Chapter 68: The Death of Zhang Rusong, Mihayef's Wine (3-in-1 Completed)

Red Pole Ayu spoke while helping her up, smiling as he led her to the sofa beside them:

"Beautiful Miss Cindy, please sit.

Then, can you contact that Wizard for me?"

Cindy looked dumbfounded; she did not understand when she had become Chen's lover.

But looking at these sharp Asian gunmen before her, and her own brothers and Antonio held at gunpoint, she suddenly gritted her teeth and admitted it.

"Yes, I am Chen's lover.

Accompanying him northward on this route was the happiest time of my life.

But what makes you think I would betray Chen for myself?"

He is my true love; even if I die, I will not let you get information here to harm him!"

She looked resolute, appearing absolutely unwilling to cooperate, but then her tone shifted: "Unless..."

Red Pole Ayu had a cold face, not moved in the slightest, even though he felt joy at finding a clue inside: "State your conditions!"

Cindy stated her conditions: "When Chen parted with me at the US-Mexico Border, he gave me contact information to find him in Los Angeles.

You release my brothers, and I will go with you to Los Angeles to find him right now."

Ayu did not agree immediately, but took out his phone and called Zhang Rusong.

After listening to his report on the phone, he fell silent for a while:

"Bring that woman and that leader back; release the others.

For the sake of that Wizard, treat them better."

So Ayu returned and agreed to Cindy's request, ordering the gunmen to lock the others inside the house.

Then he took Cindy and Antonio and left.

As for whether those locked up could break out after they left, it was none of his business.

If they couldn't even break the door, then they could just wait to die!

On the car to the Seaport, Cindy and Antonio were arranged to sit in the back seat.

Antonio had not spoken a word all the way; he knew best whether Cindy was Chen's lover.

The guide who went northward with Chen was just a guide.

He knew Cindy liked that Eastern Wizard Chen, but it was merely liking, and she had not received Chen's response.

So Cindy admitting she was Chen's lover... was obviously a lie, but he understood what it meant.

These people before them could not be resisted; if they fought hard, his brothers would have nothing but death.

So Cindy wanted to use herself to trick them back to Los Angeles, and the other side obviously chose to believe it.

After learning the intelligence that Cindy was Chen's lover from somewhere, plus Cindy's own corroboration, they were certain of this guess.

But it was not certain whether Cindy would contact Wizard Chen according to their wishes.

So they brought himself along.

Ceng Hongbing arrived in Florida, rented a room, and did nothing but eat and sleep every day.

Then he drove out in the newly bought few-thousand-dollar second-hand car to look around, and by the way checked where casual labor was being hired, doing odd jobs for a few days.

Just like that, after more than ten days of bits and pieces, he actually saw Chen Yaozu's figure in the live broadcast of the American Football Round of 32 to 16 match for all US Public High School faculty and staff on TV.

They won, and won cleanly and decisively!

As soon as the match ended, Ceng Hongbing lit a cigarette, took out his phone, inserted his card, intending to call Chen Yaozu to congratulate him on advancing.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the card was inserted and the phone turned on, a call came in.

"Mr. Ceng Hongbing, very glad to get through to you; your woman and child are now in our hands.

We need to have a good talk!"

Woman and child? Ceng Hongbing was stunned for a moment, but quickly realized the other side might be talking about Lin Xiyue and her daughter.

Hiss...

Back then when he asked her to take the child and leave with him, she was unwilling; from that moment on, their brief affair was over! Ceng Hongbing hung up the phone with a cold face.

But since the other side had been calling his phone day and night in rotation, how could they not have guarded against him hanging up? They had long prepared several photos and sent them over in the message.

In a large dog cage, two women, one big and one small, were locked up: Lin Xiyue and her daughter.

Attached above was a sentence: "The fate of these two depends on the embodiment of their value!"

"Actually, we have no malice; we just want Mr. Ceng to pass a message.

Tell Wizard Chen that our Hall Master wants to treat him to a meal.

Also, Wizard Chen's Red Confidante far away in Ecuador, Miss Cindy, and her boss Antonio, have already been invited to Los Angeles by our Fuzhou Gang's Double Flower Red Pole personally; they should arrive in these two days!"

