Chapter 59
“Where’s the boss? Hurry up and come out!” The gang came in aggressively, holding sticks, right in front of everyone in the restaurant, and let loose their words in the restaurant.
“Brothers, I paid the protection fee some time ago, and it was your people who came to collect it. …… Can you take away the sticks and everything? I still have customers here ah!” The owner is a fat man who is one meter seven tall. He came out and said anxiously, just afraid that these people would affect his business.
“Some time ago? We didn’t even send anyone else over a while ago! You don’t have to pretend to me, hurry up and bring the money for this month and last month, together!” The leader, a slattern, then said in a very unkind manner. He had a very lurid tattoo showing on his hand race.
In contrast, Wah had made a point of wearing a shirt to hide the tattoos on his body when he came out today.
“But I gave last month’s too. I really gave five hundred dollars two days ago too…… a few brothers, I’m a small business, please give me a break.” The boss said with a sobbing face.
“Cut the crap, hurry up and get the money out.” The slattern, however, did not give any mercy at all and said.
“Brother, my little shop doesn’t make much money. If you guys come back a few more times, our family will really have to drink the northwest wind!” The owner looked at Slab Inch Head with a pleading look, hoping to get their understanding. But the slab of head stepped forward and gave the boss a sharp kick, knocking him to the ground.
I looked at the scene and hurriedly pulled out my mobile phone, to call the police. But Wah, who was opposite me, stopped me with a serious look.
Hua stood up straight away.
Guo Xuefu looked at him worriedly, but he cast a relieved look at Guo Xuefu.
And along with his action, those people at the side, at once, focused their attention on Wah. The slattern watched and even sneered, completely not taking Wah seriously. Wah, on the other hand, told me to put the phone away and walked up alone.
“You guys, I’ll give you five seconds to hurry up and get the hell out of here. Otherwise, you’ll be responsible for the consequences.” Wah said arrogantly, holding a cigarette in his mouth.
“What do you mean, tell us to get the hell out? Hahahaha, that’s the funniest joke I’ve heard today.” The slab-headed man listened to Wah’s words and was glancing at a couple of people on his side. And the slab-headed men, too, laughed out loud afterwards. The sound of their laughter echoed throughout the small shop.
“Hey, can you get better before you talk like that? All covered in gauze and still talking so arrogantly, are you here to be funny?”
But Wah started counting down to their laughter, “Five, four ……”
“Forget it, throw this brain-dead one out first.” Slate then gave a direct cry.
“Li, don’t rush yet. Wouldn’t it be better to let this pretender get out on his own? We don’t have to do anything yet!”
“Get out! If you don’t want to get killed ……” the little brother beside Brother Li was still talking, but before he could finish his words, he was grabbed directly by Wah’s mouth in a flash. Wah then took one palm and squeezed the other’s cheek with a deadly grip. The other side was obviously in pain and hurriedly tore at Wah’s hand.
“You have three seconds.”
Wah just gave another reminder.
“D*mn it – guys, let’s get rid of this guy first!” The plate head’s anger came up at once, and he led the men around Wah. The fat boss on the side, who was watching the scene, became even more anxious. He kept shouting from the side: don’t fight here, don’t fight here!
The fat boss was obviously very afraid that they would smash up his shop, after all, he relied on this shop for his livelihood.
“Boss, give me a rope, a belt will do.” Wah said abruptly.
“I’ll give you mine!” I hurriedly removed my belt and just tossed it to him.
“Dumba*s.” The slab-headed man, again, cursed with great disdain.
But it was when they were about to make their move that Wah made a sudden move. A belt was in his hand, almost as flexible as a whip. As I watched him, it was no wonder in my mind that he could handle Xu Ying’s dozen men by himself and still last for a while.
There were only four of the plateheads, plus himself. Even though they had sticks in their hands, they were no match for Hua.
In a short while, all four of them were thrown out of the shop by Wah. When they left the shop, Wah was even more aggressive. Guo Xuefu and I walked up to the entrance of the shop and watched as Hua alone beat up the four men opposite. Although he was injured, it didn’t affect his play at all.
“Stop! Don’t you fight, let’s go …… Let’s go can we!” The plate head and the others then hurriedly begged for mercy.
“Hurry up and get lost.” That was all Wah said.
It was after they left, but Wah stumbled and almost fell down. And I was rushing over to help him, and he also thanked with me. Guo Xuefu, who was also very worried, came over, “Brother Hua, are you alright?”
Wah shook his head and said, “Yes, I’m fine, but I just pulled a wound and it hurts a bit.”
