Han Chengshan and Uncle Tie exchanged a glance, both secretly applauding each other. One had a keen understanding of these people, the other a profound understanding of metaphysics.
The gang of thugs looked at each other, and some of them were already showing signs of panic.
"My son was born weak and sickly. Is it because of the things I do outside that he's suffering?"
"We've been gangsters for so long, we've done plenty of robberies and burglaries, we should have saved up a lot of money by now, but every time we earn money, it always runs out for some inexplicable reason. Either our mother gets sick, or our house gets robbed. Is this karma...?"
“We’re really going to kill someone this time! Before, we’d only ever robbed and injured people, but now we’re coming to the mainland to do this deadly stuff. Won’t we get some kind of retribution…”
Uncle Tie's voice was particularly clear in the tense atmosphere: "I'm afraid you might come to the mainland alive, but not return to Hong Kong alive."
"What do you mean by that?" Wang Dao asked nervously, holding his breath.
"Killing someone and removing their liver is illegal. Would someone of your stature let a witness leave alive? Aren't you afraid of being killed to silence you after you don't get the 100,000?"
"With so many of us, does he really dare to kill us all?"
"He's capable of killing someone and taking their organs, what else wouldn't he dare to do? Didn't you see the car accident over there? That driver was completely innocent. He was just carrying Little Fatty, yet he was hit and killed for no reason! He can kill an innocent person in broad daylight, let alone you who know the truth. It wouldn't be surprising if he killed someone to cover it up!" Han Chengshan said indignantly.
Uncle Tie added insult to injury: "With so many of you, just find a place and stab you all to death, then dump your bodies in an alley. You can easily find a passerby to give false testimony, saying that you were having a gang fight in the alley, hacking at each other! That would be considered a feud between gangsters, and you would all deserve to die!"
"Boss, are the things they said true or false?"
"Is that boss really such a ruthless person?"
One of the underlings said indignantly, "How could it be fake? What did that fat kid do to deserve this? Just because he was matched with their child, they want to rip out someone's liver and take their life!"
"He's so cold-blooded and ruthless towards strangers and innocent people, let alone us!"
"If we were alive, would he be able to sleep soundly?"
"He'll probably be unable to eat or sleep properly, after all, he doesn't want anyone to know the truth about his child's liver coming from an unknown source!"
“He would definitely kill us to cover it up! We’re not from the mainland, we’re from Hong Kong. Plus, we weren’t exactly good people before, and many of us have criminal records. It’s not impossible for us to get into a street fight and slash each other.”
"By then we'll all be dead, with no way to prove anything. We have no family here, no one to seek justice for us, and the case will just be dropped. No one will be able to trace it back to that big boss!"
"Boss, we can't work for him anymore, that's suicide!"
"Boss, let's hurry back to Hong Kong! It's too dangerous on the mainland!"
"I used to think our port city was chaotic, but now..."
"Shh, don't say it!"
"Boss, stop daydreaming! Make a decision quickly, the brothers will all listen to you!"
"Quiet down! Everyone's making such a racket, be quiet!"
"Shh, everyone be quiet, let the boss think about it!"
"The boss is a wise man, otherwise we would have been killed back in Hong Kong."
Han Chengshan and Uncle Tie exchanged a glance and decided to add fuel to the fire.
Uncle Tie said quietly, "Then let's go all the way with this mistake and keep lying to the end."
"I just overheard that besides Little Fatty, there's another target. It seems quite a few have successfully paired up with his child," Han Chengshan asked deliberately.
Wang Dao looked aggrieved: "He doesn't want someone with a damaged liver because they can't be transplanted immediately. His son can't wait any longer. His next target is at the police station right now. They want us to go to the police station and bring the person out. He really thinks too highly of us."
“I’ll have Little Fatty fake an injury and bandage up his liver. You’re not exactly lying; just say you can’t handle the police job. It’s not too late to back out now; he might send someone else. But this has nothing to do with you anymore. Go back to your port city. Don’t worry, the candied hawthorn business I mentioned earlier definitely didn’t involve you!”
The flower bed in the shadows murmured softly, "Old Master Han, he's made decisions for you again."
Han Fei narrowed his dangerous eyes: "He hired a bodyguard himself last time and paid for it himself. This time, he tricked a business partner into coming here, and he's asking him to handle the negotiations himself."
Hua Chi chuckled to himself, "My unlucky apprentice really does rely on you."
Han Fei glanced sideways: "He'll rely on you a lot from now on, so I think giving him 10,000 every week is too little."
“I’m not giving it to him for free. He has to hit all the targets before I’ll give him a reward.”
"It's not enough; it's not enough for him to spend."
"Old man, as your mentor, I at least give you 40,000 a month, while you only get 8,000!"
“I have seven grandchildren to support, and I have to give out 100,000 yuan in allowance every month. It’s exhausting.”
"Ten thousand is nothing to the big boss of the Han Group. I think you're just a stingy old man."
"Anyway, with you, my sucker, helping me raise my grandson, I'm happy to be this stingy old man."
Han Chengshan had completely fooled this group of thugs: "Don't worry, we'll definitely make money. If we don't, I, Han Chengshan, will take responsibility!"
"Can you take responsibility for that?"
"Yes!" Han Chengshan patted his chest, looking very confident.
"Boss, can we trust this kid?"
"It seems we have no other choice but to believe him?"
"This trip to the mainland didn't earn us a single penny; in fact, we spent a lot of money."
"Everyone says that there's gold everywhere in mainland China, but that's all a lie!"
"Boss, even if we listen to this kid and go back to selling candied hawthorn skewers, we don't have the start-up capital."
Wang Dao reached into his pocket and pulled out a tattered wallet. Inside, there were only three 100-yuan banknotes from the People's Republic of China and some Hong Kong dollars in change.
"Your name is Han Chengshan, so I'll call you Shanzi. Shanzi, do you think this little bit of money is enough to set up a stall and see how it goes?"
Han Chengshan took the three hundred-yuan bills from Longguo from his hand and assured him, "Don't worry, there's plenty of money here! You guys set up a stall around here first and see if you can make any money, and see if I'm lying to you."
"Boss, what if you give them all the money and they fail?"
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