Chapter 64: Rewards According To Merit
“I underestimated this old thing!” Sister Sha Jiu threw the cigarette butt onto Bing Ye’s body and crushed it with her foot.
Old Ghost Bing had been navigating between various influences these years, negotiating deals with people outside too much, getting used to that set of ways, yet he underestimated the logic at the gang’s most basic level—the most naked violence.
Plus, he didn’t take this junior Sister Sha Jiu too seriously in his heart, not expecting her to disregard everything and beat him to death.
After all, between bosses, there had to be some face, and doing things also required some rules.
However, this old dog was full of vicious and poisonous schemes right before death.
Sister Sha Jiu directly killed him, not wanting Chen Wujun to hear what he said.
She could choose not to distrust Chen Wujun, but she couldn’t stop Chen Wujun from suspecting that she distrusted him.
“This old dog still tried to sow discord right before death, isn’t he afraid we’ll take it out on his family?” Chen Wujun looked at Bing Ye’s corpse on the ground, his expression unkind.
This old guy really didn’t care about his family’s life or death?
“They’ve probably already run off by now! The few locations he leaked earlier were to attract our attention and buy time for his family to escape.”
Sister Sha Jiu picked up the telephone and dialed out:
“Check where Old Ghost Bing’s family is.”
Less than ten minutes later, the phone rang back.
“There’s no one left in his home, looks like they just left not long ago, but we didn’t see them outside, they might still be hiding in some unit.” The voice on the other end of the phone was a woman’s, but not Kai Lun’s.
“Sure enough, that’s how it is! Forget it, no need to look anymore, we’ll have tea together later.” Sister Sha Jiu said.
Old Ghost Bing lived in Taikoo Li, similar to Mei Foo Sun Chuen, with many residents inside, all middle-class.
She couldn’t let people search everywhere there.
It had probably already alarmed quite a few people by now.
She just wanted to verify her guess.
After hanging up the phone, Sister Sha Jiu glanced at Chen Wujun and said: “Sure enough, they’ve run off.”
“Senior Sister, what did Xin Ye say on the phone?” Chen Wujun asked about the call Sister Sha Jiu had received earlier.
“The old guy said, outside isn’t the Walled City, outside has its own rules.” Sister Sha Jiu picked up the cigarette case, lit one for herself, and threw the cigarette case to Chen Wujun.
“Bing Ye has no influence, so he can roam among all sides, reaching agreements with various gangs, paying out a portion of money each month, allowing the gangs to let him lend on their turf, which is also what the various gangs need.”
“Otherwise, one person living on Four Lines’ turf, borrowing from He Yong and He Yi’s loan shark companies, how to collect the debt then? Would He Yong and He Yi go to Four Lines’ turf to chop people?”
“That’s the value of Bing Ye’s existence. But he can do it, we can’t! Because behind us is He Tu, if we go to other gangs’ turf to lend, that would be crossing the line.”
Sister Sha Jiu explained the ins and outs here, not without a tone of teaching.
“So this time the loan shark companies we robbed, we have to spit out most of them, to shut the mouths of all sides and avoid escalating the conflict.”
Chen Wujun sat on the sofa, smoking while pondering.
What Sister Sha Jiu said was something he hadn’t thought of before; he hadn’t been exposed to these things before.
Only now did he understand the ins and outs, and there were so many ways to put it.
“Probably nothing going on today, the rest we’ll talk about after tomorrow when I and the old guy meet with people from the other gangs.”
“Then I’ll head back!” Chen Wujun stood up and said.
Some of his men were also injured at the teahouse, and he needed to go check on them.
Before leaving, he glanced again at Bing Ye’s corpse, though he didn’t know what Bing Ye and Sister Sha Jiu said after he left…
But that 13 million and 14 million made him feel the insidious calculations of these old jianghu members, like venomous snakes, not forgetting to dig a pit for revenge even before death.
‘Just by understating a million less, he dug a pit for me.’
‘Such an old dog, if not for Senior Sister cutting through the mess quickly, who knows how much trouble he could cause.’
‘Can’t underestimate anyone, in the future when encountering things, must think more!’
‘What was the old dog trying to say at the end? Senior Sister suddenly killed him, interrupting his words…’
Back at the gambling den, everything was normal here, Curry was waiting there with some people.
“Brother Jun!”
“The injured ones all arranged?” Chen Wujun asked.
“All sent to the clinic.”
“Expenses go through the gambling den’s accounts, let them recover well, the rest we’ll talk about after things are over.” Chen Wujun said.
After staying at the gambling den for a bit, he got up and went to A Yue’s place.
