Chapter 2439 — Those With Strength and Those Without
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"Oh? All right..." Robber Number Four blinked, seeming to realize he had struck a little too hard. Kang Jinglong, knocked flat on the ground by his blow, was now covered head to face in blood — this did not fit their robbery plan at all!
At Robber Number Two's words, Robber Number Four drew his dagger, jabbed it into Kang Jinglong's backside, and said coldly, "You little bastard. If you don't have the goods, don't put on airs and play the hero saving the beauty! You're nothing but dog shit!"
The pain in his rear wrung another miserable scream from Kang Jinglong, and coupled with the robber's insulting words, his eyes rolled back and he nearly fainted from rage! What the hell kind of people had he hired?
The deal had been that he would take a knife to the arm protecting Wang Xinyan, and then these men would run off. But what had happened instead? Not only had they nearly kicked his balls to mush, they had beaten him black and blue, and in the end his backside had taken a blade too!
Of course, he could have swallowed all that suffering. It was those last words from Robber Number Four that were truly rotten — they had wiped out Kang Jinglong's heroic deed entirely! He had been wounded and beaten for nothing, and in the end he was made out to be a show-off who had merely forced himself forward.
Robber Number Four had thoroughly enjoyed beating Kang Jinglong, and in the process had clean forgotten about Wang Xinyan's jade pendant. Seeing the state he had left the man in, he feared he might have killed him, so he quickly got off the bus with the other three and went to find their next robbing target.
Watching the robbers leave, Leader Bai finally breathed a sigh of relief. While Kang Jinglong was being beaten, he had been utterly helpless; had he tried to intervene then, these men would likely have redoubled their beating of Kang Jinglong!
Still, Leader Bai found it strange. What business did Kang Jinglong have sticking his neck out? And since when had Wang Xinyan become his fiancée? There seemed to be something hidden in all this.
"Kang Jinglong, I never would have guessed — tsk, tsk, the way you put on that act. Truly unprecedented, and likely never to be equaled!" Wei Zhao glanced at Kang Jinglong and said mildly, "There's a saying that goes well: when a man with real strength puts on airs, that is putting on airs. When a man with no strength puts on airs, that is a fool."
"Wei Zhao, say a little less. Brother Kang only stepped forward so his classmates wouldn't be bullied!" Youpan Hu walked over and helped Kang Jinglong up, his heart uneasy. After all, he was the one who had brought these robbers here, and now that things had gone wrong, he could only hope Kang Jinglong would not vent his anger on the Youpan family!
The whole point had been to curry favor with the Kang family, yet in the blink of an eye Kang Jinglong had been beaten by his own men into a bloody gourd, his backside gushing blood — what kind of mess was this? Youpan Hu was speechless. That last stab, it seemed, had been dealt by the robbers only because of his own hint. How strange it all was.
"Sss..." Kang Jinglong stood up. Both his legs were trembling...
"Wei Zhao, are you even a man? When the robbers came, you didn't dare stand up yourself. Brother Kang stood up, and you mock him to his face — what kind of mentality is that?" Youpan Hu knew that in Leader Bai's class, with Leader Bai present, Wei Zhao could not do anything to him, so he naturally dared to taunt and needle Wei Zhao.
"Oh, who asked him to stick his nose in? If he hadn't, Xinyan would have just handed the jade pendant to the robber and that would have been the end of it," Wei Zhao said mildly.
"You... didn't you hear Wang Xinyan say that jade pendant is very important to her?" Youpan Hu said angrily. "What kind of thing is that to say?"