A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 331 The Frantic Lu Ming-Ze

"Daddy, how could you be like that? Fan is Mu-Cheng's husband too, so he's also related to us. Are you really going to leave him in the lurch?" asked Lu Wen-Jing in a miserable voice as she looked at her father with bloodshot eyes.

But Lu Ming-Ze wasn't buying this.

"It's not that I don't want to help him. But he doesn't know what's good for himself and he's not worth my help," replied Lu Ming-Ze in a sarcastic voice. He was clearly displeased with Ye Fan.

This country bumpkin wasn't capable of doing anything but he still refused to humble himself and ask for help, as if others were rushing to help him or something.

Lu Ming-Ze wasn't Ye Fan's father, so he wasn't going to help Ye Fan!

"Humph! If you're not going to help, fine. I'm going to help him," retorted Lu Wen-Jing angrily as she got up to get out of the bus.

But of course Lu Ming-Ze couldn't let her go alone. "Alright, alright. I really lose to you."

"I'll go and help him, alright? I don't know how this fellow has bewitched you. Why do you bother being so nice to a live-in son-in-law?"

Lu Ming-Ze gave in and couldn't convince his daughter otherwise, so he had to go down and help Ye Fan.

By the time Lu Ming-Ze alighted, Ye Fan was already surrounded by many men.

Wang Er-Dao had a cigarette dangling from his mouth as he leaned against the car door and looked the young man in front of him up and down.

"You're Ye Fan? You're really not afraid of dying, eh? I told you to come out and you really did. I thought you might be so scared that you would have forgotten how to walk," said Wang Er-Dao as he laughed and shook his head.

But Ye Fan just stuffed his hands into his pant pockets and replied calmly, "These men aren't enough to scare me.”

Say that again?

"Punk! You're going to die and you still dare to be this arrogant? No wonder you end up offending others!"

After hearing Ye Fan's response, Wang Er-Dao immediately frowned and the smile on his face became sinister.

He lost all patience and spat out the cigarette in his mouth, then smashed it angrily under his shoe.

The sizzling sound of the cigarette being put out sounded like the rocks getting smashed. It resounded loudly in the quietness of the night.

"Punk, tell me now, how do you want to die? Do you want to end it yourself or you prefer us to do it?" Wang Er-Dao's icy voice rang out after a long period of silence.

But just at this moment, a hearty laughter could be heard coming from the bus.

"What a small world. I didn't expect to see Master Wang in Yunzhou," said Lu Ming-Ze as he smiled and walked out of the bus. Lu Wen-Jing followed behind him.

Wang Er-Dao was equally surprised. "My goodness, isn't this Mr Lu?"

"Mr Lu is usually so busy! How did you find time to come to Yunzhou? And why are you squeezing on a filthy bus with these lowlifes?"

Wang Er-Dao also smiled back since he saw a familiar face.

Actually, Wang Er-Dao and Lu Ming-Ze weren't really friends or anything. They just had a few business dealings.

Wang Er-Dao was the one in charge of a martial arts school in Jingzhou, and he had a few dozen good fighters under him. Lu Ming-Ze was in business, so it was inevitable that some hooligans would come and make trouble for his company now and then. Trying to charge these hooligans wasn't very effective, but getting those martial artists to beat them up made those hooligans behave better.

And that was why Lu Ming-Ze's company had worked together with Wang Er-Dao's martial arts school a few times, so that's how they got to know one another.

"I just came to Yunzhou to visit some relatives. You know, even if I'm busy, I should come and visit them now and then, don't you think so?" said Lu Ming-Ze as he offered Wang Er-Dao a cigarette.

After Wang Er-Dao accepted the cigarette, he laughed in a low voice. "Mr Lu, I'm sure you've seen what happened. This country bumpkin has gotten into some trouble, so after I'm done here, let's find a restaurant and have a nice chat. But for now, I have to finish my business here."

Lu Ming-Ze quickly cut in, "Oh no no, Master Wang, I'm here to talk to you about this matter."

"This man here is actually my nephew-inlaw, and he's from my wife's side of the family. Master Wang, could you do me a favor and let him off this time? I promise I will get my niece to talk to him and make sure that this husband and wife apologize to you personally."

"Oh? Mr Lu, you have such lowly relatives like him?" Wang Er-Dao frowned even harder.

Lu Ming-Ze nodded and sighed. "That's right. No matter how poor they are, they're still my relatives."

Lu Ming-Ze immediately glared at Ye Fan and shouted, "Why are you still standing there? Don't you realize how much trouble you're in?"

"Master Wang has been magnanimous enough to let you off. Otherwise, you're definitely going to suffer terribly. Hurry up and go home now!" shouted Lu Ming-Ze angrily at Ye Fan.

Even though Wang Er-Dao didn't agree to this, Lu Ming-Ze was quite sure that Wang Er-Dao would do him this favor.

After all, Wang Er-Dao's martial arts school relied on Lu Ming-Ze's company for business. Otherwise, Wang Er-Dao wouldn't have been so kindly towards Lu Ming-Ze and even offer to go drinking with him. A crisis was resolved just by a few words from Lu Ming-Ze.

All the passengers in the bus watching this scene were slightly surprised.

They now looked at Lu Ming-Ze with great respect and admiration.

They figured that this man must be a big shot. He could settle this problem with just a few words.

"This young fellow is lucky to have an uncle who's so powerful!"

"Otherwise, he's dead meat for sure!"

Many passengers shook their heads and sighed inside the bus.

"Come on, Fan, let's go..."

Lu Wen-Jing was afraid that Wang Er-Dao might regret his decision, so she quickly tugged on Ye Fan and turned to leave.

But Wang Er-Dao's voice rang out once more, "Wait up. I didn't say you could take him away."

What?

Lu Ming-Ze frowned and was unhappy to hear this. He questioned Wang Er-Dao coldly, "Master Wang, this nephew-in-law of mine is just a live-in son-in-law from the countryside. Don't tell me you can't do me such a small favor?"

Wang Er-Dao shook his head and laughed. "Mr Lu, don't be angry."

"Given our relationship, I wouldn't have minded if you wanted me to release someone in my hands. I would have been more than happy to even release ten people if you asked me to! But I really cannot let you have this country bumpkin. And that's because the one who wants him dead isn't me, but Young Master Ting of Jingzhou! So even if I wanted to help you, are you sure you want this favor?"

WHAT?!

After Lu Ming-Ze heard the three words 'Young Master Ting', his face paled immediately and his entire body shook.

Lu Ming-Ze immediately spun in fear towards Ye Fan and cursed at him, "You little bastard! What the fuck did you do?!"

"You offended Young Master Ting?! You're just a good-for-nothing but you're really good at making trouble! You're just a live-in son-in-law and you dared to offend someone with such a powerful backing?! You're really tired of living, aren't you? You can jolly well wait to die! You nearly got my family killed along with you! You useless thing!" Lu Ming-Ze ranted on and on because he was clearly frightened out of his wits. His face was deathly pale and he was frantic.

"Master Wang, I'm so sorry. Just take it that I didn't say any of those things earlier. You can do whatever you like with this country bumpkin! I won't get in your way anymore, and I'll apologize to you another day..."

Lu Ming-Ze's face was pale and his voice was shaking. After he apologized to Wang Er-Dao, he dragged his daughter off and didn't even turn back to look. He wasn't going to interfere in Ye Fan's matters anymore.