The Mightiest Little Peasant c1-799

by Watermelonian, 西瓜星人

  “What the f*ck? You must be blind, Gao!” Ma Yongnian was livid. He pointed at Captain Gao and shouted, “Alright, you have balls. You want to cover for the kid, right? I’ll make sure that you’re dead too!”

  Then, he took out his phone and dialed Commissioner Xia’s number.

  “Hey, Commissioner Xia! Who did you send here? This Captain Gao is harboring the criminal! You have to sack him,” Ma Yongnian roared into the phone.

  Commissioner Xia was stunned when he heard that. He was rather confused.

  “What’s going on?” Commissioner Xia asked with a serious voice.

  “How would I know? That Gao seems to be friends with the kid who punched me, and they seem to be very close too. Commissioner Xia, is that how your subordinate should behave? He isn’t respecting the law. Do you think he’s fit to be a police captain?”

  Commissioner Xia was silent for a moment.

  He knew very well that Captain Gao was not someone who would put himself above the law and harbor criminals. Furthermore, Captain Gao knew who Ma Yongnian was.

  Captain Gao would not have harbored criminals even if they were his friends.

  He pondered the issue for a while, then had a sudden brainwave.

  The incident happened at Tang Village. Also, the person who had punched Ma Yongnian was quite young.

  ‘Could it be… him?’

  Commissioner Xia felt some unease. “What’s the name of the person who punched you?” He asked urgently.

  “Is that important? Isn’t he just some random village peasant? Right, they call him Lil Hao. His name should be Tang Hao!”

  Commissioner Xia’s face turned pale when he heard that name. ‘It’s really him!’

  He propped his forehead as he felt a headache creeping in.

  He dared not cross Tang Hao. Not only did he have Secretary Lin behind him, but the even scarier Old Master He was supporting him too!

  He also knew that Tang Hao was a good kid and would not be the aggressor. Ma Yongnian was different though. He was brash and arrogant, and many people disliked him.

  It was plain to see who was right and who was wrong.

  Even though he was a bastard, Ma Yongnian was the brother-in-law of the new District Secretary. This was a tricky situation!

  “I think you should let the matter slide!” Commissioner Xia said after deliberating over the issue.

  Ma Yongnian was stunned when he heard that. He thought that he had misheard.

  He had expected Commissioner Xia to be instantly furious and immediately take Captain Gao off the force, then order someone else to arrest that kid.

  However, Commissioner Xia was playing the mediator now. It was hard to believe.

  Was Commissioner Xia also harboring that kid?

  How was that possible? Did the kid have someone backing him? Even if he did, was that person ranked higher than the District Secretary?

  “What do you mean, Commissioner Xia? Are you covering for the kid too? Isn’t that kid just a peasant from a mountain village?” Ma Yongnian said coldly while holding back his temper.

  Commissioner Xia broke into laughter. “Just a peasant? You must be joking, Boss Ma. You don’t know how powerful he is. I’d suggest that you try to make peace with him.”

  Ma Yongnian smirked. “I don’t believe that he’s more powerful than me.”

  Commissioner Xia furrowed his brows. “I’ve already told you what I need to. You’re on your own now, Boss Ma!”

  Then, he hung up the phone.

  “Hey! Commissioner Xia!”

  Ma Yongnian became even angrier as he looked at the phone. He was raging in his heart.

  First, it was Captain Gao, then it was Commissioner Xia who had ignored him. He had never been treated that way before.

  Captain Gao looked at him and chuckled. He knew that Ma Yongnian was defeated.

  Ma Yongnian became even angrier when he heard someone laughing at him.

  Hu Dahai finally opened his mouth. “I want to tell you something, Brother Ma. That Tang Hao… does have someone backing him. He’s connected with the previous Secretary.”

  “What?” Ma Yongnian nearly jumped.

  He suddenly understood why Captain Gao and Commissioner Xia had ignored him.

  “No wonder!” Ma Yongnian laughed viciously. “That was the previous Secretary though. The Secretary now is my brother-in-law! Does that Xia guy dare to oppose me? He’ll have to pay the price.”

