sbdcsierra Chapter 1660 Zhao Jun, why don't you guys beat me up?
Chapter 1660 Zhao Jun, why don't you guys beat me up?
Chapter 1660 Zhao Jun, why don't you guys beat me up?
A jeep headed straight for Yongsheng Village. Li Baoyu was driving, Zhang Jimin, who was sitting restlessly, was in the passenger seat, while Zhao Jun sat quietly in the back.
These days, it's usually the leaders who sit in the front passenger seat, but Zhao Jun felt that it was more prestigious to sit alone in the back.
The car drove into Yongsheng Village, and Zhao Jun gave Li Baoyu directions, driving the car to the outside of Pang's courtyard.
Yesterday, there were two injured members of the Pang family; today, there are three.
Hearing the sound of a car outside, Pang Zhendong, the blind man, instinctively got up, saying, "Let's see if that bald-headed Shao is here again?"
"Dad, Gaosheng." At this moment, Wang Dongdong, Pang Gaosheng's wife, stood at the door and called out to the Pang family father and son, "The people who got out of the car have entered the yard."
"Where's your mother?" Pang Zhendong asked his wife. At this moment, Pang Gaoming, whose injuries were relatively minor, struggled to get up from the kang (a heated brick bed) and said, "I'm going out. I'll see who it is."
Pang Gaoming lived separately from his family. Recently, he and his father and brother had been plotting to get Zhao Jun's ginseng, and Pang Gaoming would come over every day to whisper to his father and brother.
Today, Pang Gaoming was lying at home when he suddenly heard his wife say that Pang Gaosheng had also been beaten. Pang Gaoming rushed over.
When Pang Gaoming came out of the house, Zhao Jun and the other two had already reached the front of the house.
Upon seeing the three men, Pang Gaoming was taken aback. Then he heard Zhang Jimin raise his chin and shout, "Where's Pang the Blind? Let him come out!"
"Captain Zhang!" Pang Gaoming's expression changed. He took two steps to Zhang Jimin, bowed, and said, "My father was beaten up and is lying on the kang (heated brick bed) now. Shall we go inside?"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Jimin reached out and pushed Pang Gaoming, who was in front of him, aside. Then, Zhang Jimin turned to the side, raised his hand, and smiled at Zhao Jun, saying, "Team Leader Zhao, please go first."
"Team Leader Zhao?" Pang Gaoming looked up at Zhao Jun when he heard Zhang Jimin address him as such.
Pang Gaoming was a pure mountain runner; he had never dealt with Zhao Jun before. The person who attended the wedding at Zhao's house that day was his younger brother, Pang Gaosheng.
But upon seeing Zhao Jun, a name flashed through Pang Gaoming's mind.
"Ouch." Pang Gaoming was stunned for a moment and fell behind.
At this moment, Zhang Jimin had already opened the door to the Pang family's house. But he didn't go in first; instead, he held the door open and invited Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu to go in first.
Wang Dongdong was taken aback when he saw a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes enter the house with a tall man.
Immediately afterward, Zhang Jimin entered the house and shouted, "Where's Blind Pang? Where is he?"
"This room, Captain Zhang." Pang Gaoming followed them into the room and pointed out the way. The three entered the east room and saw Pang the Blind Man leaning against the kang cabinet with his head wrapped in white gauze.
Beside the blind man lay Pang Gaosheng, whose head had been beaten into a pig's head and whose eyes could not be opened.
"Hey!" Upon seeing Zhang Jimin, Pang Zhendong quickly sat up straight and called out, "Captain Zhang, what brings you here?"
Pang Gaosheng, who used to look at people through the slits of his upper and lower eyelids, also struggled to get up.
"Why am I here?" Zhang Jimin sneered upon hearing this, and said, "Old blind man, you've got some nerve, huh? You even dare to offend our Team Leader Zhao, do you not want to stay in this forest area anymore?"
Despite having his head wrapped in bandages and being dazed even when he got up, Pang Zhendong still struggled to get off the kang (a heated brick bed).
Pang Gaoming went over to help Pang Zhendong up, and Pang Zhendong, who had gotten off the kang (heated brick bed), looked at Zhao Jun with his one eye and guessed who this person was.
