pjbooks Chapter 50 Melee
Chapter 50 Melee
Chu Ma was initially quite pleased with himself for securing a good spot today.
As a result, another group of people who arrived later, having failed to secure a spot, set their sights on his location.
At first, the other party did not come up to drive them away or try to take over their territory; they simply chiseled ice very close to them.
When that group arrived, they were initially very polite, offering cigarettes to the guests.
But as they worked on breaking the ice, the ice got closer and closer, and they even stole their weeds to start a fire.
He couldn't stand it anymore, so he took his henchmen over to argue with them, and that's how things escalated to this point.
I don't know how they started fighting.
"Damn, who...?"
Chu Er was about to call for reinforcements to fight back, but he didn't expect the other side to go all out. They covered him with his clothes and beat him mercilessly, even pinning him to the ground and covering his mouth while beating him.
"Hmm...uh...ah!"
When Shan Yaowen threw a punch, Chu Er on the ice made a sound, but his mouth was covered by Shi Zhang, so he could only groan.
"Damn it, he's even getting a rhythm to being hit." Shi Zhang laughed as he watched Shan Yaowen snort every time he hit Chu Er.
Shan Yaowen didn't say anything, he just kept swinging his fists.
He didn't go for the kill; he only aimed at non-lethal areas. Anyway, this beating would keep the guy in bed for a few days, but he wouldn't have any major problems.
On the other side, Li Baoguo really didn't want to try to persuade them anymore. These people could argue over a little bit of weeds for a fire, and then they would start fighting and even call for reinforcements.
If he weren't afraid of someone getting killed, he would just want to go home, warm himself by the fire, eat sunflower seeds, and listen to the radio.
Not only him, but the other party members around him were the same; they did nothing all day but stand here trying to mediate the fight.
"Secretary, another fight has broken out up ahead."
Upon hearing the news, Li Baoguo waved his hand, "Let them be, I'm not putting up with this anymore, let's go home."
"Secretary, are you just going to ignore this? What if something happens?"
"Who cares about them? If something happens, they deserve it. Anyway, we've come all this way, and we've given the higher-ups an explanation. Look at the other village committees, none of them came."
"Too."
Li Baoguo didn't want to get involved, but when he went out to go home, he saw that Shan Yaowen was among the group that had been beating people. Then, after seeing that the other people around the group were Chu Er's men, he immediately understood who had started the fight.
As for the one who was beaten with his head covered, who else could it be but Chu Er?
"That brat really doesn't hold grudges overnight." Li Baoguo chuckled to himself, then pretended not to see anything and walked away.
He was quite pleased that Chu Er had been beaten; someone should step in and teach that bastard a lesson.
He treats reporting others as a daily routine; who wants to pay attention to him?
"Aren't you going to do anything about this?" The others, who didn't recognize Chu Er, still had some sense of responsibility and asked him.
Li Baoguo shook his head. "Those are Chu Er's group. Why bother with them?"
The other members of the village committee originally wanted to do something, but as soon as they heard it was Chu Er, they immediately acted as if they didn't see it. They were happy to see Chu Er get beaten up. Who in the village committee hadn't been reported by him?
Reporting villagers to the village committee or reporting the village committee to the town government are all routine operations for Chu Er.
If anything goes wrong, they go to the town to report the village committee for inaction and for not caring about the lives of the people.
People who report gambling losses, those who report arguments with their wives, and even those who report a lack of food at home deserve to be taught a lesson.
They didn't notice Shan Yaowen, but they knew it was Chu Er who had been beaten, and they all walked away without saying a word.
When Shan Yaowen was beating someone, he had to be careful of his surroundings. He didn't want to wait until the others stopped fighting so that he could get caught up in the commotion and get ganged up on.
The fighting around them was getting fiercer and fiercer, and even more people were drawn in. However, Shan Yaowen did see the village secretary on the shore.
Seeing that the Party Secretary ignored him, he became even more excited and kicked Chu Er in the stomach twice more.
"Walk."
After kicking him twice, Shan Yaowen grabbed Shi Zhang and ran away.
"Why don't you keep playing?" Shi Zhang was still somewhat unsatisfied.
