Hong Kong: Rise of the Kings.

Chapter 918 0906 [Loyalty and Righteousness Dilemma]

Tuen Mun, New Territories——
The hiding place of Zhongxinyi.

There were lightning and thunder.

The driver drove around Yip Wong Road in Tuen Mun and finally drove back to Tin Hau Temple Road.

At the intersection, Lian Haodong got out of the car with his younger brother Lian Haodong and two trusted men.

Lian Haolong was wrapped in bloody cloth, and blood was oozing out from time to time. It turned out that when he was escaping, he encountered Hong Yihai and his men and fought a bloody battle with them. He was seriously injured in order to protect his brothers and men.

Now his younger brother Lian Haodong is taking him to find a place where he can treat his injuries.

People of their status, who had caused such a big incident, could not possibly go to the hospital, as that would be tantamount to walking into a trap. So they came to Tianhou Temple Road, turned a corner and arrived at an old building, went up to the third floor, and there was a sign on the door that said "Master Wang's Bones and Traumatology Clinic".

"Master Wang! Master Wang!" Lian Haodong banged on the door hard.

Hong Kong's economy is getting better and better. Ordinary people have money and like to see Western doctors, or go to more regular hospitals for consultation. Few people patronize these old clinics.

Anyone who comes here to see a doctor is either a neighbor who wants to save money, or an older person who comes here because of its reputation. Young people rarely come to such places. In addition, it is a rainy day today, so Master Wang went to bed early.

Lian Haodong knocked for quite some time, but there was no response from inside.

Lian Haodong turned to the big brother Lian Haolong and said, "Hold on a little longer. It's probably raining hard outside and there's a lot of noise. He didn't hear you!" He then said to the two little brothers who were supporting the big brother, "Little ghost, Wutou, you two take good care of my big brother. Don't let him fall asleep!"

Lian Haolong smiled miserably upon hearing this, "What do you mean, are you afraid that I will fall into a deep sleep and never wake up?"

"No, that's not what I meant. What I meant was—" Lian Haodong hadn't finished his words when he heard the security door being pulled open. From inside, Master Wang's old face, which looked like dry tree bark, was revealed. His old eyes, which had more white than black, looked at them warily for a few times before he said, "What are you yelling for? Are you afraid that others won't hear you?"

Master Wang is a doctor secretly arranged by Zhong Yi Xin. He has superb medical skills and can cure almost any disease. He is known as the society's miracle doctor. Whenever brothers in the society are injured and it is inconvenient for them to seek medical treatment, they will be sent to him.

Lian Haodong opened his mouth and said, "Master Wang, I'm here to help the boss..."

Master Wang didn't listen to what Lian Haodong said. He reached out and pushed Lian Haodong away. He pulled Lian Haolong in front of him with one hand, turned his body over and took a look at the wound. He said calmly, "You have a rough skin and a strong body. This little injury is nothing. Just sew it up and bandage it with some medicine and it will be fine!"

"Oh, really? Thank you very much, Master Wang." Lian Haodong did not dare to act rashly in front of this "loyal and righteous" miracle doctor.

After Master Wang finished speaking, he moved aside to let the four people into the clinic. Then, with a few bangs, he locked the security door, turned off the lights in the foyer, and lit a few candles. Soon, the entire clinic was filled with flickering candlelight.

The entire clinic was very messy. On the walls were hung diagrams of acupuncture and moxibustion of the Twelve Bronze Men, diagrams of the human skeleton, and other medical content.

In addition, the shelves are filled with various clay pots and jars, as well as medicines such as herbal wine, powerful pills, and magic powder.

Master Wang arranged for Lian Haolong to sit on the examination chair, and Lian Haodong went to find a teacup to make tea for the boss. Lian Haolong had been bleeding for so long that his mouth was dry.

Master Wang took a medicine box from the shelf. It was a very antique box, and no one knew what it was made of, but it was very heavy.

Master Wang came to Lian Haolong with the box, looked at his wound again, and said to Lian Haolong who was serving tea, "Put the tea in the line, take your boss inside to clean the wound first."

"Eh? Aren't you helping with the cleaning?"

"I'm just a bonesetter, not a house nanny. Do you want me to help your boss take a bath?"

"Ahem, that's not necessary."

"That's good, go ahead! I need to sleep after I'm done!" Master Wang yawned and said, "Rainy days are the best time to sleep!" After saying that, he opened the wooden box by himself. Inside was neatly placed medicinal wine for traumatic injuries, various medicated gauze, and even medical scissors and catgut.

Master Wang picked up a bottle of alcohol and disinfected a hook knife and suture needle. He asked Lian Haolong, "Zhong Xinyi rarely encounters an opponent, and you rarely get hurt. Did you meet a tough opponent this time?"

"Yes, Hong Yihai!"

When Master Wang heard Hong Yihai, he paused for a moment, but continued immediately.