"As long as Mr. Ceng helps pass the message, regardless of whether Wizard Chen agrees to the meal or not, these two women can return home safely."

"I, Fuzhou Gang, guarantee it with my reputation!"

Cindy and Antonio? He could not care about Lin Xiyue and her daughter, but whether Chen Yaozu cared about Cindy and Antonio was unknown.

After all, Chen Yaozu was a bit contradictory; sometimes tolerant and very tolerant, ruthless but sometimes very ruthless, making him hard to fathom.

Sometimes he felt like someone in their twenties, sometimes like someone in their forties or fifties.

Antonio did not take Chen Yaozu's money in the matter of walking the Line as a guide, but even paid money to help him cross the border, paid money to contact that officer named Ben, helping him avoid more than one or two months in immigration prison.

And Cindy; he was not sure if she was Chen Yaozu's Red Confidante.

Ceng Hongbing thought it over and decided to pass the message anyway! He dialed the phone: "Yaozu, congratulations on advancing; there's a matter..."

He told Chen Yaozu everything he had just learned in detail: "If it were only that Lin Xiyue and her daughter, I wouldn't call you.

But they said they have sent people to Ecuador to bring Cindy and Antonio to Los Angeles; I don't know what you think."

"But regardless, I'm still notifying you; as for how to decide, I support you!"

Chen Yaozu thought he had displayed thunderous methods, and had already cowed the demons and monsters.

He didn't expect that his methods didn't seem fierce enough; the other side instead got ideas about him.

It even dragged Cindy and Antonio into it, across several countries!

This Fuzhou Gang's reach is long enough!

To tell the truth, just as Ceng Hongbing said, if it were only Lin Xiyue and her daughter, he wouldn't have cared; letting time slowly dilute the influence would be fine.

But the Fuzhou Gang, of all things, ran to South America to find people — not because Chen Yaozu has such a great relationship with Antonio and Cindy.

Rather, the other side actually suffered disaster just for being rumored to be his friend; that influence is huge.

If Chen Yaozu doesn't show some reaction, then what if later he's recognized in Los Angeles...

Would the mother-in-law's family he's already developed some feelings for, and Audrey who is already his wife legally and recently likes to burrow into the same blanket with him, also be in danger?

So, whether it's Cindy and Antonio being implicated because of him, or giving these underworld figures a deterrent, he must react.

"Fine, since the Fuzhou Gang has come knocking, I can only grant their wish.

You tell them to give a time and place; I'll go there on time!"

"Fine, I'll rush over from Florida right now; these ten-odd days I've had no gear on hand, and I've had no confidence in my heart.

I just used some of the fertilizer here to whip up a few drops of nitroglycerin, dripped it into glass bottles of herbicide for storage; smash them out and the power is even greater than a hand grenade.

I've got 11 of these things in hand right now; with your ability plus my gear, it's enough to give others a headache."

Hiss...

Chen Yaozu, holding the phone, couldn't help but sigh in admiration; someone like Ceng Hongbing is just suited for going abroad.

He only noticed now that Ceng Hongbing, damn him, is simply a genius; not all that old, yet he actually has many advanced skills.

Carpentry, electrician, welding, bulldozer, excavator, and many advanced certificates — any one of these is enough for an ordinary person to learn, this guy knows them all.

Now he's even made some nitro-whatever-glycerin; isn't this something only a genius could make? "You don't need to come back; after you set the time and place, just send me the info.

Saves me from having to look after you when the time comes!"

Hearing this, Ceng Hongbing wasn't happy: "With no one by your side, like last time you were weak, who's going to drive for you?"

Chen Yaozu heard this and got angry-amused: "Last time if it weren't for you, I'd have climbed out the window long ago! You don't think a dozen meters high can stop me, do you!

I was worried you'd get beaten to death! If it were just me alone, why would I need to end up with Qi and Blood Great Deficiency.

Alright, stay honest and stay in Florida; wait till I settle things, then decide whether to come back.

Now you first set me a time and place with them!"

One day later.

Advanced to the Round of 16 preparing for the Round of 8, relying on his usual excellent in-match performance and powerful physical quality, and guaranteeing he would definitely return on time, Chen Yaozu finally obtained a brief leave.

