Chapter 40: Caught

  "Bastard, who hurt my son like this? I'll kill his whole family!"

  In the first-class ward of a private hospital, all four of them were lying on the bed, although they didn't have oxygen masks on their faces, but each one was either missing an arm or a leg, with plaster casts on, looking like they had been abused.

  In the ward, there were three middle-aged men wearing black suits and a middle-aged man in military uniform. There were also four women standing in front of the four beds, their eyes brimming with tears, unable to speak for a long time.

  "Lao Huo, don't be so agitated for now, we still don't know the situation, I believe Yanda will give us an explanation."

  The man who spoke was named Zhuo Xianfa, he was the mayor of Yanjing City, and also the father of Zhuo Bu Fan.

  "Mayor Zhuo, stop playing dumb with me. It's not just my son who got hurt this time, your son is also involved. Isn't your own son being beaten up like this something you should do something about as the mayor?"

  The first man who got angry was called Huo Tong. He was the leader of the Yanjing No. 1 gang, also known as the head of the Evil Wolf Gang.

  "You two just say one less sentence, now is not the time to talk about these things. The most important thing at present is to first investigate clearly what happened. If we act rashly, on the one hand, we will lose face for our four families; on the other hand, others will gossip, especially Mayor Zhuo and General Jiang, they are both state officials, absolutely cannot be given any handle."

  The calmest man in the ward was called Yi Zongshen, who was also the president of the Four Seas Group and the father of Yi Tianya. The four families had different backgrounds and didn't have much to do with each other on a daily basis, but everyone in their circle knew that their relationship was not simple, and they were all connected to each other. If you couldn't show up to handle something, I would show up instead. Over time, there wasn't anything in Yanjing City that the four families couldn't resolve.

  Yi Zong Sheng and the other two looked at Jiang Kun, who was wearing a military uniform with the rank of lieutenant general. He was also Jiang Lei's father. If we consider their work nature, Jiang Kun and Zhuo Xianfa were in different departments, one in government and the other in the army. In China, it has always been the case that the government does not interfere with military affairs, and the military does not intervene in government matters. However, in terms of rank, Jiang Kun was far superior to Zhuo Xianfa.

  "General Chiang, in your opinion, what should we do to avenge our son's death without losing face for the four families?"

  For these four families, nothing is more important than face. Today, Chu Zi Feng beat their son in front of everyone at Yanjing University, as well as many reporters. This news will definitely be on the headlines tomorrow, and what's reported won't be a brawl, but an official martial arts match that was approved by the school.

  Originally, no matter who it is or what aspect of the agreement, if someone gets hurt like this during a martial arts match, the person responsible would be held legally liable. However, the current issue at hand is that the match was between Chinese martial arts and Japanese judo. Even if Ho Ting-yu used traditional martial arts, he still represented Japanese judo. If news of this were to spread throughout society, I believe any Chinese person would stand on the side of Chinese martial arts. The Hos would lose face, especially since both the Chiangs and the Zhus are officials in China, and their sons actually helped Japanese judo defeat Chinese martial arts - isn't that ridiculous?!

  "This is terrible, these four kids are really bad at choosing the right time. If it were usual times, even if someone got killed, with the power of our four families in Yanjing, we could have made a big deal smaller and a small deal disappear. But they don't consider the current situation between China and Japan, and they're still helping Japanese judo to compete with Chinese martial arts. If tomorrow's news reports this incident, I reckon the authorities will come looking for me!"

  Yi Zong Sheng said: "As for the reporters, you can rest assured that I have already sent someone to negotiate with all major media outlets. No matter how much money it takes, this news will not be published. As for Yanjing University, I have also spoken with Principal Duan and there won't be any problems. Even if those students talk too much, within the circle of students, it won't cause a big impact!"

  Zhuo Xianfa said, "As for those people who were invited to Yanjing University, I also asked my secretary to contact them one by one. I believe they will still give me some face and not make a big deal out of this! For now, let's first investigate clearly who is the one that hurt our son so badly, then think of ways to handle it."

  Just as Zhuo Xianfa finished speaking, an elderly man entered the ward and walked to Huo Tong's side, saying: "Boss, I've already investigated the other party's information."

  "Hurry up and say it?"

  "That kid is a freshman at Yanjing University, named Chu Zifeng. He's an orphan with no father or mother. He's the same kid that Young Master sent people to kill just a few days ago. At the time, we didn't know who helped him out and instead killed one of our brothers."

  For these trivial matters, Huo Tong, as the leader of the gang, would not normally bother with them. Usually, when Huo Tingyu wanted to kill a few people, Huo Tong wouldn't pay much attention. However, now that he heard someone had helped Chu Zifeng kill his own gang members a few days ago, Huo Tong found it strange and said: "An orphan with no father or mother, who would help him? And yet, dare to kill my men!"

  "I didn't find out about this because at that time the news was already blocked by the military."

  Chiang Kung said: "Block news? No way! Our army hasn't blocked any news recently!"

  Huò Tóng said: "Can't manage that much anymore! You three, say something. Should this matter be handled by me or done according to your methods? After all, in the past few years, I've already turned over a new leaf and don't want to make things too big unless necessary."

  Zhuo Xianfa said: "Alright, I'll call the director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau first and have him arrest the person. Then we can just find some excuse to execute that little brat."

