Chapter 218

Xu Ran smiled and said, “Zhuo Yun, don’t worry, I won’t do anything out of line. After all, I will still live in this village. But as the old saying goes I will not attack unless they attact me; if they attack me, I will pay back tenfold. I can’t be bullied anyway!”

After that Xu Ran turned his head back.

Lookeing at him, Zhuo Yun didn’t say anything. He went to command the workers to unload the fruit trees. If the fruit trees could be unloaded sooner, they could take the money home sooner.

Although they wanted to see the fun, it was not their own business and it was better for them not to get involved in it. So when Zhuo Yun asked them to unload the fruit trees, they went to work without any hesitation.

The loud noise attracted the attention of the villagers. Glancing at the people next to him and then looking back at those people, Xu Ran could only smile helplessly.

Xu Ran said, ” Folks, I, Xu Ran, have never done anything bad to you. I don’t understand why you treat me like this. I just bought a variety of fruit trees in the mountains, but that didn’t hinder you! What do you mean by this?”

Thinking that he was a Xiucai, Xu Ran began to speak in a literary way. But he just said a few simple words so that the villagers could understand.

After Xu Ran said that, someone started to complain that Xu Ran didn’t take them to sell things and only thought about himself. In short, Xu Ran was a selfish man and had never thought about the villagers.

Hearing this, Xu Ran burst into laughter and said, “Who are you? Why should I take you to make money? Who are you to me?! How can you say that in front of me?” Xu Ran was so angry that he was even incoherent!

How shameless they were!

Hearing Xu Ran’s words, many people fell silent. They realized that Xu Ran really had nothing to do with them, except for living in the same village.

However, some people just took this as an excuse.

Xu Ran sneered, “Haha, I think you must have forgotten who the village chief is! It should be the village head who leads you to enrich your family, what has it to do with me? I don’t want to say anything to you today, if you want to quarrel with me, let’s go to Yamen and ask Lord Zhubu what will you be accused of robbing the forest of Xiucai’s family? ”

When he said this, all the people began to look at each other. They didn’t know what Xu Ran said? Who snatched the forest of Xiucai’s house?

Many people who reacted suddenly remembered that the Xiucai was just Xu Ran, and that was exactly what they were doing.

“Xu Ran, we’re in the same village. You won’t really do that, will you?”

“Yeah! Xu Ran, Xiucai Xu, we are all neighbors. How could we go to Yamen?

“Right, right, neighbors, we don’t have to go to Yamen? We were just joking, nothing more.”

……

Xu Ran didn’t say anything and nor did the village head, who was standing next to Xu Ran, he just watched them. After being the village head for so many years, he knew what these people were like, so he didn’t want to persuade them. He believed that sooner or later, someone would teach them a lesson.

The villagers said in a flurry. They asked Xu Ran to forgive them and not report it to Yamen.

After all, Xu Ran was a person with a good reputation. Ordinary people like them could not bully him. If they really went to Yamen, it must be their fault.

Xu Ran just listened to them but didn’t answer. Many people who were standing behind him had already slipped away quietly, and those who had seen them followed.

The more people left, the louder noise they made. At last, only a few people left. Seeing that others had run away, they looked at Xu Ran and then ran away, too.

Xu Ran didn’t stop them, and he wouldn’t have any communications with them in the future.

Every time this happened, he was glad he had chosen the house at the end of the village. He wouldn’t pass by the house of the people he didn’t like when he went to town.

Seeing them leave, Xu Ran apologized to the Li family,” I’m sorry to have you seen these.”

They all waved their hands to show that they didn’t mind and continued to do their work.

After that Xu Ran walked back to the village head and said, “Village head, come inside for a while! What I just said was a little serious, but I will do as I said. I will never ask the villagers to do anything in the future.”

The village head said with a helplessly sigh,” Xu Ran! In all the years I’ve been the village head, there’s never been so much things. It’s not your fault but their own incompetence and jealousy. You’ve been the best in our village for years, with a reputation and can make money. No wonder they’re jealous of you.”

