In years of famine and drought, their village even rejected fatty meat.

"boom!"

Yuan Hua's head made intimate contact with the countertop.

It must be said that this pharmacy is indeed worthy of being owned by the Yuan family. Even something as inconspicuous as the counter is made of extremely solid materials. Despite being hit so hard, it only developed some cracks.

In contrast, Yuan Hua's head was instantly ruptured and bleeding profusely, with streaks of blood seeping from his forehead, staining his hair red and making his head look like a bursting watermelon.

"what!"

Yuan Hua's cries of pain came late. Having rarely been injured in his life, he felt excruciating pain. His aged body burst forth with tremendous strength, his limbs and waist twisting wildly, hoping to break free from Chen Dao's grasp.

But this was obviously impossible. Chen Dao, who had already advanced to the seventh rank of martial artist, had the strength to lift a thousand pounds. How could Yuan Hua, with his old and frail body, break free from his grasp?

"Now, can you answer my question?"

Chen Dao asked again.

Yuan Hua seemed not to hear him, struggling to break free while shouting angrily, "You little beast, just you wait! The Yuan family will never let you go. Your whole family will be wiped out! No, all the men in your family will die, and as for the women, I will sell them into brothels and let them suffer humiliation until they die!"

"Death is imminent and one still does not know it."

Chen Dao shook his head. He wondered if Yuan Hua had lost his mind. Even in this state, he still wanted to threaten him with the Yuan family. Did he really think the Yuan family was the emperor?

but……

After thinking about it, Chen Dao felt relieved.

In Taiping County, the Yuan family was practically a local tyrant. The people of Taiping County were extremely afraid of the Yuan family, and even the county magistrate, who was in charge of the county, could not do anything to them.

In this situation, Yuan Hua would naturally have blind confidence in the strength of the Yuan family and would subconsciously believe that as long as he invoked the name of the Yuan family, he could scare away the enemy.

Unfortunately... his enemy this time is Chen Dao!

Others may fear the Yuan family, but Chen Dao is not!

Seeing that Yuan Hua was unwilling to cooperate in answering questions, Chen Dao lost his patience, used his arm to lift Yuan Hua's head high, and then... pressed it down forcefully!

"boom!"

This time, Chen Dao used a full 50% of his strength, and Yuan Hua's head slammed heavily onto the counter like a block of iron weighing hundreds of kilograms, instantly breaking the solidly made counter into two pieces!

As for Yuan Hua's head...

As expected, it exploded instantly, with red and white splattering everywhere, staining the counter and the floor red.

"Killed!"

The pharmacy clerk, who was being held down by Chen Cheng, had his pupils shrink and his legs went weak, almost collapsing to the ground.

Chen Dao, who had just smashed Yuan Hua's head, looked at the man, thought for a moment, and then said to Chen Cheng, "Brother Cheng, let's go!"

"Okay, Brother Dao."

Chen Cheng nodded, frowned, and looked at the waiter who was trembling with fear, saying, "Brother Dao, should we take this waiter...?"

Chen Cheng made a throat-slitting gesture. Although he was simple-minded, he knew the principle of killing to silence witnesses and felt that he should kill this guy as well.

"no need!"

Chen Dao shook his head. He still needed someone to inform Yuan Hua, and if he killed the employee, no one would be there to inform him.

"All right!"

Chen Cheng tossed the shop assistant aside and followed Chen Dao out of Yuan's Pharmacy.

"Shopkeeper."

After the two men left, the waiter crawled to Yuan Hua's headless body, his face filled with terror.

As a clerk in a grain store, he never imagined he would experience something like this. The store was running smoothly when two people inexplicably walked in. Before they could even exchange a few words, one of them grabbed the storekeeper's head and demanded to know if he recognized him. Then, he smashed the storekeeper's head to pieces...

The grain shop clerk, who had never encountered anything like this before, stared blankly at Yuan Hua's headless corpse, completely at a loss for what to do.

Fortunately, after a moment, the guy finally came to his senses.

"This matter must be reported to the Yuan family."

Thinking of this, the shop assistant quickly got up, rushed out of the pharmacy, and ran towards the Yuan family's residence.

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In the vast mansion of the Yuan family, the head of the family, Yuan Ju, held a cup of fragrant tea in his left hand and the lid of the teapot in his right, occasionally skimming off the foam from the tea soup.

Opposite Yuan Ju sat Yuan Ju's most prized son, Yuan Yong.

If Chen Dao and Chen Jiang were here, they would probably recognize Yuan Yong. He was none other than the young man in brocade robes they had encountered outside the grain store in the East Market.

Yuan Yong is the eldest son of Yuan Ju and his legal wife. He has extraordinary martial arts talent and is now a peak eighth-rank martial artist. He will soon break through to the seventh-rank realm and become one of the top martial artists in Taiping County.

Yuan Ju was extremely satisfied with his eldest son, Yuan Yong. Of course, there were also things about Yuan Yong that he was not satisfied with, namely...

This man is excessively lecherous, and the direction of his lust is quite strange. Most men tend to be particularly fond of young, beautiful, and virgin women.

Yuan Yong, however, was completely different. He liked women, and he preferred married women. He wouldn't even glance at women without husbands. He only targeted married women, and because of this, Yuan Yong caused countless troubles.

Fortunately, the Yuan family still held some influence in Taiping County, so the villagers whose women had been robbed did not dare to cause trouble at the Yuan family's residence.

However... not causing trouble doesn't mean those people won't hold grudges. Although the Yuan family doesn't care about the hatred of those peasants, they still care about their reputation.

Therefore, Yuan Ju was still very dissatisfied with Yuan Yong's frequent acts of forcibly taking women.

Yuan Ju took a sip of tea and asked, "Did you return the woman you snatched back last night?"

"Father, rest assured, I have returned it intact!"

A lewd smile crept across Yuan Yong's lips. The woman's taste was truly indescribable!

Of course, the most interesting thing was the expression on the woman's husband's face when he sent her back!

After each time Yuan Yong abducted a woman and enjoyed her for a night, he would personally send her back, just to see the wonderful look on the woman's husband's face. Whenever he saw the fury in the woman's husband's eyes, as if he wanted to tear him to pieces, Yuan Yong would feel extremely satisfied.

Noticing Yuan Yong's expression, Yuan Ju's face darkened immediately. He said, "Yong'er, you are an adult now, and it's time for you to settle down and start a family. You shouldn't continue to be so dissolute!"

Upon hearing this, Yuan Yong replied noncommittally, "Father, please rest assured. I have already dealt with that woman and her family. There will be no word of it, and it will not affect the reputation of our Yuan family."

"That's good."

Yuan Ju nodded. He didn't actually mind Yuan Yong's fondness for women; he was just worried that the news of forcibly taking women would damage the Yuan family's reputation.

Fortunately... Yuan Yong is a sensible child. He always handles things properly after abducting women, so as not to affect the Yuan family's reputation.