"Yes." Shan Yaowen gestured to the branch secretary and others on the shore.
"What's there to be afraid of? If the Party Secretary wanted to take care of it, he would have done so long ago."
"Are you stupid? If you didn't see it, fine, but if you did, you still hit him. Isn't that challenging the Party Secretary's authority? It's their business if they don't care, but you hit him right under their nose. Don't you respect the Party Secretary?"
Shi Zhang didn't understand what Shan Yaowen was saying, but he knew that listening to Shan Yaowen was the right thing to do.
Shan Yaowen beat up Chu Er and then left, saying goodbye to the Party Secretary.
After the Party Secretary left, Shan Yaowen felt his mouth was empty and decided to go back and grab some sunflower seeds to eat while watching.
Suddenly, an even louder argument erupted.
It didn't come from Chu Er's group, but from the middle, right in the middle of the three lakes.
"This is the first fish I caught."
"Bullshit, I scooped this out of the hole with a net, it's mine."
"Go to hell, I grabbed it first, so it's mine."
"If you keep arguing like this, I'll beat you up, you hear me?"
"Get lost, or I'll beat up your whole family if you say another word."
"..."
At first, Shan Yaowen heard some of the reasons for the argument, which was about the ownership of a grass carp weighing more than 20 kilograms.
Later, the man started pushing and shoving, while the woman pointed at the opposite side and insulted their relatives.
The matchups between the two sides were quite well-organized.
"You're out looking for men in broad daylight, even rolling around in haystacks, don't think nobody knows..."
"Your mother couldn't give birth to a son, so she slept with seventeen or eighteen men before finally producing a bastard like you..."
Men care about their reputation, and they'll usually resort to violence after just a couple of arguments, but women don't care about that and will start cursing and attacking from all sides.
Moreover, the women here are also fierce; they can argue and fight just as well as the men.
Shan Yaowen saw the two women start arguing and then actually start fighting.
And it wasn't just casual fighting; it was a real killing blow. Pulling hair was like trying to rip the scalp off the other person. Slapping, pulling down pants, and punching the chest were common moves.
Shan Yaowen felt that he couldn't see enough.
Before Chu Er's fight was over, two families in the middle of the lake started fighting again, and on the other side, someone was caught stealing fish while others were watching the fight and got into a fight.
In short, as soon as the Party Secretary left, everyone seemed to receive a signal. They had been restrained before, afraid of being caught by the Party Secretary.
But now...
They all let themselves go.
Especially since both sides originally came to fish together as a large family, with many relatives and acquaintances, and almost the entire village came here to fish, the number of people gathered in the middle area increased as they called on friends and relatives.
However, precisely because they were from the same village, they were all connected in some roundabout way. Everyone around them was trying to persuade him, so the man didn't have a chance to make a move, as there were people holding him back.
After all, when men get into a fight, they can really kill several people.
Shan Yaowen thought that was the end of it, that the fight wouldn't escalate, since the men weren't fighting and the women who were fighting had been separated.
But in the midst of the pushing and shoving, someone accidentally fell into the ice hole that had been carved out.
"Damn it, you're playing dirty tricks, aren't you? Beat them up! Smash them into an ice cave and give them a bath too."
One sentence completely ignited the powder keg.
What followed was a chaotic brawl: people seeking revenge, stealing fish, and looting. The two families that were actually fighting were just a few people, but a lot of people from the surrounding area came and dragged in many others, including those who were just trying to take advantage of the situation. It ended up involving almost half of the people in the middle area.
"That was awesome!"
Dan Yaowen watched from the shore, slapping his thigh in disbelief.
However, the two families who were fighting quickly separated, partly because the grass carp weighing about 20 pounds that they were fighting with had disappeared, and partly because several people were pushed into the water and took a cold shower, which made them more sober.
"Brother Wen, look at Chu Er." Shi Zhang pulled Shan Yaowen aside and pointed at Chu Er: "It seems that the fish is in his hands now."
When Shan Yaowen took a look, it was indeed true.
Chu Er was sneaking out carrying a large fish.
Will this allow you to succeed?
So he cleared his throat, mustered all his strength, and shouted:
"Holy crap! That grass carp in Chu's hand must weigh at least twenty pounds!"