Chapter 144 Inquiries

After Tang Baiqing finished talking with Yu Mingyuan, he drove away on his own.

Su Tianyu returned to the car, frowning as he asked Yu Mingyuan, "What did he say, Brother Yuan?"

"Tang Baiqing said it wasn't the Wharf Gang who did it, but he'll urge them to help investigate." Yu Mingyuan interjected, asking, "Tianyu, if this has nothing to do with the people at the wharf, who else could it be?"

"The question is, can we trust what Tang Baiqing says?" Su Tianyu pressed.

"Don't consider what Tang Baiqing said. Just think now, is it possible that another group did this? If so, we have to verify it, understand?" Yu Mingyuan replied with a clear mind.

Su Tianyu pondered for a while, "Besides the people at the port, who else has a grudge against us and might be jealous or retaliatory about this matter? Only Changqing Company, Lu Feng and them."

Yu Mingyuan pondered for a moment, "Go find Lu Feng and talk to him, lay it all out on the table. Just ask him if he did it."

Hearing this, Su Tianyu was a little exasperated, "If I go to Lu Feng, we might start stabbing each other with knives before we even start talking."

Yu Mingyuan turned to look out the window, "Tomorrow I'll have someone go with you to back you up. We'll walk on two legs, first figuring out where the problem lies."

"Okay." Su Tianyu nodded, then started the car, "Brother Yuan, besides this, didn't Tang Baiqing say anything else to you?"

Yu Mingyuan looked at him with some surprise, "He just said that the Wharf Gang is a little jealous of our business and might want to invest."

"Ah." Su Tianyu nodded, not delving into the topic any further.

...

About an hour later.

Su Tianyu returned to the junkyard and sat down with Su Tiannan, Su Tianbei, Bai Hongbo, Kong Zhenghui, and others to discuss the matter. But everyone knew very little information at the moment, and it was not certain who had taken the people and the goods, so all they could do at the moment was wait, asking higher-ups to use their connections to investigate the cause of the incident.

In the wee hours of the morning, everyone was troubled by the loss of goods and people, and no one could sleep, so they sat together in the junkyard waiting for dawn.

During this period, Zhang Hao's mother also came, crying and asking Su Tianyu where her son had gone. But the latter had no way to tell her the result, so he could only persuade her along with Su Tiannan and others, telling her that the person was definitely fine, that connections had been found, that he would be back soon, and that the Yu family would definitely take care of it.

In this way, everyone waited until after eight o'clock the next morning, when Su Tiannan finally found out the whereabouts of Lu Feng.

Since the battle at Fumanlou, Lu Feng had been recuperating for more than two months. After being discharged from the hospital, he was in very low spirits. He didn't need to worry about the company's affairs, so recently he had been "healing" and cultivating his mentality at a temple on Mount Qiu.

It is said that Lu Feng believed in Buddhism. In the past, on the first and fifteenth of every month, he would stay on the mountain for two days, eating vegetarian meals and playing with prayer beads.

A person who makes a living in illegal activities and runs a triad organization is actually a lay Buddhist disciple. How ironic is that?

...

Ten o'clock in the morning.

Yu Mingyuan sent a friend to the junkyard to meet Su Tianyu.

After a brief exchange, Su Tianyu took Bai Hongbo and Kong Zhenghui with him, and went to the Qiusi Temple with the other party, ready to have a chat with Master Lu Feng.

On the way to Qiusi Temple, Su Tianyu noticed that Yu Mingyuan's friend sat very straight while driving, and there were several passes with military logos printed on the lower left corner of the windshield.

"Buddy, are you from the military?" Su Tianyu asked with a smile.

"Yeah." The other party replied, with no intention of saying more.

Seeing that the other party didn't want to talk about this topic, Su Tianyu didn't ask further, and communicated with Bai Hongbo and Kong Zhenghui along the way.

...

Qiusi Temple, backed by mountains and facing the sea, has excellent scenery.

Today is Sunday, and there are many people on the mountain praying to Buddha and burning incense. After Su Tianyu and others arrived, they parked their cars in the tourist area parking lot.

Under the scorching sun, Su Tianyu took a few steps forward with the others, then suddenly said to Bai Hongbo, "You go up with this brother, I won't go, lest I fight with Lu Feng again."

"Then am I not afraid of getting beaten?!" Bai Hongbo asked with a justified tone.

"You're good at taking hits, you go." Kong Zhenghui added.

Yu Mingyuan's friend smiled when he heard this, turned to Su Tianyu and said, "It's okay, with me here, he won't dare to do anything."

"You go, we'll wait here." Su Tianyu added.

Bai Hongbo was forced to have no choice but to go up the mountain with Yu Mingyuan's friend.

In the parking lot, Kong Zhenghui smoked a cigarette and frowned, "Do you think it could be Changqing Company who did it?"

"It's hard to say." Su Tianyu shook his head.

"I thought about it, and it's really not necessarily the Wharf Gang who did it." Kong Zhenghui said softly, "If they were really jealous, wouldn't it be better to just talk about it openly? Why wear masks and not show their faces?"

Su Tianyu fell into deep thought, "I haven't figured it out yet either."

While the two were talking in the parking lot, Da Bai and Yu Mingyuan's friend had already arrived at the Qiusi Temple's Zhai Hall (vegetarian dining hall). The people living here were all tourists who came to the temple for tourism and vacation, and it looked very lively.

The two entered the courtyard where tourists were received, and after a little inquiry, they found Lu Feng.

