Chapter 20 A Miracle
“Come on, whoever cowers today is a coward.” Zhou Lie raised a hatchet and rushed over; he had already prepared to fight to everyone’s death. Liu Minglan and Zhou Ying also gripped the weapons in their hands and looked fiercely at the fifty over people. They were full of fear and were trembling.
However, right at that moment—
Thud!
Ma Sanyuan groaned suddenly, kneeled on both knees, and was extremely miserable and sincere. He kowtowed as a form of compensation, saying, “Mr. Zhou, I was wrong. I, Ma Sanyuan, am worthless. I shouldn’t have snatched your land deed or injured your leg. I’m an assh*le. I’m a nobody. Please forgive me!”
Thud! Thud!
The underlings—more than fifty of them—behind him all knelt on the floor; there was the sound of howling as they begged for forgiveness.
“We were wrong. Please be gracious and have mercy on us. Please forgive us…”
Zhou Lie waved the hatchet in his hand and momentarily fell to the floor with a clang. The expression on his face went from anger to surprise, followed by serious shock and disbelief.
Zhou Ying and Liu Minglan’s eyes widened and their jaws dropped. They looked dumbstruck like a block of wood, scared silly by the scene before them.
W-What exactly happened?!
Everyone in the family was dumbfounded by the drama unfolding before them. Ma Sanyuan was such a bully, and yet he personally kowtowed and apologized, admitting his faults in front of them? Did the sun rise from the west this time?
Zhou Lie frowned. Still remaining alert, he said, “Ma Sanyuan, what are you doing? Don’t fake it with me.”
“Mr. Zhou, I sincerely apologize to you. Really. I, Ma Sanyuan, have turned over a new leaf and have repented from my old ways. I used to be an as*hole, no better than an animal.” Ma Sanyuan knelt on the ground and his tone was especially sincere. “This is your land deed. The one thousand acres of commercial area, together with the seventeen shops, I return them all to you, the rightful owner. Also, here is ten million in cash; consider it a peace offering. Please accept it.”
One of his underlings produced folders of documents with bright red stamps, on top of three big boxes worth of cash, and moved it all into the courtyard of the Zhou home. Zhou Lie and his family felt like they were dreaming.
“Mr. Zhou, these few low-lifes were the culprits who beat and injured you back then. I have already sent people to break their legs. Now, you may punish them as you like.”
Ma Sanyuan waved a hand and immediately, a group of men dragged seven to eight badly beaten guys before Zhou Lie, as if they were dragging dead dogs. The guys who were badly beaten were crying in pain and begging for mercy.
“Zhou, I was wrong. I am worthless. Please forgive me. Please forgive me…”
“I’m an as*hole. I’m not worth being called a human. Please forgive me.”
They slapped their own faces and cried as they begged for forgiveness, their voices more miserable than pigs being slaughtered.
Zhou Lie was stunned for a whole two minutes, only then did he realize that he wasn’t dreaming. Everything before him was actually happening.
The grudges that he had kept in his heart for ten years were finally being released. He let out a breath of air, and with a gloomy face, he avoided Ma Sanyuan’s eyes as he waved a hand and said, “Alright, alright, it’s water under the bridge. All of you can leave. I will keep the land deed. However, take your money and leave. I don’t want any of it.”
Ma Sanyuan and the group of people behaved like they had been granted amnesty. Ecstatically, they said, “Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Mr. Zhou, we are leaving. Leaving now. Please keep this money. We really don’t dare to keep it. We don’t dare at all.”
They arrived only moments ago, and now they had bolted. Within half a minute, all of them had left hurriedly, as if they were running for their lives.
Zhou Lie and his family of three were all stunned and rooted to the spot—all of this was like a dream, completely unimaginable, except that there were three big leather boxes of cash before them, convincing them that all of this was real!
“Dear husband, w-what really happened?” Liu Minglan only felt that everything that happened was too crazy, she felt like she was in a daze. “Ma Sanyuan, r-really came to our doorstep and kowtowed to apologize to us?”
Zhou Lie was exasperated. He said, “You’re asking me, but who am I supposed to ask?”
It was a mess in his brain. He found the events that had transpired to be very strange.
“Hahaha, father-in-law, mother-in-law, Yingying, haven’t you all understood the situation?”
Right at this point, Sun Mingxuan suddenly ran over, wildly happy. His face looked overjoyed and excited. With a haughty expression, he said spiritedly, “All of these are the fruits of my uncle’s efforts!”