Lian Haolong saw it clearly, but he remained calm. He asked his younger brother Lian Haodong to help him take off his clothes, and said, "It seems that Master Wang also knows Hong Yihai?"

"Oh, I just heard that Hong Yihai has a bad guy who is as fierce as you!"

“That’s who I met.”

Master Wang smiled and said, "No wonder you got hurt. When two tigers fight, one of them is bound to get hurt."

Lian Haodong reluctantly took off his dirty underwear and walked to the bathroom next door with his upper body naked, supported by his younger brother Lian Haolong. Hearing what Master Wang said, he grinned and said, "If he didn't have the support of the police, it would be hard to predict who would live and who would die."

Master Wang didn't say anything else and just made preparations.

In the bathroom, Lian Haodong used a basin to connect the faucet.

Lian Haodong took out his wallet and cigarette case from his trouser pocket and put them aside, then lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth.

Soon, Lian Haodong filled a basin with water and took a towel to help the boss Lian Haolong wipe the blood stains.

"No need to go through so much trouble!" Lian Haolong snatched the basin of water, spat out the cigarette in his mouth, held the basin with both hands, and poured the water down from his shoulders!

"Boss!" Lian Haodong couldn't help but exclaim in surprise when he saw him like this.

"If I can't even tolerate this, how can I be your boss in the future?" Lian Haolong's face was pale and he smiled at Lian Haodong. The cold water made his body tense up uncontrollably, especially the refreshing feeling of the cold water hitting his wound, which made his teeth chatter.

Seeing his elder brother like this, Lian Haodong said no more. He quickly took a dry towel from the side and helped him wipe his body.

Lian Haolong gritted his teeth and stood there, enduring it.

"Boss, please bear with it! I'm heavy-handed!" Lian Haodong said as he wiped the dried blood on Lian Haolong's back with a towel.

“Hiss!” Lian Haolong couldn’t help but hiss in pain as the towel wiped his exposed flesh. “If you weren’t my younger brother, I would have hacked you to death long ago!”

Lian Haodong laughed: "I told you, my hands are heavy."

Lian Haolong gritted his teeth again until the blood on his body was almost wiped off. Lian Haodong took the towel, and then he took a deep breath, sweat breaking out on his forehead.

……

A moment——
"Are you done? I said you have to sleep after you're done!" Master Wang urged from outside.

Lian Haodong supported Lian Haolong and walked out, whispering to the boss: "If it weren't for his superb medical skills, I would break his legs! Why are you rushing him? Are you in a hurry to reincarnate?"

Lian Haolong curled his lips, "Don't let him hear this. You'll be fine later, but I'm afraid he'll use me as a target!"

Outside, Master Wang was using an alcohol lamp to burn scissors and suture needles. Seeing Lian Haolong coming back, Master Wang signaled Lian Haodong to move a stool in front of him and asked Lian Haolong to sit on it and expose his back to him. He then prepared to suture the wound directly without even any anesthetic.

"Relax. Your skin is so thick that stitches are a piece of cake. Just bear with it." Master Wang patted Lian Haolong on the back and told him to relax and not tense his muscles.

Lian Haolong took a few deep breaths and nodded to indicate that it was okay. Master Wang picked up the alcohol cotton and began to wipe the wound. The alcohol cotton came into contact with the exposed flesh, which was shocking and made people dare not look directly at it.

You have to know that alcohol is very irritating, and the feeling of it coming into contact with wounds is absolutely "wonderful". Not to mention anything else, ordinary people would feel extremely painful if they applied alcohol on a slight abrasion, let alone Lian Haolong's wound being so big?
At this time, Lian Haolong was sitting upright with his hands on his thighs, without any reaction, as if the wound that Master Wang was wiping was not his.

In fact, at this time he had already clenched his teeth so hard that they made a sound, and his hands were grabbing his thighs until they were almost bleeding, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead and back.

"If it hurts, just scream. Don't hold on!" Master Wang said to him, "As a big boss, face is important, but sometimes you have to take care of your body too."

Lian Haolong ignored him and still maintained a tough guy attitude.

His behavior made the little brother Lian Haolong, the little ghost and the headless three people admire him very much.

The boss is the boss!

No one can match this concentration!

Master Wang changed seven pieces of alcohol cotton before he finished wiping the wound. He picked up the hook scissors, passed the intestinal thread into the suture needle, and began to suture the wound.

If the pain from the alcohol cotton disinfection just now was relatively short, then the pain from suturing the wound was enough to drive people crazy. Lian Haolong, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but snort when the needle pierced his skin!
"That's right! Scream out if it hurts! Don't hold on!"

Master Wang held the suture needle in his hand steadily. He heard Lian Haolong groan and said, "You'll get used to it after a while. Getting used to this kind of pain is not a good thing, especially when you get older, you'll understand!"

