The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 37 Cut Them Down
"Soak and wash your eyes every morning and evening for five minutes each time." Lin Mingsheng packed the small packages together and handed them to Chen Zhengwei.

Chen Zhengwei immediately handed it to Chen Qiaoniang: "Remember to remind me!"

"Nothing else? Then I'm leaving!" Chen Zhengwei turned and left. Li Xiwen was still waiting for him outside.

"Brother Wei!" Chen Zhenghu, Yan Qingyou and a few others were waiting for him outside.

Chinatown is so chaotic now, of course you can't go out alone.

Besides, he also enjoys being surrounded by a group of people, which makes him look powerful.

"Let's go! Let's have morning tea first. From now on, you just follow me and I guarantee you'll make money." Chen Zhengwei said as he walked, holding Li Xiwen's shoulder.

"Senior Brother, what should I do there?" Li Xiwen asked.

"Protect me!" Chen Zhengwei laughed. He just needed a good bodyguard!
Although Li Xiwen is a little small, the area he uses to block bullets is not large enough.

But he is skilled, agile and quick in his moves.

He had seen Li Xiwen sparring with other people. If Li Xiwen didn't hold back, no one else in the martial arts gym would be able to last more than three moves under his hands.

Especially since he is young and has great potential, if he practices shooting more, he will be an expert in the future.

After having morning tea, he asked Chen Qiaoniang and Chen Zhengwu to go home halfway.

Everyone went back to the casino, where some people had already arrived and were bragging and chatting in the casino.

"Brother Wei!" Everyone stood up when they saw Chen Zhengwei coming in.

Chen Zhengwei nodded, and then Li Xiwen was shocked: "Brother, you opened a casino?"

As I spoke, I suddenly felt hesitant.

In his mind, those who run casinos are not good people.

"I stole it from a bunch of scum who were selling opium and human beings. If it weren't for me, I don't know how many people would have been killed!" Chen Zhengwei patted Li Xiwen's shoulder, turned his head and said to Chen Zhenghu: "Let everyone in the brothel get up. I'll go over and talk to them later."

Then he continued to say to Li Xiwen: "Come with me later and you will know what is going on."

Li Xiwen hesitated for a moment, but still did not leave. He wanted to wait and see.

More than half an hour later, Chen Zhengwei took Li Xiwen and five or six men to the brothel, only to find that all the people in the brothel had been woken up, with their hair uncombed, their faces unwashed, and their clothes barely put on.

There were more than 20 girls in total. When they saw Chen Zhengwei, they shouted in a sweet voice: "Brother Wei!"

At the same time, he looked at the new leader of Sullivan Street with some trepidation and curiosity. He was tall, but not very old. He looked very neat in his Western clothes and his eyes were very bright.

Chen Zhengwei sat down on the chair, lit a cigarette and looked around. Most of the people looked ordinary, but there were two or three who looked pretty good.

The older one looked only twenty-three or twenty-four years old, and the younger one looked only fifteen or sixteen years old.

After a while, Chen Zhengwei spoke up: "I know that many of you were trafficked here. You are in a foreign country and have nowhere to run. As for redeeming yourself... there is no such thing. When you get sick, you can get treated if you can, otherwise you can be thrown into the stinking ditch... If you can live to old age, it is a blessing for your ancestors."

"But you are lucky to have met a kind person like me. I despise this kind of thing the most."

Hearing Chen Zhengwei's words, the women present all showed expressions of disbelief, and some subconsciously covered their mouths.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on Chen Zhengwei.

Li Xiwen was stunned. He was young and didn't quite understand these things.

However, he was also used to the sufferings of Chinatown, and with a little thought, he knew how pitiful these women were.

Then Chen Zhengwei smiled and said, "If you guys want to go out and find a job, then find a job. If you want to go home, then buy a ticket and go home. If you want to continue staying here...you can go or stay as you please."

"You are now free."

"Why don't you thank Master Wei? You have met a living Bodhisattva today..." A woman in her thirties nearby said hurriedly.

"Thank you, Master Wei! We will never forget your great kindness." Many of the women in the room burst into tears and knelt down in front of Chen Zhengwei.

"Enough, you are just crying! You are crying so ugly!" Chen Zhengwei scolded angrily.

"If that's what Master Wei says, they are grateful to him in their hearts... Master Wei is really a living Bodhisattva..." The madam also thanked Chen Zhengwei sincerely.

She was also sold here, and she managed to survive until today thanks to her eloquence and good luck.

Therefore, I know best what kind of life the women here live.

She had never expected that this new boss of Sullivan Street would set these girls free as soon as he arrived.

