Just as Feng Mingshu was exchanging dried seafood at a fisherman's house, a group of uninvited guests arrived at her small villa.

A group of young children pounded on the iron gate, shouting for the people inside to open it.

Some neighbors heard the commotion and came over, but after seeing their appearance, they retreated.

Seeing that everyone had fled in fright, the follower said to the leader, "Brother Peng, it's really impressive to follow you."

The leader was Pi Dapeng, who chuckled and said, "You'll get your share of benefits by following me, but you have to obey. You can only smash things when I tell you to, and you have to stop when I tell you to."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Who dares to smash my door!" A furious shout came from the courtyard; it was the voice of a middle-aged man.

Pi Dapeng frowned. The voice sounded somewhat familiar, but before he could figure it out, someone shouted, "We're smashing your house! Get out here right now!"

"I'll see who's really that good!"

The people inside seemed to be enraged. They slammed open the iron gate, and everyone rushed in, attacking the people inside.

Pi Dapeng's gaze swept over the people inside, and his expression immediately changed drastically: "Stop! Stop right now!"

Those people were shouting and yelling, their ears already deaf to other sounds. The middle-aged man in the courtyard was tackled and pinned down as soon as they met him, punched and kicked, and screamed in agony.

Pi Dapeng rushed over to help, taking several kicks in the process. Despite the pain, he shouted, "Stop! This is our Director Gou!"

"Which Director Gou?" Everyone was a little confused.

Pi Dapeng slapped the person who asked the question across the face: "This is our Director Gou, remember that?"

The person who had been beaten, along with the others, nodded in unison and rushed to help Director Gou up from the ground, but Pi Dapeng waved them away.

"Director Gou, I'm sorry, let me help you up first. You can hit or scold me as you please—"

Before he could finish speaking, a sharp crack rang out, and Pi Dapeng received a solid slap across the face. Director Gou then spat a mouthful of bloody saliva at him.

"You bastard, you've tried to frame me! I'll take your job right now!"

Blood splattered onto his eyelids, but Pi Dapeng didn't wipe it away. He waved for his followers to leave the courtyard, then knelt down in front of Director Gou with a thud: "If you're not happy, kick me again."

Bang!

Pi Dapeng was kicked in the chest and fell to the ground. It took him a while to get up, spit out a mouthful of blood, and then immediately knelt down again.

Director Gou stared at him and sneered, "You're quite the opportunist, a good dog indeed. I'll let it slide for now, but if you cause me trouble again, I'll settle all the old scores with you!"

Pi Dapeng kowtowed twice in gratitude before standing up and asking, "Director Gou, if I remember correctly, this used to be a rich person's house. When did you move here? If I had known you were here, I wouldn't have dared to disturb you even if I had ten lives."

Seeing that his words were acceptable, Director Gou condescended to reply, "It's just for these few days. The housing management bureau arranged it. If it weren't for rich people's places, I wouldn't even be staying here!"

Pi Dapeng flattered Director Gou for a while, finally pleasing him so that he withdrew from the courtyard, his face instantly turning gloomy.

He had worked so hard to climb to this position, just so he could come to this little villa today and see his former classmate Feng kneeling at his feet, begging for his mercy.

As a result, he didn't even get to see Feng, and he also offended Director Gou.

He was unwilling to accept it!

"Go and find out where the people who used to live in the villa went," Pi Dapeng said, pointing to someone at random.

The man immediately ran to inquire, but was turned away many times until he arrived at a dilapidated courtyard, where an old woman with bound feet came out.

The elderly woman with bound feet was none other than Granny Li. She grabbed the man's wrist and asked urgently, "Can you go to the juvenile detention center?"

The young man was taken aback by the question, then shook his head: "That area is not under our jurisdiction."

Old Mrs. Li immediately shook off his hand and raised her hand to close the door, but the boy quickly stopped her, saying, "Don't close the door! I haven't asked you anything yet!"

"No time... Ah!"

Before Old Lady Li could finish her resolute words, Pi Dapeng and his men burst through the door.

Old Mrs. Li stumbled from the impact and angrily cursed, "What do you bastards want! Let me tell you, my family is innocent, don't even think about causing trouble for us!"

After Old Lady Li finished screaming, Pi Dapeng finally confirmed: "I've finally found you, old lady. Do you remember at the end of last year, you hit me on the head with a water ladle?"

Grandma Li was stunned for a moment, then remembered the water ladle she had lost last year. She had cursed about it for two hours in the alley and had a fight with her neighbor.

But when faced with the leader's gloomy gaze, Old Lady Li stubbornly denied it: "My family has never lost a water ladle, you've come to the wrong place."

"Grandma, you just mentioned the juvenile detention center. Someone in your family has been locked up there, right? Then your family's reputation isn't clean. We need to take a look, investigate, and see if there are any other problems." Pi Dapeng smiled and waved his hand. A dozen or so people immediately rushed into the house, conducting a thorough search and smashing things along the way.

The rest of the Li family were not home, only Old Mrs. Li was there to look after the house. She couldn't stop the people from smashing it. Seeing that all their belongings were about to be destroyed, she cried out, "Stop smashing! I admit I lost a water ladle, I deserve to die! Smash this old bone of mine!"

Pi Dapeng waved his hand, and the group stopped what they were doing. Pi Dapeng walked up to Old Lady Li and said, "Now I'm giving you a chance to redeem yourself. Do you want it?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Old Mrs. Li wiped away her tears and agreed repeatedly.

"Where did the Feng family, who lived in the villa, go?" Pi Dapeng asked, staring at Old Lady Li.

When the Feng family was mentioned, Old Lady Li was filled with hatred, but she didn't dare to say anything more. She only said, "They moved away. They moved away two months ago."

"Where did you move to?" Pi Dapeng immediately asked.

"I don't know. The girl from the Feng family left with her man. She said she was going to the army to be with him, but I don't know exactly where she went," Old Mrs. Li replied truthfully.

On the day Feng Mingshu left, Old Lady Li was still thinking of sneaking into the villa at night, but that afternoon, the housing management bureau came to take over the villa, so Old Lady Li had to give up, and she was furious.

Seeing Pi Dapeng's suddenly dark face, Old Lady Li immediately came up with a plan: "I remember now, the Feng family girl's husband was a student at the Maritime Academy. If you take people to the Maritime Academy government, you'll definitely be able to find their whereabouts... Ah!"

"Idiot, do you think I'm as stupid as you!"

Pi Dapeng kicked Old Lady Li away, turned and left, but his face was a hundred times more gloomy than before.

Feng Mingshu actually got married! She really got married, and to a soldier no less!

Even if he climbed to the position of Director Gou, he wouldn't dare to casually extend his influence into the military, and the Maritime Academy was not a place he could easily intrude upon.

Damn it!