Chapter 158 Bargaining

In the Zha Nan District People's Hospital, inside Wang Daolin's ward, five or six mid-level cadres from the Longcheng Police Department were indignantly cursing the Changqing Company, complaining about the injustice Old Wang had suffered.

Wang Daolin wasn't injured at all. Sitting on the hospital bed, he lit a cigarette and took two deep puffs before suddenly saying, "Damn it, when Changqing Company first came, they were very well-behaved, always keeping to themselves. In recent years, they've set up a chamber of commerce, stuffed people into the system, and built up their prestige, looking down on everyone. Now they even dare to shoot at my hat. No way, I can't swallow this!"

"If you can't swallow it, then investigate this matter to the death," a friend of Wang Daolin's age immediately frowned and replied. "Arson and vandalism, severely injuring the foreman, openly firing guns in the Cantonese restaurant – these are all leads. We can grab any one of them and scare Li Hongze into wetting his pants."

"Brothers, do you know what Su Lao Er's kid wanted to talk to me about today?" Wang Daolin asked calmly, completely devoid of any lingering fear.

"What did he want from you?" someone asked, following his lead.

"An offer!" Wang Daolin took a puff of his cigarette, his eyes fixed on everyone as he said, "If we work together, we can not only vent our anger but also get some real benefits. And most importantly, we'll have a legitimate reason, because we didn't start this."

"An offer? What kind of offer?"

"What did he say?"

"……!"

Everyone was very interested and gathered around Wang Daolin.

About ten minutes later, Wang Daolin walked out of the ward and came downstairs, just as Su Tiannan was being wheeled out of the emergency room. He had been shot, but fortunately, the bullet only grazed the edge of his abdomen, causing a through-and-through wound without damaging any major organs. However, his intestines were ruptured, and he would need surgery immediately.

"Xiao Nan, are you alright?" Wang Daolin asked, walking beside the mobile hospital bed.

Su Tiannan wasn't under general anesthesia and was still conscious. He looked at Wang Daolin and said with a trembling voice, "That was close, Uncle Wang!"

Wang Daolin turned to look at the nurse next to him and politely said, "I'm from the Police Department. I need to speak to him alone for a few words."

"Don't take too long. He needs to prepare for surgery," the nurse said and walked away.

Wang Daolin looked down at Su Tiannan and said concisely, "That matter we discussed at the restaurant, I'll take care of it for you."

"Uncle Wang!" Su Tiannan said, trying to sit up.

"It's alright, it's alright, just lie down." Wang Daolin pressed down on Su Tiannan's shoulder, leaned down, and said to him, "Leave the people to me, you don't need to worry about anything else."

"Okay, okay!" Su Tiannan nodded repeatedly.

"If you four companies have any more chips in your hands, don't rush to play them yet. Wait for me to handle things first," Wang Daolin said calmly, looking at Su Tiannan. "Once I make a move, I won't be doing this alone. Some relationships will get involved, and we'll have to take care of them later."

"I understand, I understand!"

"Like this..." Wang Daolin grabbed the prescription sheet on the hospital bed, scribbled a phone number on it, and handed it to Su Tiannan, saying, "Call this number later."

"Understood!" Su Tiannan was so excited that his hair stood on end.

"Get well soon, we'll talk about the rest tomorrow." Wang Daolin patted Tiannan's arm, turned, and left.

After Wang Daolin walked away, Su Tiannan excitedly sat up, clutching his wound with his left hand and taking out his phone with his right hand. He immediately dialed Su Tianyu's number, "Hello?"

"Brother, how are you? I heard you were shot. Our family is rushing to the hospital. Wait for me, wait for me, hold on...!" Su Tianyu's mouth was like a machine gun, full of worry.

"Stop faking it! You know exactly where I was hurt, even better than a CT scan, so what are you yelling about?!" Su Tiannan cursed in a low voice and immediately said, "Uncle Wang has contacted me. Get Lu Feng's henchmen out immediately. I'll give you a phone number. You and Tianbei take them there, and make sure there are no complications."

"Okay, I understand," Su Tianyu immediately replied.

……

About five minutes later, just as Wang Daolin was leaving the hospital, Li Xing's car from the Police Department, along with Li Hongze and Lu Feng's business vans, all parked in the hospital's parking lot number 2.

Li Xing was the first to get out of the car with a follower and hurried into the main building, heading straight to Wang Daolin's ward.

"Where's Lao Wang? How is he?" Li Xing asked the police officers standing at the door.

Everyone turned to look at Li Xing. One of the middle-aged officers, a police chief, smiled and said, "Oh, Director Li!"

"Is Lao Wang inside?"

"He just left," the police chief replied softly. "The Cantonese restaurant incident was a big deal. Deputy Director Hong just went to the station, preparing to convene a case filing meeting. Lao Wang has to go over and participate."

"Oh, I thought he was still in the hospital." Li Xing was very anxious at this moment.

"Are you looking for him for something?" The police chief's words sounded normal, but his tone was slightly aggressive.

Li Xing paused and replied, "It's nothing. I just heard he was at the scene of the shooting, so I came to check on him."

"Ah!" The police chief nodded and stopped speaking.

"Alright, you guys are busy. I'll go first," Li Xing said to everyone.

Everyone nodded in response.

Li Xing quickly went downstairs, took out his phone and called Wang Daolin directly, but the latter didn't answer.

"Ah, what's going on!" Li Xing complained with a very ugly face and walked towards the business van, pulling open the door and getting in.

"Did you see Wang Daolin?" Li Hongze immediately asked.

