The whole mountain is my hunting ground.

Chapter 1878 Li Ruhai Complains, Security Team Deployed

Chapter 1878 Li Ruhai Complains, Security Team Deployed

When the jeep arrived at Yong'an Forest Farm after a bumpy ride, Li Baoyu and his group caught the arrival of the commuter train.

Li Baoyu, who was driving, glanced out the window and recognized the workers entering the site as being from Yongfutun.

Li Baoyu drove the car into the forest farm gate. Li Ruhai did not get out of the car at the mailroom as usual. Li Baoyu did not ask him anything and just drove the car towards the office building.

"Ru Hai." Li Baoyu didn't ask, but Jie Chen asked Li Ru Hai, "Aren't you going back to see the place where you once fought?"

Faced with Xie Chen's teasing, Li Ruhai turned his gaze away from the window and said calmly, "I'm not going with you. Can you two explain that to me?"

"I..." Xie Chen was speechless. Although he also enjoyed reading comic books, he only read them for fun and did not have Zhang Yuanmin's natural talent as a persuader.

If Jie Chen is like that, then Li Baoyu's mouth is too slow, and the two of them are slow to react. Even combined, they are no match for Li Ruhai.

Li Baoyu and Xie Chen were self-aware, and they knew they couldn't handle the many and chaotic things happening today.

Li Baoyu drove towards the office building. As the jeep turned right at the intersection, Li Baoyu and Xie Chen, who were sitting in the front row, saw several people walking ahead.

Hearing the sound of the car, the group turned around. When they saw the jeep, they all looked surprised and stopped in their tracks.

Li Baoyu also stepped on the brakes, and Jie Chen and Li Ruhai pushed open the car doors. This was because the people were Li Dayong, Li Dazhi, Lin Xue, Lin Xiangshun, Ma Dafu, and Han Dachun.

"What are you doing here?" After asking this question, Li Dayong seemed to remember something. He took two quick steps towards Li Baoyu and the others and asked as he got closer, "Nothing happened last night, right?"

"Dad, I'll tell you about this later." Li Ruhai replied to Li Dayong, then turned to Lin Xiangshun and said, "Brother Shunzi, send two mechanics from the auto repair shop to come with us in a bit."

These days, anyone who can drive can repair cars. As long as they have the tools and materials, Li Baoyu and Xie Chen can both patch tires.

But the two of them had other things to do today, so when they came, Zhao Jun instructed Lin Xiangshun to send someone from the auto repair shop.

Now, the two Zhaos, two Lis, Wangs, Zhangs, Xies, Lins, the old lady, and Xing San—these families are like one big family, or as Li Tongyun would say, "like-minded."

Lin Xiangshun readily agreed to his own request. At that moment, Ma Dafu also came over and asked Li Baoyu, "Baoyu, how's my second son doing up on the mountain?"

Ma Dafu asked Li Baoyu because Li Baoyu was the oldest of the three, but before Li Baoyu could speak, Li Ruhai smiled and said, "Uncle Ma, your Xiao Yang is doing very well."

Hearing Li Ruhai's words, Ma Dafu was slightly relieved, but then the kid added, "He just poops as soon as he starts working, and he dawdles as soon as he drinks, haha..."

"What are you saying, kid?" Li Dayong said to Li Ruhai with a smile, and Ma Dafu laughed as well. Ma Dafu thought Li Ruhai was joking just now, and judging from Li Ruhai's words, it seemed that his youngest son hadn't caused any trouble on the mountain.

"Hehe..." Li Ruhai chuckled and said nothing more. This place was crowded; even if he wanted to cause trouble for Ma Yang, he couldn't do it here. It would be better to wait until Ma Dafu arrived at the workshop, then go there and tell him what happened... In front of his colleagues, Ma Dafu would definitely be furious, enraged, and exasperated...

At this moment, Ma Dafu had no idea what Li Ruhai was thinking. He even praised Li Ruhai to Li Dayong, saying, "Dayong, I think Ruhai has become quite successful after this year."

