sinovels Chapter 1813 Selling the Little White Dragon
Chapter 1813 Selling the Little White Dragon
Chapter 1813 Selling the Little White Dragon
The robbers' escape not only confused the mule, but also Lin Guodong and his four companions who got off the Santana.
After a brief moment of shock, the seven members of the Zhao family gang remembered that one of the robbers had called out "Third Uncle".
It must be that one of the robbers recognized Xing San.
Old Mountain Dog has only been to Lingnan twice in his life. The first time was when he accompanied Zhao Jun to Hebei, and the second time was this time.
The road from Shulan to Changchun is not the same as the road from Xie Chen's home to Hebei.
On different roads, they encountered the same group of robbers. It seems that after Xing San dealt with them, these guys felt they couldn't stay in their original territory anymore, so they moved to another place.
Unexpectedly, not long after arriving here, they ran into the Zhao family gang again.
Seeing Li Baoyu and Xie Chen carrying guns and rushing towards Zhao Jun, Lin Guodong and his four companions quickly followed.
Upon reaching Zhao Jun, Lin Guodong immediately asked, "Boss Zhao, why did you let them escape?"
"What?" Zhao Jun was taken aback, then laughed and said, "Master Lin, can I still stop them and prevent them from escaping?"
"No, Mr. Zhao." Lin Guodong realized that he had spoken in a hurry and quickly added, "The group that robbed us yesterday should be them."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun glanced at the woods on both sides and then said to Lin Guodong, "Master Lin, even if they kidnapped you, we can't go with them."
As he spoke, Zhao Jun pointed into the woods and said, "Who knows what's going on in there? If we chase them in, what if they set up guns for us?"
Zhao Jun could understand Lin Guodong's feelings at that moment. Of the three people who came from Beijing to buy ginseng, Zhang Xinglin was probably hired by a big boss to help out; whether or not the ginseng was lost was none of his business.
Moreover, the old Chinese medicine doctor suffered on this trip, so the big boss will probably compensate him in some way.
As for Lin Guodong and Li Guozhong, there's nothing to say; they simply messed up their jobs.
Although the big boss is rich, Lin and Li will definitely not be well off after they return. Therefore, Zhao Jun can understand why Lin Guodong is so eager to bring back the Amber Dragon.
But right now, Zhao Jun can't risk the safety of his own people just to clean up Lin Guodong's mess.
This has nothing to do with whether or not Xiaobailong is sold. 100,000 yuan is a lot of money, but Zhao Jun has never been a heartless person. This is evident from the fact that when Manager Huang called yesterday, he was still recommending the Shao family's stone dragon.
However, Zhao Jun is kind-hearted but not a saint. He will help those in need if he can, but he will never try to help those he really can't.
As Zhao Jun finished speaking, Li Baoyu chimed in, "Master Lin, there's an old saying that goes, 'Never enter a forest, never pursue a cornered enemy.'"
Upon hearing Li Baoyu's words, Lin Guodong was taken aback, then gave a wry smile and said to Zhao Jun, "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhao, I was just too anxious."
Zhao Jun smiled and shook his head, indicating it was alright. At that moment, Zhang Xinglin asked Zhao Jun, "Boss Zhao, do you know those robbers?"
Zhao Jun was taken aback, then heard Zhang Xinglin add, "Otherwise, why would they run away as soon as they saw you?"
“It’s not that I know them, it’s that they know me,” Zhao Jun said with a smile, but then realized something was off, so he quickly corrected himself, “They know my Third Uncle.”
Upon hearing Zhao Jun's words, Lin Guodong, Zhang Xinglin, and the others recalled the shout of "Third Uncle" that the robbers had made before they ran away, and they all turned to look at Xing San.
Xing San was still wearing that outfit that showed his status, but the way he held a gun in one hand and a knife in the other looked very strange.
At this moment, Lin Guodong realized he had misjudged Xing San. This Xing San was no retired cadre; he was clearly a seasoned gangster who had made a name for himself in the underworld.
Only then did Lin Guodong understand why Zhao Jun had brought an old man along on his journey. Recalling his previous disdain for Xing San, Lin Guodong quickly stole a glance at Xing San.
Xing San completely ignored the strange looks he received from the crowd and said to Zhao Jun, "Get in the car, kid."
“No way, Uncle San,” Zhao Jun said with a smile, tilting his chin forward slightly. “What about the mule? What are we going to do?”
"So what if we do that?" Xing San said coldly, "Put it on the cart, then take it home, let your mother kill it, and we'll eat the meat."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun felt it was feasible, and immediately raised his hand to Wang Qiang, Li Baoyu and the others, saying, "Uncle, Baoyu, listen to your third uncle, get the mule a big liberation."
After saying that, Zhao Jun turned to look at Lin Guodong and the others, and said with a smile, "The mule is ours now."
The mule was a spoil of war, but the two groups weren't working together, so Zhao Jun didn't plan to divide it.
