Chapter 116 A Future for Da Xiong

Friday, Huadu Airport. A car wrapped in a macho pink vinyl parked steadily near the smoking area.

The car window rolled down, and An Qiqi, with her hair styled high, shouted through sunglasses, "Brothers, get in!"

Su Tianyu, his forehead glistening with sweat, stubbed out his cigarette and walked over. "Were you doing thirty the whole way here? We've been waiting for an hour and a half, sis."

"...Don't talk nonsense, like I wanted to pick you up. Hurry up and get in the car." An Qiqi glanced around furtively. "This place doesn't seem to allow temporary parking."

The three climbed into the car. Bai Hongbo wiped the sweat from his forehead and sized up the youthful and beautiful Wawa, mimicking Su Tianyu's accent as he teased, "Oh, stockings with writing on them? Let me feel if they're prickly."

"Want to touch? Buy me a watch, and I might let you touch it," Wawa replied with a smile.

"...What? Give you a big dick?!"

"Get lost! You're disgusting."

These two started bickering as soon as they met, their language extremely crude.

"Where to, little brother?" An Qiqi asked Su Tianyu.

"First to Karl Street. Zhou Tonghui is there, and I need to see Da Xiong anyway," Su Tianyu replied.

"Alright," An Qiqi replied, clearly in a good mood, and drove off in her little car.

...

An hour and a half later.

The group arrived at the Zhou family's Northern Hall on Karl Street – or, as it was officially known, the Zhongxiao Group, Northern Ocean Trading Co., Ltd.

Karl Street was located next to Chinatown. Although it wasn't in Huadu's top commercial district, it was still quite prosperous. Many of the buildings were in Chinese style, and there were many Chinese faces on the streets.

Zhou Tonghui, Cui Bin, Da Xiong, and more than twenty core members of the trading company came out to greet them, a considerable show of force.

The group had met before, so they skipped the introductions. After a brief exchange of pleasantries, they went inside together.

The Zhou family's Northern Hall openly dealt in a complicated array of businesses: medicinal ingredients, steel, glass, and other in-demand materials. In short, they did whatever made money. However, while these businesses seemed lively, they weren't the company's main source of profit.

The external gold brick trade and the "military industry" were the Zhou family's real moneymakers. However, they had principles in this line of work. First, they didn't operate in their own backyard; second, they didn't sell to the Asia Alliance. They only operated in war-torn regions, such as Sinaloa.

Cui Bin was one of the heads of the Northern Hall. In short, he was the one who handled things with guns, and he was definitely a tough guy.

The group followed Cui Bin into the Northern Ocean Trading Company's lobby and were greeted by extremely impressive interior decor.

First, the company's main building was divided into two towers, A and B, each thirty-three stories high, for a total of sixty-six stories. In the center of the two towers was a Chinese-style courtyard covering several thousand square meters. The lobby itself was nearly five hundred square meters, with wooden interior decor and furniture. A large yellow dragon spanned the entire lobby on the dome, lifelike and vivid.

Every detail of this lobby demonstrated the Zhou family's economic strength, and seeing such an operation, Bai Hongbo was more determined than ever to befriend Zhou Tonghui.

Looking at the lobby, Su Tianyu quietly asked Cui Bin, "Brother Cui, with such a large scale, how many employees do you need to maintain profitability?"

"Hehe," Cui Bin replied with a smile, "Many floors in Buildings A and B are rented out. Because our main business is moving funds and cash, the group doesn't rely on it to make money. But you need to have this level of scale, you have to put on a show. You understand, right?"

"So it's all about finding ways to launder money?" Su Tianyu asked directly.

"Pretty much," Cui Bin nodded. "Let's go have some tea inside."

"Okay."

The group followed Cui Bin and Zhou Tonghui around the courtyard for a quick tour before going to the second-floor lounge with its rooftop garden for tea and conversation.

Su Tianyu's main reason for coming to the Northern Ocean Trading Company was to resolve Da Xiong's situation, so he took the opportunity to chat with Cui Bin, Da Xiong, and Zhou Tonghui alone.

On the sofa, Su Tianyu smiled and said to Cui Bin and Zhou Tonghui, "This brother of mine got into a little trouble in Dragon City, so he probably won't be able to go back for a while… You two big bosses, see if you can help arrange for him to settle down here temporarily."

Cui Bin took a sip of tea and said with a light smile, "I've already discussed this with him."

"Oh? You've already discussed it?!" Su Tianyu turned to Da Xiong. "Hehe, how did you guys discuss it?"

"Brother Cui told me to stay here and learn… learn MMA, you know, fighting." Da Xiong replied in a muffled voice.

Cui Bin chimed in, "I originally wanted to keep him by my side and do things together, but he didn't want to. He said he'd go back and follow you sooner or later. When I saw that he was going to leave sooner or later, there was no point in keeping him around. It just so happened that he went to the gym with me a couple of days ago, and the instructor there took a liking to him, so I thought, why not have him fight in our company's matches?"

Su Tianyu was somewhat surprised. "You guys have this project too?!"

"Yeah, our Zhongxiao Hall has its own fighter agency and a professional training institution. I used to be a fighter myself," Cui Bin explained softly. "Eating this kind of rice, it's hard to avoid this line of work in District One. I think he has good qualities, he can try training. If he can make it big, he might be rolling in money in a few years."

Su Tianyu had been worrying about Da Xiong's future because he not only had a case against him but also had certain flaws in his personality. He wasn't suitable for management positions, and he wasn't suitable for taking Cui Bin's route of leading a team. So arranging something for him was quite a headache.

But Gou Liuzi hadn't expected that Da Xiong would find his own way after being in District One for a few months.

The MMA industry was perfect for him. Not only could he develop special skills, but Da Xiong's age and temperament were also very compatible with the industry.

Focus, tenacity, explosive physical qualities, and so on – Da Xiong possessed all of these.

Su Tianyu looked at Da Xiong happily and asked, "Are you willing?"

"I am!" Da Xiong nodded immediately. "I need to make money, I need to have a skill, so… so I can help you in the future."

"Hehe, you just need to work hard. This is your own path. Don't always think about helping me," Su Tianyu replied helplessly.

Da Xiong paused for two seconds and replied very honestly, "I also miss Third Sister!"

"…!" Su Tianbei rolled his eyes. "Why do you always want to be my brother-in-law?"

"You'll always… be my Second Brother!" Da Xiong immediately added.

"Damn it!"

Su Tianbei was exasperated.

"Haha!" Everyone laughed.

"Okay, then I'll have to trouble you, Brother Cui!" Su Tianyu said immediately, thanking him. "Da Xiong is like my own brother. Please help him out in the future."

"It's hard to say who's helping who. If he can really make it big and get ranked, the company will definitely support him," Cui Bin said, crossing his legs. "Lao Mo has been training some beasts recently, and they're sweeping the heavyweight division. Damn it, we've been blown out in several matches, so we've been recruiting a lot of new people recently. He can train with them."

"Alright, it's settled then!"

The two shook hands, officially settling Da Xiong's near-term future.