BXBX NOVEL Chapter 30: Poison poison poison (6)
Chapter 30: Poison poison poison (6)
Lu Xiao looked at the powerful red bank notes stored in the box. His expression that had just been cold and haughty instantly became stunned. And in Ren Zhu’s eyes, after he used the ‘detailed perception’ skill, Lu Xiao’s expression also carried a trace of near unnoticeable humiliation.
“Don’t talk nonsense. Who are you? Why would my little brother want to bribe you?” Lu Xiao’s reaction was very fast. From what he could see, this man before him was pretty much the same age as him. At most he was also no older than 25 or 26 years old. What kind of ability could this kind of person have to make his brother bribe him? “Ah, one should have some self-knowledge when conducting oneself. It couldn’t be that because you guys felt that your hard approach wasn’t working, you decided on a soft approach? In your dreams! Even if I die, I would still drag you guys with me to hell!”
Saying this, Lu Xiao reached out his hand to touch somewhere on his wheelchair, but Ren Zhu’s actions were faster. He directly threw the food box onto Lu Xiao and then spoke with an expression as though he were a big demon king: “I’m sorry, but if you want to die then go die yourself. I didn’t snatch back my life from the grim reaper just a while ago in order to go to hell with you. Besides that, let me introduce myself. My name is Ren Zhu. Perhaps you were ignorant and inexperienced such that you haven’t heard my name before, but as one of the top fine food connoisseurs in the entire world, I have far more self-knowledge than you. Also, I am currently the Zhenxiu Institute 7th Grade taste evaluation class teacher, as well as the teacher in charge of the year. In my hands, I have at least 50 chef recommendation letters.”
Ren Zhu lightly pulled his sleeve cuffs and used his phoenix eyes to stare at the young man whose face was becoming more and more shocked, his eyes wide like copper bells. He then said: “Now can you use your IQ to think about why he wanted to bribe me?”
Lu Xiao was shocked speechless.
He had naturally heard of Ren Zhu’s name before, in the same manner he had regarding Yin Feng’s well-known reputation. In the present age, these two people were separately the finest young great masters in the culinary field. They were practically every youth’s idols and also the representation of the word ‘genius’. A year ago, when Lu Xiao was still a well-known western cuisine chef, he had two strongest desires — the first was to compete with Yin Feng for a round, and the second was to have Ren Zhu come and evaluate their cooking.
However, this kind of desire completely dissipated when his family’s car crash occurred. Every day and night, he looked at his hands that could no longer operate smoothly and simply wished to die. All his dreams, desires and ambitions were gone. However, he couldn’t die. Even if he knew that his little brother was very strong, if he died, his brother would also need to face that group of parasitic vile people.
Therefore, even if he now could only watch over the house as a crippled person, he would still continue to watch over it like this.
However, he completely didn’t think that the person who came today was actually the youngest food connoisseur he had always wanted to meet. Thinking about his words and actions just a moment ago, as well as his current appearance, Lu Xiao felt incomparably ashamed. He lowered his head and recalled Ren Zhu’s calm and steady manner. He simply thought that his current self was really unbearable.
Lu Xiao lowered his head and didn’t say anything. Regarding this kind of response, Ren Zhu was a little surprised and felt very gratified. This was very clearly an ashamed expression knowing that he was in the wrong. If Lu Xiao could reveal this kind of expression, this indicated that his chuunibyou syndrome was not serious to the point that it required forceful methods to control. In other words, this person could listen to others. Others could rely on communication to change his thinking.
Consequently, Teacher Ren revealed a loving and affectionate smile one would usually show towards children, although this smile looked a little out of place on his young face. “En, now can we talk about your little brother’s matter?”
Lu Xiao abruptly raised his head. When he realised that Ren Zhu did not leave and his indifferent expression now had a gentle smile, he couldn’t help but feel stiff all over. After a long while, he fiercely returned to reality. Nearly toppling out of his wheelchair, he said: “Yeah, yes.”
“Please… sit.” Lu Xiao finally made a normal response. However, after he reacted, he felt even more ashamed and unable to show his face. He and his little brother had lived here for half a year, but this was still the first time that he realised the hygiene in their house seemed really bad. Even the sole chair in the middle of the living room had clothes that were not worn by the two thrown onto it. “Ah, um, wait for me to clean up a bit……”
Lu Xiao wanted to quickly tidy up the living room. However, Teacher Ren felt that he should still not let a crippled person do this kind of thing. As though he were cleaning the kennels of Da Huang and Da Hua in his previous life, he calmly used his foot to kick all sorts of dirty things into a pile with ease. The living room was cleared up and clean, that was of course if you ignored the pile of messy things in the corner.
