Chapter Sixteen: The Gang's Framework

  In the early days of social gangs, to be honest, most of them took pride in fighting and brawling. At most, they would just eat at a restaurant, flirt with girls at the skating rink, and theft was relatively rare.

  However, after the reform and opening up in the 1990s, the gap between the rich and the poor began to emerge slowly, and people's values also underwent great changes. The individual households that were once looked down upon became people with status and dignity.

  Those old gangsters from the past mostly used their early reputation to start businesses like restaurants or freight stations and gradually became rich.

  And people like Li Tianyuan, who are half-grown and have no economic sense, nor do they have the capital, so they set their sights on students, and the school gate becomes a place for them to extort and blackmail.

  After Hong Kong and Taiwan's gangster movies entered the mainland, they learned from the content of the movies, dividing up their territory. Li Tianyuan led more than a dozen young thugs to occupy two schools and a billiard room.

  Li Tianyuan did not know that their behavior had already taken on the embryonic form of a black society, and the process of accumulating wealth in a black society is accompanied by violence.

  Soon Li Tianyuan's small group had a dispute with another gang, which was also organized by a group of bad kids who dropped out of school, and the origin was in that billiard room.

  Li Tianyu's younger brother was beaten by another group of people in the billiard room, and their words were full of provocations towards Li Tianyu.

  This made Li Tianyuan feel that he had lost face, so he gathered more than a dozen people and when the other side came to the billiard room again, a melee broke out between the two gangs.

  Li Tianyuan, who had been well-prepared, was fully armed with chains, iron clubs and knives. As soon as they came into contact, the other side suffered a great loss.

  These half-grown children had almost no social experience and lacked a sense of awe for life and the law, each one was ruthless in their actions. When the fight ended, one person on the other side was hacked to death on the spot.

  Such street fights have a great negative impact on society, and since someone died, the police reacted very quickly, capturing all suspects within 24 hours.

  However, after catching the people involved, the police were at a loss because all of the gang members who participated in the fight were minors, with the oldest being 16 years old and the youngest only 11 years old.

  However, the light sentence was not enough to calm down public anger. Moreover, someone had died, and in the end, one person from each gang was sentenced to 1-3 years of reeducation through labor.

  It was not Li Tianyuan who actually killed the person. At that time, he was holding a chain lock, and the fatal wound of the deceased was a knife cut on the neck that severed the artery.

  Li Tianyuan was young in age but deeply poisoned by the movies, as the eldest son, he took the lead and shouldered all the crimes.

  It so happened that Li Tianyuan and Nie Yuandong, the man who was locked up with him, were both in this detention center, and the two men began to fight again.

  Li Tianyuan was better at physical strength, could fight and dare to fight, relying on his martial arts skills to gather a group of people around him. Nie Yuandong's family background was good, he had plenty of money, and naturally there were also a group of children surrounding him.

  The grudge that had been building up outside continued inside the juvenile detention center, and the two of them had already gotten into several fights over the past year or so. Even the guards were at a loss for what to do with these two.

  Having been provoked, Li Tianyuan naturally wasn't pleased. After being instigated by his subordinate, he suddenly glared at the opponent with a stern expression, shouting: "You little snake, what's wrong? Not satisfied? Want to fight me again?"

  Li Tianyuan was displeased with the other party because Nie Yuandong's family had used money to get him a sentence of only one and a half years, while he himself had been sentenced to three full years, which made Li Tianyuan feel very unfair.

  "Earth bun, see you on the playground later!"

  Nie Yuandragon's eyes sank as he glanced at Li Tianyuan, whose sentence was about to arrive. If he didn't teach Li Tianyuan a lesson now, he might not have the chance later, so he had already set up an ambush and was ready to take down his opponent.

  "Go on, wait a moment, don't be a turtle hiding in its shell." In this training camp, fighting was inevitable, and naturally there were no weapons. Several times, Li Tianyuan had the upper hand and wasn't afraid of his opponent's provocations.

  There were over a hundred people in the TV room. Two people talking to each other weren't afraid of being heard by the authorities, and after making an appointment, they secretly prepared themselves.

  "Little kid, wait for us to come over later, if you behave well today, Brother Tian will take care of you from now on."

  Li Tianyuan briefed his subordinates and then shifted his gaze to Qin Feng, fearing that this kid would go and report back, and he himself would definitely be disciplined.

  "Alright, I'm listening..."

  Qin Feng nodded slightly, he didn't want to get involved in this matter, but if he offended Li Tianyuan, being stared at by him every day seemed to have no benefits for his escape plan.

  Thinking about what happened earlier, both groups of people were a bit distracted while watching the news. When the news broadcast ended and it was time to go out to the playground, Li Tianyuan took the lead and walked out first.

