Tu Hong rolled his eyes at Li Zhanyou and sneered, "So what? He's my father's son, so what?"

Li Zhanyou grinned and said, "It's nothing, hehe, I was just asking."

"Stop talking nonsense, okay?"

"What do you mean, 'can it or not'?"

"That idea you just had, are you getting senile?!"

"no!"

"You... fine, you just wait!"

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Zhou Hongsong and Li Xiangdong left the market and headed straight for Changchun Restaurant, where they found snow-white red bean paste, sweet and sour pork, and soup dumplings—all local specialties of old Changchun.

As Zhou Hongsong was walking, he suddenly felt a pair of eyes staring at him from behind. He turned around abruptly and saw someone behind him instantly hide behind the wall, only catching a glimpse of their fleeting figure.

"Head east, someone is following us!"

"Ignore him, let's go try some Changchun specialties first."

"How can you be so careless? It must be because we went too far just now and attracted the attention of the local thugs!"

Ten thousand yuan was spent so easily, and the two strangers were from out of town. They were alone and helpless. What's the difference between them and a three-year-old child carrying a gold bar on the street?

"Fifth Brother, there's a crackdown going on right now, so there won't be any organized crime. At most, it's just one or two clueless individuals. Can't the two of us handle them?"

"That's far too presumptuous!"

As he said this, Zhou Hongsong became fully alert, his face tense, and he maintained this tense expression all the way to the Changchun Hotel.

"Relax! Relax, okay? The local thugs probably don't have the money or the guts to cause trouble here."

"call--"

"They'll at most appear on the path back to our hotel, because the Changchun Hotel isn't a place where they can run wild."

"Pfft—"

Zhou Hongsong had just breathed a sigh of relief and taken a sip of tea, but before he could even swallow it, Li Xiangdong's next sentence made him spit it out.

"Oh, what's the rush? You can handle one or two petty thieves. Believe in yourself, okay?"

Looking into Li Xiangdong's determined eyes, Zhou Hongsong couldn't help but nod.

A plate of fluffy, soft red bean paste, a large plate of golden, glistening sweet and sour pork, a large jar of canned oranges stewed with snow frog oil, and stir-fried potatoes, eggplant, and green peppers were served.

"Eat first, you'll have the energy to fight!"

After being persuaded by Li Xiangdong, Zhou Hongsong stopped rushing and started eating heartily.

We'll deal with whatever comes our way, no matter what!

Tu Hong and his brother Xu Si'er hid outside the Changchun Hotel, watching the two men inside eat and drink through the bright, spacious glass windows. A cool breeze made their already empty stomachs even hungrier.

Xu Si'er sniffled, "Brother Tu, when we're rich, let's go to the Changchun Hotel for a big meal! Damn, these people from inside the Great Wall are really rich!"

Tu Hong stared at Li Xiangdong and Zhou Hongsong, suppressing his feverish appetite, and nodded, "Absolutely! Make them vomit up whatever they ate!"

Xu Si'er swallowed hard, her eyes full of envy. "Brother Tu, it's a pity that Big Brother and the others got arrested. Otherwise, we wouldn't have had to wait until no one was around to ambush them! We could have just gotten the money out of them right there at the flower market."

Tu Hong waved his hand and lightly scolded him, "What time is it now? The situation is so tense, and you still want Mingqiang? You'll always be talking about the boss and the others! Aren't you afraid of being implicated and arrested too?"

Xu Si'er shrank back unwillingly, muttering something under his breath, but Tu Hong couldn't hear him clearly.

After Li Xiangdong and his group finished eating and drinking, they paid the bill and headed outside.

It was already dark, and the yellow streetlights illuminated the streets. Groups of people were riding bicycles on the road; it was time to get off work.

Li Xiangdong and Zhou Hongsong did not take the bus.

Changchun Hotel is not far from Changchun Inn; if you take a shortcut, it only takes about 20 minutes to walk there.

The two of them were quite full from eating, so they decided to take a walk to help them digest.

Tu Hong and Xu Si'er stretched their bodies, which were almost stiff, and cursed inwardly, "How come these two took so long to eat a meal?"

They're such gluttons!

There were so many dishes on the table, and the plates were all cleaned up.

Li Xiangdong and Zhou Hongsong took a shortcut, and occasionally a dim yellow door lamp would light up in the narrow alley, but most places were pitch black.

In the quiet alley, only the soft rustling of two people's footsteps could be heard, along with the occasional barking of a dog, the sound of stir-frying, and the faint sounds of conversation.

As they reached a bend in the road, Zhou Hongsong tugged at Li Xiangdong's arm and turned his head slightly to gesture to them from behind.

The two hid behind the wall and, sure enough, heard very light footsteps coming from behind them.

"Shhh~"

"Huh? Where did everyone go?"

"Holy crap, this is bad!"

A whooshing sound came from beside her ears, and Xu Si'er felt a pain in the back of her neck, her vision went black, and her limbs went weak.

He turned around and saw a tall guy behind him, his right hand still in a chopstick position, muttering, "How come you're still not dizzy? You can still turn around? You've got guts..."

He heard this, and immediately he fainted.

Tu Hong walked behind Xu Si'er. Xu Si'er had only been knocked unconscious by a chop to the neck for a few seconds. As soon as he saw that the other party was prepared, he immediately turned around and tried to retreat.

Li Xiangdong kicked out and landed a heavy blow on his buttocks.

"Splat—"

Tu Hong fell face-first into the mud.

"Oh my god~ my gold tooth—"

Ignoring his sore buttocks, Tu Hong immediately began groping for his knocked-out gold tooth on the ground.

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