Chapter 55 Threats and Protection

  Thanks for sanpinboler's reward, by the way, selling cute and asking for collection...

  "What's going on?" Lu Xiansheng unwrapped the gauze and helped Li Chao wipe away the bloodstains on his arm.

  "I don't know, I received a message saying that Li Chao was beaten up here. Although I'm not brave, I rushed over anyway. As it turned out, when I arrived, Li Chao was still behind me..." Chen Zhiquan complained with a gloomy face, regretting his decision.

  "I also received this message!" Li Chao handed his mobile phone to Lu Xiansheng.

  Lu Xuan Sheng sneered, "You've all fallen into my trap!"

  "Who exactly has such a deep grudge against you guys? Those thugs really went too far!" Lei Luo'er said, looking at Lei Chao's wound, and tears broke out again.

  Hooligans? Ha ha. Absolutely not, Bai Shi? Their methods are too heavy-handed! Those who look like professional fighters, I've been practicing martial arts and sanda since elementary school, but I'm still no match for them. It's clear that those few people aren't ordinary thugs either. If they were just ordinary hooligans, it might be easier to deal with.

  Lu Xuan Sheng was lost in his own thoughts and didn't hear Zhi Quan muttering something beside him.

  "Let's go, to the hospital!" Lu Xiansheng bent down and motioned for Li Chao to come over.

  "Don't go to the hospital, just go to the clinic next door and deal with it simply, I don't want to waste money going in. Besides, they're all minor injuries, no need for CT scans or anything..." Li Chao still leaned on his sister's bosom, speaking weakly without moving.

  "Stop wasting words and hurry up, if others follow the blood trail to come after us, we'll all die here!" Lu Xiangsheng's tone was like a command, allowing no resistance.

  Zhi Quan helped Li Chao up, who was lying on Lu Xian Sheng's back. He felt guilty in his heart. If he hadn't been so playful when he was young and had practiced his skills well like Xian Sheng, he would have been able to help a little now and wouldn't have let Li Chao take such heavy injuries while blocking in front of him all the time.

  "Where to?" Zhi Quan asked in a low voice.

  "With this appearance, no one will give us a ride. People here are superstitious about having bloodstains in the car..." Lí Luò ér said sadly.

  "What's going on? It's already after school, how come there are so many students?" Zhi Quan asked, looking at the schools coming and going on the main road.

  "Is there anyone nearby who can stay for a while? Let's wait until the students are almost gone, and then we'll leave. If we go now, it will be tomorrow's headline!" Lu Xiangsheng asked Luo Er.

  Li Lu'er looked around and suddenly saw a swaggering figure slowly approaching.

  "Isn't that Wu Jian? Let's go to his house!" La'er pointed at him.

  "Is it reliable?" Xuan Sheng asked her.

  Luo Er nodded vigorously, dumping everything out of her backpack and rummaging through it to find the contact book. She dialed Wu Jian's number and stared intently at him as he pulled out his phone on the other side of the street. They exchanged a few brief words.

  "I bought you a phone just for storing people's numbers and making calls! Not for picking up things from the ground!" Lu Xiangsheng looked at Luo'er with annoyance, getting a headache!

  "What's going on?" Wu Jian crossed the road and darted into the woods.

  "Lai Chao is injured, now everyone is a student, afraid of being photographed. Lai Luo'er said your home is opposite, can you go to your home for a while? Half an hour later we will leave!" Lu Xiangsheng's eyes had no hope, but he was still probing.

  "Give me Li Chao, I'll carry him, it's much better than you, you're now the school's celebrity, too eye-catching, by the way, take the school uniform to cover his head, you two separate and walk, Luo Er, you go first, you two follow later, don't be so eye-catching..."

  Wu Jian said as he pulled Lei Chao onto himself, Luo Er covered Lei Chao's head with his school uniform and watched them cross the road to their front door before following after.

  "Didn't expect this guy is quite righteous!" Chen Zhiquan said.

  Lu Xuan Sheng furrowed his brow: "That's not necessarily true, just like that Liu Er Gouzi..."

  Chen Zhiquan stopped talking and did as Wu Jian said, but just after crossing the road, he saw a group of dark figures searching for something in the woods.

  Luckily he ran fast, look! Zhi Quan closed Wu Jian's door and looked through the gap.

  Heh. Lu Xiansheng sneered, actually he had already expected it.

  The courtyard of Wu Jian's home was a rectangular shape, although there had been running water flushing it, still could smell a bloody smell, constantly could see flies gathering on the bloodstains on the ground sucking.

  "What does their family do?" Chen Zhiquan was a clean freak, and as soon as he entered this environment, he felt a bit nauseous, and after suppressing several vomits, he rushed into the house.

  "Our family sells pork offal, so it's a bit dirty, don't mind!" Wu Jian seemed to have already heard Chen Zhiquan's words and said with some embarrassment.

  "Oh, I didn't mean it!" Chen Zhiquan said, still feeling a bit nauseous but managed to hold it back.

  Wu Jian took out the iodine oil and simply cleaned Li Chao's wound, then applied a small amount of Yunnan Baiyao to it, and finally stuck on some band-aids. By the time he finished, he had used more than three rolls of band-aid tape.

  Li Luo carefully helped Li Chao lie down, looked at the empty house and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. Didn't she always see Wu Jian and his father selling pork together in the morning market? Why did the furnishings of this family seem like only one person was living here.

  Lu Xiansheng looked at the torn photo in the trash can, thoughtfully glanced at Wu Jian a few times, but Wu Jian was busy disinfecting for Li Chao and didn't notice.

  "Wu Jian? Are you living alone?" Chen Zhiquan spoke up after seeing Li Chao had already lain down.

