Chapter 323: Encountering a Dishonest Broker

Zhu Zhu is a thoughtful person. When seeing off Chen Yang and the three others leaving the port, she actually brought over several specially made Hong Kong-style dim sum. Moreover, all of them were things Chen Yang had eaten at the table.

Chen Yang divided the dim sum into two portions, one left for Su Mingyue and one taken home for Lin Wei.

However, when they were purchasing a shop in Deep City, they ran into trouble.

The shop that Su Mingyue had pre-booked with the agency had its deposit paid, but the other party sold it to someone else.

Chen Yang had encountered this sort of thing before in his previous life; usually it was because a later buyer offered a higher price. The unscrupulous agent, in order to earn more commission, simply defaulted.

Chen Yang couldn't be bothered to argue about it. Deep City has plenty of shops; with money, one really need not worry about not being able to buy one. If worse comes to worst, just buy a plot of land and build a commercial building.

However, when Su Mingyue went to request the deposit back, she was actually refused by the other party.

"Miss Su, we don't have a custom of returning deposits. Coincidentally, I still have a shop available with a good location; why don't you just buy it?" The speaker was the middle-aged plump woman who had signed the deposit contract with Su Mingyue.

Chen Yang saw that her face looked fierce and felt she was not a good sort. He then took over the conversation: "Miss, you selling our pre-booked shop to someone else is already a breach of contract. We haven't asked you to pay liquidated damages, which is already quite polite. Why do you still want to force a sale?"

The middle-aged woman glanced at Chen Yang and Xiao Jian, gave a cold snort, and said: "You outsiders, relying on your numbers to bully a lone woman like me? You think I won't call for help?"

Having said that, she shouted outside: "A Long, quickly get people over here, someone's causing trouble!"

Chen Yang felt a bit dazed; he just wanted to reason, but the other party directly called for people.

He glanced at Xiao Jian, who directly said: "If a fight breaks out later, you protect Little Su; I'll handle the rest."

Chen Yang didn't know how many people the other side would summon, and he was still a little worried that Xiao Jian would be outnumbered. After all, public security in Deep City at that time was rather ordinary; people from all over the country gathered there by province. At the slightest incident, it was basically a case of one call bringing a hundred responders. If a crowd came and surrounded them outside, the three of them would hardly be able to fly away even if they had wings.

Thinking of this, he immediately said to Xiao Jian: "Old Xiao, fighting with petty thugs is pointless; let's just call the police."

Unexpectedly, as soon as Chen Yang finished speaking, the middle-aged woman burst out laughing: "Hahaha, call the police? You outsiders hurry up and call the police, then see who the police will help!"

Chen Yang didn't believe her, directly picked up his phone and dialed 110. After the call connected, he immediately told the other party what had happened here. He hoped 110 would quickly send someone over to uphold justice.

However, Chen Yang and the two others waited over ten minutes for 110 to arrive, but instead the people the middle-aged woman had summoned came over. There were ten of them in total, each holding a steel pipe, and they surged in from outside with a menacing presence.

"Shan Jie, which blind fool dares to cause trouble on our turf?"

"A Long, it's these three people. They aren't honoring the contract and still want to fight. Give them a good beating!" Seeing her people all arrive, the middle-aged woman's arrogance grew even more.

Chen Yang didn't expect the other party to be able to turn black into white. Clearly it was she who breached the contract, yet she turned around and bit back. He felt somewhat amused and exasperated.

He pulled Su Mingyue behind him, then picked up a folding chair from the agency store to prepare for defense. The other side had ten people; he could handle two of them without problem. The key issue was whether Xiao Jian could take on eight people.

If he couldn't manage it, all they could do was hope that 110 wouldn't get stuck in traffic.

However, Chen Yang's worry was completely unnecessary. All that was seen was Xiao Jian directly grabbing a folding chair and smashing it onto the head of the young man called A Long, who was leading the group.

The other side also didn't expect Xiao Jian to strike so swiftly and fiercely; he fainted on the spot, with blood streaming from his head.

Seeing this, A Long's companions were frightened and retreated three steps backward.

Xiao Jian coldly glanced at A Long's companions and said: "Anyone else who doesn't want to live, just come forward!"

Those people looked at each other, all intimidated by Xiao Jian's aura.

Chen Yang glanced at A Long lying unconscious on the ground, worried that a life might be lost, so he dialed 120 as well. Su Mingyue, who had never seen such a scene before, was frightened and tightly grabbed Chen Yang's arm.

At this moment, the middle-aged woman was also intimidated by Xiao Jian's aura. She hurriedly used the store's landline to call 110 and report the incident.

Chen Yang found her behavior puzzling. He had already called 110 himself, yet she could call again. Did Deep City's 110 have two separate teams?

Unexpectedly, Chen Yang's 110 call took a long time to arrive, while after the other party dialed 110, only five minutes passed before 110 showed up.

Seeing the police cars arrive, A Long's companions all scattered in a flash.

Chen Yang led Su Mingyue outside the shop and saw two uniformed men step out of the police car. The leader was a man in his forties, and beside him was a young policeman in his twenties.

The middle-aged policeman immediately saw A Long lying on the ground covered in blood, and his brows furrowed slightly.

At that moment, the middle-aged woman from the real-estate agency also rushed out, pointing at Chen Yang and the three others and crying out to the middle-aged policeman: "Officer Liu, this gang caused trouble in my shop; my brother only said a couple of words to them, and they beat him to death with a chair." Having said that, she immediately began to wail, "wuu wuu wuu."

The middle-aged policeman's expression changed slightly; he immediately crouched down to check A Long's breathing. Finding that he still had breath, he let out a slight sigh of relief. Then he stood up and asked Chen Yang and the three others: "Who hit him?"

"I hit him." Before Chen Yang could speak, Xiao Jian had already answered first.

Chen Yang hurriedly explained to the middle-aged policeman: "Officer, they summoned ten people to come and beat us. My friend merely acted in self-defense. Moreover, we called 110 half an hour ago. If you don't believe me, you can call the command center to check the situation."

The middle-aged policeman paid no attention, but instead looked around. Aside from the onlookers outside the shop, there was no trace of A Long's companions. At that point, he turned to Chen Yang and said: "You said ten people were coming to attack you, but I only see the female boss and this man lying on the ground. Where are the others?"

Chen Yang told the middle-aged policeman: "When you arrived, those people had already fled. If you don't believe me, you can ask the onlookers."

The middle-aged policeman did not heed Chen Yang's suggestion, but with a solemn expression said: "The truth of the matter, I will naturally investigate it clearly. You three, come with me to the police station for a visit!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Yang immediately sensed that there must be something fishy. He had no connections in Deep City; if they were just taken in like this, the innocent would be made to look guilty. That would be troublesome!

So he said to the middle-aged policeman: "Officer, may I make a phone call?"