092 I Was Acting in Self-Defense (Please Save and Recommend)

A sudden ambush from this man looked swift enough, but in Chen Anquan’s eyes it was no faster than a snail.

He took only a small step back, and the other man’s shoe tip merely brushed his clothing.

But in the next second, Chen Anquan fell straight to the ground, landing with his back perfectly on the old man’s street stall. He clutched his stomach with both hands and wore a pained expression. “Ow!”

Time to start defending himself.

“Looking for death!” Seeing Chen Anquan already down, the tall, thin man could no longer restrain his fury. He strode up to Chen Anquan’s forehead and brought his foot down hard toward his face.

“Ah!” The women nearby, who had been watching the show, were terrified speechless.

Once a fight got heated, it could very well turn into a homicide.

Chen Anquan watched calmly. He seized the man’s ankle with both hands and gave it a light twist.

The six-foot-tall, thin man stumbled and was sent tumbling over.

It all happened too fast for anyone to see clearly. Everyone assumed the tall, thin man had stepped on Chen Anquan’s face and then slipped off.

The fat, broad-faced man was astonished. His vicious low kick had actually been neutralized by Chen Anquan.

In anger, he swung a side kick toward Chen Anquan’s abdomen.

Who would have thought that Chen Anquan would suddenly seize his ankle with both hands and borrow the force to leap upward.

Chen Anquan landed on his feet, but the fat man was the one who suffered. With a single fling, Chen Anquan hurled him away.

Turning the tables with effortless grace.

“Ugh!” With the piglike man crashing to the ground, the fat, broad-faced man was completely robbed of fighting power.

By then, the tall, thin man had already gotten back up. He staggered over and threw a heavy punch toward Chen Anquan’s forehead.

But before his fist could even land on the back of Chen Anquan’s head, Chen Anquan had already turned around, revealing a face that would haunt him with terror for the rest of his life.

Chen Anquan gave a faint smile and struck back with a backhand slap, sending the tall, thin man flying several meters away.

“Looking for death!” He walked up to the tall, thin man and delivered three vicious kicks to the abdomen. Then he went to the fat, broad-faced man and gave him three more.

In an instant, both men lost all fighting ability.

Wail-wail-wail!

A speeding police car stopped by the roadside.

Two officers came over.

“Chen Anquan?” They quickly recognized him.

Chen Anquan was a lucky star. He had single-handedly dealt with an armed criminal, and the officers who had arrived afterward, as participants, had all received commendations.

“It’s me, gentlemen.” Chen Anquan greeted them with a smile.

He knew these two officers; he had seen them a few days ago.

The two officers looked at the two men lying on the ground and could not help twitching at the corners of their mouths. “You beat them, didn’t you?”

Chen Anquan, this ferocious man, and you still dared offend him? Had you not seen the big news from before?

“Yes.”

“Then come with us to the station.”

Just then, someone nearby could no longer stand it and spoke up. “Officer, I recorded a video. It’s obvious these two struck first.”

With that, the person opened the video.

The two officers watched, their mouths twitching all the while.

Chen Anquan’s efficiency at knocking people out was just too high!

“Send me a copy of that video.”

“No problem.”

A few minutes later, after receiving the video, the two officers walked over to the two men on the ground. “Come on. We’re going to the station.”

“Damn it! What kind of joke is this?” The fat, broad-faced man was furious. “We’re the ones who got hurt. Why does he not have to go?”

“Exactly! Officer, you have to uphold the law and be good villagers!”

“Comrade Chen Anquan acted in self-defense, so he does not need to come back for a statement. As for you two losing to him, that is only natural. He’s a master who subdued an armed criminal by himself a few days ago.”

The two men were dumbfounded and shut their mouths at once.

“Wow! Amazing, a true hero who rid the people of harm!”

“What a master!”

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Only then did everyone truly learn Chen Anquan’s identity.

After the two men were taken away, the old man’s face turned ashen.

Though he knew his two sons would not go to prison, only be detained for ten days or half a month, once they were dragged into the station, their dignity would be gone.

He looked at Chen Anquan as though he were staring at Death itself, and hurriedly pulled his stall tighter to one side, leaving about five feet of space.

He no longer dared offend Chen Anquan.

Chen Anquan understood that the old man was kindly making room for him.

Perhaps because of celebrity effect, among the several passersby who had just wandered by to watch the spectacle, three of them actually bought herbal medicine from Chen Anquan.

