"Didn't someone place an order?"
Li Bin snapped at us, "We're here for a banquet! How can you do business like this? How can you be so clueless?"
"I'm sorry, I was blind and didn't recognize you."
The boss apologized repeatedly, then pointed to private room 002 and said, "Please come in, gentlemen."
"That's more like it."
Li Bin snorted coldly and swaggered into the private room with Li Wang.
They seemed to think they were the kings of heaven, and never paid any attention to anyone, including the two poor, ragged people sitting next to them in the private room.
Just as they reached the door of the private room, the tall and thin Li Bin seemed to remember something and asked, "By the way, hasn't the person who booked this private room arrived yet?"
"Not yet!" The boss shook his head.
"What a dragging!"
Li Bin grumbled, "He actually made us come early to wait for him. That kid really has a big mouth."
“Brother, don’t forget, although Lin Chao is much younger than us, he’s now the general manager of Niangui Grilled Green Pepper Sauce Company. It’s normal for him to have a bit of an air about him,” Li Wang said from the side.
"Pshaw, what's so great about being a general manager?"
Li Bin curled his lip in disdain, "We're the favorites of the West Street boss. Don't think that he's just the general manager of a lousy company. Even some big bosses have to treat us with respect."
"We haven't revealed our identities to him yet, have we?"
Li Wang urged, "Alright, let's go inside and wait. As long as he's willing to come, that's fine."
With that, the two entered the private room.
The restaurant owner then showered Li Bin and Li Wang with flattery until they grew impatient and returned to the kitchen to get back to work.
Soon after, two bowls of noodles were served to Wang Qian and Yang Shenglong.
The two ate in silence.
Meanwhile, Li Bin and his companion in the private room, perhaps out of sheer boredom, began chatting about some interesting things.
Li Bin said, "Hehe, we really put on a big show for Second Brother today!"
“Of course!” Li Wang’s tone was full of pride and a sense of accomplishment. “No matter how smart Wang Qian is, he would never have imagined that there was another layer of counter-espionage within his counter-espionage scheme.”
Outside the private room, Wang Qian's heart stirred.
A counter-espionage plot within a counter-espionage plot?
What does that mean?
He had just stopped Lin Chao from attending the banquet, but changed his clothes to come here himself so that he could hide nearby and eavesdrop, hoping to glean something from the other party's conversation.
As it turned out, he made the right decision.
"That kid Wang Qian probably thinks that if he comes here under the guise of making money, the eldest brother and the second brother will actually believe him."
Li Bin's voice came from the private room again, "If I'm not mistaken, Wang Qian is probably gloating in some corner right now, thinking he's really found out where the drugs are hidden."
After a pause, Li Bin continued, "No matter how smart Wang Qian is, he would never have imagined that the drug hiding place he went through so much trouble to find was just a place that the eldest brother and the second brother designed on the spot. What we put there was just pure flour."
Upon hearing this, Wang Qian's face darkened.
That incredibly well-hidden basement was actually just a makeshift space designed by Scarface and Zuo Xianglong?
The white powder that the four naked women were carrying in bags turned out to be just plain flour.
It's really a series of interconnected events!
He had to admit that he had indeed underestimated Scarface and Zuo Xianglong this time.
In order to find out where the other party was hiding the drugs, he meticulously designed a series of traps.
I thought that with so many elaborate traps laid out, Zuo Xianglong would fall for it.
Unexpectedly, they were outmaneuvered in the end and fell victim to Zuo Xianglong's counter-espionage.
Fortunately, a dinner party led Lin Chao to accidentally learn the truth.
"Brother, do you think Wang Qian will call the police?" Li Wang's curious voice came from inside the private room.
"He'd better not call the police, otherwise he'll be asking for it!" Li Bin said menacingly.
“That’s right!” Li Wang agreed wholeheartedly. “We have informants in the police station. Even if they really know where we’re hiding the drugs, as long as they dare to call the police, we can prepare to evacuate in advance.”
After a pause, Li Wang added, "And if he calls the police, the eldest and second eldest brothers will definitely launch a crazy revenge against him."
"Forget it, let's not talk about this outside, lest someone overhear."
Li Bin quickly changed the subject, "By the way, why hasn't Lin Chao arrived yet?"
"They're not going to cancel their visit, are they?" Li Wang asked, his voice filled with doubt and uncertainty.
"Even if he comes, he dares to make us wait this long. Once he falls into the trap, we'll definitely teach him a lesson," Li Bin said coldly.
"Brother, let's wait patiently a little longer."
Li Wang comforted him, "After all, taking down Lin Chao is a task assigned to us by the boss. If we mess it up, it will be difficult to explain to the boss."
"I know I should be patient when I need to be, but I'm just a little annoyed."
After venting his anger, Li Bin said expectantly, "Once we find his weakness and force him to become one of us, Wang Qian's Niangui Grilled Green Pepper Sauce Company will become our cash cow."
"Shh, let's leave this topic alone!"
Li Wang lowered his voice and said, "If Lin Chao happens to come over and hears what we're saying, it will be difficult to lure him into a trap."
"All right!"
A silence fell over the private room.
Outside, Wang Qian muttered to himself, "Is this their purpose in approaching Lin Chao?"
Get close to Lin Chao, gain his trust, find an opportunity to exploit Lin Chao's weakness, and then force him to become one of those thugs, thereby turning his Niangui Grilled Green Pepper Sauce Company into Scarface Pao's cash cow.
That's a pretty good plan.
only,
Now that he has heard it, Scarface's plan is destined to fail.
In addition, he also knew that the location of the hidden drugs discovered today was just a scenario that Zuo Xianglong had temporarily devised to deceive him.
It seems that after this incident, I must be more careful and cautious in my actions in the future.
Otherwise, any act of underestimating the enemy could lead to utter destruction.
The only thing he couldn't figure out was whether Fang Jing and the other three women who were filling flour in the basement were actors hired by Zuo Xianglong, or if they usually did this kind of thing for Scarface.
After recalling the scene he saw in the basement, Wang Qian felt that the latter was more likely.
Because Fang Jing and the other three unfamiliar women had empty eyes and mechanical movements, like soulless shells.
Such expressions and gazes cannot be faked unless one's acting skills are truly superb.
Therefore, Fang Jing and the other three women must have suffered immense torment and hellish training to have undergone such a drastic change in their character and completely lost their most basic humanity.
Thinking of this, he suddenly had a brilliant idea and came up with a wonderful way to fight back.
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