Chapter 2144: A gentleman

Ye Chen thought about it now. When he heard the news of his grandfather's critical illness on the second floor of the restaurant, he immediately let Gu Qiuyi take the Blood-Dispersing Heart-Saving Pill to Los Angeles. This move didn't have time to be covered up at all.

Therefore, as long as his uncle traces back from the trajectory of Gu Qiuyi after she arrived in Los Angeles, he will definitely focus his attention on Uncle Zhong's roast goose restaurant.

Chen Zhaozhong saw Ye Chen's helplessness and knew what he was thinking, so he comforted him, "Young Master Ye, life is at stake. You didn't have any other good choices at the time. Fortunately, your uncle shouldn't have noticed your existence yet."

Ye Chen sighed, "I arrived at your store with Nannan. If he finds the surveillance footage, he might recognize me. I guess Li Yalin sent someone to find the surveillance footage here just to figure out who Nannan was with and what was special about it."

Chen Zhaozhong smiled slightly, "You can rest assured about this. There are not many surveillance cameras outside Chinatown. There were some before, but they were smashed after being installed. Later, they simply weren't installed anymore. My store doesn't have surveillance cameras at the front door. Even if the store opposite has them, because of the angle, it's impossible to capture me here, so you don't have to worry."

As he spoke, Chen Zhaozhong added, "We who open stores don't dare to hang cameras outside the store. So generally, the outermost camera is installed at the top of the inside of the door, and then tilted to include the entire range of the store door. But because the angle of the camera is at a 45-degree downward tilt, it can at most capture people on its own side of the sidewalk, not the motor vehicle lane, and even less the opposite side, so you don't have to worry."

Hearing this, Ye Chen nodded lightly, "That would be the best."

Chen Zhaozhong said somewhat melancholically, "Young Master Ye, since you don't want to expose yourself, then you should try not to come here in the future... Your uncle and Li Yalin have set their sights on this place, and they will definitely focus on me in the future."

"Yes." Ye Chen nodded and said seriously, "After Nannan finishes her concert tomorrow, I might not come to New York for a short time. This place is gilded on the outside but rotten on the inside. Behind the paper-drunk and gold-obsessed financial capital, I don't know how many dirty deals are hidden, so I don't have a good impression of this place."

Chen Zhaozhong smiled and nodded with a bit of melancholy, saying, "It is rare to find a second city in this world like New York that has bred so many evils, whether it is the glamorous Wall Street or the filthy slums, everywhere is filled with evil with distinct group characteristics;"

"The evil in the slums is straightforward: violence, shootings, drugs, human trafficking. But the evil on Wall Street is much more terrifying than in the slums. Those successful people sitting in Wall Street skyscrapers, just by sitting together and smoking a cigar, can decide the life and death of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people in a third-world country. In the face of interests, human life is like grass."

Ye Chen saw that Chen Zhaozhong was also quite emotional, so he couldn't help asking, "Uncle Zhong, you have been in the United States for so many years; have you ever thought about going back?"

Chen Zhaozhong was slightly stunned, then looked up at Ye Chen and said seriously, "Young Master Ye, to be honest, I want to go back. Although my old father is no longer here, my mother is still alive and is now over eighty years old. I also want to fulfill my filial piety by her side..."

Speaking of this, Chen Zhaozhong sighed, "It's just that when Mr. Gu went to negotiate with Mr. Liu on my behalf, I promised Mr. Liu in front of both of them that I would never return to Hong Kong for the rest of my life."

Ye Chen said indifferently, "Uncle Zhong, I really don't hold a mere Mr. Liu from Hong Kong in any regard. As long as you want to go back, I will solve all of this for you."

Chen Zhaozhong stood up, clasped his hands together, and bowed, "Young Master Ye, your strength is heaven-defying. Let alone one Mr. Liu, even ten Mr. Lius would definitely not be your opponents..."

Speaking of this, Chen Zhaozhong said with incomparable shame, "However, Young Master Ye, a gentleman's word is as good as gold! I, Chen Zhaozhong, am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of others poking my spine and saying that I am a villain who goes back on his word... So... please don't pressure Mr. Liu for my sake. Since he kept his promise and didn't hunt me down again, I should also keep my promise and never return to Hong Kong for the rest of my life!"

Ye Chen was slightly stunned, feeling that Chen Zhaozhong was both open and upright, and that his moral standard was set too high, which was only torturing himself.

However, Ye Chen could see the firmness in his eyes at this time and knew that this matter could not be done hard according to his own ideas. If he wanted Chen Zhaozhong to put down the things of the past and move forward, he still had to follow what the ancestors said: the one who tied the bell must be the one to untie it.

Otherwise, even if he let the Ten Thousand Dragons Palace escort Chen Zhaozhong back to Hong Kong and forced Mr. Liu to bow down with strength, Chen Zhaozhong would still feel that he was a head shorter than the other party.

Ye Chen actually hadn't thought about changing his words with Chen Zhaozhong. Although he had an agreement with Mr. Liu not to return to Hong Kong, he didn't have an agreement with Mr. Liu not to return to the mainland. So, he couldn't go back to Hong Kong, but he could go back to the mainland with him and work for the Ye Group. By then, with the Ye Group supporting him, even if Mr. Liu knew, it would be impossible for him to come to the Ye family to make trouble.

However, when the words reached his lips, Ye Chen ultimately didn't say them.