I practiced my spirituality alone in Hong Kong.

As soon as Li Chang'an stepped into the stairwell, he heard the sound of a door opening next door.

A small head peeked out from behind the door next door.

Her long, wet hair, freshly washed, cascaded over her shoulders. The gloomy lighting in the hallway made her appear almost ghostly. If an older man were to bump into her, he might just have a heart attack.

However, Li Chang'an's eyesight was excellent, more than enough to apply for a pilot position, and the dimness of the corridor did not affect his vision.

He looked at the peeking-in Ruan Xiaotang and asked:

"What are you doing out here?"

"Brother Chang'an, you're definitely going upstairs to settle scores with those guys, right? I want to go with you!"

"no."

Li Chang'an reached out and lifted Xiao Tang up, making a move as if to throw her into the house.

Just then, Shen Daining's weak voice came from inside the room.

"Cough... Chang'an, you and Xiao Tang shouldn't go."

I just heard some noise; it seems like Uncle Ni from the fourth floor went upstairs to argue something. Uncle Ni is very respected in the building, so you kids shouldn't get involved.

Li Chang'an shook his head at this.

"There was a sound of a bottle being smashed upstairs just now. Although Grandpa Ni is respected, he is too old and can't keep bad people in check... It would be more effective to have a young and strong man step in when dealing with outsiders."

Shen Daining understood that Li Chang'an was determined to go, so she had no choice but to say:

"Then you can let Xiaotang go with you."

Li Chang'an was somewhat surprised; why would Aunt Shen let Ruan Xiaotang go on this adventure with him?

Shen Daining explained, "Chang'an, with Xiaotang by your side, you'll be more careful in your actions and won't act impulsively and fight with people."

We don't want you to get hurt. If the new neighbors upstairs are unreasonable, just bear with it for one night and we'll talk about it tomorrow.

Li Chang'an looked down at the small piece of food he was carrying. The girl raised her face and gave a soft snort.

"Did you hear me? I'm not going there to join the fun, I'm going to keep an eye on you!"

Li Chang'an had no choice but to let Ruan Xiaotang follow behind him in order to avoid worrying Aunt Shen.

Before the two even reached the sixth floor, they could hear the ear-piercing heavy metal music blaring down their throats. Even Li Chang'an found it chaotic, let alone the elderly people in the old Tang building.

As soon as I turned into the sixth-floor corridor, I saw several middle-aged men blocking the door of a house, arguing heatedly with a young couple dressed in hippie and non-mainstream attire.

The elderly man with graying hair and a receding hairline, who was leading the group, was Grandpa Ni. He said with a stern face:

"You two young men can move into this building, but you have to follow the rules. I don't care what you do during the day, but you absolutely cannot disturb the other residents at night!"

"If you don't agree, then I'll have that kid from the Jin family ask you to move out!"

The woman opposite me had blue hair and black lipstick. She said impatiently:

"Old man, what's wrong with us playing music in our own room? That's my personal freedom!"

After saying that, the redhead repeated it again in broken English:

"I have my own freedom! Go ahead and call the police to arrest me if you dare!"

Her boyfriend had dyed red hair, black nails stuck in his nose and mouth, and a traditional Chinese character for "god" tattooed on the back of his hand.

The red-haired man leaned against the wall, smoking with an air of nonchalance, and looked at the angry yet helpless uncle and Grandpa Ni in front of him, and laughed:

"Old man, who do you think you are? You can't just order this around and that around as you please."

Our landlord said that as long as we pay the rent, we can do whatever we want; you can't control the landlord, and you certainly can't control us.

The red-haired man didn't take Grandpa Ni's words seriously.

What's wrong with playing music in the middle of the night? What's wrong with disturbing the neighbors?

He's always done it this way; music isn't exciting unless it's played late at night, and if he's going to play it, he'll play it at full blast!

This behavior is truly deserving of a beating.

He offended all his neighbors in the old tenement building community by doing the same thing, and in the end, the neighbors hired gangsters to teach him a lesson.

The red-haired man received advance warning and ran away with his girlfriend, which is why they moved to Shek Tong Tsui.

However, this time he has studied it thoroughly.

