Chapter 1 The Leader's Meaning

Noon.

Su Tianyu left the Municipal Building and got into Yu Mingyuan's car.

"What did the leader say?" Yu Mingyuan immediately asked.

"The workers are protesting and demanding compensation. The Police Department reported this to the leader, and the Regulatory Commission is fanning the flames, asking the municipal department to come up with a solution." Su Tianyu frowned and replied, "This puts the pressure on the leader."

"So, what does the leader mean?"

"He wants us to deal with it quickly. Whatever the result, we have to push things forward, otherwise it will be difficult for him to cope." Su Tianyu thought for a moment and asked, "Are Tiannan and Ermao out yet?"

"Not yet, probably have to be detained for the full twenty-three hours." Yu Mingyuan shook his head, "Otherwise...?"

"Wait for them to come out, I'll talk to Ermao." Su Tianyu replied concisely, "We can't just keep dragging on like this, we have to find a way to get Bao Long to make a move."

"Yeah!" Yu Mingyuan agreed, "I'll also give you a heads-up in advance, Liu Changming in the Shengli District is from the Regulatory Commission, the kind you can't win over."

"I'm just afraid he's not from the Regulatory Commission." Su Tianyu said seemingly inexplicably.

...

In the evening, Su Tiannan and Ermao were released and met with Gou Liuzi at a food stall in the Shengli District.

"How was it? Did they make things difficult for you after you went in?" Su Tianyu asked.

"No, we weren't even questioned after we went in," Ermao shook his head, "They just locked us in the detention room. When we left, the police chief of the Shengli District also said that if we go to Bao Long Group to make trouble again today, they will continue to invite us for tea."

Su Tiannan bent down and sat down, "They don't dare to be too harsh, for fear of arousing public anger, but they can't do nothing, so they can only try every means to find fault."

Su Tianyu was silent for a moment, then looked directly at Ermao and said, "Let's not beat around the bush. I went to the city today, and the pressure there is very high."

Ermao was stunned for a moment, eating skewers and replying, "What do you mean?"

"Now that things have reached this point, we certainly can't let it stay deadlocked." Su Tianyu said in a low voice, "We have to push it forward."

"Yeah." Ermao nodded in agreement.

"Ermao, if we get involved, we can't take the blame anymore, right?" Su Tianyu looked at him and said very bluntly, "I need a point, do you understand what I mean?"

Ermao took a sip of beer and turned to look at Su Tianyu.

After the two looked at each other for a while, Ermao frowned and asked, "Feng-ge said if we listen to you, we can get the workers' compensation back, can you do it?"

"Yes!" Su Tianyu nodded.

"Can Feng-ge come out?" Ermao asked again.

"Yes!" Su Tianyu replied in an affirmative tone.

Ermao tilted his head back and gulped down most of the bottle of beer, "Okay, I'll do it."

Su Tianyu looked at Ermao, who was covered in tattoos, full of Jianghu (martial world) aura and ruggedness, and was a little surprised.

What kind of brotherly feelings could make a person willing to stand up and take the blame at this time? Obviously, Ermao knew what he would face, but he agreed very readily.

"Tui!"

After Ermao finished speaking, he spat a mouthful of phlegm on the road very vulgarly and added again, "I'll go tonight."

"Okay." Su Tianyu responded.

"You're not as cunning as I thought." Ermao raised his glass and said to Su Tianyu, "At least you're straightforward, I admire that about you!"

Su Tianyu raised his glass upon hearing this, "In cooperation, only picking nice things to say won't last long. Only by saying the ugly things first can the relationship be stable."

After speaking, the two clinked glasses and drank it all.

Su Tiannan looked at them and gently patted Su Tianyu's thigh under the table. He knew in his heart that Gou Liuzi was talking to Ermao like this entirely to protect him.

...

Around eight o'clock in the evening.

Ermao and Su Tiannan went to Bao Long Group headquarters again, but this time they did not enter the lobby, but sat in the car and brought a few of their brothers.

Inside the lobby of Bao Long Group, there were still sixty or seventy workers protesting and demanding compensation, as well as the families of the deceased miners, but the people inside the company had become accustomed to this. Everyone went to work and rested as usual, as if they didn't see anything. Even the several police officers who were still maintaining order here had been staying in the security room for a long time, drinking tea and watching online broadcasts.

Inside the van outside the building, Ermao said to one of his brothers, "Damn it, they definitely have to make a move! Listen up, Wu Zi, find a blind spot in the surveillance, stage a collision with the security guard or clerk on the opposite side. As long as they quarrel, if they make a move, meaning pushing or shoving, you immediately lie on the ground!"

"Understood!" A young man nodded.

"After he lies on the ground, everyone else surrounds him, blocking the surveillance angle." Ermao licked his lips and continued, "Then Wu Zi punches himself a couple of times, makes his nose bleed, and then everyone makes a scene! Remember, you must not let the police officers in the lobby catch you...!"

...

Inside the Bao Long Group's security department, a young man named Huzi, who was one of Xu Jingbo's men and specialized in handling business outside the district, was sitting in a chair, holding a phone and saying to Xu Jingbo, "Brother, I just got back! Yes, yes, I gave the calligraphy and painting to Liu Changming's nephew last night... Yeah, yeah, okay, then you can come back and tell me later!"

The phone had just been hung up when Huzi took out a cigarette and wanted to smoke one.

"Bang!!"

Just then, the front door of the security room was pushed open, and a shapely, very sexy girl walked in aggressively, her two big meat buns fluttering, looking like marshmallows.

Huzi saw that the girl's expression was wrong, and immediately asked with a smile, "What's wrong?!"

"A bunch of despicable bastards!" The girl roared aggrievedly, "I went downstairs to deliver documents, and two bastards lying on the ground secretly looked under my skirt... and... and touched me!! It pissed me off, those guys are really disgusting, they deserve to be buried in the mine!"

Huzi saw that his girlfriend was being bullied, and immediately raised his eyebrows and asked, "Who did it?"

"It's those few people lying in the corridor! They don't look like good people!"

"Damn it!" Huzi cursed and grabbed the girl's arm, "Let's go, I'll go down and take a look with you!"

...

Five minutes later, downstairs.

Huzi led seven or eight security guards downstairs, turned his head and glanced at the group of workers lying on the ground in the corridor, frowned and asked, "Who did it?!"

"That one, the one in the yellow shirt." The girl pointed at one person and said.

Huzi stepped forward and kicked the worker lying on the ground, "Why are your hands so itchy?! You're horny, go home and touch your mom!"

The worker looked up blankly, "What are you doing?!"

"What do you think I'm doing?! You despicable bastards, are you tired of living?!" Huzi pointed at everyone and cursed, "What era is this, and you're still playing deadbeats, even bullying young girls?!"

Inside the car.

Ermao, who was discussing countermeasures, suddenly heard a shout from the walkie-talkie, "Second Brother!"

"What's wrong?!" Ermao picked up the walkie-talkie and asked.

"There's a commotion inside, Lao He and the others are blocked in the corridor, seven or eight security guards came down!"

"…!" Ermao was stunned for a moment, then immediately yanked open the car door and said, "Fuck, the script of life is too unpredictable."