Chapter 45: Just Joking With You
Chen Wujun entered Jin Di Finance, and Ji Xiang’s henchmen saw him and immediately greeted him enthusiastically:
“A Jun, looking for Sister Sha Jiu? Congrats!”
“Yeah, rising up so fast, congrats congrats!” The other henchmen showed undisguised envy on their faces.
“No respect for your elders, call me Brother Jun!” Chen Wujun turned his head and pinched the speaker’s shoulder hard.
Chen Wujun’s hand was like a clamp, and the other’s face immediately changed, unable to hide the pain:
“Brother Jun!”
The others’ movements also stopped.
“I was just joking with you all, you wouldn’t take it seriously, right? We’ve known each other for so long, call me whatever you want.” Chen Wujun grinned and let go, but his gaze lingered on the other’s face for a moment.
The coldness and cruelty in Chen Wujun’s eyes immediately dissipated the anger that had just risen in the other.
“I’m going to find Sister Sha Jiu.”
Chen Wujun knocked and entered Sha Jiu’s office, and the few Ji Xiang henchmen outside immediately darkened their faces, exchanging glances.
“Damn it!” The henchman whose shoulder was pinched by Chen Wujun cursed under his breath.
“Little man got ahead, changing faces so fast.”
“If you can come down alive from the arena, then think about being the boss!”
……
“Senior Sister! Brother Ji Xiang!” Chen Wujun entered the office and saw Ji Xiang holding a ledger talking to Sha Jiu.
“A Jun is here!” Ji Xiang saw him and immediately smiled.
“You two carry on!” Chen Wujun reached out and swiped Sha Jiu’s cigarettes and lighter, lit one, sat on the sofa to the side, glanced around, and found a pornographic magazine under the coffee table.
Chen Wujun pulled it out and flipped through it for a while, and after Ji Xiang left, he raised the magazine in his hand.
“Senior Sister, you still look at this stuff!”
“Can’t I look at their hot bodies?” Sha Jiu opened the drawer, took out a small box from inside and threw it on the table, then leaned back in the chair with a grin.
“Crystals prepared for you, you don’t have to worry about anything these days, just focus on preparing well.”
“Thanks, Senior Sister!” Chen Wujun stood up, put the magazine on the table, took the box and opened it to look inside: a handful of magnetic field crystals the size of soybeans, at least dozens.
Sha Jiu’s way of doing things made him feel very comfortable; he didn’t even need to speak up about anything, and Sha Jiu had already arranged it.
Chen Wujun pocketed the box, sat for a moment longer, then left.
This time, Ji Xiang’s henchmen didn’t greet him; each was either on the phone collecting debts or busy with their own tasks.
After leaving the financial company with a grin, Chen Wujun’s face calmed down.
“I’ve wanted to deal with them for a while, but the timing isn’t right. If I lose the gambling duel, there’s nothing to say; if I win, my prestige and momentum will soar, and then I can find trouble with them!”
He checked the time and went straight to A Yue’s place.
A Yue heard the knock, opened the door and saw it was him, and quickly opened the iron gate.
“How come so early today.”
“Not much going on lately.” Chen Wujun entered and smelled a fragrance.
“Cooking?”
“Buying outside is too expensive! Just try my cooking, don’t mind if it’s not great.” A Yue’s smile was always very sweet.
Chen Wujun glanced into the pot and knew it wasn’t just for one person, and there was an opened lunchbox nearby.
“Gonna deliver food later?”
A Yue’s dad and younger brother were still living in the rented shop, so clearly A Yue was going to deliver food to her dad and younger brother.
“I’ll make more in a bit!”
The dish had little meat, and Chen Wujun didn’t want to eat it.
“Take this one!” Chen Wujun said: “That kind of place is full of mixed people, I’ll have someone go with you!”
“Great!” A Yue smiled.
Then Chen Wujun sat on the bed and poured out the magnetic field crystals from the box to count them.
A total of 80.
“400,000, Senior Sister is so generous!”
“What 40?” A Yue turned her head in confusion.
“Nothing.” Chen Wujun put the magnetic field crystals back in the box.
Sha Jiu handed out 400,000 at once; that money could buy her dad’s dentistry shop and still have some left.
Chen Wujun felt the box in his hand was heavy.
“Want a taste?” A Yue picked up some food with chopsticks, held a bowl underneath with her other hand, and walked to Chen Wujun’s side.