"No, he went back to the police station. I called him just now, but he didn't answer," Li Xing said with a gloomy face.

"You have to talk to him," Li Hongze said urgently. "We can't let this thing turn into a misunderstanding."

"How am I supposed to talk to him? Am I supposed to tell him directly that the gunmen who shot Su Tiannan and his people weren't sent by Lu Feng?" Li Xing frowned and replied, "Wouldn't that be indirectly admitting that the previous incidents were related to Lu Feng, and also related to me?"

"Hint at it!" Lu Feng reminded him.

Li Xing looked at Lu Feng with piercing eyes and suddenly asked, "Tell me the truth, did you hire the gunmen?!"

"???"

Lu Feng's face instantly turned purple.

The car was quiet for a moment. Li Hongze waited for a long time and then also asked, "Speak up, did you hire them?"

Lu Feng looked at Li Hongze in confusion and roared after holding it in for a long time, "If you two ask me about this again, I'll kill myself! How many times have I said it, the gunmen have nothing to do with me!"

Li Xing stared at Lu Feng for a long time, then turned his head and said, "A shooting, and the bandits even shot at the Director of the Police Department... With my power, I definitely can't suppress this. Now it depends on Wang Daolin's attitude. I'll go back to the police station and call you with any news."

"Okay," Li Hongze nodded.

"Bang!"

Li Xing pushed open the car door and walked down.

Lu Feng's mentality exploded. After a long silence, he suddenly asked Li Hongze, "Brother, if the shooting wasn't my doing, could it have been Wang Daolin's own doing?"

Li Hongze was stunned.

Lu Feng thought that the other party was signaling him to continue, so he immediately added, "Wang Daolin and Su Lao Er are comrades-in-arms. He wants to get involved in the gang's business, but he doesn't have a legitimate reason, so he and Su Tiannan staged a play of self-sacrifice."

"I praised you a few days ago, saying that you learned to use your brain, how can you say such ignorant things now?" Li Hongze looked helplessly at Lu Feng and said in a low voice, "Are you stupid? Wang Daolin is a police officer, a director! How sick does he have to be to shoot himself three times in a public place?!"

In the police car next to them, Li Xing sat in the passenger seat without saying a word.

The driver drove out of the hospital and couldn't help but ask, "Lu Feng said he didn't do it, so who could have done it?"

"You believe what he says? Before Lu Feng came to Longcheng, he had no idea how many lives on his hands. The Big Circle gang parachuting in, shooting and killing people, he's more skilled at these things than anyone!" Li Xing frowned and replied, "Whether or not Zha Nan District can be taken down is directly related to Lu Feng's interests. When the workers go on strike, he's more anxious than anyone. Just because he doesn't say it doesn't mean he didn't do it, it's just that the matter is too big and he's afraid to admit it. That bunch of desperadoes, not a word of truth in their mouths!"

……

On a rural dirt road in Zha Nan District, three vans were stopped. Su Tianbei stood outside the car, smoking, and scanning the surroundings.

Inside the middle van, Su Tianyu was sitting in the passenger seat, yawning constantly as sleepiness surged over him.

Inside the car, the Iron Blooded Warrior in the Hawaiian shirt was handcuffed and chained, looking down and squinting at Su Tianyu, cursing, "Little brat, what are you trying to do?"

Su Tianyu wasn't in the mood to pay attention to him.

"You detained us, but you don't dare to hand us over to the police, and you don't dare to kill us. In the end, I think you'll be in a lot of trouble, hehe!" The Hawaiian shirt said in a sinister tone, "I'll say it again, don't let me out, or your legs will be broken too."

Su Tianyu was annoyed by his words and turned to look at him, saying, "Stop yelling. The four companies have already finished negotiating with your Changqing. In a little while, the police will come to pick you up. It's Li Xing's people."

The Hawaiian shirt was stunned for a moment and sneered, "Looks like you have some brains."

"Otherwise, why would we capture you? Isn't it all for negotiation?" After Su Tianyu said that, he stopped talking.

About ten minutes later, two police vans stopped, and a dozen police officers got out of the car. The leader spoke to Su Tianbei for a few words, then directly opened the van and pulled people out.

After the Hawaiian shirt and others were taken away, Su Tianbei nodded to the leading police officer and immediately left with his own people.

After a group of Iron Blooded Warriors were put into the van, the Hawaiian shirt sat in the middle row of seats and asked with a smile, "Didn't Brother Li come?"

"Which Brother Li?" the leading police officer asked in return.

"Didn't Li Xing send you here?" At this moment, the Hawaiian shirt had no idea that there had been a shooting outside, let alone that Wang Daolin had also been shot. So, from his perspective, he really thought that the upper levels had finished negotiating. Otherwise, with the Su family's strength, they definitely wouldn't dare to detain them all this time.

The leading police officer looked at the Iron Blooded Warrior in confusion and asked, "Do you know Li Xing?"

"Damn, we're always tearing our pants together, and we even had a drink together a few days ago. Hey, which team are you from?" the Hawaiian shirt asked.

The police officer leaned down with great interest and handed the Hawaiian shirt a cigarette, "Come on, tell me more, where did you and Brother Li tear your pants? Why didn't you call us?"

……

In Longkou District, inside a high-end apartment building.

A middle-aged man with a refined appearance got out of bed, walked to the study, and said on the phone, "Has Lu Feng gone crazy? Why is he attacking Wang Daolin?"

"I don't know, but this thing is a big deal. The police department has opened a case filing meeting overnight."

"……You do this, tomorrow you find someone to pass a message to the four companies, just say this…." The middle-aged man paused for a moment and began to instruct his secretary.