vrcanaries Chapter 1046: A beheading deal!
Chapter 1046: A beheading deal!
If the knife really stabbed into the body, it would be fatal in minutes.
The two thugs attacked Zhou Qi's vitals right away. In this remote place, there was no hospital, not even a clinic. If he was stabbed, he would die here.
With two "pa pa" sounds, Zhou Qi swung the shirt wrapped in stones and used it as a meteor hammer. The stones hit the wrists of the two men accurately, and the butterfly knife fell to the ground.
"Are you looking for death?" A gangster bent down to pick up a knife, but how could Zhou Qi give him the chance?
He rushed forward and kicked him in the chest, knocking him over on his back.
The other one turned around and tried to escape, saying something dirty: "Remember this, kid!"
"Remember your uncle!"
Zhou Qi stepped forward and smashed his head with the shirt wrapped in stones.
The stone hit the gangster right in the face, and his nose started bleeding immediately.
In less than a minute, the two gangsters were lying on the ground. The passengers on the bus slapped their thighs when they saw this - if it weren't for this young man, not only would everyone's money be lost, but the girls might also be in trouble.
The thug who held the knife to the girl's face panicked, the blade trembling: "Don't...don't come over here! If you dare to come forward, I'll cut her throat!"
"You can still survive if you let go now. But you know what crime it is to rob people during the crackdown? If you are caught, you will be shot!"
Zhou Qi approached as he spoke.
"I knew long ago that what I was doing was a life-threatening business!"
The desperado suddenly stabbed the girl in the heart with the knife in both hands.
At the critical moment, the girl suddenly rolled sideways, the blade of the knife stuck deep into the mud, and the handle of the knife was still shaking in the gangster's hand.
"You little bitch, if you run again I'll kill you!" The thug with dyed yellow hair raised a switchblade and rushed forward again.
With a crisp "pa" sound, Zhou Qi threw the stone in his hand and hit the other person's nose.
This blow knocked out the gangster's two front teeth, and he covered his face and howled in pain.
The frightened girl took the opportunity to break free and stumbled into the crowd. Seven or eight strong men in the car rushed down at this time, grabbed the three hooligans and beat them up.
"Tie them to the poles with the hemp ropes used to tie goods!"
The driver yelled at the top of his voice: "Call the police when we get to town and have them deal with these scumbags!"
When Zhou Qi escorted the girl back to the car, the entire carriage was filled with applause.
The auntie in the front row forced two boiled eggs into my hand, the uncle in the back row took out a sesame seed cake wrapped in oil paper, and someone handed me a military water bottle.
"Sit here."
Zhou Qi put his canvas bag on the seat and motioned for the girl to sit by the window.
The girl named Tian Xiaoyi was quite sensible. She shrank her body and moved into the inner seat, her fingers trembling slightly.
As the old bus started to start again, Zhou Qi noticed the school emblem on the student ID card of the girl sitting next to him: "Jinling University? Isn't it summer vacation now? Why are you returning to school at this time?"
"There is a social practice project before school starts."
Tian Xiaoyi smoothed her messy bangs and said, "I thought about returning to school early so that I can prepare materials and find a summer job."
Zhou Qi raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "The state will waive all your tuition fees, and give you a living allowance of 36.5 yuan per month. You will be assigned to a government agency directly after graduation. Isn't this golden rice bowl enough?"
The girl suddenly clutched her faded plaid skirt: "I...I want to save money to buy a Seagull camera. The department organizes field trips, and it's too inconvenient to always borrow other people's cameras."
She lowered her head and stared at her worn-out plastic sandals. "Besides, I have many brothers and sisters at home, and I send all the meal coupons I save every month back home..."
Through casual chatting, I learned that the girl's father, Tian Bo, participated in the educated youth going to the countryside when he was young.
As soon as the policy was implemented, he was assigned to work in the rural area of Sucheng.
