Disrespectful Elder? I'll Teach You How to Behave

"Who told her to go picking the cleaning tools back up? My old man's already so old, and he's had a cerebral thrombosis. What if he came out and bumped into them or fell? A beating was getting off easy." The old woman's face was full of aggression.

Wang Meiqi's mother was furious. "I didn't put them right in front of your door. Where I left them didn't get in your way at all, and they were only there for two or three minutes. How could he have bumped into them or fallen?"

His sister-in-law Wang Shiyu was enraged when she heard that. "Even so, you can't just go around hitting people! Just you wait, I'm calling the police right now. Being old is no excuse for being a disgrace to your age."

The old woman showed no fear at all. "Little girl, go ahead and call them. There aren't any cameras here, and besides, I'm nothing but a bag of old bones. Who would dare do anything to me? Is there a single thing you can do about it?"

"You... you've gone too far..." Wang Shiyu clenched her fists, trembling with anger.

Wang Meiqi also realized that calling the police might not solve the problem. She looked around and asked the residents of the complex, "Does anyone know her children?"

The old woman was utterly brazen. "You want to find my children? Hehe, go ahead. My son's phone number is 1359627... When my son gets here, he'll beat you to death, you little bitch."

Wang Meiqi felt sick. She had never expected such filth to come out of an old woman's mouth.

Lu Yuan narrowed his eyes in a dangerous arc, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly. "Honey! Why bother reasoning with someone like her?"

"What do you mean?" Wang Meiqi was bewildered.

The very next second, Lu Yuan snatched the iron cane from the old woman's hand, kicked her in the stomach, and brought the cane crashing down on her forehead.

"Ah!!!" A miserable, pig-like squeal rang out. The old woman, who had been so aggressive moments ago, now lay in a pool of blood, grimacing and baring her teeth in pain, tears streaming from her eyes.

At that point, some of the onlookers in the crowd couldn't help speaking up. "Impulsive! Young man, you're too impulsive. She's that old, and you still dared to hit her? Aren't you afraid she'll extort you?"

Extortion? Lu Yuan didn't care. If money could solve the problem, what amount couldn't he afford to pay?

Lu Yuan smiled with complete confidence and composure. "Afraid? All fear comes from not having a strong enough backing in society and not having enough firepower!"

After the beating, the old woman on the ground had lost all her earlier fierceness. All she did now was wail and bawl. "Boo-hoo-hoo, murder! Someone's trying to kill me! Just you wait, I'm calling the police right now. You can wait to rot in prison!"

With that, the old woman pulled a senior-friendly phone from her pocket and made as if to call the police.

Wang Meiqi looked at Lu Yuan in panic. "Honey, what do we do?"

Lu Yuan shrugged, looking utterly unconcerned and composed. "It's fine. Let her call. There aren't any cameras here anyway. Who saw me hit anyone? Did anyone see me hit anyone?"

"No! I didn't see it. All I saw was this old woman hitting the cleaner, then losing her own footing and falling on the stairs."

"That's right, she fell. I can testify to that."

"I can testify too."

"This old woman was the one who bullied the cleaner first."

Lu Yuan was a little surprised. He hadn't expected the old woman to be so unpopular around here that not a single person was willing to help her.

The people who spoke up had long been nursing a bellyful of anger. Not only did the old woman steal their things in the dead of night, she also dumped feces in their vegetable gardens. Outside, she wagged her tongue, badmouthing one neighbor and gossiping about another, and when she threw a tantrum, she was even more overbearing and unreasonable.

Seeing that no one would speak up for her, the old woman was furious. She pressed the call button on her phone. "Just you wait. I'm calling my son."

Lu Yuan made no attempt to stop her and let her make the call. The old woman sobbed, tears and snot streaming down her face. "Son, come back quickly! Your mother's almost been beaten to death..."

After she hung up, the old woman grew much more arrogant. She glared viciously at Lu Yuan and Wang Meiqi's family. "Just you wait!"

Lu Yuan paid her no mind. Even Yang Tianba of Magic City was just a little brother before him, let alone some other small fry.

More than half an hour later, a broad, burly man with a full beard and a middle-aged woman arrived at the apartment building. They hurried to the old woman's side, looking concerned. "Mom! Who hit you?"

With her son backing her up, the old woman regained her nerve. She pointed at Lu Yuan and said, "It was this little bastard!"

The bearded man turned a murderous glare on Lu Yuan. "What gave you the right to hit my mom?"

"You should ask your mom that. My mother-in-law works as a cleaner here and left her cleaning tools beside your door for a little while. Your mom thought they were in the way and threw them out. When my mother-in-law picked them back up, your mom hit her. Your mom's allowed to hit people, but we're not allowed to hit back?" Lu Yuan snapped.

The woman beside the bearded man looked furious and accused him, "You're a young man. Why are you picking a fight with an old woman? Can't you give an old woman a little leeway?"

"Don't you have elderly people in your own family? Don't you know to respect the old and care for the young?" The woman brought being unreasonable to its fullest.

Lu Yuan sneered and said to her, "I, Lu Yuan, only respect elderly people of upright character. But if that elderly person is scum, sorry, I won't respect them. And as it happens, your mom is scum."

The bearded man flew into a rage when he heard that. He pulled a knife from his pants pocket and glared viciously at Lu Yuan. "Fuck, you're the little bastard who hit my mom, right? I'll fucking stab you to death!"

The bearded man thrust the knife at Lu Yuan. Wang Meiqi and his sister-in-law Wang Shiyu cried out a warning at the same time. "Watch out!!!"

Lu Yuan's physique wasn't too bad either. When he saw the knife coming, he dodged with exceptional agility and kicked the bearded man hard in the wrist. The knife fell from his hand and clattered to the ground.

Lu Yuan grabbed the bearded man's wrist, yanked and pulled him forward, then drove the toe of his right foot into the man's lower abdomen. The entire sequence flowed in one smooth motion, like drifting clouds and running water.

The bearded man, who stood 1.87 meters tall and weighed over 200 jin, immediately doubled over like a shrimp and collapsed to the ground, his face contorted with pain.

The move left everyone present dumbfounded. Lu Yuan was only 1.75 meters tall and had a lean build, weighing 100 jin at most, yet he had taken down a man weighing over 200 jin in an instant. The visual impact was simply too great, wasn't it?

Lu Yuan planted a foot on the bearded man's face, pulled out a pack of tissues, and wiped his shoe. Looking down at him from above, he said, "With skills like yours, don't try to play tough next time. Kicking you only dirtied my shoe!"

"I fucking..." When had the bearded man ever been humiliated like this, with someone stepping on his face? He struggled desperately to break free of Lu Yuan, but every movement was useless against Lu Yuan's strength.