"Who peeled off your nails?" Paitoon finished wiping the dirt off Najie's face, then grabbed Najie's hands and dried them with a towel.
"Chao Yong Yi, a Double Red Pole named Rotten-Life Ju." Najie looked down and said, "This is the one he personally did when I was caught selling secretly printed Horse Racing Guide."
"Does it hurt?" Paitoon asked expressionlessly.
Najie nodded slightly. "It hurts a lot."
"Very well, just as cruelly you can treat him now, just like he hurt you back then. Go take a shower, and then I want to watch you take your revenge personally. Tonight, let all those local gangs who have ever taught us Thailand a lesson know that their time has come." Paitoon open Najie's clenched hand, which was gripped tightly in excitement, and shoved a towel into his hand. "What reason did he use to teach you a lesson back then?"
Najie, clutching the towel, said, "You broke the rules, you went overboard."
Paitoon: "This time you can tell him it's an invasion."
"You rascal, take a look at this banknote, is there anything strange about it?" Sister Qiu, Golden-Tooth Lei's wife, picked up a banknote, held it up to the light, rubbed it carefully, and handed it to Golden-Tooth Lei uncertainly.
Golden-Tooth Lei rubbed the mahjong tiles on the table with both hands, then handed them to A-Lok, the trusted underling of the player sitting next to him. He simply asked, "What? Can banknotes be counterfeit?"
"The paper feels weird," Sister Qiu said, looking at A-Lok who was touching the banknote. A-Lok fumbled for the five hundred yuan note and shook his head. "Sister Qiu, I can't figure it out."
After finishing arranging the cards, Golden-Tooth Lei took the banknotes from A-Lok's hand, felt them, and twirled them. "They are indeed a bit different. Where did this money come from?"
"It was collected by my own bank." Sister Qiu looked a little nervous as she put away the wad of banknotes in her hand. She said, "I'll have someone check the accounts tomorrow to see who deposited this money and how much it is."
"Where's Xue Ni? Why didn't we invite her to play cards?" Jin Ya Lei asked Qiu Jie. "We opened a bank for you, not so you could count money all day long, but to lend it out and earn interest."
"Who knows where she went to meet her lover? Now look what's happened! The mistress of a respectable banker, that vixen, even printed her own business card with the title of manager of Fortune Union Bank! Bah! Always showing her face in public, so unchaste! Only you treat her like a treasure! Anyone else would have sent her to be drowned in a pig cage long ago!" Speaking of Golden-Tooth Lei's concubine, Suki, Sister Qiu immediately became angry. "When would that vixen still come here to set rules all the time? As soon as you gave her power, she immediately rented a Western-style house and moved out, unlike me, still stuck in this dilapidated house!"
"Alright, alright..." Golden-Tooth Lei said with a headache, "The reason I made her manager is because she's experienced in dealing with people outside and knows how to socialize..."
"Shameless, showing your face in public!" Before Golden-Tooth Lei could finish speaking, Sister Qiu immediately cursed again.
While looking at his cards, Golden-Tooth Lei coaxed his wife, "You're still the bank owner. She's out there running around trying to get money into the bank. Even if she brings in a million, you're still in charge. No matter how beautiful Chang'e is, she still has you, the Queen Mother of the West, keeping her in check."
"Let me tell you, I've got my eye on a Western-style house, 120,000. There's so much money in the bank right now, I can't just watch that vixen spend it all. I need to get some benefits for myself first. If you don't agree..." Sister Qiu didn't continue attacking Golden-Tooth Lei's concubine. Her tone changed, and taking advantage of Golden-Tooth Lei's softening stance, she decisively asked for benefits.
"Buy, buy, buy!" Golden-Tooth Lei hurriedly agreed, "As long as you two don't fight, one takes care of the home and the other takes care of external affairs, harmony in the family brings prosperity. Don't even mention 120,000, you can easily earn 1.2 million! Bras!"
Golden-Tooth Lei played a two of bamboo, ending yet another battle for favor between the first wife and concubines.
The maid Sister Ying, carefully pushed over the mahjong tiles and smiled obsequiously at Sister Qiu and Golden-Tooth Lei: "Madam, Master, I won!"
Golden-Tooth Lei, unusually free today, jokingly teased the maid who had been by his side for years, and handed her money with a smile as Ah Ying counted it, "What? Did you leave your bra here with me today, Ah Ying? I'm going to have a good feel for it later..."
Sister Qiu, with a cigarette dangling from her lips, tossed the money to Ah Ying and cursed, "You rascal."
However, he didn't seem particularly bothered by Golden-Tooth Lei's teasing remark.
"Knock knock!" "Knock knock!"
There was a rhythmic knocking at the door. Golden-Tooth Lei frowned and looked at A-Lok beside him. "Who's on night duty tonight?"
"The Mangongshi's leader Big-Eyed Yan." A-Lok got up to open the door.
"No manners," Sister Qiu complained. Golden-Tooth Lei glared at her. "Without my brothers on night duty, could you be playing mahjong in peace inside? Women shouldn't meddle in gang matters! If word gets out, people will think I can't control women."
Sister Qiu snorted and tossed a hundred-yuan bill to Ah Ying: "I know, Ah Ying. Give it to them later and tell them I'm treating them to a late-night snack."
"Understood, Madam." Ah Ying took the money and stood up.
"What happened?" A-Lok opened a small door on the outside, which was used to observe the outside, and asked one of the henchmen standing outside with Big-Eyed Kwong.
The Big-Eyed Kwong henchman, a few beads of sweat on his forehead, forced a smile as he saw the small door open, "Brother Lok, Brother Ren sent me in to report that something seems to have happened at the branch, and he wants Boss to go see him."
"Something's up at the branch? Which branch?" A-Lok stared warily at the underling. "Is he teaching Boss how to do things?"
"Brother Ren..."
"What 'Brother Ren'? Let Big-Eyed Yan come see me himself!"
"You might have misunderstood something. The Ren-ge he's talking about isn't Big-Eyed Yan. My name is Wenren. Nice to meet you." A voice suddenly rang out by the door, followed by an arm reaching in through the small door, accurately grabbing A-Lok's hair, and pulling A-Lok's head directly out of the small door!
A-Lok reacted quickly; his first instinct upon being attacked was to yell, "Big Brother! Run!"
His head had barely peeked halfway out of the small door when his other arm, gripping a bayonet, plunged it down and pierced A-Lok's temple!