You have to know that this is not a brothel matter. There is a brothel here, which brings many customers who come to this street to seek fun.

Without this brothel, there will naturally be a lot fewer customers, and the nearby Longfa Casino and opium den will also be affected.

"You're so good at talking..." Chen Zhengwei snorted and continued, "If you're willing to stay, get a physical check-up on time. Go to the doctor if you're sick, and rest when your period comes! Just think of it as going to work!" "As for the commission... I'll take 40%, you take 10%, and the rest goes to them!"

After these words were spoken, the women expressed their gratitude profusely again.

In fact, even if Chen Zhengwei released them, many of them would have nowhere to go and would still stay here in the end.

They don't ask for much, just to live and live like a human being.

After he finished speaking, Chen Zhengwei did not stay for long and stood up to leave. The girl behind him shouted, "Master Wei, when are you coming over? Let us thank you properly!"

"It depends on my mood!" Chen Zhengwei waved his hand. He was not a pretentious person. There were still two or three girls here who were acceptable.

After coming out, Chen Zhengwei said to Li Xiwen: "Do you understand?"

Li Xiwen thought about it and shook his head again: "I don't quite understand."

Chen Zhengwei pointed at the brothel and then at the opium den in the distance: "Without me, the gangs in Chinatown would have harmed countless people, selling opium and trafficking people... Who can do anything to them? With me, the Chinese in Chinatown can live a decent life!"

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. Just follow me and learn how to do things. Then figure it out slowly!"

"Sometimes things are not as simple as you see. It doesn't mean that those who run casinos are bad people. I didn't force them to come here to gamble. Those people have nothing here, no home, no job, and can't find a woman. What do they do if they don't gamble? Smoke opium?"

Chen Zhengwei wanted to use Li Xiwen as a bodyguard, so he put a lot of thought into it.

Li Xiwen thought about it and nodded.

"By the way, Qingyou, go and inform the opium den that it's closed!"

"Brother Wei, are opium dens also closed?" Yan Qingyou was a little surprised. He could understand the brothels, but opium dens made more money than brothels.

Moreover, many Chinese workers here smoke opium. If they don't come here, they will go somewhere else.

By then, there will be no customers on this street.

"This thing is so harmful!" Chen Zhengwei curled his lips.

Li Xiwen understood clearly this time. He had seen how opium could harm people, and he had also heard his father say that if anyone dared to touch this stuff, he would break his legs.

Seeing that Chen Zhengwei released the women abducted from the brothel and closed the opium den.

He felt that his senior brother was a good person.

After returning to the casino, Li Xiwen asked curiously, "Brother, did you rob this?"

"This whole area belongs to Heshun Hall. The leader of Heshun Hall is called Zhigoutian. He is eight feet tall and can kill a cow with one punch. He is a perpetrator of all kinds of evil and no one dares to mess with him! Just a few dozen people occupy such a large area... and then he met me..." Chen Zhengwei boasted with a beaming face.

Finally I have someone to brag to.

Li Xiwen followed Chen Zhengwei and listened to a performance of Chinatown Heroes. Li Xiwen felt itchy inside and only regretted that he was not there at that time.

……

In the afternoon, Chen Zhengwei took out several guns and dozens of bullets, and asked Yan Qingyou to take a dozen people on a horse-drawn carriage to the woods outside the city to practice shooting.

At the same time, more than a dozen children from the Chen, Yan and Rong families quit their jobs and came to join Chen Zhengwei.

Chen Zhengwei finally had some more money under his control.

It was a little after seven in the evening, just as it was getting dark, when a thug suddenly rushed into the casino, covered in sweat.

"Brother Wei, Danshan Hall has gathered a lot of people and is coming to kill us!"

"Those bastards really dare to come over here!" Chen Zhengwei sneered.

"Damn it, I'm the only one who steals other people's things, no one dares to steal my things!"

He went back to the office and when he came out he had a goose-feather knife in his hand, which was much more useful than an axe.

He was knocking on the wall with a knife in one hand and walking out with a revolver in the other.

The sound of the blade hitting the wall attracted everyone's attention.

"No need to say more, this Sullivan Street is our territory! Whoever wants to take it will have his claws chopped off!"

"New brothers may not understand me, but I believe in fairness. I will reward those who have done good deeds and punish those who have done wrong. As long as you work hard for me, you will definitely get paid!"

"Follow me and kill them!"

Many young and strong men in the casino responded loudly, pulling out axes from their waists. First, more than 20 people followed Chen Zhengwei out.

Then came a dozen new arrivals, who hesitated for a moment before following him out with their weapons in hand.

(End of this chapter)