Chapter 848

Realizing that Wang An was ready to beat him at any moment, Wang Li's reaction was surprisingly quick, and he immediately replied:

"Fourth Brother, no, I meant compensation. The two truckloads of lime they used to compensate you—I reckon they must have used money scammed from others to fill the hole."

Although Wang Li changed his tune immediately, Wang An still glared at him with annoyance and said:

"In the future, learn to use your brain before you speak. Don't just let any damn thing spill out of your mouth. This is just with me; if it were someone else, you'd easily get a beating. Do you know that?"

After Wang An finished speaking, he heard Wang Li say righteously:

"That's just bragging. If anyone dares to beat me, I'll just say my Fourth Brother is the biggest madman in the county town, and scare them to death."

When Wang An heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched, and his eyelids couldn't help but flutter several times.

He never expected that this kid Wang Li would actually have such thoughts of digging a hole for his own brother!

And so, Wang An raised his big foot, aimed at Wang Li's backside, and kicked him hard, saying at the same time:

"Damn it, are you really afraid I won't die? Do you want to get me killed off early?"

After kicking Wang Li, Wang An, feeling unsatisfied, grabbed Wang Li by the neck, forced him to squat on the ground, raised his left hand, and flicked a hard knuckle against the top of Wang Li's head.

After a crisp "Bang!" sound, Wang Li rubbed his head vigorously while screaming in misery:

"Ouch, that hurts like hell!"

It must be said that Wang An's strike definitely used every ounce of his strength, because while Wang Li's head hurt, Wang An felt his own middle finger go numb from the shock.

Immediately after, Wang An ruffled Wang Li's head and said:

"Damn, your big head is actually pretty hard."

Just like that, Wang Li finally became completely well-behaved, mainly because he stopped spouting strange things.

Wang An suddenly realized that whether it's Wang Li or Mu Xueli, they both need to be suppressed regularly; otherwise, these two kids have no idea how sinister society is.

After the scuffle, Wang An and Wang Li cranked up the four-wheeled vehicle and the walking tractor respectively, and drove together toward the warehouse.

When Wang An and Wang Li arrived at the warehouse, the workers who had helped load the truck last time were chatting and shooting the breeze.

It was clear that these workers lived a truly leisurely life: they worked when there was work, and sat around when there wasn't, yet their monthly wages remained fixed.

Seeing these workers, Wang An didn't know the meaning of being polite at all, and he called out immediately:

"Come, come, come, come over and get to work. Give me a hand loading the lime onto the truck. Can you really just sit around like this every single day?"

To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that these workers had tried to beat Wang An and his group collectively last time, Wang An wouldn't have dared to order them around so casually.

After all, they don't owe you anything, so why are you being so arrogant and domineering?

But it must be said that in this regard, Wang An's skin is truly thick.

The main thing is that these workers at the cement plant are actually responsible for production within the plant; they have no responsibility or obligation whatsoever regarding customers buying cement and loading it onto trucks.

Unfortunately, they ran into Wang An, a notorious local hooligan in the county town, which resulted in the group of workers now being angry but not daring to speak out.

The main reason is that Wang An's viciousness is overbearing; everyone has not only heard of it but has seen it with their own eyes, and no one wants to be targeted by such a hoodlum.

Besides, with a large group of people loading the truck together, it really isn't that tiring.

So, seeing Wang An's face and hearing his call, the workers stood up one after another and walked over.

Of course, there was one young man who sat there without moving, as if he hadn't heard Wang An's shout at all.

Fortunately, Wang An was still somewhat decent; he took out cigarettes and handed one to each of these workers, saying a word of thanks with each one. Only after he had finished handing them out to everyone who had walked over did Wang An say to the young man sitting there motionless:

"Hey, buddy, why didn't you come over for a smoke?"

The implication was, "Why didn't you come over to help with the work?"

Unfortunately, the young man just gave Wang An a faint glance, neither replying nor standing up, clearly ignoring Wang An directly.

Seeing this, Wang An couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. To dare to be so disrespectful—isn't that going a bit too far?

You have to know that I haven't even come to settle scores with you for what happened last time; do you think I've forgotten?

So, seeing that the young man was ignoring him, Wang An lifted his foot, intending to walk over and have a chat with this kid about whose fist is harder.

Just then, a worker in his thirties held Wang An back and said:

"Brother, he only arrived in the last two days; he doesn't know anything about what happened last time."

It was very clear that these workers actually all knew why Wang An dared to be so righteous in ordering them to help with the work.

It was nothing more than the fact that they had grabbed tools to beat Wang An and the two pairs of fathers and sons last time, but they failed to beat them and ended up being held a grudge against by Wang An.

It must be said that every effect has a cause!

Wang An blinked upon hearing this, then nodded slightly, and subsequently withdrew his raised foot.

The main thing is that Wang An didn't remember clearly which workers had surrounded the four of them that day; if he were to go and cause trouble for someone for no reason, that would truly be a bit shameless.

And so, Wang An didn't pay any more attention to the young man sitting there motionless and joined the others in loading the lime onto the truck.

Eight tons of lime, totaling only 160 bags; with more than a dozen strong laborers carrying them, it took only 20-plus minutes to load everything onto the truck.

After loading the truck, Wang An took out another unopened pack of cigarettes, tore it open, and passed them around once more, before he and Wang Li drove off separately.

On the way back, Wang An's mood was quite good; he had brought home eight tons of cement without spending a penny—that feeling is definitely damn satisfying.

It's just that with the four-wheeled vehicle pulling four tons of lime, the speed couldn't really pick up, and it was swaying along in such a sluggish manner.

This resulted in Wang An and Wang Li arriving home after the lunch hour.

Young people's digestion is naturally fast, so the two brothers were already so hungry they felt like their chests were sticking to their backs.

Before Liu Guilan could say she would roll out noodles for them, the two brothers started eating the leftover steamed buns and vegetables from lunch.

Each of them devoured six of the two-and-a-half-tael buns, and only then did that feeling of being hungry to the point of collapse completely disappear.

When the two of them finished eating and went over to the new house, Wang Dazhu and the others had already soaked all 120 bags of lime into the water pool they had previously built with bricks and cement.

In fact, this pool was also a water-collection pool; they had dug a long, rectangular pit below the spring eye and then lined it with bricks and cement to form a pool.

It's just that after this pool was filled with lime, the water flowing out of the spring eye would have to be diverted in a different direction.

(End of chapter)