Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 251: So what if I’m better than you?

Fire Dragon Horse Dance Hall.

I believe that most people in Qin City know this place. In a sense, it is even well-known throughout the country.

I believe that 80% of single young people come to Qin City just for this place.

However, this place is not very prosperous. It is just a six-story business building with the words "Taidong Commercial Plaza" written on the gate.

Next to it is Lao Lang Da Pan Ji, and on the other side are a convenience store and a hotel.

However, Xiao Ran obviously came at the wrong time, as there was still some time before the dance hall opened.

Xiao Ran walked straight to the elevator next to him, pressed the second floor button, and went up with the elevator.

"Ding!"

The huge second floor was pitch dark, but from the fiber optic light shining through the gaps in the curtains one could tell that the ballroom was not small.

A man was sitting at the bar next to him playing on his computer. When he heard someone coming up, he habitually said, "It's not time yet. The afternoon session has been cancelled recently. Come back at 6pm."

"I'm looking for Master Zhu."

Hearing Xiao Ran's words, the man at the bar was stunned for a moment and turned back to glance at Xiao Ran.

"Who are you looking for?" Because of the backlight, the man had to squint to see Xiao Ran's face clearly. He was afraid that he had heard it wrong so he asked again.

"Master Zhu, I've already greeted you."

"Oh, wait a minute."

The man picked up the phone: "Master Zhu, someone is looking for you. They said they have called you."

"Yeah, yeah!" The man nodded, put down the phone in his hand, and walked out of the bar: "Let's go."

The two walked through the dance hall and could see signs hanging everywhere on the adjacent dance halls.

[Prostitution is prohibited]

Behind the dance hall are the booths. There aren't many of them, only about eight or nine at a glance.

The man opened the secret door at the back, and behind the door there was a corridor.

Just as I reached the end, I saw an office door open and six or seven men with their bare chests lying on the sofa, resting.

When they saw Xiao Ran, they just glanced at him lazily and ignored him.

After all, Xiao Ran looks quite quiet.

There is a side door next to the office, with only a few sofas and a tea table inside.

A middle-aged man with white hair and wearing a MiG shirt was already sitting on the sofa waiting.

Seeing Xiao Ran coming in, he first looked at Xiao Ran carefully, and then laughed: "Oh, you must be the brother that Lao Zhao mentioned, please take a seat."

Xiao Ran didn't move, but just said, "Sorry, Master Zhu, I was introduced by Uncle Li."

"Oh, Lao Li, oops, my brain is messed up. I've been drinking too much these days and I remembered the wrong person. Sorry, sorry, please sit down."

The Mr. Zhu in front of him looked honest and loyal, and wrinkles left by time could be seen on his dark face.

Combined with his unprepossessing clothes and a different background, no one would doubt that he is a farmer.

After Xiao Ran sat down, Master Zhu placed a few empty teacups on the table with a smile: "I know we have distinguished guests today, so I specially brewed a pot of the best Biluochun tea. Come on, don't be polite, have a taste."

If an ordinary person heard Mr. Zhu being so polite, he would probably pour himself some tea.

If that were the case, Master Zhu wouldn't be polite to you.

Why? There are rules for paying respects to the boss. Tea is just a stepping stone. If you don’t even know the most basic tea arrangement, then you are missing out.

When it comes to loopholes, it’s another story.

Is it really necessary to make it so complicated?
It’s just like selling antiques. An amateur and an expert have two sets of arguments and two prices.

How can people quote you a price if they don't know which path you are in?

Seeing this, Xiao Ran simply took out a teapot and a teacup, pointed the spout of the teapot at the teacup, and slowly poured tea into it.

"I'm new here, and I'm sorry to bother Master Zhu, but I need your help on something. I need to find a man named Guo Yongfei, who is a gambler. I heard that Master Zhu has great powers. I wonder if you can help me. I'll be very grateful."

While Xiao Ran was speaking, a cup of tea had already been poured.

The teapot is still facing the teacup.

This is called a one-on-one battle. If the other party is willing to help, they will drink your tea. If not, then you will pour water on them mercilessly and enjoy yourself without caring about the other person's life or death.

So this tea was not meant for Xiao Ran to drink in the first place.

Mr. Zhu was a little surprised when he saw this.

After all, Xiao Ran didn't look like a gangster at his age, so he frowned and said, "Okay, there's no control that I can't find on the Bingjianzi and Qinshi lines, but this pestle..."

"Tube!"

Xiao Ran took out 20,000 yuan in cash from his pocket and put it on the table: "The first pestle is for Master Zhu, and there will be a second pestle after the matter is done."

Looking at the cash that Xiao Ran put on the table, Master Zhu nodded with satisfaction. It wasn't a lot of money, but it was obvious that Xiao Ran knew the rules.

"The third one!"

Master Zhu shouted towards the door, and a young man with a bald head walked in.

"Did you hear everything?"

"Yeah." The young man nodded.

"Since he's a gambler, call a few people at the stalls and ask them. If he's there, send him over to me."

"Oh." The young man immediately walked out and started calling people one by one.

Xiao Ran sat in the room drinking tea and chatting with Mr. Zhu in front of him.

After about twenty minutes, someone came in from outside.

Two burly men came in carrying a skinny yellow-haired boy and threw him to the ground.

