“Stop where you are! What do you know?”
How could he suddenly mention Jiang Ming? And how did he know that I was going to deal with Jiang Ming? Now even I wasn’t sure if Jiang Ming was the murderer of my parents or not, so how could he be so sure.
Zhao Zichen, this fox, he was by no means mentioning this casually.
I rolled out of bed and went after him, telling him to stop, but he just ignored me.
D*mn it, I had to grit my teeth and chase him out, even though I knew he was trying to make a move. The bait he was holding was something I really needed!
If I hadn’t been injured, or if this guy wasn’t Zhao Gongluan’s son, I could have broken his leg with a teacup so he couldn’t have run away.
“Stand still.”
He hadn’t run out the door for a few steps when Chu Xiaoxiao’s brittle voice rang out.
I didn’t expect Chu Xiaoxiao to stop Zhao Zichen at all, but to my surprise, Zhao Zichen actually backtracked with his hands raised above his head.
“Go back and sit still.” Chu Xiaoxiao took her phone, which was still recording, and shook it at Zhao Zichen, “Don’t you mess around.”
Zhao Zichen C*cked his head and said, “Beauty, you know who I am and you still dare to threaten me with this? Aren’t you afraid that I will retaliate against you?”
Chu Xiaoxiao was a bit flustered and threw her phone to me. I looked at the recording time and guessed that she had secretly recorded outside when I was talking to Zhao Zichen just now.
Chu Xiaoxiao shivered and said, “If you dare to retaliate against me, I will definitely publish your identity.”
A cold light clouded Zhao Zichen’s eyes and he said in a cold voice, “You dare to threaten me, through a door, you might not have recorded anything. If you really didn’t record anything, your father will receive your corpse tomorrow.”
He had been playful earlier, but at that moment, the grim tone was unnerving, a completely different person from the usual shapeless doctor.
Zhao Zichen turned his head to look at me and said with a smile, “Zhang Chao, you wouldn’t want to be an enemy with me. Give me your phone, I’ll delete it, and whether you recorded anything or not, I’ll pretend this didn’t happen.”
I held the phone in my hand with a backhand, “Then sit down and talk to me about Jiang Ming.”
I knew he was trying to use Jiang Ming as bait to get me to join the Red Light Society, but there was no way in hell I was going to join any triad society, or I would be ashamed of the uniform I once wore.
Zhao Zichen had always been very clever, and he had never been the only one who had counted on others, not when he was counted.
“You’re threatening me with this recording? Are you tired of living?”
I stood up and looked him in the eye, I threw the phone to Chu Xiaoxiao, clenched my fist and said in a cold voice, “Think clearly before you speak.”
Zhao Zichen’s eyes quickly shrank back, he looked down and thought for a moment, when he raised his head again, he had already changed into a smiling face, “Chao, our fathers are good friends, there is no need to be so stiff, ask whatever you want to ask directly, we can discuss it.”
Zhao Zichen knew very little about Jiang Ming, although each of these two men was the head of two major gangs in Tong City, the king did not see the king and they had not dealt with each other.
Before Jiang Ming came back, the leader of the Green Dragon Gang was called Ge Yunfei, a man who turned out to be in the shipping business, a businessman who ran boats all the time and was full of banditry. Ge Yunfei was well respected by the Green Dragon Gang, this guy had no background in black and white, but he was a righteous man and treated his brothers with love and justice, if he had a bite to eat, the brothers under him would not starve.
“Ge Yunfei made a fortune running boats and gradually got all the Green Dragons to run boats, leaving some really lazy guys to look after the territory in Tongcheng. But at that time, the Qinglong Gang had money, and they didn’t care about the protection fees they collected, and they watched the turf, not for money, but more for the sake of maintaining the face of the Qinglong Gang.”
I said, “That’s a good guy, from what you’ve said.”
Zhao Zichen went on to tell me that at that time, the whole of the city obeyed the Green Dragon Gang, and even the government gave Ge Yunfei face. Ge Yunfei was a righteous and heroic man with long sleeves, and he had a lot of friendships with government officials, and the officials couldn’t thank him enough for keeping the triads under his control and doing their jobs.
Zhao Zichen’s face was gloomy, and several times he took out a cigarette to smoke, but suddenly remembered that this was a ward and he could not smoke.
I asked, “Is Ge Yunfei still the leader of the Green Dragon Gang?”
Zhao Zichen gave a bitter smile, “Not anymore.”
“Then where did he go?” A man with such a high prestige wouldn’t lose to Jiang Ming, and as I listened, I felt that Zhao Zichen admired this Ge Yunfei very much in his words, so he wouldn’t voluntarily give up the Qinglong Gang to someone like Jiang Ming, would he?
“Dead.”
I frowned, not expecting to get this answer.
After a moment of silence, Zhao Zichen said, “He died three years ago, after that the Green Dragon Gang split into two, part of the brothers came out and created their own Red Lantern Club, the other part stayed, the current Green Dragon Gang. The old gang leader died from drink driving and his car fell into the lake and drowned. But only I knew that was a lie. He was not a drunk driver, he had liver disease and could not drink. Also, I did his autopsy, mechanical asphyxiation, he …… was strangled to death.”
Chu Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but let out an ah, and all three people in the ward fell silent.
Zhao Zichen’s eyes were red, the muscles in his cheeks twitching from the pain he was enduring, and he pursed his lips and didn’t speak for a long time.
Drink driving, drink driving again, it’s too much of a coincidence that my dad couldn’t drink either, yet he died from drink driving.
It was like a big rock in my throat: “Could Jiang Ming have done it too?”
“I don’t know.” Zhao Zichen let out a long sigh and tilted his head, “This autopsy report, in the end, was not used. The city said that there was something wrong with my test report and had to walk the body for a new test. By the time I got the new report, it was already three days later, and it said drowning death, I knew it was faked and asked for the body to be retested, but the guys told me that the body had already been cremated.”
“Sh*t! Same Sh*t that was done to my dad!”
I couldn’t help myself and threw a kick at the coffee table, the loud sound startled Chu Xiaoxiao, I had mixed feelings and hurriedly said sorry to Chu Xiaoxiao.
Chu Xiaoxiao said, “The police are so lawless?”
Zhao Zichen had a lump in his throat and laughed hard, “You two, you must have wondered why I, a good doctor, had to become a gangster. It’s simple, studying medicine can’t save the people of Tongcheng. Well, I’m just kidding. If I were a doctor, what could I do? I can only be at the mercy of others, and I can’t take over for my respected big brother when he is being blackmailed, I can’t take over for him ……”
By the end of his sentence, he was panting like an ox and had a hard time calming down.
“Did Jiang Ming kill him?” I asked.
Zhao Zichen shook his head, “I don’t know, but after Big Brother died, the position of head of the Green Dragon Gang has been vacant, and I heard that it was left to wait for Jiang Ming to return. Later the Red Lantern Society split out and has been at odds with the Green Dragon Gang, now Jiang Ming has really come back, Big Brother’s death was in his best interest, he must have something to do with it!”
I really didn’t expect that the Red Lantern Society and the Green Dragon Gang had such a past. Zhao Zichen had great respect for Ge Yunfei, and I’m afraid he wanted revenge in the same way as I did.
Zhao Zichen said, “Zhang Chao, your enemy is Jiang Ming, and so am I. Why don’t the two of us join forces?”