“Let’s go and have a look then! Even if we don’t go to the hospital, the clinic is fine!” Guo Xuefu said hurriedly.
“Not yet.”
“Why?”
Guo Xuefu asked hurriedly.
And between her words, Hua was pointing behind her. It was between Guo Xuefu and I who turned our heads, only to see that the boss was sitting on the side, his whole being a very despondent look. Although the shop had not been much damaged, he was more worried that he would be more vindictive by that boarder because of this incident.
The boss’s worry was all reflected in the sound of his grumbling alone.
“Xue Fu, do you understand? This matter is half resolved here. But if the remaining half is not solved, it would simply be helping.” Hua then gave an explanation to Guo Xuefu.
“But Brother Hua, with the way you look now …… it’s better to forget about it. Just leave this matter to the police!” Guo Xuefu said with great concern.
But Hua’s attitude, on the contrary, was quite optimistic: “It’s okay Xuefu, my body, I know it well, you don’t have to worry so much.” And as he spoke, he was looking over in my direction, “Jin Chao, how about it, dare you come with me?”
“What’s so daring about it?” I was stimulated by his words, and directly was agreeing.
Only I was even more puzzled in my heart.
As far as Hua’s character was concerned, he didn’t seem to be a vicious person at all. And if so, where did Xu Ying’s fear of him come from?
Wah was laughing and patted me on the shoulder, “Well then, Jin Chao let’s go!”
“Where’s the boss? Hurry up and come out!” The gang came in aggressively, armed with sticks and sticks, and let loose in the restaurant in front of everyone in the restaurant.
“Brothers, I paid the protection fee some time ago, and it was your people who came to collect it. …… Can you take away the sticks and everything? I still have customers here ah!” The owner is a fat man who is one meter seven tall. He came out and said anxiously, just afraid that these people would affect his business.
“Some time ago? We didn’t even send anyone else over a while ago! You don’t have to pretend to me, hurry up and bring the money for this month and last month, together!” The leader, a slattern, then said in a very unkind manner. He had a very lurid tattoo showing on his hand race.
In contrast, Wah had made a point of wearing a shirt to hide the tattoos on his body when he came out today.
“But I gave last month’s too. I really gave five hundred dollars two days ago too…… a few brothers, I’m a small business, please give me a break.” The boss said with a sobbing face.
“Cut the crap, hurry up and get the money out.” The slattern, however, did not give any mercy at all and said.
“Brother, my little shop doesn’t make much money. If you guys come back a few more times, our family will really have to drink the northwest wind!” The owner looked at Slab Inch Head with a pleading look, hoping to get their understanding. But the slab of head stepped forward and gave the boss a sharp kick, knocking him to the ground.
I looked at the scene and hurriedly pulled out my mobile phone, to call the police. But Wah, who was opposite me, stopped me with a serious look.
Hua stood up straight away.
Guo Xuefu looked at him worriedly, but he cast a relieved look at Guo Xuefu.
And along with his action, those people at the side, at once, focused their attention on Wah. The slattern watched and even sneered, completely not taking Wah seriously. Wah, on the other hand, told me to put the phone away and walked up alone.
“You guys, I’ll give you five seconds to hurry up and get the hell out of here. Otherwise, you’ll be responsible for the consequences.” Wah said arrogantly, holding a cigarette in his mouth.
“What do you mean, tell us to get the hell out? Hahahaha, that’s the funniest joke I’ve heard today.” The slab-headed man listened to Wah’s words and was glancing at a couple of people on his side. And the slab-headed men, too, laughed out loud afterwards. The sound of their laughter echoed throughout the small shop.
“Hey, can you get better before you talk like that? All covered in gauze and still talking so arrogantly, are you here to be funny?”
But Wah started counting down to their laughter, “Five, four ……”
“Forget it, throw this brain-dead one out first.” Slate then gave a direct cry.
“Li, don’t rush yet. Wouldn’t it be better to let this pretender get out on his own? We don’t have to do anything yet!”
“Get out! If you don’t want to get killed ……” the little brother beside Brother Li was still talking, but before he could finish his words, he was grabbed directly by Wah’s mouth in a flash. Wah then took one palm and squeezed the other’s cheek with a deadly grip. The other side was obviously in pain and hurriedly tore at Wah’s hand.
“You have three seconds.”
Wah just gave another reminder.
“D*mn it – guys, let’s get rid of this guy first!” The plate head’s anger came up at once, and he led the men around Wah. The fat boss on the side, who was watching the scene, became even more anxious. He kept shouting from the side: don’t fight here, don’t fight here!