About ten minutes later, a young monk led Bai Hongbo and the two to the gazebo in the courtyard. Lu Feng was slightly dazed when he saw Bai Hongbo and Yu Mingyuan's friend.

"What do you want from me?" Lu Feng looked at Bai Hongbo, his eyes burning.

Bai Hongbo was actually a little afraid of Lu Feng, but at this moment he still braced himself and replied, "I'm here to ask you about something. Su Tiannan asked someone to send you a message, didn't he?"

The corner of Lu Feng's mouth twitched, his hair disheveled in the breeze, and he didn't say a word.

"Last night, the goods we were shipping on the sea were snatched. We have a grudge between us, so I won't beat around the bush. I'm here today to ask you, did you snatch the goods?" Bai Hongbo spoke in triad slang, speaking very smoothly.

Lu Feng squinted at Bai Hongbo, still not replying.

"If you snatched them, let's talk openly, don't do those things under the table." Bai Hongbo felt that Lu Feng's eyes were a little strange when he looked at him, and he continued with a little uncertainty, "You also know that this business is not just run by our few families, there are bosses behind it, understand?"

Lu Feng was already bursting with frustration at this moment. Since the internal strife in the Zhanan sanitation circle began, not only had he been beaten and lost face, but the business that was about to be in his hands was also lost, and his subordinates such as Hua Chenshan had also gone in. After being discharged from the hospital, Li Hongze and others had also complained a lot about him, and there were even some conflicts within Changqing Company due to the problem of too many people and too little meat, so he hid on the mountain to relax for a few days. But he didn't expect that the other party would find him here, and even talk triad slang to him??

Lu Feng held back for a long time, and said to Bai Hongbo with a trembling voice, "Get the hell away from me, I don't want to fight you in the temple!"

Bai Hongbo glanced at him sideways, "Then...then you have to tell me, did you snatch the goods or not?!"

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"Get out!"

"My name is Li Tao, a friend of Yu Mingyuan." The man with a straight back stood in front of Lu Feng and said, "The business on the sea has something to do with the military, we are not here to cause trouble today, understand?"

Lu Feng was stunned when he heard this.

"I'm just asking you, did you snatch the goods?!" Bai Hongbo hid behind the man, pointed at Lu Feng, and shouted, raising his neck.

Lu Feng swept his eyes across the man in front of him, his forehead veins popping out, and after holding back for a long time, he scolded Bai Hongbo, "I snatched your mother's ass, I went up the mountain as soon as I was discharged from the hospital, where would I go to snatch them?"

The man named Li Tao was stunned for a moment, "Really not Changqing?"

"No, we don't eat food from outside the circle." Lu Feng replied, "What's more, if we were to go, we would just rob the goods, not move people, let alone go into the water."

Li Tao was stunned when he heard this, "You know the details? That means you've heard about this?"

Lu Feng held back for a long time, "Yesterday, that idiot Li Xing also called me to ask if I did this. I'm wondering, why are you three asking me about everything?"

Li Tao was silent.

"Who would touch the business on the water except for those greenhorns who just came to Dragon City and might intercept it once? Five or six speedboats going into the water to work, coming and going freely, how could the people who make a living on the sea not know anything about it?" Lu Feng threw down a sentence and turned to leave.

Li Tao was stunned for a moment, then also called out, "Let's go."

"A very ruthless person, now believes in Buddhism." Bai Hongbo said behind the man, "What a waste."

"Go to your mother's ass!" Lu Feng cursed at Bai Hongbo, then went down the mountain that day.

...

Twenty minutes later, at the foot of the mountain.

"It wasn't Lu Feng who did it, and it shouldn't be Changqing who did it either." Bai Hongbo said to Su Tianyu, "When we were talking just now, he was so anxious that I thought he was a little depressed."

Su Tianyu nodded, not saying anything more.

Back at the junkyard, Yu Mingyuan's friend left, and Su Tianyu called Kong Zhenghui aside and asked, "Let's not talk about who did this, I'm just asking you, the other party robbed the goods and detained the people, but hasn't shown his face, what does that mean?"

"To make you anxious, and then talk to you."

"What are they after?" Su Tianyu asked again.

"You don't need to use your brain to know that they are after the business! If they just wanted money, they would have contacted you long ago."

"Zhenghui, the current sharing ratio is, our three families thirty, Tang Baiqing thirty, Yu family forty." Su Tianyu looked around and said in a low voice, "If they are after the business, whose interests will be diluted?"

Kong Zhenghui was suddenly stunned when he heard this.

"The source of goods is from the Yu family, the connections are from Tang Baiqing, and only the manpower is replaceable in this business." Su Tianyu stared at Kong Zhenghui and said, "You know what I mean, right?"

After the voice fell, the two looked at each other for a long time.

"Do you have connections at the wharf?" Su Tianyu suddenly asked again.

Kong Zhenghui understood instantly, "Damn, now that you mention it, I suddenly remembered the question you asked me last time when the Wharf Gang robbed us."

...

That night, after eight o'clock.

Yu Mingyuan sat in the company and connected to Tang Baiqing's phone, "Hello?"

"The Wharf Gang has given some information, the one who robbed the goods seems to be Lei Zi from outside Dragon City, who is after big money." Tang Baiqing's voice sounded.

"Lei Zi from outside Dragon City? Then can you get the Wharf Gang to mediate in the middle and talk to them?" Yu Mingyuan asked.

Tang Baiqing immediately replied, "I've already said that, but Xu Hu asked me, why should the Wharf Gang help us make connections?"