"Making a living and getting a full meal isn't easy for people. You keep letting him bully you like this, and after a while, he'll form a habit. He'll think you're a coward!"
"He'll keep coming here to ask you for money. When that happens, let's see whether you can take it. So what you need to learn now is to fight back. Don't let him keep shitting and pissing on your head. Otherwise, if something goes wrong later, it'll be hard to say."
The owner was helpless. At this moment, all he wanted was to run his business safely and feed his wife, children, and elderly parents. That would already be more than enough.
The owner said to Saint Lord Taichu, "People as insignificant as us should just forget it. To put it bluntly, we can't afford to offend figures like them. At best, we're nothing more than little toys in their hands."
"If they want us to go right, we go right. If they want us to go left, we go left. Most of the time, what happens to us is beyond our control."
If the owner had been two or three years younger, he would definitely have charged in and fought the other side to the death when faced with something like this. But the older he got, the more he realized that there was no possibility of competing with them at all.
If he dared to rush in and beat the other party down, he would very likely suffer retaliation. It would not matter if he himself was retaliated against; when he was young, he had been beaten plenty of times. But he had a family. If his family suffered retaliation, that was something he could never endure.
That was why he had always swallowed his