The sudden kiss took Zhao Dachuan aback for a moment.
Then, he felt a continuous stream of spiritual energy pouring into his body.
Right above his elixir field, a Seven-Color Gourd suddenly appeared, absorbing every wisp of genuine qi straight into itself.
Immediately after, as if Pandora's box had been opened, his elixir field began to automatically inhale and exhale the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, condensing the energy and transforming it into spiritual liquid that flowed into the Seven-Color Gourd.
Perhaps the level of the cultivation technique he practiced was too low, resulting in a very low conversion efficiency.
It only managed to condense a little over a dozen drops of spiritual liquid.
According to the records in the Shennong Scripture, this spiritual liquid had immense uses; not only could it save lives and heal the wounded, but it could also nurture plants and animals.
"I'm sorry! I... I lost control..."
After kissing him, Zhang Ting immediately scurried back to her room like a little rabbit.
Zhao Dachuan, however, was overjoyed. He was certain that Zhang Ting definitely had feelings for him.
Zhao Dachuan made up his mind that he had to date the delectable Zhang Ting, win her over, and gain a massive amount of spiritual energy.
Dreaming of the passionate days he would share with Zhang Ting in the future, Zhao Dachuan drifted off to sleep with a blissful smile.
.....
The next day, when Zhao Dachuan woke up, breakfast was already set out on the table, along with a cage of piglets and vegetable seeds prepared for him, and a note left behind by Zhang Ting, who was nowhere to be seen.
The note basically said that the pigpen was short-handed, so she had gone off to take care of it.
Zhao Dachuan knew very well that Zhang Ting was simply thin-skinned and was avoiding him.
Yet Zhao Dachuan didn't mind at all; after all, there would be plenty of time in the future to cultivate a relationship with her.
After finishing the loving breakfast prepared by Zhang Ting, Zhao Dachuan carried the piglets and headed home.
When Zhao Dachuan reached his front door, he found that his door had been kicked in. A group of people were blocking the entrance, and they were trampling and smashing the things in his front yard.
Leading them was Wang Wei, a notorious loan shark in the village.
"Damn it! Still no money?!"
"Pay up right now, Wu Xueyan! Not a single penny of those five thousand yuan can be less!"
"What! I only borrowed two thousand yuan from you, how did it turn into five thousand yuan?!"
"Fuck! You stinky bitch! How dare you talk back to me? I say five thousand is five thousand! This is my rule, Wang Wei, and whatever I say goes!"
"I don't have it! You can see for yourself! Our family has been reduced to bare walls now, how could we possibly still have money for you!"
Wu Xueyan simply gave up.
She had no money to give, and she only had her life!
When her cousin Zheng Hai got married back then, he borrowed two thousand yuan from Wang Wei, but Zheng Hai had bad luck and passed away from alcohol poisoning on his wedding day, leaving the debt behind for Wu Xueyan.
She had originally managed to scrape by and pay Wang Wei back little by little, but ever since Zhao Dachuan became simple-minded and she also adopted the pitiful Wu Xiaohua, they were basically operating at a loss, so the debt kept dragging on.
Who could have expected Wang Wei to be so ruthless, directly hiking two thousand yuan up to five thousand.
"Damn it! I don't care if you have money or not! You're paying me back one way or another!"
Wang Wei kicked over a stool beside him with a fierce and menacing look on his face.
His shifty, rat-like eyes had not left Wu Xueyan's face for even a second.
Saliva seemed ready to drip from the corners of his mouth.
Clearly, he had taken a fancy to Wu Xueyan and intended to use an exorbitant debt she couldn't possibly repay to coerce her.
"If you don't pay back the money, then use something else instead!"
"How about this, Wu Xueyan! Be my mistress and serve me well, and I won't need you to pay back the money!"
Hahaha...
Wang Wei's words provoked a burst of jeering laughter from his underlings.
Every single one of them looked greedily at Wu Xueyan's graceful figure, drool dripping from the corners of their mouths.
Quite a few of them even chimed in to stir up trouble:
"Brother Wang! When you get tired of playing with her, hand her over to us!"