"Hey! What's so great about him?" Just by looking at the smile on Li Dayong's face, you could tell he was quite satisfied with his youngest son. But Chinese people are just modest, and even if he thought that way, Li Dayong didn't admit it aloud.

"You shouldn't be so ungrateful," Ma Dafu said to Li Dayong with a wry smile. "Your Ruhai is much better than my thing."

Li Dayong agreed with Ma Dafu's words, but he couldn't admit it, so he just said a few polite words and brushed the matter off.

“That Baoyu!” Li Dazhi interrupted, saying to Li Baoyu, “If you have something to do, you can go first. We’ll take our time to stroll around afterwards.”

Li Baoyu had long since run out of ideas with them, and now that Li Dazhi had given him this way out, Li Baoyu quickly greeted them, saying, "Uncle Ma, Uncle Dachun, Dad, Uncle Liu, Aunt Liu, Brother Shunzi, we're off now."

After saying this, Li Baoyu waved to Xie Chen and Li Ruhai, signaling them to get into the carriage.

"Hey? Baoyu!" Lin Xiangshun called out to Li Baoyu upon seeing this, "Um... are those two auto mechanics coming with your car later?"

“Wait here, Brother Shunzi,” Li Baoyu said. “I’ll head over as soon as I’m done here. And then… you’ll have to send a car for our security team.”

“Dispatching a vehicle depends on the dispatcher,” Lin Xiangshun said, glancing at Li Dayong. At that moment, Li Ruhai interjected, “Dad, Director Yan will call you in a bit.”

“Yes, yes!” Li Baoyu echoed twice, then said to Lin Xiangshun, “Brother Shunzi, I just wanted to let you know in advance to reserve a large Jiefang truck for us, instead of sending all the trucks out.”

"Okay, I understand." Lin Xiang agreed, and the three of them got into the car and headed straight for the office building.

After parking the car at the office building, the three hurried upstairs. Upon reaching the third floor, Li Baoyu and Xie Chen were about to turn left when Li Ruhai stopped them.

Li Ruhai gestured to the right, then led Li Baoyu and Xie Chen to Zhou Chunming's office.

Li Baoyu and Xie Chen then realized that the biggest backer of the Zhao family gang was Zhou Chunming. Now that such a big thing had happened, they had to talk to Zhou Chunming first.

Li Ruhai raised his hand and knocked on the door. Two seconds later, the door opened, and upon seeing the person inside, Li Ruhai smiled and called out, "Brother-in-law!"

"Oh! Ru Hai?" Zhou Jianjun was taken aback when he saw Li Ru Hai. Then, seeing Li Bao Yu and Xie Chen, he was even more surprised and said, "Bao Yu, Xiao Chen, what brings you here?"

"Brother-in-law," Li Baoyu and Xie Chen called out in unison. Then Li Ruhai said to Zhou Jianjun, "Brother-in-law, is my Uncle Zhou in the house? We need to talk to him about something."

"He's inside, come in," Zhou Jianjun said, ushering the three of them into the house.

Zhou Chunming was taken aback when he saw the three of them. He knew these three guys were all with Zhao Jun, but if Zhao Jun had any problems, he would be the one to come and tell him.

Although they had doubts, they were all family members, so Zhou Chunming invited them to sit on the sofa and asked Zhou Jianjun to pour them water.

"Stop making a fuss, brother-in-law." Li Ruhai called out to Zhou Jianjun, "We're not outsiders, let's finish what we need to do and then leave."

"What's wrong, Ru Hai?" Zhou Chunming asked, and Li Ru Hai's face changed, and he cried out in a sob, "Sir, you must stand up for us!"

"Huh?" Li Ruhai's shout not only stunned the Zhou family father and son, but also made Li Baoyu and Xie Chen look at each other in bewilderment.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Jianjun hurriedly asked, "What's wrong, Ru Hai?"

