It was past midnight, and after Su Tiannan finished communicating with the workers, he drove Su Tianyu home.
"The workers' emotions won't last long. If you really think they will help us fight to the death with Changqing Company, you're wrong." Su Tiannan has a calm personality and thinks things through very carefully: "Uniting the workers is all about profit, and this is bound to be risky."
Su Tianyu nodded slowly: "That's the truth."
"Come with me tomorrow and we'll make an appointment to talk with the other three families." At this moment, Su Tiannan already regarded his younger brother as a capable person with whom he could discuss family affairs.
"Brother, I just came to Longcheng and I don't know much about the situation here. I am just guessing about many things. You have to make the decision yourself on what to do." Su Tianyu didn't like to speak with certainty, so he reminded his brother.
Su Tiannan was driving the car, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Liuzi, what are your plans for the future after coming to Longcheng?"
"I want to take the civil service exam." Su Tianyu replied bluntly.
"What I mean is, if our family can survive this disaster, you should stay at home and do it." Su Tiannan said softly: "Although the dirty gang is not a decent job, it has a bright future if it becomes bigger. Brothers of our generation should stick together and do a good job in Longcheng."
Su Tianyu paused and replied: "Brother, I still want to eat government food, so that I can help my family."
Su Tiannan thought for a moment and said, "That's fine. It's convenient to have someone who eats government food at home. If you can get through this, your family will spend any amount of money to get you into the system."
"Hehe." Su Tianyu grinned.
These two brothers are both very savvy people. Not only can they make things clear in a few words, but they also do not like to express their personal emotions superficially. A lot of family affection is revealed in the silent details of their interactions.
Su Tiannan glanced at his cousin out of the corner of his eye and suddenly felt that this boy had become different from before he went to school, but he couldn't tell exactly what was different.
…
After the two brothers returned home in the early morning, they went back to their rooms.
Su Tianyu entered the house and found that his second brother had not come back yet. The situation in the house was the same as when he left. He simply washed up and called Tianbei: "Second brother, you are not back?"
"... I'm visiting a prostitute. I'm very busy and won't be back home tonight." Su Tianbei said bluntly.
"?" Su Tianyu's mind was full of question marks: "Fuck, it's already this time, you still have this interest?"
"I found a friend in the city to take care of your uncle. I have no choice but to treat you." Su Tianbei burped and said, "Let's talk about it when we get back."
"Okay, then you should go to bed early."
"Well, go to sleep."
After the two ended the call, Su Tianyu yawned, lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
The next morning, the sun rose and the weather was bright and sunny.
Su Tianyu got up early as usual and ran four laps on the road outside the yard.
"Hey, Liuzi, are you still doing morning exercises?" Cousin Su Miaomiao was wearing pajamas, standing in front of her door and wiping her cheeks with a towel.
"I'm used to practicing at school." The white T-shirt Su Tianyu was wearing was soaked with sweat, and his short hair was also wet. He looked very sunny.
Su Miaomiao looked at her cousin and teased with a little surprise: "Wow, you have a good figure! I can't even tell that you have a pound on your body when you put on clothes!"
"I have little body fat, so I don't look fat." Su Tianyu actually has a body type that looks thin when he's wearing clothes, but very strong when he's undressed.
Su Miaomiao put her hair up, walked to Su Tianyu and patted his belly with her hand: "Yeah, it's still hard."
Su Tianyu urgently pulled in his stomach: "Are you serious?"
The third sister, Su Miaomiao, is two years older than Tianyu. She is beautiful, but she is bold. When she was young, she could fight Su Tianbei evenly, which shows how fierce she is. Therefore, Su Tianyu was afraid of her since he was a child, and the nickname of the Su family's first coward was also given to him by the third sister.
"Oh, are you still shy now? Have you forgotten the time when I caught you and your second brother watching a pornographic film when you were little?"
"Psycho!" Su Tianyu sweated profusely and turned around and ran.
"Go to the front hall, it's time to eat." Su Miaomiao shouted with a smile.
"knew."
…
The Su family is large, so five or six tables are placed inside and outside the front hall when the banquet starts. Rice porridge, steamed buns, fried dough sticks and other foods are brought to the tables in bowls, which looks very lively and warm.
Su Tiannan finished his simple breakfast and said softly to Su Miaomiao, "You and Lao Er go to the cargo yard and keep an eye on it. Don't let anything happen. Tianyu and I will go out for a while."
"Okay." Su Miaomiao nodded.
After Su Tiannan finished explaining the matters at home, he drove away with Su Tianyu again. At this time, Su Tianbei still had not returned home.
On the way.
Su Tiannan introduced softly, "I have arranged to have tea with the Bai family, the Liu family, and the Kong family at the Fuhai Building in Zhannan. These three families are about the same size as us, and they all have about 1,800 workers."
Su Tianyu nodded slowly: "Are they close to us?"
"Not really. In recent years, Changqing Company has become more and more powerful in Zhanan District. The close contacts between us are meant to keep each other warm. In fact, we had a fight with the Bai family a few years ago over the contracting issue of subsequent garbage disposal." Su Tiannan replied.
"I understand." Su Tianyu nodded.
"The Bai family is now also in contact with people from the police station. They have prepared a lot of money and want to classify the old man of the Bai family as an accomplice, so that he may be sentenced lighter. If Old Bai is classified as an accomplice, then your second uncle will most likely be pushed as the main culprit." Su Tiannan continued to introduce: "The Liu family has always been timid. They are quite scared now. They are ready to give in to the Changqing Gang and hand over their territory in order to settle the matter. The last family, the Kong family, is in a similar situation to us. They don't want to give up, but their connections are not good enough. They are also looking for connections everywhere."
