Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 106

The next morning...

The four of them got up very early and ordered a table of local specialties in a private room at the guesthouse.

Sitting there chatting idly and smoking cigarettes to kill time, waiting for spring to arrive.

Just then, Li Chunlai walked in carrying a wooden box.

"Hey, Chunlai, you're here!"

"Come, come, sit down!"

Because of the box of antiques, the fat man was especially polite to Li Chunlai and quickly stood up to greet him.

But his eyes were fixed on the wooden box, shining brightly, and he refused to look away even for a moment.

Li Chunlai, however, couldn't take his eyes off the meat on the table, and kept swallowing.

However, thinking of the precious food in my hands, I managed to suppress my appetite.

I downed a glass of beer.

"I've brought all of this. Could you gentlemen give me an estimate?"

As she spoke, she took the complete pair of embroidered shoes out of the box and placed them on the dining table.

Hu Ming glanced inside and saw that there were quite a few good things in the box.

The jewelry, including gold bracelets, jade thumb rings, gold hairpins, and hair ornaments, are mostly small items from the Ming Dynasty.

If they are all genuine, then they are rare and exquisite pieces.

The two brothers, Hu Bayi and Hu Ming, watched with amusement as the group bargained.

Just then, a waiter came in and served the food.

"Mingzi, do you see that? These two are acting strangely! They're exchanging glances."

Hu Bayi keenly noticed the exchange of glances between the waiter and Li Chunlai, and became somewhat wary.

"I see, it's probably being used in multiple ways to cook one fish!"

"They tricked the buyer with the real stuff, but once they saw the money, they cut it off immediately!"

Hu Ming made a throat-slitting gesture.

"Then we need to find a chance to slip away!"

"We can't just leave everyone here without getting the job done!"

Hu Bayi was getting anxious. He knew Hu Ming had a gun, but they were all in town, and if he opened fire, they would probably all be in jail.

"It's okay, watch me."

Hu Ming slowly swallowed the food in his mouth and drank a glass of wine.

Not to mention Ma Dadan and his gang, who have hunting rifles, there's also that idiot second brother.

Damn, playing with homemade bombs all the time is actually a bit dangerous.

Pity……

With a sigh, Hu Ming stood up and looked at Fatty Big Gold Tooth and Li Chunlai.

"Ahem, Fatty, Boss Jin, can you stop for a second and listen to me?"

After getting Fatty Gold Tooth's consent, Hu Ming looked at Li Chunlai, feeling an indescribable disgust.

I feel like I need to find a chance to teach this bastard a lesson!
“Mr. Li, what about your things? I just glanced at them and looked them over. They are mostly small items from the Ming Dynasty. I have a general idea of ​​what they are.”

"Let's not go through this process one by one; it's troublesome and a waste of time."

"Do you think this will work?"

"We'll take all of these! I'll give you a round number."

"One price, ten thousand!"

"Do you think this is okay?"

As he spoke, Hu Ming gave Big Gold Tooth a subtle look.

Big Gold Tooth, having spent so much time in Panjiayuan, sensed something was amiss and readily agreed.

As for the fat guy?
At that moment, all I could hear in my head was the promise of 10,000 yuan. The look on his face was priceless! He was completely dumbfounded.

"Brother Chunlai, please excuse my poor appearance."

"My brother here has never seen so many good things before, he's a little excited!"

"How about this, we take him back to his room to rest first."

Hu Bayi was delighted to see this.

"Isn't this a perfect excuse to get away?" said the man with the cold. "Also, let's go get some money while we're at it!" Hu Ming and Big Gold Tooth chimed in from the side.

With that, the three of them helped the fat man out of the private room.

"Hurry, hurry!"

Only Li Chunlai, who was overjoyed, was left inside tidying up his antiques, eating and drinking.

The room was in an uproar. As soon as he entered, the fat man couldn't contain himself and shouted indignantly, "What's going on? What are you doing?"

"Ten thousand? Mingzi, that's ten thousand! That's a lot of money!"

