"No!" Li Erguai sighed. "It's Li Deping and Old Man Liu. They're instigating villagers not to come, saying you've offended powerful people and anyone who helps you will be in trouble!"
At this point, Li Erguai became furious.
"Li Deping, that bastard, is truly despicable. He knows you need people now and is deliberately making things difficult."
"And I also heard that the tattooed men were brought to the village by Li Deping."
Hearing this, Lin Xiao Tian clenched his fists.
This Li Deping had been causing him trouble repeatedly, and now he had set his sights on Sister Yuxiang. This debt, he would remember completely!
As the two were talking, a mocking voice came from not far away.
"Lin Xiao Tian, did you ever imagine today would come? You fool, who told you to ruin the old man's good deeds back then?"
Lin Xiao Tian turned his head and saw Old Man Liu walking over with a sinister grin.
Behind Old Man Liu were a group of limping young men, the subordinates of Li Hu whom Lin Xiao Tian had taught a lesson to before.
Lin Xiao Tian had only treated Li Hu himself at the time, not his followers.
"Old Man Liu, was it you causing trouble?" Lin Xiao Tian questioned.
"So what if it was? So what if it wasn't?" Old Man Liu was arrogant.
But his arrogance lasted less than three seconds. The next moment, Lin Xiao Tian walked towards him with a cold smile.
"I think you're itching for a beating!"
"Stop! You dare hit me? Only I can help you now." Old Man Liu was still talking tough, but his body was honest; he had already retreated to the back of the crowd.
Hearing Old Man Liu's answer, Lin Xiao Tian was taken aback. "You can help me?"
"Of course!" Old Man Liu regained his bravado.
"How do you plan to help?"
"Isn't it just a hundred thousand yuan? I have it! I can lend it to you, but I have a condition!"
"What condition?" Lin Xiao Tian frowned.
"I want Qin Yuxiang!"
"You're asking for death!" Lin Xiao Tian grabbed Old Man Liu by the collar and lifted him off the ground.
Even at this point, Old Man Liu was still thinking of possessing Qin Yuxiang. Lin Xiao Tian could not tolerate it.
"Heh, you dare hit me? No one in the village will help you haul these fish now. You only have one day. Can you gather a hundred thousand yuan? I advise you to let go of me obediently. Only I can help you now!"
"Qin Yuxiang will be much better off with me than with those people! Those are desperate fellows. If a woman falls into their hands, she'll be ruined!"
Old Man Liu looked at Lin Xiao Tian triumphantly.
He was confident that he had found Lin Xiao Tian's weakness.
But the next second, he felt a sharp pain in his stomach.
*Bang!*
Lin Xiao Tian punched him directly in the stomach!
"Ah... Lin Xiao Tian, you... you dare hit me? You... don't want... that hundred thousand yuan anymore?" Old Man Liu looked incredulous.
"Heh, Old Man Liu, it's no wonder you're alone your whole life. Do you really think I'd push Sister Yuxiang into a fire pit for a hundred thousand yuan? I won't let either you or those people harm Sister Yuxiang!"
"Keep your money and get lost!"
"This time I kicked your stomach. If you dare come again, I'll make sure you can't be a man anymore!"
Lin Xiao Tian glared at Old Man Liu.
Hearing Lin Xiao Tian's words, Old Man Liu shivered and, ignoring the pain, scrambled away.
After driving away Old Man Liu, Lin Xiao Tian was troubled again.
Now that Old Man Liu's hundred thousand yuan was unavailable, and there were no helpers in the village, how would he transport these fish?
Li Erguai's leg had improved slightly, but pulling a cart would be too strenuous. The mountain roads were difficult, and any accident would only harm Li Erguai.
If he were to pull the cart himself, his fish-catching speed would decrease, and he could only transport two carts at most.
Two carts would only bring him over twenty thousand yuan. Combined with the fifty thousand he had earned before, it would be just over seventy thousand, far from the hundred thousand needed. If this continued, he would only have one path left: defeat those men and escape with Qin Yuxiang.
With his abilities, he was confident he could survive with Qin Yuxiang.
"Xiao Tian, I have a few thousand yuan at home. I'll try to borrow some from others. We'll scrape together what we can, maybe we can still make it," Li Erguai patted Lin Xiao Tian's shoulder.
"Brother Erguai, thank you, but this money is definitely not enough. And in this situation, who would lend us money?" Lin Xiao Tian sighed.
"Then what should we do?" Li Erguai couldn't help but punch a nearby rock.
Just then, a voice sounded from the side.
"Brother Tian, if there's nothing else, we'll be going then?"
Lin Xiao Tian looked up and saw that the speaker was a young man with yellow hair, one of Li Hu's subordinates.
The yellow-haired man kept backing away as he spoke.
After being taught a lesson by Lin Xiao Tian last time, they were thoroughly scared of him. They had followed Old Man Liu today hoping to get lucky.
After all, Old Man Liu had confidently said he could make Lin Xiao Tian yield, and perhaps they could take the opportunity to have Lin Xiao Tian remove the techniques he used.
But who would have thought that Lin Xiao Tian would be so decisive and even beat up Old Man Liu?
Seeing this, they became even more afraid of Lin Xiao Tian.
"Wait!"
Lin Xiao Tian suddenly called out to him.
The yellow-haired man's heart sank.
It's over!
Lin Xiao Tian was definitely angry!
The other young men nearby also trembled at the sight.
"Brother Tian, it's a misunderstanding! It was Old Man Liu... Old Man Liu forced us to come! We cripples, how could we be a match for a normal person like him?" the yellow-haired man hurriedly explained.
Lin Xiao Tian couldn't help but want to laugh.
This excuse wouldn't fool anyone.
The yellow-haired man was strong and healthy. Even if he was limping, how could he not be a match for an old man over fifty?
"Stop explaining. I know what you're thinking. You want to use Old Man Liu's influence to get me to cure you, right?"
"Brother Tian! It's really not what you think!" the yellow-haired man was terrified.
"Brother Tian, you have to believe us. We wouldn't dare lay a hand on you even if we had ten times the courage!" the other young men chimed in.
"Alright, I understand," Lin Xiao Tian scanned them.
"I'll ask you, do you want to return to normal?"
Hearing Lin Xiao Tian's words, the men were stunned.
"Brother Tian, what do you mean? You want to cure us?" the yellow-haired man at the front asked tentatively.
Lin Xiao Tian nodded.
"Really? Brother Tian, you're such a good person!" the yellow-haired man was on the verge of tears.
"However, I have a condition!" Just as the yellow-haired men were immersed in joy, Lin Xiao Tian suddenly interrupted them.
The men became apprehensive.
"Brother Tian, what is your condition?"