"What kind of talk is that? When has Brother Wang ever forgotten about us? Whenever he gets tired of a woman, he always gives her to us, doesn't he!""Hehe... Word is that Wu Xueyan is still a virgin! Her husband died before they even consummated the marriage!"
"Hahaha... In that case, doesn't that mean our Brother Wang is getting the bargain of a lifetime! Brother Wang! You've got some great luck!!"
Hearing his lackeys talk like this, Wang Wei felt an even greater itch in his heart. In his eyes, a woman who was still a virgin was the ultimate prize.
"Well? Wu Xueyan! As long as you become my woman, you won't have to pay back a single cent of those five thousand yuan! Come on over here! I'll let you taste what a real man is like! Once you get a taste of my prowess, you won't ever be able to leave me!"
As he spoke, Wang Wei couldn't help but reach out his grubby hands toward Wu Xueyan.
The people around them all wore expressions of eager anticipation, waiting for a good show. Wang Wei was a notorious scoundrel whose favorite thing to do was to violate women right in front of all his subordinates. He believed this was the best way to demonstrate his power to them.
"You... don't you come near me!! Pui!!"
Wu Xueyan spat a mouthful of saliva right into Wang Wei's face.
"Damn you! Bitch! I'm going to teach you a real lesson and show you how a woman ought to serve a man!"
Wang Wei wiped the spit off his face with a sweep of his hand and strode quickly toward Wu Xueyan. Standing at one meter seventy-eight, he was quite solidly built. It looked as though Wu Xueyan had nowhere left to run and was about to fall victim to Wang Wei's abuse.
However, right at this critical moment, a figure suddenly materialized behind Wang Wei, and a hand clamped directly onto Wang Wei's wrist.
"Ah!!" Wang Wei cried out in pain, feeling as though his hand had been locked in a death grip by an iron vise, completely unable to break free.
"Who is it!? Let go of my hand right now!" Wang Wei shouted loudly.
Yet the only response he received was a mocking voice:
"Bullying my cousin-in-law!? And you expect me to let you go—are you living in some kind of dream world?"
With that, Zhao Dachuan used the back of his hand to deliver a fierce, vicious slap right across Wang Wei's face.
Smack!!!
The sound of the slap rang out crisp and clear!
"Ow! It hurts! It hurts like hell!!"
Wang Wei let out a heart-rending scream. His face instantly swelled up red, and blood streamed continuously from the corner of his mouth. His face was swollen out of all recognition!
"It's you! Zhao Dachuan the village idiot!!"
"Well, well! You've got some real nerve, haven't you! How dare you hit me!!" Wang Wei roared at Zhao Dachuan.
However, no sooner had the words left his mouth than another vicious slap landed squarely on the right side of Wang Wei's face. It was a brutal strike, powerful enough to knock two of Wang Wei's teeth flying straight out of his mouth. The force behind it was immense!
"Ah! You... you... bastard... Brothers! Get him together! Beat this idiot to death!!"
Driven mad by Zhao Dachuan's repeated slaps, Wang Wei twisted his face into a ferocious grimace and roared at Zhao Dachuan.
Hearing Wang Wei's miserable shrieks, his subordinates finally snapped back to reality.
"Shit! Big Idiot Dachuan! How dare you bully our boss!!"
"You're courting death!! Don't worry, Brother Wang! Leave this to us!"
"Get him, brothers! Let this idiot Dachuan see what's what!!"
"Motherfucker! I'm gonna show him the power of my iron fists!!"
Seeing their boss get beaten by Zhao Dachuan, Huang Mao, Lü Mao, and the rest of the lackeys instantly flew into a rage. After all, Wang Wei was their leader and their meal ticket. They immediately surged forward toward Zhao Dachuan.
Without dodging, Zhao Dachuan let out a cold sneer, flung the pinned Wang Wei heavily to the ground, planted his foot firmly on Wang Wei's chest, and threw a punch straight into the faces of the rushing thugs.
In an instant!!
A chorus of agonizing, heart-rending screams filled the air!!