  "Uh-huh!" Wu Jian nodded and carried the remaining things out of the yard. Before he even opened the door, he heard a commotion and quickly retreated back into the house: "It's bad, they've come looking for us! It seems someone saw something!"

  Lu Xuan's brow furrowed, he hadn't expected them to be so persistent. The Wu family was already quite secluded, yet they still managed to find them. It seemed that those thugs were indeed the type who would do anything for money and loyalty.

  "Is Lí Chāo okay now? Let's go down to the cellar!" Wú Jiàn opened the cover of the cellar in the inner room and threw down the ladder.

  Li Chao nodded, propped himself up against the bed, got up by himself, and followed Lu Xiansheng down to the cellar with difficulty.

  The cellar was dark and musty, with a damp air that made people feel nauseous. However, several people were still huddled together inside, breathing through the gaps in the wooden boards.

  "How did you get up here?" Wu Jian asked Lu Xiangsheng, who had appeared in front of him again.

  "I'm worried about you being alone, I'll hide in the wardrobe, just in case something happens and I can take care of it, and also distract their attention."

  Lu Xiansheng turned around and flashed into the large wardrobe against the bed, fortunately it was an old-fashioned closet, which was deeper, and a few clothes could block himself. The blurry glass surface could still see the situation at the front door.

  Mmm...

  A group of people smashed the door of Wu Jian's home.

  Wu Jian took a deep breath and walked straight out, opening the door.

  "What's going on? Old brother!" Wu Jian leaned against the door, blocking their way.

  "Hah! What's with the act? Just now, wasn't it you who carried that high school kid back home?" The leading burly man said with a confident expression.

  "Go home? I'm afraid of people? Who saw it? Haha... Everyone knows that I, Wu Jian, don't like to socialize with others. All these years in school, I've always been alone, what a joke!" Wu Jian said as he closed the door.

  At this time, a familiar figure appeared in front of the iron gate, with a cold smile and a hint of disdain.

  "Get down, Wu! Open the door! You can't protect Li Chao if you don't want trouble!"

  Wu Jian stared intently for a moment and almost laughed out loud.

  "Liu Ergou? I didn't expect you to be a running dog as well!"

  Liu Hongfu didn't say a word, gave a cold laugh, pushed Wu Jian away, and led the strong men to charge directly into the main house.

  "Search!" Liu Ergou's order was given, and several strong men began to circle around. However, there wasn't much to see as Wu Jian's place was simply decorated with no extra items at all. The few people stood beside Liu Ergou with a sullen expression, waiting for the next command.

  Wu Jian sat on the bed, watching them rummage through his belongings, not saying a word, only occasionally letting out a cold laugh. "I'd like to ask, what deep grudge do you have against Li Chao? We're all still students, is it necessary to take it to the point of life and death?"

  "He......" Liu Hongfu wanted to say something, but after thinking for a moment, he swallowed his words.

  "Just because you beat Bai Shi in public?"

  Liu Hongfu didn't say anything, as if he had tacitly agreed.

  "Are you done yet? Can we leave now? I still have to go pull a pig back and slaughter it later, do you guys want to try too?" Wu Jian held the pig-killing knife, spinning it on his finger.

  Liu Hongfu curled his lip and looked at the only wardrobe that hadn't been searched, slowly walking closer.

  "I clearly saw you bringing Lei Chao in with your back, are you saying this place can hide people?"

  Wu Jian sneered, "Then go ahead and search! If you can't find anything, can I also throw a tantrum?" As he spoke, Wu Jian stabbed the tip of his knife into the table, causing all the water cups on it to shake violently for half a day.

  "Never mind, I think maybe I was wrong!" Liu Hongfu turned around and walked out the door. "If you see Li Chao, it's best to let him take the main road. If anything else happens, I won't be responsible..."

  In the cellar, Lí Luòér heard that Lí Chāo had hit Bái Shī, and seeing Lí Chāo's weak state, she didn't want to ask more questions.

  Lu Xuan Sheng watched them walk away in the distance, then quietly walked out and softly said: "Thank you!"

  These words are sincere, and they can all hear it.

  "What a coincidence! How could it be Liu Ergou? What's the relationship between him and Bai Shi? Isn't he from Class 7? Bai Shi is from Class 8, how did they get entangled together..." Chen Zhiquan analyzed.

  "Women, some are flowers, some are troubles!" Wu Jian said with a shake of his head, as if he knew something.

  Bang...

  The door opened again.

  "It seems we've arrived just in time!" Liu Ergou laughed wildly.

  Li Luo'er hugged Li Chao tightly, afraid that if she let go, she would lose him.

  Chen Zhiquan's face turned dark and gloomy beside him, but only Lu Xiansheng and Wu Jian thought this might be expected.

  Liu Er's eyes widened as he stared at Lu Xuan Sheng, who was smirking: "Liu Er, this is a harmonious society!"

  "Negotiate? It's too late for that now!" Liu Ergou said with a smug face.

  "Fight? I think those trash behind you aren't enough, huh?" Lu Xiangsheng narrowed his eyes, looking at the few people behind him, and let out a cold hum, scaring them into retreating.

  "And what about me?" Wu Jian spoke up.

  "We didn't come here to fight today, we just want to teach Lei Chao a lesson and let him apologize to Bai Shi in class 8 tomorrow, that's it. The school won't give us any punishment either. What do you think?" Liu Er Gouzi still had some fear of Lu Xian Sheng and Wu Jian.

  "Spare me! Apologize? In your dreams!" Li Chao sneered, his voice barely above a whisper, yet crystal clear.

  "The words have been said, you can take care of yourself!" Liu Ergouzi coldly smiled and left with his hands behind his back.

  Lu Xiansheng looked at their backs and suddenly felt the burden on his shoulders grew heavier. Yes, what he had to protect was not just his love, but also the school's cold violence...