How did they get to this place?
I haven’t been to this place since the last time I came here to see the thoughtless mountain.
I called Ayu from a public phone again, “You can’t be mistaken, are you? Are they both really at 258 Dongshan Road?”
“Yeah, 258 Dongshan Road, that’s what Brother Baldy and I said.”
I looked up to see that there did seem to be a light on upstairs, at this time of day the surrounding shops were closed and it was pitch black, the light on above the wood-fired wonton stood out.
What was this? Could it be that Shi Sheng’s last restaurant was Chai Huo Wonton?
It didn’t matter whether Chai Huo Hundun was black or white, what mattered was Lao Mo.
At that time, I trusted Lao Mo, and there was no conflict of interest between him and I. That’s why I trusted him with the mountain.
But now Mo is also part of the criminal chain of arms trafficking, and we are in two positions.
This wood-fired ravioli is not as tightly guarded as the Night Incense, but in fact it is even more brick and mortar than the Night Incense, and Old Mo alone can make it impossible for those inside to get out and those outside to get in.
It was useless for me to sneak upstairs. A master’s senselessness is so strong that even if a mouse entered the wood-fired ravioli, Lao Mo would have sensed it.
“sh*t, what the hell, where are you people?”
“I’m still wandering around outside. I’m afraid someone is watching me to check my identity.”
“Kid’s pretty good at counter-surveillance, all right, keep in touch.”
There was no point in sneaking in anyway, so I simply went in through the front door with a straight face.
One only had to look at the reaction of the waiter-boy to see what the stance of the Chai Ravioli was.
“Yo, one of you? Upstairs and downstairs?”
There wasn’t much business left in the evening, and the junior sat bored playing a game, seeing me enter quite openly.
“Not closing this late?”
“We’re an all-night wonton shop.” Xiao Er licked his lips and glanced out the door to see that no one was there before he said to me, “Lao Mo told you to go up.”
I froze for a moment, “Lao Mo, how is that possible?”
Because the rumour was that I had been killed in Tongcheng recently, so how could Lao Mo still have asked Xiao Er to give me a message?
This couldn’t be a trap, could it.
But even if it was a trap, if Old Mo really stood against me, I couldn’t beat him.
In that case anyway, I might as well go up and see what Zhao Zichen and Shi Sheng were up to.
I said, “Where is Old Mo? Is he upstairs? I remember he lives here.”
Xiao Er looked at me like I was crazy, “It’s already late, Lao Mo has already gone to bed, an old man can’t stay up like us, come with me.”
I was taken to the first floor, and after thinking about it, I asked, “Why does Old Mo know I’m still alive?”
“Aren’t you alive and well?”
“You don’t know the rumours from two days ago?”
“What rumours? We do business every day, where do we go to know what’s going on outside. You just sit in the next booth. Old Mo has explained that the night is dark and windy, the day of killing and exterminating, you care about killing him and burying him.” Xiao Er said, taking his hand and making a killing gesture to me.
I pressed his hand: “Come on, killing is against the law, I’ll just go up and take a look. Old Mo doesn’t know the rumour that I’m dead, but he knows I’m going to deal with these two?”
“Who knows, the old man is a god all day long.” Junior said.
I was speechless for a moment and followed him into the next booth.
In this booth I could eavesdrop on the sounds of the next door, and the most exaggerated thing was that Junior had turned on the TV in the booth for me, and there was a surveillance screen of the next door booth.
“Take your time to watch, I’ll go first.”
This surveillance had a picture, but there was no sound. Xiao Er put down the remote control and was about to leave, just then, we both looked at the picture on the TV and were dumbfounded.
Zhao Zichen came around behind Shi Sheng and patted Shi Sheng’s shoulder, the two looked very friendly, when Zhao Zichen jerked out his dagger and stabbed Shi Sheng in the waist from behind.
Shi Sheng covered his waist and staggered to his feet, pointing at Zhao Zichen, who was expressionless, wiping his hands with a wet tissue on the table.
Looking at Baldy’s slight surprise, he hadn’t expected this either.
Xiao Er and I rushed next door and Zhao Zichen was not surprised by my arrival.
“What’s going on here?!”
Zhao Zichen said, “I’ve got the address of the deal and how to do it. Tomorrow I’m going straight to one of Shi Sheng’s factories, and one of his men will take me to the trading location. Are your men ready?”
I was so dumbfounded that I couldn’t speak for a long time… He was acting! He was actually acting.
The knife was still lodged in Shi Sheng’s waist and he was covering it and trying to pull it out.
“Don’t you move around. The knife I just stabbed just above your kidney, now the knife just blocked the wound, it won’t cause heavy bleeding for the time being, you can still linger for a while. If you pull out the knife now, the gods won’t be able to save you.”
I don’t know if it was because of the loss of blood, or because he was frightened by Zhao Zichen, Shi Sheng’s lips even turned white.
“You’re so vicious, you’ve been acting! Zhang Chao, do you believe he was acting? He didn’t hesitate at all to shoot you that day.”
It was better if I didn’t mention it, but I also felt a thump in my heart because of that shot, which made me completely think he wasn’t acting.
Zhao Zichen smiled coyly: “It’s a good act, soldiers never tire of deception.”
I patted him on the shoulder and then, when he wasn’t looking, gave him a hooked punch in the stomach and said, without a good word, “You f*cking idiot.”
Baldy just ignored it, because he too had been tricked by Zhao Zichen, and I guess deep down he wanted to give Zhao Zichen a punch too.
I said to Shi Sheng, “Not to mention you’ve been fooled, both me and Baldy have been fooled. You didn’t lose out at the hands of a master movie star like this, so give an account.”
In fact, even if Zhao Zichen didn’t use the scheme, Cai Xiaobing would definitely be able to get the exact information for tomorrow’s deal tonight, and Shi Sheng wouldn’t even notice.
But Zhao Zichen’s trick was so terrible that he played it so that all of us thought he had jumped the gun, and even his best buddies thought he was going to start making and selling arms.
What kind of fool is Shi Sheng? How could he be Zhao Zichen’s match?
He was surrounded by a few of us and had nowhere to run, and he couldn’t beat us.
He had probably never been so frustrated in his life.
“I should have thought that you and that Cai Xiaobing were here for the gun. I was too careless. Accountant Gongsun advised me not to bother with you, but I thought you were the young proprietor of Junran …… and never thought you would harm me! And you, Zhao Zichen, you two are more shameless than maggots in a cesspit! I treated you like a brother, but you set out to deceive me!”
Although it was not going to kill him for the moment, that knife also restricted Shi Sheng’s movement.
Xiao Er moved a chair and sat down, taking the melon seeds on the coffee table and watching while getting high, not caring at all that there was a man on the scene who was almost four, and he asked Baldy if he was high on melon seeds.
Zhao Zichen blocked me, let me wait, he walked to Shi Sheng, said: “Speaking of harm, you still remember Sun Qiaoqiao? You know her name, don’t you, don’t tell me you don’t even know her name after gang-raping a girl.”
Shi Sheng struggled backwards, “What, are you here to avenge Sun Qiaoqiao? Stop making excuses, your Red Lantern Society has been after our Green Dragon Gang for a long time. Zhao Zichen, you are a villain, you have cooperated with the cops for the sake of your own gang, you have broken the rules of the road, you shall not be allowed to die.”
