicked them for a while before they started running too. But instead of running together, they ran in all directions. Just as they reached the end of the street, Chen Chu saw a police car parked at the school gate.
Shao Xiaodong laughed out loud: "Brother Chu, look how fucking stupid the police are!"
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