Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Green Gang

Zhang Xiaoxi angrily started:

"Who knows, I’ll go to the Public Security Bureau later and check... Don’t steal my bun, buy your own!"

"I helped you carry that big fridge last night, what’s wrong with eating a bun?"

"It’s not a fridge! It’s not a fridge!"

They bickered for a while.

Zhang Xiaoxi lay limply on the sofa, crossing her legs:

"How are Uncle and Aunt doing recently?"

"They’re doing great, the old couple went to the Dongling Snow Mountain for a vacation, they’re enjoying their time together."

Zhang Fusheng leaned back on the sofa, disdainfully pushing away Zhang Xiaoxi’s foot that was next to his head:

"By the way, Sister Xixi, do you want to sign the contract this afternoon or tomorrow? But it’s not urgent, I might have to stay in Dragon Boat City for another three to five days."

Zhang Xiaoxi was displeased, kicking Zhang Fusheng repeatedly:

"Why stay so long! Having another man in the house is really awkward..."

Zhang Fusheng rolled his eyes.

"Forget it, I’m not talking to you," Zhang Xiaoxi sat up, putting on her slippers, "I’m heading to the Public Security Bureau to find out what’s going on with Dad and the others, are you coming?"

"I have some things to do, I’ll go out in a bit too... I’ll call you later, if it’s not finished I’ll come find you at the Public Security Bureau."

With that, Zhang Fusheng glanced at his little cousin with her disheveled hair, kicking around in slippers:

"Are you really going out like that?"

"What’s wrong with it?" Zhang Xiaoxi was smug, "Born beautiful, can’t help it, just like this your sister can still charm a bunch of people, alright?"

"I’m the city belle of Dragon Boat City!"

"You’re a ghost, alright!"

Watching his little cousin bounce out the door, Zhang Fusheng shook his head, this guy...

The phone rang at this moment, a series of messages.

Curiously, he opened it, only to find Zhu Xiaoming had pulled him into a group chat,

The group wasn’t big, including him there were only four people, all acquaintances.

Zhu Xiaoming, Lu Yao, and Zhong Yue.

The three were chatting enthusiastically.

Zhang Fusheng glanced at it, they were all over the place, one moment discussing how to improve the milk tea business,

the next chatting about the Jiang Banquet, and which big names were invited by Lishu Middle School,

A while later, they started talking about where to play lately.

Zhu Xiaoming tagged Zhang Fusheng.

Zhu Xiaoming: Old Zhang, is Dragon Boat City fun?

Zhang Fusheng: Not fun

Zhu Xiaoming: Oh, I heard from Zhong Yue her family is also in Dragon Boat City, thought it might be fun.

Zhong Yue: They didn’t go to have fun, they went to fight over my grandpa’s house there.

The group chat fell silent for a moment.

Zhang Fusheng was surprised, Zhong Yue’s family?

Just in time, he planned to deal with it after returning to Jiangzhou City.

Back then, when trading with Zhong Mountain, Zhang Fusheng voluntarily added to the trade content to help him clean house,

Zhong Mountain’s sons and daughters are indeed not good people, calling them beasts isn’t an exaggeration.

Zhu Xiaoming shifted the topic, sending another message in the group.

’By the way, Old Zhang, let me tell you, yesterday a guest came to our milk tea shop, guess who it was?’

Zhang Fusheng: I guess it was Chen Nuanyu.

Lu Yao: Huh? Old Zhang, how did you know Chen the Great Genius came?

Zhang Fusheng: I asked her to bring me some milk tea, she’s in Dragon Boat City now too.

The small group chat fell into silence.

Zhang Fusheng happily put away his phone, the feeling of being subtly sophisticated is really nice.

......

Peace Hotel.

Sitting on a large chair, Zhang Fusheng quietly watched Lu Mingzhu receiving punishment.

The red stick, a solid iron rod as thick as a bowl, dark and reddish—obviously from accumulated old bloodstains.

Eighty hits with the red stick, that’s twenty on the legs, forty on the buttocks, and twenty on the back,

beaten until the skin splits, bones fracture, and flesh is mangled,

then comes three knives and six svices, a slender blunt knife, pressed against the flesh cracked by the red stick, slowly pressed in, until fully ’squeezed’ out from the other side of the flesh.

This kind of pain, just watching is chilling.

Yet Lu Mingzhu didn’t utter a sound.

Zhang Fusheng sipped his tea, tasteless, watching Lu Mingzhu who was gasping more than breathing on the punishment bed, calmly said:

"Compared to your punishment, how does this feel?"

Standing beside him, Chen Nuanyu replied:

"Not even one or two tenths of mine."

Several of Lu Mingzhu’s loyal subordinates glared angrily.