The fat boss was obviously very afraid that they would smash up his shop, after all, he relied on this shop for his livelihood.
“Boss, give me a rope, a belt will do.” Wah said abruptly.
“I’ll give you mine!” I hurriedly removed my belt and just tossed it to him.
“Dumba*s.” The slab-headed man, again, cursed with great disdain.
But it was when they were about to make their move that Wah made a sudden move. A belt was in his hand, almost as flexible as a whip. As I watched him, it was no wonder in my mind that he could handle Xu Ying’s dozen men by himself and still last for a while.
There were only four of the plateheads, plus himself. Even though they had sticks in their hands, they were no match for Hua.
In a short while, all four of them were thrown out of the shop by Wah. When they left the shop, Wah was even more aggressive. Guo Xuefu and I walked up to the entrance of the shop and watched as Hua alone beat up the four men opposite. Although he was injured, it didn’t affect his play at all.
“Stop! Don’t you fight, let’s go …… Let’s go can we!” The plate head and the others then hurriedly begged for mercy.
“Hurry up and get lost.” That was all Wah said.
It was after they left, but Wah stumbled and almost fell down. And I was rushing over to help him, and he also thanked with me. Guo Xuefu, who was also very worried, came over, “Brother Hua, are you alright?”
Wah shook his head and said, “Yes, I’m fine, but I just pulled a wound and it hurts a bit.”
“Let’s go and have a look then! Even if we don’t go to the hospital, the clinic is fine!” Guo Xuefu said hurriedly.
“Not yet.”
“Why?”
Guo Xuefu asked hurriedly.
And between her words, Hua was pointing behind her. It was between Guo Xuefu and I who turned our heads, only to see that the boss was sitting on the side, his whole being a very despondent look. Although the shop had not been much damaged, he was more worried that he would be more vindictive by that boarder because of this incident.
The boss’s worry was all reflected in the sound of his grumbling alone.
“Xue Fu, do you understand? This matter is half resolved here. But if the remaining half is not solved, it would simply be helping.” Hua then gave an explanation to Guo Xuefu.
“But Brother Hua, with the way you look now …… it’s better to forget about it. Just leave this matter to the police!” Guo Xuefu said with great concern.
But Hua’s attitude, on the contrary, was quite optimistic: “It’s okay Xuefu, my body, I know it well, you don’t have to worry so much.” And as he spoke, he was looking over in my direction, “Jin Chao, how about it, dare you come with me?”
“What’s so daring about it?” I was stimulated by his words, and directly was agreeing.
Only I was even more puzzled in my heart.
As far as Hua’s character was concerned, he didn’t seem to be a vicious person at all. And if so, where did Xu Ying’s fear of him come from?
Hua laughed and patted me on the shoulder, “Well then, Jin Chao, let’s go!”
Chapter 60
I followed Wah, while Guo Xue-fu, at the back, still warned us from afar that we must be careful. I was even told to keep an eye on Wah. Guo Xuefu was very worried about Hua’s injuries. I turned around and agreed with her, and followed Wah’s departure.
The previous gang hadn’t gone far. Wah took me with him and followed quietly behind his door.
I didn’t understand Wah’s intentions.
Since we were following them, we should go up and sort things out straight away. What was the deal with following behind? And Wah was explaining to me that the only way to settle this matter once and for all was to follow them and know exactly where they were coming from.
It was between our follow up that those slatternly heads, were suddenly turning into a shop called ‘Shan Shui Tea House’.
“Jinchao, come on, let’s go in and break in.” Wah said directly.
“But Brother Wah, there must be quite a few of their people inside. If we just go in, aren’t we just throwing ourselves in the net?” I said worriedly instead.
“If I’m not afraid, what are you afraid of?” Wah said with an optimistic smile, “Are you afraid?”
“Who says I’m scared?”
“If you’re not afraid, then let’s go in!”
Wah said, and walked straight into the Shan Shui Tea House with me in tow.
Standing inside the shop, there wasn’t any high-cla*s decoration around. From the looks of it, it was an ordinary tea shop, and there were also three or two people brewing tea outside. The nearly four-metre-high shop was directly partitioned into two levels, and there was the constant sound of motorised mahjong dice coming out.
As we stood in the middle of the shop, the few people drinking tea in the shop were alert.
