When I saw Ba Ye again, he didn't say much to me, he just threw me an envelope with a stack of banknotes and some documents inside.
"This is a bank account, and the money in it is enough for you to buy a car and a house." Ba Ye sat on a chair and looked at me, while the brothers in the garage were working outside: "Enjoy for a while Right. You can spend the money as you like, anyway, it’s up to you whether you want to buy a house or not.”
I thought for a while: "Ba Ye, I want to live here, in my original room."
Ba Ye was a little surprised, but the look of surprise only flashed in his eyes, and then he simply nodded to indicate yes.
Ciro was surprised to see me back. When I walked in from the outside, he was leaning himself under the chassis of a car with a wrench in his hand. I went over and kicked him lightly, and he immediately rolled out, staring and yelling. As soon as he saw me, a surprised expression appeared on his face: "You're back!"
Then he jumped up from the ground with a loud cry, his face full of excitement: "You've done it?"
"En." I nodded. Anyway, the people here are all Ba Ye's subordinates, and they all know that I came back from doing business for Ba Ye, and most of them understand what it means, and they look at me with envy.
"Come on, I'll buy you a drink." I pulled him past him, and Shiro was also very excited. He greeted the foreman and followed me out.
But I didn't take him out, but took him all the way back to the room where we were originally staying. In fact, I had already been back just now, and there was a bag on the table, which contained a few bottles of wine. Although I don't know English, but at least I have worked in a nightclub, and I can still understand foreign wine.
I almost used all the cash in the envelope that Ba Ye gave me to buy wine, and it was all very expensive and good wine. A heavy bag was placed on the table.
Ciro was pulled into the door by me. He seemed a little surprised. He stared at the wine bottles on the table and took a long breath: "Why did you buy so much wine back? I rely on good wine. Are you rich?"
I just looked at him and smiled without saying a word.
"Actually, we can go out and drink casually. I know there is a small bar nearby, and the things in it are not expensive."
I just sighed lightly and said in a low voice:
"Xiro, I'd better go out less recently."
He immediately understood what was going on, hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively, "You... have already worked for Ba Ye?"
I nod. Then I went over and dug out the vinyl record, then turned on the record player, set up the speakers and opened the window, facing the street outside the window, and began to play Chairman Mao's soundtrack poems at the highest volume.
I took a bottle of wine and simply sat down on the floor, unscrewed the lid and took a sip myself, let out a long sigh of relief, closed my eyes, and listened to the sound of music and poetry filling the room.
Seeing that I was in a strange mood, Ciro also sat down beside me with a bottle of wine.
"What's wrong with you? Things are not going well for Master Ba?"
"Very well." I turned to look at him, and suddenly smiled: "Xi Luo, have you ever killed someone?"
"...?" He was obviously a little surprised: "No." But then his face immediately became a bit complicated: "But I will definitely kill people in the future! I will do things for Ba Ye in the future, these are unavoidable."
I smiled: "You are more open-minded than I am."
Xi Luo didn't laugh with me this time, but glanced at me and said in a low voice: "Chen Yang, you come back this time...it seems a little different."
Different... that's for sure. I said to myself.
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For the next few days, I stayed in Baye’s garage. I even continued to wash the car with a water spray gun, and went to the underground gym to fight with the brothers.
A lot of things have happened outside in the past few days. In the various big and small Chinese gangs in Vancouver Chinatown, several big and small bosses were killed one after another, and one of them was Sand Snake.
Everyone knew in their hearts that this was all done by our people. The young brothers were all very excited, and would run back to watch the "battle report" on TV every day.
In fact, I saw the news about Sand Snake's murder on TV the next day. The police's characterization was a gangster vendetta. Sand Snake's case in the police station was more than a foot thick. He was also the first to die. , and then set off a series of waves of Chinatown gang leaders being killed, and the Vancouver police were overwhelmed. The killing of Sand Snake was only the beginning of a hot topic, and then it was overshadowed by the large-scale vendetta of gangsters.
My mood has returned to calm, even after seeing the news about Sand Snake on TV, the expression on my face has not changed.
