How bad is the relationship between Master Er and Master Dong?
They were all a bit older than Nie Rong, already in their seventies.
They both rose through the ranks in Kowloon, and most boys in Kowloon have been working as henchmen since they were toddlers. So, the two of them have been fighting and killing in Kowloon for at least half a century.
Chen Rou heard about it from Liang Lisheng during a casual conversation. It is said that Master Er and Master Dong had a good relationship when they were young. Although they were in different gangs and fought each other for territory, they did not become mortal enemies.
The two of them married girls who lived in the same village as the pig-loving village.
They fought fiercely, yet when they were vying for territory, they could still sit at the same table and discuss things.
It must have been during the period when Hong Kong was occupied by Japan. At that time, Mr. Er had a son and a daughter, which was considered a good family. He was particularly opposed to the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Hong Kong, so he led his men to join the Volunteer Army Corps, a well-known anti-Japanese organization in Hong Kong at the time. They were specifically tasked with assassinating high-ranking Japanese and puppet army officers at various docks and in the streets.
It is said that Master Dong informed on the matter. In the end, the Japanese and puppet troops discovered the affair. The army did not dare to confront him directly, but they sent agents to secretly follow him and assassinate his wife and daughter in an alley.
Only his son survived because he was with him.
Of course, Master Er was filled with hatred and wished he could fight Master Dong to the death immediately. However, he had a better sense of the bigger picture. At that time, the British government was going to take back Hong Kong and needed to fight, so he temporarily put aside his grudge and helped the British government drive out the Japanese and puppet troops.
I don't know what Master Dong was thinking. He had two sons and his wife was still alive, but he didn't guard against Master Er. As a result, just as the Japanese and puppet troops withdrew and he was having a family banquet to celebrate, Master Er led his men in and stormed in. Master Er's son was still very young at the time, and he stabbed Master Dong's eldest son to death with one knife.
His wife desperately tried to block the blow, using her body to shield her youngest son from a knife attack, but she died as a result.
That day, the two gangs fought to the point of bloodshed, and Master Er and Master Dong fought fiercely.
It wasn't until the then-commander of the British forces stationed in Hong Kong personally led his troops to surround them with guns that the two were finally separated.
But ever since then, Master Er and Master Dong have become sworn enemies.
They each had only one son, but they were enemies since childhood and both vowed to take the other's head.
The cockroaches and rats in those two households were truly irreconcilable enemies; even the rat holes dared not wander off.
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Knowing these things, Chen Rou, holding the mobile phone, subconsciously said, "Ah Zhao, the anesthesia has worn off, right? You're awake, aren't you? Do you know what you're saying?"
Nie Zhao said, "We can discuss the specifics in person, but those two items are tokens of our trust, and you can fill in the birth certificate as you like."
The original owner of this body must have a story, because Han Yuzhu left Chen Rou an unsigned birth certificate, along with a sachet and half a crescent-shaped jade pendant as tokens.
Chen Rou had also wondered if it was because Master Er and Master Dong's children were having an affair, and that was the reason.
She had such high hopes, thinking she could somehow make the two sworn enemies in Kowloon shake hands and make peace.
As a result, Nie Zhao told her that it was now a choice between two extreme options, and she had to choose one of the two to be her grandfather.
So, is she going to choose one of them to acknowledge as a relative, and then kill the other one?
Chen Rou thought for a moment, then asked Nie Zhao, "Did Master Dong really work for the Japanese and puppet troops, or inform on them?"
For her, this is a hard and fast rule.
If Mr. Dong really did act as a traitor during the Japanese occupation, then there's no need to waste time saying anything more.
However, Nie Zhao said, "My mother told me that it wasn't true, because back then, Mr. Dong was doing business with her and was constantly traveling back and forth to the mainland to deliver cotton yarn, and he was delivering it to the current mainland government. If he really cooperated with the Japanese puppet government, there would be no need for him to do business with the mainland government, because the Japanese puppet government would give him more."
After a moment of silence, he said again, "But Master Dong admitted it himself in front of Master Er, saying that he was the one who informed on us."
Chen Rou wanted to ask why Master Dong would admit to something he hadn't done, wondering if he was mentally ill.
But she swallowed her words back.
Regardless of whether it was Master Dong who informed the Japanese and puppet troops, Master Dong would admit it the moment Master Er came knocking on his door, and might even mock Master Er a few times to provoke him into a fight.
We're all tough guys in this world, so at worst we'll fight. Even if we lose our heads, it'll just be a small scar, and we'll be heroes again in eighteen years.
Chen Rou changed the subject and asked instead, "You were woken up by my knocking, weren't you? You couldn't get a good night's sleep."
Nie Zhao said, "It's okay, I'll take another nap and then I'll explain."
So even though he was awake, he couldn't see her and had Kwong come out to send her away?
This made Chen Rou, who had rushed to the hospital to visit her husband but was turned away, feel a little uncomfortable.
She said, "I was planning to visit you again tonight, but since you're going to sleep, let's meet another day."
She had already seen Song Yuanchao, so she said, "I'm busy, I'll hang up now, bye!"
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Let's start with Nie Zhao. He had hemorrhoid surgery, which requires him to lie in bed for at least two days, and he's still lying in bed right now.
They had originally planned to change the dressing first thing tomorrow morning and then be discharged, but after thinking for a moment, he called out to Kuang Zai: "Go find the doctor and ask them to change tonight's dressing, then we'll go straight home."
Kuang frowned upon hearing this: "Third Master, let's stay another night. If you travel far now, it will affect the healing of your wound."
Nie Zhao hugged his pillow, holding his mobile phone in one hand. He found his wife's phone number, his fingers hovering over the dial button and then moving away, then hovering over it again and moving away again. Finally, he let out a long sigh and closed his eyes in dejection.
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