“There are too many people here, someone must have seen what I look like. I’m afraid that tomorrow the whole Green Dragon Gang will know my true identity.” Zhao Zichen took a deep breath, “There’s a lot of trouble.”
“Can’t care about that much now. Jiang Ming, the old fox, has one set after another, even if he can’t force you to die today, he’ll make your identity known, it’s not easy enough for us to get our lives back.”
The fire smoked up the crowd and the firemen told us all to get into ambulances, the young lad called Erdog was rushed to hospital, while the rest of us, who could still breathe, waited for the next batch.
Baldy came over to me with Chu Xiaoxiao who had woken up. Chu Xiaoxiao was so angry that her eyes were red and she raised her hand to hit me, I subconsciously shrank my head but quickly got it under control and tilted my face to let her hit me, I was wrong this time, I admit my punishment.
Who knew that Chu Xiaoxiao did not slap down this time, huffed and said, “You are to save someone, I do not hit you.”
I looked at her this angry and pitiful look, my heart tickled, hugged her straight rub, who knows she stomped on the back of my foot violently: “But you risked your life, this thing I thought or angry!”
“I won’t be able to do that in the future, my lady, please spare my life.”
“Remember, your life is mine, do you hear me?”
“Yes, I understand.
Chu Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes and saw that I was really alright, before she snorted and turned from crying to laughing.
Just in time for the ambulance to arrive, all of us got into the ambulance and were taken to the hospital together.
Zhao Zichen and the others were not seriously injured, but the knife wound on my hand was very serious and needed to be cleared.
The hospital was very quiet late at night and the surgeon was carefully cleaning my wound.
Zhao Zichen knocked on the door and, seeing that I was still tending to the wound, whispered, “I’ll do it.”
The surgeon handed him the tweezers and then consciously opened the door and went out. Zhao Zichen took a look at Chu Xiaoxiao who was leaning on me and dozing, and let out a long sigh, “The plan failed?”
I also had to nod helplessly, “Baldy told you all about it?”
“Baldy said that Zhao Zichen’s target from the very beginning was not me, he was aiming for you from the very beginning. I really didn’t expect that he would see through the set-up we made at first glance. I had only heard that this man was resourceful, but I just didn’t expect him to be as wise as a demon. For the first time, I felt frustrated that perhaps with my Red Lantern Society, I really wasn’t a match for his Green Dragon Gang.”
I had never seen Zhao Zichen so frustrated.
“It’s not that he has calculated our innings. Rather, he planned every step of the way extremely well, and as soon as we entered his trap, we would be trapped no matter what choice we made. This man always has one trick followed by another, and the layers are endless. He really is a very difficult character to deal with.”
In fact, I wasn’t feeling much better than Zhao Zichen.
I had originally fantasised in my mind about the day I would fight Jiang Ming, I just thought he was a smart rich kid, probably a Chen Yu Zhou with a bit of an IQ.
I knew that revenge would be difficult and that Jiang Ming would never be an easy man to deal with.
But it was only today that I came face-to-face with Jiang Ming and saw his terrifying schemes, his perverted personality and his incredibly powerful second uncle.
We could only match Jiang Ming in terms of intelligence, but in terms of martial arts, Baldy and I together might not be as good as a finger of Jiang Ming’s second uncle.
I told Zhao Zichen about what had happened in Jiang Ming’s villa, especially his second uncle.
“I’ve stayed in the army for too long, I’ve only heard about things in the jianghu, but I really don’t know anything specific.”
I guessed that Zhao Zichen should know, otherwise he wouldn’t have asked Baldy to be his personal bodyguard.
Zhao Zichen let out a long sigh, “Hey, the thing I was most worried about still happened. When we planned to a*sa*sinate Jiang Ming, I was worried that his second uncle would come back, I didn’t expect our luck to be so bad, the more we fear, the more things come.”
“Who the hell is his second uncle? A light leaf would have slapped a big slap on Jiang Ming’s face.”
“Jiang Yunqing studied in the Void Danger School when he was young, and later travelled to the four corners of the world, his whereabouts always evanescent. But this man is extremely protective, and it is said that when someone tried to kill Jiang Ming more than ten years ago, he was the one who advocated sending him away. I was most worried about his sudden return in this plan. It seems that it’s not that our plan was not well thought out, it’s really because God is not helping us.” He said with a bitter smile.
“It’s not like Jiang Ming didn’t lose anything this time. That arm of his is enough to feed him for two or three months. And his second uncle promised me that he wouldn’t let Jiang Ming come after us for revenge. If this man is true to his word, he can at least hold off Jiang Ming for a while.”
“Jiang Yunqing’s words are credible, but can he keep an eye on Jiang Ming every day? He only returns to the Jiang family once every few years. But you’re right, at least it can stall Jiang Ming for some days. Now that my identity is about to be exposed and the Green Dragon Gang and the Red Lantern Society have completely torn their faces apart, the time for a showdown will come sooner or later, we have to speed up our preparations.”
I laughed, “Jiang Ming is waiting for the day when Jiang Yunqing leaves, and so are we, waiting for him to leave.”
Zhao Zichen also smiled heartily, “As soon as Jiang Yunqing leaves, we’ll F**k him up. You’ve met with Jiang Ming, you’ve made some progress in your parents’ investigation, right?”
“Don’t mention it, the more we investigate, the messier it gets.”
Zhao Zichen was a smart man and knew I didn’t want to talk about it, so he didn’t ask any more questions.
By the time I had cleaned my wounds, it was almost dawn and Chu Xiaoxiao was so exhausted that she slept against me until dawn.
I was tired but couldn’t sleep and kept thinking about what Liu Rong and Jiang Ming had said.
It was certain that Jiang Ming had something to do with my parents’ car accident, but it was not certain whether he was responsible for the accident or not.
Now it seemed that Han Kun had something to do with my parents’ accident, as well as Gan Ling, who must also be in the know.
I couldn’t help but think of Han Kun’s attitude, and I was suspicious of why he had forbidden me to investigate the accident.
But why on earth?
If it was really about Han Kun, why on earth would he do that? Was it for money? No, he’s not that kind of person. For my mother? That’s even more unlikely, because my mother was also a victim of the car accident.
I really wanted to ask Han Kun what this was all about! But he’s missing now, so where can I ask him?
I suddenly had a bewildering feeling, as if I had been swept into the black centre of a huge vortex, surrounded by untold troubles and dusty secrets that I hadn’t anticipated in the first place.
I was surprised by the social news the next day, because the firefight between the Green Dragon Gang and the Red Lantern Club had gotten so big that it had alerted the higher government, and the provincial department had bypa*sed the Tong City Municipal Bureau and set up a direct anti-triad office to carry out an unbelievably strict anti-triad campaign in Tong City.
This had little effect on the Red Lantern Club, which was already secretive and low-profile, and Zhao Zichen had already planned to recuperate the Red Lantern Club for some time.
However, the Green Dragon Gang was too big to lose, and although Jiang Ming had issued an order for everyone to keep a low profile, the gang was used to being arrogant and did not take the Anti-Triad Office into account.