Lin Guodong and the others quickly waved their hands in refusal. At that moment, they weren't thinking about dividing the mules, but rather about Xing San's earlier comment, "Go home and have your mother kill it." They really couldn't understand what kind of method "kill it" meant for handling large livestock.
Following Zhao Jun's instructions, Zhang Yuanmin, Li Baoyu, and the others went to the mule. Upon reaching the mule, Li Baoyu turned back to Zhao Jun and asked, "Brother, what should we do with this cart?"
“Let’s just leave the cart behind,” Zhang Yuanmin said, then reached out and took the whip from the donkey cart, saying, “I’ll drive it to the edge of the woods, and then we’ll untie the harness.”
There was no job in the forest that Zhang Yuanmin couldn't do. He drove the mule to the edge of the forest, and Li Baoyu and the others helped to untie the mule's harness.
Upon seeing the copper rings on the mule harness, Zhang Yuanmin, with the mentality of taking advantage of every opportunity, said to Li Baoyu, "Baoyu, let's take a knife and cut off these two copper rings."
Ten minutes later, the mule was pulled onto the back of the Liberation truck. The mule was a little uncomfortable, but its reins were tied to the guardrail, so it couldn't run away even if it wanted to.
Zhao Jun and his group got into the car and continued their journey.
After walking about five miles, Zhao Jun, who was leading the way, saw two Jeeps 212 coming towards them.
However, unlike the jeeps driven by Zhao Jun and his group, the two jeeps opposite them were painted white with blue stripes and marked with the pinyin "gong an".
Knowing that a police car was approaching, Zhao Jun quickly honked twice to warn the car behind him. Then, Zhao Jun stopped his car and honked twice more to signal the police car to stop.
Five cars were parked on the road. After Zhao Jun got out of the car, he took out the letter of introduction that Yu Xuewen had given him from his pocket and said to the people who got out of the police car, "Hello, I am from the Lingxi Yongxing Brigade."
The person opposite did not look at Zhao Jun's letter of introduction, because just by looking at Zhao Jun's three cars, they knew that he was someone of status.
At that moment, another person got out of the police car, pointed at the Santana, and said, "Aren't these the people who were robbed yesterday?"
At this moment, Lin Guodong and his group saw the police car and got out of the Santana.
Seeing them heading this way, Zhao Jun, fearing they might say something inappropriate, quickly told the police officers, "On our way here, we encountered a group of robbers."
As he spoke, Zhao Jun turned around and pointed back the way he came, saying, "They ran into the woods on both sides of the road, about five miles from here. Go over there now and look for the carts along the edge of the woods on the east side of the road."
"Huh?" Zhao Jun's words startled a young police officer, who asked, "Why did they run away?"
Zhao Jun smiled, unbuttoned his jacket, tucked the hem behind him, patted the pistol at his waist, and said, "They all ran away when they saw me pull out this gun."
The Type 54 pistol is not something you can buy outside. Generally, those who carry this gun are either security guards of large factories or institutions, even if they are not government officials.
When bad guys see this gun, they know they're not to be messed with; but when officials see this gun, they know it's someone in the same line of work.
So when the police saw Zhao Jun pull out his pistol, they didn't ask any questions, just told him to be careful on the road, and then let Zhao Jun and his group go.
The journey from Shulan to Changchun is over 200 li (approximately 100 kilometers). Zhao Jun and his group arrived at the Changchun Wuxing Furniture Factory at noon.
This five-star furniture factory is owned by a friend of Manager Huang, a long-time customer. The two men from Changchun who went to Shulan with Lin Guodong and his two companions are employees of this furniture factory.
The owner of Wuxing Furniture Factory is named Wang Daxing, a 45-year-old man from Northeast China.
The Five Star Furniture Factory is a renovated old factory area left over from a former state-owned factory, and there is also an office building in the yard.
Wang Daxing invited Zhao Jun and the others to his office, and after instructing someone to serve tea, he took out some Hongtashan cigarettes and distributed them to everyone.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Daxing asked Lin Guodong, "Little Lin, did you have a smooth journey back today?"
After Lin Guodong was robbed yesterday, he made a phone call from the police station to Beijing, and the person in Beijing told Wang Daxing about it.
"It wasn't entirely smooth sailing either." Lin Guodong smiled wryly and briefly recounted their encounter with robbers that day.
When he heard that Xing San had single-handedly repelled the enemy, Wang Daxing instinctively looked at Xing San. Before opening his furniture factory, he had been involved in the underworld, and just one glance at Xing San was enough for Wang Daxing to know that this old man was no ordinary person.
After smoking and drinking tea, Wang Daxing arranged for the seven members of the Zhao family gang and Lin Guodong and two others to have lunch.
It was already past 11:40, so Zhao Jun didn't refuse and went with Wang Daxing to a restaurant across from the furniture factory for a meal.
After eating and drinking their fill, everyone returned to Wang Daxing's office. However, before entering the building this time, Zhao Jun had Li Baoyu take out a steamed bun containing a little white dragon from the jeep.