Su Tianyu frowned: "In other words, the four families that are in trouble now all have their own thoughts?"
"Yes." Su Tiannan nodded: "Do you have any opinion?"
"We need to stick together." Su Tianyu replied decisively: "I think you can use what happened last night when you talk."
Su Tiannan pondered for a while: "Is this what you mean if you surrender your guns and still kill me?"
"Yes, that's what I mean."
"Okay, I understand." Su Tiannan nodded slowly.
…
At ten o'clock in the morning, in a private room of Fuhai Teahouse on Guangyin Avenue, Zhanan District.
Bai Hongbo, the eldest son of the Bai family from the Chaozhou Gang in Zhanan District, the second son of the Liu family from the Shanghai Gang, and Kong Zhenghui, the eldest son of the Kong family, were already sitting in the private room.
At the end of the table, Su Tiannan took the initiative to pour tea for the three people and said softly: "I called everyone here today to study how to solve this case."
On the sofa, Su Tianyu looked at the three leaders at the table in silence. He had just arrived in Longcheng and didn't understand many of the deeper situations, so he just planned to listen and see how his elder brother handled things.
"How can we break this situation?" Bai Hongbo, who was about 31 or 32 years old, said in a loud voice: "The management committee and the police department are now all arranged by Changqing Company. We have no one in the judicial department, and the upper management will not speak for us. Tell me, how can we break this situation?"
The second oldest of the Liu family is not of the same generation as Su Tiannan and the others. He is the younger brother of the old man who is in charge of the Liu family, so his words carry more weight: "Tiannan, now that things have come to this, we should be more cautious. The leaders of our four families have been taken to the police station. The lifeblood is in their hands. If you are not careful, something serious may happen."
Kong Zhenghui, the eldest son of the Kong family, listened to everyone talking without saying a word.
Su Tiannan filled the teacup, stretched out his hand and pushed it in front of everyone, then said softly: "Let's not talk about the breakup for now. Let's just say that if we all give in now, admit defeat, and hand over the plate honestly, can Changqing Company let us go?"
Everyone was silent.
"My personal inclination is that even if we hand over all our assets, Changqing Company will not let us go." Su Tiannan was born with a calm spirit. Although he was the youngest at the table, he spoke clearly and logically: "The heads of our four families have been arrested for a few days, but the police department has not officially classified the case yet. They have been saying that it is under investigation. If Changqing Company wants our assets in a short time, why don't they quickly classify the case and put the most direct pressure on us?"
"Is there any need to think about it? They are just keeping you hanging and making you anxious." Bai Hongbo said bluntly.
"That's the case, and that's not the case." Su Tiannan waved his hand and replied, "I think Changqing Company wants to wait until we surrender our weapons before killing us."
"What do you mean?" asked the second son of the Liu family with a frown.
"It's very simple. Not only do they want our work site, they also want us to pay back all the interest we've earned over the years. Why did the police department help Changqing Company? It must be for profit! If we don't pay, Changqing Company will have to pay, so they're waiting for us to surrender." Su Tiannan followed Tianyu's thinking and said in a cold tone: "People are in the police station, so we have to be anxious. We use our connections to send the money up, and then the police department still won't release them and still wants to sentence the four old men. What can you do? At that time, you still have to hand over the site, right?"
When everyone heard this, their faces turned unhappy.
"You've already fallen out. If I were Changqing Company, I would definitely take down all four of them at once and not give you a chance to fight back." Su Tiannan continued, "To be honest, I've been trying to find connections these days and have had contact with people from the police department. I'm telling you, it's impossible to use money to find connections to solve this problem. The second-in-command of the police department has a very close relationship with the Fuzhou people on the management committee. The people below want to take money to help us, but they don't dare to ask for it."
"Tiannan didn't lie. I have also been trying to find connections these days and the situation is indeed like this." The silent Kong Zhenghui interjected.
"Damn it, it's not enough to just hand over the territory, they want to kill me after you surrender your weapons." Bai Hongboer gritted his teeth and said, "This is too much!"
"I think we should stick together and make some noise together." Su Tiannan glanced at Tianyu's eyes and said in tacit understanding, "We will die if we don't resist, so why not have a fight with them."
"What if it breaks?" The second son of the Liu family asked worriedly, "Your father is still in their hands!"
"Uncle Liu, if we can reach a consensus, I, Su Tiannan, am willing to be the first to take the lead. If anything goes wrong, I will take the responsibility, but everyone needs to contribute together." Su Tiannan decisively promised the three people.
After thinking it over, Kong Zhenghui immediately said, "I have no choice. I am willing to do it."
Bai Hongbo took a sip of tea and said, "If you take the lead, I am willing to sing with you."
"We still have to be cautious." The timid second son of the Liu family hesitated.
"Uncle Liu! If you don't fight back today, Changqing Company will deal with your uncle tomorrow and you the day after tomorrow." Kong Zhenghui said concisely.
The second son of the Liu family thought for a while and said, "Okay, Tiannan will take the lead, so let's give it a try!"
…
An hour and a half later.
Su Tianyu left the teahouse and said to his cousin, "We have to act quickly. These people are unreliable and may go back on their words."
"Yes, let's go find some connections at the police station and talk about it first..."
While the two brothers were discussing, Su Tiannan's cell phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Something happened to Tianbei. He was hacked to death."
"What?!" Su Tiannan raised his eyebrows and asked, "Where are the people?"
"He just got home."