The woman covered her face and glared at Liang Pei: "You're supposed to be a cop, yet you're scared into silence by a bunch of people with five or six guns around your neck."
"Even cops have rules!" Liang Pei glared at the woman and said, "Fuck your mother! It was you guys from Fourteen K who broke the rules, how am I supposed to save them?"
"Since Inspector Leung has spoken, I have to give him some face. So, let's leave them all alive, but don't expect their hands and feet to be completely unharmed. If we don't leave some marks, the underworld will think Lao Fu is afraid of Fourteen K." Golden-Tooth Lei said with a smile as he watched Liang Pei and the woman arguing.
Liang Pei sighed, "I was only brought here at the last minute. If I had known these guys had broken the rules, I definitely wouldn't have shown up tonight."
"I won't make things difficult for you. Someone, go get a bench for Inspector Liang. You can continue practicing your boxing," said Golden-Tooth Lei.
It wasn't until the five fingers on Bayonet Wing's left hand were broken and his vocal cords were about to snap from screaming that two cars finally turned into the dock from outside.
When Liang Pei's lover saw the car appear, she covered her swollen right cheek, which Liang Pei had slapped, and ran towards the car. As soon as the car stopped, she helped open the door. Chen Zhongying and Qi Weiwen got out of the car with several of their 14K. Chen Zhongying was wearing Zhongshan with a woolen cape rarely seen in Hong Kong, while Qi Weiwen, still wearing a Tang-style jacket and skirt, gently put his arm around his beaten apprentice and asked him a few questions in a low voice.
"Incense Master Xun." After hearing the woman's words, Chen Zhongying and the others glanced at the still-hanging Bayonet Wing in the distance, then walked towards Golden-Tooth Lei, smiling calmly, "If my brothers make a mistake, just let me know. Why do you and these Fuyixing brothers have to go to such lengths to personally teach them how to be decent human beings?"
This wasn't the first time Golden-Tooth Lei and Chen Zhongying had met. Fuyixing and 14K had fought more than ten times, and the reconciliation banquets they held in the end had been held at least eight or nine tables. Hearing Chen Zhongying speak now, Golden-Tooth Lei curled his lip and said, "Of course I have no interest in teaching them a lesson. I'm just venting my anger. You're overthinking it."
"My men were just visiting friends on Tai Wo Street in Wan Chai. The police didn't care. Why should you, Fuyixing, maintain public order? Hmm? You're meddling too much." Chen Zhongying lightly patted a speck of dust that had just drifted over onto his cloak and said to Golden-Tooth Lei.
Before Golden-Tooth Lei could speak, Chen Zhongying turned to the silent Liang Pei beside him and said coldly, "Detective Chief Inspector Liang, Yanni is Hall Master Qi's direct disciple. She only agreed to let her be with you because she genuinely likes you and you seem like a good person. The female disciple of the Right Assistant Chancellor Hall Master, 14K, isn't someone you can beat up at will. Chen Yanni is a woman, that's true, but she's also a member of the martial arts world. If you want to beat a woman, go home and beat your wife. The woman at 14K is meant to be pampered by men, not beaten by you. Beating your wife is fine, but beating the woman at 14K is not. If you don't believe me, try again. I guarantee you'll have a grand funeral, and I'll even have a feng shui master choose a good memorial tablet for you to accumulate merit. Get lost."
Liang Pei, a Second Route Marshal of Single Righteousness Detective Chief Inspector at the Wan Chai Police Station, the second-in-command of Yiu Muk, and one of the Five Tiger Generals most capable generals during the time of Chief Chinese Detective Chief Inspector Yao Mu, was scolded by Chen Zhongying in front of Fuyixing. He didn't dare to utter a single harsh word and led his men away from the pier in a dejected manner.
He was indeed Detective Chief Inspector, a Big Brother of Single Righteousness, and did indeed have a gun, but he didn't dare to confront the 14K directly. These Kuomintang remnants who had fled from the mainland to Hong Kong had suffered repeated defeats on the battlefield, being slaughtered by the People's Liberation Army from north to south, leaving them terrified and fearful. However, they had never backed down when fighting against local gangs in Hong Kong. The Eastern Guangdong Gang, Fuyixing, and Chiu Chow Gang, all powerful gangs in Kowloon, couldn't do anything to the 14K. As a Second Route Marshal of Single Righteousness of Shan Yi with only a thousand or so men left, guarding only Wan Chai, he didn't have enough confidence to formally turn against them.
Chen Yanni hooked up with him because she Detective Chief Inspector his title as a detective, hoping he could help 14K build connections within the Police Force.
Chen Zhongying turned his head and looked at Liang Pei walking away. His tone was calm, but there was a hint of arrogance in it. "When I was killing people with a gun, you were probably hiding somewhere washing your pants that you peed because you were scared by the Japan."
After Liang Pei left, Chen Zhongying withdrew his gaze, a smile returning to his face. He looked at Golden-Tooth Lei and said, "Incense Master Xun, what did these good-for-nothings do to anger you? Why don't you just tell me? I, Chen, will apologize on their behalf."
As soon as he finished speaking, a pair of car headlights suddenly lit up in the shadows to the left and behind Golden-Tooth Lei, shining straight at Chen Zhongying. The car door opened, and Song Tianyao got out of the car, followed by Gao Lao Cheng, Rotten-Life Ju, Fish Ming.
With a gloomy face, Song Tianyao slowly walked to the spot where the lights came on. He raised his hand to block the light while simultaneously stepping aside, his composed Big Brother demeanor completely shattered before Chen Zhongying: "I'm not angry because I didn't provoke Golden-Tooth Lei. It seems you're the one who ordered these men to go see a friend named Song Chunliang? I'll curse your mother! Do you believe I'll call those British Army at the docks who took my money right now, and have them shoot you dead as thieves attempting to steal from the Customs warehouse? After sending you and those two 14K women you said you couldn't fight to heaven, these dozen or so Britain soldiers will also get a commendation from the Government House's Office."
Just then, Song Chengqi suddenly got out of the back seat of Qi Weiwen's car in the distance and spoke to Song Tianyao, who was coldly confronting Chen Zhongying, his tone full of astonishment and anger:
"A-Yao, you good-for-nothing, didn't you tell me you should do something decent?!"
Even with his sharp mind, Song Tianyao was momentarily stunned by Song Chengqi's sudden appearance. After staring blankly at Song Chengqi for a few seconds, he finally uttered a greeting that left everyone present speechless:
"Grandpa?"
Chapter 158 Getting Old
Is this old man with a scholar's beard, wearing a coarse cloth long gown, and a stern face, the grandfather of Song Tianyao, the secretary of Likang Trading Company?
Golden-Tooth Lei was startled. Could these bastards from 14K have kidnapped Song Tianyao's grandfather to threaten Song Tianyao and himself into releasing him? He reacted the fastest, immediately roaring, "You son of a bitch Chen Zhongying! You dare kidnap Secretary Song's grandfather? You'll be killed with me..."
At his shout, hundreds of Fuyixing members guarding the Customs warehouse on the dock immediately grabbed their weapons and surged towards Chen Zhongying, Qi Weiwen, Chen Yanni, and seven or eight others from the 14K, like a dark tide.