The residents of Shek Tong Tsui were easier to bully than those in the other neighborhoods he had lived in before. They were mostly elderly people, or middle-aged families who owned shops and had children.

Just like this group of uncles who came to complain.

These families with children are only loud; they're actually the easiest to bully. They don't even have the courage to hit someone, as they have elderly parents and young children to support and dare not act impulsively.

Surprisingly, the person with the most say was an old man. It was quite amusing that we tried to reason with him.

The red-haired man turned around and took a bottle of beer from the house. He handed it to Grandpa Ni and said provocatively:

"Old man, if you down this bottle in one go, I won't play any music tonight, okay? If you can't, then I'll let Dangdang be in charge of this building from now on."

"You little rascal, you've gone too far!"

Faced with the insults, the red-haired man smiled indifferently, as if he had too many lice and wasn't bothered by the itch.

Just then, a large hand suddenly reached out from the crowd and grabbed the bottle in the red-haired man's hand.

The red-haired man was taken aback and instinctively tried to break free.

But the hand remained as still as an iron clamp, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pull the bottle out.

He frowned and shouted at the indifferent Li Chang'an:

"Who are you? Trying to meddle in other people's business?"

The blue-haired woman then leaned closer and said to him:

"The landlord seemed to have mentioned that the only young man in this building was a recent graduate named Li Chang'an."

Upon hearing this, the red-haired man immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Just a student? A student is nothing, isn't that?

They're even easier to bully now; you can just scare them a little.

Their act of pretending to be a ghost gave me a fright.

At this moment, Ruan Xiaotang quietly tugged at Li Chang'an's sleeve and whispered a reminder:

"Brother Chang'an, Mom said we're not allowed to fight with violence."

Li Chang'an nodded.

"Don't worry, I'll listen to Aunt Shen and reason with her."

With a slight tightening of his grip, he snatched the bottle from the red-haired man's hand.

"If you want someone to drink, how can you not help them open the bottle?"

The red-haired man didn't say anything; he wanted to see what this student could do.

If you try to reason with him like you would with Grandpa Ni, he's sure to laugh.

However, the next moment, the red-haired man and the woman next to him stopped laughing.

Li Chang'an then raised two fingers together and thrust them forward like a sharp blade.

click -

The thickest part of the beer bottle cracked open.

Under the dumbfounded gazes of Grandpa Ni, Ruan Xiaotang, and the red-haired man

Li Chang'an raised the wine bottle to mid-air, and the wine, shimmering in the moonlight, flowed into his mouth through the hole he had poked in the bottom of the bottle.

Grandpa Ni wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

He was well-traveled and knowledgeable; he had seen street performers demonstrate this kind of kung fu before.

Among them, the most impressive person Grandpa Ni had ever seen in his youth was someone who could break bricks and pebbles with his bare hands, and whose fingers were strong enough to tear apart a deck of cards.

He also demonstrated his skill of piercing beer bottles with his fingers.

Grandpa Ni thought that since the beer bottle was so easy to poke open, the other party must have tampered with it.

So, refusing to believe it, he offered ten times the reward, hoping that the man would poke all over the beer bottle in his hand.

But the other party shook their head.

"I can poke open any part of a beer bottle except the bottom."

Why?

"Because the bottom of the beer bottle has a thickened, arched structure that is most resistant to impact."

No matter how tough a human finger becomes, it's not made of iron, so it's impossible to puncture it.

But now, Li Chang'an has exposed it right in front of Grandpa Ni!

Li Chang'an finished the beer in his mouth with a gulp, then strode towards the red-haired man's house.

The hippie men and women in front of them didn't dare to stop them and instinctively made way for them.

Li Chang'an took a new bottle of beer from his house and shoved it into the hand of the stunned red-haired man.

"Open the bottle the way I just did, and drink it."

"Let's drink your wine first tonight, and from now on I'll bring my own wine every night to treat you. We're neighbors, so let's keep in touch."

The red-haired man instinctively took a step back and stiffly said:

"This... handsome, it can't be that bad, I was wrong, okay? I apologize to everyone."

Li Chang'an shook his head, revealing a gentle smile:

"Open the bottle and drink a glass as punishment first. Don't you want to save face for me?"

"..."