Chapter Twenty-Nine: Salute Before Soldiers
After eating the breakfast made by Xu Yingying, Li Yu went to the People's Park to teach a few old men to practice boxing as usual. He originally planned to ask Yan Wuliang and Jiang Jiongqing to meet Xu Yingying after practicing boxing and hold the first shareholders' meeting of the medicinal restaurant. didn't think about it, before he got home, Jiang Jiongqing's phone had already called his mobile phone.
"Brother Li, something happened!"
As soon as the phone was connected, Li Yu heard Jiang Jiongqing's frightened voice.
"What's wrong?" Li Yu's heart sank, he had already told these two people not to do stealing anymore, could it be that they were caught again? If that was the case, he wouldn't bother to bother with them.
"Our boss...... Ah, no, it's me and Ryoko's past boss, Brother Kang, who let Ryoko take Ryoko away. They were going to take me away, but I ran away first. Jiang Jiongqing said.
"Your boss Brother Kang?"
Li Yu had heard Yan Wuliang and Jiang Jiongqing talk about this person, this person's name was Kang Weiyao, and he was the leader of thieves in this part of the East New District. The thieves in the whole district have to pay him two percent of the tribute when they steal something, and he also has some skills, one is to be able to drive away other thieves who cross the border and get involved in the East New District, and the other is to be able to maneuver around and reduce the punishment when the thieves are caught by the police.
Some time ago, Li Yula, Yan Wuliang and Jiang Jiongqing did it with him, and the two of them once talked about the need for Kang Weiyao's approval in this matter. As the saying goes, it is not easy to get off when you get on a thief ship, and a thief is a thief, and if you do a thief, you can't get out casually.
At that time, Yan Wuliang said that he would solve this matter properly, and it was a big deal to give some gifts to a few personal horses around Kang Weiyao, so that they could help with a few kind words. Now listening to Jiang Jiongqing say this, it seems that something has changed.
"Where are you?" Li Yu asked.
"I'm on Sanmen Street, and Brother Kang's people are looking for me everywhere, and I don't dare to show my head." Jiang Jiongqing said in a low voice.
"You wait for me." Li Yu said, hung up the phone, raised his hand to stop a taxi, and rushed to Sanmen Street.
The doorway on the rivers and lakes, Li Yu is very clear. It can be said that the rules of the rivers and lakes 400 years ago were far stricter than today, and Li Yu rolled out of such rules. He knew that Yan Wuliang wanted to leave Kang Weiyao's gang, which was indeed a taboo thing, and it was reasonable for Kang Weiyao to punish him. However, since Li Yu has already said that he wants to accept Yan Wuliang and Jiang Jiongqing as his subordinates, then he can't help but come out of this matter, and being the eldest brother is to help his subordinates settle these things.
Coming to Sanmen Street, Li Yu found Jiang Jiongqing in a small bookstore. People like Jiang Jiongqing, unless they want to commit a crime, will not go into the bookstore anyway. He hid in the bookstore this time, which was the so-called opposite, and guessed that Kang Weiyao's subordinates would not come to him in such a place.
Seeing Li Yu, Jiang Jiongqing's heart was half relieved, and the other half was still hanging, but he didn't know if Li Yu would give up on the two of them because of this incident. They defected from the thief gang in order to defect to Li Yu and find a better way out. If Li Yu didn't care about them, they would be completely finished.
"I said that I would work with you, and I would not leave you alone." Li Yu saw Jiang Jiongqing's worries, and gave him a reassurance pill in the first sentence.
"Thank you, Brother Li!" Jiang Jiongqing was only three bows and nine bows.
"Tell me about the situation, what is going on." Li Yu said.
"Okay." Jiang Jiongqing responded, and then told the story of the incident.
It turned out that, as Yan Wuliang said, since they made up their minds to follow Li Yugang, the two of them began to contact a horse boy named Luo Chen next to Kang Weiyao. They used the money given by Li Yu to invite Luo Chen to eat a few meals and give out a few good cigarettes, the purpose was to let Luo Chen blow the wind in front of Kang Weiyao and let the two of them live.
Luo Chen ate and wiped it clean, and promised to help them intercede. Who would have thought that early this morning, several of Kang Weiyao's subordinates broke into the rented house where Yan Wuliang and Jiang Jiongqing lived, and threatened that Brother Kang wanted to invite them to talk. The person who led the team was Luo Chen, who ate their food and took their things. It's just that this time Luo Chen didn't have a trace of smile lines on his face, he looked completely businesslike, and even a little hideous.
Yan Wuliang saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly blocked the door, telling Jiang Jiongqing to jump out of the window and escape to contact Li Yu, while he himself was pushed and escorted away by several thugs. Jiang Jiongqing was eavesdropping outside the window, and heard Luo Chen turning around in their room, and told another horse boy that Yan Wuliang and the others had made a windfall, and this time they wanted to make some good blood.
"You're something to remember."
After listening to Jiang Jiongqing's narration, Li Yu vaguely guessed what the problem was. Yan Wuliang and Jiang Jiongqing were anxious to get out, so they went to bribe Luo Chen, but unexpectedly left Luo Chen with the feeling that they were close to a big benefactor. According to common sense, Yan Wuliang and Jiang Jiongqing are going to leave the gang, and Kang Weiyao must be blackmailing, which is not surprising. If the two of them left the gang to return to their hometown to farm, Kang Weiyao knew that he couldn't knock out too much oil and water, so he wouldn't embarrass them too much. But now that the two of them are inviting to eat and sending good cigarettes, it is clearly a sign of climbing a high branch, so Kang Weiyao will naturally not let it go.
