Chapter 58: Looking for Trouble

  Zhao Jia and three others had been squatting at the street corner for half a day, their bodies were all wet through, very cold and miserable.

  "Look, isn't that the woman Princess Jin was talking about?" Sun Bing said, pointing at a man and a woman walking towards them from afar.

  "That's right, it was her. I went to their class this morning on purpose and took a look, no mistake. But how did an extra boy appear?" Li Yi said.

  "Who cares, we three against one, are we still afraid of him? Dilly-dallying and making us suffer in the rain for half a day, I'm freezing to death. Ah-choo! Damn it, I've caught a cold. We can't let them off lightly." Sun Bing said, rubbing his nose.

  "Princess Jin said that it was just a scare tactic for that woman and they couldn't really do anything to her," Zhao Jia reminded.

  "I'm just asking her for some more medical expenses, is that too much? Ah-choo!" Sun Bing said.

  "Yes, I agree." Li Yi also expressed his stance.

  "Good, they've arrived," said Zhao Jia, "Let's go and greet them."

  Staring at the three boys who came up under the starry night, it was clear that they didn't have good intentions, but their disheveled appearance made them look more like a mess than menacing.

  Xing Ye and Lin Yan gazed at each other under the starry night, their eyes locking in an unusually tacit understanding as they pointed at each other and said, "Looking for you." Then, they turned around simultaneously to ask Zhao Jia and the others, "Who are you looking for?"

  Zhao Jia was taken aback by their question and said with a gloomy face: "I'm looking for you two."

  "Have you done something wrong? Like snatching something that doesn't belong to someone." Xing Ye said to Lin Yan.

  "No way, I just arrived in Tianyun yesterday and you already played a joke on me last night, and even kicked me, didn't you offend someone?" Lin Yan said.

  "Luoxing Ye, you have offended someone you shouldn't have. Someone has asked us to take care of you, but if you're willing to spend some money, we can consider letting you off." Sun Bing said.

  "Are you still high school students?" Xīng Yè asked, looking at them who didn't seem to be street-smart and were quite naive. Thinking again, he had only offended Jīn Wēiwei, after all. With Jīn Wēiwei's connections, Xīng Yè didn't think she could really know any underworld figures; the most she could find would be some relatively unusual bad students from school.

  Obviously Xing Ye had guessed correctly. The three of them exchanged a look before saying, "You're in our hands now."

  Xing Ye listened to this and said to Lin Yan beside him: "It's looking for me, it has nothing to do with you, you can leave first."

  Lin Yan didn't expect Xing Ye to say that, he looked at her seriously and suddenly laughed: "My wife, would I be willing to throw myself away?"

  After finishing speaking, he ignored the unresponsive and uncomprehending starry night, walked to Zhao Jia San Ren's face, "You three should be taught a good lesson, so I won't advise you anymore, all of you come at me together."

  Three people looked at each other and laughed, Zhao Jia said with a smile, "I've seen foolishness, but I haven't seen anyone as foolish as you. You want to teach us three, who do you think you are? Cheng Long?"

  In the next second, the three of them knew that this boy who was of the same age as them had great potential to become a Bruce Lee.

  Zhao Jia looked at the two companions who were kicked flying, hitting the wall in an irregular shape and falling down. Zhao Jia couldn't help but swallow his saliva, looking at Lin Yan's smiling face, and involuntarily took two steps back.

  "I've always thought I'm more handsome than Jackie Chan, what do you think?" Lin Yan said casually, the more casual he was, the greater the pressure on Zhao Jia.

  "Handsome, you're even more handsome than Jackie Chan," Zhao Jia said with a lack of backbone.

  "Who brought you here?" Lin Yan continued to ask.

  "Uh..." Zhao Jia looked around hesitantly.

  Lin Yan saw that he didn't want to speak, so he deliberately moved his hands towards him, and the joints on both hands made a clear cracking sound.

  "I'm telling you, it's Princess Jin, the one from senior high school, Jin Weiwei," Zhao Jia said, immediately becoming defensive, and then added another sentence, "She was just trying to scare Luo Xingye, we didn't mean anything by it, really."

  "Alright, I'll let you off this time since you know what's good for you. Listen up, if my wife has any trouble at school, I'll come and see you all once and beat you all up. I'll be waiting for you every day at the school gate, and next time, I won't show any mercy." Lin Yan said.

  Zhao Jia looked at the two of them, Sun Bing and the other, who were still reeling from their ordeal. "Geez, this is what they call showing mercy? If they didn't show mercy, would any of them be left alive?" Suddenly, he thought, "What if someone else gives her trouble..."

  "I will also go and pay respects to the three of you first." Lin Yan replied before he could finish speaking.

  Zhao Jia lamented, he was just a student who occasionally bullied his classmates for some pocket money, how did he provoke such a devil? Looking at the way he acted so quickly and ruthlessly, he must have been practicing on living people for years. This kind of person is not someone you can afford to mess with!

  Take a look at Luo Xingye, this girl will definitely avoid her in the future, no, it's not that she has trouble, as long as it's not a matter of life and death, she'll rush to the front.

  "Alright, take your friend and leave," said Lin Yan.

  Zhao Jiaru was pardoned by the emperor and hurriedly went to the wall to help up two companions who were clearly not good at walking, and they left with difficulty.