"Master Zhu, this is the Guo Yongfei you are looking for."

Xiao Ran took a quick glance and knew that this guy was rotten to the core, but before he could say anything, Guo Yongfei knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Master Zhu.

"Master Zhu, please let me go. I will pay you back the money I owe you by the end of the month at the earliest. I will go home and sell the house to raise the money for you."

Mr. Zhu didn't say anything. He held the tea and looked at Xiao Ran with a smile.

Xiao Ran walked up to Guo Yongfei and frowned, "Is your grandmother Gu Xianglan?"

"what?"

Guo Yongfei raised his head, took a good look at Xiao Ran's face, and nodded in confusion: "Brother, do you know my grandmother?"

"I don't know you. Your family owes me a favor, and I'm here to get it back. Do you recognize this hairpin?"

Xiao Ran took out the hairpin.

When Guo Yongfei saw the hairpin, his eyes flickered a few times, and he frowned and lowered his head: "My grandma is dead, if she owes you anything, you can go to the underworld to ask for it. Anyway, I don't owe you any money."

Xiao Ran had already lost hope, and seeing this, he lost his patience even more: "Okay."

Xiao Ran took out another 20,000 yuan and put it on the table: "Master Zhu, I have finished asking questions. Goodbye."

“Hey, brother!!”

At this time, Mr. Zhu's eyes rolled around and he immediately called Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran turned his head in confusion, and saw Mr. Zhu smilingly picking up the money on the table and fiddling with it in his hands, while his eyes looked back and forth between Guo Yongfei and Xiao Ran.

"Brother, 40,000 yuan is gone just like that, and I didn't ask you anything. I let you go back empty-handed. If this gets out, it will be very embarrassing."

After Master Zhu finished speaking, he winked at the two men next to him. They immediately understood and kicked Guo Yongfei to the ground: "Fuck you, I'm asking you a question. Where is what?!"

Guo Yongfei could only hold his head and remain silent.

Seeing this, the two men became more and more violent, until one of them grabbed the wine bottle next to him and smashed it on Guo Yongfei's head.

Just as the bottle was about to fall on Guo Yongfei's head, a hand grabbed the man's wrist.

The man was stunned and tried to struggle free, but he found that the hand was like a pair of pliers and it didn't move no matter how hard he tried.

Xiao Ran took the bottle of wine from the other person's hand and put it on the table.

"Master Zhu, let's leave it at that. These are all matters of the older generation. There's no need to involve him."

Master Zhu didn't say anything. The bald boy who had just gone out to make a phone call suddenly opened his eyes wide and pointed at Xiao Ran and cursed: "Thief your mother..."

Just as the last word came out of his mouth, the bald boy heard a whistling sound in his ear, followed by a heavy blow to half of his face, and the whole person flew up until he hit the door with a bang.

Xiao Ran's action stunned everyone else. It seemed that they had never expected that Xiao Ran would dare to take action here alone.

Then I heard someone shouting behind me: "Kill him!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several people in the room outside rushed into the room shouting.

But the room was so small, and before they could rush in through the door, Xiao Ran hooked the door with his toes and swept forward.

"call!!"

The door slammed like a huge truck coming towards us, and the whole room seemed to shake.

The few unlucky guys who were in the front were knocked unconscious by the door, and the people behind them were also knocked to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Ran acted extremely quickly, without using any other moves, and slapped the other two people each in the face.

The two men couldn't even dodge and watched helplessly as they were slapped in the face. Then everything went black before their eyes and they fell to the ground motionless.

From beginning to end, Mr. Zhu just sat there, calmly drinking tea, until he saw his brother lying on the ground, then he frowned and said: "Brother, this is not nice enough, I helped you, why are you attacking me?"

"The people under you are ignorant. I will help you discipline them."

Xiao Ran acted as if nothing had happened, and pulled Guo Yongfei up from the ground: "Let's go!"

"and many more!"

Seeing Xiao Ran was about to leave, Master Zhu raised his head and stared at Xiao Ran: "Brother, I admire your ability, but a strong dragon cannot suppress a local snake. If you leave like this, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave Qin City."

Xiao Ran looked down at Guo Yongfei and asked, "How much do you owe them?"

"25, but I paid them back more than 25. Now I still owe them million, including principal and interest."

Guo Yongfei was confused at this moment and didn't know why Xiao Ran asked this.

But Xiao Ran walked up to Master Zhu and nodded: "You are right, a strong dragon will not suppress a local snake. So, what if I... I mean if... What if I insist on suppressing you?"

Master Zhu's eyelids couldn't help but twitch. The young man in front of him spoke frivolously, but when his pair of clear black and white eyes swept over him, it was like a knife stabbing Master Zhu's heart.

Having been in both the black and white worlds for so many years, he has seen many ruthless characters, but the boy in front of him, who is about the same age as his son, makes Master Zhu scared from the bottom of his heart.

But Master Zhu gritted his teeth and refused to admit defeat, saying, "You are courting death!"

As the words fell, Xiao Ran suddenly raised his hands, crossed his hands, and twisted them around Master Zhu's neck.

"Crack..."

All of a sudden, Master Zhu's head turned 180 degrees on his neck, his eyes widened, and his body fell onto the table with a bang...

(End of this chapter)