Chapter 42: The transition still has to be gone through

Li Xin was eating xiaolongbao in his mouth, he waved to Lei Yaoyang who had been waiting outside the door early, pointed to the chair next to Tianhong opposite, and told him to sit down and have breakfast.

When he got up, Qiuti had already left; these buns and side dishes were still brought by Tianhong.

After the meal.

Li Xin sat on the living room sofa, legs crossed, a cigarette between his fingers, looking at Lei Yaoyang sitting opposite, his eyes full of bloodshot, and asked: "How was it? Did you still enjoy yesterday's fun?"

Lei Yaoyang's mood had already calmed, his girlfriend left! He is now alone, with no attachments.

Only occasionally, he would pull out Nietzsche's quotes from his outer coat pocket, the only keepsake his girlfriend left him.

One sentence inside left a deep impression on him: "People need a goal; they would rather pursue nothingness than pursue nothing at all."

Now he has just one pursuit: to help Big Brother fulfill his wish, no matter how outrageous that wish is, he would not hesitate to sacrifice this miserable life!

Lei Yaoyang did not answer Big Brother's words, but instead raised his head and softly asked: "Big Brother, what is your wish?"

Li Xin thought for a moment; he actually had many wishes, couldn't elaborate, otherwise the book would be sealed!

He said jokingly: "I want no one on Gangdao to be able to speak loudly to me." Then he retorted, "Does that count as a wish?"

"It counts!"

Lei Yaoyang answered extremely seriously.

With his right hand he touched the book in his pocket; this wish would henceforth be his spiritual reliance, and he would help Big Brother fulfill it even at the cost of his life.

From that day on, Lei Yaoyang never let go of a book in his hand; he had books on every subject, extracting useful knowledge into his mind and then digesting it.

……

Li Xin sat in the car, watching the construction crew work outside, an old man stood beside the crew, jumping and saying something.

Li Xin had Jianguo stop the car, went to the old man's side, and asked: "Sixth Uncle, what are you doing? Why are you still so angry? How old are you? Aren't you afraid of making yourself sick?"

Seeing Li Xin, Sixth Uncle seemed to have found his backbone, angrily complained to him, pointing at the ground and saying: "A Xin, look at their road base—it's not compacted at all; if left for long, the road will collapse!"

Li Xin didn't understand any of this either!

But seeing the road workers not refute Sixth Uncle's words, he knew it was basically what Sixth Uncle said.

Since Sixth Uncle understands, let him handle this.

He directly told the construction crew: "Let your foreman redo the work until Sixth Uncle says it's qualified, tell him, 'There won't be a next time, otherwise I'll bury him—I'm Li Xin, let him find out who I am; this time I'm giving Mr. Jiang face, I won't bother him, next time tell him to prepare a coffin.'

Li Xin turned to Sixth Uncle and said: "Sixth Uncle, work a bit harder, keep an eye on the project's progress and quality; in a moment I'll have the car park send over an air-conditioned vehicle for you to supervise from, so you don't get heatstroke at your age."

"Fine, I can do it; these people just can't give a good face, they even screw up a road that villagers painstakingly built—are they even human?"

Sixth Uncle said angrily.

Li Xin got back in the car and told Huashe, who was hitching a ride back to the city in his vehicle: "Don't go back to the city today; stay here and watch, then go to the car park to get Sixth Uncle an air-conditioned vehicle, preferably in good condition, and transfer the ownership directly to him."

"Okay, Big Brother, I know what to do," Huashe replied.

On the way to the city.

Li Xin asked Tianhong: "Where is the appointment?"

"With backbone."

……

Wan Chai Backbone Restaurant.

Hmm, I've been coming to this place a lot lately, Li Xin is getting a bit tired of it!

Today's meeting place was conveyed through the words of Nine Dragon City Leader Xingshu.

As soon as Li Xin entered the hall, he saw Xingshu drinking tea with a dead fat guy; that must be Pangfotuo.

Luotianhong first pulled out a chair for Li Xin; after they sat down, he then greeted Xingshu: "Xingshu, how have you been lately?"

"Good, I've been very comfortable; Xiyan is very capable, saving me a lot of worry."

Xingshu patted Xiyan beside him and said happily.

Xiyan stood up directly, called out "Brother Xin, Brother Tianhong," then sat down again.

Li Xin nodded at Xiyan and said: "No need to be polite with me; I'm cooperating in business with Hanbin, we're all our own people."

Then he turned to Pangfotuo and said: "Old Buddha, I invited you today for just one matter"—he summoned Lei Yaoyang to his side—"Lei Yaoyang switching sides to follow me, what do you say?"

Pangfotuo squeezed into the chair, smiling, and replied: "If your brother Xin speaks, this face and Righteous Hall will definitely be given, but... I and the Red Pole Arhat of Righteous Hall have gone missing, Brother Xin, what do you say?"

Li Xin picked up the toothpick box on the table, took out one, broke it in the middle, and threw it straight into his tea cup.

This tea, he can't drink it; as long as Li Xin doesn't admit he drank it, he counts as not having drunk it.

There's no chance for reconciliation—just slap him dead and be done with it.

Him being able to come today is just for show; afterward, if anything happens, no one can blame Li Xin, since he's followed procedure—what more could be wanted?

Yesterday we already laid out the script for them; how could it work if they don't follow the plot?

This Righteous Hall is truly beyond evaluation—producing such a damn scumbag!

This dead fat bastard is even more lacking in virtue than the Arhat—forcing someone's daughter in front of their mother, driving the family to ruin, utterly corrupt!

The "Buddha" in his nickname refers to the Happy Buddha; he enjoys practicing Happy Chan, his taste is quite high—he won't lay a hand on any decent woman!

Gangsters hardly have any good qualities!

Hmm, Li Xin isn't either!

But he has never bullied the weak; looking at that, among these gangsters, he has the highest bottom line!

But he is never arrogant!

Pangfotuo looked at the toothpick in his tea cup, his expression changed, he turned to Xingshu and asked: "Is this how Prosperity operates? No talk, straight to war?"

Xingshu paid him no mind, sipping his tea; if not for the sake of Righteous Sea's face, he would have long since leveled Righteous Hall.

Meeting for a chat is fine, but letting him speak? Don't even think about it.

He is the intermediary; as long as no fighting breaks out now, the mission is accomplished.

Tomorrow?

Does Hall of Harmony and Righteousness still have a tomorrow?

He knows A Xin's way of doing things too well; tonight Hall of Harmony and Righteousness will definitely lose several key figures, and if he guessed wrong, he might as well have lived his whole life for nothing.

Li Xin stood up, pulled a big red envelope from his pocket, and threw it at Pang Fo tuo, saying, 'This is 160,006, Lei Yaoyang's passage fee.'

After speaking with Xing Shu, he gave a greeting to the narrow-eyed one, turned and left; there's no need to greet the dead.

Damn it!

At Xi Gong's home.

"Tianhong, tonight let everyone at Hall of Harmony and Righteousness above the big stake disappear; don't play cat-and-mouse, just kill them all and be done with it!".

Li Xin said casually.

Tianhong stood up and left, saying as he went, 'Big Brother, I've had everything ready since yesterday; I'm going to double-check now, don't let those mice get away, or it'll be hard to catch them later.'

This is Luo Tianhong.

Few words, but ruthless!