Lu Xiao felt that his face was about to fall.
“Your little brother must have wanted to treat your hands and therefore thought of approaching me to recommend him to health chef Great Master Song. I suppose that he wanted to learn a few secret recipes for nourishing the bone, tendons and muscles of the hand from Great Master Song. At that time, I had only thought that he wanted to take a shortcut and didn’t want to properly and honestly study, so I told him that if he gave me 500,000 yuan, I would recommend him. However, seeing your hands, I now know what his purpose was.” Teacher Ren was determined to not shoulder his predecessor’s blame. “I don’t know how he made this money, but I reckon it must have been very difficult to make. I am also not lacking money. I had originally only wanted to test him, so I’m delivering this money back. As a result, I really didn’t expect that as soon as I came in, I would receive such an enthusiastic welcome.”
Lu Xiao felt that he couldn’t lift his head anymore. He simply wanted to find a place to hide in. However, he still ultimately calmed his mood and lifted his head. “Sorry, previously our family had a situation, so now I am suspicious of everyone. I, I didn’t think that Xiao Ming would be like this. I request Mr Ren to not have any hard feelings towards Xiao Ming because of this matter. Our family has experienced a very big misfortune. Not just me, Xiao Ming’s temper has also had a very big change. He must be very worried and anxious, but I have no way to comfort him. That’s why he would seek all kinds of methods, anxious for quick results.”
Ren Zhu smiled and nodded his head: “Your brother is a good child. At least his willpower and resilience is above the majority of youths. The reason why I am sending this money back is also because I don’t want your brother to walk down the wrong path. Later on, just properly talk to him about this matter. As for the matter about studying under Chef Song, as long as he can maintain his place in the top 3 of the year, I will still recommend him.”
When Lu Xiao heard this, his face that had been tense from the very beginning finally revealed a relieved smile. Previously from the time Ren Zhu entered the room, Lu Xiao had not smiled once. Adding on that the room was dark and gloomy, Ren Zhu did not attentively look at his appearance. However, Ren Zhu now suddenly discovered that this young man’s appearance was very refined and gentle. It was just that he was previously drowned by the gloomy surroundings, preventing someone from clearly seeing his real appearance.
“That, really, thank you.” Lu Xiao’s mood also became much milder.
Ren Zhu was just about to nod his head to indicate that it was fine when he suddenly heard a burst of thudding sounds rushing up the stairs. Hearing that chaotic jumble of footsteps, it sounded like there were at least 6 or 7 people. He was momentarily baffled, thinking if something happened in this building.
“Crap! Hurry up and leave! Head to the 5th or 6th floor! Those guys are here again!”
Lu Xiao’s sharp and urgent voice interrupted Ren Zhu’s thoughts. Ren Zhu turned his head and saw Lu Xiao’s face which hardly concealed his nervous and angry expression. In addition to this, there was also profound exhaustion as well as…
A hint of fear.
Teacher Ren: This must be some big event, and it definitely wasn’t something good.
At this moment, Teacher Ren absolutely could not leave his student’s family all alone and depart. Otherwise, how would he explain this to his student afterwards? He was a good, responsible, and diligent teacher who loved his students. Also, Lu Ming might be the target for this world’s mission. This guy already had dark tendencies. If he let his older brother have some other kind of situation, then Ren Zhu might have to experience life no better than death.
Hence, Ren Zhu nimbly turned around and directly faced those six fiendish black-faced men.
“Yi. How come the door is open? There’s actually other people in this house?”
When those six black-faced men saw Ren Zhu, they all revealed a surprised expression, but very quickly this expression changed to that of veiled glee. The leader of the men directly stepped forward. Looking Ren Zhu up and down, he then said to the pale faced Lu Xiao: “Aiyo, Lu Gongzi. We really didn’t expect that besides us, your family would still have other guests to come and visit ah! This Mister also looks like a talented person. Could it be that you are Lu Gongzi’s close friend?”
When Ren Zhu heard these words, he still didn’t have the time to reply when Lu Ming coldly said: “He is my friend? He’s merely just a previously defeated opponent. You have also seen my behaviour before. I now have other things to deal with. Scram.”
