Chapter 16

Seven-thirty in the evening. In a private room of a Chinese restaurant on the 16th floor of the Ronghai Building in Zhanan District, Yu Mingyuan sat in the host's seat, with Tang Baiqing to his right. They were chatting while they waited.

After a short while, the door of the private room was pushed open, and Xu Hu, a burly man with a kind face, walked in with two followers.

"Oh, late, late, sorry, Boss Yu." Xu Hu was about thirty-seven or eight years old, about 1.8 meters tall, extremely burly and sturdy, with dark skin. However, his face was not fierce, with a square face and regular features.

Hearing this, Yu Mingyuan immediately stood up, shook hands with him, and replied, "I've troubled you these past few days, Brother Xu."

"Oh, it's a small matter, a small matter!" Xu Hu took the opportunity to flatter Tang Baiqing, "Our business at the docks all depends on Baiqing's care. He gave the word, so we had to help."

"Come, come, everyone, sit down." Tang Baiqing took the lead and greeted everyone.

The five of them sat down and the feast was served.

Yu Mingyuan picked up the wine bottle and said to Xu Hu, who was sitting on his left, "Brother Xu, Baiqing has already told me about your idea. But this business at sea seems simple, but it's actually quite complicated. When I set up this company, my original intention was to unite the brothers of the Dirty Gang."

"Hehe, yes." Xu Hu replied with a smile.

After Yu Mingyuan poured the wine, he stared at Xu Hu and continued, "Brother Xu, how about this? You help me get the people and goods back first, and we can talk about the shareholding after this matter is over. Of course, I won't let you do it for nothing. I'll give you a gratuity of 300,000 yuan, just a token of my appreciation."

Hearing this, Tang Baiqing immediately kicked Yu Mingyuan under the table, signaling that the direction of the conversation was wrong, but the latter did not respond to him.

After a long silence, Xu Hu replied with a smile on his face, "President Yu, if it were just for a little gratuity, I wouldn't have come here today. There are no outsiders here, so let's talk frankly. In my opinion, redeeming people and goods and the sea trade are the same thing. If I'm in the game, then I'll definitely help, because it's our own business. I can first negotiate with Lao Lei Zi, who robs goods outside the district, and ask them to spit out the goods and people. If negotiations fail, I can also fight them until they spit out the goods. However, if I'm not in the game of this trade, then I can't break the rules of the sea. Lao Lei Zi worked so hard to rob the goods, it's legitimate and legal, so why should I, an outsider, be able to get the people and goods back with just one sentence? You say 300,000, then I want to ask, is the value of your goods and people only worth 300,000?"

Hearing this, Yu Mingyuan frowned slightly, but did not say anything.

Xu Hu said with a smile, "President Yu, don't blame me for speaking so directly. There are rules on the sea, and if we want to get things done, we must abide by the rules, right?"

"Brother Xu means that we must clarify the matter of the shares today?" Yu Mingyuan asked.

"That's right, we're here today to talk about the shareholding." Xu Hu looked at Yu Mingyuan with a relaxed posture, his plain words full of confidence and dominance, "President Yu, let me say something extra. The Dirty Gang you're looking for now are nothing on the docks and at sea. They have no connections, no organization. Giving them 30% of the shares for nothing is just doing charity, hehe!"

Yu Mingyuan did not say anything.

Xu Hu paused slightly, then continued, "President Yu, are you too embarrassed to tell the three Dirty Gang families about withdrawing their shares?"

Yu Mingyuan looked up at him, "The interpersonal relationships in this circle are indeed more complicated..."

"Haha!" Xu Hu laughed, "If things are complicated, then we can just simplify them, right? If you're too embarrassed to say it, then I'll be the bad guy."

After saying that, Xu Hu picked up his phone and directly dialed a number.

"Hey, Brother Xu, what are you going to do...?" Yu Mingyuan didn't know what the other party was up to, so he tried to stop him.

"Hehe, it's nothing." Xu Hu waved his hand, hearing that the call had been connected, "Hey, Second!"

"What's up, Brother?" Xu Er replied on the other end of the phone.

"I'm having dinner and chatting with President Yu. He said he's too embarrassed to tell those three Dirty Gang companies about withdrawing their shares." Xu Hu instructed in a calm tone, "Like this, you give Lei Zi outside the district a call, and ask him to give me some face, help me chop off one of the fingers of the kid leading the team from the Su family, and then send it to the Su family."

"Okay!" Xu Er replied.

As soon as Yu Mingyuan heard this, he immediately stood up, "Brother Xu, what do you mean by this?"

"If you're too embarrassed, then I'll take care of it!" Xu Hu hung up the phone directly, "I'm not afraid of offending them. Give him a little lesson, and he'll withdraw his shares on his own, right?"

"Lao Xu, there's no need to go..." Tang Baiqing frowned and tried to persuade him.

"Hey, Baiqing, I said just now that there are rules on the sea." Xu Hu looked up at Yu Mingyuan and said word by word, "If you agree to let us invest, I'll talk to those three families, and I won't let you be the bad guy, alright, President Yu?!"

Yu Mingyuan looked down at Xu Hu, and completely understood what the other party meant.

Is this behavior a warning to the Su family? Obviously not entirely. Xu Hu was openly putting pressure on Yu Mingyuan, bluntly and concisely telling him that around this dock, the Su, Bai, and Kong families were nothing. If your Yu family wants to do business, you can't bypass the dock gang!

If I, Xu Hu, want to chop off your finger, I'll chop off your finger. If I want to seize your goods, I'll seize your goods. You, Yu Mingyuan, have no two-way choice, you can only choose the dock gang and Tang Baiqing, otherwise your business won't be able to continue!

Yu Mingyuan looked at Xu Hu, clenched his fists, and then bent down and sat down again.

...

Tianhong Civil Port, inside a courtyard in the middle section of Tianhong Avenue, Xu Er, carrying a knife, led three men into a warehouse on the left.

Xu Er was more than 1.8 meters tall, but his figure was extremely thin. From a distance, this person looked like a long stick. His facial features were small, and his face was covered with pockmarks, making him look extremely ugly, completely unlike Xu Hu's younger brother, who had a relatively regular appearance.

Xu Er walked to Zhang Hao's side, squatted down, waved his hand and shouted, "Hold him down."

Zhang Hao had been tortured for the past few days and looked like a ghost. His thigh wound was infected, and he had a fever. He lay on a burlap sack and suddenly sat up, "What are you going to do...?!"

"Your boss is ignorant, so I'm borrowing one of your fingers." Xu Er bent down and said in a calm tone, "The knife is very fast, so bear with it!"

"F*** your mother!!" Zhang Hao cursed with red eyes.

Three people held down Zhang Hao's right hand, and Xu Er pointed the tip of the knife at Zhang Hao's little finger and said, "This one it is."

"Swish!"

"Puchi!"

One finger was cut off alive, and Zhang Hao convulsed in pain and fainted on the spot.

"Send it to the Su family," Xu Er threw away the knife and turned to leave, "I'm going back to play mahjong."

Half an hour later.

Two bread vans entered Tianhong Civil Port. Kong ZhengHui in the car looked down at his watch and said, "My friend will call me soon."

At the same time.

Firecrackers sounded in the Su family's courtyard. Su Zhengcai and Su Tiannan rushed over and found a ball of white cloth on the ground.

When they unfolded it, they found a finger inside, with a few words written on it.

"Don't withdraw your shares, or next time it'll be your thigh!"

"Damn it!!!!" Su Zhengcai held the finger, his eyes turning red, "Yu Mingyuan really can't hold on! I won't need you later, I'll go myself."