Zhang Fusheng maintained his usual calm:

"Apply medicine for Manager Lu... Xiao Chen, are you saying Huang Zhongxiao is dead?"

"Dead."

"Who killed him?"

"I don’t know, just turned into white dust right in front of me."

Zhang Fusheng glanced at the wooden box on the table, inside was a pile of powder.

He remained expressionless:

"Is there really such a strange thing? If you’re unwilling to speak, once we return to Jiangzhou, you’ll have to visit ’that place’ again."

He was referring to his master’s Divine Realm, that Purgatory.

Chen Nuanyu slightly trembled but remained silent, not revealing a single bit about that mysterious old man.

"Alright then."

Zhang Fusheng put down the teacup and walked up to Lu Mingzhu, crouching down.

Her body was already smeared with special ointment and injected with expensive medicine, the broken bones were quickly mending, the injuries rapidly alleviating, yet the pain was not diminished at all,

she was silently enduring it, clenching her teeth.

Zhang Fusheng asked:

"How much power can Peace Hotel mobilize in Dragon Boat City?"

With difficulty, the woman squeezed words through her grit teeth:

"Not even one-tenth compared to Jiangzhou."

Zhang Fusheng continued:

"In Dragon Boat City, which gate or family is doing the Star Beast meat business?"

"Many, but mainly it’s the Green Gang."

"Do they have a lot of goods?"

"I don’t know, Green Gang and Peace Hotel are like fire and water."

Listening to Lu Mingzhu’s words, Zhang Fusheng frowned, Green Gang...

Someone handed him information, he briefly browsed through it, gaining a rough understanding of the Green Gang.

It’s merely similar to Chai Gate’s underground forces, except they don’t deal in drugs, everything else is involved, closely connected with the Dragon Boat Public Security Bureau.

Although Dragon Boat City is said to be the city with the best public security in the entire Golden Province,

it’s only relative.

And although Green Gang is far inferior to Chai Gate, they still have nearly ten offerings of Six Refinements or above,

the leader’s surname is Du, first name unknown, referred to as Mr. Du, he himself is a Twelve Refinements Great Martial Artist.

"Quite troublesome..."

Zhang Fusheng muttered to himself, a Twelve Refinements Great Martial Artist, with power exceeding 108,000 pounds, his skin, muscles, and bones have become extraordinary, standing in front of a box of explosives, letting it explode would only make his ’clothes a little dirty’.

Even if he uses all his tactics, even employing the Divine Realm, at most he could trap and intimidate the opponent, breaking through the defense would be difficult to estimate.

"This is what we’ll do, initially procure a large amount of Star Beast meat through legitimate channels, particularly searching for species other than ’One-Horned Giant Rhinoceros’, for funding, use the hotel’s money first, I’ll send more within a month."

Zhang Fusheng calmly instructed,

The power of Peace Hotel in Dragon Boat is far inferior to Jiangzhou, but for him, it’s even more advantageous than in Jiangzhou.

In Jiangzhou City, he claims to be the ’fourth boss’, but neither master brother’s Peace Hotel nor second martial sister’s Money Shop would listen to him.

He didn’t trust those two either.

Instead, in Dragon Boat City, Zhang Fusheng could act with open hands.

"Additionally, investigate this person, Zhong Chengshi, he should have arrived from Jiangzhou in the past few days, perhaps accompanied by family members, I need their details and locations."

"Got it. These two matters, work on them promptly, give me feedback today."

Having arranged everything, Zhang Fusheng got up and walked out of Peace Hotel, Chen Nuanyu silently followed like an attendant.

"Did you bring Jiang University’s external transfer contract?"

"Yes, it’s with me."

Zhang Fusheng nodded and dialed a number for Sister Xixi.

’Sorry, the number you dialed is currently out of service, please try again later...’

He dialed his uncle next, still out of service.

His aunt’s side did connect though.

"Hello, Fusheng?" On the other end of the phone, his aunt’s weary, deeply worried voice came through.

Zhang Fusheng asked:

"Aunt, I can’t reach Uncle and Sister Xixi’s phones, has something happened?"

On the other end, Aunt took a deep breath:

"Nothing, just summoned by public security, I’m waiting at the Public Security Bureau, don’t worry... stay home for now."

Those were her words but the fear and anger in her tone almost overflowed.

After a moment of silence.

"I understand, Aunt."

He hung up the phone and, expressionless, flagged down a taxi.

"To the Public Security Bureau in the Fifth District, please drive as fast as you can."

(Due to the adjustment in update times, Monday night’s Chapter has been moved to midnight, so tomorrow, which is Monday night from 23:59 to 0:00 will also have three updates, this ensures all future times can be set to midnight.)

(ps: rounding off, isn’t that like adding more Chapters, hehe, asking for monthly votes!)

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