  Looking at the miserable state of his companions, he estimated that they wouldn't be able to get out of bed for several days. This made him even more determined about his previous idea. He thought of Jin Weiwei, who had brought him so much trouble, and couldn't help but complain, "It's all because of that damned Princess Jin, causing me such misery."

  Sun Bing and Li Yi nodded in unison, revealing a resentful expression. The suffering he had endured was far worse than Zhao Jia's.

  Xing Ye looked at Lin Yan's neat and tidy collection of three boys, her eyebrows furrowed even tighter. With such skillful hands, yesterday she was still able to kick him, was it just her good luck or did he do it on purpose?

  "Scared you? Actually, it's no big deal if this happens a few more times." Lin Yan took back the umbrella from Xing Ye, who was frowning and not speaking.

  "How is your kung fu?" Xing Ye asked.

  "When I was twelve, my dad had me spar with his subordinates. Not only did I get beaten up, but when I got home, I'd also receive special treatment from my old man. After a long time, my skills naturally improved." Lin Yan didn't hide it from her.

  "Didn't you kick me on purpose last night?" Xing Ye couldn't help but ask.

  "What about last night? Last night was my momentary negligence." Lin Yan explained, he didn't want Xing Ye to know that he had been blinded by her smile at the time, which was why he hadn't checked.

  "Oh" Xīnyè was not satisfied with his explanation, but she remembered a more important issue, and asked sternly "What did you just say I'm your wife? I don't even know you."

  "You were originally my little daughter-in-law anyway" Lin Yan couldn't help but tease her as he looked at Xing Ye's confused expression.

  "Can't you just keep quiet? This concerns personal reputation, if our classmates hear it, who knows what they'll say?" Xing Ye said discontentedly.

  "Whoever says it's wrong, I say you are, and you naturally are." Lin Yan had a sly look on his face.

  "Are you kidding me? Are you a bandit? You..." Xīng Yè said this, suddenly a flash of inspiration in his mind, as if he had thought of something, but couldn't grasp the key point.

  Lin Yan looked up at the starry night sky, suddenly stopping in his tracks, as if deep in thought. He smiled and said: "Have you remembered yet? Aren't you a bit stupid? How come you still haven't remembered? Could it be that besides me, Old Man Yu has promised you to someone else?"

  Could it be... Old Man Lin? After hearing Lin Yan's words, the first reaction of Xing Ye was that what he said seemed similar to what Old Master Lin had said. Wait a minute, he also has the surname Lin.

  "You are... Grandpa Lin's..." Xing Ye's eyes widened in surprise.

  Lin Yan seemed to be enjoying the starry night's surprised expression, with a calm and carefree look on his face. "Didn't I tell you earlier? My surname is Lin, Lin Yan. The old man said you're extremely intelligent, but I don't think so!"

  "You're Old Man Lin's grandson? Why didn't you say so earlier and cause all this trouble?" Xing Ye understood his identity and couldn't help but complain.

  "For months now, the old man in our family has been constantly muttering about how great my fiancée is - beautiful and filial, intelligent and capable, cooks delicious food, plays chess with great skill... He praises her to the skies, and whenever he's idle, he grabs me and says, 'You lucky boy, Grandpa found you a great wife, better than your mom, better than your aunt, just slightly inferior to your grandma.'" Lin Yan said in his grandfather's tone.

  The starry night was amused by his tone, "The old man is just talking nonsense."

  Lin Yan looked at Xing Ye and said, "Yes, but he's been talking non-stop for half a year now, it's really unbearable. It's made me want to see what his son and daughter-in-law look like in his eyes, so I took leave to come see you."

  Xing Ye felt a bit embarrassed after hearing this. This old Lin was really something, always bringing himself up for no reason. "Then why don't you go home? Or directly find me?"

  Lin Yanyang raised a sly smile, "Since we're going to be in-laws, of course I have to sneak a peek! If I found out you were ugly, I'd turn around and leave, and even if Grandpa told me to, I wouldn't listen. But, looking at you, although you look fierce and silly, you're still quite cute, that's why I came to see you."

  "What's with the matchmaker? You're also learning from Old Man Lin to joke around." Xing Ye said, unable to hold back.

  Lin Yan thought Xing Ye was shy, and with a happier tone said, "How can you not admit it? My grandfather said that the Yu family owes our family, so you should obediently be the daughter-in-law to repay the debt."

  The starry night hadn't made him self-absorbed enough to think that Lin Yan would fall in love with him at first sight, obviously he didn't take Grandpa Lin's words seriously and was just joking around. Alright, you want to joke, I don't have to be too serious either, if I explain it would make me seem like I'm taking this as a real matter.

  "Since you're willing to come out and see me, that means we're compatible, right? When are you planning to go to my house to propose?" Xing Ye asked seriously, and indeed saw Lin Yan's smile freeze on his face. He continued to press on, saying: "I'm a person who values filial piety the most, if the elderly is willing, I don't have any objections."

  Lin Yan burst out laughing, didn't expect Xing Ye to respond like that, it was beyond his expectation. He quickly changed the subject, "It's getting dark, I drove here, wait for me to go get the car and send you home."

  Watching him run in the rain at night, I'm still afraid of you, a big kid like that?