  Then, he dialed his brother-in-law’s number.

  When the call went through, Ma Yongnian started retelling the sequence of events with a lot of made-up details. He made himself the helpless victim of the incident, while the kid who punched him was an irredeemably evil peasant.

  As for the police officers, they were accomplices to the evil deed.

  Qian Ziqiang was silent for a long time after the story ended.

  “So he’s connected with Secretary Lin! It’ll be a little tricky!” Qian Ziqiang mumbled.

  Lin Jianjun had been promoted to the city. He wielded a certain level of influence.

  “You’ll have to help me, Brother-in-law, you can’t just turn a blind eye on this. That kid is too evil, and that Xia guy isn’t respecting your position as the new Secretary,” Ma Yongnian said maliciously.

  Qian Ziqiang was not very happy when he heard that.

  “Just a minute, Yongnian. I’ll talk to Commissioner Xia.” Then, he ended the call.

  Qian Ziqiang sat on his chair in the office for a very long time. He lifted his hand to pick up the phone.

  Before he could call Commissioner Xia, his phone started ringing.

  Qian Ziqiang was shocked. He answered the call.

  “Who is this?”

  “Secretary Qian, I am Lin Jianjun! We’ve met before.” It was Secretary Lin who had called.

  Qian Ziqiang was shocked again. “It’s you! Is there anything?”

  Lin Jianjun smiled. “Secretary Qian. I’m here to save you.”

  Qian Ziqiang nearly burst out laughing when he heard that. “Is this a prank? I’m just fine. Why do I need saving?”

  “Secretary Qian, don’t you know what your brother-in-law is doing, or are you pretending to be oblivious? He’s involved in forced eviction, and he brought a bunch of hooligans to disturb the villagers.

  “I received a video not too long ago. What do you think will happen if that video finds its way on the Internet?”

  Qian Ziqiang was dumbstruck. His expression froze.

  Then, his face turned pale as cold sweat rained down his forehead.

  He had heard rumors of that happening, but he pretended that nothing happened.

  However, once that video is uploaded to the Internet, people might start talking about it and find out that the tyrant in the video was his brother-in-law. That would spell big trouble for him.

  “That’s the least of your concerns, Secretary Qian. You should know Old Master He, right?”

  “I… I know…” Qian Ziqiang stammered.

  “The person who punched your brother-in-law is Tang Hao. He once saved Old Master He’s life. You should know what that means! I’m sure you won’t make any stupid decisions!”

  Then, Lin Jjianjun ended the call.

  Qian Ziqiang slumped on his chair, trembling.

  Chapter 152 - Bringing Family to Justice

  Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

  In the office, Qian Ziqiang was slumped on his chair. His face was pale as a sheet.

  “I’m finished! Finished!” He mumbled with an expression of utter dejection.

  He did not expect that ‘unruly peasant from a mountain village’ would have someone so powerful backing him!

  Old Master He was a legend in Province Z. A District Secretary like him was not even qualified to polish his shoes.

  Furthermore, he had heard before that Old Master He was an austere man who hated to see peasants being bullied by government officials abusing their authority. He would
be utterly finished if Old Master He caught wind about it.

  ‘Dammit, this bastard only knows how to look for trouble!’

  Qian Ziqiang had nowhere to release his anger when he thought about Ma Yongnian.

  “No, I can’t let this continue!” He paced in a circle impatiently. Suddenly, he shouted to someone outside the office. “Prepare my car! I want to go to Tang Village.”

  Meanwhile, on the road leading into Tang Village, Ma Yongnian became arrogant again.

  “You, Tang kid, and you too, Gao guy, just you wait! I’ll teach you what it means to cross me!”

  Ma Yongnian roared arrogantly as he pointed at Tang Hao and Captain Gao.

  Captain Gao grinned. He did not look worried at all.

  ‘Is that self-centered, arrogant fool going to oppose Brother Tang? That’s such a big joke! He doesn’t know the extent of Tang Hao’s power!’