“Hey, what are you guys doing?” The few tea drinkers asked as they stood up and just rushed us. It was mainly because Hua had too much killing aura on him. Although he had tattoos on his body, which had been somewhat covered up, he still let people know at first glance that he was a man who walked in society.
This is just like Uncle Chan.
Uncle Chen had been a policeman for decades, and he would still carry the aura of a policeman on his body even if he took off his uniform.
“Not planning to do anything either, why are you guys so nervous?” Hua said with a laugh instead.
“Do you think I’ll believe you?”
“If you don’t believe me, there’s nothing I can do about it.” Wah said with a helpless shrug.
“Dongzi, hurry up and catch them. They’re the ones who just caused trouble in the shop!” The slattern suddenly came down from the attic and hurriedly pointed at me and Wah.
“You don’t need to catch them, we came here and we don’t intend to leave so easily.” Wah said, but straight away he pulled a stool and sat down on the edge. He didn’t take it seriously at all, even though the people around him looked like they were going to kill him, but he was still very calmly smoking a cigarette in his mouth.
“Jinchao, there seems to be a bit too many of them. I feel as if I’m going to be unable to beat them.” Hua said in a flat tone.
“I ……”
I rolled my eyes breathlessly.
“There’s so many of us, you’d really be D*mned if you could beat them!” The slattern then said with contempt.
“Dude, where do you work? How dare you intercept our place?”
“I’m from Fu Shan.”
Wah explained.
“Fu Shan? Isn’t that the prison area?”
“There are several leaders in Fu Shan, who do you work for?” The head of the board asked a follow-up question to Wah.
“Zheng Hua, have you guys heard of him?”
Hua then gave his name.
And as soon as the slab head heard it, his eyes became even more puzzled. He seemed to be trying very hard to think if there was a character called Zheng Hua in Fushan.
“What’s going on?” It was at this time,, a voice, however, came in from outside.
I listened, was feeling a little familiar.
In between turning my head, but in the doorway, I saw, the people I saw in the alley the night before. One of them was the person who called himself ‘Little Spot’. The little spot looked at me and was really frozen for a moment. It looked like he must have recognised me too and hurriedly pushed his way through the crowd and came in.
“What are you doing here?”
Spotty asked me hurriedly.
“What’s the matter Spotty, this brat, you know him?” The slatternly Rico just rushed ah and asked.
Spotty nodded and said, “Yeah. This one is with Brother Cao. If it’s not a big deal, just forget it. It’s not good to surround Brother Cao’s men, if Brother Cao blames us, we’ll all be in trouble.”
As soon as he heard that, his face suddenly changed and he hurriedly told the people on the side to disperse.
“Eh ah, why didn’t you say you were with Brother Cao? It’s just like a big flood washed over the Dragon King Temple, a family!” The attitude of the plate inch head towards me also instantly became more attentive. This sudden change made Hua froze for a moment, and he looked at me with suspicion.
As I listened to the slattern, I replied, “The point is that you guys didn’t ask just now.”
“Eh, it’s really my fault! Dongzi, hurry up and make some tea and serve!” Slab Inch Head then hurriedly said. As he spoke, he hurriedly took out two packs of cigarettes from his pocket, one pack of SP200 for twenty dollars and one pack of Blue Wolf for seven dollars. He tossed the Blue Wolves onto the table and took the SP200 to me and Wah to disperse the cigarettes.
I wasn’t much of a smoker, but I took his cigarettes anyway.
“Forget it, there’s no need for tea. We just came over to remind you guys not to go after that fat boss.”
Wah said and stood up.
“It’s no problem. It’s all a small matter, don’t worry guys!” Slate was straight away agreeing.
“By the way, what happened last night …… was a misunderstanding. You and Brother Cao are so close, so I’ll have to trouble you to put in a good word for me in front of Brother Cao when the time comes.” Little Spot smiled solicitously and then spoke to me.
To this, I was agreeable.
What followed was us, after we left the shop. The way Wah looked at me was a bit strange, but he didn’t say or ask anything, he just took me with him to the small shop where Guo Xuefu was now. Guo Xuefu was in front of the shop, waiting anxiously for us to return.
When she saw that we had returned safely, she said with a sigh of relief, “You guys are really slow. If you had been any later, I really would have had to call the police!”
“Is that such an exaggeration?”
I said with a chuckle.
“Of course!” Guo Xuefu said in all seriousness.
“Alright, alright, let’s go home.” Hua said just to lead us away.
But it was as we were walking back that my phone suddenly rang.
It was an unmarked number.
“Hello?”
“Jin Chao is it? It’s me, Guan Dongxuan.”
