He had originally thought that with Boss Zhu coming and bringing seven or eight burly men, he would finally be free. But before long, the two people, enraged at having their meal interrupted, had beaten every last one of them to the ground.
Even the chubby Boss Zhu was sprawled on the ground like a dead dog, while the pretty young girl stood on his back and slapped his face over and over with a flyswatter as she cursed him.
Meanwhile, the young boy held a sharp knife and copied her, patting Boss Zhu on the head again and again.
Helpless, he could only continue slicing the meat obediently.
From that day on, Su Qiao and Big Treasure moved straight into the butcher's house. Taking over the magpie's nest, they instead drove the butcher into his neighbor's home next door.
From that day on, this little market town surrounded by coal mountains began to grow restless.
Anyone who provoked them, or whom they thought was behaving improperly, received a beating of one sort or another.
Boss Zhu did bring more people to seek revenge during that time, but without exception, they were all beaten to the ground.
Since Su Qiao and Big Treasure had both been sold, and there were also plenty of shady secrets at the coal mine, they did not dare call the police or anything like that.
For example, people had previously tricked mentally disabled men and very young minors into coming here, then sold them to the coal-mine owners as free labor.
For another example, some of the miners' wives had also been bought with money and could not be exposed to the light of day.
There were also people who specialized in luring villagers from their hometowns to dig coal, then deliberately causing minor mine