"Is this Zhao Jun?" Pang Zhendong asked tentatively, but as soon as he spoke, Zhang Jimin pointed at Pang Zhendong's nose and asked, "What are you doing? How dare you call our team leader Zhao by his name?"
"I..." Upon hearing this, Pang Zhendong quickly clasped his hands in a fist and bowed to Zhao Jun, saying, "Team Leader Zhao, this old man is convinced."
"You're convinced now?" Zhang Jimin continued, walking to the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), flicking the small broom that was placed on the edge of the kang to the ground, and then turning around to help Zhao Jun sit down on the edge of the kang.
Zhao Jun sat down, and Li Baoyu stood behind him. Zhang Jimin stood beside Zhao Jun and shouted at Pang Zhendong and the other two, "What are you looking at? Get me some water!"
"Yes! Yes!" Pang Zhendong quickly responded twice, then looked up and called out to the outer room, "My dear daughter, quickly brew some of our good tea!"
At this moment, Zhao Jun raised his hand and gently tugged at Zhang Jimin's sleeve, signaling him not to speak.
Then, Zhao Jun looked at Pang Zhendong and said in a calm tone, "I ran into trouble on the mountain last year, and my third uncle helped me. To repay him, I went to great lengths this year to bring him down from the mountain."
The old man is so old, if you have any grudges against him, just tell me now. If he's short of money, tell me how much, and I'll pay it for him. If he's short of anything…”
At this point, Zhao Jun stood up, glared at the Pang father and son, and said, "You three come at me. I'll stand here and let you beat me up, and then it'll be over. Is that okay with you?"
Zhao Jun didn't mention the wild ginseng, so he pretended not to know anything about it, as if the ginseng had never existed.
Hearing Zhao Jun's words, the Pang father and son's expressions darkened even further. Given their current state, how could they dare to provoke Zhao Jun?
They wouldn't dare beat up Zhao Jun even if they were scared to death.
"No!" Pang Zhendong, sweat beading on his forehead, waved his hands repeatedly, saying, "Team Leader Zhao, it's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!"
As he spoke, Pang Zhendong gestured to Zhao Jun, indicating that Zhao Jun should sit down.
Zhao Jun sat down on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), and then heard Pang Zhendong say, "We didn't mean to make things difficult for that old man, we just wanted to ask him something."
Zhao Jun looked up, nudged Pang Zhendong with his chin, and asked, "What's the matter?"
“Um…” Pang Zhendong hesitated for a moment, then heard Zhang Jimin shout, “Team Leader Zhao is asking you a question! What are you still saying?”
Seeing Zhang Jimin's attitude, Zhao Jun chuckled inwardly. It was a wonder that Zhang Yuanmin had brought Zhang Jimin along; the old man's face was perfect for handling these kinds of matters.
“We heard that the old man has some good ginseng seedlings,” Pang Zhendong said. “I’m thinking we should take some money and buy them.”
As soon as Pang Zhendong finished speaking, Zhao Jun immediately chimed in, "No."
The Pang father and son were taken aback, and then Zhao Jun continued, "Before the old man went down the mountain, I packed all his things for him, including the ginseng you mentioned."
"Ah..." Upon hearing this, Pang Zhendong blinked and said, "Then, Team Leader Zhao, we understand."
"You know?" Zhao Jun looked Pang Zhendong up and down, then said, "Whether you know it or not, my third uncle owes you nothing."
I'm here today, and I've told you everything. If you're short of money, I'll give you the money; if you have any problems, we can find a way to solve them.
Since you all say you're not short of money or resources, then let's leave it at that. As for whether we'll participate or not, that's all over.
If anyone comes to my third uncle because of this, or if I hear you all gossiping behind my back, don't blame me for being rude.
Zhao Jun's words made the Pang family father and son tremble with fear and swallow hard.
"No, no, we can't." Pang Zhendong was the first to come to his senses, waving his hands repeatedly and saying, "Team Leader Zhao, don't worry, we definitely can't go against you. If we go against you, wouldn't that be like throwing an egg against a rock?"
Hearing Pang Zhendong's words, Li Baoyu curled his lip, thinking to himself that this old ginseng foreman was also uncultured, and couldn't even say "like an egg hitting a rock".