  He smirked coldly when he looked at the bunch of hooligans and the trucks laden with sand behind Ma Yongnian.

  ‘What’s that, if not forced eviction? That guy is such a despicable person!’

  He would have arrested Ma Yongnian on the spot, if not that he was still wary of his background.

  The villagers were all clueless. They did not know what was going on.

  Their brains could not process so many happenings in a short time.

  ‘Commissioner’. ‘Secretary’. Those were incredibly important people that they would not encounter on a usual day.

  Now, those titles were being thrown around as if they were nothing special.

  More surprisingly, their Lil Hao was connected to them all.

  They had only expected that Lil Hao was connected to some rich bosses. However, now that they found out that he was connected to people in the police station and even the government, that was on a different level.

  Tang Dashun pondered for a while, then said, “I think I understand now. Lil Hao is connected to the previous District Secretary, while this tyrant here is the brother-in-law of the current District Secretary.”

  “That’s still bad news for us! The previous Secretary is gone. How can we stand a chance against the current Secretary?” Tang Hao’s uncle sighed and said miserably.

  Ma Yongnian heard that, and he smirked gleefully.

  He checked his phone for about five or six times per minute, waiting for the good news from his brother-in-law.

  More than ten minutes went by. His phone was silent.

  “What’s going on?” Ma Yongnian’s instincts told him that there was something not quite right.

  His brother-in-law said that he would be talking to Commissioner Xia. The talk could not have gone on for so long!

  ‘Right! They must be discussing how to settle this! I can still wait!’ Ma Yongnian thought to himself and continued waiting patiently.

  Another ten minutes passed with no news of his brother-in-law.

  He was beginning to be anxious.

  A few minutes later, a black car appeared at the end of the road driving toward Tang Village.

  The car stopped nearby and the car door opened. A tall middle-aged man stepped out.

  That person was none other than Qian Ziqiang, the new District Secretary.

  He was dressed in a white shirt and black slacks. His appearance was plain, and he did not look as authoritative as Secretary Lin.

  Qin Ziqiang scanned the area with his eyes after he got out of the car. He noticed the nearby farmland filled with sand and the demolished houses, and his face immediately darkened.

  Then, the veins on his forehead bulged and pulsed when he saw the bunch of hooligans with their weapons.

  ‘What is this bastard doing? Does he want to throw me under the bus?’

  Ma Yongnian was surprised to see Qian Ziqiang. He wondered why his brother-in-law came to the scene in person.

  Jumping for joy, he immediately pulled Hu Dahai and ran fawningly toward Qian Ziqiang.

  “You’re here, Brother-in-law! Look at our faces. The unruly peasant has assaulted us. You’ve got to avenge me!” Ma Yongnian spoke pitifully as though he was about to cry.

  “You have to restore justice to us, Secretary Qian! That unruly peasant isn’t respecting the law!” Hu Dahai said.

  The two people spoke with tears and snot running down their bruised and swollen faces. They looked as pathetic as they could be.

  However, Secretary Qian was unmoved. He lifted his hand and slapped it fiercely on Ma Yongnian’s face.

  Slap!

  The sound of the slap was crisp and had shocked everyone who witnessed it.

  “What… What’s going on?” The villagers were confused.

  Captain Gao, Tang Hao, and the rest were also shocked. Ma Yongnian was the most shocked of all.

  He was utterly dumbstruck. He could not believe that his brother-in-law did not take pity on him, but instead slapped him.

  “You… You slapped me?” He said incredulously.

  “That’s exactly what I’m doing, you bastard! Look at what you’ve done! Are you still human or are you an animal? Don’t you have any guilty conscience?” Secretary Qian said sternly, then slapped him again.

  “I’ll have to uphold justice today, even if that means punishing my relatives. Let’s see all your past evil deeds being exposed once and for all!”

  Ma Yongnian covered his face with his hand. He stumbled a few steps backward and his mind was blank.

  He could not comprehend what caused the change in his brother-in-law’s attitude.

