Chapter 78
Chapter 78
As she spoke, the woman casually waved a hand.
At once, movement stirred inside the cabin. Dozens of old men stood in a neat row, poking their heads out of the plane one after another.
“You must be Suihan, Senior Liu Fangfang’s disciple.”
The wrinkles on the old men’s faces bloomed like flowers as they smiled. Bo Suihan shook hands with them one by one, and they showered him with praise.
“The few of us all served under Senior Liu. We heard something happened here, something about a Village Chief beating people, so we came over specifically to take a look. Where is he?”
“Who’s looking for me? Did you hire this plane and these extras? Every last one of them looks unfamiliar. A Village Chief is still just an ordinary citizen, kid. Stop struggling and hurry up, kneel down, apologize, and kowtow to me!”
The Village Chief swaggered over. When he looked at the plane and the ring of men in black, jealousy and resentment were practically spilling off his face.
The old men and Bo Suihan all turned to look at him. The old man at the front frowned in displeasure.
“Shen Ba?”
“You know me?”
The Village Chief pointed at his own nose, grinning.
“If you know me, then you should know what I’m capable of. I don’t care how much he paid to hire you extras. Make him kneel to me. You hear me?”
A crack appeared in the old man’s humble expression. The corner of his mouth twitched a few times, and just as he was about to speak, Bo Suihan raised a hand and stopped him.
Bo Suihan studied the Village Chief’s expression, gave a soft laugh, then pointed to the old man in front of him and began the introduction.
“Well, with your level, it’s no wonder you wouldn’t have any connection to them. Maybe even the person above you doesn’t have much right to speak in front of them. Let me introduce him. This is Wang Anping. You should be able to find him in today’s headline news on your phone.”
The Village Chief’s swaggering steps froze. He was indeed familiar with the name Wang Anping. It was just that someone of that stature was not a person he could ever meet.
He had only heard him introduced in headline newspapers.
“You’re saying… he’s that grandmaster? Kid, even showing off has its limits.”
At that, Wang Anping let out a cold laugh.
“If you’re even afraid of me, then you truly are unlucky to have offended Young Master Suihan. Do you know who his master is? Liu Fangfang.”
It was the second time that name had been mentioned.
The Village Chief finally began to panic. At a loss, he looked back and forth, staring at those unfamiliar faces. Trembling, he pulled out his phone and searched for Wang Anping on a social media platform.
But the result left him bitterly disappointed.
Because the image published in the papers showed the imposing Wang Anping astride a tall horse, wearing an equestrian helmet, smiling toward the camera-and that face was identical to the old man now standing in a cornfield, still smiling amid the dust-filled air.
There was no difference at all.
The Village Chief was so frightened his legs went weak. He stumbled and dropped to his knees.
By coincidence, several people had just craned their heads and hurried out of the police station.
The young man widened his eyes, pointing at the scene before him, too stunned to speak.
“My dad has been arrogant his whole life. In the village, he’s at that level. Who did your friend call over? How did they make him kneel?”
Liu Fangfang.
Neither of them had any impression of that name.
Wu Xiaojiu’s mind was blank as well. The original owner of this body was a wastrel rich kid; he knew exactly which bars were the most fun and which barbecue places were the tastiest.
But if you asked him who the industry grandmasters were, Wu Xiaojiu could rack his brains and still come up empty.
“You don’t know? That’s not your fault. But in our older generation, that name was legendary. These days, she’s probably been deliberately hidden by those above.”
“Senior, what exactly does this Liu Fangfang do?”
After hearing that, Wang Qiang became even more curious. He looked up at Senior, blinking as he waited for an answer.
“Soldier King. Back in the day, when fringe movements and small factions were everywhere, the East-West region had a fierce local culture and was gradually slipping out of control. She led a hundred thousand people and forcibly crushed that evil trend. From then on, there wasn’t a soul in East-West who didn’t call her Big Bro Soldier King. People gave her the nickname East-West King.
“Later, after she withdrew from the underworld, she hid those hundred thousand people, along with the Dragon King Token that could mobilize them, on a small island. They say no one has been able to find it even now.”
Senior clicked his tongue in wonder.
He kept craning his neck to look inside the plane.
At that moment, the Village Chief was trembling all over. At last, he managed to dig a little information about Liu Fangfang out of his muddled mind.
Just that tiny bit of information alone was enough to make him suddenly snap his head up and stare at the plane in disbelief.
“I remember now! Could the person inside the plane be the East-West King who once ruled the underworld?”
Inside the plane, everything remained as quiet as before. The old men looked at one another. Before that person spoke, none of them dared decide the Village Chief’s fate on their own.
After a long silence, a woman’s voice finally came from inside the plane.
Liu Fangfang’s voice was heavy, stern, and overwhelmingly oppressive. Everyone present fell silent in an instant.
Her tone was unhurried, her volume neither loud nor soft, yet every word reached everyone’s ears clearly.
“You knew who I was, and you still dared treat him like that. Suihan, is there blood on your face? Are you hurt?”
Only then did Bo Suihan touch his left cheek. The blood on it had already dried, but the skin beneath was completely intact, without the slightest wound.
“Yes. He thought I was young and insignificant, so he attacked your disciple.”
A cold laugh came from the cabin.
Liu Fangfang, who had originally intended to let the matter rest, suddenly became sharp and unforgiving.
“This year’s corn doesn’t seem sweet enough.”
With that one sentence, every hair on the Village Chief’s body stood on end, and goose bumps rose all over him.
“Then arrange to transfer him to the Water Bureau. From now on, he can carry sweet water every day to irrigate the village’s cornfields.”
The verdict was final.
It was only a verbal order.
Yet it had already sealed the Village Chief’s fate. The old man kneeling on the ground seemed to grow even paler at the temples, along with his bloodless face.
He collapsed onto the ground in a daze.
Wang Qiang looked left and right, but he still couldn’t see any wound on Bo Suihan’s face. Confused, he scratched his head.
Then he looked at Wu Xiaojiu.
“Your boyfriend isn’t hurt at all. That layer of blood belongs to that young man, not him. What’s he acting pitiful for?”
The matter was settled.
The row of old men boarded the plane again.
Every one of them had an extraordinary background. Although they had not revealed their identities one by one on this visit, given their status, now that they had met Liu Fangfang’s disciple today, they would certainly make things a little easier for Bo Suihan in the future.
After the plane had fully taken off, the Village Chief’s soul still seemed to have left his body.
Instead, it was Fifth Master who came strolling back from the village.
Looking at the blood on Bo Suihan’s left cheek, which was especially easy to see, she gnawed on a raw ear of corn and laughed.
“You’re not hurt. Why lie to your Third Master? Besides, you made this whole thing sound so huge, but in the end, wasn’t it just dealing with one Village Chief? Your Third Master could have settled it with a single phone call.
“What, is there a girl you like, so you wanted to show off a little in front of her?”
Bo Suihan slapped away the hand she was reaching toward his face.
His expression remained cold.
“Why didn’t you go back?”
“The person has been punished, but the case still hasn’t been solved. Your Third Master specifically called me here. Are you happy?”
At the mention of solving the case,
the dazed and despairing Village Chief’s eyes suddenly lit up.