At this moment, Zhao Jun glanced at Pang Zhendong, saw the bandage wrapped around his head, sneered, and asked, "Haven't you already hit a brick wall with your egg?"
Upon hearing this, Pang Zhendong couldn't help but smile wryly. Seeing Zhao Jun's gloomy expression, Pang Zhendong quickly said, "Team Leader Zhao, I have something to tell you first."
After saying that, Pang Zhendong quickly added, "Otherwise, I'm afraid you'll misunderstand me again in the future."
Zhao Jun didn't speak, he just quietly looked at Pang Zhendong.
Pang Zhendong felt more and more that the young man in front of him was not easy to deal with. For this reason, Pang Zhendong quickly said, "Team Leader Zhao, that's right. We heard that Old Master Xing was involved in this matter. We heard it from Wang Yongchang of the Shao family gang."
"Wang Yongchang?" Upon hearing this name, Zhao Jun frowned and asked, "Where is he from?"
“He’s from Changling.” Pang Zhendong sized up Zhao Jun’s expression and then said, “He’s connected to your family, your mother, and other relatives.”
As Pang Zhendong finished speaking, Wang Dongdong brought in tea. When Pang Zhendong took the teacup and handed it to Zhao Jun, he said, "My second daughter-in-law also has the surname Wang."
Zhao Jun immediately understood that the surname Wang that Pang Zhendong mentioned was not just Wang, but must be related to Wang Meilan.
Zhao Jun looked at Wang Dongdong and nodded to him. At this moment, Pang Zhendong continued to say to Zhao Jun, "That day, the Shao family came to my house, said a few words, and left. I didn't think anything of it that day, but just now I realized that it seems like they came to tell me this news on purpose."
Hearing Pang Zhendong's words, Zhao Jun laughed, and Li Baoyu behind Zhao Jun also laughed.
“They wanted to use a strategy of using one tiger to devour another,” Li Baoyu laughed. “But they didn’t expect that we were the tiger.”
Li Baoyu's words fell to the ground, because none of the people in the room understood what he had just said.
"Alright." At this moment, Zhao Jun pulled out a wad of ten-yuan notes from his pocket, threw them on the table, and said to Pang Zhendong, "Boss Pang, you've all suffered a lot because of this. I'll give you a thousand yuan. Buy some food and drinks, and distribute them to the men. That's all..."
Zhao Jun was interrupted by Pang Zhendong before he could finish speaking.
"Team Leader Zhao, can we take your money?" Pang Zhendong hurriedly refused, but Zhao Jun said, "Why can't I take your money? Alright, take the money, and let's just let this matter go."
Hearing Zhao Jun's words, Pang Zhendong refused to do it no matter what, and Zhang Jimin even chimed in, insisting on putting the thousand yuan back into Zhao Jun's pocket.
Having said everything that needed to be said, Zhao Jun politely declined the invitation to stay for dinner from the Pang family and got up to take his leave.
After leaving the Pang family's house and getting into the car, Zhao Jun said to Li Baoyu, "Baoyu, let's go! First, we'll take Captain Zhang back, and then we'll head straight to Changling."
Zhao Jun thought he should strike while the iron was hot and resolve all the hidden dangers today.
Following Zhao Jun's instructions, Li Baoyu first escorted Zhang Jimin home.
Originally, Zhao Jun was supposed to take Zhang Jimin back to Yong'an and host a banquet for him. However, since they still had to go to Changling, Zhao Jun used the excuse of running errands to send Zhang Jimin home.
But after Zhang Jimin got out of the car, Zhao Jun also took out a pack of Yingchun cigarettes from the car and gave it to him.
One "Welcoming Spring" (迎春) is only 4.5 yuan if you buy the whole thing, even with a discount.
Whether Zhang Jimin smoked or not was irrelevant. The key point was that he believed he had gotten on the good side of Team Leader Zhao.
By the time Zhao Jun and Li Baoyu arrived at Wang Changyou's house in Changling, it was nearly five o'clock, and the sun had already set.
When Li Baoyu drove to the outside of Wang Changyou's house, Shao Yunjin and Shao Jun were already in the jeep, leaving only Shao Yunpeng and Shao Zhiqiang to exchange pleasantries with Wang Changyou and his son outside the car.
(End of this chapter)