Lou Fengyun smiled at the two people who had spoken, then patted Shuyan Shi Yin, who were standing beside her, their faces pale with fright, before speaking calmly, "I provided this path to wealth, and I set the rules. You all agreed to abide by the rules back then, which is why I let you in to make money together. You know how much money you've embezzled. Hand it over now, and I'll let bygones be bygones."
Yulan Ming from Wo Tak Lee, patted his chest again and declared, "Sister Yun, I, Yulan Ming, swear to heaven that I have absolutely not embezzled any money. If I have, may I die a horrible death, pierced by a thousand arrows!"
"What about the others?" Lou Fengyun looked at Ma Qi and Yanqiang Wei: "So, you're saying you'll hand over the money, or you'll just go your separate ways?"
Ma Qi leaned back in his chair and snorted, "Sister Yun, why force us? Since you don't trust us, there's no point in cooperating. Let's call it a day. But if I walk out now, I hope one of my underlings won't be pointing a gun at me."
Seeing that everyone else at the conference table remained silent, their eyes all fixed on Ma Qi, Lou Fengyun stopped talking nonsense. She gestured for Shuyan Lou Fengyun bring the phone over, dialed the number, and put the receiver to her ear. "If things don't go well, have your boss Scribe Hui, call."
After saying that, she hung up the phone. Then, Lou Fengyun took a stack of documents from Shi Yin and threw them onto the conference table. "Take responsibility for your own documents and sign them. From now on, there's no room for courtesy between us."
After listening to Lou Fengyun's words, Ma Qi stood up briskly, stretched, and said, "I can't read, so I won't bother. Sister Yun, see you in the martial world again."
The others also left one after another. The more polite ones, who cared a little more about appearances, exchanged a few perfunctory words with Lou Fengyun, making empty promises about future collaborations. The more boorish and arrogant ones simply turned around and left, leaving the stack of papers on the table untouched.
Aside from the trembling, terrified Wo Hop To, only One-Eyed Flag Yulan Ming remained. He looked at Lou Fengyun, stood up, hesitated, then sat down again, looking at Lou Fengyun: "Sister Yun, I am where I am today because of your kindness. I absolutely did not embezzle your money, but... please don't blame me. If you ever need my help in the future, I will definitely do my best. However, if I had sided with you today, my gang would have been too small to withstand their attacks. I have made some money, and I don't want to be bullied by them and forced to go back to the countryside."
"You all left without even looking at the documents you were asked to sign. If you want to stay, sit down; if you don't want to stay, leave. What are you afraid of?" Lou Fengyun said calmly, taking a sip of her tea.
Hearing no movement outside the door, and glancing at the empty conference room, Yulan Ming hesitated for a moment before finally deciding not to get up. "I... I can't be ungrateful. Sister Yun took care of me, so even if I leave, I'll wait until Sister Yun's gone before I say anything."
Lou Fengyun stretched her neck, and Shuyan immediately began massaging it for her. Lou Fengyun her eyes and said, "Shi Yin, go tell the people outside not to move Yulan Ming."
Shi Yin agreed, walked to the conference room door, opened the door, and several strong young men outside nodded in acknowledgment after hearing what Shi Yin said, before closing the conference room door again.
Lou Fengyun opened her eyes. "It's rare that you're so thoughtful. From now on, you can manage the more than twenty vacant horse racing betting stalls."
Before Yulan Ming could understand the meaning of those words, he heard his underlings' panicked voices and the dull thuds of fists hitting flesh outside the conference room, along with what sounded like a painful groan squeezed out of a gagged mouth.
Yulan Ming couldn't sit still any longer. He got up, ran over, and opened the conference room door. Outside, one of his underlings, soaked to the bone, was being trampled on the ground by several young men. His face was bruised and swollen, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, and a pistol was pressed against his head, ready to be fired at any moment.
"We're on the same side, brothers! Watch out for accidental discharge! Sister Yun... is my brother!" Yulan Ming shouted to the young man with the gun, then turned to look at Lou Fengyun.
Lou Fengyun spoke up, "Let him go. Didn't I tell you not to touch Yulan Ming?"
At this moment, Yulan Ming's henchman was released, and Yulan Ming helped him up. The henchman, seemingly very loyal, ignored his own pain and said to Yulan Ming, "Big Brother, run! Outside the hotel, four truckloads of Britain soldiers! The Big Brother were all arrested at gunpoint and put into the trucks as soon as they left the hotel, accused of possessing military equipment!"
Yulan Ming, who was holding his younger brother's hands, turned to look at Lou Fengyun upon hearing this. He suddenly felt that his younger brother's hands were icy cold, but they were not as cold as Lou Fengyun's gaze. That gaze made Yulan Ming shiver involuntarily.
Outside the window, torrential rain poured down, washing over the city.
Chapter 505 In the Night, In the Rain
Yulan Ming tried his best to appear calm, even showing some joy at escaping death, but he managed to sit back down and look at the henchman of Wo Hop To One-Eyed Flag across from him. He was trembling all over, his face even more pale than the One-Eyed Flag who had been shot and killed.
Yulan Ming lit a cigarette with trembling hands. When he put the match down, his hands were no longer shaking, but the cigarette in his mouth was still quivering.
"Yulan Ming..."
"Yes, Sister Yun!" Yulan Ming heard Lou Fengyun call his name and subconsciously stood up and looked at Lou Fengyun.
Lou Fengyun smiled and said, "Don't be afraid. Find your copy from that stack of papers and give it to Shuyan."
"Yes." Yulan Ming hurriedly grabbed the documents that the Ma Qi and the others had discarded, and looked at them one by one. When he found his own, he examined it carefully. Although Yulan Ming hadn't read many books, he had been to the police station more than a dozen times, and he immediately recognized that this was his criminal record. It contained his photo, identification information, and most importantly, the list of crimes, which listed multiple counts of premeditated murder, drug trafficking, firearms trafficking, smuggling, illegal imprisonment, illegal gambling, and illegal organization of prostitution, among other things.
Yulan Ming took his share and handed it to Shuyan behind Lou Fengyun: "Miss... could you please help me?"
Shuyan smiled and walked over to take Yulan Ming's file. Shi Yin, on the other hand, obediently collected all the other people's files. Lou Fengyun said, "Let the Headless man take them. After the Britain soldiers have finished their greetings and squeezed them dry, let the police squeeze them again."