Chapter 16: If She Forgives You, I’ll Let You Go

As expected, the thought had barely formed when Xie Fangzhu, who had been standing behind her, suddenly appeared in her line of sight, casually walking towards the two men.

The next moment, his fist flew out.

With a loud “bang,” the stocky man who had called Shen Yingying a slut was thrown to the ground like a broken sack.

The man never expected Xie Fangzhu to suddenly attack, and completely unprepared, he took the full force of Xie Fangzhu’s blow.

His mouth filled with a metallic sweetness, and the pain made him feel like his entire face had cracked.

Being a man with some spirit, he instinctively tried to get up and fight back, but Xie Fangzhu didn’t give him a chance to resist. Before the man could even figure out what was happening, his face was already under Xie Fangzhu’s foot.

“Heh,” Xie Fangzhu sneered, cracking his knuckles loudly, his foot twisting on the man’s face as if extinguishing a cigarette. “Your mouth was so quick just now, say it again, let me hear?”

The stocky man’s vision blurred, and he struggled to get up, but Xie Fangzhu’s foot felt like it weighed a thousand pounds, impossible to break free.

In just a moment, his manly spirit was gone, and he begged for mercy with difficulty, “Brother Xie… I was wrong… please, have mercy on me…”

“Heh,” Xie Fangzhu scoffed, “You’re spineless, trash.”

He released his foot, and just as the man thought he had escaped, Xie Fangzhu nodded his chin in Shen Yingying’s direction.

“Go apologize to my wife. If she forgives you, I’ll let you go.”

The man was terrified by the earlier attack, and he scrambled to Shen Yingying’s feet.

His apology was very grand. He bent his knees and gave Shen Yingying a deep bow.

“Sister-in-law! I’m so sorry! I’m just a bastard! I have a trash mouth and said nonsense, please don’t take it to heart, I’m so sorry!”

As he spoke, he banged his head on the ground several times.

Shen Yingying, who had never received such a grand gesture, was shocked, her eyes widening.

But the next moment, she was overjoyed.

Despite the happiness in her heart, she didn’t show it on her face, lowering her eyes and looking at the man without saying a word.

The man was terrified by her attitude, fearing she wouldn’t forgive him, and slapped himself a few times!

“Sister-in-law! Please spare me! I’ll never dare again! If I dare, let Brother Xie beat me to death!”

Shen Yingying’s expression finally softened, and she said to Xie Fangzhu, “Let it go.”

Hearing this, Xie Fangzhu looked away, scanning the crowd in the cafeteria, “What about the other one?”

His voice was cold and indifferent, without a hint of emotion, but his expression was as cold as frost, and the shadow in his eyes was unmistakable, completely different from the usually amiable Xie Fangzhu.

The chaotic cafeteria gradually quieted down, and some people remembered.

Although Xie Fangzhu was amiable and helpful to the people in the mine, and seemed like a pushover in front of his wife, he was actually quite capable. He was strong, good at fighting, and had a reputation for being ruthless. He was a real man (except in front of his wife).

He had a glorious past in the mine.

Several years ago, a worker’s wife in the mine was targeted by a bully from a neighboring village. The bully brought villagers to the mine to cause trouble, trying to forcibly take the woman away.

The woman’s husband cried and begged, but the villagers were all thugs, rude, unreasonable, and capable of using their weapons to turn black into white.

They went to the mine to cause trouble every day, threatening that if they didn’t get their way, the entire mining area wouldn’t have peace.

The young wife’s husband was completely helpless against them and had to ask the mine’s security team for help.

The security team’s section chief first tried to reason with the bully from the neighboring village.

But they were completely unreasonable, arranging for the young men in the village to wield weapons and perform all kinds of fighting moves, scaring the section chief into a hasty retreat.

Later, the section chief got angry and tried to use force.

But they were even less afraid, having the village’s elderly men and women lie down in the mining area, with tears and snot flowing, crying out about pains here and there, complaining that the huge mining area was bullying their poor, ordinary people.

The security team’s section chief was overwhelmed and had no way to deal with these barbarians, wishing a divine warrior would come down from the sky and take away the village’s evil spirits.

And in the end, a powerful person really did come, and that was Xie Fangzhu.

He volunteered to take action, carrying his weapon and leading the brothers from the tunneling team to the neighboring village.

Don’t be fooled by Xie Fangzhu’s gentle appearance. He was actually a hidden ruthless person, not only with explosive combat power but also with amazing methods.

The young men from the neighboring village were wild, so they were even wilder, beating people until they couldn’t resist.

The elderly men and women from the neighboring village were unreasonable, so they were even more unreasonable, forcing those unreasonable old people to cower in the corners.

They even didn’t spare the village’s children, catching one and beating one. In those days, the neighboring village’s children cried incessantly, seeing people from the mine as if they were seeing a plague god.

The people from the neighboring village never expected that the seemingly civilized people from the mining area would be even more shameless than them, completely disregarding martial ethics and being utterly shameless!

In the end, unable to beat them, and even unable to be more shameless, how could the bully from the neighboring village dare to covet the beautiful young wife? He led his gang and ran away with their tails between their legs.

His actions not only solved the leaders’ problems but also solved the problem that had been troubling the mining area’s residents.

Because before, people from the neighboring village would occasionally come to the mine to steal coal. After this incident, they didn’t even dare to come to the mining area.

The mining area’s residents could leave coal outside their houses, and after several days, the coal would still be there.

Xie Fangzhu’s image in the mining area became so great, brave and resourceful, he was simply the hero of the mining area, both admired and respected.

That’s why, when he was wearing countless green hats from Shen Yingying, he still didn’t dare to say a harsh word. No one in the mining area thought he was a coward, on the contrary, they thought he was loyal and righteous, and it was Shen Yingying who didn’t know what was good for her.

After all, with Xie Fangzhu’s abilities, if he really got serious, how could Shen Yingying’s small body be a match?

But no one dared to speak ill of Shen Yingying in front of him, at most, they would give a few subtle words of advice.

After all, with Xie Fangzhu’s attitude of treasuring Shen Yingying, how could he tolerate others saying bad things about her?

If you made him unhappy, you wouldn’t have a good ending.

The reason they dared to discuss it publicly today was that yesterday’s incident between Xie Fangzhu and Shen Yingying was too outrageous.

The woman had run away with another man, but today he still brought her out to eat like a treasure. They were indignant, disappointed, and even more angry at Shen Yingying’s shamelessness.

Just as the people in the cafeteria were breaking out in cold sweats, secretly glad that their voices weren’t loud just now, otherwise they would be the ones in trouble, a fat man in a singlet shirt was crouching down, trying to escape from the cafeteria with the help of the crowd.

He was terrified by what happened to his companion just now.

Although he had a lot of meat, he couldn’t take a beating!

But the enthusiastic crowd didn’t let him go. After Xie Fangzhu finished speaking, as if afraid of being affected by touching the fat man,

In just a moment, the people around the fat man scattered like birds and beasts, and the fat man was exposed to Xie Fangzhu’s view.

The fat man: “…Damn!”