My heart sank instantly.
Could this whole thing be a setup by the cop next to me? If so, how do I get away? Jump out of the car? Or should I go to the restaurant and find an excuse to run away in the restroom?
Chapter 185 Low-Class Underhanded Tactics
Yan Hung has indeed been driven crazy in Sha Tau Kok recently. Apart from picking wild fruits and hunting wild boars in the mountains, fishing for crucian carp and catching river shrimp in the ponds, he has basically nothing else to do. For Buddhists or practitioners, Sha Tau Kok is undoubtedly a good place to escape the hustle and bustle and cultivate their minds. However, Yan Hung is neither a hermit nor a high monk. He is obsessed with making a name for himself in the Police Force.
Being transferred to Sha Tau Kok and forced to wear Uniformed Branch again was undoubtedly a fatal blow to someone as passionate as him. If it weren't for the constant self-hypnosis of the fact that Chu Xiaoxin, the second young master of the Chu Family, would remember his favor, his desires alone would have driven him mad.
Sha Tau Kok was a remote and isolated place, with little communication. Aside from a single police station telephone for receiving orders from superiors, Yan Hung was virtually cut off from the rest of Hong Kong. This godforsaken place didn't even sell newspapers, and radio signals were only available Mid-Levels. Moreover, having offended Cheung Wing-kam and Lai Man-yau, he dared not return to the city without permission, fearing he would be caught deserting his post and end up without Uniformed Branch. Therefore, Yan Hung Xiong was completely unaware of the power struggle between the Likang Company and the Zhang Family, the establishment of Oxfam, and even Chu Xiaoxin's eventual acquisition of the European Coast Company and his election as Justice of the Peace.
It was still evening when the phone rang at the Sha Tau Kok Police Station. The person on the other end called out that Yan Hung should answer the phone. The other two Uniformed Branch searched for a long time before finally finding Yan Hung in the pond behind the Police Station, where he was flirting with a village girl to take a bath and take care of his personal needs. When he heard that the call was coming from the city, Yan Hung practically rushed to the phone while still holding up his pants.
On the other end of the phone was Kowloon District Detective Chief Inspector Cheung Wing-kam. Instead of scolding Yan Hung for taking so long to answer the phone, he got straight to the point and told him to change into civilian clothes and wait on the mountain road. Cheung Wing-kam had already arranged a car to pick up Yan Hung and go to congratulate Chu Xiaoxin that evening.
If Yan Hung had thought things through even a little, he wouldn't have agreed to Cheung Wing-kam's request so easily. Was he, an old Uniformed Branch whose uniform had been trampled into the mud, really worth Cheung Wing-kam personally arranging a car to pick him up? And to see Chu Xiaoxin? Of course, he should have immediately told Cheung Wing-kam that he had suddenly fallen seriously ill and couldn't travel, and then tried his best to find out why Cheung Wing-kam had called him and why Chu Xiaoxin had asked Cheung Wing-kam to offer his congratulations.
However, Yan Hung had endured too much hardship during this period, and the sudden dawn made him lose his ability to think. He agreed without hesitation and took a car back to Kowloon to see Cheung Wing-kam. When Cheung Wing-kam told him what Chu Xiaoxin had done during this period, Yan Hung's eyes almost popped out of their sockets!
The good-for-nothing second young master of the Chu Family, in just over twenty days while I was in Sha Tau Kok, suddenly transformed into the founder and vice president of Hong Kong Oxfam, Justice of the Peace in Hong Kong, Philanthropist, an entrepreneur, and a leading Big Brother in the Hong Kong Pharmaceutical Association? And the previous pharmaceutical Zhang Family, the Zhang family, with Zhang Yujie imprisoned, Zhang Yuliang murdered, and the whole family moved to Australia?
If Second Young Master Chu) has such great abilities, would Chu Yaozong still let his eldest son, Chu Xiaozhong, succeed him? Yan Hung certainly didn't believe that Chu Xiaoxin could accomplish such a thing.
Yan Hung only trusts and has only ever seen one person who works alongside Chu Xiaoxin: Song Tianyao.
That scoundrel didn't even blink an eye, and he managed to Detective Sergeant himself into Uniformed Branch guarding a pond overnight!
It's not surprising that a Police Force Detective Sergeant like myself lost his job after only one night in front of Song Tianyao. But the Zhang Family, a behemoth and the leading pharmaceutical company in Hong Kong, is far more Detective Sergeant Police Force myself. Yet they only lasted a little over twenty days against that good-for-nothing Song Tianyao?
Did this guy get enough time to even outmaneuver and kill the Governor of Hong Kong?
To be honest, when Yan Hung met Chu Xiaoxin, he was waiting for Chu Xiaoxin to mention him again. He even planned to stay a little longer to curry favor with Cheung Wing-kam after he took his leave. He didn't expect Song Tianyao to ask him to go to the Brothel to pick up a woman. This was a trivial matter that anyone could do, and Cheung Wing-kam could arrange it. Why ask him to do it? Moreover, he Fuyixing. It would be easy for him to become a laughing stock if he made enemies with his fellow disciples.
As they arrived at the dock and the night breeze blew, Yan Hung watched Cheung Wing-kam leave to make a phone call at the nearest Police Station. He began to doubt his own suspicions. Could it be that Song Tianyao was creating an opportunity for him to return to the Flower boat and curry favor with Chu Xiaoxin?
Would that bastard be so kind?
A Wai, one of Zhang Rongjin's subordinates who had been transferred to Sha Tau Kok with him and returned with him tonight, got out of a pre-arranged taxi after Cheung Wing-kam left, and said with a beaming smile, "Congratulations, Brother Hung! Mr. Chu has become Justice of the Peace. Brother Hung, you will surely have a bright future ahead of you."
Looking at his subordinate who had shared joys and sorrows with him, Yan Hung let out a long breath, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Let's go pick up a woman from the Flower Arrangement Apartment next to the Kowloon City Police Station. We don't know about other things yet, but A Wai, you and I will definitely not go back to that godforsaken place, Sha Tau Kok. Let's go."
As they talked, the two got into a taxi. The headlights came on, the engine roared, and they headed towards Kowloon Argyle Street.
"What the hell are you talking about? You were driven away by Chai Fa Chiu? Didn't Mangongshi tell you bastards to keep a close watch on him?!" Fish Ming had rushed to the vicinity of the Flower Arrangement Apartment, scolded several of Fuyixing's underlings who were responsible for keeping an eye on the Flower Arrangement Apartment.
One of Fuyixing's underlings spoke up, "We've already sent three rickshaws to follow Chai Fa Chiu's car. Right now, Chai Fa Chiu is having dinner with that woman at the Fung Yu Restaurant in Mong Kok. There are brothers watching inside and outside the restaurant. Brother Shi didn't tell us to directly take action to abduct her, he just told us to keep a close watch and wait for his instructions. Since the other party is a policeman, we can't just take action directly."
"I'll take it! But have you thought about what you'll do if Chai Fa Chiu plans to take that woman to a hotel?" Fish Ming glared at his underling who had spoken up. "All of you, come with me to Fung Yu Restaurant! To hell with Chai Fa Chiu! I'm with Brother Shing, I don't know him or that damn Eighteen Tigers of Rat Xiang! Let's go!"