“Not bad!” Chen Wujun tasted it and thought A Yue’s cooking was pretty good.
Of course, he hadn’t eaten many good things; growing up in the Walled City, he had no right to be picky.
As long as it wasn’t bad, he thought it was pretty good.
In the evening, after A Yue delivered the food, she came back with a pound of beef and stir-fried a plate of beef for Chen Wujun.
Chen Wujun ate more than half of it by himself.
Ever since practicing martial arts, his appetite had grown huge; he ate a lot, and his physical quality improved quickly.
The stuff his mom made at home wasn’t enough to replenish his protein.
Usually he bought some from cooked food shops and preserved meat shops.
Since A Yue could cook, from now on he could eat at home and then come here for another meal.
After dinner, Chen Wujun went to the rooftop, gazing at the brightly lit city center in the distance, where East District 9’s officials, celebrities, tycoons, and stars gathered.
Chen Wujun stretched out his hand, fingers grasping toward the distance, as if he could grab the brightly lit city center.
He felt himself getting closer to it.
Then with one hand he vaulted onto the guard wall, standing steadily, his expression calming.
……
Over the next few days, Chen Wujun went almost daily to the martial arts school or warehouse to practice martial arts, ate dinner at home, then went to A Yue’s for another meal.
After dinner on the rooftop practicing martial arts, he could come down and eat something else.
Meanwhile, news of He Tu and Li Dong’s gambling duel spread throughout the Walled City.
Not just the two major gangs and those in the Walled City with good intel, but even several gangs outside the Walled City heard about it.
Yongfa Ice Room on the edge of the Walled City.
“Heard about it? He Tu is gambling dueling Li Dong! Betting two streets!” Several youths chatted while drinking soda.
“Betting that big?” Another youth said in surprise.
“Of course, this is the biggest thing in Jianghu lately!”
“One side in the gambling duel is Sha Jiu’s subordinate, the other is Wen Long’s subordinate. Oh, and this time it’s a life and death duel; they say both sides signed life and death statements.”
“Four Greats and Five Dragon Generals… Though not them dueling personally, they’ll definitely send their master subordinates! Wish I could go watch.” Another youth said with longing.
The two gangs’ henchmen were big shots to them.
Not to mention Four Heavenly Kings and Five Dragon Generals, plus life and death duel; those words alone filled these youths with yearning.
“The key is here. Rumor is Sha Jiu sent a newcomer, not even twenty, something like Chen… Wujun! Right, Chen Wujun!”
While the youths were chatting, at the table behind, several schoolgirls were listening intently.
One schoolgirl froze upon hearing Chen Wujun’s name.
“You know him?” Her friend saw her expression and asked curiously.
“No, don’t know him…” The schoolgirl shook her head, revealing her braces when she spoke.
The braces girl recalled the Chen Wujun she saw that night… could it really be him?
He caused trouble a lot at school, but because of him, civilian students didn’t dare bully Walled City kids like them.
He was going to participate in a life and death duel?
……
“If you’re bored, you can rent some discs to watch; turn left downstairs 100 meters, there’s a shop.”
In the morning, after breakfast, Chen Wujun said to A Yue.
“I do watch; we have some discs at home… Didn’t expect East District 9 to be so chaotic, robberies everywhere.” A Yue smiled.
Chen Wujun didn’t need to guess what A Yue was watching.
All recorded by him from the disc shop boss: Police News.
Looking at it this way, East District 9’s public order was indeed very chaotic.
“Way better than the Walled City’s order!” Chen Wujun stood up and said.
After all, other places had federal police; the Walled City didn’t even have police.
Here, He Tu and Li Dong maintained order for the entire Walled City’s over 100,000 people.
After going downstairs, Chen Wujun left the Walled City directly and headed to the warehouse.
Once there, he took off his outer shirt, revealing increasingly defined lines on his back.
Especially the latissimus dorsi below his shoulder blades; after standing in White Crane Explores Branch for so long, it was visibly stretching bit by bit, getting wider, and when flexed, like two wings bunched together, ready to unfold.
And this was just after standing White Crane Explores Branch for a week, with such big changes.
Chen Wujun thought the magnetic field crystals accelerated the old technique’s effects.
Not just his physique changing; with constant stance training, his upper body and arms were increasingly flexible, and his balance better.
His reactions were also getting sharper.
Brothers, it’s the start of the month, seeking monthly tickets!