"Old Zhang." Upon entering the office, Zhao Jun called out to Zhang Xinglin, "Why don't you inspect the goods?"
After Zhao's gang met Lin Guodong and his two companions yesterday afternoon, Zhao Jun mentioned that Zhang Xinglin should take a look at Xiaobailong. However, Zhang Xinglin suggested waiting until Changchun to inspect it, and then they could exchange money for goods.
Zhao Jun knew perfectly well that Zhang Xinglin was up to something. If the goods were inspected in Shulan and met the requirements, that would be fine.
If it turns out that there's something wrong with Xiaobailong, it doesn't matter if the deal falls through. The problem is that at that point, the Zhao family gang definitely won't escort them back to Changchun.
Zhang Xinglin was terrified after being tied to a tree overnight the day before yesterday.
Instead of inspecting the goods in Shulan, things become simple once they arrive in Changchun. If Xiaobailong finds nothing wrong, he'll pay on the spot. If they're counterfeit, he'll simply refuse to accept them; he won't lose out either way.
Zhao Jun was very confident in his ginseng. He gestured to Li Baoyu, who then untied the knot of the ginseng and opened the pine bark.
After Li Baoyu withdrew, Zhang Xinglin stepped forward and lifted a layer of moss. Seeing that there was still moss underneath, he lifted another layer. At this point, there were still two layers of moss underneath, and the little white dragon with four leaves was lying on these two layers of moss.
Zhang Xinglin pinched the tip of the reed, picked up the little white dragon from the moss, and held it above his forehead, looking up at it.
After looking at it for more than ten seconds, Zhang Xinglin used his other hand to support the ginseng whiskers from behind to the front, and used both hands to hold the ginseng horizontally in front of his eyes to examine it carefully.
After looking at it for two more seconds, Zhang Xinglin couldn't help but exclaim, "What a wonderful ginseng!"
Upon hearing Zhang Xinglin's words, Wang Qiang and the other members of the Zhao family gang exchanged glances, their faces beaming with joy.
They wouldn't get much money from the ginseng seedlings, but they were genuinely happy that Zhao Jun was making money.
At this moment, Zhang Xinglin gently placed the little white dragon back on the two layers of moss, then slowly nodded to Lin Guodong, indicating that there was no problem with the ginseng.
Lin Guodong immediately looked at Wang Daxing, who understood immediately. He got up, walked to the metal cabinet next to the desk, opened the cabinet door, and took out a heavy snakeskin bag.
Wang Daxing handed the snakeskin bag to Lin Guodong, who then passed it to Zhao Jun, saying with a smile, "Boss Zhao, please count this 100,000 yuan."
Zhao Jun smiled at Lin Guodong, then turned and gave Li Baoyu a look. Li Baoyu immediately stepped forward, took the snakeskin bag, and carried it to the back. Wang Qiang, Zhang Yuanmin, Xie Chen, and Zhao Jinhui then surrounded them, opened the snakeskin bag, and the five of them began to count the money in front of them.
It wasn't that Zhao Jun wanted to show off, but when they arrived at the Shao family a few days ago, the Shao family gang had set up a trap. Luckily, Zhao Jun and his companions handled the situation well, otherwise they would have lost face in front of their fellow martial arts practitioners.
That evening, when the seven members of the Zhao family were sleeping on one kang (a heated brick bed), Li Ruhai proposed that from now on, Zhao Jun could do whatever he wanted at home, but when he went out, he had to have a grand entrance and a certain air about him.
Li Ruhai's proposal received unanimous support from the Zhao family gang. At this time, the matter of investigating the money was handed over to his subordinates, and Zhao Jun leisurely chatted with Wang Daxing, Zhang Xinglin and others.
At this moment, Wang Daxing also realized that the men Zhao Jun was leading had clearly seen money before. Faced with 100,000 yuan, not one of them stared blankly; they all appeared calm and composed.
This made Wang Daxing even more curious about the identities of Zhao Jun and his companions. After asking them some questions, Zhao Jun simply told him his contact information and business scope.
Zhao Jun thought to himself, this guy can run such a big factory, he must be rich. Maybe business will come his way someday. It's never a bad thing to make more friends.
To Zhao Jun's surprise, Zhang Xinglin also gave him her contact information.
Only then did Zhao Jun realize that he had overlooked something: Zhang Xinglin came from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, so he might need precious Chinese medicinal materials such as bear bile and wild ginseng.
In other words, Zhang Xinglin is also one of his clients.
While Zhao Jun chatted with Zhang Xinglin and the others, the money was counted by the Zhao family.
Li Baoyu got up and walked to Zhao Jun's side, lowered his head slightly, and whispered in his ear, "Brother, the money is no problem, not a penny less."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Jun stood up, clasped his hands in a fist salute, bid farewell to Wang Daxing, Lin Guodong, and the others, and then left with the Zhao family gang and the money.
(End of this chapter)