The entire Vancouver Chinatown was in turmoil for a while...
I was very surprised by the strength shown by Ba Ye. Almost at the same time as Sand Snake, that is, within two or three days, seven or eight of the leading figures in the various Chinese gangs in Chinatown were almost killed in one fell swoop. And then there were several headless shootings in Chinatown! It was obvious that the troops from both sides fought fiercely for a few rounds, and then they stopped using pistols, and even AK47 and grenade guns appeared. The police station stepped up their suppression and began to frequently clean up the entire Chinatown.
This kind of repression started to have some effect, and both sides calmed down for a while, but two days later, the biggest bombing case in ten years occurred in Vancouver!
At a pier in the port, an explosion occurred in a private storage yard belonging to the Vietnamese. When the explosion occurred, it was unknown what was piled in the Vietnamese warehouse, which caused continuous fires! A total of six warehouses with an area of over a thousand square meters were burned down. The flames from the explosion inside could be clearly seen even from a mile away!
Then the Vietnamese also started to move!
Honestly, I was really shocked!
I don't know how many people under Ba Ye's men, but we, other Chinese gangs, and Vietnamese, played several games in the next period of time, and both sides had losses, and we even had a small share. Got the upper hand! ! Such a large-scale and intensive series of cases made the police station full of suspects, but most of them were Vietnamese and Chinese gang members.
Sometimes I can't figure it out... Where did Ba Ye get so many gunmen and weapons? Those people almost appeared suddenly within a few days, and disappeared after a few hard fights with the enemies on the two roads.
Sometimes I see a few short clips on the TV news that were unintentionally captured by pedestrians or street cameras...these are covered, but obviously black-haired and yellow-skinned men, wearing ordinary coats , holding a variety of long and short guns in his hand, fighting with the local Huabang's subordinates and the Vietnamese in the streets and alleys, and then drifting away, well-trained, he definitely doesn't look like an ordinary underworld! But the problem is, I have no idea where these people come from! Xi Luo and the others don't know either, because according to what we know, most of Ba Ye's men are workers in various car washes and car repair shops, but the people on the screen are holding guns, moving forward and backward, including those who are fighting with their opponents. At that time, it was obvious that his movements were vigorous, his advances and retreats were measured, and he was very organized. They came and went suddenly, just like the heavenly cavalry!
The police arrested many Vietnamese and other members of the Chinese gang, but none of the soldiers of the Eight Lords were caught.
Finally, after the storm passed, both sides calmed down. Ba Ye hasn't shown up in the garage these days, and I even saw some guys with suspicious behavior at the intersection outside. I suspect that some of these people belonged to the police, and they gradually didn't care about these things.
The disappearance of Ba Ye lasted for several days! What happened these days made the blood of many young people in the garage excited.
Things finally turned around after more than a week!
The news circulating outside is that both sides have suffered a lot of losses. As a result, Huabang was forced to make some losses in the end, so the two sides tacitly ended the knife-to-knife-to-gun-to-gun battle and started a new round. Talk about numbers!
The road outside finally calmed down, and the Vietnamese seemed to be stunned. As for whether everything will become flat after the calm or wait for the next big wave to hit, I don't know at all.
During this period of time, the brothers in the garage were restricted from entering and exiting. Even some of the most basic necessities of life were sent out every once in a while. Some people were sent out for shopping, while others were asked not to go out.
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Shiro, I, and two other brothers drove a small pickup truck and parked at a large supermarket two streets away from the garage, which is the closest to the garage.
Today it's my turn to go shopping with Ciro and others. After so many days in the garage, this is the first time I have gone out. Now the gang conflicts outside have decreased a lot.
We bought enough food and daily necessities. After getting in the car, I sat in the back seat. Today, it was Shiro who drove.
We had just driven through a block, and Xi Luo suddenly shouted in an excited and nervous tone: "There is a car behind, and it has been following us just now!"
The other two people and I turned our heads immediately, and saw a large off-road vehicle speeding up and overtaking us. The body of this vehicle was two laps larger than ours. Started to slow down and seemed to signal us to stop...