After understanding the situation, Huo Haocheng said, "Wouldn't it be faster to come to me than to my wife for this kind of thing?"
"So why did you go to see Ruan Ruan?"
"Oh, I saw you were in a meeting earlier, and I was afraid of disturbing you. Besides, given your position, it's not easy for you to handle these kinds of things right now. Maybe asking Ruan Ruan can solve it all at once."
Huo Haoshen looked at the seemingly casual remark, but it hit the nail on the head. Those people hadn't started making their move yet, so Huo Haocheng and his group couldn't act because of their status.
Although that was indeed the case, Huo Haocheng still felt an urge to beat his younger brother after Huo Haoshen said that.
"Hey... what are you saying?" Huo Haocheng said, and kicked Huo Haoshen in the butt.
"Brother, brother, brother, I was wrong, I was wrong, please have mercy!" Actually, Huo Haocheng didn't use much force in that kick, otherwise Huo Haoshen would still be jumping around in front of him with his butt sticking out.
"Alright, stop acting like a monkey." To be honest, Huo Haoshen's jumping around really does look like a monkey. No wonder Lin Qingyuan said he looked like a monkey at noon.
"Go see if there's anything left in the cafeteria and get some for Xiaodong. He probably hasn't eaten on the way here," Huo Haocheng said to Huo Haoshen, glancing at the two brothers standing to the side watching their antics. Then, looking at the crowd queuing for medicine, he said to Xiaodong, "Eat something first, we'll talk about this later."
Xiao Dong, who was about to refuse, felt embarrassed when her stomach growled twice just as she was about to speak. Her face flushed red, and she awkwardly nodded to Huo Haoshen, saying, "Then I'll have to trouble you."
In order to get there as soon as possible and tell his superiors what he knew, Xiao Dong ate a simple breakfast with just a pancake and a pot of water. He hadn't eaten anything all day except for drinking some water when he was thirsty, and he was already very hungry.
He wanted to refuse earlier because it was well past lunchtime and he didn't want to trouble others. Another reason was that he was afraid that if others found out he wasn't one of them, it would cause trouble for Huo Haocheng and the others.
“We’re all family here, there’s no trouble at all. Let’s go in first, and we’ll find Ruan Ruan to come over after things are over there.” With that, Huo Haocheng led Xiao Dong toward their usual resting place.
As Huo Haocheng walked, he asked Xiao Dong about the situation of those people.
They were all involved in the black market, but when Zheng Xuyang and his group left, they handed over the stalls that they had been in charge of. However, Luo An, Xiao Dong, and Zhang Xiaowei were all younger and not as ruthless as the others. After Zheng Xuyang left, their territory was taken over by several other black market bosses.
This is one of the reasons why they readily agreed when Huo Haocheng approached them.
"Those guys are all bosses from other black markets. All I know is that they're ruthless and petty, and they're not very friendly to their underlings. Several times, Anzi and Xiaowei and I saw them fight over a source of goods, and several of their men were injured, but they just had someone apply some medicine and then ignored them. Later, other brothers couldn't stand it and took them to the hospital. Anyway, they'll do anything for money."
What Xiaodong was talking about happened not long after Zheng Xuyang left. At that time, Zheng Xuyang had just left, and they had just taken over the business. Because they lacked experience and were timid, some of the brothers who had followed Zheng Xuyang before saw that they couldn't handle it and chose to quit and go to other black market bosses.
Then, because they had had some unpleasant experiences with Zheng Xuyang when they were working for him, and they had all heard about Zheng Xuyang becoming a factory manager in Yuncheng, the black market bosses were all a little envious. These days, who would want to work in the black market if they could have a decent job?
So later, when they were vying for space, these were the first to step forward. They had no choice; to gain a foothold, they gritted their teeth and went for it.
Originally, they were willing to fight back against their former brothers, but the others on both sides insisted on pushing them out to take the fall. Thus, in what seemed like an exciting battle for territory, only a few of them were injured.
After learning that they were injured, Xiaodong and the others visited them with nutritional supplements.
After listening to what Xiao Dong said, Huo Haocheng felt that it would be difficult to have a proper conversation with these people and get them to go back, or to have them buy the grain according to the market price.
Huo Haoshen brought Xiaodong two steamed buns and a bowl of porridge.
Huo Haocheng told Xiaodong to have some snacks while he went to fetch Ruanruan.
About half an hour later, after applying the medicine to the last person, Huo Haocheng helped pack the medicine into the first-aid kit, and then, carrying the kit, he came over with Ruan Ruan and Dr. Jiang.
On the way, Huo Haocheng told them about the news Xiao Dong had brought.
When they arrived, Gu Jinghe, Bai Sirui, and the others were already there.
"Everyone's here? Looks like you've all figured out how to resolve this, right?"
Upon seeing them enter, Xiaodong and Huo Haoshen immediately stood up and offered the only two stools in the room to Ruanruan and Dr. Jiang.
"Aren't we waiting for a wise strategist to give us some ideas?" They knew what Ruan Ruan was talking about, but they had only said a bunch of random things. They all knew that none of it would work, because of their status, they couldn't really be asked to rob someone.
"The genius? I don't know when I got that title!" Ruan Ruan said, sitting down and teasing Bai Sirui back and forth.
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