After I disguised myself as a man, I became everyone's white moonlight

Chapter 164: Kick Them All Out

Chu Xi was holding an oil-paper umbrella, standing not far away and looking at the crowded rice shop. People outside couldn't squeeze in, and some of the people inside... were trying to squeeze out.

After squeezing for a long time, I still returned empty-handed and walked into the rain dejectedly.

Even at a distance, Chu Xi could feel the deep sadness and despair emanating from those who left empty-handed.

"Mom, don't we want to buy rice?" The little girl's hand was held by a woman who was probably in her twenties. The woman was wearing coarse clothes with several patches on it.

The woman had calluses on her hands and some sun spots on her face. I guess it was because she worked outside all year round and was exposed to the sun.

The women stood outside the rice shop. Both the adult and the child were wearing coarse straw raincoats. Their family could not afford a good oil-paper umbrella, but they had two cheap ones, but she was reluctant to wear them.

They stood outside the rice shop, unable to even squeeze in, and heard many people inside complaining that the price of rice had gone up again.

"It's so expensive, who can afford it?"

The waiter seemed too busy to handle the situation. After hearing this complaint, he did not have the patience to explain. Instead, he scolded impatiently, "If you want to buy, buy it. If you can't afford it, get out. Don't get in the way here."

The woman in coarse cloth smiled bitterly, holding her daughter's hand and hesitated. She didn't know whether she should squeeze in.

If she doesn’t buy today, she doesn’t know if the price will go up even higher in the future, or even... there will be no rice left to buy.

Moreover, the family had not eaten rice for three days. If they didn’t eat some rice, she was worried that her sick little son would not be able to survive...

The woman took out her only remaining two taels of silver, which was the money she and her entire family had saved for a whole year by living frugally. She originally wanted to keep half of it for her son to go to school to learn to read and write.

"This rice...something seems wrong!" Someone finally bought a bag of rice and opened it with a mixture of joy and sadness. He had spent all his money to buy the rice.

Upon taking a look, he immediately realized that the quality was a little bit wrong. Not only that, but when he turned it over... it was even more... He was so angry that the rice on top was stale and the bottom was a little moldy.

The man was so angry that his face turned red. He was an honest man who just worked hard on weekdays. If it wasn’t for the fact that the rice was really not edible, he wouldn’t be so angry!

"This rice of yours is moldy. I want a refund! You have to replace it with good quality rice!"

After the man shouted this loudly, he wanted to squeeze in to exchange the rice, but he saw that the smiling shop owner next to him had a dark face and looked very ugly.

He shouted angrily, "What nonsense are you talking about? How can you say that this moldy rice was bought by our family? Is there anyone to testify? And you even replaced it with a good one? I think you are deliberately blackmailing me. Come on, drag him out!"

Chu Er followed Chu Xi closely all the time and saw the man who wanted to seek justice being dragged out by two burly thugs.

After the man shouted so loudly, many people who had just bought rice and wanted to go home directly opened their rice bags to check. After seeing this, many of them became anxious.

They also asked to exchange rice.

There was no other reason, it was just that the rice in their hands was also moldy!

A young man dressed as a scholar no longer cared about being polite. The umbrella in his hand fell to the ground during the scuffle, and he was too late to take care of it.

He was standing in the rain with a look of despair, and he shouted, "In broad daylight, in the open air, you, Yuanxi Rice Shop, fooled us with moldy old rice and defrauded us of our money. Where is justice and fairness?"

The other people nearby who had squeezed for a long time and only bought moldy and stale rice were all filled with anger and indignation.

They are all hardworking and honest farmers. They don't understand any profound principles and are illiterate. They only know how to tell the truth.

“Give us back our rice!”

“Give us back our rice!”

The scholar stood in the most conspicuous position and took the lead in speaking, "When you look up, you can only see black and not white. Are you really living up to your conscience by selling inferior goods as good ones at Yuanxi Grain Shop?"

The owner of the grain shop saw that the situation was about to get out of control, and that these people were still trying to squeeze into the shop, while those who wanted to buy rice but had not yet gotten any stopped what they were doing and walked out.

This made his face even uglier. He didn't care about being decent or not, and coldly scolded, "What nonsense! Our grain shop sells the best rice, but you said it was moldy old rice as soon as you got it. I suspect that you are all in collusion and deliberately want to cheat the rice from our grain shop!"

"Oh, you Yuanxi Grain Shop are evil-hearted. I have reason to suspect that all the rice in your shop is moldy. I will go to the government to sue you! I will make sure that the people of the entire Xi'an city know about the evil deeds your shop has done."

The scholar was not afraid of the two burly thugs who came out of the rice shop. These two thugs were really ruthless and their punches were on the most vulnerable part of the human body, the abdomen!

The grain store owner's face turned pale and he said without thinking, "Hurry up and tell him to shut up. What nonsense is he saying? Get them all out!"

The scholar had fallen to the ground in pain, holding his head tightly with both hands, his body still enduring the punches and kicks from the two thugs.

As for the other people who resisted, their fate was not much better. They were either ruthlessly pushed down or suffered the same fate as the scholar.

This scene can be described as a one-sided beating. The grain store owner seemed to have anticipated such a situation and actually hired four thugs.

With these four thugs around, they would be beaten black and blue even at the door, not to mention trying to squeeze into the grain store to cause trouble.

Chu Er subconsciously turned his head and looked at Chu Xi.

As a qualified guard, he would naturally not move before his master gave the order.

Chu Xi did not turn around to look at Chu Er, but walked over and stopped the two thugs before they started beating an old woman and a scholar again.

She held the hands of the two thugs tightly, one in each hand.

The two thugs didn't think Chu Xi was threatening at first. After all, Chu Xi looked gentle and elegant, like a young man from a wealthy family, and he didn't look like he was very good at martial arts.

The thug looked at Chu Xi, who had a slender figure, and subconsciously ignored the force and pain in his hands. "Where did you come from, you little bastard? You haven't even grown all your hair yet, but you're still meddling in other people's business. Be careful or I'll beat you up with one punch."

Chu Er, who was following behind Chu Xi, frowned slightly when he heard the words, and stared at the shameless thug with cold eyes.

Chu Xi did not take the other party's words to heart, but instead looked at the old woman who was pushed to the ground. He twisted their hands, one each, until they were bent, and the two of them howled in pain.

"You have so much strength, but you only know how to bully the weak. How despicable."

The two thugs were unwilling to be held by Chu Xi like this, and were about to resist, but Chu Xi kicked them one by one, naturally targeting their knees.

She only used 20% of her internal strength to kick the two men to their knees without any resistance.