Furniture Arrives

The staff came to Jiang Xia and Yang Wan-quan to deliver the reward money.

They were not wearing uniforms. They had used the excuse of coming to the docks to buy seafood, asking for directions all the way until they found the place.

There were two hundred yuan in total—not a lot, but not a little either. They also gave Yang Wan-quan a Silk Banner for his righteous act.

Mentioning the reward money nearly scared Old Mai out of his wits.

"They don't have any accomplices, do they?" Old Mai asked the staff member, deeply uneasy.

Old Mai tended to think things through. He had heard of plenty of kidnappings and extortion cases over on Hong Kong Island. He had never experienced one himself, but Old Xu had.

Old Xu's driver was also his bodyguard.

The staff member said, "Rest assured. As far as we know, they don't."

After the staff left, Old Mai asked what had happened.

Jiang Xia also gave a brief, downplayed account, pushing all the credit onto Yang Wan-quan and making it sound as if she had done nothing at all. "I only have a share of the reward because I happened to run into the two of them. Comrade Yang was the one who caught them, so he also received a Silk Banner for his righteous act. I didn't really do anything, so I don't want the reward either."

Zhou Chenglei glanced at her but said nothing.

Old Mai was still uneasy. "I'll arrange a driver who knows how to fight for you."

He had arrived at the same idea as Zhou Chenglei.

Jiang Xia repeated what she had told Zhou Chenglei. "Besides, once the road is repaired, I won't be taking that route anymore."

Jiang Xia had not taken that route before. She had