He’d gone through quite a bit today, and he was mentally a bit tired, wanting to rest.
Arriving at A Yue’s place, A Yue hugged his waist from behind, resting her chin on his shoulder.
Feeling the softness pressed against his back, Chen Wujun felt a stir in his heart, reaching back to hook A Yue’s waist…
……
The next day, at the warehouse, Chen Wujun slowly spun on the ground, his body suddenly squatting down, sliding out—it was Swallow Dips into Water from yesterday.
‘Can only use this move…’ Chen Wujun stopped his movement.
He reviewed it several times; yesterday’s best counter was only this.
Beng Zui She was seriously injured, but his strength and reactions were still a notch above his own.
Python Roll was versatile in attack and defense, but not as light and quick as Swallow Dips into Water, easily giving the opponent an opportunity.
“So, I didn’t make a mistake. It’s just that my speed wasn’t fast enough, my strength not big enough! As long as my strength is big enough and speed fast enough, I could use other moves to counter, even continue attacking his injured armpit with Python Roll.”
Chen Wujun let out a long breath.
In the evening, as Chen Wujun picked up his clothes to put them on and prepare to leave, he received Sister Sha Jiu’s call.
“If nothing’s up, come to Jin Di Finance.”
Chen Wujun put on his clothes and arrived at Jin Di Finance.
“Brother Jun!”
“Brother Jun!”
This time, Ji Xiang’s henchmen all proactively and enthusiastically greeted Chen Wujun.
Chen Wujun knew that after yesterday’s events, his prestige had risen some more.
Even Ji Xiang’s henchmen had to admit that he had solidly taken his current position and was starting to take it seriously.
Chen Wujun ignored them, knocked open Sister Sha Jiu’s office, and saw that several people from yesterday were all inside.
Ji Xiang was sitting there looking serious.
A Hao had both legs propped on the coffee table, lounging back casually.
Hua Zai Rong was reading a pornographic magazine.
Cun Bao was continuously squeezing a grip strengthener about as thick as a finger with a spring.
“Sister Sha Jiu!” After greeting, Chen Wujun sat next to Hua Zai Rong.
“This figure is pretty good!”
“Recent newcomer, this one’s the most outstanding. If there’s a chance later, I’ll start a pornographic magazine too, all newcomers have to come to me first for a test shoot.” Hua Zai Rong said admiringly.
“Remember to call me, I’ll go watch too!” Chen Wujun said with a grin.
“A Yue has such a great figure, you didn’t want her back then, now you’ve tasted it and can’t get enough?” Sister Sha Jiu teased with a smile, then changed tone: “Everyone’s here, let’s get to business.”
“Today I met with the spokespersons of the various gangs, and there’s a resolution for the matter.”
“Old Ghost Bing had agreements with various gangs, some gangs even invested money with him. Now we’ve taken out Old Ghost Bing, their money’s gone down the drain.”
“So the final agreement is that Old Ghost Bing’s matter ends here, the various gangs won’t stand up for him, but we also have to take a portion from Old Ghost Bing’s assets to compensate them.”
“Old Ghost Bing’s cash and IOUs all go to us, after which those IOUs will be packaged and handed to others to collect.”
“Sixteen loan shark companies, twelve given out to compensate them, four go to us.”
“We were the ones chopping people up front, they did nothing, and they get twelve loan shark companies!” Cun Bao’s arm muscles bulged one by one, directly maxing out the grip strengthener, his expression displeased.
“This is what Xin Ye negotiated with them!” Sister Sha Jiu said.
Cun Bao immediately shut up sullenly.
“We still have to listen to Xin Ye, after all, we’re part of He Tu.” Sister Sha Jiu continued with a smile.
“And this time, from the money we took from Old Ghost Bing, I also have to hand over 5 million to the company.”
“Yesterday Jun Zai went with me to see Old Ghost Bing and blocked Beng Zui She, you take 1.2 million.” Sister Sha Jiu picked up a bag from under her foot and threw it on the ground.
With a bang, it immediately set Chen Wujun’s heart aflame.
“Thanks, Sister Sha Jiu!”
“These are yours, you few had it easy, not much danger, 800,000 each!” Sister Sha Jiu kicked a few bags nearby again.
“As for those few loan shark companies, I’ll hand them to others to manage, on the surface it won’t look too connected to our He Tu, that’s also the condition Xin Ye negotiated with them.”
Sister Sha Jiu’s words made Ji Xiang’s body stiffen for a moment; he had thought those few loan shark companies would be handed to him.
But he quickly relaxed.