"Brother-in-law, something terrible has happened!" Li Ruhai exaggerated as usual, saying, "You almost didn't make it back to see us!"

"What?" Zhou Jianjun was shocked and hurriedly asked, "What did you say? Where is... Zhao Jun?"

At this moment, Zhou Jianjun panicked, fearing that something had happened to Zhao Jun.

"Ruhai, what exactly happened?" Zhou Chunming asked. Zhao Jun was his nephew, and he absolutely couldn't let anything happen to him. But as he asked this, Zhou Chunming also wondered if anyone in the forest area would dare to touch Zhao Jun.

"Grandpa," Li Ruhai said to Zhou Chunming, "coming north from Qingshi Lazi, isn't that the old 25th and 26th forest rangers?"

"Ah!" Zhou Chunming nodded in response, and then Li Ruhai continued, "I heard them say that day that a big claw seemed to have appeared over there."

"Big claws?" Zhou Chunming was startled again upon hearing this. Last year, the Siberian tigers had given the Yong'an forest area quite a hard time.

Meanwhile, Zhou Jianjun was worried: had the Siberian tiger injured his brother-in-law, or...?

"What kind of person is my older brother?" Li Ruhai said, "He's dedicated to his job, loyal to his duties, and devoted to his work..."

"Alright! Alright!" Zhou Jianjun interrupted Li Ruhai and asked, "What exactly happened? Hurry up and tell me."

"When my elder brother received the news, he immediately led us forest rangers up the mountain," Li Ruhai said. "Afterwards, we built a makeshift shack on the west side of Qing Shi La Zi. We thought we'd stay in the mountains for a couple of days and get rid of this big claw so it wouldn't harm our forest farm. But what happened was unexpected; someone tried to sabotage us."

"Who is it? Who's messing with you?" Zhou Chunming asked. Li Ruhai replied, "Pang Gaoming and his gang, along with Han Shengli and a few other outsiders. Who knows where Pang Gaoming found them? There were thirteen of them in total. Yesterday morning, they punctured the wheels of the big Liberation truck we parked at the foot of the mountain."

In the middle of the night, they came back with big sticks and guns, raiding our shacks!

"Huh?" Zhou Chunming's expression changed, and he asked, "Are you injured?"

"Injured... but not really injured," Li Ruhai said. "We brought dogs up the mountain. As soon as the dogs barked, we were on guard, and then we... took them all down."

"You caught them?" Zhou Chunming was taken aback. Li Ruhai continued, "Yeah, they told us to catch them red-handed, and then we tied them all to trees."

Li Ruhai's explanation was rather vague, but neither Zhou Chunming nor Zhou Jianjun inquired further.

"Are we all alright?" Zhou Jianjun asked. Li Ruhai replied, "We're fine, brother-in-law, don't worry. Evil has never prevailed over good. We've been doing our duty to protect the forest farm, how could we let such villains harm us?"

At this point, Li Ruhai glanced at Zhou Chunming secretly. Seeing Zhou Chunming's face darken, he quickly added, "This morning, Master Han and Master Zhai from the forest ranger team provided information that they've spotted Big Claw in the old 25th forest section."

"Really? The Big Claws are really here again?" Zhou Chunming asked loudly. Li Ruhai nodded emphatically and said, "Yes, really! My older brother heard the news and wanted to take us and the dogs over to confront these Big Claws. But then he remembered that they punctured the wheels of our Liberation truck. Without the Liberation truck, we can't transport the dogs!"

As he spoke, Li Ruhai slapped his hand hard, his face filled with urgency and anger, and said, "Grandpa, don't you think this is just a waste of time?"

"I'm so jealous!" Zhou Chunming rarely lost his temper like this. After swearing, he gestured with his chin to Zhou Jianjun and said, "Go! Go to Director Yan's office and tell him and Liu Jinyong to come over right now!"

Zhou Jianjun said "Hey," got up, and walked out.

As Zhou Jianjun left, Zhou Chunming angrily asked Li Ruhai, "What's Pang Gaoming doing? Why is he targeting you?"

