Chapter 157 Which Scallion
Chapter 157 Which Scallion
"Haha... what's this called, playing the big shot but getting played instead..."
Zhang Bin held up his phone, laughing heartily in Qin Yu's direction.
He had always been jealous of Qin Yu. Despite being just a lowly security guard, Qin Yu managed to live off Liu Xiaoxiao's meager earnings, purely because of his good looks and fair face—strutting around like a peacock in front of both Zhou Nannan and him.
Now, the tables had turned. By involving Jin Xiangxue, a heavyweight, it only took minutes to bring him to his knees.
"Come on, you can slap me as many times as you want. Even her share, count it on me!"
Qin Yu had suffered plenty of humiliation and grievances over the years. As long as it didn't involve Liu Xiaoxiao's father or Yan Mingyu, getting slapped by a woman wasn't a big deal.
"Heh, then let's go with four slaps. Two each, doesn't sound excessive, right?"
Zhou Nannan smiled slightly, raising her hand to strike Qin Yu's face.
"Cough cough..."
Seeing how petty Zhou Nannan was, even dragging in connections to seek revenge on Qin Yu and his "girlfriend," Qin Jianjun's face turned red with rage as he began to cough uncontrollably.
"Nannan, do it quickly!"
Zhou Cuiping signaled to her daughter with her eyes. They couldn't afford to anger Qin Jianjun to death; otherwise, their plans for a pair of kidneys would be ruined.
"I know, Mom!"
"Whew..."
Zhou Nannan mustered all her strength, and her slap was about to land on Qin Yu's face.
"Creak..."
"What are you doing?"
Just then, the private room door was pushed open.
A middle-aged man with an unremarkable appearance, wearing a duckbill cap, walked in, frowning tightly, "What's going on here? Why are you hitting Mr. Qin?"
"Hey... who the hell are you?"
Zhou Nannan, seeing a stranger enter, had to forcefully withdraw her raised hand, glaring at the man with the duckbill cap very displeased.
"Mr. Li, what brings you here?"
Qin Yu was puzzled, wondering how Li Xiaozu knew he was here.
"Oh, I was about to treat some folks to dinner in the opposite private room. I heard your voice and wanted to invite you over. But what exactly is going on here, Mr. Qin?"
After explaining, Li Xiaozu looked at Qin Yu, questioning.
With his formidable reputation, how could he be standing here, allowing a woman to hit him?
"We are dealing with some personal matters, please don't interfere!"
Jin Xiangxue cast an impatient glance at Li Xiaozu and said.
What kind of powerful figure could a small security guard like Qin Yu possibly be friends with?
"Personal matters? Can you elaborate?"
Li Xiaozu asked Jin Xiangxue.
"Let me explain!"
Knowing that Li Xiaozu wanted to help him, Qin Yu recounted the entire incident: "This woman falsely accused me a few days ago and had me sent to the police station. My friend Miss Liu couldn't stand it and slapped her twice. She wasn't happy about it and brought District Chief Jin to back her up. Both Miss Liu and I are common folks; we wouldn't dare to offend the district chief, so we had no choice but to stand here and let her hit us!"
"What? Such a thing happened? Chief Jin, isn't this an abuse of power, bullying the weak with your strength?"
Li Xiaozu said, somewhat angrily.
"Who the fuck are you to talk like this? If it's none of your business, then get the hell out of here. You have no right to babble!"
Jin Xiangxue glared, saying very irritably.
"District Chief Jin..."
At that moment, several uniformed police officers walked in and asked, "Who's causing trouble?"
"These two, take them away and interrogate them thoroughly!"
Jin Xiangxue pointed at Qin Yu and Li Xiaozu.
"You two, come with us right now!"
The police officers grabbed the shoulders of Qin Yu and Li Xiaozu.
"District Chief Jin, you seem to have quite the authority. But East Sea isn't a place where you can do whatever you wish, is it?" Explore more at empire
Li Xiaozu looked coldly at Jin Xiangxue and said.
"Of course, there are many more impressive figures in East Sea than me, but I'm more than enough to deal with you two nobodies!"
Jin Xiangxue lightly patted his white shirt and said with an arrogant face.
"Heh... It's been many years since anyone dared call me a nobody. You're the first."
Li Xiaozu laughed, looking at Jin Xiangxue calmly, "Originally, I was planning to invest tens of billions in East Sea. Since that's how it is, this nobody might as well withdraw all my investments!"
"Oh, a businessman, trying to scare who? We in East Sea, we don't care about your tens of billions!"
Jin Xiangxue waved his hand and sneered.
"Mr. Li? They're all...."
At this moment, another middle-aged man wearing a white shirt and black dress pants came in.
However, before he could finish speaking, he suddenly shouted, "What are you doing? Let go of Mr. Li immediately!"
"Mi... Minister Xia? You know him?"
Jin Xiangxue frowned; he recognized the minister of the Investment Promotion Department, as they were almost on the same level.
If he intervened, things could get tricky.
"Director Jin, do you know who he is? Li Xiaozu, Mr. Li, really..."
The man in the white shirt was beside himself with anger.
"Old Xia, did you find Mr. Li?"
A middle-aged man wearing a jacket, exuding authority without anger, walked in. Seeing the scene, he immediately ordered, "Which police station do you belong to, who allowed you to arrest people at will?"
"Ah? Secretary Zheng?"
Xia Xiangxue's face turned rather unsightly.
In his wildest dreams, he couldn't imagine that the man who was friends with Qin Yu was the overseas Chinese tycoon Li Xiaozu, and that East Sea's top official was having dinner with him too.
"Secretary Zheng, this Director Jin here is impressive, looking down on my tens of billions of investments in East Sea, even calling me a nobody, and wanting to take me in to give me a good lesson. I think, I would rather not eat dinner tonight and call an end to our cooperation with you all!"
Li Xiaozu looked at Secretary Zheng and said with a stern face.
"Jin Xiangxue, are you out of your mind, treating Mr. Li this way?"
Secretary Zheng was so furious that his face turned ashen, pointing to Jin Xiangxue's nose: "If you don't make the whole story clear today, I will remove you!"
"Ah...."
Jin Xiangxue slumped onto the stool, his complexion uglier than if his own father had died.
How could he even begin to explain?
"Secretary Zheng, there is surveillance in this private room. If you want to know the whole story, why not check the footage? Wouldn't that clarify everything?"
At this point, Liu Xiaoxiao also spoke up.
"Someone, bring up the surveillance footage from the private room!"
"Yes!"
Secretary Zheng gestured with his hand, and a young man at the door immediately ran to fetch the surveillance footage.
"Damn it, Zhang Bin, you son of a bitch, you've screwed me over!"
Jin Xiangxue pointed at Zhang Bin, feeling the urge to utterly destroy him.
He knew full well how he had been behaving just now; once Secretary Zheng and the others watched the footage, he was done for!
"I... I..."
Zhang Bin's face turned ghostly pale; who would have thought that Qin Yu knew a big shot like Li Xiaozu?
"Secretary Zheng, the surveillance is here!"
The young man tasked with fetching the footage quickly returned, holding a laptop.
"Play it!"
Secretary Zheng said in a deep voice.
Soon, the computer screen showed the scene where Jin Xiangxue was throwing his weight around, planning to deal with Qin Yu and Li Xiaozu.
"How did someone like you end up in our ranks? What are you waiting for, take him away, I will handle this myself!"
After watching the footage, Secretary Zheng yelled at Jin Xiangxue, who was now slumped helplessly in his chair.
"Yes, Secretary Zheng!"
A few officers immediately stepped forward and pulled Jin Xiangxue out of the private room.