  “Brother-in-law, I…”

  “Shut up! You’re not related to me!” Secretary Qian roared and his eyes were glaring. “You’ve been abusing my title to commit so many evil deeds for the past few years. I didn’t want to say anything because we were relatives, and I thought you’d know how to check yourself. I didn’t expect you to become more and more brazen.”

  Ma Yongnian was utterly dumbstruck. His face was ashen.

  He could see that his brother-in-law was serious in bringing him to justice without regard to his familial relations.

  Meanwhile, Hu Dahai was trembling with fear as he witnessed all that. His heart sunk into despair.

  He knew that he was once again finished.

  “Why are you standing there for?” Secretary Qian shouted at Captain Gao and the police officers. “Cuff these two up and bring them back to the police station for questioning. Arrest all those hooligans too.”

  Captain Gao was immediately ecstatic. He had been raring to do that since he arrived at the village.

  He turned to order the police officers behind him. “All of you, go and round up the hooligans. You, and you, follow me.”

  He brought the police officers in front of Ma Yongnian and Hu Dahai and said coldly, “You’re under arrest!”

  Then, he took out two pairs of handcuffs and cuffed them up.

  Chapter 153 - Zhao Qingxue Calls

  Ma Yongnian and Hu Dahai’s faces were ashen. Their knees went weak and they nearly fell on the ground.

  They were herded along by Captain Gao and were stuffed into the police car.

  The villagers cheered when they saw the scene.

  “That’s a good one! Someone should’ve taught those two bullies a lesson!”

  “Bringing his relatives to justice! This Secretary is a good person!”

  Tang Hao grinned when he heard that.

  He knew that Secretary Qian was not a good government official as the villagers had said. If he had not contacted Lin Jianjun, Secretary Qian might have still been complicit in his brother-in-law’s misdeeds.

  However, Secretary Qian had learned his lesson in impartiality, which was a satisfactory result.

  “Thank you!” He turned around to thank Han Yutong.

  She had secretly recorded the video and sent it to Lin Jianjun.

  Han Yutong breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that all went well.

  Then, she narrowed her eyes slightly and scrutinized Tang hao.

  A hint of curiosit
y flashed in her clear, beautiful eyes.

  Her boss was becoming more and more unpredictable. She still could not believe that he was a martial arts master.

  Her narrowed eyes were transfixed on Tang Hao, as though burning a hole through his body.

  ‘Boss must have some secret!’ Han Yutong thought to herself.

  Tang Hao noticed that his assistant was staring at him. “What are you doing, Assistant Han? Is there something on my face?” He asked curiously, then lifted a hand to touch his face.

  “Ah!” Han Yutong came to her senses and looked elsewhere.

  “It’s… It’s nothing!” She lifted a chin to try to hide her blushing face.

  Tang Hao became even more confused when he saw her reaction.

  Secretary Qian walked among the crowd looking for someone. His eyes fell on Tang Hao.

  “Hey! Lil Bro Tang! I’ve heard of you before. You look like an outstanding individual!” Secretary Qian laughed heartily.

  Then, he grabbed Tang Hao’s hand and gave it a firm shake.

  “Secretary Qian!” Tang Hao greeted him.

  “I’m sorry, Lil Bro Tang!” Secretary Qian said apologetically, “It’s my fault for not keeping my close relations in check. I’ve caused trouble to you and your people in Tang Village.”

  After he spoke, he bowed several times toward Tang Hao and the villagers.

  The villagers went cross-eyed when they saw the scene. Even the District Secretary had to be courteous to Tang Hao!

  “Don’t worry, Lil Bro Tang. I’ll make sure that this case will be handled with impartiality. Everyone that deserves to be punished will be punished to the fullest extent of the law!”

  The villagers all smiled when they heard that.

  About twenty minutes later, several police cars arrived at the scene to bring the hooligans back to the police station.

  In the meantime, Secretary Qian chatted enthusiastically with Tang Hao.

  When it was time to say goodbye, Secretary Qian looked like he did not want to leave.