Took a plane back to Los Angeles, appearing in the evening at a Chinese luxury restaurant named Dongpo Grand Restaurant.

The entire Dongpo Grand Restaurant was booked today; the first floor downstairs had already been occupied by the Fuzhou Gang's little brothers; seeing him arrive, a man wearing an earpiece, dressed in a black suit, looking like a little boss immediately came up to greet him.

"Mr. Chen, hello, our Hall Master is waiting for you upstairs; please follow me!"

Chen Yaozu was led all the way up to the second floor by him.

The second floor had been cleared out, only a table remained in the middle of the hall; beside the table sat a Chinese-American in casual clothes, behind him stood two rows of black-suited little brothers.

The moment he saw him, that Chinese-American had already stood up, cupping his hands with both hands: "Mr. Chen, I've long heard of your great name, yet never had the chance to meet; seeing you today is truly a three-lifetime fortune.

I am Zhang Rusong, humbly serving as the Fuzhou Gang's Los Angeles Hall Master.

Please, Mr. Chen, take a seat!"

Chen Yaozu did not return the cupped-hands salute, nor did he speak any response; he simply walked over and sat opposite him.

Then he gave him a faint look and said in a calm tone: "I heard Hall Master Zhang has been looking for me, wanting to treat me to a meal!

So I came on an empty stomach.

Since I'm here, then start serving the dishes!"

Chen Yaozu's attitude was somewhat arrogant, treating the dignified Fuzhou Gang Los Angeles Hall Master as nothing. This made Zhang Rusong feel a surge of resentment in his heart, but he still said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, no rush, the guests aren't all here yet!

Mr. Chen's red confidante Miss Cindy, and your old friend Mr. Antonio, have already gotten off the plane and are on their way over; they should arrive soon.

Also, one of my brothers received Mr. Chen's life-saving grace some time ago, and has been pondering how to find you to repay the favor.

I've notified him too, let him come over to accompany Mr. Chen for a drink; he should also be here soon.

Why don't we wait a bit?"

He had just finished speaking when he heard a little brother at the stairs call out: "Jiping Ge!"

Immediately a slightly familiar-looking man appeared at the 2nd floor stairs; one glance over, and the moment he saw Chen Yaozu he was overjoyed, hurriedly walking over in quick steps.

"Mr. Chen, it really is you!

Rusong Ge said he found you; I heard and rushed right over!"

Zhou Jiping walked quickly to Chen Yaozu's front, *thud* knelt down: "Mr. Chen's life-saving grace, nothing can repay it; allow me to kowtow to express my heart's gratitude!"

Finished speaking he really kowtowed heavily! Chen Yaozu completely forgot this person; who the hell is this?

【Zhou Jiping... he and his wife were originally supposed to die in a robbery, the wife suffering endless humiliation before death; it was you who changed the couple's fate.

However... you saved Zhou Jiping, yet he still couldn't escape the fate of joining the Fuzhou Gang to grow marijuana...

This person originally held gratitude toward you; now hearing Zhang Rusong wants to reconcile with you, he's very delighted.】

Zhang Rusong hurried forward to help Zhou Jiping up: "The courtesy has arrived, the courtesy has arrived; Mr. Chen knows your sincerity.

Come, sit first! Today you'll be the one to pour tea for Mr. Chen!"

Zhou Jiping rose delightedly, laughing as he stepped forward to pick up the teapot: "That's as it should be; I'll pour the tea!

On the way here I was still worried you two would have a conflict; luckily I arrived and found it's all harmonious!"

Harmonious my ass; he could tell the moment he came up that it was very stiff inside, so he immediately *thud thud* kowtowed one, breaking this deadlock.

He poured a cup of tea now, holding it with both hands and presenting it to Chen Yaozu: "Mr. Chen, your life-saving grace is as great as heaven, please drink tea!"

He thought Mr. Chen's tough demeanor meant this might freeze up, but he didn't expect Chen Yaozu to take the teacup with one hand, then look at him with a face full of regret and speak a stone-shattering-sky sentence.

"Do you know who called those three Black men?

