Chapter 627 — Tip-Off
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With that he rose and walked out of the private room.
Wei Zhao's hearing was extraordinary, yet even he could not make out what was being said on An Liwen's phone; he caught only the faintest trace of the words "police car." He had been keeping an eye on An Liwen all along, so his instincts told him there was something wrong with this call.
After An Liwen left the room, Wei Zhao also stood up. "I'm going to the restroom."
Su Taizao had no idea that An Liwen had taken the call out of others' earshot; he assumed An Liwen simply thought it rude to talk on the phone inside the private room and was deliberately maintaining his image as a refined gentleman before Gu Mengyao. So he paid no mind at all to Wei Zhao leaving right after—he did not even glance over.
In his eyes, Wei Zhao was nothing but a lowly bodyguard, utterly beneath notice. The only reason he was polite to Wei Zhao was to make use of him as an inside man, to help An Liwen court Gu Mengyao.
Wei Zhao had broken Young Master Bing's legs and even torn down Young Master Bing's building—Su Taizao had seen that with his own eyes. He and An Liwen had been at Young Master Bing's completion ceremony that day, and he had found it almost unbelievable. How could Wei Zhao possibly still be alive?
After offending Young Master Bing, he could still stroll about at his leisure and dine with Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu? Had Young Master Bing not taken his revenge? Yet strange as it was, when he had spoken of these things to An Liwen, An Liwen had only smiled faintly and offered no explanation.
Su Taizao did not understand, but An Liwen did. Li Cihua had let it slip: the two Yellow-rank experts at his side had both met their end at Wei Zhao's hands—was that any ordinary man? If Wei Zhao were merely a common bodyguard, why would An Liwen still be paying him? To suffer losses at his hands time and again and still call him brother—would that not be a brain full of water?
An Liwen's own bodyguards were not yet in place, so naturally he would not go out of his way to provoke Wei Zhao for fun. As for why Young Master Bing had not struck, perhaps he too had his misgivings? After all, Wei Zhao and Li Cihua had already become sworn enemies.
Of course, none of these grudges had anything to do with An Liwen. All he cared about was the family business and whether he could win Gu Mengyao—the rest did not matter.
Once out of the private room, An Liwen swayed step by step to the end of the corridor, to a place where no one was around, before continuing his call. Though somewhat drunk, he remained cautious; certain things must never be known to others!
He had already begun to regret cutting out one of Zhong Yongliang's kidneys! The regret, of course, was not that he had offended Young Master Bing and Li Cihua on Zhong Yongliang's account—what he regretted was cutting out Zhong Yongliang's kidney at all. Crippling him at random, or even stomping his balls to burst, would have been better than taking a kidney!
Was this not asking to expose himself? Fortunately Zhong Fabai had not called the police, and Li Cihua was a business partner of his, so the matter had been suppressed for the time being. Otherwise, who knew what might have happened.
"You have to ask me about every little thing? If they're watching closely, ease off—can't you wait a while and bring it up later?" An Liwen was eager to get back and confess his feelings to Gu Mengyao, so his tone with the tattooed man was impatient.
"Brother Wen, the Fire Wolf Gang is pressing hard over there, and the supply on that end is really tight... How about we spend some money to buy a few? Some of those farmers are desperate for cash. If we pay for kidneys, we should be able to get some," the tattooed man said cautiously.