The door of the courtyard house has been welded dead

"Clang~!"

"I asked you to help guide Yingzi, and this is how you guide her?"

The dilapidated door was kicked open, and the pair of lovebirds sitting on the edge of the bed, who were locked in a passionate kiss, quickly slid to either side, instinctively creating distance between them.

Unfortunately, the person who kicked the door open had already entered. They had seen the scene clearly, especially the woman's face, which was flushed from being kissed. After they parted, the saliva was still running in strands.

"Waaah, Pi-ge, it's Jia-geng! He insisted on kissing me! He's such a pervert!"

The woman, whose tongue had just been stretched, covered her face with her hands when she saw the man enter. She quickly stood behind him, the flush on her face gone, leaving only paleness.

"Pia~, you vixen, you bastard, you were flicking your tongue just now, did you think I didn't see it?"

"Besides, it's your good fortune that I, your brother, am playing the hooligan for you. There are so many women on the street, why don't you play the hooligan for other women too!"

The man who kicked the door open turned around and slapped the woman hard across the face. The woman, named Yingzi, fell to the ground.

The bald man turned his head with a stern look, staring intently at Jia Geng, who was still sitting on the edge of the bed, and spat a thick wad of phlegm onto the woman.

"This slut, if you want her, just tell me and I'll give her to you. But you've been doing these things behind my back, you bastard. How do you think this is going to end?"

The man clenched his fists but didn't make a move immediately. He sat down on the stool with a sinister look, as if to say that if Jia Geng, that curly-haired guy, didn't give him an explanation, he wouldn't be leaving this room today.

"Brother Pi, I didn't know either. I was teaching her how to slit her bag without alerting anyone when she suddenly pounced on me and even let me touch her!"

Jia Geng, who wasn't adopted by anyone from the children's welfare home, has grown up. He used to be strong and sturdy, but now he's quite thin. Seeing that Brother Pi didn't hit him without asking any questions, he shrugged, showing no fear on his face.

Following the direction Jia Geng pointed, you could see a trendy shoulder bag for women on the table, but it had many sharp scratches on it, clearly indicating that it had been damaged by a sharp object.

After wiping the lipstick stains from the corners of their mouths, Banggeng and Pige maintained a safe distance. On their fingers, the Flying Eagle brand razor blades danced between their fingers, looking quite familiar with them, not at all worried that the thin blades would hurt them.

The man nicknamed "Brother Pi" stared at the nimble blade in Jia Geng's fingertip with a look of apprehension, especially when he saw the scratches on the leather bag on the table, which subconsciously reminded him of his own neck.

"Waaaaah, Brother Pi, you have to believe me, I didn't seduce him, it was him...!"

The woman who had just been slapped to the ground got up again, her face streaked with tears. She was plain-looking with a round face and only a little makeup. She looked very frivolous, like a prostitute in a rural alley.

"Jia Geng, tell me, should I believe you or her?"

Looking at the woman crawling towards him on her knees, the guy nicknamed Brother Pi grabbed her hair, the veins on the back of his hand bulging, and there was a tattoo of the character "忍" (endure) on it.

Banggeng looked at Pi Ge's sinister gaze fixed on him, and his eyes momentarily became unfocused, as if he remembered the look his grandmother gave his mother when he was a child.

"What do you mean, Brother Pi? We've been together since we came out of the orphanage, and we've been struggling together for so many years. Don't you know who I, Jia Geng, am?"

Shaking his head to clear his mind, Bang Geng watched the woman feigning pitifulness and innocence, and couldn't help but twitch his lips. He then looked at Pi Ge with a serious expression.

The two women stared at each other in the room. The woman whose hair was being grabbed seemed to sense the temperature dropping in the room, and immediately stopped crying.

Pi Ge, who was sitting on the stool, suddenly smiled. He grabbed his hair with his right hand and pushed the woman on the ground, making her stumble. Then he stood up and walked towards Jia Geng.

Jia Geng was still a little lost, wondering why Brother Pi suddenly had a smile on his face and opened his arms as if to hug him. "You and I, brothers, have suffered a lot over the years to build this territory."

"Hey, big brother's older than you, but he found a woman first!"

"But what are women? Women are just clothes that can be changed anytime. You guys are my brothers. When you get to that age, you crave women's bodies. I've been there, I've been there too!"

Holding Banggeng's stiff upper body, Pige patted Banggeng's back hard, laughing heartily, as if he didn't care at all that his mother and son would run away with his siblings.

"If you like Yingzi, I can give her to you. We've been through thick and thin together for over ten years, and it hasn't been easy to get to where we are now, right?"

At this moment, Pi Ge, who was sitting next to Bang Geng, put his left hand on Bang Geng's shoulder, and his aura became a bit more imposing, giving him the air of a Robin Hood-like figure. He seemed to be a very righteous person.

"No, Brother Pi, I'm his sister-in-law!"

"Damn it, it's your good fortune that the two of us brothers both have our eyes on you. You think you can pick and choose? Is that it?"

Pi Ge kicked the woman's shoulder again, and sneered, seemingly unconcerned about the fact that his buddy would cheat on him in the future. Even the stiff-bodied man subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

"Yingzi, you've been with me for several years. I remember finding you in '79. Your husband died, and your in-laws kicked you out before they let you into my room for a meal. That was four years. But I've been with Banggeng for six or seven years. We've been living together in a large dormitory. Tell me, are you more important, or is he more important to me?"

"Four years, and your belly is still so disappointing. But that sassy vibe is really to my liking. My brother is awesome, he's a master of burglary and pickpocketing. You think you can't afford to support you? I learned all that from him!"

"Without him, there would be no me today; without me, there would be no him today. You're just a widow in my eyes, someone who's been having an affair. Are you more important than my brother?"

Pi patted Jia Geng's chest, then patted his own chest. But the words he uttered made Jia Geng frown, as if something in his words had offended him.

"Alright, Brother Pi, it was my fault this time. I couldn't control myself...!"

"No need, Banggeng, I didn't mean anything by it. If you want this woman, you can take her. This room is yours tonight. I'm going out to scout things out!"

Pige waved his hand and slapped his own bald head, completely ignoring the woman's crying.

"Bang Geng, I can give you this woman, but as everyone knows, she's your sister-in-law, my woman. I don't mind, but the other brothers might have some doubts!"

"In the Buddhist circles of Beijing, my brother Pi is a big shot, the number one figure in the city. I'll give you the woman, but you can't let people talk behind my back, can you?"

Pi Ge rummaged in his pocket and pulled out a wad of banknotes. Bang Geng glanced at them and his expression immediately changed. This meant he wanted to "split up the family business."

“I know some people in the underworld in Tangshan, but they’re not as efficient as the men in Beijing. We make a living with our skills, while they only know how to rob people with kitchen knives. They’re really rough around the edges. If you go there, you’ll definitely find a place where you can contribute. I’ve already made all the arrangements.”

Looking at the woman on the ground, Bang Geng let out a deep breath.

He knew that this was Brother Pi, using the opportunity to kick him out of the circle, but he said it in a nice way that left him no room to refute.

"I've already marked this. Xu Damao, the boss of Youth Video Hall, must be rich. He's got gold chains around his neck. Let's do this job and part ways amicably."

"Going to Tangshan is fine. I haven't found my two younger sisters all these years, and I don't want to stay in Beijing anymore anyway, but this time it has to be split in half!" (End of Chapter)