And do you know that if I hadn't passed by that road that night, your wife would have died, but before death she would have suffered endless humiliation.

Then, burning with revenge, you agreed to this Hall Master Zhang's demand — you help him grow marijuana, he helps you take revenge!"

These words were like a bolt from the blue, instantly splitting the just-now-smiling Zhou Jiping into a stupor!

Zhang Rusong's face was extremely ugly; he had done this matter very secretly, yet he hadn't expected it to actually be pierced through with a single sentence today.

"Mr. Chen, can we really not reconcile?"

His voice had just fallen when noisy sounds came from the stairwell.

Immediately after, Honggun Ayu, who had gone to South America to fetch people, escorted one man and one woman, two South Americans, up to the 2nd floor.

That man and woman were precisely Antonio and Cindy; the moment they saw Chen Yaozu their faces revealed joy, but it quickly dimmed.

They thought Chen Yaozu had also been captured.

Chen Yaozu merely glanced at them, then turned his head back and countered the other party: "Then why did you have to persistently seek me out!

Originally, at that casino I acted so ruthlessly precisely to deter.

Having Ceng Hongbing leave Los Angeles showed we had no follow-up.

That is to say, the matter of that time ended at that time.

I believed that even if you asked the gamblers, you could know the situation at that time.

I thought, since you can sit in this position, you should understand my meaning; as time slowly passes, you would put this matter aside.

I didn't expect you to actually persist, running all the way to South America to find people! This makes me very uncomfortable!"

Honggun Ayu walked over, first curiously glancing at Chen Yaozu, then cupping fists to Zhang Rusong to report: "Reporting to Hall Master, mission accomplished without disgrace; I brought these two back from Ecuador."

Zhang Rusong waved a hand: "Hard work; you just rest to the side, watch me chat with Mr. Chen!"

Honggun Ayu, hearing this, stepped forward two steps and stood behind him, standing like a Dharma Protector.

Zhang Rusong was very relaxed now, perhaps because of the two South Americans escorted behind Chen Yaozu, or perhaps because he had some other reliance.

He smiled and said: "Mr. Chen, have you heard of the Sword of Damocles?

It's that fable where a single horse hair suspends a sword above someone's head.

Some say it represents vigilance, but I say it's torture! Because that sword is suspended by only a single horse hair — it will break someday, but no one knows when.

A sword that has already fallen and pierced someone isn't scary; a sword known to never fall and pierce someone isn't scary either.

Clearly knowing it will fall, but not knowing when — maybe tomorrow, maybe next year, maybe the next second.

It is precisely this unknown that tortures people!

Just like Three Brothers launching a missile — after launch even he doesn't know the impact point; this is ultimate panic for everyone.

Including himself!"

Speaking here, Zhang Rusong paused, smiled at Chen Yaozu and continued: "And now, in my view, Mr. Chen is like the Sword of Damocles to me.

You will definitely fall, piercing into my head, but I don't know exactly when you will fall.

So your existence is a torture to me! I have only two paths: one is to have Mr. Chen join my Fuzhou Gang, become fellow disciples — fellow disciples don't kill each other! The other path is to find Mr. Chen and obtain forgiveness — even if we can't be fellow disciples we can be friends!

Anyway, it's better than enmity! But whichever path, first I must find Mr. Chen, talk with you, and it became the current situation.

But actually my original intention is good!

What do you think? Mr. Chen!"

Chen Yaozu suddenly picked up the teapot, startling the on-guard Zhang Rusong, but saw he merely filled his own teacup to the brim before letting out a breath of relief.

"Originally, last time's incident had already concluded; I never thought of settling old scores.

But, from the moment you went to find my friends, you were destined to pay the price! I know that you and these twenty subordinates behind you all have a packet of glutinous rice and a spirit talisman on your persons.

These spirit talismans at 100,000 each — that is your confidence in facing me!"

Zhang Rusong was a bit surprised: "How do you know?"

Chen Yaozu slowly stood up, softly saying: "Because I used to be a street fortune-teller; one look at a person and I know what you're planning.

Originally didn't want to quarrel with you, but you absolutely shouldn't have — absolutely shouldn't have gone to South America to find my friends! And still want to talk peace?