“This… Uncle, your aunt should know, that time…” Li Ruhai had just started to speak when Zhou Chunming waved his hand and said, “Alright, you don’t need to say anymore, I know!”

Hu Sanmei had told Zhou Chunming about the Zhao family exchanging secret techniques with the Pang family, but Zhou Chunming didn't take it to heart. Firstly, Zhao Jun hadn't suffered any losses, and secondly, he was genuinely busy and had no time to deal with such matters.

But to his surprise, the Pang family dared to retaliate, and with such despicable means.

"Grandpa, can you believe how infuriating these people are!" At this moment, Li Ruhai was still trying to sow discord among Pang Gaoming and the others, saying, "If it weren't for them, we might have been knocked down by this big claw today. Let's not even talk about how hard we've been living in our shacks, just think about what would happen if this big claw got away and hurt or harmed someone?"

Hearing Li Ruhai's words, Zhou Chunming's breathing became heavier. At this moment, Zhou Jianjun hurriedly walked in with Yan Shugang and Liu Jinyong.

"Secretary Zhou." Yan Shugang greeted Zhou Chunming, and Zhou Chunming said, "Come here, Director Yan, listen to how this matter should be handled."

Li Ruhai tugged at Li Baoyu, and the two brothers, along with Xie Chen, stood up and gave their seats to Yan Shugang and Liu Jinyong. Then, Li Ruhai, filled with righteous indignation, repeated what he had just said.

After hearing this, Yan Shugang and Liu Jinyong's faces darkened. Then Zhou Chunming asked, "Director Yan, what's your opinion on this matter?"

"Secretary Zhou, this matter must be dealt with seriously," Yan Shugang said. "This is outrageous! How dare they attack our security guards? This is utterly lawless!"

After Yan Shugang finished setting the tone, he added, "I suggest that we first have Team Leader Liu lead our security guards over there to bring these bad elements back, so they won't hold Team Leader Zhao back. Then, we'll see what kind of support Team Leader Zhao needs, and we'll provide full support in terms of security."

"Alright!" Zhou Chunming said after hearing Yan Shugang's words, "Let's do it this way!"

Having agreed to Yan Shugang's proposal, Zhou Chunming urged them to take action immediately.

Yan Shugang, Liu Jinyong, Li Baoyu, Xie Chen, and Li Ruhai came out of the office. Yan Shugang and Liu Jinyong hurriedly went downstairs to the security team, while Li Baoyu and the other two, as members of the security team, also went to hold a short meeting.

The meeting was quick. After Yan Shugang said a few words, he ordered Liu Jinyong to lead his men into action.

Liu Jinyong mustered his best men and then called the dispatch center, requesting that a Jiefang truck be sent over.

Li Baoyu and his two companions followed the security guards out of the office building. As soon as they were outside, Li Ruhai grabbed Li Baoyu and whispered, "Brother, I'm not going with you anymore."

"Ruhai!" Li Baoyu grabbed Li Ruhai's hand and whispered, "Don't harm Xiaoyang. He's our brother's brother-in-law, and besides, his sister-in-law is good to us. Even if you don't care about the monk, you should at least consider the Buddha. You two just bicker a bit, there's no deep hatred between you."

After so many years together, Li Baoyu knew Li Ruhai quite well. When they ran into Ma Dafu on the way, Li Baoyu saw the sly smile on Li Ruhai's face when he mentioned Ma Yang, and he knew that this kid was definitely going to try to sabotage Ma Yang again.

"Yes, brother, I know, I can't." Li Ruhai readily agreed, but inwardly he disagreed with Li Baoyu's words. What does it mean to not have a deep-seated hatred? Only the hatred of killing one's father is true hatred, only the hatred of having one's wife stolen is true resentment. Although Li Ruhai didn't take Ma Yang seriously, he couldn't even have such thoughts!

For Zhao Jun's sake, Li Ruhai couldn't do anything to him, but he had to make him suffer!