  The playground of the juvenile detention center is surrounded by monitoring houses, covering a very large area. In addition to a basketball court, there are also facilities such as single and double bars, all of which were newly built for the physical development of young people.

  On the east side of the playground, it was fenced off with iron wire mesh. Behind the iron wire mesh, there was a vegetable field where an old farmer was watering and fertilizing. If it weren't for the several instructors standing around and some schools outside, it wouldn't be much different.

  Qin Feng followed behind Li Tianyuan and the others, seemingly hanging his head down, but the surroundings were all taken in by his eyes. The two tall armed police sentry posts at the left and right corners of the playground made him dismiss the idea of escaping from here.

  "Smelly snake, how about it? Do you want a one-on-one fight or a group battle? Choose for yourself!"

  As Qin Feng observed his surroundings, the two groups were already facing off on the playground. Li Tianyuan didn't take Nie Yuandong seriously at all, tilting his head to look at the more than ten people opposite him.

  "You country bumpkin, Dragon Lord is about to leave soon, do you think Dragon Lord will personally take action against you?"

  After hearing Li Tianyuan's words, Nie Yuandong's face revealed a sly smile, and he waved his hand saying: "All of you big shots, as long as you can make the one with the surname Li lie in bed for three months, each person will get a pack of Aesma!"

  "Not good, this kid is playing dirty..."

  Just as Nie Yuandong's face revealed a sly smile, Qin Feng had already felt that something was off. As a martial artist, he was more sensitive to the aura and reactions of those around him. In the first instant, Qin Feng discovered that there were many malicious gazes fixed on his group.

  As expected, as soon as Nie Yuandong's voice fell, thirty or forty people surrounded him, these young offenders' family backgrounds were not good, a pack of Ashima was enough to buy them off.

  "Damn it, are you playing dirty?" Li Tianyuan also felt the malicious gazes around him, but they were already surrounded by the crowd in the center of the playground and couldn't escape even if they wanted to.

  "Hey, kid, why did you snatch my ball?"

  A chaotic fight broke out in an instant when a basketball was thrown at Li Tianyuan, and four or five boys from different dormitories rushed towards him, venting their excess energy.

  "Mooooo..."

  The whistle for the disciplinary action had already sounded at the beginning of the fight, but those boys had already become so enraged that they didn't care about being punished.

  "Damn it, how did I run into this kind of thing?"

  Qin Feng was extremely depressed in the crowd, although he was younger than these people, but his mind was very mature. In his opinion, this kind of rivalry was the most foolish.

  However, at this time he was also categorized as one of Li Tianyuan's gang. Seeing four or five people rushing towards him, Qin Feng took a deep breath and squatted down to the ground, using his hands and elbows to protect his head and vital organs under his ribs.

  For a moment, Qin Feng didn't know how many fists had landed on his body. The "thud thud" sounds were endless, but he curled up into a ball with his frail body, never exposing his vital parts.

  "A bunch of idiots, none of whom can fight."

  At the time when the playground was bustling with activity, the old man who was planting vegetables in the northeast corner of the playground also straightened up his body. Unlike those tense coaches, however, the old man was watching the commotion.

  "Hey, I'm telling you, this is called a groin shot."

  "Dummy, cover his eyes and he won't be able to see with just one punch."

  That old man is afraid that the world is not chaotic, the deafening shouts on the playground can't even be suppressed, making those young people look away in disgust. If it weren't for the iron wire mesh blocking them, they might have beaten up the old man together.

  "Huh? There's actually someone who knows kung fu?"

  The old man's eyes suddenly fixed on a corner of the playground, where there were not many people. On the ground lay one person, and four or five half-grown children were punching and kicking him.

  To outsiders, the boy who had fallen to the ground was utterly useless, but the old man's smile had been reined in, and he stood there with a thoughtful expression, his mouth frozen.

  The person who fell to the ground was naturally Qin Feng. He had just been surrounded and beaten in the middle of the playground, but he rolled around on the ground and soon reached the outer edge. Now, only a few opportunistic guys were surrounding him, and the power of their fists wasn't very impressive.

  "Damn it, I'm going all out against you guys!"

  Just as Qin Feng was mentally calculating that the lesson should be about over, a sudden angry roar came from beside his ear, and the four or five people surrounding him immediately dispersed.

  "How...how did you end up like this?"

  Qin Feng covered his face and lifted his head, seeing the person in front of him, he pointed to the face below, and suddenly revealed a strange smile. The guy in front of him was really beaten too badly.

  If it weren't for Li Tianyuan's voice, Qin Feng really wouldn't have recognized him, because Li Tianyuan's eyes were beaten into just two slits, his cheekbones were swollen high, and the corner of his mouth was split open, looking utterly miserable.