The alley was a dead end, with a dilapidated adobe house at the end. Two dim oil lamps hung at the door, and the lights illuminated the scene in the alley clearly.
Seven or eight strong men in black clothes were surrounding the door of the adobe house. The leader was a bald man with a sinister face.
Hanging around his neck is a gold chain as thick as his thumb. It is none other than Black Tiger Gang's "bald man", the little boss in the Caishikou area.
He was holding a wooden stick as high as his eyebrows in his hand, with fresh blood stains on the head.
The door of the adobe house has been smashed open, and the door panel is tilted to one side. An old woman with gray hair is kneeling at the door.
She hit her forehead on the stone steps, her face was covered with blood, and she kept begging.
Behind her huddled a girl of about fifteen or sixteen years old, dressed in ragged clothes, with tears all over her face, trembling and clutching the corner of the old woman's clothes.
"Master Liu... Master Liu, please give me a few more days, and we will definitely return..."
"Yet?"
The bald man slammed the wooden stick on the ground, making a dull crunching sound.
He tilted his head and looked at the old woman kneeling on the ground, with a sinister smile on his face, "Your son owed us thirty taels of silver. He ran away, but the debt is still there. There is a handprinted IOU written in black and white. Either pay back the money today, or your granddaughter will leave with us. After three years, the debt will be paid off."
The old woman cried and hugged the bald man's leg, "Master Liu, my granddaughter is only fifteen years old. Please be kind. If you give it a few more days, my son will definitely come back and pay back the money..."
"Get away!"
The bald man kicked the old woman to the ground.
The old woman screamed and hit the back of her head on the stone steps, blood dripping down the stone steps.
The girl threw herself on the old woman and cried heartbrokenly, "Grandma! Grandma!"
Several strong men in black behind the bald man burst into laughter. Someone pulled out a hemp rope from his waist and walked towards the girl.
At this moment, a black shadow shot out from the alley.
Ma Ping's speed was so fast that even Jiang Fa was a little surprised.
He was usually taciturn and walked slowly, but at this moment he was like an enraged bull, kicking his feet and rushing in front of the bald man.
"Let her go!"
Ma Ping shouted loudly and punched the bald man in the face.
This punch was fired with anger, and the wind of the punch broke through the air, carrying an indomitable momentum.
What's surprising is that the bald man's reaction was not slow.
He looked at Ma Ping who was coming out halfway, his eyes flashed coldly, and the corner of his mouth raised a disdainful sneer.
He raised his left hand casually, spread his fingers, and firmly grasped Ma Ping's fist.
Ma Ping felt as if his fist had hit a copper wall. A sharp pain shot through his finger bones, and his entire right arm was numb from the shock.
"Yo?"
The bald man looked at Ma Ping with squinted eyes, his eyes squeezed into two slits full of teasing. "Where does this foolish young man dare to interfere with our Black Tiger Gang affairs?"
the next moment,
His left hand holding Ma Ping's fist suddenly exerted force and twisted down.
Ma Ping felt a huge force coming from his wrist, and his whole arm twisted and deformed uncontrollably. The severe pain made him groan, and he staggered as his feet were lifted, and his whole body fell to the side.
The bald man didn't give him any chance to struggle.
The wooden stick in his right hand whizzed down, hitting Ma Ping hard on the waist and abdomen.
The stick was heavy and fierce, and Ma Ping flew out like a kite with its string cut off, hitting the earth wall of the alley hard. After struggling several times, he couldn't get up.
"Ma Ping!"
Zhao Chuan's face changed drastically and he was about to rush forward.
A hand suddenly reached out from behind and held his shoulder firmly.
When I looked back, I saw it was Jiang Fa.
Jiang Fa put Xu Feng over his shoulders, gently placed him under the wall, and asked him to sit against the wall.
Then he looked at the bald man in the alley.
The bald man also tilted his head and looked at him, and then he frowned, always looking at the boy in front of him as he looked familiar, but he didn't think much about it, "Boy, Black Tiger Gang is doing something, if you know what's going on, get out of here!"
Jiang Fa glanced at him,
He was just thinking about why this bald man looked so familiar. He was really Black Tiger Gang's Ma Zi.
But he had no intention of meddling in this matter.
The IOU for thirty taels of silver was written in black and white with fingerprints printed on it. It was a matter of course to pay back the debt.
Although the bald man's methods were ruthless, in the final analysis, the old woman's son owed this transaction to himself.
"Brothers, please don't mind, my friend drank too much, we are leaving now."
He smiled at the bald guy and quickly walked up to Ma Ping, squatted down, reached out to hold his shoulders, and helped him up from the ground.
Ma Ping was covering his abdomen, his face was as pale as paper, and blood was still oozing from the corners of his mouth.
He grabbed Jiang Fa's arm, pinching his knuckles until they turned white, and moved his lips a few times, but he couldn't say a word.
"Let's go." Jiang Fa said softly.
Ma Ping gritted his teeth, his face full of unwillingness.
The bald man sneered, spit on the ground, turned around and waved to his subordinates. "Take that little bitch away."
Behind him came the heart-rending cry of the girl and the desperate plea of the old woman.
Jiang Fa paused in his steps.
He felt Ma Ping's hand holding his arm tighten suddenly, and the knuckles were almost embedded in his flesh.
Ma Ping's body is shaking,
His teeth were clenching, and the veins on his neck stood out.
"You really want to save them?"
Jiang Fa is a little surprised.
Ma Ping raised his head and looked at him. There were too many things in his eyes that were always dull.
Anger, unwillingness, humiliation, and an unforgettable hatred that Jiang Fa had never seen on his face.
"Some people have bullied my mother like this before."
Ma Ping's voice was hoarse and dry, and every word seemed to be squeezed out from between the teeth. "That beast is a rich man in the town. My father tried to argue with him, but he was almost beaten to death by his nursing home. In my yard, I was eight years old. I knelt on the ground and watched, unable to do anything."
His eyes were red and bloodshot.
He stared hard into Jiang Fa's eyes and said word by word, "Jiang Fa, help me, I will be your bull and horse for the rest of my life."
He knew that with Jiang Fa's strength, he would definitely be able to save the grandfather and grandson.
Jiang Fa was silent for a moment.
Then let Ma Ping stand holding the wall.
"It's okay to be a cow or a horse. In my previous life, I hated being a cow or a horse."
He whispered something that left Ma Ping confused.
Then he turned around and walked towards the alley.
The bald man was directing his men to tie the girl's hands with hemp ropes. When he heard the footsteps, he turned around impatiently.
Seeing that it was the kid from before again, his expression completely darkened.
"Boy, I'll give you a break. If you don't toast, you'll be fined."
Jiang Fa stood in the middle of the alley,
His eyes swept over the bald man and the seven or eight strong men behind him, and he asked in a calm tone, "Do you still have the IOU?"
The bald man was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately, with a disdainful smile on his face, "It's none of your business whether you're here or not!"
Jiang Fa came to Xu Feng who was talking drunkenly, took out a money bag from his arms, counted thirty taels of broken silver from it, and threw it in front of the bald man.
"Take the money, leave the IOU, and leave."
The bald man looked down at the white silver ingots on the ground, then raised his head at Jiang Fa, and the smile on his face gradually turned playful.
Thirty taels of silver, take it as you say,
Looks like a fat sheep!
Since you have no vision and have to bump into it yourself, wouldn't it be a waste of money if you don't take it?
He stepped on the silver on the ground and laughed twice, "Boy, this silver was the price just now, but now, the price is different."