Xu Ran sneered, “Village head, I earned all of these on my own. We are all men, but they haven’t been a fool as me for seven years. They have no ability of their own, but why will they come and trouble me? How shameless they are! Village head, do you see these people? They are also famers, but not like the person in our village. Village head, They can’t blame anyone but themselves for being greedy and incompetent.”

“That’s true, but they’ve always been like that. There is a school in the village and all the children go to school, but none of them have been successful. They are even obsessed with other people. Do you have some ideas? Since they have been like this for so many years, I can’t change them.”

Xu Ran said to the village head as they walked, ” Village head, You can’t control these things, it depends on what they think. I have given them chances to get rich, but they didn’t listen, so there is nothing I can do. Anyway, I won’t care about them in the future. As long as they don’t bother me, I won’t disturb them. But if they are still going to target my family, I will definitely report them to Yamen.”

The village head also understood what Xu Ran meant. He just didn’t want him to get into trouble.

But he was still the village head! What could he do?

Xu Ran couldn’t understand the village head’s helplessness. Without thinking too much, he invited the village head into the house.

Liu Tong and the rest had been standing at the door, waiting for them to come in. They knew what had happened outside, in order not to disturb the two children, Liu Tong didn’t go out. He just asked Gao Quan to go outside and watch, lest Xu Ran was bullied.

Of course, he believed that Ran could not be bullied.

It was true that Xu Ran could not be bullied, but this time he probably had offended everyone in the village. While it didn’t matter to him, he wouldn’t rely on them anyway.

Xu Ran just invited the village head into the house to rest for a while and they didn’t say anything. Soon Xu Ran went out to unload the trees.

Seeing that Xu Ran was busy, the village head was embarrassed to keep staying there. He knew it would have to be that way, even if he stayed on, Xu Ran couldn’t change, so he gave up the idea.

With so many fruit trees, Xu Ran and the others had been unloading until night. Feeding the oxen and arranging rooms for the people, Xu Ran was really busy.

The next day, people from the Li family went back after lunch. After that, Xu Ran led the whole family to plant trees.

He even asked Wu Mei to help. After all, with so many fruit trees, relying on the few of them, they didn’t know when to finish. If the trees were putting outside too long, they would not live, so they needed to hurry up and plant all these trees.

Tangtang and Guoguo were very embarrassed when they came home. It was obvious that they had fought with someone, because there were two scratches on Guoguo’s face. It was obvious that they were scratched by nails.

Seeing the scratch marks, Xu Ran was furious. He knew it must be related to what happened yesterday. Xu Ran asked, “Tangtang Guoguo, are there a lot of people troubling you today?”

Raising their heads in surprise, Tangtang and Guoguo wondered how Xu Ran knew.

Xu Ran continued, “You should know what happened yesterday and do you think Dad did the right thing?”

The two children thought for a moment and nodded seriously. Tangtang said, ” Dad, you’re right. We spent money buying the mountain and the fruit trees. Why should we share with them? Dad, don’t worry, we know how to deal with it.”

They were so considerable as if they were not just little kids.

Guoguo also promised, “Dad, I’m sure I won’t get hurt again. There were so many of them today and we didn’t dare to use the kung fu that uncle Gao Quan taught us, so my face was scrached. But not all of them were against us, such as brother Hu Zi and the others.”

When Xu Ran saw the wound on Guoguo’s face, he had two thoughts; one was to keep the children at home and teach them by himself, but he quickly dismissed it. The second one was to let Tangtang Guoguo beat up those who bullied them. It was just kids fighting, their parents could not say anything.

Anyway, it was his children being hurt today, so he had reason to ask them. Xu Ran decided to go to their houses with his children from door to door.

He knew that these people would not apologize to them, and would only say that it was the children’s fighting. While that was just what he wanted, he could also said like that when Tangtang and Guoguo beat them in the future.

You could say something like that when my child was bullied, but when your child was bullied, why couldn’t I speak like that? It only blamed yourself for being inferior!

In the morning, I was eating a steamed bun while walking, and almost choked on it…

Steamed Bun said: Was I the one to blame?

I: If it was not you, it was me?

Steamed Bun: This all blamed your big mouth and small throat, how could you blame me? You were so unreasonable!

I: ……

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