That alone brought in several hundred yuan.

Another half hour passed.

Everything returned to normal.

Chen Anquan discovered that no matter how good his herbal medicine was, there were still very few who recognized its value.

Since that was the case, he simply began practicing Tai Chi.

Drawn by his Tai Chi, several uncles and aunties who happened to need herbal medicine bought some from Chen Anquan.

He made several hundred more.

Smiling broadly, Chen Anquan packed up his stall, slung the rather empty snakeskin bag over his shoulder, and headed home.

Aotuo Village.

He had sold medicinal herbs to Kuang Quan and made 12,000 yuan. Retail sales brought in 500 yuan. In all, he had earned 17,000 yuan, far more than a regular salary.

Chen Anquan carefully opened the cardboard box and took out the instruments one by one.

Back in high school, he had studied biology and knew how to extract the essence of plants.

What he needed to do now was extract the essence from the petals of the Blood-Red Demon Flower.

After several hours, Chen Anquan had extracted roughly 1,000 milliliters of diluted medicinal liquid from a single petal.

To avoid allergic reactions, he went through multiple purification steps, almost raising the liquid’s purity to the limit.

These tedious tasks sounded simple, but in truth they were quite complex. If Chen Anquan had not been a straight-A student in biology throughout high school, he would never have succeeded on the first try.

Everything was ready. Now all that remained was for Zhao Xuan and Zhao Hai to come tomorrow.

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On a pink large bed, a woman with long hair spread over the pillow widened her eyes, her gaze fixed steadily out the window.

The grueling two days and two nights were finally about to end.

Zhao Xuan yawned. She had not slept at all for two whole nights, all for today’s treatment. She had even taken a day off on purpose, intending to bring her father to Chen Anquan for treatment.

She threw back the covers. Her ample figure was strikingly apparent. Sitting up, she stretched and yawned again, then turned toward the makeup mirror a little farther away. A faint smile slowly appeared on her face.

She looked at her flawless contours and nodded in satisfaction.

Chen Anquan’s figure surfaced in her mind: the man who looked honest enough, yet had dared to trade insults with her father.

The man who had acted boldly and kicked an armed criminal unconscious.

Her smile did not last long before it was cut off by the appearance of another person in her thoughts.

That woman stood above the rest like a snow-capped peak, always bright and cheerful, warm and sweet-mouthed, with a tongue that could be both honey and fire.

Thinking of that woman, and of the intimate relationship she seemed to share with Chen Anquan, like a couple, Zhao Xuan became very uncomfortable and grew resentful of her.

She knew perfectly well that this woman was only pretending to be Chen Anquan’s girlfriend in order to anger her best friend.

And her best friend, after being so stimulated by that incident, had actually found a boyfriend at lightning speed. He seemed to be someone Chen Anran used to work with, and even in the same department.

Zhao Xuan felt that Yicheng was really too small, full of familiar faces no matter how she turned it over.

She very much hoped that one day she could go to a big city, experience life there, and taste what it was like to work as a reporter at a major television station.

What a pity...

What a pity her father, Zhao Hai, was almost a crippled invalid. Aside from helping him with the most basic bodily needs, everything else required her care.

She suddenly lifted her head, silently beating to death the woman in her mind, then brought up Chen Anquan’s slightly handsome face.

“Chen Anquan, I hope you can cure my father’s illness. I don’t know whether my father was just bragging. Since you want to learn, whether you succeed or not will depend on your own skill.”

Her generous figure returned beneath her clothes. With light makeup applied, she slipped on a khaki wool coat and slung a cute pink little bag over her shoulder before leaving the room.

But who would have thought that her father, Zhao Hai, was already sitting on the sofa?

She called out softly, “Dad...”

Zhao Hai looked at his daughter. “I couldn’t sleep. I’m old now, and I don’t need much sleep anymore.”

“Dad... if you came over on your own, why didn’t you call me? What if you fell?” Zhao Xuan was deeply worried.

“It’s nothing. My bones are still fairly tough.” Zhao Hai said very calmly.

Over the past two days, Zhao Xuan had been surprised to discover that Zhao Hai, who used to drink every day, had stopped drinking entirely, and even the stubble on his chin was much cleaner.

It seemed her father had placed great hopes in this recovery!

Zhao Xuan began to worry.