There he met a local girl with two pigtails. In the third year of his stay in the countryside, they held a simple wedding banquet and started a family.
Two years later, their daughter Tian Xiaoyi was born.
Originally, the family could live a stable life in the countryside, but the policy of allowing educated youth to return to the city was suddenly changed.
Tian Bo's mother threatened to commit suicide when her son returned to the provincial capital. It was raining coldly on the day of his departure. Five-year-old Tian Xiaoyi clung to her father's clothes and cried until her voice was hoarse, but she was unable to stop him.
After returning to the provincial capital, the Tian family refused to recognize the marriage - in those days most people in rural areas did not obtain marriage certificates, so it did not count from a legal perspective.
Although Tian Bo was still thinking about his wife and daughter, he could not stand his old mother's daily hunger strike, so he finally compromised after several protests.
It can be said that Tian Bo is indeed capable. After returning to the city, he started as a grassroots cadre and in less than five years he was promoted from factory director to mayor of Jinling.
Over the years, he often went to Jinling University to visit his daughter, but Tian Xiaoyi always had a cold face.
The girl was full of energy and was always planning to earn more money to buy a house in the provincial capital and bring her mother, who had been widowed for many years, out of the countryside.
"No wonder he was so fierce when facing the criminal just now. It turns out she is the mayor's daughter."
Zhou Qi pondered and took the apple from Tian Xiaoyi. The two sat on the bench and chatted, with the sweet and sour fruit aroma floating in the air.
"What's Tian's major?"
"Accounting is a very unpopular field. There are only a few Miao people in the whole department."
The girl took a bite of the apple, puffed her cheeks and said vaguely, "Isn't it just counting with an abacus? Anyone who has graduated from elementary school can do it."
Zhou Qi spun the red apple in his hand and chuckled: "How can an accountant in a small factory be the same as a CFO of a Fortune 500 company? The former moves beads on an abacus, while the latter holds the financial power. Just like this apple..."
He shook the plump fruit and said, "When it grows on wild trees, it's a wild fruit. When it's labeled as imported, it becomes a high-end product."
"Work hard and you will definitely make a name for yourself in the future." Zhou Qi patted the little girl on the shoulder.
"By the way, brother, what do you do for a living?"
Tian Xiaoyi, who had a ponytail, tilted her head and glanced at the bulging backpack in his arms: "This bag looks heavier than you."
"I'm doing some small business and am going to Jinling to do some work. But you, why don't you buy a direct ticket?" Zhou Qi moved the bag to his legs.
"There is only one train a day from Suzhou to Jinling, but from Xuzhou there are trains every hour!"
Tian Xiaoyi counted on her fingers: "I can save more than 20 yuan by transferring, which is enough for me to eat at school for three days."
Zhou Qi couldn't help laughing out loud. This girl looked so thrifty that she looked like a housekeeper.
The two chatted as the four-hour drive arrived at Xuzhou Station in the blink of an eye.
"I have something urgent to do in Haicheng." Zhou Qi looked at the train schedule on the electronic screen: "You are on Platform 3 to Nanjing."
Tian Xiaoyi suddenly grabbed the strap of his backpack and said, "Wait! You said before that there were pancakes in your bag, but are you going to Haicheng with pancakes?"
"Shh!"
Zhou Qi lowered his voice and leaned close to her ear: "This is full of money, don't tell anyone."
"Liar!"
Tian Xiaoyi stood on tiptoe and poked the stiff backpack: "Who would put money in a mountaineering bag and run around?"
"I'm not going to lie to you."
Zhou Qi took out his ticket and shook it: "I'll go to Jinling to visit you. Do you have a phone in your dormitory?"
"There are two landlines in the dormitory duty room."
Tian Xiaoyi took out a ballpoint pen, took Zhou Qi's hand and quickly wrote the number: "Remember to dial this to transfer! By the way, how about I go to Haicheng with you to open your eyes?"