"Brother Li, what now?" Jiang Jiongqing looked at Li Yu and asked.
Li Yu's face was not shocked, and he asked, "How many people are under Kang Weiyao?" ”
"There are more than 70 of them." Jiang Jiongqing said.
"Are all these 70 or so people with him?"
"No, most of them are like me and Liangzi, who usually act on their own, and go to see Kang Weiyao on the 1st and 15th of each month to pay tribute."
"So Kang Weiyao has him with him, how many people like Luo Chen are there?"
"8, we call them the Eight King Kongs, and it is 4 of them who come to arrest us this time."
"Where is Kang Weiyao's nest?"
"Wenchang Street."
"Take me with you." Li Yu said.
"Brother Li......" Jiang Jiongqing hesitated for a moment, and finally asked stubbornly, "How are you going to talk to Brother Kang?" ”
"Salute first, then soldier." Li Yu said lightly, "Reason first, if they don't want to reason, then do it." ”
"Brother Kang...... It's very capable of fighting. Jiang Jiongqing said.
"Really? How is it better than me? Li Yu asked.
After these days, Li Yu has some understanding of the kung fu of this era. He knows that with the advent of the ** era, traditional martial arts have gradually declined, and boxing methods such as Han Jiaquan, which have been passed down for hundreds of years, have also gone out of shape by Han Hongqi's generation, and their power has been greatly reduced. Li Yu and Han Hongqi tried to fight, and he could feel that there was a big gap between Han Hongqi and him, one of which was because of the business trip in boxing, and on the other hand, there was no actual combat test, it was purely just a fist embroidery.
Jiang Jiongqing said that Kang Weiyao was very capable of fighting, but Li Yu did not think so. If Kang Weiyao is really a martial arts master, I am afraid he will not succumb to being a thief in the East New District. The Ling Santai that Li Yu met when he was in the detention center was the real gangster leader in the East New District, and people like Kang Weiyao should only be regarded as Ling Santai's subordinates. Ling Santai's kung fu is nothing more than that, how strong can Kang Weiyao be?
Regarding the door-to-door fight, Li Yu did not have the slightest psychological burden. Grievances in the rivers and lakes have always been resolved by strength, and he has not done this kind of thing in the past.
Jiang Jiongqing scratched his scalp and said, "Brother Kang's two hits, how can you compare with Brother Li?" However, he still has the Eight King Kongs, and they are all people who have practiced, so I'm afraid of that......
"Do you mean to say wolves devouring tigers?"
"I think that's what it means......
"Don't worry, in my eyes, they're just a bunch of pigs." Li Yu said confidently.
At this time, Jiang Jiongqing could only gamble. He knew that if Li Yu couldn't solve this problem, then he and Yan Wuliang would face endless harassment from Kang Weiyao, and they would have to flee from Yuhai at that time. Li Yu's martial arts, he has seen it, whether he can deal with Kang Weiyao and the Eight King Kongs, he can't say it, but this is already the last straw for him and Yan Wuliang.
The two of them hailed a taxi and came to Kang Weiyao's nest on Wenchang Street. It is an old street lined with bungalows and large courtyards. According to Jiang Jiongqing's description, the main house in the courtyard was the "meeting hall" of their gang, Kang Weiyao himself lived in the west wing, and the east wing was the place where the thieves were stored. Kang Weiyao's Eight King Kongs also live on this street, not far from the courtyard, and they can quickly assemble at the sound of a whistle.
Li Yu and Jiang Jiongqing came to the door of the courtyard and saw that the courtyard door was hidden. Jiang Jiongqing stepped forward and knocked on the door, and as soon as he knocked, the door opened, and a man appeared in the door.
"Yo ho, Jiang Jiongqing, didn't you run away, why did you come back again?" The man asked in a mocking tone.
"Hehe, Brother Yu, you are on duty today." Jiang Jiongqing greeted timidly, this man was one of Kang Weiyao's Eight King Kongs, named Yu Guibao.
"Your good friend is kneeling inside, just right, you can also go in and kneel with him." Yu Guibao said, after saying this, he looked up and saw Li Yu standing behind Jiang Jiongqing, and asked Jiang Jiongqing in surprise: "Who is he?" Coming with you? ”
"Uh, he's Lee...... Li ......" Jiang Jiongqing was stunned for a long time, and finally didn't dare to say the word "Brother Li". has been intimidated by Kang Weiyao's obscenity and intimidation for many years, how can Jiang Jiongqing have the courage to introduce the new boss he defected to in person. But if he wanted to call Li Yu's name, he didn't dare either, so he could only swallow and vomit.
Li Yu didn't care about Jiang Jiongqing's wall-to-wall methods, he could understand the sadness of this kind of little people who survived in the cracks. He took a step forward, arched his hand to Yu Guibao, and said, "Under Li Yu, I ask to see Boss Kang Weiyao Kang." ”
"Carp? Why don't you call Wang Ba? Yu Guibao said disdainfully.