Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 450 Who are you? (Monthly Tickets+)

Third Brother and the three thugs turned to leave, but Huang Laowu said, "Hey, you there, are you just leaving like that?"

Third Brother turned his head, sized up Huang Laowu, and said, "Aren't you leaving? Are you going to treat me to dinner?"

Huang Laowu laughed and said, "Although this is the first time I've met you, I can tell you have a really big face. I'm inviting you to dinner? Aren't you afraid of choking?"

Hei Zi said, "Fifth Brother, what do you mean? Isn't everything clear and calculated? I'll pay you tomorrow, what are you going to do about it?"

Huang Laowu said, "Alright, Hei Zi, shut up. Anyone who didn't know better would think you were the mayor. You think you can do whatever you want? Why don't you just take over the Public Security Bureau? That would be so awesome."

Third Brother turned around, tilting his head, and said, "Dude, you've been arguing with me a few times now. You don't like me, do you? Why are you calling me? Do you know how much money I make in a day? I'm only acknowledging you because of Hei Zi's influence. Have some sense of propriety, will you?"

Old Huang nodded with a smile and said, "Alright, I'll keep track of the good and bad. You wait here for a bit, is that it?"

Third Brother said, "What else do you want? What do you want to do? Are you going to do it or not?" The three boys behind him took a step forward aggressively.

Huang Laowu said, "It's no use working with me. If I wanted to, I would have done it to you already. Do you think you'd still be standing here bragging to me? What does it matter to me how much you earn in a day? Besides, you don't look like someone who can make money. Wait a minute, someone's looking for you."

Third Brother kept interrupting from behind, and the kid took a step forward and kicked him, saying, "How come you're so awesome?" Old Huang Wu stepped aside, reached out and caught his leg, gently pushed it back to release it, and the kid stumbled back several steps before regaining his balance. He looked a little embarrassed and said, "Fuck you," before rushing forward.

Old Hou, who appeared out of nowhere, held a billiard cue. He poked the kid with the thicker end and said, "You think I won't beat you into a cocoon with one stroke? Where are you guys from? I just don't understand, don't you guys do some research before you come out here to show off?"

Hei Zi came over and snatched the golf club from Lao Hou's hand, saying, "Lao Hou, what are you doing? Stop waving your club around here with my buddies, okay? Give me back my club, what are you doing with it?"

Old Hou, his face contorted, turned to look at Hei Zi and said, "Let go of me, and stay away from me. You're really taking advantage of me. I've known you for over twenty years, and this is the first time I've realized I don't even know you. Let go, you hear me? You think I can't hit you?"

Hei Zi grabbed the club back, shoving Lao Hou with one hand and saying, "Who are you going to hit? You two get out of here, okay? This has nothing to do with you anymore, understand? What else do I need to say? Have you no shame?"

Old Hou asked, "You still have any shame? Where's your face?" He then slapped Hei Zi hard across the face, causing Hei Zi to drop his cue, clutch his face, and nearly fall. He steadied himself by holding onto the door frame, looked down, and spat—his teeth were probably bleeding. "Old Hou, you fucking hit me? I treated you like a brother, even when you quit, I promised you wouldn't lose a penny, and you hit me?"

Old Hou said, "I wouldn't dare be your buddy. You just didn't hit me hard enough."

Some veteran players came out of the billiards hall and asked, "What's wrong, Lao Wu? Need any help?"

Old Huang threw his cigarette butt on the ground and stomped it out, saying, "No need, these few rotten garlic cloves will do for the two of us. Does anyone know where these bastards are from? Anyone recognize them?" The men looked at the third brother and his group and shook their heads. "Never seen them before, they look pretty tough, probably from another area. Hey, which area are you from?"

Third Brother licked his lips, nodded to himself, and turned to Huang Laowu, asking, "Buddy, get this straight. Did I get involved in your messy affairs?"

Huang Laowu checked the time and said, "I'm doing business here, understand? I don't want to talk about anything else, so let's not talk about anything else either. Just a little longer. Heizi, to tell you the truth, Lao Hou and I know what you've been doing all day. Your share has already been returned to my aunt, 16,000 yuan, not a penny less. I thought Lao Hou and I were pretty generous, but I didn't expect you, Heizi, to be even more generous."

Hei Zi froze for a moment, then his face flushed red, and the veins on his neck bulged: "Why? Why are you giving me my money back? Who do you think you are? You think you can do whatever you want? I've always treated you guys like brothers, damn it!"

A jeep drove up from a distance and stopped beside the dug-out ground. Its headlights shone brightly on the group of people. Huang Laowu, who was behind them with his back to them, was fine, but San Ge and the others were facing the oncoming car. They were immediately blinded by the light and raised their hands to shield their eyes, cursing, "Are you blind? Turn off the headlights right now!"

Liu Huasheng and several policemen happened to get out of the car and heard everything clearly.

He glanced down at the road, avoided the dug-out hole, and walked over to ask, "Who said that?"

Huang Laowu pointed at Third Brother and said, "I don't recognize this one. It seems like this is his first time in this area."

Liu Huasheng looked at the people at the scene and asked Huang Laowu, "What happened?"

Huang Laowu pointed at Hei Zi and said, "Back then, he was one of the partners. Recently, he started gambling and has lost tens of thousands of yuan. He keeps coming to me and Lao Hou to borrow money. After that, I told Xiao Wei about it, and Xiao Wei told us to return his share of the money and not to associate with people who are involved in gambling and prostitution."

Old Hou and I went to his house and returned his share. He had only actually contributed 6,000 yuan; I had borrowed 10,000, and I returned the remaining 16,000. He's always out partying and never comes home, so he probably didn't know about this. Today, he brought these four thieves to demand money, and they robbed Old Hou and me of all the 3,000 yuan we had on us. We didn't fight back.

At this point, Third Brother turned his head and said, "Could you turn off your crappy car lights? What business is it of mine what you guys are doing? Is it any of my fault?"

He was constantly illuminated by the car headlights, and since Liu Huasheng and the others weren't wearing hats, their clothing was completely obscured as they walked out from the shadows.

Liu Huasheng said, "Where did you come from? Why does your mouth smell so bad? What are you doing here?"

Third Brother shielded his eyes from the car headlights and said, "Hei Zi owes me money, and I'm here to collect it from him today. What's wrong with that? Is it wrong to ask for money back? Is everyone in this area this arrogant? You won't even let me leave. Tomorrow I'll flatten this lousy billiard hall. You son of a bitch, you're really giving me face."

Liu Huasheng leaned forward and slapped him hard across the face, asking, "Who do you think you are?"

Caught off guard, Third Brother stumbled from the blow and jumped up, ready to pounce: "You son of a bitch, you want to hit me? Come on, if you don't kill me today, I'll kill you tomorrow. Do you know who I am? I'll fucking kill you." The guy next to him grabbed him and whispered in his ear, "Third Brother, the police." He stood a little to the side and could see the police uniforms on the men; the two yellow stripes on the cuffs were too obvious. There were no security guards these days.

Third Brother said, "So what if they're police? Do they beat people? What did I do?" But he became quiet and stopped struggling.

Hei Zi said, "They beat people up, so what if we call the police? Where's Chief Liu? Do you know that Chief Liu has shares here?" He didn't even see who came.

Liu Huasheng took two steps forward to the main entrance of the billiard hall. The light from inside shone on his face as he looked at Hei Zi and asked, "Who are you? I didn't know I had shares here. Did you give me any money?"

(End of this chapter)