Returning wealthy individuals develop their hometowns and become rich in the 1980s

"Yamada has been arrested!"

"What?"

Liu Kun and his friends, who were still playing mahjong, were stunned when they heard Zhou Wenbo's words. Liu Kun slammed down the mahjong tiles and turned to stare at Zhou Wenbo, asking, "How could Yamada be arrested? He's a businessman from Japan. Who would dare arrest him?"

"It's absolutely true, why would I lie to you?" Zhou Wenbo was still clearly shaken. He lowered his voice and said with a troubled expression, "Right after you finished trading the blueprints with Yamada, I followed you out. I was thinking that now that Yamada had the blueprints, he might be heading to Tuocheng immediately, so I planned to go back and settle the accounts with him for the past few days."

"Unexpectedly, as soon as I went upstairs, I found that the stairwell was already full of police officers. Luckily, I was quick-witted and pretended to be a resident who was watching the commotion, which saved me from being taken away by the police."

At this point, Zhou Wenbo shook his head and said sadly, "I've been running around for Mr. Yamada these past few days, and if they don't settle my bill, I'll be starving."

Liu Kun could easily tell that Zhou Wenbo was implying he wanted some money. So, he wasn't stingy and grabbed a handful of money from the mahjong table, stuffing it into Zhou Wenbo's hand. "Brother, I know you're struggling. Take this money and use it first. If it's not enough, come and tell me."

"Regarding Yamada's arrest, could you help me find out some information? You know, the matter of my trading blueprints with Yamada could be a big deal or a small one," Liu Kun said with a smile, putting his arm around Zhou Wenbo and walking outside, avoiding the underlings who were eavesdropping.

Zhou Wenbo looked at the stack of money in his hand, all of them ten-yuan notes. He nodded and said, "Alright, I'll see if I can go to the police station to ask. Brother Kun, you guys should also be careful. Maybe we should stop the foreign exchange business for now."

"Alright, listen to advice and you'll eat your fill. Brother, you should also help me keep an eye on things. If there's any news, be sure to let me know immediately," Liu Kun thought to himself. "You have to let me know so I can run away as soon as possible."

After Zhou Wenbo left, Pepper and Blackie chased their underlings outside. The three of them sat around the coffee table, looking at each other in silence and smoking.

"Brother Kun, what do we do now?"

Pepper asked, her voice trembling with tears, "Yamada's been arrested, what about the blueprints we gave him, and that half a million dollars...?"

"What's the panic?" Liu Kun glanced at Blackie beside him and scolded Pepper. "Yamada being arrested doesn't mean we're necessarily in trouble. Besides, if anything were to happen, it would be that old bastard Liang Jianjun who went in first. He gave us the blueprints, not us who stole them from Xiaochi. At most, we'd be innocent if we didn't know."

"Why don't we just run away?" Pepper wasn't calmed down by Liu Kun's words; her body was still trembling slightly.

The cigarette in Liu Kun's hand had burned down to just the butt. He lit another one, tossed the butt aside, and spat out a mouthful of phlegm. "Run away my ass! Our business is so big, and it's only just starting to look good. Do you think we can just run away like that?"

Blackie, after all, was a man who didn't discriminate between meat and vegetables, and had seen quite a few big and small scenes. This time, unlike Pepper, he wasn't so frightened and lost his composure when he heard that the police had intervened and taken away the two Japanese "businessmen".

He leaned back in his chair and looked at Liu Kun, asking, "Brother Kun, what do you think we should do now? Should we stop this business for now?"

"Why stop? Our business is all legal and compliant. We have President Chen backing us up," Liu Kun tried his best to reassure Hei Pi. "Besides, if Yamada is arrested and really confesses that we provided the materials, our names aren't on the blueprints. We can just deny that we did it. It's not a big deal. We can eat and drink as usual."

Before leaving, Liu Kun added, "Remember, from now on, make sure everyone under you is on their best behavior. No one is allowed to mention the blueprints again, nor is anyone allowed to mention that Liang Jianjun was here. If anyone dares to say anything out of line, don't blame me, Liu Kun, for being ruthless!"

Blackie squinted at Liu Kun and Pepper, but didn't say anything. The three of them continued to sit there smoking. Just then, a faint sound of a police siren came from outside. Blackie was the first to realize something was wrong and suddenly stood up and looked outside.

One of the dark-skinned henchmen rushed in from the street corner, shouting, "Boss, lots of police officers, all armed, are about to enter the old street!"

"Make a lucky charm!"

Before Hei Pi could even finish his curse, Liu Kun had already dashed outside with a thud. Hei Pi immediately burst into a tirade, yelling, "Damn it! Hurry up and call the brothers to run! Figure out how to get back to Zhou Tian!"

After saying that, Blackie picked up a long black canvas bag that was placed at the door and quickly went out and disappeared into the dark alley. When the other henchmen saw that things were not going well, they also scattered, leaving only Pepper there shaking his leg.

It wasn't that Pepper was brave enough not to be arrested by the police, but rather that he was so terrified that his legs went weak and he couldn't even stand up; his legs were shaking like a leaf.

"Don't move! Hands behind your head! Crouch down!"

"Do you fucking think I'm stupid?" Blackie ignored the policeman's shouts behind him, threw his black canvas bag over the low wall, ran a few steps, leaped onto the wall, and disappeared from the policeman's sight.

Fang Zhengwen, the director of Jiping Police Station, who personally led the team to arrest Liu Kun and his gang, saw Hei Pi escape by climbing over the wall. He stuffed the large black gun in his hand into the holster on his waist, took a few steps and rushed over the low wall. He saw that Hei Pi had already run far away.

"I'll shoot if you run again!" Fang Zhengwen straddled the low wall, pulled out his pistol, and roared at Hei Pi. Hei Pi remained unmoved and continued running forward. Fang Zhengwen immediately fired a shot into the air, which startled Hei Pi, who was running away, causing him to stumble and almost fall flat on his face.

Blackie, who had fallen to the ground, got up in pain and patted himself all over. After confirming that he hadn't been shot, he immediately took out a Type 56 assault rifle with its butt sawed off from his black canvas bag, pulled the bolt, and fired a burst at Fang Zhengwen, who was perched on the low wall.

"Damn it!" Fang Zhengwen instinctively leaned back when he saw Blackie pull out a gun, grabbed the low wall, and jumped down. Once on the ground, he immediately yelled to his comrades, "Get down! Watch out, there's a gun!"

"Make a super lucky charm! Come on, your dad's gotta shoot you all, come and get me!"

Blackie's finger was on the trigger, and he quickly emptied a magazine. The low wall that Fang Zhengwen had been riding on was now riddled with bullet holes.

The bullets from the Type 56 assault rifle were extremely powerful and penetrating, but fortunately, after Fang Zhengwen's shout, the police officers behind the low wall had all moved aside. Fang Zhengwen pressed his body tightly to the ground, enduring the smell of urine from the low wall and the ground, and dared not stand up.

After the gunfire had stopped for a while, Fang Zhengwen dared to climb back up the low wall, only to find that Hei Pi had already disappeared.