Chapter 739 — Give Me Back My Silver Needle
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Li Cihua calmed Li Dilei down, and had no sooner stepped out of the ward than he received a call from baldy President Wu.
"Hello? Old Wu, what is it?" Li Cihua asked.
"Brother Cihua, I've been bullied by someone! My car got a dent kicked into it, and after I told them your name, they didn't care at all, said who the hell is this Cihua guy!" To get Li Cihua to stand up for him, baldy President Wu began to spin his lies.
"In all of Songshan City, someone who doesn't care about the name Li Cihua?" Li Cihua had already been full of pent-up fury, and hearing baldy President Wu's words, he grew even angrier at once: "Who are they?"
"I don't know. I took Xiaoli to buy a house today, ran into him at the sales office. Seems he has some connection with the sales manager there, got them a bit of a discount!" baldy President Wu said.
"Buying a house? Fine, I'll bring some men over right now!" Li Cihua nodded. Someone who came in person to buy a house — what kind of big shot could that be? He happened to be in a foul mood right now; finding someone to take it out on would do him good!
baldy President Wu was overjoyed. He felt the money he'd handed up to Li Cihua over the years hadn't been wasted after all — when trouble came his way, Li Cihua really did help him out!
In truth, Li Cihua did think rather highly of baldy President Wu. Granted, baldy President Wu went around doing business under Li Cihua's banner, but he also genuinely brought in money every year! Five million a year in tribute — among all the enterprises under Li Cihua's hand, that was no small sum!
So when baldy President Wu ran into trouble, Li Cihua couldn't very well ignore it. Coming in person with his men was also meant to show how well he looked after baldy President Wu, so that when the year-end tribute came due, Wu might hand over a bit more money!
These were troubled times, and Li Cihua was, as they say, broke as a clanging bell. Building the Qibing Tower alone had already been enough to bear, and now that he was building it all over again, it had drained every last bit of his savings from all these years in one go — of course he was desperate to get money!
Before long, Li Cihua arrived with his men. baldy President Wu was overjoyed and called out, "Brother Cihua, over here, over here!"
Li Cihua nodded and walked over with his men: "I say, Old Wu, you're a man of some standing now — why are you eating out here in the main hall?"
"It's just the two of us, a casual bite is all — no need for any grand show!" baldy President Wu said hurriedly.
"Enough. Where are these people you mentioned? Take me to see them! Once this is settled I've got other business!" Li Cihua felt it was a bit beneath him to handle something like this personally, but he had no capable men left under him — Zhang Long and Li Yao had both been killed by Wei Zhao, and Zhong Fabai was at the hospital keeping watch over a patient at the moment. He truly had no one else to use, and could only go see to it himself.
But this, in turn, moved baldy President Wu to tears: "Brother Cihua, it's that private room over there! That you'd come in person — I'm truly honored. Rest assured, this year's management fee, I'll add another ten percent!"
"No trouble, no trouble!" Li Cihua thought to himself, Seems you know how to play the game — coming here in person wasn't wasted after all!
Li Cihua, with Su Jiaonang and a few underlings, along with baldy President Wu, came to the door of that private room. The restaurant's waiters had seen the whole thing, but at this moment none dared step forward!
After all, Li Cihua and his group looked like they had come for no good, especially those underlings — all of them hulking brutes covered in tattoos!
"Kick the door in!" Li Cihua said flatly.
"You got it!" baldy President Wu had found his nerve this time too. With Li Cihua at his side, what did he have to fear?