"Alright, enough talk, pack your things, let's get out of here!"

Helpless, Hu Bayi briefly explained the situation to Fatty, hurriedly packed his luggage, and slipped out of the guesthouse through the window.

Before leaving, Hu Ming glanced back at the guesthouse.

A cold laugh escaped his lips. Multiple uses for one fish?
Just wait, I'll have plenty of opportunities to take you all down later!
Outside Gulan County, Hu Ming led Lao Hu and the others through a maze of twists and turns, slipping out of the county town without incident.

After most of the day, led by Hu Ming, the group had reached a somewhat remote place outside the county town.

Not far ahead, there appears to be a residential house.

"No, Akiko, what are we doing here?"

Fatty, Hu Bayi, and Big Gold Tooth exchanged puzzled glances, somewhat confused about Hu Ming's meaning.

Hu Ming snorted: "I ask you, are you really willing to accept being fooled by that bastard Li Chunlai?"

"Completely willing? How could I possibly accept that!"

"I've never suffered such a loss in my entire life!"

"That bastard looks honest and simple on the surface, but I never expected him to be full of bad intentions."

Upon hearing this, the fat man spat fiercely and said menacingly.

"Mingzi, do you mean you know the headquarters of the group that's chasing us?" Hu Ming asked thoughtfully.

"Do you remember what Li Chunlai said about Ma Dadan's coffin shop?"

"There's no such thing as a coincidence in this world. Lightning struck the coffin shop, the person was struck dead, and the coffin shop burned down."

"Is it only that one box of funerary objects that is completely intact?" Hu Ming said calmly.

"Wait, Mingzi, you mean...that group of people are Ma Dadan and his gang?"

"Then, where is this?" Hu Bayi suddenly realized. If that's the case, then it makes sense!
"That's right, this is Ma Dadan's coffin shop."

"I have one redeeming quality: I never let revenge linger overnight..."

"It's been almost half a day since this morning, and Ma Dadan and his dozen or so brothers can't find us. They must have gone back to the coffin shop."

“Perfect, let’s take them all down!” Hu Ming pointed to the coffin shop not far away, took off his backpack, and sneered.

“But Master Ming, according to you, there are about ten of them.”

"Moreover, in this remote and impoverished area, they might have hunting rifles, homemade bombs, or something similar."

"Are we just going to rush in like this? We might get taken care of before we even get inside!"

Big Gold Tooth hesitated for a moment, then looked at the three who were clearly interested and couldn't help but speak up.

"Haha, don't worry, Mr. Jin. Didn't you see the confident look on Mr. Ming's face?"
"Mingzi definitely had this planned in advance!"

Hu Bayi patted Big Gold Tooth on the shoulder and looked at Hu Ming expectantly.

Just as Hu Ming said, they really couldn't swallow this insult!
"One for each person, throw them over the wall!"

"After that, it will be time to settle old scores and grievances."

Hu Ming chuckled and took out four small items from his bag, tossing them to the group.

"Holy crap! A grenade!?"

"Akiko, what... what happened to you..."

"What a coincidence! This stuff is perfect for dealing with those bastards!"

When Hu Bayi saw what was in his hand, he rubbed his eyes hard to make sure he wasn't seeing things or making a mistake, before exclaiming in a low voice.

He hadn't expected Hu Ming to have this thing; it was something from the armory at Niuxin Mountain.

"You don't need to worry about that. Anyway, four grenades are enough to incapacitate the people inside."

"It wasn't convenient to take it out in the county town before, but now? Ha! This area is deserted, let's just go for it!"

The group quietly crept up to the vicinity of the courtyard wall, then glanced at the positions of the people inside the courtyard, exchanged a look, silently counted to three on their fingers, pulled off the rings, and threw the items into the courtyard.

The courtyard wasn't large, and the four of them had roughly calculated the area where they threw the trash, enough to cover the entire courtyard without harming Zhang Dadan and the others.

(End of this chapter)