Ren Zhu: “……”
However, that man only mischievously laughed and blocked in front of Ren Zhu: “Aiyo. Don’t be like this. This Mister looks so handsome and gentle. He doesn’t look like a bad guest ah. Lu Gongzi, we are also not evil people. Don’t be like this guarding against us okay?”
Ren Zhu: “……”
Lu Xiao saw that Ren Zhu was blocked and couldn’t help but feel anxious in his heart. Very clearly, his self control was not at all good. That leader had already made out several flaws from his appearance. The big man immediately smiled: “Lu Gongzi, it’s not that we don’t want to give you two the opportunity to chat. However, we were entrusted a job by others. In the end, we still need to complete the task that they gave us. I also ask Lu Gongzi to not put up a meaningless struggle. It’s better if you hand the recipe book over to us. So long as we receive the recipe book, we will immediately leave. In addition, we will offer ten million yuan as a gift of thanks as well as a mansion. This can let Lu Gongzi and your little brother no longer have to worry about clothes or food for a lifetime.”
Lu Xiao heard this and his eyes filled with killing intent. He reached out and directly threw a knife at that man. “Don’t even think about it! Even if I die, I would still not hand that recipe book over to you! Lu De Yong that ungrateful bastard! That scum of the earth who bullies masters and betrays ancestors! He thinks that he can become a star chef just by obtaining my father’s personal recipe book?! In his dreams! That kind of disloyal and unrighteous bastard who’s constantly plotting behind people’s backs, in his entire lifetime, he still won’t be able to enter the star chef list!!”
These words immediately cause those few men’s expressions to darken. Since half a year ago, they had started to ask Lu Xiao to hand over his father’s work. They practically came over every few days to beat him with a stick while offering him a carrot. However, what made them feel was a pain in the neck was that Lu Xiao was simply like a stone in a latrine, stinky and hard. No matter what they said or did, he would remain unmoved. Until today, their patience had almost been used up. After all, they had already used half of the gold they had been commissioned. They absolutely could not continue to spend it. Since this fellow didn’t know what was good or bad, then don’t blame them for being merciless!
Thinking of this, the leader instantly acted. However, his target was actually Ren Zhu who had been silently standing to the side all this time.
The man believed that Ren Zhu was definitely Lu Xiao’s good friend. Otherwise, how could he still come over to see him when Lu Xiao was unrestrained to this extent. Also, seeing Lu Xiao’s nervous expression just a moment ago, this young man could certainly be used to threaten him. The reality was pretty much as the man had expect. When he reached out his hand to grab Ren Zhu’s neck, Lu Xiao’s expression changed.
“You–”
“Ah!!”
Lu Xiao wanted to say something when Teacher Ren who had been silent for a long time finally moved. He simply saw him directly lift up his leg and ruthlessly stamp down on that man’s foot, causing the man to let out a painful cry. He rapidly escaped from that man’s clutches, turning around and again extending his foot to stamp down. This time, the place he kicked caused the big man’s face to turn deathly pale and bend over, starting to roll around on the floor.
This incident was practically like a flash of light, startling Lu Xiao and causing the five other men behind the big man to stare blankly on the spot. Taking advantage of this period, Teacher Ren reached out and quickly picked up the folding chair in the living room that had underwear on it. Without the slightest hesitation, he threw it over towards those five men!
[You triggered the class teacher’s chalk or other objects (folding chair) skill: The five men in front of you respectively -300, -200, -100, -80, -50 physical strength. Because Zhang Xiong made contact with the folding chair, his physical strength is now less than 600. This directly triggers the fainting effect.]
Lu Xiao sat dumbstruck in his wheelchair, looking at the young man who had still seemed refined and elegant a moment ago unexpectedly knocked down Zhao Hu in two rounds and directly smash unconscious Zhang Xiong with a chair, also affecting Zhang Ying and the others behind him. Ren Zhu then picked up the pile of bricks outside the door and within a minute, he cleanly tidied up the difficult to cope with evil people who had previously been pressuring Lu Xiao. For a moment, Lu Xiao thought that he saw…… God.
Ren Zhu picked up his phone and called the police. At the same time, he also didn’t forget to look at Lu Xiao and smiled: “Were you frightened? Don’t worry, I have special fighting skills.”
Lu Xiao: “……………….”
The next chapter will be released a few days late >< Taking a very short break 