Chapter 110
Chapter 110
But since the other party was one of Bo Suihan’s people, Wu Xiaojiu couldn’t bring himself to say anything harsh in the face of such naked provocation. Standing there, he had been at a total loss, genuinely unsure where to even begin.
Bo Suihan and Yue Qing, faced with a scene like this, could only keep warning and reminding Lin Yang as she bounced around making trouble. But they couldn’t withstand how thick-skinned she was, and the two of them were truly out of options.
Fortunately, if Lin Yang couldn’t keep things dignified, Huo Mang would help her keep them dignified.
After a round of slaps to the mouth, Lin Yang immediately behaved herself.
She climbed up from the ground on her own and silently stood at the back of the group. Timidly shrinking herself into a ball, head lowered and hands clasped together, she looked extremely honest and well-behaved for the moment.
Hearing Wu Xiaojiu say he didn’t mind, Huo Mang smiled.
She took a pre-cut cigar from her pocket, lit it with a blowtorch, and held it out toward Wu Xiaojiu.
“Do you smoke?”
Wu Xiaojiu shook his head repeatedly. Usually, at most, he drank a little wine. He didn’t even touch cigarettes, so cigars were still far too advanced for him.
Huo Mang also saw the reluctance in his eyes. She grinned and laughed twice, then took the cigar back and smoked it herself.
“I’m quite satisfied with you. If Bo Suihan likes you, then I like you. If I like you, everyone else likes you too. So don’t be restrained around them. From now on, we’re all family.
“Suihan, come here. Your master has something to tell you.”
Amid the curling smoke, Huo Mang exhaled and beckoned Bo Suihan over. Still carrying the scent of cigar smoke, she dusted off her clothes here and there, coughed twice, and said, “It isn’t easy for us to come down the mountain. This time, we came not only because we heard you were injured, but also because apparently, you avenged the destruction of your family? You turned that fatty Han Fu over to a domestic police station, didn’t you?”
Bo Suihan nodded and honestly explained the process.
Huo Mang smiled at him approvingly.
“Very good. But I have to remind you of one thing: when you cut weeds, you remove the roots.”
For people like her, leaving a little tail behind after killing someone was a major taboo.
Bo Suihan’s expression shifted slightly.
Wu Xiaojiu thought of that fool again.
In fact, if Han Qianduo hadn’t been used as bait, Han Fu definitely wouldn’t have taken the hook.
Besides, from what Wu Xiaojiu saw, Han Qianduo was heartless and simple-minded, and didn’t have much affection for his father.
So he reached out and tugged Bo Suihan, then said softly to him, “Han Qianduo is an idiot. I feel like he won’t seek revenge.”
Bo Suihan blinked, gave him a quiet hum of acknowledgment, then lifted his face toward Huo Mang and repeated Wu Xiaojiu’s exact words from just now.
“I can’t interfere in matters between you two lovebirds. You’re grown up now. If you’ve decided Han Qianduo is an idiot and you don’t want to kill him, I’ll respect your wishes.
“But there is one thing. Your Bo Family’s assets have been sitting with the Han Family long enough. It’s time to take them back.”
The two people in front of Huo Mang looked puzzled.
“How do we take them back? Don’t tell me we’re supposed to go rob their house?”
Huo Mang laughed and flicked Wu Xiaojiu on the forehead, then gave him an affirmative thumbs-up.
“Land of the free.”
With things said to this point, Wu Xiaojiu and Bo Suihan looked at each other, still trying to figure out exactly how free America was supposed to be.
The nine women had already boarded the aircraft.
They didn’t have much time to stay. The air in the city was too noisy, and the nine of them were still more suited to being savages deep in the mountains. After waving goodbye to Bo Suihan and Wu Xiaojiu, Huo Mang reached out and shut the aircraft door.
With a bang, the helicopter then lifted off.
The nine of them had arrived in a hurry and left in an extremely slapdash manner. Only Wu Xiaojiu and Bo Suihan remained where they were, pondering how to commit burglary-no, ptooey, how to take back the Bo Family’s assets.
The two of them thought about it the whole way back.
Even after they returned to base and stood before several hundred people, they were still mulling it over.
Seeing the Soldier King wearing a troubled frown, the adjutant took it upon himself to step forward.
“If anything is troubling you, please feel free to tell me. This subordinate will go through fire and water-so long as it can be done, I will see the Soldier King’s wish fulfilled.”
Bo Suihan knew he was utterly loyal. He had grown up on Dragon King Island, and back in Huo Mang’s generation, the adjutant had also served as Huo Mang’s adjutant.
So Bo Suihan repeated to him what Huo Mang had just instructed.
Unexpectedly, he had asked exactly the right person. The adjutant slapped his forehead and immediately said, “What Lady Huo Mang means is that while Han Fu has just been taken to Six Gates, and Han Qianduo has an unstable foundation and is also an idiot, we might as well transfer his company and assets directly under our name. Lady Huo Mang may feel that overseas assets in America are inconvenient for the Dragon King to manage, so she wants to sell off the company and first take all of the liquid assets under Han Qianduo’s control.”
“Then what does home invasion robbery-pah, directly taking the assets mean?”
“Exactly what it sounds like!”
The adjutant spoke with absolute conviction. After Bo Suihan gave him full authority to handle it, he grew even more eager to try.
He immediately gathered a dozen or so sturdy young men together. After whispering with the adjutant for a bit, they came up to Bo Suihan rubbing their hands, looking at him eagerly as they asked whether they could do it.
Bo Suihan was confused too.
But the Dragon King could not show curiosity, so he could only nod and tell them to have fun.
The men left with their arms slung around one another’s shoulders.
Bo Suihan had no right to know what happened during those blank few hours, but Wu Xiaojiu had a cheat.
[System, I’m completely lost. What exactly did Huo Mang mean at the end? Han Qianduo may be an idiot, but even he knows money is money. How could he possibly spit it all out just because of some sense of morality?]
[Actually, it really is exactly what it sounds like. If Han Fu can send a dozen death-contracted men to find his son, why can’t Bo Suihan send a dozen death-contracted men to his son’s house and take back what was his to begin with?]
Wu Xiaojiu grew even more bewildered. In his mind, he stammered and faltered, unable to form words.
[No, wait. It really is just the surface meaning? Pure robbery?]
[Yep, pure robbery. Huo Mang is especially ruthless. Don’t be fooled by how peaceful things are now; that woman has been through a real shooting war. The only reason she didn’t uproot the Han Family completely was to leave Bo Suihan some face. Not only will all the cash in Han Qianduo’s home be taken, his company will probably be transferred under Bo Suihan’s name too.]
The System’s explanation made Wu Xiaojiu feel even more reverence for that woman. He stood in the cold wind with his arms wrapped around himself, digesting it all alongside Bo Suihan. Two or three hours later-
The adjutant and those men came back with their arms around one another’s shoulders, hauling over an entire truckload of cash from America.
[Huo Mang knew Han Fu was the main culprit behind the Bo Family massacre decades before the two of you found out.]
[That woman had already paved the road for Bo Suihan back then. Not only did she plant moles inside the Han Family company, she also made backup copies of every key to every safe the Han Family owned, and she made sure no bank in America would dare accept any of the Han Family’s assets.]
[Think about it. Huo Mang was in the middle of some remote mountains and forests, but with a single phone call, she locked down the Han Family’s entire fortune and knew the ins and outs of their company. You should understand just how terrifying that woman is now.]
Wu Xiaojiu stood there, staring at stack after stack of cash. He was stunned for a long while before finally replying to the System in his mind.
[She really has reach everywhere.]