If you don't die, everyone will think befriending me is very unsafe! Because I can't protect them, and they'll instead be implicated because of me!

Also, who told you that besides ghost possession I can't kill people……"

Finishing, his foot stomped violently, a "Bang!" exploded, this stomp actually instantly cracked the porcelain tiles on the ground, and his body shot out like an arrow off a bowstring, drawing a blurred afterimage as he crashed into the group of twenty bodyguards behind Zhang Rusong.

His powerful body and strength directly knocked away the first few; in a split second tendons snapped and bones broke, dying violent deaths.

Immediately after came Chen Yaozu's lightning-fast weaving; hands, feet, knees, elbows touched the fatal points of this group of bodyguards and separated instantly — before they could react and draw guns they had all already fallen dead on the ground.

Only now did Zhang Rusong know what kind of monster he had provoked; he trembled as he drew his gun.

As long as his gun sounded, the little brothers on the first floor would definitely draw guns and rush up; he would still have a sliver of survival chance.

But he soon discovered he was wrong; a dagger stabbed into his liver from under his ribs, then twisted.

The moment air rushed into the wound, his whole body had no strength to make a sound, let alone pull the trigger.

He turned to look — it was actually his trusted confidant Honggun Ayu; A Yu's eyes were emitting an eerie black color at some unknown time.

Turns out, he had no glutinous rice or exorcism talismans on him; calling him here was truly a miscalculation……

Thinking thus in his heart, his vision gradually darkened, then he heard and perceived nothing more, and passed away completely.

The few subordinates who had followed Honggun Ayu back from South America pressing Cindy and Antonio were stunned by this sudden change, then someone unknown suddenly cried out in alarm: "Fish Brother killed the Boss!"

This cry finally alarmed the little brothers downstairs on the first floor; they climbed up to the second floor, took one look, and were instantly stunned like wooden chickens.

Double Flower Red Pole Fish Brother's dagger stabbed straight into the Boss's liver area; blood flowed all over the ground; the Boss looked like he had already breathed his last.

Behind him, twenty-odd of the Boss's bodyguards lay dead all over the ground.

These younger brothers didn't know what to do, not even anyone shouting to avenge the boss!

They just stood there dumbfounded, stared dumbfounded, not daring to move.

Chen Yaozu patted the also dumbfounded Double Flower Honggun Ayu, pointing at the equally stunned Zhou Jiping: "A Yu, right? See that guy? After I leave, you support him to be hall master!

I don't care what you all think in the gang, if Zhou Jiping can't become hall master, the Fuzhou Gang has no need to exist in Los Angeles.

Also, help me cleanse all the loyalists Zhang Rusong left behind."

The Red Pole with strange black ink still lingering in his eyes was now stroking the bloodstains on the dagger, silent and not speaking.

Chen Yaozu finished speaking, called out to Cindy and Antonio, and walked out.

Wherever he passed, those younger brothers all involuntarily made way.

Cindy followed behind Chen Yaozu with eyes full of infatuation, this really was a charming fellow.

Antonio followed Chen Yaozu into the car, but he was a bit dumbfounded, not even understanding what had just happened.

He only knew Chen Yaozu was fierce, one person took down twenty-odd bodyguards, even making them unable to draw their guns in time.

He stuttered for a good while before squeezing out that one sentence: "Chen, you just arrived not long ago, and you've already become the underground emperor of Los Angeles gangs?"

Just now, they walked out swaggeringly in front of dozens of younger brothers from the major Los Angeles gang Fuzhou.

In the past, he Antonio wouldn't even dare think of this, even if he'd made quite a bit of money these recent years.

Chen Yaozu shook his head: "What proper person mixes in the underworld, I'm now a rising star in the Los Angeles public high school faculty olive oil competition.

With a proper job!"

Suddenly his phone rang, he picked it up and looked, it was actually Mikhailov.

After connecting, the laughter of this Russian descent yet Eastern culture proficient Los Angeles school district superintendent came through:

"Zu, have to say, good thing your full-force collision wasn't used on the olive oil field, otherwise I suspect all public high school olive oil players nationwide couldn't withstand your collision!

Before going back to training, if you don't mind, come find me for a drink!"

(Chapter End)