Robbery and disturbing the peace.
Under the current crackdown, these two offenses would result in at least a year in prison.
No one had expected Li Chonglou to have recorded anything.
The guy with the yellow teeth immediately backed down.
"Don't, I'll pick one, pick one, I'll beat him up, okay?"
Compared to spending a year in jail, beating up Hu Haiquan for 100,000 yuan was obviously a better deal.
He wasn't an idiot.
"Add me on WeChat, and remember to send me the video after you're done," Li Chonglou opened his QR code for the yellow-toothed man to scan, then turned back to his car.
He waved goodbye潇洒ly and drove off.
As the car merged onto the highway, Lin Ying chuckled, "Junior disciple, you didn't record anything, did you?"
"You saw through me," Li Chonglou was momentarily speechless. "I was just trying to scare them."
Threatening with recordings was just something he said offhand.
He wasn't capable of such a devious act.
It was just that the yellow-toothed man and his companions had guilty consciences and were greedy, so they naturally lacked the confidence to verify.
"What about the money? Are you going to give it to them?" Lin Ying asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Senior disciple, aren't you staying in Yucheng? I'll transfer the money to you, and they can get it from you," Li Chonglou nodded. "You happen to need people to run errands, and those guys from earlier, although they're hoodlums, they don't have much brains."
"You can easily control them, and they might be useful in Yucheng during this time. They're from the underworld, after all."
"If it weren't for this, why would I have gone to so much trouble?"
As he spoke, he had already transferred the 100,000 to Lin Ying.
Hearing this, Lin Ying couldn't help but feel a little touched.
She hadn't expected that beneath Li Chonglou's cold exterior lay such a thoughtful heart.
The affection and concern she had given were quickly being repaid.
Her heart was filled with warmth.
She couldn't help but reach out and pinch Li Chonglou's face, "You're repaying kindness with kindness, you're so good."
Her actions were extremely intimate, yet very natural.
Li Chonglou felt a warmth in his chest, his ears turning slightly red.
His senior disciple was very good, but sometimes she would do something inexplicable that left him flustered.
As they neared the airport, the yellow-toothed man sent a complete video.
It showed Hu Haiquan being led to a corner, bagged, and beaten for a full two minutes.
Whether it was real or fake wasn't entirely clear.
In any case, Lin Ying would know once she verified it. Li Chonglou had told the yellow-toothed man to contact Lin Ying directly.
After bidding farewell to his senior disciple, he boarded his flight and returned to Qinzhou.
Two and a half hours later.
Outside Qinzhou Airport, Xu Lie leaned against a Hongqi car. Seeing Li Chonglou walk out of the gate, he immediately rushed forward for a bear hug.
After getting into the car, Li Chonglou asked, "Has your injury fully healed?"
"Thanks to the cultivation technique you gave me, not only has my injury completely healed, but my strength has also advanced further!" Xu Lie showed a rare smile. "I can now fight twice as effectively as before."
"It would have been great if I could have brought you with me this time," Li Chonglou said with a sigh.
He briefly told Xu Lie what had happened in Yucheng.
Hearing this, Xu Lie's tiger-like eyes flashed with electricity, and the veins on his hand gripping the steering wheel bulged. "If I ever catch that guy, I'll crush his legs!"
"There'll be a chance, I'll bring you next time," Li Chonglou wasn't as angry and changed the subject. "How is my mother?"
"She's doing well. She's been chatting with me these past few days, wanting me to be her adopted son and find a wife for me," Xu Lie said with a hint of helplessness.
"That's good," Li Chonglou chuckled.
It seemed his mother's health was indeed getting better day by day.
She even had the time to worry about Xu Lie.
"While you were away these past few days, Lü Yunxu visited the hospital with your wife," Xu Lie recalled something. "Your mother seemed to recognize Lü Yunxu and later asked me what her relationship with you was."
"You'll have to explain this yourself."
Hearing this, Li Chonglou couldn't help but laugh.
His mother always thought he was messing around outside and was being unfaithful to Jiang Yuxin.
The last time she saw Lü Yunxu, she had warned him, but it seemed she still didn't believe he and Lü Yunxu were innocent.
Old people were truly stubborn.
However, this wasn't something that would give him a headache, as Jiang Yuxin's birthday was the day after tomorrow.
As long as he made her the most admired woman in all of Qinzhou, all his mother's worries would disappear.
"By the way, Brother Xu, have the people from where you used to box looked for trouble again?" Li Chonglou thought of something else.
"No, I find that strange too," Xu Lie shook his head. "Logically, after we made them lose so much money, they wouldn't just let it go."
"Could someone have interfered?"
"The Lü family? That's impossible. They're not in the same field, so interference wouldn't be useful."
Not only could Xu Lie not figure it out, but Li Chonglou was also completely clueless.
This matter seemed strange no matter how he looked at it.
He wasn't a person who feared trouble; otherwise, he wouldn't have dared to stir up this situation. But this abnormal sense of oppression made him feel uneasy.
However, since he couldn't figure it out, thinking further would be futile.
He put the matter aside for the time being and chatted with Xu Lie about his understanding of the cultivation technique.
Unknowingly, they arrived at the hospital.
He first went to accompany his mother for a while.
As expected, Zheng Xiumei leaned mysteriously into her son's ear and asked, "Does that young girl named Lü have any relationship with you?"
"You must not be a heartless man and do anything to wrong Yuxin!"
Li Chonglou gave a wry smile. He had been married to Jiang Yuxin for three years, and they hadn't even been intimate.
Even if he wanted to do something wrong by her, it was impossible.
But he couldn't explain it to his mother, so he could only agree with her words.
"You're back? Why didn't you say anything?" Just then, Jiang Yuxin's voice, tinged with surprise and mild reproach, rang out from the doorway.
While Li Chonglou was away these past few days, she had made time every afternoon to visit her mother-in-law.
On one hand, it was to fulfill her duty as a daughter-in-law; on the other hand, it was to make up for her neglect of Li Chonglou over the past three years.
She hadn't expected Li Chonglou to return to Qinzhou without informing her immediately.
This made her feel a little bitter.
"I heard you've been very busy lately, so I specifically didn't tell you. Besides Brother Xu, I haven't told anyone else," Li Chonglou saw the hidden bitterness in Jiang Yuxin's beautiful eyes and got up to explain.
Hearing this, Jiang Yuxin felt a little better.
So he hadn't deliberately targeted her, but had been considering her.
The unpleasantness and bitterness she felt a moment ago had unknowingly turned into sweetness.
"The project is going smoothly, and thanks to you, the eldest lady of the Lü family has been helping me," Jiang Yuxin said with a half-smile, her words carrying a hidden meaning, her expression unreadable.
Li Chonglou was startled by her words.
What did she mean by that?
Did she know that Lü Yunxu had known him long before?
Was this project tailor-made for her by Lü Yunxu at his request?
No, that was impossible. If it were exposed, Lü Yunxu should have called him to give him a heads-up.
Jiang Yuxin was clearly trying to trick him.
Women, any woman, couldn't escape this kind of testing in love.
Realizing this, Li Chonglou said calmly, "It's the result of your own hard work."
"Stop pretending. I saw the video of you appraising the white glaze for the eldest lady of the Lü family online. I don't believe you didn't know each other," Jiang Yuxin suddenly leaned her face close to Li Chonglou's ear, her words making Li Chonglou's heart skip a beat.