Even though Lian Haolong had amazing willpower, he couldn't bear the needles piercing his skin and flesh. When he heard Master Wang's words, he smiled bitterly and said, "You said it before, I'm the boss, I have to save face!"

Lian Haodong saw that Lian Haolong was in unbearable pain, and couldn't help but say to Lian Haolong: "Boss, do you want me to go out and get some anesthetic?"

Lian Haolong shook his head: "There are policemen everywhere outside, where are you going to look for them?"

"Yes, there are police everywhere outside, and they will be here soon." Master Wang said lightly.

"What?" Lian Haolong and Lian Haodong were shocked.

The little ghost and the headless man glared at Master Wang.

Master Wang sewed up the wound as if nothing had happened. "Don't guess. I called the police when you knocked on the door."

Lian Haodong took out a dagger and pointed it at Master Wang: "Why are you doing this?"

"If you want to kill me, wait until I finish applying medicine to your boss!" Master Wang said calmly, "To be honest, don't you know who helped open this clinic?"

"Who?"

"The one you're fighting tonight is Brother Kun!" Master Wang said, "Although I'm your loyal and faithful doctor, I have to help you after I get your money. But my shop, my wife and my kids all rely on Brother Kun's help to survive! Tell me, if it were you, what would you do?"

"You're still looking for an excuse after you betrayed us?"

"It's not an excuse, it's a fact." Master Wang sprinkled the golden wound medicine on Lian Haolong's wound and bandaged him. "Not only me, but everyone in this old building has received kindness from Brother Kun. The reason why Brother Kun did this is because he has a good boss, Mr. Du!"

"Mr. Du?"

"Yes! It's the living Bodhisattva Mr. Du! He is a great benefactor to us poor people! No matter how poor a person is, as long as he asks Mr. Du for help, he will help him!" Master Wang talked freely.

"When this building was to be demolished, all of us would be homeless. It was Mr. Du who saved the building and told everyone that as long as he was around, no one would dare to take the building! Big developers like Cheung Kong and Henderson Land Development have tried countless times to drive us out, raze this place to the ground, and then build high-rise buildings. It was Mr. Du who saved our interests with just one word!"

Master Wang said in a respectful tone: "Mr. Du said that unless we are willing to move, no one can force us!"

Master Wang raised his head, packed up the suture tools and put them in a small box, and continued to say to Lian Haolong and others: "Now, I have done what I should do. As a loyal and righteous doctor, I will help you treat your injuries. As a resident here, I will help Hong Yihai call the police. Now it's your choice, do you want to kill me or run away now?"

"Aren't you afraid of death?" Lian Haodong pointed the dagger forward at Master Wang's throat.

Master Wang smiled faintly: "Everyone is afraid of death, and I am no exception. After all, there are multiple holes in my throat. Even if I am a miracle doctor, I can't save myself."

After saying that, Master Wang closed his eyes and said to Lian Haodong, "Go ahead!" He looked like he was asking for death.

"You?! Do you really think I dare not kill you?" Lian Haodong was about to take action when Lian Haolong shouted, "Adong, don't!"

"Boss, he betrayed us, are you going to let him go?" Lian Haodong said angrily.

"Now is not the time to decide whether to kill or not. Besides, he did nothing wrong!" Lian Haolong stood up, asked someone to bring him clothes and put them on. "He saved me, that's a fact, and he called the police to arrest us, that's also a fact. In every way, he has done his best!"

"What do you mean by doing the best you can? He called the police!"

"Yes, he called the police, but he didn't have to tell us, did he?"

Lian Haolong's question stumped Lian Haodong.

Lian Haolong continued: "He didn't have to say it. Even if the police came, we wouldn't know who called the police, but he told us..."

After Lian Haolong finished speaking, he turned to look at Master Wang and said with a fist: "Thank you!"

Master Wang opened his eyes and glanced at Lian Haolong: "You're welcome!"

"Boss, he betrayed us and you still want to thank him?" Lian Haodong said angrily.

"Let's put it this way!" Lian Haolong looked at Master Wang, "Now I would like Master Wang to show me a way forward--"

Master Wang said calmly: "The ones coming this time are the elites from Tsuen Wan Police Station. They will probably be here in a minute or two. It is impossible for all of you to escape, so--"

"I understand!" Lian Haolong turned around and said to his younger brother Liang Liaodong and the others, "They arrested me, you guys go first!"

Lian Haodong wanted to say something, but Lian Haolong said, "Go find Mr. Li and ask him for help! If he still has some sense of loyalty, he can save me!"

"Big guy!"

"Big guy!"

Lian Haodong and the other two didn't know what to say.

Wow! Wow!
Sirens sounded outside.

Obviously, the elites from Tsuen Wan Police Station had arrived quickly.

"There's no time!" Lian Haolong waved his hand, "I will go out and surrender myself, you guys take this opportunity to leave! And--"

Lian Haolong glanced at Xilao, Xigui and the headless three and said, "You guys - take care!"

(End of this chapter)