  "Then let's do it according to Mayor Zhuo's intention."

  At dinner time, Chu Zifeng, Xiao Jing and Qi Bai were eating in the school cafeteria. Xiao Jing and others advised Chu Zifeng to hide for a while until the storm passed, but Chu Zifeng had an expression of not caring at all, and he didn't take the matter of hurting Hu Tingyu and others that morning seriously.

  Just then, several police officers entered the cafeteria and walked directly to Chu Zifeng and his group. An older policeman asked, "Which one of you is Chu Zifeng?"

  "I am, do you have something to ask me?" Chu Zifeng stood up and asked, he had never dealt with the police before, today several police officers suddenly came to find him, Chu Zifeng naturally thought of something.

  "There's been an incident involving injury, would you mind coming with us to assist in the investigation?"

  The old policeman finished speaking and took out a pair of handcuffs, wanting to cuff Chu Zifeng.

  Xiao Jing said: "It's just assisting in the investigation, is it necessary to put on handcuffs?"

  "We're just going through the motions, come with us."

  In the cafeteria, all the students looked at Chu Zifeng. As expected, the police came to find Chu Zifeng, naturally because of the matter of Chu Zifeng injuring four people including Huo Tingyu this morning. But now, how many people would dare to intervene? The four families of Huo Tingyu were not easy to mess with, and ordinary people couldn't afford to provoke them either.

  "I'll find a lawyer right away."

  Zi Bai took out his phone and was about to make a call when Xiao Jing stopped him, saying: "It's no use, if it's the Huo family who wants the police to catch someone, there won't be any lawyer in all of Yanjing who dares to intervene!"

  "What's going to happen now? If no one helps, Lao Si is done for!"

  "Don't worry for now, I'll go find my dad and ask him to step in and talk to the Hos, see if we can resolve this."

  Xiao Jing immediately walked out of the cafeteria, and at the same time, Wu Xiaoai, who was not far away, also took out her phone and made a call, saying: "Brother, where are you... I have a friend who offended Ho Tingyu and the others, and now he's been taken away by the police. You must go to the municipal bureau immediately to help me rescue him."

  Wu Xiao Ai hung up the phone, and Qing Qing and the other two asked: "Xiao Ai, you won't really help that kid Chu Zi Feng, will you?"

  "Of course I'll help, why wouldn't I? I've had it in for Yitianya and the others for a long time. Since Chuzifeng helped me vent my anger, I definitely can't let the Yi family harm him... You all eat slowly, don't wait for me tonight, I probably won't be able to come back!"

  Principal's office.

  Principal Duan was discussing Chu Zifeng's matter with Principal Jiang, when Xue Fei suddenly rushed in and said: "Two principals, do you know that our classmate Chu Zifeng has been taken away by the police?"

  "Fifi, don't be in a hurry, listen to us..."

  "It goes without saying that you're afraid of trouble, which is why you won't take care of Chu Zifeng. Today's event was clearly a formal martial arts competition, and you all agreed to it. Even if something unexpected happened, the school should still protect its own students. How can you hand over your own student just because you're afraid of trouble? Don't you know that the methods used by the Huo family are always ruthless?"

  "Fifi, actually we are also discussing how to deal with it, after our discussion, we think that..."

  "Stop messing with me, I'm warning you two old men, Chu Zifeng is my most promising student. If you dare to expel him, then you can both go home and eat sweet potatoes yourselves, this principal position will be taken by someone else. As for my students, I'll personally go rescue them."

  With a "bang", Xi Fei angrily stormed out of Principal Duan's office.

  "Principal Duan, look at what's happening!"

  "Something's gone wrong! The two principals are in trouble!"

  The servant rushed into the office shouting.

  "What's happened again?" asked Principal Jiang.

  "It's like this, I just saw Xiao Jing and Wu Xiao Ai at the school gate, they both said that if anything happens to that student named Chu Zi Feng, they will come looking for you two to settle the score!"

  "What! What's all this about? It wasn't us who reported the crime and caught the person... When did Xiao Jing and Xiao Ai get to know that Chu Zi Feng?"

  "Principal Jiang asked: "Principal Duan, now it seems that things are bigger than we imagined, what's your take on this?"

  "What do I look like? What can I look like, a Xiao family, a Wu family, an Xu family, let's go and fight with the Huo family, Yi family, Zhuo family, Jiang family... Ah, this batch of new students, they really know how to cause us trouble!"

  Martial Arts Club, although the registration for the Martial Arts Club has not stopped yet, Zhou Xiaoyu and a few others are worried that Chu Zifeng might be in danger.

  "Light rain, He Chong, you two handle things here first, I have something to attend to, so I'll leave first." Lin Shaojun said coldly.

  "Let's go with you, General," said Zhou Xiaoyu.

  "It's no use, you going there won't make any difference."

  "What do you plan to do then?"

  "If Hu Tingyu and his family dare to come and cause trouble, I'll just rush into the police station and rescue the person."

  "Alright, brother, let's go together."

  Zi Bai and three others somehow ran to the Martial Arts Club, as soon as they arrived, they heard what Lin Shaojun said.

  "Who are you?"

  Ding Yun said: "We are good brothers of Chu Zifeng, in the same class and also in the same dormitory."

  "Alright, you guys come with me to rescue them."

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